He says it was supplied by Verizon, but that he owns it. Dunno how that works since I'm not aware of them selling routers, but I don't have Verizon internet.
"... were able to identify 10 out of 12 terrorists and, among them, 20 out of 30 crime- related details..." "...The test was 83 percent accurate in predicting concealed knowledge..."
Last time I checked, 10 out of 12, 20 out of 30, and 83% accurate prediction never adds up to 100% accuracy.
Also, those things never seem to work in the real world (as opposed to lab testing), especially since the terrorists and suspects you haven't arrested aren't usually hooked up to an electroencephalograph so you can conveniently check their brainwaves for suspicious activity.
Just because one person at AT&T said they won't do anything about it, there is absolutely no guarantee that someone else doesn't have different plans. There are many examples of a corporate spokesman saying one thing, while the company immediately did the opposite.
just imagine:
Well dressed spokesman speaking to TV reporter: "Absolutely not! There is no credibility to the rumor that there is any terrorist activities or police actions taking place at this facility! The rumors are absolutely false! I can only guess that maybe someone who doesn't know any better got a little excited when someone in shipping started playing with some bubblewrap. Everything is just fine, no trouble what so ever."
In the background, a group of fully outfitted swat or paramilitary in black body armor and assault rifles run out of the nearby building and take cover behind a shipping crate, an explosion is heard and gray smoke pours out of the doorway the team just came from...
I know most people define patent trolls as never releasing real products, but I don't think it should be that strict. Any company that engages in significant patent lawsuits for cash settlements (not patent portfolio license exchanges) should be classed a patent troll. Obviously any company that doesn't produce product is automatically in that category, but there are others that should be as well. Rambus is one of them IMO.
I've had serious questions about potential issues with this system since I first heard about it.
"It only penetrates the skin the equivalent of 3 sheets of paper thickness..." So what, your eye is very vulnerable to microwaves, and it's going to be directly exposed. That depth can still do serious damage to your eyes.
"It's been tested numerous times on military and journalist volunteers..." Again, so fricking what! You are talking about a limited quantity of people in an area where movement isn't confined with people who know what's going to happen and from where. Just try that on any average mob of people anywhere in the world in normal real world conditions, and you are going to have a huge mess on your hands! They won't clear the target area efficiently, if they can even figure out where/why it's happening. It won't be even vaguely orderly, people will go different directions, collide, get pushed down or fall down, even get trampled. If panic ensues, a likely occurrence for those unfamiliar with this new weapon, you'll probably even have people moving into the target area since they are in a general panic and are UNABLE TO SEE WHAT IS TARGETED! It's well know to those that study these things, areas that are visibly marked are far more effective in keeping people out than any invisible system.
From the situations I mentioned in the previous paragraph, the weapon proponents entire claim that no serious damage will result since nobody will be exposed more than a few seconds is either utter incompetence, complete misunderstanding of even the most basic of human mob reactions, or they are lying through the teeth to make mint on new weapon system. I know which one I'm voting for.
you do know you are referencing the 'common sense and wisdom of the people' of those who thought the world was a flat disk because it was easier than trying to comprehend a sphere and the implications of gravity to pull everyone to that same sphere...
a few years back "intelligent design" lost a case (I think it was federal of some sort) and was legally declared to NOT be science. I still have pneumonia and am way to lazy to dig up the reference right now, you go google it.
Yeah, real funny that the information on those minerals have been publicly available since what, sometime in the 60s? The media just found out about it though.
Whether or not the government looks at / approves of the code, it should be available to both the medical profession and those who's bodies it's being implanted in. As far as I'm concerned, the moment a piece of hardware is placed in my body, it totally freaking belongs to ME, just like the rest of my organs.
I know an intersection where the sensor is right behind the stop line. Lots of idiots stop 1 or 2 car lengths behind the line, and don't understand why the light never changes. There have been several times I had to get out, walk up to them and point out the sensor in the road. Most of them get the hint, but a couple times I had to tell them that if their car isn't on that diamond (some of them here are diamond shapes, not circles) the light will never trigger.
once they perfect it and get it approved for humans. There is a big shortage of viable organ replacements, and something like this could work wonders, especially if it also gets around the tissue typing issues. But what do I know, I'm not in the medical field.
Great, now they can see if it's acceleration is anywhere near what proponents and sci-fi writers have been saying for decades. Also, maneuverability, as I just don't see most of those sailing techniques working in a vacuum. Can't wait for final results:)
Maybe they'll end up establishing new populations in different locations. It's certainly better to give them the chance rather than simply let them be exterminated.
I know, it's a complex situation with many variables that can't even be fully defined, much less accounted for. That's true, but we can only try to mitigate this disaster as best we can, or sit back and complain about those who are trying to fix it. Your choice.
Since it was an extraordinary x-ray discharge from a great distance with no other apparent discharges (radio, infrared, visible, etc), I have to wonder if continued observation will eventually yield those at a later time. If so, how would that be interpreted? (Not only regarding the cause/aftermath of the event itself, but also interference by interstellar materials and possible changes to em propagation.)
I don't know much science, but I know enough to make science teachers nervous;)
Nothing, it's already been done many times. Look at Oblivion, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age, Fallout 3, even Sam & Max seasons 1 & 2 among many others. If your machine can run the code, it can and will be made available to unauthorized users, period. (Even the much maligned mothership technique in Assassins Creed 2 has been defeated.)
You can keep wasting money on developing more and more restrictive and intrusive DRM that rarely lasts 3 weeks before being broken while inconveniencing and pissing off your paying customers, or you can give up on the dick waving contest and just use something simple and unobtrusive to prevent the average user from illicit copying.
And one final note on the article, IMO what Cousens said sounds to be skirting over the edge of douchebaggery "let's milk them for everything they've got" talk. Something I don't like, but it may just be a false impression, so I'll wait until he says or does something to clarify that. (I'm not against DLC, just what I'd consider improper use of it.)
As the other car manufacturers don't seem to have this problem, it seems that no matter how you slice it, one company did it wrong. It should spend as much money as it takes to fix it, turn it over to one of the other companies that hasn't made this mistake and let them fix it, or get the hell out of the business since they obviously can't do a basic safety issue that everyone else in the field can.
Or on the fact that most people these days don't know that parchment isn't paper, it's dried and scraped sheepskin. Or perhaps that a legal document was made official by means of seal impressed in wax on said document. We have our modern equivalents (ask a notary), but it's those little forgotten differences that confuse people.
10,000 people canceling their accounts will do little to sway Blizzard. On the other hand, a concise list of what you disagree with that is signed by a 10,000 customers will absolutely get their attention. (No, that's a letter, not a petition.)
Just quitting the game will probably be put down as simple customer churn and since you're no longer a customer, you just aren't that important anymore. Now if you, as customers, tell them specifically what they are doing that is upsetting you, it might not change their minds, but they will at least consider it.
So are you really sure leaving without a word is the way to change the actions of a company with millions of customers?
I knew a number of students when I was a kid that would love that. The were straight A students because they avoided all classes that required any skill or thinking. Their sole singular ability was to memorize and regurgitate the information on command. They didn't understand any of it. I remember when a friend decided to prove it to me and asked one of them, "What is two plus two?", she nearly had a breakdown because she couldn't understand it, we were in a foreign language class at the time. (Yes, he asked in english, the native language of all three of us.) I then begin to look for those types, and it's utterly amazing how many there were. Of course with schools cutting more and more of the 'creative' classes and employing more standardized tests and less testing of comprehension as opposed to rote memorization, it becomes harder and harder to spot them from the teachers viewpoint.
Until that happened in high school, I couldn't imagine a complete moron as an A student.
Did you know that when you try to replace the case on a Nintendo DS, you have to put a strip of insulating tape on a certain piece or the unit will short out the recharger? If you don't, that Nintendo DS will never again be able to recharge it's battery.
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He says it was supplied by Verizon, but that he owns it. Dunno how that works since I'm not aware of them selling routers, but I don't have Verizon internet.
"... were able to identify 10 out of 12 terrorists and, among them, 20 out of 30 crime- related details..." ...The test was 83 percent accurate in predicting concealed knowledge..."
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Last time I checked, 10 out of 12, 20 out of 30, and 83% accurate prediction never adds up to 100% accuracy.
Also, those things never seem to work in the real world (as opposed to lab testing), especially since the terrorists and suspects you haven't arrested aren't usually hooked up to an electroencephalograph so you can conveniently check their brainwaves for suspicious activity.
Just because one person at AT&T said they won't do anything about it, there is absolutely no guarantee that someone else doesn't have different plans.
There are many examples of a corporate spokesman saying one thing, while the company immediately did the opposite.
just imagine:
Well dressed spokesman speaking to TV reporter: "Absolutely not! There is no credibility to the rumor that there is any terrorist activities or police actions taking place at this facility! The rumors are absolutely false! I can only guess that maybe someone who doesn't know any better got a little excited when someone in shipping started playing with some bubblewrap. Everything is just fine, no trouble what so ever."
In the background, a group of fully outfitted swat or paramilitary in black body armor and assault rifles run out of the nearby building and take cover behind a shipping crate, an explosion is heard and gray smoke pours out of the doorway the team just came from...
I know most people define patent trolls as never releasing real products, but I don't think it should be that strict. Any company that engages in significant patent lawsuits for cash settlements (not patent portfolio license exchanges) should be classed a patent troll. Obviously any company that doesn't produce product is automatically in that category, but there are others that should be as well. Rambus is one of them IMO.
I've had serious questions about potential issues with this system since I first heard about it.
"It only penetrates the skin the equivalent of 3 sheets of paper thickness..." So what, your eye is very vulnerable to microwaves, and it's going to be directly exposed. That depth can still do serious damage to your eyes.
"It's been tested numerous times on military and journalist volunteers..." Again, so fricking what! You are talking about a limited quantity of people in an area where movement isn't confined with people who know what's going to happen and from where. Just try that on any average mob of people anywhere in the world in normal real world conditions, and you are going to have a huge mess on your hands! They won't clear the target area efficiently, if they can even figure out where/why it's happening. It won't be even vaguely orderly, people will go different directions, collide, get pushed down or fall down, even get trampled. If panic ensues, a likely occurrence for those unfamiliar with this new weapon, you'll probably even have people moving into the target area since they are in a general panic and are UNABLE TO SEE WHAT IS TARGETED! It's well know to those that study these things, areas that are visibly marked are far more effective in keeping people out than any invisible system.
From the situations I mentioned in the previous paragraph, the weapon proponents entire claim that no serious damage will result since nobody will be exposed more than a few seconds is either utter incompetence, complete misunderstanding of even the most basic of human mob reactions, or they are lying through the teeth to make mint on new weapon system. I know which one I'm voting for.
I graduated High School a long time ago, so I have no idea what the current (or old) GED test looks likes, but are you implying something like this:
Louisiana: 12+45 = ??
Other States: 144/6 * square root(9) = ??
(I'm not looking up the ascii codes for the correct math symbols, you can figure it out.)
you do know you are referencing the 'common sense and wisdom of the people' of those who thought the world was a flat disk because it was easier than trying to comprehend a sphere and the implications of gravity to pull everyone to that same sphere...
a few years back "intelligent design" lost a case (I think it was federal of some sort) and was legally declared to NOT be science.
I still have pneumonia and am way to lazy to dig up the reference right now, you go google it.
have access to them and a portable storage device. If it's all/mostly text, that's not much file size at all.
Yeah, real funny that the information on those minerals have been publicly available since what, sometime in the 60s? The media just found out about it though.
but wouldn't that be a shark jumping the... err...
Whether or not the government looks at / approves of the code, it should be available to both the medical profession and those who's bodies it's being implanted in. As far as I'm concerned, the moment a piece of hardware is placed in my body, it totally freaking belongs to ME, just like the rest of my organs.
I know an intersection where the sensor is right behind the stop line. Lots of idiots stop 1 or 2 car lengths behind the line, and don't understand why the light never changes. There have been several times I had to get out, walk up to them and point out the sensor in the road. Most of them get the hint, but a couple times I had to tell them that if their car isn't on that diamond (some of them here are diamond shapes, not circles) the light will never trigger.
once they perfect it and get it approved for humans. There is a big shortage of viable organ replacements, and something like this could work wonders, especially if it also gets around the tissue typing issues. But what do I know, I'm not in the medical field.
Great, now they can see if it's acceleration is anywhere near what proponents and sci-fi writers have been saying for decades. :)
Also, maneuverability, as I just don't see most of those sailing techniques working in a vacuum.
Can't wait for final results
Maybe they'll end up establishing new populations in different locations.
It's certainly better to give them the chance rather than simply let them be exterminated.
I know, it's a complex situation with many variables that can't even be fully defined, much less accounted for. That's true, but we can only try to mitigate this disaster as best we can, or sit back and complain about those who are trying to fix it. Your choice.
Since it was an extraordinary x-ray discharge from a great distance with no other apparent discharges (radio, infrared, visible, etc), I have to wonder if continued observation will eventually yield those at a later time. If so, how would that be interpreted? (Not only regarding the cause/aftermath of the event itself, but also interference by interstellar materials and possible changes to em propagation.)
;)
I don't know much science, but I know enough to make science teachers nervous
Nothing, it's already been done many times. Look at Oblivion, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age, Fallout 3, even Sam & Max seasons 1 & 2 among many others. If your machine can run the code, it can and will be made available to unauthorized users, period. (Even the much maligned mothership technique in Assassins Creed 2 has been defeated.)
You can keep wasting money on developing more and more restrictive and intrusive DRM that rarely lasts 3 weeks before being broken while inconveniencing and pissing off your paying customers, or you can give up on the dick waving contest and just use something simple and unobtrusive to prevent the average user from illicit copying.
And one final note on the article, IMO what Cousens said sounds to be skirting over the edge of douchebaggery "let's milk them for everything they've got" talk. Something I don't like, but it may just be a false impression, so I'll wait until he says or does something to clarify that. (I'm not against DLC, just what I'd consider improper use of it.)
As the other car manufacturers don't seem to have this problem, it seems that no matter how you slice it, one company did it wrong. It should spend as much money as it takes to fix it, turn it over to one of the other companies that hasn't made this mistake and let them fix it, or get the hell out of the business since they obviously can't do a basic safety issue that everyone else in the field can.
Or on the fact that most people these days don't know that parchment isn't paper, it's dried and scraped sheepskin. Or perhaps that a legal document was made official by means of seal impressed in wax on said document.
We have our modern equivalents (ask a notary), but it's those little forgotten differences that confuse people.
we need an mp3 of this :)
10,000 people canceling their accounts will do little to sway Blizzard.
On the other hand, a concise list of what you disagree with that is signed by a 10,000 customers will absolutely get their attention.
(No, that's a letter, not a petition.)
Just quitting the game will probably be put down as simple customer churn and since you're no longer a customer, you just aren't that important anymore.
Now if you, as customers, tell them specifically what they are doing that is upsetting you, it might not change their minds, but they will at least consider it.
So are you really sure leaving without a word is the way to change the actions of a company with millions of customers?
I knew a number of students when I was a kid that would love that.
The were straight A students because they avoided all classes that required any skill or thinking.
Their sole singular ability was to memorize and regurgitate the information on command.
They didn't understand any of it.
I remember when a friend decided to prove it to me and asked one of them, "What is two plus two?", she nearly had a breakdown because she couldn't understand it, we were in a foreign language class at the time. (Yes, he asked in english, the native language of all three of us.)
I then begin to look for those types, and it's utterly amazing how many there were.
Of course with schools cutting more and more of the 'creative' classes and employing more standardized tests and less testing of comprehension as opposed to rote memorization, it becomes harder and harder to spot them from the teachers viewpoint.
Until that happened in high school, I couldn't imagine a complete moron as an A student.
Pot doesn't make you creative, it just makes you think you're creative.
Did you know that when you try to replace the case on a Nintendo DS, you have to put a strip of insulating tape on a certain piece or the unit will short out the recharger? If you don't, that Nintendo DS will never again be able to recharge it's battery.
My brother found out the hard way.