Warnings are all fine and dandy, but it won't stop technology from entering the culture as long as it can sell. Look at TV (decline in social activities and some learned skills), guns (out right kills people) or cars (again kills people, but has more of a benefit than guns...)
If it can be sold, it will. Such immoral applications will surely exist as they do in any sector that has immoral people in it.
Same thing with this. Once it is installed, and deemed workable, it will propogate. Soon all airports will have this in tandem with x-rays (same portal, two scanners) this will then open the doors for immoral uses.
Immoral or improper uses will not stop a sellable technology. I specify sellable, as Beta died out in favour of the worse VCR format, only due to installed base. It couldn't sell enough, so it died. If this scanner can't sell, it too will die.
Another problem with this technology is that it relies on the person having contact with the explosives.
There is nothing to stop an organization from constructing a clean bomb, then packaging it, and having the carrier recieve the package. At no time has the carrier touched explosives in the past week. (As the article says you loose a layer of skin over three days. So the body would have a cleaned aura in three days...)
Sure, do-it-yourselfers may have trouble, and as you point out working with certain chemicals may falsely containinate you.
So don't garden, work on cars, or make bombs in the week of your flight...
One of my favorite programs from schooling was a point of sale program. We had to design, code, test, debug, and sell the program to the others in the class. Mine was 16000 lines of code (including the comments.) It was a lot of fun.
When the bulk of class programs in school are just snippets, it was fun to tackle a large program. We were all given the same specs, yet the programs were vastly different. Some were ugly, some were slick. None were perfect though.
This could have been stretched out over several semesters to better include planning, and testing aspects. We had one semester to do it, and we had to fight to get it all done. I ran out of time on mine, so some obscure defects never got fixed and some reports never got developed.
The scope was the really nice thing. It was great to do a larger project than usual.
It's light emitting, which means you'll likely need to push a button just to see the time. (People will twist their wrist to see the time, but baulk at having to add to that the movement of the entire other arm just to push a button to make the light light up.)
Besides the battery drain, you would need to turn on the display as at a 1000 hours before there is a colour shift as LEPs start breaking down, your watch would only last for just over a month.
One aspect I really like about the disk is that, the first line is (partially) readable with the naked eye. Looks like very fine printing, but it soon gets too small to read with the naked eye.
Basically instructions by implication.
Done so that the disk won't likely be just a pretty little shiny thing like a CD will be unless they have CD players kicking about still in 10,000 years (not too likely.)
It *only* cares to make money. It will do anything to add to the coffers.
Every single penny they spend on *good things* such as homes for battered women and such are *only* done to gain market share. (They declined a large donation to a childrens hospital to due to the fact that the hospital would not put up McDonald character pictures in the wards (which could help gain life long patrons.))
If McDonald's is putting in *any* site. It is only because they think they can make money. It is not because locals actually like the food, want the food, or desire the food. People will *choke it down* when pressed for quick meals, cheap meals or some junk food.
McDonald's cares not for anything but their coffers. They would sell their grandmother in a bun except that public outcry would cause a drop in the corporate wealth.
Santa will likely just move you. As your current house would be made into a pancake as the ASIC White came down the chimney, the best method of delivery would be to deliver you to the computer.
You mean I could have duped them into giving away a domain name and then I could have just not paid them for it?
Then I could get upset when they wanted to auction it off to someone who might be willing to actually pay for it (opening up yet another potentional auction when 'they' don't pay, in which I may get it back again...)
Is this common to request services and then not pay for them? Does the government work this way with my taxes? Can I not send them my taxes next year?
Not open source, but if you open the keyboard on the original Amiga A1000, you'll find the signatures of the creators of the Amiga, plus a paw print of a dog.
Also, if you read the specs for the Amiga, you'ld find song titles buried in the pages.
A prior conviction does not make anyone *more guilty*. May make them more likely to have happened to do it than someone who never has performed that act before, but prior guilt of similar crimes does not make a person guilty of another crime.
Who is likely more guilty a prior murderer, or someone else whos finger prints are on the gun... We shouldn't try to convict the prior murderer unless evidence says he (or she) did it, and then, we must let the evidence stand for itself.
If a convicted murderer happens to be in town, and someone is killed, but absolutley no clues are found. The convicted killer (by default) is the guilty person as all gathered evidence points to him. "Yes, your honour, this man by mere fact of being in this town, has committed this crime. He killed someone else in another town 25 years ago with a gun too. He was seen briefly talking to the deceased two weeks prior on a street corner when the deceased asked him the time of day. The criminal was then seen walking on the same street as the domicile of the deceased (though not the same block). The criminal has no aliby for the night of the murder. Claims he watched videos all night... Clearly a conviction leading to the death penalty for this mass murderer is needed your honour!"
As for DNA. I agree with you on mis-matches. Maybe the technology will improve... But at least it can prove that DNA does not match.
An LP played 10 times or so looses it high fidelity. It gains scratches, dust, and gets worn.
Similar to a movie. Play it 100 times, and you get dust and scratches on it (though maybe you just need to age it to loose the colour...)
Where as the digital representation of these formats will retain the original data (ignoring medium failure.)
Now, given a used LP (all are after suitable listenings) most people would rather listen to it on a great stereo, then the related CD on a boom box (ignoring situation outliers.)
Similarly, I would rather spend money and watch the film based movie on a big and bright screen, than I would on a smaller screen, even though the copy may be crisper, and have no dust or scratches.
Give us a few years, and Digital movies may replace film based movies (same as CD's replaced LP's.) But not for several years.
To eliminate the saturation problem, maybe dual projectors may help. With digital registration, two projectors could self heal any alignment problems before a human could see the diff. That would raise the projection cost, but could be a solution.
(like having multi boom box solution for the CD. One cd player, spreading to many speakers of small size.) hmmm
It really is not a matter of making a profit. It's a matter of owning the right to 'copy' the material in question.
In your case you were granted permission, as long as no money was made. In Iron Chef's case, the pictures and sounds were posted on the net without consent from the owners of the material (not that consent is available for that.)
They still need a long way to go. Right now the projectors needed are very expensive, and they project less light than conventional projectors. This means a smaller viewing area right now than what you would have with a regular release. Thus you have better images, but at a smaller size. Like listening to LP's on a great stereo system, or CD's on a boom box.
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Warnings are all fine and dandy, but it won't stop technology from entering the culture as long as it can sell. Look at TV (decline in social activities and some learned skills), guns (out right kills people) or cars (again kills people, but has more of a benefit than guns...)
If it can be sold, it will. Such immoral applications will surely exist as they do in any sector that has immoral people in it.
Same thing with this. Once it is installed, and deemed workable, it will propogate. Soon all airports will have this in tandem with x-rays (same portal, two scanners) this will then open the doors for immoral uses.
Immoral or improper uses will not stop a sellable technology. I specify sellable, as Beta died out in favour of the worse VCR format, only due to installed base. It couldn't sell enough, so it died. If this scanner can't sell, it too will die.
Another problem with this technology is that it relies on the person having contact with the explosives.
There is nothing to stop an organization from constructing a clean bomb, then packaging it, and having the carrier recieve the package. At no time has the carrier touched explosives in the past week. (As the article says you loose a layer of skin over three days. So the body would have a cleaned aura in three days...)
Sure, do-it-yourselfers may have trouble, and as you point out working with certain chemicals may falsely containinate you.
So don't garden, work on cars, or make bombs in the week of your flight...
One of my favorite programs from schooling was a point of sale program. We had to design, code, test, debug, and sell the program to the others in the class. Mine was 16000 lines of code (including the comments.) It was a lot of fun.
When the bulk of class programs in school are just snippets, it was fun to tackle a large program. We were all given the same specs, yet the programs were vastly different. Some were ugly, some were slick. None were perfect though.
This could have been stretched out over several semesters to better include planning, and testing aspects. We had one semester to do it, and we had to fight to get it all done. I ran out of time on mine, so some obscure defects never got fixed and some reports never got developed.
The scope was the really nice thing. It was great to do a larger project than usual.
No, but they own it...
Excuse me, I must go buy a software upgrade I don't need.
I like this part of the report:
"I can virtually guarantee you Cardinal O'Connor was never investigated," The Post FBI source said. "There is no file on Cardinal O'Connor."
Now, what is a virtual guarantee??? Something that looks like a guarantee but isn't exactly?
Uh-huh...
These shoes would make it easy to "walk a mile in their shoes."
Would be over so fast.
I was incorrect in missing the "per year" part, but, he says phones are inactive "well before" the 1000 hour mark.
Means that phones don't last 5 years in use.
Maybe two or three years tops? (I assume 4 years would be just "before.")
The article said users typically used the phones for 200 hours, which is shorter than the life span of the LEP display at a 1000 hours.
200 hours?
Is having the latest technocrap so important that we replace phones after about 8 days of continuous use?
Maybe McPhoneald's should start selling fries with their phones.
Not too sure about that.
It's light emitting, which means you'll likely need to push a button just to see the time. (People will twist their wrist to see the time, but baulk at having to add to that the movement of the entire other arm just to push a button to make the light light up.)
Besides the battery drain, you would need to turn on the display as at a 1000 hours before there is a colour shift as LEPs start breaking down, your watch would only last for just over a month.
One aspect I really like about the disk is that, the first line is (partially) readable with the naked eye. Looks like very fine printing, but it soon gets too small to read with the naked eye.
Basically instructions by implication.
Done so that the disk won't likely be just a pretty little shiny thing like a CD will be unless they have CD players kicking about still in 10,000 years (not too likely.)
McDonald's cares not if you "like" it.
It *only* cares to make money. It will do anything to add to the coffers.
Every single penny they spend on *good things* such as homes for battered women and such are *only* done to gain market share. (They declined a large donation to a childrens hospital to due to the fact that the hospital would not put up McDonald character pictures in the wards (which could help gain life long patrons.))
If McDonald's is putting in *any* site. It is only because they think they can make money. It is not because locals actually like the food, want the food, or desire the food. People will *choke it down* when pressed for quick meals, cheap meals or some junk food.
McDonald's cares not for anything but their coffers. They would sell their grandmother in a bun except that public outcry would cause a drop in the corporate wealth.
Making wicked simulations of nuclear explosions on chunks of big steel is more impressive than some wussie DNA strand or cell division...
Santa will likely just move you. As your current house would be made into a pancake as the ASIC White came down the chimney, the best method of delivery would be to deliver you to the computer.
Hope you like your new digs.
Go to a bikers bar. Knock over all the bikes in the parking lot. Use a sledge hammer to pound on the bikes.
This too will remove your yellow teeth. (Use a new hammer, as this will likely be used to remove your yellow teeth.)
No need for brushing.
You mean I could have duped them into giving away a domain name and then I could have just not paid them for it?
Then I could get upset when they wanted to auction it off to someone who might be willing to actually pay for it (opening up yet another potentional auction when 'they' don't pay, in which I may get it back again...)
Is this common to request services and then not pay for them? Does the government work this way with my taxes? Can I not send them my taxes next year?
This might be a good year after all...
Excuse my co-processor chips. I only owned a A2000, and I heard it was the keyboard cover. But, it's cool tribute.
Not open source, but if you open the keyboard on the original Amiga A1000, you'll find the signatures of the creators of the Amiga, plus a paw print of a dog.
Also, if you read the specs for the Amiga, you'ld find song titles buried in the pages.
Pop is for drinking and soda is for baking.
Culture is viral. Ain't it fun.
So why does the book No Logo have a logo on it's cover?
Seems to say "I don't want logos cluttering up my world, but by the way, here's mine to put in you bookshelf."
A prior conviction does not make anyone *more guilty*. May make them more likely to have happened to do it than someone who never has performed that act before, but prior guilt of similar crimes does not make a person guilty of another crime.
Who is likely more guilty a prior murderer, or someone else whos finger prints are on the gun...
We shouldn't try to convict the prior murderer unless evidence says he (or she) did it, and then, we must let the evidence stand for itself.
If a convicted murderer happens to be in town, and someone is killed, but absolutley no clues are found. The convicted killer (by default) is the guilty person as all gathered evidence points to him. "Yes, your honour, this man by mere fact of being in this town, has committed this crime. He killed someone else in another town 25 years ago with a gun too. He was seen briefly talking to the deceased two weeks prior on a street corner when the deceased asked him the time of day. The criminal was then seen walking on the same street as the domicile of the deceased (though not the same block). The criminal has no aliby for the night of the murder. Claims he watched videos all night... Clearly a conviction leading to the death penalty for this mass murderer is needed your honour!"
As for DNA. I agree with you on mis-matches. Maybe the technology will improve... But at least it can prove that DNA does not match.
An LP played 10 times or so looses it high fidelity. It gains scratches, dust, and gets worn.
Similar to a movie. Play it 100 times, and you get dust and scratches on it (though maybe you just need to age it to loose the colour...)
Where as the digital representation of these formats will retain the original data (ignoring medium failure.)
Now, given a used LP (all are after suitable listenings) most people would rather listen to it on a great stereo, then the related CD on a boom box (ignoring situation outliers.)
Similarly, I would rather spend money and watch the film based movie on a big and bright screen, than I would on a smaller screen, even though the copy may be crisper, and have no dust or scratches.
Give us a few years, and Digital movies may replace film based movies (same as CD's replaced LP's.) But not for several years.
To eliminate the saturation problem, maybe dual projectors may help. With digital registration, two projectors could self heal any alignment problems before a human could see the diff.
That would raise the projection cost, but could be a solution.
(like having multi boom box solution for the CD. One cd player, spreading to many speakers of small size.) hmmm
Said without pictures and sound files... Picture that!
Coward-san very funny man.
I see postings here. More than 14, and yet no Iron Chef sound files or pictures. Words work!
Funny. Very funny.
Now, back to golf.
It really is not a matter of making a profit. It's a matter of owning the right to 'copy' the material in question.
In your case you were granted permission, as long as no money was made. In Iron Chef's case, the pictures and sounds were posted on the net without consent from the owners of the material (not that consent is available for that.)
They still need a long way to go. Right now the projectors needed are very expensive, and they project less light than conventional projectors.
This means a smaller viewing area right now than what you would have with a regular release. Thus you have better images, but at a smaller size. Like listening to LP's on a great stereo system, or CD's on a boom box.