Sounds scarily like the engineered food described in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in which the character Famine develops food with specially woven and capped protein chains (approx. sic) with no nutritional value that allows the consumer to eat as much as they want and still look good while at the same time dying of malnutrition.
What happens when software tech really makes it into our cars and other vehicles...
What do you mean? It is been in cars and other vehicles (all modern airplanes) for years. We rely on embedded microprocessors and microcontrollers for most of our day, in engine management systems, braking, in car safety, fly-by-wire, etc. etc. etc. And its not just a couple of if-then-elses. There is some serious code out there. And it works. Most of the time.
Have a look at the Risks Digest if you want to find out how far things have gone.
it is not patented and thus it is not against the law to crack it....
Patenting something does not prevent anyone from reverse engineering it, and in fact they wouldnt need to because the mechanism would be documented in the patent.
Reverse engineering is not 'against the law' in most parts of the world, only the US thanks to the DMCA (C is for copyright, not patent), so therefore they probably have not broken the law if they did this outside the US. At present it is legal in the EU to reverse engineer a competitors product for the purpose of producing a compatible interface, sadly however that may not be the case if the proposed "directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights" is ratified.
Am I a conspiracy nutbag or has the US been in possession of high aerospace technology (such as antigrav) for more than 40 years? You be the judge. But don't be hardheaded and blind.
I'm afraid sir, that Occams razor says that you are a conspiracy nutbag. I did some research, with my eyes open and my head soft.
From Wikipedia:
Proponents of the Apollo Moon Landing Hoax have argued that space travel to the moon is impossible because the Van Allen radiation would kill or incapacitate an astronaut who made the trip. Van Allen himself, still alive and living in Iowa City, has dismissed these ideas. In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [5]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation. Astronauts who visited the moon probably have a slightly higher risk of cancer during their lifetimes, but still remain unlikely to become ill because of it.
Now I'm not saying this is the best authoritative source, but the citation
[5] The Van Allen Belts and Travel to the Moon. Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. Caltech: (2000). Retrieved on 2006-06-11
appears to have more rational arguments in favour than you present against.
If that bit of conspiracy nuttiness is the best argument you have, then I'd say you've got a pretty weak case. Unfortunately reality is much more boring than fantasy conspiracies, because generally the accepted hypothesis is correct, even if its boring because it does not involve secret cabals etc. Conspiracy theories generally fail because they assume that politicians and people in powerful possitions are very good at keeping secrets and not making mistakes. Whereas all evidence of their behaviour points to the absolute opposite. The general level of incompetency would prevent any major conspiracy from working, or being kept secret for more than a few days.
Hope you can open your eyes and not be so hard headed;-)
I think that the strongest proof that the US landed on the moon was the absence of any attempt by the USSR to discredit the claim. Given that the space race was being used by both sides to demonstrate the superiority of capitalism/communism, I'm sure the Soviets would have shouted from the rooftops if there had been any faking going on. And i'm sure that Nasa etc. were sufficiently penetrated that such activity couldn't have been hidden from well placed moles.
Another major justification is to prevent identity theft.
Given that more and more transactions are performed remotely with the retailer and the customer connected via phone or web, I find it difficult to understand how these ID cards will prevent fraudulent transactions. And biometric readers at the customer end are not elegant and must be subvertible in many ways.
You can change your password as many times as you want, but if someone can masquerade as you using your biometrics then you are buggered. Revoking your DNA seems a terminal option.
Although I don't think that the UK is considered 'in harmony'. With no adjacent land borders we have very few 'friend' votes other than Eire, the only other friend appears to be Malta.
I have been using on screen 'Post-it' notes for many years. I run my own business and have to multitask far beyond the task switching capabilities of my memory, so these notes are great for temporary and semipermanent storage.
I started using freeware post-it like software that allowed arbitrary sized/coloured notes to be left on the desktop, however I gradually migrated to using MS Outlook notes, which I use for all of my notes. Currently I have about 40 different notes active. Usually only one or two are displayed on the desktop, the rest I open as and when I need them. They are incredibly useful as aid memoires for the various tasks I have to perform. A permanent TODO note lists various outstanding tasks or items I am working on. Other notes may contain e.g.
o Various ideas for specific projects o Admin items that need performing o Outstanding tasks for design o Things to order (stationary, components) o Records of temporary/permanent changes to local Network o Site kit lists (cables, tools, software, dont forget your passport etc.)
I want to migrate away from Outlook to e.g. Mozilla Calendar, but I need a good replacement fo the Post-its, as well as the Contacts database. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I don't understand what you mean by "in fairness" to these folks.
The theory of evolution is not "contradicted" by the fossil record, the theory does not predict a rate of evolution, it simply defines a general mechanism by which the characteristics of a species of organism can change in each generation through natural selection. The actual mechanisms by which this occurs are not all understood in detail.
It is certainly likely that the rate of evolution is determined by the environment and the interaction of the local flora and fauna. In steady-state evolution does not really occur as there is no drive to change. When the environment is dynamic or changed through events such as ice-ages, meteor strikes, volcanic eruptions, new species evolving or moving in to area etc. stronger selection occurs (evolve or die) and therefore more rapid evolution occurs. One would guess that the bigger the change, the more rapidly evolution may occur as the selection environment is more harsh than usual.
The theories can only tell you so much, what you really need is experimental evidence. Given that we cant do long experiments we can only rely on the fossil record. And the transient events you refer to provide some evidence for punctuated evolution. Rather than contradicting the theory, the data helps to flesh it out.
In the UK, student life revolves around drinking to excess. Every day. For three or four years.
I spent my entire student life on the piss. The best years of my life. Although doing my post-graduate degree was a lot more of a sober experience. You cannot do the same sort of brain damage drinking and write a 250 page thesis that makes sense.
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Sounds scarily like the engineered food described in Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in which the character Famine develops food with specially woven and capped protein chains (approx. sic) with no nutritional value that allows the consumer to eat as much as they want and still look good while at the same time dying of malnutrition.
What do you mean? It is been in cars and other vehicles (all modern airplanes) for years. We rely on embedded microprocessors and microcontrollers for most of our day, in engine management systems, braking, in car safety, fly-by-wire, etc. etc. etc. And its not just a couple of if-then-elses. There is some serious code out there. And it works. Most of the time.
Have a look at the Risks Digest if you want to find out how far things have gone.
I think perhaps a suicide bomber wouldn't mind being on the flight, thats how he gets to heaven
Patenting something does not prevent anyone from reverse engineering it, and in fact they wouldnt need to because the mechanism would be documented in the patent.
Reverse engineering is not 'against the law' in most parts of the world, only the US thanks to the DMCA (C is for copyright, not patent), so therefore they probably have not broken the law if they did this outside the US. At present it is legal in the EU to reverse engineer a competitors product for the purpose of producing a compatible interface, sadly however that may not be the case if the proposed "directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights" is ratified.
I'm afraid sir, that Occams razor says that you are a conspiracy nutbag. I did some research, with my eyes open and my head soft.
From Wikipedia: Proponents of the Apollo Moon Landing Hoax have argued that space travel to the moon is impossible because the Van Allen radiation would kill or incapacitate an astronaut who made the trip. Van Allen himself, still alive and living in Iowa City, has dismissed these ideas. In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [5]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation. Astronauts who visited the moon probably have a slightly higher risk of cancer during their lifetimes, but still remain unlikely to become ill because of it.
Now I'm not saying this is the best authoritative source, but the citation
[5] The Van Allen Belts and Travel to the Moon. Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. Caltech: (2000). Retrieved on 2006-06-11
appears to have more rational arguments in favour than you present against.
If that bit of conspiracy nuttiness is the best argument you have, then I'd say you've got a pretty weak case. Unfortunately reality is much more boring than fantasy conspiracies, because generally the accepted hypothesis is correct, even if its boring because it does not involve secret cabals etc. Conspiracy theories generally fail because they assume that politicians and people in powerful possitions are very good at keeping secrets and not making mistakes. Whereas all evidence of their behaviour points to the absolute opposite. The general level of incompetency would prevent any major conspiracy from working, or being kept secret for more than a few days.
Hope you can open your eyes and not be so hard headed ;-)
I think that the strongest proof that the US landed on the moon was the absence of any attempt by the USSR to discredit the claim. Given that the space race was being used by both sides to demonstrate the superiority of capitalism/communism, I'm sure the Soviets would have shouted from the rooftops if there had been any faking going on. And i'm sure that Nasa etc. were sufficiently penetrated that such activity couldn't have been hidden from well placed moles.
I think that the original poster is referring to the Gehlen Organisation
Dont cross the streams it would be bad
You mean electric sheep?
Is this tea-shirt a cunning part of the marketing strategy?
Ha Ha, I hope you are being ironic.
Forcing it on the UK is a sure-fire way of losing your last real ally.
Another major justification is to prevent identity theft.
Given that more and more transactions are performed remotely with the retailer and the customer connected via phone or web, I find it difficult to understand how these ID cards will prevent fraudulent transactions. And biometric readers at the customer end are not elegant and must be subvertible in many ways.
You can change your password as many times as you want, but if someone can masquerade as you using your biometrics then you are buggered. Revoking your DNA seems a terminal option.
Terry Wogan has being saying this for years.
Although I don't think that the UK is considered 'in harmony'. With no adjacent land borders we have very few 'friend' votes other than Eire, the only other friend appears to be Malta.
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Depending on your light source, you may observe single slit diffraction
I have been using on screen 'Post-it' notes for many years. I run my own business and have to multitask far beyond the task switching capabilities of my memory, so these notes are great for temporary and semipermanent storage.
I started using freeware post-it like software that allowed arbitrary sized/coloured notes to be left on the desktop, however I gradually migrated to using MS Outlook notes, which I use for all of my notes. Currently I have about 40 different notes active. Usually only one or two are displayed on the desktop, the rest I open as and when I need them. They are incredibly useful as aid memoires for the various tasks I have to perform. A permanent TODO note lists various outstanding tasks or items I am working on. Other notes may contain e.g.
o Various ideas for specific projects
o Admin items that need performing
o Outstanding tasks for design
o Things to order (stationary, components)
o Records of temporary/permanent changes to local Network
o Site kit lists (cables, tools, software, dont forget your passport etc.)
I want to migrate away from Outlook to e.g. Mozilla Calendar, but I need a good replacement fo the Post-its, as well as the Contacts database. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I don't understand what you mean by "in fairness" to these folks.
The theory of evolution is not "contradicted" by the fossil record, the theory does not predict a rate of evolution, it simply defines a general mechanism by which the characteristics of a species of organism can change in each generation through natural selection. The actual mechanisms by which this occurs are not all understood in detail.
It is certainly likely that the rate of evolution is determined by the environment and the interaction of the local flora and fauna. In steady-state evolution does not really occur as there is no drive to change. When the environment is dynamic or changed through events such as ice-ages, meteor strikes, volcanic eruptions, new species evolving or moving in to area etc. stronger selection occurs (evolve or die) and therefore more rapid evolution occurs. One would guess that the bigger the change, the more rapidly evolution may occur as the selection environment is more harsh than usual.
The theories can only tell you so much, what you really need is experimental evidence. Given that we cant do long experiments we can only rely on the fossil record. And the transient events you refer to provide some evidence for punctuated evolution. Rather than contradicting the theory, the data helps to flesh it out.
Actually, additional analysis here shows a slightly more energetic explosion than the original image suggests.
I still use Ceefax a lot, especially as a news source and for sports scores.
Have a look at his web site, wow! He's not 20 years behind, he's 20 years ahead, and possibly on a different planet, or even in a different galaxy.
Do you mean like this one
In the UK, student life revolves around drinking to excess. Every day. For three or four years.
I spent my entire student life on the piss. The best years of my life. Although doing my post-graduate degree was a lot more of a sober experience. You cannot do the same sort of brain damage drinking and write a 250 page thesis that makes sense.
Mods, put down those crack pipes.
Why the hell is the parent modded Funny? Read the link, its about some of the fatalities that occurred,
Bother bother bother. Brother. Brother. Brother.
I would like to know more.
Are you saying that you live in a country where you are scared of being overheard discussing an idea?
Where you can get arrested for a thought.
In Soviet Russia... big borther watches you
In the USA.... its the same