The problem is that the sensitivity threshold on such a device could be set such that it would score positive essentially at will. And here's where your "unassailable probable cause" comes in. The police have long been looking for a way to obtain "unassailable probable cause" for search and/or arrest of anyone they want.
For all it's worth, I own one, and I find it fantastic. The resolution is finally high enough to actually use it (I couldn't stomach a 1024x600 screen), and it's VERY thin and light. What did it for me, is the ease with which this netbook can be upgraded. Both the hard drive and memory are easily user-serviceable. Actually, I purchased a 2gb memory kit along with the notebook, and I don't even think I booted it with the 1GB it comes with. I got the WinXP version sans bluetooth from newegg for $380... a little over $400 w. the memory upgrade. The computer also has an internal minPCI slot and a SIM-card reader, which makes it theoretically possible to install an internal 3G card for ultimate portability of communications. The battery lasts about 6.5-7 hours with Wifi usage and brightness set to about 75%. Overally, some of the best $400 I've spent in the digital world.
The glossy shell does attract fingerprints, but I don't really care too much (I lost that compulsion a little while after I got my iPhone). When it really bothers me, I take a damp microfiber cloth to it and the fingerprints come off... really same idea as my car.
As an aside, to be honest I am not a big fan of WinXP these days. I've become spoiled with WinVista64SP1 on my gaming desktop, and Ubuntu on my work laptop.
I thought it was pretty effectively proven that this couldn't work, because even if we're talking about a binary switch, whether you get the 0 or 1 half is not known until you measure, so you would still need to transmit a piece of data at the speed of light.
If you must have nuclear armed subs, arm each one with one low-yield nuke. Any more and you are just begging for an accident.
I think you're missing the concept of "assured destruction" in Mutually Assured Destruction.
An american missile sub can have 20 missiles, with 8x50kt warheads per missile. That's 160 nuclear warheads that can be targeted independently and can each cause substantial casualties if aimed at civilian targets. But that's what it's meant to be - a guaranteed "revenge" weapon, that is fully capable of demolishing or severely crippling a whole nation, even if ALL of the ground nukes are disabled by a first strike. The terror such a weapon commands, is precisely the reason why safety is assured.
This is why small nuclear powers are so much less stable. India and Pakistan are at a much higher risk of using nuclear weapons in the field against each other than US and Russia, simply because neither of them have the capability of destroying the other.
That being said, as has been mentioned previously, MAD relies on rational players to work.
1. The ultimate payoff is the eventual ability to spread beyond the solar system. In the grand scheme of things it's the most important long-term survival strategy for mankind. 2. The proximate payoff are the myriad of technologies we would develop for building the stupid thing, which would have a direct and measurable impact all over the world... and would have an even greater impact on our relationship with the rest of the solar system. 3.
The second is if the society of Earth persecutes a group to the point that they want to leave, while paradoxically giving that group the wealth, technical knowledge, and political influence to make such a project happen.
Why does an author need copyright protecttion after he's dead? For the benefit of his family? Sorry, I don't remember seeing anything that says copyright is supposed to be a welfare system for author's families.
Just because your ancestors were so gifted that they left you nothing of value, your jealous freeloading ass is trying to screw anyone whose parents created something that's worth... anything.
What if someone publishes a book a month before they die... does this mean you get to have it for free, and their children get squat? Fuck you sideways.
Apoptosis does not occur randomly. You must trigger it. In this case, with ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage, you have MMR proteins and the ATM/ATR system signaling to activate p53-dependent apoptosis. Since there are a number of checkpoints along the way, the cell that proceeds to apoptosis has already failed the evolutionarily-conserved tests for genome integrity and capability to repair its DNA damage.
It's is not feasible, given our knowledge of molecular biology, to prevent apoptosis after massive radiation exposure, without virtually guaranteeing a relatively quick (on the order of weeks to months) death from resultant tumors. The cell death mechanisms are there for a reason.
P.S. If you think dying from multiple foci of aggressive invasive lymphomas over a period of a couple of months is less painful than dying of massive GI epithelial and hematopoietic failure due to radiation sickness over a period of one week or less, then you haven't seen many cancer patients.
Except that DNA-damage-induced apoptosis (programmed cells death) is a DEFENSE MECHANISM, not a hindrance. It prevents the damaged cells from replicating, thus preventing tumor development, and/or hereditary mutations. Preventing radiation-induced apoptosis would be a good drug to give soldiers when you want them to keep fighting after being lethally-irradiated... but it won't stop them from dying, it will just prolong their life and alter the proximal cause of death from radiation sickness to (most likely) a flood of lymphomas.
I believe the term we're looking for to describe this survey is a "push-poll".
The question goes as follows: "Do you think the ISPs should be able to use traffic shaping to limit access to child pornography, terrorist websites, and illegal economy-hurting piracy, or do you support the criminals?"
I disagree. I would argue that privacy is absolutely required for liberty in the real world. The two are inextricably linked, because the only rights you have, are ones you can defend. Defending your rights in the face of a segment of society that knows everything about you, while you know nothing about them, is a rather doomed endeavor.
So while people keep talking about their freedoms, they are being deprived of their weapons, and their privacy. And in the absence of either, there can be no liberty.
With this kind of endurance, the eye in the sky that the city of Lancaster is considering might be even more practical.
Are we happy about that? Stazi managed to keep a hundred thousand people under surveillance with just manpower. The inevitability of a technological solution to their inability to perform 24/7 surveillance of 100% of their citizens makes me shudder. As staggering as this is, I am fairly sure that only overwhelming cost is preventing many governments (including UK, AU and US in that order), from implementing such measures, since it's becoming clear that the citizens are willing to give up any privacy and liberty they have left, in order to feel safer, and (at best) reduce their absolute risks by minute amounts.
You really don't need to go that far. If you use a true sine wave UPS (where the incoming current charges the battery, and all power going to your devices is generated from the battery), I doubt you'll have lots of noise coming out of the line.
Only a utterly complete fool would think that most standalone GPS units are used for what you just outlined. Most of them are sat just inside a car windscreen giving turn-by-turn directions, for which, a smartphone is totally ideal -- it's not like you can use your phone while driving anyway.
Smartphone ideal as driving GPS?
How about having a screen that is of an actually useful size for the dashboard? If you ever tried driving in New Jersey, you'd realize how important having a visible map is (more important than getting spoken directions)... and that doesn't really work very well on a 3" screen, unless you want to squint at a tiny glossy screen while driving.
A smartphone will work in a pinch... but I would much rather have a dedicated GPS.
Got a 3-year old Acura TSX for $17000. Looks like new. Drives like new.
We were going to buy a used Nissan Altima, but they go for $14k. For 25% more, we got a case that sells at 40% more new, and that has features and amenities that put it into a completely different class. Our previous car was a Camry that my dad bought used for $13k in 2002. Careful maintenance and one paintjob later it still costs $5k+ on the open market. And it's 11 years old!
âoeduring 2009 the company had resolved the key technical problems related to the implementation of Orbo and is now focused on commercial launch towards the end of this year, at which time academic and engineering validation would be released concurrent with public demonstrationsâ
Methinks that if they make a single sale, they should be charged with fraud. It's bad enough that they screw with whatever miniscule understanding of science people have left... but they're going to go ahead and sell this shit?! Fuck, they must be doing the same drugs that makers of Enzyte are taking. Btw - why am I seeing Enzyte ads on TV again? Wasn't the CEO and a bunch of execs meant to serve sentences for fraud?
Actually, you're simply ignorant of what you're missing. There's only 4 basic tastes - sweet, sour, bitter, and umami, that are possible to perceive with the tongue. Everything else is smell. So it's not a lie, it's a scientific fact, that every one of us who has ever tried eating sushi (as an example of a food with a subtle taste) after an upper-respiratory infection, knows all too well.
Labeling around 50% of the population as being beneath you, because they don't share your opinions? The above statement only serves to highlight your level of intellectual development.
I'm a republican, and I bet I am far more educated than you are.
Fair point. The problem is that sometimes language can be a little funny in that the public understanding of a certain word becomes so heavily diluted with popular stigma, that it loses its descriptiveness. For reference, we can consider the word "theory".
But it IS an overreaction. It's only NOT an overreaction if you're: a politician who is desperately trying to get the public to look the other way, to funnel more public money into private hands... a bureaucrat who is trying to get a promotion by "doing something" and is also very concerned about being labeled as passive if the final tally is 1% higher than normal... or a scientist who is desperately trying to grab more funding or a contract for his very own vaccine-making company.
It's a paradise for self-interest (and OF self-interest, as well).
With something like less than 500 deaths worldwide, this is the average equivalent of 3 days worth of seasonal flu... and considering that this virus has had a chance to spread for the past 2 months, I simply cannot fathom it being any more damaging than whatever seasonal flu strain is circulating in the world right now.
Yet all we get are headlines such as "27'000 infected". Well... how about 500'000 dead?! Cause that's what seasonal flu did last year. Put that in a headline and smoke it.
What I really want to know is why would someone spend their time posting this tired old drivel over and over... and over... and over again. It's not really going to work very well as astroturfing... and it's certainly not funny.
Ultimately, on the scale of what's "cool", pressing submit on the parent post is about as far below a "level 5 dwarf" as a "level 5 dwarf" is below a threesome with Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johansson.
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The problem is that the sensitivity threshold on such a device could be set such that it would score positive essentially at will. And here's where your "unassailable probable cause" comes in. The police have long been looking for a way to obtain "unassailable probable cause" for search and/or arrest of anyone they want.
For all it's worth, I own one, and I find it fantastic. The resolution is finally high enough to actually use it (I couldn't stomach a 1024x600 screen), and it's VERY thin and light. What did it for me, is the ease with which this netbook can be upgraded. Both the hard drive and memory are easily user-serviceable. Actually, I purchased a 2gb memory kit along with the notebook, and I don't even think I booted it with the 1GB it comes with. I got the WinXP version sans bluetooth from newegg for $380... a little over $400 w. the memory upgrade. The computer also has an internal minPCI slot and a SIM-card reader, which makes it theoretically possible to install an internal 3G card for ultimate portability of communications. The battery lasts about 6.5-7 hours with Wifi usage and brightness set to about 75%. Overally, some of the best $400 I've spent in the digital world.
The glossy shell does attract fingerprints, but I don't really care too much (I lost that compulsion a little while after I got my iPhone). When it really bothers me, I take a damp microfiber cloth to it and the fingerprints come off... really same idea as my car.
As an aside, to be honest I am not a big fan of WinXP these days. I've become spoiled with WinVista64SP1 on my gaming desktop, and Ubuntu on my work laptop.
I thought it was pretty effectively proven that this couldn't work, because even if we're talking about a binary switch, whether you get the 0 or 1 half is not known until you measure, so you would still need to transmit a piece of data at the speed of light.
Disappointing, I know...
If you must have nuclear armed subs, arm each one with one low-yield nuke. Any more and you are just begging for an accident.
I think you're missing the concept of "assured destruction" in Mutually Assured Destruction.
An american missile sub can have 20 missiles, with 8x50kt warheads per missile. That's 160 nuclear warheads that can be targeted independently and can each cause substantial casualties if aimed at civilian targets. But that's what it's meant to be - a guaranteed "revenge" weapon, that is fully capable of demolishing or severely crippling a whole nation, even if ALL of the ground nukes are disabled by a first strike. The terror such a weapon commands, is precisely the reason why safety is assured.
This is why small nuclear powers are so much less stable. India and Pakistan are at a much higher risk of using nuclear weapons in the field against each other than US and Russia, simply because neither of them have the capability of destroying the other.
That being said, as has been mentioned previously, MAD relies on rational players to work.
And the reason you cannot specify that only wired connections can access the management interface is what exactly?
1. The ultimate payoff is the eventual ability to spread beyond the solar system. In the grand scheme of things it's the most important long-term survival strategy for mankind.
2. The proximate payoff are the myriad of technologies we would develop for building the stupid thing, which would have a direct and measurable impact all over the world... and would have an even greater impact on our relationship with the rest of the solar system.
3.
The second is if the society of Earth persecutes a group to the point that they want to leave, while paradoxically giving that group the wealth, technical knowledge, and political influence to make such a project happen.
Jews?
Superb analysis. Please mod parent up.
Why does an author need copyright protecttion after he's dead? For the benefit of his family? Sorry, I don't remember seeing anything that says copyright is supposed to be a welfare system for author's families.
Just because your ancestors were so gifted that they left you nothing of value, your jealous freeloading ass is trying to screw anyone whose parents created something that's worth... anything.
What if someone publishes a book a month before they die... does this mean you get to have it for free, and their children get squat? Fuck you sideways.
Apoptosis does not occur randomly. You must trigger it. In this case, with ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage, you have MMR proteins and the ATM/ATR system signaling to activate p53-dependent apoptosis. Since there are a number of checkpoints along the way, the cell that proceeds to apoptosis has already failed the evolutionarily-conserved tests for genome integrity and capability to repair its DNA damage.
It's is not feasible, given our knowledge of molecular biology, to prevent apoptosis after massive radiation exposure, without virtually guaranteeing a relatively quick (on the order of weeks to months) death from resultant tumors. The cell death mechanisms are there for a reason.
P.S. If you think dying from multiple foci of aggressive invasive lymphomas over a period of a couple of months is less painful than dying of massive GI epithelial and hematopoietic failure due to radiation sickness over a period of one week or less, then you haven't seen many cancer patients.
Except that DNA-damage-induced apoptosis (programmed cells death) is a DEFENSE MECHANISM, not a hindrance. It prevents the damaged cells from replicating, thus preventing tumor development, and/or hereditary mutations. Preventing radiation-induced apoptosis would be a good drug to give soldiers when you want them to keep fighting after being lethally-irradiated... but it won't stop them from dying, it will just prolong their life and alter the proximal cause of death from radiation sickness to (most likely) a flood of lymphomas.
I believe the term we're looking for to describe this survey is a "push-poll".
The question goes as follows:
"Do you think the ISPs should be able to use traffic shaping to limit access to child pornography, terrorist websites, and illegal economy-hurting piracy, or do you support the criminals?"
Manned spaceflight should end until earth to orbit costs $100/lb or less.
Without more flights, it'll never cost any less... so this is a perfect way to guarantee that we're all stuck here till we kill ourselves.
I disagree. I would argue that privacy is absolutely required for liberty in the real world. The two are inextricably linked, because the only rights you have, are ones you can defend. Defending your rights in the face of a segment of society that knows everything about you, while you know nothing about them, is a rather doomed endeavor.
So while people keep talking about their freedoms, they are being deprived of their weapons, and their privacy. And in the absence of either, there can be no liberty.
Are we happy about that? Stazi managed to keep a hundred thousand people under surveillance with just manpower. The inevitability of a technological solution to their inability to perform 24/7 surveillance of 100% of their citizens makes me shudder. As staggering as this is, I am fairly sure that only overwhelming cost is preventing many governments (including UK, AU and US in that order), from implementing such measures, since it's becoming clear that the citizens are willing to give up any privacy and liberty they have left, in order to feel safer, and (at best) reduce their absolute risks by minute amounts.
You really don't need to go that far. If you use a true sine wave UPS (where the incoming current charges the battery, and all power going to your devices is generated from the battery), I doubt you'll have lots of noise coming out of the line.
Only a utterly complete fool would think that most standalone GPS units are used for what you just outlined. Most of them are sat just inside a car windscreen giving turn-by-turn directions, for which, a smartphone is totally ideal -- it's not like you can use your phone while driving anyway.
Smartphone ideal as driving GPS?
How about having a screen that is of an actually useful size for the dashboard? If you ever tried driving in New Jersey, you'd realize how important having a visible map is (more important than getting spoken directions)... and that doesn't really work very well on a 3" screen, unless you want to squint at a tiny glossy screen while driving.
A smartphone will work in a pinch... but I would much rather have a dedicated GPS.
Got a 3-year old Acura TSX for $17000. Looks like new. Drives like new.
We were going to buy a used Nissan Altima, but they go for $14k. For 25% more, we got a case that sells at 40% more new, and that has features and amenities that put it into a completely different class. Our previous car was a Camry that my dad bought used for $13k in 2002. Careful maintenance and one paintjob later it still costs $5k+ on the open market. And it's 11 years old!
Lightly used is king.
Methinks that if they make a single sale, they should be charged with fraud. It's bad enough that they screw with whatever miniscule understanding of science people have left... but they're going to go ahead and sell this shit?! Fuck, they must be doing the same drugs that makers of Enzyte are taking. Btw - why am I seeing Enzyte ads on TV again? Wasn't the CEO and a bunch of execs meant to serve sentences for fraud?
Someone mod parent Insightful, please.
Actually, you're simply ignorant of what you're missing. There's only 4 basic tastes - sweet, sour, bitter, and umami, that are possible to perceive with the tongue. Everything else is smell. So it's not a lie, it's a scientific fact, that every one of us who has ever tried eating sushi (as an example of a food with a subtle taste) after an upper-respiratory infection, knows all too well.
You think that's funny?
Labeling around 50% of the population as being beneath you, because they don't share your opinions? The above statement only serves to highlight your level of intellectual development.
I'm a republican, and I bet I am far more educated than you are.
And if my grandfather had a vagina, uterus, and ovaries, he COULD've been my grandmother.
Fair point. The problem is that sometimes language can be a little funny in that the public understanding of a certain word becomes so heavily diluted with popular stigma, that it loses its descriptiveness. For reference, we can consider the word "theory".
But it IS an overreaction. It's only NOT an overreaction if you're: a politician who is desperately trying to get the public to look the other way, to funnel more public money into private hands... a bureaucrat who is trying to get a promotion by "doing something" and is also very concerned about being labeled as passive if the final tally is 1% higher than normal... or a scientist who is desperately trying to grab more funding or a contract for his very own vaccine-making company.
It's a paradise for self-interest (and OF self-interest, as well).
With something like less than 500 deaths worldwide, this is the average equivalent of 3 days worth of seasonal flu... and considering that this virus has had a chance to spread for the past 2 months, I simply cannot fathom it being any more damaging than whatever seasonal flu strain is circulating in the world right now.
Yet all we get are headlines such as "27'000 infected". Well... how about 500'000 dead?! Cause that's what seasonal flu did last year. Put that in a headline and smoke it.
What I really want to know is why would someone spend their time posting this tired old drivel over and over... and over... and over again. It's not really going to work very well as astroturfing... and it's certainly not funny.
Ultimately, on the scale of what's "cool", pressing submit on the parent post is about as far below a "level 5 dwarf" as a "level 5 dwarf" is below a threesome with Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johansson.