With over 75 deaths from stun guns in the four years before 2005, it seems these weapons can be lethal. If the recipient has a heart condition, or is on stimulants, there is a significant risk of death from the taser. Very little research is being done on the use of tasers on people, but it is somehow considered 'safe' - seemingly by mere assumption.
In my research, I found this article: Prehosp Emerg Care. 2006 Oct-Dec;10(4):447-50 "Taser use in restraint-related deaths."
You can search pubmed for this article.
It is common knowledge that ink jet printers are sold cheaply, with the strategy that people must buy their overpriced ink. These companies are just trying to protect their businesses. There's nothing illegal about that. If you don't like it, buy a laser printer.
In my attempts to consider the relation between pirate's treasure and technology news, I could only come up with a few ideas, none of which were addressed in the summary or TFA:
1. The coins had an unusually high electrical conductivity / specific weight ratio
2. They were produced by (at-the-time) high tech currency manufacturing technology
or,
3. It's just because Pirates are popular lately.....
Hopefully, this will bring a great deal of frustration to the DRM people. I understand that this patch was released at the 'point of no return' in terms of disc manufacturing. This is a huge loss to them if they are still forced to (by economic concerns) release these discs as-is.
These changes to batteries are really just tweaks. Batteries are still very expensive, and thermodynamically inefficient. Also, they aren't even talking about lithium batteries, which would not benefit from this tweak.
I'm still waiting for that breakthrough which will allow me to run my laptop for days (instead of hours) on a battery.
From a browser perspective, 52 clicks were Firefox and 335 were IE (added up from TFA). So, 13% of those who clicked were using Firefox. From what I recall, 10-15% of all internet surfers use Firefox...
I personally would have suspected a larger proportion of IE users.
Lets see how quickly Apple responds to this hack. I recall an Ubuntu vulnerability being patched within the week that it was reported - I don't think Apple (or MS for that matter) could respond so quickly.
Not explained are the basics of how such a computer would work, even in the extended article; i.e., how do they make a basic AND/OR gate? Optical switches tend to be orders of magnitude more complex that similar switches in electronics.
From TFA:
"But so far photonics can use light whose waveform is in one shape only - a curve known as a sine wave"
I am not an expert in quantum physics, but I believe this to be a basic property of light. Are these researchers endeavoring to create a new type of particle? On the other hand, the author of this article goes by the name "Alpha Doggs" (yes, with 2 g's)....
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With over 75 deaths from stun guns in the four years before 2005, it seems these weapons can be lethal. If the recipient has a heart condition, or is on stimulants, there is a significant risk of death from the taser. Very little research is being done on the use of tasers on people, but it is somehow considered 'safe' - seemingly by mere assumption.
In my research, I found this article: Prehosp Emerg Care. 2006 Oct-Dec;10(4):447-50 "Taser use in restraint-related deaths."
You can search pubmed for this article.
- ABB Cynic's Report
It is common knowledge that ink jet printers are sold cheaply, with the strategy that people must buy their overpriced ink. These companies are just trying to protect their businesses. There's nothing illegal about that. If you don't like it, buy a laser printer.
In my attempts to consider the relation between pirate's treasure and technology news, I could only come up with a few ideas, none of which were addressed in the summary or TFA: 1. The coins had an unusually high electrical conductivity / specific weight ratio 2. They were produced by (at-the-time) high tech currency manufacturing technology or, 3. It's just because Pirates are popular lately.....
Hopefully, this will bring a great deal of frustration to the DRM people. I understand that this patch was released at the 'point of no return' in terms of disc manufacturing. This is a huge loss to them if they are still forced to (by economic concerns) release these discs as-is.
These changes to batteries are really just tweaks. Batteries are still very expensive, and thermodynamically inefficient. Also, they aren't even talking about lithium batteries, which would not benefit from this tweak. I'm still waiting for that breakthrough which will allow me to run my laptop for days (instead of hours) on a battery.
From a browser perspective, 52 clicks were Firefox and 335 were IE (added up from TFA). So, 13% of those who clicked were using Firefox. From what I recall, 10-15% of all internet surfers use Firefox... I personally would have suspected a larger proportion of IE users.
Lets see how quickly Apple responds to this hack. I recall an Ubuntu vulnerability being patched within the week that it was reported - I don't think Apple (or MS for that matter) could respond so quickly.
Not explained are the basics of how such a computer would work, even in the extended article; i.e., how do they make a basic AND/OR gate? Optical switches tend to be orders of magnitude more complex that similar switches in electronics.
From TFA: "But so far photonics can use light whose waveform is in one shape only - a curve known as a sine wave"
I am not an expert in quantum physics, but I believe this to be a basic property of light. Are these researchers endeavoring to create a new type of particle? On the other hand, the author of this article goes by the name "Alpha Doggs" (yes, with 2 g's)....