Is there currently any form of travel where you don't have to submit to a "Papers Please" check?
Yes, in the United States you can still fly an ultralight aircraft without having a license. The aircraft must be less than 254 lbs unloaded with allowances for certain safety gear. There is also an FAA sport pilot program that allows you to fly with a valid driver's license and some training, but I think the basic 254 lb ultralight airplane is unaffected.
I think a possible solution is to have an invisible watermark like what could be done steganographically. The photo industry could repsond by making cameras that encode a stego watermark on some or all of their cameras. A journal could require that 1. submissions require stego watermarks. and 2. Annotations be provided in a separate layer that can be overlaid at press time.
Unfortunately, I can think of ways to get around this like rephotographing a manipulated image so I don't think you could stop a determined "attacker", but you could easily stop the run-of-the mill dishonesty.
If you ever thought you might like to get paid for playing with Lego's this looks like the closest you are going to get.
How about this idea: You tag blocks with flourescent dyes and assemble them according to a computer voxel model one color at a time (using whatever method pleased you the most;) Then when you turn on the light, and view under a microscope, you'd see your model rendered in color.
The problem, I see, with the XBox 360 is it's pre-planned low supply--you can't go out today and buy one at retail price.
The problem with the original XBox is it's processor speed. From my research, an XBox, having a 733 MHz chip has just enough performance to record video but probably not enough to time-shift, i.e., record and playback simultaneously.
Yes I've read about that. Dicrocoelium dendriticum. Additional behaviours that have been attributed to that particular parasite:
At sundown the ant returns to the hive, gets nourished and returns to a blade of grass thereby increasing the chances that the parasite will infect and go on to complete its life-cycle (otherwise the ant might die)
The other bizarre thing about it is it also spends part of it's life-cycle in a snail.
Some could argue that voilent video games could be used as a law enforcement tool. Law enforcement researchers could perform studies where prisoners play a game vs a normal control group. Using neural nets or some way of generating a player's profile, a model is made to differentiate how violent criminals play vs normal players. Once the game is released to the public, if a player gets flagged as a potential criminal, the police are dispatched.
Wow, that would be kinda fun sometime to get a bunch of smoke detectors and remove their Americium and make an atomic car with it. With a half life of 400+ years, I bet you'd really save on gas.
I used to work in GIS and the recurring issue was:
Information generated using public funds should be made publicly available. In the old days we would provide data so long as they paid for the media and the wages of the staff to generate the area in questiona and the computer operator for cutting the tape.
When I worked for Washington State Department of Natural Resources, they had a formal system for selling their data that included a licensing agreement! Not sure if it was ever challenged in court or how they were able to justify licensing their data.
In Wired's premier issue they had an article on Otaku (circa 1993). It sounds like what was said then is still true today:
Otaku are considered flunkies and not highly regarded by society at large, etc. I liked one quote: "Socially inept, but often brilliant"
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the grilled burger patty is literally a new form of matter.
Actually, it turns to antimatter--that's what gives it the extra kick!
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I say it's the whole Enceladus!
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10 PRINT "Yeah, I would probably like it. I like repetitive things."
20 GOTO 10
Hey Dude! 1978 called. They want their program back.
SCO fills a badly needed void!
...but It's not reality. Just send a few bucks by the way of a Jack Abramhoff talk-a-like and your back in business.
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Hey, I know, put the foam insulation on the inside.
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Is there currently any form of travel where you don't have to submit to a "Papers Please" check?
Yes, in the United States you can still fly an ultralight aircraft without having a license. The aircraft must be less than 254 lbs unloaded with allowances for certain safety gear. There is also an FAA sport pilot program that allows you to fly with a valid driver's license and some training, but I think the basic 254 lb ultralight airplane is unaffected.
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You can, it's called the tag
I think a possible solution is to have an invisible watermark like what could be done steganographically. The photo industry could repsond by making cameras that encode a stego watermark on some or all of their cameras. A journal could require that 1. submissions require stego watermarks. and 2. Annotations be provided in a separate layer that can be overlaid at press time.
Unfortunately, I can think of ways to get around this like rephotographing a manipulated image so I don't think you could stop a determined "attacker", but you could easily stop the run-of-the mill dishonesty.
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...welcome our new hash overloads!
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If you ever thought you might like to get paid for playing with Lego's this looks like the closest you are going to get.
;) Then when you turn on the light, and view under a microscope, you'd see your model rendered in color.
How about this idea: You tag blocks with flourescent dyes and assemble them according to a computer voxel model one color at a time (using whatever method pleased you the most
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The problem, I see, with the XBox 360 is it's pre-planned low supply--you can't go out today and buy one at retail price.
:)
The problem with the original XBox is it's processor speed. From my research, an XBox, having a 733 MHz chip has just enough performance to record video but probably not enough to time-shift, i.e., record and playback simultaneously.
I'd love to be proven wrong on this
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Isn't that amazing. Anybody want to buy my vacation property at Black Butte Ranch?
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Yes I've read about that. Dicrocoelium dendriticum. Additional behaviours that have been attributed to that particular parasite:
At sundown the ant returns to the hive, gets nourished and returns to a blade of grass thereby increasing the chances that the parasite will infect and go on to complete its life-cycle (otherwise the ant might die)
The other bizarre thing about it is it also spends part of it's life-cycle in a snail.
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After a couple of hours of GTA I always want to punch someone. And I'm a reasonable, dweeby, pacificist nerd.
Not me...After a couple of hours of GTA, the only effect I've noticed is I come really close to running red lights when I drive.
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Some could argue that voilent video games could be used as a law enforcement tool. Law enforcement researchers could perform studies where prisoners play a game vs a normal control group. Using neural nets or some way of generating a player's profile, a model is made to differentiate how violent criminals play vs normal players. Once the game is released to the public, if a player gets flagged as a potential criminal, the police are dispatched.
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The first instance of podcasting in space occurred in 2001 when Dave said: "Open the pod bay doors please Hal!"
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...turns out that you can't even get to the water!
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I think it's pronounced Do-rag.
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Wow, that would be kinda fun sometime to get a bunch of smoke detectors and remove their Americium and make an atomic car with it. With a half life of 400+ years, I bet you'd really save on gas.
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No, it may look like an autogyro, but it's not. Autogyros and Autogiros have unpowered rotors, however, the CarterCopter has a fully powered rotor.
I used to work in GIS and the recurring issue was: Information generated using public funds should be made publicly available. In the old days we would provide data so long as they paid for the media and the wages of the staff to generate the area in questiona and the computer operator for cutting the tape.
When I worked for Washington State Department of Natural Resources, they had a formal system for selling their data that included a licensing agreement! Not sure if it was ever challenged in court or how they were able to justify licensing their data.
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Pretty risque stuff for an elementary school from Richardson Texas! RISD
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I'd venture to say some of them speak even more weller than some Slashdot editors.
I agree, except for more authenticity, I would have written it: "...some of them speak even more weller then some Slashdot editors.
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In Wired's premier issue they had an article on Otaku (circa 1993). It sounds like what was said then is still true today:
Otaku are considered flunkies and not highly regarded by society at large, etc. I liked one quote: "Socially inept, but often brilliant"
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