"Magnetic Field Reversals Unlikely To Be a Problem For Life..."
Key word there is "life", other than messing with any species that uses the magnetic field to guild its migration path for the most part a collapse and flip of the Earth's magnetic field will have little or no long term impact on "life"
But Technology on the other hand is going to be mostly screwed over by a flip. Something most people don't get is a pole flip won't be a clean instant flip where suddenly your compass is 180 degrees off from where it pointed to before lunch. The poles will move around, the "North" pole could end up on the Equator while the "South" pole has become multiple "poles" scattered around the other side of the planet for awhile. This unstable period could last for years if not decades. But that won't be what fucks over technology..
When the Earths magnetic field starts going wonky the Van Allen Belts, the shield that protects the Earth and, most important to Humans, all the communication/GPS/monitoring satellites in orbit will mostly cease to exist. Many of those satellites are not made to withstand direct exposure to the Sun's radiation for very long. So most of the electronics in orbit will be fried. Also affected will be the Earth's Ionosphere, when it gets hit by strong solar radiation, like during a solar flare or direct exposure to the solar wind the layer becomes opaque to radio, no more GPS or reliable communications via satellite will be able to reach the ground, which will mess with shipping, aircraft, commerce (lots of systems use GPS for their time reference) and even local cell phone connections. And all the copper wire strung all over the planet we rely on for power distribution and communications will be similarly hosed. Read up on the Carrington Event" of 1859 to learn what happens when the Earth gets hit by a LOT of solar wind.
All that said I'm not going to lose sleep over the possibility of a flip in my lifetime. Like the Astronomer said, it won't be a problem for Life because it will adapt to the changes and continue on. And as much as I would dislike it not being able to get GPS driving directions to my hotel or surf the Internet won't kill me.
Given how I've seen my nephew act when his parents tell him to get off his computer and actually go play with his friends in real life I have to agree that shutting down the Internet even one day a week would be a good thing. Hell's given how much time I spend playing Final Fantasy XIV I think a weekly shutdown would be good thing.
The games/social media/etc.do such a good a job triggering the release of Dopamine in your brain that anyone saying it isn't addictive is deluded.
Even this method worked I can't see any space fairing civilization using it.
For starters you have to get to a black hole. Given the radiation those things can put out when feeding I can't see any advanced civilization anywhere within hundreds of light years, possibly 1000's, so to even get to the black holes in the first place they would need to have some kind of practical FTL or near-light speed propulsion.
And as to actually creating a black hole for this use I can't see that either, you would never get more energy out of it than you had put in so the most efficient use of that energy would be to just use if for propulsion in the first place for a LASER boosted light sail or "warp drive"
Sadly many more than you would think, I encounter them more often than zipped archives in several different fields I deal with. And my efforts to get the authors.developers to change to an application that uses a more open standard have not been very successful. The frequent response I get is "I don't want to learn a new program" or "it works so why should I change?".
"Most estimates are that there are less than a million detained in the Xinjiang camps."
So, 999,990?
That the OP's numbers are off a bit doesn't change the fact that there is a large number of people imprisoned for no other reason than their ethnicity.
I notice that many of the comments made in response to yours are talking about the US prison system instead of the imprisoned Uighurs.
You just know that someone is going to die because they get pulled over due to a false positive and some trigger happy brown shirt over reacts when the detained person sneezes and starts shooting?
Then the rest of the Police force will close ranks and defend it as a "justified" action and the worst the officer gets is some paid leave while it blows over while the victim's family gets nothing.
maybe this tech could be used in some thing like bubble memory but at a size, speed, and density that makes it equal or better to existing nonvolatile memory storage tech.
I'm going to put a hold on LibreOffice updates until I get around to loading it up in a VM for testing,
I'm all for feature and security updates but after having to deal with all the UI "improvements" in the UI's of various application (Firefox, Word, Windows, etc.) over the years I am hesitant to give up what I have become familiar with if I can avoid it.
Had to skim almost the whole article to find out this simple little bit of info.
Gates wants to build a Uranium based "traveling wave" style reactor using molten sodium for cooling. The technology is problematic, hasn't ever been tested on large scale. Requires metal alloys that are still being developed and still uses a rare, expensive and inherently dangerous fuel.Some experts say the tech is potentially decades away from being viable.
Disclaimer: I am an advocate of LFTR (Liquid Floride Thorium Reactor) based energy generation. The tech still needs work but its closer to reality than what Gates wants.
A Chinese issued passport that will be easily replaced once she gets back to China.
"...wear a GPS tracking device..."
that can be easily disabled/spoofed by anyone with the know how. (it was probably made in China)
"...and be accompanied by security detail..."
that will be even easier to disable/evade than the GPS tracking device by anyone who doesn't care about pissing off the Canadians.
And then it will be onto a private jet that will have filed a flight plan to San Diego but will then overshoot into Mexican airspace and disappear off RADAR never to be heard from again. Unless the plane has the range to make it back to China without a refuel in which case the flight plan will be to Anchorage, after all, someone fleeing US custody would never get on a plane going to the USA.
Any judge who didn't agree that the CEO of a multi-billion company with close ties to a foreign Government that would NOT want to end up in the USA was not a flight risk is an idiot of unparalleled magnitude, or someone has some really bad dirt on them that made it worth doing something this stupid.
A ship covered in sensors being monitored 24/7 by an on board AI would be much more likely to spot a life raft or improvised vessel a cast away might build. Consider the AI never sleeps, has 360 degree awareness and would be able to see in the dark.
I remember in the movie "All is Lost" the main character's life raft was passed by a cargo vessel at night, and the crew didn't notice his flares. An AI system, hopefully programmed for such cases, would have likely spotted the life raft and alerted it's operators to notify rescue services.
Potentially the ships could even carry a small GPS tracker equipped drone that could fly/swim to the life raft and guide rescue craft to it. A couple drones per ship would cost less than a days wages for a crew member, and you would only have to buy a new one if it was lost while deployed.
given that the officer was in violation of a 2015 Suprem Court decision by holding the defendant until the drug dog showed up anything that followed on from that illegal search, like the marijuana and whatever other evidence was used to get the warrant for the phones, is inadmissible in any US court and must be thrown out it will be interesting to see what happens next.
This is the same thing that happened in the VHS:Betamax battle back in the '80s. Once the porn industry picks a VR hardware and interface format and standardizes on it that combo will become the most popular HW/interface on the market, quality be Damned.
I just hope they go with the best quality choice this time, VHS was an inferior format to Betamax but Beta still lost out. Anther nail in the Beta coffin was cost, though Beta did continue to serve the TV industry very well until HD-digital came on the scene
I cannot even begin to imagine the problems a flamethrower would cause firefighters and police officers alike."
Just look around. Nothing has changed. Flamethrowers have been legal in CA since before it became a state. And yet to the best of my knowledge there isn't a single instance, ever, of one being used maliciously. (please correct me if I'm wrong)
This attempt at legislation looks more like a some kind of "OMG! Flamethrowers are scary! We have to outlaw them!" type of knee jerk BS I've come to expect from California lawmakers.
How is developing anything for the military ethical?
Even research into something "good" like regenerating severed limbs is just so the military can put the soldiers back into battle asap and keep them killing the "enemy".
Sometimes when I hear about some of the stuff being developed I am really glad Humanity is still stuck on Earth. The last thing I would want would be for them to spread to other worlds before they evolve beyond killing each other over stupid shit like which tribe you were born into.
Slashdot Mirror
Now he will get to stay in the USA getting free room, board and medical care.
Current Modus operandi;
walk up to door,
pick up package,
walk away,
profit!
Now it will be
Walk up to door,
pickup package,
walk away,
stuff into heavy Mylar bag to block GPS and Cell signals.
Profit!
"Magnetic Field Reversals Unlikely To Be a Problem For Life ..."
Key word there is "life", other than messing with any species that uses the magnetic field to guild its migration path for the most part a collapse and flip of the Earth's magnetic field will have little or no long term impact on "life"
But Technology on the other hand is going to be mostly screwed over by a flip. Something most people don't get is a pole flip won't be a clean instant flip where suddenly your compass is 180 degrees off from where it pointed to before lunch. The poles will move around, the "North" pole could end up on the Equator while the "South" pole has become multiple "poles" scattered around the other side of the planet for awhile. This unstable period could last for years if not decades. But that won't be what fucks over technology..
When the Earths magnetic field starts going wonky the Van Allen Belts, the shield that protects the Earth and, most important to Humans, all the communication/GPS/monitoring satellites in orbit will mostly cease to exist. Many of those satellites are not made to withstand direct exposure to the Sun's radiation for very long. So most of the electronics in orbit will be fried. Also affected will be the Earth's Ionosphere, when it gets hit by strong solar radiation, like during a solar flare or direct exposure to the solar wind the layer becomes opaque to radio, no more GPS or reliable communications via satellite will be able to reach the ground, which will mess with shipping, aircraft, commerce (lots of systems use GPS for their time reference) and even local cell phone connections. And all the copper wire strung all over the planet we rely on for power distribution and communications will be similarly hosed. Read up on the Carrington Event" of 1859 to learn what happens when the Earth gets hit by a LOT of solar wind.
All that said I'm not going to lose sleep over the possibility of a flip in my lifetime. Like the Astronomer said, it won't be a problem for Life because it will adapt to the changes and continue on. And as much as I would dislike it not being able to get GPS driving directions to my hotel or surf the Internet won't kill me.
It was two days a week, Tuesday and Thursdays.
Given how I've seen my nephew act when his parents tell him to get off his computer and actually go play with his friends in real life I have to agree that shutting down the Internet even one day a week would be a good thing. Hell's given how much time I spend playing Final Fantasy XIV I think a weekly shutdown would be good thing.
The games/social media/etc.do such a good a job triggering the release of Dopamine in your brain that anyone saying it isn't addictive is deluded.
my US$.02
Even this method worked I can't see any space fairing civilization using it. For starters you have to get to a black hole. Given the radiation those things can put out when feeding I can't see any advanced civilization anywhere within hundreds of light years, possibly 1000's, so to even get to the black holes in the first place they would need to have some kind of practical FTL or near-light speed propulsion. And as to actually creating a black hole for this use I can't see that either, you would never get more energy out of it than you had put in so the most efficient use of that energy would be to just use if for propulsion in the first place for a LASER boosted light sail or "warp drive"
Who uses .RAR archives these days?
Sadly many more than you would think, I encounter them more often than zipped archives in several different fields I deal with. And my efforts to get the authors.developers to change to an application that uses a more open standard have not been very successful. The frequent response I get is "I don't want to learn a new program" or "it works so why should I change?".
"Most estimates are that there are less than a million detained in the Xinjiang camps."
So, 999,990?
That the OP's numbers are off a bit doesn't change the fact that there is a large number of people imprisoned for no other reason than their ethnicity.
I notice that many of the comments made in response to yours are talking about the US prison system instead of the imprisoned Uighurs.
Nice redirect. Well played, indeed well played.
You just know that someone is going to die because they get pulled over due to a false positive and some trigger happy brown shirt over reacts when the detained person sneezes and starts shooting?
Then the rest of the Police force will close ranks and defend it as a "justified" action and the worst the officer gets is some paid leave while it blows over while the victim's family gets nothing.
You know it is only a mater of time,
maybe this tech could be used in some thing like bubble memory but at a size, speed, and density that makes it equal or better to existing nonvolatile memory storage tech.
I'm going to put a hold on LibreOffice updates until I get around to loading it up in a VM for testing,
I'm all for feature and security updates but after having to deal with all the UI "improvements" in the UI's of various application (Firefox, Word, Windows, etc.) over the years I am hesitant to give up what I have become familiar with if I can avoid it.
In case anyone was wondering.
Had to skim almost the whole article to find out this simple little bit of info.
Gates wants to build a Uranium based "traveling wave" style reactor using molten sodium for cooling. The technology is problematic, hasn't ever been tested on large scale. Requires metal alloys that are still being developed and still uses a rare, expensive and inherently dangerous fuel.Some experts say the tech is potentially decades away from being viable.
Disclaimer: I am an advocate of LFTR (Liquid Floride Thorium Reactor) based energy generation. The tech still needs work but its closer to reality than what Gates wants.
5 minute intro to LFTRs" if your curious.
... surrender her passports,"
A Chinese issued passport that will be easily replaced once she gets back to China.
"...wear a GPS tracking device..."
that can be easily disabled/spoofed by anyone with the know how. (it was probably made in China)
"...and be accompanied by security detail ..."
that will be even easier to disable/evade than the GPS tracking device by anyone who doesn't care about pissing off the Canadians.
And then it will be onto a private jet that will have filed a flight plan to San Diego but will then overshoot into Mexican airspace and disappear off RADAR never to be heard from again. Unless the plane has the range to make it back to China without a refuel in which case the flight plan will be to Anchorage, after all, someone fleeing US custody would never get on a plane going to the USA.
Any judge who didn't agree that the CEO of a multi-billion company with close ties to a foreign Government that would NOT want to end up in the USA was not a flight risk is an idiot of unparalleled magnitude, or someone has some really bad dirt on them that made it worth doing something this stupid.
Already happening. Hatsune Miku
The voice software combined with MMD or better animation software and you get "live concerts"
A ship covered in sensors being monitored 24/7 by an on board AI would be much more likely to spot a life raft or improvised vessel a cast away might build. Consider the AI never sleeps, has 360 degree awareness and would be able to see in the dark.
I remember in the movie "All is Lost" the main character's life raft was passed by a cargo vessel at night, and the crew didn't notice his flares. An AI system, hopefully programmed for such cases, would have likely spotted the life raft and alerted it's operators to notify rescue services.
Potentially the ships could even carry a small GPS tracker equipped drone that could fly/swim to the life raft and guide rescue craft to it. A couple drones per ship would cost less than a days wages for a crew member, and you would only have to buy a new one if it was lost while deployed.
"However, most of them ARE decent ppl."
"The greatest Evil is when the Good do nothing"
Most likely, this was an update to the Settings app.
You seem to have missed where they said:
"..., I even have 'automatic system updates' turned off..."
This is one of main reasons why I have NoScript installed on all my browsers, and if a browser isn't supported by NoScript I don't use that browser.
given that the officer was in violation of a 2015 Suprem Court decision by holding the defendant until the drug dog showed up anything that followed on from that illegal search, like the marijuana and whatever other evidence was used to get the warrant for the phones, is inadmissible in any US court and must be thrown out it will be interesting to see what happens next.
This is the same thing that happened in the VHS:Betamax battle back in the '80s. Once the porn industry picks a VR hardware and interface format and standardizes on it that combo will become the most popular HW/interface on the market, quality be Damned.
I just hope they go with the best quality choice this time, VHS was an inferior format to Betamax but Beta still lost out. Anther nail in the Beta coffin was cost, though Beta did continue to serve the TV industry very well until HD-digital came on the scene
All those people worried about the arrival of the surveillance state can relax.
It's already here.
I saw this bumper sticker on a car a few days ago; "Bernie 2020"
I cannot even begin to imagine the problems a flamethrower would cause firefighters and police officers alike."
Just look around. Nothing has changed. Flamethrowers have been legal in CA since before it became a state. And yet to the best of my knowledge there isn't a single instance, ever, of one being used maliciously. (please correct me if I'm wrong)
This attempt at legislation looks more like a some kind of "OMG! Flamethrowers are scary! We have to outlaw them!" type of knee jerk BS I've come to expect from California lawmakers.
" The city says it will not use the plates to track workers. "
Am I the only one who tacked on "for now" to the end of it?
Side note: Anyone want to start a pool on how long it is before one of these plates gets hacked?
How is developing anything for the military ethical?
Even research into something "good" like regenerating severed limbs is just so the military can put the soldiers back into battle asap and keep them killing the "enemy".
Sometimes when I hear about some of the stuff being developed I am really glad Humanity is still stuck on Earth. The last thing I would want would be for them to spread to other worlds before they evolve beyond killing each other over stupid shit like which tribe you were born into.
Thought of the same movie when I read the summary. ...
If only I had mod points today