Well, actually, the principle has held true. Perhaps not for chemical and biological weapons, nor bombers and battleships, but certainly nukes.
The last time nuclear bombs were used during warfare occurred over 50 years ago. Though they have been developed by at least 9 nations* so far, not one has used them since each has realized that the ensuing devastation would outweigh whatever they were fighting for. So no, actually nukes did achieve what that ever-elusive state. Of course, now we just agree to go to war without using nuclear weapons.:-P
*my count is USA, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Isreal, and South Africa (disarmed). Did I miss any?
what exactly is "antiparallel"? Is it perpindicular? or something completely different?
Other than that I've pretty much got the jist of what you were saying. You would have got me with anisotropic, but nth order perturbations and recoilless spontaneous emmissions would have been fine:-)
Hrm, I would guess that laminar airflow is something like a sheet of moving air, but could someone please provide a concise definition of laminar airflow and how it is achieved for those of us who don't know our aerodynamics as well?
If they don't fix the shit after this, release the exploit *anonymously*.
Riiiight, because you've sent them a letter saying that you're going to leak the hole in 30/60/90 days and then when the hole gets mysteriously leaked in that timeframe there's no WAY they could possibly guess it was you...
I actually think this system can work, but it needs three major adjustments:
1) Anyone who wants to access information from this system, for whatever reason, must get a search warrant from a judge before doing so.
2) People must be allowed to retrieve their own records at will and be permitted to submit corrections to incorrect data.
3) Public oversight in the form of a third-party's review of the system should be enforced in the form of an annual report to congress or some such body detailing the usage of the system (times it was accessed, by who, for what info, whether a conviction or arrest was ever obtained on the suspect.)
All in all, I think that enormous databases of information for law enforcement purposes are inevitable, but they need to have appropriate checks and balances in place before they become safe to implement IMHO. None of the current systems or proposals would meet my standards for this, and anyone who thinks that these safeguards would cripple the system with buerocratic inefficiency should go watch the excellent movie Enemy of the State for a quick hollywood-style remider of the consequences of failing to implement appropriate safeguards.
Hydrogen doesn't burn, or more specifically, deflagrate. Rather, hydrogen detonates (explodes). It is extremely difficult to make a sustained hydrogen-fueled flame because the compression wave generated by the deflagrating (burning) hydrogen compresses the surrounding hydrogen very quicly to the point where it detonates(explodes).
The community lab needs to provide a lot more than just courses. In fact, I would think that its best buisiness would come from being an internet cafe catered to a non-tech community.
Get some of the local kids onto LAN gaming and encourage it in your lab. In addition to weekly classes (in the evenings or whatever), make it clear that it is a place where people can come to check their email, type up something in word, or whatever. The most important part though is to always have someone friendly and knowledgable staffing the place so that people know if they come in at a slow time they can get personal help with whatever they're working on. This help shouldn't cost them above and beyond what the computer time is costing them, nor should it be the only reason they come there. They should come there to get stuff done, knowing that if they get stuck someone will be there to help them out.
This product isn't neccesarily bad for the store. If the store stocks two competing items beside each other and the detector doesn't like the cheaper one, the shopper might pick up the more expensive one (which likely has a larger profit margin for the store).
Actually, it's the other way around, since Volts (or a potential difference) can exist without ANY amps (or current) flowing, yet no current can flow without a driving voltage.
And btw, I've played with these lifters for some time (I wrote my Extended Essay for my Baccalaureate Diploma on these), and I accidentally shocked myself with the residual charge from my 28 kV power supply after it was switched off. Needless to say, I am still here today, and i got off with no burns, just a sore finger:-). However, had the power supply been on, i'm sure the results would have been much closer to your predictions.
I fail to see why comic books, poems, and plays do not qualify as books. From m-w.com, "book: a set of written, printed, or blank sheets bound together into a volume".
That to me shows that book does indeed denote the form in which some sort of information is published, and not the nature of the information. Thus, comic books, poems, and plays that are all published in bound dead-tree format qualify, though internet books probably won't.
Would it be possible to put the rocket on the top of the balloon? It's counter-intuitive, but given a large counter-balancing weight below the balloon (much heavier than the spacecraft), it could be possible. Add in some fancy balancing electronics and it's almost starting to sound practical.
Two things - first, a decent sensor device made to detect specific things (like sarin, soman, etc, which are all chemically similar) won't be tripping on a cigarette. Pattern won't match.
Second, that's the advantage of having a network - in addition to spacial information, you get redundancy. If there are a few sensors in the area, they can back each other up.
Well, gee. That sounds an awful lot like what the CIA tried during the vietnam war: they set up an extensive network of fairly sophisticated sensors designed to figure out VC troop movements through the jungle. What did the VC do? they went through the jungles hanging buckets of piss on trees. These buckets produced enough odour to trip the chemical sensors and the entire multi-million dollar network was rendered useless.
The point is that distributed, coherent, reliable sensor networks are in practice a lot harder to implement than theory would suggest.
You guys are missing the most damning evidence of all: In 1994, a group of islamic terrorists tried the exact same stunt by attempting to crash an Air France 747 into the eiffel tower! They were only stopped because the pilot managed to persuade them that it was neccesary to stop for fuel, and the plane was stormed on the ground.
It's also used as a coagulent. My neighbour is an emerg doctor and he has an absolutely hilarious story involving a misplaced cup of cocaine flakes that were intended for stopping some latino lady's uncontrollable nosebleed. Luckily the cocaine that hospitals use is something like 5% of the concentration of what you get on the street, and also the analogy still fails because hospitals don't buy their crack from street dealers.
The definition of barratry, IIRC, is threatening large litigation in order to coerce someone into some action, while having no intention of taking the litigous action if the person fails to do something. (I.e. DTV demands the $3500 and device from you, or they will sue you, but then when you ignore them they don't actually sue you.)
This is not a case of barratry, because DTV is actually following through with the lawsuits.
I don't think that we're ever going to reach a stage where a small enough percentage of society responds to spam to make it unprofitable. One only has to look at smoking, drunk driving, and a number of other societal problems to realize that there will always be a small percentage of the population that is just too stupid or self-centered or ignorant or whatever to follow the guidlines. I think a combination of strong (yet carefully crafted) legislation and technical improvements to the mail system is the only possible long-term solution to spam.
For the short term however, I wonder when some sort of vigilante action will finally take place. Given that a very few people send a large percentage of spam (someone else can google for refrences), if a determined group of people began tracking down the spammers and firebombing their computers/spam centers, or even killing the spammers if they restarted their operations, then spam would stop overnight. Most spammers aren't willing to risk their lazy sorry life to make a few easy bucks. The vigilantes would of course have to stay ahead of the law, and take out several spam operations in the US and possibly even overseas (Korea) before they gained much publicity, but I'm sure that once they did achieve publicity spam would nearly cease and they could retire to some county like Switzerland or the Cayman Islands. This is what it will take to stop spam in the short term.
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I actually never had to threaten litigation, they were very cooperative even without that threat. Still, you are probably right that the incident is on file somewhere, though I'm sure the bank would like to bury it as much as I would. However, I can be reasonably sure that unless it's the same bank, the file will not come up because it is not a public police or government file.
"WD-40 can make a pretty decent bug spray for small applications (most flying beasties get bogged down pretty well with a little lubing)."
It works even better if you hold a lighter to the stream before zapping the little fuckers.:-)
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Shit man, that's ridiculous.
I was falsely arrested for credit card fraud last year (cuffed and questioned by police officers in public, I would've been taken to the station and booked if I had not been able to have the cops call my parents and confirm that the bank had fucked up). The bank was really apologetic about it, so not counting the compensation they gave me I had them pay for full background checks on me twice (1 week after the incident and 6 mos later) and I charged them with ensuring that my record was completely clean from what was essentially their fuckup. It is my right to not have that on my record, and if they had not complied or if the police had not cleaned my record, lawsuits would have ensued.
You have to get this in order. Unless you have been TRIED and CONVICTED of a crime, the government/police/anyone has no right to maintain these records of you, nor to correlate these with other records when investigating future incidents. The next time this causes you any trouble at all, I highly reccommend you threaten suit, and follow through if they don't comply. Hopefully the next time you get trouble from this won't be the time that having a clear record will be important to you.
If you look at the flowchart they have, it actually takes quite a bit of effort to get information onto the system, as two of the possible four results of the system lead to the information being discarded. Check out the flowchart, and read the page - It covers a lot of important stuff.
No actually, the sailing ship analogy only applies to how the force vector of the photons is broken down by the sail. The sailing ship analogy is completely wrong when it comes to the ability of the solar-sail to fly upwind. Sailing ships can tack upwind because they have a centerboard which can cancel some of the wind's force in convenient directions, thereby leaving a net force that accelerates the boat upwind. Solar sailing vessels OTOH, can go "upwind" merely because there is already an immense gravitational force pulling them in that direction. The page you linked to explained all this...
"Even if a new law was drafted and passed that would require (insert your ethnic group here) to register in the middle of the desert in Nevada, realistically, there's nothing you could do about it for the next few years, until the sponsors of the bill were up for re-election."
No, being American, there is definitely one thing you CAN do about it: open revolt. This is what that ever-troublesome clause of you contitution ("the right to bear arms") has given you - the option of forceful rebellion against a repressive government. In this instance, I'm sure that enough Americans would agree with you that such a law was bad, and that enough would even join you in armed revolt if you so chose. While the safeguard of an armed populous is a crude tool, it is still very effective.
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Well, actually, the principle has held true. Perhaps not for chemical and biological weapons, nor bombers and battleships, but certainly nukes.
:-P
The last time nuclear bombs were used during warfare occurred over 50 years ago. Though they have been developed by at least 9 nations* so far, not one has used them since each has realized that the ensuing devastation would outweigh whatever they were fighting for. So no, actually nukes did achieve what that ever-elusive state. Of course, now we just agree to go to war without using nuclear weapons.
*my count is USA, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Isreal, and South Africa (disarmed). Did I miss any?
what exactly is "antiparallel"? Is it perpindicular? or something completely different?
:-)
Other than that I've pretty much got the jist of what you were saying. You would have got me with anisotropic, but nth order perturbations and recoilless spontaneous emmissions would have been fine
You could slam it, and have a low-rider cleaner. Wait, they already did that.
:-)
Props to the first guy who puts hydraulics in one of these things so it can bounce! Then it might actually get some dirt under it
Hrm, I would guess that laminar airflow is something like a sheet of moving air, but could someone please provide a concise definition of laminar airflow and how it is achieved for those of us who don't know our aerodynamics as well?
Watch that picture for a few hours straight...
A few hours!? All it took was a fraction of a second before it was imprinted in my mind. Yuk...
If they don't fix the shit after this, release the exploit *anonymously*.
Riiiight, because you've sent them a letter saying that you're going to leak the hole in 30/60/90 days and then when the hole gets mysteriously leaked in that timeframe there's no WAY they could possibly guess it was you...
I actually think this system can work, but it needs three major adjustments:
1) Anyone who wants to access information from this system, for whatever reason, must get a search warrant from a judge before doing so.
2) People must be allowed to retrieve their own records at will and be permitted to submit corrections to incorrect data.
3) Public oversight in the form of a third-party's review of the system should be enforced in the form of an annual report to congress or some such body detailing the usage of the system (times it was accessed, by who, for what info, whether a conviction or arrest was ever obtained on the suspect.)
All in all, I think that enormous databases of information for law enforcement purposes are inevitable, but they need to have appropriate checks and balances in place before they become safe to implement IMHO. None of the current systems or proposals would meet my standards for this, and anyone who thinks that these safeguards would cripple the system with buerocratic inefficiency should go watch the excellent movie Enemy of the State for a quick hollywood-style remider of the consequences of failing to implement appropriate safeguards.
Exactly. Spot on.
Hydrogen doesn't burn, or more specifically, deflagrate. Rather, hydrogen detonates (explodes). It is extremely difficult to make a sustained hydrogen-fueled flame because the compression wave generated by the deflagrating (burning) hydrogen compresses the surrounding hydrogen very quicly to the point where it detonates(explodes).
The community lab needs to provide a lot more than just courses. In fact, I would think that its best buisiness would come from being an internet cafe catered to a non-tech community.
Get some of the local kids onto LAN gaming and encourage it in your lab. In addition to weekly classes (in the evenings or whatever), make it clear that it is a place where people can come to check their email, type up something in word, or whatever. The most important part though is to always have someone friendly and knowledgable staffing the place so that people know if they come in at a slow time they can get personal help with whatever they're working on. This help shouldn't cost them above and beyond what the computer time is costing them, nor should it be the only reason they come there. They should come there to get stuff done, knowing that if they get stuck someone will be there to help them out.
This product isn't neccesarily bad for the store. If the store stocks two competing items beside each other and the detector doesn't like the cheaper one, the shopper might pick up the more expensive one (which likely has a larger profit margin for the store).
Just a couple things:
:-). However, had the power supply been on, i'm sure the results would have been much closer to your predictions.
Volts seldom occur without Amps
Actually, it's the other way around, since Volts (or a potential difference) can exist without ANY amps (or current) flowing, yet no current can flow without a driving voltage.
And btw, I've played with these lifters for some time (I wrote my Extended Essay for my Baccalaureate Diploma on these), and I accidentally shocked myself with the residual charge from my 28 kV power supply after it was switched off. Needless to say, I am still here today, and i got off with no burns, just a sore finger
I fail to see why comic books, poems, and plays do not qualify as books. From m-w.com, "book: a set of written, printed, or blank sheets bound together into a volume".
That to me shows that book does indeed denote the form in which some sort of information is published, and not the nature of the information. Thus, comic books, poems, and plays that are all published in bound dead-tree format qualify, though internet books probably won't.
Would it be possible to put the rocket on the top of the balloon? It's counter-intuitive, but given a large counter-balancing weight below the balloon (much heavier than the spacecraft), it could be possible. Add in some fancy balancing electronics and it's almost starting to sound practical.
Two things - first, a decent sensor device made to detect specific things (like sarin, soman, etc, which are all chemically similar) won't be tripping on a cigarette. Pattern won't match.
Second, that's the advantage of having a network - in addition to spacial information, you get redundancy. If there are a few sensors in the area, they can back each other up.
Well, gee. That sounds an awful lot like what the CIA tried during the vietnam war: they set up an extensive network of fairly sophisticated sensors designed to figure out VC troop movements through the jungle. What did the VC do? they went through the jungles hanging buckets of piss on trees. These buckets produced enough odour to trip the chemical sensors and the entire multi-million dollar network was rendered useless.
The point is that distributed, coherent, reliable sensor networks are in practice a lot harder to implement than theory would suggest.
You guys are missing the most damning evidence of all: In 1994, a group of islamic terrorists tried the exact same stunt by attempting to crash an Air France 747 into the eiffel tower! They were only stopped because the pilot managed to persuade them that it was neccesary to stop for fuel, and the plane was stormed on the ground.
More info.
It's also used as a coagulent. My neighbour is an emerg doctor and he has an absolutely hilarious story involving a misplaced cup of cocaine flakes that were intended for stopping some latino lady's uncontrollable nosebleed. Luckily the cocaine that hospitals use is something like 5% of the concentration of what you get on the street, and also the analogy still fails because hospitals don't buy their crack from street dealers.
The definition of barratry, IIRC, is threatening large litigation in order to coerce someone into some action, while having no intention of taking the litigous action if the person fails to do something. (I.e. DTV demands the $3500 and device from you, or they will sue you, but then when you ignore them they don't actually sue you.)
This is not a case of barratry, because DTV is actually following through with the lawsuits.
I don't think that we're ever going to reach a stage where a small enough percentage of society responds to spam to make it unprofitable. One only has to look at smoking, drunk driving, and a number of other societal problems to realize that there will always be a small percentage of the population that is just too stupid or self-centered or ignorant or whatever to follow the guidlines. I think a combination of strong (yet carefully crafted) legislation and technical improvements to the mail system is the only possible long-term solution to spam.
For the short term however, I wonder when some sort of vigilante action will finally take place. Given that a very few people send a large percentage of spam (someone else can google for refrences), if a determined group of people began tracking down the spammers and firebombing their computers/spam centers, or even killing the spammers if they restarted their operations, then spam would stop overnight. Most spammers aren't willing to risk their lazy sorry life to make a few easy bucks. The vigilantes would of course have to stay ahead of the law, and take out several spam operations in the US and possibly even overseas (Korea) before they gained much publicity, but I'm sure that once they did achieve publicity spam would nearly cease and they could retire to some county like Switzerland or the Cayman Islands. This is what it will take to stop spam in the short term.
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I actually never had to threaten litigation, they were very cooperative even without that threat. Still, you are probably right that the incident is on file somewhere, though I'm sure the bank would like to bury it as much as I would. However, I can be reasonably sure that unless it's the same bank, the file will not come up because it is not a public police or government file.
"WD-40 can make a pretty decent bug spray for small applications (most flying beasties get bogged down pretty well with a little lubing)."
:-)
It works even better if you hold a lighter to the stream before zapping the little fuckers.
Shit man, that's ridiculous.
I was falsely arrested for credit card fraud last year (cuffed and questioned by police officers in public, I would've been taken to the station and booked if I had not been able to have the cops call my parents and confirm that the bank had fucked up). The bank was really apologetic about it, so not counting the compensation they gave me I had them pay for full background checks on me twice (1 week after the incident and 6 mos later) and I charged them with ensuring that my record was completely clean from what was essentially their fuckup. It is my right to not have that on my record, and if they had not complied or if the police had not cleaned my record, lawsuits would have ensued.
You have to get this in order. Unless you have been TRIED and CONVICTED of a crime, the government/police/anyone has no right to maintain these records of you, nor to correlate these with other records when investigating future incidents. The next time this causes you any trouble at all, I highly reccommend you threaten suit, and follow through if they don't comply. Hopefully the next time you get trouble from this won't be the time that having a clear record will be important to you.
taken from this page: http://opengov.media.mit.edu/GIA/data.jsp
If you look at the flowchart they have, it actually takes quite a bit of effort to get information onto the system, as two of the possible four results of the system lead to the information being discarded. Check out the flowchart, and read the page - It covers a lot of important stuff.
No actually, the sailing ship analogy only applies to how the force vector of the photons is broken down by the sail. The sailing ship analogy is completely wrong when it comes to the ability of the solar-sail to fly upwind. Sailing ships can tack upwind because they have a centerboard which can cancel some of the wind's force in convenient directions, thereby leaving a net force that accelerates the boat upwind. Solar sailing vessels OTOH, can go "upwind" merely because there is already an immense gravitational force pulling them in that direction. The page you linked to explained all this...
"Even if a new law was drafted and passed that would require (insert your ethnic group here) to register in the middle of the desert in Nevada, realistically, there's nothing you could do about it for the next few years, until the sponsors of the bill were up for re-election."
No, being American, there is definitely one thing you CAN do about it: open revolt. This is what that ever-troublesome clause of you contitution ("the right to bear arms") has given you - the option of forceful rebellion against a repressive government. In this instance, I'm sure that enough Americans would agree with you that such a law was bad, and that enough would even join you in armed revolt if you so chose. While the safeguard of an armed populous is a crude tool, it is still very effective.