Have you played America's Army? (Or Final Fantasy 11?)
Note, also, that "realistic" does not require completeness in the sense of simulating all aspects of daily life equally. It only requires that those events which are simulated are as close to reality as possible. So you can cut actions like walking from one place to another entirely and maintain realism. (On the other hand, if they make you walk from one town to the next but it only takes five minutes, that's not realistic.)
The purpose of ADAMS is to detect insider threats. The data is easy to collect because the organization doing the analysis also owns the computer systems that are being used.
While a government organization might be spying on the American public, that problem is orthogonal to this research effort. (Also, that government organization is probably not DARPA, SAIC, or Georgia Tech.) You'd be hard-pressed to even apply the algorithms they're developing to a such a large and varied population because of the high false positive rate.
In our town we get next-day delivery for almost any piece of mail sent within town. We also get next-day delivery for most mail sent to the nearest major distribution center, which appropriately contains a Netflix distribution center.
Searching or seizing your computer actually does require a warrant. Same with your phone, except for some odd cases that occur much too easily and are still being debated (like when you're pulled over for a traffic violation).
Seizing servers requires a warrant as well.
The one that's difficult is acquiring your data from a third party, such as a service provider. Protection against search and seizure is generally considered to only apply to those things in your possession and not to items held on your behalf by another. This may be a fairly reasonable interpretation when it comes to physical objects, but with Internet services it's standard procedure for a third party to be storing data on our behalf that a reasonable person would consider "ours".
It doesn't. That would fall within "quantum teleportation". It turns out that you need to transmit information in order to perform meaningful quantum teleportation, so it can't be used to transmit information any faster than you already could. (Even though, without knowing the details of how quantum teleportation works, it certainly seems like one ought to be able to.)
I was actually going to mention this, and was pleasantly surprised to discover someone else pointing out what the common superposed state of entangled objects is.
The first part is named after a person or place of scientific significance, usually in the field of particle physics.
The -ium ending is pretty common for elements. Just look at some of the older entries on the periodic table, as you recommended: helium, lithium, beryllium, sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, gallium, germanium, selenium, rubidium, strontium, zirconium, molybdenum, palladium, cadmium, iridium, platinum.
That's Gnutella. The Napster protocol is now largely unused. (At the time it was shut down, there were tools to redirect the client to different central servers, but that's no longer really popular.) The Gnutella protocol, on the other hand, is still used by a wide variety of clients, including Limewire, Frostwire, and Bearshare.
It's impressive, especially if it's small enough to turn frequently, has an appropriate nitrogen-to-carbon ratio, and contains mostly small pieces of material.
The amount of energy used to produce versus recycle a good is independent of the cost of the product and independent of the cost of energy. It may be less economically efficient if the price of new goods is higher than the price of recycling, but it's not necessarily less energy-efficient. This also asserts that energy cost is the sole factor in ecological soundness, which simply isn't true.
The amount of time it takes is dramatically different. Biodegradeable substances don't degrade quickly at all in landfills. Managed composting, on the other hand, can turn vegetable matter into soil in a couple months. (Casual home composting is rather slower, but still lightning-fast compared to landfills.)
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Have you played America's Army? (Or Final Fantasy 11?)
Note, also, that "realistic" does not require completeness in the sense of simulating all aspects of daily life equally. It only requires that those events which are simulated are as close to reality as possible. So you can cut actions like walking from one place to another entirely and maintain realism. (On the other hand, if they make you walk from one town to the next but it only takes five minutes, that's not realistic.)
Bomb ranges don't generally have cannons. That would be like living near an airport and expecting a boat to crash into your house.
it takes a detector the size of a mountain.
Actually, it only takes a detector the size of a salt mine.
Even Apple knows that you wouldn't spend $1500 for an Apple TV. That's probably why that product is $100.
The purpose of ADAMS is to detect insider threats. The data is easy to collect because the organization doing the analysis also owns the computer systems that are being used.
While a government organization might be spying on the American public, that problem is orthogonal to this research effort. (Also, that government organization is probably not DARPA, SAIC, or Georgia Tech.) You'd be hard-pressed to even apply the algorithms they're developing to a such a large and varied population because of the high false positive rate.
There may not be formal charges, but there are certainly accusations.
In our town we get next-day delivery for almost any piece of mail sent within town. We also get next-day delivery for most mail sent to the nearest major distribution center, which appropriately contains a Netflix distribution center.
Searching or seizing your computer actually does require a warrant. Same with your phone, except for some odd cases that occur much too easily and are still being debated (like when you're pulled over for a traffic violation).
Seizing servers requires a warrant as well.
The one that's difficult is acquiring your data from a third party, such as a service provider. Protection against search and seizure is generally considered to only apply to those things in your possession and not to items held on your behalf by another. This may be a fairly reasonable interpretation when it comes to physical objects, but with Internet services it's standard procedure for a third party to be storing data on our behalf that a reasonable person would consider "ours".
It doesn't. That would fall within "quantum teleportation". It turns out that you need to transmit information in order to perform meaningful quantum teleportation, so it can't be used to transmit information any faster than you already could. (Even though, without knowing the details of how quantum teleportation works, it certainly seems like one ought to be able to.)
I was actually going to mention this, and was pleasantly surprised to discover someone else pointing out what the common superposed state of entangled objects is.
The first part is named after a person or place of scientific significance, usually in the field of particle physics.
The -ium ending is pretty common for elements. Just look at some of the older entries on the periodic table, as you recommended: helium, lithium, beryllium, sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, gallium, germanium, selenium, rubidium, strontium, zirconium, molybdenum, palladium, cadmium, iridium, platinum.
They break down into other elements, but Uranium's decay series never passes through gold:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain#Radium_series_.28also_known_as_uranium_series.29
That's Gnutella. The Napster protocol is now largely unused. (At the time it was shut down, there were tools to redirect the client to different central servers, but that's no longer really popular.) The Gnutella protocol, on the other hand, is still used by a wide variety of clients, including Limewire, Frostwire, and Bearshare.
Well, Congress's approval rating is something like 9%. At that rate, a large number of arbitrary proposals will be "more popular than Congress".
New Jersey is Mid-Atlantic, not New England. Also, nobody likes New Jersey, and nobody in New Jersey likes Newark.
See, I think of starch peanuts as "normal", but when I get things shipped from some parts of the country, it uses styrofoam packing peanuts.
It's impressive, especially if it's small enough to turn frequently, has an appropriate nitrogen-to-carbon ratio, and contains mostly small pieces of material.
50 years is not an arbitrarily long time. It may take a thousand years, or ten thousand, but it'll degrade eventually.
but when the leaves break down, they turn into hummus
Humus. If leaves broke down into hummus, more people would rake them up.
The amount of energy used to produce versus recycle a good is independent of the cost of the product and independent of the cost of energy. It may be less economically efficient if the price of new goods is higher than the price of recycling, but it's not necessarily less energy-efficient. This also asserts that energy cost is the sole factor in ecological soundness, which simply isn't true.
In our town, recycling is both free and mandatory, and trash is relatively expensive. Seems like a good way to fund trash pickup.
As a result, it annoys me to no end when people mail me packages padded withstyrofoam peanuts or other nonrecycleable materials.
Composting properly is painfully simple. Composting quickly is trickier, though it's pretty easy if a city service does it.
The amount of time it takes is dramatically different. Biodegradeable substances don't degrade quickly at all in landfills. Managed composting, on the other hand, can turn vegetable matter into soil in a couple months. (Casual home composting is rather slower, but still lightning-fast compared to landfills.)
The 3-body problem is easy to solve computationally. It just has no closed-form solution.
Quantum mechanics certainly can be simulated at a low level, it's just too costly a simulation to use to simulate large-scale systems.
If only there were some way to control for such factors.