No *human beings*... yet. Overlooking all the dogs, cats, cattle, birds, bugs and other wildlife that the damage quickly finished off. The human cost will be more apparent after 2 or 3 more decades of denial and astroturfing.
The hilarious thing about this litany of excuses is that there are several dozen 16-year-olds in the UK that could do the whole thing right in an hour. All the while mouthing-off to his friends.
I can retrieve the -essential- information on an LP vinyl record with a piece of paper and a pin.
I vote for ASCII (or some representation with all-printable characters) for all data that's got to last. That way it can be printed on paper which can potentially last for thousands of years... even buried in a garbage pit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus_Papyri
At least, until someone invents little disks you can spin over a self-powered stonelike table and they're read back to you.
We don't have further evidence at present. There are multiple ways in which pebbles might be rounded.
Much of what people think has been done by water on Mars surface could be done over eons by sand and fines suspended in winds. The winds may have been much stronger in the past. Over eons, the spacial orientation of rocks can change, again for many reasons, which gives prevailing winds access to multiple faces.
In the long term, rounded pebbles along with several other phenomena *all in the same location* may raise the probability that liquid H2O was involved too high to reasonably dispute. We're not at that point yet.
Actually, no, we can't all agree to that. Many worthwhile org's (including many funded by your tax dollars) sometimes go overboard in the vigorous pursuit of their goals, just as many races are won by the not-so-swift.
Really clever. Haven't read the whole thing, but this seems like a potential weak-spot: "Of course, this process can be used only once. But Alice and Bob can generate a huge volume of combined keys by passing different random patterns through their slabs when they meet."
When there's more than one key, there's potential for a human-factor screw-up. If there's no way for Alice and Bob to meet, then there's a time-limit. Finally, without access to the public combined-key, nothing works. So a few things can go wrong - and will.
Most of this problem could be resolved if manufacturers made phones with slide-in, slide-out battery packs. One is charging while one is in use. Very simple system, been around for decades. No high-tech solutions needed.
Of course then they might lose the advantage of monitoring everywhere you go... or being able to lock you in as a customer for *very* expensive battery replacements... the only "reasons" I can see for doing the obvious thing of making a phone like a transistor radio or like a freaking flashlight.
Because at the merely-public huge university engineering school I attended, one of the earliest things we learned about was the "resonant frequency" of a bridge could cause it to be destroyed by wind or marching soldiers. Yeah, professors with 30 years tenure used that term, as did all of the physics professors at that same institution. And that people and buildings have resonant frequencies as well (as Tesla showed when he scared his neighbors badly.)
If you're buying Apple hardware, from my experience over 22 years, it's a good idea. -Every- Apple product I bought had one or more -hardware- fails within two years - usually *after* the warranty expired. And Apple's willingness to "overlook" the identical disasters of hundreds of customers is boundless.
Once again we see the hidden disaster which is: creating *your database* in a *proprietary format*.
I learned that over and over until I quit doing it. OS and companies come and go at a fierce rate. A database needs to kept in the only format that is guaranteed to remain universally supported. Anything which doesn't support that is self-serving (not customer-serving) poison. EOL
Nuts to you. Having had to save my family's life from "average drivers" several times over a few decades: you can ride your numskull hypothesis straight to hell.
Interestingly, I just started playing with Rootkit Hunter a couple of weeks back, and it complained when it saw "PermitRootLogin yes".
Since I didn't know that existed, it was either set that way by the very popular distribution I'm using OR (unlikely) by an external force. I'm sure no expert, but allowing login as root via SSH just didn't sound like a good idea. Maybe it's all those 'Security Now' episodes.
The message a college using this is sending you is: go somewhere else. Go somewhere where people's first concern is about you getting an education, where that isn't just ancillary to their "real" mission but where it IS their mission. Where helping you isn't a time-limited inconvenience, but the core mission of the institution.
I've spent a lifetime working with machine learning, and the very idea that any machine today can even begin to comprehend natural language is pathetically laughable. You'll be expected to adapt your responses to the extremely low common denominator the machine represents, and the result is you'll be conditioned to retard your own thinking processes. THEY can't pay YOU enough to settle for such nonsense.
The trouble started with people willing to give up their 5th Amendment rights by consenting to a piss test as a condition of employment. Once that was accepted, the door was wide open.
Reminds me of that $18billion the US just put down to build another nuclear plant or two. Launching that private industry cost hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars (1960s dollars). And the 10s of billions in subsidies big oil gets every year. How DARE solar ask for a red cent?
Would Galileo have had more success with his telescope if he had been Christopher Hitchens?
No, but he'd have had more telescope time if he hadn't had to spend years battling the Church's entrenched idiocracy. You'd make a fine apologist, my friend, consider working for the Discovery Institute lately?
Not a "third belt" at all. A temporary "third concentration" within the Van Allen belt, yes. The lower concentration is blamed on cosmic ray neutron=>proton interactions, the upper concentration to atmospheric and solar electrons. The belt was already known to consist of some concentration of energetic particles from 250-20,000 km. Naturally that varies at various levels as incoming particles are pulled into the magnetosphere.
"Research by Harvard professor..." Who cares where he does his armchair science from? The real research is being done by building windmills around the world. Has there been a documented lessening of windflow anywhere as a result?
"as wind farms grow larger, they start to interact" So don't build them too close together?
"If we were to cover the entire Earth with wind farms, he notes, "the system could potentially generate enormous amounts of power, well in excess of 100 terawatts, but at that point my guess, based on our climate modeling, is..."
My guess. Guess we'll just have to get to 100 terawatts, then, and then we can test his 'guess' in the real world.
Why don't you try it for a week with a video camera? Then wait a wait a year. Then see how much of that week you want to sit and watch again.
Most people's lives are the same ordinary as most other people's lives. An hour a week maybe. What is it about your life that would make me want to give up a lot of mine to watch lo-fi re-enactments of yours?
Geez people, yadda yadda yadda. Hanford's been around for decades, all the babble has been repeated countless times. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent there already, so...
What we need to know is: how far downstream from the Hanford site is the first river radiation monitor? Where are the records for that monitor stored? Where is the website for that monitor's current status? In the event that it begins to monitor increases (particularly significant ones), who is going to respond, what is their plan, who is funding them, and what is the backup plan?
Right-o! This is wisdom for all X.0 (and X.Y.0) OS releases (and most app releases) I've ever known. Waiting long enough to hear about what early-adopters experience is right for most of us. (Same situation in the case of the new KDE4.10 release which is crashing on some DE's)
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No *human beings* ... yet. Overlooking all the dogs, cats, cattle, birds, bugs and other wildlife that the damage quickly finished off. The human cost will be more apparent after 2 or 3 more decades of denial and astroturfing.
The hilarious thing about this litany of excuses is that there are several dozen 16-year-olds in the UK that could do the whole thing right in an hour. All the while mouthing-off to his friends.
I can retrieve the -essential- information on an LP vinyl record with a piece of paper and a pin.
I vote for ASCII (or some representation with all-printable characters) for all data that's got to last. That way it can be printed on paper which can potentially last for thousands of years... even buried in a garbage pit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus_Papyri
At least, until someone invents little disks you can spin over a self-powered stonelike table and they're read back to you.
We don't have further evidence at present. There are multiple ways in which pebbles might be rounded.
Much of what people think has been done by water on Mars surface could be done over eons by sand and fines suspended in winds. The winds may have been much stronger in the past. Over eons, the spacial orientation of rocks can change, again for many reasons, which gives prevailing winds access to multiple faces.
In the long term, rounded pebbles along with several other phenomena *all in the same location* may raise the probability that liquid H2O was involved too high to reasonably dispute. We're not at that point yet.
Once they get the 5th amendment killed off, how many will still be left again?
What better way to do that than pick cases for which people will have the least sympathy?
Actually, no, we can't all agree to that. Many worthwhile org's (including many funded by your tax dollars) sometimes go overboard in the vigorous pursuit of their goals, just as many races are won by the not-so-swift.
Really clever. Haven't read the whole thing, but this seems like a potential weak-spot: "Of course, this process can be used only once. But Alice and Bob can generate a huge volume of combined keys by passing different random patterns through their slabs when they meet."
When there's more than one key, there's potential for a human-factor screw-up. If there's no way for Alice and Bob to meet, then there's a time-limit. Finally, without access to the public combined-key, nothing works. So a few things can go wrong - and will.
Most of this problem could be resolved if manufacturers made phones with slide-in, slide-out battery packs. One is charging while one is in use. Very simple system, been around for decades. No high-tech solutions needed.
Of course then they might lose the advantage of monitoring everywhere you go ... or being able to lock you in as a customer for *very* expensive battery replacements ... the only "reasons" I can see for doing the obvious thing of making a phone like a transistor radio or like a freaking flashlight.
That's funny. I'd say you got cheated, then.
Because at the merely-public huge university engineering school I attended, one of the earliest things we learned about was the "resonant frequency" of a bridge could cause it to be destroyed by wind or marching soldiers. Yeah, professors with 30 years tenure used that term, as did all of the physics professors at that same institution. And that people and buildings have resonant frequencies as well (as Tesla showed when he scared his neighbors badly.)
If you're buying Apple hardware, from my experience over 22 years, it's a good idea. -Every- Apple product I bought had one or more -hardware- fails within two years - usually *after* the warranty expired. And Apple's willingness to "overlook" the identical disasters of hundreds of customers is boundless.
Once again we see the hidden disaster which is: creating *your database* in a *proprietary format*.
I learned that over and over until I quit doing it. OS and companies come and go at a fierce rate. A database needs to kept in the only format that is guaranteed to remain universally supported. Anything which doesn't support that is self-serving (not customer-serving) poison. EOL
This story (with images) has more details. https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=nl&rurl=translate.google.nl&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http://www.omroepwest.nl/nieuws/19-04-2013/kast-vol-spionageapparatuur-ontdekt-haagse-schilderswijk&usg=ALkJrhgWMC4x3iJVw2X0Fb01okkwoPhllw
Nuts to you. Having had to save my family's life from "average drivers" several times over a few decades: you can ride your numskull hypothesis straight to hell.
Interestingly, I just started playing with Rootkit Hunter a couple of weeks back, and it complained when it saw "PermitRootLogin yes".
Since I didn't know that existed, it was either set that way by the very popular distribution I'm using OR (unlikely) by an external force. I'm sure no expert, but allowing login as root via SSH just didn't sound like a good idea. Maybe it's all those 'Security Now' episodes.
Und if you are schmart, you schut kip thinking zat.
The message a college using this is sending you is: go somewhere else. Go somewhere where people's first concern is about you getting an education, where that isn't just ancillary to their "real" mission but where it IS their mission. Where helping you isn't a time-limited inconvenience, but the core mission of the institution.
I've spent a lifetime working with machine learning, and the very idea that any machine today can even begin to comprehend natural language is pathetically laughable. You'll be expected to adapt your responses to the extremely low common denominator the machine represents, and the result is you'll be conditioned to retard your own thinking processes. THEY can't pay YOU enough to settle for such nonsense.
The trouble started with people willing to give up their 5th Amendment rights by consenting to a piss test as a condition of employment. Once that was accepted, the door was wide open.
One more gift from the Reagan era.
Decades of A/B tests suggest this isn't true for anyone who's ever been tested.
Reminds me of that $18billion the US just put down to build another nuclear plant or two. Launching that private industry cost hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars (1960s dollars). And the 10s of billions in subsidies big oil gets every year. How DARE solar ask for a red cent?
Would Galileo have had more success with his telescope if he had been Christopher Hitchens?
No, but he'd have had more telescope time if he hadn't had to spend years battling the Church's entrenched idiocracy. You'd make a fine apologist, my friend, consider working for the Discovery Institute lately?
Not a "third belt" at all. A temporary "third concentration" within the Van Allen belt, yes. The lower concentration is blamed on cosmic ray neutron=>proton interactions, the upper concentration to atmospheric and solar electrons. The belt was already known to consist of some concentration of energetic particles from 250-20,000 km. Naturally that varies at various levels as incoming particles are pulled into the magnetosphere.
"Research by Harvard professor..." Who cares where he does his armchair science from? The real research is being done by building windmills around the world. Has there been a documented lessening of windflow anywhere as a result?
"as wind farms grow larger, they start to interact"
So don't build them too close together?
"If we were to cover the entire Earth with wind farms, he notes, "the system could potentially generate enormous amounts of power, well in excess of 100 terawatts, but at that point my guess, based on our climate modeling, is..."
My guess.
Guess we'll just have to get to 100 terawatts, then, and then we can test his 'guess' in the real world.
Why don't you try it for a week with a video camera? Then wait a wait a year. Then see how much of that week you want to sit and watch again.
Most people's lives are the same ordinary as most other people's lives. An hour a week maybe. What is it about your life that would make me want to give up a lot of mine to watch lo-fi re-enactments of yours?
Geez people, yadda yadda yadda. Hanford's been around for decades, all the babble has been repeated countless times. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent there already, so ...
What we need to know is: how far downstream from the Hanford site is the first river radiation monitor? Where are the records for that monitor stored? Where is the website for that monitor's current status? In the event that it begins to monitor increases (particularly significant ones), who is going to respond, what is their plan, who is funding them, and what is the backup plan?
Right-o! This is wisdom for all X.0 (and X.Y.0) OS releases (and most app releases) I've ever known. Waiting long enough to hear about what early-adopters experience is right for most of us. (Same situation in the case of the new KDE4.10 release which is crashing on some DE's)