Yes, the average slashdotter can do the calculations in his head and deduce that this will not produce useful quantities of energy, but that does not make it a bad idea.
This guy will get millions in venture capital while you guys are still slaving away at the bottom of the R&D department of some big corporation.
And should the "green" venture capital ever run out, I'm sure he can re-brand this as a military application (power for smart landmines perhaps?) and get another billion from the ministry of defence.
4.89 does not call for slaying Pagans. It calls for killing Hypocrites. A different thing entirely. It also only calls for killing the Hypocrites when they side with the Pagans of Mecca. Certainly not a "general command".
Right. But you realize that when you make statements such as "the phrase X appears more than once in text Y" it takes less than 10 seconds for anyone with Internet access prove you wrong?
My point was not to defend hate speech against pagans, but rather to point out that both the Qur'an and the Bible are historical documents that contain antiquated views.
There is a quote in the Qur'an that says "fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them" which sound bad when taken out of context, but that is directed specifically against the Meccan Pagans of 1500 years ago (that were at war against Mohammad at the time of writing).
Likewise there are many questionable passages in the Bible. For example: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death"
These are still allowed because they are important historical documents that reflect the views of the time. Making similar statements today would be considered hate speech in most countries.
A competing service has been around for some time. You get a word processor were you write down your symptoms, and ads for the appropriate medicines appear on any website that you visit subsequently.
Parental responsibility means teaching your kids to take care of themselves, and also to make sure they get healthy habits, such as walking instead of driving when they need to travel short distances. In the last few decades, there has been a trend in a few western countries of driving kids everywhere and forbidding them to play outside unsupervised. In those same countries, child and young adult obesity rates have exploded. Coincidence?
Letting 9-year-old kids walk home from school on their own was the safe and responsible thing to do long before cellphones where invented. Those are just tools that have made it even safer.
Before everyone starts crying "censorship" consider this, far more likely, scenario:
Among protesters there are always a number of morons. One of these morons thought it would be a good idea to use a few of his Yahoo mail accounts to send out thousands of emails promoting the OccopyWallSt website. This triggers Yahoo's outgoing spam filter, and OccupyWallSt.org is placed along with CheapViagraForYourPenis.net on the "100% certain spam" list. Any email trying to promote this website is blocked.
All webmail sites that offer free signup without any ID check must implement something like this, or they will be overrun by spammers.
The one responsible for the "censorship" is the moron who decided to send out the spam in the first place.
(Of course it is theoretically possible that it was somebody opposed to the protests who sent out the spam to trigger the blocking, but I find that scenario far less likely.)
"I'm required to stop copyright violations, so how can I best spy on my employees' surfing habits and see how much time they spend on each website?"
First: You are not required to monitor what you employees download at all. Under NZ law it is not illegal to watch copyrighted material via direct download (youtube etc.) You only need to worry about p2p applications. These are easy to spot as they *upload* to lots of different ip addresses at the same time. If someone has 500 open ports and a Gigabit/second outgoing bandwidth, go talk to him!
Second: People tend to leave their browsers on all day with 10 different tabs open, so even if you could view the time spent on different sites, that info would be meaningless.
Third: Spying on your employees surfing habits can piss them off, and is likely not worth it, for the same reasons why people don't work better if you mount "security" cameras behind their backs.
The reason why a low latency connection is valuable is than many identical stocks and commodities are traded in both NY and London. If you are the first one to detect a pricing difference you can make a sure profit.
Actually, this hat is specifically designed for morons. Face recognition is done from normal digital cameras. (Lots of police and reporters are following the riots with telephoto lenses.) After that it's an easy task following the guy with the lights on his head on the security camera footage.
In the full report (linked as pdf) the same graph has one more data point. The low point is then 8pm-10pm, and the next point starts an upwards trend so that it seems feasible that the curve is continuous across midnight.
People start walking instead of driving when they need to get across the street? The obesity rate in the US drops? Seriously. $6/gal would be considered cheap in many countries in Europe.
Radiation can cause DNA damage and thus cancer. Thus cell phones can cause cancer.
Yes. That's the way clueless people reason, and the reason so many people are afraid of cellphones. The correct reasoning would be:
"Ionizing radiation causes cancer. Cell phones do not emit ionizing radiation. Thus there's no reason why cell phones should cause cancer."
A 60 Watt light bulb emits about 60 times more radiation than a cell phone. Those are higher-energy photons also. I don't know if there has been any studies on whether light bulbs cause cancer.
Sooooo my question is, just how effective is this system going to be if there's an IR filter in place? Now I realize it doesn't completely cut out the IR - I can for example see the blinky light on my remote in my webcam, but it's brightness is greatly reduced.
Didn't you just answer your own question? For this to work, the transmitter needs to be as strong as an ordinary remote control.
Don't know about Canada, but in Sweden: Yes.
The tax is there to compensate the music industry for the fact that you can legally give a copies of music you bought to friends and relatives. (Massive copying is still illegal.) Those who need large quantities of storage media, such as professional musicians and photographers, are exempt from the tax.
This is an awesome solution compared to most countries where you are a thief if you make a mixed tape for a friend.
Having worked with fuel cell R&D for a number of years at one of the major vehicle manufacturers, I can say this: Hydrogen powered vehicles is a bad idea. Everybody doing the actual research realizes this very quickly, but their jobs depend on continuing the work so information tends to get filtered as it passes up through management. Even at the top of the company they have probably realized by now, but the H2 program is almost entirely paid for by government subsidies, so the show goes on.
Why is H2 a bad idea? There are a number of technical reasons, but the easiest one to explain is this: It's too expensive. H2 is made from natural gas, and some energy is lost in the process. Therefore it will always be more expensive than natural gas. H2 is also much more difficult to handle, and gives shorter range, because it occupies more volume than natural gas.
Making H2 from water+electricity? You can make a battery car go twice as far with the same amount of electricity. That car will be cheaper to build, too.
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Yes, the average slashdotter can do the calculations in his head and deduce that this will not produce useful quantities of energy, but that does not make it a bad idea.
This guy will get millions in venture capital while you guys are still slaving away at the bottom of the R&D department of some big corporation.
And should the "green" venture capital ever run out, I'm sure he can re-brand this as a military application (power for smart landmines perhaps?) and get another billion from the ministry of defence.
I've seen this done many times before.
9.5 is the one I quoted.
4.89 does not call for slaying Pagans. It calls for killing Hypocrites. A different thing entirely. It also only calls for killing the Hypocrites when they side with the Pagans of Mecca. Certainly not a "general command".
Right. But you realize that when you make statements such as "the phrase X appears more than once in text Y" it takes less than 10 seconds for anyone with Internet access prove you wrong?
You heard that on Fox news, right?
My point was not to defend hate speech against pagans, but rather to point out that both the Qur'an and the Bible are historical documents that contain antiquated views.
There is a quote in the Qur'an that says "fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them" which sound bad when taken out of context, but that is directed specifically against the Meccan Pagans of 1500 years ago (that were at war against Mohammad at the time of writing).
Likewise there are many questionable passages in the Bible. For example: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death"
These are still allowed because they are important historical documents that reflect the views of the time. Making similar statements today would be considered hate speech in most countries.
A competing service has been around for some time. You get a word processor were you write down your symptoms, and ads for the appropriate medicines appear on any website that you visit subsequently.
They're called the "Google Docs".
Parental responsibility means teaching your kids to take care of themselves, and also to make sure they get healthy habits, such as walking instead of driving when they need to travel short distances. In the last few decades, there has been a trend in a few western countries of driving kids everywhere and forbidding them to play outside unsupervised. In those same countries, child and young adult obesity rates have exploded. Coincidence?
Letting 9-year-old kids walk home from school on their own was the safe and responsible thing to do long before cellphones where invented. Those are just tools that have made it even safer.
"Is it opposite day?"
It's Australia. They're upside down w.r.t. the /. servers.
Before everyone starts crying "censorship" consider this, far more likely, scenario:
Among protesters there are always a number of morons. One of these morons thought it would be a good idea to use a few of his Yahoo mail accounts to send out thousands of emails promoting the OccopyWallSt website. This triggers Yahoo's outgoing spam filter, and OccupyWallSt.org is placed along with CheapViagraForYourPenis.net on the "100% certain spam" list. Any email trying to promote this website is blocked.
All webmail sites that offer free signup without any ID check must implement something like this, or they will be overrun by spammers.
The one responsible for the "censorship" is the moron who decided to send out the spam in the first place.
(Of course it is theoretically possible that it was somebody opposed to the protests who sent out the spam to trigger the blocking, but I find that scenario far less likely.)
"I'm required to stop copyright violations, so how can I best spy on my employees' surfing habits and see how much time they spend on each website?"
First: You are not required to monitor what you employees download at all. Under NZ law it is not illegal to watch copyrighted material via direct download (youtube etc.) You only need to worry about p2p applications. These are easy to spot as they *upload* to lots of different ip addresses at the same time. If someone has 500 open ports and a Gigabit/second outgoing bandwidth, go talk to him!
Second: People tend to leave their browsers on all day with 10 different tabs open, so even if you could view the time spent on different sites, that info would be meaningless.
Third: Spying on your employees surfing habits can piss them off, and is likely not worth it, for the same reasons why people don't work better if you mount "security" cameras behind their backs.
The reason why a low latency connection is valuable is than many identical stocks and commodities are traded in both NY and London. If you are the first one to detect a pricing difference you can make a sure profit.
Actually, this hat is specifically designed for morons. Face recognition is done from normal digital cameras. (Lots of police and reporters are following the riots with telephoto lenses.) After that it's an easy task following the guy with the lights on his head on the security camera footage.
In the full report (linked as pdf) the same graph has one more data point. The low point is then 8pm-10pm, and the next point starts an upwards trend so that it seems feasible that the curve is continuous across midnight.
People start walking instead of driving when they need to get across the street? The obesity rate in the US drops? Seriously. $6/gal would be considered cheap in many countries in Europe.
Radiation can cause DNA damage and thus cancer. Thus cell phones can cause cancer.
Yes. That's the way clueless people reason, and the reason so many people are afraid of cellphones. The correct reasoning would be: "Ionizing radiation causes cancer. Cell phones do not emit ionizing radiation. Thus there's no reason why cell phones should cause cancer." A 60 Watt light bulb emits about 60 times more radiation than a cell phone. Those are higher-energy photons also. I don't know if there has been any studies on whether light bulbs cause cancer.
Sooooo my question is, just how effective is this system going to be if there's an IR filter in place? Now I realize it doesn't completely cut out the IR - I can for example see the blinky light on my remote in my webcam, but it's brightness is greatly reduced.
Didn't you just answer your own question? For this to work, the transmitter needs to be as strong as an ordinary remote control.
Don't know about Canada, but in Sweden: Yes. The tax is there to compensate the music industry for the fact that you can legally give a copies of music you bought to friends and relatives. (Massive copying is still illegal.) Those who need large quantities of storage media, such as professional musicians and photographers, are exempt from the tax. This is an awesome solution compared to most countries where you are a thief if you make a mixed tape for a friend.
Having worked with fuel cell R&D for a number of years at one of the major vehicle manufacturers, I can say this: Hydrogen powered vehicles is a bad idea. Everybody doing the actual research realizes this very quickly, but their jobs depend on continuing the work so information tends to get filtered as it passes up through management. Even at the top of the company they have probably realized by now, but the H2 program is almost entirely paid for by government subsidies, so the show goes on. Why is H2 a bad idea? There are a number of technical reasons, but the easiest one to explain is this: It's too expensive. H2 is made from natural gas, and some energy is lost in the process. Therefore it will always be more expensive than natural gas. H2 is also much more difficult to handle, and gives shorter range, because it occupies more volume than natural gas. Making H2 from water+electricity? You can make a battery car go twice as far with the same amount of electricity. That car will be cheaper to build, too.