How are you going to contact a doctor at 4am when everyone is asleep and switched off their devices, on a hiking trail, while driving too quickly to keep us with peer switching...?
5 years ago, cell phone easily fit in your pocket 2 years ago, cell phone become even smaller/thinner, had better battery life, and could take a crappy picture 1 year ago, cell phone has longer battery life, bluetooth, plays.mp3s, connects to push email services, takes even better pictures, etc.
20 years from now, cell phones will be able to make reliable, clear phone calls anyway in Bay Area and will come with real buttons for touch dialing.
Uh.. I don't think you quite understand the point of a battlefield. Although yeah, it's better to permanently cripple enemies rather than kill them outright, to impose the burden of caring for the wounded (or at least disposing of them) on survivors.
Between Wine and Qemu impossible is a tall word on any general purpose computers. Decoding MP3/AAC on even an emulated x86 processor is hardly a huge achievement these days.
I suspect tanks/army carriers have cigarette lighter adapters that provide more than enough wattage for recharging. And real cigarette lighters for that matter. What's a remote possibility of lung cancer when you are carrying depleted uranium shells and can die any minute of a bullet anyway?
If you have a fight with my brother and he ends up dead, I will certainly assume you are at fault. Likewise, I grew up with my uncle and he never did anything inappropriate. I say you killed him over a poker dept, made up your story and got your son to lie for you.
Why should I take your word, word of a killer, over my flesh and blood who are not even there to defend themselves? Bring on the witnesses, let my brother confront them and show me that you convince a large number of impartial people that there is no other reasonable interpretation of the evidence. Then perhaps I can trust the system and refrain from retaliating.
With regards to killing, I will kill no other that does not first try and kill me. On the flip side, I will kill anyone who attempts to kill me and the law be damned about circumstances. I am not a Christian.
Interesting. And then relatives of whomever your killed will come and try to kill you and anyone you enlisted for help. Your society makes for an overgrowing body count and great drama plays ala Shakespeare. I would rather live in a modern society, of which most moved away from any sanction killing apart from letting terminally ill die on their own terms. In US, I at least get 12 randomly chosen people who must unanimously decide that I deserve death.
Ballbarrow sounds legit, but where exactly is innovation in the clockwork radio? It is a trivial combination of two concepts widely used before and any reasonable person would come up with the same design given the task parameters (crank-powered radio, no batteries or capacitors).
Will be strictly followed in this case, and EMI will pay at least $10K for each count of offering a song for download, that is a visit to their website when the user had an opportunity to search and buy songs.
That's my point about legal costs. Can I afford your services to patent a dozen inventions and then get Microsoft to license one they are infringing on?
While he certainly financially benefited from his invention, is it really fair to patent something created on taxpayer dime, student tuition, university equipment and probably work of many (post)graduate students who were not in any way compensated for their contributions?
Name at least one genuine inventor who put in the hard work, personally received at least 10% of license revenues and did not take advantage of other people's work by patenting vaporware and waiting for someone else to build an actual product. Current patent system only benefits large companies by driving startups out of business by requiring prohibitive legal costs to ship any product. Lets cut the crap about benefitting the little guys.
I don't see much cause for celebration. The author didn't retract his paper because he continued to work in the field and came to new conclusions. Rather, he first formed a desire to get rid of unwanted reputation and keep his paper from being used for conclusions he doesn't personally approve. Only then he zeroed in on a couple of errors and used them as an excuse to recall the paper. Had he found inconsistencies in some other way, he would probably just issue an errata instead.
Scientists are not supposed to manipulate their findings just because someone else might use them to support an unpopular theory.
According to the big bang theory, universe started from a singularity, that is zero radius. According to current black hole theory, even objects with huge initial radius and tiny mass compared to the whole universe collapse into black holes with no possibility of releasing the stuff inside again in a big bang. It is generally accepted that heavier objects have a larger Schwarzschild radius. Any questions?
I never heard about that. I am not an expert in cosmology, so I would be interested if you could point me to a source to read about this claim. And what do you mean with "long time"?
Any time is too long if you consider the current theory that nothing can escape the event horizon of black holes AND that everything inside will be squashed into a singularity within a finite, short time. This is hard to reconcile with a claim that the universe itself started from a singularity. Certainly we have no experimental evidence that "the space" can mysteriously expand and allow faster than light speeds necessary to escape a singularity.
Cosmological theories are currently not much better than intelligent design - you just have to take them on faith. Different versions of the string theory can not even agree on the number of physical dimensions that exists. They are basically just playing with numbers to try to match the observed strength of gravity. This seems like a pretty callous thing to do when there is no experimental evidence for even one extra dimension. Not to mention that our existing physics only explains 10% of gravity in the universe. Talk all you want about dark matter, but this leaves the possibility of pretty dramatic flaws in our current theories.
The biggest flaw in current cosmology is why we are not trapped in a singularity of a universe-mass black hole. Certainly for long time after big bang the universe was inside its own Schwarzschild Radius. Why didn't it just collapse right back after the big bang? After all, it would take an infinite force to escape the event horizon. Oh right, something caused "space" to mysteriously expand, just like now some unspecified dark matter keeps stuff from expanding. It sounds like we need more work to get to the standard of scientific theories.
US, Russia and France, among other countries, export massive amount of munitions to rather flakey "allies" willing to pay good money. It's a certainly that some american guns made it to burmese military through secondary market. Shouldn't we clear this up first, before going after software that can not be used by people to kill people quite as directly as guns?
The consequences of a privacy breach are incomparably more grave than that of data loss. You could be put in jail, face a divorce, get fired or have your reputation permanently tarnished by content leaked on Internet. Companies will face lawsuits based on intermediate versions of a memos that were never actually distributed.
Suppose you were writing a letter to an old friend and, in a moment of weakness, add a paragraph on how you still have a crush on her and would like to meet. Later you think better of it and send a version without untoward sentiments. What would your wife think if she stumbles upon an earlier draft while looking for your daughter's accidentally deleted school essay? Is the inconvenience of doing manual backups so great to risk suffering for "thought crimes" that were never carried out?
When people burn a letter, cut up a CD or flush something down the toilet, they trust that the stuff stays gone. Computers should follow the same metaphor accurately by default and only retain information on opt in basis. At the very least, they can ensure that archives are only accessed with your permission by asking for a password before showing old files.
Time machine is a security hole from hell. Just suppose you record some pr0n of yourself using the built in iSight, then think better of it and delete the files. Now anyone can casually sit at your desktop and retrieve all the compromising files.
I can not believe that in this day and age none of thousands of Apple's engineers thought to implement one way public key encryption of the backups, with decrypted private key not available until user needs to restore and enters a correct password. Haven't they seen any movies on security issues of time travel?
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How are you going to contact a doctor at 4am when everyone is asleep and switched off their devices, on a hiking trail, while driving too quickly to keep us with peer switching...?
5 years ago, cell phone easily fit in your pocket
2 years ago, cell phone become even smaller/thinner, had better battery life, and could take a crappy picture
1 year ago, cell phone has longer battery life, bluetooth, plays
20 years from now, cell phones will be able to make reliable, clear phone calls anyway in Bay Area and will come with real buttons for touch dialing.
Uh.. I don't think you quite understand the point of a battlefield. Although yeah, it's better to permanently cripple enemies rather than kill them outright, to impose the burden of caring for the wounded (or at least disposing of them) on survivors.
Opening and using an e-mail account requires some amount of sanity, but very little social skills.
Between Wine and Qemu impossible is a tall word on any general purpose computers. Decoding MP3/AAC on even an emulated x86 processor is hardly a huge achievement these days.
I suspect tanks/army carriers have cigarette lighter adapters that provide more than enough wattage for recharging. And real cigarette lighters for that matter. What's a remote possibility of lung cancer when you are carrying depleted uranium shells and can die any minute of a bullet anyway?
I certainly hope that doctors are equipped with cell phones or, when needed, satellite phones rather than depending on unreliable P2P networks.
Salary of a geek browsing slashdot most of the time - $100K
Cost of a radio - $15K
Saving an american life on a battlefield - priceless. Isn't it???
If you have a fight with my brother and he ends up dead, I will certainly assume you are at fault. Likewise, I grew up with my uncle and he never did anything inappropriate. I say you killed him over a poker dept, made up your story and got your son to lie for you.
Why should I take your word, word of a killer, over my flesh and blood who are not even there to defend themselves? Bring on the witnesses, let my brother confront them and show me that you convince a large number of impartial people that there is no other reasonable interpretation of the evidence. Then perhaps I can trust the system and refrain from retaliating.
With regards to killing, I will kill no other that does not first try and kill me. On the flip side, I will kill anyone who attempts to kill me and the law be damned about circumstances. I am not a Christian.
Interesting. And then relatives of whomever your killed will come and try to kill you and anyone you enlisted for help. Your society makes for an overgrowing body count and great drama plays ala Shakespeare. I would rather live in a modern society, of which most moved away from any sanction killing apart from letting terminally ill die on their own terms. In US, I at least get 12 randomly chosen people who must unanimously decide that I deserve death.
Ballbarrow sounds legit, but where exactly is innovation in the clockwork radio? It is a trivial combination of two concepts widely used before and any reasonable person would come up with the same design given the task parameters (crank-powered radio, no batteries or capacitors).
Will be strictly followed in this case, and EMI will pay at least $10K for each count of offering a song for download, that is a visit to their website when the user had an opportunity to search and buy songs.
Ask most any patent attorney ...
That's my point about legal costs. Can I afford your services to patent a dozen inventions and then get Microsoft to license one they are infringing on?
While he certainly financially benefited from his invention, is it really fair to patent something created on taxpayer dime, student tuition, university equipment and probably work of many (post)graduate students who were not in any way compensated for their contributions?
Name at least one genuine inventor who put in the hard work, personally received at least 10% of license revenues and did not take advantage of other people's work by patenting vaporware and waiting for someone else to build an actual product. Current patent system only benefits large companies by driving startups out of business by requiring prohibitive legal costs to ship any product. Lets cut the crap about benefitting the little guys.
I don't see much cause for celebration. The author didn't retract his paper because he continued to work in the field and came to new conclusions. Rather, he first formed a desire to get rid of unwanted reputation and keep his paper from being used for conclusions he doesn't personally approve. Only then he zeroed in on a couple of errors and used them as an excuse to recall the paper. Had he found inconsistencies in some other way, he would probably just issue an errata instead.
Scientists are not supposed to manipulate their findings just because someone else might use them to support an unpopular theory.
"God doesn't play dice"
According to the big bang theory, universe started from a singularity, that is zero radius. According to current black hole theory, even objects with huge initial radius and tiny mass compared to the whole universe collapse into black holes with no possibility of releasing the stuff inside again in a big bang. It is generally accepted that heavier objects have a larger Schwarzschild radius. Any questions?
I never heard about that. I am not an expert in cosmology, so I would be interested if you could point me to a source to read about this claim. And what do you mean with "long time"?
Any time is too long if you consider the current theory that nothing can escape the event horizon of black holes AND that everything inside will be squashed into a singularity within a finite, short time. This is hard to reconcile with a claim that the universe itself started from a singularity. Certainly we have no experimental evidence that "the space" can mysteriously expand and allow faster than light speeds necessary to escape a singularity.
Cosmological theories are currently not much better than intelligent design - you just have to take them on faith. Different versions of the string theory can not even agree on the number of physical dimensions that exists. They are basically just playing with numbers to try to match the observed strength of gravity. This seems like a pretty callous thing to do when there is no experimental evidence for even one extra dimension. Not to mention that our existing physics only explains 10% of gravity in the universe. Talk all you want about dark matter, but this leaves the possibility of pretty dramatic flaws in our current theories.
The biggest flaw in current cosmology is why we are not trapped in a singularity of a universe-mass black hole. Certainly for long time after big bang the universe was inside its own Schwarzschild Radius. Why didn't it just collapse right back after the big bang? After all, it would take an infinite force to escape the event horizon. Oh right, something caused "space" to mysteriously expand, just like now some unspecified dark matter keeps stuff from expanding. It sounds like we need more work to get to the standard of scientific theories.
Is our government good at handling even one thing at a time well?
Care to send a screenshot with a clear, prominent warning of privacy implications inherent in enabling Time Machine?
US, Russia and France, among other countries, export massive amount of munitions to rather flakey "allies" willing to pay good money. It's a certainly that some american guns made it to burmese military through secondary market. Shouldn't we clear this up first, before going after software that can not be used by people to kill people quite as directly as guns?
The consequences of a privacy breach are incomparably more grave than that of data loss. You could be put in jail, face a divorce, get fired or have your reputation permanently tarnished by content leaked on Internet. Companies will face lawsuits based on intermediate versions of a memos that were never actually distributed.
Suppose you were writing a letter to an old friend and, in a moment of weakness, add a paragraph on how you still have a crush on her and would like to meet. Later you think better of it and send a version without untoward sentiments. What would your wife think if she stumbles upon an earlier draft while looking for your daughter's accidentally deleted school essay? Is the inconvenience of doing manual backups so great to risk suffering for "thought crimes" that were never carried out?
When people burn a letter, cut up a CD or flush something down the toilet, they trust that the stuff stays gone. Computers should follow the same metaphor accurately by default and only retain information on opt in basis. At the very least, they can ensure that archives are only accessed with your permission by asking for a password before showing old files.
Time machine is a security hole from hell. Just suppose you record some pr0n of yourself using the built in iSight, then think better of it and delete the files. Now anyone can casually sit at your desktop and retrieve all the compromising files.
I can not believe that in this day and age none of thousands of Apple's engineers thought to implement one way public key encryption of the backups, with decrypted private key not available until user needs to restore and enters a correct password. Haven't they seen any movies on security issues of time travel?