1. Bacterial Infection becomes resistant to antibiotics 2. New antibiotic found that kills resistant strain 3. profit!^H^H^H^H^H^H^H New strain mutates that's resistant to new antibiotic.
maybe its a good thing they're keeping a tight lid on this, i'd hate to lose a finger next time i got a staph infection
Slightly off topic, but i'm pretty sure henry rollins said the quote in your sig before chuck P. wrote fight club.
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he'd have to be rolling down your hallway, due to range limitations. Burglers don't need RFID tags to pick good marks, there are better clues, like receipts, surveillance, and just paying attention.
by your own criteria, several of the short films are indeed anime. Animators and producers from cowboy bebop and deep submarine something-or-other are involved in this project.
People made the same connection with the advents of credit cards, barcodes (which have an interesting "666" synchronicity encoded into the language), and the use of social security numbers for identification. It's brought up now and then, but what i constantly have to remind people who -are- "holy rollers" is that, if they're really into all that inerrancy shtuff, it's not something to -resist- with yelling and shouting and explosions (relegious people do some pretty wierd, violent, self-contradictory stuff), but rather, if it's something they really beleive, they'll just sit back and watch it unfold (since, you know, the story has a happy ending). Unfortunately, most zealots have been reduced to mere meme replicators, failing to comprehend anything representing meaning or philosophy contained in their tenants.
Remember those pants that someone (levi i think) were marketing as having shielded pockets so your cellphone dosen't fry your nads? I wonder what these shielded pockets would do to RFID or magnetic theft countermeasures, these pants could possibly fall afoul of this law.
alright, fine, so then what about tracking the tax status by product-and-state rather than just state? I mean, most corporate POS systems have at least caught up to the vintage 80's terminal-style, so you should be able to attach some minimal information to each SKU. The only thing lacking is standardization between the corporate oligarchy that runs the country and the municipal joke that masquarades as our government.
unfortunately, this product-level tax-tracking screws over the small-businessman/woman over once again. As the overall cost of technology falls, the means to incorporate this kind of technology will quickly fall into the hands of world+dog, and will hopefully cease to be a problem.
i would expect that several years will go by where we are all holding the technology to co-ordinate all of these silly issues but have no idea how to work together before it gets sorted out, of course.
Please examine the stats on the Archos Jukebox 6000. Not only does it have a built in screen to watch DIVX MPEG4 movies and a 20GB storage capacity, it also can use a digital still/video camera attachment (webcam quality, some places are shipping this with it) and a video output jack (RCA phono plug). The thinkgeek price is a little high, i've seen it for around 300 by cruising pricewatch.com. Yes, it's mac an PC compatible. The 29GB non-video enabled jukeboxes have sunk well below 300.
you know, one of those magical things you can do with a computer is UPLOAD an image into another computer.
Imagine working for hours in photoshop at the required resolution designing your own tattoo, emailing it to the robot, making an apointment, and seeing your creation reproduced exactly on your skin.
check the gaming section of your local radioshack, they have a version of this as well with a bunch of games. i forget what it goes for, but its around 20 bucks
right..now, how hard is it to increase the order of magnitude of power of a lazer? with a nuclear power plant feeding the pipe? with how short a range as our target distance?
Yeah, yeah, water is more dense than air. i get that. we have at our command sources of power so massive that changes in density are trifling obsticals.
will it? light -does- travel underwater, you know. Think of it this way. A submarine or a surface vessel with a nuclear reactor on it could probably pony up enough power to fire a pretty jacked-up laser. Even though its under water, i'm willing to bet that this laser could kill a torpedo before it got close enough to damage the hull.
perhaps not. If an array of powerful enough lasers used for missile defence was refracted into a larger number of beams that just circled and changed refraction angle until the coverage area approaches that of a series of overlapping cones, you could conceivably take out all the ordinance at once.
This unit has been availible for a while, i'm glad to see it finally getting the attention it deserves. I got kinda sick of pulling out my archos at a party, only to be asked if it was an ipod. UGH! I've used two incarnations of the archos jukebox, most recently the video capable described in the article, but if that's a bit too expensive for you, there's a 20GB MP3 player made by archos for only around 240-250 (i originally got mine for 300ish with shipping, but that was a while ago), and a 10GB MP3 player/recorder for around the same price range (they even cary these at radioshack, if you want to play with one before paying for it).
The thought i'd like to leave you with is...buy one before they are outlawed! buy two! This may be the second-to-last, third-to-last, heck, maybe even last wave of these devices without DRM built in. Enjoy it while it lasts.
who says this is going to have anything to do with the government? Just because NASA tends to have a monopoly on the endeavor currently? I'm sure a private enterprise would erect the structure faster and far more cost-efficiently than NASA could.
they're creating spidersilk in the udders of goats now, it's called "biosteel". Hooray for genetic engineering! It's really inefficient to harvest silk from spiders, because they're too territorial. The protein from spider silk gets mass-produced in a milk-producing creature, where it can be harvested in huge quantities. Thing is though, from what i remember, biosteel biodegrades (go figure).
I still want my bulletproof spidersilk trenchcoat, though.
i can't imagine it would be too dificult to surround the carbon nanotubes with an opaque sheath. i mean, really. I doubt they would build a structure that would explode if you took a picture of it, especially when you consider things like, oh, i dunno, lightning.
All i'm saying is that the things we're talking about are nothing but a convenient social agreement as to what things "are", and that agreement is liable to change at the whim of the collective. The concept of "property" didn't always exist, and who says it always will?
I mean, you could look at it like there are all these people creating things, so they only belong to them, but in a broader sense, these are all acheivements that the planet is making as a whole organism. Unfortunately, us domesticated primates don't really see it that way.
I wasn't really saying anything about the GPL. Hell, i'm not really sure how it works, or what it's relationship to copyright is. I'm just saying that the concept of intellectual property is only an abstract construction of our ever-so-healthy economic model.
here's an interesting scenario. An eastern technology giant lifts restrictions regarding intellectual property concerns, and allows its constituants to build and innovate freely, without the threat of lawsuits or red tape...
It's easy to imagine the intellectual property concerns in the west reaching such a fevered pitch that the worlds intellectual resources actually flee to a situation that dosen't bother as much with the red tape of copyrights and beurauchracy. A "brain-drain", if you will. Perhaps this disregard for intellectual property concerns -does- stem from a basis on stolen technology, but if the end result is a focus more on creative output than on "who gets paid", the people -really- interested in creating will simply go where they can do what they want to do.
Having become accustomed to a certain way of life, those of us insistant upon our rights to download mp3s and try out the latest games before we buy them may find ourselves developing a strong interest in learning chinese.
as opposed to the enlightened, freedom-loving united states of america? I don't know what country -you-'re from, but the united states, where I hail from, is responsible for bombing and napalming civilians (including children), toppling democracies when they don't like the elected leader, and engaging in covert acts of terror around the world, while skillfully duping it's populace into giving away it's civil liberties. disinfo.org - guerrillanews.com
Remember, the united states is an exremely oppressive government that uses whatever it can get its hands on to harm people. I hope we fail.
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1. Bacterial Infection becomes resistant to antibiotics
2. New antibiotic found that kills resistant strain
3. profit!^H^H^H^H^H^H^H New strain mutates that's resistant to new antibiotic.
maybe its a good thing they're keeping a tight lid on this, i'd hate to lose a finger next time i got a staph infection
Slightly off topic, but i'm pretty sure henry rollins said the quote in your sig before chuck P. wrote fight club.
he'd have to be rolling down your hallway, due to range limitations. Burglers don't need RFID tags to pick good marks, there are better clues, like receipts, surveillance, and just paying attention.
by your own criteria, several of the short films are indeed anime. Animators and producers from cowboy bebop and deep submarine something-or-other are involved in this project.
People made the same connection with the advents of credit cards, barcodes (which have an interesting "666" synchronicity encoded into the language), and the use of social security numbers for identification. It's brought up now and then, but what i constantly have to remind people who -are- "holy rollers" is that, if they're really into all that inerrancy shtuff, it's not something to -resist- with yelling and shouting and explosions (relegious people do some pretty wierd, violent, self-contradictory stuff), but rather, if it's something they really beleive, they'll just sit back and watch it unfold (since, you know, the story has a happy ending). Unfortunately, most zealots have been reduced to mere meme replicators, failing to comprehend anything representing meaning or philosophy contained in their tenants.
Interesting..now here's a question.
Remember those pants that someone (levi i think) were marketing as having shielded pockets so your cellphone dosen't fry your nads? I wonder what these shielded pockets would do to RFID or magnetic theft countermeasures, these pants could possibly fall afoul of this law.
alright, fine, so then what about tracking the tax status by product-and-state rather than just state? I mean, most corporate POS systems have at least caught up to the vintage 80's terminal-style, so you should be able to attach some minimal information to each SKU. The only thing lacking is standardization between the corporate oligarchy that runs the country and the municipal joke that masquarades as our government.
unfortunately, this product-level tax-tracking screws over the small-businessman/woman over once again. As the overall cost of technology falls, the means to incorporate this kind of technology will quickly fall into the hands of world+dog, and will hopefully cease to be a problem.
i would expect that several years will go by where we are all holding the technology to co-ordinate all of these silly issues but have no idea how to work together before it gets sorted out, of course.
-eep- correction, 20GB
Please examine the stats on the Archos Jukebox 6000. Not only does it have a built in screen to watch DIVX MPEG4 movies and a 20GB storage capacity, it also can use a digital still/video camera attachment (webcam quality, some places are shipping this with it) and a video output jack (RCA phono plug). The thinkgeek price is a little high, i've seen it for around 300 by cruising pricewatch.com. Yes, it's mac an PC compatible. The 29GB non-video enabled jukeboxes have sunk well below 300.
you know, one of those magical things you can do with a computer is UPLOAD an image into another computer.
Imagine working for hours in photoshop at the required resolution designing your own tattoo, emailing it to the robot, making an apointment, and seeing your creation reproduced exactly on your skin.
be sure to post pictures if you turn grey-blue!
sure it does.
but when your company sees you pumping traffic through an anonymous/encrypted proxy, they'll assume the worse and..well..you get the idea.
check the gaming section of your local radioshack, they have a version of this as well with a bunch of games. i forget what it goes for, but its around 20 bucks
right..now, how hard is it to increase the order of magnitude of power of a lazer? with a nuclear power plant feeding the pipe? with how short a range as our target distance?
Yeah, yeah, water is more dense than air. i get that. we have at our command sources of power so massive that changes in density are trifling obsticals.
will it? light -does- travel underwater, you know. Think of it this way. A submarine or a surface vessel with a nuclear reactor on it could probably pony up enough power to fire a pretty jacked-up laser. Even though its under water, i'm willing to bet that this laser could kill a torpedo before it got close enough to damage the hull.
perhaps not. If an array of powerful enough lasers used for missile defence was refracted into a larger number of beams that just circled and changed refraction angle until the coverage area approaches that of a series of overlapping cones, you could conceivably take out all the ordinance at once.
This unit has been availible for a while, i'm glad to see it finally getting the attention it deserves. I got kinda sick of pulling out my archos at a party, only to be asked if it was an ipod. UGH! I've used two incarnations of the archos jukebox, most recently the video capable described in the article, but if that's a bit too expensive for you, there's a 20GB MP3 player made by archos for only around 240-250 (i originally got mine for 300ish with shipping, but that was a while ago), and a 10GB MP3 player/recorder for around the same price range (they even cary these at radioshack, if you want to play with one before paying for it).
The thought i'd like to leave you with is...buy one before they are outlawed! buy two! This may be the second-to-last, third-to-last, heck, maybe even last wave of these devices without DRM built in. Enjoy it while it lasts.
who says this is going to have anything to do with the government? Just because NASA tends to have a monopoly on the endeavor currently? I'm sure a private enterprise would erect the structure faster and far more cost-efficiently than NASA could.
and the international space station (which would caust around the same amount of money to complete) is -more- useful than this?
they're creating spidersilk in the udders of goats now, it's called "biosteel". Hooray for genetic engineering! It's really inefficient to harvest silk from spiders, because they're too territorial. The protein from spider silk gets mass-produced in a milk-producing creature, where it can be harvested in huge quantities. Thing is though, from what i remember, biosteel biodegrades (go figure).
I still want my bulletproof spidersilk trenchcoat, though.
i can't imagine it would be too dificult to surround the carbon nanotubes with an opaque sheath. i mean, really. I doubt they would build a structure that would explode if you took a picture of it, especially when you consider things like, oh, i dunno, lightning.
All i'm saying is that the things we're talking about are nothing but a convenient social agreement as to what things "are", and that agreement is liable to change at the whim of the collective. The concept of "property" didn't always exist, and who says it always will?
I mean, you could look at it like there are all these people creating things, so they only belong to them, but in a broader sense, these are all acheivements that the planet is making as a whole organism. Unfortunately, us domesticated primates don't really see it that way.
I wasn't really saying anything about the GPL. Hell, i'm not really sure how it works, or what it's relationship to copyright is. I'm just saying that the concept of intellectual property is only an abstract construction of our ever-so-healthy economic model.
here's an interesting scenario. An eastern technology giant lifts restrictions regarding intellectual property concerns, and allows its constituants to build and innovate freely, without the threat of lawsuits or red tape...
It's easy to imagine the intellectual property concerns in the west reaching such a fevered pitch that the worlds intellectual resources actually flee to a situation that dosen't bother as much with the red tape of copyrights and beurauchracy. A "brain-drain", if you will. Perhaps this disregard for intellectual property concerns -does- stem from a basis on stolen technology, but if the end result is a focus more on creative output than on "who gets paid", the people -really- interested in creating will simply go where they can do what they want to do.
Having become accustomed to a certain way of life, those of us insistant upon our rights to download mp3s and try out the latest games before we buy them may find ourselves developing a strong interest in learning chinese.
as opposed to the enlightened, freedom-loving united states of america? I don't know what country -you-'re from, but the united states, where I hail from, is responsible for bombing and napalming civilians (including children), toppling democracies when they don't like the elected leader, and engaging in covert acts of terror around the world, while skillfully duping it's populace into giving away it's civil liberties. disinfo.org - guerrillanews.com
Remember, the united states is an exremely oppressive government that uses whatever it can get its hands on to harm people. I hope we fail.
that would explain the clock/performance disparity