They have a Canadian version of the Patriot Act, you see.
What's interesting is that the Canadian case you speak of could also end up getting the Canadian equivalent of the patriot act ruled unconstitutional. Many parallels, actually.
The main character, so to speak, tried on an electrical vest of sort, which heated his torso. This allowed him to stay in a -40(I think) degree windtunnel with I think 5 mph winds for more than three hours without losing any dexterity in his fingers.
I'll buy that, but how long does the extension cord have to be for a trip to the north pole?
Seriously though, you can get a similar effect with a very well insulated jacket, but your body will burn a lot of calories in cold weather just keeping the core temperature up. You can easily eat 5000 or more calories a day if you're living and working in very cold weather.
The qestion is, which is lighter: food or batteries?
I saw a fingerprint ID system in use 2 years ago at a clothing store distribution warehouse in Los Angeles. The employees used it to clock-in and clock-out of work, and it was put in place to avoid friends punching in and out for each other.
One thing these new systems do offer you is a rock solid alibi (sp?). It definitely proves where you were at that time. As for privacy concerns... well, you were supposed to be at work anyway, right? Is the company getting any extra information by collecting your time entry through this method?
I don't understand the "broken into" part. If you don't like the door, what exactly gets "broken", seems like they just came and took stuff, unless they broke a tube, or somthing.
The door was locked. They came in while we weren't home through a back window that wasn't lockable at the time. It is now. It was just kids, anyway. They took a couple bottles of alcohol, some gold jewelry, and any electronics they could fit in a duffel bag. They got caught a month or two later doing the same thing a couple streets over.
So, I guess you're right... they didn't break the window. However, when they hit a house across the street, they did break a kitchen window there to get in.
Now we have a rottweiler... I keep her nice and hungry throughout the daytime... he he.
I had a blackberry through Rogers/AT&T, and once I got the U.S. roaming package on there, it cost me $57 (CDN) per month. That's more than my 3000 kb/s cable modem internet connection (under $40 per month). I loved the blackberry, but decided to cancel the subscription.
Then, the day after I decided to cancel it, we were broken into and they stole it off the table. Reporting it stolen actually saved me the cancellation charge (~$50), and I figure whoever ended up with the hot item is getting payback by paying the high fees.
That's what I tell myself anyway. Maybe it was that Michael Moore guy... I heard he was snooping around Windsor opening people's doors.
Whenever the guy in the shop offers you an extensive warranty ask him why. Then whey he talks about accidents point out you have insurance for that. He'll next talk about the product maybe failing, at which point you ask him if he's telling you the product is unreliable and crap.
This proved to be a lot of fun when we were out shopping for a small second vehicle. We had decided on a Nissan Sentra, because it was highly regarded as very reliable, and a good buy, and I didn't want to worry about my wife being stranded anywhere while I was out of town. So we go and talk to the dealer, and he spends half an hour telling us how great the mechanical system in this car is, that the average lifespan of Nissan engines are about 14 years, and since we were buying a base model, there was little if anything to go wrong with it, other than the air conditioner.
Then after we signed on the dotted line, we are taken into the back room where this woman tries to sell us an extended warranty. I should mention that the standard warranty is 5 years on the powertrain and 3 years on everything else, and we were only getting a 4 year lease. So here she is selling us an extended warranty for 48 monthly payments amounting to $2000. I told her that our salesman, Mike, just said we'd never have a problem, these are very reliable cars, and the only thing that could go wrong after the 3 years and cost us money was the air conditioner, and I was pretty sure I could replace the whole system for under $1000. She looked pretty mad. She said, "do you think that a car with 10,000 mechanical parts isn't going to have one mechanical problem?"
I told her she needed to have a word with Mike.
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It's a bulldozer blade, I'd say...
Yes, when rescuing someone from a huge pile of rubble, I always want to bulldoze it into a bigger pile first, right? Hehe.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. I'm sick of hearing this stupid "fact" repeated like it's gospel. The people who came to North America a few hundred years ago settled mostly along waterways, especially the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence seaway. Also, they settled along the coasts. In modern times, most people still live in the same areas that were first colonized.
About half the people in Canada live in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. None of these are bordertowns, but all of them were population centres before the United States and Canada existed.
If Canadians were flocking towards the U.S. border, then why is the largest border city in Canada (Windsor, Ontario) only 200,000 people? Also, why does practically nobody live next to the border with Alaska? People live where they live because it follows early settlement patterns.
You can say that most Canadians live within 3 hours of the United States, but I ask you this, don't most Americans live along the outside of the U.S.? Is that because they're all trying to get away from the centre? I doubt it.
I never said the United States doesn't have socialist leanings. However, when comparing the United States and Canada, it's obvious that Canada is far more socialist than the US.
That is a very old myth. Check your facts. With the exception of health care, the U.S. has just as many social programs as Canada. Plus, Canada's social programs seem to work better.
we could find a nice sized hole/cave/cavern (something biodome sized+) under the surface on the moon/mars and build inside it.
Well, I'm not a scientist, but aren't most caverns underground created by erosion caused by water? While I'm willing to believe that there MIGHT be a cavern underground on Mars, finding one on the Moon may prove quite difficult.
However, when the shoe is on the other foot, geeks who've got those beautifully framed CIS degrees on their wall, are entitled to make money, and have a job, and it's very important for businesses to take a hit on the bottom line for their sake, or for the government to legislate some kind of program or incentive to keep their precious jobs safe.
You said it! Tell it from the mountaintop!
Look, if all the blue collar jobs left, why do I see so many soccer Moms driving around in big freakin' SUVs, or so many scraggly guys dragging 40" plasma TVs out of Best Buy. Americans are not lacking for good paying jobs. Some people have to work for Nissan or Honda now, instead of GM or Ford, but there's no shortage of work.
Maybe if you're having problems finding work in the IT sector, it's because you have mediocre IT skills and only got a CIS degree because you heard it paid big bucks. If you think you're so good, start your own damned company. Then you too can outsource stuff to other countries and make a decent living at it.
I thought it was just that the coffee killed them off so fast they didn't have time to develop the diabetes...
Actually, I suspect that most men who drink 6 cups of coffee a day are younger men, and age probably increases your risk of type II diabetes.
It's like saying, "we've discovered that Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans have a much higher chance of living in North America than any other people on Earth!" See... your tax dollars at work.
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...yet the preposition that men and women are equal in all things is treated as if it were absolute truth...
Your post is full of information, but I'm going to concentrate on the point above. I haven't found many people, men or women for that matter, who think that "men and women are equal in all things". The majority, in my experience, think that men and women should be equal under the law, and that every person should be judged on their abilities.
Of course, there is some disagreement over what "feminism" actually is, and the dictionary doesn't seem to actually define it the way many people perceive it.
However, saying that there's one thing that ruined America is a tenuous position to take. First of all, America is not yet ruined. Secondly, if America is ruined, then I would have to have something to do with it... after all, I'm Canadian! You have to blame me!
Did they have sound in space as the ships flew by? That has always been one of my major pet peeves. At least Kubrick got it right in 2001.
They did, but it was always juxtaposed with a very loud scene inside of Galactica, and the space scene's noises were always quite quiet, so it definitely gave the impression of space being quiet. It was an interesting way to do it, I thought.
But they definitely overused the shakey-camera effect.
What's going on here is a circuit implementation detail. In a normal chip, when you have a bit set to 1 and a bit set to 0 and you flip them both, the bit set to 0 is charged with fresh energy from the power supply and the energy in the bit set to 1 is converted to heat. In this proposed system, the charges would be moved from the 1 to the 0 with no loss and no additional draw on the power supply. Less work, same informational content.
Well, actually you're only talking about a register. A bi-polar type register will still consume power while it's sitting there holding its state, on or off. CMOS is different (see below). What you're describing is DRAM (dynamic random access memory) which uses charges to store values. However, even DRAM consumes power because the charges leak out relatively quickly, and have to be refreshed every 2 microseconds (I think).
Remember, however, that a lot of the energy in a CPU is used by the logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, etc.). If you're talking CMOS technology, or something similar, then you're right... you have to "charge" the gate of the transistors to get them to switch, and "discharge" to ground again. I suppose that reversible would mean that every transistor in the whole chip has an opposite pair, and if you turn one transistor on, you have to turn the other one off (to borrow the charge) rather than using power from the power supply. Some energy will still be used during the switch, due to losses.
However, I think the article is talking about something even more radical. It's talking about MEMS, which makes me think that inductors are involved, and therefore rather than moving charge between two capacitors, you're moving them between capacitor and inductor, which can be done rather efficiently at the right frequency.
Even then, if the voter wants to verify his vote with his receipt, it can still be done electronically with no identifiable user information being neccessary to be entered. Electronically meaning in a separate database than the e-voting system, one that is entered by hand through workers. How about barcoding them?
Whatever the reader, it has to be a commonly understood format, or else someone could hack the format. If it's a barcode to be machine readable, you can still sell your vote to the guy outside the booth - he just has to have a run-of-the-mill barcode reader. That doesn't solve the problem.
The only way to solve the problem is have the vote receipt printed out in human and machine (barcode) readable formats, and then have them deposit the receipt into a ballot box, just like now. If there's a problem with the count, then you crack open the seal on the ballot box and count with the barcodes. If there's still a concern, count it with the human readable labels printed on the receipts. That solves the whole problem.
Soon they'll come up with a way to share music wirelessly. Some day, every living room and automobile will come with a "receiver" for this amazing new technology. Thousands of music broadcasters, calling themselves "stations" will broadcast music freely over the airwaves. "Free Music for All!"
Of course, if you want digital quality, that will still cost you $10 per month.
You just know in a few months, some corporation is going to announce RFID tags for their employees.
You missed the Big Brother Boat by a few years there, pal. I know several of our customers who use RFID equipped employee badges to clock in/out and unlock doors to restricted areas. I know one who even uses fingerprints to clock in/out.
My company has us carry around keychains with an RFID that opens the door for us, so that we don't have to be issued keys if we could be the first here in the morning. That's a pretty good way to see when someone has been arriving every morning (since we don't use punchclocks) but it doesn't work in the summer when the door is propped open for a breeze.
As a matter of fact, I use a Nexus card to cross the Canada/U.S. border all the time, and it has a built-in RFID chip. However, only the U.S. side has a reader. The Canadian side just matches your license plate, card, and you (using a picture on the card). I paid $80 for that priviledge (it saves time, and they ask fewer questions).
I accept that I'm being monitored because I still receive benefits by submitting to it. However, I feel that until they implant something under my skin, or use active biometric scanning, or go to 100% electronic currency, I still have the option of all but disappearing to the government. I kind of think that would piss off my wife though. Sucks not being able to own a house.
Water is squeezed through tiny holes in a non-metallic solid such as glass. As the water passes through, it interacts with the surface of the sieve and creates a thin layer of positively and negatively charged electrons.
Right! "Positively and negatively charged electrons." They really have discovered something special here... their device creates positrons. Sweet!
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They have a Canadian version of the Patriot Act, you see.
What's interesting is that the Canadian case you speak of could also end up getting the Canadian equivalent of the patriot act ruled unconstitutional. Many parallels, actually.
Congratulate "Sir William" and move on
Hmm. I heard that if your not British, then you don't actually get the title, "Sir", but I could be wrong.
The main character, so to speak, tried on an electrical vest of sort, which heated his torso. This allowed him to stay in a -40(I think) degree windtunnel with I think 5 mph winds for more than three hours without losing any dexterity in his fingers.
I'll buy that, but how long does the extension cord have to be for a trip to the north pole?
Seriously though, you can get a similar effect with a very well insulated jacket, but your body will burn a lot of calories in cold weather just keeping the core temperature up. You can easily eat 5000 or more calories a day if you're living and working in very cold weather.
The qestion is, which is lighter: food or batteries?
Yes, but a man that wrote a whole OS by himself must have serious trouble working in a team.
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So maybe its not such a good idea hiring him
Actually, if you hire this guy, you can fire the team.
I saw a fingerprint ID system in use 2 years ago at a clothing store distribution warehouse in Los Angeles. The employees used it to clock-in and clock-out of work, and it was put in place to avoid friends punching in and out for each other.
One thing these new systems do offer you is a rock solid alibi (sp?). It definitely proves where you were at that time. As for privacy concerns... well, you were supposed to be at work anyway, right? Is the company getting any extra information by collecting your time entry through this method?
I don't understand the "broken into" part. If you don't like the door, what exactly gets "broken", seems like they just came and took stuff, unless they broke a tube, or somthing.
The door was locked. They came in while we weren't home through a back window that wasn't lockable at the time. It is now. It was just kids, anyway. They took a couple bottles of alcohol, some gold jewelry, and any electronics they could fit in a duffel bag. They got caught a month or two later doing the same thing a couple streets over.
So, I guess you're right... they didn't break the window. However, when they hit a house across the street, they did break a kitchen window there to get in.
Now we have a rottweiler... I keep her nice and hungry throughout the daytime... he he.
I had a blackberry through Rogers/AT&T, and once I got the U.S. roaming package on there, it cost me $57 (CDN) per month. That's more than my 3000 kb/s cable modem internet connection (under $40 per month). I loved the blackberry, but decided to cancel the subscription.
Then, the day after I decided to cancel it, we were broken into and they stole it off the table. Reporting it stolen actually saved me the cancellation charge (~$50), and I figure whoever ended up with the hot item is getting payback by paying the high fees.
That's what I tell myself anyway. Maybe it was that Michael Moore guy... I heard he was snooping around Windsor opening people's doors.
Whenever the guy in the shop offers you an extensive warranty ask him why. Then whey he talks about accidents point out you have insurance for that. He'll next talk about the product maybe failing, at which point you ask him if he's telling you the product is unreliable and crap.
This proved to be a lot of fun when we were out shopping for a small second vehicle. We had decided on a Nissan Sentra, because it was highly regarded as very reliable, and a good buy, and I didn't want to worry about my wife being stranded anywhere while I was out of town. So we go and talk to the dealer, and he spends half an hour telling us how great the mechanical system in this car is, that the average lifespan of Nissan engines are about 14 years, and since we were buying a base model, there was little if anything to go wrong with it, other than the air conditioner.
Then after we signed on the dotted line, we are taken into the back room where this woman tries to sell us an extended warranty. I should mention that the standard warranty is 5 years on the powertrain and 3 years on everything else, and we were only getting a 4 year lease. So here she is selling us an extended warranty for 48 monthly payments amounting to $2000. I told her that our salesman, Mike, just said we'd never have a problem, these are very reliable cars, and the only thing that could go wrong after the 3 years and cost us money was the air conditioner, and I was pretty sure I could replace the whole system for under $1000. She looked pretty mad. She said, "do you think that a car with 10,000 mechanical parts isn't going to have one mechanical problem?"
I told her she needed to have a word with Mike.
It's a bulldozer blade, I'd say...
Yes, when rescuing someone from a huge pile of rubble, I always want to bulldoze it into a bigger pile first, right? Hehe.
Most Canadians live close to an American border.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. I'm sick of hearing this stupid "fact" repeated like it's gospel. The people who came to North America a few hundred years ago settled mostly along waterways, especially the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence seaway. Also, they settled along the coasts. In modern times, most people still live in the same areas that were first colonized.
About half the people in Canada live in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. None of these are bordertowns, but all of them were population centres before the United States and Canada existed.
If Canadians were flocking towards the U.S. border, then why is the largest border city in Canada (Windsor, Ontario) only 200,000 people? Also, why does practically nobody live next to the border with Alaska? People live where they live because it follows early settlement patterns.
You can say that most Canadians live within 3 hours of the United States, but I ask you this, don't most Americans live along the outside of the U.S.? Is that because they're all trying to get away from the centre? I doubt it.
Anyway, go on with what you were saying...
I never said the United States doesn't have socialist leanings. However, when comparing the United States and Canada, it's obvious that Canada is far more socialist than the US.
That is a very old myth. Check your facts. With the exception of health care, the U.S. has just as many social programs as Canada. Plus, Canada's social programs seem to work better.
we could find a nice sized hole/cave/cavern (something biodome sized+) under the surface on the moon/mars and build inside it.
Well, I'm not a scientist, but aren't most caverns underground created by erosion caused by water? While I'm willing to believe that there MIGHT be a cavern underground on Mars, finding one on the Moon may prove quite difficult.
However, when the shoe is on the other foot, geeks who've got those beautifully framed CIS degrees on their wall, are entitled to make money, and have a job, and it's very important for businesses to take a hit on the bottom line for their sake, or for the government to legislate some kind of program or incentive to keep their precious jobs safe.
You said it! Tell it from the mountaintop!
Look, if all the blue collar jobs left, why do I see so many soccer Moms driving around in big freakin' SUVs, or so many scraggly guys dragging 40" plasma TVs out of Best Buy. Americans are not lacking for good paying jobs. Some people have to work for Nissan or Honda now, instead of GM or Ford, but there's no shortage of work.
Maybe if you're having problems finding work in the IT sector, it's because you have mediocre IT skills and only got a CIS degree because you heard it paid big bucks. If you think you're so good, start your own damned company. Then you too can outsource stuff to other countries and make a decent living at it.
Mercantilism is all about establishing colonies and vassal states to exploit raw materials and create markets while building industry at home.
In case you haven't noticed, the US is doing the exact opposite since WW2.
Really? What is the U.S. doing in Iraq, then? Helping out their friends, the Muslims?
I thought it was just that the coffee killed them off so fast they didn't have time to develop the diabetes...
Actually, I suspect that most men who drink 6 cups of coffee a day are younger men, and age probably increases your risk of type II diabetes.
It's like saying, "we've discovered that Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans have a much higher chance of living in North America than any other people on Earth!" See... your tax dollars at work.
...yet the preposition that men and women are equal in all things is treated as if it were absolute truth...
Your post is full of information, but I'm going to concentrate on the point above. I haven't found many people, men or women for that matter, who think that "men and women are equal in all things". The majority, in my experience, think that men and women should be equal under the law, and that every person should be judged on their abilities.
Of course, there is some disagreement over what "feminism" actually is, and the dictionary doesn't seem to actually define it the way many people perceive it.
However, saying that there's one thing that ruined America is a tenuous position to take. First of all, America is not yet ruined. Secondly, if America is ruined, then I would have to have something to do with it... after all, I'm Canadian! You have to blame me!
He he.
>> Pretty much all pop distributed in the states is distributed here too.
I'm sorry. I didn't know you had it that bad up there.
It's gotten better since you took Celine Dion off our hands... can't thank you enough for that one!
Did they have sound in space as the ships flew by? That has always been one of my major pet peeves. At least Kubrick got it right in 2001.
They did, but it was always juxtaposed with a very loud scene inside of Galactica, and the space scene's noises were always quite quiet, so it definitely gave the impression of space being quiet. It was an interesting way to do it, I thought.
But they definitely overused the shakey-camera effect.
Why do I get the feeling that this would make a great Apple commercial?
I was thinking more like "Dear Penthouse..."
What's going on here is a circuit implementation detail. In a normal chip, when you have a bit set to 1 and a bit set to 0 and you flip them both, the bit set to 0 is charged with fresh energy from the power supply and the energy in the bit set to 1 is converted to heat. In this proposed system, the charges would be moved from the 1 to the 0 with no loss and no additional draw on the power supply. Less work, same informational content.
Well, actually you're only talking about a register. A bi-polar type register will still consume power while it's sitting there holding its state, on or off. CMOS is different (see below). What you're describing is DRAM (dynamic random access memory) which uses charges to store values. However, even DRAM consumes power because the charges leak out relatively quickly, and have to be refreshed every 2 microseconds (I think).
Remember, however, that a lot of the energy in a CPU is used by the logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, etc.). If you're talking CMOS technology, or something similar, then you're right... you have to "charge" the gate of the transistors to get them to switch, and "discharge" to ground again. I suppose that reversible would mean that every transistor in the whole chip has an opposite pair, and if you turn one transistor on, you have to turn the other one off (to borrow the charge) rather than using power from the power supply. Some energy will still be used during the switch, due to losses.
However, I think the article is talking about something even more radical. It's talking about MEMS, which makes me think that inductors are involved, and therefore rather than moving charge between two capacitors, you're moving them between capacitor and inductor, which can be done rather efficiently at the right frequency.
That's about as far as I can follow the article.
Even then, if the voter wants to verify his vote with his receipt, it can still be done electronically with no identifiable user information being neccessary to be entered. Electronically meaning in a separate database than the e-voting system, one that is entered by hand through workers. How about barcoding them?
Whatever the reader, it has to be a commonly understood format, or else someone could hack the format. If it's a barcode to be machine readable, you can still sell your vote to the guy outside the booth - he just has to have a run-of-the-mill barcode reader. That doesn't solve the problem.
The only way to solve the problem is have the vote receipt printed out in human and machine (barcode) readable formats, and then have them deposit the receipt into a ballot box, just like now. If there's a problem with the count, then you crack open the seal on the ballot box and count with the barcodes. If there's still a concern, count it with the human readable labels printed on the receipts. That solves the whole problem.
Soon they'll come up with a way to share music wirelessly. Some day, every living room and automobile will come with a "receiver" for this amazing new technology. Thousands of music broadcasters, calling themselves "stations" will broadcast music freely over the airwaves. "Free Music for All!"
Of course, if you want digital quality, that will still cost you $10 per month.
You just know in a few months, some corporation is going to announce RFID tags for their employees.
You missed the Big Brother Boat by a few years there, pal. I know several of our customers who use RFID equipped employee badges to clock in/out and unlock doors to restricted areas. I know one who even uses fingerprints to clock in/out.
My company has us carry around keychains with an RFID that opens the door for us, so that we don't have to be issued keys if we could be the first here in the morning. That's a pretty good way to see when someone has been arriving every morning (since we don't use punchclocks) but it doesn't work in the summer when the door is propped open for a breeze.
As a matter of fact, I use a Nexus card to cross the Canada/U.S. border all the time, and it has a built-in RFID chip. However, only the U.S. side has a reader. The Canadian side just matches your license plate, card, and you (using a picture on the card). I paid $80 for that priviledge (it saves time, and they ask fewer questions).
I accept that I'm being monitored because I still receive benefits by submitting to it. However, I feel that until they implant something under my skin, or use active biometric scanning, or go to 100% electronic currency, I still have the option of all but disappearing to the government. I kind of think that would piss off my wife though. Sucks not being able to own a house.
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Right! "Positively and negatively charged electrons." They really have discovered something special here... their device creates positrons. Sweet!