A drop bear is an animal similar to a koala, but slightly larger, with sharper claws and teeth adapted for eating meat. The primary food of the drop bear is other animals, however, they have been known to go after humans, particularly overseas tourists. Their name derives from their means of hunting: they lurk in trees, and drop down on their unsuspecting victims.
Considering that the only scientifically-verified consequence of overexposure to radio waves is radio burns -- and that only happens at very high energy densities -- I wouldn't worry about cancer.
No risk of that with these things. As I understand it, they'll inject a bunch of these into you, and the computers will circulate for a while, cleaning up cancer cells, until the computers get destroyed by your immune system. No reproduction, and no risk beyond a bad immune reaction.
Sure it sounds great now to inject someone with the self correcting units, but what happens when they start to replicate out of control? introduce tiny snakes to eat them?
What it sounds like they've done is invented a very, very simplified cell. It doesn't have the ability to reproduce, and will probably get cleaned up by the immune system in short order.
Actually, I think terminal I/O would be a very useful thing. I'd love to be able to release a program that, when run by my enemies, would terminate them, preferably with extreme prejudice.
If it's got a metal skin, the immune system will still react to it. One of the hardest tasks in designing implantable prosthetics is to find a coating material that the immune system won't reject.
Other technologies don't have the capability to wipe out all life on the planet.
Nanotech doesn't either. Almost all forms of life have something called an "immune system" that is very effective at getting rid of unwanted microorganisms.
What would happen if their system ends up catching someone on the FBI's most wanted list?
The next time an automated system catches a major criminal will be the first. None of the automated systems in the world has ever identified a suspect wanted for anything other than misdemeanors.
if they want to catch people running red lights they could just do photos at intersections. this would not be helpful for tracking people, because cars don't neccessarily mean that the owner is in it.
This system is two photos. One from behind, of the license plate. One from in front, of the occupants of the car.
I use to work for a digital surveilance camera company and I don't have a lot of respect for the face recognition software out there. If you set it too high you get an unexceptible number of false positives if you set it too low you don't get a match.
And if you set it in the middle, do you get both the false positives and the lack of a match?
The camera takes infrared photos of the license plate. Is there a material that is opaque in the near-infrared spectrum, while being transparent to the visible spectrum?
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Those aren't koalas, they're drop bears!
A drop bear is an animal similar to a koala, but slightly larger, with sharper claws and teeth adapted for eating meat. The primary food of the drop bear is other animals, however, they have been known to go after humans, particularly overseas tourists. Their name derives from their means of hunting: they lurk in trees, and drop down on their unsuspecting victims.
so, over-exposure is surely dangerous ... and from that, you concluded that light-exposure is safe .. that's some very interesting logic you are using
for me it sounds the same as saying : yeah sure, a flamethrower would kill you, but a small cigarette lighter is totally safe!
No, it's more along the lines of "days in a sauna will kill you, but fifteen minutes is safe".
I can tell because the keyboard gets too hot to touch.
This, of course, leads to the question of what he's doing in the ladies' bathroom.
Considering that the only scientifically-verified consequence of overexposure to radio waves is radio burns -- and that only happens at very high energy densities -- I wouldn't worry about cancer.
And the logical next step in the cycle is for the buildings to shrink until they fit in the palm of your hand?
Once they finish rebuilding the campus with this sort of building, they'll have one.
No risk of that with these things. As I understand it, they'll inject a bunch of these into you, and the computers will circulate for a while, cleaning up cancer cells, until the computers get destroyed by your immune system. No reproduction, and no risk beyond a bad immune reaction.
And where would the injection point be?
[W]hat would the injection DEVICE look like.
You have to ask?
Sure it sounds great now to inject someone with the self correcting units, but what happens when they start to replicate out of control? introduce tiny snakes to eat them?
What it sounds like they've done is invented a very, very simplified cell. It doesn't have the ability to reproduce, and will probably get cleaned up by the immune system in short order.
As with most real conservatives, we disagree with the sitting president.
What a horrible choice is left to us come November.
Not really. John Kerry is "Bush Lite". Conservatives shouldn't have any trouble voting for him.
Actually, I think terminal I/O would be a very useful thing. I'd love to be able to release a program that, when run by my enemies, would terminate them, preferably with extreme prejudice.
If it's got a metal skin, the immune system will still react to it. One of the hardest tasks in designing implantable prosthetics is to find a coating material that the immune system won't reject.
Or 3) Abusing a language that was never intended to have loops or branching in the first place. (InstallerVise scripting, in my case)
I have to keep modifying the SPEEDCONST though.
Is it still small enough to store in an integer?
Thermoacoustic cooling using helium or argon:
* No ozone depletion
* No contribution to global warming
* Natural part of the atmosphere
* Not explosive at any concentration
* Non-toxic
Why bother with something as dangerous as fluorine gas? Simple ultraviolet radiation should be sufficient.
Other technologies don't have the capability to wipe out all life on the planet.
Nanotech doesn't either. Almost all forms of life have something called an "immune system" that is very effective at getting rid of unwanted microorganisms.
What would happen if their system ends up catching someone on the FBI's most wanted list?
The next time an automated system catches a major criminal will be the first. None of the automated systems in the world has ever identified a suspect wanted for anything other than misdemeanors.
if they want to catch people running red lights they could just do photos at intersections. this would not be helpful for tracking people, because cars don't neccessarily mean that the owner is in it.
This system is two photos. One from behind, of the license plate. One from in front, of the occupants of the car.
System scans license plate --> finds license plate is for a stolen car --> police notified of location in real time.
System scans license plate --> misreads numbers --> finds car is owned by Osama bin Ladin --> you get arrested for being associated with terrorists.
I use to work for a digital surveilance camera company and I don't have a lot of respect for the face recognition software out there. If you set it too high you get an unexceptible number of false positives if you set it too low you don't get a match.
And if you set it in the middle, do you get both the false positives and the lack of a match?
The camera takes infrared photos of the license plate. Is there a material that is opaque in the near-infrared spectrum, while being transparent to the visible spectrum?
What sort of per-packet fee were you thinking of? $0.01 per packet? Seems rather expensive to me.
"Libraries of Congress"? There's only one Library of Congress you can measure it next to!