For certain values of eradicated. Autoclaves work pretty well, and I don't think there are many problems with stuff living in bottles of nasty caustic agents. We can't eradicate them in the environment at large, but we can do pretty well in contained volumes and extremely well in small volumes.
I don't have enough information to do anything but speculate, but I will go ahead and speculate that if you factored in the cheap oil energy that gets input into a solar cell during resource extraction and manufacturing, they wouldn't be particularly economic, or self supporting (probably awful close, but you don't want 1.05:1, you want 2:1 or whatever).
We'll see, there is a whole lot of just plain stupid resource consumption, and there is room in a lot of places for increases in efficiency (especially heating and cooling, individuals don't make choices that pay off over 20 years...). So it isn't just a matter of extraction levels (though they are by far the most important factor).
Efficient solar goes a long way also, as it allows you to spend energy to gain resources (like farming corn for plastic) rather than spending energy to gain energy. If solar cell production gets to the point where it pays for itself without subsidies, including the space that it takes to put up the panels, energy will be much less of a problem (there will still be loading issues, and winter issues, and on and on, but lots of things get a lot easier when you can essentially manufacture energy by putting your solar cell plant next door to your solar farm).
Prodigious pill popper Ray Kurzweil says that the medical singularity will be circa 2030 (life extension will start to outpace aging) and that machine intelligence will outdo man, if I remember correctly, circa 2050. Also, according to his predictions, the first human scale processing system will go online circa 2015, but it will be dumb metal and only match a human brain in raw calculations. The amount of machine processing capacity is supposed to supplant organic processing capacity in like 2040.
These are all from what I remember of "The Singularity is Near" 2 or 3 years ago, so entire dry lake beds of salt and so forth.
You might have jumbled a pronoun in there somewhere; it would be more accurate that the copy will have no memory of the originals existence after the transfer. Presumably, any such copy would continue to believe that it existed, and would continue to have experiences.
The real entertainment begins when we figure out that we are already living in the singularity, and that it is going to end soon. That is, a plateau is at least as likely an outcome of a hockey stick graph as a singularity. Hard physical limits and all that noise.
As is noted above, the legal situation surrounding faxes is much clearer. It is harder to estimate the risk attached to accepting an email signature, so the security situation isn't the same.
You should be chiding them all for accepting your invalid credit card.
If you think they should be checking your identification, you should lobby the credit card companies to change the merchant agreement, not force the merchants to look the other way in order to get your business.
The concrete is probably mostly serving to make the apparent size of the hard foundation larger, so that it is pushing down on a great deal more soil, thus pushing down on each bit of soil quite a bit less.
70 tons of soil is something like 70 cubic meters of soil(on the low end, that's at density of 2g/cc and assuming ton means 1000 kg (where it either should mean either 900 or 2000, I didn't read the article)), which is 'only' a pad that is 12 meters by 12 meters by 0.5 meters. If you go with 0.25 meters, you get something like 25 meters on a side. If you start by figuring that the soil that was there was barely strong enough to do the job, it isn't surprising that a bit of concrete goes a long way.
You would have to go through and parse out the dividends and splits and so forth and then apply the dividends as purchases to get the results of dividend reinvestment though.
A login system really shouldn't be susceptible to a dictionary attack. If there is important data sitting behind a password, it should start throwing red flags after about 5 failed attempts (5 at the outside, maybe log every failure and trigger biscuits for 2 in a row).
That doesn't protect you against easily guessable passwords, but it makes something like passw0rd a lot stronger than it would be in a dictionary situation.
He appeared on big network debates. He appeared on the Daily Show, The Tonight Show, The Colbert Report (in the last 15 months anyway, whatever). He was all over the internet. He had plenty of exposure.
I'm no shill. You're a fanatic. If he was being blackballed, you wouldn't know who he was.
There's middle ground. It was easy to see that Ron Paul wouldn't win, so I personally don't think that he was 'marginalized' by the media. If he had held views that were more popular (in the sense that they were widely held, not in the sense that people thought they were cool), he would have had a better chance at an actual contest with McCain. As it was, he was dogmatic in his positions (which is respectable, but not a winning strategy) and far enough afield from most peoples expectations that he had no chance. It wasn't the media's fault that he fared as he did.
Yes, the popular former mayor of New York city and popular former Senator are eminently comparable to the representative from Texas with views that diverge a great deal from the mainstream. Oh wait, no they aren't. Ron Paul was a marginal figure before the election ever started, they weren't nearly as marginal as he was (Guiliani clearly wasn't a marginal figure; Thompson is more arguable, but he was more mainstream than Paul).
I'm pretty sure that they announced the 10% or whatever that he carried when they were announcing the winners of various states, so it isn't like there was an embargo on using his name or whatever.
Prostitution and gambling are legal enough in most western nations right now. They aren't above board and approved of, but pretty much anybody who wants to participate in said activities is doing so. They probably would have been illegal during the middle ages, if there had been enough economic production to afford imprisonment, rather than execution (a dead peasant isn't a whole lot better than a peasant you have to feed when you are a lord...).
As far as time off and job security, you would have to balance those against the utter lack of social mobility (I guess it might not be great today, but it exists to a much greater extent than it did).
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Progress is a different animal than population, but yeah, exponential growth isn't sustainable:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=572397&cid=23639649
For certain values of eradicated. Autoclaves work pretty well, and I don't think there are many problems with stuff living in bottles of nasty caustic agents. We can't eradicate them in the environment at large, but we can do pretty well in contained volumes and extremely well in small volumes.
I don't have enough information to do anything but speculate, but I will go ahead and speculate that if you factored in the cheap oil energy that gets input into a solar cell during resource extraction and manufacturing, they wouldn't be particularly economic, or self supporting (probably awful close, but you don't want 1.05:1, you want 2:1 or whatever).
We'll see, there is a whole lot of just plain stupid resource consumption, and there is room in a lot of places for increases in efficiency (especially heating and cooling, individuals don't make choices that pay off over 20 years...). So it isn't just a matter of extraction levels (though they are by far the most important factor).
Efficient solar goes a long way also, as it allows you to spend energy to gain resources (like farming corn for plastic) rather than spending energy to gain energy. If solar cell production gets to the point where it pays for itself without subsidies, including the space that it takes to put up the panels, energy will be much less of a problem (there will still be loading issues, and winter issues, and on and on, but lots of things get a lot easier when you can essentially manufacture energy by putting your solar cell plant next door to your solar farm).
How right you are. In the future, we should refer to them as submarines that failed to resurface after extended waiting.
Prodigious pill popper Ray Kurzweil says that the medical singularity will be circa 2030 (life extension will start to outpace aging) and that machine intelligence will outdo man, if I remember correctly, circa 2050. Also, according to his predictions, the first human scale processing system will go online circa 2015, but it will be dumb metal and only match a human brain in raw calculations. The amount of machine processing capacity is supposed to supplant organic processing capacity in like 2040.
These are all from what I remember of "The Singularity is Near" 2 or 3 years ago, so entire dry lake beds of salt and so forth.
You might have jumbled a pronoun in there somewhere; it would be more accurate that the copy will have no memory of the originals existence after the transfer. Presumably, any such copy would continue to believe that it existed, and would continue to have experiences.
The real entertainment begins when we figure out that we are already living in the singularity, and that it is going to end soon. That is, a plateau is at least as likely an outcome of a hockey stick graph as a singularity. Hard physical limits and all that noise.
Of course, this comment, that is saying the same thing, is +5 informative:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=572229&cid=23637909
(It is more informative than my comment, but equally non-trollish...)
I refuse to acknowledge that as a personal computer. That way, I'm less wrong.
It doesn't sound like you have used IE7 enough to have an opinion.
I use firefox and all, but why spout off?
As is noted above, the legal situation surrounding faxes is much clearer. It is harder to estimate the risk attached to accepting an email signature, so the security situation isn't the same.
You should be chiding them all for accepting your invalid credit card.
If you think they should be checking your identification, you should lobby the credit card companies to change the merchant agreement, not force the merchants to look the other way in order to get your business.
Generic PCs were not $400 in 1998. A piece of average cost upwards of $1,000, something decent quite a lot more. Maybe $800 in 2000.
My stupid comment about a ton being 2000 kg did not factor into my calculations...
The concrete is probably mostly serving to make the apparent size of the hard foundation larger, so that it is pushing down on a great deal more soil, thus pushing down on each bit of soil quite a bit less.
70 tons of soil is something like 70 cubic meters of soil(on the low end, that's at density of 2g/cc and assuming ton means 1000 kg (where it either should mean either 900 or 2000, I didn't read the article)), which is 'only' a pad that is 12 meters by 12 meters by 0.5 meters. If you go with 0.25 meters, you get something like 25 meters on a side. If you start by figuring that the soil that was there was barely strong enough to do the job, it isn't surprising that a bit of concrete goes a long way.
You just have to clickety the clackety that says historical prices:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=INTC&d=5&e=3&f=2008&g=d&a=6&b=9&c=1986&z=66&y=5478
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=VFINX&d=5&e=3&f=2008&g=d&a=2&b=27&c=1987&z=66&y=5280
You would have to go through and parse out the dividends and splits and so forth and then apply the dividends as purchases to get the results of dividend reinvestment though.
A login system really shouldn't be susceptible to a dictionary attack. If there is important data sitting behind a password, it should start throwing red flags after about 5 failed attempts (5 at the outside, maybe log every failure and trigger biscuits for 2 in a row).
That doesn't protect you against easily guessable passwords, but it makes something like passw0rd a lot stronger than it would be in a dictionary situation.
He appeared on big network debates. He appeared on the Daily Show, The Tonight Show, The Colbert Report (in the last 15 months anyway, whatever). He was all over the internet. He had plenty of exposure.
I'm no shill. You're a fanatic. If he was being blackballed, you wouldn't know who he was.
There's middle ground. It was easy to see that Ron Paul wouldn't win, so I personally don't think that he was 'marginalized' by the media. If he had held views that were more popular (in the sense that they were widely held, not in the sense that people thought they were cool), he would have had a better chance at an actual contest with McCain. As it was, he was dogmatic in his positions (which is respectable, but not a winning strategy) and far enough afield from most peoples expectations that he had no chance. It wasn't the media's fault that he fared as he did.
Man, when you accuse a business of trying to make money, you do it with style.
But you just described the process as we know it today.
Yes, the popular former mayor of New York city and popular former Senator are eminently comparable to the representative from Texas with views that diverge a great deal from the mainstream. Oh wait, no they aren't. Ron Paul was a marginal figure before the election ever started, they weren't nearly as marginal as he was (Guiliani clearly wasn't a marginal figure; Thompson is more arguable, but he was more mainstream than Paul).
I'm pretty sure that they announced the 10% or whatever that he carried when they were announcing the winners of various states, so it isn't like there was an embargo on using his name or whatever.
He wasn't shut down by the media, he was never anything but a marginal figure.
Prostitution and gambling are legal enough in most western nations right now. They aren't above board and approved of, but pretty much anybody who wants to participate in said activities is doing so. They probably would have been illegal during the middle ages, if there had been enough economic production to afford imprisonment, rather than execution (a dead peasant isn't a whole lot better than a peasant you have to feed when you are a lord...).
As far as time off and job security, you would have to balance those against the utter lack of social mobility (I guess it might not be great today, but it exists to a much greater extent than it did).