Hmmmmm. It may well be something that the Earth (ie the planet) can't really afford, but it is something the Human Species MUST do at some point if it wants to survive. More than that, it may be something the Human Species can only really afford to do in the next hundred years or so, because as the Earth fills up with more and more people, all the resources will end up being used, leaving nothing left to attempt to get at least some of our species to "safety".
IMHO, the Human Species cannot afford NOT to do it, and we MUST do it soon or it may be too late!
It would seem like a worthy experiment, but I don't think there's really any rush as this thing is 20 something light years away!
My guess is that continued exposure to a higher g would mean a larger muscle mass and thicker bone structure. If we could build a ship to make the journey (whether it be just under light speed and take 30 to 40 years, or way under light speed and take a generation) we would likely want to impart some spin to the craft to provide some 'g' for the journey. Why not speed the spin up gradually during the journey to get the crew/passengers/monkeys/telephone sanetisers ready for the 'g' on arrival.
... and to continue the clarification, if I understand correctly, the guy was guilty as sin, but was trying to get off (and not for the first time *cough*) on a technicality - ie You can't use the evidence you found because you shouldn't have come into the room to search in the first place because, given that the access point was open, you couldn't prove who had actually used it, and therefore any evidence found (on the computer in question) would not (necessarily) be attributable to any individual.
Nice try ass-hat!
If he had got off on the technicality then the law would have, once again, shown itself to be stupid. In this case, it seems, sanity struggled to the surface and prevailed.
Maybe it's just me, but I see no reason why people need to be recruited into compsci.
and there's always the big whooha about there's too few women in CompSci, but you don't get film-at-eleven about there being too few men teaching in primary schools, or entering the Nursing profession? It all seems a bit one sided!
But don't get me wrong, I'd love there to be more women in CompSci, as an office full of blokes can be a boorish place to work, and variety is the spice of life and all that!
In fairness to the slashvertisement I will give it a go.
I picked it up in a bargin bin for a few quid before Christmas and I'd have to say I really enjoyed it. Some of it's a bit annoying, but a lot of it is _fun_. I particularly like the fighting scenes... in the words of the immortal Lock-Stock... Guns are for show, knives for a Pro!
- Actively look and cultivate talented groups that MAKE good music to publish on a CD...and make it a full disk worth of good music.
Sellaband are trying to do just that, using CrowdSourcing to allow the buyers to decide who is making good music.
Believers visit the site and listen to the tracks provided by the Artists. If they like the Artists they can buy Parts in the Artist at $10 a go. The Believers can recover any money spent until the point the Artist reaches $50000 (it is held in escrow). Once the Artist reaches 5000 Parts ($50000) the money is used to hook them up with top producers and engineers in a top studio and a quality CD is produced.
The Believers then get a Limited Edition copy of the CD for each Part purchased.
The music so recorded is offered for free download from the site, and advertising revenue generated by the visitors is split a third to the Artist, a third to Sellaband, and a third split amongst the Believers.
A non-Ltd Edition copy of the CD is available for purchase from the website too, and the CD is also available for the Artist to purchase for them to sell at gigs etc. Monies from this is split the same way.
This arrangement runs for a year after the release of the CD. Once the year is up, ownership of the Master reverts to the Artist.
More info on the Ts and Cs can be found on the Sellaband site.
Man, wouldn't that be a hell of a settlement! The RIAA Lawyers, directors, etc have to stand, legs akimbo, whilst the lady walks up the line kicking them each in the tabs! Any flinching means the exec has to move to the end of the line for a second kick!
You can show it with mathematics or with IR spectroscopy. It's some of the most solid science that there is.
From a program I saw on the telly last week, The Great Climate Swindle it isn't us that's the (root) cause. What they're not saying is either that the Earth isn't warming up, or that the extra CO2 isn't having some effect. So, certainly our CO2 habits aren't helping, but maybe it's a drop in the ocean next to what the real cause is. As I recall from the program they reckon it's the Sun going through some phase or other that's causing it, and that's why there's Global Warming on Mars too, where we can probably all agree that it really isn't us!
I really don't know either way, but it worries me that people are saying the investigation shouldn't continue and that I shouldn't be able to hear, or be involved in, a reasonable discussion.
Should we cut back on our CO2 producing? Yes
Is our CO2 producing the root cause of Global Warming? I don't know
I don't believe firearms are inherently bad, but I would be criminally negligent to allow a child access to one.
Certainly criminally negligent to allow a child access to one unsupervised. I'd like to use your analogy and apply it to the Internet Access At A Friend's House scenario.
The friend's parent(s) are effectively in Loco Parentis and the unsupervised access to the internet is absolutely down to them, much as it would be if the kids got hold of their household firearms.
Sure, implement a new law that says if kids are in your house they are your responsibility, but don't, as a previous poster aludes, try and carpet the world!
whereby the owner would point the pen-laser at a guest's hand and the system would calculate the distance, angle and elevation, and set the tragectory accordingly to deliver the can instead of guessing the angles and playing "catch" with your catapult.
I had assumed you'd know where all the seats are in your room and simply program the 'bot to know the angle, trajectory, for each one. Then you can just request a beer for the specified seating position. Obviously, not as much fun as putting the red dot from the laser guide onto the forehead of your sleeping frat buddy and delivering a "WakeUp-Beer"(tm) though.
This implies, at least to me, that there is no security whatsoever protecting it from being read, closed or open.
This just seems to open up too many possibilities for the bad guys for my liking! What if you wanted to assassinate someone and you knew they were passing through an airport. You could have a bomb triggered by the target's RFID passing by!
These Government depts get sold these great new technological systems (see the UK with the whole Road Pricing debarkle, and not forgetting our ID cards, passports, National DB, and NHS DB) by shiney suited salesmen who, technically at least, run rings around them. It all sounds plausible and it all sounds so marvellous that why wouldn't they buy it!
The funniest thing I read on this recently was a BBC Article which explained that some new secure NHS system was so slow to login that shift leaders would login once, and all the staff would use the same account.
We need to stop the technically illiterate from being in a position where they get to make technical decisions!
If you're trying to deal a terrorist attack against a target, you're going to use people who have demonstrated their ability to get past security, not known terrorists.
Also, you are going to want to use proven teams, so only pick the candidates who have been on at least one successful suicide mission.
I am always amazed when I see people who I consider to be rational, intelligent people show religion. The latest event that spun me around was watching clips of speeches from the Oscars and God was far to prominent in the list of people being thanked for my liking!
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Hmmmmm. It may well be something that the Earth (ie the planet) can't really afford, but it is something the Human Species MUST do at some point if it wants to survive. More than that, it may be something the Human Species can only really afford to do in the next hundred years or so, because as the Earth fills up with more and more people, all the resources will end up being used, leaving nothing left to attempt to get at least some of our species to "safety".
IMHO, the Human Species cannot afford NOT to do it, and we MUST do it soon or it may be too late!
Is that anything to do with Shatner's Bassoon?
I, for one, welcome our new High-G Golden Hamster overlords
[did I get that right?]
My guess is that continued exposure to a higher g would mean a larger muscle mass and thicker bone structure. If we could build a ship to make the journey (whether it be just under light speed and take 30 to 40 years, or way under light speed and take a generation) we would likely want to impart some spin to the craft to provide some 'g' for the journey. Why not speed the spin up gradually during the journey to get the crew/passengers/monkeys/telephone sanetisers ready for the 'g' on arrival.
Nice try ass-hat!
If he had got off on the technicality then the law would have, once again, shown itself to be stupid. In this case, it seems, sanity struggled to the surface and prevailed.
and there's always the big whooha about there's too few women in CompSci, but you don't get film-at-eleven about there being too few men teaching in primary schools, or entering the Nursing profession? It all seems a bit one sided!
But don't get me wrong, I'd love there to be more women in CompSci, as an office full of blokes can be a boorish place to work, and variety is the spice of life and all that!
Of course, now we have the T-rays we really want the C- and A-rays to go with it!
There's some fantastic fight sequences in it. Well worth 5 quid from Matalan!
I picked it up in a bargin bin for a few quid before Christmas and I'd have to say I really enjoyed it. Some of it's a bit annoying, but a lot of it is _fun_. I particularly like the fighting scenes ... in the words of the immortal Lock-Stock ... Guns are for show, knives for a Pro!
Presumably, if it was a brain you'd be looking for, they'd need two sheeple, 'cos two brains ... oh forget it!
That sounds like a 70's detective series ... Sheeple and Peep
Euan Sheeple and Daffyd Peep are detectives with DEFRA, never more than a velcro glove away from ovine controversy.
Cheers
Sellaband are trying to do just that, using CrowdSourcing to allow the buyers to decide who is making good music.
Believers visit the site and listen to the tracks provided by the Artists. If they like the Artists they can buy Parts in the Artist at $10 a go. The Believers can recover any money spent until the point the Artist reaches $50000 (it is held in escrow). Once the Artist reaches 5000 Parts ($50000) the money is used to hook them up with top producers and engineers in a top studio and a quality CD is produced.
The Believers then get a Limited Edition copy of the CD for each Part purchased.
The music so recorded is offered for free download from the site, and advertising revenue generated by the visitors is split a third to the Artist, a third to Sellaband, and a third split amongst the Believers.
A non-Ltd Edition copy of the CD is available for purchase from the website too, and the CD is also available for the Artist to purchase for them to sell at gigs etc. Monies from this is split the same way.
This arrangement runs for a year after the release of the CD. Once the year is up, ownership of the Master reverts to the Artist.
More info on the Ts and Cs can be found on the Sellaband site.
Four Artists have made the $50K so far :-
Nemesea
Cubworld
Second Person
Clemence
They are all currently recording, and it is expected that the first 3 Artists will be releasing their CDs in June or July.
As you might have seen from my sig, a friend of mine is an Artist on Sellaband. Dan Ward-Murphy recently topped $10000, so is well on his way!
Plaintif: "OK. Swing 'em!"
If only all cases could be settled this way!
Look for the new adverts ... "No win, no knee"!
LOVE IT!
You, Sir, are a comedian. Please give up your day job.
If you haven't done anything wrong, you've nothing to fear, right?
From a program I saw on the telly last week, The Great Climate Swindle it isn't us that's the (root) cause. What they're not saying is either that the Earth isn't warming up, or that the extra CO2 isn't having some effect. So, certainly our CO2 habits aren't helping, but maybe it's a drop in the ocean next to what the real cause is. As I recall from the program they reckon it's the Sun going through some phase or other that's causing it, and that's why there's Global Warming on Mars too, where we can probably all agree that it really isn't us!
I really don't know either way, but it worries me that people are saying the investigation shouldn't continue and that I shouldn't be able to hear, or be involved in, a reasonable discussion.
Should we cut back on our CO2 producing? Yes
Is our CO2 producing the root cause of Global Warming? I don't know
Certainly criminally negligent to allow a child access to one unsupervised. I'd like to use your analogy and apply it to the Internet Access At A Friend's House scenario.
The friend's parent(s) are effectively in Loco Parentis and the unsupervised access to the internet is absolutely down to them, much as it would be if the kids got hold of their household firearms.
Sure, implement a new law that says if kids are in your house they are your responsibility, but don't, as a previous poster aludes, try and carpet the world!
Skynet! PAH! I give you [da da DAAAAAAA!] Skynet 5.
I spit on your puny Skynet.
I had assumed you'd know where all the seats are in your room and simply program the 'bot to know the angle, trajectory, for each one. Then you can just request a beer for the specified seating position. Obviously, not as much fun as putting the red dot from the laser guide onto the forehead of your sleeping frat buddy and delivering a "WakeUp-Beer"(tm) though.
This just seems to open up too many possibilities for the bad guys for my liking! What if you wanted to assassinate someone and you knew they were passing through an airport. You could have a bomb triggered by the target's RFID passing by!
These Government depts get sold these great new technological systems (see the UK with the whole Road Pricing debarkle, and not forgetting our ID cards, passports, National DB, and NHS DB) by shiney suited salesmen who, technically at least, run rings around them. It all sounds plausible and it all sounds so marvellous that why wouldn't they buy it!
The funniest thing I read on this recently was a BBC Article which explained that some new secure NHS system was so slow to login that shift leaders would login once, and all the staff would use the same account.
We need to stop the technically illiterate from being in a position where they get to make technical decisions!
Also, you are going to want to use proven teams, so only pick the candidates who have been on at least one successful suicide mission.