Kiribati has had an overpopulation problem since 1988 and that is more relevant to their problems than climate change, except they can't blame other people for their fecundity.
Discovery of a selective NaV1.7 inhibitor from centipede venom with analgesic efficacy exceeding morphine in rodent pain models
http://www.pnas.org/content/11...
Furthermore to be useful you can't just be a great programmer, you need to understand one or more problem spaces at an advanced level so that you are able to apply your skills to encoding solutions, otherwise you are like a poet with nothing to say.
It looks like they solved one problem by creating another. If we extract huge amounts of sodium from naturally occurring salts what will become of all those other reactive elements that made up the other part of the salt molecule?
Wouldn't batteries sourced from metallic oxides be better for the environment because the released oxygen (waste) will also compensate for oxygen lost due to all the carbon we have burned and turned into CO2?
The claim that the servers are invulnerable is ridiculous, and it also ignores some more obvious weaknesses in the system that are easily exploited.
Would all returned dolls go back to the factory or be destroyed? I doubt it very much, they will go straight back on the shelf if they, and their packaging, is in perfect condition.
There is so much about the IoT doll idea that is creepy or unhealthy. Why would anyone think that having WiFi energy in a bedroom, so near the brain of a sleeping child, was a good idea in the first place?
Recent developments in compact particle accelerator technologies means that safe, thorium burning, sub-critical fission reactors are possible. http://www.kurzweilai.net/phys...
While not as ideal as fusion reactors they have the benefit of not being able to "melt-down" and can be used for waste transmutation.
They are bringing out an one bit computer next year, called the Raspberry Pi Slice. You can add as many of them together as you need, one kilobit CPU? Not a problem, so long as you can work out how to compile GNU Hurd for it.
While I appreciate Richard's rational observations, about this matter of principle I'd rather not have to put up with any form of annoyance if I have to pay for it.
Then again perhaps religious advertising before a movie would help you suspend your sense of disbelief thereby making the cinematic fiction more immersive.
When it comes to the applied end of exerting political power you need people who can actually harness the physical forces of nature in a scalable and systematic way, consequently a large percentage of the support staff for the navy, air-force and army, not to mention their suppliers are "engineers".
If you are a group that can't utilise large masses of troops you need to have more people who's knowledge allows them to amplify the effect of anything that they do.
If you look at the size of and make-up of modern militaries you will find that they are becoming more technical in their focus and less about boots on the ground anyway. Smaller groups then would be ahead of this curve as they have less cultural inertia to overcome when it comes to operational methodologies, they are more innovative and agile in how they express their violent inhumanity.
It is an open system, in the case of the company going under there is nothing to stop a group of users continuing to support each other.
I think that the design is very well thought out, if you can trust them with that level of access to your "digital front door", but even that is partly addressed with the containers idea.
Ask Kyle Ronan Wirth. i.e. Do some research and you will find that there is already a black market in Australia for 3D printed (and other) gun parts. The question if they work well or are safe is moot as the sort of knuckle dragger that buys them will use anything including a converted replica blunderbuss.
The biggest danger is the sort of brainwashed psycho who does not care what happens to themselves so long as they can sneak up behind a random civilian target and drill a hole on their skull.
"While we've been working on making the better antibiotic..."
Except you haven't, many good candidate molecules get shelved for no other reason than they would complete with existing products and would cost a lot of money to get to market. It is when the shelves become empty of likely candidates to replace drugs in use that you have a problem.
It seems as if the entire idea of antibiotics is broken, but it isn't, it is just that it is an arms race where the enemy can be tricked into forgetting how to defend itself against older weapons. One paper discusses cycling three drugs to trip up the mechanisms behind resistance.
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Kiribati has had an overpopulation problem since 1988 and that is more relevant to their problems than climate change, except they can't blame other people for their fecundity.
The substance in question is , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Discovery of a selective NaV1.7 inhibitor from centipede venom with analgesic efficacy exceeding morphine in rodent pain models http://www.pnas.org/content/11...
It doesn't matter if you use a spear or, in this case, a bullet, either way you end up with a hole in you.
Furthermore to be useful you can't just be a great programmer, you need to understand one or more problem spaces at an advanced level so that you are able to apply your skills to encoding solutions, otherwise you are like a poet with nothing to say.
Now we can be sure that our printers could be accurate to 10^-35 meters.
Great idea, almost as good as pointing Google Goggles at a detuned TV.
Just for the cost of a new supercomputer to tell us what a rock on a string can indicate just as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
in stereo!
Well duh!
It looks like they solved one problem by creating another. If we extract huge amounts of sodium from naturally occurring salts what will become of all those other reactive elements that made up the other part of the salt molecule?
Wouldn't batteries sourced from metallic oxides be better for the environment because the released oxygen (waste) will also compensate for oxygen lost due to all the carbon we have burned and turned into CO2?
The claim that the servers are invulnerable is ridiculous, and it also ignores some more obvious weaknesses in the system that are easily exploited.
Would all returned dolls go back to the factory or be destroyed? I doubt it very much, they will go straight back on the shelf if they, and their packaging, is in perfect condition.
There is so much about the IoT doll idea that is creepy or unhealthy. Why would anyone think that having WiFi energy in a bedroom, so near the brain of a sleeping child, was a good idea in the first place?
Recent developments in compact particle accelerator technologies means that safe, thorium burning, sub-critical fission reactors are possible. http://www.kurzweilai.net/phys...
While not as ideal as fusion reactors they have the benefit of not being able to "melt-down" and can be used for waste transmutation.
It is all in your mind, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm... Change your mind and save your money.
They are bringing out an one bit computer next year, called the Raspberry Pi Slice. You can add as many of them together as you need, one kilobit CPU? Not a problem, so long as you can work out how to compile GNU Hurd for it.
While I appreciate Richard's rational observations, about this matter of principle I'd rather not have to put up with any form of annoyance if I have to pay for it.
Then again perhaps religious advertising before a movie would help you suspend your sense of disbelief thereby making the cinematic fiction more immersive.
When it comes to the applied end of exerting political power you need people who can actually harness the physical forces of nature in a scalable and systematic way, consequently a large percentage of the support staff for the navy, air-force and army, not to mention their suppliers are "engineers".
If you are a group that can't utilise large masses of troops you need to have more people who's knowledge allows them to amplify the effect of anything that they do.
If you look at the size of and make-up of modern militaries you will find that they are becoming more technical in their focus and less about boots on the ground anyway. Smaller groups then would be ahead of this curve as they have less cultural inertia to overcome when it comes to operational methodologies, they are more innovative and agile in how they express their violent inhumanity.
I am confident that if I fabricated a transistor as large as a vacuum tube that it would be far more robust.
It is an open system, in the case of the company going under there is nothing to stop a group of users continuing to support each other. I think that the design is very well thought out, if you can trust them with that level of access to your "digital front door", but even that is partly addressed with the containers idea.
You think that is bad huh? How do you think the "Plastic Yoda Doll" guy is feeling right now?
Why oh why are so many humans so stupid?
With any gear, even from a reputable supplier, you need to regularly test and calibrate it. If it fails you don't keep using it!
Ask Kyle Ronan Wirth. i.e. Do some research and you will find that there is already a black market in Australia for 3D printed (and other) gun parts. The question if they work well or are safe is moot as the sort of knuckle dragger that buys them will use anything including a converted replica blunderbuss.
The biggest danger is the sort of brainwashed psycho who does not care what happens to themselves so long as they can sneak up behind a random civilian target and drill a hole on their skull.
they wouldn't need more space.
"While we've been working on making the better antibiotic..."
Except you haven't, many good candidate molecules get shelved for no other reason than they would complete with existing products and would cost a lot of money to get to market. It is when the shelves become empty of likely candidates to replace drugs in use that you have a problem.
It seems as if the entire idea of antibiotics is broken, but it isn't, it is just that it is an arms race where the enemy can be tricked into forgetting how to defend itself against older weapons. One paper discusses cycling three drugs to trip up the mechanisms behind resistance.
But it had the same basic cause, stupid humans.