Isn't one theory that dark matter is normal baryonic matter, just not baryonic matter that is concentrated or luminous enough to have a measurable effect on any light getting to us?
I think you mean "hypothesis". Yes, scientists get carried away with calling their wacky unsupported ideas "theories".
These results are consistent with the positrons originating from the annihilation of dark matter particles in space, but not yet sufficiently conclusive to rule out other explanations.
What widely accepted model of particle physics predicts this? Right, NONE.
Especially for the public. Even if the government gets data cheaper, they'll charge anyone else enormous amounts of money and the data will come with restrictions.
What these guys really want is for the government to pay to get their business going and then make a fortune. How do I know? Because otherwise they would launch the satellites themselves and start offering the data for sale. They are not doing that. Why? they want to establish their monopoly at our expense.
He needs portability. The missing piece is a USB I/O board that plugs into your phone. Of course this means having a phone that can be the host device and not just the peripheral.
Ban campaign contributions from anyone who doesn't live in their home state/district. This gets tricky for corporations since big ones wanting to contribute will just open a wholly owned "company" locally to make the contributions. It would still make it harder. Also, I should think individual states could impose this rule on their own representatives, or political advertising within their borders - and that might be considered self-interest by the local lawmakers.
So why not put in a way for it to be done in a standard fashion?
Putting the ability to serve DRM content into HTML is not going to close the web.
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) Because DRM is not on the web today in any significant way.
2) Because it legitimizes it.
3) Yes it is. You'll find that even news articles become DRMed. You laugh because "if Firefox can render the text it must be accessible", but the ultimate goal is to push it further and further once established. To the point that OSS can not implement a useful browser. At that point the "open standard" will be a joke.
The correct solution is for the DRM fans to devise their own delivery methods rather than corrupt an open standard.
And as I understand from contractor friends, you bill for "time and materials" not finished code. If you quote a deliverable you better be a good estimator and good at documenting the requirements up front, etc... To eliminate the uncertainty you bill for time and materials, and at that point it doesn't matter if they have you writing code, writing a manual, teaching, or shoveling shit.
IMHO he's best to document and teach everything he can to make his customer happy. If you want job security through obscurity get a direct position at a big company and take on something complex that nobody wants to touch. Of course then they won't pay so much, so you'll want to be a contractor.;-)
If you can save $10/hour you'll be able to retire early in Malaysia. Work in a high cost of living area and retire in a low cost one. If you work in the low cost/low pay area you will never afford to get out.
Withing the old Google labs was a search called Google Sets. It was rarely used, but when you needed that capability it was the only place on the net you could do it. Why it or "labs" had to go away I don't understand.
For the uninitiated, Sets allowed to you enter 2 or 3 things of some type and it would return a list (15) of other things of that type. The example they used was to enter the titles of a few Tom Cruise movies and it would return a bunch more. In real world usage you could use it to identify alternative makers of various products, or alternatives to any number of things (programming languages for example) or even things where you don't know how the terminology that describes how they are related.
Because, theoretically, there actually has been a crime committed in which they are actually the victims. As such, they have a right to defend their properties.
IIANAL but I don't think that's true. If they want to sue someone go ahead - in court. But to send a notice making unfounded claims and seeking payment is probably mail fraud - at least in the US.
Seems like we have indeed come full-circle, except now the audio just encodes a link (presumably with no lengthy initial communication phase) and the rest of the content is actually on the Internet.
'cause you know, everything has to go through the cloud. Even when we're standing right next to each other. Gotta use that data plan and allow for big brother monitoring in every case.
I think what people are worried about is a run-away global warming contingency. If that happens then it's only a matter of time before our atmosphere bleeds off and the Earth is left looking a lot like Mars.
Seriously? Who'se worried about that? And based on what evidence? It has also been found that increased CO2 cools the upper extremities of the atmosphere causing it to "shrink", which is quite the opposite of bleeding off into space.
From the first decade of the twentieth century to now, global average temperatures rose from near their coldest point since the ice age to nearly their warmest
We're preventing the temperature decline that would lead us into the next glaciation. And like another poster mentioned, we're still in an "ice age" but we're toward the end of one of the interglacial periods. If we heat things up enough maybe we can get out of the ice age altogether.;-)
Say absolutely nothing. Every single work spoken to them will come from your lawyers mouth.
Except that they will also look at everything you've ever posted to slashdot, facebook, linkedin, your email at your ISP, etc... So everyone posting here has already communicated with them.
Don't forget - the machine gun and landmine have killed far more people than drones likely ever will. They kill mindlessly so long as the trigger was pulled or they are stepped on. And yet, their ethical considerations were long debated.
Don't forget that landmines were not just debated, for the most part they have been banned IIRC. The ethical considerations were not debated - the problem was clear - what went on for a long time was deciding what to do about them.
And let us not forget, a large scale robot war would be won by the country with the best manufacturing capability.;-)
For the untrained eye, the actual images would look like noise zoomed-in at the pixel level. I'm not sure the science journalists who write and edit these things would be willing to make pixelated blobs the primary image of their article.
'cause you know, that would make the headline seem like a load of bull and disappoint readers. It doesn't do much to help the public image of the scientists either.
OTOH I saw an hour long video of some NASA woman explaining the Kepler mission. It was fan-fucking-tastic and showed how they analyze data that's just a pixel or 2 and determine how many planets some stars have. It showed how you take a visually useless image and get real information from it.
So the failing is on the authors who either don't know enough or don't care enough to write high quality stuff.
How can this be legal? The schools are sharing student records with an outside organization. It's also not supposed to be legal to share SSNs in this way. WTF is wrong with people, they think they can just do whatever they feel like.
Nickel 62 and 64 are both stable. Add a proton to get Copper 63 or 65 which are both stable. The mystery is how such a thing can happen, but there is also no need for radiation to come out of it. Traditional physics doesn't deal with the conditions described where there is metal saturated with hydrogen. On the other hand, it's well known that nickel and others can hold a lot of hydrogen and it has been used as a storage mechanism without any crazy overheating. On yet another hand, batteries of similar construction do have thermal runaway issues if not charged properly.
I really had a problem with the physicist rejecting "cold fusion" and claiming it had to be a chemical reaction - without offering any explanation of what that reaction might be. Of course the chemists were doing the same - saying it's fusion without indicating what the reaction may be. Now we're at the point where an overall reaction is claimed but the mechanism in a mystery, and so far it's more plausible than any proposed chemical reaction (since there aren't any proposed chemical reactions to explain it). The only thing left is to think that these folks can't do calorimetry - you know, chemists.
I skeptical about the proton + electron -> neutron thing, but lets set that mechanism aside. The end result is Ni + H -> Cu. I'd have to check the isotope tables again, but there are common and stable isotopes of Nickle that are one proton away from being a stable isotope of Copper. The mass difference offers more energy that plain hydrogen fusion. End result is nuclear fusion with no radiation. If (yes IF) this could work with deuterium, the number of starting and ending isotopes usable goes up dramatically. Then there's the whole set of possible reactions starting with Pd or other elements.
There is nothing wrong with the high level physics. The problem is nobody really knows what causes these reactions to occur or how to optimize the process.
The electrons in the metal lattice are made to oscillate so that the energy applied to the electrons is concentrated into only a few of them. When they become energetic enough, the electrons are forced into the hydrogen protons to form slow neutrons. These are immediately drawn into the nickel atoms, making them unstable. This sets off a reaction in which one of the neutrons in the nickel atom splits into a proton, an electron and an antineutrino. This changes the nickel into copper, and releases energy without dangerous ionizing radiation.
So the mechanism to get the reaction to happen is thought to involve the weak force, the end result is Ni + H -> Cu which is just plain fusion. You can compute the energy output based on the mass difference of the inputs and outputs. The problem is that people are finally reproducing the old Cold Fusion work and getting a better understanding, but they face the problems caused 20 years ago. Problems like the DOE deciding it was all a crock and putting policy in place not to fund any research in that area. Problems like the physics community lashing out saying "it can't be fusion, it must be a chemical reaction" (saying that to chemists working with 4 elements in a jar). Now it has to go by the name LENR, but places like NASA and MIT and (allegedly) some folks in industry are working on this.
The truth is a bit more complicated; But it still boils down to operator error and not a design flaw. Of course, a design that allows someone to plug in one component backwards and have the entire device go up in flames is not a good one, but it's not flawed in the strict sense of the word.
That's still a design flaw. Part of design is to make things work in the real world when used by real people in real situations. What you describe is an excuse for poor design, trying to put blame on the user.
A particularly memorable example on the Airbus is the time when the Captain's side stick was required back to front, with the aircraft only saved by a very quick thinking copilot who inhibited the Captain's input and took control of the plane.
OMFG the PRNDL in your car is designed to be safer than that. Seriously.
I'm quickly losing my respect for aerospace companies.
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I think you mean "hypothesis". Yes, scientists get carried away with calling their wacky unsupported ideas "theories".
What widely accepted model of particle physics predicts this? Right, NONE.
Funny how people lose any ability to think when the conclusion is that they're wrong, or even just contradicting themselves.
Especially for the public. Even if the government gets data cheaper, they'll charge anyone else enormous amounts of money and the data will come with restrictions.
What these guys really want is for the government to pay to get their business going and then make a fortune. How do I know? Because otherwise they would launch the satellites themselves and start offering the data for sale. They are not doing that. Why? they want to establish their monopoly at our expense.
He needs portability. The missing piece is a USB I/O board that plugs into your phone. Of course this means having a phone that can be the host device and not just the peripheral.
Ban campaign contributions from anyone who doesn't live in their home state/district. This gets tricky for corporations since big ones wanting to contribute will just open a wholly owned "company" locally to make the contributions. It would still make it harder. Also, I should think individual states could impose this rule on their own representatives, or political advertising within their borders - and that might be considered self-interest by the local lawmakers.
1 ) Because DRM is not on the web today in any significant way.
2) Because it legitimizes it.
3) Yes it is. You'll find that even news articles become DRMed. You laugh because "if Firefox can render the text it must be accessible", but the ultimate goal is to push it further and further once established. To the point that OSS can not implement a useful browser. At that point the "open standard" will be a joke.
The correct solution is for the DRM fans to devise their own delivery methods rather than corrupt an open standard.
And as I understand from contractor friends, you bill for "time and materials" not finished code. If you quote a deliverable you better be a good estimator and good at documenting the requirements up front, etc... To eliminate the uncertainty you bill for time and materials, and at that point it doesn't matter if they have you writing code, writing a manual, teaching, or shoveling shit.
;-)
IMHO he's best to document and teach everything he can to make his customer happy. If you want job security through obscurity get a direct position at a big company and take on something complex that nobody wants to touch. Of course then they won't pay so much, so you'll want to be a contractor.
If you can save $10/hour you'll be able to retire early in Malaysia. Work in a high cost of living area and retire in a low cost one. If you work in the low cost/low pay area you will never afford to get out.
Withing the old Google labs was a search called Google Sets. It was rarely used, but when you needed that capability it was the only place on the net you could do it. Why it or "labs" had to go away I don't understand.
For the uninitiated, Sets allowed to you enter 2 or 3 things of some type and it would return a list (15) of other things of that type. The example they used was to enter the titles of a few Tom Cruise movies and it would return a bunch more. In real world usage you could use it to identify alternative makers of various products, or alternatives to any number of things (programming languages for example) or even things where you don't know how the terminology that describes how they are related.
Ummm dude, it ended about 10,000 years ago and was a 100K year event. Where does this 28,000 come from?
IIANAL but I don't think that's true. If they want to sue someone go ahead - in court. But to send a notice making unfounded claims and seeking payment is probably mail fraud - at least in the US.
'cause you know, everything has to go through the cloud. Even when we're standing right next to each other. Gotta use that data plan and allow for big brother monitoring in every case.
Seriously? Who'se worried about that? And based on what evidence? It has also been found that increased CO2 cools the upper extremities of the atmosphere causing it to "shrink", which is quite the opposite of bleeding off into space.
We're preventing the temperature decline that would lead us into the next glaciation. And like another poster mentioned, we're still in an "ice age" but we're toward the end of one of the interglacial periods. If we heat things up enough maybe we can get out of the ice age altogether. ;-)
Except that they will also look at everything you've ever posted to slashdot, facebook, linkedin, your email at your ISP, etc... So everyone posting here has already communicated with them.
They could drop 32bit at some point, but I don't think even the legacy instruction sets hinder them much.
Don't forget that landmines were not just debated, for the most part they have been banned IIRC. The ethical considerations were not debated - the problem was clear - what went on for a long time was deciding what to do about them.
;-)
And let us not forget, a large scale robot war would be won by the country with the best manufacturing capability.
'cause you know, that would make the headline seem like a load of bull and disappoint readers. It doesn't do much to help the public image of the scientists either.
OTOH I saw an hour long video of some NASA woman explaining the Kepler mission. It was fan-fucking-tastic and showed how they analyze data that's just a pixel or 2 and determine how many planets some stars have. It showed how you take a visually useless image and get real information from it.
So the failing is on the authors who either don't know enough or don't care enough to write high quality stuff.
How can this be legal? The schools are sharing student records with an outside organization. It's also not supposed to be legal to share SSNs in this way. WTF is wrong with people, they think they can just do whatever they feel like.
Nickel 62 and 64 are both stable. Add a proton to get Copper 63 or 65 which are both stable. The mystery is how such a thing can happen, but there is also no need for radiation to come out of it. Traditional physics doesn't deal with the conditions described where there is metal saturated with hydrogen. On the other hand, it's well known that nickel and others can hold a lot of hydrogen and it has been used as a storage mechanism without any crazy overheating. On yet another hand, batteries of similar construction do have thermal runaway issues if not charged properly.
I really had a problem with the physicist rejecting "cold fusion" and claiming it had to be a chemical reaction - without offering any explanation of what that reaction might be. Of course the chemists were doing the same - saying it's fusion without indicating what the reaction may be. Now we're at the point where an overall reaction is claimed but the mechanism in a mystery, and so far it's more plausible than any proposed chemical reaction (since there aren't any proposed chemical reactions to explain it). The only thing left is to think that these folks can't do calorimetry - you know, chemists.
I skeptical about the proton + electron -> neutron thing, but lets set that mechanism aside. The end result is Ni + H -> Cu. I'd have to check the isotope tables again, but there are common and stable isotopes of Nickle that are one proton away from being a stable isotope of Copper. The mass difference offers more energy that plain hydrogen fusion. End result is nuclear fusion with no radiation. If (yes IF) this could work with deuterium, the number of starting and ending isotopes usable goes up dramatically. Then there's the whole set of possible reactions starting with Pd or other elements.
There is nothing wrong with the high level physics. The problem is nobody really knows what causes these reactions to occur or how to optimize the process.
So the mechanism to get the reaction to happen is thought to involve the weak force, the end result is Ni + H -> Cu which is just plain fusion. You can compute the energy output based on the mass difference of the inputs and outputs. The problem is that people are finally reproducing the old Cold Fusion work and getting a better understanding, but they face the problems caused 20 years ago. Problems like the DOE deciding it was all a crock and putting policy in place not to fund any research in that area. Problems like the physics community lashing out saying "it can't be fusion, it must be a chemical reaction" (saying that to chemists working with 4 elements in a jar). Now it has to go by the name LENR, but places like NASA and MIT and (allegedly) some folks in industry are working on this.
That's still a design flaw. Part of design is to make things work in the real world when used by real people in real situations. What you describe is an excuse for poor design, trying to put blame on the user.
OMFG the PRNDL in your car is designed to be safer than that. Seriously.
I'm quickly losing my respect for aerospace companies.