It wouldn't even need to rotate. A simple stationary field would be able to turn those particles right around, or make them go in circles until the shielding gets them. I'm not sure how practical it is though. The calculations are beyond me, but these are very high energy, very high mass particles. That implies that it would take a very strong magnetic field to affect them significantly.
Depends what type of radiation you want to stop. For high-energy ions, you want sheer mass, and lots of it. That usually means iron or concrete to keep things compact. The same shielding sucks for stopping neutrons, but those aren't the big hazard in space travel. You don't find many neutrons in space - they aren't stable outside of a nucleus.
You can't really engineer 'better' conventional shielding. You're up against fundamental physical constraints. Magnetic could work, but these are iron ions being discussed - a rather heavy nucleus, so it could take quite the field to deflect them effectively.
An orion drive may be some use for getting around in space, but you really, really don't want to launch with one. If you want cheap launch, there are some sci-fi-ish ideas that could do it like a space elevator. That might work, but for now I'd focus more on improving current technologies further. Besides, we'd need better launch than we have now to make building the elevator affordable anyway.
Matter of time. Right now, the economy sucks. Employers have their pick of candidates, but also hundreds to choose from. It's impractical to interview so many, so they need to apply some heuristics to narrow the field. Quick and good-enough tests that'll eliminate the undesireables. The 'google check' is one of these, along with mostly-automated 'must have qualification X' standards.
You are confusing your utopian vision with the real world. How people should judge others is unimportant. How they *do* judge others is. So long as potential employers are judging you, you would do well to play the game and act like the most professional and dull person in the world. Unless you enjoy going back to your parents and begging to be allowed to live in the basement again.
Rather vague, but generally safe. I can make some vague but safe predictions too:
1. While some politicians may indeed start to speak of excessive copyright, neither of the big two parties will make it a campaign issue.
2. There will be at least one attempt to sneak an unpopular copyright-related law in through a legislative backdoor or by trying to sneak it under the radar of opposition notice.
3. There will be at least one successful takedown/raid of a major pirate service, possibly even TPB, but piracy will continue regardless.
I think it's deliberate. MS knows the interface sucks, and are trying to ram it down, because even though users hate it doing to can advance Microsoft's long-term goals. They are accepting a bit of user hate in the desktop OS area (Where their position is almost unassailable) in order to promote their products in the new mobile arena, where they need every advantage they can get right now.
It also doesn't work on IE. All the videos are in webm format. Due to the ongoing business/patent conflict, Microsoft and Apple refuse to support any codec other than h264.
Great for invading, but modern war isn't really about invasion. You can't just carpet-bomb cities any more. There's a lot more peacekeeping and urban combat now. High-tech toys can be very useful in those situations, and are still in their infancy. We don't even have a bullet-proof vest that can be worn unobtrusively.
What would you have done? Stormed the citadels? Great idea: A small army of protesters could probably rush through the doors of some banking headquarters and take over the building. What happens then?
The police get called in. A large-scale protest of a business handling such money and of such importance would be considered a serious event. There may be a brief period of standoff, but it wouldn't be long before the SWAT teams go in. Highly trained, experienced police officers with the best civilian equipment around vs political activists. Half an hour after the first door breach most of the protestors will be in cuffs and on their way to jail, with a few who tried resisting on their way to hospital or waiting for forensics to come along to document their corpse. And that's where it ends - because two days later the security is tightened, the employees are back and business is back to running as usual. At best - and this is a very optimistic scenario - you have shut down the bank headquarters for, oh, a week. Well done. Total achievement: Nothing. Really nothing, because while OWS is jamming one building operations are just shunted off to various sub-offices and regional headquarters.
Well, one thing would be achieved. A month or three later, someone in congress would propose a bill making it a criminal offense to organize an attempt to enter a place of business with intent of causing disruption to business operations. That way the FBI would be able to better infiltrate any grassroots movements and arrest anyone who do much as tried to rally support for doing it again.
Life isn't like the movies. There have been times, historically, when the underdog revolutionary managed to break the system, overthrow the oppressive powers that be and build afresh something new and better. But this is a rare event. Far more revolutions have ended quickly, with the rebels imprisoned or executed.
Fake grassroots. People have gotten quite skeptical these days, in some ways - they always expect a lie. Espicially in politics and advertising. Astroturfing refers to the increasingly common tactic of creating an apparently populist or spontainous movement while hiding the support of a large sponsor (government, pressure group, business, etc) which would have something to gain.
For example, and using entirely fictional elements to avoid getting into politics, imagine that the manufacturer of a particular widget starts taking public criticism for the negative social or environmental impacts of their product (Maybe the widget causes cancer with prolonged use, or the manufacturing process produces toxic waste) and race the possibility of expensive regulation. The company executives could well go on national TV and try to explain that the fears are overblown (truthfully or not), but no-one is going to believe them because they have a personal stake, and corporate PR departments are not respected for their objectivity right now. So they might instead organise an apparently independant 'Widgets for America' fan club to talk of how widgets make the country great, or they might find a group which is opposed to regulation in general terms and anonymously donate money to a 'Hands off Our Widgets!' campaign. If they PR department is feeling particually slimy, they may create a movement from scratch - supplying the funding, designing websites, paying people to attend protests. All to create the impression in the minds of the public that there is massive popular support for widget production, and attempts to regulate them are ill-considered.
It seems unlikely that Operation Wall Street was an astroturf movement though, because there was no-one in a position of power or money to gain from it. Who would benefit from orchestrating such protests?
The trick back then was in knowing which stores to buy from. Not all stores contributed to the counts used to determine the chart order. Effective rigging via purchasing needed a bit of insider information to know where to buy.
I had a similar experience months ago with a false positive on their copyright-enforcement system. There is no effective appeal, as the system is so heavily automated. I tried contacting them, but never was able to get a reply, even after a few attempts. I just stopped posting videos on youtube. They are on my own personal website now, but without the youtube social promotion system they aren't going to get many views.
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Employers do not have to make that decision. They are swamped with candidates. Plenty of qualified candidates to choose from.
Because squeaky-clean is the minimal-risk option.
It wouldn't even need to rotate. A simple stationary field would be able to turn those particles right around, or make them go in circles until the shielding gets them. I'm not sure how practical it is though. The calculations are beyond me, but these are very high energy, very high mass particles. That implies that it would take a very strong magnetic field to affect them significantly.
No brain, either. All they can really do is send back data, or prepare the way for a future manned mission.
Depends what type of radiation you want to stop. For high-energy ions, you want sheer mass, and lots of it. That usually means iron or concrete to keep things compact. The same shielding sucks for stopping neutrons, but those aren't the big hazard in space travel. You don't find many neutrons in space - they aren't stable outside of a nucleus.
You can't really engineer 'better' conventional shielding. You're up against fundamental physical constraints. Magnetic could work, but these are iron ions being discussed - a rather heavy nucleus, so it could take quite the field to deflect them effectively.
An orion drive may be some use for getting around in space, but you really, really don't want to launch with one. If you want cheap launch, there are some sci-fi-ish ideas that could do it like a space elevator. That might work, but for now I'd focus more on improving current technologies further. Besides, we'd need better launch than we have now to make building the elevator affordable anyway.
Matter of time. Right now, the economy sucks. Employers have their pick of candidates, but also hundreds to choose from. It's impractical to interview so many, so they need to apply some heuristics to narrow the field. Quick and good-enough tests that'll eliminate the undesireables. The 'google check' is one of these, along with mostly-automated 'must have qualification X' standards.
You are confusing your utopian vision with the real world. How people should judge others is unimportant. How they *do* judge others is. So long as potential employers are judging you, you would do well to play the game and act like the most professional and dull person in the world. Unless you enjoy going back to your parents and begging to be allowed to live in the basement again.
Rather vague, but generally safe. I can make some vague but safe predictions too:
1. While some politicians may indeed start to speak of excessive copyright, neither of the big two parties will make it a campaign issue.
2. There will be at least one attempt to sneak an unpopular copyright-related law in through a legislative backdoor or by trying to sneak it under the radar of opposition notice.
3. There will be at least one successful takedown/raid of a major pirate service, possibly even TPB, but piracy will continue regardless.
I think it's deliberate. MS knows the interface sucks, and are trying to ram it down, because even though users hate it doing to can advance Microsoft's long-term goals. They are accepting a bit of user hate in the desktop OS area (Where their position is almost unassailable) in order to promote their products in the new mobile arena, where they need every advantage they can get right now.
I don't know where the charts are calculated, but the gold/platinum/multi-platinum/diamond awards are administered by our friends at the RIAA.
It also doesn't work on IE. All the videos are in webm format. Due to the ongoing business/patent conflict, Microsoft and Apple refuse to support any codec other than h264.
If you're doing surgical mods, I rather like the idea of fitting hydraulic valves on major blood vessels.
Solder get their leg blown off? Femoral artery constricts, circulation cuts off. Enough to keep them alive until the fight is over and medic arrives.
Great for invading, but modern war isn't really about invasion. You can't just carpet-bomb cities any more. There's a lot more peacekeeping and urban combat now. High-tech toys can be very useful in those situations, and are still in their infancy. We don't even have a bullet-proof vest that can be worn unobtrusively.
Expendable test subjects.
It's a kigu.
So... yes.
We all do.
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There's an older version. It's called the 'golden rule.' He who has the gold, makes the rules.
What would you have done? Stormed the citadels? Great idea: A small army of protesters could probably rush through the doors of some banking headquarters and take over the building. What happens then?
The police get called in. A large-scale protest of a business handling such money and of such importance would be considered a serious event. There may be a brief period of standoff, but it wouldn't be long before the SWAT teams go in. Highly trained, experienced police officers with the best civilian equipment around vs political activists. Half an hour after the first door breach most of the protestors will be in cuffs and on their way to jail, with a few who tried resisting on their way to hospital or waiting for forensics to come along to document their corpse. And that's where it ends - because two days later the security is tightened, the employees are back and business is back to running as usual. At best - and this is a very optimistic scenario - you have shut down the bank headquarters for, oh, a week. Well done. Total achievement: Nothing. Really nothing, because while OWS is jamming one building operations are just shunted off to various sub-offices and regional headquarters.
Well, one thing would be achieved. A month or three later, someone in congress would propose a bill making it a criminal offense to organize an attempt to enter a place of business with intent of causing disruption to business operations. That way the FBI would be able to better infiltrate any grassroots movements and arrest anyone who do much as tried to rally support for doing it again.
Life isn't like the movies. There have been times, historically, when the underdog revolutionary managed to break the system, overthrow the oppressive powers that be and build afresh something new and better. But this is a rare event. Far more revolutions have ended quickly, with the rebels imprisoned or executed.
That's just redefining terms to suit your argument. The No True Scotsman fallacy, I believe it is usually called.
Fake grassroots. People have gotten quite skeptical these days, in some ways - they always expect a lie. Espicially in politics and advertising. Astroturfing refers to the increasingly common tactic of creating an apparently populist or spontainous movement while hiding the support of a large sponsor (government, pressure group, business, etc) which would have something to gain.
For example, and using entirely fictional elements to avoid getting into politics, imagine that the manufacturer of a particular widget starts taking public criticism for the negative social or environmental impacts of their product (Maybe the widget causes cancer with prolonged use, or the manufacturing process produces toxic waste) and race the possibility of expensive regulation. The company executives could well go on national TV and try to explain that the fears are overblown (truthfully or not), but no-one is going to believe them because they have a personal stake, and corporate PR departments are not respected for their objectivity right now. So they might instead organise an apparently independant 'Widgets for America' fan club to talk of how widgets make the country great, or they might find a group which is opposed to regulation in general terms and anonymously donate money to a 'Hands off Our Widgets!' campaign. If they PR department is feeling particually slimy, they may create a movement from scratch - supplying the funding, designing websites, paying people to attend protests. All to create the impression in the minds of the public that there is massive popular support for widget production, and attempts to regulate them are ill-considered.
It seems unlikely that Operation Wall Street was an astroturf movement though, because there was no-one in a position of power or money to gain from it. Who would benefit from orchestrating such protests?
But the download will either uses less time-share, or complete faster. Depending where the bottleneck is.
The trick back then was in knowing which stores to buy from. Not all stores contributed to the counts used to determine the chart order. Effective rigging via purchasing needed a bit of insider information to know where to buy.
I had a similar experience months ago with a false positive on their copyright-enforcement system. There is no effective appeal, as the system is so heavily automated. I tried contacting them, but never was able to get a reply, even after a few attempts. I just stopped posting videos on youtube. They are on my own personal website now, but without the youtube social promotion system they aren't going to get many views.
Just my dabblings in video restoration and blowing fruit up with a capacitor bank.