This is from a report Brookhaven made to define the possible dangers of the RHIC. Oddly, the site seems to be down now. Black holes and stable negatively charged strangelets, while cool ways to snuff the world, don't hold a candle to this one.
the report
This is an exotic possibility of which the report states that "Physicists have grown quite accustomed to the idea that empty space  what we ordinarily call 'vacuum'  is in reality a highly structured medium, that can exist in various states or phases, roughly analogous to the liquid or solid phases of water. . . . Although certainly nothing in our existing knowledge of the laws of Nature demands it, several physicists have speculated on the possibility that our contemporary 'vacuum' is only metastable, and that a sufficiently violent disturbance might trigger its decay into something quite different. A transition of this kind would propagate outward from its source throughout the universe at the speed of light, and would be catastrophic."
of having a button to stimulate an artificial hippocampus to set the memories you want to set?
You could choose to only save the good memories, or at least filter out all the damn advertisements.
The benefits would be tempting. Sleep with a model, heavy button pressing. Wake up with a member of a non-preferred gender and/or species, the button isn't touched all day afterwards.
The most expensive security measure is...
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Relying on Microsoft products for your security.
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Thank you. I'll be here all week. Tip your waitresses.
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that technologies such as these are only a threat if we remain passive to them.
We are the techno-elite, right?
Technology may be our plaything, but the technologies we do not own will own us.
There is always a window of opportunity for the early adopters to acquire mastery over those who would use a technology to oppress. Plus, brain hacking might just be the ultimate in geek fun.
While not everyone can afford to use their own MRI to do neuro-feedback hacking, there are tools that can be had right now that will let you do some serious tweaking of your own skull pudding. One such device is made by IBVA Technologies
IBVA has been at the forefront for the past few decades in building devices that allows one to view in real-time their own brain activity on Macs and PCs. They soon will be releasing a Linux version of their software.
Hopefully, we'll stay ahead of the curve on this folks, because the dark side of this tech is pretty fucking dark.
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
Perhaps when some of the politicians calling for enhanced surveillance get caught on terahertz candid camera getting spanked by underaged hookers we will finally see some saner legislation protecting privacy.
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I pay for the renamed USB laptop with $1 bills that I "renamed" to $100 bills?
This, I think it might be the killer application of home robotics.
She doesn't seem to mind.
NASA girls rock.
Now I can launder my money in the microwave oven.
You could choose to only save the good memories, or at least filter out all the damn advertisements.
The benefits would be tempting. Sleep with a model, heavy button pressing. Wake up with a member of a non-preferred gender and/or species, the button isn't touched all day afterwards.
All the reviewers will be on grass and all the reviews will be astroturf.
Am I live, or am I Memorex?
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Thank you. I'll be here all week. Tip your waitresses.
We are the techno-elite, right?
Technology may be our plaything, but the technologies we do not own will own us.
There is always a window of opportunity for the early adopters to acquire mastery over those who would use a technology to oppress. Plus, brain hacking might just be the ultimate in geek fun.
While not everyone can afford to use their own MRI to do neuro-feedback hacking, there are tools that can be had right now that will let you do some serious tweaking of your own skull pudding. One such device is made by IBVA Technologies
IBVA has been at the forefront for the past few decades in building devices that allows one to view in real-time their own brain activity on Macs and PCs. They soon will be releasing a Linux version of their software.
Hopefully, we'll stay ahead of the curve on this folks, because the dark side of this tech is pretty fucking dark.
If it can not be controlled, it must be destroyed.
It utilizes unused disc space to visually burn labelling onto the CD itself.
Last I heard, it's street price was around $150.
The year is 2003, and the evil DMCA and Patriot Act threaten the world. Earth's last best hope...the Computer Whiz Kids!
After all, you pay sales tax on the full amount of the sale. That adds up to a lot of revenue that does not get refunded.
I didn't try to pass it off as my own. I just couldn't find an attribution in the eight seconds of google it took to find it. Thanks for the info.
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
Promoters
* AMD
* Hewlett-Packard
* IBM
* Intel Corporation
* Microsoft
Contributors
* Atmel
* Infineon
* National Semiconductor
* Nokia
* Philips
* Phoenix
* Sony
* STMicroelectronics
* VeriSign, Inc.
* Wave Systems
Adopters
List available shortly.
ie, when there are any
Stay where you are. We'll send some representatives to explain in person.
From the site:
Purchase of this product enables you to modify OGG-S decryption or encryption code and release your binary modifications to your users.
part of the appeal of Ogg was because it didn't have DRM?
It looks like us geeks are bringing down the curve.
The effects would in fact be quite explosive as a large amount of water near the beam is converted nearly instantly into steam.
There will be nothing clean about the wounds this weapon could deliver.
Seriously, other than the waste of bandwidth, how is this better than a Tivo?
Perhaps when some of the politicians calling for enhanced surveillance get caught on terahertz candid camera getting spanked by underaged hookers we will finally see some saner legislation protecting privacy.
Thank you, and god bless.