How many are in the 120 kW range (that is what a tesla supercharger provides)? And how many cars can accept that kind of power (answer, only Teslas)? They are the only car company that is realistically addressing this problem, regular 10 Amp, or 20 Amp, or even 40 Amp circuits are almost useless unless it is at a hotel and you are spending the night. Until more people start helping Tesla build out the infrastructure, and making cars to accept high charge rates, electric cars will be a niche product.
It's Jahoviahs Witness that have a problem with blood transfusions, not 7th Day Adventist. Adventists are big believers in modern health care, they operate state of the art hospitals all around the world, and have a well respected medical school (Loma Linda).
You should start lobbying pretty hard to have all coal fired power plants shut down then, as they are a major source of mercury in the environment (fish, air, water...)
If you RTFA, second sentence:
"The surgery marks the first time a trachea grown from a patient’s stem cells and seeded onto a synthetic, rather than a donor, structure has been transplanted in a human."
and the fifth sentence:
"We talked to Dr. Anthony Atala, a pioneer in the field who in 1999 transplanted the first of several synthetic bladders into young people with bladder disease."
Mod parent up, worthless article by a clueless author. Has anyone ever tried blocking WiFi with aluminum foil? It doesn't work, one of my electrical engineering professors tried it to use it to isolate two antennas from each other, aluminum foil had no effect. Leaves on the other hand (due to high water content) stop it dead. A better article would have talked about the hidden dangers of planting trees around the house. Not sure how cell would behave (very different frequency).
Well we have finally done it, we have found the one person/idea/opinion/product that absolutely no one on slashdot will defend as having some merit from some viewpoint. The absolutely only thing slasdot can agree on is that Glenn Beck makes terrible illogical arguments. Anyone dissent? Going once, twice.......
The researchers who found this noticed it will only activate on certain controllers that are controlling centerfuges built in either Iran or Poland I believe. There are additional restrictions, I think something about a certain percentage must be or Iranian manufacture of something. Since there are virtually no Iranian centrifuges outside of Iran it is as targeted as it is possible to be to only Iranian nuclear processing facilities.
Scientists really have to do a better job at communicating clearly with less jargon
While I tend to agree with you about jargon, the ironic thing is that jargon is explicitly created to communicate more clearly. It is all about speaking to your audience, if you are talking to a fellow slashdotter you say "dual core CPU", if you are talking to your grandparents you say "computer with two brains". Both are very clear to their target audience and incomprehensible drivel to the other, so which is "communicating clearly"?
Many concepts are very hard to break down into terms of microwave ovens, buying groceries, and fixing your car analogies. But I agree that just because something is hard that we should quit trying.
The real issue here isn't an Android problem at all, it is the fact that manufacturers/carriers never upgrade the software. They have no incentive to, they already sold the product and made their money, why would they waste time/money making sure the new version will work? It actually works in their favor not to as the customers have to spend more money getting a new phone with new software. Until you actually own your phone and can upgrade it at your discretion this will continue to be a problem. Or buy something from Apple who actually understands this and has the clout to force it on the carriers.
If 99% of the people are idiots and 1% of them ask a question you cannot immediately answer; congratulations: you just got 1% smarter and 1% is a HUGE gain in any endeavour worth earnestly chasing.
That sounds very good until you have to deal with that 99% who are trying to discredit you and ruin your career. You should read to get a little taste for the kind of "questions" you usually get: http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Lenski_dialog
The whole question is a little bit mute anyway as a mechanism for dealing with this, any many other problems, is already used: replication of results. Published results are generally not widely accepted until they can be replicated in a different lab. This overcomes any coding errors, but more importantly, equipment errors, user errors, random chance, and even active data manipulation.
I think what most people who are not actively involved in research fail to realize is what an iterative process science is. Early results are often, maybe even usually, error ridden. This can come from bad code or anything else. But as more people work on it and improve it the errors are removed and the final product is something very close to ground truth, and the longer it is discussed the closer it gets to that goal.
If you don't believe me I would ask you where you think computers, automobiles, pain killers, vaccines, rockets, cameras, genetically modified mice, and skyscrapers come from. All of those required an incredible detailed, and accurate, knowledge of how the working components function. Science, it works bitches.
This functionality and resolution is easy to get and can be obtained from a normal single photo, not 1655.
All you need is a standard "enhancement" filter found on any movie of TV show worth its salt. You zoom in, everything is blurry, enhance, it gets clear again and repeat ad nauseum, or at least until the scientists in your audience are nauseated.
There are three steps you should take before posting next time:
1) Remove head from ass
2) Learn how an internal combustion engine works
3) Go read the fucking article
Many professors got around the graphing calculator problem by requiring students to show their work. WA can even do this for you, if you click on show steps it will walk you though how to solve the problem. This could be a very helpful tool to learn math, but more probably it will be used as a short cut on homework allowing the lazy to learn even less.
Suddenly the industry is "hurting" I seem to remember itbreakingrecords not to long ago. Sounds like "help help we only made two truck loads of money instead of our usual three!"
The problem with most CAPTCHAs I see proposed on blogs and by Slashdot users (such as the kitten CAPTCHA) is that it isn't possible for the computer to randomly generate new images, which means they are vulnerable to lookup tables. If you want someone to identify or label pictures of dogs (or kittens) the computer must be able to create a new picture of a dog or kitten. If this is not possible (and I don't see how it would be) all images that are used must be labeled by the human owner of the CAPTCHA, as by the very definition of the problem it should be impossible for a computer to label the image. Once the attackers have identified all images you have labeled as dogs (or kittens) they can simply use a look up table to correctly tag or identify the image every time.
It then becomes a contest to who can label more images, the owners or the attackers, and that isn't a contest the owners can win.
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How many are in the 120 kW range (that is what a tesla supercharger provides)? And how many cars can accept that kind of power (answer, only Teslas)? They are the only car company that is realistically addressing this problem, regular 10 Amp, or 20 Amp, or even 40 Amp circuits are almost useless unless it is at a hotel and you are spending the night. Until more people start helping Tesla build out the infrastructure, and making cars to accept high charge rates, electric cars will be a niche product.
It's Jahoviahs Witness that have a problem with blood transfusions, not 7th Day Adventist. Adventists are big believers in modern health care, they operate state of the art hospitals all around the world, and have a well respected medical school (Loma Linda).
You should start lobbying pretty hard to have all coal fired power plants shut down then, as they are a major source of mercury in the environment (fish, air, water...)
Ok, I messed that up. The above quotes were from here: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-trachea-transplant-stem-cell-20110708,0,2121263.story I had too many of the same story open at the same time. I do recommend the above story for more info on how the fits in with previous work.
If you RTFA, second sentence: "The surgery marks the first time a trachea grown from a patient’s stem cells and seeded onto a synthetic, rather than a donor, structure has been transplanted in a human." and the fifth sentence: "We talked to Dr. Anthony Atala, a pioneer in the field who in 1999 transplanted the first of several synthetic bladders into young people with bladder disease."
Mod parent up, worthless article by a clueless author. Has anyone ever tried blocking WiFi with aluminum foil? It doesn't work, one of my electrical engineering professors tried it to use it to isolate two antennas from each other, aluminum foil had no effect. Leaves on the other hand (due to high water content) stop it dead. A better article would have talked about the hidden dangers of planting trees around the house. Not sure how cell would behave (very different frequency).
Well we have finally done it, we have found the one person/idea/opinion/product that absolutely no one on slashdot will defend as having some merit from some viewpoint. The absolutely only thing slasdot can agree on is that Glenn Beck makes terrible illogical arguments. Anyone dissent? Going once, twice.......
The researchers who found this noticed it will only activate on certain controllers that are controlling centerfuges built in either Iran or Poland I believe. There are additional restrictions, I think something about a certain percentage must be or Iranian manufacture of something. Since there are virtually no Iranian centrifuges outside of Iran it is as targeted as it is possible to be to only Iranian nuclear processing facilities.
Scientists really have to do a better job at communicating clearly with less jargon
While I tend to agree with you about jargon, the ironic thing is that jargon is explicitly created to communicate more clearly. It is all about speaking to your audience, if you are talking to a fellow slashdotter you say "dual core CPU", if you are talking to your grandparents you say "computer with two brains". Both are very clear to their target audience and incomprehensible drivel to the other, so which is "communicating clearly"? Many concepts are very hard to break down into terms of microwave ovens, buying groceries, and fixing your car analogies. But I agree that just because something is hard that we should quit trying.
The real issue here isn't an Android problem at all, it is the fact that manufacturers/carriers never upgrade the software. They have no incentive to, they already sold the product and made their money, why would they waste time/money making sure the new version will work? It actually works in their favor not to as the customers have to spend more money getting a new phone with new software. Until you actually own your phone and can upgrade it at your discretion this will continue to be a problem. Or buy something from Apple who actually understands this and has the clout to force it on the carriers.
That sounds very good until you have to deal with that 99% who are trying to discredit you and ruin your career. You should read to get a little taste for the kind of "questions" you usually get: http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Lenski_dialog The whole question is a little bit mute anyway as a mechanism for dealing with this, any many other problems, is already used: replication of results. Published results are generally not widely accepted until they can be replicated in a different lab. This overcomes any coding errors, but more importantly, equipment errors, user errors, random chance, and even active data manipulation. I think what most people who are not actively involved in research fail to realize is what an iterative process science is. Early results are often, maybe even usually, error ridden. This can come from bad code or anything else. But as more people work on it and improve it the errors are removed and the final product is something very close to ground truth, and the longer it is discussed the closer it gets to that goal. If you don't believe me I would ask you where you think computers, automobiles, pain killers, vaccines, rockets, cameras, genetically modified mice, and skyscrapers come from. All of those required an incredible detailed, and accurate, knowledge of how the working components function. Science, it works bitches.
This functionality and resolution is easy to get and can be obtained from a normal single photo, not 1655. All you need is a standard "enhancement" filter found on any movie of TV show worth its salt. You zoom in, everything is blurry, enhance, it gets clear again and repeat ad nauseum, or at least until the scientists in your audience are nauseated.
There are three steps you should take before posting next time:
1) Remove head from ass
2) Learn how an internal combustion engine works
3) Go read the fucking article
Many professors got around the graphing calculator problem by requiring students to show their work. WA can even do this for you, if you click on show steps it will walk you though how to solve the problem. This could be a very helpful tool to learn math, but more probably it will be used as a short cut on homework allowing the lazy to learn even less.
Suddenly the industry is "hurting" I seem to remember it breaking records not to long ago. Sounds like "help help we only made two truck loads of money instead of our usual three!"
The problem with most CAPTCHAs I see proposed on blogs and by Slashdot users (such as the kitten CAPTCHA) is that it isn't possible for the computer to randomly generate new images, which means they are vulnerable to lookup tables. If you want someone to identify or label pictures of dogs (or kittens) the computer must be able to create a new picture of a dog or kitten. If this is not possible (and I don't see how it would be) all images that are used must be labeled by the human owner of the CAPTCHA, as by the very definition of the problem it should be impossible for a computer to label the image. Once the attackers have identified all images you have labeled as dogs (or kittens) they can simply use a look up table to correctly tag or identify the image every time.
It then becomes a contest to who can label more images, the owners or the attackers, and that isn't a contest the owners can win.
I am pretty sure the last line of the article was removed
"Oh and by the way, the sky is falling"