Only if they're building HOV lanes on all the freeways in my town, because that's been going on since last year. Every freeway intersection is getting a new set of curves in its stack, and miles of new lanes are being laid down. So on a busy weekend I'm probably eyeballing $3-4 billion of that total.
Finance and transport. Bailing out the auto manufacturers and airlines and banks, and rebuilding at least a small part of our literally crumbling roads and bridges. Funding new-tech ideas, even if the average slashdotter thinks their ideas are potty.
The fact that you aren't seeing it in your pocket means someone else is, which is probably a good thing.
Y'know, if, up on a table in the living room, you had a salt-water aquarium...and if, in that aquarium, you had a small, you know, shark... and if, on that shark, you put a harness...
(do this in a Cristopher Walken voice and just try not to laugh.)
It's not a justification. If you accept it as an attempt at justification, you are being distracted from finding the real justification and proving it right or wrong.
The fact is, those who are most worried about legal advancements in intrusion are those who have done something wrong and do have something to hide. And they fight the technology and techniques. Instead of fighting to ensure that these things are only used legally, they try to fight them being used at all. Which does nothing to help the innocent and everything to help the criminal.
Don't hate the drone. Make them have to get a warrant before they fly it over your house.
They couldn't find any dinosaur bones within 3 meters of the boundary, then they found one 13 cm below the boundary, and they still claim the asteroid extincted them?
I want to see a bunch of bones lying on the boundary. Contemporaneous with the event. Show that the effect [extinction of dinosaurs] comes after the cause [asteroid that created the K-T boundary]. Until you can do that, you can't even associate the asteroid with the extinction. Even at 13 cm, they're not at all well-correlated.
Read down to the admission that it has pathetic output efficiency. They can measure the current on lab equipment. Unlikely they can do much of anything practical with it. An 8x10 sheet would be about as much juice as the solar cells in a solar calculator. If that.
I shit you not. They dream of having all the money and leaving you to dig up the sewerpipes on your block when they break. And not paying for your health care when that causes predictable problems.
3/4ths of the planet's surface is 2 miles deep in water. You don't need fresh water to flush a toilet. Build these poor saps some pumping stations, you dope.
If we're developing satellites that can move to the ISS' orbit, dock with it, be refueled robotically, then go back to their own orbits, why not develop a robotic fueling station so we don't have to put right next to the ISS a giant ball of fuel (whether combustible or pressurized) that attracts every wonky satellite with a taste for juice?
First off, it's not true that the boundary layer is immovable. The molecules within it are moving at hundreds of miles an hour. They aren't sticking to the metal and preventing heat flow. They're hitting the metal, picking up momentum from the atoms in the metal, and rebounding at higher speed. I.e., taking heat away from it. (Look up "kinetic theory of gases" in any elementary-school physics text.) If you blow on it, you will move those molecules out of the way, and replace them with cooler ones, allowing heat to flow from the metal faster. (ibid.)
Second, making the heat-sink move is no different from blowing air at it. Because that's all it's doing. It's just doing it the hard way. Like driving to work by moving the road under your car instead of your car over the road*.
Third, there's no way that you're going to get as good a conduction of heat from the substrate to the heat sink if the heat sink has to be on a moving bearing. The bearing surface will be smaller than you could get from a static surface, and friction in the bearing, which can't be eliminated, will actually add heat, which you will slow transfer from the substrate.
Fourth, it's not true that you can't make heat sinks "immune to dust". You just have to design them not to have eddies when the fan is on.
Marketer: What did blair1q buy last week? Bank: I would be breaking the law to tell you that. Marketer: Did blair1q buy a toilet brush last week? Bank: I would be breaking the law to tell you that. Marketer: If I were to send an email to blair1q asking him to buy my toilet brush, and cut you in if he does, would that be worth anything to you? Bank: No. Marketer: What if it was a turnip peeler? Bank: Put the coin in the slot, please.
Rubbing your pencil over the pad to mark it with lead and expose the un-marked indentations that were left by writing on the previous sheet is about 150 years old as an intelligence-gathering trick.
You'd think a search engine attuned to a particular data set would not allow itself to prioritize results outside that data set.
But then, Microsoft is a company based on selling shit as shinola, so putting a "security search" facade on a basic web search tool should be a no-brainer for them.
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so where did all that go?
China.
All we build in America are Wal-Marts and container docks.
Because those help us sell the stuff we import from China.
Or did they?
Only if they're building HOV lanes on all the freeways in my town, because that's been going on since last year. Every freeway intersection is getting a new set of curves in its stack, and miles of new lanes are being laid down. So on a busy weekend I'm probably eyeballing $3-4 billion of that total.
Finance and transport. Bailing out the auto manufacturers and airlines and banks, and rebuilding at least a small part of our literally crumbling roads and bridges. Funding new-tech ideas, even if the average slashdotter thinks their ideas are potty.
The fact that you aren't seeing it in your pocket means someone else is, which is probably a good thing.
Yeah, because Europe is entirely government-free.
The fungi and virera are killing the wild hives. We will have to keep bees if we want bees. And the bears won't be an issue.
Y'know, if, up on a table in the living room, you had a salt-water aquarium...and if, in that aquarium, you had a small, you know, shark... and if, on that shark, you put a harness...
(do this in a Cristopher Walken voice and just try not to laugh.)
Why do you think it's a justification?
It's not a justification. If you accept it as an attempt at justification, you are being distracted from finding the real justification and proving it right or wrong.
The fact is, those who are most worried about legal advancements in intrusion are those who have done something wrong and do have something to hide. And they fight the technology and techniques. Instead of fighting to ensure that these things are only used legally, they try to fight them being used at all. Which does nothing to help the innocent and everything to help the criminal.
Don't hate the drone. Make them have to get a warrant before they fly it over your house.
They couldn't find any dinosaur bones within 3 meters of the boundary, then they found one 13 cm below the boundary, and they still claim the asteroid extincted them?
I want to see a bunch of bones lying on the boundary. Contemporaneous with the event. Show that the effect [extinction of dinosaurs] comes after the cause [asteroid that created the K-T boundary]. Until you can do that, you can't even associate the asteroid with the extinction. Even at 13 cm, they're not at all well-correlated.
Read down to the admission that it has pathetic output efficiency. They can measure the current on lab equipment. Unlikely they can do much of anything practical with it. An 8x10 sheet would be about as much juice as the solar cells in a solar calculator. If that.
This is the GOP's plan for America's future.
I shit you not. They dream of having all the money and leaving you to dig up the sewerpipes on your block when they break. And not paying for your health care when that causes predictable problems.
3/4ths of the planet's surface is 2 miles deep in water. You don't need fresh water to flush a toilet. Build these poor saps some pumping stations, you dope.
what we need is our crops pollinated.
Got that? Honey=optional. Food=required.
No reason they can't get rid of the stinger and the hyperaggressive behaviors.
If we're developing satellites that can move to the ISS' orbit, dock with it, be refueled robotically, then go back to their own orbits, why not develop a robotic fueling station so we don't have to put right next to the ISS a giant ball of fuel (whether combustible or pressurized) that attracts every wonky satellite with a taste for juice?
Why does the icon for the China articles look more like a zipper than a wall?
For that matter, why do all the icons look like cartoony crap?
Technically, they were all Chinese.
Not surprising a snail can survive a few hours in a bird's gut.
The question is how can a bird survive passing a snail through its gut.
First off, it's not true that the boundary layer is immovable. The molecules within it are moving at hundreds of miles an hour. They aren't sticking to the metal and preventing heat flow. They're hitting the metal, picking up momentum from the atoms in the metal, and rebounding at higher speed. I.e., taking heat away from it. (Look up "kinetic theory of gases" in any elementary-school physics text.) If you blow on it, you will move those molecules out of the way, and replace them with cooler ones, allowing heat to flow from the metal faster. (ibid.)
Second, making the heat-sink move is no different from blowing air at it. Because that's all it's doing. It's just doing it the hard way. Like driving to work by moving the road under your car instead of your car over the road*.
Third, there's no way that you're going to get as good a conduction of heat from the substrate to the heat sink if the heat sink has to be on a moving bearing. The bearing surface will be smaller than you could get from a static surface, and friction in the bearing, which can't be eliminated, will actually add heat, which you will slow transfer from the substrate.
Fourth, it's not true that you can't make heat sinks "immune to dust". You just have to design them not to have eddies when the fan is on.
This whole topic is teh bollocks.
* - my superpower is thinking up car analogies.
There are those who say this has already happened.
At an average value of 2 cents each, that's a cool million dollars worth of miles.
Coal mine.
Marketer: What did blair1q buy last week?
Bank: I would be breaking the law to tell you that.
Marketer: Did blair1q buy a toilet brush last week?
Bank: I would be breaking the law to tell you that.
Marketer: If I were to send an email to blair1q asking him to buy my toilet brush, and cut you in if he does, would that be worth anything to you?
Bank: No.
Marketer: What if it was a turnip peeler?
Bank: Put the coin in the slot, please.
Rubbing your pencil over the pad to mark it with lead and expose the un-marked indentations that were left by writing on the previous sheet is about 150 years old as an intelligence-gathering trick.
As long as we're not shooting them, anything we can do diplomatically to soften them up is a good thing.
Not having them as participants in the disarmament talks means they have no reason even to hear what we say about it.
Not having them in the UN means they have no choice but to continue to treat the entire world as their enemy.
Letting them have participation in democratic institutions will maybe open their eyes to their own hypocrisy, a little bit every day.
What are the chair's powers?
I'm guessing it's not much of a perk, and to snub them would be to give them reason to quit altogether.
You'd think a search engine attuned to a particular data set would not allow itself to prioritize results outside that data set.
But then, Microsoft is a company based on selling shit as shinola, so putting a "security search" facade on a basic web search tool should be a no-brainer for them.