Just a note about the tar sands: the solution is simply to see oil as a dense and transportation friendly store of energy rather than a source of energy. Just use nuclear reactors to boil the water for steam extraction. If you use breeder and thorium fueled reactors, fuel for them is essentially limitless and final toxic waste is minimal. Until the battery-electrical motor combo beats gas tank-internal combustion engine in energy storage density and power-to-weight ratio, it will be worth producing oil this way even when the input nuclear energy is more than the energy of combusting the extracted oil.
Wind/solar cannot achieve decent density. I'd hate to see a good percentage of land covered by such an eyesore. Now look at the rising world energy demand as 2nd and 3rd world nations industrialize fully. Nuclear reactors avoid this problem, and breeder and thorium-fueled ones have enough fuel for dozens of thousands of years while minimizing waste.
You just ripped off the setting of a 1933 short sci fi story by Jack Williamson, "With Folded Hands" which was later expanded into "The Humanoids". Nothing new under the sun:)
Finally a reply actually addressing the content--Halleluja! After several reactionary mixes of ad hominem and non sequitur from anonymous cowards (or should I say pseudoanonymous, as they're clearly the same ones above me in this thread), someone comes out with a reasoned out post! Of course, I don't really believe that the vaccine causes autism, and I am a happy vaccinee. My post was a devil's advocate act for two reasons; the first to showcase the poor aptitude of the average slashdotter in defending an intellectual position, and the second simply that I'm a miserable misanthrope set out to spread disinformation in order to increase human suffering.
The paper is just a secondary source. It's refering to independent research and you're not addressing that at all, instead talking trash about irrelevant shit such as who is reporting it.
Well, of course I don't _really_ believe there is a link between the vaccine and autism, but I'm a petty misanthrope and so will continue telling people there is, since it increases the chance that I cause more kids to get sick.
You've addressed absolutely nothing regarding the independent research discussed in the article I linked to. These researchers are not affiliated with Wakefield and do not have any conflict of interest. And they're normal scientists with other publications. But as expected, you didn't RTFA.
I thought decoherence was the proposed resolution to the measurement->collapsing wave function approach of interpreting QM. Has this been derailed?
Alternatively, I've seen a proposal that QM is just a probability algorithm correlating various observables, as in http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412182
In fact, there is no widespread agreement that space-time is quantized. Many values in QM are not quantized at all; it's not so easy to do away with real numbers. While there are limitations to information density and processing due to the holographic principle and Bekenstein bound, that is a far cry from claiming that reality is discrete--the latter notion has no support among any physicist I've talked to. It also bears to note that space-time doesn't have to be discrete for it to not be infinitely differentiable, as the uncertainty principle makes for the same effect. See Mohrhoff's probability algorithm interpretation of QM for elaboration on this last point.
Debt is largely irrelevant when enumerared in a currency of which you are the monopoly issuer. Krugman has time and again discounted this ludicrous debt paranoia that you and your kind are espousing. Deficit spending is exactly what is needed in a recession. The problem is the reverse of what you suggest; there hasn't been enough of it due to exactly the sort of misinformed right wing populist bulshit and misunderstanding of macroeconomic influence by monetary control that you've sadly parroted here.
I also remember reading research that female gender orientation is much less fixed than in males, i.e. suggesting it is more cultural. Physiological comparisons seem to suggest this, as while there are correlated physiological differences between straight and gay males, there is little evidence for this in females. As an aside, maybe this is why it's easier to get two straight women to make out than two straight men:)
You just wrote that it suck to be me because I got modded down. What a sad, pathetic life you must lead if your well-being depends on favorable slashdot moderation.
ACs don't bother? Ignoring posts because of the category of the user rather than the content of the post is a sure sign you are an arrogant cunt that makes everyone around him feel uncomfortable.
The only weakness on a BB with full encryption enabled is a weak password. Note the flash memory would have to be moved to different hardware and the hardware keys extracted from the phone board, since the phone hardware checks firmware signature so you can't just load your cracking software on the phone hardware
We already have those--the superautomatic espresso machines, which grind, tamp, extract, and clean up on the spot. The one thing they don't do is make good coffee. Convenience trumps quality every time, and this is not making me hopeful of upcoming robotic baristas...
So you're suggesting that we should have jobs for the sake of jobs--provide busy work for more bodies, rather than actually being necessitated for advancing progress, creating things, or providing services. That is an offensice proposition and you should be ashamed of yourself.
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The summary mentions that this is useful for computer graphics. Can someone elaborate?
Just a note about the tar sands: the solution is simply to see oil as a dense and transportation friendly store of energy rather than a source of energy. Just use nuclear reactors to boil the water for steam extraction. If you use breeder and thorium fueled reactors, fuel for them is essentially limitless and final toxic waste is minimal. Until the battery-electrical motor combo beats gas tank-internal combustion engine in energy storage density and power-to-weight ratio, it will be worth producing oil this way even when the input nuclear energy is more than the energy of combusting the extracted oil.
Wind/solar cannot achieve decent density. I'd hate to see a good percentage of land covered by such an eyesore. Now look at the rising world energy demand as 2nd and 3rd world nations industrialize fully. Nuclear reactors avoid this problem, and breeder and thorium-fueled ones have enough fuel for dozens of thousands of years while minimizing waste.
You just ripped off the setting of a 1933 short sci fi story by Jack Williamson, "With Folded Hands" which was later expanded into "The Humanoids". Nothing new under the sun :)
Finally a reply actually addressing the content--Halleluja! After several reactionary mixes of ad hominem and non sequitur from anonymous cowards (or should I say pseudoanonymous, as they're clearly the same ones above me in this thread), someone comes out with a reasoned out post! Of course, I don't really believe that the vaccine causes autism, and I am a happy vaccinee. My post was a devil's advocate act for two reasons; the first to showcase the poor aptitude of the average slashdotter in defending an intellectual position, and the second simply that I'm a miserable misanthrope set out to spread disinformation in order to increase human suffering.
And how does this jive with your 'debunked' claims? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-388051/Scientists-fear-MMR-link-autism.html note they're referring to not Wakefield but Walker, independent researchers.
The paper is just a secondary source. It's refering to independent research and you're not addressing that at all, instead talking trash about irrelevant shit such as who is reporting it.
Re you dense? The article does NOT refer to Wakefield but independent research, for fuck's sakes!
The article does NOT refer to Wakefield but independent research. Learn to read! Or maybe you have autism
Well, of course I don't _really_ believe there is a link between the vaccine and autism, but I'm a petty misanthrope and so will continue telling people there is, since it increases the chance that I cause more kids to get sick.
You've addressed absolutely nothing regarding the independent research discussed in the article I linked to. These researchers are not affiliated with Wakefield and do not have any conflict of interest. And they're normal scientists with other publications. But as expected, you didn't RTFA.
You obviously didn't RTFA, as it's not talking about Wakefield but separate researchers.
And how does this jive with your oh-so-unassailable position? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-388051/Scientists-fear-MMR-link-autism.html. I see both sides taking up their stance with religious certainty. How sad.
And how does this jive with your oh-so-unassailable position? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-388051/Scientists-fear-MMR-link-autism.html. I see both sides behaving with religious certainty on this issue. How sad.
6. MS-FUD-like conjecture and speculation on Slashdot will get a post moderated as insightful.
I thought decoherence was the proposed resolution to the measurement->collapsing wave function approach of interpreting QM. Has this been derailed?
Alternatively, I've seen a proposal that QM is just a probability algorithm correlating various observables, as in http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412182
In fact, there is no widespread agreement that space-time is quantized. Many values in QM are not quantized at all; it's not so easy to do away with real numbers. While there are limitations to information density and processing due to the holographic principle and Bekenstein bound, that is a far cry from claiming that reality is discrete--the latter notion has no support among any physicist I've talked to. It also bears to note that space-time doesn't have to be discrete for it to not be infinitely differentiable, as the uncertainty principle makes for the same effect. See Mohrhoff's probability algorithm interpretation of QM for elaboration on this last point.
Debt is largely irrelevant when enumerared in a currency of which you are the monopoly issuer. Krugman has time and again discounted this ludicrous debt paranoia that you and your kind are espousing. Deficit spending is exactly what is needed in a recession. The problem is the reverse of what you suggest; there hasn't been enough of it due to exactly the sort of misinformed right wing populist bulshit and misunderstanding of macroeconomic influence by monetary control that you've sadly parroted here.
I also remember reading research that female gender orientation is much less fixed than in males, i.e. suggesting it is more cultural. Physiological comparisons seem to suggest this, as while there are correlated physiological differences between straight and gay males, there is little evidence for this in females. As an aside, maybe this is why it's easier to get two straight women to make out than two straight men :)
"some kid"? Auernheimer has a Rolls Royce Silver Phantom and a history of major hacking successes. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html Some kid, indeed!
You just wrote that it suck to be me because I got modded down. What a sad, pathetic life you must lead if your well-being depends on favorable slashdot moderation.
ACs don't bother? Ignoring posts because of the category of the user rather than the content of the post is a sure sign you are an arrogant cunt that makes everyone around him feel uncomfortable.
The only weakness on a BB with full encryption enabled is a weak password. Note the flash memory would have to be moved to different hardware and the hardware keys extracted from the phone board, since the phone hardware checks firmware signature so you can't just load your cracking software on the phone hardware
We already have those--the superautomatic espresso machines, which grind, tamp, extract, and clean up on the spot. The one thing they don't do is make good coffee. Convenience trumps quality every time, and this is not making me hopeful of upcoming robotic baristas...
So you're suggesting that we should have jobs for the sake of jobs--provide busy work for more bodies, rather than actually being necessitated for advancing progress, creating things, or providing services. That is an offensice proposition and you should be ashamed of yourself.