Your comment is moderated insightful and rightly so. It will be interesting to see how people who support abortion on demand without restrictions will react when it turns out embryos that are entirely healthy, but identified to be likely "gay", are the first to be disposed of.
I would place my bets on there being an attempt to pass laws to prevent testing for such genetic markers.
The case itself would provide a precedence for the judge's own defense in his ensuing criminal public obscenity trial.
Where does the article even imply the judge is going to be criminally prosecuted for the content that was on his website? From the description, the content on his site may be seen as embarrassing and in poor taste, but you have to do far more than post nudie pictures your site to be brought up on obscenity charges.
By your logic, a judge who drinks and enjoys alcoholic beverages must recuse himself from a DUI trial because of conflict of interest.
I would certainly want judge Kozinski presiding over my case. Just as if the RIAA was on my case I would want a judge who was familiar with and used bittorrent.
I agree with your sentiments on this one. It seems that if we want people to focus on fundamental science research as a career, we should put mechanisms in place that allows one to create a decent life and livelihood out of making such a career choice. I don't see how any rational person would take the slim chance of winning such a prize at some point the future over a steady career that pays for a decent home, keeps the spouse happy and puts the kids through college. Fame and fortune is such an intangible that it will find certain people no matter what their path is and look over others.
However, creating a powerful and efficient solar power system to get the cobalt ferrite hot enough remains a major hurdle in implementing the technology on a large scale, said Aldo Steinfeld, head of the Solar Technology Laboratory at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, in an e-mail.
Using solar power to generate the heat introduces a lot of practical problems to overcome such as space for the solar reflectors, dependence on time of day and weather and other issues. It seems that a compact nuclear reactor could easily generate the 2600 degrees Fahrenheit required to heat cobalt ferrite rings and excess heat used to turn steam turbines to generate even more electricity. In essence it would be a coal/nuclear hybrid plant.
Once Google fails to index Microsoft content (I'm assuming they don't yet index text in Silverlight content) and page visits drop off they'll certainly change back to HTML just as you describe.
If I was a marketing manager for another Microsoft product, I wouldn't be happy with the Silverlight folks forcing me to limit my content to people who have Silverlight installed. Of course, perhaps they are all drinking the coolaid.
While they may not be forcing Australian citizens to use the internet filter, they're doing the next worst thing because you have to take an affirmative step in order to get it removed. The ISPs/government will have a handy list of all the "perverts" who want access to the unfiltered internet.
Agreed. It seems to me that taking the step of removing yourself from the filter is a risky thing to do if ever want to run for political office. What politician could resist not exposing the fact that their rival removed the "filter" from their Internet access. After all, we all know that only "perverts" would do such a thing.
... on Eucalyptus Avenue in San Carlos the whole neighborhood gets involved with spectacular lighting displays. While not technically elaborate or geeky as the linked video, it is still quite a sight. Kids, young and old, certainly enjoy it walking up and down the street enjoying the hospitality of the home owners.
Of course, it's a sight that would make Al Gore cry, but he's an old Hum Bugger anyway.
The folks at Anybots are basically working on that idea. Given that sufficient AI will take decades to develop, I believe their robots will initially be about providing telepresence capabilities along the lines that you describe.
According to this article it appears the Netflix outage is unrelated to the power outage in downtown San Francisco.
Netflix's Web site - the hub of its rental system - went down Monday evening and remained inaccessible as of Tuesday afternoon (EDT). Spokesman Steve Swasey attributed the outage to an unanticipated problem that he declined to describe. Engineers hoped to fix the trouble by 2 p.m. EDT.
A race biologically identical to ours in any given solar system may be as physically evolved as we are, but notably superior technologically having not suffered the loss of their own Library of Alexandria, or a complete lack of their own Dark Ages.
I have always wondered what our civilization would look like today if the Roman empire had developed 18th and 19th century level steam technology 1800 years earlier. I presume it would have lead to a cascade of scientific discovery and technology development around the harnessing energy that had to wait until the Dark Ages were over.
Wouldn't this spell the end to rock climbing as a skill?
Actually, I think it would just make the sport all that more extreme enabling skilled climbers to do things that are currently impossible. The envelope would simply be pushed out beyond what a typical person would consider doing even if wrapped in gecko tape.
I mean, it is not like the NK will not have week, month or year to map map out where those are, then prepare artillery bombardement on those coordinate.
Not a problem. According to this this page they have a mobile version. A picture of it is here.
Amateur roboticists (and gunmakers) Aaron and Eric Rasmussen built an autonomous sentry gun as a summer project. Aaron wrote custom software to acquire and track human targets using images recieved from an attached USB webcam. The brothers have incorporated as USMechatronics to begin building sentry guns based on the technology.
It's also very similar to these robot sentries from the movie Aliens. The scene which may have been cut from the movie, but apparently included in the deleted scenes on the DVD.
...where as in prehistoric times they had centuries and millenia to slowly adapt to climate changes.
Hmmm. Are you sure about this? I believe there is evidence that past temperature changes associated with cooling and warming occured relatively quickly -- perhaps on the order of decades. Climate change isn't always a smooth gradual process like plate tectonics, but can be rapid transitions between different states of relative stability.
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Your comment is moderated insightful and rightly so. It will be interesting to see how people who support abortion on demand without restrictions will react when it turns out embryos that are entirely healthy, but identified to be likely "gay", are the first to be disposed of.
I would place my bets on there being an attempt to pass laws to prevent testing for such genetic markers.
That works fine until the same ba$tards outlaw OSS since it allows a user to work around their "Electronic Self-Help". Can't have that, can we?
the congressmen should have realized a sock shoved in the "series of tubes" would have been an effective countermeasure.
Sheesh! Politicians these days. They don't know anything.
The case itself would provide a precedence for the judge's own defense in his ensuing criminal public obscenity trial.
Where does the article even imply the judge is going to be criminally prosecuted for the content that was on his website? From the description, the content on his site may be seen as embarrassing and in poor taste, but you have to do far more than post nudie pictures your site to be brought up on obscenity charges.
By your logic, a judge who drinks and enjoys alcoholic beverages must recuse himself from a DUI trial because of conflict of interest.
...they didn't name the last planet Hermes.
I would certainly want judge Kozinski presiding over my case. Just as if the RIAA was on my case I would want a judge who was familiar with and used bittorrent.
Finally I find posting really worthy of mod points and I'm without any :-(. Terrific posting.
I agree with your sentiments on this one. It seems that if we want people to focus on fundamental science research as a career, we should put mechanisms in place that allows one to create a decent life and livelihood out of making such a career choice. I don't see how any rational person would take the slim chance of winning such a prize at some point the future over a steady career that pays for a decent home, keeps the spouse happy and puts the kids through college. Fame and fortune is such an intangible that it will find certain people no matter what their path is and look over others.
Only if we can nominate and vote on who goes.
However, creating a powerful and efficient solar power system to get the cobalt ferrite hot enough remains a major hurdle in implementing the technology on a large scale, said Aldo Steinfeld, head of the Solar Technology Laboratory at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, in an e-mail.
Using solar power to generate the heat introduces a lot of practical problems to overcome such as space for the solar reflectors, dependence on time of day and weather and other issues. It seems that a compact nuclear reactor could easily generate the 2600 degrees Fahrenheit required to heat cobalt ferrite rings and excess heat used to turn steam turbines to generate even more electricity. In essence it would be a coal/nuclear hybrid plant.
Once Google fails to index Microsoft content (I'm assuming they don't yet index text in Silverlight content) and page visits drop off they'll certainly change back to HTML just as you describe.
If I was a marketing manager for another Microsoft product, I wouldn't be happy with the Silverlight folks forcing me to limit my content to people who have Silverlight installed. Of course, perhaps they are all drinking the coolaid.
While they may not be forcing Australian citizens to use the internet filter, they're doing the next worst thing because you have to take an affirmative step in order to get it removed. The ISPs/government will have a handy list of all the "perverts" who want access to the unfiltered internet.
Agreed. It seems to me that taking the step of removing yourself from the filter is a risky thing to do if ever want to run for political office. What politician could resist not exposing the fact that their rival removed the "filter" from their Internet access. After all, we all know that only "perverts" would do such a thing.
... on Eucalyptus Avenue in San Carlos the whole neighborhood gets involved with spectacular lighting displays. While not technically elaborate or geeky as the linked video, it is still quite a sight. Kids, young and old, certainly enjoy it walking up and down the street enjoying the hospitality of the home owners.
Of course, it's a sight that would make Al Gore cry, but he's an old Hum Bugger anyway.
The folks at Anybots are basically working on that idea. Given that sufficient AI will take decades to develop, I believe their robots will initially be about providing telepresence capabilities along the lines that you describe.
the researchers do compare the structure to mother of pearl
Would that not make it a biologically inspired material? Close enough to biotech for me.
... that migratory birds have a heads-up navigation display. Who would have thought?
Ahhhh!!! Sideburns from the 70's...
A race biologically identical to ours in any given solar system may be as physically evolved as we are, but notably superior technologically having not suffered the loss of their own Library of Alexandria, or a complete lack of their own Dark Ages.
I have always wondered what our civilization would look like today if the Roman empire had developed 18th and 19th century level steam technology 1800 years earlier. I presume it would have lead to a cascade of scientific discovery and technology development around the harnessing energy that had to wait until the Dark Ages were over.
Wouldn't this spell the end to rock climbing as a skill?
Actually, I think it would just make the sport all that more extreme enabling skilled climbers to do things that are currently impossible. The envelope would simply be pushed out beyond what a typical person would consider doing even if wrapped in gecko tape.
... so why not the IAU. Simply break planets down into different subclasses. Everyone knows that Earth is a Class M planet.
There's already a helpful classification guide to help them get started.
I mean, it is not like the NK will not have week, month or year to map map out where those are, then prepare artillery bombardement on those coordinate.
Not a problem. According to this this page they have a mobile version. A picture of it is here.
This page describes:
Amateur roboticists (and gunmakers) Aaron and Eric Rasmussen built an autonomous sentry gun as a summer project. Aaron wrote custom software to acquire and track human targets using images recieved from an attached USB webcam. The brothers have incorporated as USMechatronics to begin building sentry guns based on the technology.
More information here on the brothers official sentry gun website.
It's also very similar to these robot sentries from the movie Aliens. The scene which may have been cut from the movie, but apparently included in the deleted scenes on the DVD.
...where as in prehistoric times they had centuries and millenia to slowly adapt to climate changes.
Hmmm. Are you sure about this? I believe there is evidence that past temperature changes associated with cooling and warming occured relatively quickly -- perhaps on the order of decades. Climate change isn't always a smooth gradual process like plate tectonics, but can be rapid transitions between different states of relative stability.