... Case in point, I've got an annoying floater in my right eye.... It seems like just the job for a micro-robot that can swim through an eye's vitreous and gather/destroy other small objects.
Even better, the robot could upgrade you to the new Google-floater: Just relax and look at the ceiling and you're on the internet.
We will never travel faster than the speed of light. That, however, does not mean we can not reach distant star systems. It will simply be a very, very, long trip.
A very, very long trip of a few thousand years at least (not to mention the 3000 years TSA will add to the pre-boarding).
And it is not just failure to vote for third parties.
Voting for third parties is actively discouraged. Their positions are ridiculed, they are not invited to debates, and if the media let a supporter talk, they either cut it to the point where it doesn't make sense anymore or they pick a very colorful loony to begin with. If all of that doesn't help, there's always the voting system. One could have 30% nation wide and not get a single seat. The districts are drawn by the ruling party, and who wins that district is basically decided in the primaries.
But voting is not so you can get your candidate in, voting is so people can make a decision and feel like they participated.
If you want to go somewhere with a little child, you don't say "Let's get your shoes on so we can go." You say: "We are going now. Do you want to wear the pink shoes or the black shoes?" And instead of protesting, the kid is busy thinking about this decision.
Last time people voted for the black guy, because the alternative they got presented with was that pink guy.
Lemme guess, Bitcoin/SETI@Home full screen client with 3D accelerated visualization?
I was thinking of something even less useful. Something like the flashlight app but for heat generation:
You click on the "hand-warmer" icon and put the phone in your pocket. The app will run something like cpuburn (without giving credit of course) till the CPU hits 60C (adjustable in the premium version), then keep the phone at that temperature till the battery is dead, or till you take it out of the pocket and remember to shut it off (or once you enter a building with wifi in the premium version).
Yeah, it is. PC sales have been flat to negative since the iPad came out.
PC isn't really dead. It's just that the people who never needed a traditional Computer to begin with now have other options.
If you want to watch movies, you don't need a a screen with a keyboard in front and a mouse. And for internet shopping, and browsing, and "liking", and youtube commenting you don't need a dedicated work space either.
But people who work with office or engineering programs, design, develop, or work with longer texts will still use something like a PC. And that could also be a laptop, form factor isn't the point.
The PC-for-everyone age is over and PCs are becoming business machines again, the public is happy with clickedyclick and swipe.
The market is splitting. Apple is in the consumer products market, Oracle makes money with stuff most people never even heard of, and Microsoft hasn't decided yet, but they might be big enough to do servers as well as phones and set top boxes.
Probably. But if you run outside your house stark naked with no gun in sight (and clearly, nowhere to conceal one) screaming "I have a gun" they'll probably just taser you.
Unless you're in L..A.
They probably would shoot you. -And then five other naked people just to make sure they really got you.
Modern "news" channels are basically just a loop of the five worst things that happened in the world today.
Except for local channels.
They really go out of their way in trying to find someone in the local community, who somehow feels affected by the five worst things that happened in the world today, or knows someone, or has been there once, or knows someone who has been there once.
So, instead of shutting down generators, heating water, or pumping water uphill, energy companies could run on constant load and mine bitcoins during off-peak hours. With the newly acquired bitcoins they could then buy farmland to expand on fracking.
This has the potential to affect everyone in enormous ways because it takes firm root in a huge crack in our civil liberty protections.
It has been proven by many/. posters that civil liberty is something for people who sit at home and do nothing and doesn't apply to people who work, have Internet connection, a credit card, or leave their property. So I'll just repeat the main argument for you:
As soon as you get a job, you agree to a contract. Which means, your body, spirit, and soul belong to the company and they can do to you whatever they want. If you don't like that, you should look for a different owner or wait for the invisible hand to correct the market and retract itself from your cavities. There is just no other way. It might not be perfect, but it is the best system there is.
Asking for civil rights at the work place is asking for government interference with the market. This leads to mismanagement and a too powerful nanny state that takes direction from any anonymous voter instead of fully invested share-holders. If companies are blocked from accessing your private data, they also lose the ability to fully control you, which might interfere with profit. Anything interfering with profit is a violation of the free market and destroys our most valued freedoms. This ultimately leads to socialism and mass starvation like currently in Europe.
Exactly. A single pass of/dev/zero will wipe all the data on the drive beyond any hope of recovery, and sure as hell doesn't cost nine grand.
Assuming the zeros get (a) written at the exact same spot as the previous data and (b) an overwritten 1 looks exactly as an overwritten 0.
And of course I am not talking about the capabilities of the hard drive to recover old data, but about the platters mounted in a machine that has a higher spatial resolution and reads more magnetic states than just 1 and 0.
The FBI has also learned that talking face to face us being used in nearly every criminal activity of two or more people (gangs). Henceforth all conversations must be recorded on your official government recorder, which will relay all conversations in real time.
These government recorders are called OnStar (has been used to listen in) and cell phones (probably depending on the brand, but some apparently can be activated without user control).
- And that's why I only meet my people on a windy day at a stormy beach walking several feet into the sea with a symphony orchestra playing Beethoven while they are driving up and down the beach on two-stroke scooters tossing chain saws.
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Oh, fuck.
bad enough every video cable is an adapter, now what, more? [groans]
Yes!
Let's not confuse multi-port with adapter.
Multi-port:
My prior art, the earphone-mains combo.
Adapter:
Something like the Ether Killer.
USB 3.0 cables are a marriage of two different connectors.
Abomination!
Marriage is only between 1 man and 1 woman! So sayeth the bearded fairy in the sky!
So why did God create the Gender changer ?
There are three things that I don't believe you:
(1) Dancing (2) Girl (3) Club
Robots are far less likely to jump of buildings if you treat them like crap.
(On the other hand, a robot revolt could get ugly.)
... Case in point, I've got an annoying floater in my right eye. ... It seems like just the job for a micro-robot that can swim through an eye's vitreous and gather/destroy other small objects.
Even better, the robot could upgrade you to the new Google-floater: Just relax and look at the ceiling and you're on the internet.
We will never travel faster than the speed of light. That, however, does not mean we can not reach distant star systems. It will simply be a very, very, long trip.
A very, very long trip of a few thousand years at least (not to mention the 3000 years TSA will add to the pre-boarding).
Agreed.
And it is not just failure to vote for third parties.
Voting for third parties is actively discouraged. Their positions are ridiculed, they are not invited to debates, and if the media let a supporter talk, they either cut it to the point where it doesn't make sense anymore or they pick a very colorful loony to begin with. If all of that doesn't help, there's always the voting system. One could have 30% nation wide and not get a single seat. The districts are drawn by the ruling party, and who wins that district is basically decided in the primaries.
But voting is not so you can get your candidate in, voting is so people can make a decision and feel like they participated.
If you want to go somewhere with a little child, you don't say "Let's get your shoes on so we can go." You say: "We are going now. Do you want to wear the pink shoes or the black shoes?" And instead of protesting, the kid is busy thinking about this decision.
Last time people voted for the black guy, because the alternative they got presented with was that pink guy.
Huh. For a second there my brain thought: "FTL? Faster Than Light (travel)? WTF!"
WTF? World Taekwondo Federation?
Just wait, till my pocket-warmer app comes out.
Lemme guess, Bitcoin/SETI@Home full screen client with 3D accelerated visualization?
I was thinking of something even less useful. Something like the flashlight app but for heat generation:
You click on the "hand-warmer" icon and put the phone in your pocket. The app will run something like cpuburn (without giving credit of course) till the CPU hits 60C (adjustable in the premium version), then keep the phone at that temperature till the battery is dead, or till you take it out of the pocket and remember to shut it off (or once you enter a building with wifi in the premium version).
<sarcasm>Yes, that's why gunpowder is made of liquids.</sarcasm>
With "rarely" AC meant "only once"
Dude that's not camping. Leave your electricity and gas/propane at home. Please.
I prefer a guy with a battery and a heat blanket over generators, boom boxes and campers running a A/C window unit.
(Yes. Sometimes you run into all of that even in a wooded campground for hikers.)
"They"? Either the device is doing work four times more consuming, your device can stand by four times longer, ...
Just wait, till my pocket-warmer app comes out.
I tried rotating crops, but every time I till them the plants just die.
Now I thought of switching to growing chicks. But no luck either.
Dunno whether I planted them too close together or too deep.
Yeah, it is. PC sales have been flat to negative since the iPad came out.
PC isn't really dead. It's just that the people who never needed a traditional Computer to begin with now have other options.
If you want to watch movies, you don't need a a screen with a keyboard in front and a mouse. And for internet shopping, and browsing, and "liking", and youtube commenting you don't need a dedicated work space either.
But people who work with office or engineering programs, design, develop, or work with longer texts will still use something like a PC. And that could also be a laptop, form factor isn't the point.
The PC-for-everyone age is over and PCs are becoming business machines again, the public is happy with clickedyclick and swipe.
The market is splitting. Apple is in the consumer products market, Oracle makes money with stuff most people never even heard of, and Microsoft hasn't decided yet, but they might be big enough to do servers as well as phones and set top boxes.
I guess all those gamers aren't useless after all. You can thank me later for my donations to Nvidia's profits.
Of course. People buying a Nvidia Tesla have a significantly lower risk of contracting HIV.
But who knew, they're also helping to fund research.
We have mine-sweeping dolphins that actually find stuff? .
The navy also has special units of seals, I heard.
I guess they're switching to dolphins because they're just as cute but less smelly.
Probably. But if you run outside your house stark naked with no gun in sight (and clearly, nowhere to conceal one) screaming "I have a gun" they'll probably just taser you.
Unless you're in L..A.
They probably would shoot you. -And then five other naked people just to make sure they really got you.
This is not about religion, but about the placebo effect in a new area.
You poor depressed soul.
Modern "news" channels are basically just a loop of the five worst things that happened in the world today.
Except for local channels.
They really go out of their way in trying to find someone in the local community, who somehow feels affected by the five worst things that happened in the world today, or knows someone, or has been there once, or knows someone who has been there once.
There is a lot of unused energy off-peak.
So, instead of shutting down generators, heating water, or pumping water uphill, energy companies could run on constant load and mine bitcoins during off-peak hours. With the newly acquired bitcoins they could then buy farmland to expand on fracking.
This has the potential to affect everyone in enormous ways because it takes firm root in a huge crack in our civil liberty protections.
It has been proven by many /. posters that civil liberty is something for people who sit at home and do nothing and doesn't apply to people who work, have Internet connection, a credit card, or leave their property. So I'll just repeat the main argument for you:
As soon as you get a job, you agree to a contract. Which means, your body, spirit, and soul belong to the company and they can do to you whatever they want. If you don't like that, you should look for a different owner or wait for the invisible hand to correct the market and retract itself from your cavities. There is just no other way. It might not be perfect, but it is the best system there is.
Asking for civil rights at the work place is asking for government interference with the market. This leads to mismanagement and a too powerful nanny state that takes direction from any anonymous voter instead of fully invested share-holders. If companies are blocked from accessing your private data, they also lose the ability to fully control you, which might interfere with profit. Anything interfering with profit is a violation of the free market and destroys our most valued freedoms. This ultimately leads to socialism and mass starvation like currently in Europe.
What are you going to do with several hundred 40GB IDE drives?
World's crappiest RAID5?
World's most powerful refrigerator magnets?
Exactly. A single pass of /dev/zero will wipe all the data on the drive beyond any hope of recovery, and sure as hell doesn't cost nine grand.
Assuming the zeros get (a) written at the exact same spot as the previous data and (b) an overwritten 1 looks exactly as an overwritten 0. And of course I am not talking about the capabilities of the hard drive to recover old data, but about the platters mounted in a machine that has a higher spatial resolution and reads more magnetic states than just 1 and 0.
Given the success of their missile program so far, I think China should be more worried than the US - and that's assuming NK is aiming at the US.
The Great Leader is happy to report that we just nuked an American aggressor hiding in China.
The FBI has also learned that talking face to face us being used in nearly every criminal activity of two or more people (gangs). Henceforth all conversations must be recorded on your official government recorder, which will relay all conversations in real time.
These government recorders are called OnStar (has been used to listen in) and cell phones (probably depending on the brand, but some apparently can be activated without user control).
- And that's why I only meet my people on a windy day at a stormy beach walking several feet into the sea with a symphony orchestra playing Beethoven while they are driving up and down the beach on two-stroke scooters tossing chain saws.