Fact: The largest single aperture radio telescope in the world is the Arecibo Observatory. It's maximum power output at 2380 MHz is 20 TW If a matching radio telescope were placed on a planet orbiting our nearest star Alpha Centauri (4.2 light years away) and broadcast at full power, directly at earth... the signal would be too weak by the time it arrived for Arecibo to detect it.
We can't even detect our own radio signals with the best equipment we have at interstellar distances. I think it likely that we'll be well out of the radio age by the time we can... The fact that the sky isn't flooded with alien Television stations isn't because there are no aliens, it's because there's a better way to transmit that we haven't figured out yet.
I've got logins for what... 200 sites? This is a problem for the sites, not me. Passwords don't work. Think of something new. I can not remember 200 passwords that are 9+ characters, can't contain real words, have special charcters and God knows what else.
The solution for the end user? Don't use these sites for anything important. Don't store and personal information. Don't do business with sites that retain your credit card number and give you no option to not store it.
You do realize that industry insiders have admitted to using that list to send even more junkmail right? Perfect place to send spam stopping software adds and crap. It's just another datapoint for them to use.
I think you're missing the facts here. The problem isn't that those they've killed so far were good people. That doesn't matter. What matters is that they are US citizens, the US government did not convict them, did not go before a judge at all, had no evidence at all that they were involved in anything. The document clearly states that the federal government simply needs to "strongly believe" the person is an imminent threat to the US and capturing them is infeasible.
With such a broad definition, they could use this to kill anyone they want. Other memos that have been leaked indicate that they believe collateral damage is acceptable if it's a "hot battlefield" and their definition of "hot Battlefield is the guy has a gun somewhere on the premiss.
The documents are so broad in scope, they collective say that the United States Executive Branch believes it is legal for them to Kill anyone, anywhere in the world, and any time... with no court or legal review, no appeals process or post kill review. Furthermore they feel that anyone in the general vicinity of their target is fair game as well.
The president could use these powers to kill you... how does that make you feel?
It's true that they are anti-free market. But no sociological construct can be pure. The patent system could work if the government or businesses had any interest in it working properly. But they don't. What we have no allows them to manipulate the market, drive out upstart companies, and drive up prices. Amazon takes more of the profit from digital books than real ones. Figure that one out for me.
This habitable zone idea needs to die. We have 1... that's ONE example of a inhabited planet. Out of and infinite number of habitable planets. We have no idea what life can live on, and no, we're not a good example. As far as we know, we'll find life on every planet, moon and asteroid in this system. We're not even entirely sure life can't be living on the surface of the sun. We need liquid water to survive, I doubt the trillions of other species out there are even remotely similar to us.
Usually, that’s not often because the hardware vendor has thin [profit] margins. Whenever Google updates Android, engineers have to modify it for each phone, chip, radio card that relies on the OS. Hardware vendors must make a unique version for each device and they have scarce resources. Engineers are usually focused on the current version, and devices that are coming out in the next year.
That's pretty funny, because there's a small group out there that manages to provide nightly updates for almost EVERY PHONE ON THE MARKET for free... http://get.cm/?type=nightly
It seems to me like a carrier could simply let you switch to CM10 and get your updates from them as long as you agree that their updates are your problem and not the carriers... oooh... wait... the problem isn't updating Android... the problem is updating all their adware revenue bullshit to work with android, not the OS. I forgot. Sorry!
For Christs sakes just read the fucking studies. Almost everything about Caffeine is good... The ONLY long-term down side of caffeine is a suspected slight increase risk in ovarian and breast cancer. They of course have no proof of this, and it's only suspected because caffeine leads to the fluctuation of plasma sex hormones and SHBG in women. But there are no studies that have shown it actually leads to any sort of increase in cancer risk.
You should drink caffeine, it's good for you. If you're neurotic, anxiety ridden and prone to running to the hospital every time you get a hang nail, you probably shouldn't drink 10 redbulls and then start surfing WebMD. Which, I suspect, is the real source of these increases in hospital visits.
No... what it actually means is you're being lied to. Most of the banks we're talking about here would still be bankrupt today if the feds hadn't suspended mark-to-market rules in 2008. They did fail, continued to fail, and are still failing today... despite the bailout. The bailout didn't save them. Allowing them to set the value of their own assets to whatever they wanted saved them. If I could claim my house was worth $10 million dollars and refinance it at whim, it'd be pretty hard for me to go bankrupt as well. It's a house of cards the government is allowing banks to build taller and taller. It WILL come down.
What? No... Car companies license the right to produce after market parts for their cars to companies that then produce the after-market parts to spec or often above spec. Car manufactures rarely produce their own parts so it's almost impossible to stop the parts from being made. Also, the parts are largely the same across many models, years and even makes.
Repair shops can and do buy from dealers. But that's for specific purposes. If you have a newer car, often you need the "real deal" manufacturer stamped part to keep the warranty valid... even if the part is actually inferior (and it often is) Simply having a non-dealer shop work on your car probably voids your warranty but if they put OEM parts on it, the dealer has no way of knowing that. Car repairs by dealers are such a huge scam that even having in-warentee work done by the dealer is often more expensive than having the local mechanic fix it.
This is why I never buy a new car. I always do my own repairs. If I can't fix it, it goes to the junkyard and I get a new car.
The most telling part is the shell of the cockpit. Look at the walls... it's clearly fiberglass and only about 1/8" thick. I doubt that would withstand any reasonable airspeed at all. Look behind the seat... more fiberglass. Then there's the even more obvious... where do you put your legs?!? The switches and knobs on the right-side are almost totally obscured by the fiberglass overhang. How would you get to them? And then... the funniest part... all the writing I see is in English... lol
Of course it's science, but it's more about sociology than it is about math like a lot of people think. This was one of the first points Milton Friedman made back in the day when he wrote his book.
Economics, however, is not all that difficult of a thing to predict. Predicting an individuals behavior is hard, but predicting a large group of peoples collective behavior is fairly simply. The reason we have so much trouble is we have a lot of interfering factors. Mostly from governments. As grain supplies get scarce, producers raise the price. A predictable number of people switch to other commodities, but some continue to buy at the higher price. The system is very simple. But then you have government intervention. They buy up grain when there is too much, and then release it as "Aid" during shortages. So now there is a limited supply of free grain. Peoples behavior in these situations is unpredictable. The more interference, the more chaotic the system.
I really recommend reading up on the Dustbowl and Great Depression. Often we hear about the great government works that brought that period to an end, but rarely do we hear about how the whole thing started with the homestead act and other government programs designed to increase food production for WW1, that, after the war was over left millions of acres of farmland in production so the price of grains crashed after the war. Government manipulation of the market lead to the crash, but few recognized it at the time. Then, finally, an even bigger war came along to drive the prices up again. This time they had more foresight and were able to wind things down more slowly.
And what would the government use their tax money for? No, I'd rather they didn't pay their taxes. Did you see today we invaded Africa (for like the 20th time this year) Paying your taxes, gives money to people that drop bombs on 3rd world families. Keep that in mind when you bitch at corporations that avoid them.
I agree... Google is a problem as well. But Google has shown a surprising amount of insight into privacy issues. They're not letting next quarters revenue rule their decisions 100% of the time like Facebook and Apple do. All of Googles hardware so-far usually has the least intrusive prepackaged apps compared to other software platforms. Rooting their phones is very simple. I suspect Glass will be the same. If there is some sort of "Record everything" feature, it will be easy to turn off if it's like Googles other products. Is this perfect? No... but at least you can do something about it. If Facebook puts facial recognition cameras in every retail outlet in the country, there's not a lot you can do about that at all. The second you check out and run your credit card they've got you, regardless of if you have a Facebook account or not.
Your point is irrelevant and naive. Facebook most likely owns this company either directly or indirectly. Even if they do not, the effect is the same. "No no no, the guy shot you with a Remington pistol but the BULLETS were Winchester!!" I'm still shot, and you're still a fucking idiot.
Well, if you're doing it in a modern software package like C# for example, there's little to no difference at all. I could write a stopwatch app... and the gui would have a single button and a display. The console version of which would be a lot harder to write. It all depends on what you're doing. Most GUIs make it easy to write for them, and offload a lot of their load onto the GPU.
By the way, Curiosity's UI is still on earth... and on dozens of different computers at Nasa. It's kind of silly to say curiosity is only powered by this tiny processor.... that processor is just accepting and implementing commands. All the data crunching is happening back here on earth by massive banks of computers.
No, you're completely wrong. The image through the bubbles and glass move. Also, you're thinking 3D, this isn't 3D. Your monitor isn't 3D. This is a change in perspective. It's like having remote control over a far away webcam. But it's a single image, from a single moment in time. It's like they took a picture of a scene and now you can travel around and look at it form different angels.
Facebook is putting their own cameras in public with built in facial recognition software. They will track everywhere you go, what you do while you're there, what you buy, what you eat, what you look at and don't buy. Every single thing you do will be logged in their databases, and then sold to... well... pretty much everyone. How much do you want to bet their biggest customer will be the federal government?
It appears that Orwell was off by about 30 years when he wrote 1984.
Exactly, it's idiotic for them to claim they knew who did it. Unless they found some Chinese Ninja hiding in their telco closest, they have no clue who hacked them. It's just as likely to be the US Government as the Chinese.
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Fact:
The largest single aperture radio telescope in the world is the Arecibo Observatory.
It's maximum power output at 2380 MHz is 20 TW
If a matching radio telescope were placed on a planet orbiting our nearest star Alpha Centauri (4.2 light years away) and broadcast at full power, directly at earth... the signal would be too weak by the time it arrived for Arecibo to detect it.
We can't even detect our own radio signals with the best equipment we have at interstellar distances. I think it likely that we'll be well out of the radio age by the time we can... The fact that the sky isn't flooded with alien Television stations isn't because there are no aliens, it's because there's a better way to transmit that we haven't figured out yet.
I've got logins for what... 200 sites? This is a problem for the sites, not me.
Passwords don't work. Think of something new. I can not remember 200 passwords that are 9+ characters, can't contain real words, have special charcters and God knows what else.
The solution for the end user? Don't use these sites for anything important. Don't store and personal information. Don't do business with sites that retain your credit card number and give you no option to not store it.
A Kindle is a PC? Fuck this article. Astroturfing bullshit.
You do realize that industry insiders have admitted to using that list to send even more junkmail right? Perfect place to send spam stopping software adds and crap. It's just another datapoint for them to use.
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/why.html
I think you're missing the facts here. The problem isn't that those they've killed so far were good people. That doesn't matter. What matters is that they are US citizens, the US government did not convict them, did not go before a judge at all, had no evidence at all that they were involved in anything. The document clearly states that the federal government simply needs to "strongly believe" the person is an imminent threat to the US and capturing them is infeasible.
With such a broad definition, they could use this to kill anyone they want. Other memos that have been leaked indicate that they believe collateral damage is acceptable if it's a "hot battlefield" and their definition of "hot Battlefield is the guy has a gun somewhere on the premiss.
The documents are so broad in scope, they collective say that the United States Executive Branch believes it is legal for them to Kill anyone, anywhere in the world, and any time... with no court or legal review, no appeals process or post kill review. Furthermore they feel that anyone in the general vicinity of their target is fair game as well.
The president could use these powers to kill you... how does that make you feel?
It's true that they are anti-free market. But no sociological construct can be pure. The patent system could work if the government or businesses had any interest in it working properly. But they don't. What we have no allows them to manipulate the market, drive out upstart companies, and drive up prices. Amazon takes more of the profit from digital books than real ones. Figure that one out for me.
Your first mistake was believing we lived in a free market.
This habitable zone idea needs to die. We have 1... that's ONE example of a inhabited planet. Out of and infinite number of habitable planets. We have no idea what life can live on, and no, we're not a good example. As far as we know, we'll find life on every planet, moon and asteroid in this system. We're not even entirely sure life can't be living on the surface of the sun. We need liquid water to survive, I doubt the trillions of other species out there are even remotely similar to us.
Usually, that’s not often because the hardware vendor has thin [profit] margins. Whenever Google updates Android, engineers have to modify it for each phone, chip, radio card that relies on the OS. Hardware vendors must make a unique version for each device and they have scarce resources. Engineers are usually focused on the current version, and devices that are coming out in the next year.
That's pretty funny, because there's a small group out there that manages to provide nightly updates for almost EVERY PHONE ON THE MARKET for free... http://get.cm/?type=nightly
It seems to me like a carrier could simply let you switch to CM10 and get your updates from them as long as you agree that their updates are your problem and not the carriers... oooh... wait... the problem isn't updating Android... the problem is updating all their adware revenue bullshit to work with android, not the OS. I forgot. Sorry!
For Christs sakes just read the fucking studies. Almost everything about Caffeine is good... The ONLY long-term down side of caffeine is a suspected slight increase risk in ovarian and breast cancer. They of course have no proof of this, and it's only suspected because caffeine leads to the fluctuation of plasma sex hormones and SHBG in women. But there are no studies that have shown it actually leads to any sort of increase in cancer risk.
If you look at the collective research on caffeine it actually reduces the risk of developing some pretty major diseases across the board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_caffeine
You should drink caffeine, it's good for you. If you're neurotic, anxiety ridden and prone to running to the hospital every time you get a hang nail, you probably shouldn't drink 10 redbulls and then start surfing WebMD. Which, I suspect, is the real source of these increases in hospital visits.
That's what "too big to fail" means.
No... what it actually means is you're being lied to. Most of the banks we're talking about here would still be bankrupt today if the feds hadn't suspended mark-to-market rules in 2008. They did fail, continued to fail, and are still failing today... despite the bailout. The bailout didn't save them. Allowing them to set the value of their own assets to whatever they wanted saved them. If I could claim my house was worth $10 million dollars and refinance it at whim, it'd be pretty hard for me to go bankrupt as well. It's a house of cards the government is allowing banks to build taller and taller. It WILL come down.
What? No...
Car companies license the right to produce after market parts for their cars to companies that then produce the after-market parts to spec or often above spec. Car manufactures rarely produce their own parts so it's almost impossible to stop the parts from being made. Also, the parts are largely the same across many models, years and even makes.
Repair shops can and do buy from dealers. But that's for specific purposes. If you have a newer car, often you need the "real deal" manufacturer stamped part to keep the warranty valid... even if the part is actually inferior (and it often is) Simply having a non-dealer shop work on your car probably voids your warranty but if they put OEM parts on it, the dealer has no way of knowing that. Car repairs by dealers are such a huge scam that even having in-warentee work done by the dealer is often more expensive than having the local mechanic fix it.
This is why I never buy a new car. I always do my own repairs. If I can't fix it, it goes to the junkyard and I get a new car.
The most telling part is the shell of the cockpit. Look at the walls... it's clearly fiberglass and only about 1/8" thick. I doubt that would withstand any reasonable airspeed at all. Look behind the seat... more fiberglass. Then there's the even more obvious... where do you put your legs?!? The switches and knobs on the right-side are almost totally obscured by the fiberglass overhang. How would you get to them? And then... the funniest part... all the writing I see is in English... lol
Of course it's science, but it's more about sociology than it is about math like a lot of people think. This was one of the first points Milton Friedman made back in the day when he wrote his book.
Economics, however, is not all that difficult of a thing to predict. Predicting an individuals behavior is hard, but predicting a large group of peoples collective behavior is fairly simply. The reason we have so much trouble is we have a lot of interfering factors. Mostly from governments. As grain supplies get scarce, producers raise the price. A predictable number of people switch to other commodities, but some continue to buy at the higher price. The system is very simple. But then you have government intervention. They buy up grain when there is too much, and then release it as "Aid" during shortages. So now there is a limited supply of free grain. Peoples behavior in these situations is unpredictable. The more interference, the more chaotic the system.
I really recommend reading up on the Dustbowl and Great Depression. Often we hear about the great government works that brought that period to an end, but rarely do we hear about how the whole thing started with the homestead act and other government programs designed to increase food production for WW1, that, after the war was over left millions of acres of farmland in production so the price of grains crashed after the war. Government manipulation of the market lead to the crash, but few recognized it at the time. Then, finally, an even bigger war came along to drive the prices up again. This time they had more foresight and were able to wind things down more slowly.
And what would the government use their tax money for? No, I'd rather they didn't pay their taxes. Did you see today we invaded Africa (for like the 20th time this year) Paying your taxes, gives money to people that drop bombs on 3rd world families. Keep that in mind when you bitch at corporations that avoid them.
I agree... Google is a problem as well. But Google has shown a surprising amount of insight into privacy issues. They're not letting next quarters revenue rule their decisions 100% of the time like Facebook and Apple do. All of Googles hardware so-far usually has the least intrusive prepackaged apps compared to other software platforms. Rooting their phones is very simple. I suspect Glass will be the same. If there is some sort of "Record everything" feature, it will be easy to turn off if it's like Googles other products. Is this perfect? No... but at least you can do something about it. If Facebook puts facial recognition cameras in every retail outlet in the country, there's not a lot you can do about that at all. The second you check out and run your credit card they've got you, regardless of if you have a Facebook account or not.
Your point is irrelevant and naive. Facebook most likely owns this company either directly or indirectly. Even if they do not, the effect is the same. "No no no, the guy shot you with a Remington pistol but the BULLETS were Winchester!!" I'm still shot, and you're still a fucking idiot.
Well, if you're doing it in a modern software package like C# for example, there's little to no difference at all. I could write a stopwatch app... and the gui would have a single button and a display. The console version of which would be a lot harder to write. It all depends on what you're doing. Most GUIs make it easy to write for them, and offload a lot of their load onto the GPU.
By the way, Curiosity's UI is still on earth... and on dozens of different computers at Nasa. It's kind of silly to say curiosity is only powered by this tiny processor.... that processor is just accepting and implementing commands. All the data crunching is happening back here on earth by massive banks of computers.
P.S. Apple probably paid them to say this.
No, you're completely wrong. The image through the bubbles and glass move. Also, you're thinking 3D, this isn't 3D. Your monitor isn't 3D. This is a change in perspective. It's like having remote control over a far away webcam. But it's a single image, from a single moment in time. It's like they took a picture of a scene and now you can travel around and look at it form different angels.
It goes far, far beyond even what you're thinking:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2187801/Were-watching-The-camera-recognise-Facebook-picture-time-walk-shop.html
Facebook is putting their own cameras in public with built in facial recognition software. They will track everywhere you go, what you do while you're there, what you buy, what you eat, what you look at and don't buy. Every single thing you do will be logged in their databases, and then sold to... well... pretty much everyone. How much do you want to bet their biggest customer will be the federal government?
It appears that Orwell was off by about 30 years when he wrote 1984.
Exactly, it's idiotic for them to claim they knew who did it. Unless they found some Chinese Ninja hiding in their telco closest, they have no clue who hacked them. It's just as likely to be the US Government as the Chinese.
Um... the only thing that requires activesync is Exchange.
Belkins actually advertising it for the very purpose they're worried about:
http://belkinwemo.tumblr.com/post/32629402162/did-i-turn-it-off-i-must-have-turned-it-off-did
Plug in dangerous things so you can be sure their turned off by checking your phone.
We have enterprise support for android and apple without any issues at all. You need new IT people.