Most people spent the majority of thier lives in a radius of a few miles, and were recognized on a daily or even hourly basis by someone who knew them.
They may have been recognized by different individuals at different places, but each person usually knew only about single encounters in isolation. Reconstructing somebody's movements over a whole day would have required a town meeting to get testimony from all of the observers. Moreover, peoples' movements were not meticulously logged for posterity, much less entered into a searchable database for easy access by government bureaucrats.
Sure, you could always have been stalked or followed, but that has always required a large investment of time and effort by the follower(s). This has naturally limited stalking activities to a very limited number of situations. In contrast, in the future every citizen could end up being stalked by the government all the time, everywhere they go. And thanks to people who make arguments like yours, there will be few if any constitutional checks on the new powers given to the stalkers.
The problem is that the dust on Mars has an electrostatic charge. Wipers would just swish the dust around and scratch the solar cells, but wouldn't be able to remove the dust.
If it misidentified your crop as weed you might lose a lot.
They could add a couple of sanity checks to the GUI:
|| Alert ||
Based on my analysis, I think that your lawn is entirely comprised of 473,573 Spotted Spurge plants. Do you want me to dig them all out by their roots?
He was told by national health that he was too old.
That's irrelevant to the situation at hand. If you're old in the US, you *already have* socialized health care. What we're talking about is allowing the younger people who are currently paying for socialized medicine in the US to be eligible to actually receive benefits from it.
For over 50 years, nobody has been able to solve the most fundamental problem in computer science: Garbage In, Garbage Out. And recent history has shown that our intelligence services currently have severe issues with Garbage In.
This means we'll be seeing virtualizations and translations and hacks that keep compatibility to one turning point where someone will come up with a simple fast stable and clean solution and overtake the old market leaders.
You mean like 68000, MIPS, PowerPC, Itanium, etc? Many fast, stable, clean alternatives to the x86 have come and gone over the years. After a brief career as a niche competitor on the desktop, they all eventually end up relegated to the embedded device market.
Notice also that by the 2nd or 3rd generation of any architecture, the original assumptions about the state of hardware technology that made the architecture such a clean solution usually become invalid. This means that the alternatives start getting pretty messy themselves. One of my favorite examples is the acronym "MIPS", which originally meant "Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages". That made the R3000 a very simple clean design. Yet by the time the R4000 was introduced, increased transistor die counts and worsening instruction bandwidth bottlenecks made that approach uncompetitive. So they went ahead and added those messy interlocked pipeline stages anyway in order to avoid padding all the code with so many NOPs.
At the end of the day, software installed base always wins out in the desktop market. That's why the CPUs with an unbroken chain of compatibility back to the original 8008 have always ended up on top.
I got corrected on this point once when I made a similar statement. To be precise, lighter elements such as carbon also escape from midsize stars when they eject planetary nebula, which are not explosions. (However, that subtle distinction doesn't seem like a high school level topic to me.)
It would be a poor match to put a LPG vehicle against a coal-powered one for a record that has stood for a hundred years.
The heat source for a steam engine is pretty irrelevant, especially for the couple of minutes it takes for a speed record run. All you need is anything that burns and enough draft to make a big enough fire.
Some gas turbines have been powered by an air/coal-dust mixture. That approach is hopped up enough to run a jet engine, but is still "coal-powered". Would you disqualify that as well?
The data can't be peer-reviewed, as there no way to verify it until it happens. It needs to come from an authoritative source. Especially when NBC starts shifting or super-sizing their sitcoms...
Um, I've already been shafted by that and other scheduling screwups many times with the supposedly "authoritative" data direct from Zap2It. How would a wiki be any worse?
My guess is that the quality of the info would end up similar to that of the FreeDB for CD tracks: lots of typos, but very rarely totally wrong.
I've heard that if you stack a bunch of red Fiestaware dinner plates, and then store your film sandwiched in layers between them, then cosmic radiation won't be an issue at all.
My biggest quesion is: does the Tivo (or any PVR provided by the satellite co.) support timestretch? I haven't seen it mentioned on the DirecTV or Dish network websites. I've been recently thinking about ditching cable for satellite, and their PVRs would be much simpler than dealing with IR blasters and multiple satellite boxes. However, the wife and I have gradually became acclimated to speeding up shows, and we both agreed that timestretch an absolute must-have feature. We probably wouldn't use any PVR that doesn't have it.
The other question is, is there any way to save out shows more conveniently than playing it out at 1X through the video outs? MythTV's ability to edit out ads and transcode directly into my desktop system is a huge convenience.
a 1-way expedition spanning generations - might not be a possibility if we can't start up a second or third generation in space.
Given what has been shown to happen in just over a year on a space station, anybody who spends a decade or more in zero-G would probably end up totally physically incapacitated. Subsequent generations of zero-G dwellers would probably rapidly devolve into a gelatinous mass. Therefore, any long-term space travel would certainly have to utilize some form of artificial gravity.
if the hurricane forcasting is so off as to generate such predictions as we were heard about 2006, then a decrease in accuracy of 16% probably isn't that serious, is it (they're so far off anyways)?
AFAICT, that this satellite helps to predict the behavior and path of an individual active hurricane, which would be useful for deciding where and when to post warnings and evacuation orders. That task would have almost nothing in common with forecasting the statistical nature of an overall hurricane season.
I did this with a Microsoft Natural Multimedia keyboard, which has a bunch of funky shaped keys. I closed them up in a silverware basket. It worked great, and they all came out spotless. However, like most projects, it took about 5X the amount of time that I originally expected. 104 keys ends up being a lot more than it seems. I'm not sure that I'd bother going through that effort again; I'll probably just try poking around with some Q-tips next time.
One thing I learned: pay close attention to the exact arrangement of the metal wire clips that keep the long keys level. If you don't, it can be a real puzzle getting them all back in their correct spots.
Because a 130 year old animal probably has the stringiest, gamiest meat imaginable. Not to mention 130 years' accumulation of heavy metals and other toxins. They'd probably have much more satisfying dining if they got a cheap deal on a bulk order a few sides of beef.
Question: Is it not then, the governmetn's responsibility to (can't totally prevent) minimize that?
If that were the case, then why do state governments typically run gambling operations that have worse expected paybacks (~ 50 cents on the dollar) than virtually any private operation? You'd think that to minimize harm, the government would strive to return as much money as possible to the people making the bets.
On top of that, they hype prizes which have odds of winning that are often less than the odds of being killed in a wreck while driving out to the store to buy tickets. How many thousands have been needlessly lured to their deaths by the governments that are supposed to be protecting them? It's just horrible.
The big problem is that there is an entire generation of college kids that think everything digital is free for the taking unless it is properly secured, and if it is not properly secured then it is basically an invitation to take it.
The whole point of the article is that since DRM by its very nature can always be broken, it's impossible to "properly secure" content.
I don't know. If you think that *all* sales taxes should be revoked and replaced with something else, I'm fine with that. After all, sales taxes are very regressive and inconsistently levied in different localities. But please explain, if sales of shoes, light bulbs, cable service, etc. continue to be taxed, why ISP service should not be.
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They may have been recognized by different individuals at different places, but each person usually knew only about single encounters in isolation. Reconstructing somebody's movements over a whole day would have required a town meeting to get testimony from all of the observers. Moreover, peoples' movements were not meticulously logged for posterity, much less entered into a searchable database for easy access by government bureaucrats.
Sure, you could always have been stalked or followed, but that has always required a large investment of time and effort by the follower(s). This has naturally limited stalking activities to a very limited number of situations. In contrast, in the future every citizen could end up being stalked by the government all the time, everywhere they go. And thanks to people who make arguments like yours, there will be few if any constitutional checks on the new powers given to the stalkers.
When NASA blew $19M on a Russian toilet, that's when the shit really hit the fan.
The problem is that the dust on Mars has an electrostatic charge. Wipers would just swish the dust around and scratch the solar cells, but wouldn't be able to remove the dust.
They could add a couple of sanity checks to the GUI:
That's irrelevant to the situation at hand. If you're old in the US, you *already have* socialized health care. What we're talking about is allowing the younger people who are currently paying for socialized medicine in the US to be eligible to actually receive benefits from it.
For over 50 years, nobody has been able to solve the most fundamental problem in computer science: Garbage In, Garbage Out. And recent history has shown that our intelligence services currently have severe issues with Garbage In.
Caller ID box: $12.99
Caller ID Service over the years: hundreds of dollars.
Not being pressed into service as a captive audience for bored blabbermouth relatives-in-law who call your spouse multiple times per day: priceless.
You mean like 68000, MIPS, PowerPC, Itanium, etc? Many fast, stable, clean alternatives to the x86 have come and gone over the years. After a brief career as a niche competitor on the desktop, they all eventually end up relegated to the embedded device market.
Notice also that by the 2nd or 3rd generation of any architecture, the original assumptions about the state of hardware technology that made the architecture such a clean solution usually become invalid. This means that the alternatives start getting pretty messy themselves. One of my favorite examples is the acronym "MIPS", which originally meant "Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages". That made the R3000 a very simple clean design. Yet by the time the R4000 was introduced, increased transistor die counts and worsening instruction bandwidth bottlenecks made that approach uncompetitive. So they went ahead and added those messy interlocked pipeline stages anyway in order to avoid padding all the code with so many NOPs.
At the end of the day, software installed base always wins out in the desktop market. That's why the CPUs with an unbroken chain of compatibility back to the original 8008 have always ended up on top.
So it looks like basically, this thing runs DOS.
I got corrected on this point once when I made a similar statement. To be precise, lighter elements such as carbon also escape from midsize stars when they eject planetary nebula, which are not explosions. (However, that subtle distinction doesn't seem like a high school level topic to me.)
The heat source for a steam engine is pretty irrelevant, especially for the couple of minutes it takes for a speed record run. All you need is anything that burns and enough draft to make a big enough fire.
Some gas turbines have been powered by an air/coal-dust mixture. That approach is hopped up enough to run a jet engine, but is still "coal-powered". Would you disqualify that as well?
Um, I've already been shafted by that and other scheduling screwups many times with the supposedly "authoritative" data direct from Zap2It. How would a wiki be any worse?
My guess is that the quality of the info would end up similar to that of the FreeDB for CD tracks: lots of typos, but very rarely totally wrong.
I've heard that if you stack a bunch of red Fiestaware dinner plates, and then store your film sandwiched in layers between them, then cosmic radiation won't be an issue at all.
The other question is, is there any way to save out shows more conveniently than playing it out at 1X through the video outs? MythTV's ability to edit out ads and transcode directly into my desktop system is a huge convenience.
Given what has been shown to happen in just over a year on a space station, anybody who spends a decade or more in zero-G would probably end up totally physically incapacitated. Subsequent generations of zero-G dwellers would probably rapidly devolve into a gelatinous mass. Therefore, any long-term space travel would certainly have to utilize some form of artificial gravity.
AFAICT, that this satellite helps to predict the behavior and path of an individual active hurricane, which would be useful for deciding where and when to post warnings and evacuation orders. That task would have almost nothing in common with forecasting the statistical nature of an overall hurricane season.
I did this with a Microsoft Natural Multimedia keyboard, which has a bunch of funky shaped keys. I closed them up in a silverware basket. It worked great, and they all came out spotless. However, like most projects, it took about 5X the amount of time that I originally expected. 104 keys ends up being a lot more than it seems. I'm not sure that I'd bother going through that effort again; I'll probably just try poking around with some Q-tips next time.
One thing I learned: pay close attention to the exact arrangement of the metal wire clips that keep the long keys level. If you don't, it can be a real puzzle getting them all back in their correct spots.
Because a 130 year old animal probably has the stringiest, gamiest meat imaginable. Not to mention 130 years' accumulation of heavy metals and other toxins. They'd probably have much more satisfying dining if they got a cheap deal on a bulk order a few sides of beef.
You're barking up the wrong tree. The GPL3 isn't preventing you from using the solution; Microsoft's patents are.
That would simplify things greatly. For example, if you have a preexisting condition, you could choose your healthcare options from the empty set.
If that were the case, then why do state governments typically run gambling operations that have worse expected paybacks (~ 50 cents on the dollar) than virtually any private operation? You'd think that to minimize harm, the government would strive to return as much money as possible to the people making the bets.
On top of that, they hype prizes which have odds of winning that are often less than the odds of being killed in a wreck while driving out to the store to buy tickets. How many thousands have been needlessly lured to their deaths by the governments that are supposed to be protecting them? It's just horrible.
The whole point of the article is that since DRM by its very nature can always be broken, it's impossible to "properly secure" content.
I don't know. If you think that *all* sales taxes should be revoked and replaced with something else, I'm fine with that. After all, sales taxes are very regressive and inconsistently levied in different localities. But please explain, if sales of shoes, light bulbs, cable service, etc. continue to be taxed, why ISP service should not be.