Sure not everyone will use it this way, but there WILL be some people that will use it in this way.
So by this logic torrent file sharing should be illegal because some people could use it to share child pornography. I bet there is not a new technology out there that could not be misused in some way but that is not a reason to throw out the whole technology.
You justifications are lame at best. For someone to come back at Anya they would have to know that he knew about the money. The only people with that information are Anya and the drug dealers. That is what I mean about willful ignorance. Anya installed a new trap even though he knew it was against the law and got caught.
Try comparing apples to apples. How about this one. You pull up with a trailer full of designers shoes yet you have no connection at all with the shoe industry or trunking it is a good bet that those shoes are stolen. To be thorough lets compare the situation and the one you compare it with; 1. No receipt for shoes vs no visible means of gaining $800,000. Many people don't carry receipts for shoes around. Very few people carry $800,000. 2. Haven't seen shoes, $800,000 hidden in a truck. Unless one follows she design there are a lot of shoes many people have not seen. It is quite rare to see $800,000 in a truck. 3. You must be a foreigner and a spy vs you must be a drug dealer. The leap between unknown shoes and foreigner is a big one. Locals can't import foreign shoes or buy them while on a trip? The leap between foreigner and spy is ludicrous as 99.999% of foreigners are not spies. Through news reports it is vary easy to draw a connection between the drug trade and large amounts of hidden cash.
The comment was against lumping Wall Street bankers and CEOs in with drug dealers. The issue isn't the existence of a large amount of cash but the location and the lack of visible legal means of getting it. Sorry buy anyone with an IQ over 80 would assume that someone driving around in a truck in California with $800,000 in a hidden compartment is a drug dealer. If it had been a few thousand there could be other reasons. There was even a supposed quote by Anya, "“Get it out of here, I don’t want to know about this. I don’t want any problems.” Once he saw the cash he knew they were drug dealers but continued to work for them.
How about large cash reserves that can not be traced to legal transactions? There is no law against over paying Wall Street bankers and CEOs but there is one against illegally selling drugs.
No bank hater keeps $800,000 in cash in a vehicle and risks it every time he drives it around. Bank haters stash cash in safe places and a vehicle is not safe. It is also the volume of cash. $800,000 is a lot of money and it is very doubtful that one bank hater's stash would be that large. Willful ignorance is not protection from the law.
Anya was not innocent in this issue. When he saw wads of cash in the f-150 he should have taken the safe route and refused to work for Esteban Magallon. There is no lawful reason somone would stuff $800,000 in cash under a seat. Willful ignorance is no protection from the law. He knew what his work was being used for. He knew the penalty for installing traps for drug dealers. He knew he was being paid with illegally obtained money. He just didn't think he would get caught. The so called quote by Anya, "“Get it out of here, I don’t want to know about this. I don’t want any problems.”, is further damning evidence as it was too late; he already knew. Had he cut ties at that point I could see him having an out but to continue working for the obvious drug dealer convicts him.
There is no parallel between Anya and a robot kit manufacturer. The difference is that Anya had direct contact with the drug dealers and took money from a drug deal for that service. The only ways a robot manufacturer could get into trouble is if they went to the drug dealer's lab and installed the robots or have the drug dealer return the robot, covered in drugs, for repair. The parallel is just stupid, By that logic anyone who sells anything to a drug dealer is liable.
Traps are a special case in that they are essential to smuggling and appear to have a law specifically dealing with them. Had Anya said no when he discovered the cash he probably would be in the clear. He didn't, he broke the law, he goes to jail.
It is much simpler to prevent a known party than to stop one when it is already in progress. What do you think would take less manpower? Contacting a planned location and telling them not to have the party and stopping the setup or showing up to a complaint and attempting to stop a party that has a couple hundred drunk punk rockers? I know which one would be definitely safer.
By the way, noise is not the only issue with parties like this. There is vandalism, street brawls, theft, public drunkenness, etc. These are not things welcome in residential neighborhoods.
Lets take a look at a couple of scenarios; 1. A cop on the internet spending a couple of hours to find a DIY event, a couple of cops to show up and tell them not to run it and a couple of cops to show up on the appointed time to verify it didn't happen. Total manpower usage 4 hours. 2, Respond to a noise complaint at midnight to find 100 drunken punk rockers at a DIY event. That would require the following to break up; * at least 10 cops for 2 to 3 hours * Transport to jail for at least 5-10 idiots who start fights * booking time, * court timetime, * public service administration Total time a couple hundred hours. Which would you think is a better use of resources? Preventing a loud party is much simpler than stopping one in progress.
But they need to get the efficiency up a bit. I don't think a few months is sufficient...
Cryo runs on batteries, with the researchers hoping to better replicate the energy-efficient nature of jelly movement to eventually increase Cryo's charge cycle to months instead of hours.
It looks like the researchers have even further to go than you thought as they haven't even broken the one day barrier.
The difference between lasers is that it is quite easy to see the possibilities of concentrating light into a small area and the work it could so. It can be extrapolated from what can be done with a mirror. I find it much more difficult to see how moving like a jellyfish is all that useful except in very limited instances like ocean studies. For example, they mention spill cleanup; much too slow and too little power.
Sorry, I didn't see your tinfoil hat brigade badge. Information and images of non-targets will always be captured in any surveillance. Try to get back to reality.
Solar impulse is an over hyped, overly complex sailplane. That it uses new materials and can stay up all night is not an astounding accomplishment. The endurance record for an unpowered glider is over 56 hours and the distance record is 3,008 kilometers. Look ma no solar panels.
I get frustrated when I go to the Solar Impulse web site. It is like wading through vats of PR slime trying to find real information on how the aircraft really works. What are they trying to hide? Case in point, they say they have released an itinerary. All I see is a start date and a list of stopovers. There is not even an approximate schedule for these stopovers. I like the statement that local weather conditions will modify these dates. Wow, that does not seem to be very reliable to me if they can't even give a date plus or minus a few days.
Sorry but Solar impulse is a toy for rich people draining money from research that might actually go somewhere.
That would be great if there were useful things that can be done at jellyfish speeds (very slow), at jellyfish accuracy (very low) with jellyfish carrying capacities (almost zero). Basically jellyfish are floaters with some capacity to regulate their depth in the water. They are almost neutrally buoyant so it takes very little energy. A robot has much more mass and density so would still take considerable energy to move.
The goals of this research are very simple and very controlled. Take for example the pushing of the box. It was one box in a pristine room with one target. The pushing algorithm is extremely simple. Move randomly until you can not see red and then move toward the last location that you saw red. What happens if there is a small obstacle on the floor and the object can not be pushed straight toward the floor? What happens if the targets not visible from the object? What happens if there are several possible targets and several possible objects to push? How do the robots know when to stop pushing? Sure simple robots with simple programming given simple tasks in a simple environment will work. The real world is rarely that simple. As one throws more real world parameters into the situation the complexity rises exponentially.
They believe that this could provide opportunities for us mere humans to harness such power to do all sorts of things like safety — what like catching falling workers perhaps?
Is that worker in an uncontrolled fall or are they jumping? When you add decision making into a process it becomes much more complex than pushing or sorting.
The problem with unedited, non-peer reviewed papers is that research fraud is too common these days. As it stands now I don't trust any paper that has not gone through a peer review and even that only makes me less rigorous in checking similar studies.
Publishing" is the dubious service that "publishers" offer, after the papers have already been written, selected, peer reviewed, re-edited by the authors, and accepted, all for free by the academic community as part of their job.
Wrong, or did you miss the whole start of this discussion where the editing staff for a journal resigned from the publisher? The publisher does much of the selection, editing and peer reviews.
Imagine thousands of university librarians talking to local academics, then downloading the journals of interest into a local archive, accessible to everyone on campus, and even the wider public.
Imagine a local academic talking to thousands of librarians trying to convince them to host their paper. That may be a full time job.
You pick another repository somewhere else in the world which has a copy of the paper you want.
Remember you are talking about small repositories that will not impact a host's storage or bandwidth. What is a paper is only hosted on a few sites?
If the local university library has a journal archive, and you want support, you can just pick up the phone and call someone, and if you really want to you can walk down the street and get someone to help you *in person*.
If it is not hosted locally one would call the support desk where it is hosted. What happens when thousands of people from all over the world start relying on the local repository and it goes down causing the local support desk to have to deal with thousands of calls and emails? The repository will not last long.
Copyrights.
Why are there not free open journals that do not require copyright transfers right now? No one is holding a gun to author's heads and forcing them to use a paid publisher. Why haven't institutes done the publishing themselves if all it entails is hosting? Oh wait, there is one institute who does hosting and it costs them over $880K per year.
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Sure not everyone will use it this way, but there WILL be some people that will use it in this way.
So by this logic torrent file sharing should be illegal because some people could use it to share child pornography. I bet there is not a new technology out there that could not be misused in some way but that is not a reason to throw out the whole technology.
You justifications are lame at best. For someone to come back at Anya they would have to know that he knew about the money. The only people with that information are Anya and the drug dealers. That is what I mean about willful ignorance. Anya installed a new trap even though he knew it was against the law and got caught.
Try comparing apples to apples. How about this one.
You pull up with a trailer full of designers shoes yet you have no connection at all with the shoe industry or trunking it is a good bet that those shoes are stolen.
To be thorough lets compare the situation and the one you compare it with;
1. No receipt for shoes vs no visible means of gaining $800,000. Many people don't carry receipts for shoes around. Very few people carry $800,000.
2. Haven't seen shoes, $800,000 hidden in a truck. Unless one follows she design there are a lot of shoes many people have not seen. It is quite rare to see $800,000 in a truck.
3. You must be a foreigner and a spy vs you must be a drug dealer. The leap between unknown shoes and foreigner is a big one. Locals can't import foreign shoes or buy them while on a trip? The leap between foreigner and spy is ludicrous as 99.999% of foreigners are not spies. Through news reports it is vary easy to draw a connection between the drug trade and large amounts of hidden cash.
The comment was against lumping Wall Street bankers and CEOs in with drug dealers. The issue isn't the existence of a large amount of cash but the location and the lack of visible legal means of getting it. Sorry buy anyone with an IQ over 80 would assume that someone driving around in a truck in California with $800,000 in a hidden compartment is a drug dealer. If it had been a few thousand there could be other reasons. There was even a supposed quote by Anya, "“Get it out of here, I don’t want to know about this. I don’t want any problems.” Once he saw the cash he knew they were drug dealers but continued to work for them.
Build a Secret Compartment for a Drug Dealer, Go To Jail.
FTFY
How about large cash reserves that can not be traced to legal transactions? There is no law against over paying Wall Street bankers and CEOs but there is one against illegally selling drugs.
No bank hater keeps $800,000 in cash in a vehicle and risks it every time he drives it around. Bank haters stash cash in safe places and a vehicle is not safe. It is also the volume of cash. $800,000 is a lot of money and it is very doubtful that one bank hater's stash would be that large. Willful ignorance is not protection from the law.
Anya was not innocent in this issue. When he saw wads of cash in the f-150 he should have taken the safe route and refused to work for Esteban Magallon. There is no lawful reason somone would stuff $800,000 in cash under a seat. Willful ignorance is no protection from the law. He knew what his work was being used for. He knew the penalty for installing traps for drug dealers. He knew he was being paid with illegally obtained money. He just didn't think he would get caught. The so called quote by Anya, "“Get it out of here, I don’t want to know about this. I don’t want any problems.”, is further damning evidence as it was too late; he already knew. Had he cut ties at that point I could see him having an out but to continue working for the obvious drug dealer convicts him.
There is no parallel between Anya and a robot kit manufacturer. The difference is that Anya had direct contact with the drug dealers and took money from a drug deal for that service. The only ways a robot manufacturer could get into trouble is if they went to the drug dealer's lab and installed the robots or have the drug dealer return the robot, covered in drugs, for repair. The parallel is just stupid, By that logic anyone who sells anything to a drug dealer is liable.
Traps are a special case in that they are essential to smuggling and appear to have a law specifically dealing with them. Had Anya said no when he discovered the cash he probably would be in the clear. He didn't, he broke the law, he goes to jail.
Merely semantics as the police deal with both crimes and infractions.
Sorry but in most cities holding a large party in a residential area without a permit is a crime.
Just using the same language as the submitter. Would you call it a gig (which is slang for concert)?
No, I just happen to have a decent vocabulary.
Sorry but a punk rock concert usually is pretty noisy.
It is much simpler to prevent a known party than to stop one when it is already in progress. What do you think would take less manpower? Contacting a planned location and telling them not to have the party and stopping the setup or showing up to a complaint and attempting to stop a party that has a couple hundred drunk punk rockers? I know which one would be definitely safer.
By the way, noise is not the only issue with parties like this. There is vandalism, street brawls, theft, public drunkenness, etc. These are not things welcome in residential neighborhoods.
Lets take a look at a couple of scenarios;
1. A cop on the internet spending a couple of hours to find a DIY event, a couple of cops to show up and tell them not to run it and a couple of cops to show up on the appointed time to verify it didn't happen.
Total manpower usage 4 hours.
2, Respond to a noise complaint at midnight to find 100 drunken punk rockers at a DIY event. That would require the following to break up;
* at least 10 cops for 2 to 3 hours
* Transport to jail for at least 5-10 idiots who start fights
* booking time,
* court timetime,
* public service administration
Total time a couple hundred hours.
Which would you think is a better use of resources? Preventing a loud party is much simpler than stopping one in progress.
But they need to get the efficiency up a bit. I don't think a few months is sufficient...
Cryo runs on batteries, with the researchers hoping to better replicate the energy-efficient nature of jelly movement to eventually increase Cryo's charge cycle to months instead of hours.
It looks like the researchers have even further to go than you thought as they haven't even broken the one day barrier.
The difference between lasers is that it is quite easy to see the possibilities of concentrating light into a small area and the work it could so. It can be extrapolated from what can be done with a mirror. I find it much more difficult to see how moving like a jellyfish is all that useful except in very limited instances like ocean studies. For example, they mention spill cleanup; much too slow and too little power.
You missed my point. Problems of this complexity are assignments for second year computer science students and nothing new.
Sorry, I didn't see your tinfoil hat brigade badge. Information and images of non-targets will always be captured in any surveillance. Try to get back to reality.
Solar impulse is an over hyped, overly complex sailplane. That it uses new materials and can stay up all night is not an astounding accomplishment. The endurance record for an unpowered glider is over 56 hours and the distance record is 3,008 kilometers. Look ma no solar panels.
I get frustrated when I go to the Solar Impulse web site. It is like wading through vats of PR slime trying to find real information on how the aircraft really works. What are they trying to hide? Case in point, they say they have released an itinerary. All I see is a start date and a list of stopovers. There is not even an approximate schedule for these stopovers. I like the statement that local weather conditions will modify these dates. Wow, that does not seem to be very reliable to me if they can't even give a date plus or minus a few days.
Sorry but Solar impulse is a toy for rich people draining money from research that might actually go somewhere.
That would be great if there were useful things that can be done at jellyfish speeds (very slow), at jellyfish accuracy (very low) with jellyfish carrying capacities (almost zero). Basically jellyfish are floaters with some capacity to regulate their depth in the water. They are almost neutrally buoyant so it takes very little energy. A robot has much more mass and density so would still take considerable energy to move.
The goals of this research are very simple and very controlled. Take for example the pushing of the box. It was one box in a pristine room with one target. The pushing algorithm is extremely simple. Move randomly until you can not see red and then move toward the last location that you saw red.
What happens if there is a small obstacle on the floor and the object can not be pushed straight toward the floor?
What happens if the targets not visible from the object?
What happens if there are several possible targets and several possible objects to push?
How do the robots know when to stop pushing?
Sure simple robots with simple programming given simple tasks in a simple environment will work. The real world is rarely that simple. As one throws more real world parameters into the situation the complexity rises exponentially.
They believe that this could provide opportunities for us mere humans to harness such power to do all sorts of things like safety — what like catching falling workers perhaps?
Is that worker in an uncontrolled fall or are they jumping? When you add decision making into a process it becomes much more complex than pushing or sorting.
As I was trying to point out hosting is only part of the story there are other aspects to the cost of a journal.
The problem with unedited, non-peer reviewed papers is that research fraud is too common these days. As it stands now I don't trust any paper that has not gone through a peer review and even that only makes me less rigorous in checking similar studies.
How about video surveillance of a location? it would capture people walking by who have nothing at all to do with the location.
Publishing" is the dubious service that "publishers" offer, after the papers have already been written, selected, peer reviewed, re-edited by the authors, and accepted, all for free by the academic community as part of their job.
Wrong, or did you miss the whole start of this discussion where the editing staff for a journal resigned from the publisher? The publisher does much of the selection, editing and peer reviews.
Imagine thousands of university librarians talking to local academics, then downloading the journals of interest into a local archive, accessible to everyone on campus, and even the wider public.
Imagine a local academic talking to thousands of librarians trying to convince them to host their paper. That may be a full time job.
You pick another repository somewhere else in the world which has a copy of the paper you want.
Remember you are talking about small repositories that will not impact a host's storage or bandwidth. What is a paper is only hosted on a few sites?
If the local university library has a journal archive, and you want support, you can just pick up the phone and call someone, and if you really want to you can walk down the street and get someone to help you *in person*.
If it is not hosted locally one would call the support desk where it is hosted. What happens when thousands of people from all over the world start relying on the local repository and it goes down causing the local support desk to have to deal with thousands of calls and emails? The repository will not last long.
Copyrights.
Why are there not free open journals that do not require copyright transfers right now? No one is holding a gun to author's heads and forcing them to use a paid publisher. Why haven't institutes done the publishing themselves if all it entails is hosting? Oh wait, there is one institute who does hosting and it costs them over $880K per year.
Just as a wiretap on a business phone captures conversations of people other than the target.