I hate these machines as much as anyone around here, but i'm not so sure pregnant women have anything extra to worry about. The whole point of backscatter/mm-wave scanners are that they don't penetrate much more than clothing. Anything hidden inside a body cavity (like a baby, obviously) wouldn't receive any dosage of radiation because it simply doesn't penetrate that deep.
When Mindy the undergrad accidentally deletes her term paper and would be really REALLY grateful for a super smart and kinda cute geek to go in and recover the file with Backtrack... then you'll see the downside.
What? I reject your reality and substitute my own!
If your threshold for amazement is violating the known laws of the universe, I fear you are destined to live a very, VERY boring life. People seem to forget that in the last ~100 years we've gone from thinking nothing heavier than air could ever fly, to landing robots on other freaking planets. The fact that a manned craft going to outer space elicits nothing more than a yawn from most people is both frightening and humbling.
Yeah this is very similar to what I was picturing.
No matter how you slice it, I think, a round trip to mars would be the largest/longest/most expensive/most complicated/quintessentially fantastic trip in human history. Yet i'm 27 and afraid I may not live to see it.
Why bother making the trip twice? The same ship that carries everything to mars can be used as a fueling depot in mars orbit for the lander to return to earth.
Bit of a tradeoff there though. How much gay man-rasslin stuff are you willing to watch in order to see fit oiled women with huge fake chests roll around on the floor? Without paying cover anyways.;)
Conceded. It really should read that life as we know it would definitely not exist on this planet. It's far too speculative to say all life. My apologies.
What oceans? No magnetic field means there's nothing to stop solar winds from stripping earth of it's atmosphere. With no atmospheric pressure, the oceans would boil at 0C (and the water vapor would then be blown off into space too). Also, no magnetic field implies little to no plate tectonics, meaning volcanism is nonexistant, meaning no tasty little geothermal vents for microbes to snack on.
Make no mistake - without a magnetic field, life would most definitely not exist on this planet. This is not a case of life being fragile, it's a case of the universe being one giant miserable and goddamn inhospitable womb. The fact that life exists at all within it is testament to life's own robustness.
Yeah, well the movies imagine that James Bond drives a gadget laden supercar and basejumps off skyscrapers while having a gunfights with akimbo pistols. Yet the most excitement reality sees is writing Stuxnet...
TFA says one advantage of this laser is that, because the wavelength is adjustable, you could theoretically compensate for the atmosphere by picking a wavelength to which the atmosphere is mostly trasnparent.
The most fun I ever had disposing of a HDD was when I worked as a mechanic. One of the POS systems was being replaced and the drive in it was going to be shredded. It was a slow day then, so I bugged our IT guy to let me have a crack at it. With an evil grin, I took it out to a workbench, stuffed it in a vice, and beat the piss out of the casing with a hammer. Once it was suitably mangled I started taking it apart with a prybar and screwdriver (gotta save those magnets!) until all I had left was the stack of platters. I took them to the 10 ton press in the back and squished it into a platter-pizza. Then I went to the corner and took the Oxyacetylene torch to that sum'bitch, entertaining myself by doodling molten penises and happy faces in it.
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Well played, sir, well played.
16? Eh, that's really more of a 4chan thing.
Now if it was a LAN party... well! This is the perfect place to come for ideas on setting up a 100,000 client network!
Thorny: "Enhance."
*tickatickaticka*
Thorny: "Enhance."
*tickatickaticka*
Thorny: "Enhance."
*tickatickaticka*
Thorny: "Enhance."
*tick...tick...*
O''Hagan: "JUST PRINT THE DAMN THING!"
No, they just haven't yet delivered something he bought. It's not gone, just delayed.
You only need one authentication to play, after that you don't need to be logged in or even have the disc in the drive.
Oh sure, invent space beer AFTER the last shuttle has launched. Way to fuck up the order of operations on that one guys!
(tongue firmly in cheek)
I hate these machines as much as anyone around here, but i'm not so sure pregnant women have anything extra to worry about. The whole point of backscatter/mm-wave scanners are that they don't penetrate much more than clothing. Anything hidden inside a body cavity (like a baby, obviously) wouldn't receive any dosage of radiation because it simply doesn't penetrate that deep.
You just made me think of Fallout.
Ahh, pickpocketing people and planting grenades on them was so much fun...
They're called netbooks :)
*ducks*
When Mindy the undergrad accidentally deletes her term paper and would be really REALLY grateful for a super smart and kinda cute geek to go in and recover the file with Backtrack... then you'll see the downside.
What? I reject your reality and substitute my own!
G-man is the internet?
If your threshold for amazement is violating the known laws of the universe, I fear you are destined to live a very, VERY boring life.
People seem to forget that in the last ~100 years we've gone from thinking nothing heavier than air could ever fly, to landing robots on other freaking planets.
The fact that a manned craft going to outer space elicits nothing more than a yawn from most people is both frightening and humbling.
C'est la vie.
Yeah this is very similar to what I was picturing.
No matter how you slice it, I think, a round trip to mars would be the largest/longest/most expensive/most complicated/quintessentially fantastic trip in human history.
Yet i'm 27 and afraid I may not live to see it.
Why bother making the trip twice? The same ship that carries everything to mars can be used as a fueling depot in mars orbit for the lander to return to earth.
I'm pretty sure they're using "virus" for the layman.
Its a classic logic bomb.
Bit of a tradeoff there though. How much gay man-rasslin stuff are you willing to watch in order to see fit oiled women with huge fake chests roll around on the floor? ;)
Without paying cover anyways.
It's ok, I hear the US army has a nice skydiving* tour over Iraq.
*Parachute not supplied.
Conceded. It really should read that life as we know it would definitely not exist on this planet. It's far too speculative to say all life. My apologies.
Thanks, I had no idea congresscritters had managed to break that particular barrier. :)
The US elect an atheist?
They'd elect a mouth-breathing moron, a black man, and a woman first.
Well, 2/3 ain't bad.
Oceans which would boil at 0 Celsius without an atmosphere.
What oceans?
No magnetic field means there's nothing to stop solar winds from stripping earth of it's atmosphere.
With no atmospheric pressure, the oceans would boil at 0C (and the water vapor would then be blown off into space too).
Also, no magnetic field implies little to no plate tectonics, meaning volcanism is nonexistant, meaning no tasty little geothermal vents for microbes to snack on.
Make no mistake - without a magnetic field, life would most definitely not exist on this planet. This is not a case of life being fragile, it's a case of the universe being one giant miserable and goddamn inhospitable womb. The fact that life exists at all within it is testament to life's own robustness.
Yeah, well the movies imagine that James Bond drives a gadget laden supercar and basejumps off skyscrapers while having a gunfights with akimbo pistols. Yet the most excitement reality sees is writing Stuxnet...
TFA says one advantage of this laser is that, because the wavelength is adjustable, you could theoretically compensate for the atmosphere by picking a wavelength to which the atmosphere is mostly trasnparent.
The most fun I ever had disposing of a HDD was when I worked as a mechanic. One of the POS systems was being replaced and the drive in it was going to be shredded. It was a slow day then, so I bugged our IT guy to let me have a crack at it. With an evil grin, I took it out to a workbench, stuffed it in a vice, and beat the piss out of the casing with a hammer. Once it was suitably mangled I started taking it apart with a prybar and screwdriver (gotta save those magnets!) until all I had left was the stack of platters. I took them to the 10 ton press in the back and squished it into a platter-pizza. Then I went to the corner and took the Oxyacetylene torch to that sum'bitch, entertaining myself by doodling molten penises and happy faces in it.
Best day at work EVAR.