In addition to the 24 hour thing that someone else mentioned there are two other factors:
1. If you place a GPS tracker on someone, it can go places where you can not legally follow them. For example, if you are in a rural area, it is pretty hard to follow someone when there you and him are the only car around for miles. More importantly, if they turn on to a privately owned ranch, the police legally can NOT follow them without a warrant. In addition, the GPS will follow them if they leave the country and enter Canada or Mexico, things the police usually can not legally do.
2. But most importantly, following is expensive which means the police only follow someone if they have VERY good evidence. The cop that starts following his next door neighbor quickly gets fired. The cop that puts a GPS units on his annoying next door neighbor gets a warning.
There are simpler methods. Fourth Generation plants use a slurry of thorium and molten salt instead of solid nuclear fuel.
As such, they are built with an escape drain under the fuel supply. Near the drain is a refrigerator that cools the salt to a solid, plugging the drain.
When the power fails, the plug melts, and all the fuel flows out of the system into a large holding area. The holding area is too big to generate significant heat.
This means no meltdown is possible. Humans can literally walk (or run) away and in minutes, the reactor shuts down automatically.
The main problems are
1. An improperly managed plant creates acidic gasses in small quantities. It needs more maintenance to keep working.
2. Breeder reactors are much less prolific. That makes it difficult to create nuclear weapons and also means you have to actually dig fuel out of the ground instead of simply making your own for free.
Lets also assume that consumer electronics do in fact not only affect avionics, but can cause a serious disruption. Perhaps even resulting in death.
Should we:
a. Ignore the problem completely, letting anyone use electronics on board.
b. Tell people not do, trusting that they won't, with perhaps minimal checks by stewards etc that will only stop casual users.
c. FIX THE GODDAMN SECURITY PROBLEM. Shield the plane, or whatever you have to do to prevent terrorists/stupid consumers who left the devices on in their suitcase from killing a plane.
The current idea of having flight attendents walk around and tell people to turn them off is MORONIC. If it is a real problem, then a terrorist could easily design a device to maximize disruption, create an auto-on feature that turns itself on when air pressure indicates it is high up and then give those devices away to people as games. The moron that decided we should keep using method B should be investigated for ties to Al Queada and other terrorist organizations.
I recognize security problems exist. I don't object to real attempts to fix them. I do object to fake PRETEND attempts that do nothing at all to fix a problem, but instead make air travel even more miserable than it already is.
I do not want to have to trust my life to a flight attendant catching people using these devices incorrectly. If you want me to do that, then you have to pay me to fly, not the other way around.
Note, I don't actually believe the study is relevant. I think they found some odd occurences and blamed them on the personal devices.
First, what happened in Japan was not a nuclear disaster, but instead a Tsunami disaster. There was no accident at the plant, but instead a country wide disaster that one particular plant could not handle. The Tsunami deaths from non-nuclear factors far exceeded the minimal (count anyone?) from the plant. If a Tsunami over turns your car and crushes it, do you demand stronger cars? Yeah, the plant could have been better designed to handle it, but it was not a nuclear disaster.
Second, Coal use is a FAR worse danger. Coal mining and burning releases far more radioactive dust (Thorium and Uranium) than Nuclear power does. It kills more people every year than the entire history of nuclear power. In the US alone, there are no confirmed deaths, ever from Nuclear Power Plants (though doctors do estimate that Three Mile Island may have killed one to three people from cancer). In the past 100 years, over 100,000 people have died in coal mining alone.
Safety is relative. Relative to Coal, Nuclear Power is safe. Same for Deep Sea Oil Drilling, and even Natural Gas. But the main difference is that the theoretical worst case scenario for Nuclear Power endangers civilians, while Coal kills employees.
I could program:
1. SOS
2. One flash if by Land, two flashes if by Sea, (and to update it 3 if by air, 4 if by subway)
3. Binary transmission of it's own source code.
4. Binary transmission of p0rn. Brings a whole new meaning to the word "Flasher"
5. Step 1. Buy One million of them, Step 2. Put red filters on 1/3 of them, green on another 1/3 and blue on the rest. Step 3. Put them in an array, Step 4. Get the biggest HD TV in the UNIVERSE.
I think this article understates the chance of life.
First let me state that, to paraphrase an SMBC comic don't listen to people talking about something they are not an expert in.
Second, rarely do the "you can't have life/intelligent life because..." people have both a biology degree and an astrophysics degree. You need both to make those kind of comments.
Thirdly, we now just about jack-sh!t about the majority of the mass of the universe. Most mass is "dark matter", and of the stuff that isn't dark matter, most of it is in the objects we call black holes at the center of galaxies. So we have no freaking idea at all about whether the majority of the universe is capable of supporting life/friendly to it.
Fourth, to paraphrase a visually dramatic, but (aside from this quote), fairly innane movie "Life will find a way". The entire thing about life is that it adjusts ITSELF to the universe, not the other way around. We are a life form that likes 1 g, 1 atmosphere of pressure, etc. not because those conditions are helpful for life but instead because THAT is where we evolved. Yes, 100g and 100 atmosphere would be harder to create life in, evlove in, but at the same time, we cant survive in 4g, 10 atmospheres, but life can easily evolve to do so.
The best argument there is against intelligent life being wide spread is the lack of signs/contact. But that says nothing about unintelligent life, and assumes that life would use radio waves. It is as likely that other intelligent life forms are dark matter based - and never discovered radio - as it is for there to be no other intelligent life in the galaxy. Or simply that radio waves have disadvantages we don't know about. A quantum physics related random shifts in signal over long distances could obscure intelligent content, rendering radio waves indistinguishable from background radiation.
1. View the output on one screen, as seen by the end user, while at the same time editing the code, fixing the mistake.
2. Run an important, CPU time consuming but program with full visibility, while I work on another, separate, less important project until it finishes doing whatever it is doing. I don't have keep checking to see if it is done.
3. See, read (and maybe Answer) the bosses email about while at the same time working on my major project.
4. View the web site I am working on using both firefox and explorer simultaneously.
Basically, it is a multi-tasking tool. If you are busy, you need it. If not, you use it to work while posting to slashdot.
The question becomes, do you want your developers to mult-task? Every place I have ever worked say YES.
As stated IN THE ARTICLE, when you +1 something, only your contacts see it.
So, if all your friends +1 something about the KKK, then you see it as highly ranked. But the rest of the world does not know how racists your friends are.
When you +1 Obama = not a citizen, only your friends know see this and realize that they know a bunch of birther fools.
Similarly, if you +1 GWB = failure, then only your friends see this and realize that they know you a bunch of commie fools.
It is called an OS that is not Windows. If you use your PC to surf the web, write, and do your taxes, then you don't need windows.
Look, there are things an ISP can do to keep itself secure. For example, they can look for suspicious activity and kill your connection if it becomes obvious you are owned.
But pretty much anything else becomes them providing LESS service, not more.
Person A has paid for the service. They have the right to get the TV. The channels are upset that they are only getting paid once when they see other businesses have managed to cheat and get paid twice.
The fact that other companies have found a way to rip consumers off does not give you the right to do the same.
So, to avoid punishing gas guzzlers that pollute the environment, we want to invade the privacy of each and every person?
Stupid. Forget about trying to tax the plug in vehicles at least until they account for more than half of the vehicles out there. Once that happens, all you have to do is enact a tire tax. Tires wear out and and the more they wear out the more wear they caused to the road.
I know adblock plus. Even with full on TACO, NoScript, Add Block, etc. three things happend:
1. Some ads get in
2. They still manage to track me some.
3. Every once in a while I have to figure out which one of my protective layers is preventing me from using a service I want to use.
But thank you for pointing out another reason why I am correct. As the ads are not very effective - because of things like adblock plus. So giving them up will not cost that much.
You have a rather poor understanding of how commerce works. TNT USA etc. are free to me. I pay pay the cable supplier, NOT the channel. Similarly, I pay my ISP, NOT the web site.
The deals the channels/web sites make with the cable provider/ISP are not my business. I never pay the tv channels a penny.
Similarly, when I buy a car, I don't pay for the radio that comes standard. The radio is free. If I choose to pay extra to get a Satellite Radio, that is something else. Things included in standard deals are free.
The major difference between print and video is the annoyance factor of ads.
Advertisements in print are simple. They often are black/white, have no movement and no MUSIC SHOUTING AT YOU. (Really annoying when you view stuff at work...)
They don't pop up over the content, or even under the content.
Video stuff is different. Half the reason why google became so big is that they restricted adds to words, no movement, no pictures, no sound, etc.
THIS IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE See how annoying someone shouting at you can be?
Video Media have two different business models.
TNT/USA/NBC/ and most of the internet all use an advertiser supported model. Their adds are annoying, but the content is free.
Then there is the HBO/Showtime model. They charge extra because they don't have commercials. None in the middle of the content whatsoever, and only for their own content bookending their content.
If the NYT or other news media want to go the 'pay' route, then they have to follow the other successful pay video media - no advertisements if you pay. Best of all, if you don't do ads, then you can give your clients their privacy. No advertisements means no targetting means no need to invade their privacy. Don't track what they view or do. And brag about not tracking them. Cripes, even offer search functionality without tracking.
They could even offer a double route - ads if you don't pay, no ads if you do pay.
I personally would be more than willing to pay $15 a month to get the New York Times without advertisements, and with any searching I do from their web site going untracked.
If you truly need to follow all significant money movements, simply stop printing paper money. Force everyone to use credit cards and checks.
I mean really. We don't do that because it is an invasion of privacy. There is no need to come up with a NEW way to invade our privacy, we already have enough old ways.
They stopped loving Sci-Fi the second they put wrestling on.
Just like MTV stopped loving music the second they switched to reality programing in stead of music.
Totally true.
Look, the crime was going to happen anyway. The only question is, will the police ignore the crime, or will they investigate.
It's like objecting to the highway because then people speed. No, the highway is the perfect place to put up a speed trap.
If you have craigslist, the the AG knows where to look and it is a GREAT tool to find and arrest criminals before they commit the crime.
Any Prosecutor that dislikes craigslist is actually saying that he is too lazy to do his job and wishes people would stop making his job easier, because then he doesn't have an excuse for not doing his job.
Craigslist, the police's best weapon against crime.
Can you install this near the cockpit of planes, making them immune to the dreaded blinding green laser attack?
Or for that matter, make something immune to laser guided missiles?
Read the entire comment. I was not talking about tools to record them, I am talking about tools to ERASE the old wax, so you can record a new one on top of the old one.
Like I said earlier, generally you forget the name when you stop making the tool. The tools used to make the cylinders were called ediphones.
As for tools used to make the pyramids, you need to prove that ALL of them are still in use, not simply the ones we know about. Again, we forget the tools we no longer make. The fact that we no longer know exactly what tools were used to make the pyramids is pretty solid proof that we have forgotten them.
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Someone already mentioned the pyramids.
The key thing about tools we no longer make is that we lose the NAMES for around the time we lose the tool. Because once we stop making them, we stop talking about them.
Here is another example, from less than 200 years
The original 'phonograph' used a wax cylinder instead of a vinyl LP disk. They had a 'mechanism' that would shave the cylinders, erasing the current recording and allowing you craft a new one.
We don't make this tool anymore and no longer even have a name for it, siumply because we would NEVER under any circumstances, shave an existing 200 year old musical cylinder.
Think about happens when you take the internet away from a typical teenage girl. When you have news, you sit back and read about it. Maybe play a little farmville. Check your stocks.
Without the internet, many egyptians have nothing to do besides go outside and protest.
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1. If you place a GPS tracker on someone, it can go places where you can not legally follow them. For example, if you are in a rural area, it is pretty hard to follow someone when there you and him are the only car around for miles. More importantly, if they turn on to a privately owned ranch, the police legally can NOT follow them without a warrant. In addition, the GPS will follow them if they leave the country and enter Canada or Mexico, things the police usually can not legally do.
2. But most importantly, following is expensive which means the police only follow someone if they have VERY good evidence. The cop that starts following his next door neighbor quickly gets fired. The cop that puts a GPS units on his annoying next door neighbor gets a warning.
You either need to become a better writer or better educated.
As such, they are built with an escape drain under the fuel supply. Near the drain is a refrigerator that cools the salt to a solid, plugging the drain.
When the power fails, the plug melts, and all the fuel flows out of the system into a large holding area. The holding area is too big to generate significant heat.
This means no meltdown is possible. Humans can literally walk (or run) away and in minutes, the reactor shuts down automatically.
The main problems are
1. An improperly managed plant creates acidic gasses in small quantities. It needs more maintenance to keep working.
2. Breeder reactors are much less prolific. That makes it difficult to create nuclear weapons and also means you have to actually dig fuel out of the ground instead of simply making your own for free.
Should we:
a. Ignore the problem completely, letting anyone use electronics on board.
b. Tell people not do, trusting that they won't, with perhaps minimal checks by stewards etc that will only stop casual users.
c. FIX THE GODDAMN SECURITY PROBLEM. Shield the plane, or whatever you have to do to prevent terrorists/stupid consumers who left the devices on in their suitcase from killing a plane.
The current idea of having flight attendents walk around and tell people to turn them off is MORONIC. If it is a real problem, then a terrorist could easily design a device to maximize disruption, create an auto-on feature that turns itself on when air pressure indicates it is high up and then give those devices away to people as games. The moron that decided we should keep using method B should be investigated for ties to Al Queada and other terrorist organizations.
I recognize security problems exist. I don't object to real attempts to fix them. I do object to fake PRETEND attempts that do nothing at all to fix a problem, but instead make air travel even more miserable than it already is.
I do not want to have to trust my life to a flight attendant catching people using these devices incorrectly. If you want me to do that, then you have to pay me to fly, not the other way around.
Note, I don't actually believe the study is relevant. I think they found some odd occurences and blamed them on the personal devices.
As we discover/invented new technologies, we increase the "Maximum Sustainable Population Size."
As long as we continue to increase technology, that number will keep going up.
Honestly, right now most of the oil the US burns comes from sources we could NOT access 50 years ago. Deep Water Drilling, Canadian Shale, etc.
Second, Coal use is a FAR worse danger. Coal mining and burning releases far more radioactive dust (Thorium and Uranium) than Nuclear power does. It kills more people every year than the entire history of nuclear power. In the US alone, there are no confirmed deaths, ever from Nuclear Power Plants (though doctors do estimate that Three Mile Island may have killed one to three people from cancer). In the past 100 years, over 100,000 people have died in coal mining alone.
Safety is relative. Relative to Coal, Nuclear Power is safe. Same for Deep Sea Oil Drilling, and even Natural Gas. But the main difference is that the theoretical worst case scenario for Nuclear Power endangers civilians, while Coal kills employees.
I could program: 1. SOS 2. One flash if by Land, two flashes if by Sea, (and to update it 3 if by air, 4 if by subway) 3. Binary transmission of it's own source code. 4. Binary transmission of p0rn. Brings a whole new meaning to the word "Flasher" 5. Step 1. Buy One million of them, Step 2. Put red filters on 1/3 of them, green on another 1/3 and blue on the rest. Step 3. Put them in an array, Step 4. Get the biggest HD TV in the UNIVERSE.
First let me state that, to paraphrase an SMBC comic don't listen to people talking about something they are not an expert in.
Second, rarely do the "you can't have life/intelligent life because..." people have both a biology degree and an astrophysics degree. You need both to make those kind of comments.
Thirdly, we now just about jack-sh!t about the majority of the mass of the universe. Most mass is "dark matter", and of the stuff that isn't dark matter, most of it is in the objects we call black holes at the center of galaxies. So we have no freaking idea at all about whether the majority of the universe is capable of supporting life/friendly to it.
Fourth, to paraphrase a visually dramatic, but (aside from this quote), fairly innane movie "Life will find a way". The entire thing about life is that it adjusts ITSELF to the universe, not the other way around. We are a life form that likes 1 g, 1 atmosphere of pressure, etc. not because those conditions are helpful for life but instead because THAT is where we evolved. Yes, 100g and 100 atmosphere would be harder to create life in, evlove in, but at the same time, we cant survive in 4g, 10 atmospheres, but life can easily evolve to do so.
The best argument there is against intelligent life being wide spread is the lack of signs/contact. But that says nothing about unintelligent life, and assumes that life would use radio waves. It is as likely that other intelligent life forms are dark matter based - and never discovered radio - as it is for there to be no other intelligent life in the galaxy. Or simply that radio waves have disadvantages we don't know about. A quantum physics related random shifts in signal over long distances could obscure intelligent content, rendering radio waves indistinguishable from background radiation.
2. Run an important, CPU time consuming but program with full visibility, while I work on another, separate, less important project until it finishes doing whatever it is doing. I don't have keep checking to see if it is done.
3. See, read (and maybe Answer) the bosses email about while at the same time working on my major project.
4. View the web site I am working on using both firefox and explorer simultaneously.
Basically, it is a multi-tasking tool. If you are busy, you need it. If not, you use it to work while posting to slashdot.
The question becomes, do you want your developers to mult-task? Every place I have ever worked say YES.
As stated IN THE ARTICLE, when you +1 something, only your contacts see it. So, if all your friends +1 something about the KKK, then you see it as highly ranked. But the rest of the world does not know how racists your friends are. When you +1 Obama = not a citizen, only your friends know see this and realize that they know a bunch of birther fools. Similarly, if you +1 GWB = failure, then only your friends see this and realize that they know you a bunch of commie fools.
Look, there are things an ISP can do to keep itself secure. For example, they can look for suspicious activity and kill your connection if it becomes obvious you are owned.
But pretty much anything else becomes them providing LESS service, not more.
The fact that other companies have found a way to rip consumers off does not give you the right to do the same.
So, to avoid punishing gas guzzlers that pollute the environment, we want to invade the privacy of each and every person? Stupid. Forget about trying to tax the plug in vehicles at least until they account for more than half of the vehicles out there. Once that happens, all you have to do is enact a tire tax. Tires wear out and and the more they wear out the more wear they caused to the road.
1. Some ads get in
2. They still manage to track me some.
3. Every once in a while I have to figure out which one of my protective layers is preventing me from using a service I want to use.
But thank you for pointing out another reason why I am correct. As the ads are not very effective - because of things like adblock plus. So giving them up will not cost that much.
The deals the channels/web sites make with the cable provider/ISP are not my business. I never pay the tv channels a penny.
Similarly, when I buy a car, I don't pay for the radio that comes standard. The radio is free. If I choose to pay extra to get a Satellite Radio, that is something else. Things included in standard deals are free.
Step 2) ????
Step 3) Jail!
THIS IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE See how annoying someone shouting at you can be?
Video Media have two different business models.
TNT/USA/NBC/ and most of the internet all use an advertiser supported model. Their adds are annoying, but the content is free.
Then there is the HBO/Showtime model. They charge extra because they don't have commercials. None in the middle of the content whatsoever, and only for their own content bookending their content.
If the NYT or other news media want to go the 'pay' route, then they have to follow the other successful pay video media - no advertisements if you pay. Best of all, if you don't do ads, then you can give your clients their privacy. No advertisements means no targetting means no need to invade their privacy. Don't track what they view or do. And brag about not tracking them. Cripes, even offer search functionality without tracking.
They could even offer a double route - ads if you don't pay, no ads if you do pay.
I personally would be more than willing to pay $15 a month to get the New York Times without advertisements, and with any searching I do from their web site going untracked.
If you truly need to follow all significant money movements, simply stop printing paper money. Force everyone to use credit cards and checks. I mean really. We don't do that because it is an invasion of privacy. There is no need to come up with a NEW way to invade our privacy, we already have enough old ways.
They stopped loving Sci-Fi the second they put wrestling on. Just like MTV stopped loving music the second they switched to reality programing in stead of music.
Totally true. Look, the crime was going to happen anyway. The only question is, will the police ignore the crime, or will they investigate. It's like objecting to the highway because then people speed. No, the highway is the perfect place to put up a speed trap. If you have craigslist, the the AG knows where to look and it is a GREAT tool to find and arrest criminals before they commit the crime. Any Prosecutor that dislikes craigslist is actually saying that he is too lazy to do his job and wishes people would stop making his job easier, because then he doesn't have an excuse for not doing his job. Craigslist, the police's best weapon against crime.
Can you install this near the cockpit of planes, making them immune to the dreaded blinding green laser attack? Or for that matter, make something immune to laser guided missiles?
Read the entire comment. I was not talking about tools to record them, I am talking about tools to ERASE the old wax, so you can record a new one on top of the old one. Like I said earlier, generally you forget the name when you stop making the tool. The tools used to make the cylinders were called ediphones. As for tools used to make the pyramids, you need to prove that ALL of them are still in use, not simply the ones we know about. Again, we forget the tools we no longer make. The fact that we no longer know exactly what tools were used to make the pyramids is pretty solid proof that we have forgotten them.
Someone already mentioned the pyramids. The key thing about tools we no longer make is that we lose the NAMES for around the time we lose the tool. Because once we stop making them, we stop talking about them. Here is another example, from less than 200 years The original 'phonograph' used a wax cylinder instead of a vinyl LP disk. They had a 'mechanism' that would shave the cylinders, erasing the current recording and allowing you craft a new one. We don't make this tool anymore and no longer even have a name for it, siumply because we would NEVER under any circumstances, shave an existing 200 year old musical cylinder.
I was going to ask about the tools used to make the space shuttle, but this is the same idea.
Think about happens when you take the internet away from a typical teenage girl. When you have news, you sit back and read about it. Maybe play a little farmville. Check your stocks. Without the internet, many egyptians have nothing to do besides go outside and protest.