There will likely be a "how am I driving?" QR code on them. They will go at a low enough speed that they can stop on a dime, and will be coded to stop if it would collide with something. Even if it's not human, it IS illegal (property damage) to damage it (which has a camera and network connection.)
consistent with our guidance that lithium-ion batteries should not be carried in the cargo hold
This is why I fill my luggage with flow batteries and rent out charging ports to other passengers. I just fly back and forth between LAX and JFK/LGA, it more than pays for the trip.
Once the sea-level rises and fisheries die out, New England and California will be washed away, leaving nothing in the U.S. but flyover country. And Chicago I guess. Of course, the energy moguls responsible for this will be able to easily relocate.
Considering the fine against him was essentially a SLAPP action, and Oregon has anti-SLAPP legislation, Mr. Jarlstrom should make the argument that an additional fine/restitution against the State Board should be applied in this case. Even if the specific legislation exempts the government, it could be argued by analogy.
They should've been more vague about the launch date, given it's been delayed 12 years so far. The people who control NASA expect it to deliver one thing: Pork. And it does so on time, every time. Investor/consumer confidence doesn't affect NASA much. They should just move to a "when it's done" deadline system... if the politicians would let them.
There's a Morton's Fork for project managers: give repeated updates to a changing schedule, slips and all, or to give a vague window that conceals these schedule slips. The benefit of the former is that onlookers can get an increasingly precise estimate of final delivery, whereas the benefit of the latter is that it appears more professional. The downside of the former is a constant request for updates (which one feels obligated to answer) and doom and gloom from onlookers every time the schedule slips; for the latter, it's that few people know when the project will be completed until it's almost done and a release date is easy to nail down, and it's difficult to plan around such a nebulous release window. Those who choose transparency often are stressed out by the scrutiny, sometimes wishing they maybe hadn't been so transparent.
It gets worse. Automated driving will enable new forms of automation not possible before. There are tons of jobs where someone drives to a client location, does X job, then drives back to the office. Humans were necessary to drive there, do X, then drive back. Once the driving is automated, the human will only be needed for X, and beancounters will start thinking "I wonder if we can automate X..." First on the chopping block will be moving/loading/unloading type jobs, postal delivery and moving-van type stuff. Later will come meter-readers (if it's cheaper than smart meters), repairmen and similar. Heavily-regulated fields like EMTs will probably come last.
Maybe 'fault' is the wrong word, rather that it's the unemployed's responsibility (no matter what) to find employment, and if they can't find work well fuck them because we have ours.
The obvious solution is to use your last check to buy a robot that will outperform you and send you its income. Then, once you've purchased enough robots, you can open a robo-brothel. Then, pray that Jude Law doesn't catch wind.
I wonder if ISPs could do something positive with paid prioritization. For example, mom has a 5Mb/sec connection for email and Facebook, but now she wants HD Netflix. Instead of having to upgrade to a higher tier of internet speed, she can keep her 5Mb because Netflix has paid the ISP for a 'speed boost' up to 25Mb/sec, for all customers no matter how slow their connection. That is, Netflix data comes in at 25Mb but everything else comes in at 5Mb. Could be useful for 4k/8k/VR streaming, where people wouldn't otherwise need/want to pay for 100Mb internet.
Too bad half of the Chinese don't speak Mandarin. Also, the ~$1T we owe them is about what is handed by the Fed to the Treasury each year on a silver platter. If for some reason China said 'pay up or else!!' they'd just print another Trillion, no sweat. Much ado about nothing.
Unfortunately the g-forces caused by grabbing onto it would destroy the vessel (unless it matches the celestial object's speed and trajectory... in which case there's no point). I could foresee some kind of grabber connected to the vessel in an elastic fashion, which dampens the g-forces, but simply getting nearby enough to grapple the object (without crashing into it) would be tricky. Just getting the craft to the celestial object would take nearly as much energy as just going directly toward the destination. For vessels built in space, it could however be a more significant cost savings. A bigger problem is that although the size and speed of a body can be (relatively) easily observed, its mass (and thus total kinetic energy) is much harder to ascertain, as its core composition and density are unknown. Something with low mass will significantly slow down if grabbed onto, throwing off all calculations, and it's a surprise until you grab onto it. For a sufficiently large asteroid, I could see this being useful in some situations... probably so few situations that it will never be developed for that purpose. Catching space junk/dust to fuel a mass driver seems more likely, and would require much of the same tech, so who knows.
The ideological/political Left is notoriously bad at conforming (even with itself), which is why it's splintered into so many factions, and conservatism can easily consolidate power into one political party. Conservatives have their own virtue signaling song and dance, it just has different names (e.g. 'National Defense', 'tough on crime', and 'Patriotism', all of which conveniently give more power to the elite). Disclaimer: I distrust ALL modern USA political parties/movements, and evaluate individual politicians instead.
That's why when I attend funerals, I make a speech suggesting that there is no evidence of an afterlife, and that the deceased's death was objectively meaningless. Don't even ask what I say at weddings.
This sounds like Asperger's Syndrome to me (which I'm aware is on the Autism spectrum), I'm wondering how that's different from "high-functioning Autism."
Forget artillery strikes. What's really gonna stir shit up is when drone attacks allow for anonymous murder. What society could cope with that? It's gonna be like handing a Death Note to every citizen on Earth, only you won't need to know their name. I COULD see a ban on murder-drones actually working though, as after the first time a crime family gets whacked, the black market won't touch them; people will go after individual sellers as well. Wearing a mask in public might become the norm... until voice-recognition is used instead.
Slashdot Mirror
There will likely be a "how am I driving?" QR code on them. They will go at a low enough speed that they can stop on a dime, and will be coded to stop if it would collide with something. Even if it's not human, it IS illegal (property damage) to damage it (which has a camera and network connection.)
consistent with our guidance that lithium-ion batteries should not be carried in the cargo hold
This is why I fill my luggage with flow batteries and rent out charging ports to other passengers. I just fly back and forth between LAX and JFK/LGA, it more than pays for the trip.
Black Mirror*
Knew reading about that 'Dark Mirror' movie the other day would confuse me.
I always preferred The Outer Limits. Now with Dark Mirror, is Twilight Zone really relevant? It won't be the same without Rod Serling, anyway.
Once the sea-level rises and fisheries die out, New England and California will be washed away, leaving nothing in the U.S. but flyover country. And Chicago I guess. Of course, the energy moguls responsible for this will be able to easily relocate.
Considering the fine against him was essentially a SLAPP action, and Oregon has anti-SLAPP legislation, Mr. Jarlstrom should make the argument that an additional fine/restitution against the State Board should be applied in this case. Even if the specific legislation exempts the government, it could be argued by analogy.
Luckily for you, Game of Thrones is not available on Netflix.
They should've been more vague about the launch date, given it's been delayed 12 years so far. The people who control NASA expect it to deliver one thing: Pork. And it does so on time, every time. Investor/consumer confidence doesn't affect NASA much. They should just move to a "when it's done" deadline system... if the politicians would let them.
There's a Morton's Fork for project managers: give repeated updates to a changing schedule, slips and all, or to give a vague window that conceals these schedule slips. The benefit of the former is that onlookers can get an increasingly precise estimate of final delivery, whereas the benefit of the latter is that it appears more professional. The downside of the former is a constant request for updates (which one feels obligated to answer) and doom and gloom from onlookers every time the schedule slips; for the latter, it's that few people know when the project will be completed until it's almost done and a release date is easy to nail down, and it's difficult to plan around such a nebulous release window. Those who choose transparency often are stressed out by the scrutiny, sometimes wishing they maybe hadn't been so transparent.
What is the endgame?
Heat-death of the universe. Next.
It gets worse. Automated driving will enable new forms of automation not possible before. There are tons of jobs where someone drives to a client location, does X job, then drives back to the office. Humans were necessary to drive there, do X, then drive back. Once the driving is automated, the human will only be needed for X, and beancounters will start thinking "I wonder if we can automate X..."
First on the chopping block will be moving/loading/unloading type jobs, postal delivery and moving-van type stuff. Later will come meter-readers (if it's cheaper than smart meters), repairmen and similar. Heavily-regulated fields like EMTs will probably come last.
Maybe 'fault' is the wrong word, rather that it's the unemployed's responsibility (no matter what) to find employment, and if they can't find work well fuck them because we have ours.
The obvious solution is to use your last check to buy a robot that will outperform you and send you its income. Then, once you've purchased enough robots, you can open a robo-brothel. Then, pray that Jude Law doesn't catch wind.
When I grow up, I wanna be a robot! Daddy says that's where all the jobs are.
Just curious, how dissimilar are these 'graphene balls' from buckyballs? Both are made from graphite, and are spherical.
I wonder if ISPs could do something positive with paid prioritization. For example, mom has a 5Mb/sec connection for email and Facebook, but now she wants HD Netflix. Instead of having to upgrade to a higher tier of internet speed, she can keep her 5Mb because Netflix has paid the ISP for a 'speed boost' up to 25Mb/sec, for all customers no matter how slow their connection. That is, Netflix data comes in at 25Mb but everything else comes in at 5Mb. Could be useful for 4k/8k/VR streaming, where people wouldn't otherwise need/want to pay for 100Mb internet.
Too bad half of the Chinese don't speak Mandarin. Also, the ~$1T we owe them is about what is handed by the Fed to the Treasury each year on a silver platter. If for some reason China said 'pay up or else!!' they'd just print another Trillion, no sweat. Much ado about nothing.
Steve Wozniak and John Draper. It's just crazy enough to work.
You better lock up your Unicorns, lock up your Blue Chips, 'cause she's rapin' everything up in here!
#dankmemes
Unfortunately the g-forces caused by grabbing onto it would destroy the vessel (unless it matches the celestial object's speed and trajectory... in which case there's no point). I could foresee some kind of grabber connected to the vessel in an elastic fashion, which dampens the g-forces, but simply getting nearby enough to grapple the object (without crashing into it) would be tricky. Just getting the craft to the celestial object would take nearly as much energy as just going directly toward the destination. For vessels built in space, it could however be a more significant cost savings. A bigger problem is that although the size and speed of a body can be (relatively) easily observed, its mass (and thus total kinetic energy) is much harder to ascertain, as its core composition and density are unknown. Something with low mass will significantly slow down if grabbed onto, throwing off all calculations, and it's a surprise until you grab onto it. For a sufficiently large asteroid, I could see this being useful in some situations... probably so few situations that it will never be developed for that purpose. Catching space junk/dust to fuel a mass driver seems more likely, and would require much of the same tech, so who knows.
So a massive, rock-hard, spinning space phallus is penetrating our solar system? Hopefully it avoids us and finds its way to a Black Hole.
The ideological/political Left is notoriously bad at conforming (even with itself), which is why it's splintered into so many factions, and conservatism can easily consolidate power into one political party. Conservatives have their own virtue signaling song and dance, it just has different names (e.g. 'National Defense', 'tough on crime', and 'Patriotism', all of which conveniently give more power to the elite).
Disclaimer: I distrust ALL modern USA political parties/movements, and evaluate individual politicians instead.
That's why when I attend funerals, I make a speech suggesting that there is no evidence of an afterlife, and that the deceased's death was objectively meaningless. Don't even ask what I say at weddings.
This sounds like Asperger's Syndrome to me (which I'm aware is on the Autism spectrum), I'm wondering how that's different from "high-functioning Autism."
Forget artillery strikes. What's really gonna stir shit up is when drone attacks allow for anonymous murder. What society could cope with that? It's gonna be like handing a Death Note to every citizen on Earth, only you won't need to know their name. I COULD see a ban on murder-drones actually working though, as after the first time a crime family gets whacked, the black market won't touch them; people will go after individual sellers as well. Wearing a mask in public might become the norm... until voice-recognition is used instead.