This amounts to nothing more than legalized extortion and racketeering. How can a so-called "jury of her peers" possibly allow such a thing to happen? I can see a stodgy old judge doing something ridiculous like this, but a jury? They are supposed to possess the collected wisdom of several lifetimes, yet they allow this to continue. It boggles the mind.
Anybody ever find that phrase ironic when applied to the military?
Granted, this isn't directly like some of the more egregious examples. Usually, "saving lives" involves killing more of "them".
I know you're being facetious, but the idea of "saving lives" in this case is like the phrase "a penny saved is a penny earned." They're not actually saving lives, so much as not spending them. Yes, I find it ironic.
I had a roommate in college who was studying Mechanical Engineering, interned with, and was later hired at, a company that designed and made light weapons (pistols, rifles, etc.). He justified it as saving American lives.
I like your idea. Unfortunately for me, my wife simply will not travel if she can't fly, and the trip requires more than 6 hours of driving. So we either fly, or I visit my family alone. Furthermore, she insists on a vacation every year, and it is always to some place that requires flying. Hawaii? Europe? Caribbean? At least 2 of the 3 require flying or swimming.
In that case, why don’t you go find the post you made on Marsha’s wall and delete it? You can delete any post you’ve made... you don’t have to get Marsha to delete it just because it’s on her wall.
If I could, I would mod you +1 Informative. I was not aware that I could do this, and thought that only the owner of the wall could do so. FB permissions / privacy are so confusing.
The likelihood is very remote, but possible. Janet and Marsha never met, and I have over 100 friends on FB (though I rarely ever used it). Janet and I never got along, but we are civil, considering we are close relatives. She is the type who very well might search all of my friends' walls to see if I posted anything about her. With this new tool, as I understand how it works, she would have a MUCH easier time searching. The ramifications of her finding out would be dramatic. She controls my access to her son, who desperately needs stable adults in his life, and while she is "out of favor" in our family, most would be angry with me for being the catalyst for her latest eruption.
True. I posted something negative (but true) about a relative of mine (Janet*), who didn't have access to a computer for a long time, on a friend's wall (Marsha*) as part of an update on my life. I wanted my conversations with her to be transparent because of the history Marsha and I have, and I didn't want my wife to think I was hiding anything. Well, two months ago Janet sent me a friend request, and if I don't friend her without a good reason (i.e. I haven't logged in for months), then I'll catch a LOT of grief from my family. I haven't logged in since to avoid this whole situation, because I don't trust that what I posted on Marsha's wall won't be accessible by Janet. Should I have posted my update on Marsha's wall? Absolutely not, but I didn't foresee all the possible consequences. Now I need to have Marsha delete this from her wall (if at all possible) so Janet won't find this and curse me out. Oops.
Oh great, the old "education is much better in the 3rd world" argument.
Um... that's not what I was saying at all. I was simply pointing out that other countries are improving their education, and if we don't do the same, they will eventually outperform us. I'm not saying that they are, but if we don't continue to improve our methods until the absolute best method is achieved, then they will. When you're on top, you can't just sit there and enjoy your status, or someone else will come along and steal your position. This was in answer to the GP's question asking why we should ever change our education methods.
Since we all, presumably, made it through school and got jobs why should we ever have to change anything about the way we teach kids?
Other countries improve their methods, and their children perform better in adulthood, but we stagnate, they outperform us, we become marginalized, and eventually we fade away. Ancient Egypt was once the mightiest and most advanced empire in the world, but now it's an underdeveloped (3rd world?) country.
These are not imaginary threats. They are very real.
There is the solar storm of 1859 which caused fires that burned down multiple telegraph offices.
Remember the blackout of 2003? The link is to a report straight from NERC, the power grid regulatory commission responsible for the area involved in the blackout.
It is painfully obvious that these are not just crazy fears. As someone who has intimate knowledge of IT systems within a major U.S. power company conglomerate, and is very close to someone who designs/tests/commissions power plant generator hardware, I can assure you that these threats are very real.
Unfortunately, they will be pretty much useless for anything expect storing backups. A Faraday Cage needs to be 100% enclosed, which means no power cables, no ethernet, no anything coming out or going into it. You can get around this by using some industrial strength filters, but those are expensive. The only reasonable use for a Faraday Cage to protect a spare laptop and backup storage media (external HDDs, tapes, thumb drives, etc.). That way, when an EMP from solar wind or as a precursor to nuclear war knocks out everything, you can open up your Faraday Cage and pull out your laptop and backups.
Of course, at that point we'll be more concerned about drinking water since the vast majority of the water supplied to cities and neighborhoods in the U.S. use massive electric pumps to make it potable and deliver it. Only 1 in 10 vehicles will run since the newest 9/10 of vehicles on the road rely on electronics which will fry, so food will start to become an issue soon after the water. At least we always have at least one EMP-proof flying communications hub in the air at all times. That way, the President can still find out what happened, why, and in the case of nuclear war, who did it, where to aim our nukes, and be able to issue launch codes to our subs around the world.
Constructing a Faraday Cage is pretty low on my list of disaster preparedness tasks, but those links are still pretty cool.
last time I looked, tubes had 2 dimensions... diameter and length...
No, that would be 3 dimensions. Diameter is really 2 dimensions, implying that the shape is circular within those 2 dimensions. Add in length, and you get 3 dimensions. However, the article is not talking about 1 dimensional tubes. It's talking about the 1 dimension in which the particles will move, since the tube is 1 atom thick.
It's not the dimensions in which the graphene occupies that is 1D. It's the dimensions along which a particle moves. Graphene, being 1 atom thick, would normally be a sheet, occupying 3 dimensional space. The particles would move along the graphene in 2 dimensional space. If you rolled the sheet into a single atom thick carbon nanotube, it still occupies 3 dimensional space, but the particles will only move along 1 dimension.
This will make it almost impossible for smaller companies to make fast video encoding applications. They will have to start paying royalties if they want to encode video using the GPU in applications such as FRAPS or any video converter. Their products will either have to become more expensive or remain inferior to products made by larger companies.
I think that's the whole purpose of filing patents. The greater purpose of patents is to provide incentive to innovate, but for the patent filer, it's to gain a temporary monopoly on an idea, which gives a competitive advantage.
I'd like to see this retrofitted to fire beach balls from the turf at sporting events, up to the fans in the upper decks. It would have to inflate just before hitting it's destination, of course. As an extra bonus, a cheerleader could fire this thing at unruly fans that are closer than 150m, and say "oops, my aim was off" when the fan gets smashed in the face by the deflated projectile. Cool, huh?
How much is a pay-per-episode of a TV show on iTunes? Isn't it like $1.99? You get to skip all of the commercials, right? Isn't that the equivalent of $2/episode?
This isn't that outrageous.
To me it is outrageous, and that's why I don't use iTunes, or any similar service. Paying $6/hour for entertainment is far too expensive IMO. I'll stick to Hulu for now. At least with Hulu I can walk away for two minutes at the beginning of the show to use the bathroom, get something to drink, or just bug my wife, while the pre-show commercial plays, then sit down for 20 minutes to watch it without annoying interruptions. If there is only one thing I don't miss about TV, it would be the commercials. I stopped buying video game magazines when I was 14 because I realized that half the pages were just ads. Why would I want a TV program to be interrupted every four minutes for two minutes of commercials? Why would I want to get nickel-and-dime'd?
So did these 10 people never learn not to touch the stove while it's on? I mean, that's the measuring stick we use for high heat leading to bad outcomes, right?
Let's not forget that "children" also includes 17-year old drivers, with part-time jobs, who socialize with their friends via Facebook, using a laptop their school provided, while lounging in bed. These children also fall into the category of pediatric medicine.
I think the problems are that the damage can happen at only 120 F, and laptops don't spike from ambient temperature to 120 F instantly. 120 F isn't all that hot, and if you warm it slowly, well, we all know the fable about boiling frogs.
The telomere tail is kind of like the photocopy degradation. As cells split, these tails grow shorter and shorter. Eventually, the DNA becomes a bit wacky, unstable, and dangerous. When a cell splits, both resultant cells are slightly degraded from the previous state. It's like making two photocopies (generation 2) of a document, then throwing away the original (generation 1). Then you make two copies (generation 3) of each copy, and throw away the previous ones (generation 2). Repeat several thousand times.
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Too bad I can't drive between the U.S. and Europe. Or between Hawaii and anywhere. That would handle 95% of my travel needs.
GRAMMAR BOT 9001 didn't recognize the laying vs. lying error. It must be time to update the database of lexical errors in GRAMMAR BOT 9001.
This amounts to nothing more than legalized extortion and racketeering. How can a so-called "jury of her peers" possibly allow such a thing to happen? I can see a stodgy old judge doing something ridiculous like this, but a jury? They are supposed to possess the collected wisdom of several lifetimes, yet they allow this to continue. It boggles the mind.
Anybody ever find that phrase ironic when applied to the military?
Granted, this isn't directly like some of the more egregious examples. Usually, "saving lives" involves killing more of "them".
I know you're being facetious, but the idea of "saving lives" in this case is like the phrase "a penny saved is a penny earned." They're not actually saving lives, so much as not spending them. Yes, I find it ironic.
I had a roommate in college who was studying Mechanical Engineering, interned with, and was later hired at, a company that designed and made light weapons (pistols, rifles, etc.). He justified it as saving American lives.
I like your idea. Unfortunately for me, my wife simply will not travel if she can't fly, and the trip requires more than 6 hours of driving. So we either fly, or I visit my family alone. Furthermore, she insists on a vacation every year, and it is always to some place that requires flying. Hawaii? Europe? Caribbean? At least 2 of the 3 require flying or swimming.
state and federal statues protecting the confidentiality of electronic communications.
I knew that the government was full of gargoyles, but I didn't know it was so literal!
I tagged it with that ~45 minutes ago.
In that case, why don’t you go find the post you made on Marsha’s wall and delete it? You can delete any post you’ve made... you don’t have to get Marsha to delete it just because it’s on her wall.
If I could, I would mod you +1 Informative. I was not aware that I could do this, and thought that only the owner of the wall could do so. FB permissions / privacy are so confusing.
The likelihood is very remote, but possible. Janet and Marsha never met, and I have over 100 friends on FB (though I rarely ever used it). Janet and I never got along, but we are civil, considering we are close relatives. She is the type who very well might search all of my friends' walls to see if I posted anything about her. With this new tool, as I understand how it works, she would have a MUCH easier time searching. The ramifications of her finding out would be dramatic. She controls my access to her son, who desperately needs stable adults in his life, and while she is "out of favor" in our family, most would be angry with me for being the catalyst for her latest eruption.
True. I posted something negative (but true) about a relative of mine (Janet*), who didn't have access to a computer for a long time, on a friend's wall (Marsha*) as part of an update on my life. I wanted my conversations with her to be transparent because of the history Marsha and I have, and I didn't want my wife to think I was hiding anything. Well, two months ago Janet sent me a friend request, and if I don't friend her without a good reason (i.e. I haven't logged in for months), then I'll catch a LOT of grief from my family. I haven't logged in since to avoid this whole situation, because I don't trust that what I posted on Marsha's wall won't be accessible by Janet. Should I have posted my update on Marsha's wall? Absolutely not, but I didn't foresee all the possible consequences. Now I need to have Marsha delete this from her wall (if at all possible) so Janet won't find this and curse me out. Oops.
Oh great, the old "education is much better in the 3rd world" argument.
Um... that's not what I was saying at all. I was simply pointing out that other countries are improving their education, and if we don't do the same, they will eventually outperform us. I'm not saying that they are, but if we don't continue to improve our methods until the absolute best method is achieved, then they will. When you're on top, you can't just sit there and enjoy your status, or someone else will come along and steal your position. This was in answer to the GP's question asking why we should ever change our education methods.
Since we all, presumably, made it through school and got jobs why should we ever have to change anything about the way we teach kids?
Other countries improve their methods, and their children perform better in adulthood, but we stagnate, they outperform us, we become marginalized, and eventually we fade away. Ancient Egypt was once the mightiest and most advanced empire in the world, but now it's an underdeveloped (3rd world?) country.
These are not imaginary threats. They are very real.
There is the solar storm of 1859 which caused fires that burned down multiple telegraph offices.
Remember the blackout of 2003? The link is to a report straight from NERC, the power grid regulatory commission responsible for the area involved in the blackout.
Then let's not forget about stuxnet worm.
It is painfully obvious that these are not just crazy fears. As someone who has intimate knowledge of IT systems within a major U.S. power company conglomerate, and is very close to someone who designs/tests/commissions power plant generator hardware, I can assure you that these threats are very real.
Unfortunately, they will be pretty much useless for anything expect storing backups. A Faraday Cage needs to be 100% enclosed, which means no power cables, no ethernet, no anything coming out or going into it. You can get around this by using some industrial strength filters, but those are expensive. The only reasonable use for a Faraday Cage to protect a spare laptop and backup storage media (external HDDs, tapes, thumb drives, etc.). That way, when an EMP from solar wind or as a precursor to nuclear war knocks out everything, you can open up your Faraday Cage and pull out your laptop and backups.
Of course, at that point we'll be more concerned about drinking water since the vast majority of the water supplied to cities and neighborhoods in the U.S. use massive electric pumps to make it potable and deliver it. Only 1 in 10 vehicles will run since the newest 9/10 of vehicles on the road rely on electronics which will fry, so food will start to become an issue soon after the water. At least we always have at least one EMP-proof flying communications hub in the air at all times. That way, the President can still find out what happened, why, and in the case of nuclear war, who did it, where to aim our nukes, and be able to issue launch codes to our subs around the world.
Constructing a Faraday Cage is pretty low on my list of disaster preparedness tasks, but those links are still pretty cool.
last time I looked, tubes had 2 dimensions... diameter and length...
No, that would be 3 dimensions. Diameter is really 2 dimensions, implying that the shape is circular within those 2 dimensions. Add in length, and you get 3 dimensions. However, the article is not talking about 1 dimensional tubes. It's talking about the 1 dimension in which the particles will move, since the tube is 1 atom thick.
It's not the dimensions in which the graphene occupies that is 1D. It's the dimensions along which a particle moves. Graphene, being 1 atom thick, would normally be a sheet, occupying 3 dimensional space. The particles would move along the graphene in 2 dimensional space. If you rolled the sheet into a single atom thick carbon nanotube, it still occupies 3 dimensional space, but the particles will only move along 1 dimension.
Same here. Well, satellite and 1.5 Mbps DSL, but they might as well be dial-up. Comcast's 22 Mbps is the only reasonable choice, I'm sad to say.
This will make it almost impossible for smaller companies to make fast video encoding applications. They will have to start paying royalties if they want to encode video using the GPU in applications such as FRAPS or any video converter. Their products will either have to become more expensive or remain inferior to products made by larger companies.
I think that's the whole purpose of filing patents. The greater purpose of patents is to provide incentive to innovate, but for the patent filer, it's to gain a temporary monopoly on an idea, which gives a competitive advantage.
I'd like to see this retrofitted to fire beach balls from the turf at sporting events, up to the fans in the upper decks. It would have to inflate just before hitting it's destination, of course. As an extra bonus, a cheerleader could fire this thing at unruly fans that are closer than 150m, and say "oops, my aim was off" when the fan gets smashed in the face by the deflated projectile. Cool, huh?
How much is a pay-per-episode of a TV show on iTunes? Isn't it like $1.99? You get to skip all of the commercials, right? Isn't that the equivalent of $2/episode? This isn't that outrageous.
To me it is outrageous, and that's why I don't use iTunes, or any similar service. Paying $6/hour for entertainment is far too expensive IMO. I'll stick to Hulu for now. At least with Hulu I can walk away for two minutes at the beginning of the show to use the bathroom, get something to drink, or just bug my wife, while the pre-show commercial plays, then sit down for 20 minutes to watch it without annoying interruptions. If there is only one thing I don't miss about TV, it would be the commercials. I stopped buying video game magazines when I was 14 because I realized that half the pages were just ads. Why would I want a TV program to be interrupted every four minutes for two minutes of commercials? Why would I want to get nickel-and-dime'd?
Too bad it's a $2 "per program" leeching, and not a $2 charge when you first sign-up.
So did these 10 people never learn not to touch the stove while it's on? I mean, that's the measuring stick we use for high heat leading to bad outcomes, right?
I guess you've never heard of sensory adaptation? Or perhaps the boiling frog phenomenon?
Let's not forget that "children" also includes 17-year old drivers, with part-time jobs, who socialize with their friends via Facebook, using a laptop their school provided, while lounging in bed. These children also fall into the category of pediatric medicine.
I think the problems are that the damage can happen at only 120 F, and laptops don't spike from ambient temperature to 120 F instantly. 120 F isn't all that hot, and if you warm it slowly, well, we all know the fable about boiling frogs.
The telomere tail is kind of like the photocopy degradation. As cells split, these tails grow shorter and shorter. Eventually, the DNA becomes a bit wacky, unstable, and dangerous. When a cell splits, both resultant cells are slightly degraded from the previous state. It's like making two photocopies (generation 2) of a document, then throwing away the original (generation 1). Then you make two copies (generation 3) of each copy, and throw away the previous ones (generation 2). Repeat several thousand times.