Not that anybody would expect Greenpeace not to be biased in a particular way but the best way to promote a personal agenda is to combine fear with emotional impact. Take peoples' own irrational fear of radiation, a modern day boogyman owing to ignorance, throw some semi-science at it, then slap on some implicit 'what about the children?' and voila.
5/11 photographs in that "article" are of schools/nurseries, and another three are homes/gardens. It's the same way anti-bacterial products advertise; by implying a danger to your family *in your very own home*.
What are the actual radiation levels compared to the global background? How do they compare to a routine long-commute flight? Or an x-ray? We must have excellent survival rates and adjusted life expectancy data from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how do they compare? They were directly nuked after all.
Unfortunately the carriers of these "dumb genes" not only risk their childrens' lives, but also the herd immunity of the local community. Thereby putting the immune-compromised, newborns, and the unlucky for which the vaccine didn't take effect or are allergic. Darwinism is fine until it risks the lives of others.
We don't implement speed limits and gun control to protect one from turning himself into red paste, we do it to protect others from the ignorant choices of the few. Want to play solo Russian roulette with a semi? Go right ahead, its only a crime if there are other participants (Manslaughter, natch).
Let me check: the American government is using using secret courts to steal IP from private firms, under the threat of detention, in order to facilitate spying on its own citizens.
This is behavior I would expect to read of Soviet Russia, the GDR's Stasi, or some other corrupt, quasi-totalitarian state where the border security exists not to keep people out but to keep its populace in.
Seconded.
Windows 10 does not appeal to me in any way, and I'm finally considering an upgrade for my 5yo Macbook Pro. Bless her, she's done me well but the (even then) underpowered Radeon is starting to show its age. If it weren't for the lack of 17" in the lineup I might have considered it sooner. Regardless, if I could drop my dualboot OSX:Win7 for OSX:Steam, or even just OSX I would in a heartbeat.
Bethesda games are currently the only reason I keep my Windows partition.
You know what else pulsed lasers are great for? Ablation. The vaporization of matter.
We're not talking of "burning" away material here. We're bypassing the relatively inefficient method of thermal excitation of molecules (vibration) and going directly to the ejection of matter through excitation into a charged particle plasma flume.
The real danger here is that with the pico-/femto-second lasers it becomes athermal, and at low intensities it can be a gradual process. I don't go around leaving my skin exposed to scattered ultrafast laser light, but I can imagine I might end up wondering how I got sunburnt indoors.
So you come from the school of 'removing the safety labels from everything and let the problem solve itself'?
The problem with common sense is that it ain't. At this stage, owing to the omission of personal liability, it's near a goddamned superpower.
Either that or the human brain isn't developed enough to deal with modern distractions. My (blonde) roommate nearly broke her ankle checking her phone while walking down the stairs. I was afraid I was going to have to carry her to A&E.
I'm wondering how they've manage to prevent He from leaking. It's an absolute bugger to contain. Just permiates through most plastics and any infinitesimally small cracks.
We use it in particle accelerators at ultra-high vacuum (10^-9mbar) to detect leaks for that very reason.
Really?
Are you really so cheap that 135GPB is too expensive to pay for an OS with a lifetime of a decade? 13.5GPB/year? Seems like a perfectly reasonable cost to me for modern hardware support, patches, bugfixes, DX12, , etc.
If it were 135GPB every year you might have a case.
If this is the issue then it will never be possible to send anyone to Mars without some huge physics-breaking, law-bending technology.
As far as I understand it, the primary issue is there is no way to shield the astronauts from deep-space gamma rays. And there will never be. Stopping gamma/x-ray radiation is a statistical process. The reason lead works is because there are so many nuclei packed in there that the odds of a photon-particle interaction are higher than in a less dense material. Of course, the higher the energy of the ray the more material required to make this interaction likely to happen.
The only three options I can fathom are: negate the gamma rays by putting a few hundred (thousand? million? )tonnes of lead shielding into space thereby making the ship impossibly heavy to accelerate (or some other super dense material), find some way to bend space or electromagnetic rays around our craft, or just accept it as a necessary cost of interplanetary travel.
True this. I've some basic working knowledge of Labview, used it for some simple control systems in college. The "brick" analogy is a good one. It's about as nuanced and elegant as a brick. Great for building simple things. Useless for building intricate things.
I once had to modify the Labview software controller for a 3-axis piezoelectric stage. The backend was an awful mess of spaghetti even though it was laid out quite neatly and layered with sub-VIs. I would have needed a dual (perhaps tri-) 24" monitor setup to work on the code efficiently or some sort of billboard poster printer. It was horrible.
By coincidence I just had to modify a VI for polling oscilloscope data just now, after years of having not touched Labview, it took me two hours to insert an automatic save/load default control values routine. Something that would have taken a fraction of the time in a traditional language.
Or how about because Google are a few steps shy of becoming Weyland Yutani?
I understand a corporation has to diversify, eggs and baskets and all that, but it doesn't mean I have to support them in that effort.
In their defense they're caught between a rock and a hard place. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. So they're just covering their asses, like any employee.
If they don't step up "security" they'll be lampooned for inaction and complacency, if they do install cameras and add extra patrols they get call "fear-mongers" and "fascists". But the professional cost of not adding extra security, particularly in light of an (highly unlikely) attack, is greater than if they don't.
Of all the posited solutions this seems to be the only one that doesn't rely on a biometric (fingerprint, retina scan, barcode tattoo, etc.) or remembering to whom you gave the password in the first place (Shamir's secret, relatives, etc.)
This gives the secret to somebody who doesn't know they're securing a secret, I.E. the postal service. While (hopefully) still putting in a measure that induces them to remind you that they have your secret (pay your bill!).
Of course, if somebody intercepts the invoice on the box, or the PO burns down, then your secrets are compromised or burned. But it's reaching a solution.
But how else then shall they keep us safe from all the Bad Guys, ne'er-do-wells, pedophiles, terrorists, communists, liberals, hippies, criminals, foreigners, pirates, gays, racists, misogynists, thought crimes, neighbors, and YOU?
You don't need to charge a premium, which does absolutely nothing to mitigate the problem of the bags which ARE thrown away, and only an idiot would believe that the majority of the population will take good care of plastic sacks because they cost them 5p a piece.
That's just it. It does work, and it did work, in Ireland. I remember when the fee came into place and the number of plastic bag littler noticeably dropped, because it wasn't the big supermarkets that was causing all the waste. It was the local corner shop, where people would go to pickup a pint of milk, or the paper and some smokes and forget to bring a bag with them. All of sudden having to pay 15%-25% extra on top of your pint of milk (I forget how much it was relatively) and most people just carried it home in their hand.
Is there any acquisition AOL isn't capable of ruining? Having just breezed through the Winamp acquisition article, and the Flickr acquisition article, I have to wonder if they are actually pure corporate evil. Or is it a case of attributing to malice what can just as easily be attributed to incompetence?
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Not that anybody would expect Greenpeace not to be biased in a particular way but the best way to promote a personal agenda is to combine fear with emotional impact. Take peoples' own irrational fear of radiation, a modern day boogyman owing to ignorance, throw some semi-science at it, then slap on some implicit 'what about the children?' and voila. 5/11 photographs in that "article" are of schools/nurseries, and another three are homes/gardens. It's the same way anti-bacterial products advertise; by implying a danger to your family *in your very own home*. What are the actual radiation levels compared to the global background? How do they compare to a routine long-commute flight? Or an x-ray? We must have excellent survival rates and adjusted life expectancy data from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how do they compare? They were directly nuked after all.
In other news, 88% of respondents don't understand math and only appeals to emotion.
Why not in OS X?
Dunno. From what I read in forums the developer has been promising it for at least a year.
Unfortunately the carriers of these "dumb genes" not only risk their childrens' lives, but also the herd immunity of the local community. Thereby putting the immune-compromised, newborns, and the unlucky for which the vaccine didn't take effect or are allergic. Darwinism is fine until it risks the lives of others. We don't implement speed limits and gun control to protect one from turning himself into red paste, we do it to protect others from the ignorant choices of the few. Want to play solo Russian roulette with a semi? Go right ahead, its only a crime if there are other participants (Manslaughter, natch).
f.lux does support Philips Hue lighting and will adjust the room color in conjunction with your display. Except if you're running the OSX version.
Let me check: the American government is using using secret courts to steal IP from private firms, under the threat of detention, in order to facilitate spying on its own citizens. This is behavior I would expect to read of Soviet Russia, the GDR's Stasi, or some other corrupt, quasi-totalitarian state where the border security exists not to keep people out but to keep its populace in.
Seconded. Windows 10 does not appeal to me in any way, and I'm finally considering an upgrade for my 5yo Macbook Pro. Bless her, she's done me well but the (even then) underpowered Radeon is starting to show its age. If it weren't for the lack of 17" in the lineup I might have considered it sooner. Regardless, if I could drop my dualboot OSX:Win7 for OSX:Steam, or even just OSX I would in a heartbeat. Bethesda games are currently the only reason I keep my Windows partition.
You know what else pulsed lasers are great for? Ablation. The vaporization of matter. We're not talking of "burning" away material here. We're bypassing the relatively inefficient method of thermal excitation of molecules (vibration) and going directly to the ejection of matter through excitation into a charged particle plasma flume. The real danger here is that with the pico-/femto-second lasers it becomes athermal, and at low intensities it can be a gradual process. I don't go around leaving my skin exposed to scattered ultrafast laser light, but I can imagine I might end up wondering how I got sunburnt indoors.
So you come from the school of 'removing the safety labels from everything and let the problem solve itself'? The problem with common sense is that it ain't. At this stage, owing to the omission of personal liability, it's near a goddamned superpower. Either that or the human brain isn't developed enough to deal with modern distractions. My (blonde) roommate nearly broke her ankle checking her phone while walking down the stairs. I was afraid I was going to have to carry her to A&E.
I'm wondering how they've manage to prevent He from leaking. It's an absolute bugger to contain. Just permiates through most plastics and any infinitesimally small cracks. We use it in particle accelerators at ultra-high vacuum (10^-9mbar) to detect leaks for that very reason.
Really? Are you really so cheap that 135GPB is too expensive to pay for an OS with a lifetime of a decade? 13.5GPB/year? Seems like a perfectly reasonable cost to me for modern hardware support, patches, bugfixes, DX12, , etc. If it were 135GPB every year you might have a case.
If this is the issue then it will never be possible to send anyone to Mars without some huge physics-breaking, law-bending technology. As far as I understand it, the primary issue is there is no way to shield the astronauts from deep-space gamma rays. And there will never be. Stopping gamma/x-ray radiation is a statistical process. The reason lead works is because there are so many nuclei packed in there that the odds of a photon-particle interaction are higher than in a less dense material. Of course, the higher the energy of the ray the more material required to make this interaction likely to happen. The only three options I can fathom are: negate the gamma rays by putting a few hundred (thousand? million? )tonnes of lead shielding into space thereby making the ship impossibly heavy to accelerate (or some other super dense material), find some way to bend space or electromagnetic rays around our craft, or just accept it as a necessary cost of interplanetary travel.
She needs somebody to enforce the equality. Potentially with a stick.
So your alternatives are: Google, Google, Google/Microsoft/Yahoo, Facebook, or Microsoft? I'm not seeing alternatives here.
True this. I've some basic working knowledge of Labview, used it for some simple control systems in college. The "brick" analogy is a good one. It's about as nuanced and elegant as a brick. Great for building simple things. Useless for building intricate things. I once had to modify the Labview software controller for a 3-axis piezoelectric stage. The backend was an awful mess of spaghetti even though it was laid out quite neatly and layered with sub-VIs. I would have needed a dual (perhaps tri-) 24" monitor setup to work on the code efficiently or some sort of billboard poster printer. It was horrible. By coincidence I just had to modify a VI for polling oscilloscope data just now, after years of having not touched Labview, it took me two hours to insert an automatic save/load default control values routine. Something that would have taken a fraction of the time in a traditional language.
Or how about because Google are a few steps shy of becoming Weyland Yutani? I understand a corporation has to diversify, eggs and baskets and all that, but it doesn't mean I have to support them in that effort.
In their defense they're caught between a rock and a hard place. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. So they're just covering their asses, like any employee. If they don't step up "security" they'll be lampooned for inaction and complacency, if they do install cameras and add extra patrols they get call "fear-mongers" and "fascists". But the professional cost of not adding extra security, particularly in light of an (highly unlikely) attack, is greater than if they don't.
Of all the posited solutions this seems to be the only one that doesn't rely on a biometric (fingerprint, retina scan, barcode tattoo, etc.) or remembering to whom you gave the password in the first place (Shamir's secret, relatives, etc.) This gives the secret to somebody who doesn't know they're securing a secret, I.E. the postal service. While (hopefully) still putting in a measure that induces them to remind you that they have your secret (pay your bill!). Of course, if somebody intercepts the invoice on the box, or the PO burns down, then your secrets are compromised or burned. But it's reaching a solution.
to the grey RepRap plague. When will this madness ever end?!
But how else then shall they keep us safe from all the Bad Guys, ne'er-do-wells, pedophiles, terrorists, communists, liberals, hippies, criminals, foreigners, pirates, gays, racists, misogynists, thought crimes, neighbors, and YOU?
You don't need to charge a premium, which does absolutely nothing to mitigate the problem of the bags which ARE thrown away, and only an idiot would believe that the majority of the population will take good care of plastic sacks because they cost them 5p a piece.
That's just it. It does work, and it did work, in Ireland. I remember when the fee came into place and the number of plastic bag littler noticeably dropped, because it wasn't the big supermarkets that was causing all the waste. It was the local corner shop, where people would go to pickup a pint of milk, or the paper and some smokes and forget to bring a bag with them. All of sudden having to pay 15%-25% extra on top of your pint of milk (I forget how much it was relatively) and most people just carried it home in their hand.
Is there any acquisition AOL isn't capable of ruining? Having just breezed through the Winamp acquisition article, and the Flickr acquisition article, I have to wonder if they are actually pure corporate evil. Or is it a case of attributing to malice what can just as easily be attributed to incompetence?