Bruce Lee died in 1973, Robert Shaw -1978, John Wayne - 1979, Steve McQueen -1980, Yul Brynner and Orson Wells - 1985, Lee Marvin - 1987, Tupac -1996, Charles Bronson and Jonny Cash in 2003. When Clint Eastwood and Chuck Norris go it's going to drop to zero.
Most nations have banned the use of land mines because of their uncontrolled, autonomous behavior. Once they are set, they stay set and will activate whether tripped by friend or foe.
They will activate when tripped by the little child playing in the field years after the war is over.
The problem the General recognizes in fully autonomous killer robots is the same problem encountered when land mines are used. The robots are just a more complex example.
I suppose on the most basic philosophical level they can be thought of as the similar. However in the sort term I wold think a killer robot would be more of a threat as it can actively seek and designate targets. While a land mine just sits and waits for some poor unlucky person. But that's assuming that it can't be deactivated, or told to stand down by it's controller. Even so, unless a robot was severely malfunctioning, I would think it's not going to burn all of the children, kill the women and rape the family dogs. I'd hope that such a system was designed to kill enemy combatants and not everything that walks.
In the long term, the land mine is a bit worse. Even if the robot never actively gets signaled to stand down, it's a very complicated system. The batteries are only going to last for so long, even if it can recharge itself. parts are going to degrade relatively quickly compared to a land mine. How long could it stay active/lethal? A year? Two? Presumably it will also run out of ammunition, unless it's a ninja-bot or something. Now a land mine will just sit and remain effective for decades. Depending on where they have been planted, they could remain a threat for over 50 years.
So do I. Mainly because it is(was) on any windows system. While not the best, it's always there if I need convert an image to a different format or need a screen capture.
This seems like a good time to check your tab and light up a red cigarette. You might want to check which type of blade that malfunctioning one was too.
Russia announces a whole lot of things but it is a big jump from announcing to deploying. China follows the same protocol.
Yes, but they released video footage of it being launched from a fighter jet. Oddly the Chinese pilot looked a lot like Tom Cruise and the plane he launched it from looked a lot like an F-14 Tomcat. But they sure had some catchy Kenny Loggins music being played along with the footage.
Sorry I don't understand. What is this "insurance rate" thing you speak of? Is that the weird thing you Americans do where you pay to get medical attention?
No. That's called a co-pay, deductible, or paying out of pocket.I don't know what country you're in, but I've been treated for medical emergencies in several countries and so far none have been for free. If yours is, then you're paying for it under a different name, such as taxes.
Running as fast as you can till your lungs hurt will likely only achieve early cardiac arrest rather that improve insurance
Well your insurance rates are certainly going to go down if you keel over from cardiac arrest. Car insurance, won't be needing that, Health insurance, nope. Life insurance, too late. Flood insurance, meh your coffin will probably float.
With a bit of modification this plan might work. Use a mirror (or retroreflective surface) to reflect the laser back to the ship that fired it. Start fires, blind any US sailors that happen to be looking in that general direction.
I really don't see how this could work. It would be cheaper and much more effective to send a (or several) missile(s) that deploy a smoke column just ahead of the one with the warhead.
For this mirror thing to work, you would need one big enough to shield the entire drone, or know exactly where the laser is going to strike it. A mirror of that size will make it impossible to control the drone's flight as the drag will probably cause it to go out of control. So if you could somehow know exactly where the drone will be struck and can use a smaller mirror, you will still have control issues, so you won't be able to keep it deployed for long. Which means you will also need to know exactly when the laser is going o be fired. Unless the firing time is prearranged, you won't know that. My guess is that current tech for getting the angle correct to reflect it back will be too heavy to put on a drone.
You will need to account for an aweful lot of variables, besides the ones I've already mentioned. Additionally, I would think there are protocols in place that would minimize this as anyone on this ship will most likely be wearing some sort of eye protection, and probably not looking in the direction of the beam when it's fired. A direct strike on a sailor could be fatal, however it's highly unlikely.
I'd deploy a simple lightweight mirror on a retractable arm that would track the location of the ship and position the mirror such that from the ship's perspective
Are you saying that the mirror would be big enough to completely shield the drone? If so, no it wouldn't work. If not, then you can't completely shield the drone. Even if all of that didn't matter, you're going to add a lot of weight for this to work as you'd need a fairly intelligent controller, the mechanics to move the arm/mirror, a strong enough arm to to actually hold the mirror and a high quality enough mirror to actually reflect the laser. If you manage all of that, you're going to create a control surface that is going to screw with the aerodynamics in all sorts of ways that have nothing to do with how/where you would want the drone to fly.
I would assume humans had the ability to change directly more quickly than a T Rex, another important aspect of evasion.
Humans are/can be very efficient killers. That's why very few apex predators intentionally hunt/attack humans. We kill each other and ourselves probably by several orders of magnitude more than all predators combined do. If there's a predator that eats humans in an area we want to be, we have typically exterminated most, if not all of them. Even if we don't, the only ones that survive either don't have a taste for humans, or tend to avoid people. Polar bears are the one exception that I'm aware of that will intentionally hunt people. But they'll hunt anything. Most other animal attacks are from starving/diseased animals, or protecting their young. In some cases it also may be nothing more than curiosity. Any person who survives a large great white shark attack, was most likely not attacked. They only have one way to touch/grab something to check it out, unfortunately for us, it's an extremely powerful jaw full of really big sharp teeth.
How fast a person runs today in shoes on a flat surface in a straight line is one thing.
A person wouldn't run today, and nothing we would consider to be human ever lived while T-Rex did. How fast a T-Rex can outrun a.50 cal. would be the deciding factor. It's sure as hell isn't going to out run an M1 Abrams, or an AH-64 Apache helicopter.
I think I may go with hard to set up local network for anything where financial data etc is.
I had CAT5e in my previous house. I moved 4 years ago and before I moved in I ran CAT6 to the rooms I knew I would have computers in them. All of my servers and desktops are on copper. My firewall blocks traffic between the copper and the port to the WiFi router. The only thing that the WiFi connects to is the internet. Phones, tablets and computers that are not on copper are the only things that connect to the WiFi.
While Coindash noticed the hack almost immediately, the damage was done, and the hacker amassed more than $7 million in stolen cryptocurrency.
Wow, I had no idea you could mine over $7million "almost immediately". No wonder Ethereum is so popular. Must have been using one of those out of stock NVidia or AMD video cards for that.
One square mile of batteries Is all that's needed to store the energy for the entire US?
Has enough of the needed material been mined in the history of mankind to even manufacture these batteries?
Obviously we won't want to put all of this in a single location, but does this estimate take redundancy into account? Battery locations could go off line for replacement, transmission lines going down, Windows 10 starts an update, etc.
What about future increases for power demand? Did he factor in transmission losses between the panels and the batteries? Between the batteries and the homes? Losses from converting from DC to AC?
I'm all for more renewable, cleaner energy. But we can't rely exclusively on one form of power generation. Wind should also be in the mix and nuclear and/or natural gas should be at least some percentage too. What happens if it ends up being miraculously overcast in a sizeable number of the largest solar panel locations for a couple of days? Or high winds cover 30% of the nations panels in sand? Unlikely, yes, but weird stuff can happen.
What are the risks of explosions and toxic spills when manufacturing battery capacity on a scale like this when it's never been done before? What about an entire battery site going up in flames? Nuclear was the bestest, cleanest form of energy generation possible, until it went into production and greed and reality set in. I'm a big fan of nuclear, but it's not perfect, and solar likely won't be either once it's scaled up.
You missed the obvious "Pet Rock" evolution. "Pet Moon Rock"
Oh that's just cruel. Everyone knows that pet moon rocks don't do well in earths gravity. I'm sure Katie Perry and Justin Beiber, along with the rest of PETA, will be happy to stone you to death so that you can be taught the error of your ways.
I'm guessing this will end about the same as Homer's Miracle Spine-O-Cylinder did when a bunch of chiropractors smashed it with clubs and sledge hammers.
I sexually identify as a polar bear and find this to be highly offensive. You think grizzly bears, brown bears, panda bears, water bears, etc are all "regular bears" but somehow polar bears are not "regular bears". I can't believe in this day and age that we have bigoted polar-arkoudaphobic people like you on the internet.
They were too late to the game. If they had been first they probably would have been the standard.
Really? Windows CE was released in 1992. My first smart phone ran it. My iPaq from 2003 ran it's predecessor Widows Mobile. I had two phones after that (and prior to 2008) that also ran Windows Mobile. So no, iOS and Android were not first.
Except for vacuum tube mfgrs, theres still a demand for those. Marshall, Mesa-Boogie, Engl, Soldano, Crate, Peavey, and a whole host of other amp makers as an example:)
Yes, there are still some very specialized demand for them. But nothing like there is for transistors, or even like there was for vacuum tubes prior to the advent of the transistor.
I sold my Mesa-Boogie stack many years ago as I stopped playing in bands and have been kicking myself ever since. I loved the sound of that thing.
Eventually the fission-fusion reaction in the Sun will run out of fissile/fusion material and the reaction will stop (or it will grow unstable and explode). In either case, all life will end on the planet shortly thereafter.
Holy shit, we better get on that. I mean we only have another 5 billion years give or take. We probably should have started looking for a solution last year or the year before. Now we're really going to be under the gun to get this figured out before it becomes an issue. There certainly aren't any other more pressing problems we should be looking into.
So called fossil fuels are "renewable" however. It is all just a matter of time scale. Fossil fuels are renewable on the scale of millions of years, and solar power is renewable on a scale of billions or trillions of years.
Cool. So as long as we don't rely on solar we should be fine. We must demand our leaders switch us back to fossil fuels immediately as they are renewable and solar is not.
However, the problem has nothing whatsoever to do with CO2. The problem is that humans only know how to use energy by one method: conversion into HEAT. So it does not matter what the SOURCE of the energy is, if you use the same amount of it you will produce the same amount of HEAT, which will have the same effect on the planet.
So retaining more of the heat via greenhouse gasses doesn't matter? Good to know. So what the hell is going on on Venus then? Those Venutians must be using some damn inefficient method of generating power to heat up the planet like that.
The solution is to attach a gigantic heatsink to the planet to dissipate the heat into space.
What type of thermal paste do we need for good transference to the heat sink? I'm guessing that Arctic Silver 5 won't cut it.
In this case I think the news industry needs to put on their big boy pants and realize that nothing guarantees them that they can keep making profits on an old business model forever. It seems that any industry that gets entrenched (music, news, lots more examples) thinks that they then should have a right to keep profiting even if society or technology, etc. moves on. In this case, adapt or die. It seems ingrained that we always attempt to protect ourselves. I imagine when my company is pushed out by newer stuff / better stuff I will probably be the same way - "there outta be a law!". But from outside it seems silly to think that the current news industry should have a legal recourse to continue an old school profit train.
Well put.
How many other industries have been turned upside down due to new technology coming along to supplant it. I'm sure the wagon wheel makers would like to put a stop to the automobile, not to mention the stagecoach makers, and horse breeders. Oh, and the buggy whip makers. Typewriter manufacturers and repair men would like to put a stop to those newfangled computers too. Not to mention adding machine makers, who are in hot water with abacus builders. And the vacuum tube producers want to put a stop to transistors as well.
And those magnets (7T-14T) are so powerful that it makes humans dizzy just to slowly move your head in them.
A fair number of people get dizzy in a 3T field when the move their head. At 7T many people don't even have to move their head. I've never been in a 7T, 1.5T is has high a field as I'll get in. I know quite a few people that have been in 7T magnets. Often times they feel like the table is still moving them into the bore long after it's stopped. I've also heard that you can taste your own blood while in the magnet too. There are 14T animals magnets. I know a couple of people that work on those. They've told me that it takes mice that are scanned in those a day or two until they are "right again".
You probably need something like 50T or more to get the spatial resolution you need to really "see" the functioning of neural circuits.
Have there been any scanners built that can reach that field strength? The last time I heard, the University of Florida had built a 25T magnet, but the bore was only large enough for particle physics, not even small animals. Even so, the RF pulse required to disrupt a 50T field would probably cook your brain in fairly short order. No thanks,.
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Bruce Lee died in 1973, Robert Shaw -1978, John Wayne - 1979, Steve McQueen -1980, Yul Brynner and Orson Wells - 1985, Lee Marvin - 1987, Tupac -1996, Charles Bronson and Jonny Cash in 2003. When Clint Eastwood and Chuck Norris go it's going to drop to zero.
Most nations have banned the use of land mines because of their uncontrolled, autonomous behavior. Once they are set, they stay set and will activate whether tripped by friend or foe.
They will activate when tripped by the little child playing in the field years after the war is over.
The problem the General recognizes in fully autonomous killer robots is the same problem encountered when land mines are used. The robots are just a more complex example.
I suppose on the most basic philosophical level they can be thought of as the similar. However in the sort term I wold think a killer robot would be more of a threat as it can actively seek and designate targets. While a land mine just sits and waits for some poor unlucky person. But that's assuming that it can't be deactivated, or told to stand down by it's controller. Even so, unless a robot was severely malfunctioning, I would think it's not going to burn all of the children, kill the women and rape the family dogs. I'd hope that such a system was designed to kill enemy combatants and not everything that walks.
In the long term, the land mine is a bit worse. Even if the robot never actively gets signaled to stand down, it's a very complicated system. The batteries are only going to last for so long, even if it can recharge itself. parts are going to degrade relatively quickly compared to a land mine. How long could it stay active/lethal? A year? Two? Presumably it will also run out of ammunition, unless it's a ninja-bot or something. Now a land mine will just sit and remain effective for decades. Depending on where they have been planted, they could remain a threat for over 50 years.
I still use it in a professional setting!
So do I. Mainly because it is(was) on any windows system. While not the best, it's always there if I need convert an image to a different format or need a screen capture.
This seems like a good time to check your tab and light up a red cigarette. You might want to check which type of blade that malfunctioning one was too.
Russia announces a whole lot of things but it is a big jump from announcing to deploying. China follows the same protocol.
Yes, but they released video footage of it being launched from a fighter jet. Oddly the Chinese pilot looked a lot like Tom Cruise and the plane he launched it from looked a lot like an F-14 Tomcat. But they sure had some catchy Kenny Loggins music being played along with the footage.
Sorry I don't understand. What is this "insurance rate" thing you speak of? Is that the weird thing you Americans do where you pay to get medical attention?
No. That's called a co-pay, deductible, or paying out of pocket.I don't know what country you're in, but I've been treated for medical emergencies in several countries and so far none have been for free. If yours is, then you're paying for it under a different name, such as taxes.
Running as fast as you can till your lungs hurt will likely only achieve early cardiac arrest rather that improve insurance
Well your insurance rates are certainly going to go down if you keel over from cardiac arrest. Car insurance, won't be needing that, Health insurance, nope. Life insurance, too late. Flood insurance, meh your coffin will probably float.
With a bit of modification this plan might work. Use a mirror (or retroreflective surface) to reflect the laser back to the ship that fired it. Start fires, blind any US sailors that happen to be looking in that general direction.
I really don't see how this could work. It would be cheaper and much more effective to send a (or several) missile(s) that deploy a smoke column just ahead of the one with the warhead.
For this mirror thing to work, you would need one big enough to shield the entire drone, or know exactly where the laser is going to strike it. A mirror of that size will make it impossible to control the drone's flight as the drag will probably cause it to go out of control. So if you could somehow know exactly where the drone will be struck and can use a smaller mirror, you will still have control issues, so you won't be able to keep it deployed for long. Which means you will also need to know exactly when the laser is going o be fired. Unless the firing time is prearranged, you won't know that. My guess is that current tech for getting the angle correct to reflect it back will be too heavy to put on a drone.
You will need to account for an aweful lot of variables, besides the ones I've already mentioned. Additionally, I would think there are protocols in place that would minimize this as anyone on this ship will most likely be wearing some sort of eye protection, and probably not looking in the direction of the beam when it's fired. A direct strike on a sailor could be fatal, however it's highly unlikely.
I'd deploy a simple lightweight mirror on a retractable arm that would track the location of the ship and position the mirror such that from the ship's perspective
Are you saying that the mirror would be big enough to completely shield the drone? If so, no it wouldn't work. If not, then you can't completely shield the drone. Even if all of that didn't matter, you're going to add a lot of weight for this to work as you'd need a fairly intelligent controller, the mechanics to move the arm/mirror, a strong enough arm to to actually hold the mirror and a high quality enough mirror to actually reflect the laser. If you manage all of that, you're going to create a control surface that is going to screw with the aerodynamics in all sorts of ways that have nothing to do with how/where you would want the drone to fly.
t doesn't make any sound, it's completely silent and it's incredibly effective at what it does,"
But does it make popcorn?
I would assume humans had the ability to change directly more quickly than a T Rex, another important aspect of evasion.
Humans are/can be very efficient killers. That's why very few apex predators intentionally hunt/attack humans. We kill each other and ourselves probably by several orders of magnitude more than all predators combined do. If there's a predator that eats humans in an area we want to be, we have typically exterminated most, if not all of them. Even if we don't, the only ones that survive either don't have a taste for humans, or tend to avoid people. Polar bears are the one exception that I'm aware of that will intentionally hunt people. But they'll hunt anything. Most other animal attacks are from starving/diseased animals, or protecting their young. In some cases it also may be nothing more than curiosity. Any person who survives a large great white shark attack, was most likely not attacked. They only have one way to touch/grab something to check it out, unfortunately for us, it's an extremely powerful jaw full of really big sharp teeth.
How fast a person runs today in shoes on a flat surface in a straight line is one thing.
A person wouldn't run today, and nothing we would consider to be human ever lived while T-Rex did. How fast a T-Rex can outrun a .50 cal. would be the deciding factor. It's sure as hell isn't going to out run an M1 Abrams, or an AH-64 Apache helicopter.
I think I may go with hard to set up local network for anything where financial data etc is.
I had CAT5e in my previous house. I moved 4 years ago and before I moved in I ran CAT6 to the rooms I knew I would have computers in them. All of my servers and desktops are on copper. My firewall blocks traffic between the copper and the port to the WiFi router. The only thing that the WiFi connects to is the internet. Phones, tablets and computers that are not on copper are the only things that connect to the WiFi.
While Coindash noticed the hack almost immediately, the damage was done, and the hacker amassed more than $7 million in stolen cryptocurrency.
Wow, I had no idea you could mine over $7million "almost immediately". No wonder Ethereum is so popular. Must have been using one of those out of stock NVidia or AMD video cards for that.
One square mile of batteries Is all that's needed to store the energy for the entire US?
Has enough of the needed material been mined in the history of mankind to even manufacture these batteries?
Obviously we won't want to put all of this in a single location, but does this estimate take redundancy into account? Battery locations could go off line for replacement, transmission lines going down, Windows 10 starts an update, etc.
What about future increases for power demand? Did he factor in transmission losses between the panels and the batteries? Between the batteries and the homes? Losses from converting from DC to AC?
I'm all for more renewable, cleaner energy. But we can't rely exclusively on one form of power generation. Wind should also be in the mix and nuclear and/or natural gas should be at least some percentage too. What happens if it ends up being miraculously overcast in a sizeable number of the largest solar panel locations for a couple of days? Or high winds cover 30% of the nations panels in sand? Unlikely, yes, but weird stuff can happen.
What are the risks of explosions and toxic spills when manufacturing battery capacity on a scale like this when it's never been done before? What about an entire battery site going up in flames? Nuclear was the bestest, cleanest form of energy generation possible, until it went into production and greed and reality set in. I'm a big fan of nuclear, but it's not perfect, and solar likely won't be either once it's scaled up.
I would defiantly think having a few 20's would be safer than nothing. Yes, defiantly.
Why? So you can hold them up and defiantly tell the mugger to try to take them?
You missed the obvious "Pet Rock" evolution. "Pet Moon Rock"
Oh that's just cruel. Everyone knows that pet moon rocks don't do well in earths gravity. I'm sure Katie Perry and Justin Beiber, along with the rest of PETA, will be happy to stone you to death so that you can be taught the error of your ways.
I'm guessing this will end about the same as Homer's Miracle Spine-O-Cylinder did when a bunch of chiropractors smashed it with clubs and sledge hammers.
a polar bear and a regular bear,
I sexually identify as a polar bear and find this to be highly offensive. You think grizzly bears, brown bears, panda bears, water bears, etc are all "regular bears" but somehow polar bears are not "regular bears". I can't believe in this day and age that we have bigoted polar-arkoudaphobic people like you on the internet.
They were too late to the game. If they had been first they probably would have been the standard.
Really? Windows CE was released in 1992. My first smart phone ran it. My iPaq from 2003 ran it's predecessor Widows Mobile. I had two phones after that (and prior to 2008) that also ran Windows Mobile. So no, iOS and Android were not first.
Except for vacuum tube mfgrs, theres still a demand for those. Marshall, Mesa-Boogie, Engl, Soldano, Crate, Peavey, and a whole host of other amp makers as an example :)
Yes, there are still some very specialized demand for them. But nothing like there is for transistors, or even like there was for vacuum tubes prior to the advent of the transistor.
I sold my Mesa-Boogie stack many years ago as I stopped playing in bands and have been kicking myself ever since. I loved the sound of that thing.
Are you claiming you wouldn't be happy if a transportation company claimed instantaneous travel, cloned you, moved the clone then killed the original?
Not if he's the clone.
Eventually the fission-fusion reaction in the Sun will run out of fissile/fusion material and the reaction will stop (or it will grow unstable and explode). In either case, all life will end on the planet shortly thereafter.
Holy shit, we better get on that. I mean we only have another 5 billion years give or take. We probably should have started looking for a solution last year or the year before. Now we're really going to be under the gun to get this figured out before it becomes an issue. There certainly aren't any other more pressing problems we should be looking into.
So called fossil fuels are "renewable" however. It is all just a matter of time scale. Fossil fuels are renewable on the scale of millions of years, and solar power is renewable on a scale of billions or trillions of years.
Cool. So as long as we don't rely on solar we should be fine. We must demand our leaders switch us back to fossil fuels immediately as they are renewable and solar is not.
However, the problem has nothing whatsoever to do with CO2. The problem is that humans only know how to use energy by one method: conversion into HEAT. So it does not matter what the SOURCE of the energy is, if you use the same amount of it you will produce the same amount of HEAT, which will have the same effect on the planet.
So retaining more of the heat via greenhouse gasses doesn't matter? Good to know. So what the hell is going on on Venus then? Those Venutians must be using some damn inefficient method of generating power to heat up the planet like that.
The solution is to attach a gigantic heatsink to the planet to dissipate the heat into space.
What type of thermal paste do we need for good transference to the heat sink? I'm guessing that Arctic Silver 5 won't cut it.
In this case I think the news industry needs to put on their big boy pants and realize that nothing guarantees them that they can keep making profits on an old business model forever. It seems that any industry that gets entrenched (music, news, lots more examples) thinks that they then should have a right to keep profiting even if society or technology, etc. moves on. In this case, adapt or die. It seems ingrained that we always attempt to protect ourselves. I imagine when my company is pushed out by newer stuff / better stuff I will probably be the same way - "there outta be a law!". But from outside it seems silly to think that the current news industry should have a legal recourse to continue an old school profit train.
Well put.
How many other industries have been turned upside down due to new technology coming along to supplant it. I'm sure the wagon wheel makers would like to put a stop to the automobile, not to mention the stagecoach makers, and horse breeders. Oh, and the buggy whip makers. Typewriter manufacturers and repair men would like to put a stop to those newfangled computers too. Not to mention adding machine makers, who are in hot water with abacus builders. And the vacuum tube producers want to put a stop to transistors as well.
Is it just me, or does investing in a startup seem more like gambling?
It's not just you. That's exactly what it is. It's just a little more complex and time consuming that going to a casino.
And those magnets (7T-14T) are so powerful that it makes humans dizzy just to slowly move your head in them.
A fair number of people get dizzy in a 3T field when the move their head. At 7T many people don't even have to move their head. I've never been in a 7T, 1.5T is has high a field as I'll get in. I know quite a few people that have been in 7T magnets. Often times they feel like the table is still moving them into the bore long after it's stopped. I've also heard that you can taste your own blood while in the magnet too. There are 14T animals magnets. I know a couple of people that work on those. They've told me that it takes mice that are scanned in those a day or two until they are "right again".
You probably need something like 50T or more to get the spatial resolution you need to really "see" the functioning of neural circuits.
Have there been any scanners built that can reach that field strength? The last time I heard, the University of Florida had built a 25T magnet, but the bore was only large enough for particle physics, not even small animals. Even so, the RF pulse required to disrupt a 50T field would probably cook your brain in fairly short order. No thanks,.