Set up a ringtone that is silence. Set the default ringtone as silence.
Assign everyone in your contacts list a ringtone that makes noise.
When friends and family call your phone will ring.
When unknown callers call no interruption. Your screen flashes but no noise.
People who need to get in touch will leave a voicemail.
Few spam callers do leave voicemail.
If you are expecting a call from an unknown number look at the screen if it lights up
from the expected area code you can risk answering.
Works well for me.
Scientists are not surprised by nearly everything they see when they run an experiment. There are many many articles about how this or that confirms such and such earlier understanding. That is BORING! What is exciting is when they see something that does not behave they way they expect. When they are SURPRISED by the result of the experiment there is something new to discover! It may be only that the experiment was flawed in some way or that there really is something going on. That is exciting! Every scientist wants to be the one remembered for opening a new door into a deeper understanding of our world. As for inventions. Most great inventions start with a discovery. The words first spoken after a new invention is usually not Urica I have Found it! it is usually hmm that's odd??? The rest of the invention process is hard work figuring out how to get that odd result all the time and have it do something useful.
In the first demo no paper towel "dried" the sample before being covered with water drops. In the coated demo suspiciously the sample is "dried" prior to adding and freezing the water. Just exactly why did it need to be dried? In the real world no one will be going around "drying" a surface after it is scraped and filed or basicly abused. To me this is the classic conjuring trick of misdirection being used to reapply a fresh supply of some agent to inhibit the water from bonding to the sample. Because of that the demo is totally unconvincing and suspicious to me. Show a sample with one half side sprayed on a fixed exposure spot outside during a snow and or ice storm. Same for a lab sample treated and exposed. Do the same to both sides in a way that cannot introduce something unknown into the demo.
They looked at 1km squares and if anything in it has been changed by man then that whole 1Km sq has been affected. So you have someone in a 4 wheeler run across a patch of desert and leave a mark the whole 1 Km square has been affected. Technically they are right however in all practical ways they are misleading. The more meaningful number might be the 30% of land that has low modification. Low modification most people would see as untouched. A lot of the 52% of moderately modified land is still fairly untouched. So a more correct and less concerning title would be 82% of the earth's surface still nearly untouched by man. Of course that would not get people all worked up and worried would it. Numbers don't lie liars use numbers...
All the nowallers keep saying a wall will not work. True a wall will not stop people overstaying visas, However someone with a visa had to pass a vetting process they were found to not be terrorists, drug dealers or criminals so the risk from them overstaying is minimal. However there are still between 30,000 to 200,000 people successfully entering the US illegally. They are the ones not part of the 300,000 caught by border patrol that make it into our cities and neighborhoods. We know nothing about them or why they came be it for legal or illegal reasons. The flow of illegals as measured by arrest rates has continued to decrease as we have built more and more wall along the border. As we have added to the 600 some miles of completed border wall the arrest rate has dropped in the areas of wall completion and shifted to the sections of border undefined by a wall. This can be tracked by looking at the data accumulated over the terms of the last few presidents. No one ever claimed that the wall will prevent all entry but it will help reduce the number of unknowns entering. Just exactly why are so many people wanting unknowns to come into this country? Are they wanting to abuse them, cheat them, over work them? People who come here legally can ask the government for help people who don't can't and are ripe for abuse. Instead of freeing these people the ones wanting them to be able to come in illegally are wanting souls to control and explote.
There will be more than just 1 earth covering satellite communications system and it will be likely that old cell phones from a few years into the future will be able to access the system. With the improvements in voice recognition and translation no one will need any real "Skills" to access the system. We will be able to just talk to the system and ask it questions and it will respond. The only thing they will need is a power source which will come from cheep solar. As quick as things are changing and costs are dropping this should happen in 10 to 20 years not over 30. Not tomorrow but sooner than 2050.
Ok so only your email name and password hints were lost. All the bad guys need to send out a barrage of very convincing targeted phishing emails asking users to update their master passwords. As soon as they fall for this all their accounts are toast.
This assumes an adiabatic process. That means that you cannot loose any heat form the compressed air. So the storage tank would have to be insulated in a vacuum Dewar not practical or very expensive. A system that stores compressed air in a non adiabatic way, just about all the systems in existence, are only about 25% efficient. This really sucks compared to batteries.
Well if they don't then the states do. So state net neutrality laws should not have to worry about the FCC trying to overrule them. I think the FCC just shot itself in the foot.
The most important rule to protect yourself from scammers is never provide information to anyone who calls you.
If someone calls you claiming to be from your credit union or bank or credit card company and says you have a problem
Do not answer any questions even if the caller ID says the right phone number. Phone numbers are routinely spoofed.
Hang up and call them back on a number you have independently verified as being legitimate. When they answer
identify who you are and why you called. You can now have confidence and answer any questions they have for you.
It's a real shame that the phone system allows people to spoof their number. It could have been a great benefit to security
and safety but instead it is an easy method of committing remote fraud.
This is great! I wish all launches were live streemed. I am still amazed that many people are fixated on minimizing rocket fuel cost. The move to purchase an air breathing engine for rockets is going to turn out to be a big financial mistake. It is fool hardy to think you can put an O2 liqifacation plant on a rocket. The physics are way way harder than landing a rocket vertically. And talk about carrying useless mass around... condensing coils, wings, full surface heat shielding for wings not only the inefficiency of trying to push that thing through the air at supersonic speeds. Blue Horizon and SpaceX have the low cost high performance idea down. For those who bad mouth using a giant rocket to deliver a small satalite package I say how big is the truck that delivers fedx packages? When all you need to add is fule the size of the truck does not matter much.
If you can have reverse flow with forward momentum seems like a way to explain the impossibility of a force being produced without a change in momentum. If you think about it other conservation laws are not violated in an EM drive. Energy is converted from electromagnetic to kinetic energy. When an electron in an atom absorbs a photon its speed and direction is changed however the electron must interact with something else like its atom to keep momentum constant. However if you allow reverse flow when everything else is positive the effect could cancel the momentum change of the atom. This is way to complex for me however seems there may be a loophole in the law of conservation of momentum.
People who are overweight consume sugar free products because they are overweight. Its not the fact they are consuming sugar substitutes that causes fatness its being fat and wishing you can get slim that causes consuming sugar substitutes.
Auto update that closes open applications with unsaved work in progress, How hard would it be to send save commands before closing a file and appending a WIP designator to the file name so nothing is over written. That should be a standard required windows feature. Webpages that jump during load have popover, popunder or autoscroll. The fricking browser should be designed to not even allow these things to happen. The commands that even allow those things to happen should be banned and the people who thought them up drawn and quartered. It would make for a much much friendlier web experience to make the web flat again. But the most annoying thing that forces me to keep the volume muted on my computer is the autoplay curse. Web pages that somehow play video or audio when they open. I want my computer to do as its told speak when its told show video when told and stop when told. Any programmer that does not create software that enforces that basic human machine interface rule is a curse to mankind.
This book helped me learn to control my own emotions. The most important thing I learned was that how I responded to any situation was completely under my control. You can choose to be angry or not. This helped me learn to deal with others more effectively and be happier. The sooner people learn that they are in control of their emotions and a situation or event does not force you to feel one way or another it sets you free.
Replication of results is key to determining if something is true or not. What sense does it make to force massive expensive changes based on studies that have often proven to not be replicable. There is a replication crisis in science where a massive number of published studies have results that cannot be verified by other researchers. Just because many/most scientists believe something does not make it necessarily true. Most scientists only know what they read in journals about subjects they do not personally study. (from Wikipedia) "According to a 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists reported in the journal Nature, 70% of them failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments (50% failed to reproduce their own experiment). These numbers differ among disciplines:chemistry: 90% (60%),biology: 80% (60%),
physics and engineering: 70% (50%),medicine: 70% (60%),Earth and environment science: 60% (40%)". When half the people cannot reproduce their own results something is very wrong. We need to take a step back to understand and verify so we know whats really true before we make decisions that will need to be implemented by force which is what we do for all laws.
First off he is powering an I pad. You cannot see inside the ipad to tell if it has batteries in it. All you see is two wires going in the side no proof the battery he destroys is actually anything but rolled up aluminum foil. Any real batteries when pierced will short by having the electrically conductive screwdriver shorting out the plates on the stack. You should at least get some smoke from the sparks. Same thing on cutting. That blade is going to smash plates right through the plastic electrolyte. If the battery has the ability to deliver amps of current it would spark. No sparks seems like lack of proof that the "battery" is doing anything not that the battery is super safe.
Considering the quantum computers seem to be mostly built on hype and not capable of beating regular computers in speed or cost I would not worry much about this.
The biggest source of problems with BS stories on line is the greed of publishers. More specifically the greed of the publishers of technical and scientific journals. The real knowledge the verifiable knowledge is locked away behind paywalls often with exorbitant fees. We pay for most of the research through tax financed government grants, seems the tax payers should own the research and have free access to it. Why is it that work I do for my employer belongs to my employer but research payed for by tax payers is owned by journals. Does not seem right never did. Most people would check things out against the most credible sources If they could. But not being made of money they can't. I at least do the next best thing and use some fact check sites like Snopes (Great Site) or a variety of other sites (mostly garbage). The second thing is the terrible total lack of control over advertising on sites. Have they no consideration for their readers at all. I use an add blocker because I am tired of the popup, popunder, float over, video and sound playing assault on my senses served by the advertisers. The greedy publishers instead of forcing some respect onto their advertisers put in adblock detectors and force you to seek the news from other sources often not as reliable. If they would keep the ads to about 1/3 the screen and eliminate all the motion and sound life would be so much better.
Yes. Like every other new complex technology it takes time to find all the problems and fix them. Early cars had a tendancy to catch fire and break down. Steam engines would explode. Airplanes would crash. Will rockets ever be as safe as airplanes probably not on a per launch bases but on a miles traveled perdeath they will be safer than cars are today.
Rocket engines are incredibly powerful for their mass. Other engines are much more complex and have higher mass to thrust ratios. The tanks for fuel are very low
mass compared to the fuel they contain. Scram jets require a booster system of some type to get them supersonic. Once super sonic they work until they run out of atmosphere and then the orbital system needs rockets to get into space. So in order to reduce the mass of oxidizer they add a subsonic to sonic booster system and then to operate in space they add a rocket. Seems much simpler and lower cost to just add bigger tanks to the rocket and forget all the other stuff.
I just do not see why people keep trying to eliminate the weight of oxidizer and propellent. IE scram jets or space elevators when the cost of propellants is so small. The propellent cost for a Falcon 9 launch is only $250,000. The Falcon 9 can put 50,000 lbs of cargo in low earth orbit that's just $5 per pound for propellent. Propellent does not matter. What matters is the cost of the vehicle. We need 100% spacecraft reusability for 1,000's of launches to get the cost of space travel down. Space X is working towards that goal. The current engines that use Kerosene will wear out rather quickly because the engines need to run with excess oxidizer to prevent them from being fouled by carbon build up. The oxidizer causes the engine to rust out(titanium rust). The new Space X engine uses liquid methane fuel. It can be run with a more perfect oxidizer/ fuel ratio and eliminate the corrosion problem so much longer life.
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Set up a ringtone that is silence. Set the default ringtone as silence. Assign everyone in your contacts list a ringtone that makes noise. When friends and family call your phone will ring. When unknown callers call no interruption. Your screen flashes but no noise. People who need to get in touch will leave a voicemail. Few spam callers do leave voicemail. If you are expecting a call from an unknown number look at the screen if it lights up from the expected area code you can risk answering. Works well for me.
Scientists are not surprised by nearly everything they see when they run an experiment. There are many many articles about how this or that confirms such and such earlier understanding. That is BORING! What is exciting is when they see something that does not behave they way they expect. When they are SURPRISED by the result of the experiment there is something new to discover! It may be only that the experiment was flawed in some way or that there really is something going on. That is exciting! Every scientist wants to be the one remembered for opening a new door into a deeper understanding of our world. As for inventions. Most great inventions start with a discovery. The words first spoken after a new invention is usually not Urica I have Found it! it is usually hmm that's odd??? The rest of the invention process is hard work figuring out how to get that odd result all the time and have it do something useful.
In the first demo no paper towel "dried" the sample before being covered with water drops. In the coated demo suspiciously the sample is "dried" prior to adding and freezing the water. Just exactly why did it need to be dried? In the real world no one will be going around "drying" a surface after it is scraped and filed or basicly abused. To me this is the classic conjuring trick of misdirection being used to reapply a fresh supply of some agent to inhibit the water from bonding to the sample. Because of that the demo is totally unconvincing and suspicious to me. Show a sample with one half side sprayed on a fixed exposure spot outside during a snow and or ice storm. Same for a lab sample treated and exposed. Do the same to both sides in a way that cannot introduce something unknown into the demo.
Give the store the email address of assemblymember Phil Ting who proposed the bill assemblymember.ting@assembly.ca.gov. No inconvenience at all.
They looked at 1km squares and if anything in it has been changed by man then that whole 1Km sq has been affected. So you have someone in a 4 wheeler run across a patch of desert and leave a mark the whole 1 Km square has been affected. Technically they are right however in all practical ways they are misleading. The more meaningful number might be the 30% of land that has low modification. Low modification most people would see as untouched. A lot of the 52% of moderately modified land is still fairly untouched. So a more correct and less concerning title would be 82% of the earth's surface still nearly untouched by man. Of course that would not get people all worked up and worried would it. Numbers don't lie liars use numbers...
All the nowallers keep saying a wall will not work. True a wall will not stop people overstaying visas, However someone with a visa had to pass a vetting process they were found to not be terrorists, drug dealers or criminals so the risk from them overstaying is minimal. However there are still between 30,000 to 200,000 people successfully entering the US illegally. They are the ones not part of the 300,000 caught by border patrol that make it into our cities and neighborhoods. We know nothing about them or why they came be it for legal or illegal reasons. The flow of illegals as measured by arrest rates has continued to decrease as we have built more and more wall along the border. As we have added to the 600 some miles of completed border wall the arrest rate has dropped in the areas of wall completion and shifted to the sections of border undefined by a wall. This can be tracked by looking at the data accumulated over the terms of the last few presidents. No one ever claimed that the wall will prevent all entry but it will help reduce the number of unknowns entering. Just exactly why are so many people wanting unknowns to come into this country? Are they wanting to abuse them, cheat them, over work them? People who come here legally can ask the government for help people who don't can't and are ripe for abuse. Instead of freeing these people the ones wanting them to be able to come in illegally are wanting souls to control and explote.
There will be more than just 1 earth covering satellite communications system and it will be likely that old cell phones from a few years into the future will be able to access the system. With the improvements in voice recognition and translation no one will need any real "Skills" to access the system. We will be able to just talk to the system and ask it questions and it will respond. The only thing they will need is a power source which will come from cheep solar. As quick as things are changing and costs are dropping this should happen in 10 to 20 years not over 30. Not tomorrow but sooner than 2050.
Ok so only your email name and password hints were lost. All the bad guys need to send out a barrage of very convincing targeted phishing emails asking users to update their master passwords. As soon as they fall for this all their accounts are toast.
Wow an average of 8 minutes per day for a 250 day work year. That must be brutal. Europeans are so spoiled.
This assumes an adiabatic process. That means that you cannot loose any heat form the compressed air. So the storage tank would have to be insulated in a vacuum Dewar not practical or very expensive. A system that stores compressed air in a non adiabatic way, just about all the systems in existence, are only about 25% efficient. This really sucks compared to batteries.
Well if they don't then the states do. So state net neutrality laws should not have to worry about the FCC trying to overrule them. I think the FCC just shot itself in the foot.
The most important rule to protect yourself from scammers is never provide information to anyone who calls you. If someone calls you claiming to be from your credit union or bank or credit card company and says you have a problem Do not answer any questions even if the caller ID says the right phone number. Phone numbers are routinely spoofed. Hang up and call them back on a number you have independently verified as being legitimate. When they answer identify who you are and why you called. You can now have confidence and answer any questions they have for you. It's a real shame that the phone system allows people to spoof their number. It could have been a great benefit to security and safety but instead it is an easy method of committing remote fraud.
This is great! I wish all launches were live streemed. I am still amazed that many people are fixated on minimizing rocket fuel cost. The move to purchase an air breathing engine for rockets is going to turn out to be a big financial mistake. It is fool hardy to think you can put an O2 liqifacation plant on a rocket. The physics are way way harder than landing a rocket vertically. And talk about carrying useless mass around... condensing coils, wings, full surface heat shielding for wings not only the inefficiency of trying to push that thing through the air at supersonic speeds. Blue Horizon and SpaceX have the low cost high performance idea down. For those who bad mouth using a giant rocket to deliver a small satalite package I say how big is the truck that delivers fedx packages? When all you need to add is fule the size of the truck does not matter much.
If you can have reverse flow with forward momentum seems like a way to explain the impossibility of a force being produced without a change in momentum. If you think about it other conservation laws are not violated in an EM drive. Energy is converted from electromagnetic to kinetic energy. When an electron in an atom absorbs a photon its speed and direction is changed however the electron must interact with something else like its atom to keep momentum constant. However if you allow reverse flow when everything else is positive the effect could cancel the momentum change of the atom. This is way to complex for me however seems there may be a loophole in the law of conservation of momentum.
People who are overweight consume sugar free products because they are overweight. Its not the fact they are consuming sugar substitutes that causes fatness its being fat and wishing you can get slim that causes consuming sugar substitutes.
Auto update that closes open applications with unsaved work in progress, How hard would it be to send save commands before closing a file and appending a WIP designator to the file name so nothing is over written. That should be a standard required windows feature. Webpages that jump during load have popover, popunder or autoscroll. The fricking browser should be designed to not even allow these things to happen. The commands that even allow those things to happen should be banned and the people who thought them up drawn and quartered. It would make for a much much friendlier web experience to make the web flat again. But the most annoying thing that forces me to keep the volume muted on my computer is the autoplay curse. Web pages that somehow play video or audio when they open. I want my computer to do as its told speak when its told show video when told and stop when told. Any programmer that does not create software that enforces that basic human machine interface rule is a curse to mankind.
This book helped me learn to control my own emotions. The most important thing I learned was that how I responded to any situation was completely under my control. You can choose to be angry or not. This helped me learn to deal with others more effectively and be happier. The sooner people learn that they are in control of their emotions and a situation or event does not force you to feel one way or another it sets you free.
Replication of results is key to determining if something is true or not. What sense does it make to force massive expensive changes based on studies that have often proven to not be replicable. There is a replication crisis in science where a massive number of published studies have results that cannot be verified by other researchers. Just because many/most scientists believe something does not make it necessarily true. Most scientists only know what they read in journals about subjects they do not personally study. (from Wikipedia) "According to a 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists reported in the journal Nature, 70% of them failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments (50% failed to reproduce their own experiment). These numbers differ among disciplines:chemistry: 90% (60%),biology: 80% (60%), physics and engineering: 70% (50%),medicine: 70% (60%),Earth and environment science: 60% (40%)". When half the people cannot reproduce their own results something is very wrong. We need to take a step back to understand and verify so we know whats really true before we make decisions that will need to be implemented by force which is what we do for all laws.
First off he is powering an I pad. You cannot see inside the ipad to tell if it has batteries in it. All you see is two wires going in the side no proof the battery he destroys is actually anything but rolled up aluminum foil. Any real batteries when pierced will short by having the electrically conductive screwdriver shorting out the plates on the stack. You should at least get some smoke from the sparks. Same thing on cutting. That blade is going to smash plates right through the plastic electrolyte. If the battery has the ability to deliver amps of current it would spark. No sparks seems like lack of proof that the "battery" is doing anything not that the battery is super safe.
Considering the quantum computers seem to be mostly built on hype and not capable of beating regular computers in speed or cost I would not worry much about this.
The biggest source of problems with BS stories on line is the greed of publishers. More specifically the greed of the publishers of technical and scientific journals. The real knowledge the verifiable knowledge is locked away behind paywalls often with exorbitant fees. We pay for most of the research through tax financed government grants, seems the tax payers should own the research and have free access to it. Why is it that work I do for my employer belongs to my employer but research payed for by tax payers is owned by journals. Does not seem right never did. Most people would check things out against the most credible sources If they could. But not being made of money they can't. I at least do the next best thing and use some fact check sites like Snopes (Great Site) or a variety of other sites (mostly garbage). The second thing is the terrible total lack of control over advertising on sites. Have they no consideration for their readers at all. I use an add blocker because I am tired of the popup, popunder, float over, video and sound playing assault on my senses served by the advertisers. The greedy publishers instead of forcing some respect onto their advertisers put in adblock detectors and force you to seek the news from other sources often not as reliable. If they would keep the ads to about 1/3 the screen and eliminate all the motion and sound life would be so much better.
Actually they do. They are not hypergolic. The merlin engines use a small amount of hypergolic fuel to ignite on restarts.
Yes. Like every other new complex technology it takes time to find all the problems and fix them. Early cars had a tendancy to catch fire and break down. Steam engines would explode. Airplanes would crash. Will rockets ever be as safe as airplanes probably not on a per launch bases but on a miles traveled perdeath they will be safer than cars are today.
Rocket engines are incredibly powerful for their mass. Other engines are much more complex and have higher mass to thrust ratios. The tanks for fuel are very low mass compared to the fuel they contain. Scram jets require a booster system of some type to get them supersonic. Once super sonic they work until they run out of atmosphere and then the orbital system needs rockets to get into space. So in order to reduce the mass of oxidizer they add a subsonic to sonic booster system and then to operate in space they add a rocket. Seems much simpler and lower cost to just add bigger tanks to the rocket and forget all the other stuff.
I just do not see why people keep trying to eliminate the weight of oxidizer and propellent. IE scram jets or space elevators when the cost of propellants is so small. The propellent cost for a Falcon 9 launch is only $250,000. The Falcon 9 can put 50,000 lbs of cargo in low earth orbit that's just $5 per pound for propellent. Propellent does not matter. What matters is the cost of the vehicle. We need 100% spacecraft reusability for 1,000's of launches to get the cost of space travel down. Space X is working towards that goal. The current engines that use Kerosene will wear out rather quickly because the engines need to run with excess oxidizer to prevent them from being fouled by carbon build up. The oxidizer causes the engine to rust out(titanium rust). The new Space X engine uses liquid methane fuel. It can be run with a more perfect oxidizer/ fuel ratio and eliminate the corrosion problem so much longer life.