Asserting isn't a defense. Proving beyond doubt is. This can sometimes be very difficult to do - if you write that Dr Quack has been promoting a cancer treatment does doesn't actually work and he sues you for libel, you then need to provide absolute proof that his treatment really does not work - and if it hasn't been subjected to proper scientific study, how are you supposed to do that?
If the test is supposed to replicate driving, I'd expect the rollers to have resistance that would need about the same amount of power to overcome. If I were designing it, I'd use lots of paddle-discs immersed in oil.
They may have known, but what was the alternative? Get fired, and in a manner that ensures they will never work in their field again? Or go to the regulator and media, bring down the responsible parties, and get sued so hard their grandchildren will be paying the lawyer bills?
He was never on trial. But even if he had been, that would only apply to the specific crime he was tried for: They might hope to find recording of another female juvenile changing, not the specific individual he was charged over.
I can think of three ways: - Be the first format in a field. - Be so much better than the established formats that people rush to use it. - Have the support of one or more really influential sponsors. Ideally Microsoft, as they can bundle support into Windows.
Now all we need to do is get image-makers to distribute in a format no-one can view, and software-writers to include support for a format that no-one ever encounters.
Two capacitors in series have half the capacitance. If you combine two like that you get exactly what you'd expect: Twice the energy storage of one capacitor.
You can connect them in parallel. The maths works out he same: Twice the storage.
It also makes the electronics a lot easier. A power supply capable of operating over an input range of 10-30 volts is a lot easier to make than one that operates over 1-5 volts.
China experimented with supercap busses. They charge up off pantograph at the bus stop. The range is awful, but you don't need much range - just enough to make it to the next stop, and the next charge.
You can't change biology, but humans are very good at inventing technology to live outside their natural environment.
If there were a better place, I'd be all for it. But mars, even with the minuscule atmosphere, low gravity and radiation - is still the second-least-deadly planet in the solar system.
It would take lots of ships, of course. You'd be building an entire industrial infrastructure from scratch in a very harsh environment. It's not going to be cheap, and it's not going to be fast.
Somewhere out in space is a great big rock heading our way. It might not hit for ten million years, or it might hit this decade, but it will hit eventually.
The long term aim should be to establish a sustainable colony somewhere. That isn't possible right now, the technology is still a long way from ready. We can lay the groundwork though - develop new technologies, gather data on how they perform, refine designs, study the planet. The first steps that later generations can build upon, because it's going to be the most expensive undertaking in all of human history to date and someone has to be willing to make the first payments even if they will never see the ultimate result.
No. And this matters - when your dealing with 3GHz+ clocks, it actually becomes a problem getting a signal from one side of the chip to the other and back again within a single clock cycle.
Just wire your control board into the roach's nervous system. It's a standard laboratory procedure now, used for training purposes. You can steer them around by remote control. The autonomous functions even handle uneven terrain for you.
Since 1998. It's in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, oddly enough.
There are five titles in the act. Everyone who reads slashdot knows of the 'safe harbor' provisions and the anti-circumvention provisions - titles II and I respectively. The less-well-known title V extends copyright protection to cover the design of boat hulls.
You'd better be careful not to copy any characters from another film adaptation though.
For a good example, look at Frankenstein. The book is public domain now, but the monster design that everyone knows - bolts in the neck, green-tinted* skin, squareish head with flat top - is not from the book. It's from the Universal movie, which is still under copyright, and they are very touchy about their copyright on that character design. So any other studio that makes a Frankenstein adaptation has to take care not to inadvertently base part of their monster upon the version that every character designer, makeup artist, costumer, actor and writer knows. If any person on the team should do that without realizing, Universal unleashes the lawyers.
*The movie was black and white, but the poster showed green.
"as well as the short films Plane Crazy, The Gallopin' Gaucho, and Steamboat Willie"
They are too valuable to be allowed to expire. Expect very intense lobbying for another extension, probably pushed as essential to 'protect America's creative industries.'
That was the joke: I proposed a solution that would solve the specified problem, but with a significant risk of mass extinction if anything went wrong.
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Even better. The important thing is that the wheels face resistance, just as they would when driving, and of roughly the same level.
Time to spread some Rule 34 Pokemon art around! Dare them to sue, and invoke the Streisand Effect.
Asserting isn't a defense. Proving beyond doubt is. This can sometimes be very difficult to do - if you write that Dr Quack has been promoting a cancer treatment does doesn't actually work and he sues you for libel, you then need to provide absolute proof that his treatment really does not work - and if it hasn't been subjected to proper scientific study, how are you supposed to do that?
You don't lose the copyright, but lax enforcement may affect damages awarded in later cases.
If the test is supposed to replicate driving, I'd expect the rollers to have resistance that would need about the same amount of power to overcome. If I were designing it, I'd use lots of paddle-discs immersed in oil.
They may have known, but what was the alternative? Get fired, and in a manner that ensures they will never work in their field again? Or go to the regulator and media, bring down the responsible parties, and get sued so hard their grandchildren will be paying the lawyer bills?
He was never on trial. But even if he had been, that would only apply to the specific crime he was tried for: They might hope to find recording of another female juvenile changing, not the specific individual he was charged over.
I can think of three ways:
- Be the first format in a field.
- Be so much better than the established formats that people rush to use it.
- Have the support of one or more really influential sponsors. Ideally Microsoft, as they can bundle support into Windows.
Now all we need to do is get image-makers to distribute in a format no-one can view, and software-writers to include support for a format that no-one ever encounters.
Two capacitors in series have half the capacitance. If you combine two like that you get exactly what you'd expect: Twice the energy storage of one capacitor.
You can connect them in parallel. The maths works out he same: Twice the storage.
It also makes the electronics a lot easier. A power supply capable of operating over an input range of 10-30 volts is a lot easier to make than one that operates over 1-5 volts.
Their energy density is also a fraction of that achieved by a battery.
China experimented with supercap busses. They charge up off pantograph at the bus stop. The range is awful, but you don't need much range - just enough to make it to the next stop, and the next charge.
You can't change biology, but humans are very good at inventing technology to live outside their natural environment.
If there were a better place, I'd be all for it. But mars, even with the minuscule atmosphere, low gravity and radiation - is still the second-least-deadly planet in the solar system.
Antarctica is good practice.
It would take lots of ships, of course. You'd be building an entire industrial infrastructure from scratch in a very harsh environment. It's not going to be cheap, and it's not going to be fast.
Somewhere out in space is a great big rock heading our way. It might not hit for ten million years, or it might hit this decade, but it will hit eventually.
The long term aim should be to establish a sustainable colony somewhere. That isn't possible right now, the technology is still a long way from ready. We can lay the groundwork though - develop new technologies, gather data on how they perform, refine designs, study the planet. The first steps that later generations can build upon, because it's going to be the most expensive undertaking in all of human history to date and someone has to be willing to make the first payments even if they will never see the ultimate result.
No. And this matters - when your dealing with 3GHz+ clocks, it actually becomes a problem getting a signal from one side of the chip to the other and back again within a single clock cycle.
Perhaps that is part of why the negotiations are being conducted in secret.
Easy workaround. Don't pass it as American law first - make it a condition of an international agreement, just like the last time.
Just wire your control board into the roach's nervous system. It's a standard laboratory procedure now, used for training purposes. You can steer them around by remote control. The autonomous functions even handle uneven terrain for you.
Since 1998. It's in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, oddly enough.
There are five titles in the act. Everyone who reads slashdot knows of the 'safe harbor' provisions and the anti-circumvention provisions - titles II and I respectively. The less-well-known title V extends copyright protection to cover the design of boat hulls.
You'd better be careful not to copy any characters from another film adaptation though.
For a good example, look at Frankenstein. The book is public domain now, but the monster design that everyone knows - bolts in the neck, green-tinted* skin, squareish head with flat top - is not from the book. It's from the Universal movie, which is still under copyright, and they are very touchy about their copyright on that character design. So any other studio that makes a Frankenstein adaptation has to take care not to inadvertently base part of their monster upon the version that every character designer, makeup artist, costumer, actor and writer knows. If any person on the team should do that without realizing, Universal unleashes the lawyers.
*The movie was black and white, but the poster showed green.
"as well as the short films Plane Crazy, The Gallopin' Gaucho, and Steamboat Willie"
They are too valuable to be allowed to expire. Expect very intense lobbying for another extension, probably pushed as essential to 'protect America's creative industries.'
That was the joke: I proposed a solution that would solve the specified problem, but with a significant risk of mass extinction if anything went wrong.