If lie detectors *really* worked, we wouldn't have to torture so many people, would we? We'd just hook them up to the lie detector, and ask them questions, like, "Will the LHC discover the Higgs boson?", and then we would know if they were guilty or not.
The US could close down Guantanamo in a fortnight.
But then the Torture Industry would need a bailout.
Or maybe the Torture Industry should just get a cut of every lie detector sold?
There are gentler styles that still are effective martial arts but without stressing one's body to the point of failure after a few years. This includes Aikido (even though you fall, you fall gently), Iaido (just don't cut yourself), and possibly Kendo.
Their "Run Away! Run Away!" technique seems to avoid most martial arts injuries.
Provided that you are a better runner than your opponent.
On the serious side, I read about a "Beimo" champ a few years ago. "Beimo" were roof-top informal bare-knuckles fights in Hong Kong in the 60's. He was very successful, but he stated that the purpose was to whack your opponent out of commission, before he did the same to you.
. . . crowds of plebes have gleefully enjoyed watching folks, bash the shit, out off other folks. It keeps the populace's minds of other social problems.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next government economic stimulus act funds "Ben Hur" style Roman warship battles in the Washington Monument Reflecting pool. With free bread for the spectators.
If this is true, then why do schools insist on giving money to sports programs while starving arts and sciences budgets?
Such programs don't bring out the crowds on the weekends to the stadiums.
Hmmm . . . maybe Stem Cell experiments, with cheerleaders would work.
Enraged wacko-physicists hurling cold fusion experiments at each other, maybe.
You just need to have plenty of vendors with cheap booze and fast food on hand.
Skewing slightly off topic, how the heck do you manage to be polygamous? I can only handle being with one woman at a time. I couldn't handle a whole cluster of them. Even a Beowulf cluster of them.:)
More subtle are performance degradations caused by contention on global memory addresses, which invalidate cache lines on peer processors. There are ways to avoid this, if detected, but a lot of them are patented.
Actually, the PolygamousRanchKid Nom de guerre came from a CNN Headline: it the country where I live, English is a foreign language. One of my colleagues was confused by the headline, about some church in Texas. He wanted to know, if it was a "polygamous ranch," or a "polygamous kid."
But in these matters, I tend to wonder if the auditors are in cahoots with the company that they are supposed to br auditing.
On another note, an executive once told me: "I can't steal $100 from my company. We have enough controls in place to detect that. Now, $100,000,000, you can do that, and nobody would notice."
At "The Economist" quipped on the Bernard Madoff case, "if you are going to steal, steal big."
Also, nobody will ever make a movie about the RIAA
"Coming soon, in a theater near you, Oliver Stone's and Michael Moore's 'RIAA' . . . please go out to the lobby, and buy some popcorn . . . a Monster Bucket."
Isn't that part of the Apple iWhatever Schtick? Showing it off in public? Instead of a "I am rich" application, a "I can waste you at 1000 yards" application?
I'm not sure how the general public would react to your iPod Touch US Army M110 sniper rifle system, while you stand in line with it at your local Starbucks.
I can't really conceive how Slashdot could consider any other candidate.
He's tanned, rested, and will be able to give Obama a few laughs in what will probably be an administration challenged with difficult problems.
After a rough day wrestling with the Senate over Economic Stimulus Packages, Obama would probably prefer to retire to the White House TV room with Bender, cigars, booze and dirty jokes.
He'll be free real soon now. Everybody rants that Apple's success is dependent on Jobs. If Apple continues to deliver blockbuster products, despite having George W. Bush as CEO, that will prove them wrong, and that Apple as a company is strong, despite of who is at the helm.
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I'm a teenaged bearded woman, those insensitive clods!
Everyone might want one.
If lie detectors *really* worked, we wouldn't have to torture so many people, would we? We'd just hook them up to the lie detector, and ask them questions, like, "Will the LHC discover the Higgs boson?", and then we would know if they were guilty or not.
The US could close down Guantanamo in a fortnight.
But then the Torture Industry would need a bailout.
Or maybe the Torture Industry should just get a cut of every lie detector sold?
All those Hollywood folks seem to spend a fortune every year on trying to look young.
Why don't they just set up a pipeline of clones of themselves instead?
Starting to look your age? Time to replace yourself with the next one of you in line.
There are gentler styles that still are effective martial arts but without stressing one's body to the point of failure after a few years. This includes Aikido (even though you fall, you fall gently), Iaido (just don't cut yourself), and possibly Kendo.
Their "Run Away! Run Away!" technique seems to avoid most martial arts injuries.
Provided that you are a better runner than your opponent.
On the serious side, I read about a "Beimo" champ a few years ago. "Beimo" were roof-top informal bare-knuckles fights in Hong Kong in the 60's. He was very successful, but he stated that the purpose was to whack your opponent out of commission, before he did the same to you.
With devastating results on the health of both opponents. I can't find the original link, but I think this is from the same guy: http://home.vtmuseum.org/articles/peterson/wongbeimo.php
. . . crowds of plebes have gleefully enjoyed watching folks, bash the shit, out off other folks. It keeps the populace's minds of other social problems.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next government economic stimulus act funds "Ben Hur" style Roman warship battles in the Washington Monument Reflecting pool. With free bread for the spectators.
If this is true, then why do schools insist on giving money to sports programs while starving arts and sciences budgets?
Such programs don't bring out the crowds on the weekends to the stadiums.
Hmmm . . . maybe Stem Cell experiments, with cheerleaders would work.
Enraged wacko-physicists hurling cold fusion experiments at each other, maybe.
You just need to have plenty of vendors with cheap booze and fast food on hand.
Skewing slightly off topic, how the heck do you manage to be polygamous? I can only handle being with one woman at a time. I couldn't handle a whole cluster of them. Even a Beowulf cluster of them. :)
Fine granularity locks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_(computer_science). Avoid lock contention at all costs. Use instrumented locks to check this.
More subtle are performance degradations caused by contention on global memory addresses, which invalidate cache lines on peer processors. There are ways to avoid this, if detected, but a lot of them are patented.
Actually, the PolygamousRanchKid Nom de guerre came from a CNN Headline: it the country where I live, English is a foreign language. One of my colleagues was confused by the headline, about some church in Texas. He wanted to know, if it was a "polygamous ranch," or a "polygamous kid."
I answered him, "both."
So I read on "The Onion" about Monster Trucks killing folks, and now on /. we have Monster Drives.
Alas, I lack the English eloquence of diction, but, pray tell, what comes after Monster?
Supreme Being drives and trucks? Phantasmal Force drives and trucks.
Any suggestions?
My first project with a clicking cellphone, will be to replace the clicking sound with a 8.0 Richter scale flatulent sound.
"Hey, did you just take a picture of me?"
"Hey, dumb-ass, can't you tell the difference between a camera click and a fart?"
Am I the only one who thinks we should attempt to land on it and stage an emergency scenerio drill
I was thinking that we could land on it, set up tax havens, gambling casinos, brothels and Ponzi schemes.
Think of it as a bubbling-broth mix of Las Vegas, Wall Street and the Cayman Islands.
Now a fun place like that would finally put our galaxy on the interstellar map.
Remember how did the money given to banks vanished just 1-2 months ago ?
That money didn't vanish . . . it's just went somewhere, where you can't see it.
And whomever now has it, says, "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
A working replica would be dangerous and surely illegal.
If I had a working replica of a nuclear bomb in my basement, I don't think I would give a rat's ass about whether it was dangerous or illegal.
If I did have a nuclear bomb, I would not have a problem.
Some other folks would have a problem.
Pricewaterhouse Coopers is a huge company and actually audits 40 percent of companies in the FTSE 100 Index.
Yepp, Pricewaterhouse Coopers is one of the Big Four: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_auditors., one of the best, without question.
But in these matters, I tend to wonder if the auditors are in cahoots with the company that they are supposed to br auditing.
On another note, an executive once told me: "I can't steal $100 from my company. We have enough controls in place to detect that. Now, $100,000,000, you can do that, and nobody would notice."
At "The Economist" quipped on the Bernard Madoff case, "if you are going to steal, steal big."
Also, nobody will ever make a movie about the RIAA
"Coming soon, in a theater near you, Oliver Stone's and Michael Moore's 'RIAA' . . . please go out to the lobby, and buy some popcorn . . . a Monster Bucket."
Yeah, I would really feel a lot better if the LHC deployed Bruce Campbell, with a shotgun during those Black Hole experiments:
Evil Witch/Black Hole: "I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul!"
Bruce points his shotgun at the Evil Witch/Black Hole:
Bruce: "Swallow this."
*Blam*
"Oh, no, Mr. Bill!"
My Windows machine is infected with the System Idle Process Botnet!
Seems like an obvious candidate to me. I mean, you're taught to *throw* something at someone, with the intention of hitting them "out."
Anyone up for a round of Lawn Darts Dodgeball?
They seem to have a serious condition of having their head up their ass.
Over 1500-1600 yards is the realm of the BMG .50 caliber/rifle packages.
Like this guy did? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Furlong
Actually, Carlos Hathcock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock) hacked up an M2 BMG to do stuff like that.
Imagine reading how to do that in "Make" magazine.
Well, if it really is any good, you might be able to read about a review about it in the near future here: http://www.snipercentral.com/
Isn't that part of the Apple iWhatever Schtick? Showing it off in public? Instead of a "I am rich" application, a "I can waste you at 1000 yards" application?
I'm not sure how the general public would react to your iPod Touch US Army M110 sniper rifle system, while you stand in line with it at your local Starbucks.
I can't really conceive how Slashdot could consider any other candidate.
He's tanned, rested, and will be able to give Obama a few laughs in what will probably be an administration challenged with difficult problems.
After a rough day wrestling with the Senate over Economic Stimulus Packages, Obama would probably prefer to retire to the White House TV room with Bender, cigars, booze and dirty jokes.
I knew that it was a good idea to put that old, rusty Chevy up on cinder blocks in the front yard, like all my neighbors do.
$1500? Yoo-hoo!
When is the government going to start paying me for all those broken toys, that I also keep in the front yard?
Proof right here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Fartpants
He'll be free real soon now. Everybody rants that Apple's success is dependent on Jobs. If Apple continues to deliver blockbuster products, despite having George W. Bush as CEO, that will prove them wrong, and that Apple as a company is strong, despite of who is at the helm.
If Apple craters, we can all blame it on Bush.
What *really* creeps me out are these reprints of Goebbels stuff, that are being hawked today: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1871736,00.html.
The government doesn't seem to need to take any action against that.
The joke is that the publisher is a Britain.