You're right. I gave the devil's advocate position a shot, but I really can't see this working technologically, logistically, or economically. No one will buy a stupid radiation detecting phone.
It's a radioactive world out there, and that is the only thing such a system would tell us. The reason the article states that the sensors would rely on a network of phones detecting together is to eliminate background radiation and smaller sources (cancer patients, smoke detectors, etc.). Those things would show up on relatively fewer phones and make a smaller overall detection footprint than say, a MASSIVE DIRTY BOMB, which would be detected every phone within at least a 1 block radius I would think. Plus, the idea is good for well populated areas more likely to have people with cell phones and more likely the target of such a weapon.
Why would anyone want to buy a "fancy" phone that has a radiation detector? Personally, I want the smallest phone I can get. I'm sure this detector circuit won't reduce the size of phones.
for the Evangelicals! It's so obvious. They needed to make an extremely offensive and stupid religion to draw headlines away from Evangelical growth and power. What better name to offend science-minded intelligent people than Scientology? The use of most of the word "science" in the name is bound to offend everyone who knows Scientology is far from scientific.
I really appreciate the offer. As it is though, my wife already complains about me being on the computer too much. I think I'll hold off on that free trial until I get some other, more pressing responsibilities out of the way. Thanks again.
I would never give up the production quality and wonderful continuity of awesome shows like Dexter and Desperate Housewives for some amateur crap. Maybe the web will replace "reality TV," but that's probably it. Plus, HD content is not stream-able over too many household net connections I know of.
It's good to hear that. Stay strong, brother.
I've been thinking about starting my own software company for some time now, so maybe my time would be better spent there. It's just so damn hard to get motivated to do work in my free time.
All this hype makes me want to try it so bad. My feeling of hesitation comes from the fact that many of the stories I hear sound so similar to those about drug addiction. I just don't know if I want to go down this particular yellow brick road.
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Sometimes those internships doing crap help desk is a good way to get your foot in the door at a company. I'll second that. I just graduated a year ago and already had my current (awesome) job lined up several quarters before that. I owe it all the internship I took as a junior that had me doing pretty boring stuff that really didn't exercise my computer engineering skills at all. During that time, I schmoozed with several contractors that did business with my boss. A couple of them passed my resume on to their employers and the rest is sweet history.
Get an internship, do a good job at it, and schmooze.
Not necessarily. As a developer, when you run a bunch of testcases, if you find a bug, you don't halt everything in the debugger and fix the bug immediately, you just wait until it's all over, fix the bug, and re-start the test run. Interesting thought... and maybe black holes are our universe's structured exception handlers! Something goes awry and *sluuurrrp* handled!!
They should just print the data in hex on some acid-free paper and throw into vacuum bags. Religious documents lasted (fairly well) for thousands of years on primitive paper. For extra security, print the MD5 sum of each page in its footer. W00t!
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You're right. I gave the devil's advocate position a shot, but I really can't see this working technologically, logistically, or economically. No one will buy a stupid radiation detecting phone.
Why is it that every time there's a useful advance in genetics, people cite doomsday movies as a valid warning of what will happen?
McCrackin!? Hahaha... OK, so I'm immature.
Why would anyone want to buy a "fancy" phone that has a radiation detector? Personally, I want the smallest phone I can get. I'm sure this detector circuit won't reduce the size of phones.
for the Evangelicals! It's so obvious. They needed to make an extremely offensive and stupid religion to draw headlines away from Evangelical growth and power. What better name to offend science-minded intelligent people than Scientology? The use of most of the word "science" in the name is bound to offend everyone who knows Scientology is far from scientific.
I really appreciate the offer. As it is though, my wife already complains about me being on the computer too much. I think I'll hold off on that free trial until I get some other, more pressing responsibilities out of the way. Thanks again.
I would never give up the production quality and wonderful continuity of awesome shows like Dexter and Desperate Housewives for some amateur crap. Maybe the web will replace "reality TV," but that's probably it. Plus, HD content is not stream-able over too many household net connections I know of.
Yeah, why don't we try two mice first? Hasn't anyone thought of multi-mouse computing?
It's good to hear that. Stay strong, brother. I've been thinking about starting my own software company for some time now, so maybe my time would be better spent there. It's just so damn hard to get motivated to do work in my free time.
All this hype makes me want to try it so bad. My feeling of hesitation comes from the fact that many of the stories I hear sound so similar to those about drug addiction. I just don't know if I want to go down this particular yellow brick road.
Wouldn't be too good for spying with all those wires leading to a van outside your house.
Milla Jovovich is from a different movie.
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Ebola totally used to pwn humans. Now we're like *yoink*! Take that, virus; you're castrated! Revenge is sweet.
The real mark of intelligence will be when the machine realizes that it's intended purpose will never be fulfilled and it commits suicide.
Atheism is not a religion, so it can't be the religion of /. Also, comparing atheism to a handicap is... flame bait.
Isn't impatience and lack of appreciation something that EVERY generation attributes to the next?
It would be nice to be able to see, at a glance, which networks were using AP isolation. That would essentially achieve 2.
They should just print the data in hex on some acid-free paper and throw into vacuum bags. Religious documents lasted (fairly well) for thousands of years on primitive paper. For extra security, print the MD5 sum of each page in its footer. W00t!