Lumus glasses can accept video inputs via an undisclosed connection
Undisclosed? What, does the input jack require lube or something?
"...So you see, the electrical impulses are carried along the central nervous system then back out through the epidural layer near the magnet on the glasses... "
"Look, I don't care how it works that is Not an entrance!"
I think that's rubbish, there's no way a kid under the age of 15 would spot the danger of talking on a cellphone while driving unless it was explained to him/her by their parents althought I don't see a good reason to at that age.
The cellphone tests were failed by a much bigger margin, though Adam's observation was that you can put down a cellphone -- you can't get instantly undrunk. Also, they tested the drunk driving below the California legal limit -- Adam, at least, has gotten much drunker for MythBuster tests than that.
She should just pick up a couple copies of WoW for the kiddies. She'd never have to deal with their snotty demands of family time ever again... let alone see them outside of their rooms.
From what little of the description there is, I don't think silly string would have been much help. It sounded like an incindiary, and was placed under a freeway overpass. I'd guess it used a timing mechanism rather than a trip wire.
Which brings up a point... silly string is great at detecting wires, but likely not so great at detecting pressure switches.
I think jackbooted paramilitary thugs persecuting a peaceful festival smells like fascism. I'd sure hesitate to express any nonmajority political views in Utah.
Umm... how do you know it was peaceful? I can't tell from that vid what led up to that confrontation.
Things weren't better with Clinton in office beacuse Clinton was in office... things were better when one party controlled the Presidency, and the other controlled Congress.
When it comes to politicians, the more we can keep them fighting each other the less harm they can do to the rest of us.
Covered under "Hot-zone Superintendent", I'd think... between piles of unwashed socks, three slices of formerly cheese pizza under the bed and various... erm, deposits of alcohol laden half digested nachos in the bathroom and you've got oodles of biohazards.
(*Title refers to the short story in The Last Whole Earth Catalog. Find it and read it. Was a school experiment designed to show how good people could turn into black, black Nazis and why there were no Nazi's in Germany after the war. Scares the tar out of me, more so as the days go by.)
The Third Wave was the name given by history teacher Ron Jones to an experimental recreation of Nazi Germany which he claims to have conducted with high school students.
The experiment took place at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California during one week in 1967. Jones, unable to explain to his students why the German youth allowed the Nazi Party to exterminate millions of Jews and other so-called 'undesirables', decided to show them instead. Jones writes that he started with simple things like classroom discipline, and managed to meld his history class into a group with a supreme sense of purpose and no small amount of cliquishness. Jones named the movement "The Third Wave," after the common wisdom that the third in a series of ocean waves is always the strongest, and claimed its members would revolutionize the world. The experiment allegedly took on a life of its own, with students from all over the school joining in; Jones wrote that he agonized over the outcome of the exercise before bringing it to a halt by claiming that the movement had a world-wide leader, and then displaying a film clip of him: Adolf Hitler.
It's a self-defeating prophesy: if you make it look like we're going to do better than we're currently on target to do, taking no corrective action, then you encourage us to not take any.
So then, the best thing to do is exagerate how bad things are to force people to do what some think needs to be done?
Perhaps exagerated consequences ( which don't materialize ) tend to discredit the suggested action, no matter how valid?
Rove said he has benefited on occasion from the new-media echo chamber. When he gave a speech last year saying liberals want to give terrorists understanding and therapy, he delighted when Democrats howled in protest. This guaranteed that the story would stay alive for days. "I was sort of amused by it because it struck me, well, they're just simply repeating my argument, which was good," he said.
So it seems one difference in this new media is the ability to quickly gauge the reaction of the public.
No need to wait for polling data; throw something out there and see if people react the way you want. If not, adjust message, lather, rinse, repeat.
Additional features over a Zune: * Hand crank can be used to recharge the built-in battery * Tunes AM/FM, seven NOAA weather alert channels, and TV channels 2-13 * Features emergency lights, plus a flashing beacon mode; cell phone charger
What really irked me were profiles seeking a "Christian, Muslim, Taoist, Atheist" etc. and they had to go out of their way to de-select the option of dating someone who was Jewish, rather than just select "All religions"
It does make it easier to figure out which religion they were raised in...
The F-14 uses a variable sweep wing, the idea being that for maneuverability the wings are extended and for speed the wings are swept back.
Nice idea eh? The problem is there are six hydraulic actuators on each wing to make this happen. When one breaks, there's no way to tell which one is bad without pulling all six from the wing and putting each one on a test bench. Testing a single actuator takes about an hour... and Murphy states the bad actuator is the last one you test.
The F-18 may look like a lawn dart from hell, but at least it's relatively easier to work on.
The purpose of the tags is probably not to investigate buying habits. More likely, it will be combined with weighing equipment on the lorries which take the rubbish away to find out who's throwing out how much. Ostensibly this is to ensure that everyone is using the various recycling schemes properly, though I wouldn't be surprised if it culminates with being charged by weight for the amount of waste produced.
My local city government wanted to add RFID tags to our plastic trash bins, not to monitor the citizens but to monitor those who pick up the trash. Think of it like workflow management.
As the bins were picked up, the idea was an RFID reader would "tick off" each bin as picked up, eventually marking an entire route as completed.. if the trash collectors picked everything up.
Funny enough, the RFID tags kept comming off the bins. Something about damage in handling, warping of the plastic bins in extreams of weather... almost like some people didn't want the system to work.
Ok, I understand that Golf isn't exactly, say, marathon running. But you get more exercise COOKING? What do you, cook on a treadmill? Buy 50-lb bags of sugar and flour and lift them repeatedly? Chase after the pigs and cows you're going to eat personally?
I can understand it.. after all, playing with knives, fire and dead flesh can be exhausting.
And that is how you get rich doing work for the government. The government agency comes up with a half-assed plan, you put in a low bid, they accept and start handing you checks, and you make things look pretty, all the while hiding the flaws. In then end, you've become rich, the goverment runs a deficit, and the American taxpayer foots the bill.
You seem to have left out a step: The government agency changes the requirements after the bid is awarded, usually in the user interface. If you're a smart bidder, your low bid was only to cover the original specification... and any modifications are extra.
This might be a case of a contractor sucking at the government teat, but lets not forget that clueless PHBs and design by comittee can also run up the cost of a project without producing results.
Would you buy a tank whose GPS navigation can be interfered with by the French?
[humor] So... are you saying the French were providing a public service by jamming GPS signals? [/humor]
As point of fact, the Greek government didn't... but they didn't buy the French tank either. They went with the German one, which either doesn't use GPS or ( unlikely ) wasn't affected by the jamming.
Depends on how you define espionage. There's the obvious, like a compeditor stealing trade secrets, customer lists, et. al. .
If a compeditor knows who your customers are, and how much they're paying, their sales guys can target them with sales pitches designed to undercut your price. Even better if the compeditor had a list of, say, all help desk tickets for one of your products. Then they'd also know just what your customers didn't like about your product, and could target those areas specifically in their sales pitch.
One of the targets of the frame-up was presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy, and press reports have linked his rival, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, to the smear campaign. French President Jacques Chirac defended de Villepin from the charges during a nationally televised interview last month, and de Villepin has filed libel suits against four journalists.
Last month, prosecutors formally charged Lebanese-born Imad Lahoud for allegedly creating the falsified bank records. Lahoud previously worked for the French secret service and headed a department of network engineers for Airbus parent European Aeronautic Defense and Space, or EADS.
Alternatively, you could use intelligence assets to rig the outcome of competing products in field tests to ensure you get the contract:
A £1bn tank bid to supply the Greek government with Challenger 2 tanks has raised suspicions that the French secret services used dirty tricks to scupper the British bid. French and British teams were among four countries in competition for the tender to supply 250 Tanks. The other countries being Germany and America.
During the tests the British Challenger tanks had difficulty with navigation and were unable to work out exactly where they were. The British use the satellite global positioning system, GPS, for navigation, whilst the French had no such problems with their navigation.
The Americans also claimed that their navigation suffered difficulty and it was later alleged that the French were covertly interfering with a GPS signal.
Investigations showed that a signal was transmitted blocking the signal from one satellite. Since the GPS system needs the signal from 3 or more satellites for accuracy the loss of just one signal means errors in navigation in excess of 100 yards.
In 1995 an American Institute think-tank estimated that France was devoting a third of its secret service budget to economic intelligence. This may well be true since agents from the DST, Direction et Surveillance du Territoire, [French Internal Security Service] removed documents from a hotel in Tolouse where British Aerospace executives were staying.
The Greek officials found the whole event to be most amusing and discounted the dirty-tricks in their decision making processes, eventually selecting the German made Leopard 2A5 Tank as their choice.
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So, how would someone sign up someone to recieve important offers directly from advertisers? Just for, um, research purposes. Or something.
[badum-ching]
Undisclosed? What, does the input jack require lube or something?
"...So you see, the electrical impulses are carried along the central nervous system then back out through the epidural layer near the magnet on the glasses... "
"Look, I don't care how it works that is Not an entrance!"
[badum-ching]
Unless they watched mythbusters?
http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/06/mythbusters_ki
Two words:
"MOM!! BATHROOM!!!"
(shudder)
PS:
YouTube Link if you havent seen that South Park episode
I noted with some interest the discovery of that IED in Cincinnati:
http://wcpo.com/news/2006/local/11/29/bomb.html
From what little of the description there is, I don't think silly string would have been much help. It sounded like an incindiary, and was placed under a freeway overpass. I'd guess it used a timing mechanism rather than a trip wire.
Which brings up a point... silly string is great at detecting wires, but likely not so great at detecting pressure switches.
Even this one?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/725d/
[badum-ching]
Umm... how do you know it was peaceful? I can't tell from that vid what led up to that confrontation.
I think you nailed it.
Things weren't better with Clinton in office beacuse Clinton was in office... things were better when one party controlled the Presidency, and the other controlled Congress.
When it comes to politicians, the more we can keep them fighting each other the less harm they can do to the rest of us.
Exactly what does a rave getting raided have to do with the electorial process? If anything, those looked like SWAT rather than the military.
First, the FCC does something right and now Microsoft is getting into Linux?
The "Gates of Hell are open and Satan is ice skating" trifecta is now in play.
Covered under "Hot-zone Superintendent", I'd think... between piles of unwashed socks, three slices of formerly cheese pizza under the bed and various... erm, deposits of alcohol laden half digested nachos in the bathroom and you've got oodles of biohazards.
In addition, you have to deal with freshmen.
Perhaps, you mean the Third Wave?
So then, the best thing to do is exagerate how bad things are to force people to do what some think needs to be done?
Perhaps exagerated consequences ( which don't materialize ) tend to discredit the suggested action, no matter how valid?
So it seems one difference in this new media is the ability to quickly gauge the reaction of the public.
No need to wait for polling data; throw something out there and see if people react the way you want. If not, adjust message, lather, rinse, repeat.
Might I suggest a hand crank radio would be more useful for emergency purposes?
Something like this perhaps?
Additional features over a Zune:
* Hand crank can be used to recharge the built-in battery
* Tunes AM/FM, seven NOAA weather alert channels, and TV channels 2-13
* Features emergency lights, plus a flashing beacon mode; cell phone charger
It does make it easier to figure out which religion they were raised in...
The F-14 uses a variable sweep wing, the idea being that for maneuverability the wings are extended and for speed the wings are swept back.
Nice idea eh? The problem is there are six hydraulic actuators on each wing to make this happen. When one breaks, there's no way to tell which one is bad without pulling all six from the wing and putting each one on a test bench. Testing a single actuator takes about an hour... and Murphy states the bad actuator is the last one you test.
The F-18 may look like a lawn dart from hell, but at least it's relatively easier to work on.
See, that's why you DOWNLOAD the pr0n. Don't just leave it on the web site.
what?
My local city government wanted to add RFID tags to our plastic trash bins, not to monitor the citizens but to monitor those who pick up the trash. Think of it like workflow management.
As the bins were picked up, the idea was an RFID reader would "tick off" each bin as picked up, eventually marking an entire route as completed.. if the trash collectors picked everything up.
Funny enough, the RFID tags kept comming off the bins. Something about damage in handling, warping of the plastic bins in extreams of weather... almost like some people didn't want the system to work.
I can understand it.. after all, playing with knives, fire and dead flesh can be exhausting.
You should try some of the training... the better ones have how-to labs.
You seem to have left out a step: The government agency changes the requirements after the bid is awarded, usually in the user interface. If you're a smart bidder, your low bid was only to cover the original specification... and any modifications are extra.
This might be a case of a contractor sucking at the government teat, but lets not forget that clueless PHBs and design by comittee can also run up the cost of a project without producing results.
Quite possibly. This might be a by-product of quick news cycles... less time to review new information in the rush to get the story out there first.
Seems to be a product of Hanlon's Razor though... as you say, the image quality is so bad as to be laughable.
[humor]
So... are you saying the French were providing a public service by jamming GPS signals?
[/humor]
As point of fact, the Greek government didn't... but they didn't buy the French tank either. They went with the German one, which either doesn't use GPS or ( unlikely ) wasn't affected by the jamming.
Depends on how you define espionage. There's the obvious, like a compeditor stealing trade secrets, customer lists, et. al. .
If a compeditor knows who your customers are, and how much they're paying, their sales guys can target them with sales pitches designed to undercut your price. Even better if the compeditor had a list of, say, all help desk tickets for one of your products. Then they'd also know just what your customers didn't like about your product, and could target those areas specifically in their sales pitch.
There's also more non-obvious things.
You could have something like breaking into a bank to create false payment records, as a way to "prove" bribery:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71363-0.ht
Alternatively, you could use intelligence assets to rig the outcome of competing products in field tests to ensure you get the contract:
http://www.cvni.net/radio/e2k/e2k002/e2k02news.ht