There's probably things a methane sniffer could pick up too, not to mention the acoustic detectors listening for stubborn mules and stubborn pack drivers arguing with each other.
On the bright side, no acoustic detectors will be required to detect the robotic mule which sounds like a pack of angry chainsaws and can be heard kilometres away even in a thunderstorm. This doubles as a safety feature so that innocent onlookers can safely move out of the way before it passes by, thus avoiding the view of the bizarre twin "half mimes" and the associated ear damage.
Every car produced for sale in North America or Europe (at least) is required to have a manually-operated emergency brake, and a crash safety switch that shuts the engine down in the event of a crash.
So, should my accelerator get stuck, all I have to do is crash into something and the car will automatically stop. Apparently it's a mandatory built-in safety feature. I wonder who designs these things.
The idea is that the PIN will be entered when the watch is put on. Then you can put the gun where you can quickly get it,
And that is less than 20 cm away (barely an arm's length) from the watch or you'll have to reenter the pin. Basically you have to keep the weapon holstered on you, and even then should you grab for something on a high shelf, it might move the watch far enough to deactivate it.
Its not a magnetic stripe. In Europe they have actual chips embedded in the cards like RFID.
There's also a magnetic stripe though, although they don't necessarily look like one nowadays. The ATMs rely on their presence.
Presumably the card was refused in the US because it "looked weird" to the cashier who wasn't very familiar with what the other 95% of the planet uses.
One administration official said the budget will send a message that it's time members of Congress recognize that NASA can't design space programs to create jobs in their districts. "That's the view of the president," the official said.
Maybe they should just create a Moon district. But good luck going there to campaign without a space program though. Hah !
Well, what was the reason for doing it in the first place?
To annoy the Russians.
Apparently nowadays the Russians don't really care much one way or the other. Now if somebody could make a case that it annoyed the terrorists, or saved the children, there'd be a dozen bases up there in no time.
Nevertheless, we're still doing science-- there's a lot of stuff that we can do even without driving around.
Or maybe now that they're done dicking around, maybe the amateurs will step aside and they'll just call a martian garage to pull it out (yes there's a lot they didn't tell you). That's what happens when the NASA engineers don't listen to their wives :
"look, it's stuck, just call someone already" "listen honey, I'm the one who works an NASA here, let me do my job" "right, like when we went to see my mother and you were the one who could read a GPS... *supposedly*" "I can't help it if the map on that thing was wrong" "Shifting the blame, it's so like you. And your toy car is still stuck" "It's not a toy car, and anyway the batteries are flat" "there you go again Mr it's not my fault"
While I simply try to keep myself up to date and absolutely don't work in the field, I remember having read about this (namely eukaryotes grabbing strands from viruses) years ago. As I recall the title at the time was more along the line of "viruses sharing dna with organisms may open new research avenues" or something along those lines. Anyway it didn't strike me as being especially sensationalist. Since then I keep an eye open for further news upon those lines.
OTOH, it seems that labs feel that they are in a race to be noticed so any time any of them has anything whatsoever that might be newsworthy, it always gets twisted into some kind of earth shattering event (and of course once one generalist publication starts doing it, others tend to follow). Of course most of the time nothing much comes out of it since that's the way research works (slowly). Apparently "The New Scientist" has some over-enthusiastic writers.
They are reportedly too dangerous to be released, but cannot be tried either because the evidence against them is too flimsy or was extracted by coercion.
"They could explode the moment they set foot outside" a source which wished to remained anonymous confided. "We have to keep them constantly doused in liquid nitrogen for safety reasons. They do have cable TV though, we are not monsters."
"Computer users with rudimentary skills"..... "with a basic understanding of Python"?
Computer users with a rudimentary skill who do not have a basic understanding of Python can always build a Python programming AI in Lisp (or at least that's what I gathered from the MIT docs I browsed) and thus save themselves the trouble.
I really do not understand the "must tip" mentality.
Especially in US hotels with the "this is your room, that's the bed, and that's the bathroom, and that's my empty hand" guy which serves no purpose whatsoever.
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There's probably things a methane sniffer could pick up too, not to mention the acoustic detectors listening for stubborn mules and stubborn pack drivers arguing with each other.
On the bright side, no acoustic detectors will be required to detect the robotic mule which sounds like a pack of angry chainsaws and can be heard kilometres away even in a thunderstorm. This doubles as a safety feature so that innocent onlookers can safely move out of the way before it passes by, thus avoiding the view of the bizarre twin "half mimes" and the associated ear damage.
(In Kentucky, they actually teach kids to memorize words rather than teaching them how to sound them out, which is absurd)
Maybe so but it's quiet, which as anyone who spends some time around kids will tell you is essential to their sanity.
Every car produced for sale in North America or Europe (at least) is required to have a manually-operated emergency brake, and a crash safety switch that shuts the engine down in the event of a crash.
So, should my accelerator get stuck, all I have to do is crash into something and the car will automatically stop. Apparently it's a mandatory built-in safety feature.
I wonder who designs these things.
College degrees are way overrated.
That's what you think. In the meantime I've got dibs on hiring that dog !
The idea is that the PIN will be entered when the watch is put on. Then you can put the gun where you can quickly get it,
And that is less than 20 cm away (barely an arm's length) from the watch or you'll have to reenter the pin. Basically you have to keep the weapon holstered on you, and even then should you grab for something on a high shelf, it might move the watch far enough to deactivate it.
Its not a magnetic stripe. In Europe they have actual chips embedded in the cards like RFID.
There's also a magnetic stripe though, although they don't necessarily look like one nowadays. The ATMs rely on their presence.
Presumably the card was refused in the US because it "looked weird" to the cashier who wasn't very familiar with what the other 95% of the planet uses.
I know most IP6 fan will say that you don't need them but you just know when the smoke clears Joe customer will still get ONE Address.
My ISP gives me (or anyone who cares enough to activate the free option) a /64 IPv6 subnet. It wouldn't make much sense if it didn't.
I'll grant you that it'll be a while before the various gadgets (or even the software) play nice with IPv6.
Oh , and I must point out how brilliant the Queensland police are:
but a year later police forensic experts recovered 64 images of cartoon child exploitation material in the machine’s recycle bin.
The fool ! He should have known that cartoon characters don't recycle ! You have to use *the Dip* !
So it could be done in 41 days, not 2,500 years, if they have 24,000 processors working on it.
Ok, but that's still an awful long time for 500 miles.
yup. wow. last line in the article:
Maybe they should just create a Moon district.
But good luck going there to campaign without a space program though. Hah !
We could achieve you goals much more safely and cheaply by pumping all of the air out of an abandoned mine and sealing in some volunteers.
We could round up a few politicians and CEOs as "volunteers". I'm sure it would do the environment no end of good.
Well, what was the reason for doing it in the first place?
To annoy the Russians.
Apparently nowadays the Russians don't really care much one way or the other. Now if somebody could make a case that it annoyed the terrorists, or saved the children, there'd be a dozen bases up there in no time.
Nevertheless, we're still doing science-- there's a lot of stuff that we can do even without driving around.
Or maybe now that they're done dicking around, maybe the amateurs will step aside and they'll just call a martian garage to pull it out (yes there's a lot they didn't tell you). That's what happens when the NASA engineers don't listen to their wives :
"look, it's stuck, just call someone already"
"listen honey, I'm the one who works an NASA here, let me do my job"
"right, like when we went to see my mother and you were the one who could read a GPS... *supposedly*"
"I can't help it if the map on that thing was wrong"
"Shifting the blame, it's so like you. And your toy car is still stuck"
"It's not a toy car, and anyway the batteries are flat"
"there you go again Mr it's not my fault"
Think "Pedway with 4 wheels".
It's still a box with wheels. I guess I'll never get this "car" thing.
Man, but I hate science journalism.
While I simply try to keep myself up to date and absolutely don't work in the field, I remember having read about this (namely eukaryotes grabbing strands from viruses) years ago. As I recall the title at the time was more along the line of "viruses sharing dna with organisms may open new research avenues" or something along those lines. Anyway it didn't strike me as being especially sensationalist. Since then I keep an eye open for further news upon those lines.
OTOH, it seems that labs feel that they are in a race to be noticed so any time any of them has anything whatsoever that might be newsworthy, it always gets twisted into some kind of earth shattering event (and of course once one generalist publication starts doing it, others tend to follow). Of course most of the time nothing much comes out of it since that's the way research works (slowly). Apparently "The New Scientist" has some over-enthusiastic writers.
Saab is a geeky car.
I don't even understand the concept of a "geeky car".
You know where the REAL money is: Dead Programming languages.
And next week, we'll be talking about Amish computer programers !
what a load of crap. there's nothing preventing you violating a license on linux either. wine anyone?!
Yes please. Red for me.
They are reportedly too dangerous to be released, but cannot be tried either because the evidence against them is too flimsy or was extracted by coercion.
"They could explode the moment they set foot outside" a source which wished to remained anonymous confided. "We have to keep them constantly doused in liquid nitrogen for safety reasons. They do have cable TV though, we are not monsters."
Only a fascist would think that a number is a suitable way to ID someone ;-)
That or a Compuserve user.
Then why are there all those characters who smoke cigarettes and drink Coca Cola?
Without those accidents, they couldn't afford to advance the plot.
"Computer users with rudimentary skills"..... "with a basic understanding of Python"?
Computer users with a rudimentary skill who do not have a basic understanding of Python can always build a Python programming AI in Lisp (or at least that's what I gathered from the MIT docs I browsed) and thus save themselves the trouble.
If I put a wall around the elephant in the garden, won't it trample all my flowers?
But if nobody sees the elephant trampling the flowers, are they still trampled ?
Wait, is this the surreal philosophy class ?
I really do not understand the "must tip" mentality.
Especially in US hotels with the "this is your room, that's the bed, and that's the bathroom, and that's my empty hand" guy which serves no purpose whatsoever.
Fucking gag me with a spoon.
But... I thought there was no spoon ?