The plans are on the drawing board right now, if you are young enough and the economy doesn't totally crap out the findings from Kepler should see them built in your very own lifetime..
If the civilization is older than ours it may have detected our planet long ago and have a narrow beam width signal directed at us, a laser for example. This might affect the calculation about input power somewhat. Perhaps we should be thinking more about what power input we would need in a laser directed at them to be detected in 1200 years time using a laser? After all at 1200 light years distance they are never going to make it here using public transport to sell us fizzy drinks.
Accidents can be designed out of industrial processes, try looking up Poka-Yoke.
Defense spending is largely dick waving and vote gathering, I'm not impressed by the utter failure of the war in Afghanistan - the place where the bad guys who took out the twin towers came from.
The illegal war on Iraq at least bought you some cheap oil which has little to do with any deliberate response to violence.
I think you need to look a bit closer at what all that "defense" is actually doing before making claims about it.
Smartphones are toys which we will eventually get bored of. Adding sensors might interest special interest groups but most users wont have a use for them. Remember the digital watch?
ignorant turd. The article shows a correlation between better comprehension of ethical judgement from science literate people than the unscientific. How does your truculent Angela Merkel waffle prove this correlation to be false? its a correlation dipstick not a proof of cause and effect. Maybe we could show the same for a comparison between graduate science students and five year olds? Maybe we could prove that employees of New Socialist Nazi states could easily be persuaded to torture prisoners with medical experiments whether they have a science qualification or not. Maybe we could prove that state employees of the land of the free have no problem kidnapping random people all over the world and flying them to places where they will have their fingernails pulled out. No I'll tell you what we will do we will say that Angela Merkel has a science qualification and its her fault that the Greek people are having the lifeblood choked out of them by their loan guarantee conditions just like we used to do to all those crappy black and Latino countries through the world bank.
Unethical behavior has far more to do with ignorance and bigotry than religion or philosophy might be a better theory than "all scientists are murdering bastards"
Smoker hate is so last century. Its the anti fat bastards laws that we need to be considering now. Why should fat people pay the same for aeroplane seats and why should health insurance insure them at all because we must be subsidizing them with their self inflicted diabetes and heart disease. Heck I don't understand why we haven't passed a law to prevent sick people being treated by our medical system completely. After all most of the sick people brought it on themselves. I would make a law so that only people who can run better than a 9 minute mile and on no account show up at a doctors with any visible sign of illness. Its fucking ridiculous how we waste money on treating sick people instead of looking after the righteous well.
The assertion holds true for the poor and people who are happy to be owned by a corporation. If you are wealthy a separate device still has the better performance - battery life, camera sensor size etc. If you dont want to be owned by a corporation then you probably will be avoiding anything called an "App" or any thing from Apples walled garden iChains. I am on holiday at the moment. I have with me a laptop, cell phone, two mirrorless camera bodies, a high end point and shoot, a IPV67 GPS, an ebook, a Sony mp3 player. To be fair I have stopped carrying around a radio these days, at least a broadcast reception radio because there is usually WiFi in the hotel - but I still have the pair of PMR walkie talkies for places out of cell coverage. I have never had so many gadgets before in my life, the idea of giving up the abilities of all these separate tools for a smartphone with a battery life of less than a day is abhorrent to me. They are all right for youngsters.
Stuff EA, wont be buying any of their product. When are corporations going to learn that we don't want to buy subscriptions to their products. As Douglas Adams would say. Death is too good for them. All of them. Particularly Microsoft with its free 'cloud' service for Office and win 8. Screw the lot of the thieving bastards.
Interestingly if prisoners were wearing it there would be an opportunity to review and discuss behavior inside what we laughingly call corrective incarceration. Recording individual experience offers some intriguing opportunities as well as threats. Its happening already - see the video of the south African taxi driver being murdered by the police as an example. We need to talk about pervasive monitoring and establish some new "constitutional rights" before it gets out of control and controls us before we have a say in how we control it.
Playing the card of disgust is what the rest of the world is doing. Democracy is obviously pathetically flawed. Freedom is obviously as useless as Soviet communism. I think we will be ignoring advice from America in future about how the world should be run.
I have long thought that focusing on an insistence on commonality between race because of guilt for colonial history for example was missing the point that there are cultural differences which do influence behavior.
Now we have a valid framework to examine how cultural differences can collide and through a proper examination of cultural difference to begin to resolve problems that we have not had any mental equipment to figure out solutions to. These are groundbreaking ideas with so much promise to help us understand our divided world better.
This isnt about how Americans, Hispanics, Blacks or Stone age tribes are wrong, its about why the error in thinking that they are all "the same underneath" has a rational explanation in cultural difference and how this is a sensible route for western analytical science to start addressing the problems that it brings.
We the people do seem to have spent a lot of time blindly supporting Wiki-leaks without much critical analysis going on of whether the function was being done right or even being done well.
Its rather too easy to just say that we are glad that they are sticking it to the man when they release stuff that causes governments serious embarrassment. But I dont see much discussion of the consequences to the behavior of Government in future as a result of un-redacted mass publishing of private information.
We wouldn't be too happy as individuals if the contents of our lives were copied and published online so why is Wikileaks so immune from criticism? Its high time there was more constructive criticism of Wiki-leaks and its role in the world.
To put it plainly I will tell my management that anyone in IT support cannot be of the personality type typified by the Bastard Operator from Hell because it is endemic in IT professionals and doesn't help. As a business we need generalist people who have a wider view of the world than the IT silo, we need people who might not have stellar IT qualifications and abilities because the company will hire consultants to do that shit. We need people who are sensitive to the needs of people in the company and will effing well help us achieve our business goals. 99.9% of qualified IT people need a boss who have an arm up the IT experts arse to make them do this. Or you hire a keen older person who will help the company achieve its goals just because they are not a prima donna missile silo expert. IT people have to like people and be able to empathize with people or they are just disposable nerds with special skills that we just hire and fire because we think they are terrible human beings whose greatest skill is being those shits that we really hope get sacked the next time profits are down.
(Note that there are some roles in life that need badly behaved people like storemen who must fight like hell to stop people taking stuff out of the store, IT support or any kind of development is not in this category, your job is to say yes unless the question is impossible).
ignore the whiners. You have something that the young don't have, you value relationships. So whatever job you do you have the magic ingredient, if your client is someone you are supposed to help you will help them, unlike the young who will diss them with bad manners. A good company will hire you because they know that you will respect people unlike the young. Take a look around with this in mind and you will find lots of companies willing to hire you. They may not be at the top of the salary tree and you might have to work in disagreeable circumstances like a call center but your next move will be to something better after a year or two with a tidy CV and some free training.
two grand in the uk, but if it can climb a serious hill on grass it could be a blast for older walkers who dread the 200ft climbs along a coast walk...
The problem you have identified is that human beings en mass are disgustingly ignorant and unable to come up with anything useful. This is a shocking discovery when you look at our blind belief of democracy. Sadly it seems that democracy is usually disastrous. I haven't figured out a better system but it is undoubtedly true that democracy is awful. We may have learned lots of things about how the physical universe works but I don't think we have a clue about how to organize society.
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The plans are on the drawing board right now, if you are young enough and the economy doesn't totally crap out the findings from Kepler should see them built in your very own lifetime..
If the civilization is older than ours it may have detected our planet long ago and have a narrow beam width signal directed at us, a laser for example. This might affect the calculation about input power somewhat. Perhaps we should be thinking more about what power input we would need in a laser directed at them to be detected in 1200 years time using a laser? After all at 1200 light years distance they are never going to make it here using public transport to sell us fizzy drinks.
Their sun is 7 billion years old which puts the at a more developed state than our 4.8 billion year old system
Cant find any calculations on the power level or bandwidth of a detectable signal - Seti Institute dont have anything. Any takers on an estimate?
Accidents can be designed out of industrial processes, try looking up Poka-Yoke.
Defense spending is largely dick waving and vote gathering, I'm not impressed by the utter failure of the war in Afghanistan - the place where the bad guys who took out the twin towers came from.
The illegal war on Iraq at least bought you some cheap oil which has little to do with any deliberate response to violence.
I think you need to look a bit closer at what all that "defense" is actually doing before making claims about it.
Smartphones are toys which we will eventually get bored of. Adding sensors might interest special interest groups but most users wont have a use for them. Remember the digital watch?
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/video-library
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/
I cant find a lecture on the firewall theory right now as the site is down for maintenance but these fine folk can probably tell you all about it,
Though you might want to follow Leonard Susskind's primers on YouTube first
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRZgW1YjCKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzhlfbWBuQ8
you're welcome
I avoid visiting our Chicago office. Fuck the TSA.
ignorant turd. The article shows a correlation between better comprehension of ethical judgement from science literate people than the unscientific. How does your truculent Angela Merkel waffle prove this correlation to be false? its a correlation dipstick not a proof of cause and effect. Maybe we could show the same for a comparison between graduate science students and five year olds? Maybe we could prove that employees of New Socialist Nazi states could easily be persuaded to torture prisoners with medical experiments whether they have a science qualification or not. Maybe we could prove that state employees of the land of the free have no problem kidnapping random people all over the world and flying them to places where they will have their fingernails pulled out. No I'll tell you what we will do we will say that Angela Merkel has a science qualification and its her fault that the Greek people are having the lifeblood choked out of them by their loan guarantee conditions just like we used to do to all those crappy black and Latino countries through the world bank.
Unethical behavior has far more to do with ignorance and bigotry than religion or philosophy might be a better theory than "all scientists are murdering bastards"
Smoker hate is so last century. Its the anti fat bastards laws that we need to be considering now. Why should fat people pay the same for aeroplane seats and why should health insurance insure them at all because we must be subsidizing them with their self inflicted diabetes and heart disease. Heck I don't understand why we haven't passed a law to prevent sick people being treated by our medical system completely. After all most of the sick people brought it on themselves. I would make a law so that only people who can run better than a 9 minute mile and on no account show up at a doctors with any visible sign of illness. Its fucking ridiculous how we waste money on treating sick people instead of looking after the righteous well.
"incompetent arrogant morons" comes to mind. Testosterone fueled will power is an efficient route to death, serves them right.
Never mind TRIZ, this is so obviously preceeded by superior prior art, ladies and gentlemen, I give you "The Last One" from 1981.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=75dRYTqixzYC&pg=PA133&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
The assertion holds true for the poor and people who are happy to be owned by a corporation. If you are wealthy a separate device still has the better performance - battery life, camera sensor size etc. If you dont want to be owned by a corporation then you probably will be avoiding anything called an "App" or any thing from Apples walled garden iChains. I am on holiday at the moment. I have with me a laptop, cell phone, two mirrorless camera bodies, a high end point and shoot, a IPV67 GPS, an ebook, a Sony mp3 player. To be fair I have stopped carrying around a radio these days, at least a broadcast reception radio because there is usually WiFi in the hotel - but I still have the pair of PMR walkie talkies for places out of cell coverage. I have never had so many gadgets before in my life, the idea of giving up the abilities of all these separate tools for a smartphone with a battery life of less than a day is abhorrent to me. They are all right for youngsters.
Never mind the law, lets just stiff the guy, he's guilty as hell.
Stuff EA, wont be buying any of their product. When are corporations going to learn that we don't want to buy subscriptions to their products. As Douglas Adams would say. Death is too good for them. All of them. Particularly Microsoft with its free 'cloud' service for Office and win 8. Screw the lot of the thieving bastards.
Interestingly if prisoners were wearing it there would be an opportunity to review and discuss behavior inside what we laughingly call corrective incarceration. Recording individual experience offers some intriguing opportunities as well as threats. Its happening already - see the video of the south African taxi driver being murdered by the police as an example. We need to talk about pervasive monitoring and establish some new "constitutional rights" before it gets out of control and controls us before we have a say in how we control it.
Playing the card of disgust is what the rest of the world is doing. Democracy is obviously pathetically flawed. Freedom is obviously as useless as Soviet communism. I think we will be ignoring advice from America in future about how the world should be run.
Outstanding perspective on a sensitive subject.
I have long thought that focusing on an insistence on commonality between race because of guilt for colonial history for example was missing the point that there are cultural differences which do influence behavior.
Now we have a valid framework to examine how cultural differences can collide and through a proper examination of cultural difference to begin to resolve problems that we have not had any mental equipment to figure out solutions to. These are groundbreaking ideas with so much promise to help us understand our divided world better.
This isnt about how Americans, Hispanics, Blacks or Stone age tribes are wrong, its about why the error in thinking that they are all "the same underneath" has a rational explanation in cultural difference and how this is a sensible route for western analytical science to start addressing the problems that it brings.
Great!
My company has recently suffered a marketing takeover, we are well on our way to doing stupid things. Its a disgrace.
You get the feeling that now the housing market is bust we need a new a new commodity to inflate into the next mega bubble.
Ladies and gentlemen I give you the new economy - trading patent portfolios.
1. Write down everything that has ever been done in human history on bits of paper
2. Convert bits of paper into patents
3. ?????
4. Profit!
We the people do seem to have spent a lot of time blindly supporting Wiki-leaks without much critical analysis going on of whether the function was being done right or even being done well.
Its rather too easy to just say that we are glad that they are sticking it to the man when they release stuff that causes governments serious embarrassment. But I dont see much discussion of the consequences to the behavior of Government in future as a result of un-redacted mass publishing of private information.
We wouldn't be too happy as individuals if the contents of our lives were copied and published online so why is Wikileaks so immune from criticism? Its high time there was more constructive criticism of Wiki-leaks and its role in the world.
To put it plainly I will tell my management that anyone in IT support cannot be of the personality type typified by the Bastard Operator from Hell because it is endemic in IT professionals and doesn't help. As a business we need generalist people who have a wider view of the world than the IT silo, we need people who might not have stellar IT qualifications and abilities because the company will hire consultants to do that shit. We need people who are sensitive to the needs of people in the company and will effing well help us achieve our business goals. 99.9% of qualified IT people need a boss who have an arm up the IT experts arse to make them do this. Or you hire a keen older person who will help the company achieve its goals just because they are not a prima donna missile silo expert. IT people have to like people and be able to empathize with people or they are just disposable nerds with special skills that we just hire and fire because we think they are terrible human beings whose greatest skill is being those shits that we really hope get sacked the next time profits are down.
(Note that there are some roles in life that need badly behaved people like storemen who must fight like hell to stop people taking stuff out of the store, IT support or any kind of development is not in this category, your job is to say yes unless the question is impossible).
ignore the whiners. You have something that the young don't have, you value relationships. So whatever job you do you have the magic ingredient, if your client is someone you are supposed to help you will help them, unlike the young who will diss them with bad manners. A good company will hire you because they know that you will respect people unlike the young. Take a look around with this in mind and you will find lots of companies willing to hire you. They may not be at the top of the salary tree and you might have to work in disagreeable circumstances like a call center but your next move will be to something better after a year or two with a tidy CV and some free training.
two grand in the uk, but if it can climb a serious hill on grass it could be a blast for older walkers who dread the 200ft climbs along a coast walk...
The problem you have identified is that human beings en mass are disgustingly ignorant and unable to come up with anything useful. This is a shocking discovery when you look at our blind belief of democracy. Sadly it seems that democracy is usually disastrous. I haven't figured out a better system but it is undoubtedly true that democracy is awful. We may have learned lots of things about how the physical universe works but I don't think we have a clue about how to organize society.