The major problem with *magic* solutions, is that leader types look at them and say "Wow, Iris Scanners, I could never fool one of those, so nobody could fool one." People have the same reaction to physical locks.
This leads to security theater. Yes, it stops stupid criminals, and yes it can be a good thing when you stop stupid criminals, but when you want to stop people flying airplanes into buildings, or stock traders from racking up $2 billion in fraudulent losses, magic dohickys aren't the solution.
Silly Reader, warrants are so 20th century. These days, they just show a letter, that you can't discuss with anyone, citing a "secret" law. Yes, it's unconstitutional, but if you're a $12/hour clerk, and the guy with the gun is asking, are you going to make a fuss?
I was disappointed that the best thing they could come up with was applications in quantum computing- there could be a host of novel synthesis based on this bond.
If it stays bonded out of the magnetic field.
If not, and you could create such a field, and such bonds, even for a fraction of a second, you could put it to useful work in quantum computing, since you might only need a few atoms per bit. A 1Mb quantum computer could do some amazing things before it disintegrated. 1 million molecules of unobtanium that only lasted a few milliseconds would have limited uses, other than studying the properties of unobtanium.
We can already make a "Robot's Olympics". Isn't auto racing just enhanced human racing?
Some people would tune in to see the products that are being advertised. If the "Runalong 6000" leg prosthetic beats the "Leapfrog 200", I might be interested if I'm in the market for my own enhancement.
Accumulo runs afoul of a government policy that prevents federal agencies from building their own software when they have access to commercial alternatives
Just arrange to sell it to Google, make them the maintainers, and buy it back for $1.
Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback wrote about rockets to the moon before Goddard and Von Braun tried it. Verne even applied a bit of science, but did make mistakes.
Is a story about an idea necessary before the invention of that idea. I have no idea*. (:-)
*There are hundreds of thousands of ideas before any implementation. There's no way to "prove" that an implentation wouldn't have happened before any of them were written down in story form. See "Butterfly Effect"
Yes. The Wright brothers experimented with gliders before powered flight. They existed, but were nothing special. They used them to develop piloting skills. AFAIK, paper airplane gliders date back before DaVinci.
What happens when Aereo becomes the dominant method for customers getting "OTA" signals? Then Aereo is in the position in dictating terms to the networks. Aereo could blead the them dry. Yes, that would also kill Aereo, but since NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX would kill the golden goose if they could, they assume that Aereo would as well.
If your supplier would kill you if he could, then you must kill him before he can kill you. (If you can) Yes, killing your supplier kills you, but whoever dies last, wins. (:-(
We need an answering machine that can use voice recognition to detect real callers, and forward them to your cordless/cell phone, and keep the sales calls in voice jail hell.
RAM: Hello
Salesguy: Hello, I'm calling from ****
RAM: I'm listening
Salesguy: Our pills are the best pills there are
RAM: Tell me more
Salesguy: They cure gout, baldness, and cancer.
RAM: Go on
...
The Robo Answering Machine scripts wouldn't even need to be that interactive. As long as the device could detect when the salesguy was speaking, and respond with a random interogative or prompt. There could even be contests to generate the best scripts.
This same problem is prevalent in education. Pitting student against student has no educational value of measuring if a student can learn what they are supposed to learn. Johnny is the best at 4th grade math (got 100%!) and Frank is the worst, even though Frank got a 92% when the standard is 70%.
When I was in high school and college, I was amazed by the number of Math teachers/professors that didn't understand the mathematical basis for "grading on a curve".
Being as big as a Gates or a Zuckerberg is more a function of opportunity than pure education or even talent. Not to underestimate their abilities, of course, but I'd say there are plenty of people with the academic capabilities (or better) of both of those two, but they will never be more than well-paid employees.
Yes, having parents that can easily pay for Harvard or Yale is more important to your future wealth than actually *graduating* from Harvard or Yale.
Ellison
Gates
Jobs
Zuckerberg
That's most of the tech money that isn't IBM or HP.
Tom Watson Sr., the guy that founded IBM also appears to be a dropout. From the wikipedia "Having given up his first job—teaching—after just one day, Watson took a year's course in accounting and business at the Miller School of Commerce in Elmira. He left the school in 1891, taking a job at $6 a week as bookkeeper for Clarence Risley's Market in Painted Post."
I don't know about H or P, but yes it would be interesting to see the piechart of the value of companies founded by college graduates vs. non-grads.
Edison was also a non-college guy, and he founded quite a few companies that are still around today.
You joke, but Memphis is in Shelby county, and something similar happened to the new sheriff in town. He cleaned up some crime, then when he was at a gas station, he commited suicide with a shotgun. (This was the late '80s, early 90's)
In response, FDA told Threatpost that it is developing tools to disassemble and test medical device software and locate security problems and weak design
Do we, the patients, have the right to do this, or does it have to go on behind closed doors and NDAs?
In a distopian novel, the government would do this so that they could turn off your heart, if you said anything out of turn.
My larger dog (~90 Lbs), has severe arthritis in his hip and back knees. He used to require regular doses of Duramax just to walk around. We started him on ~1500mg of glucosamine w/ MSM. He's now up to 4500mg twice a day, and hasn't needed a Duramax in months. (Once we ran out of the glucosamine, and within a day, we was in pain again) We have to crush the pills over his food to get him to take it.
Is there a placebo effect in dogs?
*Note. This are much, much larger doses than any of the glocosamine trials I've ever seen in humans. YMMV
That's not what a "legal fiction" is.
A legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts. A corporation being treated in some respects like a person is a legal fiction. It can sign contracts, and even if the real person who signed the contract leaves the corporation, it's still on the hook for the completion of the contract.
As far as the courts are concerned, if you own real estate, you really own it, it's not a legal fiction.
If you own a horse, and that horse kicks someone, you are liable. (Adjust for state law here)
Deterrence is a weasel word. The word you're looking for is "Fear"...
No, Arthur C. Clarke talked about this w.r.t. technology. There are fears that are destabilizing, and fears that stabilize. If your "enemy" thinks that you are going to come to him and take his stuff, that fear destabilizes, weapons escalation is destabilizing. If your "enemy" has good intelligence, and knows that your weapons are secure and non-mobile, that fear is stabilizing, he knows he's safe now, but if he attacks those weapons are available.
To paraphase Mr. Clarke, more nuclear bombs, destabilizing. More spy satellites, stabilizing.
That sad part of the human existence, is that if your "enemy" doesn't fear you in the least, and has no reason to believe you will oppose him, he *will* come and take your stuff.
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The major problem with *magic* solutions, is that leader types look at them and say "Wow, Iris Scanners, I could never fool one of those, so nobody could fool one." People have the same reaction to physical locks.
This leads to security theater. Yes, it stops stupid criminals, and yes it can be a good thing when you stop stupid criminals, but when you want to stop people flying airplanes into buildings, or stock traders from racking up $2 billion in fraudulent losses, magic dohickys aren't the solution.
Silly Reader, warrants are so 20th century. These days, they just show a letter, that you can't discuss with anyone, citing a "secret" law. Yes, it's unconstitutional, but if you're a $12/hour clerk, and the guy with the gun is asking, are you going to make a fuss?
I was disappointed that the best thing they could come up with was applications in quantum computing- there could be a host of novel synthesis based on this bond.
If it stays bonded out of the magnetic field.
If not, and you could create such a field, and such bonds, even for a fraction of a second, you could put it to useful work in quantum computing, since you might only need a few atoms per bit. A 1Mb quantum computer could do some amazing things before it disintegrated. 1 million molecules of unobtanium that only lasted a few milliseconds would have limited uses, other than studying the properties of unobtanium.
We can already make a "Robot's Olympics". Isn't auto racing just enhanced human racing?
Some people would tune in to see the products that are being advertised. If the "Runalong 6000" leg prosthetic beats the "Leapfrog 200", I might be interested if I'm in the market for my own enhancement.
I'm going to patent the Virtual^N Controller. Any controller in the window of another controller will be covered. (:-)
Accumulo runs afoul of a government policy that prevents federal agencies from building their own software when they have access to commercial alternatives
Just arrange to sell it to Google, make them the maintainers, and buy it back for $1.
If they could input directly from your mind, why bother without output via retina? That's an analog connection..
Presumably, reading minds is safer than writing minds.
Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback wrote about rockets to the moon before Goddard and Von Braun tried it. Verne even applied a bit of science, but did make mistakes.
Is a story about an idea necessary before the invention of that idea. I have no idea*. (:-)
*There are hundreds of thousands of ideas before any implementation. There's no way to "prove" that an implentation wouldn't have happened before any of them were written down in story form. See "Butterfly Effect"
Yes. The Wright brothers experimented with gliders before powered flight. They existed, but were nothing special. They used them to develop piloting skills. AFAIK, paper airplane gliders date back before DaVinci.
It's a control and fear issue.
What happens when Aereo becomes the dominant method for customers getting "OTA" signals? Then Aereo is in the position in dictating terms to the networks. Aereo could blead the them dry. Yes, that would also kill Aereo, but since NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX would kill the golden goose if they could, they assume that Aereo would as well.
If your supplier would kill you if he could, then you must kill him before he can kill you. (If you can) Yes, killing your supplier kills you, but whoever dies last, wins. (:-(
The Robo Answering Machine scripts wouldn't even need to be that interactive. As long as the device could detect when the salesguy was speaking, and respond with a random interogative or prompt. There could even be contests to generate the best scripts.
Now we're one step closer to immortality through "Brain in a Box"(tm) technology!
This same problem is prevalent in education. Pitting student against student has no educational value of measuring if a student can learn what they are supposed to learn. Johnny is the best at 4th grade math (got 100%!) and Frank is the worst, even though Frank got a 92% when the standard is 70%.
When I was in high school and college, I was amazed by the number of Math teachers/professors that didn't understand the mathematical basis for "grading on a curve".
Whatever. I tried piping some input to it and it failed miserably.
Hmm, I don't know what the problem was. I tried random input and it worked great. Just like I expected it to. (:-)
Being as big as a Gates or a Zuckerberg is more a function of opportunity than pure education or even talent. Not to underestimate their abilities, of course, but I'd say there are plenty of people with the academic capabilities (or better) of both of those two, but they will never be more than well-paid employees.
Yes, having parents that can easily pay for Harvard or Yale is more important to your future wealth than actually *graduating* from Harvard or Yale.
Ellison Gates Jobs Zuckerberg That's most of the tech money that isn't IBM or HP.
Tom Watson Sr., the guy that founded IBM also appears to be a dropout. From the wikipedia "Having given up his first job—teaching—after just one day, Watson took a year's course in accounting and business at the Miller School of Commerce in Elmira. He left the school in 1891, taking a job at $6 a week as bookkeeper for Clarence Risley's Market in Painted Post."
I don't know about H or P, but yes it would be interesting to see the piechart of the value of companies founded by college graduates vs. non-grads.
Edison was also a non-college guy, and he founded quite a few companies that are still around today.
... Internet Virus Causes Home Printers to Generate Plague / Ebola / Marshmallow Fluff. -- clearly I consider all 3 to be of equal horror --
I'm somewhat resistent to Plague, Ebola might be cured soon, but Gozer the Gozarian coming out of my home printer? Now, that's scary. http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man
You joke, but Memphis is in Shelby county, and something similar happened to the new sheriff in town. He cleaned up some crime, then when he was at a gas station, he commited suicide with a shotgun. (This was the late '80s, early 90's)
In response, FDA told Threatpost that it is developing tools to disassemble and test medical device software and locate security problems and weak design
Do we, the patients, have the right to do this, or does it have to go on behind closed doors and NDAs?
In a distopian novel, the government would do this so that they could turn off your heart, if you said anything out of turn.
My larger dog (~90 Lbs), has severe arthritis in his hip and back knees. He used to require regular doses of Duramax just to walk around. We started him on ~1500mg of glucosamine w/ MSM. He's now up to 4500mg twice a day, and hasn't needed a Duramax in months. (Once we ran out of the glucosamine, and within a day, we was in pain again) We have to crush the pills over his food to get him to take it.
Is there a placebo effect in dogs?
*Note. This are much, much larger doses than any of the glocosamine trials I've ever seen in humans. YMMV
That's not what a "legal fiction" is.
A legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts. A corporation being treated in some respects like a person is a legal fiction. It can sign contracts, and even if the real person who signed the contract leaves the corporation, it's still on the hook for the completion of the contract.
As far as the courts are concerned, if you own real estate, you really own it, it's not a legal fiction.
If you own a horse, and that horse kicks someone, you are liable. (Adjust for state law here)
All property is a legal fiction
No, all ownership is a legal construct. The property itself can be real or fictional.
..., people supported the artist because they wanted him or her to generate future content.
That and bragging rights. My artist in residence is better than your artist in residence.
Deterrence is a weasel word. The word you're looking for is "Fear"...
No, Arthur C. Clarke talked about this w.r.t. technology. There are fears that are destabilizing, and fears that stabilize. If your "enemy" thinks that you are going to come to him and take his stuff, that fear destabilizes, weapons escalation is destabilizing. If your "enemy" has good intelligence, and knows that your weapons are secure and non-mobile, that fear is stabilizing, he knows he's safe now, but if he attacks those weapons are available.
To paraphase Mr. Clarke, more nuclear bombs, destabilizing. More spy satellites, stabilizing.
That sad part of the human existence, is that if your "enemy" doesn't fear you in the least, and has no reason to believe you will oppose him, he *will* come and take your stuff.
HD Radio doesn't work well in a moving car.
Talk about an epic fail, morning and evening drive time is when stations make most of their money.
My HD radio does switch seamlessly between SD and HD if you are on the main channel. However, the loss of quality is noticable.