I'm waiting to see someone combine these remote tracking and accessibility methods with semtex and finishing nails packed in the old optical drive bay.
As a fun bonus, your vacations just became a lot more interesting.
Peta's argument would be round them up and give them chemo, then release them somewhere else! Jokes aside, this is an environmental tragedy but if they can get some kind of useful info from the monkeys, then fair enough.
Yeah, I'm a real nuke-u-lar fanboi, but I love the tasty animals too. Perhaps we'll advance veterinary science a bit because of this. When the chips are down, you take your victories where you can.
I blame the parents. Yes, we could push the responsibility off on educators, but cultural enlightenment should ideally start much sooner. My eight children all saw the Matrix before their fourth birthdays. I also reinforce with annual refreshers.
There's a pretty bigger risk of government theft if you don't...theft of your time, money, freedom, and reputation that is. I prefer my chances with the petty thieves rather than the pros.
Should I be thinking twice about filing my taxes? It seems like there's a pretty big risk for identity theft.
Agreed artor3, if that is the case then I can buy it. I didn't see an indication of that being the thrust of TFA though. I got the impression from this section, "Although the electrons were already present, keeping them still rather than allowing them to float around takes up extra energy – about a billionth of a microjoule per bit of data", that something rather more subtle was being discussed.
I think I'm missing something here. Is there a state besides 1 and 0 in the memory? A null maybe, or an "I don't care"? Suppose for example that my e-Book's memory is a random jumble. I can query it twice and get the exact same jumble yes? Now I go and publish that jumble, promoting the existing data on my e-Book to information. Does the weight suddenly change?
I wonder if it might be useful to use a sine-wave deflector to pan this signal up and down for a front view. While having an X on a top down view would be useful, having a profile could be vastly better in many situations.
Exactly! Shatner knows that we know that his response is one part humor, one part drama, and all self-promotion. He uses us, and we use his using us because it makes us feel part of something bigger and more wonderful than our everyday lives. The man's whole life is a stage, and he is quite adroit at leveraging minutiae such as a Slashdot Q&A to great effect.
And "privacy concerns"? If it's on the Internet, by definition it isn't private.
I get what you're saying. And yet, my public business is not necessarily any of theirs. An example: say I drop by my local jeweler and purchase a dazzling tennis bracelet for my lovely wife. Someone sees me in person or on the security cameras and tells all their friends and some of mine. Yes, this was a public act and blah blah blah expectation of privacy, but if my wife hears and it ruins my surprise, it's going to come to blows.
I don't mind so much if data is being aggregated for the good of the people, but deliberately targeting my online persona is akin to stalking. I really don't care if it allows you to tailor your widget ad campaign or make an applicant first cut.
This sounds great for E Ink, mobiles, and other interfaces not featuring a practical scroller. No doubt it also sounds great to advertisement purveyors. I won't be using it.
That's an insightful question. Being a bit of a historical biography buff, I have read a number of primary sources generated during that period to form my opinions. I'm not old enough to have witnessed the events firsthand, but I do have a historical perspective as untainted by hindsight analysis as is practical.
You remind me of my wife. When there is some situation she doesn't like, she expects me to figure out: 1) that something's wrong, 2) exactly how it's my fault, 3) how to fix it to her satisfaction. To help me along, she'll throw glaring looks my way and toss out random little problems that aren't the big problem and that may or may not be directly related to the big problem.
Maybe that works for the F-types (Myers Briggs Typing), but the rest of us need a little more clarity. I haven't been a part of any large-scale protests, so maybe this is how they evolve? Still, I can't help but contrast the civil rights movements where problems and (proposed) solutions were clearly and eloquently elucidated at a very early stage. Again, this thing is still in its infancy, but does it have to seem so...infantile?
Top 5 2009 Estimates, Citation, of the percentage of adults (aged 15-49) living with HIV/AIDS followed by a news bit lending no credence to any claim of traditional values as we define them.
25.90 - Swaziland - 23 August 2005, Swazi girls celebrate as king lifts ban on sex for under-18s - Citation
24.80 - Botswana - 1 December 2010, Botswana mulls legalizing prostitution to fight HIV - Citation
23.60 - Lesotho - July 20, 2004, in Lesotho as in much of sub-Saharan Africa, early sex is the norm. - Citation
17.80 - South Africa - 9 October 2011, 30% of people would use condoms for their first coital sex versus 4% for oral sex - Citation
14.30 - Zimbabwe - 12 June 2009, girls as young as 12 to sell their bodies for as little as a packet of biscuits - Citation
Not too sure about those traditional values. It just looks like the dazzled approach isn't being worked.
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I'm waiting to see someone combine these remote tracking and accessibility methods with semtex and finishing nails packed in the old optical drive bay.
As a fun bonus, your vacations just became a lot more interesting.
Peta's argument would be round them up and give them chemo, then release them somewhere else! Jokes aside, this is an environmental tragedy but if they can get some kind of useful info from the monkeys, then fair enough.
Yeah, I'm a real nuke-u-lar fanboi, but I love the tasty animals too. Perhaps we'll advance veterinary science a bit because of this. When the chips are down, you take your victories where you can.
Anyone else want to gather about 100 irradiated monkeys and send them to PETA for some tlc?
I think cochlear implants, which can let the deaf "hear", only have something like 16 channels, maximum, that is, 16 frequencies that they respond to.
It's better than being deaf
I always wondered what this would sound like. Wonder no more: Cochlear Implant Trial
That doesn't actually work.
Sure it does. You just travel twice as far to get nowhere.
Do the ones, that mod this as funny, recognize reference to one of the episodes?
They must. Blink is one of the best titles in the new series.
It's too bad they never made a sequel.
I'll have to disagree. Twice.
I'll have to whoosh: http://xkcd.com/566/
I'll grant you half-credit for that whoosh. I unconsciously deferred on that bit of geek culture to set up a fun riposte.
It's too bad they never made a sequel.
I'll have to disagree. Twice.
So you're saying it's a good thing they never made two sequels?
It's an exclusive or kind of disagreement: !too bad XOR !they never made a sequel.
It's too bad they never made a sequel.
I'll have to disagree. Twice.
I blame the parents. Yes, we could push the responsibility off on educators, but cultural enlightenment should ideally start much sooner. My eight children all saw the Matrix before their fourth birthdays. I also reinforce with annual refreshers.
I'm glad that I wasn't the only one to do a double take on that headline.
I think America knows very well how to marginalize the socioeconomic status of its inhabitants as a means for stripping away basic personal freedoms.
Bloomberg News Poll: Four-Way Republican Dead Heat in Iowa Caucuses - Cain 20%, *PAUL 19%*, Romney 18%, Gingrich 17%
Should I be thinking twice about filing my taxes? It seems like there's a pretty big risk for identity theft.
I require more data. Could we try this in San Francisco?
Agreed artor3, if that is the case then I can buy it. I didn't see an indication of that being the thrust of TFA though. I got the impression from this section, "Although the electrons were already present, keeping them still rather than allowing them to float around takes up extra energy – about a billionth of a microjoule per bit of data", that something rather more subtle was being discussed.
I think I'm missing something here. Is there a state besides 1 and 0 in the memory? A null maybe, or an "I don't care"? Suppose for example that my e-Book's memory is a random jumble. I can query it twice and get the exact same jumble yes? Now I go and publish that jumble, promoting the existing data on my e-Book to information. Does the weight suddenly change?
You, sir, might have a very promising career in the FBI! Please report to your nearest field office for the deep probe.
I wonder if it might be useful to use a sine-wave deflector to pan this signal up and down for a front view. While having an X on a top down view would be useful, having a profile could be vastly better in many situations.
Exactly! Shatner knows that we know that his response is one part humor, one part drama, and all self-promotion. He uses us, and we use his using us because it makes us feel part of something bigger and more wonderful than our everyday lives. The man's whole life is a stage, and he is quite adroit at leveraging minutiae such as a Slashdot Q&A to great effect.
And "privacy concerns"? If it's on the Internet, by definition it isn't private.
I get what you're saying. And yet, my public business is not necessarily any of theirs. An example: say I drop by my local jeweler and purchase a dazzling tennis bracelet for my lovely wife. Someone sees me in person or on the security cameras and tells all their friends and some of mine. Yes, this was a public act and blah blah blah expectation of privacy, but if my wife hears and it ruins my surprise, it's going to come to blows.
I don't mind so much if data is being aggregated for the good of the people, but deliberately targeting my online persona is akin to stalking. I really don't care if it allows you to tailor your widget ad campaign or make an applicant first cut.
This sounds great for E Ink, mobiles, and other interfaces not featuring a practical scroller. No doubt it also sounds great to advertisement purveyors. I won't be using it.
That's an insightful question. Being a bit of a historical biography buff, I have read a number of primary sources generated during that period to form my opinions. I'm not old enough to have witnessed the events firsthand, but I do have a historical perspective as untainted by hindsight analysis as is practical.
You remind me of my wife. When there is some situation she doesn't like, she expects me to figure out: 1) that something's wrong, 2) exactly how it's my fault, 3) how to fix it to her satisfaction. To help me along, she'll throw glaring looks my way and toss out random little problems that aren't the big problem and that may or may not be directly related to the big problem.
Maybe that works for the F-types (Myers Briggs Typing), but the rest of us need a little more clarity. I haven't been a part of any large-scale protests, so maybe this is how they evolve? Still, I can't help but contrast the civil rights movements where problems and (proposed) solutions were clearly and eloquently elucidated at a very early stage. Again, this thing is still in its infancy, but does it have to seem so...infantile?
I like to fix things. Show me the problem.
Top 5 2009 Estimates, Citation, of the percentage of adults (aged 15-49) living with HIV/AIDS followed by a news bit lending no credence to any claim of traditional values as we define them.
25.90 - Swaziland - 23 August 2005, Swazi girls celebrate as king lifts ban on sex for under-18s - Citation
24.80 - Botswana - 1 December 2010, Botswana mulls legalizing prostitution to fight HIV - Citation
23.60 - Lesotho - July 20, 2004, in Lesotho as in much of sub-Saharan Africa, early sex is the norm. - Citation
17.80 - South Africa - 9 October 2011, 30% of people would use condoms for their first coital sex versus 4% for oral sex - Citation
14.30 - Zimbabwe - 12 June 2009, girls as young as 12 to sell their bodies for as little as a packet of biscuits - Citation
Not too sure about those traditional values. It just looks like the dazzled approach isn't being worked.