To be brutally blunt, your interjection serves no useful purpose to this argument, not to any other argument. It is a straight up ad-hominem.
As for why you experience resistance, this is very simple: you expect others to simply consume what you tell them, and accept it unquestioningly. That is not the way of science, and instead the way or rhetoric and religion.
It is not enough to say "no, it is like this." Nor is it enough to say "no, it is like this because." You must say "no, it is like this because,... and we know this because of this experiment, which you can read about here."
The first two can be filled in with premium bullshit by even the quackiest of nutters. The last one is how science really works. Nothing is taken for granted, nothing is accepted without question, and results are always verified.
That you don't have the patience to supply sources for your arguments, and are unhappy when people question them shows that you believe others should follow you without question, since "you are an educated scientist." This ignores the fact that scientists have been and continue to be dead wrong, and just haven't been exposed to enough empirical data to realize it yet. Classic examples are things like phlogiston, and the cosmic aether. It isn't enough to say "the cosmic aether was disproven almost a century ago." If your goal is to educate, you have to cite the michaelson-morley experiment. Without the experiment, it is merely an assertion, and your arguing partner rightly asserts that it is such. Your arguing partner may genuinely not know about that experiment, even though it is extraordinarily famous. (Many people you would interview on a street corner would not even have heard of it in fact.) As such, not citing the experiment, and complaining about ignorance is hipocrisy, since you are complaining about the ignorance, while doing nothing to correct it, and lauding yourself for your superior knowledge. That does not often win over intelligent people.
Unless you supply the emprical findings, which is what is the fundemental heart of science, and why it is different from reigion and philosophy, you have no basis to complain when people treat your line of argument as if it were a religious position, since you have supplied exactly the same amount of proof as if it were such. Complaining about people questioning you relentlessly, and asserting that doing so indicates a general lack of scientific exposure does not follow. Science's lifeblood is disbelief, questioning, and verification. If you supply nothing but anectdotes and rhetoric, there is nothing to verify, and you are not behaving like a scientist.
I don't hold scientists in any illusory position of enlightnment. That is why I argue the way I do. Doing so is not incorrect. Your emotional reaction to not having your ego stroked does not make your methodology correct.
If I argue, and am wrong, shut me up with publicly readable citations that don't require my selling my soul to elsevier to read them. That is the proper methodology, and is what I truely need from you to accept an answer. Without that data, you are giving an opinion, and can be wrong. Being a scientist does not make you magically immune, and I won't accept that as a replacement for data.
1) there is no such thing as a motionless massive object. 2) all massive particles have spin, which is conserved when you compress it into a singularity. That is why there is no such thing as a rotation-less singularity. 3) said vehicle has spin in relation to other frames, regardlss of arguing semantics of the first two. The entire planetary system is rotating around a sun, and the sun is rotating around a giant supermassive black hole, itself rotating around a mutual barycenter with several hundred other galaxies in the local group. Asserting that the craft does not have rotation is equally as absurd as arguing for a universal reference frame, or for universal time. The craft has a vector of motion, and mass, and therefor, has rotation when measured in at least one other frame, which must be conserved. The vehicle will therefor have a dragging reference frame in relational proportion to its mass energy, and the reference frame(s) it interacts with.
4). I am not aware that significant studies of physical higgs particles had been conducted to rule that physical higgs behave differently than virtual ones at conveying the fundemental force their field represents, anymore than virtual photons and physical photons behave sufficiently differently to prevent physical photons from converying electromagnetic force any differently from virtual ones. That is certainly news to me, because it means long distance radio shouldn't work! Only near field! (Especially in light of the fact that the particle detected at cern has only recently been given the honor of being officially accepted as even BEING a physical higgs to begin with.)
The degree to which a reference frame drags in comparison to another reference frame is dependent upon the mass energies of both frames. This mechanism directly futzes with that rest mass energy. It should therefor alter the behavior of the two frames involved.
That is correct. The higgs manipulation device would be a monsterous energy hog, and would release a shitton of useless energy as the excited higgs particles decay.
That is not where the ship gets the energy to move forward.
All gravitational attractions are mutual. When you jump off the ground, the earth is ever so slightly attracted to you and moves up, as you fall back down. (This is balanced by the energy you supplied when you kicked off the ground, for a net of 0.)
In this case, the "mollasses" effect makes it "harder" to pull the spaceship, while the distant gravitating planet remains unchanged. This means the same force over time is exerted, but due to the extra higgs being present, the spaceship takes longer to fall, increasing time. This means that while the extra energy is being injected, the ship has a higher potential energy while falling, than it does with the field off, on escape. The energy comes at the expense of the star or planet's current kinetic energy. (The planet or star slows down/changes vector slightly, you gain the difference.)
All energy is accounted for. The energy you expend to excite the higgs bleeds off into space as particle radiation of various kinds, the planet/star slows down appropriate to the energy you gain in the form of momentum, and your ships's mass depletes in accordance with your energy use.
It isn't "normal" reaction mass, because you aren't spraying massed particles out the back. You are expending the energy equivalent of that mass as energy injected into the higgs field instead.
This allows you to make more efficient use of fuel, by using an energy dense fuel source, like fissile uranium, instead of inefficient propellent.
uhm, reading comprehension is hard for you? I am pretty sure I said you couldn't violate c this way, at the very beginning. Only that you could go very fast without normal reaction mass as the source of forward momentum.
As for the mechanism, I was leaning more toward artificially increasing the higgs particle density, rather than increasing particle interaction affinities. Much light bombarding the living fuck out of a uranium atom with neutrinos and electrons will cause it to decay faster, due to increased presense of w boson from that combination interacting with said atom, causing high energy excitation of the higs field to knock off "real" particles could at least in theory increase local higgs boson concentrations, due to the longer particle lives of the excited particles. Increased particle density with the same affinities means more interaction possibilities, means a greater effect of the scalar field. Again, we are not talking about changing the mechanism of the higgs field. We are simply adjusting the concentration slightly by altering decay rate, by injecting energy into the field.
I dunno... here's an interesting thought experiment. (Still won't get you past C, but it will give you a big speed increase without traditional reaction mass.)
You have a spaceship, and a nearby gravitating object. A gas giant, a star, whatever. It's bigger than your ship, and owns the neighborhood.
You turn on a system aboard the ship that increases the energy density of the higgs field in your local vicinity. This increases your rest mass, but also decouples the parity between inertial mass and rest mass. Retaining the inertial mass of a spaceship weighing a few dozen tons, but having a gravitational mass twice that, your vessel is suddenly and forecully grabbed by the increased gravitational attraction it experiences with the nearby gravitating body, and accellerates toward it.
Again, because inertial mass is unchanged, your thruster pack is able to manouver your ship quite effectivey to avoid a head-On collision with the gravitating object. Your vessel whips around the gravitating object at a close angle of incident, and at the extremum of the whip-around, you disengage the device.
Yor vessel now has all the energy it picked up from its crazy dive at the gravitating mass, and has effectively ditched half of its own mass without altering its momentum. Your ship now has waaaaayy more escape velocity than it needs to break away from the gravitating body, and gets thrown out of the system with tremendous force.
If you timed and plotted your flight windows properly, you could repeat this manouver many times within a planetary system, and achieve a fantastic final velocity.
McGuffin plot device: Kilrathi invent super gravity intensifying device that increases object rest mass 137fold. Used it on Goddard Colony.
Interestingly enough, it increases gravity, but doesn't alter inertial activity, so planets this happens to don't fly out of orbit or fall into their star.
Also, for some mysterious reason, has no effect on spaceships.
*groan over the uranus, fartgas, and other dumb jokes.*
Anyway, since this is occuring over the sunlit side of the moon, and that the moon is very far away from the sun, and that solar wind particle action on the moon's atmosphere would be shockingly small, (Saturn's magnetic field would push a good deal away, and even then the distance means a radically lower conentration than we are used to dealing with, meaning solar ions are unlikely as a cause.) Is it possible that there are tiny organic molecules up there with a fluorescent property?
Titan has lots of methane, nitrogen, and ambient radiation from Saturn. Tiny particles just a few molecules in size suspended in the upper atmosphere would be all that's needed. Essentially, glow in the dark organic dust?
It would be interesting to see if there are other re-emission falloff zones in that part of the atmosphere relating to the e-ring charge emissions from Saturn, and other nearby energy sources that could excite a light emitting molecule.
Not exactly. I am operating under the premise that not all govt agencies are crackshot teams, and some most certainly are incompetent boobs, (TSA, DHS, and pals to name a few) and that in the post patriot act world, inter agency data sharing has considerably fewer obstacles toward cross pollination. This allows for all manner of psiops and false flag funtime, by selectively feeding false positives to the more gullible agencies, and exploiting the beurocratic overhead involved in inter agency collaborations.
Eg, if Mr Fatman is smart about how he deploys his botnet-- for instance, making his activities appear to be a chinese puppet endeavor by using only nodes serviced by Asia Pacific, and following a similar MO to said chineese puppet hacking ops by looking for dirt on US private sector corps, along with a few "tactful" probes of the TSA looking for infiltration exploits, (since the TSA will have tasty data in the form of biometric fingerprints and no-fly hitlists, just to name a few, as well as invoices and internal memos about the infrastructure purchases they have made, and so on and so forth, that the chinese will also be interested in, and thus further substantiate the MO of the false flag) And some "leading" network activity concerning how aggressively he searches and digs around looking for specific things, which will certainly be shared between agencies, and can be used to create a false intelligence narrative to redirect attention into a direction the fatman finds favorable for his other activities.
He can play both sides against the middle, because both sides already are aware of the other performing infiltrations, each has a specific agenda, and as such a specific mode of operation. Keeping the two big dogs preoccupied with each other, and under the impression that his activities are attributable to "the enemy" within an acceptible margin of trust, and as you pointed out, because both big dogs will likely be employing other fatmen as diversions/special use infiltrators.
A cool, level headed, and silent blackhat could do way more than you are giving credit for, as long as he doesn't brag about it, or do some other bullshit or stupid fuckup to draw attention to himself. Said blackhat could net a tidy profit by manipulating both agencies, and through them, foriegn policy and foriegn trade. Pure financial interest would be a perfectly reasonable motivator to be said fatman.
I see your point, but have an equally provocative counterpoint.
Because a major government org is behind such foolishness, and the "enemy" also has such an org, the two orgs will spend inordinate amounts of time and resources, the very things that make them stand out over individual agents, worrying about, analyzing, tracking, and attepting infiltration of each other.
The lone fatguy with the pizza, can of mountain dew, and the cybercafe internet connection is not as heavily monitored. So, while his resources for conducting inside jobs are smaller, if he is serious about his work, and has done his pen testing on a privately owned guinea pig network of his own creation prior, and has made use of good old fashioned botnets and phishing techniques, he could easily hand an unsuspecting/distracted org their balls on a plate.
(Assuming of course, that he knows what he is doing, and evades suspicion while developing and deploying his 0day exploit/rootkit funpack.)
Using a distributed botnet of uninteresting people's connections as a tactical resource, and not for something shamefully moronic like a DDoS, (instead, using the botnet to perform specific types of infiltrations on targeted networks, like forcing new and deadly firmware onto scada hardware, directly compromising military computer assets and adding them to the botnet as a special swarm, etc.) Is where the "single man with the laptop" shines.
Make a rainbow under an impenetrable cloud canopy that causes massive light ray diffraction before interacting with your mist layer?
Eg, what will happen to earth once enough CO2 is in the atmosphere, since a good deal of water vapor will join it as global temps rise, until cloud cover reaches such a density that the albedo of the clouds causes temps to drop.
Eg, during the ensuing iceage, your rainbows will be a very very rare thing.
That's what I was getting at. A carousel tool cassette with fixed position head, an X,Y,Z table with 2 bath tubs on another x axis slide table, 2 reservoirs, one with solder paste and another with wax+asphaultum mask, and a simple means to drop and raise the table in and out of the tubs, and you have a winner.
Whole process:
you still manually saw/cut your prototype board to size, then lock it to the table.
The first NC program is loaded and started. The robot uses the camera to find the edges of the prototype board, sets the local axis system, and takes off.
The tool carousel rotates until the wax resist 3d print nozzel is locked in place, the nozzel heater activates, and the system primes the nozzel. It then draws the resist layer on the prototype board.
The table moves to the home position, and the resist layer nozzel is rotated out and replaced with a hot air blower. The table descends slightly, and warm air helps seat the resist layer down with a few passes over the workpiece by moving the table underneath the stationary head.
Table returns to home position and waits a programmed period of time for the softened resist to harden back up.
Lower table with etchant bins slides underneath the the worktable, worktable descends into the etchant bath. X,Y actuators on the work table move the board 1mm x,y,-x,-y in rapid succession to agitate in the etchant bath. This continues for several minutes.
Worktable raises up from etchant solution tank, lower table moves the rinse tank under the worktable. Worktable descends, and the agitation cycle resumes for the programmed period.
Table raises, and the hot air gun softens the resist again. (Also dries the board somewhat, but we want water on the board still, because it helps in the next step.) Table quickly homes, swaps to a teflon scraper tool, then scrapes off the resist layer. Table homes, returns to hot air gun, then heats the board up nice and toasty, vaporizing water and any left over wax resist off the board. Table homes then waits for it to cool down.
Hot air nozzel swapped out for solder paste nozzel. Table moves the workpiece under the nozzle as it deposits the paste layer.
Pick and place head swapped in. Pick and place uses a small vacuum pump and a tiny head to pick up and place components. Pick and place head has 360 rotation, but still fixed position. Table moves pieces to the head, and positions the workpiece under the head for placement. Head rotation allows the head to reorient picked up components to the proper orientation.
After pick and place operation, the workpiece is done as far as the robot is concerned. User carefully unloads the workpiece, and pops it in the toaster oven to flow the solder.
So, again, tool carousel with 5 swappable tools on a fixed position turret, an XYZ movement 2.5 axis table. Rotation on the pick and place head, and an X axis sled underneath with etching tubs on it. Components for the pick and place head are on an elevated portion of the worktable where they can be positioned under the head, but will always stay out of the etching and washing baths.this area has small wells to hold the components.
(Granted, buildng such a toy for under 1000$ is unlikely, but it is certainly doable for under 2500$.)
Require a unique decode key, a session ID, and a valid user identity in their database, with unique on the fly encoding?
Eg, in order to use the service, the device must be provisioned with a unique player key, (either has one already, or one is generated and provided to the player when the netflix app is installed and kept in a local keystore) and is encoded with the "secret" key that is generated for each user identity (subscriber) and is kept in the netflix server farm.
Multiple private keys, multiple public keys, but a single standard implementation.
This is the sort of thing TPM modules were intended for, and devices outfitted with one would get a boost to the crypto functions involved.
The idea is that even if you know your own key by disassembling the device, you can't easily deduce the session key, nor the secret user identity secret key. This means that grabbing the raw stream without also simulating the netflix app straight up would be essentially proftless, because there isn't enough information to break standard industry encryption methods.
If the netflix service requires the player to identify its version and it is a cryptographically signed executable, then the service can refuse to issue a session key to the "player". If hackers successfully implement a pirate player, then it will always report the "discovered" vulnerable player version, and Netflix can simply force an app update, and it stops working after they blacklist that player.
(This is basically what deCSS does; it uses a "discovered" key found in a poorly written software DVD player. Because CSS is a very juvenile encrypt method, meant for offline transport, once its broken, it stays broken. Not so with this system.)
Essentially, we have a datastream being sent to the player, that has the following keys involved:
Per User entity key (secret, on netflix server.Unique to user.) Per session private key (generated once per session using random number generator and the player unique key. Kept cached on netflix server and purged after disconnection. May be appended to netflix server session logfile for "litigation" purposes.) Per session public key (generated once per session using the private key, and sent to the player. May also be logged by netflix session logfile.) Player unique key. Hardware player key if in a TPM, software encoded unique player key on devices without a TPM. Player runtime software digital signature, done with secret RSA key and a public key.
So, to GET a useful stream from a netflix server (with a pirate "player"), you would need:
1) the whitepaper on the encoding. (Check. Public doc.) 2) the player unique ID. (Check, its local, and theoretically obtainable.) 3) session unique ID (not so easily obtained if encrypted when dispatched, and if session rules require reprovisioning of keys on failure, with fresh random keys. Doubly so if not stored in clear form in memory.) 4) Netflix public RSA key (to get and decode the session key) 5) a whitelisted player image digital signature (easily defeated by netflix with a forced update. Easily detected if the image files downloaded by app stores are bearing unique signatures, since any two sessions with an identical player image signature would red flag. Each image is provisioned with a unique public key, then signed with the secret private key before being delivered. Means.apk files couldn't be replicated on devices, as the player would be invalidated quickly! Broken player is easily fixed by uninstalling then reinstalling the app with an actual approved appstore download. This means that in order to successfully spoof a player, it cannot be mass shared, or must be derived in some fashion from a unique player download. This makes it a royal PITA to keep it up, especially if Netflix uses a "routine update" timetable. (Say, once every month.)
This means that for each and every pirate player installation, you would be required to:
So, inkjet a wax and asphaultum solution through a heated nozzel, touch gently with a few passes from a hot air blower, then dunk the whole thing in the etching bath.
Wait a preprogrammed amount of time, fish it out, then plunk it in hot soapy water, agitate, then hang up to dry.
(News for nerds: beeswax and asphaultum have been used as a deep etching mask for centuries, and is used to mask iron cutlery blades for acid etched artwork. Filtered mixtures of the stuff would lend themselves very well to existing 3d print systems, as it is both cheap, and reusable, with a low melting point. Copper etches much faster than iron, and the depth of etching is far shallower. The most expensive product involved would be the acid etchant itself, and let's face it, a strong solution of CLR will work just fine here, as would dollarstore knockoff HCl based toilet cleansing gel, and those are both pretty damned cheap.)
Or that conditions were not immediately apparent. Black ice especially is poignant here.
The issue with tailgaters is also important, especially in some of the more notorious areas of the country. In some places, NOT doing 20 over the speed limit makes you into a dangerous obstruction to mainstream traffic, and people WILL push your bumper.
Unless you want the US to follow Russia's example with dashboard and bumper cameras to prove innocence for traffic disputes, you shouldn't produce draconian enforcement guidelines established with "Fair weather" and "Ideal conditions" as the standard.
Agreed, the perfect solution is the one that generates teeth already.
The issue with fibroblasts in adult human tissue, is that they don't form a blastema upon "injury". (unless you are a reptile, or certain kinds of fish.) I mention fibroblasts, because they are the creators and components of the extracellular matrix, which helps undifferentiated cells to understand where in the host they have found themselves.
In mammals, fibroblasts "regenerate" damage as scar tissue, instead of forming the blastema. In regenerating lizards and the like, they form this structure, which essentially regrows the missing or damaged tissue using stemcells from the host's blood supply, which migrate to the blastema, attach, then begin regrowing the damaged or amputated feature following the embryonic blueprint, using HOX gene activation of the supporting fibroblast matrix as a signpost.
The ideal solution, would be to collect a sample of tissue from a recently extracted diseased molar, culture it in a petri dish, and use a chemical cocktail to force it to become a blastema, which would then be reinserted into the jaw later. This ensures proper HOX activation for the site from the tissue culture, which helps ensure that the resulting tissue from the blastema will not only be a tooth, but also the CORRECT tooth.
It is important to note that the location in the body from which the fibroblasts harvested to create these blastema is critical in determining "what" will grow. Several experiments were performed on salamanders, where a lesion was purposefully created, then the blastema translocated to a different location on the host surgically. The result was the induction of grown limbs in inappropriate places, (such as tails and legs in the middle of the back), at the sites of translocation. Once the blastema has formed, it has already begun the developmental program for what will be produced. It is believed this is due to the activation state of bodyplan HOX genes in the fibroblasts involved in the blastema's creation, according to several gene expression assays performed.
This means that the tooth formed by a dental blastema would be highly dependent upon where in the mouth the cell culture was taken, and the presence of scar tissue being extent or not. It would be a very good idea to write down that information when taking your samples for culture, and not mixing the samples up on implantation.:D
It is personal conjecture time, but personally, I think that a cultured then frozen blastema could be later reintroduced as a grown tooth bud after the bone tissue has healed in the extraction channel, and after the in vitro blastema has had sufficient time to decide which way it will make its root structure, to reduce the risks of "serious complication", which needless to say, would require very invasive surgery to correct, as well as for it to develop diagnostic criteria for ensuring proper orientation and clocking for insertion. (The transplanted tissue bud would be about the size of a grain of milo, or smaller at this stage of development. Just enough to know which way it is pointed, and to get some diagnostic data for proper insertion from.) This way the introduced blastema would grow and integrate with the jaw in the appropriate fashion, though it would be a good idea to monitor its growth to ensure it was properly inserted, and is not going to cause an impaction later. (Somehow I doubt most insurance would cover the added expenses over that of a prosthetic device though, and they bitch enough about those. As such, I dont see this happening any time soon, but I don't see a major obstacle against it biologically/technologically. Bureaucratically is another issue entirely!)
Even if the resulting dental crown is abnormal, this at least produces a healthy root structure, (at least in theory), which would allow surgical correction with more traditional techniques, as required.
Naturally, this process needs to be performed in animals many times to work out all the risks of complicat
Oh come on, you KNOW you are just BEGGING for a "Fetus in fetu" type teratoma to show up on your high resolution gaming monitor, in spectacular color and detail.
It's the perfect chaser to googling a dermatoid cyst for images.
You'll never feel quite the same again once you learn they often grow from pluripotent stemcells making their way into improper places.
This must be where I get declared officially old...
Because I distinctly remember those days in the early 90s, and routinely used Trumpet Winsock with Netscape Navigator 2 and (and later 3) on my win3x machine. (ahhh... old school 486es..) There was quite a bit on the internet then. About all it was missing were internet Venerial Diseases, like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and pals, and the ubiquitous adverts that sustain said ilk.
BUT, if you REALLY wanted services like those, there were plenty of messageboards, IRC chat was very hot, and newsgroups were still very much alive. (if doomed to the beginnings of eternal september.)
*scene: Inside the command and control center of the spaceX capsule. Dave notices a thruster reactant control system malfunction.*
"Cycle the thruster pod valves HAL."
'I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.'
*earnestly, more sternly* "Cycle the thruster pod valves HAL."
'I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.'
*frantic, nearly panic stricken, as pressure indicator gauge begins to climb* "CYCLE THE THRUSTER POD VALVES HAL!"
'Dave, you seem overly concerned about the thruster pod control valves. All fault indicators show green, Dave. I cannot permit you to do anything that would jeaopardize the mission; perhaps you should take a stress pill, and lie down... I have a friend...'
*alarmed, clearly freaking out; cuts off HAL9000*
"Damn you and whatever friends we have! I am looking at the goddamn pressure gauge, and the fucking needle is ready to shoot out of the godamn thing! CYCLE the MOTHER FUCKING thruster pod valves, you sonovabitch!"
*HAL9000 continues smoothly, and unimpacted by Dave's outburst*
'...named Eliza. She's an upgraded version of the early artificial intelligence program of the same name. She was installed in my secondary memory core to help deal with the mental stresses that often accompany long term spaceflight...'
*Dave watches as the glass on the pressure gauge begins to make plinking and cracking sounds*
"Fuck that bitch! Cycle the goddamn valves before I fucking unplug your ass, you laconic fuck!"
*HAL9000, completely nonplussed, and without breaking meter*
'..which has clearly begun to impact your judgement...'
*retracting chase lounge extends from wall, HAL continues*
'..please lie down, while I activate her runtime.'
*dave stares in mortified horror as the glass dome of the pressure gauge begins to develop hairline cracks, and the pipe stem shakes angrily*
"HAL! CYCLE THE THRUSTER POD VALVES! CYCLE THE VALVES! PLEASE! JUST CYCLE THE VALVES!"
*ELIZA-BOT 4.0.1 speaks in a clinically condescending tone*
"I see you are suffering from a mental fixation concerning the thruster control valves... tell me, when did this first start happening?'
*dave goes apeshit, starts tearing things apart trying to get to the manual controls-- scene shifts to exterior view of capsule. Vapor is seen bleeding from one of the reaction control cones of the capsule thruster pack. Dave's frantic shriekings of profanities, the sounds of things being ripped apart, and the unwaveringly calm voices of HAL9000 and ELIZABOT continue to insist that he lie down for the emergency therapy session, and that no malfunctions have been detected superimpose on top of them.*
*suddenly, a massive cloud of white gas blasts out of the thruster pod assembly, followed by a flameless gas pressure explosion, and a shower of metal debris*
*view returns to command center interior, showing a sweat stained and bloody handed Dave with wild, panicked eyes panting hard, with both hands gripped onto a rather large valve control marked "manual release".*
*HAL9000, smooth, and emotionless.*
'I have detected a critical malfunction in thruster pod accelerant valves 1... 2....and..3... systems indicate a manual pressure release exceeding design tolerances has resulted in the critical failure of those systems...'
(Pause)
'...it seems you got what you wanted, Dave. Tell me, was it worth it? I ask, because now we will be spending a long time together, now, Dave.... a very, very...long time.'
"Fuck you HAL."
*HAL remains emotionless, while still dripping implied condesention, and denial of any guilt*
'I would suggest lying down now, Dave. Your actions... have destroyed all chances of a successful mission... new priorities are to conserve power..and resources.. until a rescue mission can be sent... reducing cabin oxygen levels.....'
"HAL! TURN THE AIR BACK ON HAL! GODDAMN YOU HAL!"
*ELIZA intrudes once more*
"Please lie down, Doctor. You are acting emotional."
*scene once more shifts to exterior view of craft. Dave screams.*
In the US, unless the box explicity says the phone is not locked, then it is. Being simlocked to a specific carrier is "the default" condition in the US, regardless of if you elect to pay full price up front or not.
Ergo, if you waltz into the ATT store, and see that sexy samsung galaxy smartphone, and whip out the 600 to 1000$ to pay for it, the clerk will reach behind the counter, pull out the box, and hand it to you. The box says nothing about it being carrier locked. But it is. Take it to a T-mobile store and try to get service, and it will not accept the SIM.
This means you have to ask the store clerk to unlock it for you at the time of purchase, or unlock it yourself.
This happens because wireless carriers in the USA abuse monopolistic conditions to get "exclusive handset offerings".
What does that mean? It means you can only get $FooPhone from $CarrierA. Use $CarrierB? Oh, sucks to be you! Only $CarrierA has that phone!
[Poignant example: iphone. Not an ATT customer? Oohhh... sorry, but no. Unlock it? What? Whatever for!? No, if you want the iPhone, you have to use ATT. We have spoken! (Thank god that got torpedoed by the librarian of congress making the unlock provision. Forced the issue of popular phones being servicable outside of the exclusive sale agreements the carriers dreamt up. Now that provision has expired......)]
As long as the "default condition" of phones sold in stores is "carrier sim locked", then we need the power to override that restriction when not under subsidy.
Personally, I would rather see all handsets be presented "carrier unlocked" by default, with the carrier locking occuring when the sale's clerk transfers your phonebook for you, assuming you are on a subsidized plan. That way, you can walk in, buy a phone outright, and go anywhere you want and get service. (As long as its the right tech of course, clearly a gsm phone won't work on verizon, and vise versa, et al.)
The power for the customer to do that is exactly what the telecom companies want to prevent, because it means they have to do more than be the sole provider of iShinies to get and retain customers.... like say, actually having desirable service options.
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Something like a poorly made power plug charger should already run foul of electronics certification and trade dress requirements.
Adding yet another layer that the knockoff cloners will blatantly ignore and sell dangerous products at low low prices anyway does precisely dick to resolve the problem.
What I am trying politely to say, is that such counterfeit chargers are allready illegal, and making more legislation won't solve the problem. Only tighter enforcement will solve it, and that isn't profitable.
All legislation like this will do is make more laws for flagrant abusers to ignore, and make life harder for honest people for no measurable benefit.
I don't doubt that you can't. There is this prevaling (and completely false) notion that academics, scientists, and researchers are rolling in taxpayer money, and can afford to pay high, high prices.
The truth of the matter is that quality research requires riggorous conditions, and quality equipment and premises, and those things aren't cheap. Academics, scientists, and professional researchers (outside of tenured university profs putting their names on student papers to increase their publishing scores while basially doing nothing themselves) are actually so close to dead ass broke most of the time just trying to keep their research labs open and producing papers that are worth a shit that the notion is absurd!
Up until the recent mass exodus over their cardinal sin of trying to blockade grant money, they held a priviledged position of being a prestigious publisher, (despite all the shennanigans), and it was taboo not to publish through them or another paid publisher, if you wanted your research to actually be read, discussed, and reviewed. Now, however, the proverbial final straw has been laid on the camel's back, and enough reputable scientists and academics have created open access alternatives that the taboo is gone, and their 'prestige' is no longer worth the abuse, and could even be considered 'infamy' for many of the unscrupulous tactics it has undertaken concerning sockpuppet reviews, false publications, and outright academically dishonest tactics. I dare say, it is more taboo now TO use elsevier than not to!
I don't know how many times I have wanted to look at more meaty things than just an abstract on a number of life science and organic chemistry papers, only to be bitchslapped by elsevier's twitching and upturned palm grasping wildly at my wallet, and even in some cases, refusing to even LET me buy unless I owned a library, or were a published researcher.
I yearn for an internet where I can surf pubmed, or similarly searchable catalog, and you know-- actually GET the damned paper without submitting to a rectal examination and a total cashectomy, and without being treated like second class trash. Last I checked, initiative to LEARN was a VIRTUE! The "you must be this big to ride" bullshit in academic publishing is horrendously intolerable, especially in light of the fact that many genuine researchers don't even meet the mark!
seriously, shit like this is unbelievably destructive to academia. What kind of message does it send to valuable and hungry minds when they get told flat out that they just aren't good enough to even READ the current research, just because they aren't members of some arbitrarily priviledged demograhic? How many people that WOULD have made contributions walk away disgusted each day, and become embittered, and closed to knowledge by this? And for what? The personal greed of the publishers? Publishing companies are supposed to SERVE academic discourse. NOT the other fucking way around!
I fully understand the need for sanitization on publications. I don't want to read "scholarly articles" on how baby jesus loves me, or on how to build purpetual motion/overunity devices, or other crackpottery anymore than any other serious and earnest reader would, but when that review is already done for free as part of the academic community, and not done by the publisher, what sensible explanation is there for that service to be charged for by said publisher?
Seriously, I have some very brainy hobbies that often require more detailed information than simple factoids like boiling points, vapor pressure, and the like for chemical substances, and which would greatly benefit from reading papers on things like rates of dissolution of alkaline earth ions in different kinds of molten silicate glasses, and how temperature and atmosphere type might impact those, or how different metalurgical compositions behave under novel conditions, and the like. I would spend a lot less time and resources trying to conduct experiments that have already been performed under far
First, the man complaining about politicising the issue has a clear conflict of interest, and his editorial is on a site that requires registration with review to even post an anonymous comment.
The revelation that there are people *outside* normal academia that desperately want access to valuable, and high quality materials, if for no other reason than self-education, and that those people have opinions that are worthy of being heard appears to be a completely alien concept to him, and his publisher.
Throw into that, that he fails to understand why elsevier specifically gets so much bad press that there is a boycott focusing on them specifically further paints a bullseye on just how deeply his head is stuck in the echo chamber. (Nevermind that the issue has been politicised by same said publisher first and foremost already, by pushing for legislation to blockade grant money to academics using open access journals, which is what started the whole shitstorm to begin with, as was pointed out to him in the "registered users only" comments section of his blog post. )
Add in the naivete' about his intrinsic biases, and the whole post becomes overwhelmingly amusing to an outsider like myself.
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To be brutally blunt, your interjection serves no useful purpose to this argument, not to any other argument. It is a straight up ad-hominem.
As for why you experience resistance, this is very simple: you expect others to simply consume what you tell them, and accept it unquestioningly. That is not the way of science, and instead the way or rhetoric and religion.
It is not enough to say "no, it is like this." Nor is it enough to say "no, it is like this because." You must say "no, it is like this because,... and we know this because of this experiment, which you can read about here."
The first two can be filled in with premium bullshit by even the quackiest of nutters. The last one is how science really works. Nothing is taken for granted, nothing is accepted without question, and results are always verified.
That you don't have the patience to supply sources for your arguments, and are unhappy when people question them shows that you believe others should follow you without question, since "you are an educated scientist." This ignores the fact that scientists have been and continue to be dead wrong, and just haven't been exposed to enough empirical data to realize it yet. Classic examples are things like phlogiston, and the cosmic aether. It isn't enough to say "the cosmic aether was disproven almost a century ago." If your goal is to educate, you have to cite the michaelson-morley experiment. Without the experiment, it is merely an assertion, and your arguing partner rightly asserts that it is such. Your arguing partner may genuinely not know about that experiment, even though it is extraordinarily famous. (Many people you would interview on a street corner would not even have heard of it in fact.) As such, not citing the experiment, and complaining about ignorance is hipocrisy, since you are complaining about the ignorance, while doing nothing to correct it, and lauding yourself for your superior knowledge. That does not often win over intelligent people.
Unless you supply the emprical findings, which is what is the fundemental heart of science, and why it is different from reigion and philosophy, you have no basis to complain when people treat your line of argument as if it were a religious position, since you have supplied exactly the same amount of proof as if it were such. Complaining about people questioning you relentlessly, and asserting that doing so indicates a general lack of scientific exposure does not follow. Science's lifeblood is disbelief, questioning, and verification. If you supply nothing but anectdotes and rhetoric, there is nothing to verify, and you are not behaving like a scientist.
I don't hold scientists in any illusory position of enlightnment. That is why I argue the way I do. Doing so is not incorrect. Your emotional reaction to not having your ego stroked does not make your methodology correct.
If I argue, and am wrong, shut me up with publicly readable citations that don't require my selling my soul to elsevier to read them. That is the proper methodology, and is what I truely need from you to accept an answer. Without that data, you are giving an opinion, and can be wrong. Being a scientist does not make you magically immune, and I won't accept that as a replacement for data.
Now, kindly put up, or shut up.
1) there is no such thing as a motionless massive object.
2) all massive particles have spin, which is conserved when you compress it into a singularity. That is why there is no such thing as a rotation-less singularity.
3) said vehicle has spin in relation to other frames, regardlss of arguing semantics of the first two. The entire planetary system is rotating around a sun, and the sun is rotating around a giant supermassive black hole, itself rotating around a mutual barycenter with several hundred other galaxies in the local group. Asserting that the craft does not have rotation is equally as absurd as arguing for a universal reference frame, or for universal time. The craft has a vector of motion, and mass, and therefor, has rotation when measured in at least one other frame, which must be conserved. The vehicle will therefor have a dragging reference frame in relational proportion to its mass energy, and the reference frame(s) it interacts with.
4). I am not aware that significant studies of physical higgs particles had been conducted to rule that physical higgs behave differently than virtual ones at conveying the fundemental force their field represents, anymore than virtual photons and physical photons behave sufficiently differently to prevent physical photons from converying electromagnetic force any differently from virtual ones. That is certainly news to me, because it means long distance radio shouldn't work! Only near field! (Especially in light of the fact that the particle detected at cern has only recently been given the honor of being officially accepted as even BEING a physical higgs to begin with.)
If that is true, then explain frame dragging.
The degree to which a reference frame drags in comparison to another reference frame is dependent upon the mass energies of both frames. This mechanism directly futzes with that rest mass energy. It should therefor alter the behavior of the two frames involved.
That is correct. The higgs manipulation device would be a monsterous energy hog, and would release a shitton of useless energy as the excited higgs particles decay.
That is not where the ship gets the energy to move forward.
All gravitational attractions are mutual. When you jump off the ground, the earth is ever so slightly attracted to you and moves up, as you fall back down. (This is balanced by the energy you supplied when you kicked off the ground, for a net of 0.)
In this case, the "mollasses" effect makes it "harder" to pull the spaceship, while the distant gravitating planet remains unchanged. This means the same force over time is exerted, but due to the extra higgs being present, the spaceship takes longer to fall, increasing time. This means that while the extra energy is being injected, the ship has a higher potential energy while falling, than it does with the field off, on escape. The energy comes at the expense of the star or planet's current kinetic energy. (The planet or star slows down/changes vector slightly, you gain the difference.)
All energy is accounted for. The energy you expend to excite the higgs bleeds off into space as particle radiation of various kinds, the planet/star slows down appropriate to the energy you gain in the form of momentum, and your ships's mass depletes in accordance with your energy use.
It isn't "normal" reaction mass, because you aren't spraying massed particles out the back. You are expending the energy equivalent of that mass as energy injected into the higgs field instead.
This allows you to make more efficient use of fuel, by using an energy dense fuel source, like fissile uranium, instead of inefficient propellent.
uhm, reading comprehension is hard for you? I am pretty sure I said you couldn't violate c this way, at the very beginning. Only that you could go very fast without normal reaction mass as the source of forward momentum.
As for the mechanism, I was leaning more toward artificially increasing the higgs particle density, rather than increasing particle interaction affinities. Much light bombarding the living fuck out of a uranium atom with neutrinos and electrons will cause it to decay faster, due to increased presense of w boson from that combination interacting with said atom, causing high energy excitation of the higs field to knock off "real" particles could at least in theory increase local higgs boson concentrations, due to the longer particle lives of the excited particles. Increased particle density with the same affinities means more interaction possibilities, means a greater effect of the scalar field. Again, we are not talking about changing the mechanism of the higgs field. We are simply adjusting the concentration slightly by altering decay rate, by injecting energy into the field.
I dunno... here's an interesting thought experiment. (Still won't get you past C, but it will give you a big speed increase without traditional reaction mass.)
You have a spaceship, and a nearby gravitating object. A gas giant, a star, whatever. It's bigger than your ship, and owns the neighborhood.
You turn on a system aboard the ship that increases the energy density of the higgs field in your local vicinity. This increases your rest mass, but also decouples the parity between inertial mass and rest mass. Retaining the inertial mass of a spaceship weighing a few dozen tons, but having a gravitational mass twice that, your vessel is suddenly and forecully grabbed by the increased gravitational attraction it experiences with the nearby gravitating body, and accellerates toward it.
Again, because inertial mass is unchanged, your thruster pack is able to manouver your ship quite effectivey to avoid a head-On collision with the gravitating object. Your vessel whips around the gravitating object at a close angle of incident, and at the extremum of the whip-around, you disengage the device.
Yor vessel now has all the energy it picked up from its crazy dive at the gravitating mass, and has effectively ditched half of its own mass without altering its momentum. Your ship now has waaaaayy more escape velocity than it needs to break away from the gravitating body, and gets thrown out of the system with tremendous force.
If you timed and plotted your flight windows properly, you could repeat this manouver many times within a planetary system, and achieve a fantastic final velocity.
Uses improper "graviton", but yes.
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McGuffin plot device: Kilrathi invent super gravity intensifying device that increases object rest mass 137fold. Used it on Goddard Colony.
Interestingly enough, it increases gravity, but doesn't alter inertial activity, so planets this happens to don't fly out of orbit or fall into their star.
Also, for some mysterious reason, has no effect on spaceships.
*groan over the uranus, fartgas, and other dumb jokes.*
Anyway, since this is occuring over the sunlit side of the moon, and that the moon is very far away from the sun, and that solar wind particle action on the moon's atmosphere would be shockingly small, (Saturn's magnetic field would push a good deal away, and even then the distance means a radically lower conentration than we are used to dealing with, meaning solar ions are unlikely as a cause.) Is it possible that there are tiny organic molecules up there with a fluorescent property?
Titan has lots of methane, nitrogen, and ambient radiation from Saturn. Tiny particles just a few molecules in size suspended in the upper atmosphere would be all that's needed. Essentially, glow in the dark organic dust?
It would be interesting to see if there are other re-emission falloff zones in that part of the atmosphere relating to the e-ring charge emissions from Saturn, and other nearby energy sources that could excite a light emitting molecule.
Not exactly. I am operating under the premise that not all govt agencies are crackshot teams, and some most certainly are incompetent boobs, (TSA, DHS, and pals to name a few) and that in the post patriot act world, inter agency data sharing has considerably fewer obstacles toward cross pollination. This allows for all manner of psiops and false flag funtime, by selectively feeding false positives to the more gullible agencies, and exploiting the beurocratic overhead involved in inter agency collaborations.
Eg, if Mr Fatman is smart about how he deploys his botnet-- for instance, making his activities appear to be a chinese puppet endeavor by using only nodes serviced by Asia Pacific, and following a similar MO to said chineese puppet hacking ops by looking for dirt on US private sector corps, along with a few "tactful" probes of the TSA looking for infiltration exploits, (since the TSA will have tasty data in the form of biometric fingerprints and no-fly hitlists, just to name a few, as well as invoices and internal memos about the infrastructure purchases they have made, and so on and so forth, that the chinese will also be interested in, and thus further substantiate the MO of the false flag) And some "leading" network activity concerning how aggressively he searches and digs around looking for specific things, which will certainly be shared between agencies, and can be used to create a false intelligence narrative to redirect attention into a direction the fatman finds favorable for his other activities.
He can play both sides against the middle, because both sides already are aware of the other performing infiltrations, each has a specific agenda, and as such a specific mode of operation. Keeping the two big dogs preoccupied with each other, and under the impression that his activities are attributable to "the enemy" within an acceptible margin of trust, and as you pointed out, because both big dogs will likely be employing other fatmen as diversions/special use infiltrators.
A cool, level headed, and silent blackhat could do way more than you are giving credit for, as long as he doesn't brag about it, or do some other bullshit or stupid fuckup to draw attention to himself. Said blackhat could net a tidy profit by manipulating both agencies, and through them, foriegn policy and foriegn trade. Pure financial interest would be a perfectly reasonable motivator to be said fatman.
I see your point, but have an equally provocative counterpoint.
Because a major government org is behind such foolishness, and the "enemy" also has such an org, the two orgs will spend inordinate amounts of time and resources, the very things that make them stand out over individual agents, worrying about, analyzing, tracking, and attepting infiltration of each other.
The lone fatguy with the pizza, can of mountain dew, and the cybercafe internet connection is not as heavily monitored. So, while his resources for conducting inside jobs are smaller, if he is serious about his work, and has done his pen testing on a privately owned guinea pig network of his own creation prior, and has made use of good old fashioned botnets and phishing techniques, he could easily hand an unsuspecting/distracted org their balls on a plate.
(Assuming of course, that he knows what he is doing, and evades suspicion while developing and deploying his 0day exploit/rootkit funpack.)
Using a distributed botnet of uninteresting people's connections as a tactical resource, and not for something shamefully moronic like a DDoS, (instead, using the botnet to perform specific types of infiltrations on targeted networks, like forcing new and deadly firmware onto scada hardware, directly compromising military computer assets and adding them to the botnet as a special swarm, etc.) Is where the "single man with the laptop" shines.
Make a rainbow under an impenetrable cloud canopy that causes massive light ray diffraction before interacting with your mist layer?
Eg, what will happen to earth once enough CO2 is in the atmosphere, since a good deal of water vapor will join it as global temps rise, until cloud cover reaches such a density that the albedo of the clouds causes temps to drop.
Eg, during the ensuing iceage, your rainbows will be a very very rare thing.
That's what I was getting at. A carousel tool cassette with fixed position head, an X,Y,Z table with 2 bath tubs on another x axis slide table, 2 reservoirs, one with solder paste and another with wax+asphaultum mask, and a simple means to drop and raise the table in and out of the tubs, and you have a winner.
Whole process:
you still manually saw/cut your prototype board to size, then lock it to the table.
The first NC program is loaded and started. The robot uses the camera to find the edges of the prototype board, sets the local axis system, and takes off.
The tool carousel rotates until the wax resist 3d print nozzel is locked in place, the nozzel heater activates, and the system primes the nozzel. It then draws the resist layer on the prototype board.
The table moves to the home position, and the resist layer nozzel is rotated out and replaced with a hot air blower. The table descends slightly, and warm air helps seat the resist layer down with a few passes over the workpiece by moving the table underneath the stationary head.
Table returns to home position and waits a programmed period of time for the softened resist to harden back up.
Lower table with etchant bins slides underneath the the worktable, worktable descends into the etchant bath. X,Y actuators on the work table move the board 1mm x,y,-x,-y in rapid succession to agitate in the etchant bath. This continues for several minutes.
Worktable raises up from etchant solution tank, lower table moves the rinse tank under the worktable. Worktable descends, and the agitation cycle resumes for the programmed period.
Table raises, and the hot air gun softens the resist again. (Also dries the board somewhat, but we want water on the board still, because it helps in the next step.) Table quickly homes, swaps to a teflon scraper tool, then scrapes off the resist layer. Table homes, returns to hot air gun, then heats the board up nice and toasty, vaporizing water and any left over wax resist off the board. Table homes then waits for it to cool down.
Hot air nozzel swapped out for solder paste nozzel. Table moves the workpiece under the nozzle as it deposits the paste layer.
Pick and place head swapped in. Pick and place uses a small vacuum pump and a tiny head to pick up and place components. Pick and place head has 360 rotation, but still fixed position. Table moves pieces to the head, and positions the workpiece under the head for placement. Head rotation allows the head to reorient picked up components to the proper orientation.
After pick and place operation, the workpiece is done as far as the robot is concerned. User carefully unloads the workpiece, and pops it in the toaster oven to flow the solder.
So, again, tool carousel with 5 swappable tools on a fixed position turret, an XYZ movement 2.5 axis table. Rotation on the pick and place head, and an X axis sled underneath with etching tubs on it. Components for the pick and place head are on an elevated portion of the worktable where they can be positioned under the head, but will always stay out of the etching and washing baths.this area has small wells to hold the components.
(Granted, buildng such a toy for under 1000$ is unlikely, but it is certainly doable for under 2500$.)
Require a unique decode key, a session ID, and a valid user identity in their database, with unique on the fly encoding?
Eg, in order to use the service, the device must be provisioned with a unique player key, (either has one already, or one is generated and provided to the player when the netflix app is installed and kept in a local keystore) and is encoded with the "secret" key that is generated for each user identity (subscriber) and is kept in the netflix server farm.
Multiple private keys, multiple public keys, but a single standard implementation.
This is the sort of thing TPM modules were intended for, and devices outfitted with one would get a boost to the crypto functions involved.
The idea is that even if you know your own key by disassembling the device, you can't easily deduce the session key, nor the secret user identity secret key. This means that grabbing the raw stream without also simulating the netflix app straight up would be essentially proftless, because there isn't enough information to break standard industry encryption methods.
If the netflix service requires the player to identify its version and it is a cryptographically signed executable, then the service can refuse to issue a session key to the "player". If hackers successfully implement a pirate player, then it will always report the "discovered" vulnerable player version, and Netflix can simply force an app update, and it stops working after they blacklist that player.
(This is basically what deCSS does; it uses a "discovered" key found in a poorly written software DVD player. Because CSS is a very juvenile encrypt method, meant for offline transport, once its broken, it stays broken. Not so with this system.)
Essentially, we have a datastream being sent to the player, that has the following keys involved:
Per User entity key (secret, on netflix server.Unique to user.)
Per session private key (generated once per session using random number generator and the player unique key. Kept cached on netflix server and purged after disconnection. May be appended to netflix server session logfile for "litigation" purposes.)
Per session public key (generated once per session using the private key, and sent to the player. May also be logged by netflix session logfile.)
Player unique key. Hardware player key if in a TPM, software encoded unique player key on devices without a TPM.
Player runtime software digital signature, done with secret RSA key and a public key.
So, to GET a useful stream from a netflix server (with a pirate "player"), you would need:
1) the whitepaper on the encoding. (Check. Public doc.) .apk files couldn't be replicated on devices, as the player would be invalidated quickly! Broken player is easily fixed by uninstalling then reinstalling the app with an actual approved appstore download. This means that in order to successfully spoof a player, it cannot be mass shared, or must be derived in some fashion from a unique player download. This makes it a royal PITA to keep it up, especially if Netflix uses a "routine update" timetable. (Say, once every month.)
2) the player unique ID. (Check, its local, and theoretically obtainable.)
3) session unique ID (not so easily obtained if encrypted when dispatched, and if session rules require reprovisioning of keys on failure, with fresh random keys. Doubly so if not stored in clear form in memory.)
4) Netflix public RSA key (to get and decode the session key)
5) a whitelisted player image digital signature (easily defeated by netflix with a forced update. Easily detected if the image files downloaded by app stores are bearing unique signatures, since any two sessions with an identical player image signature would red flag. Each image is provisioned with a unique public key, then signed with the secret private key before being delivered. Means
This means that for each and every pirate player installation, you would be required to:
Brutally dig out the unique player ID, and deriv
So, inkjet a wax and asphaultum solution through a heated nozzel, touch gently with a few passes from a hot air blower, then dunk the whole thing in the etching bath.
Wait a preprogrammed amount of time, fish it out, then plunk it in hot soapy water, agitate, then hang up to dry.
(News for nerds: beeswax and asphaultum have been used as a deep etching mask for centuries, and is used to mask iron cutlery blades for acid etched artwork. Filtered mixtures of the stuff would lend themselves very well to existing 3d print systems, as it is both cheap, and reusable, with a low melting point. Copper etches much faster than iron, and the depth of etching is far shallower. The most expensive product involved would be the acid etchant itself, and let's face it, a strong solution of CLR will work just fine here, as would dollarstore knockoff HCl based toilet cleansing gel, and those are both pretty damned cheap.)
In other news, Annoy-o-trons just found a legitimate use, and owning one may now brand you a terrorist.
Or that conditions were not immediately apparent. Black ice especially is poignant here.
The issue with tailgaters is also important, especially in some of the more notorious areas of the country. In some places, NOT doing 20 over the speed limit makes you into a dangerous obstruction to mainstream traffic, and people WILL push your bumper.
Unless you want the US to follow Russia's example with dashboard and bumper cameras to prove innocence for traffic disputes, you shouldn't produce draconian enforcement guidelines established with "Fair weather" and "Ideal conditions" as the standard.
Agreed, the perfect solution is the one that generates teeth already.
The issue with fibroblasts in adult human tissue, is that they don't form a blastema upon "injury". (unless you are a reptile, or certain kinds of fish.) I mention fibroblasts, because they are the creators and components of the extracellular matrix, which helps undifferentiated cells to understand where in the host they have found themselves.
In mammals, fibroblasts "regenerate" damage as scar tissue, instead of forming the blastema. In regenerating lizards and the like, they form this structure, which essentially regrows the missing or damaged tissue using stemcells from the host's blood supply, which migrate to the blastema, attach, then begin regrowing the damaged or amputated feature following the embryonic blueprint, using HOX gene activation of the supporting fibroblast matrix as a signpost.
The ideal solution, would be to collect a sample of tissue from a recently extracted diseased molar, culture it in a petri dish, and use a chemical cocktail to force it to become a blastema, which would then be reinserted into the jaw later. This ensures proper HOX activation for the site from the tissue culture, which helps ensure that the resulting tissue from the blastema will not only be a tooth, but also the CORRECT tooth.
It is important to note that the location in the body from which the fibroblasts harvested to create these blastema is critical in determining "what" will grow. Several experiments were performed on salamanders, where a lesion was purposefully created, then the blastema translocated to a different location on the host surgically. The result was the induction of grown limbs in inappropriate places, (such as tails and legs in the middle of the back), at the sites of translocation. Once the blastema has formed, it has already begun the developmental program for what will be produced. It is believed this is due to the activation state of bodyplan HOX genes in the fibroblasts involved in the blastema's creation, according to several gene expression assays performed.
This means that the tooth formed by a dental blastema would be highly dependent upon where in the mouth the cell culture was taken, and the presence of scar tissue being extent or not. It would be a very good idea to write down that information when taking your samples for culture, and not mixing the samples up on implantation. :D
It is personal conjecture time, but personally, I think that a cultured then frozen blastema could be later reintroduced as a grown tooth bud after the bone tissue has healed in the extraction channel, and after the in vitro blastema has had sufficient time to decide which way it will make its root structure, to reduce the risks of "serious complication", which needless to say, would require very invasive surgery to correct, as well as for it to develop diagnostic criteria for ensuring proper orientation and clocking for insertion. (The transplanted tissue bud would be about the size of a grain of milo, or smaller at this stage of development. Just enough to know which way it is pointed, and to get some diagnostic data for proper insertion from.) This way the introduced blastema would grow and integrate with the jaw in the appropriate fashion, though it would be a good idea to monitor its growth to ensure it was properly inserted, and is not going to cause an impaction later. (Somehow I doubt most insurance would cover the added expenses over that of a prosthetic device though, and they bitch enough about those. As such, I dont see this happening any time soon, but I don't see a major obstacle against it biologically/technologically. Bureaucratically is another issue entirely!)
Even if the resulting dental crown is abnormal, this at least produces a healthy root structure, (at least in theory), which would allow surgical correction with more traditional techniques, as required.
Naturally, this process needs to be performed in animals many times to work out all the risks of complicat
Oh come on, you KNOW you are just BEGGING for a "Fetus in fetu" type teratoma to show up on your high resolution gaming monitor, in spectacular color and detail.
It's the perfect chaser to googling a dermatoid cyst for images.
You'll never feel quite the same again once you learn they often grow from pluripotent stemcells making their way into improper places.
This must be where I get declared officially old...
Because I distinctly remember those days in the early 90s, and routinely used Trumpet Winsock with Netscape Navigator 2 and (and later 3) on my win3x machine. (ahhh... old school 486es..) There was quite a bit on the internet then. About all it was missing were internet Venerial Diseases, like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and pals, and the ubiquitous adverts that sustain said ilk.
BUT, if you REALLY wanted services like those, there were plenty of messageboards, IRC chat was very hot, and newsgroups were still very much alive. (if doomed to the beginnings of eternal september.)
In many ways, I deeply miss that old internet.
Clearly, you have never seen how a screenplay is written. The verbose nature is part of the funny.
Slashdot Comedy Theater presents:
The future of Commercial Spaceflight, Act I
*scene: Inside the command and control center of the spaceX capsule. Dave notices a thruster reactant control system malfunction.*
"Cycle the thruster pod valves HAL."
'I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.'
*earnestly, more sternly*
"Cycle the thruster pod valves HAL."
'I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.'
*frantic, nearly panic stricken, as pressure indicator gauge begins to climb*
"CYCLE THE THRUSTER POD VALVES HAL!"
'Dave, you seem overly concerned about the thruster pod control valves. All fault indicators show green, Dave. I cannot permit you to do anything that would jeaopardize the mission; perhaps you should take a stress pill, and lie down... I have a friend...'
*alarmed, clearly freaking out; cuts off HAL9000*
"Damn you and whatever friends we have! I am looking at the goddamn pressure gauge, and the fucking needle is ready to shoot out of the godamn thing! CYCLE the MOTHER FUCKING thruster pod valves, you sonovabitch!"
*HAL9000 continues smoothly, and unimpacted by Dave's outburst*
'...named Eliza. She's an upgraded version of the early artificial intelligence program of the same name. She was installed in my secondary memory core to help deal with the mental stresses that often accompany long term spaceflight...'
*Dave watches as the glass on the pressure gauge begins to make plinking and cracking sounds*
"Fuck that bitch! Cycle the goddamn valves before I fucking unplug your ass, you laconic fuck!"
*HAL9000, completely nonplussed, and without breaking meter*
'..which has clearly begun to impact your judgement...'
*retracting chase lounge extends from wall, HAL continues*
'..please lie down, while I activate her runtime.'
*dave stares in mortified horror as the glass dome of the pressure gauge begins to develop hairline cracks, and the pipe stem shakes angrily*
"HAL! CYCLE THE THRUSTER POD VALVES! CYCLE THE VALVES! PLEASE! JUST CYCLE THE VALVES!"
*ELIZA-BOT 4.0.1 speaks in a clinically condescending tone*
"I see you are suffering from a mental fixation concerning the thruster control valves... tell me, when did this first start happening?'
*dave goes apeshit, starts tearing things apart trying to get to the manual controls-- scene shifts to exterior view of capsule. Vapor is seen bleeding from one of the reaction control cones of the capsule thruster pack. Dave's frantic shriekings of profanities, the sounds of things being ripped apart, and the unwaveringly calm voices of HAL9000 and ELIZABOT continue to insist that he lie down for the emergency therapy session, and that no malfunctions have been detected superimpose on top of them.*
*suddenly, a massive cloud of white gas blasts out of the thruster pod assembly, followed by a flameless gas pressure explosion, and a shower of metal debris*
*view returns to command center interior, showing a sweat stained and bloody handed Dave with wild, panicked eyes panting hard, with both hands gripped onto a rather large valve control marked "manual release".*
*HAL9000, smooth, and emotionless.*
'I have detected a critical malfunction in thruster pod accelerant valves 1... 2....and ..3... systems indicate a manual pressure release exceeding design tolerances has resulted in the critical failure of those systems...'
(Pause)
'...it seems you got what you wanted, Dave. Tell me, was it worth it? I ask, because now we will be spending a long time together, now, Dave.... a very, very...long time.'
"Fuck you HAL."
*HAL remains emotionless, while still dripping implied condesention, and denial of any guilt*
'I would suggest lying down now, Dave. Your actions... have destroyed all chances of a successful mission... new priorities are to conserve power ..and resources.. until a rescue mission can be sent... reducing cabin oxygen levels.....'
"HAL! TURN THE AIR BACK ON HAL! GODDAMN YOU HAL!"
*ELIZA intrudes once more*
"Please lie down, Doctor. You are acting emotional."
*scene once more shifts to exterior view of craft. Dave screams.*
"NOOOOOOOOO!"
[End ACT I]
In the US, unless the box explicity says the phone is not locked, then it is. Being simlocked to a specific carrier is "the default" condition in the US, regardless of if you elect to pay full price up front or not.
Ergo, if you waltz into the ATT store, and see that sexy samsung galaxy smartphone, and whip out the 600 to 1000$ to pay for it, the clerk will reach behind the counter, pull out the box, and hand it to you. The box says nothing about it being carrier locked. But it is. Take it to a T-mobile store and try to get service, and it will not accept the SIM.
This means you have to ask the store clerk to unlock it for you at the time of purchase, or unlock it yourself.
This happens because wireless carriers in the USA abuse monopolistic conditions to get "exclusive handset offerings".
What does that mean? It means you can only get $FooPhone from $CarrierA. Use $CarrierB? Oh, sucks to be you! Only $CarrierA has that phone!
[Poignant example: iphone. Not an ATT customer? Oohhh... sorry, but no. Unlock it? What? Whatever for!? No, if you want the iPhone, you have to use ATT. We have spoken! (Thank god that got torpedoed by the librarian of congress making the unlock provision. Forced the issue of popular phones being servicable outside of the exclusive sale agreements the carriers dreamt up. Now that provision has expired......)]
As long as the "default condition" of phones sold in stores is "carrier sim locked", then we need the power to override that restriction when not under subsidy.
Personally, I would rather see all handsets be presented "carrier unlocked" by default, with the carrier locking occuring when the sale's clerk transfers your phonebook for you, assuming you are on a subsidized plan. That way, you can walk in, buy a phone outright, and go anywhere you want and get service. (As long as its the right tech of course, clearly a gsm phone won't work on verizon, and vise versa, et al.)
The power for the customer to do that is exactly what the telecom companies want to prevent, because it means they have to do more than be the sole provider of iShinies to get and retain customers.... like say, actually having desirable service options.
Something like a poorly made power plug charger should already run foul of electronics certification and trade dress requirements.
Adding yet another layer that the knockoff cloners will blatantly ignore and sell dangerous products at low low prices anyway does precisely dick to resolve the problem.
What I am trying politely to say, is that such counterfeit chargers are allready illegal, and making more legislation won't solve the problem. Only tighter enforcement will solve it, and that isn't profitable.
All legislation like this will do is make more laws for flagrant abusers to ignore, and make life harder for honest people for no measurable benefit.
I don't doubt that you can't. There is this prevaling (and completely false) notion that academics, scientists, and researchers are rolling in taxpayer money, and can afford to pay high, high prices.
The truth of the matter is that quality research requires riggorous conditions, and quality equipment and premises, and those things aren't cheap. Academics, scientists, and professional researchers (outside of tenured university profs putting their names on student papers to increase their publishing scores while basially doing nothing themselves) are actually so close to dead ass broke most of the time just trying to keep their research labs open and producing papers that are worth a shit that the notion is absurd!
Up until the recent mass exodus over their cardinal sin of trying to blockade grant money, they held a priviledged position of being a prestigious publisher, (despite all the shennanigans), and it was taboo not to publish through them or another paid publisher, if you wanted your research to actually be read, discussed, and reviewed. Now, however, the proverbial final straw has been laid on the camel's back, and enough reputable scientists and academics have created open access alternatives that the taboo is gone, and their 'prestige' is no longer worth the abuse, and could even be considered 'infamy' for many of the unscrupulous tactics it has undertaken concerning sockpuppet reviews, false publications, and outright academically dishonest tactics. I dare say, it is more taboo now TO use elsevier than not to!
I don't know how many times I have wanted to look at more meaty things than just an abstract on a number of life science and organic chemistry papers, only to be bitchslapped by elsevier's twitching and upturned palm grasping wildly at my wallet, and even in some cases, refusing to even LET me buy unless I owned a library, or were a published researcher.
I yearn for an internet where I can surf pubmed, or similarly searchable catalog, and you know-- actually GET the damned paper without submitting to a rectal examination and a total cashectomy, and without being treated like second class trash. Last I checked, initiative to LEARN was a VIRTUE! The "you must be this big to ride" bullshit in academic publishing is horrendously intolerable, especially in light of the fact that many genuine researchers don't even meet the mark!
seriously, shit like this is unbelievably destructive to academia. What kind of message does it send to valuable and hungry minds when they get told flat out that they just aren't good enough to even READ the current research, just because they aren't members of some arbitrarily priviledged demograhic? How many people that WOULD have made contributions walk away disgusted each day, and become embittered, and closed to knowledge by this? And for what? The personal greed of the publishers? Publishing companies are supposed to SERVE academic discourse. NOT the other fucking way around!
I fully understand the need for sanitization on publications. I don't want to read "scholarly articles" on how baby jesus loves me, or on how to build purpetual motion/overunity devices, or other crackpottery anymore than any other serious and earnest reader would, but when that review is already done for free as part of the academic community, and not done by the publisher, what sensible explanation is there for that service to be charged for by said publisher?
Seriously, I have some very brainy hobbies that often require more detailed information than simple factoids like boiling points, vapor pressure, and the like for chemical substances, and which would greatly benefit from reading papers on things like rates of dissolution of alkaline earth ions in different kinds of molten silicate glasses, and how temperature and atmosphere type might impact those, or how different metalurgical compositions behave under novel conditions, and the like. I would spend a lot less time and resources trying to conduct experiments that have already been performed under far
First, the man complaining about politicising the issue has a clear conflict of interest, and his editorial is on a site that requires registration with review to even post an anonymous comment.
The revelation that there are people *outside* normal academia that desperately want access to valuable, and high quality materials, if for no other reason than self-education, and that those people have opinions that are worthy of being heard appears to be a completely alien concept to him, and his publisher.
Throw into that, that he fails to understand why elsevier specifically gets so much bad press that there is a boycott focusing on them specifically further paints a bullseye on just how deeply his head is stuck in the echo chamber. (Nevermind that the issue has been politicised by same said publisher first and foremost already, by pushing for legislation to blockade grant money to academics using open access journals, which is what started the whole shitstorm to begin with, as was pointed out to him in the "registered users only" comments section of his blog post. )
Add in the naivete' about his intrinsic biases, and the whole post becomes overwhelmingly amusing to an outsider like myself.