The trouble with pure water is that it's a very powerful solvent (it even burns when you drink it, not badly, but you still don't want to drink a lot of it...).
It wouldn't remain pure for long, at the expense of everything it came in contact with.
MOST of the damage from gamma rays is ionization damage -- i.e. atomic bonds are disrupted, not nucleii. Yes, there would be some nuclear interaction, but not that much.
With nuclear weapons, by contrast, the big problem is free neutrons flying around. Those are quite likely to disrupt nucleii and produce unstable (and therefore radioactive) daughter nucleii.
So long as you put the jelly over your real finger (which is the normal mode of usage), those types of scanners do get fooled (if I remember the original paper correctly).
Also, arteries and veins don't really show up on a thermal imprint, especially not the fine vessels you would see in fingertips. So it's not necessary to fake that level of detail.
So, IR over optical shouldn't make that big a difference.
No cite, sadly -- I can't find the original (and more in-depth) article I had originally read on the web now -- but the researcher's name was Dr. Michael Platt, and the research in question is referenced in this NewsWeek article (halfway down, look for "berry berry"). I'm not sure if this was before or after he left the Glimcher Lab for Duke.
His lab page is here, but none of the paper titles ring a bell.
If you're interested, you should at least be able to reach him at: platt at neuro dot duke dot edu
In one set of experiments, monkeys were willing to sacrifice very large quantities of their favorite beverage in order to simply look at pictures of higher-ranking monkeys in their social group for a period of time.
Sort of puts a new spin on those celeb mags in the supermarket checkout lines, doesn't it?
I suppose the only thing about privately run organizations is that it is intrinsically harder for them to imprison or kill you (since the government sort of likes to have a monopoly in that area).
(I don't think e.g. prison subcontractors count, though they certainly marry the worst of both worlds)
With a total collapse like that, we'd be unlikely to work our way back up to industrial technology again.
One difficulties in rebuilding is that the industrial revolution exhausted nearly all of the world's accessible (with pre-industrial technology) mineral resources.
One possibility, I suppose, might be mining garbage dumps, but.. man, that would be nasty and disease-ridden, and require a LOT of effort to separate usable materials. I'm not sure it would be sustainable.
Culture isn't a static thing, it must grow and evolve to survive. You have to take the good with the bad. Sometimes changes can bear surprising improvements.
Of course, the problem nowadays is that normally only a very small handful of people are allowed to participate in this, as our cultural works have ceased falling into the public domain.
Peter Jackson was one of the lucky few permitted to license LotR, for example.
There's quite a lot of debate over whether or not he did a good job (I think he did, on balance) -- but wouldn't it be great if the cultural field were open to competition there, as between Spielburg and Hines?
That healthy competition of interpretations is only possible with WotW because it is in the public domain.
For real cultural development, once a work has been established in the popular consciousness for a few decades, artists at large need to be able to build on it.
That used to be how things worked throughout the entirety of human history, until the inhumanly long copyright regimes adopted in the 20th century.
Now free cultural development on top of existing works (like LotR) is impossible until the release of those works (and in most cases the works themselves) has already passed from living memory.:/
Let me see if I understand: IP shouldn't have the same protections as physical property because it cannot be made scarce? OK? Did I understand what you meant?
Yes. In economic parlance, it's not an excludable good.
Are you then justified in coming onto my land to take oil for free as long as you don't reduce it below the amount I would use in my lifetime? After all it really won't make any difference to me, and if I didn't see you do it, I'd probably never notice.
No, that analogy is flawed, for two reasons:
it's impossible to access the oil without trespassing on your land
there is still a limited quantity of oil, independent of whether anyone presently plans to use all, some, or none of it
The analogy would be applicable if:
it were possible to "magically" obtain some of this oil without entering or otherwise interacting with your land/airspace/whatever
the oil supply were "magic" and literally infinite
These two "magic" points, necessary to preserve the analogy, illustrate the difference between ideas and physical goods.
Note that these properties do only hold for specific ideas. Obviously it cannot and should not be construed as applicable to e.g. labor.
That is, the oil reserve should be understood as representing a single specific idea, not one's brain nor one's body of unpublished ideas -- which are limited and are best represented in the analogy by the land.
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The trouble with pure water is that it's a very powerful solvent (it even burns when you drink it, not badly, but you still don't want to drink a lot of it...).
It wouldn't remain pure for long, at the expense of everything it came in contact with.
Let's not forget showing them heroically tracking down the evil users and authors of P2P software.
You know they would.
MOST of the damage from gamma rays is ionization damage -- i.e. atomic bonds are disrupted, not nucleii. Yes, there would be some nuclear interaction, but not that much.
With nuclear weapons, by contrast, the big problem is free neutrons flying around. Those are quite likely to disrupt nucleii and produce unstable (and therefore radioactive) daughter nucleii.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "steal". Sure, your actual physical fingerprints might be a bit tricky to grab without you noticing...
However, given that you leave thousands of impressions of them all over the place every day I wouldn't really call them that hard to steal.
Do you plan on wearing cotton gloves everywhere?
So long as you put the jelly over your real finger (which is the normal mode of usage), those types of scanners do get fooled (if I remember the original paper correctly).
Also, arteries and veins don't really show up on a thermal imprint, especially not the fine vessels you would see in fingertips. So it's not necessary to fake that level of detail.
So, IR over optical shouldn't make that big a difference.
that would happen to be the article I linked to, yes...
I'm afraid this is the best I can do for now.
No cite, sadly -- I can't find the original (and more in-depth) article I had originally read on the web now -- but the researcher's name was Dr. Michael Platt, and the research in question is referenced in this NewsWeek article (halfway down, look for "berry berry"). I'm not sure if this was before or after he left the Glimcher Lab for Duke.
His lab page is here, but none of the paper titles ring a bell.
If you're interested, you should at least be able to reach him at: platt at neuro dot duke dot edu
It seems to be a primate thing.
In one set of experiments, monkeys were willing to sacrifice very large quantities of their favorite beverage in order to simply look at pictures of higher-ranking monkeys in their social group for a period of time.
Sort of puts a new spin on those celeb mags in the supermarket checkout lines, doesn't it?
You mean something just like this?
O'Reilly has released a number of titles under this arrangement.
Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss.
I suppose the only thing about privately run organizations is that it is intrinsically harder for them to imprison or kill you (since the government sort of likes to have a monopoly in that area).
(I don't think e.g. prison subcontractors count, though they certainly marry the worst of both worlds)
Governments usually struggle with corruption quite a bit, don't they?
You may be right though that they separate cow materials from the stuff that goes into cow feed now. I need to look into that.
You wouldn't want to eat the parts of cows (and assorted other animals, including pets, they mix in) they feed to other cows.
If you're morbidly curious, do some research on where the products of rendering plants go sometime.
Lameness filter go away, come again some other day.
Actually we mostly feed cows reprocessed cows these days.
Hence the problems with mad cow disease.
Ever noticed how many wealthy types commute by personal helicopter?
With a total collapse like that, we'd be unlikely to work our way back up to industrial technology again.
.. man, that would be nasty and disease-ridden, and require a LOT of effort to separate usable materials. I'm not sure it would be sustainable.
One difficulties in rebuilding is that the industrial revolution exhausted nearly all of the world's accessible (with pre-industrial technology) mineral resources.
One possibility, I suppose, might be mining garbage dumps, but
As a counterexample, what about "The Phantom Edit"?
Actually, thanks to the Berne Convention it does.
I think such "remixes" are vital for culture.
:/
Culture isn't a static thing, it must grow and evolve to survive. You have to take the good with the bad. Sometimes changes can bear surprising improvements.
Of course, the problem nowadays is that normally only a very small handful of people are allowed to participate in this, as our cultural works have ceased falling into the public domain.
Peter Jackson was one of the lucky few permitted to license LotR, for example.
There's quite a lot of debate over whether or not he did a good job (I think he did, on balance) -- but wouldn't it be great if the cultural field were open to competition there, as between Spielburg and Hines?
That healthy competition of interpretations is only possible with WotW because it is in the public domain.
For real cultural development, once a work has been established in the popular consciousness for a few decades, artists at large need to be able to build on it.
That used to be how things worked throughout the entirety of human history, until the inhumanly long copyright regimes adopted in the 20th century.
Now free cultural development on top of existing works (like LotR) is impossible until the release of those works (and in most cases the works themselves) has already passed from living memory.
SDL only uses the parts of DirectX that generally don't overlap with OpenGL, to which SDL hands off the remainder of the work.
Most people seem to think "fascist" is a synonym for "totalitarian" these days. c.f. the neologism "islamo-fascist"
I'm afraid the semantic shift may be irreversible at this point, however.
You may want to consider filing a few bugs or something to bring these issues to their attention, if you've not done so.
Dropping a link to Schmidt's work in there might not be a bad means of stealth education, either.
Yes. In economic parlance, it's not an excludable good.
No, that analogy is flawed, for two reasons:
The analogy would be applicable if:
These two "magic" points, necessary to preserve the analogy, illustrate the difference between ideas and physical goods.
Note that these properties do only hold for specific ideas. Obviously it cannot and should not be construed as applicable to e.g. labor.
That is, the oil reserve should be understood as representing a single specific idea, not one's brain nor one's body of unpublished ideas -- which are limited and are best represented in the analogy by the land.