Apples micro-managing content could coudl them severe legal problems down the road. Media carriers are generally legally immune to legal problems with content, a crime planned on the telephone. But if they start managing they content then they could be responsible for anything then. I imagine lawyers are salivating for access to the $50B cash horde Apple has.
Vast amounts of effort are spent to find that one American in 10,000 or more willing to implement a terror attack in the USA against civilians. Volunteers are much easier to find in Muslim countries where there is more anger.
Even though total traffic deaths are declining, the portion due to cell-phone distractions is increasing to 6K a year, 16% of total, or two 9/11s every year.
People was "zero risk" terrorism, but do dangerous things every time they drive.
The 1991 Pinatubo eruption was the largest in the past century and much larger than Iceland and the largest since daily CO2 measurements began.
Here is a list of large eruptions.
Silicon only become the predominate material in the 1970s when it became insanely cheap to manufacture integrated circuits with it. Before then there was germanium, gallium, arsium, etc. Diamond, graphene,indium, and other materials make pretty good transistors. But can you put a billion of them in a couple square centimeters at a millionth of a cent per transistor?
More carbon is being released than absorbed by the biosphere however.
The last time atmospheric CO2 decreased year-to-year (there is a slight seasonal decrease every year) was in 1992 due to massive volcanic eruption. Its acids scrubbed out some of the CO2.
The bought and marketed something a PC version of Unix called Xenix in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I used to use UNIC on PdPs and Vaxen at that time. But Xenix was way under-powered on 16-bit CPUs. They sold to SCO after they developed IBM-DOS.
The theory of plate tectonics easily explains the earthquakes at the boundaries of tectonic plates due to the differential grinding motions of these plates.
New Madrid is one of the 10%-15% of earthquakes that does not happen a current plate boundary, so its cause is less clear.
There are motions of sub-blocks inside a plate. But these are typically an order of magnitude less that at established plate boundaries.
So it may take millennia to build the same kinds of strains (20+ feet) it only takes centuries in a place like California.
Geophysicists are divided by the amount of strain at New Madrid. Dr. Stein's group only sees a small amount in GPS data. Others see a lot more.
The data has noise. Its quality depends on the experimental setup. The more stations you record, the more complexity you see.
The US government and university scientists are spending a lot of money and effort to understand the New Madrid area.
It more a lack of understanding of intra-plate earthquakes than the amount of money spent.
In this era of "no risk is too small" political correctness (e.g. TSA) perhaps no government authority is willing to demote
The New Madrid risk as Dr. Stein claims.
(I was a classmate of Dr. Steins at MIT decades ago,)
Bacteria have been found in the deepest holes drilled fro petroleum prospecting. The temperature has to be below 120C however. This is sedimentary rock where the bacteria was probably buried at the same time the sediments were deposited.
The rock in this article was igneous rock. Its more difficult to figure out how bacteria got so deep in that kind of rock.
If the info is true, then you are out of luck.
The problem is that collection agencies often work with inaccurate information, especially if it has been outsourced.
The cell# situation is similar to social networks. Its getting harder to find information about someone unless you are linked to them. And with the new internal facebook mail/messaging it will be harder to communicate too.
This include three from the phone company and a half-dozen from commercial yellow pages.
These announces to buglars "I am not home".
Doesnt appear to be a way to opt out here.
At this prodigious rate of 5,000 pages a year? I might re-visit a topic in my blogs or an online discussion group and possibly regurgitate sentences I wrote weeks before without knowing. I only have a limited degree of creativity.
Or a journalist. Like the this shadow-writer. Especially if they are widely read. With web you can generate a fair number of believable references on any subject. Then stuff it with quality prose.
They look at hundreds to thousands of headless scans a day. Sounds like a mostly dull job to me. Especially if you've been to an airport and seen how many unattractive people are traveling. I doubt adding my own ugly scan to pile would do much for either them or me. The complainers interviewed on TV are mostly an un-attractive lot. I dont see what they have to fear either.
Its nice to know about computing history if you have the time. But not too relevant. The whole software industry is like a giant ocean liner moving forward to the future. Being 15 or 50 years old doesnt matter. We all to to be updating our technology.
Much of the public believes NASA's portion of the budget is much larger than its one percent. Plus cutting NASA doesnt affect core federal functions they believe.
Most federal science will be under budgetary attack the next few years.
Most regions their is one cable infrastructure and one phone infrastucture.
That limits incentive to upgrade hardware and services from the supply end.
Mobile communication devices 100 years or even 20 years from now may look substantially different than the current cellphone. Remember the getting-of-prison joke in Wall Street 2? I suspect they'll be arbitrarily small, embedded, and voice-controlled. Similar to the difference between original and new-generation Star Trek communicators.
The early Apple Apps remind me a lot of early Mac days when people then became overly gawdy with MacWrite fonts. I've had to dodge a colleague now and then charging toward me with a iPad and the dreaded "favorite new Apps" session:-) More, seriously there appears to be a lot promise here. And it will take a couple years to shake out.
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Apples micro-managing content could coudl them severe legal problems down the road. Media carriers are generally legally immune to legal problems with content, a crime planned on the telephone. But if they start managing they content then they could be responsible for anything then. I imagine lawyers are salivating for access to the $50B cash horde Apple has.
Vast amounts of effort are spent to find that one American in 10,000 or more willing to implement a terror attack in the USA against civilians. Volunteers are much easier to find in Muslim countries where there is more anger.
Even though total traffic deaths are declining, the portion due to cell-phone distractions is increasing to 6K a year, 16% of total, or two 9/11s every year. People was "zero risk" terrorism, but do dangerous things every time they drive.
Most normal people would mind security searches.
The 1991 Pinatubo eruption was the largest in the past century and much larger than Iceland and the largest since daily CO2 measurements began. Here is a list of large eruptions.
Silicon only become the predominate material in the 1970s when it became insanely cheap to manufacture integrated circuits with it. Before then there was germanium, gallium, arsium, etc. Diamond, graphene,indium, and other materials make pretty good transistors. But can you put a billion of them in a couple square centimeters at a millionth of a cent per transistor?
More carbon is being released than absorbed by the biosphere however. The last time atmospheric CO2 decreased year-to-year (there is a slight seasonal decrease every year) was in 1992 due to massive volcanic eruption. Its acids scrubbed out some of the CO2.
The bought and marketed something a PC version of Unix called Xenix in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I used to use UNIC on PdPs and Vaxen at that time. But Xenix was way under-powered on 16-bit CPUs. They sold to SCO after they developed IBM-DOS.
The theory of plate tectonics easily explains the earthquakes at the boundaries of tectonic plates due to the differential grinding motions of these plates. New Madrid is one of the 10%-15% of earthquakes that does not happen a current plate boundary, so its cause is less clear. There are motions of sub-blocks inside a plate. But these are typically an order of magnitude less that at established plate boundaries. So it may take millennia to build the same kinds of strains (20+ feet) it only takes centuries in a place like California. Geophysicists are divided by the amount of strain at New Madrid. Dr. Stein's group only sees a small amount in GPS data. Others see a lot more. The data has noise. Its quality depends on the experimental setup. The more stations you record, the more complexity you see.
The US government and university scientists are spending a lot of money and effort to understand the New Madrid area. It more a lack of understanding of intra-plate earthquakes than the amount of money spent. In this era of "no risk is too small" political correctness (e.g. TSA) perhaps no government authority is willing to demote The New Madrid risk as Dr. Stein claims.
(I was a classmate of Dr. Steins at MIT decades ago,)
Bacteria have been found in the deepest holes drilled fro petroleum prospecting. The temperature has to be below 120C however. This is sedimentary rock where the bacteria was probably buried at the same time the sediments were deposited.
The rock in this article was igneous rock. Its more difficult to figure out how bacteria got so deep in that kind of rock.
If the info is true, then you are out of luck. The problem is that collection agencies often work with inaccurate information, especially if it has been outsourced.
The cell# situation is similar to social networks. Its getting harder to find information about someone unless you are linked to them. And with the new internal facebook mail/messaging it will be harder to communicate too.
When I was young you only needed to dial the last four digits in the same exchange (first three digits).
This include three from the phone company and a half-dozen from commercial yellow pages. These announces to buglars "I am not home". Doesnt appear to be a way to opt out here.
That is a Marshall's service courtroom scans, not what the TSA uses. The rightwing nuts are using promotional scans from years ago to fan hysteria.
When these cost several hundred dollars apiece. You really crammed in the 26/52 characters, 10 numerals, and bit of punctuation- 25+ bits each.
At this prodigious rate of 5,000 pages a year? I might re-visit a topic in my blogs or an online discussion group and possibly regurgitate sentences I wrote weeks before without knowing. I only have a limited degree of creativity.
Or a journalist. Like the this shadow-writer. Especially if they are widely read. With web you can generate a fair number of believable references on any subject. Then stuff it with quality prose.
They look at hundreds to thousands of headless scans a day. Sounds like a mostly dull job to me. Especially if you've been to an airport and seen how many unattractive people are traveling. I doubt adding my own ugly scan to pile would do much for either them or me. The complainers interviewed on TV are mostly an un-attractive lot. I dont see what they have to fear either.
Its nice to know about computing history if you have the time. But not too relevant. The whole software industry is like a giant ocean liner moving forward to the future. Being 15 or 50 years old doesnt matter. We all to to be updating our technology.
Much of the public believes NASA's portion of the budget is much larger than its one percent. Plus cutting NASA doesnt affect core federal functions they believe. Most federal science will be under budgetary attack the next few years.
Possibly new wires/cables. Definitely new switches/routers.
Most regions their is one cable infrastructure and one phone infrastucture. That limits incentive to upgrade hardware and services from the supply end.
Mobile communication devices 100 years or even 20 years from now may look substantially different than the current cellphone. Remember the getting-of-prison joke in Wall Street 2? I suspect they'll be arbitrarily small, embedded, and voice-controlled. Similar to the difference between original and new-generation Star Trek communicators.
The early Apple Apps remind me a lot of early Mac days when people then became overly gawdy with MacWrite fonts. I've had to dodge a colleague now and then charging toward me with a iPad and the dreaded "favorite new Apps" session :-) More, seriously there appears to be a lot promise here. And it will take a couple years to shake out.