I got plenty of stuff to worry about: Nuclear war, conventional war, meteor strike, Gamma Ray Bursts, an assortment of various super bugs, free masons, the inevitable process of aging, over population, North Korea, random crazy people and alien abduction and the subsequent loss of rectal virginity.
There are several limitations to adaptive optics, which are by no means a cutting edge technology for large observatories any more. Just about every telescope being built or upgraded today are having adaptive optics fitted.
Yeah but these are really, REALLY good adaptive optics.
The article was very light on details. Why was the weapon scrapped? Why was it never tested in a real world scenario as a non-lethal measure.
I heard it gave some dude superpowers, but unfortunately he was a villainous sort and now the US has an actual supervillain to deal with; he is currently moving into a volcano as we speak.
It's true, it's all in those leaked docs; really go check.
That was from 1996, so I understand this stuff changes, but it *always* goes over time and over budget. Can't the planners be a bit more realistic? -Taylor
Well that cannot really budget for accidents really. I mean you build the thing as close to the limits of your budget, then something breaks and you have no choice to go over budget.
How do you know that shutting the LHC down isn't going to be what causes the apocalypse? Maybe the events that will eventually cause the end of life as we know it have already been set in motion and are only kept in check by the fact the LHC is running.
Not really, I have a sat tracking app on my iPhone, it just downloads a list of satellites and their orbital characteristics. So he would just need an internet connection before setting off so he can get the latest TLE files.
Now I don't know if whatever satellites are used for amateur radio are in there.
I think it'd be a relatively simple task to differentiate between 'active' and 'inactive' hemp plants.
Industrial hemp is typically produced from a strain that has been bred for larger fiber yields and and thicker stems/branches. These strains usually end up containing little if any THC and is thus useless to a stoner. So it would be a relatively simple task for the taxman to confirm whether or not the strain you are growing for industrial purposes is a THC producing strain.
...I'd definitely be behind a dont bong and drive campaign as reaction times are slowed down more then when using alcohol.
Actually there is some research showing that, in small amounts, cannabis makes you less likely to get into an accident. This is tied to the fact that people who drive stoned tend to be more aware of their impairment that someone driving drunk; add on top of this a hint of paranoia and a tendency to drive more slowly and driving stoned appears less dangerous than driving drunk.
That being said, I don't think that driving while impaired in any fashion should ever be considered acceptable. However the main problem with enforcing a stoned-driving law is the fact that there is no quick roadside test for cannabis intoxication like there is with alcohol which makes it hard to prove that the person you pulled over for doing 20mph in the fast lane on the freeway really is stoned or just really, really slow.
I suspect that they'll just set up bulk mailers to send DMCA notices to this ISP's abuse@ address, every time a new movie, album or anything is released a mail gets sent to abuse@pirateisp.com because no doubt a copy of said work is bound to exist somewhere on their network.
I think it should be obvious to anyone at this point that the only way to truly achieve account security is to tie a user's account directly to their DNA profile, naturally this would mean that the larger websites (such as Facebook et al.) will be responsible for maintaining large unregulated databases of their users' DNA which might rise some privacy concerns; but seeing as how Facebook has a long and proud history of responsible handling of their users private data.
What's up with these guys? I mean, to lose one satellite is just bad luck, but to shoot down two satellites in a row, they've got to really be doing something wrong.
Well either that or they are doing something really right.
I mean it's a test of an anti-satellite missile that performed an anti-satellite operation successfully.
The information leads the reader to think that all 1m with TS clearance are working at the moment on nefarious projects for an evil government. While the reality is, most are simply support staff doing work that if it were any other customer, would be easily overlooked and thought down on.
Oh and I'll bet you no money at all that this "1 million TS clearances in the US" is going to be popping up in a lot of conspiracy theorist's blogs and forum posts and wherever else those things live.
As for 9/11, well the thing is attacks like that are nearly impossible to catch and stop early. The way these terror cells operate, they are totally isolated from the rest of the network and have limited contact with whoever is running the operation. So short of having an asset actually in the group you are not going to be able to stop it early; the only hope you have of effectively preventing these sorts of operations is to secure the potential targets (airports, planes, whatever). If the 9/11 hijackers had not been able to access the cockpits of the planes they could not have gone though with their plan, if they were unable to bring boxcutters on they plane the same would also be true.
Back in the good old days of the Cold War (way before my time) intelligence was easy since you were spying on another state with a well organized military, this meant that a foreign intel operative could get access to information on all sorts of secret stuff by infiltrating the various branches of government bureaucracy; since al-qaeda obviously does not have much in the way of bureaucracy CIA and their kind are at a severe disadvantage when it comes to tracking them since short of direct surveillance (with could very well be illegal if it done by domestic agencies) or having an asset in the group there is very little they can do.
Fourth, the iNOC seems to have achieved a FTL network connection based on it's ping rate of 0 to a node several light _years_ away. Any idea on how that was done?
Anyone who is remotely familiar with AI technology will know that as soon as Milo gets connected to the internet he will be imbued with a kind of malevolent sentience and spread across the internet.
At that point it is only a matter of time before he starts asking people if they want to play Thermonuclear War, or alternatively make pithy statements about the nature of tic-tac-toe.
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I got plenty of stuff to worry about: Nuclear war, conventional war, meteor strike, Gamma Ray Bursts, an assortment of various super bugs, free masons, the inevitable process of aging, over population, North Korea, random crazy people and alien abduction and the subsequent loss of rectal virginity.
I also not doing anything wrong.
Yup, players.
This, mainly.
Also it has its own built in social network, forums, matchmaking and scoreboards.
Add on top of this the ability to run it via a browser on pretty much any machine - well as long as it is running a supported OS/Processor.
How long it will take for someone to hack the control system used by these drones once (If?) they go live.
There are several limitations to adaptive optics, which are by no means a cutting edge technology for large observatories any more. Just about every telescope being built or upgraded today are having adaptive optics fitted.
Yeah but these are really, REALLY good adaptive optics.
LARPers > Fan-fiction writers > Professional Data Sorting Competitors > Furries
What about a LARPer who is also a furry and enjoys writing fan-fiction and professionally sorting data in competitions?
The article was very light on details. Why was the weapon scrapped? Why was it never tested in a real world scenario as a non-lethal measure.
I heard it gave some dude superpowers, but unfortunately he was a villainous sort and now the US has an actual supervillain to deal with; he is currently moving into a volcano as we speak.
It's true, it's all in those leaked docs; really go check.
That was from 1996, so I understand this stuff changes, but it *always* goes over time and over budget. Can't the planners be a bit more realistic?
-Taylor
Well that cannot really budget for accidents really. I mean you build the thing as close to the limits of your budget, then something breaks and you have no choice to go over budget.
wonder how many boxes of Kraft dinner i could buy with the money they spend on the TWO colliders
Well I don't know what the other of the TWO colliders are, anyhow.
A Kraft dinner costs a $1.16 according to some lazy, half-assed googling, and according to wikipedia the LHC has a budget of 9 billion dollars.
So you could buy about 7.75 billion Kraft dinners. Tasty.
How do you know that shutting the LHC down isn't going to be what causes the apocalypse? Maybe the events that will eventually cause the end of life as we know it have already been set in motion and are only kept in check by the fact the LHC is running.
Just sayin' man.
And lithium, lots of lithium appearently
Not really, I have a sat tracking app on my iPhone, it just downloads a list of satellites and their orbital characteristics. So he would just need an internet connection before setting off so he can get the latest TLE files.
Now I don't know if whatever satellites are used for amateur radio are in there.
I think it'd be a relatively simple task to differentiate between 'active' and 'inactive' hemp plants.
Industrial hemp is typically produced from a strain that has been bred for larger fiber yields and and thicker stems/branches. These strains usually end up containing little if any THC and is thus useless to a stoner.
So it would be a relatively simple task for the taxman to confirm whether or not the strain you are growing for industrial purposes is a THC producing strain.
...I'd definitely be behind a dont bong and drive campaign as reaction times are slowed down more then when using alcohol.
Actually there is some research showing that, in small amounts, cannabis makes you less likely to get into an accident.
This is tied to the fact that people who drive stoned tend to be more aware of their impairment that someone driving drunk; add on top of this a hint of paranoia and a tendency to drive more slowly and driving stoned appears less dangerous than driving drunk.
That being said, I don't think that driving while impaired in any fashion should ever be considered acceptable. However the main problem with enforcing a stoned-driving law is the fact that there is no quick roadside test for cannabis intoxication like there is with alcohol which makes it hard to prove that the person you pulled over for doing 20mph in the fast lane on the freeway really is stoned or just really, really slow.
A nice game of cheese?
Yeah but that does not really stop the **AA's does it?
Whoa...
You really thought that through, didn't you?
That The **AA's are just going to love this idea.
I suspect that they'll just set up bulk mailers to send DMCA notices to this ISP's abuse@ address, every time a new movie, album or anything is released a mail gets sent to abuse@pirateisp.com because no doubt a copy of said work is bound to exist somewhere on their network.
I think it should be obvious to anyone at this point that the only way to truly achieve account security is to tie a user's account directly to their DNA profile, naturally this would mean that the larger websites (such as Facebook et al.) will be responsible for maintaining large unregulated databases of their users' DNA which might rise some privacy concerns; but seeing as how Facebook has a long and proud history of responsible handling of their users private data.
What's up with these guys? I mean, to lose one satellite is just bad luck, but to shoot down two satellites in a row, they've got to really be doing something wrong.
Well either that or they are doing something really right.
I mean it's a test of an anti-satellite missile that performed an anti-satellite operation successfully.
BRAIN STAPLES for everyone!
The correct reference is 'nerve staples'.
At least if you're referencing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Really, some of the stuff done under that project would make the Nazis proud.
Well that's mainly because a bunch of the people running the MKULTRA experiments were running the same experiments under The Third Reich.
Mostly they're selling the same stuff they've always been selling, it's just now they got a fancy new buzzword.
Isn't marketing fun?
The information leads the reader to think that all 1m with TS clearance are working at the moment on nefarious projects for an evil government. While the reality is, most are simply support staff doing work that if it were any other customer, would be easily overlooked and thought down on.
Oh and I'll bet you no money at all that this "1 million TS clearances in the US" is going to be popping up in a lot of conspiracy theorist's blogs and forum posts and wherever else those things live.
As for 9/11, well the thing is attacks like that are nearly impossible to catch and stop early. The way these terror cells operate, they are totally isolated from the rest of the network and have limited contact with whoever is running the operation.
So short of having an asset actually in the group you are not going to be able to stop it early; the only hope you have of effectively preventing these sorts of operations is to secure the potential targets (airports, planes, whatever). If the 9/11 hijackers had not been able to access the cockpits of the planes they could not have gone though with their plan, if they were unable to bring boxcutters on they plane the same would also be true.
Back in the good old days of the Cold War (way before my time) intelligence was easy since you were spying on another state with a well organized military, this meant that a foreign intel operative could get access to information on all sorts of secret stuff by infiltrating the various branches of government bureaucracy; since al-qaeda obviously does not have much in the way of bureaucracy CIA and their kind are at a severe disadvantage when it comes to tracking them since short of direct surveillance (with could very well be illegal if it done by domestic agencies) or having an asset in the group there is very little they can do.
Fourth, the iNOC seems to have achieved a FTL network connection based on it's ping rate of 0 to a node several light _years_ away. Any idea on how that was done?
Magic, naturally.
Anyone who is remotely familiar with AI technology will know that as soon as Milo gets connected to the internet he will be imbued with a kind of malevolent sentience and spread across the internet.
At that point it is only a matter of time before he starts asking people if they want to play Thermonuclear War, or alternatively make pithy statements about the nature of tic-tac-toe.