the school board found that students must be told that global warming is only a theory and presented with an opposing viewpoint
Errm.... like what, exactly? Global warming isn't a theory, it's an observation. There are theories as to what causes it, and I tend to agree with the side saying that man hasn't got as much to do with it as the environmentalists would have us believe, but there is no question that it is happening and that we have to deal with it as a matter of urgency.
Ok, I'll start with taking my old CRT TV apart... I've read somewhere in a forum that you can learn a lot about capacitors by prodding around at the insides. I'll let you know how it went...;)
Standards are what the market demands, not what developers do.
Absolutely not! The market demands features and standards are there to ensure these features can be brought to the market in a consistent fashion by different developers working on different parts (e.g. in this case webpages and browsers to display them).
If the manufacturing costs of these disks is comparable to HD-DVD/Blu-ray disks, it might just click.
No, I reckon this one's DOA. These discs are thought to have an HD-DVD and a Blue-Ray layer, so essentially, you could either buy this and have access to half the disc or by the regular HD/Blueray (delete as appropriate) one and have the entire disc.
Or look at it this way:
People don't know which way the market will swing. Some manufacturers are trying to win either way with a disc that can be played in both players. However, once the market is decided, nobody will buy them, what'd be the point? If the market never gets decided, consumers will just get bored, buy an HD/Blueray drive and still ignore Total HD.
Whatever happens, I reckon a year from now Total HD will be all but forgotten.
Ah well, reading the rest of TFA (yeah I know, should have done that before, but hey:) ):
He has already received a $1 million grant from the US Department of Defense to develop a DNA "safety tag" that could be added to voluntary DNA reference samples in criminal cases to distinguish them from forensic samples. Such tags would not necessarily have to consist of lethal sequences, but could be based on primes that would be easy to detect using a simple kit.
So the/. summary was misleading, the DoD isn't actually after lethal DNA sequences at all and that is not where the money's going.
To do this, Hampikian and his colleage Tim Anderson, also at Boise, have developed software that calculates all the possible sequences of nucleotides - the "letters" of DNA - up to a certain length, and then scans sequence databases such as the US National Institutes of Health's Genbank to identify the smallest sequences that aren't present.
So, basically, it's one regexp and a database lookup. Which is fine (how else would you do it?) but all this requires is one afternoon of PhD time followed by a lot of computer crunching. Even if you buy a very shiny very fast dedicated computer for this, where do the remaining 990 000 dollars go?
I used to have a Taiwanese gf and the best way to make her completely furious was to call her Chinese. Seriously. She'd rip your head off just for that comment. However, at the other end, there are Taiwanese who really want to be friends with China and calling those Chinese is perfectly ok, in fact, it will make them really happy. I also knew a guy like that. Actually, he seemed to be happy whether you called him Taiwanese (you recognised where he was from specifically - wow) or Chinese (China is great, so thank you so much).
The bottom line, call them Taiwanese. Especially if you ask them where they're from and they answer 'Taiwan' and not 'China'. This way you're not likely to offend someone (well, apart from the Chinese, probably:) ).
No, you are wrong, this has been done in Harbin, which is in China, not Taiwan.
The Taiwanese have done something similar, much earlier in the year, but this does not refer to that (Though I have a feeling the pic in TFA is actually from the Taiwanese work because those pigs are clearly not just partially green).
Also, see here.
No, it still doesn't work. If he doesn't provide extensive details about the technicalities related to the case we can't help. If he does, we won't read TFA and we'll still be unhelpful.
yeah, except that RFID chips don't broadcast anything anyway and US RFID passports, unlike their British counterparts have a layer of tinfoil in their covers, so unless it's actually open, you can't read the chip.
So, to answer the OPs questions.
How far will you go to protect or disable the RFID chip in your passport?
Wrap it in tinfoil
Do you think such a step is necessary?
For US passports: nope, it's already been done for you, courtesy of your government. Other non-foil-wrapped passports: Meh. But yeah, better safe than sorry, I guess. Actually destroying the chip is just plain stupid though, unless you're a fan of full cavity searches.
[Pointless nitpicking] Surely, applications are (or are not) compatible with an OS, and not the other way around. An OS does (or does not) support an application. [/Pointless nitpicking]
I am currently looking for fundings for a report on wether or not the percentage of people who think that water is wet increased last year or not.
You clearly do not work in academia, so read and learn:
Your project will be called "Description of belief distribution dynamics over large time frames as a function of population dynamics: Is water wet?"
Your angle is the general question of how does the percentage of people holding a given general belief, obvious as it may seem, vary over time? Answering this very important question allows valuable insights both into likely distributions during significant historical events, for instance when Columbus set sail on the medium that some people may have believed to be wet and the likely distribution at any point in the future. In the specific case of "is water wet?", this information can be used comercially, for instance, by umbrella manufactures in order to better understand the dynamics of their market over time - if the percentage of people believing that water is wet is at a low point, this may reflect in a decline of umbrella sale.
The answer is to your question not obvious. At a minimum, to find it, you will need to: 1 Identify the number of people one year ago who did believe that water was wet 2 Identify how many of those have since died 3 Investigate whether babies are born with an innate belief about the state of water and if not, do they acquire this in their first year? 4 Identify the number of babies born in one year 5 Identify the number of people who have changed believe in the last year and optionally investigate why 6 Estimate the new number of people now believing water is wet based on 2-5 above 7 Calculate the percentage based on the current total world population
Once you have answered this basic question, you can go on to build a general predictive model of the evolution of this percentage over time, tie it in with commercial market research as described above and look for correlations with other trends in the population.
This is a significant workload - you will easily be able to argue for and get enough funding for yourself, 3 PhDs and a Post Doc if you spin this right. Remember, your project is interdisciplinary - it involves Sociology, Infant Psychology, Dynamical Systems and Marketing at a minimum. Interdisciplinary stuff is becoming quite trendy, so write Interdisciplinary Research Proposal in big letters onto your funding application - it can only help.
this is clearly a bid to force us into the more expensive version
You know, I agree with the give-users-a-choice and all those arguments, but how many of your average computer users will know what virtualisation is, let alone need it? This is the kind of topic the slashdot crowd will be infuriated about while the rest of the world goes "meh. don't care", assuming they even notice this.
The theft happened three months ago, why has the news only just been made public?
Uhm... so the thief gets a chance to format the disk and sell the laptop on, not bothering about the data on it, before Nationwide tells him that he's stolen a potential goldmine?
This was a good decision, it probably stopped the data from actually being misused.
Slashdot Mirror
Or look at it this way:
People don't know which way the market will swing. Some manufacturers are trying to win either way with a disc that can be played in both players. However, once the market is decided, nobody will buy them, what'd be the point? If the market never gets decided, consumers will just get bored, buy an HD/Blueray drive and still ignore Total HD.
Whatever happens, I reckon a year from now Total HD will be all but forgotten.
I used to have a Taiwanese gf and the best way to make her completely furious was to call her Chinese. Seriously. She'd rip your head off just for that comment. However, at the other end, there are Taiwanese who really want to be friends with China and calling those Chinese is perfectly ok, in fact, it will make them really happy. I also knew a guy like that. Actually, he seemed to be happy whether you called him Taiwanese (you recognised where he was from specifically - wow) or Chinese (China is great, so thank you so much).
:) ).
The bottom line, call them Taiwanese. Especially if you ask them where they're from and they answer 'Taiwan' and not 'China'. This way you're not likely to offend someone (well, apart from the Chinese, probably
No, you are wrong, this has been done in Harbin, which is in China, not Taiwan. The Taiwanese have done something similar, much earlier in the year, but this does not refer to that (Though I have a feeling the pic in TFA is actually from the Taiwanese work because those pigs are clearly not just partially green). Also, see here.
rsync?
No, it still doesn't work. If he doesn't provide extensive details about the technicalities related to the case we can't help. If he does, we won't read TFA and we'll still be unhelpful.
No. An important instruction is missing in the OP: what exactly do you attempt to achieve by asking those questions?
/. is the place to ask.
1. If it's an attempt to discredit the guy, you need to ask an expert of your own, something you won't find here.
2. If you want inventive ways to ask if he likes being the whore of a mega industry,
3. If it's anything else, it needs to be specified. until then we'll just assume your aim is in point 2.
So, to answer the OPs questions.
Wrap it in tinfoil
For US passports: nope, it's already been done for you, courtesy of your government. Other non-foil-wrapped passports: Meh. But yeah, better safe than sorry, I guess. Actually destroying the chip is just plain stupid though, unless you're a fan of full cavity searches.
[Pointless nitpicking]
Surely, applications are (or are not) compatible with an OS, and not the other way around. An OS does (or does not) support an application.
[/Pointless nitpicking]
The British use feet too, you know. Where do you think you got that from in the first place?
Your project will be called "Description of belief distribution dynamics over large time frames as a function of population dynamics: Is water wet?"
Your angle is the general question of how does the percentage of people holding a given general belief, obvious as it may seem, vary over time? Answering this very important question allows valuable insights both into likely distributions during significant historical events, for instance when Columbus set sail on the medium that some people may have believed to be wet and the likely distribution at any point in the future. In the specific case of "is water wet?", this information can be used comercially, for instance, by umbrella manufactures in order to better understand the dynamics of their market over time - if the percentage of people believing that water is wet is at a low point, this may reflect in a decline of umbrella sale.
The answer is to your question not obvious. At a minimum, to find it, you will need to:
1 Identify the number of people one year ago who did believe that water was wet
2 Identify how many of those have since died
3 Investigate whether babies are born with an innate belief about the state of water and if not, do they acquire this in their first year?
4 Identify the number of babies born in one year
5 Identify the number of people who have changed believe in the last year and optionally investigate why
6 Estimate the new number of people now believing water is wet based on 2-5 above
7 Calculate the percentage based on the current total world population
Once you have answered this basic question, you can go on to build a general predictive model of the evolution of this percentage over time, tie it in with commercial market research as described above and look for correlations with other trends in the population.
This is a significant workload - you will easily be able to argue for and get enough funding for yourself, 3 PhDs and a Post Doc if you spin this right. Remember, your project is interdisciplinary - it involves Sociology, Infant Psychology, Dynamical Systems and Marketing at a minimum. Interdisciplinary stuff is becoming quite trendy, so write Interdisciplinary Research Proposal in big letters onto your funding application - it can only help.
Only if that someone is American.
Which figure, what's the reference to your paper and shouldn't you be taking that up with him as opposed to complaining on Slashdot?
You sure you didn't miss the bucket of white paint somebody spilled in the middle of that junction? :)
Uhm... so the thief gets a chance to format the disk and sell the laptop on, not bothering about the data on it, before Nationwide tells him that he's stolen a potential goldmine?
This was a good decision, it probably stopped the data from actually being misused.
The option to flee from the Island? :)