All ballistics does is connect a bullet with a specific gun via the rifling cuts the weapon placed on the bullet. An unregistered weapon can be cleaned then dumped and after that point there's nothing connecting the shooter to the weapon. The police can even find a dumped weapon but that's where the case goes dead; when a firearm is unregistered there's nothing connecting it to a specific person. Stolen or unregistered firearms purchased through a strawman from gun shows are one of the primary reasons so many shootings go unprosecuted in the US every year. A lot of the stuff you see on CSI is an exaggeration, it's fairly easy to clean a machined, metal surface.
For ballistic evidence to actually mean something the ballistic "fingerprint" has to be tied to a registered weapon. Under current law you can go to a gun show and buy a new weapon without having to register it or even go through a waiting period. A $300 firearm is quite a bit more practical, accessible and disposable than $30,000 of lab equipment. The fact that a pacemaker can be communicated with by anyone who gets extremely close with specialized equipment is an interesting point but as a potential risk it's pretty much negligible.
We have those already, they're called "guns". They even have an additional advantage of being lethal from 300 yards away rather than having to be pressed against someone's chest.
...it's a shortage in compensation. The employers don't offer additional compensation then complain when they only get mediocre performing employees.
What most companies are willing to pay for entry level IT positions isn't competitive with other highly technical positions and this affects career decisions. Lots of people I know who are competent at programming decided to become engineers or pursue graduate degrees instead of a computer science degree. The pay scale and the perception of age in each field helped them decide which of their interests they wanted to turn into a career. It's really no different than finding a competent K-12 teacher, some people will do it because they love it but lots of talented individuals who are interested look at the compensation and decide on another career option.
TFA is about the myth of the oppressed underdog upsetting the establishment, not bias in scientific writing.
It's not "the man keeping new science down" it's just how the scientific review process works. If you come up with a new theory you have to defend it, just like the guy who established the current dominant theory. The entire point of journal review is to try and find holes in a new theory to see if it's a solid model or just a special case.
It would be recovering some of the energy that's converted into waste heat by resistance within the chip, no thermodynamic laws are violated. Using a Stirling engine to run a fan is a very practical way to approach the waste heat since you only have to convert the energy once (thermal -> mechanical). If you converted it to electricity you've still got to use electricity at some point to run a fan and it'd end up costing you even more energy because of the long transfer chain (thermal -> mechanical-> electrical -> mechanical).
Glancing at a few other threads a few people seem to be wondering if you can get enough heat transferred to mechanical energy that it'd cool the processor and negate the need for a fan but heat engines don't really work that way. The better they are at moving heat the less efficient they make themselves(efficiency = 1 - (sink temperature/heat source temperature).
Being able to wirelessly access the internet from anywhere on campus is a standard learning tool. If a school was foolish enough to attempt a policy like that their enrollment would fall though the floor. What you're proposing is similar to suggesting that everyone should switch from owning textbooks to only using the books in the library to prevent students from photocopying copyrighted material.
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All ballistics does is connect a bullet with a specific gun via the rifling cuts the weapon placed on the bullet. An unregistered weapon can be cleaned then dumped and after that point there's nothing connecting the shooter to the weapon. The police can even find a dumped weapon but that's where the case goes dead; when a firearm is unregistered there's nothing connecting it to a specific person. Stolen or unregistered firearms purchased through a strawman from gun shows are one of the primary reasons so many shootings go unprosecuted in the US every year. A lot of the stuff you see on CSI is an exaggeration, it's fairly easy to clean a machined, metal surface.
For ballistic evidence to actually mean something the ballistic "fingerprint" has to be tied to a registered weapon. Under current law you can go to a gun show and buy a new weapon without having to register it or even go through a waiting period. A $300 firearm is quite a bit more practical, accessible and disposable than $30,000 of lab equipment. The fact that a pacemaker can be communicated with by anyone who gets extremely close with specialized equipment is an interesting point but as a potential risk it's pretty much negligible.
We have those already, they're called "guns". They even have an additional advantage of being lethal from 300 yards away rather than having to be pressed against someone's chest.
I for one welcome our frozen, gold plated robotic overlords.
...it's a shortage in compensation. The employers don't offer additional compensation then complain when they only get mediocre performing employees. What most companies are willing to pay for entry level IT positions isn't competitive with other highly technical positions and this affects career decisions. Lots of people I know who are competent at programming decided to become engineers or pursue graduate degrees instead of a computer science degree. The pay scale and the perception of age in each field helped them decide which of their interests they wanted to turn into a career. It's really no different than finding a competent K-12 teacher, some people will do it because they love it but lots of talented individuals who are interested look at the compensation and decide on another career option.
TFA is about the myth of the oppressed underdog upsetting the establishment, not bias in scientific writing. It's not "the man keeping new science down" it's just how the scientific review process works. If you come up with a new theory you have to defend it, just like the guy who established the current dominant theory. The entire point of journal review is to try and find holes in a new theory to see if it's a solid model or just a special case.
It would be recovering some of the energy that's converted into waste heat by resistance within the chip, no thermodynamic laws are violated. Using a Stirling engine to run a fan is a very practical way to approach the waste heat since you only have to convert the energy once (thermal -> mechanical). If you converted it to electricity you've still got to use electricity at some point to run a fan and it'd end up costing you even more energy because of the long transfer chain (thermal -> mechanical-> electrical -> mechanical). Glancing at a few other threads a few people seem to be wondering if you can get enough heat transferred to mechanical energy that it'd cool the processor and negate the need for a fan but heat engines don't really work that way. The better they are at moving heat the less efficient they make themselves(efficiency = 1 - (sink temperature/heat source temperature).
Being able to wirelessly access the internet from anywhere on campus is a standard learning tool. If a school was foolish enough to attempt a policy like that their enrollment would fall though the floor. What you're proposing is similar to suggesting that everyone should switch from owning textbooks to only using the books in the library to prevent students from photocopying copyrighted material.