I hadn't clearly noticed the contradiction before: Mail is not considered a priority and has no specified delivery time, yet the come by 6 days a week. I'm all for skipping Wednesday or Saturday or both. I'm also all about charging more for bulk - since that is the majority of what shows up.
CNC or just laser cutter is better for self replication. Because you can cut metal, you can cut laminations for motors which are then screwed together in a stack. Insert magnets and wrap wire and it's a motor. Only a shaft and bearings needed. Larger metal parts with simple bends can make structural pieces. For electronics, an accurate CNC can turn plain copper-clad into double sided circuit boards. In fact, some real board prototyping tools are exactly that. For self replication and ability to make cool stuff, a simple 3-axis mill is totally the way to go.
3D printers are cool, but don't pretend a few custom plastic bits makes them self replicating.
Anyone questioning the results should be sent a sample of the bacteria for study. Of course they could contaminate it with phosphorous and then we'd have to question their results too. So instead, we should send them the bacteria, and have them clean and eat them:-)
The government on the other hand is an entity with unlimited power and has a single purpose: to represent the people, maximize their overall welfare, and mediate the conflicts. I ask you, where is the need for secrecy in performing that task ?
Dude, you've obviously never negotiated anything have you? We have to deal with people around the world, and they don't all have the same belief system you do. They are also interested in maximizing their own welfare - something often at odds with maximizing ours/yours. When two parties want the same thing - or some of the same thing - what they are willing to offer for it needs to be kept secret or they won't get as good a deal. So long as there is competition (and nations are in competition for lots of things) there is a need to keep secrets - even who you like, don't like, or pretend to like. So long as there is a me/you us/them there will be a need to keep secrets.
What I'm curious about is why the release of so much data (pissing people off) without any real revelations.
Great choice. Mike is a good one too - first "normal" guy to fly stick and rudder into space. OTOH, if you can have a dead hero you back up to the Wright brothers (they were younger too).
Unfortunately, the governments of the world seem to be keeping relatively quiet on what, exactly, their contingency plans are for that...
One aspect of those plans is what to do with the remaining oil as the supply shrinks. You can fight for it or let your opponents fight over it. Or probably a few other things. What you don't do in any game is tell your opponent what you end-game strategy is going to be. Sure you have to develop alternatives, but there must still be a plan for the last drop of oil - even if it's just "let the others fight".
Yeah, but it will take them at least 10-15 years to come up to speed. If the demand for the aircraft is there in 5 years they would have to buy US or EU planes. So GE is getting a few billion dollars and China is getting the ability to design and build it own fleet worth half a trillion dollars? Sounds dumb as fuck to me.
Every time I see the map, it seems like if you follow the western perimeter of lake michigan around to the entry to the georgian bay and down the east side of lake huron, through London Ontario, and the southeast.... This is known to be a rock ridge, but it sure looks like a giant circle to me. They say its' from the glacier, but it sure looks round:-)
Whenever I read the term "hawking radiation" I think of the black hole hawking some radiation. Or perhaps radiation emitted in the process of hawking something else. Fortunately this mind glitch does not happen when I read this in the context of the guys name.
A cold call could be when your ex-coworker calls you up to tell you they're hiring at his new place (we have done this). If you happen to have a special skill, this can definitely happen. What's worse than cold calling is what I ran into recently - I had started a dialog with someone at a company only to be shut down because "I just learned that we are not allowed to hire anyone from your company". *I made the first contact* so it's not even a cold call from them. This is happening with big companies in Detroit.
The problem is the data rate of HDMI. That's raw pixels going across there. The only practical way to capture it is with something that can decrypt it AND do real time compression.
You mean "they intentionally proselytize engineers because they don't want to waste time cleaning up idiots." not "cleaning up after idiots".
And yes, this would all be more clear if they said "successful terrorists" tend to be engineers. Lots of successful CEOs came from technical backgrounds too. It seems that success at making complicated stuff work (companies, products, evil devices) goes with technical competence - duh.
HDCP has not really become widespread enough for this to be a good thing - in fact it's a bad thing at this time. People don't complain about it yet and with it broken, the manufacturers will simply do something different - and possibly worse. So next time you break an encryption system, please keep quiet until it becomes a widespread problem for people;-)
Much as I dislike them, why not a Kindle loaded with text books. That would be much much less than iPads and less likely to be used for other purposes (like watching YouTube during class).
While I agree with you on almost all of that... The prevention would come about by having the networks include clauses in their contract to pass the fines (or at least a portion) along to the folks who caused the incident. If the network wants to take the risk it's up to them. If that doesn't work, increase the fines.
I want to know where the fine is when SpongeBob says "penis". Oh right nobody notices because kids watch that - not the parents (and I think you can say that on TV anyway).
I was going to say the same thing. And since the V-chip was required in all digital TVs, and analog has been switched off we're all set now. Perhaps they should mandate that the V-chip be set to TV-PG only by default at the factory so only people who figure out how to operate it will get the "bad" stuff. Let them broadcast whatever they want, the FCC has already mandated technology that will allow people to censor to whatever level they are comfortable with.
I still can't believe people think SpongeBob is a kids show and let 3 year olds watch it. In fact, Nick is now essentially the SpongeBob channel.
Sex in the City is run on non-premium cable now uncensored ("Shit" and "Goldy-cocks" come to mind) but classic rock that's been on the air for 30 years is now edited. WTF?
Given the way they originally rejected sound recordings, is the "copy" part of "copyright" a verb (to reproduce) or a noun (as in the publishing industry - i.e. copy editor)? If you go with the publishing definition, then a sound recording doesn't really look like copy.
So I have one of those blue baseball caps with white letters "FBI" on the front. I bought it from one of those street vendors in Washington DC. Is it legal to wear that in public? I know it looks just like the gear all the FBI guys wear on TV - especially the undercover ones.
On another note, I knew a guy who painted "Coast Guard" on his seaplane which was white with orange trim. He deliberately left off "U.S." in front of coastguard, and did not put their official seal. While this might have technically been legal, he ultimately removed it after several visits from the DHS. He did say (probably drunken) boaters would clear out when he landed:-)
I think the government forced me to allow the telco to run wires across MY property. Oh wait, not only that, they gave the telco most of the land for the original deployment of the phone system. So eminent domain does apply here - the network was originally built for "public use" and arbitrary restrictions should not be allowed.
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I have a device that cuts off credit card spending - scissors.
I hadn't clearly noticed the contradiction before: Mail is not considered a priority and has no specified delivery time, yet the come by 6 days a week. I'm all for skipping Wednesday or Saturday or both. I'm also all about charging more for bulk - since that is the majority of what shows up.
CNC or just laser cutter is better for self replication. Because you can cut metal, you can cut laminations for motors which are then screwed together in a stack. Insert magnets and wrap wire and it's a motor. Only a shaft and bearings needed. Larger metal parts with simple bends can make structural pieces. For electronics, an accurate CNC can turn plain copper-clad into double sided circuit boards. In fact, some real board prototyping tools are exactly that. For self replication and ability to make cool stuff, a simple 3-axis mill is totally the way to go.
3D printers are cool, but don't pretend a few custom plastic bits makes them self replicating.
Anyone questioning the results should be sent a sample of the bacteria for study. Of course they could contaminate it with phosphorous and then we'd have to question their results too. So instead, we should send them the bacteria, and have them clean and eat them :-)
Dude, you've obviously never negotiated anything have you? We have to deal with people around the world, and they don't all have the same belief system you do. They are also interested in maximizing their own welfare - something often at odds with maximizing ours/yours. When two parties want the same thing - or some of the same thing - what they are willing to offer for it needs to be kept secret or they won't get as good a deal. So long as there is competition (and nations are in competition for lots of things) there is a need to keep secrets - even who you like, don't like, or pretend to like. So long as there is a me/you us/them there will be a need to keep secrets.
What I'm curious about is why the release of so much data (pissing people off) without any real revelations.
What was it they did that makes them spies?
Great choice. Mike is a good one too - first "normal" guy to fly stick and rudder into space. OTOH, if you can have a dead hero you back up to the Wright brothers (they were younger too).
Unfortunately, the governments of the world seem to be keeping relatively quiet on what, exactly, their contingency plans are for that...
One aspect of those plans is what to do with the remaining oil as the supply shrinks. You can fight for it or let your opponents fight over it. Or probably a few other things. What you don't do in any game is tell your opponent what you end-game strategy is going to be. Sure you have to develop alternatives, but there must still be a plan for the last drop of oil - even if it's just "let the others fight".
Yeah, but it will take them at least 10-15 years to come up to speed. If the demand for the aircraft is there in 5 years they would have to buy US or EU planes. So GE is getting a few billion dollars and China is getting the ability to design and build it own fleet worth half a trillion dollars? Sounds dumb as fuck to me.
Every time I see the map, it seems like if you follow the western perimeter of lake michigan around to the entry to the georgian bay and down the east side of lake huron, through London Ontario, and the southeast.... This is known to be a rock ridge, but it sure looks like a giant circle to me. They say its' from the glacier, but it sure looks round :-)
Here is another explanation that isn't really geology or biology: It get trapped into methane hydrates in the winter time.
I always hate when people say things like "it's not X" without an explicit non-existence proof.
Whenever I read the term "hawking radiation" I think of the black hole hawking some radiation. Or perhaps radiation emitted in the process of hawking something else. Fortunately this mind glitch does not happen when I read this in the context of the guys name.
This is the primary heating element in an ez bake oven. So they must remain available for the children.
A cold call could be when your ex-coworker calls you up to tell you they're hiring at his new place (we have done this). If you happen to have a special skill, this can definitely happen. What's worse than cold calling is what I ran into recently - I had started a dialog with someone at a company only to be shut down because "I just learned that we are not allowed to hire anyone from your company". *I made the first contact* so it's not even a cold call from them. This is happening with big companies in Detroit.
The problem is the data rate of HDMI. That's raw pixels going across there. The only practical way to capture it is with something that can decrypt it AND do real time compression.
You mean "they intentionally proselytize engineers because they don't want to waste time cleaning up idiots." not "cleaning up after idiots".
And yes, this would all be more clear if they said "successful terrorists" tend to be engineers. Lots of successful CEOs came from technical backgrounds too. It seems that success at making complicated stuff work (companies, products, evil devices) goes with technical competence - duh.
HDCP has not really become widespread enough for this to be a good thing - in fact it's a bad thing at this time. People don't complain about it yet and with it broken, the manufacturers will simply do something different - and possibly worse. So next time you break an encryption system, please keep quiet until it becomes a widespread problem for people ;-)
Much as I dislike them, why not a Kindle loaded with text books. That would be much much less than iPads and less likely to be used for other purposes (like watching YouTube during class).
All text, but sort of an action-puzzle-mayhem game for DOS. Great fun.
I want to know where the fine is when SpongeBob says "penis". Oh right nobody notices because kids watch that - not the parents (and I think you can say that on TV anyway).
I was going to say the same thing. And since the V-chip was required in all digital TVs, and analog has been switched off we're all set now. Perhaps they should mandate that the V-chip be set to TV-PG only by default at the factory so only people who figure out how to operate it will get the "bad" stuff. Let them broadcast whatever they want, the FCC has already mandated technology that will allow people to censor to whatever level they are comfortable with. I still can't believe people think SpongeBob is a kids show and let 3 year olds watch it. In fact, Nick is now essentially the SpongeBob channel. Sex in the City is run on non-premium cable now uncensored ("Shit" and "Goldy-cocks" come to mind) but classic rock that's been on the air for 30 years is now edited. WTF?
The biggest problem is that we need fixed IP addresses so we can get data to and from people we know without going through a central authority.
Given the way they originally rejected sound recordings, is the "copy" part of "copyright" a verb (to reproduce) or a noun (as in the publishing industry - i.e. copy editor)? If you go with the publishing definition, then a sound recording doesn't really look like copy.
So I have one of those blue baseball caps with white letters "FBI" on the front. I bought it from one of those street vendors in Washington DC. Is it legal to wear that in public? I know it looks just like the gear all the FBI guys wear on TV - especially the undercover ones.
:-)
On another note, I knew a guy who painted "Coast Guard" on his seaplane which was white with orange trim. He deliberately left off "U.S." in front of coastguard, and did not put their official seal. While this might have technically been legal, he ultimately removed it after several visits from the DHS. He did say (probably drunken) boaters would clear out when he landed
I think the government forced me to allow the telco to run wires across MY property. Oh wait, not only that, they gave the telco most of the land for the original deployment of the phone system. So eminent domain does apply here - the network was originally built for "public use" and arbitrary restrictions should not be allowed.