This seemed to be geared toward quantum computing, but I was wondering if the same technique could isolate a significant mass of highly energetic matter, e.g. newly created antimatter? We've only been able to capture an almost negligible fraction of that so far.
Even in the absence of goverment there still would be one there to stop others from stabbing you: you.
In the other hand, if those guys just were overthere talking about you, spying from the distance or spreading what they learnt by listening to you, that would be a different problem.
Following the above logic, if it's up to you to stop the stabbing, it's also up to you to properly secure a conversation. Don't want to bother learning how to use simple encryption tools? Don't rely on somebody else providing privacy for you, because it's not an inherent right.
Or...maybe things won't be all nice and peachy like that. Doing away with social security? Seriously? Investing and saving wisely does nothing for you when the financial system collapses. Let me know when the private space industry has a space station that they're sending people to on a regular basis. You basically did nothing to support your statement about education. I could just as easily say education would be less productive and more inefficient using private schools. (This "efficiency" factor you're talking about: is it efficient in a purely profit-driven sense, or efficient for the public good?) Excessive taxation is the only thing keeping us from donating more to charities? Most people won't give a shit, and besides, there's no organized effort among *all* charities to take political action against a political problem. Let me know when the Labor Movement will be handed to us by charities... Speaking of which, protecting citizens from force and prosecuting lawbreakers I can understand, but contract enforcement? Why would you possibly want government to enforce contracts between two private organizations? I thought they would have figured it out between themselves with their whole "self-governance" thing. Oh, maybe it's because you want contracts to be law? I've seen enough shitty EULAs in my life to be glad that isn't the case. You're right, it isn't anarchy. It sounds more like a corporatist police state.
Sorry. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 pretty much did away with literacy tests for voters. Sigh.
Maybe because the literacy tests had nothing to do with knowledge and everything about (white) cultural familiarity? The examiners even got to select who took the test and who didn't. What could possibly go wrong?
Possibly because you have to be 8 centimeters or closer to the recipient's ear to overcome that.25 milliseconds of latency in real life? Some cultures do have low-latency conversations, I suppose...
If I was looking at cars, and Ford had an option that would slow my car down, and impede it's ability to take corners, I'd rather Ford not give me that option.
Well, assuming it's two parties and not one corporatist party that's hell bent on ripping apart every shred of public ownership there is... You get a lot of bipartisan support on extremely controversial topics like war funding, simply because the people in power think that we'll accept it. I would be surprised if a kill switch bill doesn't have bipartisan support from people who see the internet as a real threat to their propaganda machine.
First off, you'd be surprised how muchtelecommunicationsinfrastructure in the United States was researched and paid for by the U.S. government. In many ways, we got a good return on our tax dollars, except for the little bit about allowing unaccountable private entities to have exclusive access to these lines. Comcast and the like are only accountable to their shareholders, and they're using our tax money to enrich themselves. It's pretty clear that treating the lines as a public resource, like they do in most of Europe, stops the price gouging and actually encourages investment in upgrading the lines. I really don't see why you think privatization and deregulation are a better deal with the internet.
Well, if you didn't mind screwing around with ffmpeg, ffserver, and VLC Media Player, you could have done audioconferencing and videoconferencing already. Be warned, it isn't for the people who stray away from compiling and documentation.
Much as I would love to join in resisting the Slashdot groupthink, I think the "logic" is a little different: Copyright infringement in most cases is simply sharing/distributing proprietary code. In the sense that it's being distributed without the owners getting paid for an imaginary copy, the owners think that's *really bad*. Most other people think sharing isn't such a bad thing; thus, most infringement is !Bad. The GPL promotes sharing. Following that logic, refusing to distribute GPL code is GPL infringement, and most people who are aware of such a thing wouldn't tolerate it.
You can retrofit an old Volkswagen bug to be all electric for less than $7000. I don't see what the big push is for the added complexity of a hybrid gasoline/electric engine if you only need one to go more than 60 miles on a trip. Electric vehicles shouldn't be SUV-sized. For the few times you need an SUV or need to go on a long trip, the world's petroleum supply should be enough. It would be nice to see all-electric vehicles for less than $10,000 someday, because the technology is there to do it.
That, right there, is a perfect example. The FCC not only gives licensed individuals the go-ahead to transmit over the airwaves, but it specifically prohibits all commercial communication over the spectrum to prevent for-profit industries with high-power transmitters from totally ruining any competing signals. The media industry can do what it wants (unfortunately) on the commercial spectrum, but amateur radio is completely separate, as it should be. It's a shame that the usable spectrum for amateurs is getting smaller and smaller, though.
The real danger in an anechoic chamber is sanity. The non-reflective cones also absorb acoustics, which make the space a very strange aural experience, which can do funny things to your brain. For one you feel really, really alone, you can't even hear the echo of your own voice.
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This seemed to be geared toward quantum computing, but I was wondering if the same technique could isolate a significant mass of highly energetic matter, e.g. newly created antimatter? We've only been able to capture an almost negligible fraction of that so far.
"B A" is vital to the hack. Maybe your controller's already been patched by Sony?
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A
Even in the absence of goverment there still would be one there to stop others from stabbing you: you.
In the other hand, if those guys just were overthere talking about you, spying from the distance or spreading what they learnt by listening to you, that would be a different problem.
Following the above logic, if it's up to you to stop the stabbing, it's also up to you to properly secure a conversation. Don't want to bother learning how to use simple encryption tools? Don't rely on somebody else providing privacy for you, because it's not an inherent right.
Or...maybe things won't be all nice and peachy like that.
Doing away with social security? Seriously? Investing and saving wisely does nothing for you when the financial system collapses.
Let me know when the private space industry has a space station that they're sending people to on a regular basis.
You basically did nothing to support your statement about education. I could just as easily say education would be less productive and more inefficient using private schools. (This "efficiency" factor you're talking about: is it efficient in a purely profit-driven sense, or efficient for the public good?)
Excessive taxation is the only thing keeping us from donating more to charities? Most people won't give a shit, and besides, there's no organized effort among *all* charities to take political action against a political problem. Let me know when the Labor Movement will be handed to us by charities...
Speaking of which, protecting citizens from force and prosecuting lawbreakers I can understand, but contract enforcement? Why would you possibly want government to enforce contracts between two private organizations? I thought they would have figured it out between themselves with their whole "self-governance" thing. Oh, maybe it's because you want contracts to be law? I've seen enough shitty EULAs in my life to be glad that isn't the case.
You're right, it isn't anarchy. It sounds more like a corporatist police state.
How would a tiny government protect its citizens if they did whatever they wanted?
Sorry. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 pretty much did away with literacy tests for voters. Sigh.
Maybe because the literacy tests had nothing to do with knowledge and everything about (white) cultural familiarity? The examiners even got to select who took the test and who didn't. What could possibly go wrong?
not everyone seems bothered by it.
Possibly because you have to be 8 centimeters or closer to the recipient's ear to overcome that .25 milliseconds of latency in real life? Some cultures do have low-latency conversations, I suppose...
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Ouch. Nothing like sneaking an antiquated word in there and still striking out with the Grammar Nazis.
If I was looking at cars, and Ford had an option that would slow my car down, and impede it's ability to take corners, I'd rather Ford not give me that option.
Oh, you're no fun. I can replace my car's engine while speeding down the highway, and I love it.
Well, assuming it's two parties and not one corporatist party that's hell bent on ripping apart every shred of public ownership there is...
You get a lot of bipartisan support on extremely controversial topics like war funding, simply because the people in power think that we'll accept it. I would be surprised if a kill switch bill doesn't have bipartisan support from people who see the internet as a real threat to their propaganda machine.
Summary:
http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20100830/adenovirus.html
Paywalled abstract:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/329/5995/1071
great work. now what do i do with the other 140k?
Spend it at the Apple store?
Maybe, just maybe, NASA uses GMT instead of UTC so that it doesn't have to calculate leap seconds at all? That's what I would do.
Ignorant troll, I'll bite.
First off, you'd be surprised how much telecommunications infrastructure in the United States was researched and paid for by the U.S. government. In many ways, we got a good return on our tax dollars, except for the little bit about allowing unaccountable private entities to have exclusive access to these lines. Comcast and the like are only accountable to their shareholders, and they're using our tax money to enrich themselves. It's pretty clear that treating the lines as a public resource, like they do in most of Europe, stops the price gouging and actually encourages investment in upgrading the lines. I really don't see why you think privatization and deregulation are a better deal with the internet.
Being an unfaithful dog has nothing to do with it... I mean... so I hear.
When you're responding to a user named TrisexualPuppy, it has everything to do with it.
Well, if you didn't mind screwing around with ffmpeg, ffserver, and VLC Media Player, you could have done audioconferencing and videoconferencing already. Be warned, it isn't for the people who stray away from compiling and documentation.
there are no peanut allergies in developing countries.
Not yet. Wait until they introduce it on a massive scale.
Do we really need a snarky Grammar Nazi in this discussion?
Interplanetary service fees.
Much as I would love to join in resisting the Slashdot groupthink, I think the "logic" is a little different:
Copyright infringement in most cases is simply sharing/distributing proprietary code.
In the sense that it's being distributed without the owners getting paid for an imaginary copy, the owners think that's *really bad*.
Most other people think sharing isn't such a bad thing; thus, most infringement is !Bad.
The GPL promotes sharing.
Following that logic, refusing to distribute GPL code is GPL infringement, and most people who are aware of such a thing wouldn't tolerate it.
You can retrofit an old Volkswagen bug to be all electric for less than $7000. I don't see what the big push is for the added complexity of a hybrid gasoline/electric engine if you only need one to go more than 60 miles on a trip. Electric vehicles shouldn't be SUV-sized. For the few times you need an SUV or need to go on a long trip, the world's petroleum supply should be enough. It would be nice to see all-electric vehicles for less than $10,000 someday, because the technology is there to do it.
the ham radio space
That, right there, is a perfect example. The FCC not only gives licensed individuals the go-ahead to transmit over the airwaves, but it specifically prohibits all commercial communication over the spectrum to prevent for-profit industries with high-power transmitters from totally ruining any competing signals. The media industry can do what it wants (unfortunately) on the commercial spectrum, but amateur radio is completely separate, as it should be. It's a shame that the usable spectrum for amateurs is getting smaller and smaller, though.
The real danger in an anechoic chamber is sanity. The non-reflective cones also absorb acoustics, which make the space a very strange aural experience, which can do funny things to your brain. For one you feel really, really alone, you can't even hear the echo of your own voice.
Could this be the for-real Reality Distortion Field? I knew Microsoft was trying to get in on the process, but this just takes it all to new heights.
A story is not an essential part of a video game at all. Sure, it is for RPGs, but you can subsist entirely off of gameplay with arcade games.