My father-in-law enlisted in the Navy at sixteen or seventeen with parental consent, during WWII.
Where do you draw the line? Eighteen? We cannot prepare youth for the realities of the world while completely isolating them from those realities under the guise of protecting them. Life is all about risks and understanding how to mitigate them and when to take them.
By the time I was eight I had a half a square mile area in which to roam, a one-mile by half-mile area. By the time I was ten, that had expanded ot a full-square-mile, basically the other half of the neighorhood. I was not allowed to cross the major one-mile streets except for going to and from school, but otherwise it was fair game. I was taught to pay attention to my surroundings and the body language of the people, and to not assume that people had my good interests in mind. Those lessons still apply 25 years later.
Six might be a little young, but ten isn't, depending on the kinds of streets they have to cross and how safe the crossings are.
Parachutes? Isn't the atmosphere like 98% thinner than Earth? That'd work about as well as parachuting onto the moon.
And you would be incorrect.
The Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is testing next-generation parachutes for landing things on Mars. They launch the test platform high up into Earth's atmosphere, where the air pressure and other conditions are most like Mars, then they test how the various new parachute and other drag tech works to slow it down again. Disclosure: My wife is one of the engineers that worked on the platform itself.
The parachute is not designed to be the final landing device, but if you don't use a parachute or other drag device as you approach when there is measurable atmosphere you'll burn up or crash hard. The atmosphere doesn't have to be very thick to still have friction.
Given what they said about Beagle's failure to deploy, I wonder if it broke during the airbag bounce process and the panel jammed.
It isn't that AI will want to kill us, it's that AI will see us as just more raw material or will not understand or respect our decisions that run contrary to its own.
We (supposedly) value human life because we are human and we can feel empathy through our own desires- it's literally a form of projecting. There is no expectation for AI to do that.
You know, there are a lot of us that are paid our normal salary by our employers while we're on jury duty. It doesn't make much of a difference either way in those circumstances, whether or not one is at work or at jury duty. Hell, the jury hours are shorter than the workday hours, so it can work to one's advantage.
Or perhaps they decided that since they weren't doing anything untoward and were visiting unencrypted magazine and newspaper websites, that there wasn't really much of a problem if someone listened in?
If you want to freak them out, based on to whom they're connecting to alone, publish a list of what politicians use what banks. All you need to do is to figure out the identity of the user based on their surfing habits, then disclose the name of the bank whose website the visited. Don't need to know anything besides that the connection was established either. That should freak them out sufficiently.
For the last couple of years I've been able to buy switches and relays and lamps at the one near me, and they haven't harrassed me when I've gone in either.
Tandy Corporation (remember when they were called that?) got screwed up a long time ago. They tried that Incredible Universe chain as a competitor to Fry's, but screwed that up so badly that Frys ended up taking over those store locations after Tandy spent all that money building them. They tried "Tech America" as a way to go austere and provide us with an outlet for all of the discrete stuff that we needed in a local warehouse, but somehow that folded too after they renamed the store "Radioshack.com".
By the time they started putting components and heathkits and stuff into their regular stores again the damage was already done.
Ambiguity is safer for the defense, not the prosecution. The prosecution has to demonstrate that a crime occurred and how that crime was carried out, beyond a reasonable doubt. If the prosecutor cannot describe, beyond a reasonable doubt, how the crime was conducted then the prosecutor will probably fail to get a conviction.
Lots of recent trials that required expert witnesses or forensic investigtators to ask the jury to believe them simply because of their credentials fell flat. The Casey Anthony trial is an example- the pathologist described the unique smell of death in the defendant's trunk, but obviously as she was acquitted they did not find his testimony compelling enough.
By contrast there's no real-world analog in this case; they can't have an investigator describe their gut feelings at smelling death. They have to demonstrate how, despite a service meant to help anonymize people, they found him, and the processes through which they were able to do so.
Yes, because I'm sure that the three Russians on board wanted to cram the two Americans and the Italian into their very small space without easy access to toilet facilities or bathing facilities...
...with no electrical or electronic component to their basic functionality. I find I can confirm false-readings much more easily than relying on an electronic sensor, and that it seems like at least with automobiles, the sensors themselves fail more often than the conditions that the sensors were designed to detect actually manifest.
It fails in part because the textbook creators are so wrapped up in protecting their intellectual property that using the device to pull up the textbook becomes a nightmare. the only way this can work is for the textbook to be pulled down to the device, like any other e-book, and accessed without any kind of network or wirless connectivity to bounce 'rights' checking against. You're right that these being multipurpose devices usually hurts too, as students can easily procrastinate their actual work by finding an inordinate amount of things to entertain themselves with.
We need real devices that are as durable as the ficticious PADD from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Basically the tablet-equivalent of a Panasonic Toughbook, with software specifically tailored to the needs of students. I'm thinking it should be two devices essentially hinged in the middle, like a traditional book cover, so that more content can be displayed or homework can be done on one side with the content displayed on the other. But that's just me.
Oh, and that requires proper software to be written for it too, and requires those textbook creators to cooperate.
Producing them there doesn't mean that they're producing them there profitably. Obviously the goal is to produce them profitably or for the entire business surrounding the devices to be profitable (ie, paid software making up a slight loss on the initial device) but that doesn't mean that they've actually achieved profitability.
It's kind of interesting, the various free-trade zones in the Americas. Part of the reason that Mexico is so popular is that it sits in at least two zones, the NAFTA one and the Latin American one, so that qualifying products can be sold all of the way from Ellesmere Island to Tierra Del Fuego without facing hefty tariffs. That's why so many automakers set up shop in northern Mexico, it's a very short distance to ship new cars to the United States as the largest market and up to Canada, but inexpensive to sell them all of the South American countries too.
I'm a little surprised that Brazil's tariff policy on electronics exists given their participation in their free-trade zone.
I hope they'll have found a better solution for the tail by the time they go to passenger flights. Pilots don't like being denied an option to do something but if that something can tear the craft apart even when it's piloted by some of the most experienced pilots in the world, I don't see how it'll be better in commercial hands.
We've seen screencaps of 14-year uptimes on Cisco 2500-series Routers before, so I'd bet that a lot of networking equipment, if high quality to begin with, could make it that long, assuming that it's still doing what the users need.
It's a lot easier to choose to refrain from paying for television than it is to choose to refrain from travel for something that is important.
What I think will happen, is that if it gets to where people can pay for only a few channels, they might look at their bill, and at the price per channel, and the crap like American Pickers or Duck Dynasty and choose to cancel service altogether. Bundled like it is now, cable TV is like a well-stocked buffet. There's a whole lot to choose from but almost all of it is mediocre at best, and there's only a little bit of what's good and it's only there for a limited time, but because it looks good before you walk up and inspect the serving trays you don't balk at the price that's higher than a single meal at a nice mid-level restaurant would cost.
You checked? Like, you went to France and attempted to buy AKs?
I don't even know how easy it is to buy automatic weapons in my own city, where laws are fairly permissive and gun ownership is not looked upon negatively, on average.
Future generations will have probably implemented technology that allows for the use of saltwater without expensive or complicated desalinzation and will have implemented systems that recycle blackwater into usable water, so I doubt they'll wonder how we could just waste water so easily.
After all, we don't look at ancient Rome's always-on fountains fed by aqueducts in that light, even though they had no off-valve.
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My father-in-law enlisted in the Navy at sixteen or seventeen with parental consent, during WWII.
Where do you draw the line? Eighteen? We cannot prepare youth for the realities of the world while completely isolating them from those realities under the guise of protecting them. Life is all about risks and understanding how to mitigate them and when to take them.
By the time I was eight I had a half a square mile area in which to roam, a one-mile by half-mile area. By the time I was ten, that had expanded ot a full-square-mile, basically the other half of the neighorhood. I was not allowed to cross the major one-mile streets except for going to and from school, but otherwise it was fair game. I was taught to pay attention to my surroundings and the body language of the people, and to not assume that people had my good interests in mind. Those lessons still apply 25 years later.
Six might be a little young, but ten isn't, depending on the kinds of streets they have to cross and how safe the crossings are.
And you would be incorrect.
The Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is testing next-generation parachutes for landing things on Mars. They launch the test platform high up into Earth's atmosphere, where the air pressure and other conditions are most like Mars, then they test how the various new parachute and other drag tech works to slow it down again. Disclosure: My wife is one of the engineers that worked on the platform itself.
The parachute is not designed to be the final landing device, but if you don't use a parachute or other drag device as you approach when there is measurable atmosphere you'll burn up or crash hard. The atmosphere doesn't have to be very thick to still have friction.
Given what they said about Beagle's failure to deploy, I wonder if it broke during the airbag bounce process and the panel jammed.
It isn't that AI will want to kill us, it's that AI will see us as just more raw material or will not understand or respect our decisions that run contrary to its own.
We (supposedly) value human life because we are human and we can feel empathy through our own desires- it's literally a form of projecting. There is no expectation for AI to do that.
You know, there are a lot of us that are paid our normal salary by our employers while we're on jury duty. It doesn't make much of a difference either way in those circumstances, whether or not one is at work or at jury duty. Hell, the jury hours are shorter than the workday hours, so it can work to one's advantage.
Or perhaps they decided that since they weren't doing anything untoward and were visiting unencrypted magazine and newspaper websites, that there wasn't really much of a problem if someone listened in?
If you want to freak them out, based on to whom they're connecting to alone, publish a list of what politicians use what banks. All you need to do is to figure out the identity of the user based on their surfing habits, then disclose the name of the bank whose website the visited. Don't need to know anything besides that the connection was established either. That should freak them out sufficiently.
How long as it been since you went into one?
For the last couple of years I've been able to buy switches and relays and lamps at the one near me, and they haven't harrassed me when I've gone in either.
Tandy Corporation (remember when they were called that?) got screwed up a long time ago. They tried that Incredible Universe chain as a competitor to Fry's, but screwed that up so badly that Frys ended up taking over those store locations after Tandy spent all that money building them. They tried "Tech America" as a way to go austere and provide us with an outlet for all of the discrete stuff that we needed in a local warehouse, but somehow that folded too after they renamed the store "Radioshack.com".
By the time they started putting components and heathkits and stuff into their regular stores again the damage was already done.
Ambiguity is safer for the defense, not the prosecution. The prosecution has to demonstrate that a crime occurred and how that crime was carried out, beyond a reasonable doubt. If the prosecutor cannot describe, beyond a reasonable doubt, how the crime was conducted then the prosecutor will probably fail to get a conviction.
Lots of recent trials that required expert witnesses or forensic investigtators to ask the jury to believe them simply because of their credentials fell flat. The Casey Anthony trial is an example- the pathologist described the unique smell of death in the defendant's trunk, but obviously as she was acquitted they did not find his testimony compelling enough.
By contrast there's no real-world analog in this case; they can't have an investigator describe their gut feelings at smelling death. They have to demonstrate how, despite a service meant to help anonymize people, they found him, and the processes through which they were able to do so.
Yes, because I'm sure that the three Russians on board wanted to cram the two Americans and the Italian into their very small space without easy access to toilet facilities or bathing facilities...
Alphabetic keyboard?
Last time I looked at a keyboard, all letters of the alphabet were represented.
...with no electrical or electronic component to their basic functionality. I find I can confirm false-readings much more easily than relying on an electronic sensor, and that it seems like at least with automobiles, the sensors themselves fail more often than the conditions that the sensors were designed to detect actually manifest.
It fails in part because the textbook creators are so wrapped up in protecting their intellectual property that using the device to pull up the textbook becomes a nightmare. the only way this can work is for the textbook to be pulled down to the device, like any other e-book, and accessed without any kind of network or wirless connectivity to bounce 'rights' checking against. You're right that these being multipurpose devices usually hurts too, as students can easily procrastinate their actual work by finding an inordinate amount of things to entertain themselves with.
We need real devices that are as durable as the ficticious PADD from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Basically the tablet-equivalent of a Panasonic Toughbook, with software specifically tailored to the needs of students. I'm thinking it should be two devices essentially hinged in the middle, like a traditional book cover, so that more content can be displayed or homework can be done on one side with the content displayed on the other. But that's just me.
Oh, and that requires proper software to be written for it too, and requires those textbook creators to cooperate.
Didn't the Russians send a crew around the Moon, but NASA managed to land first?
Yes. I have no speech impediments in English.
Don't ask me to properly say, "burrito," in Spanish though, as I cannot roll my Rs...
Producing them there doesn't mean that they're producing them there profitably. Obviously the goal is to produce them profitably or for the entire business surrounding the devices to be profitable (ie, paid software making up a slight loss on the initial device) but that doesn't mean that they've actually achieved profitability.
It's kind of interesting, the various free-trade zones in the Americas. Part of the reason that Mexico is so popular is that it sits in at least two zones, the NAFTA one and the Latin American one, so that qualifying products can be sold all of the way from Ellesmere Island to Tierra Del Fuego without facing hefty tariffs. That's why so many automakers set up shop in northern Mexico, it's a very short distance to ship new cars to the United States as the largest market and up to Canada, but inexpensive to sell them all of the South American countries too.
I'm a little surprised that Brazil's tariff policy on electronics exists given their participation in their free-trade zone.
Makes me wonder if any other astronomers or other scientists to discover celestial objects will have their ashes sent in homage...
I hope they'll have found a better solution for the tail by the time they go to passenger flights. Pilots don't like being denied an option to do something but if that something can tear the craft apart even when it's piloted by some of the most experienced pilots in the world, I don't see how it'll be better in commercial hands.
We've seen screencaps of 14-year uptimes on Cisco 2500-series Routers before, so I'd bet that a lot of networking equipment, if high quality to begin with, could make it that long, assuming that it's still doing what the users need.
I guess the populace just likes eggin' them on...
So, kind of like it's always been then, but with less goatse...
Which of your categories is your post?
It's a lot easier to choose to refrain from paying for television than it is to choose to refrain from travel for something that is important.
What I think will happen, is that if it gets to where people can pay for only a few channels, they might look at their bill, and at the price per channel, and the crap like American Pickers or Duck Dynasty and choose to cancel service altogether. Bundled like it is now, cable TV is like a well-stocked buffet. There's a whole lot to choose from but almost all of it is mediocre at best, and there's only a little bit of what's good and it's only there for a limited time, but because it looks good before you walk up and inspect the serving trays you don't balk at the price that's higher than a single meal at a nice mid-level restaurant would cost.
Yeah, he should thank his lucky stars that they didn't do to him what they did to Rick Santorum...
You checked? Like, you went to France and attempted to buy AKs?
I don't even know how easy it is to buy automatic weapons in my own city, where laws are fairly permissive and gun ownership is not looked upon negatively, on average.
Future generations will have probably implemented technology that allows for the use of saltwater without expensive or complicated desalinzation and will have implemented systems that recycle blackwater into usable water, so I doubt they'll wonder how we could just waste water so easily.
After all, we don't look at ancient Rome's always-on fountains fed by aqueducts in that light, even though they had no off-valve.
Ones that look like Johnny Depp when he goes on late-night TV for interviews?
Do you have "Dr." before your name and one either "Ph.D" or "Sc.D" after it?