The danger is this: When you pull it out to pass a checkpoint, someone else can have a device scan your card. Then they will be able to fake your card for nefarious purposes. "The ATM was hacked, and the security system shows that you were the only person present." "But I wasn't there, I was at home!" "Unless you can prove that your ID was hacked you're going to jail."
I've been looking for a sound effect to use to describe my brain zaps to people. Best description I've found so far is degaussing a large CRT. I've been weaning myself off Effexor and sometimes I get it every time I move my eyes.
A mutation of several well known parasites could very easily create a very real infectious parasitical disease similar to that of zombies.
All we need is some rage, a dash of EXTREME HUNGER, and a sprinkle of adrenaline, and some transferral method of the parasite.
There you go, a very real and very dangerous outbreak.
There are several examples IRL of parasites and fungi that modify the behavior of their hosts to increase contagion. Apply this to humans as a host and there are several potential approaches. I think the aggressive approach may not be the most successful though, as people tend to kill and/or avoid overly aggressive people. A more successful approach may be for the host to experience a desire for companionship, close proximity to others, and physical contact. This would increase probability of contagion without significantly risking the host.
Just give it a twist. How's this: The military industrial complex has created nanobots that can live indefinitely in a soldiers blood stream, and which quickly close woulds and repair damage using the body's own resources. If their numbers in the soldiers blood stream are reduced, perhaps by significant bleeding, they will reproduce until the appropriate population density is reached. The work the nanobots do can leave the soldier quite hungry due to the consumption of bodily resources. There are a few drawbacks however. While the nanobots can repair a damaged brain, the information content of the damaged area cannot be recovered. This can lead to various mental difficulties ranging from PTSD to coma and a permanent vegetative state. Coincidentally, the amount of time it takes for a trace infection of nanobots to reproduce in the blood of a corpse and then repair its brain is just long enough for the brain to have decayed to an instinct-only state. Unfortunately, the instinct to feed when hungry is a strong one.
I, for one, leave it to the US to deal with zombie outbreaks. You, guys have so many weapons stashed up it would be a joke to deal with a couple of zombies. Just get to Europe, will ya?
Sure, like how "we" handled Katrina? The BP spill? Wonderful. The first official act would be to round up all the survivors and confiscate their weapons, then leave them in a stadium with no supplies. Then just one infected gets mixed in with the others...
...we couldn't rule out the possibility that the cops got the wrong guy, so we found him not guilty. If I had to take a bet, I'd say he did it, but I wouldn't bet his life on it.
I'm glad you think the way that you do. Too many people would call him guilty if they figured there was a 55% chance of it being him. Hmm, someday someone will have to draw a line in the sand as to what odds constitute reasonable doubt. If a trial could be conducted in a completely unbiased, Bayesian way and a probability of guilt were established, what number would be needed to convict?
Now, if you somehow manage to get semen some place you never were
It means you should have washed your keyboard before disposing of it.
Or more realistically, you should have incinerated your used condoms rather than throwing them in the trash. Great place to get false evidence.
Example: We know the killer has red hair. Testing the defendant for red hair turns up positive. Since there are many others with red hair, we should test the defendant many times to be REALLY SURE that he has red hair. Lock'em up.
I think many would agree that the moral line is drawn at profit. If I make copies and give them away for free, I'm disseminating information to people who otherwise wouldn't or couldn't pay for it. If I'm selling them, I'm being a greedy thief.
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The danger is this: When you pull it out to pass a checkpoint, someone else can have a device scan your card. Then they will be able to fake your card for nefarious purposes. "The ATM was hacked, and the security system shows that you were the only person present." "But I wasn't there, I was at home!" "Unless you can prove that your ID was hacked you're going to jail."
No, they never will. Nothing is unhackable. Some things are just harder to hack than others.
I've been looking for a sound effect to use to describe my brain zaps to people. Best description I've found so far is degaussing a large CRT. I've been weaning myself off Effexor and sometimes I get it every time I move my eyes.
Watch out Blizzard...
You mean that scene in "Jewel of the Nile" wasn't realistic?
Exactly!! This isn't Big Brother for your phone, but LowJack for your phone.
Location and bricking on customer request = Good. Location and bricking on jailbreak = Bad.
Yeah, but Faith looks good in tight vinyl pants and knows how to fight. Not sure I'd trust having her tie me to a chair though.
A mutation of several well known parasites could very easily create a very real infectious parasitical disease similar to that of zombies. All we need is some rage, a dash of EXTREME HUNGER, and a sprinkle of adrenaline, and some transferral method of the parasite. There you go, a very real and very dangerous outbreak.
There are several examples IRL of parasites and fungi that modify the behavior of their hosts to increase contagion. Apply this to humans as a host and there are several potential approaches. I think the aggressive approach may not be the most successful though, as people tend to kill and/or avoid overly aggressive people. A more successful approach may be for the host to experience a desire for companionship, close proximity to others, and physical contact. This would increase probability of contagion without significantly risking the host.
Just give it a twist. How's this: The military industrial complex has created nanobots that can live indefinitely in a soldiers blood stream, and which quickly close woulds and repair damage using the body's own resources. If their numbers in the soldiers blood stream are reduced, perhaps by significant bleeding, they will reproduce until the appropriate population density is reached. The work the nanobots do can leave the soldier quite hungry due to the consumption of bodily resources. There are a few drawbacks however. While the nanobots can repair a damaged brain, the information content of the damaged area cannot be recovered. This can lead to various mental difficulties ranging from PTSD to coma and a permanent vegetative state. Coincidentally, the amount of time it takes for a trace infection of nanobots to reproduce in the blood of a corpse and then repair its brain is just long enough for the brain to have decayed to an instinct-only state. Unfortunately, the instinct to feed when hungry is a strong one.
Zombie Strippers are okay though.
I, for one, leave it to the US to deal with zombie outbreaks. You, guys have so many weapons stashed up it would be a joke to deal with a couple of zombies. Just get to Europe, will ya?
Sure, like how "we" handled Katrina? The BP spill? Wonderful. The first official act would be to round up all the survivors and confiscate their weapons, then leave them in a stadium with no supplies. Then just one infected gets mixed in with the others...
...we couldn't rule out the possibility that the cops got the wrong guy, so we found him not guilty. If I had to take a bet, I'd say he did it, but I wouldn't bet his life on it.
I'm glad you think the way that you do. Too many people would call him guilty if they figured there was a 55% chance of it being him. Hmm, someday someone will have to draw a line in the sand as to what odds constitute reasonable doubt. If a trial could be conducted in a completely unbiased, Bayesian way and a probability of guilt were established, what number would be needed to convict?
Now, if you somehow manage to get semen some place you never were
It means you should have washed your keyboard before disposing of it. Or more realistically, you should have incinerated your used condoms rather than throwing them in the trash. Great place to get false evidence.
That's why medical science is progressing so slowly and unpredictably.
On average anyway.
That's been my experience.
That of course assumes that there can be no correlation between markers.
Example: We know the killer has red hair. Testing the defendant for red hair turns up positive. Since there are many others with red hair, we should test the defendant many times to be REALLY SURE that he has red hair. Lock'em up.
He's inverting the logic. Whoosh!
Remind me to put someone else's skin under the fingernails of my next murder victim.
A test that raises that to 5% is a huge improvement (almost an order of magnitude).
Because of course we want a test that increases the child's chance of having autism. :)
Today: New technology overcomes previous limitations!
Tomorrow: Limit of technology predicted! Oh noes!
Day after: New technology overcomes previous limitations!
I think many would agree that the moral line is drawn at profit. If I make copies and give them away for free, I'm disseminating information to people who otherwise wouldn't or couldn't pay for it. If I'm selling them, I'm being a greedy thief.
By that logic, believing a law to be wrong should be a valid defense. "Sure I broke the law. No, I don't feel guilt or remorse; the law is wrong."
That's funny, I thought it was up to the accuser to prove you were guilty, not the other way around.
That may work when your accuser is a peer, but not when your accuser is your boss.
Reminds me of the people who hang plastic testicles from their trailer hitches.