This tech does more harm than good when dealing with professional killers (governments). This type of audio triangulation is easily defeated, primarily because of how weak the signal detected is (audio, even from a 170 dBm source, is very low energy 1km away). With a single phase array emitter directed at the detectors, you can simulate a gunshot anywhere you want with less than 1 watt output. Such devices have already been built (by both Israel and Germany) to defeat this technology, which has been deployed near battlefields for a lot longer than in cities.
I was under the impression that the whole idea of a laser trap is that you CAN'T drop the ball. Small particles get trapped in the beam due to photon pressure, if the particle shifts away from the center of the beam, it automatically is recentered. Then you can move the beam to manipulate the particle which is attached to a molecule. They use these to fold and unfold proteins, lipid layers, DNA, etc.
I mean, it's great that they're using a realtime kernel, but they really shouldn't NEED it.
I was a client of MS/DW. I kept trying to let my financial advisor know about this wonderful pill that would make his penis bigger, and I get the feeling that MY emails were deleted as well!
It's very easy to make a device that just burns off glucose in the blood. Glucose powered devices are nothing new. In this case, the aspect that is important is the fact that it is made from bio-compatable materials . . . although I'm not entirely sure that just because your body uses vitamin K, it's okay to put a giant chunk of it in your artery.
The main problem whith these types of devices is that anything placed inside the body slowly becomes coated with layers and layers of protein. This adversely affects the device performance, so while it may create.2 mW of power, after a week it will only produce a couple microwatts.
I think I remember two guys discovering this memory strip a while back that is about 2 meters long, 2 nanometers wide and can store gigabytes of data. Even better, it can be fit into something the size of a human cell. The biggest problem is reading the information.
The "embryonic" qualifier is very important. My research is funded by NSF and I work with nasal stem cells all the time. If harvesting all types of stem cells were illegal, federal employees wouldn't be allowed to sneeze.
I've been working with technology similar to this for the past year at University of Washington. I think a lot of people are overlooking some of the most important benefits of this type of actuator. Robustness is a very critical aspect of any mechanical device. With current hydraulics and pneumatics, a small dent or bend will render the entire device unusable. With an artificial muscle, half the device could be ripped off and it could still function with a limited capacity.
Imagine a hydraulic actuator on a modern plane for instance. It would be nice to be able to still be able to control the aircraft's ailerons, flaps, rudder, and elevator even if significant damage occured to mechanical components.
That's one of the biggest differences between man and man-made machines. People can be injured and keep going (watch any Arnold movie). A machine, on the other hand, is pretty much all or nothing (except in Arnold movies).
Yeah, it produces heat, but not much. It's pretty hard to melt a billion ton ice cube. I think any heat produced would contribute as much to melting the ice as a factory in Mexico. You know, you can build a bonfire on lakes with only a foot of frozen ice.
Gotcha. I think I remember EHF only going up to 1mm wavelength or something around there.
I'm reminded of "virtual reality" video game accessories that were sold a while back that were nothing more than an unbalanced rotor stuck to your chest that would vibrate whenever the game made a loud noise. Or "light sabers" that didn't look anything like a plastic stick and a light bulb on the OUTSIDE of the box!
. . . yes, SOMEONE does -- make it a modern solid-state physics textbook. Many current LEDs use lasing to produce light, and right now there are commercially available laser LED lights that emit photons in the infra-red spectrum. Actually, I just got a couple free ones, they're pretty cool.
Sounds like a fairly common problem. Although MS doesn't acknowledge it, there is a serious flaw in their ability to handle corrupt NTFS volumes (0x00000024 blue screen). If you go to their troubleshooting guide, they say to fix a corrupt NTFS.sys file use the "repair" tool on the Windows XP boot CD. What they obviously don't realize is that the stupid repair CD will try to access the drive before it starts to "repair" anything . . . so you get another blue screen.
Enter Knoppix.
Pop in the CD
>su >ntfsfix
Maybe you have to mount the drive too, and you're done. And in case you don't trust it, you can mount the drive and save all your files to a networked computer before you try the fix. Honestly, how hard is it for MS to make a boot CD that ONLY boots from the CD?!
So what happens when the clone starts having flashbacks of a time when his predecessor accidentally killed a prostitute and burned down the motel to cover up the crime?
By putting such a nuclear reactor in a small village, they will be able to provide power to the entire surrounding area instead of just a fraction.
First, there is no surrounding area! Galena is like any other village on the Yukon or Kusko, it's a runway with some run-down houses around it.
The problem in these areas isn't power production (it's REALLY easy to barge fuel to a city on a HUGE river). Most of these villages have 1,000,000 gallon fuel tanks that can provide power for almost a year without having to be refueled. But the generators they have usually only power the airport and the hospital and a few other buildings.
And polution isn't a problem . . . this is Middleofnowhere, Alaska. Do you have any idea how hard it is to polute THAT much area! Places with a population density less than.1 people per square mile don't have any problems with smog! I know some people get really protective of the "virgin" environment, but I can promise you that Galena is far from something you'll see Bob Ross paint (may he rest in peace among the happy little clouds).
The main power problems in these cities is distribution. A power plant is wonderful, especially if you have the newest state-of-the-art super-miniature nuclear variety, but it doesn't do you any good if you can't connect it to your house. Most homes in that area are independently powered. Almost everyone has a generator and a dozen car batteries next to their house. Even though these towns are fairly small, the climate makes it very difficult to setup a power distribution system. I've seen power poles sink all the way into the ground after being installed, and permafrost wreaks havoc on buried PVC conduit. The innovation that these cities need isn't mini-nuke plants, it's a better way to distribute power . . . maybe, without wires.
If you ask me why they're installing these plants in small cities in Alaska, I'd give you a smart-ass answer, so here it is: The SECOND city to recieve one of these wooden horses, er, "generators" will be Gakona. And as everyone knows, Gakona is right next to HAARP (that multi-million dollar antenna array that is supposed to just look at pretty colors in the sky). I figure in a few years there will be a slight mishap and the US Government's toy will be broken by a small nuclear explosion. Why would they want to do that? Because the Japanese, along with certain imaginative people in the US don't want the US government to be able to raise the temperature at another winter Olympics.
And just so you know, I AM from Alaska and I worked for the DOT in several little cites including Galena. And yes, I've seen HAARP too. I got to take a tour! For mass-murderers, they're very friendly people.
The US is NOT a democracy . . . it's a representative republic. A democracy is a terrible and dangerous thing. In a true democracy, whatever 50% or more of the population wanted would be the law. In the US, there are (in theory) limits on what you can and can't do to someone else (even through legislation). The Constitution specifically prohibits the subjugation of the minority. The truth is, the law is not the bottom line, there are rights that supercede the law, some of them are outlined in the Bill of Rights, others have been established on a case-by-case basis, but to say that the US is a democracy is to say that 50% of the population can do anything they want and if 50% of the population could do whatever they wanted, Carrot Top would be already be a rotting corpse strung up by his short-hairs on public display.
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This tech does more harm than good when dealing with professional killers (governments). This type of audio triangulation is easily defeated, primarily because of how weak the signal detected is (audio, even from a 170 dBm source, is very low energy 1km away). With a single phase array emitter directed at the detectors, you can simulate a gunshot anywhere you want with less than 1 watt output. Such devices have already been built (by both Israel and Germany) to defeat this technology, which has been deployed near battlefields for a lot longer than in cities.
I was under the impression that the whole idea of a laser trap is that you CAN'T drop the ball. Small particles get trapped in the beam due to photon pressure, if the particle shifts away from the center of the beam, it automatically is recentered. Then you can move the beam to manipulate the particle which is attached to a molecule. They use these to fold and unfold proteins, lipid layers, DNA, etc.
I mean, it's great that they're using a realtime kernel, but they really shouldn't NEED it.
I was a client of MS/DW. I kept trying to let my financial advisor know about this wonderful pill that would make his penis bigger, and I get the feeling that MY emails were deleted as well!
It's very easy to make a device that just burns off glucose in the blood. Glucose powered devices are nothing new. In this case, the aspect that is important is the fact that it is made from bio-compatable materials . . . although I'm not entirely sure that just because your body uses vitamin K, it's okay to put a giant chunk of it in your artery.
.2 mW of power, after a week it will only produce a couple microwatts.
The main problem whith these types of devices is that anything placed inside the body slowly becomes coated with layers and layers of protein. This adversely affects the device performance, so while it may create
"We treated him on the scene for minor breathing difficulties but he was fine and then we scooted out and helped save the rest of Melbourne,"
The kid was trying to fix his ipod on his BED after his MOM washed it . . . he is far from fine.
Security in numbers. Even if you're wrong, as long as a lot of people are wrong with you it's okay.
I think I remember two guys discovering this memory strip a while back that is about 2 meters long, 2 nanometers wide and can store gigabytes of data. Even better, it can be fit into something the size of a human cell. The biggest problem is reading the information.
The "embryonic" qualifier is very important. My research is funded by NSF and I work with nasal stem cells all the time. If harvesting all types of stem cells were illegal, federal employees wouldn't be allowed to sneeze.
I looked all around that stupid controller and haven't been able to find the "fire anti-tank weapon" button. What a piece of crap!
I know, I know. Arnold, man OR machine, just keeps on going. No one can stop him.
I've been working with technology similar to this for the past year at University of Washington. I think a lot of people are overlooking some of the most important benefits of this type of actuator. Robustness is a very critical aspect of any mechanical device. With current hydraulics and pneumatics, a small dent or bend will render the entire device unusable. With an artificial muscle, half the device could be ripped off and it could still function with a limited capacity.
Imagine a hydraulic actuator on a modern plane for instance. It would be nice to be able to still be able to control the aircraft's ailerons, flaps, rudder, and elevator even if significant damage occured to mechanical components.
That's one of the biggest differences between man and man-made machines. People can be injured and keep going (watch any Arnold movie). A machine, on the other hand, is pretty much all or nothing (except in Arnold movies).
Are they going to have laser/radar eyes? They'd better!
Where humans have tread, the Arctic has suffered
I don't know about that. It worked out pretty well for the North Slope in Alaska.
Yeah, it produces heat, but not much. It's pretty hard to melt a billion ton ice cube. I think any heat produced would contribute as much to melting the ice as a factory in Mexico. You know, you can build a bonfire on lakes with only a foot of frozen ice.
First nation to build an AT-AT walker with a sense of balance wins!
Gotcha. I think I remember EHF only going up to 1mm wavelength or something around there.
I'm reminded of "virtual reality" video game accessories that were sold a while back that were nothing more than an unbalanced rotor stuck to your chest that would vibrate whenever the game made a loud noise. Or "light sabers" that didn't look anything like a plastic stick and a light bulb on the OUTSIDE of the box!
a vision color system that enables Robosapien V2 to recognize objects and skin tones
Skin tones? Looks like he has all the qualifications for a police officer in LA.
Big ";)" . . . I love cops.
Someone needs to read his physics textbook!
. . . yes, SOMEONE does -- make it a modern solid-state physics textbook. Many current LEDs use lasing to produce light, and right now there are commercially available laser LED lights that emit photons in the infra-red spectrum. Actually, I just got a couple free ones, they're pretty cool.
Sounds like a fairly common problem. Although MS doesn't acknowledge it, there is a serious flaw in their ability to handle corrupt NTFS volumes (0x00000024 blue screen). If you go to their troubleshooting guide, they say to fix a corrupt NTFS.sys file use the "repair" tool on the Windows XP boot CD. What they obviously don't realize is that the stupid repair CD will try to access the drive before it starts to "repair" anything . . . so you get another blue screen.
Enter Knoppix.
Pop in the CD
>su
>ntfsfix
Maybe you have to mount the drive too, and you're done. And in case you don't trust it, you can mount the drive and save all your files to a networked computer before you try the fix. Honestly, how hard is it for MS to make a boot CD that ONLY boots from the CD?!
So what happens when the clone starts having flashbacks of a time when his predecessor accidentally killed a prostitute and burned down the motel to cover up the crime?
I really think the US needs to hold up its end of the bargain. The LAST thing we need is a dioxin-laced freeze-dried ice cream bar.
Russia is back baby.
"They had an obligation to tell each of the people whose files they were intruding upon"
Doesn't that kinda take all the fun out of reading someone else's email?
By putting such a nuclear reactor in a small village, they will be able to provide power to the entire surrounding area instead of just a fraction.
.1 people per square mile don't have any problems with smog! I know some people get really protective of the "virgin" environment, but I can promise you that Galena is far from something you'll see Bob Ross paint (may he rest in peace among the happy little clouds).
First, there is no surrounding area! Galena is like any other village on the Yukon or Kusko, it's a runway with some run-down houses around it.
The problem in these areas isn't power production (it's REALLY easy to barge fuel to a city on a HUGE river). Most of these villages have 1,000,000 gallon fuel tanks that can provide power for almost a year without having to be refueled. But the generators they have usually only power the airport and the hospital and a few other buildings.
And polution isn't a problem . . . this is Middleofnowhere, Alaska. Do you have any idea how hard it is to polute THAT much area! Places with a population density less than
The main power problems in these cities is distribution. A power plant is wonderful, especially if you have the newest state-of-the-art super-miniature nuclear variety, but it doesn't do you any good if you can't connect it to your house. Most homes in that area are independently powered. Almost everyone has a generator and a dozen car batteries next to their house. Even though these towns are fairly small, the climate makes it very difficult to setup a power distribution system. I've seen power poles sink all the way into the ground after being installed, and permafrost wreaks havoc on buried PVC conduit. The innovation that these cities need isn't mini-nuke plants, it's a better way to distribute power . . . maybe, without wires.
If you ask me why they're installing these plants in small cities in Alaska, I'd give you a smart-ass answer, so here it is:
The SECOND city to recieve one of these wooden horses, er, "generators" will be Gakona. And as everyone knows, Gakona is right next to HAARP (that multi-million dollar antenna array that is supposed to just look at pretty colors in the sky). I figure in a few years there will be a slight mishap and the US Government's toy will be broken by a small nuclear explosion.
Why would they want to do that? Because the Japanese, along with certain imaginative people in the US don't want the US government to be able to raise the temperature at another winter Olympics.
And just so you know, I AM from Alaska and I worked for the DOT in several little cites including Galena. And yes, I've seen HAARP too. I got to take a tour! For mass-murderers, they're very friendly people.
The US is NOT a democracy . . . it's a representative republic. A democracy is a terrible and dangerous thing. In a true democracy, whatever 50% or more of the population wanted would be the law. In the US, there are (in theory) limits on what you can and can't do to someone else (even through legislation). The Constitution specifically prohibits the subjugation of the minority. The truth is, the law is not the bottom line, there are rights that supercede the law, some of them are outlined in the Bill of Rights, others have been established on a case-by-case basis, but to say that the US is a democracy is to say that 50% of the population can do anything they want and if 50% of the population could do whatever they wanted, Carrot Top would be already be a rotting corpse strung up by his short-hairs on public display.
A BOOK for fans of TiVo!? . . . 500 pages that completely miss the point.