I should hope that they either included a timer in their software so it wouldn't ask the server in 10 years, let alone 2. If they were going to cancel their steam service, they should release an update to HL2 so it wouldn't require steam to play.
Did you know that you can use nuclear bombs to terraform mars? Or use snake venom to make antidote? Or use P2P networks for legit purposes? Everything has good uses and bad, it's just that the bad far outweigh the good for RFIDs. Or rather, they're so powerful that people WILL abuse them. Just like nuclear bombs, P2P networks and, err, snake venom.
In "Guns, Germs and Steel", Jarod Diamond details how the pacific rim was populated very early on in human history: every single island larger than a beached whale was touched by nomadic seafarers in fishing boats, they even got to Hawaii. So why exactly did we think the population of the new wold required the land bridge to be exposed between Siberia and Alaska? Did we think it too hard to island hop along the Aleutians? Apparently it wasn't...
alternatively, as I recently saw on Nova, these first explorers came from France, the same people who painted the fameous Lascaux caves. Go figure, just don't underestimate our ancestors.
If it were only a card...
Unfortunately, these cards will most probably come with biometrics, RFIDs and massive databases behind them. A simple means of identification is one thing. But when a cop can swipe the card and see that you've been reading anti-government literature at the library, and that the GPS tracker chip says you were moving at 26 mph, you've got to wonder when we all became criminals.
Yeah, but just wait until some athlete climbs the space elevator... imagine: a contraption similar to those hand driven railway cars attached to the ribbon. The dude (or gal!) stops at 10,000 feet for Oxygen. Then again for a pressure suit and finally a space suit. Sure, it may take a while, but it's totally possible!
1) It cheats. It uses a booster rocket to get 90% of its velocity. 2) it's smaller than a car
So.... can the thing physically scale up enough to carry fuel and a seperate mode of propultion to reach the right altitude/speed, and have enough space to carry passengars and/or payload? Or, does its design specifically rely on being small?
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The hard part isn't collecting the music. It's giving meaningful meta-data to it. iTMS doesn't just have ~900,000 songs, it has metadata for each one, including album covers.
What the hell? Your university pays for Internet2 for RESEARCH and EDUCATION, not for escaping the MP/RIAA. Those had better not be my tax dollars you're wasting.
Some strange things about light: Astronomers get distance (in light years) using redshift. Redshift is the measured shift of a spectrum due to the expansion of the universe. The more redshift, the longer the light has been traveling through expanding space, thus the distance between us and the object is greater.
BUT, it's not that simple. Redshift is really due to an integral of pointwise expansion wherever the photon happens to be. Since space is not expanding at a constant rate, we need to know how fast it is expanding at each point in space and time that the photon travels through. That can lead to some very strange results. If space is not expanding for most of the photon's journey, and then suddenly space right in front of the detector expands like crazy, you'll get a huge redshift, and infer that the object is MUCH farther than it really is. Or, if the object suddenly accelerates after it emits the photon, you'll think it's CLOSER than it really is!
The point is, "x lightyears away" doesn't mean much. It doesn't mean the object was x lightyears away when it exploded, it doesn't mean it exploded x years ago and it doesn't mean it is x lightyears away now. You can get pretty close to any of these values by taking redshift and pluging it into some very complicated formulae, but of course, for 1,000 lightyears, this doesn't even apply... anyway, back to work.
Really? Kids prefer the internet for news, while their parents rely on TV news. They socialize with their peers more than adults do, so information spreads more rapidly. Care to back up your baseless assertion of idiocy on my part?
A little off-topic, but something that is quite relevant. Is anyone else a little apalled at the "Vote or Die" campaign put on by MTV to try to encourage kids to vote? The fact is, they are getting pushed to head to the polls, but often don't know anything about the issues at hand and will just vote randomly. What's the point then? Shouldn't political education be placed in front of political mobilization?
Oh, and adults know the issues? Kids nowadays are more informed than their parents, and there is nothing wrong with a GOTV campaign aimed at young voters.
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I'm no expert in polls, but isn't the best (only?) way to detect voting fraud is by statistical analysis? That is, compare paper ballots with electronic ones, and then those to exit polls. If those Diabolical... err Diebold voting machines differ from normal ballots by more than a few fractions of a percent, wouldn't that indicate some sort of foul play? Fire-alarm pulling, voter-registration-tear-upping aside, the worst threat to American democracy (heh, did I just say that) is a few lines of code in Diebold's server software, something like:
It's not a stupid question. Indeed, I find the bowling ball visualization helpful, but in the end lacking. Not because it relies on the very force it attempts to show, but because it's far more complicated than need be. It relies on tension, gravity, friction, etc. SIMPLIFY! Gravity is a field force, that's all. There's one gravitational field, and each mass unit affects divergence at its location. This drag phenomenon might be as simple as the curl operator. Can somebody PLEASE explain this drag phenomenon without waving their hands?
Actually, an advanced copy of Vertigo was stolen from the band in france. It showed up in the p2p networks, which is maybe why U2 might sell it on iTunes before releasing it to CD.
It doesn't really matter how hard the material is. It needs to be VERY light and be able to withstand huge tensions. For example, spider silk does well in this area, but isn't anywhere near as hard as a diamond. But then I suppose that depends on your definition of "hard"...
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I should hope that they either included a timer in their software so it wouldn't ask the server in 10 years, let alone 2. If they were going to cancel their steam service, they should release an update to HL2 so it wouldn't require steam to play.
Hopefully they will fix the kernel panic issue...
Did you know that you can use nuclear bombs to terraform mars? Or use snake venom to make antidote? Or use P2P networks for legit purposes? Everything has good uses and bad, it's just that the bad far outweigh the good for RFIDs. Or rather, they're so powerful that people WILL abuse them. Just like nuclear bombs, P2P networks and, err, snake venom.
How ominous. Was this translated with editorializing in mind, or was this official so tactless as to expose the true purpose of such a constellation?
In "Guns, Germs and Steel", Jarod Diamond details how the pacific rim was populated very early on in human history: every single island larger than a beached whale was touched by nomadic seafarers in fishing boats, they even got to Hawaii. So why exactly did we think the population of the new wold required the land bridge to be exposed between Siberia and Alaska? Did we think it too hard to island hop along the Aleutians? Apparently it wasn't... alternatively, as I recently saw on Nova, these first explorers came from France, the same people who painted the fameous Lascaux caves. Go figure, just don't underestimate our ancestors.
If it were only a card... Unfortunately, these cards will most probably come with biometrics, RFIDs and massive databases behind them. A simple means of identification is one thing. But when a cop can swipe the card and see that you've been reading anti-government literature at the library, and that the GPS tracker chip says you were moving at 26 mph, you've got to wonder when we all became criminals.
Yeah, but just wait until some athlete climbs the space elevator... imagine: a contraption similar to those hand driven railway cars attached to the ribbon. The dude (or gal!) stops at 10,000 feet for Oxygen. Then again for a pressure suit and finally a space suit. Sure, it may take a while, but it's totally possible!
I've had some doubts about this aircraft:
1) It cheats. It uses a booster rocket to get 90% of its velocity.
2) it's smaller than a car
So.... can the thing physically scale up enough to carry fuel and a seperate mode of propultion to reach the right altitude/speed, and have enough space to carry passengars and/or payload? Or, does its design specifically rely on being small?
The hard part isn't collecting the music. It's giving meaningful meta-data to it. iTMS doesn't just have ~900,000 songs, it has metadata for each one, including album covers.
Yeah, load-bearing estimates, structural damage estimates, trajectory calculations aren't very geeky at all...
What the hell? Your university pays for Internet2 for RESEARCH and EDUCATION, not for escaping the MP/RIAA. Those had better not be my tax dollars you're wasting.
BUT, it's not that simple. Redshift is really due to an integral of pointwise expansion wherever the photon happens to be. Since space is not expanding at a constant rate, we need to know how fast it is expanding at each point in space and time that the photon travels through. That can lead to some very strange results. If space is not expanding for most of the photon's journey, and then suddenly space right in front of the detector expands like crazy, you'll get a huge redshift, and infer that the object is MUCH farther than it really is. Or, if the object suddenly accelerates after it emits the photon, you'll think it's CLOSER than it really is!
The point is, "x lightyears away" doesn't mean much. It doesn't mean the object was x lightyears away when it exploded, it doesn't mean it exploded x years ago and it doesn't mean it is x lightyears away now. You can get pretty close to any of these values by taking redshift and pluging it into some very complicated formulae, but of course, for 1,000 lightyears, this doesn't even apply... anyway, back to work.
Really? Kids prefer the internet for news, while their parents rely on TV news. They socialize with their peers more than adults do, so information spreads more rapidly. Care to back up your baseless assertion of idiocy on my part?
Oh, and adults know the issues? Kids nowadays are more informed than their parents, and there is nothing wrong with a GOTV campaign aimed at young voters.
Ironically, I'll bet that thing takes a week to cold boot, too.
...and iodine and thorium and thulium and thalium! (yes, I memorized it)
It's not a stupid question. Indeed, I find the bowling ball visualization helpful, but in the end lacking. Not because it relies on the very force it attempts to show, but because it's far more complicated than need be. It relies on tension, gravity, friction, etc. SIMPLIFY! Gravity is a field force, that's all. There's one gravitational field, and each mass unit affects divergence at its location. This drag phenomenon might be as simple as the curl operator. Can somebody PLEASE explain this drag phenomenon without waving their hands?
Actually, an advanced copy of Vertigo was stolen from the band in france. It showed up in the p2p networks, which is maybe why U2 might sell it on iTunes before releasing it to CD.
metric shitload... what's that in libraries of congress?
But honey, I only browse porn for the popups, I swear!
Sorry I got it wrong, but the modern english has BUTCHERED the latin:
virus viri n
venom, poison
Plural should be vira.
Yes, viri, trojans and spyware tend to be third party. The problem is, IE lets you download these and execute, sometimes by just viewing a page.
Why, RT Linux, of course!
It doesn't really matter how hard the material is. It needs to be VERY light and be able to withstand huge tensions. For example, spider silk does well in this area, but isn't anywhere near as hard as a diamond. But then I suppose that depends on your definition of "hard"...