The rest of us will have to get by with the knowledge that if the beam is focused enough to do that kind of damage from 8000 light years away, it will be tightly focused enough that it's more likely to miss us entirely.
Besides, unless the GRB hit's less than a couple of centuries in the future, there aren't likely to be many humans to worry about it.
How long before the doomsday (12-21-12) nut jobs connect the dots?
Perhaps it's time to corner the market in lead foil? It should be amusing watching people stagger around in their 200 pound lead foil suits.
200 lbs for a lead foil suit. That's be just over 90kg. Which means 0.008 m^3 of lead. Wikipedia gives the skin area of a human as 1.5 to 2 m^2 ; I'll take the lower figure, as some areas will need less protection than others - do the soles of your feet need as much protection as any working gonads you have? So that 0.08 m^3 of lead would spread over 1.5 m^2 to a thickness of 0.0053 m.
Your customer's lead foil suits aren't going to give much protection from 5mm thickness of lead. A little less than the atmosphere itself does. I take it that you'll be selling them from a good deep concrete bunker, and (by definition) selling them to the stupid dead-but-not-yet-stationary members of the population.
I'm generally underwhelmed by the "Ordovician mass extinction from a GRB" hypothesis. There were *very* few land plants and animals at that time, and the marine organisms would have got about as much protection from each 10m of water as they would from the atmosphere. So marine organisms would have had half the exposure at 10m depth (compares to surface organisms), one quarter at 20m depth, one nineth at 30m which is the approximate base of the photic zone. That'd have effects, but probably not devastating.
Hell - we could survive that without too much difficulty. Live at 20~30m by "day" (when the GRB is in the sky, regardless of Sun position), and do your out-of-doors stuff by GRB night. Would be a PITA, but survivable on the several months scale that's implied.
What is hard to understand here? There are no routers between Mars and Earth.. therefore the number of "modules" that process a datagram on the way from Mars to Earth is zero.
That might be the current state of play. In the not too-distant future, the number of spacecraft in different parts of the solar system is going to require at the least several relaying stations in wide orbit. At the very least, two relays at the leading and trailing Trojan points would do away with the problem of regularly losing contact with craft when they go "behind the sun".
For inner-system spacecraft, being able to size the transmitter dish and electronics on the assumption of a range up to 150 Gm less than the direct line to Earth could make for a significantly greater payload available for manoeuvring fuel (read : lifetime) or for instrumentation. Win-win.
Designing the relays with chunky buffers and store-and-forward software capabilities could probably provide significantly improved redundancy.
Not obvious. I agree that a cell phone is useful - which is why I have one - but "can't get by without one" is a much stiffer test to pass. Have you ever tried it - just switch the phone off one day and don't switch it back on again. I assume that you've got a land line at home and at work, so that people can contact you when you're being reasonably predictable ; some of your friends are likely to know the phone numbers of the bars you frequent. Cell phones are dangerous to use (even hands-free) when driving, and are annoying (at least) on public transport, so you can get on with something productive in your moving time. So people who have a good reason to contact you, can do so.
but I just have a basic $20 KRAZR, no smart phone nonsense, and no putting $500 in the pockets of someone using it to get more locked down phones into the hands of the public.
My phone only gets changed when the keypad wears out - takes an average of about 3 years. I've sent 3 photos from the phone (having a basic pocket camera with you is the most useful thing about modern phones, IMHO) in the 2 years I've had it, and judging from receiving my first ever "multimedia message" this morning, I guess that my mountaineering buddy Tony has just got a new phone which does do MMMessging. Very pretty, a sort of animated pattern with a cheesy MIDI sound. Fascinating. But not actually worth a lot. Because I often have need for telecoms in foreign countries where I don't trust the communications supplied by the client (e.g., if I need to check what we're contracted to supply, and what is an extra charge), then I need to have a phone on contract ; that gives me a certain number of minutes talk and a number of texts inclusive every month. And I've never reached even half-way on the meter, despite being on the lowest available contract rate. I guess that I'm not a very compliant little consumer.
They [Tellme] are in the same league as Zango, and 180 solutions.
... which still doesn't enlighten us as to what they actually do... The Google top line result has the strap line "Tellme 800 services allow voice query for stocks, sports, news, weather, and horoscopes." I suspect that the "800" refers to the US "free call" telephone system, in which case that implies
advertising all over the place (to pay for everything else)
some significant voice-recognition processing power somewhere. (They also mention "VoiceXML", whatever that is. Sounds very SemanticWeb-ish.)
Tellme (and hence MS) know all about what you're interested in at this moment in time, and are probably going to target the most attention-grabbing (read : distracting) adverts they can find at you
the extremely slow-loading Flash (?) advert at http://www.tellme.com/ talks about some one who's interested in sports, but not interested enough to be doing his sport himself, someone who can't find a cup of coffee with his eyeballs in a city, someone who's stupid enough to not be at the airport in plenty of time, and someone who doesn't know how to manage her finances. All people to avoid, I think.
So, unusually for an advert, it's quite informative. People who use Tellme are likely to be people you don't want to waste time on, or be in business with. After all, you can get all of that (apart form the stocks information) with a pocket radio while getting on with most other things and without the adverts.
Yes. In the "non-Civilized World ®", many of us feel that working hard and earning your health benefits is better than getting them just because your parents managed to successfully complete the biological act of reproduction. Many of us also feel that human beings like you who feel they are owed health benefits that are paid for by the hard work of others are not necessarily worthy of the title of "human being".
You seem to be making the incorrect assumption that you are a working person, while I am not. It might come as a terrifying idea that I've actually been a (relatively) happy tax-payer for nearly 22 years now (with significant tax paid on earnings while still in education in the preceding 6 years). I get a suspicion that from your next comment that I've possibly been paying tax for longer than you've existed. Terrible thing having your prejudices turned over isn't it?
Meh is a pop culture reference. It denotes indifference and is often referred to as a "verbal shrug of the shoulders".
Ah, a definition in a comprehensible language. Thank you. That's "pop" as an abbreviation for "popular amongst the people who I talk to, but may not be popular amongst the people you talk to"?
But I think you know that and are being intentionally obtuse so you would have the opportunity to post a snotty reply.
No, I simply did not know what the word meant in any of the languages I know, and it's not in any of my other dictionaries. Obviously you've not yet had the pleasure of living and working with people who you don't share a language with. That'll change, and I bet that you won't like the experience.
Which is an example of being a "tool". Let me know if the definition of "tool" in this context needs to be explained to you, or translated into a recognised language.
That use of the term is entirely familiar to me, as in the sentence : I'll put this hammer ("tool", in sense of conventional use) through your face, you tool (in sense of "penis").
Health benefits come from being a human being? What an amazing sense of entitlement you have in the "Civilised World ®". You can keep the "Civilised World ®" in that case.
I'm sure that's a popular opinion in the non-Civilized World ® , at least amongst those who enjoy the entitlements of being a human being. The rest of the humanoid inhabitants, obviously, don't matter.
Meh.
Sorry, don't recognise the language. I know it's not English, French or Spanish, and I don't recognise it from the German, Russian or Norwegian I've learned. Translation into a recognised language, please.
How much would the price of [insert product of your choice] increase if the people picking them managed to get minimum wage, health benefits, safer conditions and unions?
"minimum wage, health benefits, safer conditions" follow from unionisation and collective action. If you want better wages and/or safer conditions at work, join or form a trade union. (I leave the "health benefits" question aside, as in the Civilised World ® they comes from being a human being, not from your employment status or political activism.)
It probably helped that the course was taught by someone who had a real interest in the field.
Certainly does help. My introduction to the field was through a geography teacher who wasn't himself particularly clued up on the field - the old "stay one chapter ahead of the kids" school of teaching - but he was well keen. It wasn't really any surprise to bump into him (and several other teachers) on top of a mountain during half term. Great minds think alike.
What you do or how you behave on your own time no one cares about.
Not in the real world. In the real world there are idiots who live in different continents to me, who have never heard of me, and who think that the mores of their country apply in my country, and who care enough about my out-of-work behaviour to pay to have me drug tested.
Fucking septic idiots.
TFA includes, as one of the benefits of breaking into Google's services that "Second, Google's domains are unlikely to be blacklisted." While that's currently true, it's not likely to remain so indefinitely. I already operate a killfile rule in my news reader to kill all messages that originate from anyone at "googlegroups.com", because they host far to many spammers and lunatics. I don't see any metapyhsical objection to blocking more Google-originated stuff.
Of course, the simplest thing for Google to do would be to stop new sign-ups. They've already got hell-knows-how-many people signed up, so losing a few hundreds of thousands more sign-ups while they get their CAPTCHA engine beefed up shouldn't be a long-term problem.
Not until some slave-labourer kid in a sweat shop in Bangalore has spent about 3 hours cutting the stone to shape and polishing it. Un-polished diamonds aren't called "rough" without good reason. They look like greyish pebbles with a moderate sheen on them. "Rock Crystal" quartz is far prettier. Compare these diamond specimens with these rock crystal specimens.
OK - I'm a geologist, so I might have different standards to the man on the Clapham omnibus. But I can imagine the result I'd get from giving the missus a diamond like that.
The problem is once you buy this widget to make hydrogen to power your car, you don't need to buy anything ever again except some power to run it.
Do the sums : it's a LOT of power. If this company's claims are accurate, then you'll need to buy about 1.17 times as much power as you're going to produce in your car's engine. Since car engine efficiency is fairly low (around 20%), you'll need to be buying about ( 1.17 * 5 = 5.88 ) times as much power (presumably as electricity) as you're going to actually use in propelling your car. Of course, you won't be paying the electric bill on a day-to-day basis. Instead you'll be getting hit by that bill on a monthly or quarterly basis, which will make it so much nicer. [SFX : side-splitting laughter. Ha ha. Ha ha ha.]
Their new Engagement ROI tool tries to track a user's ad clicking habits and distribute the credit over all of the ads that led to an eventual sale as opposed to the last ad clicked getting all the credit.
(I must admit to not knowing what the ROI acronym stands for. Maybe that makes the article make sense.) Some users simply don't click on ads. If I see something that I'm interested in, I'll tend to open a new tab, and then type in the domain name of the company in question, then I go searching for the product in question. And it's competitors. It's something to do with distrusting advertisers only a little less than I distrust lawyers. come the glorious day, they'd probably be lined up with the politicians for their turn in front of the machine guns.
Obviously, I block adverts as fast as I can be bothered to configure a new filter for a new advert. Including those that appear on SlashDot.
I also need a smart phone that can receive emails across the world and if possible a satellite navigation device, as I need to get to less-traveled locations on a regular basis.
Even in the developed world, less travelled regions don't have mobile phone service. At least, not the less-travelled parts of the world that I've been to - central Siberia (get more than about 10km out of town and that's service finished for the next 100km) ; offshore Tanzania (get outside a city and that's the mobile service gone) ; the Pennine hills of England (get more than 5 km from a town of 5000 people and that's it, not enough people making or receiving enough calls to justify a mobile service) ; most of the mountains of Scotland have at best very weak service, depending on where you've got line of sight to.
Mobile phone service isn't free : less travelled = less people = less people making or receiving calls = less potential revenue for the phone company = less base stations installed = no coverage. Try travelling around in your home country and get onto a back road where you're more than 5 miles from the nearest village. The signal strength is going to start dropping off. Get 10 miles away and you'll be struggling to maintain a signal. And if you're in hilly regions, you can reduce those distances considerably.
If you want a wireless phone that'll work in any location even remotely resembling "less travelled", you need an Iridium phone. http://store.satphone.co.uk/Catalog/Handsets That'll be £799 to £1500 for the phone, plus around £1/minute. Enjoy.
There really is a lot of really foul stuff on the Web, and stumbling on it by accident isn't uncommon. Why allow the child's experience to be colored by that?
The original poster didn't include "going on the web" in the problem ; the question was about securing the computer for the child (and I take the implication that the child is getting root, and truly has control of the machine). That's one set of problems, which I think are quite easily solved with a fingerprint scanner.
"Protecting" the child against the nastier elements out on the web is a very different problem, and probably much harder. Given the rapidity of change of these threats, unless someone were to try taking on the administrative task of keeping up an open source "white list" along the lines of the cybernanny class of programs, I suspect that there isn't a solution. Not all problems have solutions, or practical solutions.
Of course, there is one possibility : sit over the child every time that it's using the internet and spend about 8 more years teaching it discrimination until it's reached the point at which it's adult enough to use the net unsupervised.
The split of Humans from the Apes pushed back by another 6 to 7 million years earlier than previously thought based on molecular genetics. The difference from the earlier estimate of around 5 to 6 million years is therefore over 100% http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2169361,00.html
In the article they claim that:
Fossils of early apes especially during the critical period of 14 to eight million years ago were virtually non-existant - until now.
Which is pretty close to true. Why do they switch between numbers and words half-way through? WTF.
The datum that's being reported is a gorilla-related fossil dated to 10 to 10.5 million years. Which is close to half-way through the interval which is devoid of fossils. It's about the best correction that you can make - remember your lectures on search algorithms (I'm assuming that you did do some Computing Science when you were at univerisity) - binary searches - remember? And that new datum (the tooth fossil) being of an organism noticeably more similar to a gorilla than as human, that pushes back the separation between gorilla-ancestors and human-ancestors to the far side of 10/10.5 Ma, and possibly as far back as the 14 Ma that previously known fossils suggest pre-date the humanoid-gorillaoid split. But equally it could be only 11 or 12 million years. What we really need now is to be hunting forest-margin palaeoenvironments of about 12.5 million years to try to pin down the the split more closely.
I wouldn't be terribly upset about a molecular clock being in disagreement with palaeontology. There are an awful lot of assumptions in calibrating a molecular clock, and finding that one of those many has been violated is like finding that it rains when your raincoat is at home. Look at molecular clocks used to calibrate the differentiation of the various animal phyla : according to the molecular clocks, this happened on the order of 1500 Ma ago. But there's nothing in the fossil record until the Duoshantuo embryos pretty close to 600 Ma ago. Of the two, I know which I'd put more confidence in, even given that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Or worse. Your camera gets stolen and is used to photograph illegal activities. The images are then posted on the net with your watermark on them. Cops arrive at your door and your life is history.
Unless, of course, you show them the paperwork that you got from the police X months earlier, when you reported the theft.
What the summary doesn't say (and I can't be bothered to RTFA, because I'm not terribly interested), is that the camera itself checks for the presence of an appropriate iris at the viewfinder regularly. Say, each time it comes out of sleep mode. Or semi-randomly after each fifth photograph (the time to capture the iris image and analyse it might be really annoying if you're trying to do action photography, so you wouldn't do the verification BEFORE taking the photograph).
[Life on this 'hot Jupiter' planet] wouldn't be made up of combustable carbon chains, either.
Why not? As long as there is no oxygen around, they'd be fine. Indeed, there was no oxygen around for a lot of Earth's history either... Oxygen's arrival
Be careful - you mean FREE oxygen, or ELEMENTAL oxygen, but you're not saying it. Oxygen is a vital part of the composition of most biologically active molecules, as is nitrogen, phosphorous, and to a lesser extent sulphur.
here was as a corrosive pollutant pumped into the atmosphere by short-sighted greedy industria^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hplants and microbes.
It would be just so amusing if it was - our Vista-compliance man (who I've been sharing a cubical with for the last few months) leaves on the 6th. It'd be so amusing if he had the opportunity to hand over the whole task of re-starting the Vista compliance grindstone to someone else on the day that all the rules change.
Ah, but red mercury exists.[link to "Cinnabar" on Wikipedia]
< SIGH > I was expecting that.
With a tag like "RockDoctor", I'm ashamed to admit that I don't have a sample of cinnabar in my rock pile. But I am trying to persuade the wife that Almaden is a suitable place for a holiday. Maybe combine it with some gypsum caving around Sorbas... yeah, I've heard worse ideas.
It's called the Anarchist's Cookbook, google it. Now go start experimenting and blow yourself up.
Ah, someone else has figured out why TACB and all those alleged "Al Quaeda Training Manuals" are easily found on the internet. Good, that makes two us us unlikely to blow up our own houses while trying to build a city-buster bomb. Red mercury, anyone?
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Besides, unless the GRB hit's less than a couple of centuries in the future, there aren't likely to be many humans to worry about it.
That's be just over 90kg.
Which means 0.008 m^3 of lead.
Wikipedia gives the skin area of a human as 1.5 to 2 m^2 ; I'll take the lower figure, as some areas will need less protection than others - do the soles of your feet need as much protection as any working gonads you have?
So that 0.08 m^3 of lead would spread over 1.5 m^2 to a thickness of 0.0053 m.
Your customer's lead foil suits aren't going to give much protection from 5mm thickness of lead. A little less than the atmosphere itself does. I take it that you'll be selling them from a good deep concrete bunker, and (by definition) selling them to the stupid dead-but-not-yet-stationary members of the population.
I'm generally underwhelmed by the "Ordovician mass extinction from a GRB" hypothesis. There were *very* few land plants and animals at that time, and the marine organisms would have got about as much protection from each 10m of water as they would from the atmosphere. So marine organisms would have had half the exposure at 10m depth (compares to surface organisms), one quarter at 20m depth, one nineth at 30m which is the approximate base of the photic zone. That'd have effects, but probably not devastating.
Hell - we could survive that without too much difficulty. Live at 20~30m by "day" (when the GRB is in the sky, regardless of Sun position), and do your out-of-doors stuff by GRB night. Would be a PITA, but survivable on the several months scale that's implied.
That might be the current state of play. In the not too-distant future, the number of spacecraft in different parts of the solar system is going to require at the least several relaying stations in wide orbit. At the very least, two relays at the leading and trailing Trojan points would do away with the problem of regularly losing contact with craft when they go "behind the sun".
For inner-system spacecraft, being able to size the transmitter dish and electronics on the assumption of a range up to 150 Gm less than the direct line to Earth could make for a significantly greater payload available for manoeuvring fuel (read : lifetime) or for instrumentation. Win-win.
Designing the relays with chunky buffers and store-and-forward software capabilities could probably provide significantly improved redundancy.
I agree that a cell phone is useful - which is why I have one - but "can't get by without one" is a much stiffer test to pass. Have you ever tried it - just switch the phone off one day and don't switch it back on again. I assume that you've got a land line at home and at work, so that people can contact you when you're being reasonably predictable ; some of your friends are likely to know the phone numbers of the bars you frequent. Cell phones are dangerous to use (even hands-free) when driving, and are annoying (at least) on public transport, so you can get on with something productive in your moving time. So people who have a good reason to contact you, can do so. My phone only gets changed when the keypad wears out - takes an average of about 3 years. I've sent 3 photos from the phone (having a basic pocket camera with you is the most useful thing about modern phones, IMHO) in the 2 years I've had it, and judging from receiving my first ever "multimedia message" this morning, I guess that my mountaineering buddy Tony has just got a new phone which does do MMMessging. Very pretty, a sort of animated pattern with a cheesy MIDI sound. Fascinating. But not actually worth a lot.
Because I often have need for telecoms in foreign countries where I don't trust the communications supplied by the client (e.g., if I need to check what we're contracted to supply, and what is an extra charge), then I need to have a phone on contract ; that gives me a certain number of minutes talk and a number of texts inclusive every month. And I've never reached even half-way on the meter, despite being on the lowest available contract rate. I guess that I'm not a very compliant little consumer.
The Google top line result has the strap line "Tellme 800 services allow voice query for stocks, sports, news, weather, and horoscopes." I suspect that the "800" refers to the US "free call" telephone system, in which case that implies
- advertising all over the place (to pay for everything else)
- some significant voice-recognition processing power somewhere. (They also mention "VoiceXML", whatever that is. Sounds very SemanticWeb-ish.)
- Tellme (and hence MS) know all about what you're interested in at this moment in time, and are probably going to target the most attention-grabbing (read : distracting) adverts they can find at you
- the extremely slow-loading Flash (?) advert at http://www.tellme.com/ talks about some one who's interested in sports, but not interested enough to be doing his sport himself, someone who can't find a cup of coffee with his eyeballs in a city, someone who's stupid enough to not be at the airport in plenty of time, and someone who doesn't know how to manage her finances. All people to avoid, I think.
So, unusually for an advert, it's quite informative. People who use Tellme are likely to be people you don't want to waste time on, or be in business with. After all, you can get all of that (apart form the stocks information) with a pocket radio while getting on with most other things and without the adverts."minimum wage, health benefits, safer conditions" follow from unionisation and collective action. If you want better wages and/or safer conditions at work, join or form a trade union. (I leave the "health benefits" question aside, as in the Civilised World ® they comes from being a human being, not from your employment status or political activism.)
Certainly does help.
My introduction to the field was through a geography teacher who wasn't himself particularly clued up on the field - the old "stay one chapter ahead of the kids" school of teaching - but he was well keen. It wasn't really any surprise to bump into him (and several other teachers) on top of a mountain during half term. Great minds think alike.
Not in the real world. In the real world there are idiots who live in different continents to me, who have never heard of me, and who think that the mores of their country apply in my country, and who care enough about my out-of-work behaviour to pay to have me drug tested.
Fucking septic idiots.
TFA includes, as one of the benefits of breaking into Google's services that "Second, Google's domains are unlikely to be blacklisted."
While that's currently true, it's not likely to remain so indefinitely. I already operate a killfile rule in my news reader to kill all messages that originate from anyone at "googlegroups.com", because they host far to many spammers and lunatics. I don't see any metapyhsical objection to blocking more Google-originated stuff.
Of course, the simplest thing for Google to do would be to stop new sign-ups. They've already got hell-knows-how-many people signed up, so losing a few hundreds of thousands more sign-ups while they get their CAPTCHA engine beefed up shouldn't be a long-term problem.
Not until some slave-labourer kid in a sweat shop in Bangalore has spent about 3 hours cutting the stone to shape and polishing it. Un-polished diamonds aren't called "rough" without good reason. They look like greyish pebbles with a moderate sheen on them. "Rock Crystal" quartz is far prettier. Compare these diamond specimens with these rock crystal specimens.
OK - I'm a geologist, so I might have different standards to the man on the Clapham omnibus. But I can imagine the result I'd get from giving the missus a diamond like that.
Do the sums : it's a LOT of power.
If this company's claims are accurate, then you'll need to buy about 1.17 times as much power as you're going to produce in your car's engine. Since car engine efficiency is fairly low (around 20%), you'll need to be buying about ( 1.17 * 5 = 5.88 ) times as much power (presumably as electricity) as you're going to actually use in propelling your car.
Of course, you won't be paying the electric bill on a day-to-day basis. Instead you'll be getting hit by that bill on a monthly or quarterly basis, which will make it so much nicer. [SFX : side-splitting laughter. Ha ha. Ha ha ha.]
(I must admit to not knowing what the ROI acronym stands for. Maybe that makes the article make sense.)
Some users simply don't click on ads. If I see something that I'm interested in, I'll tend to open a new tab, and then type in the domain name of the company in question, then I go searching for the product in question. And it's competitors. It's something to do with distrusting advertisers only a little less than I distrust lawyers. come the glorious day, they'd probably be lined up with the politicians for their turn in front of the machine guns.
Obviously, I block adverts as fast as I can be bothered to configure a new filter for a new advert. Including those that appear on SlashDot.
You're giving ideas to the torturers at Guantanamo.
Even in the developed world, less travelled regions don't have mobile phone service. At least, not the less-travelled parts of the world that I've been to - central Siberia (get more than about 10km out of town and that's service finished for the next 100km) ; offshore Tanzania (get outside a city and that's the mobile service gone) ; the Pennine hills of England (get more than 5 km from a town of 5000 people and that's it, not enough people making or receiving enough calls to justify a mobile service) ; most of the mountains of Scotland have at best very weak service, depending on where you've got line of sight to.
Mobile phone service isn't free : less travelled = less people = less people making or receiving calls = less potential revenue for the phone company = less base stations installed = no coverage. Try travelling around in your home country and get onto a back road where you're more than 5 miles from the nearest village. The signal strength is going to start dropping off. Get 10 miles away and you'll be struggling to maintain a signal. And if you're in hilly regions, you can reduce those distances considerably.
If you want a wireless phone that'll work in any location even remotely resembling "less travelled", you need an Iridium phone. http://store.satphone.co.uk/Catalog/Handsets That'll be £799 to £1500 for the phone, plus around £1/minute. Enjoy.
The original poster didn't include "going on the web" in the problem ; the question was about securing the computer for the child (and I take the implication that the child is getting root, and truly has control of the machine). That's one set of problems, which I think are quite easily solved with a fingerprint scanner.
"Protecting" the child against the nastier elements out on the web is a very different problem, and probably much harder. Given the rapidity of change of these threats, unless someone were to try taking on the administrative task of keeping up an open source "white list" along the lines of the cybernanny class of programs, I suspect that there isn't a solution. Not all problems have solutions, or practical solutions.
Of course, there is one possibility : sit over the child every time that it's using the internet and spend about 8 more years teaching it discrimination until it's reached the point at which it's adult enough to use the net unsupervised.
In the article they claim that
Which is pretty close to true. Why do they switch between numbers and words half-way through? WTF.
The datum that's being reported is a gorilla-related fossil dated to 10 to 10.5 million years. Which is close to half-way through the interval which is devoid of fossils. It's about the best correction that you can make - remember your lectures on search algorithms (I'm assuming that you did do some Computing Science when you were at univerisity) - binary searches - remember? And that new datum (the tooth fossil) being of an organism noticeably more similar to a gorilla than as human, that pushes back the separation between gorilla-ancestors and human-ancestors to the far side of 10/10.5 Ma, and possibly as far back as the 14 Ma that previously known fossils suggest pre-date the humanoid-gorillaoid split. But equally it could be only 11 or 12 million years. What we really need now is to be hunting forest-margin palaeoenvironments of about 12.5 million years to try to pin down the the split more closely.
I wouldn't be terribly upset about a molecular clock being in disagreement with palaeontology. There are an awful lot of assumptions in calibrating a molecular clock, and finding that one of those many has been violated is like finding that it rains when your raincoat is at home. Look at molecular clocks used to calibrate the differentiation of the various animal phyla : according to the molecular clocks, this happened on the order of 1500 Ma ago. But there's nothing in the fossil record until the Duoshantuo embryos pretty close to 600 Ma ago. Of the two, I know which I'd put more confidence in, even given that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
NOT !
Unless, of course, you show them the paperwork that you got from the police X months earlier, when you reported the theft.
What the summary doesn't say (and I can't be bothered to RTFA, because I'm not terribly interested), is that the camera itself checks for the presence of an appropriate iris at the viewfinder regularly. Say, each time it comes out of sleep mode. Or semi-randomly after each fifth photograph (the time to capture the iris image and analyse it might be really annoying if you're trying to do action photography, so you wouldn't do the verification BEFORE taking the photograph).
Be careful - you mean FREE oxygen, or ELEMENTAL oxygen, but you're not saying it. Oxygen is a vital part of the composition of most biologically active molecules, as is nitrogen, phosphorous, and to a lesser extent sulphur.[ SNIGGER ]
It would be just so amusing if it was - our Vista-compliance man (who I've been sharing a cubical with for the last few months) leaves on the 6th. It'd be so amusing if he had the opportunity to hand over the whole task of re-starting the Vista compliance grindstone to someone else on the day that all the rules change.
< SIGH > I was expecting that.
With a tag like "RockDoctor", I'm ashamed to admit that I don't have a sample of cinnabar in my rock pile. But I am trying to persuade the wife that Almaden is a suitable place for a holiday. Maybe combine it with some gypsum caving around Sorbas ... yeah, I've heard worse ideas.
Ah, someone else has figured out why TACB and all those alleged "Al Quaeda Training Manuals" are easily found on the internet. Good, that makes two us us unlikely to blow up our own houses while trying to build a city-buster bomb.
Red mercury, anyone?
Let's get this clear - are you implying that there's no difference between stupidity and human nature (on average).
How cynical.
How realistic.