Since at least some of the schemes would use reflectometry to determine where in the car the phone is located, it does not need to disable passenger's phones.
Some of the proposed solutions are based by position. It would send a "shut up" message to any phone determined, by signal reflection, to be in the drivers seat area of the car. So as soon as the passengers phone moved into the drivers volume, it would cut off. The disable signal would then be gated with handbrake off: pull on the handbrake if you need to call breakdown services.
Just make sure that it is car based, not phone based, so if you take your phone to a country where the drivers seat is on the other side, it doesn't get it wrong.
Twenty years ago, I though that there were relatively few exoplanets - only perhaps one in every few hundred systems having them - and even if there were one nearby, the chances of detecting it, ever, were small. Now we are knee deep in exoplanets, we know that large numbers of stars can have them, and we can even see them (probably). What I thought would never happen is fast transitioning from surprising to mundane.
Which just goes to prove the to Clarke's law, that almost nothing is impossible, in due course. Once we couldn't see them. Now we can see them, but fear we will never visit them. But history shows that visiting will come, in time - provided we have enough time.
Hugo Chavez died 5th March this year. His named successor, Nicolas Maduro, has just been elected to the Presidency and has promised to stick closely to his policies. Change may come, but it is not insight yet.
If it has not been done before, can we coin the term Cyberlynching to refer to hanging up a computer in pursuit of an unproven allegation of crime without due process of law? It helps to have a clearly understood name for something you are discussing.
Such early repayment penalties are not normal in commercial loans. I don't know about US practice, but in the UK they are used only on mortgages that have some sort of "easy starter" features, so that the bank can get back the money they have foregone on the easy start, Commercial loans will normally have some sort of a warning period - you have to say, perhaps, 30 days before you are going to make an unscheduled repayment, but no actual penalty clauses.
I agree entirely with this. The huge numbers of people using cellphones, and continuing to do so over the years, mean that any effects caused by their radiation emissions must be either very small or very slow. We have had a large enough population using them that significant effects would be clearly visible.
That does not mean that there are no effects. But it does mean that they are small compared to the very visible effects of distraction and misuse. If you are not prepared to ban cellphones because of the number killed by texting while driving, it is disproportionate to get worried about the tiny number who may, possibly, suffer some unknown effect from the radiation.
I am not sure I would describe this as "Green". Using up all available resources in one massive burst, leaving nothing for future generations. Efficient, yea - in the way a nuclear bomb is efficient. But basically a cheap headline to draw attention to what is, yes, an interesting bit of astronomy.
Like many things that have evolved over time, the God concept has several uses, and it is not possible to say which is the one it was invented "for". As a vehicle for explaining morality (Why not kill? God says not), as a means of keeping people under control (do what the priest says, or God will punish you), explaining the unexplainable (God makes the sun rise), palliating the fear of death (God will take me to heaven, if...), providing a mechanism for attempting to solve the unsolvable, or at least doing something (prayer), providing a forum for happy singy dancy ceremonies (worship). It serves all these purposes separately, and which is the most important varies between people.
While you are entirely correct NK can in no way win any war, it is not obvious that they know that. Evidence from people who have been there is that they believe their own propaganda. They might, in their insanity, start a war they/thought/ they could win. Though they would lose, the carnage would be appalling.
Because China, the third largest nuclear power on the planet, regards NK as deep in its "sphere of influence", and would regard any serious attack on NK as tantamount to a declaration of war. You have a rabid chihuahua owned by a heavyweight boxing champion. The dog is not problem, but the owner will flatten you.
If by "leveling Seoul" you mean marching that rediculous million man army armed with Soviet-era weapons across the parallel, sure, let's see how that goes.
No, by "levelling Seoul" is meant firing a barrage with the 14,000 well maintained, well dug in artillery pieces they have on their side of the border, aimed at Seoul. Conservative, old technology - but excellent for city busting.
It is not 60 year old ordnance, but it may be 60 year old designs - though I suspect it is newer. The one thing they have spend money on is conventional artillery. The have approx 14,000 guns (IIRC), believed to be well maintained and well emplaced in hardened bunkers, pointed at Seoul. It may well not be the latest precision targeted munitions. It doesn't need to be - Seoul is a large target. I saw a theoretical figure of half a million shells per hour. Obviously, that level would not be reached - but a tenth of that would be devastating.
Yes, NK could be flattened with conventional missiles. But they have enough artillery pieces lined up on the border (14,000, IIRC), with ammunition, to send up to half a million shells an hour into Seoul for a day or so. Before they were incapacitated, they could kill maybe ten million people is South Korea. Yes, it would be pointless slaughter, pure vindictiveness. But I am not prepared to say they wouldn't do it.
Why not? The energy was extracted from the environment and converted into a sound file playable on your computer. It may have been post-processed a bit, but it is a record of fluctuations created by the Bug Bang.
But, for example, the Alcubierre drive would allow us to travel to the stars in reasonable subjective time without FTL travel. If it could be built (manipulating multiple Jupiter-sized masses is currently a bit of a problem).
I think that Kepler is looking only at stars in our galaxy, a few hundred or thousand light years away/ago, so the time ago is not that great - within prehistory if not history, We can be pretty confident that laws of physics have not changed much since mammals evolved. This star is apparently 1,828 light years away,
That, fundamentally, is what the law says you can do. You can, if you want to, go to a registrar's office and do it as a pure paperwork exercise. But people want more: they want a ceremony to celebrate what they see as a significant event. In France, the two are generally separate: you have a legal ceremony in the Mairie, then your own, non-legally-binding, ceremony in church, at home or whatever. What people want is to have the fun and/or religious ceremony also be the legally binding one. Which means some form of licensing of the person who supervises the legally binding part of the ceremony. The supervisor of the ceremony has to perform the necessary legal checks, and the state wants oversight of this.
What law does it break? There are, in some jurisdictions, laws against snooping police frequencies, or if not against snooping, against telling anybody what you snooped (I think that is the law in the UK). But generally, the radio wavelengths are assumed to be free. If you don't want people to listen, encrypt. Transmission is a different matter.
The whole point of moving it is that without liquid helium it cannot effectively do any science at all.
I really do not think it is ever likely to be possible to reuse parts of a satellite not designed to be reused.
I think it is a long time before we will want a station at L2. L4 and L5 are more useful for things other than exactly what this satellite was sent to do. The only thing we are likely to send is the James Webb telescope, effectively its successor, in a few years time, and we don't want any chance of the two bumping.
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Since at least some of the schemes would use reflectometry to determine where in the car the phone is located, it does not need to disable passenger's phones.
Why does it have to be done by blocking.? You send an extra, "shut up" signal to the phone.
Some of the proposed solutions are based by position. It would send a "shut up" message to any phone determined, by signal reflection, to be in the drivers seat area of the car. So as soon as the passengers phone moved into the drivers volume, it would cut off. The disable signal would then be gated with handbrake off: pull on the handbrake if you need to call breakdown services.
Just make sure that it is car based, not phone based, so if you take your phone to a country where the drivers seat is on the other side, it doesn't get it wrong.
Twenty years ago, I though that there were relatively few exoplanets - only perhaps one in every few hundred systems having them - and even if there were one nearby, the chances of detecting it, ever, were small. Now we are knee deep in exoplanets, we know that large numbers of stars can have them, and we can even see them (probably). What I thought would never happen is fast transitioning from surprising to mundane.
Which just goes to prove the to Clarke's law, that almost nothing is impossible, in due course. Once we couldn't see them. Now we can see them, but fear we will never visit them. But history shows that visiting will come, in time - provided we have enough time.
Hugo Chavez died 5th March this year. His named successor, Nicolas Maduro, has just been elected to the Presidency and has promised to stick closely to his policies. Change may come, but it is not insight yet.
If it has not been done before, can we coin the term Cyberlynching to refer to hanging up a computer in pursuit of an unproven allegation of crime without due process of law? It helps to have a clearly understood name for something you are discussing.
Such early repayment penalties are not normal in commercial loans. I don't know about US practice, but in the UK they are used only on mortgages that have some sort of "easy starter" features, so that the bank can get back the money they have foregone on the easy start, Commercial loans will normally have some sort of a warning period - you have to say, perhaps, 30 days before you are going to make an unscheduled repayment, but no actual penalty clauses.
... Not just environmental (apparently, that's our grandchildren's problem, as always)
Though in this case, we are the grandchildren of those who set up Hanford. The chickens are coming home to roost - on us.
I agree entirely with this. The huge numbers of people using cellphones, and continuing to do so over the years, mean that any effects caused by their radiation emissions must be either very small or very slow. We have had a large enough population using them that significant effects would be clearly visible.
That does not mean that there are no effects. But it does mean that they are small compared to the very visible effects of distraction and misuse. If you are not prepared to ban cellphones because of the number killed by texting while driving, it is disproportionate to get worried about the tiny number who may, possibly, suffer some unknown effect from the radiation.
I am not sure I would describe this as "Green". Using up all available resources in one massive burst, leaving nothing for future generations. Efficient, yea - in the way a nuclear bomb is efficient. But basically a cheap headline to draw attention to what is, yes, an interesting bit of astronomy.
Like many things that have evolved over time, the God concept has several uses, and it is not possible to say which is the one it was invented "for". As a vehicle for explaining morality (Why not kill? God says not), as a means of keeping people under control (do what the priest says, or God will punish you), explaining the unexplainable (God makes the sun rise), palliating the fear of death (God will take me to heaven, if...), providing a mechanism for attempting to solve the unsolvable, or at least doing something (prayer), providing a forum for happy singy dancy ceremonies (worship). It serves all these purposes separately, and which is the most important varies between people.
All the money goes to the military. Lights? Stuff them. Guns? Yeah!
Even if a goon with a heavy machine gun (China with nukes) was holding 50 people (Japan, the US) hostage?
While you are entirely correct NK can in no way win any war, it is not obvious that they know that. Evidence from people who have been there is that they believe their own propaganda. They might, in their insanity, start a war they /thought/ they could win. Though they would lose, the carnage would be appalling.
Because China, the third largest nuclear power on the planet, regards NK as deep in its "sphere of influence", and would regard any serious attack on NK as tantamount to a declaration of war. You have a rabid chihuahua owned by a heavyweight boxing champion. The dog is not problem, but the owner will flatten you.
If by "leveling Seoul" you mean marching that rediculous million man army armed with Soviet-era weapons across the parallel, sure, let's see how that goes.
No, by "levelling Seoul" is meant firing a barrage with the 14,000 well maintained, well dug in artillery pieces they have on their side of the border, aimed at Seoul. Conservative, old technology - but excellent for city busting.
It is not 60 year old ordnance, but it may be 60 year old designs - though I suspect it is newer. The one thing they have spend money on is conventional artillery. The have approx 14,000 guns (IIRC), believed to be well maintained and well emplaced in hardened bunkers, pointed at Seoul. It may well not be the latest precision targeted munitions. It doesn't need to be - Seoul is a large target. I saw a theoretical figure of half a million shells per hour. Obviously, that level would not be reached - but a tenth of that would be devastating.
Yes, NK could be flattened with conventional missiles. But they have enough artillery pieces lined up on the border (14,000, IIRC), with ammunition, to send up to half a million shells an hour into Seoul for a day or so. Before they were incapacitated, they could kill maybe ten million people is South Korea. Yes, it would be pointless slaughter, pure vindictiveness. But I am not prepared to say they wouldn't do it.
Source for distance, with position http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Photometry-Kepler-KOI-0256-20110828.htm
Third hit on Google.
Why not? The energy was extracted from the environment and converted into a sound file playable on your computer. It may have been post-processed a bit, but it is a record of fluctuations created by the Bug Bang.
But, for example, the Alcubierre drive would allow us to travel to the stars in reasonable subjective time without FTL travel. If it could be built (manipulating multiple Jupiter-sized masses is currently a bit of a problem).
I think that Kepler is looking only at stars in our galaxy, a few hundred or thousand light years away/ago, so the time ago is not that great - within prehistory if not history, We can be pretty confident that laws of physics have not changed much since mammals evolved. This star is apparently 1,828 light years away,
That, fundamentally, is what the law says you can do. You can, if you want to, go to a registrar's office and do it as a pure paperwork exercise. But people want more: they want a ceremony to celebrate what they see as a significant event. In France, the two are generally separate: you have a legal ceremony in the Mairie, then your own, non-legally-binding, ceremony in church, at home or whatever. What people want is to have the fun and/or religious ceremony also be the legally binding one. Which means some form of licensing of the person who supervises the legally binding part of the ceremony. The supervisor of the ceremony has to perform the necessary legal checks, and the state wants oversight of this.
What law does it break? There are, in some jurisdictions, laws against snooping police frequencies, or if not against snooping, against telling anybody what you snooped (I think that is the law in the UK). But generally, the radio wavelengths are assumed to be free. If you don't want people to listen, encrypt. Transmission is a different matter.
The whole point of moving it is that without liquid helium it cannot effectively do any science at all.
I really do not think it is ever likely to be possible to reuse parts of a satellite not designed to be reused.
I think it is a long time before we will want a station at L2. L4 and L5 are more useful for things other than exactly what this satellite was sent to do. The only thing we are likely to send is the James Webb telescope, effectively its successor, in a few years time, and we don't want any chance of the two bumping.