You get used to saying "I'm a computer expert" when you talk to the people who believe in pixie dust. It's just that sometimes you have to tell them that their problem lies in a different field and they have to talk to someone else. If you are wondering why, just try telling them something like "I'm highly trained and experienced in removal of viruses and various other types of malware". You know what they'll do? They'll try to get you to install windows for them, or fix their corrupted MSWord documents. They don't understand a thing you've said, so they assume you can and will do anything, or worse yet, they'll ask you to explain all those words they don't even know the vaguest thing about, understand none of it, then still ask you to fix their corrupted word doc because they don't want to pay microsoft to do it. It saves everyone a lot of time to just say "I'm a computer expert", and when it's not something you know about, send them to someone who does know that particular area.
I'm the one that had the call where the user kept typing "right click" every time the instructions told him to right-click on something. And you know, that's not even the worst call. (And I'm not even going to detail the numerous people that think scheduled events will work when the desktops have no power. Or the callers than want you to help them when the computer doesn't have a monitor or a keyboard, and the user can't get into the locked room, which wouldn't matter because they don't have the password either.)
Don't forget that you were pulled over for going 3 mph over the limit, and as your corpse lays slowly cooling in the ditch the police have already taken all the money from your wallet, have driven off in your car, and are on they way over to your house to confiscate it and will sell it off at auction, unless of course they'd rather keep it 'for the department'. Heck, they do most of that now in some places in the US.
I remember a guy on tech tv (or whatever it was called at that time) that put 3 consoles in one case. It's a cool modding thing, but not really new or exciting.
Politicians will use anything they can find to attack their opponents. It's like their morals & ethics are only makeup they put on when in front of cameras and reporters.
Maybe they have too much 'young blood' and need some critical and skeptical 'old school'. Age doesn't have anything to do with it, procedures and techniques on the other hand...
Really? So were they gathering evidence, or getting ready for a big agency party? Last I've heard, they can arrest and charge with a single transaction without any problem, so why so bloody many for this? Maybe it was good shit and they wanted to stock up, especially since they knew other agents would steal 90% of it from the evidence storage.
I remember the car alarms in San Antonio going off all the time. (Virtually everyone had car alarms in San Antonio.) They'd go off if someone honked their horn, walked by the car, or in one case, used the neighbors doorbell. On a pet peeve note, the cars with alarms that would tell me to "step away from the car" when I walked past on the sidewalk always went off, but that was because I would reply by jumping on the bumper to set it off. You may own your car douchebag, but you don't own the space around it. (Excluding the property you own, but that's not where your car was parked idiot.)
Only if it can be remotely accessed, or if there is a physical access than can be utilized with greater ease than the rest of the vehicles security. If something like that is the case, your security 'expert' is most likely a brain damaged rhesus monkey, kind of like the guy that suggests you leave your loaded gun on the front porch.
It's an app for getting the EFF news bits to you quickly and easily. If you didn't want that, you sure as hell wouldn't have installed it in the first place. After all, do you jump in the pool when you don't want to get wet?
Unless math undergoes some really interesting evolution in the future, you can't have any other even primes because by being even they are divisible by two, which invalidates them as being a prime.
That's something I've always wondered about Dyson Spheres. If they are built to absorb 100% of the stars radiation, how the heck do astronomers expect to detect them? (As they are probably not very large stars for a variety of reasons, and possibly only dwarf stars, their gravitational effect on other nearby stars would be rather limited and very hard to detect even if you were looking for such small perturbations.)
I still find it funny that they think radio waves will still be a primary form of communication for advanced civilizations that may have been around for 100,000 years or more. Heck, we've only been using it for a little more than a century now, and can already imagine using other technologies that haven't been invented by us yet. (Various systems based on known or theoretical concepts like Neutrinos, Tachyons, Quantum Entanglement, Wormholes, Gravity Waves, etc.) Who knows what a civilization that's had a lot more time to work on it has come up with. If you question that concept, just imagine asking someone in 1815 how people in 2015 would communicate over distances. I guarantee that radio is NOT on that list.
Exactly. The Dyson sphere's and shells merely surround a star to absorb the radiation emitted by the star. An astrovore, or whatever name you want for a "star-eater", is doing something to actively "feed" off of the star itself. Maybe it's using a companion body to syphon off hydrogen & helium to fuel something, or it's dumping in quantum black holes to increase hawking radiation to suck up, or something so exotic we haven't even imagined it. It seems very likely that whatever they are doing, they also have a dyson sphere or shell to aid with the system, but as this is all wild speculation, we are just shooting in the dark... at stars.:D
If you want a description of the difference that's a little more down to earth, then imagine a media star, music, movies, whatever. Now the dyson sphere or shell is like a bunch of fans surrounding the star, listening to every word, ogling their appearance, and just generally basking in the glory they imagine is there. The Star Eater on the other hand, is right up there hands on groping the star, stealing whatever souvenirs they can pull off, and possibly even trying to draw blood or cut hair to keep. Whether or not they have a possie of cronies surrounding the star to keep things "convenient" for them doesn't make it the same as the previous example despite some similarities as the intent and method is very different.
I hope this example was funny and somewhat disturbing. If it wasn't, you crawled out the wrong tube today.:P
Bravo! Additionally, English as a language rather sucks as it is composed of a lot of weird shit it's absorbed from other languages. It's kind of like the malfunctioning retarded borg of linguistics. Yes, I am a native speaker of English who has failed miserably at learning any other language, which is why I can appreciate how messed up it is.:P (If you can't figure that last sentence out, turn in your secret decoder ring!)
"Ummm.... It doesn't have wires... Just trust us, we know what's best for you. Oh, and you'd better go see your doctor about your blood sugar levels." replied the FBI.
I can train you on how to beat a Tarot reading. After all, Tarot done by a skilled "operator" is about as accurate as one with a polygraph, but you can't get arrested or denied employment for it.
You do know that all light, visible or otherwise, is elevtromagnetic RADIATION don't you? Radiation doesn't mean bad, evil, or dangerous. Whether you like it or not, you and every other living thing in the entire universe exists in, and always has existed in a constant bath of radiation.
Now what is important is what type of radiation and how much. Now since they mention Radar specifically, we know it's some frequency of radio waves since Radar is an acronym of RAdio Detection And Ranging. I've also seen it listed as Radio Air (or Aerial) Detection And Ranging, but the important part for this discussion is the Radio portion. Now the amount of Radio frequency radiation needed to harm a humans biology is pretty large, so I doubt anything the cops have would reach those power levels.
Ok, so the exposure to this is not likely to be dangerous in and of itself. On the other hand, the act of actively snooping inside someones house is an entirely different danger and violation of privacy. There has already been a case where the cops used non-visible light frequencies that has been thrown out with the judge declaring that since there was no warrant, it was not allowed since it violates any reasonable expectation of privacy. Just because they are using a different frequency this time doesn't mean jack, the principle still stands. Of course the cops will still try to overturn it, and far too many lawyers are willing to partake of any argument so long as they get paid. (ianal)
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So you are advocating a return to monopolies and company stores?
You get used to saying "I'm a computer expert" when you talk to the people who believe in pixie dust. It's just that sometimes you have to tell them that their problem lies in a different field and they have to talk to someone else. If you are wondering why, just try telling them something like "I'm highly trained and experienced in removal of viruses and various other types of malware". You know what they'll do? They'll try to get you to install windows for them, or fix their corrupted MSWord documents. They don't understand a thing you've said, so they assume you can and will do anything, or worse yet, they'll ask you to explain all those words they don't even know the vaguest thing about, understand none of it, then still ask you to fix their corrupted word doc because they don't want to pay microsoft to do it.
It saves everyone a lot of time to just say "I'm a computer expert", and when it's not something you know about, send them to someone who does know that particular area.
I'm the one that had the call where the user kept typing "right click" every time the instructions told him to right-click on something. And you know, that's not even the worst call. (And I'm not even going to detail the numerous people that think scheduled events will work when the desktops have no power. Or the callers than want you to help them when the computer doesn't have a monitor or a keyboard, and the user can't get into the locked room, which wouldn't matter because they don't have the password either.)
I'd love to see a news article on that. LoL
Don't forget that you were pulled over for going 3 mph over the limit, and as your corpse lays slowly cooling in the ditch the police have already taken all the money from your wallet, have driven off in your car, and are on they way over to your house to confiscate it and will sell it off at auction, unless of course they'd rather keep it 'for the department'.
Heck, they do most of that now in some places in the US.
I remember a guy on tech tv (or whatever it was called at that time) that put 3 consoles in one case. It's a cool modding thing, but not really new or exciting.
unless it's digital :P
Politicians will use anything they can find to attack their opponents. It's like their morals & ethics are only makeup they put on when in front of cameras and reporters.
Heck, even when he does something they've been stumping for in the first place, they'll turn around and lambaste him for it!
Maybe they have too much 'young blood' and need some critical and skeptical 'old school'.
Age doesn't have anything to do with it, procedures and techniques on the other hand...
Really? So were they gathering evidence, or getting ready for a big agency party?
Last I've heard, they can arrest and charge with a single transaction without any problem, so why so bloody many for this?
Maybe it was good shit and they wanted to stock up, especially since they knew other agents would steal 90% of it from the evidence storage.
I remember the car alarms in San Antonio going off all the time. (Virtually everyone had car alarms in San Antonio.) They'd go off if someone honked their horn, walked by the car, or in one case, used the neighbors doorbell.
On a pet peeve note, the cars with alarms that would tell me to "step away from the car" when I walked past on the sidewalk always went off, but that was because I would reply by jumping on the bumper to set it off. You may own your car douchebag, but you don't own the space around it. (Excluding the property you own, but that's not where your car was parked idiot.)
Only if it can be remotely accessed, or if there is a physical access than can be utilized with greater ease than the rest of the vehicles security.
If something like that is the case, your security 'expert' is most likely a brain damaged rhesus monkey, kind of like the guy that suggests you leave your loaded gun on the front porch.
It's an app for getting the EFF news bits to you quickly and easily. If you didn't want that, you sure as hell wouldn't have installed it in the first place.
After all, do you jump in the pool when you don't want to get wet?
Exactly. :)
We aren't "looking for our keys", we are looking for any keys other than ours.
Unless math undergoes some really interesting evolution in the future, you can't have any other even primes because by being even they are divisible by two, which invalidates them as being a prime.
That's something I've always wondered about Dyson Spheres. If they are built to absorb 100% of the stars radiation, how the heck do astronomers expect to detect them? (As they are probably not very large stars for a variety of reasons, and possibly only dwarf stars, their gravitational effect on other nearby stars would be rather limited and very hard to detect even if you were looking for such small perturbations.)
I still find it funny that they think radio waves will still be a primary form of communication for advanced civilizations that may have been around for 100,000 years or more. Heck, we've only been using it for a little more than a century now, and can already imagine using other technologies that haven't been invented by us yet. (Various systems based on known or theoretical concepts like Neutrinos, Tachyons, Quantum Entanglement, Wormholes, Gravity Waves, etc.) Who knows what a civilization that's had a lot more time to work on it has come up with.
If you question that concept, just imagine asking someone in 1815 how people in 2015 would communicate over distances. I guarantee that radio is NOT on that list.
Stop giving those incompetent fools at syfylis ideas! Or at least stick to good ones because they sure as heck can't!
Exactly. The Dyson sphere's and shells merely surround a star to absorb the radiation emitted by the star. An astrovore, or whatever name you want for a "star-eater", is doing something to actively "feed" off of the star itself. Maybe it's using a companion body to syphon off hydrogen & helium to fuel something, or it's dumping in quantum black holes to increase hawking radiation to suck up, or something so exotic we haven't even imagined it. It seems very likely that whatever they are doing, they also have a dyson sphere or shell to aid with the system, but as this is all wild speculation, we are just shooting in the dark... at stars. :D
:P
If you want a description of the difference that's a little more down to earth, then imagine a media star, music, movies, whatever.
Now the dyson sphere or shell is like a bunch of fans surrounding the star, listening to every word, ogling their appearance, and just generally basking in the glory they imagine is there.
The Star Eater on the other hand, is right up there hands on groping the star, stealing whatever souvenirs they can pull off, and possibly even trying to draw blood or cut hair to keep. Whether or not they have a possie of cronies surrounding the star to keep things "convenient" for them doesn't make it the same as the previous example despite some similarities as the intent and method is very different.
I hope this example was funny and somewhat disturbing. If it wasn't, you crawled out the wrong tube today.
Bravo! :P
Additionally, English as a language rather sucks as it is composed of a lot of weird shit it's absorbed from other languages. It's kind of like the malfunctioning retarded borg of linguistics. Yes, I am a native speaker of English who has failed miserably at learning any other language, which is why I can appreciate how messed up it is.
(If you can't figure that last sentence out, turn in your secret decoder ring!)
"Ummm.... It doesn't have wires... Just trust us, we know what's best for you. Oh, and you'd better go see your doctor about your blood sugar levels." replied the FBI.
I can train you on how to beat a Tarot reading. After all, Tarot done by a skilled "operator" is about as accurate as one with a polygraph, but you can't get arrested or denied employment for it.
So did most of the other politicians, or did people forget that it was passed.
You do know that all light, visible or otherwise, is elevtromagnetic RADIATION don't you?
Radiation doesn't mean bad, evil, or dangerous. Whether you like it or not, you and every other living thing in the entire universe exists in, and always has existed in a constant bath of radiation.
Now what is important is what type of radiation and how much. Now since they mention Radar specifically, we know it's some frequency of radio waves since Radar is an acronym of RAdio Detection And Ranging. I've also seen it listed as Radio Air (or Aerial) Detection And Ranging, but the important part for this discussion is the Radio portion. Now the amount of Radio frequency radiation needed to harm a humans biology is pretty large, so I doubt anything the cops have would reach those power levels.
Ok, so the exposure to this is not likely to be dangerous in and of itself. On the other hand, the act of actively snooping inside someones house is an entirely different danger and violation of privacy. There has already been a case where the cops used non-visible light frequencies that has been thrown out with the judge declaring that since there was no warrant, it was not allowed since it violates any reasonable expectation of privacy. Just because they are using a different frequency this time doesn't mean jack, the principle still stands. Of course the cops will still try to overturn it, and far too many lawyers are willing to partake of any argument so long as they get paid. (ianal)
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