Instead of trying to punch holes in things, why not do what even cheap handheld lasers are eminently good at--- blinding people? Rake a powerful laser across the windshield of a speeding SUV and laugh while the vehicle runs off the road, flips, and burns simply because the person operating it is screaming in rage and agony because they've been blinded.
Great, except that instead of calming the paranoid naysayers, you've made them realize that you've been acting in secret for a decade and that they should be bomb the labs RIGHT NOW.
The film bias is real. The January 2006 issue of Popular Photography featured an article about different film emulsions sold outside the U.S. that better capture skin tones that are darker/different than caucasian. They shot a black model using Kodak Portra 160NC and Kodak Ultima 100, a film "tailor-made for shooting Indian weddings." They used the same lighting, adjusting exposure only for the 2/3 stop difference in film speed. I quote:
The negatives were dramatically different. Ultima 100 produced visibly more detail in Dionne Audain's skin than did Portra 160NC, especially on the shadowed side of her face. In matched prints, not only was that shadow more open, but there was a much better sense of texture in her hair and black sweater. The surprising thing is that, despite Ultima 100's higher minimum density, it seemed to have more snap overall than Portra 160NC.
Only slightly harder. There are free (libre and gratis) SAT and QBF solvers that make mincemeat out of the kinds of structured NP-hard problems that humans find enjoyable to solve. Humans are way outclassed in the PSPACE arena. We're still better at some kinds of pattern matching, but don't bet on us staying in the lead there for much longer, either.
Lucky you. In my country if you reach into your pockets when a cop approaches, you're likely as not to get a gun drawn on you, and if you keep digging, 9mm slugs will soon be thudding into your body.
Apple does this with all their old hardware. They either declare your hardware obsolete or make the OS perform so badly on it that you declare it obsolete on your own. Either way, it's time for a new phone/tablet/computer. Allowing you to get the most out of your old hardware is in direct opposition to the goal of getting you to buy new hardware. With phones they time the suckage cycle so that it roughly corresponds with the cellphone contract expiration cycle.
BQP might include problems outside NP. Consider the higher levels of the polynomial hierarchy. A classical computer can't efficiently verify solutions to problems that are above the first level of the polynomial hierarchy unless P=NP. But a quantum computer can do so for any quantified problem whose singly existentially quantified version is in BQP. So for such problems, the only efficient verifier is another quantum computer.
It's not about safety as much as it is about ass covering. The schools have been driven to this. Parents won't keep their children off the Internet. But when a child is bullied into committing suicide the school gets sued because they are a convenient target and because the law requires that children be educated, which for most people means sending children to public school.
It doesn't matter what treason is. The point is that she of the 1% isn't going to rot in Federal prison or in exile for the likes of you, me, the Fourth Amendment, or anything else that might make our socks roll up and down. That there is even one Edward Snowden in this fetid, materialistic country is a miracle that has restored some of my hope for the future.
You forgot about the short fiction. And King, well, he writes and writes and writes and writes. He's been so successful for so long that I doubt any editor has had the stones to cut his work for at least a decade. Maybe two. As much as I enjoyed his early work I stopped reading King because there were better books out there written with many fewer pages.
I don't see why I should cry for these guys any more than I should cry for the millions of athletically gifted sacks who discover that they won't be playing professional sports for a living. The worldwide number of professional athletes and professional particle physicists seem comparable and the physicists don't have the jocks' excuse of being bad at math.
By working I assume you mean writing code as opposed to editing photographs or video or do anything else related to the graphic arts, because having a program silently dicking with your monitor's color temperature is just the thing if you want to ruin hours of work.
Snowden's asylum in Russia in conditioned on him not spilling more U.S. secrets. Until that condition changes or Snowden finds refuge elsewhere, then I suspect Wikileaks will hang onto those keys. If Snowden disappears into a hole, then the insurance files scattered around the globe ensure that the secrets can be released not matter what else happens to him.
> Wrong. We don't even have the logistics in place to feed half of this planet.
Yet these people are apparently still eating. I think I would have seen a headline or two if a famine killed three billion people last year.
Double the population and it would hasten the death of some but it's hard to argue that we wouldn't find a way to feed most people since we keep finding ways to do it.
The scheme, discovery, and public outrage were probably all part of the plan from the beginning. Lots of people who had never heard of the contest now have heard of the contest. Samsung can ritually fire the marketer, and we can repeat this exercise again next year.
Robert Forward used such tanks in Dragon's Egg, and Heinlein used them in Starship Troopers. Neither story subjected the people in the tanks 60,000g's though.
The problem is this: Prank or not, Krebs opened his front door and suddenly had multiple guns pointed at him. Add in a sudden loud noise and at least one of the cops might have opened up on him. And once one cop starts firing, they ALL open up. I want to see more investigation before guns are even pointed at people.
Nothing new here really. Public photographers have been harassed forever; ask any practicing street photographer. Cell phone camera users would be in the same boat except that they are in the majority now. Google Glass users are in the monitory currently, so they can be bullied. Give it time.
Unless you know what state (or country!) the OP resides in, you can't say with certainty what assault is, or whether it differs from battery. Here in Washington state, yelling at a cops is definitely not assault under state law. There isn't any crime of "battery" at all.
I'm inclined to agree with you about the 45% decrease in population being beneficial but the trick has always been choosing the 45% who are "made redundant", and who is doing the choosing.
Most of the people here aren't making their money off intellectual property, they are creating code for someone else, or running systems. Other than being cleaner at the end of the day, it's not much different than turning wrenches or dragging cable.
But that is besides the point. We object to being screwed because we are in fact being screwed. Once music has been purchased, charging us again for every little thing we might want to do with it is sticking your wallet where it doesn't belong.
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Instead of trying to punch holes in things, why not do what even cheap handheld lasers are eminently good at--- blinding people? Rake a powerful laser across the windshield of a speeding SUV and laugh while the vehicle runs off the road, flips, and burns simply because the person operating it is screaming in rage and agony because they've been blinded.
Great, except that instead of calming the paranoid naysayers, you've made them realize that you've been acting in secret for a decade and that they should be bomb the labs RIGHT NOW.
The film bias is real. The January 2006 issue of Popular Photography featured an article about different film emulsions sold outside the U.S. that better capture skin tones that are darker/different than caucasian. They shot a black model using Kodak Portra 160NC and Kodak Ultima 100, a film "tailor-made for shooting Indian weddings." They used the same lighting, adjusting exposure only for the 2/3 stop difference in film speed. I quote:
The negatives were dramatically different. Ultima 100 produced visibly more detail in Dionne Audain's skin than did Portra 160NC, especially on the shadowed side of her face. In matched prints, not only was that shadow more open, but there was a much better sense of texture in her hair and black sweater. The surprising thing is that, despite Ultima 100's higher minimum density, it seemed to have more snap overall than Portra 160NC.
Only slightly harder. There are free (libre and gratis) SAT and QBF solvers that make mincemeat out of the kinds of structured NP-hard problems that humans find enjoyable to solve. Humans are way outclassed in the PSPACE arena. We're still better at some kinds of pattern matching, but don't bet on us staying in the lead there for much longer, either.
Lucky you. In my country if you reach into your pockets when a cop approaches, you're likely as not to get a gun drawn on you, and if you keep digging, 9mm slugs will soon be thudding into your body.
Apple does this with all their old hardware. They either declare your hardware obsolete or make the OS perform so badly on it that you declare it obsolete on your own. Either way, it's time for a new phone/tablet/computer. Allowing you to get the most out of your old hardware is in direct opposition to the goal of getting you to buy new hardware. With phones they time the suckage cycle so that it roughly corresponds with the cellphone contract expiration cycle.
BQP might include problems outside NP. Consider the higher levels of the polynomial hierarchy. A classical computer can't efficiently verify solutions to problems that are above the first level of the polynomial hierarchy unless P=NP. But a quantum computer can do so for any quantified problem whose singly existentially quantified version is in BQP. So for such problems, the only efficient verifier is another quantum computer.
It's not about safety as much as it is about ass covering. The schools have been driven to this. Parents won't keep their children off the Internet. But when a child is bullied into committing suicide the school gets sued because they are a convenient target and because the law requires that children be educated, which for most people means sending children to public school.
It doesn't matter what treason is. The point is that she of the 1% isn't going to rot in Federal prison or in exile for the likes of you, me, the Fourth Amendment, or anything else that might make our socks roll up and down. That there is even one Edward Snowden in this fetid, materialistic country is a miracle that has restored some of my hope for the future.
You forgot about the short fiction. And King, well, he writes and writes and writes and writes. He's been so successful for so long that I doubt any editor has had the stones to cut his work for at least a decade. Maybe two. As much as I enjoyed his early work I stopped reading King because there were better books out there written with many fewer pages.
I don't see why I should cry for these guys any more than I should cry for the millions of athletically gifted sacks who discover that they won't be playing professional sports for a living. The worldwide number of professional athletes and professional particle physicists seem comparable and the physicists don't have the jocks' excuse of being bad at math.
By working I assume you mean writing code as opposed to editing photographs or video or do anything else related to the graphic arts, because having a program silently dicking with your monitor's color temperature is just the thing if you want to ruin hours of work.
"Traffic accident" would be more likely, but yes.
Snowden's asylum in Russia in conditioned on him not spilling more U.S. secrets. Until that condition changes or Snowden finds refuge elsewhere, then I suspect Wikileaks will hang onto those keys. If Snowden disappears into a hole, then the insurance files scattered around the globe ensure that the secrets can be released not matter what else happens to him.
> Wrong. We don't even have the logistics in place to feed half of this planet.
Yet these people are apparently still eating. I think I would have seen a headline or two if a famine killed three billion people last year.
Double the population and it would hasten the death of some but it's hard to argue that we wouldn't find a way to feed most people since we keep finding ways to do it.
The scheme, discovery, and public outrage were probably all part of the plan from the beginning. Lots of people who had never heard of the contest now have heard of the contest. Samsung can ritually fire the marketer, and we can repeat this exercise again next year.
*kaff* You're right.
Robert Forward used such tanks in Dragon's Egg, and Heinlein used them in Starship Troopers. Neither story subjected the people in the tanks 60,000g's though.
The problem is this: Prank or not, Krebs opened his front door and suddenly had multiple guns pointed at him. Add in a sudden loud noise and at least one of the cops might have opened up on him. And once one cop starts firing, they ALL open up. I want to see more investigation before guns are even pointed at people.
Nothing new here really. Public photographers have been harassed forever; ask any practicing street photographer. Cell phone camera users would be in the same boat except that they are in the majority now. Google Glass users are in the monitory currently, so they can be bullied. Give it time.
LOL. Retro diet means Saccharin.
Unless you know what state (or country!) the OP resides in, you can't say with certainty what assault is, or whether it differs from battery. Here in Washington state, yelling at a cops is definitely not assault under state law. There isn't any crime of "battery" at all.
I'm inclined to agree with you about the 45% decrease in population being beneficial but the trick has always been choosing the 45% who are "made redundant", and who is doing the choosing.
Most of the people here aren't making their money off intellectual property, they are creating code for someone else, or running systems. Other than being cleaner at the end of the day, it's not much different than turning wrenches or dragging cable.
But that is besides the point. We object to being screwed because we are in fact being screwed. Once music has been purchased, charging us again for every little thing we might want to do with it is sticking your wallet where it doesn't belong.
Ha, as if some exhausted / suicidal Foxconn employee is any less likely leave a loose screw in the battery compartment.