Lasers (esp. xray or gamma ray) would be great weapons, but, unfortunately with not-so-great range. Beams lose focus, so at long distance you would have effect more like searchlight than death ray. Even more for ion beams (electrostatic repulsion of same-charge ions).
Nukes are crap in space. No blast wave to speak of, so only effect would be from radiation - must get very close to be effective.
So you still would have to get quite close to the enemy to actually hurt them. Or rely on dropping mines, stealth missiles etc that would drift towards the enemy and activate when they get close. Assuming enemy does not change course...
Kinetic energy weapons might be quite effective, but again, must be fired from short distance so the enemy can't detect them early and dodge.
So wait, besides inventory tracking, why do we use RFID at all? We need to track the other kinds of state inventory, like "citizens" (or as Cato would say, the "talking livestock").
But why test rats? It's way more important to know if politicians and higher management types can think. Is this feat within their reach? Or are they, as we unscientifically suspect, completely braindead?
If you think about old Bell Labs, the home of the transistor and other fine devices, think again. Bell Labs are no more. Reduced to patch writing for Lucent software and firmware.
The money will go to Mr Company President's champagne and hooker fund.
Something's wrong here. The diagnostic technique that has been in use for 10 years (at least - maybe more) is not news. Improvements in detection might be, but TFA claims the whole thing to be a great new discovery.
This is why I used words like "chance". Now and with the advances we can expect, this chance is slim. Maybe if these people would put some of these money they want to waste into research - solid honest research - that chance could become much higher.
But what they actually do... well, the part you wrote about they have perfected;-)
Trouble is, currently freezing is available only after confirmed death. When the brain, with the memories and the personality settings is destroyed pretty much completely. It only takes 4-5 minutes without oxygen supply to die completely and lose the data.
So, they're freezing cadavers. And after unfreezing, these will remain cadavers, because you can't make rotten brain whole again...
Revival would be at least possible (maybe even successful) if, and only if, the subjects were frozen while still alive. Problem with that is, that the freezing procedure makes them dead (at least technically), so anyone trying to do the cryonics the right way would be charged with murder by liquid nitrogen:-)
Turns out the only way is to "accidentally" fall into the tank at Alcor;-) Then you'll have a chance.
Same in Windoze, open command-line window, type "del/y *.*" and the files are gone straight to the bit bucket.
That "protected recycle bin" (or whatever it's called) is actually a quite useful idea, at least for average lusers. The implementation, however... well, since Norton Commander 4, Symantec was going downhill.
Well, *some* people understand the economy of scale principle, that it's better (and in fact, easier) to sell 10K units at $10 that 1K units at $50.
Some others are still fighting to retain low sales of overpriced DVDs. I wish them merry next xmas at the homeless shelter.
I'm not going to buy entertainment at inflated prices. If they don't keep prices in the sensible range, there are many other options for time wasting - TV (if you can stomach it), books, games... Those that will not understand their goods are not essential, will, in due time, perish. Or buy laws to get themselves subsidized by taxes (case in point: "institute of film art" or whatever that scam is called, in PL).
it needs help from major corporations - how about they set about refusing the sell large quantities of hard disks to ISP's, governments, mass torage solution people who are willing to deal with governments, etc.
You just made my day! Thank you! It's looooong time since I laughed so hard.
Now, a reality check: corporations will stand against govt only when govt makes their life hard. Otherwise, govt is a great customer they loke very much and don't want to upset.
You have to lack privacy, but you also have to have a tyrant.
The tyrant need not be a classic dictator. Some democratic govts simply behave like tyrants, forcing the politicians' views upon the people. And of course if you oppose, you're criminal (if lucky) or terrorist (otherwise).
Many governments believe they are owners (like in slavery) of their citizens. Where I live, every person is assigned an "inventory number", just like the chairs and desks in the govt offices. To them, I'm property and bullshit like constitution, laws etc is just a camouflage.
Regarding the directive... the only real change is that they will now store info on calls that were not picked up. The completed calls data is being kept in databases for billing purposes anyway and is already available for those armed with some paperwork.
Now, now, you can't blame him too much. She is hot.
But there is one question that I wanted to ask and didn't find a better place: WTF are thay making live-action Aeon Flux movie? For that matter, why is there some kind of mania of making live-action versions of animated stories?
In theory, the representative system was supposed to both deal with problem of whole nation voting on every law and sort of block stupidity and ignorance - surely those select few, working full-time would be best informed and think only of the common good. It deals with the technical problems of voting, but...
In any country employing this system, be it US or any european country or Australia, you can see that it's not the cream that rises to the top. It's the worst of ignorant, dumb, greedy and amoral scum. Ready to sell us out to the corporations and "special interests" for cheap gifts and shreds of importance.
Though, there is that little problem of inventing the better system, not only technically superior, but also acceptable to influential players (there's lots of money involved so technical merit isn't primary issue, unfortunately).
A sort of P2P distributed system, for example, would be open to abuse, different kind of it, but just as bad as the centralized system. A set of competing namespaces would make life hell for anyone trying to find less funded sites or to webmasters wanting global recognition.
Probably we would need to scrap the DNS standard and create something new, as DNS is centralized by design.
It's stupid "let's blow up stuff and do toilet/puke jokes" thing. Compared to "Brainiac", "Mythbusters" are pure science.
"Brainiac" cheats. Remember the show with breaking glass with sound? MB did it with power amplifiers and sound. "Brainiac" did it with a hidden (not very well hidden) blasting cap. If I were really bored, I could find dozens of other examples. Oh, and that fake Tina Turner...
Simply put, "Brainiac" is a piece of shit with some bimbos in it.
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Not so easy...
Lasers (esp. xray or gamma ray) would be great weapons, but, unfortunately with not-so-great range. Beams lose focus, so at long distance you would have effect more like searchlight than death ray. Even more for ion beams (electrostatic repulsion of same-charge ions).
Nukes are crap in space. No blast wave to speak of, so only effect would be from radiation - must get very close to be effective.
So you still would have to get quite close to the enemy to actually hurt them. Or rely on dropping mines, stealth missiles etc that would drift towards the enemy and activate when they get close. Assuming enemy does not change course...
Kinetic energy weapons might be quite effective, but again, must be fired from short distance so the enemy can't detect them early and dodge.
So, you never heard of the likes of KeyGhost...
How often do you check that keyboard cable of yours, by the way?
So wait, besides inventory tracking, why do we use RFID at all?
We need to track the other kinds of state inventory, like "citizens" (or as Cato would say, the "talking livestock").
So, we now know that rats can think.
But why test rats? It's way more important to know if politicians and higher management types can think. Is this feat within their reach? Or are they, as we unscientifically suspect, completely braindead?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Relativistic mass is an artifact of calculations. The object does not actually gain mass, it only behaves as if it had.
If you think about old Bell Labs, the home of the transistor and other fine devices, think again. Bell Labs are no more. Reduced to patch writing for Lucent software and firmware.
The money will go to Mr Company President's champagne and hooker fund.
Think of "private" here as "noncommercial".
If he was selling these files, the decision would probably be different.
TIFF supports CMYK, no problem.
Something's wrong here. The diagnostic technique that has been in use for 10 years (at least - maybe more) is not news. Improvements in detection might be, but TFA claims the whole thing to be a great new discovery.
Popular???
Rather: It won't make StarForce any more unpopular, as their popularity hit rock bottom already.
This is why I used words like "chance". Now and with the advances we can expect, this chance is slim. Maybe if these people would put some of these money they want to waste into research - solid honest research - that chance could become much higher.
;-)
But what they actually do... well, the part you wrote about they have perfected
Oh he won't be.
:-)
;-) Then you'll have a chance.
Trouble is, currently freezing is available only after confirmed death. When the brain, with the memories and the personality settings is destroyed pretty much completely. It only takes 4-5 minutes without oxygen supply to die completely and lose the data.
So, they're freezing cadavers. And after unfreezing, these will remain cadavers, because you can't make rotten brain whole again...
Revival would be at least possible (maybe even successful) if, and only if, the subjects were frozen while still alive. Problem with that is, that the freezing procedure makes them dead (at least technically), so anyone trying to do the cryonics the right way would be charged with murder by liquid nitrogen
Turns out the only way is to "accidentally" fall into the tank at Alcor
See, lobbyist is cheap. Even good ones aren't really that expensive. The real money sink are the actual brib^Wdonations.
Yet I think, if we IT professionals in EU would drop only a few euros each, we could buy the key politickers for at least one or two votes.
Same in Windoze, open command-line window, type "del /y *.*" and the files are gone straight to the bit bucket.
That "protected recycle bin" (or whatever it's called) is actually a quite useful idea, at least for average lusers. The implementation, however... well, since Norton Commander 4, Symantec was going downhill.
The Minister of Culture is strongly against the idea of the licence and will probably succeed to remove it from the law.
He feels the urge to protect the culture. It shall not pass into the hands of the lower classes. Only proper people shall have access to the culture.
Well, *some* people understand the economy of scale principle, that it's better (and in fact, easier) to sell 10K units at $10 that 1K units at $50.
Some others are still fighting to retain low sales of overpriced DVDs. I wish them merry next xmas at the homeless shelter.
I'm not going to buy entertainment at inflated prices. If they don't keep prices in the sensible range, there are many other options for time wasting - TV (if you can stomach it), books, games... Those that will not understand their goods are not essential, will, in due time, perish. Or buy laws to get themselves subsidized by taxes (case in point: "institute of film art" or whatever that scam is called, in PL).
it needs help from major corporations - how about they set about refusing the sell large quantities of hard disks to ISP's, governments, mass torage solution people who are willing to deal with governments, etc.
You just made my day! Thank you! It's looooong time since I laughed so hard.
Now, a reality check: corporations will stand against govt only when govt makes their life hard. Otherwise, govt is a great customer they loke very much and don't want to upset.
You have to lack privacy, but you also have to have a tyrant.
The tyrant need not be a classic dictator. Some democratic govts simply behave like tyrants, forcing the politicians' views upon the people. And of course if you oppose, you're criminal (if lucky) or terrorist (otherwise).
Many governments believe they are owners (like in slavery) of their citizens. Where I live, every person is assigned an "inventory number", just like the chairs and desks in the govt offices. To them, I'm property and bullshit like constitution, laws etc is just a camouflage.
Regarding the directive... the only real change is that they will now store info on calls that were not picked up. The completed calls data is being kept in databases for billing purposes anyway and is already available for those armed with some paperwork.
Now, now, you can't blame him too much. She is hot.
But there is one question that I wanted to ask and didn't find a better place: WTF are thay making live-action Aeon Flux movie? For that matter, why is there some kind of mania of making live-action versions of animated stories?
Which helps exactly... nothing.
In theory, the representative system was supposed to both deal with problem of whole nation voting on every law and sort of block stupidity and ignorance - surely those select few, working full-time would be best informed and think only of the common good. It deals with the technical problems of voting, but...
In any country employing this system, be it US or any european country or Australia, you can see that it's not the cream that rises to the top. It's the worst of ignorant, dumb, greedy and amoral scum. Ready to sell us out to the corporations and "special interests" for cheap gifts and shreds of importance.
Definitely, this is an interesting idea.
Though, there is that little problem of inventing the better system, not only technically superior, but also acceptable to influential players (there's lots of money involved so technical merit isn't primary issue, unfortunately).
A sort of P2P distributed system, for example, would be open to abuse, different kind of it, but just as bad as the centralized system. A set of competing namespaces would make life hell for anyone trying to find less funded sites or to webmasters wanting global recognition.
Probably we would need to scrap the DNS standard and create something new, as DNS is centralized by design.
Any ideas?
is:
Did you ever get into the legal troubles due to some of your experiments?
They busted a myth, that vertically dropped toast would tend to fall buttered side down. However, that isn't the way typically toast falls.
This was one of the worst pieces of their work.
It's stupid "let's blow up stuff and do toilet/puke jokes" thing. Compared to "Brainiac", "Mythbusters" are pure science.
"Brainiac" cheats. Remember the show with breaking glass with sound? MB did it with power amplifiers and sound. "Brainiac" did it with a hidden (not very well hidden) blasting cap. If I were really bored, I could find dozens of other examples. Oh, and that fake Tina Turner...
Simply put, "Brainiac" is a piece of shit with some bimbos in it.