We are already. Interesting, commercially useful dinosaurs, like chickens and ducks ; rare ones like various raptors ; perhaps interestingly commercial ones (could we back-breed moa, for food?).
Oh, you meant cloning long-extinct dinosaurs. You provide the genetic material, I'm sure someone will want to do it. Could be interesting - but not more interesting than having the genetic material itself.
(I disagree with Bob Bakker. Birds Are not Dinosaur Descendants ; birds are dinosaurs. For any meaningful meanings of "bird", "dinosaur" and "are".)
But what if they program the NAVSOP to listen to 1.57542 GHz and 1.2276 GHz and send back fingerprint data of all the wireless signals to a central location in the NSA.
They might send such data to the NSA. But it would be degraded data and limited in scope compared to what they'd send to GCHQ, as well as being delayed.
BAE doesn't answer to the American government ; they answer to the UK government. So NSA would be away down the list of people who'd get anything out of this. 5th or 6th, I'd guess.
buy one cheap to hack and make into a normal device.
The hack possibly being as simple as a disc of aluminium foil pasted over the camera that reads your eye orientation.
(There are no doubt harder-to-avoid ways of doing the "attention detection", but they're likely to be more expensive.)
Putting data onto and off the device by removing the (mobile telephony/ data) SIM and using the device as USB mass storage, or swapping SD cards, would probably help prevent data leakage / data theft too.
The poster may consider a cashless society to be some wonderful concept. I'm perfectly happy with cash. I use it all the time, for most purposes. About the only things I use credit and/ or debit cards are for work-related expenses and buying stuff off the Internet (both of which need to be traceable, for the goods to get to me, and for me to get back at bad businesses).
The cashless future is one of those concepts that always seems to be just around the corner, but never quite gets here.
And long may it continue to be just round the corner.
That depends on your definition of "pornography" ; if you take it literally, then the assertion the "the Bible is full of writing about second-rate Greek whores" is untrue.
However describing the Bible as being full of obscenities would be true - it is full of material likely to deprave or corrupt people. There's a lot of religion in there for starters.
Medication is unlikely to help with people who are disinterested in history, their own or anybody elses'. Our arsenal of neuropharmacological chemicals for improving memories is slight, poorly targeted and fraught with side effects. The "cure" is quite likely to be worse than the "disease."
I suspect that the prime issue is motivation ; few people think that they're likely to benefit by learning this stuff, or retaining it a minute longer than the exam.
Which country am I in ? : through the winter I was mostly in Tanzania ; I'm at home in Britain for the moment ; where I'll be next month, I don't know - Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan are all on the agenda ; Tanzania again, perhaps. I simply don't know (or care, much). Oh, the Canadians were asking after my availability too.
Are you an American (I've no way of knowing)? And if you are, is this knowledge common in America? How many Americans actually pay attention to their history lessons at school (playing a lot of pub quizzes, I know that a lot of my country people have a lamentably poor memory of our history of the comparable era) and then remember it? It seems a perfectly fair FYI to me.
I assume that the GP is Russian. You do know that the Russians sold Alaska to the American government in about... (Wikis)... 1867. As an side effect of the Crimean War and the "Great Game." Hmmm, I didn't know that last bit, but it makes sense.
When the merd' hits the fan, the soldiers will refuse to nuke Americans
The soldier with his hand on the launch button will only know that the missile under his control has received it's targeting instructions (encrypted), decoded them, checked them with their other tokens, and everything is OK ; and now it's ready to launch.
Why would you tell the soldier in the missile silo where his missile is going? If he doesn't know where it's going, then he's not going to object particularly ; if he does know where it's going, the possibility exists that he's going to find that personalisation of the target more worrying than it just being "the enemy".
Which rather begs the question of "Who does decide where the missiles go?" Probably a small number of faceless my-country-right-or-wrong patriotic fanatics. And even then, they'd probably be using pre-compiled lists of in-America targets from "We've been invaded by aliens" type war games.
At least, if I were designing such a system, I'd throw that idea onto the table and let others say why "we couldn't make it work like that". Over to you.
I wonder if they prefer women to men for the mass murder jobs. As the anti-terrorist police say, "shoot the women first."
I am not a geologist, so feel free to point out if this is ridiculous (that's if you are a geologist, I'm not taking B.S. from just anybody...).
OK. I am a geologist (BSc 1987 ; FGS in 2006 ; in almost continuous employment as a geologist since graduation.), working for the oil industry, so naturally you'd expect me to pooh-pooh the entire concept of anthropogenic climate change, including it's sub-effects of global warming and sea-level rise. I'm not going to pooh-pooh them. But we'll get back to that.
I read recently that the melting of the Antarctic ice shelves and related glaciers has caused the crust there to rise up a few cm.
I'm not aware that this has been well demonstrated in the Antarctic - the changes in ice mass there haven't been particularly large (yet). However in the Arctic and near-Arctic, where over the last 10 thousand years the glaciers have gone from being several kilometres thick to being approximately zero thick, the coasts are lined with evidence of substantial "isostatic rebound" (change of relative sea level), with the land rising relative to the sea due to removal of the ice load.
I could give you a detailed exposition here and now, but the Wikipedia page is perfectly good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostatic_rebound (I'd recommend doing the maths for a few isostasy problems to familiarise yourself with the problem. 2 to 3 hours of work should be adequate. Google for "isostasy problem set" ; the first couple of PDFs should be fine. They include more detailed theoretical background than the Wikipedia link.)
For what it's worth, I spent several hours fossil-hunting on Sunday, along a fine set of "raised beaches" near my home. Isostatic rebound is an absolutely rock-solid demonstrated fact here. You may not have as much personal contact with the evidence, but it's literally (not figuratively) part of my everyday life.
Maybe other plates are subsequently sinking, and the plate under the East Coast is just more susceptible to this sinking effect than others that have been measured?
There is an effect of sinking around the margins of an area that is rising. It may be easier to think of the process from the other direction : there is an effect of marginal rising around an area that is sinking : i.e. as the ice sheets built up, the mantle that is squeezed out under the ice sheet moves laterally and pushes up an area around the ice sheet. This is called, in some presentations, a "forebulge". So, as the Laurentia craton rebounds upward from the last glaciation, you'd expect downward movement of the land (relative to the geoid and/ or sea level) in a ring around Laurentia.
Whether this local effect entirely accounts for the observed sea level rises in - I've forgotten which State it is, not that it matters - isn't particularly important (to me). However the location of the ice margin (Long Island is a terminal moraine - where the ice margin was at it's maximum for a long period) will be approximately where rebound changes to forebulge collapse.
This sort of local (few thousand kilometre radius) effect is the sort of thing that makes it difficult to measure sea level rise. But as a geologist, I don't feel any worry about details like that. What we can clearly see from both the Keeling curve of CO2 against time and the plain fact of coal mines for burning coal and oil wells for burning oil (my Sunday walk included some open-cast coal workings in the modern sea cliffs ; and I find oil for my living ; they're simple, unarguable, everyday facts) is that we're dumping carbon into the atmosphere as CO2. And we know from past examples that high atmospheric CO2 goes with high temperatures. What we're doing to our environment will have consequences. Looking at the numbers, those consequences will
Not a lot would happen apart from the locks and the (partly artificial) lake that forms the summit section of the canal would drain down to their respective oceans.
In a little more detail... the draft limit for a Panamax ship is 39.5ft. That's going to be the depth of the water at any of the locks (there's no point in making any one of them deeper, or several). The surface of Lake Gatun is at 26m = 85ft ; therefore, the highest elevation of any part of the bed of the Canal is 46-odd ft above sea level.
So, Mr Supervillain, you'd have pissed off a lot of people, at considerable expense to little lasting effect. Congrats!
... along with some PVR device so you can fast-forward through the bits you're not interested in : averts, the non-sex scenes of movies, trailers.
If there is something that you want which isn't available FTA, then you'll need to invest in some surfing time, or a pay-to-air solution of some sort, whichever is most amenable.
The logic is OK, but I think you've got the direction wrong. The people living and working in space will need a way of putting any big Earth ships back onto the ground rapidly, any time they feel like putting a ship up.
Senator Smith: "Fellow senators, I'm afraid I can't allow this to be built unless the construction takes place in my district."
Senator Bob: "Smith, your district has nothing but cattle and oil fields. You can't make it there."
[Journalist, shouting from the public gallery] "The Chinese launched their first module yesterday. Iran launches theirs tomorrow."
Why do you presume that only one country will be involved in launching this, if it's worth the candle (of which I am not yet convinced).
even the tsa agents already in jail for other crimes should not be imune from facing charges for crimes against humanity!
They're not affecting humanity in general, only the tiny segment of the population who are American or who visit America. So they're bigots and quite selective ones at that.
What MAFIAA wants is an online world where no one can do nothing - yes, that's what they are after
I don't think so. I think that what *AA are after is a world where everyone who ever uses any sort of "content" (listens to any sort of sound ; reads any sort of word ; views any sort of image ; smells any sort of scent ; tastes any sort of taste ; feels any sort of texture ; has any sort of sensation), then the "owner" of that content gets paid immediately, and that any "reuse" of that content (including by re-experiencing the content in one's memory) also incurs (and actually pays) a fee.
We don't (yet) have much technology relevant to the textures and sensations, or to controlling or detecting the use of in-skull memory to replay. YET.
Sound and image (static ; moving ; 3d-moving) and word content control we're very familiar with already;
scent copyrighting (perfume etc) and counterfeiting is well known though not so many people think of it as being the same issue ;
taste copyrighting and control... is much more distributed, but the Mc-PizzaHut-Donald-Heinz-Kraft conglomerate (I tried to think of a non-American food conglomerate, but can't. Oh, sorry, Nestle ; half-Swiss?) are clearly working along this axis (warning signs that "home cooking is killing the food industry" are coming to a saucepan shop near you!). In the (unlikely) event that Star Trek-esque food replicators ever exist, someone, somewhere is going to want to get paid for using their "recipe" for "Tea, Earl Grey, hot." ;
texture content control... well, clothing companies are very picky about the feel of their fabrics ; there was that fuss a short while ago about the "shark skin" swimming suits, which is (partly) a textural issue. This will grow. When programmable textures (smart fabrics that can alter their stiffness, warmth, etc under the control of digital content) become available, then there will be content wars over this too. Haptic technology is crawling in this direction, and we see reports here regularly.
Put that together with teledildonics, and it won't be long before the porn industry starts to sell the experience of, say, a blow job from $porn star$, for a one-time use fee of $currency$. And then wants to charge you again for a repeat performance.
(Actually... on that tangent, it might be that the girls and receptive guys might get the teledildonics experience first, because the equipment may be simpler and probably cheaper. Doing a quantum of research and "There also exists a DIY community experimenting with teledildonics, centered on opendildonics.org, the Slashdong blog and the Arse Elektronika conference." Oh dear, I'm not sure I want to pursue those links any further. NOT SAFE until the wife goes to the gym.)
Remote control of sufficiently flexible chemistry sets to make-on-download this odour molecule, or that taste molecule, then deliver it... that's a difficult problem. But lab-on-a-chip is a real, existing technology, so I'd class it as a "difficult" problem, but not necessarily "impossible".
Tolkein really wasn't a very good writer. Good at coming up with stories, but not a good writer.
Tolkein had some wonderful strands of mythology and folklore to draw on. I'll leave it to personal opinions as to whether JRR Tolkein was a good writer, a great writer, or what - I have no distress at the idea of re-reading any of the works he had more-or-less completed himself.
It's much less open to debate whether JRR Tolkein was a better writer than his son (Christopher ?... checks... yes), who has mostly confined himself to editorial mining of his father's estate.
For the original question, the First Post says enough. Ramming something into the child's hands, let alone hammering it into their ears or down their throats, is likely to be counter productive. Anything stronger than "What's that you're reading Dad?... [This] This other one is by the same author - give it a try." is likely to be counterproductive.
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We are already. Interesting, commercially useful dinosaurs, like chickens and ducks ; rare ones like various raptors ; perhaps interestingly commercial ones (could we back-breed moa, for food?).
Oh, you meant cloning long-extinct dinosaurs. You provide the genetic material, I'm sure someone will want to do it. Could be interesting - but not more interesting than having the genetic material itself.
(I disagree with Bob Bakker. Birds Are not Dinosaur Descendants ; birds are dinosaurs. For any meaningful meanings of "bird", "dinosaur" and "are".)
They might send such data to the NSA. But it would be degraded data and limited in scope compared to what they'd send to GCHQ, as well as being delayed.
BAE doesn't answer to the American government ; they answer to the UK government. So NSA would be away down the list of people who'd get anything out of this. 5th or 6th, I'd guess.
Rule 34 has already taken effect.
The hack possibly being as simple as a disc of aluminium foil pasted over the camera that reads your eye orientation.
(There are no doubt harder-to-avoid ways of doing the "attention detection", but they're likely to be more expensive.)
Putting data onto and off the device by removing the (mobile telephony/ data) SIM and using the device as USB mass storage, or swapping SD cards, would probably help prevent data leakage / data theft too.
The poster may consider a cashless society to be some wonderful concept. I'm perfectly happy with cash. I use it all the time, for most purposes. About the only things I use credit and/ or debit cards are for work-related expenses and buying stuff off the Internet (both of which need to be traceable, for the goods to get to me, and for me to get back at bad businesses).
And long may it continue to be just round the corner.
That depends on your definition of "pornography" ; if you take it literally, then the assertion the "the Bible is full of writing about second-rate Greek whores" is untrue.
However describing the Bible as being full of obscenities would be true - it is full of material likely to deprave or corrupt people. There's a lot of religion in there for starters.
The chronicle in question had been noted "in the literature" as potentially indicating a supernova back in the 1970s.
I suspect that the prime issue is motivation ; few people think that they're likely to benefit by learning this stuff, or retaining it a minute longer than the exam.
Which country am I in ? : through the winter I was mostly in Tanzania ; I'm at home in Britain for the moment ; where I'll be next month, I don't know - Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan are all on the agenda ; Tanzania again, perhaps. I simply don't know (or care, much). Oh, the Canadians were asking after my availability too.
What?
Are you an American (I've no way of knowing)? And if you are, is this knowledge common in America? How many Americans actually pay attention to their history lessons at school (playing a lot of pub quizzes, I know that a lot of my country people have a lamentably poor memory of our history of the comparable era) and then remember it? It seems a perfectly fair FYI to me.
I assume that the GP is Russian. You do know that the Russians sold Alaska to the American government in about ... (Wikis) ... 1867. As an side effect of the Crimean War and the "Great Game." Hmmm, I didn't know that last bit, but it makes sense.
FTFY
Will people get the clue?
Probably not.
You say that on Slashdot? ! ?
I'm not sure if I should be confused, shocked, or rolling on the floor, helpless with mirth.
No, seriously.
Why do you talk to hookers?
Besides, they charge you extra. Double to talk to you like a girlfriend ("I'm not doing that! Perv! Pay this bill.")
The soldier with his hand on the launch button will only know that the missile under his control has received it's targeting instructions (encrypted), decoded them, checked them with their other tokens, and everything is OK ; and now it's ready to launch.
Why would you tell the soldier in the missile silo where his missile is going? If he doesn't know where it's going, then he's not going to object particularly ; if he does know where it's going, the possibility exists that he's going to find that personalisation of the target more worrying than it just being "the enemy".
Which rather begs the question of "Who does decide where the missiles go?" Probably a small number of faceless my-country-right-or-wrong patriotic fanatics. And even then, they'd probably be using pre-compiled lists of in-America targets from "We've been invaded by aliens" type war games.
At least, if I were designing such a system, I'd throw that idea onto the table and let others say why "we couldn't make it work like that". Over to you.
I wonder if they prefer women to men for the mass murder jobs. As the anti-terrorist police say, "shoot the women first."
OK. I am a geologist (BSc 1987 ; FGS in 2006 ; in almost continuous employment as a geologist since graduation.), working for the oil industry, so naturally you'd expect me to pooh-pooh the entire concept of anthropogenic climate change, including it's sub-effects of global warming and sea-level rise. I'm not going to pooh-pooh them. But we'll get back to that.
I'm not aware that this has been well demonstrated in the Antarctic - the changes in ice mass there haven't been particularly large (yet). However in the Arctic and near-Arctic, where over the last 10 thousand years the glaciers have gone from being several kilometres thick to being approximately zero thick, the coasts are lined with evidence of substantial "isostatic rebound" (change of relative sea level), with the land rising relative to the sea due to removal of the ice load.
I could give you a detailed exposition here and now, but the Wikipedia page is perfectly good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostatic_rebound (I'd recommend doing the maths for a few isostasy problems to familiarise yourself with the problem. 2 to 3 hours of work should be adequate. Google for "isostasy problem set" ; the first couple of PDFs should be fine. They include more detailed theoretical background than the Wikipedia link.)
For what it's worth, I spent several hours fossil-hunting on Sunday, along a fine set of "raised beaches" near my home. Isostatic rebound is an absolutely rock-solid demonstrated fact here. You may not have as much personal contact with the evidence, but it's literally (not figuratively) part of my everyday life.
There is an effect of sinking around the margins of an area that is rising. It may be easier to think of the process from the other direction : there is an effect of marginal rising around an area that is sinking : i.e. as the ice sheets built up, the mantle that is squeezed out under the ice sheet moves laterally and pushes up an area around the ice sheet. This is called, in some presentations, a "forebulge". So, as the Laurentia craton rebounds upward from the last glaciation, you'd expect downward movement of the land (relative to the geoid and/ or sea level) in a ring around Laurentia.
Whether this local effect entirely accounts for the observed sea level rises in - I've forgotten which State it is, not that it matters - isn't particularly important (to me). However the location of the ice margin (Long Island is a terminal moraine - where the ice margin was at it's maximum for a long period) will be approximately where rebound changes to forebulge collapse.
This sort of local (few thousand kilometre radius) effect is the sort of thing that makes it difficult to measure sea level rise. But as a geologist, I don't feel any worry about details like that. What we can clearly see from both the Keeling curve of CO2 against time and the plain fact of coal mines for burning coal and oil wells for burning oil (my Sunday walk included some open-cast coal workings in the modern sea cliffs ; and I find oil for my living ; they're simple, unarguable, everyday facts) is that we're dumping carbon into the atmosphere as CO2. And we know from past examples that high atmospheric CO2 goes with high temperatures. What we're doing to our environment will have consequences. Looking at the numbers, those consequences will
In a little more detail ... the draft limit for a Panamax ship is 39.5ft. That's going to be the depth of the water at any of the locks (there's no point in making any one of them deeper, or several). The surface of Lake Gatun is at 26m = 85ft ; therefore, the highest elevation of any part of the bed of the Canal is 46-odd ft above sea level.
So, Mr Supervillain, you'd have pissed off a lot of people, at considerable expense to little lasting effect. Congrats!
... along with some PVR device so you can fast-forward through the bits you're not interested in : averts, the non-sex scenes of movies, trailers.
If there is something that you want which isn't available FTA, then you'll need to invest in some surfing time, or a pay-to-air solution of some sort, whichever is most amenable.
Brooke Magnanti?
Don't forget who'll have the whip hand here.
[Journalist, shouting from the public gallery] "The Chinese launched their first module yesterday. Iran launches theirs tomorrow."
Why do you presume that only one country will be involved in launching this, if it's worth the candle (of which I am not yet convinced).
Which decade, this side of the establishment of agriculture, was it when everyone WASN'T under class warfare?
They're not affecting humanity in general, only the tiny segment of the population who are American or who visit America. So they're bigots and quite selective ones at that.
I don't think so. I think that what *AA are after is a world where everyone who ever uses any sort of "content" (listens to any sort of sound ; reads any sort of word ; views any sort of image ; smells any sort of scent ; tastes any sort of taste ; feels any sort of texture ; has any sort of sensation), then the "owner" of that content gets paid immediately, and that any "reuse" of that content (including by re-experiencing the content in one's memory) also incurs (and actually pays) a fee.
We don't (yet) have much technology relevant to the textures and sensations, or to controlling or detecting the use of in-skull memory to replay. YET.
(Actually ... on that tangent, it might be that the girls and receptive guys might get the teledildonics experience first, because the equipment may be simpler and probably cheaper. Doing a quantum of research and "There also exists a DIY community experimenting with teledildonics, centered on opendildonics.org, the Slashdong blog and the Arse Elektronika conference." Oh dear, I'm not sure I want to pursue those links any further. NOT SAFE until the wife goes to the gym.)
Remote control of sufficiently flexible chemistry sets to make-on-download this odour molecule, or that taste molecule, then deliver it ... that's a difficult problem. But lab-on-a-chip is a real, existing technology, so I'd class it as a "difficult" problem, but not necessarily "impossible".
Tolkein had some wonderful strands of mythology and folklore to draw on. I'll leave it to personal opinions as to whether JRR Tolkein was a good writer, a great writer, or what - I have no distress at the idea of re-reading any of the works he had more-or-less completed himself.
It's much less open to debate whether JRR Tolkein was a better writer than his son (Christopher ? ... checks ... yes), who has mostly confined himself to editorial mining of his father's estate.
For the original question, the First Post says enough. Ramming something into the child's hands, let alone hammering it into their ears or down their throats, is likely to be counter productive. Anything stronger than "What's that you're reading Dad? ... [This] This other one is by the same author - give it a try." is likely to be counterproductive.
What do you mean, you want a choice of applications to do that? You get a choice. Our choice.
This is a democracy ; one man, one vote. Lord Ballmer, the Chair-Thrower of Ankh-Redmond is the man, and he has the vote.