And I'm sure I can find at least one person on the left who has made the same claim about Romney, which would actually make more sense (in crazy-logic-world) given that, you know, the east coast tends to have more liberal voters than conservative ones. Can we just agree to ignore the crazy people, instead of trying to claim the other side is crazier or made crazy claims first? Please?
Ah no, I guess we can't, crazy people make for such great news and even better demagoguery.
The irony about gold is that the current high price is the result of an artificial bubble maintained by gold sellers pushing the staying power of gold. You didn't think those advertisements telling you to buy gold were for your own good, did you? No, they are to drive the price of gold high and keep it that way.
No offense, but I'm sure you jut figured out in 20 seconds what the DoE couldn't in 20 years. Somehow, I don't really believe that.
For one thing, wastewater, while rich enough in nutrients, isn't suitable for growing algae, or at least not the kind of algae you want (it'll kill it). That means processing. Mind you, algal biofuel has a lot of potential, which is why no less than a dozen US universities are researching it, but it's a bit more complex than dumping pig waste into a pond of water. It has a lot of potential, but as the summary and article say, it isn't ready.... yet.
Jersey shore peaks at less than 10 million watchers. Which sounds like a lot, until you realize that the US has ~300 million people, so it's ~3%. Even if you assume ten such shows watched by unique individuals, that'd be 100 million (less than, but still close enough), or 1/3 of the population. Considering that 1/2 of the populace has lower than (or equal to) 100 IQ, by definition, it isn't shocking that such shows are mildly popular.
And they had entertainment that bad 50-100 years ago as well. You just don't know about it, because crap like that tends not to be recorded and watched 100 years later.
Typically, people who deliberately attack a group as a whole rather than a particular member of it do, indeed, fit that pattern. Happens in nearly every single field. If you hate Apple, then Apple is "abusing the patent system." If you like Apple, then they're "just doing what the system requires them to do." And so on and so forth (I could give probably a dozen examples off the top of my head). It's not a certain pattern, but it is extremely common, especially among Internet commentators. If you look for it, you'll probably see it quite often. Happens because we want to defend someone we like, but when they do something clearly bad, we can't do it directly, so we deflect it towards a group as a whole to make it seem less evil (or sometimes some other party entirely, as in the Apple-patent example).
You'd have to do some pretty liberal stretching of Genesis to make it fit what we know about evolution. It's a pretty serious problem for Christians that their infallible sacred text contains bad theories about the natural world.
Not really. You see, the way the entire Bible is written, the "literal" meaning isn't as simple as taking the meaning of the individual words and putting them together, and the Bible (from the very beginning of Christianity) has always been looked at that way. For example, if I say someone has the "heart of a lion", I don't mean their ventricular structure is that of a feline animal. Similarly, in Genesis when they list the "days" and the creation of the world, it's an attempt at describing what happened in basic human terms. There couldn't even have been a proper "day" before the creation of the sun. The creation of "light" before the sun/stars is usually taken to be, on the literal level, not referring to electromagnetic waves, but to angelic beings (and the separation of angels and demons).
In other words, it isn't a scientific text, and shouldn't be read as one. It isn't even trying to describe science, and it's a serious misreading of it to think it is. It's like reading the Iliad as a history book, and complaining about the inaccuracies. That's completely missing the point. Thinking you know better than the Bible because you know more science than it does is not impressive, because the Bible was never trying to describe science.
To take a more modern example: it's like the people who complain about the unscientific nature of lightsabers in Star Wars. Congratulations on being a pedant (or, if you're George Lucas, introducing midichlorians in an attempt to be "realistic" and ruining the series), but Star Wars was never about the science. Science is nearly the last thing it is about (and in that way, it's pretty similar to the Bible, and yes I did just compare the Bible to Star Wars).
TL;DR: more predictions of locked down devices, death of personal computing. Same predictions that have been made for decades now. Keeps not happening, because DRM doesn't work, and locked down devices don't do what people who actually use them (as opposed to just play with them) need them to.
I dunno what frequency they are using exactly, but microwave radiation doesn't penetrate very deep into human skin, so it might not do any damage at all. And it's focused, so they can avoid planes and hospitals. And cars don't automatically crash if the electronics fail, thats the reason EMP is used against fleeing vehicles.
Nope, thats the point of the LV0 keys. They are literally the keys to the PS3's hardware loader. You can do anything with them. The only way to stop it would be to revoke them, and since they are tied to the hardware, that would in turn mean newer updates would not work on older machines. Basically, unless Sony plans to physically mail PS3 owners new hardware or break all backwards compatibility, they can't fix it. Any newer update can be cracked, period. It'd be impossible to use Sony's updates if they couldn't.
Unless you can create some sort of tractor beam-like device (through gravitational or magnetic effects... maybe even sound through the atmosphere, theoretically) that probably isn't possible. In theory I suppose you could split pieces off through bullet-type projectiles, but given the thickness of the atmosphere that would probably also not be possible. You certainly couldn't use the same technology we use today, gravity and environment is far too strong for that.
All this is, of course, well beyond our current technology, probably 500 years so. Also well beyond our needs, though, for now. But if we ever want to build a Dyson sphere or something, it could prove worthwhile.
Because water is reflective (I believe for CO2 lasers as well). And you really really don't want a 40-watt laser reflecting back into your eyes, skin, or anywhere you don't want it, really, even for a very brief time (sure, safety goggles are absolutely mandatory, but even so, you could still cause damage to yourself or things around you).
Yeah, because TV in his cell, and only being able to buy cigarettes and sweets on Mondays and Wednsdays (as TFA says he can) with an hour outdoors a day is torture. Yeah, totally, that is a perfectly reasonable (although, for some Slashdotters being outside for an hour a day would be painful, I suppose).
And so where's the ACTUAL difference between this and the Google Goggles? Besides the pricetag? (Or in other words: what justifies that price difference?)
Google Glass is a consumer level device. This is an enterprise-level device. So lots of little things, like specifications, ability to attach accessories, probably battery life. It's hard to give numbers, as AFAIK Google hasn't released detailed specifications about Glass yet, but in general, they aren't even targeted at similar markets.
Provided the mass stays the same. Can you guess why a tanker-satellite might have significantly less mass after it's re-fueled a bunch of other satellites? (hint: it's because it isn't carrying all that fuel any more).
What will refuel the refueling robots? Refueling-robot-refueling robots?
Pretty sure you're just being snarky, but the principle is the same as tanker aircraft. A satellite dedicated to carrying fuel can carry vastly more of it than a satellite dedicated to communications. And after it is done, the mass of the fuel-carrying robot is significantly less than it was when placed into orbit, so the cost of de-orbiting is much much less than the cost of orbiting it in the first place (since the vast majority of the mass of the satellite is now gone).
The difference being those are actually undercover cops, not just unmarked cars (which the story is actually about), which usually contain uniformed police and are not terribly hard to identify (except in the dark).
And this is what preview is for. I meant to say "The Target near my house routinely has post-holiday stuff at up to 90% off. Granted, the good stuff routinely..." Click-drag selection must have deleted an extra line without me noticing. Ah well.
If you live in the States and are over 30 you probably remember bags of Halloween candy for 50 cents. You don't find them any more because they've crunched the numbers and figured out exactly how much candy to order so they don't come up short. Best you'll see if 50% off and a weak selection.
The target near my house routinely gets snapped up at around 50-75% off, but that's just normal market forces at work. 50 cent bags of candy? Yep, all the time, if you can beat everyone else to them.
Yeah, because everyone who listens to hip-hop or trains MMA is a violent thug! Maybe he played some violent video games too! They should dig up his Call Of Duty account and see how many kills he has! Or maybe he has an Orc character in that satanic WoW game!
Not what OP said or probably meant. Nice strawman, though!
Biological material has been interchanged back and forth between the Earth and Mars for billions of years. Based on that, I would bet that there is Martian life, and that it and terrestrial life evolved together.
That is incredibly unlikely. Biological material != life, and by all accounts actually making that transition requires very specific environmental conditions which it isn't clear were ever present on Mars (though we can't know that for sure, as we don't even know what the original conditions were, it's almost certain Earth-like life could never live there: oxygen content is too low, radiation is too high, planet is too cold, etc).
The honeypot only seems to recognize worms that are already recognized by AV software. All the bot makers would have to do is test it against AV software themselves, either directly or through a scanning-upload site (or even just by checksum, as the map does). It just gives researchers more of an idea of where and with what people are infected (looks like mostly variants of Conficker from the spot checks I did). Bot makers already have all the resources this gives to test their malware against. Might serve as an e-peen boost for them to see how common their malware is, but I doubt it will serve much beyond that.
Why don't they just put headlines and first paragraphs on one page and set robots.txt to allow search engines to index it, then put the full articles on a different page with indexing not allowed. Google's crawler would get the headline and synopsis and the papers would get advertising from everyone who was interested enough to read more than a few sentences.
That's basically what Google does already: just puts headlines and 1-2 sentences from the start, with a link to TFA. The newspapers don't even want that much.
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And I'm sure I can find at least one person on the left who has made the same claim about Romney, which would actually make more sense (in crazy-logic-world) given that, you know, the east coast tends to have more liberal voters than conservative ones. Can we just agree to ignore the crazy people, instead of trying to claim the other side is crazier or made crazy claims first? Please?
Ah no, I guess we can't, crazy people make for such great news and even better demagoguery.
The irony about gold is that the current high price is the result of an artificial bubble maintained by gold sellers pushing the staying power of gold. You didn't think those advertisements telling you to buy gold were for your own good, did you? No, they are to drive the price of gold high and keep it that way.
No offense, but I'm sure you jut figured out in 20 seconds what the DoE couldn't in 20 years. Somehow, I don't really believe that.
For one thing, wastewater, while rich enough in nutrients, isn't suitable for growing algae, or at least not the kind of algae you want (it'll kill it). That means processing. Mind you, algal biofuel has a lot of potential, which is why no less than a dozen US universities are researching it, but it's a bit more complex than dumping pig waste into a pond of water. It has a lot of potential, but as the summary and article say, it isn't ready.... yet.
Jersey shore peaks at less than 10 million watchers. Which sounds like a lot, until you realize that the US has ~300 million people, so it's ~3%. Even if you assume ten such shows watched by unique individuals, that'd be 100 million (less than, but still close enough), or 1/3 of the population. Considering that 1/2 of the populace has lower than (or equal to) 100 IQ, by definition, it isn't shocking that such shows are mildly popular.
And they had entertainment that bad 50-100 years ago as well. You just don't know about it, because crap like that tends not to be recorded and watched 100 years later.
Typically, people who deliberately attack a group as a whole rather than a particular member of it do, indeed, fit that pattern. Happens in nearly every single field. If you hate Apple, then Apple is "abusing the patent system." If you like Apple, then they're "just doing what the system requires them to do." And so on and so forth (I could give probably a dozen examples off the top of my head). It's not a certain pattern, but it is extremely common, especially among Internet commentators. If you look for it, you'll probably see it quite often. Happens because we want to defend someone we like, but when they do something clearly bad, we can't do it directly, so we deflect it towards a group as a whole to make it seem less evil (or sometimes some other party entirely, as in the Apple-patent example).
You'd have to do some pretty liberal stretching of Genesis to make it fit what we know about evolution. It's a pretty serious problem for Christians that their infallible sacred text contains bad theories about the natural world.
Not really. You see, the way the entire Bible is written, the "literal" meaning isn't as simple as taking the meaning of the individual words and putting them together, and the Bible (from the very beginning of Christianity) has always been looked at that way. For example, if I say someone has the "heart of a lion", I don't mean their ventricular structure is that of a feline animal. Similarly, in Genesis when they list the "days" and the creation of the world, it's an attempt at describing what happened in basic human terms. There couldn't even have been a proper "day" before the creation of the sun. The creation of "light" before the sun/stars is usually taken to be, on the literal level, not referring to electromagnetic waves, but to angelic beings (and the separation of angels and demons).
In other words, it isn't a scientific text, and shouldn't be read as one. It isn't even trying to describe science, and it's a serious misreading of it to think it is. It's like reading the Iliad as a history book, and complaining about the inaccuracies. That's completely missing the point. Thinking you know better than the Bible because you know more science than it does is not impressive, because the Bible was never trying to describe science.
To take a more modern example: it's like the people who complain about the unscientific nature of lightsabers in Star Wars. Congratulations on being a pedant (or, if you're George Lucas, introducing midichlorians in an attempt to be "realistic" and ruining the series), but Star Wars was never about the science. Science is nearly the last thing it is about (and in that way, it's pretty similar to the Bible, and yes I did just compare the Bible to Star Wars).
TL;DR: more predictions of locked down devices, death of personal computing. Same predictions that have been made for decades now. Keeps not happening, because DRM doesn't work, and locked down devices don't do what people who actually use them (as opposed to just play with them) need them to.
Except everyone with a pacemaker.
I dunno what frequency they are using exactly, but microwave radiation doesn't penetrate very deep into human skin, so it might not do any damage at all. And it's focused, so they can avoid planes and hospitals. And cars don't automatically crash if the electronics fail, thats the reason EMP is used against fleeing vehicles.
Self-destructed over the desert.
AMD's graphics drivers look like a pile of shit compared to nVIDIA because Nvidia pays game devs to make their bugs and workarounds look like features
FTFY
Nope, thats the point of the LV0 keys. They are literally the keys to the PS3's hardware loader. You can do anything with them. The only way to stop it would be to revoke them, and since they are tied to the hardware, that would in turn mean newer updates would not work on older machines. Basically, unless Sony plans to physically mail PS3 owners new hardware or break all backwards compatibility, they can't fix it. Any newer update can be cracked, period. It'd be impossible to use Sony's updates if they couldn't.
Unless you can create some sort of tractor beam-like device (through gravitational or magnetic effects... maybe even sound through the atmosphere, theoretically) that probably isn't possible. In theory I suppose you could split pieces off through bullet-type projectiles, but given the thickness of the atmosphere that would probably also not be possible. You certainly couldn't use the same technology we use today, gravity and environment is far too strong for that.
All this is, of course, well beyond our current technology, probably 500 years so. Also well beyond our needs, though, for now. But if we ever want to build a Dyson sphere or something, it could prove worthwhile.
Because water is reflective (I believe for CO2 lasers as well). And you really really don't want a 40-watt laser reflecting back into your eyes, skin, or anywhere you don't want it, really, even for a very brief time (sure, safety goggles are absolutely mandatory, but even so, you could still cause damage to yourself or things around you).
Yeah, because TV in his cell, and only being able to buy cigarettes and sweets on Mondays and Wednsdays (as TFA says he can) with an hour outdoors a day is torture. Yeah, totally, that is a perfectly reasonable (although, for some Slashdotters being outside for an hour a day would be painful, I suppose).
ordering one tomorrow and a maxed out mac mini too! u jelly PC fags?
Little bit, I guess. I do wish I had that much money to overspend with.
And so where's the ACTUAL difference between this and the Google Goggles? Besides the pricetag? (Or in other words: what justifies that price difference?)
Google Glass is a consumer level device. This is an enterprise-level device. So lots of little things, like specifications, ability to attach accessories, probably battery life. It's hard to give numbers, as AFAIK Google hasn't released detailed specifications about Glass yet, but in general, they aren't even targeted at similar markets.
and just as much fuel to get back down.
Provided the mass stays the same. Can you guess why a tanker-satellite might have significantly less mass after it's re-fueled a bunch of other satellites? (hint: it's because it isn't carrying all that fuel any more).
What will refuel the refueling robots? Refueling-robot-refueling robots?
Pretty sure you're just being snarky, but the principle is the same as tanker aircraft. A satellite dedicated to carrying fuel can carry vastly more of it than a satellite dedicated to communications. And after it is done, the mass of the fuel-carrying robot is significantly less than it was when placed into orbit, so the cost of de-orbiting is much much less than the cost of orbiting it in the first place (since the vast majority of the mass of the satellite is now gone).
Seems it aint so easy to do the same in the YouEssay -- at least not with an actual officer: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/melissa-walthall-texas-undercover-cop-facebook-arrest_n_1970479.html
The difference being those are actually undercover cops, not just unmarked cars (which the story is actually about), which usually contain uniformed police and are not terribly hard to identify (except in the dark).
And this is what preview is for. I meant to say "The Target near my house routinely has post-holiday stuff at up to 90% off. Granted, the good stuff routinely..." Click-drag selection must have deleted an extra line without me noticing. Ah well.
If you live in the States and are over 30 you probably remember bags of Halloween candy for 50 cents. You don't find them any more because they've crunched the numbers and figured out exactly how much candy to order so they don't come up short. Best you'll see if 50% off and a weak selection.
The target near my house routinely gets snapped up at around 50-75% off, but that's just normal market forces at work. 50 cent bags of candy? Yep, all the time, if you can beat everyone else to them.
Yeah, because everyone who listens to hip-hop or trains MMA is a violent thug! Maybe he played some violent video games too! They should dig up his Call Of Duty account and see how many kills he has! Or maybe he has an Orc character in that satanic WoW game!
Not what OP said or probably meant. Nice strawman, though!
Biological material has been interchanged back and forth between the Earth and Mars for billions of years. Based on that, I would bet that there is Martian life, and that it and terrestrial life evolved together.
That is incredibly unlikely. Biological material != life, and by all accounts actually making that transition requires very specific environmental conditions which it isn't clear were ever present on Mars (though we can't know that for sure, as we don't even know what the original conditions were, it's almost certain Earth-like life could never live there: oxygen content is too low, radiation is too high, planet is too cold, etc).
The honeypot only seems to recognize worms that are already recognized by AV software. All the bot makers would have to do is test it against AV software themselves, either directly or through a scanning-upload site (or even just by checksum, as the map does). It just gives researchers more of an idea of where and with what people are infected (looks like mostly variants of Conficker from the spot checks I did). Bot makers already have all the resources this gives to test their malware against. Might serve as an e-peen boost for them to see how common their malware is, but I doubt it will serve much beyond that.
Why don't they just put headlines and first paragraphs on one page and set robots.txt to allow search engines to index it, then put the full articles on a different page with indexing not allowed. Google's crawler would get the headline and synopsis and the papers would get advertising from everyone who was interested enough to read more than a few sentences.
That's basically what Google does already: just puts headlines and 1-2 sentences from the start, with a link to TFA. The newspapers don't even want that much.