So the missile hits the sattelite and explodes. It's possible that an important section could be propelled into new orbit. The Chinese could send up a special team to rescue this section and acquire secret technology.
Bad idea to "shoot" this sattelite, because not all the pieces may fall down.
Feature extraction, such as buildings and trees is already being done. In fact, the dot clouds produced by LIDAR provide enough information about trees that some research is focusing on ways to automate the identification of species of individual trees, and replicating that across an entire forest.
But I digress...
I, for one, welcome our Numenta powered, LIDAR scanning, ORBIT-Lords.
It would be much more telling to see tests with kids in poorer nations for whom OLPC is their first PC. *ahem* They are from Canada. How much of a handicap do you want?
Try this the next time you see the moon at night (best when full!): Close your left eye and look at the moon with your right eye. Then shift your gaze slowly to the left of the moon until it... disappears.
While it's true that war has been around since humans have existed, that doesn't mean it is a dominant behavior. A vast majority of humans on this planet never directly participate in war.
In fact, almost all humans, even those involved in war, consider themselves "peaceful" people. So you shouldn't confuse the capacity for humans to become involved in war as some dominant/inevitable trait.
Most, not all, but most wars are started by those in power to increase their own power and wealth. History and current events demonstrate this time and again. So, the real source of warfare is the greed of a very small population of humans being able put fear into the population to fight for them.
So, I'd say that the root of all war is greed. If the argument to end warfare is to end greed with those in power, I might agree with you that it might be a very long road.
I proposed this question in my college physics professor. He thought about it for a little while and said that the motion of the pencil, that is, the information of the push, the compression of the pencil (very small wave) would travel to the other end of the pencil no faster than the speed of light.
It would of course travel slower than the speed of light, but factors such as material density and inertia would come into play.
The answer makes sense to me.
It took 110 hours to complete this PowerPoint presentation, according to the stats in properties.
That's almost 14 days at 8 hours a day.
No wonder their budget is so fucking high. I'd hate to see how long it takes for them to actually DO something.
1) Rent office space next to coffe shop
2) Set up a "Free Wi-fi" hotspot
3) As soon as coffee customer logs onto your network, call the cops
4) Give MAC address of offending subject to cops
5) Cops investigate coffee customers, locate offender
6) Coffee shop LOSES a customer
7) Coffee shop LOSES PROFIT!!!
So this "internet of things" idea of tagging everything and having metadata about all things physical...
For this to create a "sustainable" framework, all objects when broken down to be recycled would have to be worth something. If my TV (or whatever) has 4.2 million tagged parts in it, everything from the logo down to the solder on the boards, the only way that TV is going to get recycled and reused in manufacturing is going to be if:
A) There must exist an automated way for the TV to "disassemble" to those parts B) Those parts/materials are all reusable C) I get paid for every single one of those parts (or get a little more in "credit" if I buy from the same manufacturer)
ISSUES:
Tag spammers. If manufacturers can put tags on everything, what's to prevent "spammers" from spraying their nano tags on everything. What about people that place fake tags on objects to make them seem more valuable or just to confuse the "system". However, maybe the system would have a way of tossing out bad tags by using some sort of "hash" or something along those lines. Privacy? No longer exists.
PLUSES:
All theft would be traceable. Unfortunately that also makes you 100% traceable even if you aren't a criminal. Insurance companies would begin associating risk with the types of tags you are in close proximity to. Heck, as you walk down the street, you might get real time "danger assessments" on some sort of meter depending on who is near you, what products are near bye...You could plan routes to avoid those areas that statistically are more dangerous. The possibilities are endless.
The amount of information and metadata this "internet of things" would create are mind boggling. I guess that's where quantum computers will come in handy.
I was at a red light for about 4 minutes...a long line of cars formed behind me. After 6 minutes total waiting for the light to change and NO CARS had driven by - I cautiously ran the red light.
Of course, the last car in the line behind me was a cop. He acted pissed off at me. I explained to him that I had been sitting at the light for 6 minutes (I had listened to 2 songs on the radio!) - and he didn't give a shit.
I asked him how long I'm supposed to wait until I determine the light is not functioning as it should - and he said "If it's red you don't proceed."
What an asshole - just like a politician - completely avoids the subjectivity of reality.
...are we to understand that E.T.'s (who listen to bad rap music) stole this laptop?
I RTFA, and the police used the IP to locate the laptop, but no one has been arrested. Hmmm...
MIB: "We'll take over from here."
Police Man: "But this thug stole a woman's laptop!"
(MIB puts on dark glasses)
MIB: "Officer, I'm going to need you to stare into this pen for me for just a second..."
I was listening to a religious program about purity when there was an add for an "adult only" vacation.
Somewhat disappointing I must say.
Disappointed in the "purity" or the opportunity to get away for a wild and sexy weekend at our tropical paradise, meeting other swingers who share common interests in our exclusive outdoor activities such as, nude ping-pong, orgy scuba diving, pot-luck couple swap, pin the tail with the donkey (don't ask), and much much more!
"He has up a blow-by-blow description of the events at their site..."
Ha Ha...I'm not falling for that one. One minute your innocently reading a post on Slashdot about some 1337 web hacker asking you to check out his website, the next minute he's robbing your grandma's bank account...
Mitnick warned me about hacker tricks like that... I for one am not going to RTFA!
More likely some (terrorist/insurgent/freedom fighter/pissed off local Iraqi dude) wanted to get a promotion, so he told his boss he was using the enemy's tools against him and that was how he got the great shot with his crappy mortar.
"Hey boss, I accessed a state of the art targeting system owned by the enemy to destroy the great Satan!"
"Good work, you'll get a promotion now, and no less than...4 people right under you."
Mean while the other terrorists he works with keep missing their targets and are pissed because they know this guy just got off a lucky shot. As if that wasn't bad enough, they've got a consultant from the regional Mosque doing metrics on efficiency of the local union mortar guys and will probably get laid off soon for lack of performance.
Slashdot Mirror
So the missile hits the sattelite and explodes. It's possible that an important section could be propelled into new orbit. The Chinese could send up a special team to rescue this section and acquire secret technology. Bad idea to "shoot" this sattelite, because not all the pieces may fall down.
High Energy Wide Area Gamma Ray Detecting Overlord
"We deny all charges."
I thought I was the only one. After 8 hours of playing Battle Field 2, the lesson learned is that war is fucking pointless. I mean, for the soldiers.
To test this theory, along with distant galaxies speeding away from us, we should also see the rotation of said distant galaxies speeding up.
No Large Hadron Collider experiments necessary. Anything wrong with this hypothesis?
Feature extraction, such as buildings and trees is already being done. In fact, the dot clouds produced by LIDAR provide enough information about trees that some research is focusing on ways to automate the identification of species of individual trees, and replicating that across an entire forest. But I digress... I, for one, welcome our Numenta powered, LIDAR scanning, ORBIT-Lords.
Try this the next time you see the moon at night (best when full!): Close your left eye and look at the moon with your right eye. Then shift your gaze slowly to the left of the moon until it... disappears.
Get it? You insert dildos...
It's a double-ended-entendre and pun all in one!
While it's true that war has been around since humans have existed, that doesn't mean it is a dominant behavior. A vast majority of humans on this planet never directly participate in war.
In fact, almost all humans, even those involved in war, consider themselves "peaceful" people. So you shouldn't confuse the capacity for humans to become involved in war as some dominant/inevitable trait.
Most, not all, but most wars are started by those in power to increase their own power and wealth. History and current events demonstrate this time and again. So, the real source of warfare is the greed of a very small population of humans being able put fear into the population to fight for them.
So, I'd say that the root of all war is greed. If the argument to end warfare is to end greed with those in power, I might agree with you that it might be a very long road.
Since when are Safari's ever "bug free"?!?
Because they are obviously using this phrase as their guiding principle:
"Is this Good for the Company?"
This way, when ever Yahoo has to make a decision about human rights or censorship, they ask themselves, "Is this Good for the Company?"
Oh, and remember: next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
I proposed this question in my college physics professor. He thought about it for a little while and said that the motion of the pencil, that is, the information of the push, the compression of the pencil (very small wave) would travel to the other end of the pencil no faster than the speed of light. It would of course travel slower than the speed of light, but factors such as material density and inertia would come into play. The answer makes sense to me.
It took 110 hours to complete this PowerPoint presentation, according to the stats in properties. That's almost 14 days at 8 hours a day. No wonder their budget is so fucking high. I'd hate to see how long it takes for them to actually DO something.
1) Rent office space next to coffe shop
2) Set up a "Free Wi-fi" hotspot
3) As soon as coffee customer logs onto your network, call the cops
4) Give MAC address of offending subject to cops
5) Cops investigate coffee customers, locate offender
6) Coffee shop LOSES a customer 7) Coffee shop LOSES PROFIT!!!
That looks like the perfect fit for what this guy is asking for. If I was texting all the time, I'd want that keyboard instead of using "T9".
So this "internet of things" idea of tagging everything and having metadata about all things physical...
For this to create a "sustainable" framework, all objects when broken down to be recycled would have to be worth something. If my TV (or whatever) has 4.2 million tagged parts in it, everything from the logo down to the solder on the boards, the only way that TV is going to get recycled and reused in manufacturing is going to be if:
A) There must exist an automated way for the TV to "disassemble" to those parts
B) Those parts/materials are all reusable
C) I get paid for every single one of those parts (or get a little more in "credit" if I buy from the same manufacturer)
ISSUES:
Tag spammers. If manufacturers can put tags on everything, what's to prevent "spammers" from spraying their nano tags on everything. What about people that place fake tags on objects to make them seem more valuable or just to confuse the "system". However, maybe the system would have a way of tossing out bad tags by using some sort of "hash" or something along those lines. Privacy? No longer exists.
PLUSES:
All theft would be traceable. Unfortunately that also makes you 100% traceable even if you aren't a criminal. Insurance companies would begin associating risk with the types of tags you are in close proximity to. Heck, as you walk down the street, you might get real time "danger assessments" on some sort of meter depending on who is near you, what products are near bye...You could plan routes to avoid those areas that statistically are more dangerous. The possibilities are endless.
The amount of information and metadata this "internet of things" would create are mind boggling. I guess that's where quantum computers will come in handy.
I did that once while driving home at 1 am.
I was at a red light for about 4 minutes...a long line of cars formed behind me. After 6 minutes total waiting for the light to change and NO CARS had driven by - I cautiously ran the red light.
Of course, the last car in the line behind me was a cop. He acted pissed off at me. I explained to him that I had been sitting at the light for 6 minutes (I had listened to 2 songs on the radio!) - and he didn't give a shit.
I asked him how long I'm supposed to wait until I determine the light is not functioning as it should - and he said "If it's red you don't proceed."
What an asshole - just like a politician - completely avoids the subjectivity of reality.
...are we to understand that E.T.'s (who listen to bad rap music) stole this laptop?
I RTFA, and the police used the IP to locate the laptop, but no one has been arrested. Hmmm...
MIB: "We'll take over from here."
Police Man: "But this thug stole a woman's laptop!"
(MIB puts on dark glasses)
MIB: "Officer, I'm going to need you to stare into this pen for me for just a second..."
Disappointed in the "purity" or the opportunity to get away for a wild and sexy weekend at our tropical paradise, meeting other swingers who share common interests in our exclusive outdoor activities such as, nude ping-pong, orgy scuba diving, pot-luck couple swap, pin the tail with the donkey (don't ask), and much much more!
Which one was disappointing?
Mitnick warned me about hacker tricks like that... I for one am not going to RTFA!
The scary part will be when the computer outputs, "Hello World," but it wasn't programmed to...
Yikes.
More likely some (terrorist/insurgent/freedom fighter/pissed off local Iraqi dude) wanted to get a promotion, so he told his boss he was using the enemy's tools against him and that was how he got the great shot with his crappy mortar.
"Hey boss, I accessed a state of the art targeting system owned by the enemy to destroy the great Satan!"
"Good work, you'll get a promotion now, and no less than...4 people right under you."
Mean while the other terrorists he works with keep missing their targets and are pissed because they know this guy just got off a lucky shot. As if that wasn't bad enough, they've got a consultant from the regional Mosque doing metrics on efficiency of the local union mortar guys and will probably get laid off soon for lack of performance.
I've seen a thousand times before...