Like, nobody's suggested markers that light up when there are zombies ahead?
Or (good luck with this one), markers that respond to cars passing over them (like the in-pavement triggers for left-turn lights) by lighting up for the next 3 seconds to indicate to the next driver that he's driving too dang close to the car in front of him.
Asking people to vote a certain way in exchange for something is quite illegal. Simply asking them to promise that they will vote not so much.
Well, maybe or maybe not. Someone stopped the local chapter of Sweet Old Ladies from providing baked goods at the polling places. Apparently accepting a chocolate chip cookie *after* voting was an illegal inducement.
We had early voting start days BEFORE the first presidential debate and weeks before the first debates in down ballot races. How can you possibly cast an informed ballot before the first debate?
SRSLY? The so-called debates are totally useless. If you hadn't figured out over a year ago what the (huge, dramatic) differences are between Mittens and ObamaCare, you really are too lazy to vote. If you think the debates matter, you're too stupid to vote.
My brother-in-law in Japanese, living in Japan. He had no problem visiting the US very recently. Yes, he had to give his fingerprint.. but is that really a big issue? Yes it is. I'm old enough (57) that back in elementary and Jr High school one of the things that was drummed into us was that the USA was better than all those other wimpy countries because we had complete freedom to travel anonymously, had no personal ID papers, and could not be forced to identify ourselves unless under arrest. So it's a very big deal that these allegedly Constitutional rights have disappeared.
80 hour weeks are mentioned. Not sure where the $2000 cost figure comes from, but it doesn't include labor or 3D printer time. They are grad students. labor is free.:-(
Just think how safe you would be with a Windows phone! Sounds like a new product opportunity: sell covers for iPhones to make them look like a "zunephone". We can call it the iCover or something.
With traditional mechanical drives, you usually get a clicking noise accompanied by a time period where you can offload data from the drive before it fails completely.
OK, so I'm sure some enterprising/.-er can write a script that watches the SSD controller and issues some clicks to the sound card when cells are marked as failed.
What sort of world would we be living in if you couldn't make a big fat profit out of suicide prevention? Certainly not a world I'd want to live in...
Obligatory "I see what you did there..."
But let's refine this model a bit. It's always nice to make a few bucks by providing a service, but it's much nicer when your clients keep needing the service. So let's make sure our SuicidePreventolaProcess only works so long as you pay for our monthly upgrades and bug fixes!
There's rather a huge difference between hate speech and parody or satire. It's one thing to say "my FSM can beat the crap out of your Jesus-Dad," and another to say "I want all the Jesus-lovers to die die die."
The other problem is that many, if not all, religious sects react to reality as a personal affront to their entire way of life. I certainly hope Ms. Prime Minister is not suggesting that saying "All Muslims are just plain wrong, because there is no Prophet or God" constitutes hate speech. Note that not matter what you call it, that sentence can get you put to death in some countries. Here in the USA, saying the same thing about the wrong (right?) version of monotheism will ensure you're never elected president, but you're unlikely to be jailed over it. So far, anyway.
It's like the species, collectively, is a pathological liar. Sadly, Mr. Data wasn't until Number One explained about bluffing in poker. It was all downhill after that.
Actually what I think the experiment would prove is a discrete space. Which is necessarily true in simulations (at least the type we can do in our computers) I'm not convinced - what about analog computers?
In the words of the aliens from Contact, "It's the way we've been doing it for billions of years."
Hence they will have long since closed off detection of clever loopholes in previous myriad simulations. I prefer the highly egocentric scifi stories in which the amazingly brilliant and energetic humans from Earth turn out to be the first species to break free and become the new Masters of the Universe(s)!
I'm an ardent anti-smoker but that doesn't lead me to support idiotic employment rules. The overall problem of health care (and guess what: I support single-payer) really should be none of a company's business. So long as the employee gets his work done, is reliable, and doesn't adversely affect his cow-orkers, what he does off the clock is his business. I have no problem with a company banning tobacco use on company property&time (or banning alcohol; and I wish they'd ban cube radios playing country music too), but testing employees for off-work use of either legal or controlled substances should be flat out illegal.
I thought energy couldn't be created or destroyed, so the energy on this planet is pretty much constant? Gosh I must be getting trolled, but just in case not: didja ever hear of a really simple equation this guy Einstein came up with? Just three variables.
Quick! Let's build a giant IR emitter w/ some filters to produce the same spectral curve as a Dyson sphere. All those not-quite-advanced societies out there will detect it and run screaming from our perceived galactic-overlordishness.
lined a whole wall with Ikea wardrobes... a wall is a waste of precious space
A wall, being two-dimensional (from the point of view of the resident of the room. what's inside the wall is treated as inaccessible from his universe), takes up no space at all. X * Y * 0 = zero cubic centimeters.
Unless, of course, it's one of those fractal space-filling walls.
IIRC, Microsoft product authentication was tied directly to things like the CPU serial number in your PC and maybe even the S/N of the hard drive. Swap a couple components out of your PC and your software dies. How is this any different?
Take a googletour of the newer ground-based visible-spectrum telescopes. Replete w/ new mirror technology and advance adaptive optic systems, these outperform any telescope that can be put into space -- but just in the visible. The only good reason to launch a telescope is to do IR and UV work, i.e. wavelengths that are significantly absorbed by the atmosphere.
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Seriously? Artificial misting systems for a toad? How many children died of hunger last year, 10 million?
If this breeding program works, we can feed them the toads.
You left out "to." Should read "...we can feed them *to* the toads." Much better outcome all around.
PS OK I give up: how the heck do I close a "quote" tag?" less-than,backslash,quote fails.
Well, those Japanese "eye-emoticons" seem to provide a lot of info...
Like, nobody's suggested markers that light up when there are zombies ahead?
Or (good luck with this one), markers that respond to cars passing over them (like the in-pavement triggers for left-turn lights) by lighting up for the next 3 seconds to indicate to the next driver that he's driving too dang close to the car in front of him.
Asking people to vote a certain way in exchange for something is quite illegal. Simply asking them to promise that they will vote not so much.
Well, maybe or maybe not. Someone stopped the local chapter of Sweet Old Ladies from providing baked goods at the polling places. Apparently accepting a chocolate chip cookie *after* voting was an illegal inducement.
We had early voting start days BEFORE the first presidential debate and weeks before the first debates in down ballot races. How can you possibly cast an informed ballot before the first debate?
SRSLY? The so-called debates are totally useless. If you hadn't figured out over a year ago what the (huge, dramatic) differences are between Mittens and ObamaCare, you really are too lazy to vote. If you think the debates matter, you're too stupid to vote.
Well, it is Section 34, which is to say, basically Rule34.
Sorry. (not really)
My brother-in-law in Japanese, living in Japan. He had no problem visiting the US very recently. Yes, he had to give his fingerprint.. but is that really a big issue?
Yes it is. I'm old enough (57) that back in elementary and Jr High school one of the things that was drummed into us was that the USA was better than all those other wimpy countries because we had complete freedom to travel anonymously, had no personal ID papers, and could not be forced to identify ourselves unless under arrest. So it's a very big deal that these allegedly Constitutional rights have disappeared.
Since nobody seems to have listed it yet. Mathenauts is a collection of SciFi-ish stories in which the math guy is the hero.
Amazon has it.
80 hour weeks are mentioned. Not sure where the $2000 cost figure comes from, but it doesn't include labor or 3D printer time. :-(
They are grad students. labor is free.
Just think how safe you would be with a Windows phone!
Sounds like a new product opportunity: sell covers for iPhones to make them look like a "zunephone". We can call it the iCover or something.
With traditional mechanical drives, you usually get a clicking noise accompanied by a time period where you can offload data from the drive before it fails completely.
OK, so I'm sure some enterprising /.-er can write a script that watches the SSD controller and issues some clicks to the sound card when cells are marked as failed.
What sort of world would we be living in if you couldn't make a big fat profit out of suicide prevention? Certainly not a world I'd want to live in...
Obligatory "I see what you did there..."
But let's refine this model a bit. It's always nice to make a few bucks by providing a service, but it's much nicer when your clients keep needing the service. So let's make sure our SuicidePreventolaProcess only works so long as you pay for our monthly upgrades and bug fixes!
There's rather a huge difference between hate speech and parody or satire. It's one thing to say "my FSM can beat the crap out of your Jesus-Dad," and another to say "I want all the Jesus-lovers to die die die."
The other problem is that many, if not all, religious sects react to reality as a personal affront to their entire way of life. I certainly hope Ms. Prime Minister is not suggesting that saying "All Muslims are just plain wrong, because there is no Prophet or God" constitutes hate speech. Note that not matter what you call it, that sentence can get you put to death in some countries. Here in the USA, saying the same thing about the wrong (right?) version of monotheism will ensure you're never elected president, but you're unlikely to be jailed over it. So far, anyway.
It's like the species, collectively, is a pathological liar.
Sadly, Mr. Data wasn't until Number One explained about bluffing in poker. It was all downhill after that.
Actually what I think the experiment would prove is a discrete space. Which is necessarily true in simulations (at least the type we can do in our computers)
I'm not convinced - what about analog computers?
In the words of the aliens from Contact, "It's the way we've been doing it for billions of years."
Hence they will have long since closed off detection of clever loopholes in previous myriad simulations.
I prefer the highly egocentric scifi stories in which the amazingly brilliant and energetic humans from Earth turn out to be the first species to break free and become the new Masters of the Universe(s)!
That depends on the cost of fuel vs lawsuit
Tyler? Is that you again?
I'm an ardent anti-smoker but that doesn't lead me to support idiotic employment rules. The overall problem of health care (and guess what: I support single-payer) really should be none of a company's business. So long as the employee gets his work done, is reliable, and doesn't adversely affect his cow-orkers, what he does off the clock is his business. I have no problem with a company banning tobacco use on company property&time (or banning alcohol; and I wish they'd ban cube radios playing country music too), but testing employees for off-work use of either legal or controlled substances should be flat out illegal.
I thought energy couldn't be created or destroyed, so the energy on this planet is pretty much constant?
Gosh I must be getting trolled, but just in case not: didja ever hear of a really simple equation this guy Einstein came up with? Just three variables.
Quick! Let's build a giant IR emitter w/ some filters to produce the same spectral curve as a Dyson sphere. All those not-quite-advanced societies out there will detect it and run screaming from our perceived galactic-overlordishness.
lined a whole wall with Ikea wardrobes... a wall is a waste of precious space
A wall, being two-dimensional (from the point of view of the resident of the room. what's inside the wall is treated as inaccessible from his universe), takes up no space at all. X * Y * 0 = zero cubic centimeters.
Unless, of course, it's one of those fractal space-filling walls.
There's something about communicating with a device that ruins a lot of the non-verbal stuff we take for granted.
You can't look at her tits when you're talking to her on the phone.
Too cheap to buy her a smartphone w/ a camera? Then put her assets on your phone's wallpaper.
IIRC, Microsoft product authentication was tied directly to things like the CPU serial number in your PC and maybe even the S/N of the hard drive. Swap a couple components out of your PC and your software dies. How is this any different?
Take a googletour of the newer ground-based visible-spectrum telescopes. Replete w/ new mirror technology and advance adaptive optic systems, these outperform any telescope that can be put into space -- but just in the visible.
The only good reason to launch a telescope is to do IR and UV work, i.e. wavelengths that are significantly absorbed by the atmosphere.
OT, but: corporate blocker (WebSense) apparently thinks a URL with "okdork" in it is referring to a penis. Site's blocked out here.