Why not just dip the platters in a some corrosive? I'm sure even some like drano might do the trickk.
Or perhaps how about holding the platters up to a propane torch? you wouldn't need to melt them, just get them hot enough that they lose their magnetic field.
So does that mean bloggers will have to apply for a "journalist's visa" or face deportation on enterting the US? (The US being one of a handful of countries requiring it, the others being Iran, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Cube) Source: Guardian
If this were to be used for criminal identification, I'm sure that when they get a "hit" for a wanted suspect, that they're going to manually sift through the video, in order to figure out direction of travel etc.
These things aren't error proof, and never will be. A jury would also probably be more sawyed by seeing part of the footage than just having a prosecutor say "the computer said it was him."
If I were an (innocent) suspect, I'd much rather that I was tagged by a computer, since the video evidence would be available to criticize, than to be tagged by a witness to a crime, who are notorious for misidentifying people.
So in regards to your hypothetical question, no. At best this would be like a google search for faces, where an investigator would then further analyze the hits.
This is just like the argument that Hydrogen cars are more dangerous than gasoline cars.
If they can contain liquid with the explosive equivalent of dynamite, then I think they can contain this.
Wrong.
Lets think about another analogy: Would you rather hold a cup of gasoline and light it, or a cup of dynamite and light it? How quickly the energy can be released it much more important than the amount of energy per volume (within reason).
Gasoline can burn nicely when it gets out of the tank. This mythic supercapacitor that they're talking about os the equiviliant of the dynamite; the speed at which it can release energy is orders of magnitude quicker.
"Afterwards she said: 'It's quite scary to realise that your every move could be monitored - it really is like Big Brother.
'But Middlesbrough does have a big problem with anti-social behaviour, so it is very reassuring.' "
And this is why it is truly Airstrip One.
"Perhaps mass protests at "the drop of a hat" would keep our politicians in check? Right now, it seems they can get away with murder and spending more money than we have. I honestly only wish more people would non-violently protest and speak their minds."
The situations you defined is hardly at "the drop of a hat." These would be legitimate reasons to protest. The fact that you consider protesting a feature change as legitimate as protesting murder seems odd to me.
This is a ridiculous protest, and cheapens the impact of protests. God knows what she would have done had she been old enough when "New Coke" came out...
Wow.. I think we are witnessing evolution is action. I'm pretty sure that the following user, for instance, only recently crawled on to dry land. I wonder if they still have vestigal gills?
Query: 24969423 my space. com 3131560415 2006-05-31 19:02:36 24969423 my space. com 3131560415 2006-05-31 19:03:16 24969423 my space. com 2006-05-31 19:03:32 2 http://music.myspace.com 24969423 my space.com 2006-05-31 19:12:00 24969423 my space.com 3131560415 2006-05-31 19:12:25
I have some older Thinkpads, and they all give a similar message, although I found a hack on the net that allowed one to bypass this restriction. You still get the message at bootup though, and have to press "ESC" to continue, which is a pain.
I have reproduced the article here, with italics for word for word sections from the press release:
Indiana State University has selected the Lenovo ThinkPad as its preferred computer for students and faculty as the university moves toward becoming a notebook institution.
Developed by IBM, the ThinkPad is now manufactured and marketed by Lenovo, the world's third-largest personal computing company after its acquisition of IBM's personal computer business in 2005.
ISU will become the first public university in the state to require all students to have notebook computers, beginning with incoming freshmen in fall 2007.
The university is one of a handful of institutions nationally, including the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Clemson University, to institute similar mobile computing initiatives.
"When we announced the Notebook Initiative last September, we pledged that our students would receive high quality, business-grade laptops worthy of the investment they and their parents are making in an ISU education," said C. Jack Maynard, ISU provost and vice president for academic affairs. "The selection of the Lenovo ThinkPad fulfills that pledge." ISU chose Lenovo because of its superior service and support, the quality of ThinkPad notebooks and the advanced wireless capabilities of the PCs.
(some parts skipped by article in their grab from the press release...) ThinkPads help simplify the network connectivity process through ThinkVantage Access Connections 4.1, which helps mobile users set up and automatically switch from one available network connection to the next.
Through Access Connections, students and faculty will be able to seamlessly move from classes to dorm rooms and wired to wireless environments.
The widespread use of laptop technology will leverage the power of mobile computing to provide campuswide access through the university's extensive wireless network, said Susan Powers, professor of curriculum, instruction and media technology and chairwoman of ISU's notebook implementation committee.
"The notebook initiative gives us an opportunity to use technology to support learner-centered, knowledge-centered, assessment-centered and community-centered learning environments. It is a window of opportunity for true innovation. Lenovo ThinkPad will be an excellent partner in our strategies to expand the learning environment of ISU," Powers said.
Isn't this unethical journalism, or am I simply old fashioned in my my thinking?
Just like to clarify after thinking about the magnet releasing energy; There is an energy release due to the increase in entropy of the magnet as it weakens. However, the amount of energy it releases would be peanuts, especially considering the period of time over which the magnet would decay. If you had an electromagnet with x strength versus a permanent magnetic with strength x, theoretically you would get the same amount of energy the their fields collapsing; its just that the permanent magnet would take years to release it. So my third point is wrong in that respect. Again though, the amount of energy you would "gain" (which you would have put into the production of the magnet in the first place) would be miniscule compared with the output of any non-trivial generator. It would be at best like one revolutions worth, spread out over a few years:)
First, you can get energy from magnets. Not for free you can't. You can use magnets to convert between different forms of energy -- kinetic to electric for instance. You are not getting anything for free though.
Do you think those iron filings from 5th grade science moved around without an energy input? The energy input in this case was the action of you moving the magnet -- you would have felt resistance to moving the magnet (not much), to overcome this resistance required you had an input of work done by you (not the magnet).
Second, magnets certainly do wear out. Irelevant to the discussion at hand. You imply that the wearing out of the magnet is due to it releasing energy. This is also false. The life of a magnet is due to the material its made of, and the enviroment it is in -- heat, shock, external magnetic forces all affect its life. Not how much "energy" you get from it.
Excepts they are watching your every move. They tag you in the bus, entering the subway, on the train, leaving the train, leaving the subway, walking to the car parking lot. They then start tagging your car leaving the parking lot, driving to your house in the city. They then catch you back on CCTV entering your house.
In the UK you can basically have a fairly uninterupted surveillance of any person as they go through anywhere but their own home.
I wonder what advantages AMD saw that lead them to this design.
Well, I think its probably another cost-saving measure. I'm sure just having to put normal contacts on the CPU instead of pins makes the price of them perhaps significantly cheaper to manufacture, and passes the cost on the the motherboard manufacturer.
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as a side note i do vote.
Now, if only you could be introduced to the use of capital letters as a novel way to start sentences...
A trojan horse is a program that mascarades as another (or inside), innocent program. Your definition would include basically any software program -- "Hello, World!" in displaying its line of text "modifies the system" into displaying the text, for example.
This program is very explicit in the changes it makes -- you have to manually select "delete" for the P2P and music files.
And what sort of pressure do you suppose you'll attain with your bicycle pump? 30 PSI?
You'll need an awfully large (airtight!) tank for that. Well, don't worry -- we can weld one together from the sheet steel they have lying around in the sahara, using cow-dung powered TIG welders...
For the amount of effort required, it would be much easier to make an electrical generator from some coils of wire and a windmill/waterwheel.
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I think any magnetic forces will pale in comparison to chemical forces at that scale.
Why not just dip the platters in a some corrosive? I'm sure even some like drano might do the trickk.
Or perhaps how about holding the platters up to a propane torch? you wouldn't need to melt them, just get them hot enough that they lose their magnetic field.
So does that mean bloggers will have to apply for a "journalist's visa" or face deportation on enterting the US?
(The US being one of a handful of countries requiring it, the others being Iran, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Cube)
Source: Guardian
Would I be right in saying that you're about 13?
Well, in transistors etc, holes (the absence of electrons) are given negative mass.
Don't be silly.
If this were to be used for criminal identification, I'm sure that when they get a "hit" for a wanted suspect, that they're going to manually sift through the video, in order to figure out direction of travel etc.
These things aren't error proof, and never will be. A jury would also probably be more sawyed by seeing part of the footage than just having a prosecutor say "the computer said it was him."
If I were an (innocent) suspect, I'd much rather that I was tagged by a computer, since the video evidence would be available to criticize, than to be tagged by a witness to a crime, who are notorious for misidentifying people.
So in regards to your hypothetical question, no. At best this would be like a google search for faces, where an investigator would then further analyze the hits.
America's Army does. It's probably one of the most realistic I've played.
This is just like the argument that Hydrogen cars are more dangerous than gasoline cars.
If they can contain liquid with the explosive equivalent of dynamite, then I think they can contain this.
Wrong.
Lets think about another analogy: Would you rather hold a cup of gasoline and light it, or a cup of dynamite and light it? How quickly the energy can be released it much more important than the amount of energy per volume (within reason).
Gasoline can burn nicely when it gets out of the tank. This mythic supercapacitor that they're talking about os the equiviliant of the dynamite; the speed at which it can release energy is orders of magnitude quicker.
"Afterwards she said: 'It's quite scary to realise that your every move could be monitored - it really is like Big Brother. 'But Middlesbrough does have a big problem with anti-social behaviour, so it is very reassuring.' " And this is why it is truly Airstrip One.
"Perhaps mass protests at "the drop of a hat" would keep our politicians in check? Right now, it seems they can get away with murder and spending more money than we have. I honestly only wish more people would non-violently protest and speak their minds."
The situations you defined is hardly at "the drop of a hat." These would be legitimate reasons to protest. The fact that you consider protesting a feature change as legitimate as protesting murder seems odd to me.
This is a ridiculous protest, and cheapens the impact of protests. God knows what she would have done had she been old enough when "New Coke" came out...
Wow..
I think we are witnessing evolution is action. I'm pretty sure that the following user, for instance, only recently crawled on to dry land. I wonder if they still have vestigal gills?
Query:
24969423 my space. com 3131560415 2006-05-31 19:02:36
24969423 my space. com 3131560415 2006-05-31 19:03:16
24969423 my space. com 2006-05-31 19:03:32 2 http://music.myspace.com
24969423 my space.com 2006-05-31 19:12:00
24969423 my space.com 3131560415 2006-05-31 19:12:25
He speaks the truth.
I have some older Thinkpads, and they all give a similar message, although I found a hack on the net that allowed one to bypass this restriction. You still get the message at bootup though, and have to press "ESC" to continue, which is a pain.
Well, "New AT&T Aquires Bellsouth" implies that it has happened. It hasn't (yet).
Lets see... here is lenovo's press release: http://www.lenovo.com/news/us/en/2006/01/ind_state .html
I have reproduced the article here, with italics for word for word sections from the press release:
Indiana State University has selected the Lenovo ThinkPad as its preferred computer for students and faculty as the university moves toward becoming a notebook institution.
Developed by IBM, the ThinkPad is now manufactured and marketed by Lenovo, the world's third-largest personal computing company after its acquisition of IBM's personal computer business in 2005.
ISU will become the first public university in the state to require all students to have notebook computers, beginning with incoming freshmen in fall 2007.
The university is one of a handful of institutions nationally, including the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Clemson University, to institute similar mobile computing initiatives.
"When we announced the Notebook Initiative last September, we pledged that our students would receive high quality, business-grade laptops worthy of the investment they and their parents are making in an ISU education," said C. Jack Maynard, ISU provost and vice president for academic affairs. "The selection of the Lenovo ThinkPad fulfills that pledge."
ISU chose Lenovo because of its superior service and support, the quality of ThinkPad notebooks and the advanced wireless capabilities of the PCs.
(some parts skipped by article in their grab from the press release...)
ThinkPads help simplify the network connectivity process through ThinkVantage Access Connections 4.1, which helps mobile users set up and automatically switch from one available network connection to the next.
Through Access Connections, students and faculty will be able to seamlessly move from classes to dorm rooms and wired to wireless environments.
The widespread use of laptop technology will leverage the power of mobile computing to provide campuswide access through the university's extensive wireless network, said Susan Powers, professor of curriculum, instruction and media technology and chairwoman of ISU's notebook implementation committee.
"The notebook initiative gives us an opportunity to use technology to support learner-centered, knowledge-centered, assessment-centered and community-centered learning environments. It is a window of opportunity for true innovation. Lenovo ThinkPad will be an excellent partner in our strategies to expand the learning environment of ISU," Powers said.
Isn't this unethical journalism, or am I simply old fashioned in my my thinking?
Just like to clarify after thinking about the magnet releasing energy; :)
There is an energy release due to the increase in entropy of the magnet as it weakens. However, the amount of energy it releases would be peanuts, especially considering the period of time over which the magnet would decay. If you had an electromagnet with x strength versus a permanent magnetic with strength x, theoretically you would get the same amount of energy the their fields collapsing; its just that the permanent magnet would take years to release it.
So my third point is wrong in that respect. Again though, the amount of energy you would "gain" (which you would have put into the production of the magnet in the first place) would be miniscule compared with the output of any non-trivial generator. It would be at best like one revolutions worth, spread out over a few years
First, you can get energy from magnets.
Not for free you can't. You can use magnets to convert between different forms of energy -- kinetic to electric for instance. You are not getting anything for free though.
Do you think those iron filings from 5th grade science moved around without an energy input?
The energy input in this case was the action of you moving the magnet -- you would have felt resistance to moving the magnet (not much), to overcome this resistance required you had an input of work done by you (not the magnet).
Second, magnets certainly do wear out.
Irelevant to the discussion at hand. You imply that the wearing out of the magnet is due to it releasing energy. This is also false. The life of a magnet is due to the material its made of, and the enviroment it is in -- heat, shock, external magnetic forces all affect its life. Not how much "energy" you get from it.
Excepts they are watching your every move. They tag you in the bus, entering the subway, on the train, leaving the train, leaving the subway, walking to the car parking lot. They then start tagging your car leaving the parking lot, driving to your house in the city. They then catch you back on CCTV entering your house.
In the UK you can basically have a fairly uninterupted surveillance of any person as they go through anywhere but their own home.
fear is biological, not ideological
fear is about avoiding predators, not what kind of partisan brainwashed victim you are, either from the right or the left
but don't let me stating the obvious stop you from spewing more of your braindead propaganda against more of their braindead propaganda
right or left, i'm so sick of partisans
What?
Also: Note that your post consisted of one bullshit statement and three lines of drooling idiot. Bad ratio.
I had to hurt myself after reading that.
I wonder what advantages AMD saw that lead them to this design.
Well, I think its probably another cost-saving measure. I'm sure just having to put normal contacts on the CPU instead of pins makes the price of them perhaps significantly cheaper to manufacture, and passes the cost on the the motherboard manufacturer.
as a side note i do vote.
Now, if only you could be introduced to the use of capital letters as a novel way to start sentences...
neo-pegan??
It's sad when you can't spell the name of your religion...
No.
A trojan horse is a program that mascarades as another (or inside), innocent program. Your definition would include basically any software program -- "Hello, World!" in displaying its line of text "modifies the system" into displaying the text, for example.
This program is very explicit in the changes it makes -- you have to manually select "delete" for the P2P and music files.
And what sort of pressure do you suppose you'll attain with your bicycle pump? 30 PSI?
You'll need an awfully large (airtight!) tank for that. Well, don't worry -- we can weld one together from the sheet steel they have lying around in the sahara, using cow-dung powered TIG welders...
For the amount of effort required, it would be much easier to make an electrical generator from some coils of wire and a windmill/waterwheel.
Doesn't Mathmatica use a derivative of Maple? (As does Matlab, IIRC for its symbolic toolkit).