I call bullshit on this. The power required to reach the ISS is fairly low and easily within what is the allowed Maximum transmitting power (Typically 1500 Watts, but depending on the frequency may be lower). In any event you can bounce a transmission off the Moon and pick it up on about 100Watts on the low end.
Depending on the antenna they probably wouldn't have required any more than 5-10 watts to do the transmission. Though with a smaller antenna power power would have been required.
An unlicensed transmission is an FCC, or the Canadian equivalent, violation and would have gotten them in trouble with that organization.
Actually they do not discuss traditional polygraph the article is about Voice Stress Analysis and that the claims about how they work are completely unfounded from a scientific standpoint. there is absolutely no basis by which one can claim that they are in fact better than chance and that the underlying idea of detecting micro-tremors in the voice are crap, because micro-tremors do not exist.
A lie detector which can reveal lie and deception in some automatic and perfectly reliable way is an old idea we have often met with in science fiction books and comic strips. This is all very well. It is when machines claimed to be lie detectors appear in the context of criminal investigations or security applications that we need to be concerned. In the present paper we will describe two types of âoedeceptionâ or âoestress detectors" (euphemisms to refer to what quite clearly is known as âoelie detectorsâ). Both types of detection are claimed to be based on voice analysis but we found no scientific evidence to support the manufacturersâ(TM) claims. Indeed, our review of scientific studies will show that these machines perform at chance level when tested for reliability. Given such results and the absence of scientific support for the underlying principles it is justified to view the use of these machines as charlatanry and we argue that there are serious ethical and security reasons to demand that responsible authorities and institutions should not get involved in such practices.
Sounds like the sergeant and the other airman were buddies and that's what they wanted the schedule to look like for them and to heck with what happens to the third guy.
Hell yeah. I had a Math teacher once that worked for NASA as a Mathematician during the Apollo years. One can see him in a documentary of the Apollo 13 incident that includes footage shot in the control room and there's an actor playing the same part in the Tom Hanks movie, albeit a nonspeaking role. Anyways all that to say that guy was an uber nerd of the tenth order. Obama's got nothing on this guy in the world of nerdery. Obama might be a step up that ladder from what we've had in the past, but he's not that far up, given how tall the ladder is.
In my experience, given the ratio of good things added to the environment by humans vs. bad things; I'd say their response is justified. Even if they're only playing the odds.
I think the "turtle" you are referring to is the LOGO programming language. One of the things you can do with it is move a cursor around the screen to draw pictures, etc. The cursor was called a turtle and may have looked like a turtle or perhaps a triangle.
The Turtle is a way to draw vector based images and was added to LOGO by its original inventor Seymour Papert, of MIT, so he could control his Turtle Robot to draw pictures.
I didn't think they were going to replace it, I thought they were going to supplement it. In other words, you pay the gas tax, since everyone is used to that, and now pay the additional tax for mileage driven within the state.
I haven't read the article or the patents, but, did they actually invent something or just brainstorm on a topic until they had some fodder to fill in the blanks on a patent application? If there's no invention, why the hell should there be a patent. A patent was supposed to cover a specific implementation not an ethereal concept with no product to back it up.
Will they be allowing GPS enabled phones into the country by travelers? If they don't this will be a huge problem for people traveling to Egypt If they do allow travelers to bring their phones, doesn't that circumvent the whole issue. What about travelers that were planning on using GPS to help them find attractions, etc. Can't have those either.
Sweet baby Jesus, There's someone else out there in the Slashdot microcosm that's at least heard of Pr1me computers. I learned COBOL on one of those in the late 80's.
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Yep, he sure does (in my opinion, IANAL). File a complaint with the state for wages owed. They have a department that handles this exact sort of thing. The form will have you put down how much the company owes you and why. It is then incumbent on the company to show why they do not owe the money or pay it. If they're playing games they'll likely pay up just to make it go away, if they think they're right, they may pay it anyway rather than fight it out and risk an investigation.
...is that they can edit the first story into a good movie and not feel the need to make grand changes to the story line. While I understand there will be some need to compress some things and to leave quite a bit out (what I mean by editing) making grand changes to basic tenets of the world that was created will just make a crappy movie, and ruin any chance they have at making more money off the franchise and kill any enjoyment the fans may get out of seeing this tale told through another medium.
If they can pull it off they can make a lot of money and create something that will be enjoyed for years. If not, well, we all know how those turn out.
16,000 or 160,000,000 years. While this may be "just engineering" to some, it's still a big just as there's still a lot of DNA degradation that happens over the course of millennia. There's a lot of reasons this might not work for a species we've never seen develop.
Of course it may work smackingly well and we'll all have miniature pet t-rex's in my lifetime. That would be sweet, the cat may not like it though.
While cold fusion may not work there's nothing in the Wikipedia article, at least, to indicate that it was a hoax. Perhaps Pons & Fleischmann could have been more rigorous in their methodology and waiting for other labs to reproduce their results certainly would have been a good idea. there doesn't seem to have be any malice on their part to perpetuate a hoax. Sloppy science or perhaps not accounting for all the possible ways energy could be leaking into the system certainly, but it does not appear to be a hoax.
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I call bullshit on this. The power required to reach the ISS is fairly low and easily within what is the allowed Maximum transmitting power (Typically 1500 Watts, but depending on the frequency may be lower). In any event you can bounce a transmission off the Moon and pick it up on about 100Watts on the low end.
Depending on the antenna they probably wouldn't have required any more than 5-10 watts to do the transmission. Though with a smaller antenna power power would have been required.
An unlicensed transmission is an FCC, or the Canadian equivalent, violation and would have gotten them in trouble with that organization.
Here's a guide from the AARL on contacting the ISS http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2004/10/06/1/
Actually they do not discuss traditional polygraph the article is about Voice Stress Analysis and that the claims about how they work are completely unfounded from a scientific standpoint. there is absolutely no basis by which one can claim that they are in fact better than chance and that the underlying idea of detecting micro-tremors in the voice are crap, because micro-tremors do not exist.
There's copy of the article posted in this discussion. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1109049&cid=26659445
Here's the abstract of the article from http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/IJSLL/article/view/3775
ABSTRACT
A lie detector which can reveal lie and deception in some automatic and perfectly reliable way is an old idea we have often met with in science fiction books and comic strips. This is all very well. It is when machines claimed to be lie detectors appear in the context of criminal investigations or security applications that we need to be concerned. In the present paper we will describe two types of âoedeceptionâ or âoestress detectors" (euphemisms to refer to what quite clearly is known as âoelie detectorsâ). Both types of detection are claimed to be based on voice analysis but we found no scientific evidence to support the manufacturersâ(TM) claims. Indeed, our review of scientific studies will show that these machines perform at chance level when tested for reliability. Given such results and the absence of scientific support for the underlying principles it is justified to view the use of these machines as charlatanry and we argue that there are serious ethical and security reasons to demand that responsible authorities and institutions should not get involved in such practices.
I wasn't able to find a copy of the paper itself.
... seems to be about the same problem for Biologists that defining what a planet is for Astronomers.
No, it just means that it is more earth like, than the previous 335 planets discovered so far, in it is approximately the same size.
Sounds like the sergeant and the other airman were buddies and that's what they wanted the schedule to look like for them and to heck with what happens to the third guy.
Hell yeah.
I had a Math teacher once that worked for NASA as a Mathematician during the Apollo years. One can see him in a documentary of the Apollo 13 incident that includes footage shot in the control room and there's an actor playing the same part in the Tom Hanks movie, albeit a nonspeaking role. Anyways all that to say that guy was an uber nerd of the tenth order. Obama's got nothing on this guy in the world of nerdery. Obama might be a step up that ladder from what we've had in the past, but he's not that far up, given how tall the ladder is.
In my experience, given the ratio of good things added to the environment by humans vs. bad things; I'd say their response is justified. Even if they're only playing the odds.
I think the "turtle" you are referring to is the LOGO programming language.
One of the things you can do with it is move a cursor around the screen to draw pictures, etc.
The cursor was called a turtle and may have looked like a turtle or perhaps a triangle.
The Turtle is a way to draw vector based images and was added to LOGO by its original inventor Seymour Papert, of MIT, so he could control his Turtle Robot to draw pictures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
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I didn't think they were going to replace it, I thought they were going to supplement it. In other words, you pay the gas tax, since everyone is used to that, and now pay the additional tax for mileage driven within the state.
I haven't read the article or the patents, but, did they actually invent something or just brainstorm on a topic until they had some fodder to fill in the blanks on a patent application?
If there's no invention, why the hell should there be a patent. A patent was supposed to cover a specific implementation not an ethereal concept with no product to back it up.
Just my 2 cents.
This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time.
Thank you!!
Will they be allowing GPS enabled phones into the country by travelers? If they don't this will be a huge problem for people traveling to Egypt If they do allow travelers to bring their phones, doesn't that circumvent the whole issue. What about travelers that were planning on using GPS to help them find attractions, etc. Can't have those either.
Sweet baby Jesus, There's someone else out there in the Slashdot microcosm that's at least heard of Pr1me computers. I learned COBOL on one of those in the late 80's.
PMED Rules!!!! (The Pr1me text Editor, for those of you that don't know)
Charge these guys as terrorists. They are performing acts of sabotage which undermines the security of the nation & peoples trust in the government.
America's Army teaches conflict resolution.
By killing all those that disagree with you, you resolve the conflict.
Ah yes, one of the best things in life!!!
Yep, he sure does (in my opinion, IANAL). File a complaint with the state for wages owed. They have a department that handles this exact sort of thing. The form will have you put down how much the company owes you and why. It is then incumbent on the company to show why they do not owe the money or pay it. If they're playing games they'll likely pay up just to make it go away, if they think they're right, they may pay it anyway rather than fight it out and risk an investigation.
...is that they can edit the first story into a good movie and not feel the need to make grand changes to the story line. While I understand there will be some need to compress some things and to leave quite a bit out (what I mean by editing) making grand changes to basic tenets of the world that was created will just make a crappy movie, and ruin any chance they have at making more money off the franchise and kill any enjoyment the fans may get out of seeing this tale told through another medium.
If they can pull it off they can make a lot of money and create something that will be enjoyed for years. If not, well, we all know how those turn out.
I think I'm in love....
16,000 or 160,000,000 years. While this may be "just engineering" to some, it's still a big just as there's still a lot of DNA degradation that happens over the course of millennia. There's a lot of reasons this might not work for a species we've never seen develop.
Of course it may work smackingly well and we'll all have miniature pet t-rex's in my lifetime. That would be sweet, the cat may not like it though.
Yes, or to put it succinctly:
To each according to their need.
From each according to their ability.
Karl Marx
Perhaps, the decision may get overturned on appeal for that reason then.
While cold fusion may not work there's nothing in the Wikipedia article, at least, to indicate that it was a hoax. Perhaps Pons & Fleischmann could have been more rigorous in their methodology and waiting for other labs to reproduce their results certainly would have been a good idea. there doesn't seem to have be any malice on their part to perpetuate a hoax. Sloppy science or perhaps not accounting for all the possible ways energy could be leaking into the system certainly, but it does not appear to be a hoax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion