Plenty of people have survived bullets and other kinds of high velocity objects through the brain, including an iron bar propelled by gunpowder. For more certainty, I'd suggest an explosive collar.
The reason employers want everyone to be on social media: They can use it to gather information about you that would be illegal or inappropriate to ask in a job interview.
-You can't solve social problems with technical solutions. The money would be better spent on studying conflict resolution and teaching it to the cops.
In my experience, the less cops around, the more peaceful the demonstration. If the cops are so damned worried about their security, then stay the hell out of people's way!
Another throwaway toy for the throwaway generation.
Now the cell phone fot a true Urban Survivalist should be able to survive 20m of submersion and a 10m drop on concrete. Equipped with a cast steel case with a built-in bottle opener and a tear gas spray (helluva lot more useful features that tetris).
One important technical detail that the article lacked was how is the energy going to be converted to electricity. I don't see how houses and factories are powered with immense pulses of radiation. Technically there's still long way to go before one of these machines produces steady flow of juice.
On the other hand, I find the idea of fusion power as a source of wealth and egalitary for the whole world to be naïve bs. The reasons of poverty are political and are not swept away with technological solutions, quite on the contrary. There's no way the rich governments and corporations which have invested gazillion dollars in this technology are going to just hand it over to the poor. It'll rather end up to be a new and powerful gadget in their toolbox of economical oppression. What the third world countries must do is to build dispersed power networks utilizing various sustainable sources (wind, solar, bio, hydro...) to make them indepedent of the fuel recources and technology possesed by the first world.
Then why are several governmets restricting the use of cryptography. If it's up to the user to take care of their privacy, the we should be allowed to have the tools for it.
"This could easily be accomplished with something like the askjesus.org filter, so that existing web sites don't have to be changed. As long as the user isn't presented with any alternatives, they will have to expose FNORD! themselves to advertising."
Wouldn't it be just as easy to use similar filter to remove all the names of the brands from the page, at least from the text part?
Broblem with a edged weapon made out of glass is that glass is amorphic, not crystal, and it acts like very stiff liquid. You can make extremely sharp edge, but it will become dull by itself (=even when not used) in couple of weeks.
Large companies do take lives, like Shell in Nigeria. Their security forces kill poeple all the time. But that's in a third world country so it doesn't count, right?
>Why does a highly reflective sail help? Surely, if the sail reflects the photons, then the energy is just reflected with it? Doesn't sail have to absorb the energy to gain the momentum? But as someone else pointed out, if it absorbed the energy, it'd just heat up.
The important issue is the conservation of _momentum_, that is the combined momentums of the photon and the ship must be equal before and after they collide. Now if the photon has momentum m and the ship momentum 0 before the collision and the photon is absorbed, then the photon is destroyed and the ship must have a momentum m after the collision to equal the situation before. Now if the photon is reflected back, it will have momentum of -m after the collision (the - sign indicating that it's direction has reversed). What will the momentum of the ship be for the sum of the momentums to equal m? Right, 2m. The ship has received twice as much momentum from the photon when it has been reflected back (this refers to the ideal situation of 100% reflection for the sail, which is actually never achieved).
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>I don't see any incentive here for the companies.
The incentive could be made with legislation. If the law would require the manufacturers to dispose the old hardware in enviromentally sustainable way it would make it profitable to:
-put less toxic materials to their products
-make them last longer, in one way or another
Of course you would need an Apache (and I mean the chopper, not the server!) to get anything like this pass the corporation lobbyists.
I seriously doubt that this will work. Simple physics: metabolism produces heat. If it doesn't leave your suit (as thermal radiation) your body temperature starts to rise.
Isn't a propriety software a security risk for the military? Imagine this: an enemy agent infiltrates the Micro$oft programming team and slips a trojan horse in the system. Because its closed source, the military would have no way to find out before it would be too late. With an open source OS on the other hand...
But Joe did cause the shutting off (indirectly) by making a claim about Jack that wasn't true (or at least could't be proven to be, which is just as good).
If I made a untrue claim about someone that would cause him to lose his job, I would still be responsible even if it was the boss who did the actual firing.
"The fear of being taken to court (because of the size of damages and the fact that they are being made responsible for someone else's opinions) is now causing ISPs to shut down websites regardless of the content, but merely because they receive a solicitor's letter saying that if their client is ever slandered on this site in the future, they will sue..."
But isn't there a way to figth this? Like this: 1) Joe sends a letter to Jack's ISP saying that if Jack will post something about Joe in his website he will sue the ISP. 2) Jack's ISP shuts down his website. 3) Jack makes a libel case against Joe on the grounds of Joe's claim about Jack (that he may post something about Joe) that has caused damage to him (the shutting up of his website). To bail himself out Joe would have to prove that Jack had an intention to post things about him in the first place. How the hell would he do that?
Here's my contribution to the embarassing childhood memories: I started with vic-20, at the age of about 10. The first game I made with it was Russian roulette. All you could do with it was to punch a key, with a 1/6 chance of dying every time, until you eventually did (can't remember my record though).
I wouldn't personally mind at all if all the unauthorized copying (piracy is a word for hijacking ships) would drive all the big entertainment corporations to bankrupcy and stop them from polluting the world with their pretentious crap. True art would survive.
I dont't mind artist making a living with their work, but the present copyright system is there to make some selected few into millionares. I mean look at Metallica. They could retire now, never play a chord and they would still have more money in their hands than they could possibly spend in their lifetime.
Why do people give money to street musicians anyway? It's not because they would get sued if they didn't but they still do. Strange.
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How does this one fare against hockey stick wielding asshats?
Plenty of people have survived bullets and other kinds of high velocity objects through the brain, including an iron bar propelled by gunpowder. For more certainty, I'd suggest an explosive collar.
The reason employers want everyone to be on social media: They can use it to gather information about you that would be illegal or inappropriate to ask in a job interview.
Very simple:
-You don't get a nail in with a screwdriver
-You can't solve social problems with technical solutions. The money would be better spent on studying conflict resolution and teaching it to the cops.
In my experience, the less cops around, the more peaceful the demonstration. If the cops are so damned worried about their security, then stay the hell out of people's way!
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Another throwaway toy for the throwaway generation.
Now the cell phone fot a true Urban Survivalist should be able to survive 20m of submersion and a 10m drop on concrete. Equipped with a cast steel case with a built-in bottle opener and a tear gas spray (helluva lot more useful features that tetris).
One important technical detail that the article lacked was how is the energy going to be converted to electricity. I don't see how houses and factories are powered with immense pulses of radiation. Technically there's still long way to go before one of these machines produces steady flow of juice.
On the other hand, I find the idea of fusion power as a source of wealth and egalitary for the whole world to be naïve bs. The reasons of poverty are political and are not swept away with technological solutions, quite on the contrary. There's no way the rich governments and corporations which have invested gazillion dollars in this technology are going to just hand it over to the poor. It'll rather end up to be a new and powerful gadget in their toolbox of economical oppression. What the third world countries must do is to build dispersed power networks utilizing various sustainable sources (wind, solar, bio, hydro...) to make them indepedent of the fuel recources and technology possesed by the first world.
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>It's the fact that he bundled the paperwork together and took that along with the swab into the back room that fuels a conspiracy theory
You can take it easy. If he didn't use gloves and didn't put it in a plastic envelope immediately it's contaminated and completely useless.
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Then why are several governmets restricting the use of cryptography. If it's up to the user to take care of their privacy, the we should be allowed to have the tools for it.
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"This could easily be accomplished with something like the askjesus.org filter, so that existing web sites don't have to be changed. As long as the user isn't presented with any alternatives, they will have to expose FNORD! themselves to advertising."
Wouldn't it be just as easy to use similar filter to remove all the names of the brands from the page, at least from the text part?
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Broblem with a edged weapon made out of glass is that glass is amorphic, not crystal, and it acts like very stiff liquid. You can make extremely sharp edge, but it will become dull by itself (=even when not used) in couple of weeks.
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Maybe a bit outdated example, but how about the weapon manufacturers?
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Actually information in DNA *is* digitally coded. The copying mechanism just is rather error prone.
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Large companies do take lives, like Shell in Nigeria. Their security forces kill poeple all the time. But that's in a third world country so it doesn't count, right?
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>Why does a highly reflective sail help? Surely, if the sail reflects the photons, then the energy is just reflected with it? Doesn't sail have to absorb the energy to gain the momentum? But as someone else pointed out, if it absorbed the energy, it'd just heat up.
The important issue is the conservation of _momentum_, that is the combined momentums of the photon and the ship must be equal before and after they collide. Now if the photon has momentum m and the ship momentum 0 before the collision and the photon is absorbed, then the photon is destroyed and the ship must have a momentum m after the collision to equal the situation before.
Now if the photon is reflected back, it will have momentum of -m after the collision (the - sign indicating that it's direction has reversed). What will the momentum of the ship be for the sum of the momentums to equal m? Right, 2m. The ship has received twice as much momentum from the photon when it has been reflected back (this refers to the ideal situation of 100% reflection for the sail, which is actually never achieved).
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Smile pretty. Act stupid. Kick them in the nuts when they least expect.
>I don't see any incentive here for the companies.
The incentive could be made with legislation. If the law would require the manufacturers to dispose the old hardware in enviromentally sustainable way it would make it profitable to:
-put less toxic materials to their products
-make them last longer, in one way or another
Of course you would need an Apache (and I mean the chopper, not the server!) to get anything like this pass the corporation lobbyists.
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Fire Your Boss!
I seriously doubt that this will work. Simple physics: metabolism produces heat. If it doesn't leave your suit (as thermal radiation) your body temperature starts to rise.
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Fire Your Boss!
Isn't a propriety software a security risk for the military? Imagine this: an enemy agent infiltrates the Micro$oft programming team and slips a trojan horse in the system. Because its closed source, the military would have no way to find out before it would be too late. With an open source OS on the other hand...
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Fire Your Boss!
But Joe did cause the shutting off (indirectly) by making a claim about Jack that wasn't true (or at least could't be proven to be, which is just as good).
If I made a untrue claim about someone that would cause him to lose his job, I would still be responsible even if it was the boss who did the actual firing.
Anyway, Jack should sue both.
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"The fear of being taken to court (because of the size of damages and the fact that they are being made responsible for someone else's opinions) is now causing ISPs to shut down websites regardless of the content, but merely because they receive a solicitor's letter saying that if their client is ever slandered on this site in the future, they will sue..."
But isn't there a way to figth this? Like this:
1) Joe sends a letter to Jack's ISP saying that if Jack will post something about Joe in his website he will sue the ISP.
2) Jack's ISP shuts down his website.
3) Jack makes a libel case against Joe on the grounds of Joe's claim about Jack (that he may post something about Joe) that has caused damage to him (the shutting up of his website). To bail himself out Joe would have to prove that Jack had an intention to post things about him in the first place. How the hell would he do that?
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Fire Your Boss!
Here's my contribution to the embarassing childhood memories:
I started with vic-20, at the age of about 10. The first game I made with it was Russian roulette. All you could do with it was to punch a key, with a 1/6 chance of dying every time, until you eventually did (can't remember my record though).
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"The Bible is Truth, because it says so in the Bible"
Now how's that for an oxymoron?
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"We can establish laws forcing the media to be unbiased, with stiff fines for every act of leftist propaganda they commit."
What about rightist propaganda? You did say 'unbiased'.
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Hear! Hear!
I wouldn't personally mind at all if all the unauthorized copying (piracy is a word for hijacking ships) would drive all the big entertainment corporations to bankrupcy and stop them from polluting the world with their pretentious crap. True art would survive.
I dont't mind artist making a living with their work, but the present copyright system is there to make some selected few into millionares. I mean look at Metallica. They could retire now, never play a chord and they would still have more money in their hands than they could possibly spend in their lifetime.
Why do people give money to street musicians anyway? It's not because they would get sued if they didn't but they still do. Strange.
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While you're at it, why not trying some liquid Nitrogen to put your chip to a comfortable temperature of about 100K.
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You should join the army. With an attitude like that they would make you a general.
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