Isn't this similar to using porn to solve CAPTCHAs? Or how about the Google image Labeler? And for a literary example, this is one part of the plot in Ender's Game, but not as obvious, and a more nefarious.
Using a large amount of real intelligence can make some problems easier, if a human can do it much easier, and some amount of noise is acceptable in the output.
As a techie firefighter (wildland), yep, I would recommend that my hypothetical kids do... whatever they want. Wildland firefighting is a great summer job where you get paid to set stuff on fire, so I would push that.
And then you bet I am going to teach them how to use *nix, which might predispose them to being a techie...
I suppose if a woman spends six months with two guys on the International Space Station, and three months after she lands on Earth she gives birth, a Space Lawyer could help determine paternity.
I think that someone trained to give a paternity test would be a better choice than a "space lawyer." An issue that might need a space lawyer would be nationality, but that would probably be very similar to a cruise boat in that regard, and probably would be more dependent on where the child is born, not conceived.
No argument that the government doesn't have enough computers, but that might not be very useful when you only have 50 gateways.
Unless you count the NSA boxes in the various telecoms as "government computers", in which case they are in a very good position to completely mess up anyone on the internet, in a variety of ways.
And to see an example that makes your theory not very far-fetched at all, one only needs to look at the steganography in color laser printers, where almost all color laser printers embed identifying information into each page printed out, in the form of yellow dots. (More here at the Eff.)
It isn't like "New and improved: know which printer printed every page, whether you want it or not!" was a good marketing slogan.
One issue is that it is very easy to covert trees and other plants back into gasses.
And then as you plant more of them, and get a forest that looks like a tree farm, fire becomes a larger risk.
And then your carbon sequestration devices are threatening surrounding communities.
A huge issue across the US is overpopulation of forests because we have been preventing forest fires for so long, so there is definitely no shortage of trees in many areas.
Other than that small detail, yeah, plants are one way to easily store carbon.
This further reduces my faith in the abilities of the national government (and makes me feel really great about my taxes). =/
If you got all of your money by stealing it from people, I don't think you would care too much about wasting some of that money. In government, where is the incentive to not waste money?
the shutter speed is limited to the shutter servo - they put settings so that it will work without prodcution tolerances.. while it might be posiable to make it faster it wouldn't be reliable
Actually, don't the shutter blades always fall at the same speed? Their speed is the flash sync, the fastest speed where the whole film is exposed at a single point in time, right?
Then to set the 'shutter speed', the time between the first shutter blade and the second shutter blade is changed.
Bonus props if you can get a live histogram in the viewfinder...
Um, changing the firmware isn't going to put a LCD screen on the mirror. Apparently you haven't grasped how a SLR works.
I have needed a faster shutter speed than I was able to get.
The firmware probably isn't going to be able to get the shutter to go any faster reliably. What you need to use is a ND filter if you like wide apertures.
Certainly the scripting stuff could be used in a SLR.
Unless you are using a fiber optic cable with a transparent sheath, there shouldn't be any kind of detectable emissions from a fiber optic cable, especially not EMF, since there shouldn't be any moving electric current, right?
The line might heat up very slightly from the signal losses, but that wouldn't be rapid enough to reveal anything useful about the signal, especially if manchester encoding is used, where the light would be on 50% of the time.
Slight clarification: The receipts are printed using Thermal printing, not thermal transfer. Dye Sublimation is similar to thermal transfer, where you have the dye separate from the paper in a plastic sheet that holds the dye, and the dye holder is heated, forcing the dye on/into the paper.
Thermal printing is where the paper turns black where it has been heated, without adding or removing anything from the paper. Dye Sublimation is actually fairly durable, with the coating layer that is often used.
I can't believe that people STILL don't understand what is wrong with a receipt of how you voted that you remove from the polling place.
Boss: "Show me your receipt for candidate X tomorrow or don't bother showing up" Husband: "Show me your receipt for candidate X tomorrow or it will be painful" Creepy Person outside polling place: "Show me your receipt for candidate X and I will give you $10"
Yes, a paper trail is important, but one that you can refer to outside the polling place has very different problems.
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Isn't this similar to using porn to solve CAPTCHAs? Or how about the Google image Labeler? And for a literary example, this is one part of the plot in Ender's Game, but not as obvious, and a more nefarious.
Using a large amount of real intelligence can make some problems easier, if a human can do it much easier, and some amount of noise is acceptable in the output.
As a techie firefighter (wildland), yep, I would recommend that my hypothetical kids do... whatever they want. Wildland firefighting is a great summer job where you get paid to set stuff on fire, so I would push that.
And then you bet I am going to teach them how to use *nix, which might predispose them to being a techie...
AT&T is indeed sold in GiB/MiB:"1,024 kilobytes (KB) = 1 megabyte (MB)" from http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/popup/dataconnect-comp-table.jsp#laptopconnect
Sprint: yes, from http://nextelonline.nextel.com/en/legal/legal_terms_privacy_popup.shtml
Verizon: yes, from http://b2b.vzw.com/broadband/bba_terms.html
So, yes, they are all sold in binary units, and the SI prefixes are incorrectly used here.
Or is it $-7?
Not likely, though.
It seems like the high end is $60-$80 with a 5GiB cap. ATT and Sprint have lower end plans with a insane limit of 4-5MiB, Verizon 50MiB.
The lower end plans seem so limited as to be useless. How much Google maps usage can you fit into 4MiB before it is $1-8 per extra MiB?
Probably. It could also burn pretty well, since burning a CD isn't that hard.
I think that someone trained to give a paternity test would be a better choice than a "space lawyer." An issue that might need a space lawyer would be nationality, but that would probably be very similar to a cruise boat in that regard, and probably would be more dependent on where the child is born, not conceived.
No argument that the government doesn't have enough computers, but that might not be very useful when you only have 50 gateways.
Unless you count the NSA boxes in the various telecoms as "government computers", in which case they are in a very good position to completely mess up anyone on the internet, in a variety of ways.
And to see an example that makes your theory not very far-fetched at all, one only needs to look at the steganography in color laser printers, where almost all color laser printers embed identifying information into each page printed out, in the form of yellow dots. (More here at the Eff.)
It isn't like "New and improved: know which printer printed every page, whether you want it or not!" was a good marketing slogan.
Why not actually use the SI prefixes and units?
One issue is that it is very easy to covert trees and other plants back into gasses.
And then as you plant more of them, and get a forest that looks like a tree farm, fire becomes a larger risk.
And then your carbon sequestration devices are threatening surrounding communities.
A huge issue across the US is overpopulation of forests because we have been preventing forest fires for so long, so there is definitely no shortage of trees in many areas.
Other than that small detail, yeah, plants are one way to easily store carbon.
The parable of the broken window might be of interest to you as to why this is a bad idea.
You are saying "it is ok to steal from people if that money is going to be used to buy other things", right?
If you got all of your money by stealing it from people, I don't think you would care too much about wasting some of that money.
In government, where is the incentive to not waste money?
And people who use a computer where they can't use a cell phone.
Would the wind turbines be more efficient if they brought a bunch of politicians into the town?
Actually, don't the shutter blades always fall at the same speed? Their speed is the flash sync, the fastest speed where the whole film is exposed at a single point in time, right?
Then to set the 'shutter speed', the time between the first shutter blade and the second shutter blade is changed.
At least, that is how Focal Plane shutters work. Leaf shutters are different.
Um, changing the firmware isn't going to put a LCD screen on the mirror. Apparently you haven't grasped how a SLR works.
The firmware probably isn't going to be able to get the shutter to go any faster reliably. What you need to use is a ND filter if you like wide apertures.
Certainly the scripting stuff could be used in a SLR.
What is wrong with saying that there are "2 kilomiles" between Chicago and Los Angeles?
That does seem quite silly.
Unless you are using a fiber optic cable with a transparent sheath, there shouldn't be any kind of detectable emissions from a fiber optic cable, especially not EMF, since there shouldn't be any moving electric current, right?
The line might heat up very slightly from the signal losses, but that wouldn't be rapid enough to reveal anything useful about the signal, especially if manchester encoding is used, where the light would be on 50% of the time.
Slight clarification:
The receipts are printed using Thermal printing, not thermal transfer. Dye Sublimation is similar to thermal transfer, where you have the dye separate from the paper in a plastic sheet that holds the dye, and the dye holder is heated, forcing the dye on/into the paper.
Thermal printing is where the paper turns black where it has been heated, without adding or removing anything from the paper.
Dye Sublimation is actually fairly durable, with the coating layer that is often used.
I can't believe that people STILL don't understand what is wrong with a receipt of how you voted that you remove from the polling place.
Boss: "Show me your receipt for candidate X tomorrow or don't bother showing up"
Husband: "Show me your receipt for candidate X tomorrow or it will be painful"
Creepy Person outside polling place: "Show me your receipt for candidate X and I will give you $10"
Yes, a paper trail is important, but one that you can refer to outside the polling place has very different problems.
How about anything goes into the public domain?
A copyright term of infinity+ years isn't "limited".
What protection does that afford against a physical keylogger?
Not all keyloggers are software.
How about Comcast packet forgery?
Is it resistant to Comcast trying to hack it?
Apparently you missed the part where it is a Ford?