I tend to write dialog phonetically. "The g loads" almost looks like a typo, and "the G loads" looks like I'm referring to the gravitational constant.;)
Or maybe the character was yelling "Gee whiz!" very loudly as he jumped....
Yep, that's the combination I used when I came up with the idea in a story (see other post). Gee loads and physiological changes. If it could monitor blood-pressure too (tricky without more invasive sensors) it could detect injuries not accompanied by massive forces, like a serious cut or stab that's bleeding out (for the guys above worried about falling onto a sharp fence post.;)
Over a year ago (don't recall exactly when, the book was published last December) I used a similar device in The Eridani Convergence when the protagonist hurls himself from a moving car (autonomous, and it had been hacked to kidnap him) in the middle of nowhere. He wakes up in a hospital room:
"How?" "How did we find you? Smart omniphone you've got there. Between the gee loads and the physiological changes it sensed in you -- good thing you had it on your wrist and not in a pocket -- it figured something was seriously wrong and started calling for help."
I like to think that someone at Apple read that and thought it was a good idea, but probably they were already working on it. Or they worked fast.;)
Higher variability in males than females (in almost any category) should be expected in anything that might be even partly gene-linked.
Males have only one X-chromosome. Any genetic variation on that will go unchecked, whereas females have a second X-chromosome which can help even out any variations. (Obviously I am oversimplifying genetics, but that's the gist of it.)
Not all factors in academic (or any other) performance are gene-linked, of course, and of those not all are on the X-chromosome. But minor differences tend to show up at the margins. Both good and bad.
But yes, let people - male or female - focus on what they, as individuals, are good at. Don't whack the heads off the tall-standing flowers so they're all the same height.
I like that one, but you could still get some odd edge case where a recent impact splashes life-bearing rocks to the Moon or Mars.
Not that I can think of any big enough to have done that recently. Even the Canyon Diablo (Meteor Crater, Arizona) impact, about 40,000 years ago, probably wasn't big enough.
They go on to discuss that "by this definition, life on another planet with a common origin to Earth life but which diverged billions of years ago would be extraterrestrial,
Interesting. My T-Space books and stories (currently the Alpha Centaur trilogy and several others, more to come) posit terraformed planets whose life diverged about 65 million years ago (post Cretaceous). I wonder if under this definition that would be considered extraterrestrial. (I generally don't -- but I haven't gotten to the real extraterrestrials yet.)
Back in the real world, the end-Cretaceous impact could have splashed life-bearing rocks out to a few thousand light-years by now (don't have the reference handy, but someone calculated the odds and they're surprisingly high for some bacterial spores embedded in a few grams of rock to survive the trip -- although pretty low for that rock to land anywhere fertile beyond our solar system).
If it can be shown that evidence was deliberately destroyed (and yeah, that's the hard part), then there's generally a legal presumption that the evidence showed the worst possible interpretation of the case for the party which destroyed (else why destroy it?).
Of course when the evidence that they destroyed evidence has also been destroyed, and the evidence of that has been destroyed... well, you get the idea.
I wouldn't say the corporations are on our side. They're on their own side.
But to the extent they'll start losing sales as people realize those small but expensive boxes they sell are little more than 1984's "televisors" made portable (great, Big Brother is not just watching and listening, he's in your pocket), it is in their self-interest to resist this.
However, with enough pressure, they'll knuckle under. Look at Google's principled stand on censored search-engines in China (*cough*), for example.
It's now a generation later, of course they're trying again. If they lose this one, they'll probably try again in another twenty five years, if not sooner.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, and all that. I just wish there were some way to get rid of the fuckwits who keep pushing this crap.
Actually a wounded soldier is more out of it than a dead one, because he'll tie up his buddies who are helping him, and tie up medical resources, etc, and the associated logistics.
In actual combat, most rounds are expended just keeping the other guys' heads down.
The "military" part was for the ITAR restriction. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations don't come into play for non-military weapons. It was Department of State that had a problem with that, not DOJ.
But yes, earlier Supreme Court decisions have come down to whether or not certain weapons (sawed-off shotguns, as I recall) had a military purpose, and the ban on same was upheld because they didn't. (Which was incorrect -- they had a use in trench warfare, although now largely superseded by machine guns.)
It makes no such distinction. It says "arms" without specifying type or kind, although bearing them may imply they're limited to what is man-portable (ie, not necessarily crew-served weapons).
Technically an RPG could qualify, although the BATF would frown on that if you haven't done the appropriate paperwork (as would most states).
In these days of blazingly fast CPUs and I/O, cheap memory and cheaper storage space, it was important to re-write logging to use more-compact machine-friendly log files, even at the expense of human readability or easy script parsing.
The other part of that is that a relative newbie looks at the source for the old tool, sees all kinds of stuff in there, assume it's cruft, and decides he can write a simpler, cleaner tool. So he does.
Then he finds out it doesn't deal with all the corner-cases that the original tool, with its "cruft", did. And goes on to write cruft of his own.
(Which isn't to say that newbies can't make improvements...but that's generally not the way to bet.)
I'm responsible a lot of production systems (somewhere around a thousand VMs, it varies), so of course I worry about CPU use, memory use, I/O, etc. I have never, ever, in decades of sysadmin'ing, worried about how much of the above ifconfig or netstat take. (It's not like what's in/proc are actual files, after all;/proc a kernel interface.)
Worried about efficiency? In the aggregate you'll waste more CPU- and man-hours compiling and debugging your replacement tools than using ifconfig or netstat will. Go spend that time on something useful.
This may (although it doesn't, really) explain the decline of dinosaurs, but it says nothing about why thousands of other species (including all the ammonites) went extinct at the same time.
And the theory that dinosaurs were already dying off before the K/Pg boundary is hardly new. Part of that is an artifact of how fossils are formed and found. A species could have lasted several million years after its latest-known fossil, it just didn't happen to leave any fossils that have yet been found. (Conversely, the last surviving member of a species could have been fossilized. Unlikely though, except in the case of a mass extinction event.)
Pro tip: don't believe everything you read in Wikipedia.
That's a vast oversimplification -- sure, trace a cladogram back far enough and you'll see something called Reptilia as the ancestor of both dinosaurs (and birds) and things ancestral to turtles, snakes and crocodilians. Dinosaurs are as much reptiles as birds are (indeed, birds are considered avian dinosaurs.)
Trace mammals back far enough and you come to synapsids aka "mammal-like reptiles" -- which aren't reptiles either.
Delete and even Nuke isn't going to do it (they'll have backups, somewhere).
We need to feed it so much false personal information that the signal/noise ratio makes it useless. (It's already doing that to itself on the news front.)
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Funny man. ;)
I tend to write dialog phonetically. "The g loads" almost looks like a typo, and "the G loads" looks like I'm referring to the gravitational constant. ;)
Or maybe the character was yelling "Gee whiz!" very loudly as he jumped....
So how long before precrime units start wiring up precogs this way?
Yep, that's the combination I used when I came up with the idea in a story (see other post). Gee loads and physiological changes. If it could monitor blood-pressure too (tricky without more invasive sensors) it could detect injuries not accompanied by massive forces, like a serious cut or stab that's bleeding out (for the guys above worried about falling onto a sharp fence post. ;)
Over a year ago (don't recall exactly when, the book was published last December) I used a similar device in The Eridani Convergence when the protagonist hurls himself from a moving car (autonomous, and it had been hacked to kidnap him) in the middle of nowhere. He wakes up in a hospital room:
I like to think that someone at Apple read that and thought it was a good idea, but probably they were already working on it. Or they worked fast. ;)
Higher variability in males than females (in almost any category) should be expected in anything that might be even partly gene-linked.
Males have only one X-chromosome. Any genetic variation on that will go unchecked, whereas females have a second X-chromosome which can help even out any variations. (Obviously I am oversimplifying genetics, but that's the gist of it.)
Not all factors in academic (or any other) performance are gene-linked, of course, and of those not all are on the X-chromosome. But minor differences tend to show up at the margins. Both good and bad.
But yes, let people - male or female - focus on what they, as individuals, are good at. Don't whack the heads off the tall-standing flowers so they're all the same height.
I like that one, but you could still get some odd edge case where a recent impact splashes life-bearing rocks to the Moon or Mars.
Not that I can think of any big enough to have done that recently. Even the Canyon Diablo (Meteor Crater, Arizona) impact, about 40,000 years ago, probably wasn't big enough.
Argh. Alpha Centauri, not Alpha Centaur. I even previewed. :(
They go on to discuss that "by this definition, life on another planet with a common origin to Earth life but which diverged billions of years ago would be extraterrestrial,
Interesting. My T-Space books and stories (currently the Alpha Centaur trilogy and several others, more to come) posit terraformed planets whose life diverged about 65 million years ago (post Cretaceous). I wonder if under this definition that would be considered extraterrestrial. (I generally don't -- but I haven't gotten to the real extraterrestrials yet.)
Back in the real world, the end-Cretaceous impact could have splashed life-bearing rocks out to a few thousand light-years by now (don't have the reference handy, but someone calculated the odds and they're surprisingly high for some bacterial spores embedded in a few grams of rock to survive the trip -- although pretty low for that rock to land anywhere fertile beyond our solar system).
If it can be shown that evidence was deliberately destroyed (and yeah, that's the hard part), then there's generally a legal presumption that the evidence showed the worst possible interpretation of the case for the party which destroyed (else why destroy it?).
Of course when the evidence that they destroyed evidence has also been destroyed, and the evidence of that has been destroyed... well, you get the idea.
I wouldn't say the corporations are on our side. They're on their own side.
But to the extent they'll start losing sales as people realize those small but expensive boxes they sell are little more than 1984's "televisors" made portable (great, Big Brother is not just watching and listening, he's in your pocket), it is in their self-interest to resist this.
However, with enough pressure, they'll knuckle under. Look at Google's principled stand on censored search-engines in China (*cough*), for example.
Yep, they lost the Clipper chip battle.
It's now a generation later, of course they're trying again. If they lose this one, they'll probably try again in another twenty five years, if not sooner.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, and all that. I just wish there were some way to get rid of the fuckwits who keep pushing this crap.
. I don't think their problems are malicious since around a third of the time it's not in their favor.
Which means two-thirds of the time it is in their favor.
A casino would love odds like that.
Actually a wounded soldier is more out of it than a dead one, because he'll tie up his buddies who are helping him, and tie up medical resources, etc, and the associated logistics.
In actual combat, most rounds are expended just keeping the other guys' heads down.
The "military" part was for the ITAR restriction. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations don't come into play for non-military weapons. It was Department of State that had a problem with that, not DOJ.
But yes, earlier Supreme Court decisions have come down to whether or not certain weapons (sawed-off shotguns, as I recall) had a military purpose, and the ban on same was upheld because they didn't. (Which was incorrect -- they had a use in trench warfare, although now largely superseded by machine guns.)
It makes no such distinction. It says "arms" without specifying type or kind, although bearing them may imply they're limited to what is man-portable (ie, not necessarily crew-served weapons).
Technically an RPG could qualify, although the BATF would frown on that if you haven't done the appropriate paperwork (as would most states).
- no, you do not need a straw. No-one needs a straw, ever.
Tell that to someone who has had their broken jaw wired shut.
But waxed paper straws (or re-usable heavy duty plastic) also work.
You're missing the point.
In these days of blazingly fast CPUs and I/O, cheap memory and cheaper storage space, it was important to re-write logging to use more-compact machine-friendly log files, even at the expense of human readability or easy script parsing.
(And yes, for the impaired, that was sarcasm.)
This. Ever so much, this.
The other part of that is that a relative newbie looks at the source for the old tool, sees all kinds of stuff in there, assume it's cruft, and decides he can write a simpler, cleaner tool. So he does.
Then he finds out it doesn't deal with all the corner-cases that the original tool, with its "cruft", did. And goes on to write cruft of his own.
(Which isn't to say that newbies can't make improvements...but that's generally not the way to bet.)
I'm responsible a lot of production systems (somewhere around a thousand VMs, it varies), so of course I worry about CPU use, memory use, I/O, etc. I have never, ever, in decades of sysadmin'ing, worried about how much of the above ifconfig or netstat take. (It's not like what's in /proc are actual files, after all; /proc a kernel interface.)
Worried about efficiency? In the aggregate you'll waste more CPU- and man-hours compiling and debugging your replacement tools than using ifconfig or netstat will. Go spend that time on something useful.
The dominant weed killers in the city are concrete and asphalt.
You've got that backwards. The dominant concrete and asphalt killers in my driveway and sidewalk are weeds.
Why not? Airplanes can. Even really big airplanes.
Oh, and pterosaurs weren't dinosaurs.
Wish I hadn't used up all my mod points earlier today.
This. Ever so much this.
This may (although it doesn't, really) explain the decline of dinosaurs, but it says nothing about why thousands of other species (including all the ammonites) went extinct at the same time.
And the theory that dinosaurs were already dying off before the K/Pg boundary is hardly new. Part of that is an artifact of how fossils are formed and found. A species could have lasted several million years after its latest-known fossil, it just didn't happen to leave any fossils that have yet been found. (Conversely, the last surviving member of a species could have been fossilized. Unlikely though, except in the case of a mass extinction event.)
Pro tip: don't believe everything you read in Wikipedia.
That's a vast oversimplification -- sure, trace a cladogram back far enough and you'll see something called Reptilia as the ancestor of both dinosaurs (and birds) and things ancestral to turtles, snakes and crocodilians. Dinosaurs are as much reptiles as birds are (indeed, birds are considered avian dinosaurs.)
Trace mammals back far enough and you come to synapsids aka "mammal-like reptiles" -- which aren't reptiles either.
Delete and even Nuke isn't going to do it (they'll have backups, somewhere).
We need to feed it so much false personal information that the signal/noise ratio makes it useless. (It's already doing that to itself on the news front.)
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