No, you can't turn it off. You can (un)check a box that determines whether the collected data is transmitted to Apple (or so it says). But the data is still collected, and is still visible to the carrier. Also, (at least some of) the data is still visible to anyone in momentary possession of the iPhone.
So, what I'm not getting is this: If a waveform is a real physical object and not just a conceptual statistical function, what is the physical nature of this object? Is it a half-dead Schodinger's Cat? Or is it a world where the Cat lived superimposed on a world where it died? Is it (gulp) both?
I live in the west end of Toronto, and just last week I noted that there seemed to be more than the usual number of acorns underfoot in the blocks surrounding my house.
So if antimatter falls up, what does that tell us about gravity?
If we continue to accept that gravity is a distortion of space-time, up-falling antimatter must also move through time in the opposite direction to matter.
And maybe that explains why there is a relative scarcity of antimatter here-and-now. Antimatter would tend to collect in the past, in the spaces between gravity wells, while matter would tend to collect in the future, inside gravity wells.
And to label anyone who finds fault with your reasoning a mere member of the "denier community" is to refuse to engage in meaningful and constructive discussion.
Instead, you attempt to reduce scientific fact to mere popular opinion, wherein the community which makes the loudest noise in the one that is right.
Which is pretty much the behaviour that TFA recommends scientists cater to. QED.
Oh, and "All science is tentative"? Come stand outside my window while I test how tentative the Theory of Gravity is with a hammer.
"It is plausible that a "gene" for such behavior would survive, if a large number of robots could be "saved" by one robot's death, that "gene" might well prosper."
How would an altruism gene prosper if the individuals possessing it tend to die, through self-sacrifice, before passing it on?
What you're describing is an instinct to protect one's own genotype, where that genotype is recognizable in others and by definition includes that same instinct to protect one's own genotype.
That's not altruism because it excludes sacrifice for any individual. It's pack behaviour, because it's sacrifice for one's own type exclusively.
Bravo! This position makes you a moderate compared to many of the GW activists heard from, even despite your remark about sterilizing the planet.
But a less moderate (and I daresay more common) position would insist that you also care about how this affects all living things (or at least the cute and useful ones) and not just humans. Careful, you may not be a part of the universal GW "consensus" I keep hearing about.
The landmass that is now Antarctica has been near or at the South Pole since the formation of Pangaea about 280 Ma. The previously adjacent India and Australia moved north by northeast (and continue to do so).
So, yes, this find does indicate that either these dinosaurs were able to thrive in much cooler climates that previously given credit for, or that the global climate was much warmer, for at least one extended period in the past, than Global Warming(TM) activists are willing to admit.
Gotta love those dino bones. First they kick the crap out of Creationism, now they do the same for Global Warming. What other anthropocentric delusion will be next?
First, the article linked to is not in any way scientific research results. Instead it is a press release issued by the American Medical Association.
Second, anyone living in a civilized country (one where health care is a right, not a market opportunity) recognizes the fact that the AMA spends billions on its own disinformation campaigns to prevent the U.S. from adopting coherent national health care strategy. Like that old chestnut about Canadians dying in line for medical treatment (despite the fact that it is far more prevalent, even on a per capita basis, in the U.S.) and ignoring the fact that Canadians live longer, healthier lives despite drinking more, smoking more and getting into more accidents. Canadian doctors may not have cabin cruisers, but Canada has an infant mortality rate that's a fraction of the U.S.'s.
Third, we're not talking polio vaccines here. The University of Toronto is in Ontario, a Canadian province that wants every last man, woman and child to have an annual flu shot...even if they are at no particular risk, regardless of how small the global supply of flu vaccine may be, and despite the contribution this may make to breeding vaccine-resistant flu strains. It's a nice little gift from the Ontario government to the Big Pharmas who set up camp inside their borders.
'It's also impossible for the true damages to be calculated, according to the brief, because it's unknown how many other users accessed the files in the KaZaA share in question and committed further acts of copyright infringement.'"
Wouldn't this make those "other users" liable for a proportionate share of the damages?
Won't the administration simply issue copies of all the requested documents with all the relevant information "redacted in the interest of national security"?
(I'm a Canadian. I don't know how crap like this works.)
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No, you can't turn it off. You can (un)check a box that determines whether the collected data is transmitted to Apple (or so it says). But the data is still collected, and is still visible to the carrier. Also, (at least some of) the data is still visible to anyone in momentary possession of the iPhone.
So, what I'm not getting is this: If a waveform is a real physical object and not just a conceptual statistical function, what is the physical nature of this object? Is it a half-dead Schodinger's Cat? Or is it a world where the Cat lived superimposed on a world where it died? Is it (gulp) both?
This strikes me as being "Mythbusters science" -- basically just blow sh!t up and see what happens. Maybe we SHOULDN'T try this at home.
What, two pages of comments and not one about Wonder Woman? What has happened to the /. I knew and loved?
...what happens in the singularity stays in the singularity.
I live in the west end of Toronto, and just last week I noted that there seemed to be more than the usual number of acorns underfoot in the blocks surrounding my house.
It's apparently not working right now. But give it all your personal information now, and they will get back to you.
That way it could be jettisoned and serve as a lifeboat in a last-resort attempt at planetfall on a planet with an atmosphere.
Just press the On*Star button.
I'm still using Windows 3.0 on my HP 200LX Pocket PC. Does this mean I'll have to switch to one of these new Palm Pilots?
Mention of anthropogenic global warming in five... four... three...
'Cause I think the plane needs to be called Goo Fighter.
Will Rogers be next? Cogeco?
If we continue to accept that gravity is a distortion of space-time, up-falling antimatter must also move through time in the opposite direction to matter.
And maybe that explains why there is a relative scarcity of antimatter here-and-now. Antimatter would tend to collect in the past, in the spaces between gravity wells, while matter would tend to collect in the future, inside gravity wells.
I'm looking forward to some experimental answers.
Just shining a laser pointer at the pilot is apparently enough to cause the plane to crash.
Instead, you attempt to reduce scientific fact to mere popular opinion, wherein the community which makes the loudest noise in the one that is right.
Which is pretty much the behaviour that TFA recommends scientists cater to. QED.
Oh, and "All science is tentative"? Come stand outside my window while I test how tentative the Theory of Gravity is with a hammer.
"It is plausible that a "gene" for such behavior would survive, if a large number of robots could be "saved" by one robot's death, that "gene" might well prosper."
How would an altruism gene prosper if the individuals possessing it tend to die, through self-sacrifice, before passing it on?
What you're describing is an instinct to protect one's own genotype, where that genotype is recognizable in others and by definition includes that same instinct to protect one's own genotype.
That's not altruism because it excludes sacrifice for any individual. It's pack behaviour, because it's sacrifice for one's own type exclusively.
"Saving the robots' honor, luckily, there were also a few "hero robots" that signalled danger and then rolled to their death to save the others."
So some robots also developed altruism to the point of self-sacrifice, but the reviewer didn't think that was worth mentioning?
That makes the whole article seem fishy to me.
...to not let something like microgravity to get in the way of his drinking. Labatt Blue, anyone?
But a less moderate (and I daresay more common) position would insist that you also care about how this affects all living things (or at least the cute and useful ones) and not just humans. Careful, you may not be a part of the universal GW "consensus" I keep hearing about.
So, yes, this find does indicate that either these dinosaurs were able to thrive in much cooler climates that previously given credit for, or that the global climate was much warmer, for at least one extended period in the past, than Global Warming(TM) activists are willing to admit.
Gotta love those dino bones. First they kick the crap out of Creationism, now they do the same for Global Warming. What other anthropocentric delusion will be next?
First, the article linked to is not in any way scientific research results. Instead it is a press release issued by the American Medical Association. Second, anyone living in a civilized country (one where health care is a right, not a market opportunity) recognizes the fact that the AMA spends billions on its own disinformation campaigns to prevent the U.S. from adopting coherent national health care strategy. Like that old chestnut about Canadians dying in line for medical treatment (despite the fact that it is far more prevalent, even on a per capita basis, in the U.S.) and ignoring the fact that Canadians live longer, healthier lives despite drinking more, smoking more and getting into more accidents. Canadian doctors may not have cabin cruisers, but Canada has an infant mortality rate that's a fraction of the U.S.'s. Third, we're not talking polio vaccines here. The University of Toronto is in Ontario, a Canadian province that wants every last man, woman and child to have an annual flu shot ...even if they are at no particular risk, regardless of how small the global supply of flu vaccine may be, and despite the contribution this may make to breeding vaccine-resistant flu strains. It's a nice little gift from the Ontario government to the Big Pharmas who set up camp inside their borders.
'It's also impossible for the true damages to be calculated, according to the brief, because it's unknown how many other users accessed the files in the KaZaA share in question and committed further acts of copyright infringement.'" Wouldn't this make those "other users" liable for a proportionate share of the damages?
Won't the administration simply issue copies of all the requested documents with all the relevant information "redacted in the interest of national security"? (I'm a Canadian. I don't know how crap like this works.)
Pretty much right after "Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."