Spoofing socialmedia would be even better, wouldn't it? Say a flurry of faked tweets indicating that a given village is falling to the cause, drawing Daesh fighters to a kill zone?
What that means is that phage development will not come from the US. Since the Chinese created the unstoppable superbug problem by feeding the last-resource antibiotics to pigs, perhaps they will be the ones to push phage development in out absence.
Compare Curiosity Rover with the initial Viking landers. That's how far we have come with robotics, just on Mars. Then compare it to the first lunar landers.
And when we get out there to mine asteroids, we will want to use teleoperators, not autonomous robots: a small human crew onsite directing a fleet of mining machines. The technology race will be between life supports for humans and the local AI that fully autonomous robots on location would require.
We keep hearing about phage therapy being a possible replacement for antibiotics, but then the news never reappears as actual pharma development. Any idea why?
Blackberry is relying on the corporate world's reluctance to change. So long as Blackberry is the tried and true, management will keep on buying them. After all, spying by the government is not a concern for them.
This attitude will change the first time some corporate spy, Chinese or otherwise, slips through that backdoor.
Two technological processes are converging here. Space robotics is getting better fast, and the easy source mineral deposits on Earth are gone. In high gravity, boring into the ground at depth gets exponentially expensive after the first two or three kilometers. In the TauTona mine in South Africa, the sheer heat of the rock at 4 km has become a major barrier to going deeper. And in most other parts of the planet, stability of the rock and local earthquake frequency prevents going even that deep.
This convergence will at some point bring us to space mining. Send the spectroscope described here out on an RTG-powered probe with a high-powered laser on it, to make a series of asteroidal flybys like the Dawn mission we have out there now, but focusing on smaller asteroids rather than planetoids. At each asteroid, send laser pulses into the surface at numerous points, analyzing the light that comes back to build a spectroscopic map of exposed minerals.
First we need to characterize what general form asteroidal resources take. "Veins" would be formed by hydrology, which is an Earthly phenomenon, so we're more likely going to see expanses of iron containing a range of siderophilic elements ('found with iron'). Will the iron be like that which we mine in the earths' crust, or will it be core iron, much richer in the heavy elements that 'sink to the bottom' on planets?
Findings from this probe will guide us in developing a mining strategy. Whatever we end up with it will be highly automated, with an army of teleoperated robots replacing Leland Stanford's Chinese laborers.
I have found Siri a lot more useful than I initially thought. It's a natural feature to have on a phone because it's the one device where you often need hands-free control, and the one device you are already used to talking to. At the same time, it's not really useful in he office environment. Imagine a cacophony of voices in a confined space, all talking to their computers...
Because ransomware attacks are for money, and target business and in some cases government itself, and involve large numbers of people at once, surely it's NOT being treated as a local problem: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stori...
And the NSA would love to be able to mail a ransomware operation to burnish its battered image. If it could do so, it would.
"Actually given that bitcoin is based on a public ledger that documents each and every transfer of coins, the blockchain, tracing the transfers between accounts and creating a network of relationships is quite trivial. If a transaction touches the real world, a live visit to a merchant, a delivery to an address, a payment for a service, etc there is no anonymity. Any single member of a network who touches the real world can expose the network."
So why is it that when ransomware attackers are paid in bitcoin, the transactions are not traceable?
Because manned missions into space are inherently risky for crews, and will be for a long time to come. Though NASA engineers, contractors and crewpeople understand this risk and are willing to accept it, NASA administration knows that any loss of life means a firestorm of criticism from anti-science activists and imposes a delay of years on the program wherein it occurs. Private companies, not as subject to anti-science politics, can pick up and try again.
Having the government buy something from your company is not a "subsidy". Im the case of spaceflights, it's buying a service it can no longer provide for itself.
"That original windows was utter junk, and died when MS released XP, a version of NT with the nice desktop UI from Windows'95, but totally rewritten and redesigned underneath."
But what the old Windows-over-DOS did accomplish was beta test the Windows user interface.
And that's at slow US train speeds. TGVs in the most frequently used corridors would give us much better door-to-door times for regional travel, and would cut the puddlejumper clutter at our major airports. Flying would be a much better experience if it were reserved for long distances.
"We made the mistake of letting in barbarians. Fix that mistake, deport the barbarians and we can keep our freedoms."
Mod parent up. The object of terrorist activity is to change your target society into the rights-free, fun-free hellhole you came from. Large western cities are exactly the kind of places they hate the most. People at concerts, in hotels and clubs, crowding in to restaurants - terrorists want to arrange things so that nobody will do such things again.
Instead of cowering behind our security agencies and letting terrorists impose Sharia on us by default, do as many Dresdens as it takes to convince them that we can and will kill them all faster than they can kill us.
The teror scenario is unfolding in Mali right now as we speak. There is no amount of domestic spying and security in target countries that will fix this.
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Spoofing socialmedia would be even better, wouldn't it? Say a flurry of faked tweets indicating that a given village is falling to the cause, drawing Daesh fighters to a kill zone?
And the open-source world has nothing that even approaches Lightroom.
If Luddite butthurt prevents us from getting at better sources of energy or materials, it's not just hot air - it's a greenhouse gas
What that means is that phage development will not come from the US. Since the Chinese created the unstoppable superbug problem by feeding the last-resource antibiotics to pigs, perhaps they will be the ones to push phage development in out absence.
Compare Curiosity Rover with the initial Viking landers. That's how far we have come with robotics, just on Mars. Then compare it to the first lunar landers.
And when we get out there to mine asteroids, we will want to use teleoperators, not autonomous robots: a small human crew onsite directing a fleet of mining machines. The technology race will be between life supports for humans and the local AI that fully autonomous robots on location would require.
"Is that a roundabout way of saying that some complete and utter moron has been feeding the antibiotic of last resort to pigs"
Yes, this is actually happening in China. There was a BBC mention of it recently.
We keep hearing about phage therapy being a possible replacement for antibiotics, but then the news never reappears as actual pharma development. Any idea why?
Blackberry is relying on the corporate world's reluctance to change. So long as Blackberry is the tried and true, management will keep on buying them. After all, spying by the government is not a concern for them.
This attitude will change the first time some corporate spy, Chinese or otherwise, slips through that backdoor.
Two technological processes are converging here. Space robotics is getting better fast, and the easy source mineral deposits on Earth are gone. In high gravity, boring into the ground at depth gets exponentially expensive after the first two or three kilometers. In the TauTona mine in South Africa, the sheer heat of the rock at 4 km has become a major barrier to going deeper. And in most other parts of the planet, stability of the rock and local earthquake frequency prevents going even that deep.
This convergence will at some point bring us to space mining. Send the spectroscope described here out on an RTG-powered probe with a high-powered laser on it, to make a series of asteroidal flybys like the Dawn mission we have out there now, but focusing on smaller asteroids rather than planetoids. At each asteroid, send laser pulses into the surface at numerous points, analyzing the light that comes back to build a spectroscopic map of exposed minerals.
First we need to characterize what general form asteroidal resources take. "Veins" would be formed by hydrology, which is an Earthly phenomenon, so we're more likely going to see expanses of iron containing a range of siderophilic elements ('found with iron'). Will the iron be like that which we mine in the earths' crust, or will it be core iron, much richer in the heavy elements that 'sink to the bottom' on planets?
Findings from this probe will guide us in developing a mining strategy. Whatever we end up with it will be highly automated, with an army of teleoperated robots replacing Leland Stanford's Chinese laborers.
How about a philodendron that texts you at work when it needs water?
"Obviously Eeeevil Monsanto is involved."
I for one would love to see Monsanto using this tech in plants that taze anti-GMO activists attacking their test fields.
I have found Siri a lot more useful than I initially thought. It's a natural feature to have on a phone because it's the one device where you often need hands-free control, and the one device you are already used to talking to. At the same time, it's not really useful in he office environment. Imagine a cacophony of voices in a confined space, all talking to their computers...
Because ransomware attacks are for money, and target business and in some cases government itself, and involve large numbers of people at once, surely it's NOT being treated as a local problem: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stori...
And the NSA would love to be able to mail a ransomware operation to burnish its battered image. If it could do so, it would.
"Actually given that bitcoin is based on a public ledger that documents each and every transfer of coins, the blockchain, tracing the transfers between accounts and creating a network of relationships is quite trivial. If a transaction touches the real world, a live visit to a merchant, a delivery to an address, a payment for a service, etc there is no anonymity. Any single member of a network who touches the real world can expose the network."
So why is it that when ransomware attackers are paid in bitcoin, the transactions are not traceable?
"Why did we give up? "
Because manned missions into space are inherently risky for crews, and will be for a long time to come. Though NASA engineers, contractors and crewpeople understand this risk and are willing to accept it, NASA administration knows that any loss of life means a firestorm of criticism from anti-science activists and imposes a delay of years on the program wherein it occurs. Private companies, not as subject to anti-science politics, can pick up and try again.
Having the government buy something from your company is not a "subsidy". Im the case of spaceflights, it's buying a service it can no longer provide for itself.
"If NeXTSTEP was so great, then why didn't it become as popular as Windows?"
It steadily IS gaining on Windows: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
"That original windows was utter junk, and died when MS released XP, a version of NT with the nice desktop UI from Windows'95, but totally rewritten and redesigned underneath."
But what the old Windows-over-DOS did accomplish was beta test the Windows user interface.
"Windows was and is a tragic waste of time and money."
Not so. It is now providing work for a second generation of IT specialists.
And that's at slow US train speeds. TGVs in the most frequently used corridors would give us much better door-to-door times for regional travel, and would cut the puddlejumper clutter at our major airports. Flying would be a much better experience if it were reserved for long distances.
I'm old enough to remember when this was the standard union-guy response to innovation in Japan and Korea.
No, that's how the FDA does it right now.
If not, we should bring them in. They have a record of getting things done.
"We made the mistake of letting in barbarians. Fix that mistake, deport the barbarians and we can keep our freedoms."
Mod parent up. The object of terrorist activity is to change your target society into the rights-free, fun-free hellhole you came from. Large western cities are exactly the kind of places they hate the most. People at concerts, in hotels and clubs, crowding in to restaurants - terrorists want to arrange things so that nobody will do such things again.
Instead of cowering behind our security agencies and letting terrorists impose Sharia on us by default, do as many Dresdens as it takes to convince them that we can and will kill them all faster than they can kill us.
The teror scenario is unfolding in Mali right now as we speak. There is no amount of domestic spying and security in target countries that will fix this.
There's a downside to identifying terrorists? Please explain.
News photographs have been used for intelligence ever since the medium existed.