"They are custom-fitted, high precision medical devices..."
Which contain perhaps a hundred bucks worth of electronics and have a history of seldom working to the satisfaction of the patient. My town is full of high-end retirees, and every one I have spoken to has a drawerful of expensive hearing aids that suck. This area of medicine is overripe for disruption by some Silicon Valley company that can make a device that performs more like a natural ear.
I'm really tired of having the term 'hubris' wheeled out for every advance in engineering, in this case the engineering of the human body. A new technique like this is hardly something we're just blundering into without thought. Based on our knowledge today, which is vastly greater than it was in your cited golden age, we take whatever precautions we reasonably can as a part of making the next bold step.
Call it hubris if you want, but adventure is part of human nature, and I'll gladly spend some of my karma ridiculing those who prefer primitivism to a better civilization.
This is genetic engineering tech, applied to humans. Are you now going to require that all the HIV patients using this treatment wear labels? You know, the scarlet letter of the left.
Our credit cards have the EMV chip now, but most of the stores whose POS terminals have an EMV slot are not using it. It's an even more confusing maze than before.
It would be in our best interests to keep criminals using cash, rather than switching to the new virtual currencies. Kidnapping for ransom used to be a major problem in the US until improvements in police tactics eliminated all viable means of transferring cash ransom.
But recently we have seen a proliferation of ransomware attacks, because so far it has been the perfect crime. Bitcoin has proved to be untraceable. If we eliminate cash and push the thug community into making the technological leap to Bitcoin, we will see a wave of kidnappings eclipsing anything we have seen in Mexico.
Supposedly, it's lack of genetic diversity due to a near-extinction event that makes the Tasmanian devil so vulnerable to contagious cancer. We might study the American bison, which has the same genetic problem. Circa 1900, the species was down to fewer than one thousand individuals.
A more interesting question is, Why is contagious cancer still so rare, given a billion years and a multiplicity of vectors that have spread every other kind of disease over large regions? We see contagious viri that cause cancer in infected individuals (HPV, Hep C) but so far only three transmissible cancers across all the world's species. Finding out what there is about cancer that limits it to one individual could be the key we have been looking for.
That time, the question was "should this radical proposed document be adopted?" accompanied by the actual US Constitution. And the results were roughly the same: http://www.constitution.org/co...
"This, if they know you know about Jury Nullification, neither the judge nor the prosecutor want you there."
That's why you never stand up and proclaim yourself a believer in nullification. At trial, just be prepared to 'show your work' in a jury poll as having judged on some element of the evidence and testimony, no matter how far-fetched may be your reasoning.
"The jury doesn't send people to jail: they vote guilty or not guilty and the judge decides the sentence, expect possibly in death penalty cases. And, in the U.S. at least, the jury isn't allowed to be told what the possible sentence is."
But as juries catch on that disproportionate sentencing is taking place, they will vote to nullify.
Wouldn't the Metro app buttons appear in Tablet mode as an alternative to the computer desktop? In the syndrome I'm describing, you still see the desktop, minus some of your personal icons , and with a Start button that doesn't do anything. No Metro icons.
There's an even more evil bug going around in the Windows 10 fever pit right now, the sudden loss of Start menu functionality. One day you boot up and although there's still a Stafrt button, it no longer brings up its menu, and any program icons you pinned to the Taskbar are gone. As with so many other bugs in a new Windows version, a search reveals that a lot of people are getting this and there is a plethora of suggested workarounds, but none of them will work. You have to reinstall Windows.
"if your phone is stolen. Apple or the carrier could know exactly where it is because it's reporting its GPS coordinates back to them, they will not be able to tell you, the rightful owner, or law enforcement where the phone is. Because the privacy of the criminal in possession of your property outweighs your rights as the property owner."
Wrong. If your iPhone is stolen, you log onto icloud.com with your Apple ID and go to the Find My Phone app. It shows you exactly where your device is.
"They are not asking Apple to modify all the iPhone in the world and introduce a backdoor in the firmware of all the iPhone. "
Yes they are. The FBI is using an 18th-century law to force Apple to write a new version of its software that can bypass security, an order that became illegal in December, 1865.
The FBI is quite capable of hiring software devs to attach iPhone security. It could even hire them from Apple if it wanted to, because as a federal agency it probably is exempt from having to honor noncompetes.
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"They are custom-fitted, high precision medical devices..."
Which contain perhaps a hundred bucks worth of electronics and have a history of seldom working to the satisfaction of the patient. My town is full of high-end retirees, and every one I have spoken to has a drawerful of expensive hearing aids that suck. This area of medicine is overripe for disruption by some Silicon Valley company that can make a device that performs more like a natural ear.
What you're saying, then, is that China will get a colony going first, whereupon (Trump | Sanders) will accuse them of "cheating" somehow.
I'm really tired of having the term 'hubris' wheeled out for every advance in engineering, in this case the engineering of the human body. A new technique like this is hardly something we're just blundering into without thought. Based on our knowledge today, which is vastly greater than it was in your cited golden age, we take whatever precautions we reasonably can as a part of making the next bold step.
Call it hubris if you want, but adventure is part of human nature, and I'll gladly spend some of my karma ridiculing those who prefer primitivism to a better civilization.
Sex bots? As soon as a robot can kill a spider in a bathtub, it's all over for penile-Americans.
And I say this as an Arizona Republican. Hoi polloi are meanwhile cramming into the Apple stores in response to this controversy.
"Insulting and acting arrogant doesn't win their minds"
What minds?
This is genetic engineering tech, applied to humans. Are you now going to require that all the HIV patients using this treatment wear labels? You know, the scarlet letter of the left.
Our credit cards have the EMV chip now, but most of the stores whose POS terminals have an EMV slot are not using it. It's an even more confusing maze than before.
Let's hope for a wireless mouse that no longer needs batteries every time you pick it up.
"...how would you slow down when you get there? "
Radio ahead to make a deal with the locals to build a similar laser for when you arrive.
Citation, please. The ransomware attacks, none of which have been traced, are proof that so far the Bitcoin blockchain has not been cracked.
It would be in our best interests to keep criminals using cash, rather than switching to the new virtual currencies. Kidnapping for ransom used to be a major problem in the US until improvements in police tactics eliminated all viable means of transferring cash ransom.
But recently we have seen a proliferation of ransomware attacks, because so far it has been the perfect crime. Bitcoin has proved to be untraceable. If we eliminate cash and push the thug community into making the technological leap to Bitcoin, we will see a wave of kidnappings eclipsing anything we have seen in Mexico.
Supposedly, it's lack of genetic diversity due to a near-extinction event that makes the Tasmanian devil so vulnerable to contagious cancer. We might study the American bison, which has the same genetic problem. Circa 1900, the species was down to fewer than one thousand individuals.
A more interesting question is, Why is contagious cancer still so rare, given a billion years and a multiplicity of vectors that have spread every other kind of disease over large regions? We see contagious viri that cause cancer in infected individuals (HPV, Hep C) but so far only three transmissible cancers across all the world's species. Finding out what there is about cancer that limits it to one individual could be the key we have been looking for.
Call Vince Gilligan. Surely this can be worked into an episode of Better Call Saul somehow.
That time, the question was "should this radical proposed document be adopted?" accompanied by the actual US Constitution. And the results were roughly the same:
http://www.constitution.org/co...
The results of this poll on Applegate are remarkably similar to a polls on the US Constitution presented as if it were some radical new proposal:
http://www.constitution.org/co...
"This, if they know you know about Jury Nullification, neither the judge nor the prosecutor want you there."
That's why you never stand up and proclaim yourself a believer in nullification. At trial, just be prepared to 'show your work' in a jury poll as having judged on some element of the evidence and testimony, no matter how far-fetched may be your reasoning.
"The jury doesn't send people to jail: they vote guilty or not guilty and the judge decides the sentence, expect possibly in death penalty cases. And, in the U.S. at least, the jury isn't allowed to be told what the possible sentence is."
But as juries catch on that disproportionate sentencing is taking place, they will vote to nullify.
But now that she has been fired, she can give Yelp bad Yelp.
Wouldn't the Metro app buttons appear in Tablet mode as an alternative to the computer desktop? In the syndrome I'm describing, you still see the desktop, minus some of your personal icons , and with a Start button that doesn't do anything. No Metro icons.
There's an even more evil bug going around in the Windows 10 fever pit right now, the sudden loss of Start menu functionality. One day you boot up and although there's still a Stafrt button, it no longer brings up its menu, and any program icons you pinned to the Taskbar are gone. As with so many other bugs in a new Windows version, a search reveals that a lot of people are getting this and there is a plethora of suggested workarounds, but none of them will work. You have to reinstall Windows.
Ever try to archive a WordPress site? Nothing but reams of PHP, and good luck finding the site's content.
"if your phone is stolen. Apple or the carrier could know exactly where it is because it's reporting its GPS coordinates back to them, they will not be able to tell you, the rightful owner, or law enforcement where the phone is. Because the privacy of the criminal in possession of your property outweighs your rights as the property owner."
Wrong. If your iPhone is stolen, you log onto icloud.com with your Apple ID and go to the Find My Phone app. It shows you exactly where your device is.
"They are not asking Apple to modify all the iPhone in the world and introduce a backdoor in the firmware of all the iPhone. "
Yes they are. The FBI is using an 18th-century law to force Apple to write a new version of its software that can bypass security, an order that became illegal in December, 1865.
The FBI is quite capable of hiring software devs to attach iPhone security. It could even hire them from Apple if it wanted to, because as a federal agency it probably is exempt from having to honor noncompetes.