Then there is this brilliant new policy from the TSA:
The statement noted that the agency recently implemented modified screening procedures for children age 12 and younger to further reduce the need for pat-downs of children, such as multiple passes through a metal detector and advanced imaging technology.
I know the results are still not 100% conclusive, but *multiple* passes through the "advanced imaging technology" means more potential x-rays or backscatter radiation applied to our children. So that is how this security theatre works - radiate enough of the population at very young ages so that they develop medical problems sooner and either die or become incapable of physical action later in life.
I believe I read a paper by Mann that didn't use gaze tracking per se, but rather a camera mounted on the headwear itself would be used to recognize people and places. The camera would be effectively in the middle of the glasses you wore, so it captured a fairly wide angle of vision in front of you. The whole apparatus was programmed such that you could store images of people or objects in a database and access them wirelessly.
The whole point wasn't that you had to rely on you gaze anymore - the camera was always on and seeing everything in its field of view. If something or someone came into its view and the software successfully completed a pattern match, then the heads up display would display a note showing the object (e.g. putting a persons name above their head). In this sense, you could be focused on something else and the computer finds an object for you and brings it to your attention. You could look towards a large crowd of people and the computer would find your friends in there before you could. This could be expanded by adding additional cameras/sensors around your head, giving you eyes in the back of your head. A new sense if you will, augmenting your existing ones. Cool stuff for sure.
Yeah, in many areas the satellite imagery suffered from Datum mismatching issues with the underlying road/ground data set. They've been slowly fixing this as new sets get updated. Datum differences can lead to all sorts of positional errors.
Well now it seems the whole site is down. If you go up one directory level you get this message:
"The Colorado Departent of Labor and Employment regrets that this service is unavailable at this time. (We like Firefox too...and safari.....and chrome...) "
I believe not all CFL's are quite made the same. Instead of looking at what they say they are "equivalent" to, check their Lumen output. Compare that number to your current incandescent lumen output. I have found that "60W rated" CFL's (light wise) have varying lumen outputs between different brands.
I've gotten 60W replacements with lumen outputs higher than the incandescents they replaced and they are indeed brighter (once they fully get going in 15 seconds).
Another thing to look for is the light temperature rating. 'Bright White', 'Soft White' & 'Daylight' are just some of the different light temperature ratings out there. The temperature of the light can give a different feeling of brightness for a particular room. For instance I replace the can bulbs in my kitchen with 65W equivalent CFL bulbs that were Soft White type temperature. They rather sucked. I then replaced those with the same lumen output but with temperature of Bright White, and the results were much better for that type of room.
Please look again at your choices of bulbs. Home Despot now has a wide variety of CFL's at varying powers.
The trick is to compare the luminosity of the CFL's to a standard bulb. Most 14W CFL's actually have a slightly higher lumen count than a 60W bulb, so those two are comparable. I think 150W bulbs put out around 2500 lumens, and I have seen certain CFL's that easily put out that amount or real close. Plus certain brands allow you to choose the light temperature (color) as well to get soft light(yellowish), to bright white, to daylight(blueish).
As for outdoor floodlights, they have those in CFL's as well with comparable power output. Same goes for indoor can lights. I replaced all of our kitchen can bulbs with CFL's. They weren't as bright, but I replaced the interior surface of the can (which was black) to a highly reflective silver. This ended up making the CFL's brighter than the bulbs they replaced.
Shop around, do not stick to one store. There are many brands of CFL's and one brand may offer what you need over another.
As for someone stating earlier about governments subsidizing the sales of these bulbs. They did that in my town. The city gave Home Despot a deal in order to sell 6 packs of 14W and 4 packs of 25W CFL's for about $8 each. For the standard 14W CFL it was just over $1 per bulb...not bad considering they starting selling the CFL's individually for about $5 bulb.
Not domesticated, the term you are looking for is Commercial Livestock. That is essentially what they want to protect from infected wild birds which are typically what is moving the virus around the globe right now.
Note that the magnet is extremely strong. Keep it away from other electronics and metal. Don't hurt yourself. Seriously, do not understand these magnets!
Really, trust me, you do not want to understand these things. If you understand a magnet, your head might explode. Please, put it down. Leave the magnet understanding to those who can handle it.
Ah, but to get a 20ft tall battle robot to show up on the front could, at least in certain countries, help inspire fear and awe in the opposition.
A lot like the fictional cybernetic tank, the Ogre (from Steve Jackson games). While not Mecha styled, it too could be easily overwhelmed by the opposition. But often used as intimidation and sometimes as a lure to draw opposition to it and away from the rest of the attacking force.
True, most likely a useless coffin...if the operator is truly inside. What they would probably need to do here is put all the new high-speed wireless network the military wants on the battlefield to use here. Have the operator actually exist in the backfield wielding controls to move the legs and arms. The networked vehicles and soldiers allow the movement signals to propagate to the front line where the Mecha will move. Voile, 20ft tall disposable soldier robot.
Anything that could cause some hesitation or fear in the enemy might be enough for the attacking units to take advantage of.
- Anemophilous Coward - "A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance".
Speaking of Atomic stuff...go visit some early atomic history up in Idaho.
Atmoic City I believe is still being used for research. But the real gem along the way is EBR-1, which stands for Experimental Breeder Reactor 1.
To quote some sources: The Experimental Breeder Reactor-1 was the first facility to produce electricity generated by nuclear energy.
The Experimental Breeder Reactor - 1 (EBR-1) is located at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho. On December 20, 1951, the EBR-1 produced the first usable electricity generated by atomic energy . From the next day until it was decommissioned in 1963, the EBR-1 supplied all of the power for its own building. Three years after it was decommissioned, President Johnson dedicated the facility as a registered National Historic Landmark.
The nearby city of Arco, Idaho became the first city in the world to be lit by nuclear power.
You can take a tour of the facility and walk into the reactor core, stand on top of it, see the original lightbulbs that lit. Plus outside are some wicked looking experimental engines that they wanted to use for atomic powered bombers. Never used in real-life, they make for some interesting display.
Content like movies, music and software are the country's No. 1 export, but the creators are being hurt by people who use technology to get the content for free..
So, entertainment is our #1 source of income(roughly). And by using said entertainment in the wrong ways can hurt others. So the entertainment is like a weapon of sorts? Use it to sudue the minds of the masses for easier control. Hmmm....
Sounds awfully like the plot in this Scud #16 comic book. Basically these two planets shipped movies back and forth at each other, whomever had the biggest blockbuster won that battle, as well as the minds of the people watching it. Espinoge(sp?) was done to uncover movie scripts/plots before they were released.
Kinda funny how mindless entertainment is ranked so highly valuable by our society nowadays.
- A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance.
Now, with the greatest respect to all the families who have suffered this terrible loss, has anyone speculated on the following possibilites:
- that the Ants thoroughly gummed up the system before they could blow them out the hatch?
- that someone forgot to pack the inanimate carbon rod to re-seal the door with?
All Simpsons references aside, I wonder how completely those experiments disentegrated with everything else. Could those ants have survived and somehow be floating down to Earth still due to their low mass and (possibly?) ultra-slow terminal velocity?
Of course the chances of ever finding one that did survive will most likely be nil, but makes for some interesting thoughts.
- A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance. - AC
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That is good and all from your standpoint, being comfortable with HTML an all. However at our org. I needed to provide a way for our PR person to be able to update news pages all on her own.
Moveabletype works great for this (since I'm not a hardcore perl programmer, it was nice to have someone else do that work). I spent a few days building and modifying the page templates and setting up the site. Now all she has to do is login to a page, add a title and main story and click publish. Instantly several pages are updated with the appropriate news information, archives and search links, etc. Very nice since I don't have to waste time getting the information from her each time and create a new page. Great for her, because she can update the news website anytime she gets a press release.
I think Blogger itself is somewhat bland, mostly for the novice/home user wanting to get a voice out. For the professional there are some impressive tools that will save you time (Movabletype or Radio UserLand)
- A non-productive mind is with absolute zero balance. - AC
It is a starting point I used to make the root certificate stick. It will present the user with a large-ish alert box asking them if they want to install the certificate. It will only do this once as long as they click 'yes'. Subsequent visits to your site will be automatic from then on out.
This is course is great for internal sites, you can educate your users to click on the box the first time, then they never have to worry again. And they know it's trusted since it came from you. One small caveat, this probably only works on IIS servers and only works in IE web browsers.
- "A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance." - AC
I reached it at 9:32am MST and it had 506 hits at that point. That was about 7 minutes or so after the/. post.
I just went back there at 9:34am and could not reach the server.
Elsewhere in a galaxy far, far away...but at the exact same time....
- "what happened? Are you alright?" - "I just felt a great disturbance in the force. It was as if a million transistors in an IPaq all cried out at once, and then were silenced. I feel something terrible has happened."
- A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance. - AC
I was referring to an earlier episode in 1997 (Redux 2) where, at the end of the episode, the CSM is shot in the chest through a window. Indeed, his corpse was not found at that point.
He then showed up near the end of Season 5, thus showing he is quite resilient to bullets.
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Damn you! Damn you all to hell - you just ruined the movie for me!
I think you guys misinterpreted what he said. The real message was:
Get off my lawn!
(with all respect to the original poster...I'll miss Fritz as well)
Then there is this brilliant new policy from the TSA:
I know the results are still not 100% conclusive, but *multiple* passes through the "advanced imaging technology" means more potential x-rays or backscatter radiation applied to our children. So that is how this security theatre works - radiate enough of the population at very young ages so that they develop medical problems sooner and either die or become incapable of physical action later in life.
...and in case I don't see you later, good night! ...and good luck!
Congrats on the next step in life, take care Taco.
I believe I read a paper by Mann that didn't use gaze tracking per se, but rather a camera mounted on the headwear itself would be used to recognize people and places. The camera would be effectively in the middle of the glasses you wore, so it captured a fairly wide angle of vision in front of you. The whole apparatus was programmed such that you could store images of people or objects in a database and access them wirelessly.
The whole point wasn't that you had to rely on you gaze anymore - the camera was always on and seeing everything in its field of view. If something or someone came into its view and the software successfully completed a pattern match, then the heads up display would display a note showing the object (e.g. putting a persons name above their head). In this sense, you could be focused on something else and the computer finds an object for you and brings it to your attention. You could look towards a large crowd of people and the computer would find your friends in there before you could. This could be expanded by adding additional cameras/sensors around your head, giving you eyes in the back of your head. A new sense if you will, augmenting your existing ones. Cool stuff for sure.
Check out some information here to see how that is accomplished
Yeah, in many areas the satellite imagery suffered from Datum mismatching issues with the underlying road/ground data set. They've been slowly fixing this as new sets get updated. Datum differences can lead to all sorts of positional errors.
Well now it seems the whole site is down. If you go up one directory level you get this message:
"The Colorado Departent of Labor and Employment regrets that this service is unavailable at this time.
(We like Firefox too...and safari.....and chrome...) "
Yes, America will blow up the moon!
I can't wait.
I believe not all CFL's are quite made the same. Instead of looking at what they say they are "equivalent" to, check their Lumen output. Compare that number to your current incandescent lumen output. I have found that "60W rated" CFL's (light wise) have varying lumen outputs between different brands.
I've gotten 60W replacements with lumen outputs higher than the incandescents they replaced and they are indeed brighter (once they fully get going in 15 seconds).
Another thing to look for is the light temperature rating. 'Bright White', 'Soft White' & 'Daylight' are just some of the different light temperature ratings out there. The temperature of the light can give a different feeling of brightness for a particular room. For instance I replace the can bulbs in my kitchen with 65W equivalent CFL bulbs that were Soft White type temperature. They rather sucked. I then replaced those with the same lumen output but with temperature of Bright White, and the results were much better for that type of room.
Things to think about for sure.
Please look again at your choices of bulbs. Home Despot now has a wide variety of CFL's at varying powers.
The trick is to compare the luminosity of the CFL's to a standard bulb. Most 14W CFL's actually have a slightly higher lumen count than a 60W bulb, so those two are comparable. I think 150W bulbs put out around 2500 lumens, and I have seen certain CFL's that easily put out that amount or real close. Plus certain brands allow you to choose the light temperature (color) as well to get soft light(yellowish), to bright white, to daylight(blueish).
As for outdoor floodlights, they have those in CFL's as well with comparable power output. Same goes for indoor can lights. I replaced all of our kitchen can bulbs with CFL's. They weren't as bright, but I replaced the interior surface of the can (which was black) to a highly reflective silver. This ended up making the CFL's brighter than the bulbs they replaced.
Shop around, do not stick to one store. There are many brands of CFL's and one brand may offer what you need over another.
As for someone stating earlier about governments subsidizing the sales of these bulbs. They did that in my town. The city gave Home Despot a deal in order to sell 6 packs of 14W and 4 packs of 25W CFL's for about $8 each. For the standard 14W CFL it was just over $1 per bulb...not bad considering they starting selling the CFL's individually for about $5 bulb.
Things to think about..
-AC
Not domesticated, the term you are looking for is Commercial Livestock. That is essentially what they want to protect from infected wild birds which are typically what is moving the virus around the globe right now.
Meh. This has been done already, even before today's new device.
/ wearables.html
/ ieeecomputer/r2025.html
/ personaltechnologies/
See: http://www.eyetap.org/research/wearables/wearcomp
For list of many interesting projects and papers on the subject.
For interesting look at overlaying images onto people via facial recognition and such, see:
http://www.eyetap.org/research/wearables/wearcomp
and
http://www.eyetap.org/research/wearables/wearcomp
-AC
or perhaps it is really this:3 .144819+miles+per+gallon+to+kilometers+per+litre&b tnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=convert+
-AC
"No System is Safe"
So, do these guys just head out into the fields with their laptops and start ringing in little cash signs above their heads or what?
-AC
- AC
Ah, but to get a 20ft tall battle robot to show up on the front could, at least in certain countries, help inspire fear and awe in the opposition.
A lot like the fictional cybernetic tank, the Ogre (from Steve Jackson games). While not Mecha styled, it too could be easily overwhelmed by the opposition. But often used as intimidation and sometimes as a lure to draw opposition to it and away from the rest of the attacking force.
True, most likely a useless coffin...if the operator is truly inside. What they would probably need to do here is put all the new high-speed wireless network the military wants on the battlefield to use here. Have the operator actually exist in the backfield wielding controls to move the legs and arms. The networked vehicles and soldiers allow the movement signals to propagate to the front line where the Mecha will move. Voile, 20ft tall disposable soldier robot.
Anything that could cause some hesitation or fear in the enemy might be enough for the attacking units to take advantage of.
- Anemophilous Coward
- "A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance".
Speaking of Atomic stuff...go visit some early atomic history up in Idaho.
Atmoic City I believe is still being used for research. But the real gem along the way is EBR-1, which stands for Experimental Breeder Reactor 1.
To quote some sources:
The Experimental Breeder Reactor-1 was the first facility to produce electricity generated by nuclear energy.
The Experimental Breeder Reactor - 1 (EBR-1) is located at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Idaho. On December 20, 1951, the EBR-1 produced the first usable electricity generated by atomic energy . From the next day until it was decommissioned in 1963, the EBR-1 supplied all of the power for its own building. Three years after it was decommissioned, President Johnson dedicated the facility as a registered National Historic Landmark.
The nearby city of Arco, Idaho became the first city in the world to be lit by nuclear power.
You can take a tour of the facility and walk into the reactor core, stand on top of it, see the original lightbulbs that lit. Plus outside are some wicked looking experimental engines that they wanted to use for atomic powered bombers. Never used in real-life, they make for some interesting display.
For photos, more details and driving instructions, check out this site.
- A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance.
- AC
From the article: ..invoke the message: "Movies. They're Worth It."
That has to be the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
- A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance.
- AC
Hrm...from the article:
Content like movies, music and software are the country's No. 1 export, but the creators are being hurt by people who use technology to get the content for free..
So, entertainment is our #1 source of income(roughly). And by using said entertainment in the wrong ways can hurt others. So the entertainment is like a weapon of sorts? Use it to sudue the minds of the masses for easier control. Hmmm....
Sounds awfully like the plot in this Scud #16 comic book. Basically these two planets shipped movies back and forth at each other, whomever had the biggest blockbuster won that battle, as well as the minds of the people watching it. Espinoge(sp?) was done to uncover movie scripts/plots before they were released.
Kinda funny how mindless entertainment is ranked so highly valuable by our society nowadays.
- A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance.
- AC
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Thank you.
Now, with the greatest respect to all the families who have suffered this terrible loss, has anyone speculated on the following possibilites:
- that the Ants thoroughly gummed up the system before they could blow them out the hatch?
- that someone forgot to pack the inanimate carbon rod to re-seal the door with?
All Simpsons references aside, I wonder how completely those experiments disentegrated with everything else. Could those ants have survived and somehow be floating down to Earth still due to their low mass and (possibly?) ultra-slow terminal velocity?
Of course the chances of ever finding one that did survive will most likely be nil, but makes for some interesting thoughts.
- A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance.
- AC
That is good and all from your standpoint, being comfortable with HTML an all. However at our org. I needed to provide a way for our PR person to be able to update news pages all on her own.
Moveabletype works great for this (since I'm not a hardcore perl programmer, it was nice to have someone else do that work). I spent a few days building and modifying the page templates and setting up the site. Now all she has to do is login to a page, add a title and main story and click publish. Instantly several pages are updated with the appropriate news information, archives and search links, etc. Very nice since I don't have to waste time getting the information from her each time and create a new page. Great for her, because she can update the news website anytime she gets a press release.
I think Blogger itself is somewhat bland, mostly for the novice/home user wanting to get a voice out. For the professional there are some impressive tools that will save you time (Movabletype or Radio UserLand)
- A non-productive mind is with absolute zero balance.
- AC
There is a way to do this with ASP scripting. A good base to start with can be found at this Microsoft Knowledge base article.
It is a starting point I used to make the root certificate stick. It will present the user with a large-ish alert box asking them if they want to install the certificate. It will only do this once as long as they click 'yes'. Subsequent visits to your site will be automatic from then on out.
This is course is great for internal sites, you can educate your users to click on the box the first time, then they never have to worry again. And they know it's trusted since it came from you. One small caveat, this probably only works on IIS servers and only works in IE web browsers.
- "A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance."
- AC
I reached it at 9:32am MST and it had 506 hits at that point. That was about 7 minutes or so after the /. post.
I just went back there at 9:34am and could not reach the server.
Elsewhere in a galaxy far, far away...but at the exact same time....
- "what happened? Are you alright?"
- "I just felt a great disturbance in the force. It was as if a million transistors in an IPaq all cried out at once, and then were silenced. I feel something terrible has happened."
- A non-productive mind is with absolutely zero balance.
- AC
Ah, you misread what I said.
I was referring to an earlier episode in 1997 (Redux 2) where, at the end of the episode, the CSM is shot in the chest through a window. Indeed, his corpse was not found at that point.
He then showed up near the end of Season 5, thus showing he is quite resilient to bullets.
- AC