When you study business, management, or basically anything "non-technical" you don't give a shit and just want the nerds to go sit in the back room and do whatever it is they do so the computers magically keep working.
In that case, (a) they probably picked this spot because the available space was within tolerance, and (b) well now, hovering around for 30 seconds before landing is just showing off.:P
He seems like a canny enough lad, and I'd guess he knows a fair bit about cryptography. Maybe he's digitally signed the files he leaked (so that they can be verified in chunks as being part of the documents he liberated)?
The funny thing is that at this point, he could release 'evidence' that the NSA secretly implanted gnomes in Kate Middleton's butt cheeks and people would believe him. Not saying that anything he's leaked so far has been fabricated, but how would we know?
That's not the point. The point is that "3D printed X" laws are as stupid as "X on the internet" laws. We already have laws controlling X, why do we need new laws that cover the same ground? Why should the penalty for procuring an unlicensed firearm from a manual lathe be different from the penalty for procuring an unlicensed firearm from a CNC machine, or a sintering machine, or an extrusion printer?
And yet they talk about "even a simple act of perception or cognition". Wow. Yeah cognition is pretty simple, it's not like it's one of the greatest unsolved mysteries we have or anything.
Wow. Because medicine hasn't changed in 62 years and there's nothing now that can be routinely cured that used to be incurable and/or require ongoing treatment.
You're missing the small but potentially pertinent fact that they're already going to goddamn die. If given the choice between "spending 3 months in chemo in horrible pain and then dying anyway" and "taking a shot that has a few % chance of killing you outright but a decent shot at completely curing you" I know which one I would choose, for myself or for my kids.
The voltage required is much smaller now than it was 20 years ago. You could probably do it by inducing enough voltage to mess up the CAN communications, which should only take a few volts.
The medical people were giving him morphine and told me I could ask them to give him more if I wanted. I really didn't understand what they were telling me at the time. Today I understand there was a lot more behind this statement than I realized.
My grandfather-in-law had a stroke a couple of years ago, and we spent some time at his bedside before he died. His mind was completely gone and there was no chance of recovery, we were just waiting for his body to give up and follow suit. This lasted for three days before one of the nursing staff managed to convey (while studiously avoiding actually saying so) that the magic phrase is "I think he's in pain." Say that, and they are allowed to increase the morphine dose and hasten the end. Unless you do, their hands are tied.
How much do you pay per kWh for electricity? You might find it worth upgrading to solar hot water, even if un-subsidised.
When my old storage hot water heater died I had it replaced with a solar one, and for probably 6 months of the year my hot water is free. With the government subsidy where I live, the payback time on the price difference between a solar system and an electric or gas system would be less than a year even without the subsidy.
We can already do those things. They're solved. Hence, now we are at the "later" stage where we work on advanced forms of locomotion.
There are several advantages to a humanoid robot in terms of the robot being able to function in a human-centric world (drive vehicles, use tools, navigate buildings etc.)
While I 100% agree that this problem should be solved by better cognition and route planning rather than better reflexes and balance, maybe they were working on its ability to handle uneven ground rather than its ability to avoid it?
Often when developing systems like this, you have to deliberately put the system in a situation which it can't (yet) handle, in order to improve how it handles said situation.
It's only a peculiarity of your U.S. car market that makes a "real $30k car" an actual thing. In most countries $30k will get you a modest family sedan at best.
The heater doesn't affect fuel economy in an internal-combustion car, since (unless you're in a stupidly cold place and have a fuel-burning heater in your vehicle) it runs entirely off waste heat from the engine. The fan uses such a trivial amount of energy (~100 watts out of 10-15kW for cruising) that it's barely worth considering.
Responsible programmers store each value in the manner most suitable for that value. The reality is that very few applications actually care about the exact to-the-bit result of floating point ops, and floating point arithmetic should always be regarded as inexact.
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When you study business, management, or basically anything "non-technical" you don't give a shit and just want the nerds to go sit in the back room and do whatever it is they do so the computers magically keep working.
Not in the slightest. 20 years from now China will be mining the asteroids.
Time to start learning Mandarin.
In that case, (a) they probably picked this spot because the available space was within tolerance, and (b) well now, hovering around for 30 seconds before landing is just showing off. :P
Bingo. Does anyone NOT have 'show linked images' turned off? Pretty sure most email clients have it disabled by default these days.
So how is this coin different from a "confirmation that you hold X bitcoins"? Transferability or something?
He seems like a canny enough lad, and I'd guess he knows a fair bit about cryptography. Maybe he's digitally signed the files he leaked (so that they can be verified in chunks as being part of the documents he liberated)?
The funny thing is that at this point, he could release 'evidence' that the NSA secretly implanted gnomes in Kate Middleton's butt cheeks and people would believe him. Not saying that anything he's leaked so far has been fabricated, but how would we know?
That's not the point. The point is that "3D printed X" laws are as stupid as "X on the internet" laws. We already have laws controlling X, why do we need new laws that cover the same ground? Why should the penalty for procuring an unlicensed firearm from a manual lathe be different from the penalty for procuring an unlicensed firearm from a CNC machine, or a sintering machine, or an extrusion printer?
Monster Cables (TM) accurately mimics your system's HDMI signals to drive your television!
And yet they talk about "even a simple act of perception or cognition". Wow. Yeah cognition is pretty simple, it's not like it's one of the greatest unsolved mysteries we have or anything.
Wow. Because medicine hasn't changed in 62 years and there's nothing now that can be routinely cured that used to be incurable and/or require ongoing treatment.
You're missing the small but potentially pertinent fact that they're already going to goddamn die. If given the choice between "spending 3 months in chemo in horrible pain and then dying anyway" and "taking a shot that has a few % chance of killing you outright but a decent shot at completely curing you" I know which one I would choose, for myself or for my kids.
And your response to point b)?
The voltage required is much smaller now than it was 20 years ago. You could probably do it by inducing enough voltage to mess up the CAN communications, which should only take a few volts.
The medical people were giving him morphine and told me I could ask them to give him more if I wanted. I really didn't understand what they were telling me at the time. Today I understand there was a lot more behind this statement than I realized.
My grandfather-in-law had a stroke a couple of years ago, and we spent some time at his bedside before he died. His mind was completely gone and there was no chance of recovery, we were just waiting for his body to give up and follow suit. This lasted for three days before one of the nursing staff managed to convey (while studiously avoiding actually saying so) that the magic phrase is "I think he's in pain." Say that, and they are allowed to increase the morphine dose and hasten the end. Unless you do, their hands are tied.
The second ten million years, they're the worst too.
It is sicking in this day & time how far some people will go to *HATE* one another.
Yeah, totally.
As Oparah said, bad white people will just have to DIE.
Wait, what?
How much do you pay per kWh for electricity? You might find it worth upgrading to solar hot water, even if un-subsidised. When my old storage hot water heater died I had it replaced with a solar one, and for probably 6 months of the year my hot water is free. With the government subsidy where I live, the payback time on the price difference between a solar system and an electric or gas system would be less than a year even without the subsidy.
We can already do those things. They're solved. Hence, now we are at the "later" stage where we work on advanced forms of locomotion.
There are several advantages to a humanoid robot in terms of the robot being able to function in a human-centric world (drive vehicles, use tools, navigate buildings etc.)
Asimo doesn't even try to walk over an assortment of random crap like that.
While I 100% agree that this problem should be solved by better cognition and route planning rather than better reflexes and balance, maybe they were working on its ability to handle uneven ground rather than its ability to avoid it? Often when developing systems like this, you have to deliberately put the system in a situation which it can't (yet) handle, in order to improve how it handles said situation.
It's only a peculiarity of your U.S. car market that makes a "real $30k car" an actual thing. In most countries $30k will get you a modest family sedan at best.
The heater doesn't affect fuel economy in an internal-combustion car, since (unless you're in a stupidly cold place and have a fuel-burning heater in your vehicle) it runs entirely off waste heat from the engine. The fan uses such a trivial amount of energy (~100 watts out of 10-15kW for cruising) that it's barely worth considering.
Responsible programmers store each value in the manner most suitable for that value. The reality is that very few applications actually care about the exact to-the-bit result of floating point ops, and floating point arithmetic should always be regarded as inexact.
It's like 4mb. How obese can it be if it'd fit on three floppy disks?