Please seek psychiatric help. At the very least, read some books on sceptical/scientific/critical thinking and actively debate the idea that you might be experiencing delusions.
The catch here is that these "directed energy weapons" were cheap trivialities bought off eBay and not military EW apparatus or gigantic celestial furnaces.
You were the kind of kid who, upon reading about dinosaurs for the first time, said "yeah, well I already knew that there was such a thing as animals", right?
The device should only draw as much power as it wants, which is controlled by the charging circuit in the phone, regardless of how much is available. Which raises the obvious question of how they're getting iPhones which want a 120-minute charge cycle, to charge in 90 minutes by using a special cable.
Different devices have subtly different ways of asking how much currently they can draw. Your iDevices and Androids and whatever are fairly interoperable with each other's chargers now, but there's still the occasional stupid outlier like the PS Vita that insists on having a specific shorting of the USB pins before it'll draw more than 500mA. I'd like to see a gizmo that could not only measure the current available, but act as a universal adaptor for those sorts of devices.
True, but it rather ceased to be relevant a few centuries ago. I know Slashdotters like to bear grudges but this is ridiculous. I also think it's cute that you think Slashdot of all places "believes in the Vatican".
Basically, the bond issue actually funds the creation of an investment bank that in turn funds SETI from its profits. Which is fairly ridiculous, but that's the idea.
Lottery-based bonds are an uncontroversial and well-established savings instrument (e.g. the UK's "Premium Bonds") so I don't see what your problem is. The money is invested, and the gains are used to pay the interest, principal, and lottery prizes.
Unfortunately "Active SETI" as it is known is untenable on SETI's budget. The best they can do is a bit of timeshare on radio telescopes. Nobody else is interested.
Maemo and Meego were Nokia's "skunk works" projects, kept far away from their mainstream consumer phone business. Trust me, Microsoft didn't have to kill off that area. It was dead even while S60 was riding high.
Artificial transmissions are assumed to be structured in some way that presently-known celestial emissions aren't - some sort of time structure, having a narrow bandwidth, etc. etc. - which will make them stand out. Our own certainly are. This led to a memorable false alarm in the case of pulsars but the gist is that if you see something very structured, it's going to be worth investigating whatever it turns out to be.
I can't imagine a space exploration vessel just ignoring radio, it's such an interesting and useful EM range in astronomy. A starship that didn't routlnely check the visible band would be more plausible.
Yes, this one-page article clearly represents the entirety of his knowledge on the subject, he's obviously not a political science professor or anything.
Have you actually written anything in English? It's barely possible to compose an unambiguously interpretable vacuum cleaner manual under those constraints.
I was thinking more along the lines of "you might want to revise your armory arrangements" but if you want to just bullshit people I guess that's what Slashdot is here for.
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It's not liquid coffee, it's ground coffee beans. They're about one third of the density of water.
How do you terraform a planet which has lost most of its hydrogen to space? The water's got to come from somewhere.
Please seek psychiatric help. At the very least, read some books on sceptical/scientific/critical thinking and actively debate the idea that you might be experiencing delusions.
TFA refers to civilian UAVs and their derivatives in law enforcement and the like, not military drones.
The catch here is that these "directed energy weapons" were cheap trivialities bought off eBay and not military EW apparatus or gigantic celestial furnaces.
You were the kind of kid who, upon reading about dinosaurs for the first time, said "yeah, well I already knew that there was such a thing as animals", right?
The device should only draw as much power as it wants, which is controlled by the charging circuit in the phone, regardless of how much is available. Which raises the obvious question of how they're getting iPhones which want a 120-minute charge cycle, to charge in 90 minutes by using a special cable.
Different devices have subtly different ways of asking how much currently they can draw. Your iDevices and Androids and whatever are fairly interoperable with each other's chargers now, but there's still the occasional stupid outlier like the PS Vita that insists on having a specific shorting of the USB pins before it'll draw more than 500mA. I'd like to see a gizmo that could not only measure the current available, but act as a universal adaptor for those sorts of devices.
True, but it rather ceased to be relevant a few centuries ago. I know Slashdotters like to bear grudges but this is ridiculous. I also think it's cute that you think Slashdot of all places "believes in the Vatican".
Basically, the bond issue actually funds the creation of an investment bank that in turn funds SETI from its profits. Which is fairly ridiculous, but that's the idea.
I'm not saying it, it's the premise of the article.
Quantum entanglement does not work that way.
Lottery-based bonds are an uncontroversial and well-established savings instrument (e.g. the UK's "Premium Bonds") so I don't see what your problem is. The money is invested, and the gains are used to pay the interest, principal, and lottery prizes.
Maybe it's you who doesn't know what a bond is?
Unfortunately "Active SETI" as it is known is untenable on SETI's budget. The best they can do is a bit of timeshare on radio telescopes. Nobody else is interested.
Maemo and Meego were Nokia's "skunk works" projects, kept far away from their mainstream consumer phone business. Trust me, Microsoft didn't have to kill off that area. It was dead even while S60 was riding high.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, those kinds of computers aren't a growth industry any more. The tide's going out.
Artificial transmissions are assumed to be structured in some way that presently-known celestial emissions aren't - some sort of time structure, having a narrow bandwidth, etc. etc. - which will make them stand out. Our own certainly are. This led to a memorable false alarm in the case of pulsars but the gist is that if you see something very structured, it's going to be worth investigating whatever it turns out to be.
I can't imagine a space exploration vessel just ignoring radio, it's such an interesting and useful EM range in astronomy. A starship that didn't routlnely check the visible band would be more plausible.
Unfortunately we don't have anything better than radio and optical to listen with. Maybe LIGO.
Yes, this one-page article clearly represents the entirety of his knowledge on the subject, he's obviously not a political science professor or anything.
Europe has always had carrier locking, but it's seldom used on PAYG and it can usually be removed by your carrier on pay-monthly for a token fee.
Have you actually written anything in English? It's barely possible to compose an unambiguously interpretable vacuum cleaner manual under those constraints.
I was thinking more along the lines of "you might want to revise your armory arrangements" but if you want to just bullshit people I guess that's what Slashdot is here for.
I don't think that controlling the sale of bullets is going to fly in the current political landscape.
All joking aside, in many environments weapons are much more stringently secured or controlled than their ammunition so it is cause for concern.