With all the formats out there, they all have one thing in common: they're all unpronounceable words. VHS and DVD. Try pronouncing them. I'm thinking HD DVD will eventually come out on top if the historical track record continues.
No one is telling you to go out and buy one right away or we're all goners. It's just another option to consider when your current model fails. The same goes for the rest of that saving the planet stuff.
I believe the proper term is "hibernate". When my laptop is in standby, it still draws power. But when I close the lid on my laptop, and it goes into hibernation mode, it draws no power until I open the lid again. The same could be said of these monitors. They draw no power until a user does something analogous to me opening the lid on my laptop.
Before watching this video, I thought Kucnich was a nutjob that the people of Cleveland keep electing for some reason. Now I think Kucnich is an articulate nutjob that the people of Cleveland keep electing for some reason.
I seriously think the Soviets covertly won the Cold War after the end was declared every time I hear crap like this. What's next? Are we all going to celebrate the October Revolution and call each other "Comrade" while the Secret Police read our mail and make people disappear?
Yes they are in clothes. And yes they do emit RF (duh). But we're exposed to RF everyday whether we like it or not. All of those radio and broadcast television waves are pulsing through your body even as you read this.
If the tags are being used for something like a check-in check-out system for kids in schools, more than likely, the tag will be passive and only emit a wave when exposed to a reader 1 meter away. (Reader in a doorway)
If these were used as an active tracking system with an active tag, then I might be worried about the unknown of long-term exposure. I haven't found any data yet on the effects of prolonged exposure to active RFID tags. But in all reality it would require an internal power source. That isn't too conducive to going through the wash. So I wouldn't worry.
Assuming that the inhabitants on the planet in the habitable zone are developing technology along the same timeline as us, it would be [date we first send or sent communications outside the solar system] + 41 years. Depending on how old you are, I doubt we'll know in our lifetimes.
Re:gps car tags have been around for quite a while
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No innovations in the past 50 years?! Christ on a cracker! We have Viagra, birth control and even pills that help curb obesity! We had none of those drugs to help the problems that these drugs treat 50 years ago! Nuff said...
Google has supposedly found a cure for Facebook addiction. Participants in a study responded 2 to 1 over placebo in favor of OpenSocial.
All kidding aside, we've all heard these "killer app", "[insert popular toy] killer" stories before. I'm sure it has some advantages over Facebook in many respects. But give it a year or so and we'll see if this is the app that ends Facebook. Considering all the hype is coming from blogs of Google developers, I have to take this with a grain of salt.
AT&T... [is] noticeably absent from the coalition not wanting to support a device that favors Google over other providers. WHAT?! They support devices that favor Apple over other providers. Does anyone else see this hypocracy?
If you really want privacy on the internets, unplug your computer from it and stop using it. The assumption that you have privacy online is probably the most common falsity.
Anything that goes beyond the walls of my house/workplace is really out of my control. If someone is determined enough they could hack my mailbox, hack my web server, defeat any sort of encrypted transmissions I send etc.
What would be the environmental impact of such a device used on a wide-spread scale? I know caps have some nasty stuff in them (not sure what exactly) but it seems to me that the compounds in capacitors might be more landfill friendly than Ni-Cd and Lithium.
"...another team at the University of Washington (UW) is using our vacation photos to create 3D models of world landmarks" More like make a 2D image of something you are likely to find in a gift shop on the grounds of these sites. Really... Take a look.
If this thing eventually leads to cures for HIV and Hepatitis and other nasty viruses, I smell a Nobel Prize for these gentlemen. With corporate sponsorship and help from world governments, AIDS could be eradicated across the globe and improve the quality of life for hundreds of millions of people.
Several generations of my family have worked for Diebold. They're a fixture in the community of Canton, Ohio. They're really good at physical security. Hell. They make most of the bank vaults and ATMs that you see.
But when it comes to voting machines, the only thing that separates the voting machines from their other products is strong bias. Tamper with an ATM at the factory, sure some FDIC bank will lose a few thousand dollars but the one doing the tampering gains nothing. Tampering with a voting machine, the perpetrator stands to influence an election in ways they see fit.
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While expensive, keeping the morale high at NASA means keeping the even more expensive astronauts alive.
Awesome! Now I'm up there with Newton and Moore!
BM? I thought that was a good thing. Healthy for everyone at least once a day.
With all the formats out there, they all have one thing in common: they're all unpronounceable words. VHS and DVD. Try pronouncing them. I'm thinking HD DVD will eventually come out on top if the historical track record continues.
No one is telling you to go out and buy one right away or we're all goners. It's just another option to consider when your current model fails. The same goes for the rest of that saving the planet stuff.
I believe the proper term is "hibernate". When my laptop is in standby, it still draws power. But when I close the lid on my laptop, and it goes into hibernation mode, it draws no power until I open the lid again. The same could be said of these monitors. They draw no power until a user does something analogous to me opening the lid on my laptop.
Before watching this video, I thought Kucnich was a nutjob that the people of Cleveland keep electing for some reason. Now I think Kucnich is an articulate nutjob that the people of Cleveland keep electing for some reason.
Lol You totally missed something. Were they Office 2003 supplies or Office 2007 supplies? There is a difference.
I seriously think the Soviets covertly won the Cold War after the end was declared every time I hear crap like this. What's next? Are we all going to celebrate the October Revolution and call each other "Comrade" while the Secret Police read our mail and make people disappear?
Yes they are in clothes. And yes they do emit RF (duh). But we're exposed to RF everyday whether we like it or not. All of those radio and broadcast television waves are pulsing through your body even as you read this.
If the tags are being used for something like a check-in check-out system for kids in schools, more than likely, the tag will be passive and only emit a wave when exposed to a reader 1 meter away. (Reader in a doorway)
If these were used as an active tracking system with an active tag, then I might be worried about the unknown of long-term exposure. I haven't found any data yet on the effects of prolonged exposure to active RFID tags. But in all reality it would require an internal power source. That isn't too conducive to going through the wash. So I wouldn't worry.
Assuming that the inhabitants on the planet in the habitable zone are developing technology along the same timeline as us, it would be [date we first send or sent communications outside the solar system] + 41 years. Depending on how old you are, I doubt we'll know in our lifetimes.
Yeah. Kinda like a LoJack.
I tried to fit the disclaimer (and the word sig) for the National Football League in a sig but it wouldn't fit.
But will it run li... perhaps it will!
No innovations in the past 50 years?! Christ on a cracker! We have Viagra, birth control and even pills that help curb obesity! We had none of those drugs to help the problems that these drugs treat 50 years ago! Nuff said...
Google has supposedly found a cure for Facebook addiction. Participants in a study responded 2 to 1 over placebo in favor of OpenSocial.
All kidding aside, we've all heard these "killer app", "[insert popular toy] killer" stories before. I'm sure it has some advantages over Facebook in many respects. But give it a year or so and we'll see if this is the app that ends Facebook. Considering all the hype is coming from blogs of Google developers, I have to take this with a grain of salt.
What was I thinking saying such blasphemy! *Bites tongue and bows head* Will the Steve ever forgive me?
If you really want privacy on the internets, unplug your computer from it and stop using it. The assumption that you have privacy online is probably the most common falsity.
Anything that goes beyond the walls of my house/workplace is really out of my control. If someone is determined enough they could hack my mailbox, hack my web server, defeat any sort of encrypted transmissions I send etc.
What would be the environmental impact of such a device used on a wide-spread scale? I know caps have some nasty stuff in them (not sure what exactly) but it seems to me that the compounds in capacitors might be more landfill friendly than Ni-Cd and Lithium.
Dear Google,
You are infringing on the copyright of our business model by assimilating it into your own and must demand that you stop using it at once!
Sincerely,
The Dot Com Bubble Companies of 1999
If this thing eventually leads to cures for HIV and Hepatitis and other nasty viruses, I smell a Nobel Prize for these gentlemen. With corporate sponsorship and help from world governments, AIDS could be eradicated across the globe and improve the quality of life for hundreds of millions of people.
Several generations of my family have worked for Diebold. They're a fixture in the community of Canton, Ohio. They're really good at physical security. Hell. They make most of the bank vaults and ATMs that you see.
But when it comes to voting machines, the only thing that separates the voting machines from their other products is strong bias. Tamper with an ATM at the factory, sure some FDIC bank will lose a few thousand dollars but the one doing the tampering gains nothing. Tampering with a voting machine, the perpetrator stands to influence an election in ways they see fit.
We need to find a Moon Master to defeat the Gorgotron somehow! Think of the Mooninites!