"Good long-term planning" ? The Maldives have been inhabited since around 300BC. Nobody could have predicted that we, the future, would be crazy stupid enough to cause global warming.
You can't really believe that we don't have nice houses, cars and televisions in Europe ? Also, since we don't work crazy hours, we have more time to enjoy those little mini-vacations:-)
"The USA's strategy to isolate" ? The USA does not define the rest of the world's policy, let alone that any two presidents could agree with each other which of black and white was yellow.
If the russians were isolated, it's entirely because the regime chose that road, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the illusions of a country thinking it is the only territory of relevance on this planet.
Yes, Virginia, there really *is* a "rest of the world", and they're more than capable of thinking for themselves.
If you think the euthanasia debate was tough, this is a whole new can of worms, McDo sized. For starters, degrading brains in immortal bodies will cause a huge load into the care system, as brains go bad, but the people actually remain healthy and alive.
Eventually, there'll be a debate on shutting down the bodies of those with nearly non-functional brains, and then comes the debate about where you draw the line on how much congiscence there has to be left before you *can* kill someone.
Next step, of course, will be some scandals with people administering drugs to bothersome aunts, so they can be removed from the budget.
Not to mention that near-immortal bodies are going to pump up the birth rates as the old people get cold in winter and find they still have the body to keep each other warm, so eventually the world will have to go above and beyond the chinese model of one child per lapto- err, set of parents.
if you do encrypt when you don't need it, all you lose is a fraction of performance. If you don't encrypt when you do need it, all you lose could be all you have.
That tech would be most useful if it also supports injecting the data back into the nerve, so your brain can do the image reconstructing in a very natural way.
Trouble is that it doesn't "sniff out" the cancer, so while yes, it prevents removal of excessive amounts of good tissue, contrarily to what the headline implies it doesn't guide the surgeon to the bad tissue - he still needs to visually identify it, or alternately prod every bit in sight.
The way I read it, it tells you what tissue you're cutting *when you're cutting it*, not beforehand. It doesn't "sniff out" cancer as much as that it tells you wether or not the thing you're currently damaging is cancer or not.
Funny, but one has to wonder if you could run a beowulf cluster on top of the various could computing offerings. Now that'd be a truly redundant (and vendor-neutral !) cloud.
> Or talking to someone in the passenger is distracted driving.
It *is*. I see idiots on the road all the time who are busier explaining some moot point to their passangers than watching the road, preferrably with wide hand gestures that make sure they don't have to keep their hands on the wheel.
Also, if you're too dumb to educate your kids enough to not be a menace in the car, maybe you don't have the smarts to drive a two-tonne lump of metal, either ?
You start by severely reducing the import of precedent in your legal system. Then you test all your judges for a minimum measure of common sense, and shoot the lacking ones on sight. Thirdly, you permit judges to fine lawyers who try to win a case by trying to force a non-obvious meaning of the written laws that contradict the obvious spirit of the law. Repeat offenders may also be shot on sight.
As a gay man, I occasionally bump into faggot references. Yet, it doesn't hurt me one bit. Why would it, they're only words, not even specifically directed at me.
If one guy in a thousand makes generic comments about $randomgroupthatyoubelongto, but not aimed specifically at you, and you perceive that as hurtful and a reason to start a crusade, then I think there may be an issue with how you perceive things and you having too much time on your hands to start a crusade.
Kindly stop trying to make my world a politically correct boring hell.
TFA (or the video in it) mentioned something of about 15 minutes for scanning. Given that the scan data is processed automatically, I'd guess you can have your autopsy being in under an hour.
Hmm, peculiar. Here in Belgium, the "kijk- en luistergeld", roughly translated "watch- and listen money", basically a tax on all radios and tellies, was abolished a few years ago.
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"Good long-term planning" ? The Maldives have been inhabited since around 300BC. Nobody could have predicted that we, the future, would be crazy stupid enough to cause global warming.
You can't really believe that we don't have nice houses, cars and televisions in Europe ? Also, since we don't work crazy hours, we have more time to enjoy those little mini-vacations :-)
> USA is doomed to a dark period of shoot-in-the-foot policies driven by xenophobism.
Didn't that start way back under Bush I ?
"The USA's strategy to isolate" ? The USA does not define the rest of the world's policy, let alone that any two presidents could agree with each other which of black and white was yellow.
If the russians were isolated, it's entirely because the regime chose that road, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the illusions of a country thinking it is the only territory of relevance on this planet.
Yes, Virginia, there really *is* a "rest of the world", and they're more than capable of thinking for themselves.
At which point you'll be complaining that you die before you can see your great-grandchildren grow up.
um, no ?
If you think the euthanasia debate was tough, this is a whole new can of worms, McDo sized. For starters, degrading brains in immortal bodies will cause a huge load into the care system, as brains go bad, but the people actually remain healthy and alive.
Eventually, there'll be a debate on shutting down the bodies of those with nearly non-functional brains, and then comes the debate about where you draw the line on how much congiscence there has to be left before you *can* kill someone.
Next step, of course, will be some scandals with people administering drugs to bothersome aunts, so they can be removed from the budget.
Not to mention that near-immortal bodies are going to pump up the birth rates as the old people get cold in winter and find they still have the body to keep each other warm, so eventually the world will have to go above and beyond the chinese model of one child per lapto- err, set of parents.
No, I don't think we want to go there just yet.
4) will still provide you with interesting viruses if you're running on windows :-)
if you do encrypt when you don't need it, all you lose is a fraction of performance.
If you don't encrypt when you do need it, all you lose could be all you have.
That tech would be most useful if it also supports injecting the data back into the nerve, so your brain can do the image reconstructing in a very natural way.
Thank you for that. I finally know what a mass spectrometer does, now, and why it's named that :-)
Trouble is that it doesn't "sniff out" the cancer, so while yes, it prevents removal of excessive amounts of good tissue, contrarily to what the headline implies it doesn't guide the surgeon to the bad tissue - he still needs to visually identify it, or alternately prod every bit in sight.
The way I read it, it tells you what tissue you're cutting *when you're cutting it*, not beforehand. It doesn't "sniff out" cancer as much as that it tells you wether or not the thing you're currently damaging is cancer or not.
Quantum Hall physics, are those like Music Hall physics ?
Funny, but one has to wonder if you could run a beowulf cluster on top of the various could computing offerings. Now that'd be a truly redundant (and vendor-neutral !) cloud.
You mean the higgs-boson is subscription only ? Someone get our universe to cough up, pronto.
I can't help wonder wether "Burlesconi" is sharp wit or random stupidity :-)
No, but I would expect them to have a staging service in place.
> Or talking to someone in the passenger is distracted driving.
It *is*. I see idiots on the road all the time who are busier explaining some moot point to their passangers than watching the road, preferrably with wide hand gestures that make sure they don't have to keep their hands on the wheel.
Also, if you're too dumb to educate your kids enough to not be a menace in the car, maybe you don't have the smarts to drive a two-tonne lump of metal, either ?
You start by severely reducing the import of precedent in your legal system. Then you test all your judges for a minimum measure of common sense, and shoot the lacking ones on sight. Thirdly, you permit judges to fine lawyers who try to win a case by trying to force a non-obvious meaning of the written laws that contradict the obvious spirit of the law. Repeat offenders may also be shot on sight.
As a gay man, I occasionally bump into faggot references. Yet, it doesn't hurt me one bit. Why would it, they're only words, not even specifically directed at me.
If one guy in a thousand makes generic comments about $randomgroupthatyoubelongto, but not aimed specifically at you, and you perceive that as hurtful and a reason to start a crusade, then I think there may be an issue with how you perceive things and you having too much time on your hands to start a crusade.
Kindly stop trying to make my world a politically correct boring hell.
TFA did mention the usual inability do to scans of dead bodies, and having developed "entirely new technology" to work around that.
TFA (or the video in it) mentioned something of about 15 minutes for scanning. Given that the scan data is processed automatically, I'd guess you can have your autopsy being in under an hour.
Untrue. There are plenty of alternatives. Personally, I favour a daily horsetail whipping followed by immersion in a vat of tabasco.
Only one billion earths ? Just ask DC, then, they've got infinite earths.
Hmm, peculiar. Here in Belgium, the "kijk- en luistergeld", roughly translated "watch- and listen money", basically a tax on all radios and tellies, was abolished a few years ago.