I believe the geneve convention was about a weapon which was designed to render enemies blind. It was a laserweapon and was quite effective, yet it was found to be "too inhumane" hence it being banned globally.
Blinding lasers would not actually save lives as they are intended to be used in addition to other weapons. They might even have the effect of increasing mortality rates as blinded opponents would not be able to defend themselves and thus be easily targeted by other weapons. As it is unlikely that an attacker would be able to assess at a distance whether an opponent has been rendered out of action by blinding, he would also use his other weapons. The result would therefore be just as many deaths and many more blind, thus increasing the suffering which results from battle.
Unlike other injuries, blinding results in very severe disability and near total dependence on others. Because sight provides us with some 80-90% of our sensory stimulation, blinding renders a person virtually unable to work or to function independently. This usually leads to a dramatic loss of self-esteem and severe psychological depression. Blinding is much more debilitating than most battlefield injuries.
Even if soldiers are not hit by lasers, the silent and invisible threat created by the presence or suspected presence of blinding lasers in an opponent's arsenal would increase the occurrence among soldiers of combat stress disorder and, later, of post-traumatic stress disorder.
I'm sure there are studies of people who run on short sleep periods and the results of that. But I always thought the REM-sleep to be CRUCIAL for mental wellness.
I can imagine that after being excessively awake some people might start suffering psychosis and other maladies.
What about physical regeneration?
I've run on very little sleep for long periods of time. If you strain yourself fe. and are up for 24hrs, it doesn't seem to get any better, but it get more nagging... yet a few hours of sleep does wonders.
Can this drug really replace all that? (as I can imagine some of the human 'regenerating' in sleepstate might be emulated in some way)
Or is it more like going on speed for a week, until you collapse and die cause you don't feel your body is over-performing? (I never have used speed btw)
Thanks for that, I was already wondering where the pictures were for "Uniquely Inserted Probes", as this article seems to be announced as such a big breakthrough.
"If the same cookie is present on multiple visits, it's the same person.
We next sort our visits by cookie ID"
Only after that they seem to continue the analys ("We know some IP addresses cannot be shared by one person. These are the ones that would require a person to move faster than possible", etc)
Thus turning off or regulary removing cookies will render their bleeding cutting edge technology useless? And how are cookies a 'breakthrought'?. Their only alternative to this seems to be; You can also throw Flash Shared Objects (FSO) into the mix. FSOs can't replace cookies, but if someone does support FSO you can use FSOs to record cookie IDs.
I don't know what the fuzz is about
This is just basic logic, which any decent programmer should be able to come up with, even the M$ certified ones.
You're like 15 years old? MM2 came out in 1998 I believe.
I feel old playing space invaders on a commondore..
I remember turning the pc on, loading the gigantic floppy, running out to play with things other then electronics (matches or something like that) and come back hoping the game loaded and we could play.
Well, the Space Shuttle looks 'sexy' yet it crashes when a puny tile falls of which they cleverly keep together with 100 camera's.
Looks isn't everything, it's durability and functionality I believe or even cost. The Russian rockets were buttugly, but they worked and were cheaper even to launch! But I have to agree that the conceptart is lacking a bit.
in fact they should be screened FOR being a psychopath
I'm not a psychologist. But I can imagine that someone sitting on billions, being in control of the lives of quite some people (as employees need money to feed their families) and sometimes feeling 'more' then employees as "if they did the things I did or had my smarts they'd be in a position like me"-attitude could result in some views which are a bit "off reality" and make someone act not appropriatly I imagine.
I'm curious wherever 'psychopathical behaviour' would be a result of being blinded with power and the constant asskissing from people and what not or that psychopaths have more favourable features to push their will through and get such a position and keep it or even enjoy it.
So what difference is there in "breeding supergerms" and "killing off weaker strains, resulting in only the stronger strains and mutations to survive hence being 'stronger' and near or entirely resistant"?
I suppose you have never heard about vancomycin resistant enterococci or Staphylococcus aureus?
So lets make supergerms by overusing this new technology with common colds and what not.
It's hopeful for the "hospital bacteria's" though. I *really* hope docs wont make the same mistake as they did with inappropriate overuse on antibiotics before.
Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! -- Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
So this morning everyone enjoyed bashing M$ for their yet again voulnerable software. Even thought 'the virus' was just a script which, as in every shell, could do some damage.
Now M$ reacts in the most secure way and takes more time to make sure it's really idiot proof, and investigate how to make it actually safe the/.-crowd is bashing some more as M$ would be incompetent and slacking.
I don't like M$ either, but it's a bit disturbing that an otherwise rather intelligent crowd just goes into uncontrollable bashing mode on the mere mention of Microsoft, like a poodle on a bitch in heat. Basically, the bashers right now are opposing those bashing this morning.
Isn't this like how our generation was labelled X, yet we got some leftover values of the more conservative (not in a political sense) previous generation by reflection, parenting, education and what a certain society considers acceptable. (peer influence; you always adjust to your environment or get in an isolated position. Not all are as determined to remain the isolated position or just don't realize they're flocking as it's a normal process)
Yet, limits are constantly pushed. Remember the 'Rock and Roll' in the 50s,'60s,... It has affected how our society looks, as that yought has grown to be now the 'controlers of this society' (being parents, politicians, artists, idols, lawyers, directors, writers, as anyone else who is part of a society)
It seems that each generations' concept of which is considered normal, acceptable its limits are being pushed and people get numbed down for what previously was.
Now I do wonder wherever this is a good thing, as I see the kids these day walking around and idealizing the whole ghetto culture, reflecting of f the media which tries to profit and does so with drawing people to them with "shock value" and probes how far it can go. (turns out.. each time you can go a bit further once people are used to it)
Yet, each generations' conceptions of what is acceptable will be challenged when they grow older and look behind who's going to follow them up.
... noone would want to do one of the 'uncool' jobs as they don't get glorified. Which sounds abit like manipulation of your youth perhaps a bit conditioning as well and that contiously!
Right now, being a metalworker, welder or a decent electrician is more profitable then being a programmer around here cause there simple aren't enough to fill in all the work...
Good workmen are always needed. Glorifying only a single field of the job spectrum will just cause imbalance, as it generally DOES work to get alot of people going into that field. But mostly they end up with too many graduates the particular field where they try to quickfix the problem by throwing financial bonusses for people who pick up a training / study in the starving fields.
Higher educations are perhaps good for a nation, but it's generally known that there is alot of snobism; "I'm more then person x as I've been able to get through a +3yr study" where most of the cases intelligence isn't really the factor leading to completion of the study, yet the completion comes often with an blown up ego.
I have some friends and family who hire people for a living. They all complain about the same green college kids waving with their 'accomplisments', papers and what not. Yet, they are worthless and a drain to the company as they proved they can study, but seldomly can apply what they've been taught in practice. Those with the biggest egos never get hired as they're completely unworkable.
Yes I have.
One of my eyes is just horrible, so the other "takes over". With these stereophonic things I do get a part of the illusion, but half of it is a total blur.
A "documentary" claiming to have proof the US faked the manned mission to the moon.
In a certain scene a Russian working in the Russian space program explained; "We never went to the moon because of the radiation... No human would've survived that".
Seems like the US is about to fake a manned mission to Mars this time:P
I thought they saw a deviation in Pluto's orbit already, which suggested another planet would've been influencing it but just haven't observed the planet yet.
As far as I know it has increased positive feedback from customers to her supervisors.
I personally don't use Blackberry thus don't know how it works or how it's only working in IE, I just have her tell me in enthousiasm when she once again helped out someone by linking them to FF.
fraudeliminator
Shows a toolbar that indicates whether the site you are at is really the one you think it is. Utilizes constantly-updated blacklists and artificial intelligence. Helps prevent phishing.
There you go. And the cool thing about FF is, that you can ADD to it. Without needing to wait until a big corp does it for you in a blackbox kindof way. (because the button is there it doesn't mean it's failproof or it actually works.)
All the people who I've showed FF are superhappy as they feel their PCs perform better now they understand IE brings in most of their nastyware and they tell about it to their friends, or customers. (A friend at the Blackberry / 3G helpdesk of VodaPhone redirects now everyone having some sortof browsing probs to FF's website to get a copy as she herself feels FF has solved alot of her frustrations.)
I find it a fascinating statement, as were people ACTIVELY go out to find a browser even when there's one preinstalled.
Slashdot Mirror
am I the only one who read "Locked-Out Journalists Turn To Procrasting"
No magic, nor gnomes? Ha! And you call this technology?
What happened to Robots.txt to start with? And authentication?
If google can crawl more than 3,000 Perfect 10 photos why wouldn't non-members be able to view these pictures?
This is an indicative that there's something wrong with their setup.
Case overruled!
ty.
I believe the geneve convention was about a weapon which was designed to render enemies blind. It was a laserweapon and was quite effective, yet it was found to be "too inhumane" hence it being banned globally.
Blinding laser weapons Or from icrcBlinding lasers would not actually save lives as they are intended to be used in addition to other weapons. They might even have the effect of increasing mortality rates as blinded opponents would not be able to defend themselves and thus be easily targeted by other weapons. As it is unlikely that an attacker would be able to assess at a distance whether an opponent has been rendered out of action by blinding, he would also use his other weapons. The result would therefore be just as many deaths and many more blind, thus increasing the suffering which results from battle.
Unlike other injuries, blinding results in very severe disability and near total dependence on others. Because sight provides us with some 80-90% of our sensory stimulation, blinding renders a person virtually unable to work or to function independently. This usually leads to a dramatic loss of self-esteem and severe psychological depression. Blinding is much more debilitating than most battlefield injuries.
Even if soldiers are not hit by lasers, the silent and invisible threat created by the presence or suspected presence of blinding lasers in an opponent's arsenal would increase the occurrence among soldiers of combat stress disorder and, later, of post-traumatic stress disorder.
I'm sure there are studies of people who run on short sleep periods and the results of that. But I always thought the REM-sleep to be CRUCIAL for mental wellness.
I can imagine that after being excessively awake some people might start suffering psychosis and other maladies.
What about physical regeneration?
I've run on very little sleep for long periods of time. If you strain yourself fe. and are up for 24hrs, it doesn't seem to get any better, but it get more nagging... yet a few hours of sleep does wonders.
Can this drug really replace all that? (as I can imagine some of the human 'regenerating' in sleepstate might be emulated in some way)
Or is it more like going on speed for a week, until you collapse and die cause you don't feel your body is over-performing? (I never have used speed btw)
...A new brance of amateur porn here.
Thanks for that,
I was already wondering where the pictures were for "Uniquely Inserted Probes", as this article seems to be announced as such a big breakthrough.
"If the same cookie is present on multiple visits, it's the same person. We next sort our visits by cookie ID"
Only after that they seem to continue the analys ("We know some IP addresses cannot be shared by one person. These are the ones that would require a person to move faster than possible", etc)
Thus turning off or regulary removing cookies will render their bleeding cutting edge technology useless? And how are cookies a 'breakthrought'?. Their only alternative to this seems to be;
You can also throw Flash Shared Objects (FSO) into the mix. FSOs can't replace cookies, but if someone does support FSO you can use FSOs to record cookie IDs.
I don't know what the fuzz is about
This is just basic logic, which any decent programmer should be able to come up with, even the M$ certified ones.
You're like 15 years old? MM2 came out in 1998 I believe.
I feel old playing space invaders on a commondore.. I remember turning the pc on, loading the gigantic floppy, running out to play with things other then electronics (matches or something like that) and come back hoping the game loaded and we could play.
Well, the Space Shuttle looks 'sexy' yet it crashes when a puny tile falls of which they cleverly keep together with 100 camera's.
Looks isn't everything, it's durability and functionality I believe or even cost. The Russian rockets were buttugly, but they worked and were cheaper even to launch! But I have to agree that the conceptart is lacking a bit.
in fact they should be screened FOR being a psychopath
I'm not a psychologist. But I can imagine that someone sitting on billions, being in control of the lives of quite some people (as employees need money to feed their families) and sometimes feeling 'more' then employees as "if they did the things I did or had my smarts they'd be in a position like me"-attitude could result in some views which are a bit "off reality" and make someone act not appropriatly I imagine.
I'm curious wherever 'psychopathical behaviour' would be a result of being blinded with power and the constant asskissing from people and what not or that psychopaths have more favourable features to push their will through and get such a position and keep it or even enjoy it.
So what difference is there in "breeding supergerms" and "killing off weaker strains, resulting in only the stronger strains and mutations to survive hence being 'stronger' and near or entirely resistant"?
I suppose you have never heard about vancomycin resistant enterococci or Staphylococcus aureus?
I was trying to sound cynical, djeez.
So lets make supergerms by overusing this new technology with common colds and what not.
It's hopeful for the "hospital bacteria's" though. I *really* hope docs wont make the same mistake as they did with inappropriate overuse on antibiotics before.
You didn't know?
95% of their software is written by interns, 4% of their software actually works.
Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! -- Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
That's not even a decent attempt to carma whore.So this morning everyone enjoyed bashing M$ for their yet again voulnerable software. Even thought 'the virus' was just a script which, as in every shell, could do some damage.
Now M$ reacts in the most secure way and takes more time to make sure it's really idiot proof, and investigate how to make it actually safe the /.-crowd is bashing some more as M$ would be incompetent and slacking.
I don't like M$ either, but it's a bit disturbing that an otherwise rather intelligent crowd just goes into uncontrollable bashing mode on the mere mention of Microsoft, like a poodle on a bitch in heat. Basically, the bashers right now are opposing those bashing this morning.
Isn't this like how our generation was labelled X, yet we got some leftover values of the more conservative (not in a political sense) previous generation by reflection, parenting, education and what a certain society considers acceptable. (peer influence; you always adjust to your environment or get in an isolated position. Not all are as determined to remain the isolated position or just don't realize they're flocking as it's a normal process)
Yet, limits are constantly pushed. Remember the 'Rock and Roll' in the 50s,'60s,... It has affected how our society looks, as that yought has grown to be now the 'controlers of this society' (being parents, politicians, artists, idols, lawyers, directors, writers, as anyone else who is part of a society)
It seems that each generations' concept of which is considered normal, acceptable its limits are being pushed and people get numbed down for what previously was.
Now I do wonder wherever this is a good thing, as I see the kids these day walking around and idealizing the whole ghetto culture, reflecting of f the media which tries to profit and does so with drawing people to them with "shock value" and probes how far it can go. (turns out.. each time you can go a bit further once people are used to it)
Yet, each generations' conceptions of what is acceptable will be challenged when they grow older and look behind who's going to follow them up.
... noone would want to do one of the 'uncool' jobs as they don't get glorified. Which sounds abit like manipulation of your youth perhaps a bit conditioning as well and that contiously!
Right now, being a metalworker, welder or a decent electrician is more profitable then being a programmer around here cause there simple aren't enough to fill in all the work...
Good workmen are always needed. Glorifying only a single field of the job spectrum will just cause imbalance, as it generally DOES work to get alot of people going into that field. But mostly they end up with too many graduates the particular field where they try to quickfix the problem by throwing financial bonusses for people who pick up a training / study in the starving fields.
Higher educations are perhaps good for a nation, but it's generally known that there is alot of snobism; "I'm more then person x as I've been able to get through a +3yr study" where most of the cases intelligence isn't really the factor leading to completion of the study, yet the completion comes often with an blown up ego.
I have some friends and family who hire people for a living. They all complain about the same green college kids waving with their 'accomplisments', papers and what not. Yet, they are worthless and a drain to the company as they proved they can study, but seldomly can apply what they've been taught in practice. Those with the biggest egos never get hired as they're completely unworkable.
Yes I have.
One of my eyes is just horrible, so the other "takes over". With these stereophonic things I do get a part of the illusion, but half of it is a total blur.
I always didn't really get the whole 3D or the effect got mostly lost on me with the silly glasses as I lack depth perception.
I just don't like the sound of "stereoscopic" in my case. I hope they can also be viewed comfortably in mono if this gets a new cinegraphic standard.
A "documentary" claiming to have proof the US faked the manned mission to the moon.
In a certain scene a Russian working in the Russian space program explained;
"We never went to the moon because of the radiation... No human would've survived that".
Seems like the US is about to fake a manned mission to Mars this time :P
I thought they saw a deviation in Pluto's orbit already, which suggested another planet would've been influencing it but just haven't observed the planet yet.
Wasn't this the same way they discovered Pluto?
As far as I know it has increased positive feedback from customers to her supervisors.
I personally don't use Blackberry thus don't know how it works or how it's only working in IE, I just have her tell me in enthousiasm when she once again helped out someone by linking them to FF.
fraudeliminator Shows a toolbar that indicates whether the site you are at is really the one you think it is. Utilizes constantly-updated blacklists and artificial intelligence. Helps prevent phishing.
There you go. And the cool thing about FF is, that you can ADD to it. Without needing to wait until a big corp does it for you in a blackbox kindof way. (because the button is there it doesn't mean it's failproof or it actually works.)
All the people who I've showed FF are superhappy as they feel their PCs perform better now they understand IE brings in most of their nastyware and they tell about it to their friends, or customers. (A friend at the Blackberry / 3G helpdesk of VodaPhone redirects now everyone having some sortof browsing probs to FF's website to get a copy as she herself feels FF has solved alot of her frustrations.)
I find it a fascinating statement, as were people ACTIVELY go out to find a browser even when there's one preinstalled.
It's a very strong statement...