It must be more difficult to force US citizens to answer these kinds of questions, it's not as if they can refuse a US citizen entry if they don;t answer it.
Input and output devices get better all the time, their job is to stimulate the player's brain into thinking it sees real scenes, hears real sounds. Eventually the IO device will directly interact with the brain, bypassing those pesky eyes and ears.
Later even, the brain itself will host the processing, the external "game" system will no longer dictate everything it will instead have set the player's imagination free-running, or networked imaginations to make shared dreams possible. In that case the sensations that the actors in those dreams feel will be figments of the imagination of the player.
so we then have the thought processes of the actors (you and I) being run on a real brain (the player) so we're back to reality
Isn't a fleet of nuclear missiles inherently expensive to maintain - how is cobol the big problem here ? It sounds to me as if some sales guy is using scare tactics to sell a new expensive and difficult to maintain replacement system.
This story isn't about Bluecoat per se, it's a story about Symantec selling out our trust - I have no reason to believe that they have not sold out to so to many other companies and regimes and organizations beside Bluecoat.
For a company that trades on being trustworthy they sure know how to destroy confidence.
The battery life and weight are no problem, simply set the backpack down on the passenger seat and plug into the car's lighter socket while driving. It should keep the batteries charged for the rest of your life.
In many cities you can see one bus stop from the next. Getting up to 700mph between them and back down in time to stop might spill the passenger's coffee.
I'm not saying I buy into the idea, but if someone goes forward with it I'd at least like the flash drive information to be digitally signed somehow so that it can be proven not to have been simply made up as a macabre joke.
it's done the equivalent of 10 trips to Mars since 1998, so why not send it to mars ? People have proven they can live in it for years at a time, it can obviously take a shove from a rocket. Just fuel up a few rockets and have them meet it along the way with provisions and an extra nudge to move it along.
I too fly monthly. I have a hernia that is apparently indistinguishable from C4. The worthless fuckers pat me down every single time and have me lift my shirt. America is no safer afterwards.
For a short commuter flight, say between LA and SFO. the speed of the plane is just one consideration, there are lots of on-the-ground delays that add to the total travel time
Here's my plan...
Step 1 - abolish the TSA, they're worthless and that saves an hour off the trip for a start
Prior to flight, batteries loaded, fully charged, into plane on the runway. The batteries here have a different function, they are a power boost for a daylight flight not a reserve for overnight / deadweight during the day
Plane full of passengers towed by an electric tow plane to 40,000ft and 700miles/hour and released in the direction of its destination for a gentle downhill glide
solar cells on airplane body only need to power propulsion and maneuvering and don't have to charge the batteries for an overnight reserve
plane has a conventional fuel emergency engine, so it need not retain too much in the way of emergency battery charge, it can plan to run the batteries near flat in the normal course of a flight
Those provisions have each earned incremental increases in mass/speed over the original 2-tonne/43mph plane.
Taken together and with the help of some improvements in battery capacity that we might ordinarily expect, I would have thought that even adding, say 10 tonnes of passengers the plane should be able to average a few 100 miles / hour over a commuter-length flight.
Now that I think of it, just towing a conventional plane to cruise altitude and letting it go would probably save a lot of fuel, It would be interesting to know how much of the fuel is used up in the first 25% of the flight when it is fully loaded and climbing.
Can't an app be made that simply does not store any of this history and evidence on the phone ? It's not as if I can't get information from a distant server when I want it most of the time. The phone could otherwise hold music and other innocuous content.
According to ESFI The most recent data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission shows that there are nearly 400 electrocutions in the United States each year, about 60 of which were related to consumer products.
According to wikipedia guns are involved in 84000 or so non-fatal injuries and 32,000 deaths each year in the US
There is electricity in almost every building, it is far more widespread than gun ownership and way safer, I would say largely because of interfering governments that have mandated safety features over the years
Not to mention that electricity is far more useful than a gun
I've read a few recent stories about kids firing their parents' gun while they were in the back of the car (a couple of them shooting their mothers at least). I would think that incidents like that should weigh on the matter. Then there's legislation and litigation - if your kid shoots someone, did you take reasonable steps to prevent it...
If you want results out of it it seems reasonable to put data in for analysis.
Also, I can imagine Deepmind taking better care of the data than the UK government does. I think the government has had a string of data breaches in the past.
Finally, presumably the company has deep pockets as well as a deep mind and can therefore be sued if they are negligent.
I'd like to see something that does not need a hole to be made in the phone. It's probably time this went wireless anyway or at the very least somehow optically, capacitively or inductively coupled through the body of the phone or even a magnetically attached cable-end that sits in a dimple on the phone's surface. Anything but a hole in the phone.
I don't buy into the claims of impropriety, after all these are political parties/clubs and they can elect their leaders however they please.
But let's just say for the sake of argument that it were "rigged". It's the leaders that are being accused of rigging it, not the voters. Putting un-needed hurdles in the way of voters is not going to address what we're talking about.
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I don't happen to know, maybe someone has figures. But I would have thought that the 32-bit x86 embedded linux market was quite large.
bye bye Turkish tourism industry.
It must be more difficult to force US citizens to answer these kinds of questions, it's not as if they can refuse a US citizen entry if they don;t answer it.
Is suicide by shark attack corrected for ?
I was worried how my old floppy-based ICBM system could be updated, now I know I need only add headphone jacks
Input and output devices get better all the time, their job is to stimulate the player's brain into thinking it sees real scenes, hears real sounds. Eventually the IO device will directly interact with the brain, bypassing those pesky eyes and ears.
Later even, the brain itself will host the processing, the external "game" system will no longer dictate everything it will instead have set the player's imagination free-running, or networked imaginations to make shared dreams possible. In that case the sensations that the actors in those dreams feel will be figments of the imagination of the player.
so we then have the thought processes of the actors (you and I) being run on a real brain (the player) so we're back to reality
It's no longer a simulation on a computer
Isn't a fleet of nuclear missiles inherently expensive to maintain - how is cobol the big problem here ? It sounds to me as if some sales guy is using scare tactics to sell a new expensive and difficult to maintain replacement system.
This story isn't about Bluecoat per se, it's a story about Symantec selling out our trust - I have no reason to believe that they have not sold out to so to many other companies and regimes and organizations beside Bluecoat.
For a company that trades on being trustworthy they sure know how to destroy confidence.
The battery life and weight are no problem, simply set the backpack down on the passenger seat and plug into the car's lighter socket while driving. It should keep the batteries charged for the rest of your life.
In many cities you can see one bus stop from the next. Getting up to 700mph between them and back down in time to stop might spill the passenger's coffee.
Last time I flew through lots of clouds, why not just store it in one of those ?
I'm not saying I buy into the idea, but if someone goes forward with it I'd at least like the flash drive information to be digitally signed somehow so that it can be proven not to have been simply made up as a macabre joke.
no it's a pilot fish. It translates and clears the waxy build-up out of your ears
it's done the equivalent of 10 trips to Mars since 1998, so why not send it to mars ? People have proven they can live in it for years at a time, it can obviously take a shove from a rocket. Just fuel up a few rockets and have them meet it along the way with provisions and an extra nudge to move it along.
I too fly monthly. I have a hernia that is apparently indistinguishable from C4. The worthless fuckers pat me down every single time and have me lift my shirt. America is no safer afterwards.
Says Buffalo Springfield...
There are lots of small savings to be made
For a short commuter flight, say between LA and SFO. the speed of the plane is just one consideration, there are lots of on-the-ground delays that add to the total travel time
Here's my plan...
Step 1 - abolish the TSA, they're worthless and that saves an hour off the trip for a start
Prior to flight, batteries loaded, fully charged, into plane on the runway. The batteries here have a different function, they are a power boost for a daylight flight not a reserve for overnight / deadweight during the day
Plane full of passengers towed by an electric tow plane to 40,000ft and 700miles/hour and released in the direction of its destination for a gentle downhill glide
solar cells on airplane body only need to power propulsion and maneuvering and don't have to charge the batteries for an overnight reserve
plane has a conventional fuel emergency engine, so it need not retain too much in the way of emergency battery charge, it can plan to run the batteries near flat in the normal course of a flight
Those provisions have each earned incremental increases in mass/speed over the original 2-tonne/43mph plane.
Taken together and with the help of some improvements in battery capacity that we might ordinarily expect, I would have thought that even adding, say 10 tonnes of passengers the plane should be able to average a few 100 miles / hour over a commuter-length flight.
Now that I think of it, just towing a conventional plane to cruise altitude and letting it go would probably save a lot of fuel, It would be interesting to know how much of the fuel is used up in the first 25% of the flight when it is fully loaded and climbing.
Can't an app be made that simply does not store any of this history and evidence on the phone ? It's not as if I can't get information from a distant server when I want it most of the time. The phone could otherwise hold music and other innocuous content.
There's actually more independent bookstores this year than there were last year
Shouldn't that read there're ?
According to ESFI The most recent data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission shows that there are nearly 400 electrocutions in the United States each year, about 60 of which were related to consumer products.
According to wikipedia guns are involved in 84000 or so non-fatal injuries and 32,000 deaths each year in the US
There is electricity in almost every building, it is far more widespread than gun ownership and way safer, I would say largely because of interfering governments that have mandated safety features over the years
Not to mention that electricity is far more useful than a gun
I've read a few recent stories about kids firing their parents' gun while they were in the back of the car (a couple of them shooting their mothers at least). I would think that incidents like that should weigh on the matter. Then there's legislation and litigation - if your kid shoots someone, did you take reasonable steps to prevent it...
If you want results out of it it seems reasonable to put data in for analysis.
Also, I can imagine Deepmind taking better care of the data than the UK government does. I think the government has had a string of data breaches in the past.
Finally, presumably the company has deep pockets as well as a deep mind and can therefore be sued if they are negligent.
I'd like to see something that does not need a hole to be made in the phone. It's probably time this went wireless anyway or at the very least somehow optically, capacitively or inductively coupled through the body of the phone or even a magnetically attached cable-end that sits in a dimple on the phone's surface. Anything but a hole in the phone.
M$ had to turn Tay off, but Donald was doing so well they decided to leave it running.
I don't buy into the claims of impropriety, after all these are political parties/clubs and they can elect their leaders however they please.
But let's just say for the sake of argument that it were "rigged". It's the leaders that are being accused of rigging it, not the voters. Putting un-needed hurdles in the way of voters is not going to address what we're talking about.