Considering the rate of innovation these days, a 20 year patent period is far too long. A good first step for patent reform would be to reduce the length of patents by half or more.
It seems to be missing any exhilarating features, other than the exploding 8 million pound rocket, which really seems like old hat by today's theme park standards. They should really add in a corkscrew or something.
I actually went back to the original style safety razor, the one with big square razor blades, where the only thing you replace is the blade itself. It works great, but I think the biggest advantage is that it hardly takes more effort to go through a week's worth of growth than a day's, and it won't get clogged up in the process. 10 double sided blades cost $1.50 too.
That's a good point. Sometimes people forget that everyone else doesn't think like us, and I would say that most people in America would not think like people visiting a tech news discussion site. Maybe the best legal course of action would be to file a class action lawsuit against Diebold. There aren't very many companies who have sold millions of dollars of useless junk to various government entities accross the US, and they should be held responsible for that.
After reading some of the replies, it is obvious that electing an actual politician, even from an obscure third party would be a bad idea, it was just the first thing that popped into my head. It would probably be best to elect someone who isn't on the ballot, perhaps CowboyNeal or Mickey Mouse. Then they would know that the election was rigged. Leaving a backup might make it too easy as someone pointed out, so forget the backup and make them run a second election. That should get them to fix the problem.
The quickest way to get the system changed is to create a scandal by actually stealing an election. I would suggest making a Libertarian, Green, or other 3rd party win the govenor's race. That should make it pretty obvious. Then the person who hacked the election should send letters detailing what they did to a major newspaper and the state election board. I would also suggest backing up the real results so that no real harm is done. That should get us secure voting machines by the 2008 presidential elections.
Back when I was in elementary school, we used to play tackle football during recess, and we didn't really get hurt that I can recall. The school did make us change to two hand touch part of the way through the school year because they were afraid someone would get hurt.
I would suggest that you build your own windmill. You should be able to build one with similar power for under a $1000 (I think), or maybe a bit more if you need to buy tools like a welder and such, but then you have an excuse to buy tools too. Check out Other Power for more details.
They mention in the article that the microwaves in high performance cavities produce very large forces on the walls. It also said that the stored energy is used up when the device accelerates. I'm guessing that the lost photons carry away the same amount of momentum as the system gains.
What the people who are worried about this don't realize is that particles with over 8 orders of magnitude more energy than this have been striking the Earth for billions of years. If these sort of collisions could destroy the Earth, it would have been gone a long time ago.
It seems to me that there should not be shadows from the big bang, because all the bits of interstellar dust should be in thermal equilibrium with the CMB by now, and thus radiate the same microwaves. Unless I've missed something, this would seem to cause galaxies and galaxy clusters not to have shadows.
Give him a break, he's a physicist gone computer scientist. They are notorious for inventing words. Why, the last time I had a class (fortran) with one he used the word deliminator several times.
Seriously, skip the loans. It does not make sense to take out loans so you can keep some money around to invest. If you go to a financial advisor (one who's not out to make a quick buck) that is what he tell you. Right now student loans are running 7-8% interest, and while you could get 11-12% from something like an S&P index fund, there is always the possibility that it could be down when you decide you want to pay off your loans. Also, you shouldn't invest money in the stock market that you don't plan to leave alone for at least 5 years.
I ran into a little bit of anti-Americanism in Venezuela a couple years ago, but there isn't too much of that going on in places I've been. Probably not enough that you would notice it if you were Canadian.
"The team claimed the magnetic eraser could also be used for commercial applications like quickly erasing VHS tapes, floppy drives, data cassettes and hard drives."
I did that years ago, I've got a magnet that vhs tapes will stick to, and it does a wonderful jub of erasing them. I havent tried that with a hard drive yet though.
I once reported a little insecurity in my high school's network. It was just an ftp host that allowed anyone to logon without a username or password, which was setup by the network admin's assistant. I revealed it's existence by uploading a bit of porn to the directory and mailing a floppy disk with a couple of files I downloaded from it. The ftp was password protected within a week.
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Considering the rate of innovation these days, a 20 year patent period is far too long. A good first step for patent reform would be to reduce the length of patents by half or more.
At least he's not an actual virgin.
It seems to be missing any exhilarating features, other than the exploding 8 million pound rocket, which really seems like old hat by today's theme park standards. They should really add in a corkscrew or something.
I actually went back to the original style safety razor, the one with big square razor blades, where the only thing you replace is the blade itself. It works great, but I think the biggest advantage is that it hardly takes more effort to go through a week's worth of growth than a day's, and it won't get clogged up in the process. 10 double sided blades cost $1.50 too.
That's a good point. Sometimes people forget that everyone else doesn't think like us, and I would say that most people in America would not think like people visiting a tech news discussion site. Maybe the best legal course of action would be to file a class action lawsuit against Diebold. There aren't very many companies who have sold millions of dollars of useless junk to various government entities accross the US, and they should be held responsible for that.
After reading some of the replies, it is obvious that electing an actual politician, even from an obscure third party would be a bad idea, it was just the first thing that popped into my head. It would probably be best to elect someone who isn't on the ballot, perhaps CowboyNeal or Mickey Mouse. Then they would know that the election was rigged. Leaving a backup might make it too easy as someone pointed out, so forget the backup and make them run a second election. That should get them to fix the problem.
The quickest way to get the system changed is to create a scandal by actually stealing an election. I would suggest making a Libertarian, Green, or other 3rd party win the govenor's race. That should make it pretty obvious. Then the person who hacked the election should send letters detailing what they did to a major newspaper and the state election board. I would also suggest backing up the real results so that no real harm is done. That should get us secure voting machines by the 2008 presidential elections.
Back when I was in elementary school, we used to play tackle football during recess, and we didn't really get hurt that I can recall. The school did make us change to two hand touch part of the way through the school year because they were afraid someone would get hurt.
It seems that they finally figured out that the only way to keep you from copying a DVD is to keep you playing it!
I would suggest that you build your own windmill. You should be able to build one with similar power for under a $1000 (I think), or maybe a bit more if you need to buy tools like a welder and such, but then you have an excuse to buy tools too. Check out Other Power for more details.
They mention in the article that the microwaves in high performance cavities produce very large forces on the walls. It also said that the stored energy is used up when the device accelerates. I'm guessing that the lost photons carry away the same amount of momentum as the system gains.
What the people who are worried about this don't realize is that particles with over 8 orders of magnitude more energy than this have been striking the Earth for billions of years. If these sort of collisions could destroy the Earth, it would have been gone a long time ago.
It seems to me that there should not be shadows from the big bang, because all the bits of interstellar dust should be in thermal equilibrium with the CMB by now, and thus radiate the same microwaves. Unless I've missed something, this would seem to cause galaxies and galaxy clusters not to have shadows.
I haven't watched Firefly yet, and I'm thinking about watching/recording the entire season on the 18h.
I think people in Ohio should go out and burn copies of the constitution in front of the Ohio legislature in protest.
Snakes!
Give him a break, he's a physicist gone computer scientist. They are notorious for inventing words. Why, the last time I had a class (fortran) with one he used the word deliminator several times.
I don't like the moon much either. I wish NASA would paint it black.
Seriously, skip the loans. It does not make sense to take out loans so you can keep some money around to invest. If you go to a financial advisor (one who's not out to make a quick buck) that is what he tell you. Right now student loans are running 7-8% interest, and while you could get 11-12% from something like an S&P index fund, there is always the possibility that it could be down when you decide you want to pay off your loans. Also, you shouldn't invest money in the stock market that you don't plan to leave alone for at least 5 years.
No, the lithium in laptop batteries is in the form of lithium salts.
I ran into a little bit of anti-Americanism in Venezuela a couple years ago, but there isn't too much of that going on in places I've been. Probably not enough that you would notice it if you were Canadian.
I would like it to run, i'm using 1.08 because 1.5 always crashed when I started it.
"The team claimed the magnetic eraser could also be used for commercial applications like quickly erasing VHS tapes, floppy drives, data cassettes and hard drives."
I did that years ago, I've got a magnet that vhs tapes will stick to, and it does a wonderful jub of erasing them. I havent tried that with a hard drive yet though.
I once reported a little insecurity in my high school's network. It was just an ftp host that allowed anyone to logon without a username or password, which was setup by the network admin's assistant. I revealed it's existence by uploading a bit of porn to the directory and mailing a floppy disk with a couple of files I downloaded from it. The ftp was password protected within a week.
If you are looking for information on crack cocaine that would be legitimate, and what if you wanted an encryption keygen?