They have no business in knowing who viewed the videos. After all, since YouTube explicitly disables videos which are infringing, I have to assume that if I see a video on YouTube, I have the right to do so. If a video happens to be uploaded illegally, that's not my fault as viewer, and I cannot be made responsible for the fact that I was shown that video.
Just for the record: I don't have any idea whether I've seen any of those videos. Since those are just 500 videos, and YouTube has so many more, I suspect I haven't. But even if I have, I have done nothing wrong, and therefore they clearly have no moral right (and I really hope also no legal right, although in these times you never can be sure) to demand to find out whether I've seen any of those videos.
I hope I'll not have to start using anonymous proxies to protect myself when just doing normal, legal activities!
What? Having the medical market effectively subsidized by government will not reduce the money to be made in the market, it will increase it. If there's anyone to profit from the reform, it's the medical industry. You'll pay more for it in the end, but that very fact means that the medical industry will make more money from it, and therefore will have more incentive to develop it.
So your brain might actually be able to keep itself new for as long as it's alive, or it might be coaxed to if we could amplify that. It's kind of hard to imagine the new cells would integrate coherently into the complicated structure, but the brain always builds itself once, and more amazing things have been discovered, so who knows.
More importantly, the brain rewires itself constantly, allowing us to learn. It's not unlikely that new brain cells would be used exactly that way: To learn. The problematic part would probably to keep the old memories, but then, maybe slowly forgetting old stuff will prove advantageous, if not essential, for "eternal" life. After all, the brain probably has a capacity limit to what it can handle, and forgetting old stuff would keep the brain below that limit (a sort of garbage collection for your memory).
Indeed, just give everyone living on the streets a few dollars (because with $40 million, it won't be more than that). I'm sure that will save them.:-)
For a start, without quantum physics, there would be no transistor. Without transistors, there would be no modern computers, no pocket calculators, no M3 players, no mobile phones, no digital TV (well, I'm not sure if that one would be a disadvantage:-)), no internet. I'm pretty sure more than 90% of the people posting here have a job that simply wouldn't exist without the transistor.
And that's just the transistor. I've not yet mentioned Lasers (CD player, laser printer, laser pointer, precise measurements for industry), superconductors (maglev trains, medical NMR tomographs - the latter also use quantum effects very directly for their imaging) or atomic clocks (GPS). I also didn't mention the use of quantum physics in chemistry (I don't know how many of the current chemical products were developed using quantum chemistry, but I guess it's a lot of them). And I'm sure there's a lot more I didn't even think of.
In short, the modern world as we know it would not exist without knowledge of quantum mechanics.
Oh, and 40 million USD is not the real cost to European countries since it's obviously payed for in local currencies (Swiss Franc, Euros). The exchange rate inflates the numbers.
And it is a tiny amount for a continent with over 700 million people (twice that of the US) and a much bigger economy than the US! Even the EU has a larger GNP than the US, and the EU does not include all of Europe at all.
Indeed, it means that per person it costs just 17.5 US cents.
Special Relativity assumes c is constant for all inertial observers. It also precludes the possibility of that not being true, because the entire theory is based on that assumption, and falls apart if that assumption does not hold. All the equations of special relativity contradict observer-relative speed of light. If you ever discovered a case where this was not true, you would have to scrap Relativity and re-write the theory from scratch. That's precluding.
Actually that's not completely true. Special Relativity is built on the assumption that there is an invariant speed, but there's no inherent reason why that invariant speed must be the speed of light. Indeed, all our observations so far could also be interpreted with the photon having a nonzero, but extremely small mass, making it necessarily go slower than the invariant speed (the mass would of course have to be so small that for all photons we ever observed, we'd be far enough in the ultrarelativistic limit that detecting the difference between the speed of light and the invariant speed is beyond our experimental ability).
Actually antimatter has positive mass, too. And if you managed to keep the radiation created by the annihilation of matter and antimatter in a box (and arrange it so that all the antimatter in the box annihilates with the in-box matter before it reaches the walls of the box and destroys it), you'll find that the box doesn't lose even the slightest bit of weight.
Ok: Wake up! There are lots of electrons without protons. For example those which are created together with positrons.
But more to the point, what the OP asked for was not a north magnetic monopole where no south magnetic monopole is anywhere in the universe. What he is asking for is a north monopole where the south monopole is at a completely different place (especially not inside the same crystal as the north monopole).
Example: If you put an electric field on a metal, the electrons will gather on one side. If you now cut the metal in two pieces, where the cut is perpendicular to the electric field, you'll have a positively charged metal part and a negatively charged metal part (note that the electrons never left the metal during that procedure). You can now switch off your field and put both materials in different places; and the positive metal part will not have a negative pole, and the negative metal part will not have a positive pole, that is, both will be monopoles.
So now do the same with those spin crystals. If it works the same (i.e. if you get a north crystal and a south crystal after dividing), then you have real monopoles. However, if both parts exhibit a north and a south pole, you really have dipoles which are arranged so that they locally look like monopoles.
Well, make it so that you need a certain minimal intelligence to set the machine to a high level. Example: Step 1: Have entered the intended dose. Step 2: If the dose is below the threshold, everything is OK, operate as normal. Otherwise continue at 3. Step 3: First, issue a normal security warning ("dose higher than recommended, did you really mean that?") Step 4: If the operator says "yes", then ask: "Do you know how much this is over the threashold limit?" Step 5: Get answer; if wrong, don't allow the operation. Step 6: Ask: "Do you know how much that is in percent above safety threshold?" Step 7: Get answer; if wrong, don't allow the operation. Step 8: Ask: "What may happen if the dose is too high?" Give a few options. Step 9: Let user chose answers. If the selection isn't correct, don't allow the operation. Step 10: If all tests were passed, the operator obviously is not just stupid, so allow the operation.
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They have no business in knowing who viewed the videos. After all, since YouTube explicitly disables videos which are infringing, I have to assume that if I see a video on YouTube, I have the right to do so. If a video happens to be uploaded illegally, that's not my fault as viewer, and I cannot be made responsible for the fact that I was shown that video.
Just for the record: I don't have any idea whether I've seen any of those videos. Since those are just 500 videos, and YouTube has so many more, I suspect I haven't. But even if I have, I have done nothing wrong, and therefore they clearly have no moral right (and I really hope also no legal right, although in these times you never can be sure) to demand to find out whether I've seen any of those videos.
I hope I'll not have to start using anonymous proxies to protect myself when just doing normal, legal activities!
Yoda, is that you?
It would reduce the number of unsecured wireless networks. Either because they get secured, or because they get cut off.
I didn't know that nowadays even ATMs post on Slashdot. Can you please send a few dollar notes out of my printer? :-)
What? Having the medical market effectively subsidized by government will not reduce the money to be made in the market, it will increase it. If there's anyone to profit from the reform, it's the medical industry. You'll pay more for it in the end, but that very fact means that the medical industry will make more money from it, and therefore will have more incentive to develop it.
More importantly, the brain rewires itself constantly, allowing us to learn. It's not unlikely that new brain cells would be used exactly that way: To learn. The problematic part would probably to keep the old memories, but then, maybe slowly forgetting old stuff will prove advantageous, if not essential, for "eternal" life. After all, the brain probably has a capacity limit to what it can handle, and forgetting old stuff would keep the brain below that limit (a sort of garbage collection for your memory).
Indeed, I mixed up the numbers. So it's even cheaper than I calculated.
Actually my division shows that 17.5 people share one dollar of the cost.
First patch; your code has a self-assignment. Also, if being more explicit, it even rhymes.
From the URL I conclude those are shoes for suicide terrorists? However I'm not sure that you can get enough explosive into the shoes. :-)
Indeed, computers have memory, too. But if a computer has bad memory, it just means that you should replace it.
Actually they will have a fake identity instead. Or more likely, several.
The problem is: To effectively boycott the company, you'd need some desire to otherwise buy their products.
Did you really mean "stupid people's village" or did you actually mean Düsseldorf?
Well, fortunately it's a complex machine, so they can easily avoid the reals by simply making sure the imaginary part doesn't vanish.
Indeed, just give everyone living on the streets a few dollars (because with $40 million, it won't be more than that). I'm sure that will save them. :-)
No, they'll just reveal that there are exactly 666 particles and exactly 666 dimensions, and thus finally prove that we are already in hell.
For a start, without quantum physics, there would be no transistor. Without transistors, there would be no modern computers, no pocket calculators, no M3 players, no mobile phones, no digital TV (well, I'm not sure if that one would be a disadvantage :-)), no internet. I'm pretty sure more than 90% of the people posting here have a job that simply wouldn't exist without the transistor.
And that's just the transistor. I've not yet mentioned Lasers (CD player, laser printer, laser pointer, precise measurements for industry), superconductors (maglev trains, medical NMR tomographs - the latter also use quantum effects very directly for their imaging) or atomic clocks (GPS). I also didn't mention the use of quantum physics in chemistry (I don't know how many of the current chemical products were developed using quantum chemistry, but I guess it's a lot of them). And I'm sure there's a lot more I didn't even think of.
In short, the modern world as we know it would not exist without knowledge of quantum mechanics.
Indeed, it means that per person it costs just 17.5 US cents.
Actually that's not completely true. Special Relativity is built on the assumption that there is an invariant speed, but there's no inherent reason why that invariant speed must be the speed of light. Indeed, all our observations so far could also be interpreted with the photon having a nonzero, but extremely small mass, making it necessarily go slower than the invariant speed (the mass would of course have to be so small that for all photons we ever observed, we'd be far enough in the ultrarelativistic limit that detecting the difference between the speed of light and the invariant speed is beyond our experimental ability).
Actually antimatter has positive mass, too. And if you managed to keep the radiation created by the annihilation of matter and antimatter in a box (and arrange it so that all the antimatter in the box annihilates with the in-box matter before it reaches the walls of the box and destroys it), you'll find that the box doesn't lose even the slightest bit of weight.
Ok: Wake up!
There are lots of electrons without protons. For example those which are created together with positrons.
But more to the point, what the OP asked for was not a north magnetic monopole where no south magnetic monopole is anywhere in the universe. What he is asking for is a north monopole where the south monopole is at a completely different place (especially not inside the same crystal as the north monopole).
Example: If you put an electric field on a metal, the electrons will gather on one side. If you now cut the metal in two pieces, where the cut is perpendicular to the electric field, you'll have a positively charged metal part and a negatively charged metal part (note that the electrons never left the metal during that procedure). You can now switch off your field and put both materials in different places; and the positive metal part will not have a negative pole, and the negative metal part will not have a positive pole, that is, both will be monopoles.
So now do the same with those spin crystals. If it works the same (i.e. if you get a north crystal and a south crystal after dividing), then you have real monopoles. However, if both parts exhibit a north and a south pole, you really have dipoles which are arranged so that they locally look like monopoles.
Well, make it so that you need a certain minimal intelligence to set the machine to a high level.
Example:
Step 1: Have entered the intended dose.
Step 2: If the dose is below the threshold, everything is OK, operate as normal. Otherwise continue at 3.
Step 3: First, issue a normal security warning ("dose higher than recommended, did you really mean that?")
Step 4: If the operator says "yes", then ask: "Do you know how much this is over the threashold limit?"
Step 5: Get answer; if wrong, don't allow the operation.
Step 6: Ask: "Do you know how much that is in percent above safety threshold?"
Step 7: Get answer; if wrong, don't allow the operation.
Step 8: Ask: "What may happen if the dose is too high?" Give a few options.
Step 9: Let user chose answers. If the selection isn't correct, don't allow the operation.
Step 10: If all tests were passed, the operator obviously is not just stupid, so allow the operation.
No, we just adjusted our concepts of "predictable" and "understand."
Temporal reverse engineering.
When I was at school, my homework was so abhorrent to nature it often rippled back in time to destroy itself.
Well, it didn't matter anyway: You would have failed due to the bad homework, so you failed because of the missing homework.