Do those tools include a standard file or string which can be looked for with search engines? Sites might change those to avoid leaking information, but some default installations could be detected.
Nobody has priority. It's unregulated, and everyone has to live with whatever interference there is. You're not allowed to create harmful interference. That's printed on the back of your wireless card or in its manual.
Of course, if the free service finds a dead zone they're likely to try to extend their area of coverage with a beam toward it. If there is free access inside Starbucks, that is Starbucks' problem.
Maybe aluminum foil wallpaper and metallic sun coating on the glass doors will keep both groups happy.
One possibility: I've used 802.11 through several cinder block walls. Maybe beams can simply penetrate the walls. So if the buildings are close enough together, just send beams through them. You could borrow an access point and a laptop (or two ad-hoc cards) and simply test if the signal goes through a wall with a normal antenna. If the walls are porous enough, you could even put the access point outside the Manor...in another building, a shed, your car...
Also remember that these beams can bounce off metallic surfaces. If these walls don't let radio signals through, they might also be reflective. So a beam through a window might reflect off another building and reach another window at an angle other than line-of-sight. If the street has cobblestones under it, those might also be reflective.
Well, back to the inside of the building...
No cupolae on Woolsthorpe Manor. The Newtonia site is gone except for the Wayback Machine. The picture there and on other sites shows a high pitched roof.
The Newtonia pictures inside the house show a flat ceiling. I don't know if those rooms are on the first or second floor. If they're on the second floor, then there is an attic. But even if the rafters are exposed, perhaps a wooden cabinet in the rafters could be used for wireless equipment.
It looks like a shingled or slate roof. If there is not too much metal in the roof, you could fire a beam through it (I don't know the metallic and moisture content of slate, and there might be a layer of tin). And the building is L-shaped, so all four directions are visible through the faces of the roofs.
Of course, what would be needed are beams (802.11 or infrared lasers) between the buildings, connected by Ethernet cable to wireles access points for use within the buildings.
Why not? Our present ecosystem isn't all that different from 12,000 years ago. Except we're still warming back up to normal temperatures since then...and if we do indeed hit a new Ice Age in 100 years it would be handy to have another cold-weather species. It's not like we're duplicating a dangerous ancient Martian Dragon.
For that matter, we shouldn't have all our eggs in one basket...if we were on more planets then we wouldn't have to risk this one planet. And chilly Mars might be a good place for mammoth anyway.
That's a good sign. If we used to eat it, perhaps we will still find it tasty. And if mammoth becomes a farm animal then its survival is assured.
I'd like to see what the fences around a mammoth pasture will look like, as well as what the farmers will drive which will be impressive enough to mammoth to be able to herd them.
Yes, it is a problem of distribution. The entire population of the planet could live in Texas. It should be possible then to distribute as much food as is available to everyone, particularly the food from North America. Do the math.
We don't need to cook meat. It's a custom, although a very practical one. Cooked meat is safer to eat because bacteria and parasites have been killed. Ever hear of trichinosis, salmonella, and E. coli? Raw meat dishes, beef tartare and sushi being widely known, have to be prepared carefully. Dried meat is actually slow-cooked meat, although often with much more salt.
A true omnivore could eat rocks, dirt, grass, and wood. Our teeth can't grind rocks well enough to expose enough minerals and our digestive system can't extract nutrients well from any of the above. There are also many natural substances which are irritating or poisonous in various ways to humans.
We can eat snails, bird eggs, frog legs, lye-dried fish, hearts of palm, and mushrooms. Who is the comedian who pointed out "Our ancestors were braver than we are. Who found out that we can eat this stuff?"
The more similar to humans a food is, the more likely its parasites and illnesses will affect humans. Eating humans is quite unsafe. Eating pork only a little safer. Beef quite a bit safer. Chicken and fish even safer -- but chickens often have illness-causing bacteria around them. Fish also often have parasites and bacteria which can affect humans.
Of course, plants are quite distantly removed from us so what makes them sick is unlikely to make us sick. But there are many things in plants which are not good for us ("Here's your last meal, Socrates"). And eating enough plants to get proper nutrition is difficult. It can be done, but we survive more easily with some of the concentrated nutrition in meat.
There's even a theory that our brains did not start growing as large as they are until our ancestors began hunting. Provided with more nutrients, the people with larger brains could then survive longer than before. Which suggests that the mutations which caused our larger brains may have happened long ago but did not survive because people with larger brains were more likely to not survive bad times. At least not until they were able to use their brains to make bad times less likely to occur.
This space available for rent by any meat promotion council.
This detail should be helpful when someone decides to build all of New York as another Las Vegas mega-casino.
I shudder to think at what they might do with lighting on the Empire State Building...I won't mind if the Chrysler Building includes the MIB city memory flasher, just like the original's.
Life is a localized reversal of entropy, not intelligence. Life can arrange atoms in states which are more energetic and more organized. Overall entropy continues to make things less organized.
Life does indeed increase entropy of some material, its waste from food. Energy is extracted from food to power the entropy reversals. Growth and organization are the results, although only localized exceptions to the rule.
Cells, multicelled organisms, plants, complex life forms, tools, machinery, cities...all are organized but not necessarily intelligence.
A simple hydraulic ram pump is a good example. It lets water fall through, slams a valve shut, the inertia of the water moving forward pushes some water up through a one-way valve, pumping that water to a higher level. Much more water is wasted by allowing it to fall (so as to get the water moving fast enough for the inertia has enough force) than is pumped upward. The falling water has to be made to drop to its lower state in order to move the lesser amount to a higher energy state.
Oh, yeah.. the ram pump is reversing entropy on the raised water but it's hard to consider it alive. It is wearing out and rusting and is only reversing entropy in one way. If it is part of a city with a maintenance crew (human or robots) then it becomes harder to separate from the qualities of a life form. Proceed with comparisons to a molecular pump in the wall of a cell...
How much demand do you think there would be for it? Particularly because the mechanisms take up so much space that it would be about the same size as two $70 VCRs.
You're aware of three of the facts. There are several more facts from several "scientific fields" which add up to my statement.
My point is that I agree that science is indeed not "revealed". Not only is it necessary for someone to do the necessary work to discover a fact, it also is necessary for people to know the relevant facts for the problem...or rediscover them.
Worse, old "facts" cause data to be interpreted within them, so wrong facts can be reinforced and new data missed.
Remember that the "ozone hole" was missed for a while because data from an ozone-watching satellite was being ignored because it was such a large number it was considered a wrong reading.
" The laws should be boiled down to prevent people from assaulting/killing one another, stealing, dammagin other's property, commiting fraud, slandering/libeling someone, infringing on people's rights to communicate, and infringing on people's rights to practice religion. I think that covers just about everything."
"has NASA sacrificed any human lives to get the ISS going so far?"
Not yet, but there are some people on the ISS whose lives depend on the ISS or a Russian capsule getting up there regularly. If we can't launch a Shuttle in time, we have to hope Russia can. Fortunately, at the moment we could try to move a Shuttle and if the crawler transporters succeeded just once we'd be able to launch (now that the Shuttle cracks are patched). If both transporters break then we have to hope the Russian launch has no problems...
You're going to go to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas and hunt for your own diamond? Digging tools for rent, and park staff will tell you if you have a diamond.
"Science is not 'revealed.' It is not a matter of digging up some 'fact' buried in arcana."
Yup. There are facts which indicate that stopping all carbon dioxide emissions causes the death of the planet in 500,000 years. This has other implications, but have you encountered any of this in "Fact-filled" sources about carbon dioxide?
Well, he did fail to mention that each successive batch is only sent to the people who received the previous correct prediction.
He is right that this is a known scam, which sets up the people who end up getting all the true "predictions" for the scam. Predicting the stock market, sports winners, weather service, federal lobbying service, fashion forecasts...
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Do those tools include a standard file or string which can be looked for with search engines? Sites might change those to avoid leaking information, but some default installations could be detected.
No, there is not enough detail. Despite the Slashdot headline, there is no link to a HowTo.
Turbolinux announced today a $100 million contest for a new company name...
Of course, if the free service finds a dead zone they're likely to try to extend their area of coverage with a beam toward it. If there is free access inside Starbucks, that is Starbucks' problem.
Maybe aluminum foil wallpaper and metallic sun coating on the glass doors will keep both groups happy.
Also remember that these beams can bounce off metallic surfaces. If these walls don't let radio signals through, they might also be reflective. So a beam through a window might reflect off another building and reach another window at an angle other than line-of-sight. If the street has cobblestones under it, those might also be reflective.
Well, back to the inside of the building...
No cupolae on Woolsthorpe Manor. The Newtonia site is gone except for the Wayback Machine. The picture there and on other sites shows a high pitched roof.
The Newtonia pictures inside the house show a flat ceiling. I don't know if those rooms are on the first or second floor. If they're on the second floor, then there is an attic. But even if the rafters are exposed, perhaps a wooden cabinet in the rafters could be used for wireless equipment.
It looks like a shingled or slate roof. If there is not too much metal in the roof, you could fire a beam through it (I don't know the metallic and moisture content of slate, and there might be a layer of tin). And the building is L-shaped, so all four directions are visible through the faces of the roofs.
Of course, what would be needed are beams (802.11 or infrared lasers) between the buildings, connected by Ethernet cable to wireles access points for use within the buildings.
Good. If a new cloning method has the genes which are lost by the planned method, breeding the two groups might restore the entire genetic sequence.
For that matter, we shouldn't have all our eggs in one basket...if we were on more planets then we wouldn't have to risk this one planet. And chilly Mars might be a good place for mammoth anyway.
I'd like to see what the fences around a mammoth pasture will look like, as well as what the farmers will drive which will be impressive enough to mammoth to be able to herd them.
This includes the activity which gets bopped around the Internet and doesn't get to your server.
Yes, it is a problem of distribution. The entire population of the planet could live in Texas. It should be possible then to distribute as much food as is available to everyone, particularly the food from North America. Do the math.
A true omnivore could eat rocks, dirt, grass, and wood. Our teeth can't grind rocks well enough to expose enough minerals and our digestive system can't extract nutrients well from any of the above. There are also many natural substances which are irritating or poisonous in various ways to humans.
We can eat snails, bird eggs, frog legs, lye-dried fish, hearts of palm, and mushrooms. Who is the comedian who pointed out "Our ancestors were braver than we are. Who found out that we can eat this stuff?"
The more similar to humans a food is, the more likely its parasites and illnesses will affect humans. Eating humans is quite unsafe. Eating pork only a little safer. Beef quite a bit safer. Chicken and fish even safer -- but chickens often have illness-causing bacteria around them. Fish also often have parasites and bacteria which can affect humans.
Of course, plants are quite distantly removed from us so what makes them sick is unlikely to make us sick. But there are many things in plants which are not good for us ("Here's your last meal, Socrates"). And eating enough plants to get proper nutrition is difficult. It can be done, but we survive more easily with some of the concentrated nutrition in meat.
There's even a theory that our brains did not start growing as large as they are until our ancestors began hunting. Provided with more nutrients, the people with larger brains could then survive longer than before. Which suggests that the mutations which caused our larger brains may have happened long ago but did not survive because people with larger brains were more likely to not survive bad times. At least not until they were able to use their brains to make bad times less likely to occur.
This space available for rent by any meat promotion council.
Oh.. and which version of Windows?
I shudder to think at what they might do with lighting on the Empire State Building...I won't mind if the Chrysler Building includes the MIB city memory flasher, just like the original's.
Life does indeed increase entropy of some material, its waste from food. Energy is extracted from food to power the entropy reversals. Growth and organization are the results, although only localized exceptions to the rule.
Cells, multicelled organisms, plants, complex life forms, tools, machinery, cities...all are organized but not necessarily intelligence.
A simple hydraulic ram pump is a good example. It lets water fall through, slams a valve shut, the inertia of the water moving forward pushes some water up through a one-way valve, pumping that water to a higher level. Much more water is wasted by allowing it to fall (so as to get the water moving fast enough for the inertia has enough force) than is pumped upward. The falling water has to be made to drop to its lower state in order to move the lesser amount to a higher energy state.
Oh, yeah.. the ram pump is reversing entropy on the raised water but it's hard to consider it alive. It is wearing out and rusting and is only reversing entropy in one way. If it is part of a city with a maintenance crew (human or robots) then it becomes harder to separate from the qualities of a life form. Proceed with comparisons to a molecular pump in the wall of a cell...
Mountain Dew cans is the conversion factor. Joules of energy fed to Computer Science students.
How much demand do you think there would be for it? Particularly because the mechanisms take up so much space that it would be about the same size as two $70 VCRs.
My point is that I agree that science is indeed not "revealed". Not only is it necessary for someone to do the necessary work to discover a fact, it also is necessary for people to know the relevant facts for the problem...or rediscover them.
Worse, old "facts" cause data to be interpreted within them, so wrong facts can be reinforced and new data missed.
Remember that the "ozone hole" was missed for a while because data from an ozone-watching satellite was being ignored because it was such a large number it was considered a wrong reading.
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Not yet, but there are some people on the ISS whose lives depend on the ISS or a Russian capsule getting up there regularly. If we can't launch a Shuttle in time, we have to hope Russia can. Fortunately, at the moment we could try to move a Shuttle and if the crawler transporters succeeded just once we'd be able to launch (now that the Shuttle cracks are patched). If both transporters break then we have to hope the Russian launch has no problems...
More redundant than "...shuttles the Shuttles..."?
You're going to go to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas and hunt for your own diamond? Digging tools for rent, and park staff will tell you if you have a diamond.
Yup. There are facts which indicate that stopping all carbon dioxide emissions causes the death of the planet in 500,000 years. This has other implications, but have you encountered any of this in "Fact-filled" sources about carbon dioxide?
He is right that this is a known scam, which sets up the people who end up getting all the true "predictions" for the scam. Predicting the stock market, sports winners, weather service, federal lobbying service, fashion forecasts...