Shannon's mathematics are valid only so long as the assumptions behind them are true, and the main assumption is that there is *a* communications channel. They do not apply when you are using multiple independant or semi-independant channels, such as in a MIMO radio setup or using multipath communcation. The succesful candidate may well have so many antennas it resembles a sea urchin on a stick.
I should have picked up on that. I was too busy deciding exactly what language to use before deciding 'screw it, make it anything vaguely like C in syntax and they'll get the joke.'
1. Missing the backpack, which will add a lot of mass and volume and alter balance.
2. It isn't inflated. Spacesuits have a significent pressure inside, which makes moving in them something like trying to shape a balloon animal, or Stay Puft climbing a skyscraper. Even at low-pressure, enriched-oxygen any non-rigid suit is going to inflate.
Brain transplant is a surgical nightmare. All those cranial nerves and fiddly bits, on an organ fragile as jelly. Don't transplant the brain: Transplant the whole head. It's easier.
Cloneing is very unreliable. Dolly was famous, but less famous were the hundreds of failed attempts which either failed to implant or miscarried before birth. Such an approach works fine in sheep, where your lab can keep a breeding stock of ewes, but it isn't very practical for humans.
Grieving parents are not the most rational decision makers. It's quite possible that there will be a scientist of dubious morality somewhere in one of the less regulated countries willing to produce a clone, and grieving parents who will hand over their life savings for even the slimmest chance of recapturing just a hint of the child they lost.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just take a spring and put an insulating plastic jacket around it? Higher resistance, but no leak hazard, could be cut to length as required, and easily made on existing production lines.
That 'civilised way' is still dependant on the use of force in some manner. Otherwise anyone who wanted woul simply 'opt out' of the social agreement when it suited them.
"One guy with a sniper rifle can't take away someone else's land because everyone recognizes the rights of the homesteader, while very few recognize the rights of the thief."
So? Without the threat of violence, the sniper could just sit back on his newly-conquored land, sip his victory beer and raise his middle finger to everyone else. Why should he care what they think? Only because they have a police force that will physically haul him off to jail.
Your 'homesteading' right is ultimately defeated by an even more natural right: The right of he who has the sniper rifle to shoot you and your family from a safe distance, then come loot your home and take over your land.
Rights are an artificial construct, and exist only so long as they can be enforced either directly (Employ enough guards to secure your home against any threat) or indirectly (Have a government that will, reasonably reliably, either defend you or remove the economic incentive for attack by finding and imprisoning the attacker afterwards). A right that is not in some way backed up by physical force simply doesn't exist: You can whine all you want about your 'right' to property, but it won't do you one bit of good if there isn't ultimately the threat of violence to back it up.
In space violence isn't very practical, so property rights would be backed up by the threat of governmental seizure of the earthbound assets of offending companies or individuals... and again, you still need the men with guns sitting around somewhere just in case a CEO converts all company product to gold and tries to hide it in an abandoned mine. Not that any of them would be that stupid, because they know that if they defy a court ruling long enough sooner or later violence will happen.
It's still a bit messy though. What it really means is that 'These things are harmless and trivial, but still illegal. So rather than making them legal, we'll just make a non-binding promise not to prosecute.'
And cynically, I continue with the inevitable: '... unless the victim is someone rich, powerful or famous. In which case the full force of the law will come down upon the offender.'
Either the report will be completed, but in large part classified leading to conspiracy theories. Or the report will say no hazard, but no-one is going to believe this because they do not trust the TSA to be truthful.
They were running some experiment that needs this to happen. Two-probe gravametric mapping only works if your two probes precisely share a common orbit at close (in space terms) distance.
Hard drives are getting gradually cheaper per-gig too. Even if SSDs became really cheap, hard drives still would have a storage-per-cm3 advantage that would give them some advantage in bulk storage - one rack enclosure full of hard drives could store as many bits as a whole rach full of SSDs, with associated reduction in power, controllers, cabling and management costs.
A license that can safely be kept in a closed container, revealed only to officials who I specifically wish to prove my identity to. An acceptable place for a real name. Official business only.
I used to know someone. A blogger. Political - his alignment doesn't matter. Liberal, conservative, works either way. He was a total fanatic though: Loyal to his chosen faction, and convicted that it was his patriotic duty to fight against those who threatened America with their disagreement.
He got into a feud one day with another blogger, operator of some blog I know little of beyond that it related to native american affairs. As part of this feud, he purchased a new domain name, taking the same name as the native american blog. There he started a series if posts, all under his 'un-american' enemies name, advocating for the legalisation of child porn and the abolition of age of consent laws. When I left the two were engaged in a blog comment shouting match, with Mr Asshole claiming that he now owned the rights to that name as he paid money for the domain and demanding the native american blog be closed down.
This person is not your common, garden-variety asshole. This person is the internet equivilent of the psychopathic axe-murderer. There are many like him - sometimes their trigger is politics, sometimes religion, or something as trivial as loyalty to a football team or a particular celebrity.
And facebook wants these nutters to have access to your real name. So when you post something that offends their sacred cause, they'll be the ones posting child porn in your name, writing to your boss with an anonymous tipoff about your prior convictions for possession of heroin and mailing your neighbours to inform them that a sex offender lives among them.
Cross-referencing. Facebook clients don't rely on facebook alone as a source of information. Requiring real names makes it possible to identify common users between Facebook accounts and things like Amazon's shopping records, ebay accounts, store loyalty cards, things like that.
The Queen's job is conditioned upon her not actually doing anything. If she actually started to use the powers of her office... well, everyone loves the queen, she could probably get away with it. But the monarchy would be stripped of all power even on paper after that, and her successors would struggle to prevent a complete abolition.
It should be doable, providing two conditions are allowed: 1. The equipment may be ridiculously expensive (No problem: Around half the US government's budget goes to defence). 2. It'll need to be such high (analog) bandwidth, it'll not comply with any spectrum or power regulations, anywhere (No problem: If you're invading a country, you don't need to be overly concerned with obeying local laws, and even occupiers get some leeway).
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Shannon's mathematics are valid only so long as the assumptions behind them are true, and the main assumption is that there is *a* communications channel. They do not apply when you are using multiple independant or semi-independant channels, such as in a MIMO radio setup or using multipath communcation. The succesful candidate may well have so many antennas it resembles a sea urchin on a stick.
I should have picked up on that. I was too busy deciding exactly what language to use before deciding 'screw it, make it anything vaguely like C in syntax and they'll get the joke.'
do{
message=getmessage();
if(message.contains("Mass Effect"))
email("Alert@fbi.gov", "TERRORIST DETECTED", message);
while(1);
1. Missing the backpack, which will add a lot of mass and volume and alter balance.
2. It isn't inflated. Spacesuits have a significent pressure inside, which makes moving in them something like trying to shape a balloon animal, or Stay Puft climbing a skyscraper. Even at low-pressure, enriched-oxygen any non-rigid suit is going to inflate.
Brain transplant is a surgical nightmare. All those cranial nerves and fiddly bits, on an organ fragile as jelly. Don't transplant the brain: Transplant the whole head. It's easier.
Cloneing is very unreliable. Dolly was famous, but less famous were the hundreds of failed attempts which either failed to implant or miscarried before birth. Such an approach works fine in sheep, where your lab can keep a breeding stock of ewes, but it isn't very practical for humans.
Grieving parents are not the most rational decision makers. It's quite possible that there will be a scientist of dubious morality somewhere in one of the less regulated countries willing to produce a clone, and grieving parents who will hand over their life savings for even the slimmest chance of recapturing just a hint of the child they lost.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just take a spring and put an insulating plastic jacket around it? Higher resistance, but no leak hazard, could be cut to length as required, and easily made on existing production lines.
That 'civilised way' is still dependant on the use of force in some manner. Otherwise anyone who wanted woul simply 'opt out' of the social agreement when it suited them.
"One guy with a sniper rifle can't take away someone else's land because everyone recognizes the rights of the homesteader, while very few recognize the rights of the thief."
So? Without the threat of violence, the sniper could just sit back on his newly-conquored land, sip his victory beer and raise his middle finger to everyone else. Why should he care what they think? Only because they have a police force that will physically haul him off to jail.
Welcome to the social web.
Your 'homesteading' right is ultimately defeated by an even more natural right: The right of he who has the sniper rifle to shoot you and your family from a safe distance, then come loot your home and take over your land.
Rights are an artificial construct, and exist only so long as they can be enforced either directly (Employ enough guards to secure your home against any threat) or indirectly (Have a government that will, reasonably reliably, either defend you or remove the economic incentive for attack by finding and imprisoning the attacker afterwards). A right that is not in some way backed up by physical force simply doesn't exist: You can whine all you want about your 'right' to property, but it won't do you one bit of good if there isn't ultimately the threat of violence to back it up.
In space violence isn't very practical, so property rights would be backed up by the threat of governmental seizure of the earthbound assets of offending companies or individuals... and again, you still need the men with guns sitting around somewhere just in case a CEO converts all company product to gold and tries to hide it in an abandoned mine. Not that any of them would be that stupid, because they know that if they defy a court ruling long enough sooner or later violence will happen.
There are still many, many, many Pirate Bay proxy sites left.
It's still a bit messy though. What it really means is that 'These things are harmless and trivial, but still illegal. So rather than making them legal, we'll just make a non-binding promise not to prosecute.'
And cynically, I continue with the inevitable: '... unless the victim is someone rich, powerful or famous. In which case the full force of the law will come down upon the offender.'
Either the report will be completed, but in large part classified leading to conspiracy theories.
Or the report will say no hazard, but no-one is going to believe this because they do not trust the TSA to be truthful.
They were running some experiment that needs this to happen. Two-probe gravametric mapping only works if your two probes precisely share a common orbit at close (in space terms) distance.
Hard drives are getting gradually cheaper per-gig too. Even if SSDs became really cheap, hard drives still would have a storage-per-cm3 advantage that would give them some advantage in bulk storage - one rack enclosure full of hard drives could store as many bits as a whole rach full of SSDs, with associated reduction in power, controllers, cabling and management costs.
A license that can safely be kept in a closed container, revealed only to officials who I specifically wish to prove my identity to. An acceptable place for a real name. Official business only.
On the assumption that why I am typing this 'first' post, someone else is doing the same and will get there before me.
Also, DIE, evil auto-playing video advertisment!
I used to know someone. A blogger. Political - his alignment doesn't matter. Liberal, conservative, works either way. He was a total fanatic though: Loyal to his chosen faction, and convicted that it was his patriotic duty to fight against those who threatened America with their disagreement.
He got into a feud one day with another blogger, operator of some blog I know little of beyond that it related to native american affairs. As part of this feud, he purchased a new domain name, taking the same name as the native american blog. There he started a series if posts, all under his 'un-american' enemies name, advocating for the legalisation of child porn and the abolition of age of consent laws. When I left the two were engaged in a blog comment shouting match, with Mr Asshole claiming that he now owned the rights to that name as he paid money for the domain and demanding the native american blog be closed down.
This person is not your common, garden-variety asshole. This person is the internet equivilent of the psychopathic axe-murderer. There are many like him - sometimes their trigger is politics, sometimes religion, or something as trivial as loyalty to a football team or a particular celebrity.
And facebook wants these nutters to have access to your real name. So when you post something that offends their sacred cause, they'll be the ones posting child porn in your name, writing to your boss with an anonymous tipoff about your prior convictions for possession of heroin and mailing your neighbours to inform them that a sex offender lives among them.
Cross-referencing. Facebook clients don't rely on facebook alone as a source of information. Requiring real names makes it possible to identify common users between Facebook accounts and things like Amazon's shopping records, ebay accounts, store loyalty cards, things like that.
Unsubtle, no decent hook line. Inept.
Zero out of five troll-points for you. Get back under your bridge until you've learned to do it properly.
The Queen's job is conditioned upon her not actually doing anything. If she actually started to use the powers of her office... well, everyone loves the queen, she could probably get away with it. But the monarchy would be stripped of all power even on paper after that, and her successors would struggle to prevent a complete abolition.
One half, one third... either way, that's a really big pile of money.
It should be doable, providing two conditions are allowed:
1. The equipment may be ridiculously expensive (No problem: Around half the US government's budget goes to defence).
2. It'll need to be such high (analog) bandwidth, it'll not comply with any spectrum or power regulations, anywhere (No problem: If you're invading a country, you don't need to be overly concerned with obeying local laws, and even occupiers get some leeway).