while he survives on what is left of his old heart It's interesting that technology developed and abandoned years ago may come back into the foreground. Artificial hearts were developed way back in 1969 but they are still big, awkward, and often painful. Only recently has one been certified as "humanitarian" to implant and it still has a limited lifetime. They were discontinued somewhere around 1983 because most patience only survived about six months. Of course, being stuck next to a shopping cart sized artificial heart for a few weeks while they grow you a new one doesn't actually sound so bad.
Well if all you care about is seeing/knowing that artifacts exist theres always the retroflectors that the apollo astronauts left behind. Basically its a few mirrors that always reflect back at the angle of incidence so if you shine a laser on it the laser will come straight back the way it came. They can still be detected by aiming a laser at the moon today. Of course, you could argue that it doesn't prove a manned landing occured, but then neither does a rover/flag/landing module.
I definately agree with you that trying to outlaw a drug just leads to the development and adoption of new ones, but I don't think that means this is useless. If this was given only to cocaine addicts who wanted (for themselves) to get clean but can't because they are addicted it could be highly effective. If given to every kid before he enters college, pretty much worthless and even arguably dangerous.
So they've realized how untrusted they are...
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Am I the only one who thinks it's hilarious how thorough the author is in proving that this is really true. There's a screenshot of the test, video, and even a screenshot of the checkin.
It's almost like think we don't trust them or something.
It's not really open source. All they are saying is that the designs will be made available to other companies for bidding and estimation purposes. I'm sure there will be plenty of hoops to jump though to see them.
It's so easy to say that the people that fall for these things are morons, that they are responsible, that $10 isn't much money on average. Now imagine that your grandparent falls for one of these scams and loses $10,000 of their retirement money. Or your spouse falls for one and ends up destroying your credit for the next 10 years.
Yes, people need to pay attention and yes the average person should spot a phishing email. But blaming the loses on the victims is like saying that the girl that got raped deserved it because she was dressed slutty and shouldn't have been in that part of town. But, I guess now she knows not to go there again, so no worries.
Maybe this is a stupid question but what does "expanded by 400%" mean? Does that mean 4x or 5x? After all, if you say that it expanded by 100% that would imply 2x so extrapolating... It's just horribly vague.
My college roomate had a router that accidently used GPL code and so had to release it. He was able to find some open source code online that gave the router functionality about an order of magnitude better than what origanally came installed.
He did have to open it up and manually clear the flash chip which housed to the OS, but it wasn't anything someone reasonably confident couldn't do with a bit of research.
Basically, if you care enough to know that the code is available, you should be competent enough to do what you want to with it.
There's no discussion of how long these effects last. Of course our brain is going to prepare us for violence when we witness violence. If it didn't, you'd probably get killed in your first violent confrontation because you wouldn't be prepared to fight back. The question is, does viewing violent media today make me more likely to go kill people tomorrow.
Do you trust Pharmaceutical Companies to give you all the information you need to make an intelligent decision? In a word, YES. Do you honestly believe that every single doctor, scientist, manager, and CEO of Every pharmaceutical company is willing to kill and brain damage millions of people?
Vaccines have saved more lives than any other medical discovery in human history. They have virtually eliminated the threat of polio, smallpox, mumps and measles. And what exactly would pharmaceutical companies have to gain from poisoning the population? There's no drug to treat autism and there are alternatives to mercury preserved (more expensive but if they were used the extra cost would just be passed on to the consumer).
If you really think all drug companies are evil you should atleast read up on River Blindness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverblindness This is a horrible parasite that once infected millions of people in affrica. Merck accidentally found a treatment for it, spent millions of dollars to get it certified and offered to sell it below cost to African governments. When the governments still couldn't afford it, Merck offered it for free, even going so far as to build infrustructure to make its administration possible.
I know it's only one example, and yes, they did get good PR for it, but to say that drug companies are all evil all the time is just plain ridiculous.
Maybe someone could explain to me the implication in the article that the data is scientifically useless. If it's just a bad stitch job done back here on Earth it would seem they would still have the original data and could reperform the stitch no? Even if they don't all the data between the stitches is still good which I would imagine is probably what the real researchers use anyway.
Ok, in standard electronics we have to turn on/off a signal everytime we want to send information. This takes time, uses extra power, and generates extra heat (mostly from the fact that the wire the signal is going down has a capacitence that needs to be charged before the signal can be complete).
The capacitence of these wires is miniscule because the wires are so small but in a modern computer the signal may be turning on/off billions of times a second so it does add up. If I remember correctly it comes out to be a huge majority of the power consumption (and again, therefore heat generation) of the chip.
With spintronics we don't use on/off as the signal but rather the spin of the electrons. Therefore we can supply constant current on every signal line and get rid of all these capacitence issues.
This is vital because without some change, using current technology and Moores law, we can show that in just a couple decades the surface of a computer chip will be putting out more heat per area than the surface of the sun.
Kinda rambled on but I hope that helped answer your question.
Don't fall for sensationalist headlines. The "ban" of humans on Mars is nothing of the sort, all it is is a caveate on the funding for the next year that says none of this money can be used to fund a manned Mars mission.
Basically, "Don't waste money trying to send man to Mars right now". Alternatively, it could be an effort to seperate any human exploration funding from the relatively normal NASA activities.
The only real problem I have with it is that it says NASA can't use the money to even research the idea, which basically means that there would be little to no progress on the long range manned mission front.
Of course, nothings stopping NASA from researching a trip to Europa or something else but still... seems unnecissarily restrictive.
Actually, more recently Verizon has been getting very good marks on customer service. Nationally, it's ranked second only to T-Mobile. In my region it's actually tied for first.
Now, I've only been with them a few months but I haven't had any issues yet. Maybe you had a bad experience?
Very interesting, I guess I never realized that abuse of German prisoners was quite so widespread during/after the war. On a lighter note, there was actually a German POW camp not far from my home town where the situation was pretty much the opposite.
At the time, the area had a huge german immigrant population and the prisoners would regularly break out at night to attend barn dances and parties only to break back in the next morning. Supposedly the people running the camp knew it was going on but nobody bothered to do anything about it.
Hard to understand how there could be such harsh mistreatment in some places while also having such lax security in others.
Oh please god I hope you're joking. Mods, please, please mod him funny. I'm begging you. His "genuine ethical convictions" includes slander, libel, illegal munipulation of evidence, not to mention making copious amounts of homosexual pornography freely (and even legally) available to children.
Not only is the screen larger than most paper back books, it is also an eInk display. No glare, no backlight. It basically looks like black letters printed onto white plastic.
While I see your point, that weird != alien, I don't think you understand what the article is saying. They are searching for terrestrial life that arose (on earth) indipendently from the life we are surrounded by.
So, when you say "Is there a chance that there is weird terrestrial life on earth we haven't yet discovered?", yes, yes there is. And that's exactly what they're hoping to find.
You know, I've never understood that. I've been using firefox/mozilla since 2003 and I've only once had what I would call a major memory leak and that was caused by an extention.
Yes, the memory footprint is bigger in v.2 and yes, memory caching ten pages forward and back on every tab is probably excessive but if you do a little research you can disable these features. If you still have problems theres a setting that basically resets the memory usage everytime you minimize.
Granted, I'm not one to have the same firefox window open for weeks at a time, which is the situation that I most often hear people complain about the memory leak issues.
Also granted, I don't know of one person who consistently uses firefox that hasn't had some difficult to fix problem with it at some point (interestingly, it's never the same one from person to person. I had problems playing movies, one friend crashed every time a flash player loaded, and another just plain locked up occassionaly)
hehe, Sorry, What I meant to say was that the singularity isn't just about strong AI. One way to create greater than human intelligence is to augment human intelligence with computer hardware.
"Oh please, that's preposterous science fiction mumbo jumbo. [the healing effect] actually lies in this electronium hat, which harnesses the power of sunspots to produce cognitive radiation."
The singularity is just about strong AI. The singularity is about being able to create a greater than human intelligence, which could possibly include augmented human intelligence, of which a neural interface is a key first step.
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Well if all you care about is seeing/knowing that artifacts exist theres always the retroflectors that the apollo astronauts left behind. Basically its a few mirrors that always reflect back at the angle of incidence so if you shine a laser on it the laser will come straight back the way it came. They can still be detected by aiming a laser at the moon today. Of course, you could argue that it doesn't prove a manned landing occured, but then neither does a rover/flag/landing module.
That list of every IP address I posted a while back.
I definately agree with you that trying to outlaw a drug just leads to the development and adoption of new ones, but I don't think that means this is useless. If this was given only to cocaine addicts who wanted (for themselves) to get clean but can't because they are addicted it could be highly effective. If given to every kid before he enters college, pretty much worthless and even arguably dangerous.
Am I the only one who thinks it's hilarious how thorough the author is in proving that this is really true. There's a screenshot of the test, video, and even a screenshot of the checkin.
It's almost like think we don't trust them or something.
It's not really open source. All they are saying is that the designs will be made available to other companies for bidding and estimation purposes. I'm sure there will be plenty of hoops to jump though to see them.
It's so easy to say that the people that fall for these things are morons, that they are responsible, that $10 isn't much money on average. Now imagine that your grandparent falls for one of these scams and loses $10,000 of their retirement money. Or your spouse falls for one and ends up destroying your credit for the next 10 years. Yes, people need to pay attention and yes the average person should spot a phishing email. But blaming the loses on the victims is like saying that the girl that got raped deserved it because she was dressed slutty and shouldn't have been in that part of town. But, I guess now she knows not to go there again, so no worries.
Maybe this is a stupid question but what does "expanded by 400%" mean? Does that mean 4x or 5x? After all, if you say that it expanded by 100% that would imply 2x so extrapolating... It's just horribly vague.
My college roomate had a router that accidently used GPL code and so had to release it. He was able to find some open source code online that gave the router functionality about an order of magnitude better than what origanally came installed.
He did have to open it up and manually clear the flash chip which housed to the OS, but it wasn't anything someone reasonably confident couldn't do with a bit of research.
Basically, if you care enough to know that the code is available, you should be competent enough to do what you want to with it.
There's no discussion of how long these effects last. Of course our brain is going to prepare us for violence when we witness violence. If it didn't, you'd probably get killed in your first violent confrontation because you wouldn't be prepared to fight back. The question is, does viewing violent media today make me more likely to go kill people tomorrow.
Vaccines have saved more lives than any other medical discovery in human history. They have virtually eliminated the threat of polio, smallpox, mumps and measles. And what exactly would pharmaceutical companies have to gain from poisoning the population? There's no drug to treat autism and there are alternatives to mercury preserved (more expensive but if they were used the extra cost would just be passed on to the consumer).
If you really think all drug companies are evil you should atleast read up on River Blindness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverblindness This is a horrible parasite that once infected millions of people in affrica. Merck accidentally found a treatment for it, spent millions of dollars to get it certified and offered to sell it below cost to African governments. When the governments still couldn't afford it, Merck offered it for free, even going so far as to build infrustructure to make its administration possible.
I know it's only one example, and yes, they did get good PR for it, but to say that drug companies are all evil all the time is just plain ridiculous.
Maybe someone could explain to me the implication in the article that the data is scientifically useless. If it's just a bad stitch job done back here on Earth it would seem they would still have the original data and could reperform the stitch no? Even if they don't all the data between the stitches is still good which I would imagine is probably what the real researchers use anyway.
Ok, in standard electronics we have to turn on/off a signal everytime we want to send information. This takes time, uses extra power, and generates extra heat (mostly from the fact that the wire the signal is going down has a capacitence that needs to be charged before the signal can be complete).
The capacitence of these wires is miniscule because the wires are so small but in a modern computer the signal may be turning on/off billions of times a second so it does add up. If I remember correctly it comes out to be a huge majority of the power consumption (and again, therefore heat generation) of the chip.
With spintronics we don't use on/off as the signal but rather the spin of the electrons. Therefore we can supply constant current on every signal line and get rid of all these capacitence issues.
This is vital because without some change, using current technology and Moores law, we can show that in just a couple decades the surface of a computer chip will be putting out more heat per area than the surface of the sun.
Kinda rambled on but I hope that helped answer your question.
Don't fall for sensationalist headlines. The "ban" of humans on Mars is nothing of the sort, all it is is a caveate on the funding for the next year that says none of this money can be used to fund a manned Mars mission.
Basically, "Don't waste money trying to send man to Mars right now". Alternatively, it could be an effort to seperate any human exploration funding from the relatively normal NASA activities.
The only real problem I have with it is that it says NASA can't use the money to even research the idea, which basically means that there would be little to no progress on the long range manned mission front.
Of course, nothings stopping NASA from researching a trip to Europa or something else but still... seems unnecissarily restrictive.
Actually, more recently Verizon has been getting very good marks on customer service. Nationally, it's ranked second only to T-Mobile. In my region it's actually tied for first.
Now, I've only been with them a few months but I haven't had any issues yet. Maybe you had a bad experience?
Very interesting, I guess I never realized that abuse of German prisoners was quite so widespread during/after the war. On a lighter note, there was actually a German POW camp not far from my home town where the situation was pretty much the opposite.
At the time, the area had a huge german immigrant population and the prisoners would regularly break out at night to attend barn dances and parties only to break back in the next morning. Supposedly the people running the camp knew it was going on but nobody bothered to do anything about it.
Hard to understand how there could be such harsh mistreatment in some places while also having such lax security in others.
Oh please god I hope you're joking. Mods, please, please mod him funny. I'm begging you. His "genuine ethical convictions" includes slander, libel, illegal munipulation of evidence, not to mention making copious amounts of homosexual pornography freely (and even legally) available to children.
Not only is the screen larger than most paper back books, it is also an eInk display. No glare, no backlight. It basically looks like black letters printed onto white plastic.
Checkout eInk.com if you're interested.
While I see your point, that weird != alien, I don't think you understand what the article is saying. They are searching for terrestrial life that arose (on earth) indipendently from the life we are surrounded by.
So, when you say "Is there a chance that there is weird terrestrial life on earth we haven't yet discovered?", yes, yes there is. And that's exactly what they're hoping to find.
You know, I've never understood that. I've been using firefox/mozilla since 2003 and I've only once had what I would call a major memory leak and that was caused by an extention.
Yes, the memory footprint is bigger in v.2 and yes, memory caching ten pages forward and back on every tab is probably excessive but if you do a little research you can disable these features. If you still have problems theres a setting that basically resets the memory usage everytime you minimize.
Granted, I'm not one to have the same firefox window open for weeks at a time, which is the situation that I most often hear people complain about the memory leak issues.
Also granted, I don't know of one person who consistently uses firefox that hasn't had some difficult to fix problem with it at some point (interestingly, it's never the same one from person to person. I had problems playing movies, one friend crashed every time a flash player loaded, and another just plain locked up occassionaly)
The key word there is warrant-less. No one raises a hubbub about the fact that the phone system is designed from the ground up to be tapped.
hehe, Sorry, What I meant to say was that the singularity isn't just about strong AI. One way to create greater than human intelligence is to augment human intelligence with computer hardware.
"Oh please, that's preposterous science fiction mumbo jumbo. [the healing effect] actually lies in this electronium hat, which harnesses the power of sunspots to produce cognitive radiation."
The singularity is just about strong AI. The singularity is about being able to create a greater than human intelligence, which could possibly include augmented human intelligence, of which a neural interface is a key first step.