What matters is the isotopes which emit the radiation. This not only determines the form of radiation, but also the energy, the lifetime, and whether and where it accumulates in the human body.
Since I only get a message that the video is not available in my country (couldn't they at least put the title on the page?): What would I have seen there?
Is an intellectual somebody who has memorized a lot of information, or is it somebody who is adept at learning?
I ask because I don't see a case of 'cool to be stupid', instead I see an evolution of how we function in a society where we've stored our knowledge in a manner that is dirt-simple to get at.
Well, the point is that if it is not stored in your head, it's not knowledge. It's information which you can look up, and as such it is very useful, and if valuable enough, you can turn that information into knowledge. But it is a mistake to take that information as knowledge. Knowledge is available to you even if you don't explicitly search for it. If you know something, and then see something related, you may see a connection which you would not have seen otherwise, because you never would have gotten the idea to look up that information. And it's exactly those moments where you see relations between things which seemed to be unrelated which provide true insight.
Knowledge is live information. Your brain constantly compares new information against it and looks for connections, even if you don't notice it. Indeed, even when you're sleeping, your brain is actually working on that knowledge. On the other hand, information you have to look up is dead. It does exactly nothing until you look it up. It comes to life only as you read it.
Note that I'm not saying that this information is not useful, or that it isn't a huge advantage if you can look it up quickly. But it's much less useful than information which resides in your head. Of course, the information you can have in your head is limited, and therefore it is an advantage to easily be able to look up things. Also, there are things you might need sometimes, but which are clearly not generally relevant to you; not needing to learn those is definitively an advantage. But the idea that you could generally replace knowledge with looking up information is misguided.
Indeed, I found Zotero extremely valuable to manage papers (especially because you can add them directly from the web site with a single click), but I don't use it for anything else (my LaTeX files are under version control and organized using traditional directories, my notes are mostly in Tomboy [except for those more complex which I do in LaTeX, and of course those I do on paper], my mails are on the mail server [which I don't access through the web interface if I don't need to], any self-written programs are of course also on disk and under version control, data produced by those programs also lives on disk with directory organization [but not under version control; a data file is not supposed to be changed after generation],...)
What about a physically one-way data connection? That is, it is enforced by hardware that information flows only one way? (Yes, if you have access to the hardware, then you can circumvent this; but then, in that case you could simply install the malware yourself).
I have Siemens hearing aids... does that mean someone is going to hack my head through the aids' wireless (used mostly to communicate between the two)?
Well, if you start hearing mysterious voices, you know that before seeing a psychiatrist, you might first want to check your hearing aid.
To clarify, watts are not a valid measure of a charge of energy. The energy in a capacitor is it's charge, which is measured in coulombs.
Charge is not energy. The energy in a capacitor is measured in Joules, just like any other sort of energy. Now for a capacitor, the energy stored in it is a function of its charge, which is indeed measured in Coulombs. But they are not the same (they are not even proportional, and capacitors of different capacity store different energy for the same charge).
Ha, you want security and trust? Remember Ken Thompson's C Compiler Backdoor Make sure you built your PC out of sillicon yourself! Otherwise, you have to rely on someone else's code:
ACM Classics: Reflections on trusting trust
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Well, building your computer from silicon yourself isn't enough. After all, how do you know the machines you used to fabricate your chips are not compromised? Maybe they don't produce exactly those chips which you designed? There's no way other than to build those machines yourself as well.
Oh, and don't make the mistake to use VHDL or similar to design your chips. Your VHDL compiler may be compromised, too. Only if you understand your chip down to the wire, you can be completely sure.
Well, provided that you can prove that you are not in the Matrix, that is.:-)
First: deoxy. Removal of oxygen. Now we know oxygen is important for life. This will make us all suffocate! Then: nucleic. It's nuclear! Not only will we suffocate, we will also be irradiated! Then: acid. Not only will we suffocate and get irradiated, we will also get vitriolised!
You see, three dangers in one! And who knows what hidden dangers are in the ribo part!
Oh, and they will tell you that we all have it in our bodies anyway. Well, how did it get into our bodies? It's just proof that the contamination is already far too widespread!
And sometimes you will even get a biologist admit that our death is preprogrammed in the DNA in our body. Therefore, remove all the DNA, and you'll live forever!:-)
If the "it will only be used against the bad guys" excuse is sufficient, then why make such detailed laws at all? Just make a law stating "you can be thrown into prison for any reason" and assure everyone that it will only be used against the bad guys.
Well, divide them into two groups: Group 1 continues to come up with new ideas all the time, but it's now group 2's job to find out why those ideas are stupid and shouldn't be done. Keeps them busy, but avoids having to half-implement every half-baked idea.
But could a malicious person write another, malicious ant which manipulates the existing ant colony for his own goals? Those malicious ants could leave false scents at completely harmless computers, or remove scents left by other ants. Maybe it could even manage to free some part of the network from ants by leading ants at its borders to other parts of the network through strategically placed scents. Indeed, it could even be a DoS attack by simply creating lots of copies of the existing ants, which then will clog the network. Say, add a few ants which do nothing but clone other ants they encounter. Let a few loose in the network. They will start to copy good ants (and occasionally other bad ants, thus slowly increasing the copy rate, while never becoming a large fraction of all ants). After some time, the ants will start to clog the network; since the vast majority is (clones of) genuine ants, it will be hard to detect the cause of this.
Now if only Slashdot admin would get a clue about JavaScript we could get rid of the irritating "Working..." graphic permanently stuck at the bottom of each page.
Oh yeah and when you click on a post in a message they could fix their CSS so every single click (even to cut and paste) doesn't redirect you to the top of the page.
Do they never preview and test anything before putting it on the production servers? Sloppy and unprofessional.
Also, it would be nice if the score of a post would be shown also if several parent posts are collapsed. And if clicking somewhere in a post with collapsed ancestors would do whatever the action is for that place (follow a link, place focus into input box, etc) instead of uncollapsing one of the ancestors.
Or basically, make Slashdot again a site that works.
Slashdot Mirror
But it might have been worth to acquire the patents.
What matters is the isotopes which emit the radiation. This not only determines the form of radiation, but also the energy, the lifetime, and whether and where it accumulates in the human body.
man, at least be a little original !
Since I only get a message that the video is not available in my country (couldn't they at least put the title on the page?): What would I have seen there?
Either the Shuttle is larger than I thought, or the ISS is smaller than I thought.
If it was "purely economic advice" wouldn't it say "college is a waste of money"?
Time is money.
Is an intellectual somebody who has memorized a lot of information, or is it somebody who is adept at learning?
I ask because I don't see a case of 'cool to be stupid', instead I see an evolution of how we function in a society where we've stored our knowledge in a manner that is dirt-simple to get at.
Well, the point is that if it is not stored in your head, it's not knowledge. It's information which you can look up, and as such it is very useful, and if valuable enough, you can turn that information into knowledge. But it is a mistake to take that information as knowledge. Knowledge is available to you even if you don't explicitly search for it. If you know something, and then see something related, you may see a connection which you would not have seen otherwise, because you never would have gotten the idea to look up that information. And it's exactly those moments where you see relations between things which seemed to be unrelated which provide true insight.
Knowledge is live information. Your brain constantly compares new information against it and looks for connections, even if you don't notice it. Indeed, even when you're sleeping, your brain is actually working on that knowledge. On the other hand, information you have to look up is dead. It does exactly nothing until you look it up. It comes to life only as you read it.
Note that I'm not saying that this information is not useful, or that it isn't a huge advantage if you can look it up quickly. But it's much less useful than information which resides in your head. Of course, the information you can have in your head is limited, and therefore it is an advantage to easily be able to look up things. Also, there are things you might need sometimes, but which are clearly not generally relevant to you; not needing to learn those is definitively an advantage. But the idea that you could generally replace knowledge with looking up information is misguided.
Cause I didn't go to college and so got here 4 years before everyone else.
Well, maybe if you had been to college you would have learned how to really get first post. :-)
Indeed, I found Zotero extremely valuable to manage papers (especially because you can add them directly from the web site with a single click), but I don't use it for anything else (my LaTeX files are under version control and organized using traditional directories, my notes are mostly in Tomboy [except for those more complex which I do in LaTeX, and of course those I do on paper], my mails are on the mail server [which I don't access through the web interface if I don't need to], any self-written programs are of course also on disk and under version control, data produced by those programs also lives on disk with directory organization [but not under version control; a data file is not supposed to be changed after generation], ...)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/america
You see, there are three definitions of "America", and only one fits what you claim to be the only one.
What about a physically one-way data connection? That is, it is enforced by hardware that information flows only one way? (Yes, if you have access to the hardware, then you can circumvent this; but then, in that case you could simply install the malware yourself).
I have Siemens hearing aids... does that mean someone is going to hack my head through the aids' wireless (used mostly to communicate between the two)?
Well, if you start hearing mysterious voices, you know that before seeing a psychiatrist, you might first want to check your hearing aid.
Charge is not energy. The energy in a capacitor is measured in Joules, just like any other sort of energy. Now for a capacitor, the energy stored in it is a function of its charge, which is indeed measured in Coulombs. But they are not the same (they are not even proportional, and capacitors of different capacity store different energy for the same charge).
Ha, you want security and trust? Remember Ken Thompson's C Compiler Backdoor
Make sure you built your PC out of sillicon yourself! Otherwise, you have to rely on someone else's code:
ACM Classics: Reflections on trusting trust
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Well, building your computer from silicon yourself isn't enough. After all, how do you know the machines you used to fabricate your chips are not compromised? Maybe they don't produce exactly those chips which you designed? There's no way other than to build those machines yourself as well.
Oh, and don't make the mistake to use VHDL or similar to design your chips. Your VHDL compiler may be compromised, too. Only if you understand your chip down to the wire, you can be completely sure.
Well, provided that you can prove that you are not in the Matrix, that is. :-)
Which implies that the input is encoded in binary ... which it isn't.
From the Science abstract (emphasis by me):
we experimentally demonstrated several digital logic circuits, culminating in a four-bit square-root circuit
They were encoding numbers into bits and didn't use binary?
Actually, if we name the input bits i0 (LSB) to i3 (HSB) and the output bits o0 (LSB) and o1(HSB) then the calculation to do is:
o1 = i4 OR i3
o0 = (i4 OR NOT i3) AND (i1 OR i2 OR i3)
Indeed, not very complicated.
Just look at the word: "deoxyribonucleic acid".
First: deoxy. Removal of oxygen. Now we know oxygen is important for life. This will make us all suffocate!
Then: nucleic. It's nuclear! Not only will we suffocate, we will also be irradiated!
Then: acid. Not only will we suffocate and get irradiated, we will also get vitriolised!
You see, three dangers in one! And who knows what hidden dangers are in the ribo part!
Oh, and they will tell you that we all have it in our bodies anyway. Well, how did it get into our bodies? It's just proof that the contamination is already far too widespread!
And sometimes you will even get a biologist admit that our death is preprogrammed in the DNA in our body. Therefore, remove all the DNA, and you'll live forever! :-)
pushing for way less government?
They do: They let the corporations write the laws themselves; therefore removing one of the government's jobs.
If the "it will only be used against the bad guys" excuse is sufficient, then why make such detailed laws at all? Just make a law stating "you can be thrown into prison for any reason" and assure everyone that it will only be used against the bad guys.
Well, divide them into two groups: Group 1 continues to come up with new ideas all the time, but it's now group 2's job to find out why those ideas are stupid and shouldn't be done. Keeps them busy, but avoids having to half-implement every half-baked idea.
What part of don't connect your SCADA units to the Internet don't these 'security experts' understand?
The "don't" part, of course.
Well, just add another program to the box which monitors the firewall and emulates clicking OK whenever that window appears. :-)
But could a malicious person write another, malicious ant which manipulates the existing ant colony for his own goals? Those malicious ants could leave false scents at completely harmless computers, or remove scents left by other ants. Maybe it could even manage to free some part of the network from ants by leading ants at its borders to other parts of the network through strategically placed scents. Indeed, it could even be a DoS attack by simply creating lots of copies of the existing ants, which then will clog the network. Say, add a few ants which do nothing but clone other ants they encounter. Let a few loose in the network. They will start to copy good ants (and occasionally other bad ants, thus slowly increasing the copy rate, while never becoming a large fraction of all ants). After some time, the ants will start to clog the network; since the vast majority is (clones of) genuine ants, it will be hard to detect the cause of this.
Pedophile 2 Pedophile?
Backronym doesn't work as well with terrorists though :(
Just rename them to pterrorists.
u mad bro?
check out my doubles
I tried, but half of them are NaNs, most of the rest are infinite, and the few remaining are denormalized.
Now if only Slashdot admin would get a clue about JavaScript we could get rid of the irritating "Working..." graphic permanently stuck at the bottom of each page.
Oh yeah and when you click on a post in a message they could fix their CSS so every single click (even to cut and paste) doesn't redirect you to the top of the page.
Do they never preview and test anything before putting it on the production servers? Sloppy and unprofessional.
Also, it would be nice if the score of a post would be shown also if several parent posts are collapsed. And if clicking somewhere in a post with collapsed ancestors would do whatever the action is for that place (follow a link, place focus into input box, etc) instead of uncollapsing one of the ancestors.
Or basically, make Slashdot again a site that works.