No you crush the asteroid and leave the parts in a stable orbit then charge the government to clean up the mess. Or the government pays you to leave the debris field in the path of any ICBM launched from N Korea.
I don't think what's best for the equipment is generally best for the staff or vice versa.I would divide the room into two areas with some soundproofing and ideally glass in between.
Make the equipment side a bunch of shelves on racks with modular cabling into the staff area. Have commonly used infrastructure in the racks (KVMs, DHCP servers, power distribution file servers for images etc.) Make sure that there are plenty of well labeled/colored cables available and a means to store them conveniently. The equipment area needs to anti-static and drink/food free and well lit. The staff area may need to be warmer than the equipment area (arguments seem to rage over this) and permit snacks and sodas, have more friendly lighting.
Depending on what you will be doing you may want to consider a third, more secure area for whenever you need to impress a customer with your ability to keep their stuff separate, I would at least plan that the equipment area might be sub-divided by a cage later.
The kids seem to only use the sensors as a bare minimum (in this case they are specifically directed to use the light sensor to stay in the ring). I'd be far more impressed if the sensor use were to play a larger part, over and above whether the kids can make a "piece of cheese" shaped robot, or a tall, thin robot. Sure all these things are important for stability and wotnot. But really, it's the processing of sensory information that makes it a robot and not a pine car.
Your sense of morality may have come from your religion, but your religion got it from a human, probably the parents of whoever made it up who got it from their parents and so on as humans developed it over time. I disagree with you and I think you will find that the vast majority of values you hold are shared with families and people of all faiths or the lack thereof, and that there is plenty we can agree upon to base a legal system without involving a deity.
If you're waiting for 100% agreement on anything you'll be waiting a long time, but I think you underestimate the proportion of people worldwide that would agree on whether murder, stealing, fraud, deception etc. should be subject to legal penalty, the broad circumstances under which the penalties should apply and the relative seriousness of crimes.
I just don't see how you can go through life with so little faith in the humanity of your fellow man.
I have not heard anything yet about the size or concealment of the IEDs used. Presumably they were quite large and had been in place for a short while, perhaps hidden in storm drains or garbage cans or mailboxes or backpacks. If so, then that's what the security team can look for, I believe they even have explosives sniffing dogs and presumably some kind of explosive sniffing technology could be developed. They could presumably also set up HD video cameras along the event route for a couple of weeks before the event and then take them down when the event is over.
This story is still unfolding it seems a shame that it has now scrolled to yesterdays news on slashdot. It would be good to be able to vote it back to being current and to be able to see the comments stacked in reverse cronology. I know everyone has their own favorite bitch about the slashdot UI, but this is a good example of a story that suffers from it.
Clarification of this law may not come soon. But there will be a lot of legal "clarification" going on when people run away with the idea that they can print a gun with the plastic from old yogurt pots, put a round in it and fire it. When the whole thing disintegrates and causes injury to anyone except the intended target.
It will turn out actually to be pop-up technology. They'll probably have to warn people not to watch Mike Tyson on it. But then that's good advice for 2D too,
have everyone pay by credit card and embed their credit card details in the executable steganographically (it has to be possible in code too !) and tell the buyers you've done it. It should stop them passing the.exe around anyway.
The other thing that the Rikomagic lacks is a large and growing community of users, vendors and educators. Hardware's fine and all that but creating a common basic platform for a broad community is much harder. Besides the lack of GPIO/SPI/I2c is a huge deal, it cuts out a lot of hardware tinkering.
map and list etc. are great, but the error messages when you get some detail wrong are something to behold. It's as if someone wanted to make it hard to keep their jobs.
"You all know that the duty of the Conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother Cardinals have come almost to the ends of the Earth to get him"
He seems to be a pretty euro-centric non-European judging by the first infallible words from his mouth. Presumably he considers the Earth to be flat too.
Sadly, there are many accidents where people kill others, not so long ago a child was run over by it's parent in a driveway. At some point the parent needs to forgive themselves and move on. I see similarities between an accidental killing and killing while mentally incompetent. In any case, I'm not in favor of capital punishment; I think it's unnecessary here in the US. Also, If I were ever convicted of murder I think I'd rather be confined to a regular prison than to a mental institution unless I was beyond caring.
We need to find a way to let people access the truth and to let them know that the truth may not be what they want to hear. Then leave the choice in their hands. To my mind, performing surgery on an infant without parental consent is unethical. As is prescribing placebos without informing the patient. Access to ones own and one's childrens' medical records is coming, Hopefully soon but not before work is done to make it a success. As other's have stated, you can always get them through discovery by way of bringing suit, all making them more readily available does is make it less expensive for everyone involved.
Some things you can't do with LCDs; tinker with the electronics until you have an unscanned beam of electrons from the back of the monitor tube making a bright spot on the screen and use a magnet to move it around. Make it safe for kids to touch the display and work the magnet. Set up an after-school event to talk to them about relativity, charge, atomic structure, bremsstrahlung, X-rays, the LHC etc.
I used to mess up TV pictures with a magnet when I was a kid, it was fun to distort the actors on screen, but a lot of kids today may not get that experience. It's not a big thing, but I believe the experiences all add up.
The most recent round of restrictions on handguns came in in 1997, but gun control in the UK goes back centuries (wikipedia has a good history). One thing that a gun ban does is elevate the level of crime that justifies a gun. Firstly you have to be a more successful and well-connected criminal to get a gun in the first place and secondly the penalties that can be applied for being caught using it mean that it's not worth it just to knock off a corner 7-11. This makes the whole gun issue far more controllable in the UK (and of course as others have noted, the population density, controlled borders etc. help too). I don't think the US need completely give up on the rule of law.
An H1B is not so much a visa into the USA as an actual passport to the nation of H1. The citizens of H1s have wandered far from their place of birth but eventually will win a homeland of their own, perhaps even their own planet, where they can live in peace and ignore the phone calls asking how to fix everything.
These people are the developers for heaven's sake. If they introduced 50 really hard to find bugs before they open-sourced it then some of them are likely to go undiscovered while naturally occurring bugs get fixed by whoever does contribute back. It improves the version the Dems have while still crippling the version out in the wild. Of course, the Repubs could always contribute back their own bugs, but even those might be revealing.
surely the whole point of hyperspace is to be a plot device where one can avoid unfortunate physical laws that would otherwise mess up a story, like momentum (these star-ships routinely crash or make sharp turns at millions of miles per hour and the crew-members just fall over gently or brace themselves against pillars), where even Heisenberg experiences no uncertainty and in particular where special relativity apparently does not apply.
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No you crush the asteroid and leave the parts in a stable orbit then charge the government to clean up the mess. Or the government pays you to leave the debris field in the path of any ICBM launched from N Korea.
I don't think what's best for the equipment is generally best for the staff or vice versa.I would divide the room into two areas with some soundproofing and ideally glass in between.
Make the equipment side a bunch of shelves on racks with modular cabling into the staff area. Have commonly used infrastructure in the racks (KVMs, DHCP servers, power distribution file servers for images etc.) Make sure that there are plenty of well labeled/colored cables available and a means to store them conveniently. The equipment area needs to anti-static and drink/food free and well lit. The staff area may need to be warmer than the equipment area (arguments seem to rage over this) and permit snacks and sodas, have more friendly lighting.
Depending on what you will be doing you may want to consider a third, more secure area for whenever you need to impress a customer with your ability to keep their stuff separate, I would at least plan that the equipment area might be sub-divided by a cage later.
The kids seem to only use the sensors as a bare minimum (in this case they are specifically directed to use the light sensor to stay in the ring). I'd be far more impressed if the sensor use were to play a larger part, over and above whether the kids can make a "piece of cheese" shaped robot, or a tall, thin robot. Sure all these things are important for stability and wotnot. But really, it's the processing of sensory information that makes it a robot and not a pine car.
At last a way to cash in on my multiple personality disorder, we've hit paydirt.
He writes some easy to read, get to the basics books on physics and they're available to buy via lulu or free for download here.
Your sense of morality may have come from your religion, but your religion got it from a human, probably the parents of whoever made it up who got it from their parents and so on as humans developed it over time. I disagree with you and I think you will find that the vast majority of values you hold are shared with families and people of all faiths or the lack thereof, and that there is plenty we can agree upon to base a legal system without involving a deity.
If you're waiting for 100% agreement on anything you'll be waiting a long time, but I think you underestimate the proportion of people worldwide that would agree on whether murder, stealing, fraud, deception etc. should be subject to legal penalty, the broad circumstances under which the penalties should apply and the relative seriousness of crimes.
I just don't see how you can go through life with so little faith in the humanity of your fellow man.
I have not heard anything yet about the size or concealment of the IEDs used. Presumably they were quite large and had been in place for a short while, perhaps hidden in storm drains or garbage cans or mailboxes or backpacks. If so, then that's what the security team can look for, I believe they even have explosives sniffing dogs and presumably some kind of explosive sniffing technology could be developed. They could presumably also set up HD video cameras along the event route for a couple of weeks before the event and then take them down when the event is over.
This story is still unfolding it seems a shame that it has now scrolled to yesterdays news on slashdot. It would be good to be able to vote it back to being current and to be able to see the comments stacked in reverse cronology. I know everyone has their own favorite bitch about the slashdot UI, but this is a good example of a story that suffers from it.
Clarification of this law may not come soon. But there will be a lot of legal "clarification" going on when people run away with the idea that they can print a gun with the plastic from old yogurt pots, put a round in it and fire it. When the whole thing disintegrates and causes injury to anyone except the intended target.
It will turn out actually to be pop-up technology. They'll probably have to warn people not to watch Mike Tyson on it. But then that's good advice for 2D too,
So embed some random nonce into the executable and tell them it's their credit card data
I do like your idea of embedding malware and threatening to unleash it if theft is detected.
I'm only joking by the way, but this is fun...
have everyone pay by credit card and embed their credit card details in the executable steganographically (it has to be possible in code too !) and tell the buyers you've done it. It should stop them passing the .exe around anyway.
The other thing that the Rikomagic lacks is a large and growing community of users, vendors and educators. Hardware's fine and all that but creating a common basic platform for a broad community is much harder.
Besides the lack of GPIO/SPI/I2c is a huge deal, it cuts out a lot of hardware tinkering.
Is that you Homer Simpson ?
map and list etc. are great, but the error messages when you get some detail wrong are something to behold. It's as if someone wanted to make it hard to keep their jobs.
"You all know that the duty of the Conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother Cardinals have come almost to the ends of the Earth to get him"
He seems to be a pretty euro-centric non-European judging by the first infallible words from his mouth. Presumably he considers the Earth to be flat too.
Lots of things will change. The Vatican will claim sovereignty of the Alps and invade Cyprus.
Why rounds of voting? Surely all these men are close enough to god to know his will and reach consensus on the first try.
Sadly, there are many accidents where people kill others, not so long ago a child was run over by it's parent in a driveway. At some point the parent needs to forgive themselves and move on. I see similarities between an accidental killing and killing while mentally incompetent.
In any case, I'm not in favor of capital punishment; I think it's unnecessary here in the US. Also, If I were ever convicted of murder I think I'd rather be confined to a regular prison than to a mental institution unless I was beyond caring.
We need to find a way to let people access the truth and to let them know that the truth may not be what they want to hear. Then leave the choice in their hands. To my mind, performing surgery on an infant without parental consent is unethical. As is prescribing placebos without informing the patient.
Access to ones own and one's childrens' medical records is coming, Hopefully soon but not before work is done to make it a success. As other's have stated, you can always get them through discovery by way of bringing suit, all making them more readily available does is make it less expensive for everyone involved.
Some things you can't do with LCDs; tinker with the electronics until you have an unscanned beam of electrons from the back of the monitor tube making a bright spot on the screen and use a magnet to move it around. Make it safe for kids to touch the display and work the magnet. Set up an after-school event to talk to them about relativity, charge, atomic structure, bremsstrahlung, X-rays, the LHC etc.
I used to mess up TV pictures with a magnet when I was a kid, it was fun to distort the actors on screen, but a lot of kids today may not get that experience. It's not a big thing, but I believe the experiences all add up.
BS. I've seen these advanced civilizations' stormtroopers shooting blasters, they can't hit a goddam thing.
The most recent round of restrictions on handguns came in in 1997, but gun control in the UK goes back centuries (wikipedia has a good history). One thing that a gun ban does is elevate the level of crime that justifies a gun. Firstly you have to be a more successful and well-connected criminal to get a gun in the first place and secondly the penalties that can be applied for being caught using it mean that it's not worth it just to knock off a corner 7-11. This makes the whole gun issue far more controllable in the UK (and of course as others have noted, the population density, controlled borders etc. help too). I don't think the US need completely give up on the rule of law.
An H1B is not so much a visa into the USA as an actual passport to the nation of H1. The citizens of H1s have wandered far from their place of birth but eventually will win a homeland of their own, perhaps even their own planet, where they can live in peace and ignore the phone calls asking how to fix everything.
These people are the developers for heaven's sake. If they introduced 50 really hard to find bugs before they open-sourced it then some of them are likely to go undiscovered while naturally occurring bugs get fixed by whoever does contribute back. It improves the version the Dems have while still crippling the version out in the wild. Of course, the Repubs could always contribute back their own bugs, but even those might be revealing.
surely the whole point of hyperspace is to be a plot device where one can avoid unfortunate physical laws that would otherwise mess up a story, like momentum (these star-ships routinely crash or make sharp turns at millions of miles per hour and the crew-members just fall over gently or brace themselves against pillars), where even Heisenberg experiences no uncertainty and in particular where special relativity apparently does not apply.