Consider a time traveler who has an electric fan that runs on 110VAC and is terminated with an Edison plug. Can he plug into a USA household circa 1905? 1899? 1910? What about in the UK on those dates (yes they did initially use 110VAC)? When were the first electric fans and toasters placed into service? And why can't I find this info on WP?
As everyone who has ever been a pinball or vidgame tech knows, some quarters are painted or rendered red with a Sharpie. They are then given to the bartender or other location personnel for their use in providing free games for themselves and their friends; when the machine is emptied the red quarters are retrieved and returned to the bartender, etc. (and not given to the mob or other owner of the machine).
Therefore, if you find yourself receiving red quarters in change (outside of an arcade) you can therefore infer that the universe is a simulation.
After all, prudent people backup or mirror their data on other clouds or servers in other physical locations.
The greater risk is a substantial, unexpected cost. If you use a cloud provider such as Amazon, and your instance is subpoenaed, under Amazon's TOS you have to pay whatever Amazon charges you for their compliance with the subpoena, which could run hundreds of $/hour.
When I was a 3rd grader on a field trip, circa 1965, we went to LA's Griffith Observatory where there was (and is) a 500,000 voltTesla coil, behind a glass door and maybe four feet high. Part of the tour was (and no longer is) being able to feel the zap from the coil.
I remember being asked to climb the activated Tesla coil and refusing. To this day I don't know if the teacher was serious, or what if anything would have resulted if I had climbed the sucker.
Call BS. The output of the facial recognition software is either 1 or 0.
By your logic you could get separate patents for:
-- Facial recognition;
-- Facial recognition that logs on to Windows;
--Facial recognition that activates the "vend" relay on a Coke machine;
-- Facial recognition for two people: two Air Force lieutenants smile into the camera, and it launches a Titan II missile (requires 74LS08 "AND" gate).
Y'all forgot, there weren't just 5.25" and 8" floppy drives, there was also no agreement among OEMs on whether diskettes should be soft sectored or hard sectored, and there were maybe 30 formatting schemes in use -- hard sectoring required punching holes in the media, sometimes several.
Even after the IBM-PC (which adopted 5.25" soft-sectored disks as the standard) there were attempts to use punched holes, or nonstandard data written to the disks, either as a copy protection scheme or in order to require computer purchasers to purchase the OEM's own diskette media (DEC Rainbow).
One Paul amendment would require the District to allow residents to obtain concealed weapon permits for handguns, and would require the city to honor permits issued to residents of other states.
Paul submitted an amendment to ban city-funded abortions.
Paul proposed another amendment saying 'membership in a labor organization may not be applied as a precondition for employment' in the District.
Supercavitationistic Bubblicious Warships, The enemy don't have this stuff, It's only found on our ships, Faster than the Russian navy, Chinese or Qatar ships, Supercavitationistic Bubblicious Warships.
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle aye,
It goes a hundred knots per hour and uses little fuel, Looks just like the Bird of Prey from Star Trek #2, The DoD they can't believe the small size of the bill, The sucker was developed for just $150 mil....
Of course, a criminal must also remember to turn off and remove the battery from his cellphone. But this raises suspicions also. He should leave the cellphone on, and at home. But wait, on the way to the crime he will drive by a dozen cameras that will read and record his license plate. He'll also need to steal some license plates. But then he risks getting pulled over if the plate owner has warrants and the plates get recognized by a passing cop car with license plate reader cameras.
It's getting pretty goddamn hard to pull off crimes, isn't it?
Most criminals are too stupid to cover their tracks in all the ways one has to cover one's tracks nowadays, if that's even possible.
The greatest value of my invention will result from its effect upon warfare and armaments, for by reason of its certain and unlimited destructiveness it will tend to bring about and maintain permanent peace among nations. U.S. Pat. 613,809, p. 7, ll.107-112.
What actually happened was that the invention of the remote control resulted in certain and unlimited discord between husbands and wives, and among siblings.
Or maybe by a "carriage return" followed by a "line feed." You see, the text I am writing, and that you are reading, is written in ASCII which is based on the Model 33 Teletype. On a Teletype, a carriage return character (0x0D) would cause the print head to travel all the way to the left; a line feed (0x0A) would cause a roll of paper to move vertically upward by one line.
The modern experience of "going online" is derived from the fact that the Model 33 Teletype had a rotary switch that controlled an electric motor. This switch had three positions, "Line," "Off, and "Local." At my high school, one prepared computer programs in BASIC using "Local" mode so that the program could be punched onto paper tape, one character at a time, while the Teletype was disconnected from the computer system.
Use of computer systems had to be paid for according to the amount of time used, measured in seconds or even milliseconds. Computer time was then too expensive for a user to be allowed to sit at the Teletype keyboard and manually enter keystrokes; instead, after the entire program was punched onto paper tape, the switch would be turned to the "Line" position and the paper tape reader would cause the program to be transmitted to the computer at the Teletype's maximum speed of 110 baud. This was known as "going on Line."
Early microcomputer systems, like larger computers, used Teletypes as I/O devices and ASCII was used internally to store and interpret alphanumeric data. This continued long after users migrated from Teletypes to video display terminals, e.g. DEC VT-100, and then to the IBM PC as the I/O device of choice. Many special function keys from the Model 33 remain in use to this day, for example the Esc (0x1B), Ctrl, Backspace (0x08), Tab (0x09) and DEL (0x7F) keys. The DEL (Delete) code is 0x7F because hitting DEL would cause all the holes in that row of paper tape to be punched (get it, 0x7F). So if you made a typing mistake you could back up the paper tape by one character and type DEL, this would punch through your errant character and the computer would ignore the DEL character.
Given that it is not illegal to own or purchase or transport radioactive materials (within limits for hobbyist use), should the police be allowed to stop and search vehicles which show a slight level of radioactivity?
Seems to me that if you transport radioactive materials on a highway you might be legally required to display one of those diamond-shaped Hazmat placards, and any reasonable officer could lawfully stop and question the driver about a possible violation.
The end of auto insurance? The police and government will never allow driverless cars -- once they realize they'd have to lay off 80% of cops, traffic court judges, etc.
You mean that, through clever hacking, I can actually activate the boiler?? Like, when it gets cold?? No more listening to bullshit excuses from the landlord??
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Consider a time traveler who has an electric fan that runs on 110VAC and is terminated with an Edison plug. Can he plug into a USA household circa 1905? 1899? 1910? What about in the UK on those dates (yes they did initially use 110VAC)? When were the first electric fans and toasters placed into service? And why can't I find this info on WP?
Agree that WP should fork for topics on which there is more than one viewpoint.
Disagree that the Exxon theory of climate change qualifies as a "viewpoint."
As everyone who has ever been a pinball or vidgame tech knows, some quarters are painted or rendered red with a Sharpie. They are then given to the bartender or other location personnel for their use in providing free games for themselves and their friends; when the machine is emptied the red quarters are retrieved and returned to the bartender, etc. (and not given to the mob or other owner of the machine).
Therefore, if you find yourself receiving red quarters in change (outside of an arcade) you can therefore infer that the universe is a simulation.
Losing your data isn't the biggest risk.
After all, prudent people backup or mirror their data on other clouds or servers in other physical locations.
The greater risk is a substantial, unexpected cost. If you use a cloud provider such as Amazon, and your instance is subpoenaed, under Amazon's TOS you have to pay whatever Amazon charges you for their compliance with the subpoena, which could run hundreds of $/hour.
Non-obvious? You're kidding, right? I have a can of Blow-It-Out® right here on my test bench. Gets the cruft out of those pesky keyboards.
When I was a 3rd grader on a field trip, circa 1965, we went to LA's Griffith Observatory where there was (and is) a 500,000 voltTesla coil, behind a glass door and maybe four feet high. Part of the tour was (and no longer is) being able to feel the zap from the coil.
I remember being asked to climb the activated Tesla coil and refusing. To this day I don't know if the teacher was serious, or what if anything would have resulted if I had climbed the sucker.
Unfortunately, while you're covered for the equipment rental, you failed to return the unit as agreed, and we'll have to bill you $32,768.
Let's face it, 43% of OS users are whiny dependent moocher victim freeloaders who want everything in life handed to them.
Call BS. The output of the facial recognition software is either 1 or 0.
By your logic you could get separate patents for:
-- Facial recognition;
-- Facial recognition that logs on to Windows;
--Facial recognition that activates the "vend" relay on a Coke machine;
-- Facial recognition for two people: two Air Force lieutenants smile into the camera, and it launches a Titan II missile (requires 74LS08 "AND" gate).
Y'all forgot, there weren't just 5.25" and 8" floppy drives, there was also no agreement among OEMs on whether diskettes should be soft sectored or hard sectored, and there were maybe 30 formatting schemes in use -- hard sectoring required punching holes in the media, sometimes several.
Even after the IBM-PC (which adopted 5.25" soft-sectored disks as the standard) there were attempts to use punched holes, or nonstandard data written to the disks, either as a copy protection scheme or in order to require computer purchasers to purchase the OEM's own diskette media (DEC Rainbow).
Don't forget that Sen. Paul, the supposed libertarian, also wants the federal government to dictate to residents of the District of Columbia how their locally-collected tax dollars should be spent.
One Paul amendment would require the District to allow residents to obtain concealed weapon permits for handguns, and would require the city to honor permits issued to residents of other states.
Paul submitted an amendment to ban city-funded abortions.
Paul proposed another amendment saying 'membership in a labor organization may not be applied as a precondition for employment' in the District.
Supercavitationistic Bubblicious Warships,
The enemy don't have this stuff, It's only found on our ships,
Faster than the Russian navy, Chinese or Qatar ships,
Supercavitationistic Bubblicious Warships.
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle aye,
It goes a hundred knots per hour and uses little fuel,
Looks just like the Bird of Prey from Star Trek #2,
The DoD they can't believe the small size of the bill,
The sucker was developed for just $150 mil....
Of course, a criminal must also remember to turn off and remove the battery from his cellphone. But this raises suspicions also. He should leave the cellphone on, and at home. But wait, on the way to the crime he will drive by a dozen cameras that will read and record his license plate. He'll also need to steal some license plates. But then he risks getting pulled over if the plate owner has warrants and the plates get recognized by a passing cop car with license plate reader cameras.
It's getting pretty goddamn hard to pull off crimes, isn't it?
Most criminals are too stupid to cover their tracks in all the ways one has to cover one's tracks nowadays, if that's even possible.
Also get some hair or other random DNA from the floor of the local barber shop, nail parlor, etc.
And every uppity lawyer.
GMO is the biologic equivalent of flipping bits in executable files just for kicks and grins.
Except there are no disassemblers, and the language was never fully documented by anyone.
Someday the human race will get shithammered as a result.
The greatest value of my invention will result from its effect upon warfare and armaments, for by reason of its certain and unlimited destructiveness it will tend to bring about and maintain permanent peace among nations. U.S. Pat. 613,809, p. 7, ll.107-112.
What actually happened was that the invention of the remote control resulted in certain and unlimited discord between husbands and wives, and among siblings.
Dell keyboards are flimsy, but you can buy an OEM replacement keyboard for $12 postpaid, and they are easy to replace.
You'll like this little gem better.
Who is going to believe the output of a machine named FIBIAC?
Or maybe by a "carriage return" followed by a "line feed." You see, the text I am writing, and that you are reading, is written in ASCII which is based on the Model 33 Teletype. On a Teletype, a carriage return character (0x0D) would cause the print head to travel all the way to the left; a line feed (0x0A) would cause a roll of paper to move vertically upward by one line.
The modern experience of "going online" is derived from the fact that the Model 33 Teletype had a rotary switch that controlled an electric motor. This switch had three positions, "Line," "Off, and "Local." At my high school, one prepared computer programs in BASIC using "Local" mode so that the program could be punched onto paper tape, one character at a time, while the Teletype was disconnected from the computer system.
Use of computer systems had to be paid for according to the amount of time used, measured in seconds or even milliseconds. Computer time was then too expensive for a user to be allowed to sit at the Teletype keyboard and manually enter keystrokes; instead, after the entire program was punched onto paper tape, the switch would be turned to the "Line" position and the paper tape reader would cause the program to be transmitted to the computer at the Teletype's maximum speed of 110 baud. This was known as "going on Line."
Early microcomputer systems, like larger computers, used Teletypes as I/O devices and ASCII was used internally to store and interpret alphanumeric data. This continued long after users migrated from Teletypes to video display terminals, e.g. DEC VT-100, and then to the IBM PC as the I/O device of choice. Many special function keys from the Model 33 remain in use to this day, for example the Esc (0x1B), Ctrl, Backspace (0x08), Tab (0x09) and DEL (0x7F) keys. The DEL (Delete) code is 0x7F because hitting DEL would cause all the holes in that row of paper tape to be punched (get it, 0x7F). So if you made a typing mistake you could back up the paper tape by one character and type DEL, this would punch through your errant character and the computer would ignore the DEL character.
Given that it is not illegal to own or purchase or transport radioactive materials (within limits for hobbyist use), should the police be allowed to stop and search vehicles which show a slight level of radioactivity?
Seems to me that if you transport radioactive materials on a highway you might be legally required to display one of those diamond-shaped Hazmat placards, and any reasonable officer could lawfully stop and question the driver about a possible violation.
They could put up tree.museum and charge $1.50.
The end of auto insurance? The police and government will never allow driverless cars -- once they realize they'd have to lay off 80% of cops, traffic court judges, etc.
You mean that, through clever hacking, I can actually activate the boiler?? Like, when it gets cold?? No more listening to bullshit excuses from the landlord??
Now I can quit banging on the pipes.