I did RTFA (as best I could following eye surgeries). Both of the links. Twice now. It's a cool idea but nothing in press release about keeping the device from getting stuck, retrieving it, or bucking the blood flow It won't ever get stuck? Blood flow will never exceed its speed? No one will ever make an error operating it? The OR won't ever have a power glitch? My code always works the first time? Slashdot commenters don't ever make ad hominem arguments?
Not kidding. GDP has no goodness vector. Lot's of money will be spent because of this disaster. The passengers will get some and replace lost possessions. The salvage operations will be very expensive, lawyers will reap their just rewards and buy nice cars, homes, and apartments for mistresses; and on and on. Goods and services, no?
I've read many reports of reporters on their test drives. Almost none of the drives were taken in conditions that many experience, such as on a sunny day with the temperature around 90 degrees F or below freezing. This also impairs performance and I think it is to a greater degree than for conventional cars. At low temperatures batteries may not charge or deliver the required power and it's not clear if the heaters are electric, that is power consuming, or not. At high ambient temperatures quite a bit of power is needed for the AC - another power drain.
I'm waiting for reports on battery failures and changes, too, as mentioned in another post here.
1. Genetically modified spider escapes into the wild. It mates with other creating a legion of these spiders with super silk. The super silk not only catches normal critters but large animals as well get tangled in the web unable to get out. Hope you all have a Phial from the elves.
2. New spider silk isn't as sticky as normal spider silk. Spiders die of starvation. Pests grow to plague proportions
3. Spider spins web in someones doorway. Homeowner is pissed at new wall.
4. Profit! (GM spider escapes into the wild and mates with spiders in someones backyard. Patent troll finds GM spider and sues homeowner of ip theft and distribution!)
You're a genius. Let me try that reading and comprehension thingy...
1. Genetically modified silkworm escapes into the wild. It mates with other silkworms creating a legion of these silkworms with super silk that's almost as strong as spider silk. The super silk doesn't even catch flies because the flies fail to inside the little cocoons, and because it's no stronger than a spiders web.
2. New silkworm silk isn't as sticky as normal silkworm silk. Genetically modifed silkworms lay eggs in silk cocoons that fail to stick together and they all die.
3. The End.
I was wrong - you're not actually a genius.
And what the fuck are "sipders" - anal warts from elves?
Yeah, he missed that. BTW "silk worms" are not worms and can't mate or lay eggs. They are larvae of a moth that feeds on leaves from the mulberry tree. Etc.
But not all is lost as we now have Frankensilk which, of course, is to be avoided for the same reasons as Frankenfood. Wait, that doesn't sound right. Oh, well might as well post so I can have some morning coffee.
If this really works and is widely deployed then governments need to figure out how to clothe, feed, educate, and find jobs for the the increased population. If not the increase of disadvantaged persons will probably breed civil unrest and war.
... if a case of spontaneous human ignition were to be found. That would move my reaction from "ignorant Irish" court to "really, how could that happen?". BTW I cooked my oatmeal this morning using the spontaneous combustion of natural gas.
"The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would be useful to hackers, affidavits and other documents related to litigation in which the companies were embroiled, and trade secrets, such as contracts for business transactions."
I wondered how they could pay for their research in this era of vastly reduced funding - it's self funding!
I'll bet they are not tested on how to use the computers or the software they are supposed to be using. If they do that the test scores will go up, especially if they include IM, chat, YouTube, and Facebook.:-)
"While determining supersonic speed requires not being in a vacuum, once you know what speed supersonic-speed is, can it not be used as a measuring stick for comparison?"
Supersonic means faster than the speed of sound referenced to a specific medium at specific conditions, and that varies wildly depending on the medium, say air or steel, and on the temperature, pressure, and state of the medium. Perhaps astro-physicists use "supersonic" in some specialized sense, but it looks to me as if the author used it as a synonym for "very fast" much as "healthy" is used in place of "large" or "big".
Wow, they move faster than sound in space. Wonder what speed that is? Are orbiting space loudspeakers blasting rock-n-roll to unfortunate planets next? (Apologies to Douglas Adams)
Arrive at work and turn on corporate laptop (2 MHz Dual Core XP with whole disk encryption and gigabit LAN) if I had turned it off when I left. Scoot chair to LINUX machine in corner (same specs but not connected to corporate LAN) turn it on. Move to XP machine, ah, there is the first logon, enter username and password. Scoot over to LINUX machine which has desktop up and is waiting for my keychain password and enter it. Launch Eclipse or Chrome and glance at XP. Is the second logon there? No, wait, there it is, enter same user name and password and go back to LINUX machine to do some real work for the next 12 minutes or so while the disk on the XP thrashes. If I think of it look at the screen for the XP machine and close error message boxes and either enter passwords or close a couple more dialogs while this is going on.
Total time to be able to use the XP without delays, the cursor not where I think it is or moves in jerks and windows take many seconds to display, is about 15 minutes. If it's the day for the anti virus software to run then this takes longer and the XP machine will be really slow with lots of waiting for windows for about an hour and at the end of the scan ignore and close the window that says a virus has been detected in an Excel file in the cache and I need to call for help. (The original file, last edited in 1996, is apparently OK, though.)
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I agree but it searches for a set of records that have some kind of a close match and doesn't stop with the first "hit" a la CSI.
Wonder why there was no mention of the false positive and false negative rates? Perhaps they are a little too high?
I did RTFA (as best I could following eye surgeries). Both of the links. Twice now. It's a cool idea but nothing in press release about keeping the device from getting stuck, retrieving it, or bucking the blood flow It won't ever get stuck? Blood flow will never exceed its speed? No one will ever make an error operating it? The OR won't ever have a power glitch? My code always works the first time? Slashdot commenters don't ever make ad hominem arguments?
What's that word I'm looking for? Ah, yes, embolism. That's what it's called if it get's stuck in too small artery.
Not kidding. GDP has no goodness vector. Lot's of money will be spent because of this disaster. The passengers will get some and replace lost possessions. The salvage operations will be very expensive, lawyers will reap their just rewards and buy nice cars, homes, and apartments for mistresses; and on and on. Goods and services, no?
No matter what's planned the end result is a tiny boost to Italy's GDP - and they need it.
I've read many reports of reporters on their test drives. Almost none of the drives were taken in conditions that many experience, such as on a sunny day with the temperature around 90 degrees F or below freezing. This also impairs performance and I think it is to a greater degree than for conventional cars. At low temperatures batteries may not charge or deliver the required power and it's not clear if the heaters are electric, that is power consuming, or not. At high ambient temperatures quite a bit of power is needed for the AC - another power drain.
I'm waiting for reports on battery failures and changes, too, as mentioned in another post here.
1. Genetically modified spider escapes into the wild. It mates with other creating a legion of these spiders with super silk. The super silk not only catches normal critters but large animals as well get tangled in the web unable to get out. Hope you all have a Phial from the elves.
2. New spider silk isn't as sticky as normal spider silk. Spiders die of starvation. Pests grow to plague proportions
3. Spider spins web in someones doorway. Homeowner is pissed at new wall.
4. Profit! (GM spider escapes into the wild and mates with spiders in someones backyard. Patent troll finds GM spider and sues homeowner of ip theft and distribution!)
You're a genius. Let me try that reading and comprehension thingy...
I was wrong - you're not actually a genius.
And what the fuck are "sipders" - anal warts from elves?
Yeah, he missed that. BTW "silk worms" are not worms and can't mate or lay eggs. They are larvae of a moth that feeds on leaves from the mulberry tree. Etc.
But not all is lost as we now have Frankensilk which, of course, is to be avoided for the same reasons as Frankenfood. Wait, that doesn't sound right. Oh, well might as well post so I can have some morning coffee.
More profits for US companies, hooray!
What? No emoticons here, oh, well.
We of the Spanish Inquisition rely on one thing: surprise, fear and surprise.
"'spreading the message that if you're prepared for a zombie attack, you're prepared for just about anything.'"
"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Graham Chapman
Monty Python's Flying Circus
If this really works and is widely deployed then governments need to figure out how to clothe, feed, educate, and find jobs for the the increased population. If not the increase of disadvantaged persons will probably breed civil unrest and war.
re: 42
Yes, I think so, someone must.
I thought that SNL covered it pretty well some years ago.
I hope if this is implemented that redundancy is built in along with fail safe operation if power or communications are cut.
Along with single point of failure many opportunities of hacking would need to be addressed.
I suspect that your natural gas fire was not "spontaneous", but rather was started either by a spark or a pilot light.
Yes, the *ignition* was not spontaneous but the resultant *combustion* was spontaneous.
... if a case of spontaneous human ignition were to be found. That would move my reaction from "ignorant Irish" court to "really, how could that happen?". BTW I cooked my oatmeal this morning using the spontaneous combustion of natural gas.
No thanks, I'm not into self mutilation.
"The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would be useful to hackers, affidavits and other documents related to litigation in which the companies were embroiled, and trade secrets, such as contracts for business transactions."
I wondered how they could pay for their research in this era of vastly reduced funding - it's self funding!
I'll bet they are not tested on how to use the computers or the software they are supposed to be using. If they do that the test scores will go up, especially if they include IM, chat, YouTube, and Facebook. :-)
"While determining supersonic speed requires not being in a vacuum, once you know what speed supersonic-speed is, can it not be used as a measuring stick for comparison?"
Supersonic means faster than the speed of sound referenced to a specific medium at specific conditions, and that varies wildly depending on the medium, say air or steel, and on the temperature, pressure, and state of the medium. Perhaps astro-physicists use "supersonic" in some specialized sense, but it looks to me as if the author used it as a synonym for "very fast" much as "healthy" is used in place of "large" or "big".
Wow, they move faster than sound in space. Wonder what speed that is? Are orbiting space loudspeakers blasting rock-n-roll to unfortunate planets next? (Apologies to Douglas Adams)
Cool videos, though.
Yes, and the people who were near the where the lasers impacted the earth at the end of their ballistic trajectory were not amused.
"Theoretical Shoe Inserts Could Power Your Gadgets"
I suspect that a theoretical doughnut could only satisfy theoretical hunger.
Wonder what wonders are available if they were Hypothetical rather than Theoretical?
Arrive at work and turn on corporate laptop (2 MHz Dual Core XP with whole disk encryption and gigabit LAN) if I had turned it off when I left. Scoot chair to LINUX machine in corner (same specs but not connected to corporate LAN) turn it on. Move to XP machine, ah, there is the first logon, enter username and password. Scoot over to LINUX machine which has desktop up and is waiting for my keychain password and enter it. Launch Eclipse or Chrome and glance at XP. Is the second logon there? No, wait, there it is, enter same user name and password and go back to LINUX machine to do some real work for the next 12 minutes or so while the disk on the XP thrashes. If I think of it look at the screen for the XP machine and close error message boxes and either enter passwords or close a couple more dialogs while this is going on.
Total time to be able to use the XP without delays, the cursor not where I think it is or moves in jerks and windows take many seconds to display, is about 15 minutes. If it's the day for the anti virus software to run then this takes longer and the XP machine will be really slow with lots of waiting for windows for about an hour and at the end of the scan ignore and close the window that says a virus has been detected in an Excel file in the cache and I need to call for help. (The original file, last edited in 1996, is apparently OK, though.)
IT is really earning their pay.