No, it's great for a lot of physics too. If the subject you are looking up is complicated enough that making up something remotely realistic seeming is difficult it's an amazing resource.
Surely this will do for them? How can they base their entire business around providing private email then just hand over CD's full of them whenever the authorities come knocking? Terrible.
I have to disagree with one of your points. Some of the most prolific terrorist groups are animal rights activists - they participate in letter bombing campaigns, arson and direct indimitation/attack of life science workers.
Yeah, it's crazy isn't it? Why doesn't he do something rather than just complaining. Start a small scale tech company, people will fall over themselves and take a massive paycut to work with Woz on something interesting. Build something cool, Carmack style.
Because it's basically impossible to find out who they are. The sites (generally speaking) aren't doing anything illegal and the users who are access through a mixture/combination of Tor and botnet proxies.
Posession of 'the anarchists cookbook' is a crime now? It's about as close to being a useful terrorism manual as my dog is to being prime minister. Never mind though, eh? Anything to keep us 'safe'. We're doomed.
I really like this 'extra sense' research. It makes me look forward to the future when we're all cyborgs with superpowers!
Ever since reading the wired article about the guy with the vibrating compass belt(http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html ) I've always wanted to build one. Now it looks like I'll have to add infra red vision too...
I suppose you're correct, if by "We" you mean ill informed idiots. This guy is extrapolating from a small subset of medical research to include all of science.
Assuming that by 'into energy' you mean 'into electricity', I'm afraid you're running into thermodynamics limitations, the heat-steam-electricity process is about as efficient as it's going to get. It has been developed over many years, for example exiting steam is used in re-heaters to boost efficiency (along with a bunch of other neat tricks). The river is not being heated up 'unnecessarily'. You think nobody ever considered this? It's sort of the whole essence of power plant engineering...
You can claw some back by using waste heat directly for central heating etc. Not really viable at this time of year though.
I bought one myself last week. You can't argue with ~£70 (~$140). It has the nicest screen i've seen on any portable, bar none. Works fine with slashdot for me... do you have the latest update for the OS?
Only if they are at a high enough intensity to cause heating of tissue i.e. to literally cook you. Below that intensity they do sod all to you. This is how I understand it but what would I know, I'm only a physicist who specialises in radiobiology. Do you have any peer reviewed science to back up your assertions or does your argument rest solely on the anecdotal evidence you have presented?
The ipod was a huge success because it was introduced before a lot of people owned portable mp3 players, it looked better than the competitors and (most importantly) most of the alternatives had rubbish interfaces. None of these things are true for the phone market.
What do I know though? I won't pay over the odds for a piece of technology just because it looks cool. I don't think I'm the target market.
The UK has had strict gun laws for the majority of the last century, so it's not an ideal example to use. Sweden too is unusual - a population of less than ten million with a disproportionate population of over 65 year olds. The (relatively recent) UK handgun ban was no more than political bandwagon jumping. Nobody sensible, I suspect including politicians, thought that removing semi auto handguns from the few thousand people that actually legally owned them would change anything.
I am not aware of any statistics related to violent crime from a country which has gone from liberal gun laws (US style) to restrictive gun laws - can you point me to a link? I fully agree that improving healthcare and decriminalising drugs would work wonders for violent crime rates.
I live in the UK. We have very strict gun laws and have done for some time. As these laws have been around for so long, the supply of guns (and even more so, ammunition) is scarce. This means that these laws can actually work - banning the widespread distribution of firearms prevents people who shouldn't have firearms from obtaining them. This pisses me off a little bit as I feel it is wrong that my personal right to own a gun is curtailed because of criminals and assholes. I suck it up though because it saves lives and that is more important than my entertainment or any false sense of safety I could obtain through being armed.
Over in the USA you have a different situation - guns are widely available and would remain so even if tighter laws were introduced. Solution? God knows.
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No, it's great for a lot of physics too. If the subject you are looking up is complicated enough that making up something remotely realistic seeming is difficult it's an amazing resource.
I complained too. That makes three of us just in this thread.
Surely this will do for them? How can they base their entire business around providing private email then just hand over CD's full of them whenever the authorities come knocking? Terrible.
I have to disagree with one of your points. Some of the most prolific terrorist groups are animal rights activists - they participate in letter bombing campaigns, arson and direct indimitation/attack of life science workers.
You are the worst kind of scum. That is all.
Not that interesting - the humans 5000 years ago were basically identical to now. Only real differences are diet and lifestyle related
Yeah, it's crazy isn't it? Why doesn't he do something rather than just complaining. Start a small scale tech company, people will fall over themselves and take a massive paycut to work with Woz on something interesting. Build something cool, Carmack style.
Because it's basically impossible to find out who they are. The sites (generally speaking) aren't doing anything illegal and the users who are access through a mixture/combination of Tor and botnet proxies.
Posession of 'the anarchists cookbook' is a crime now? It's about as close to being a useful terrorism manual as my dog is to being prime minister. Never mind though, eh? Anything to keep us 'safe'. We're doomed.
It's amazing. Almost worth the crazy long wait. Now I just need DNF and my gaming life is complete...
Ever since reading the wired article about the guy with the vibrating compass belt(http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html ) I've always wanted to build one. Now it looks like I'll have to add infra red vision too...
I suppose you're correct, if by "We" you mean ill informed idiots. This guy is extrapolating from a small subset of medical research to include all of science.
You can claw some back by using waste heat directly for central heating etc. Not really viable at this time of year though.
My favourite is "Several thousand years after the domestication of the dog"
They're right. It hurts my eyes AND my ears.
Your answer is "we should use the sun". Well done. Got any better methods than what we're using currently?
I bought one myself last week. You can't argue with ~£70 (~$140). It has the nicest screen i've seen on any portable, bar none. Works fine with slashdot for me... do you have the latest update for the OS?
Only if they are at a high enough intensity to cause heating of tissue i.e. to literally cook you. Below that intensity they do sod all to you. This is how I understand it but what would I know, I'm only a physicist who specialises in radiobiology. Do you have any peer reviewed science to back up your assertions or does your argument rest solely on the anecdotal evidence you have presented?
You shut your filthy mouth. Where will we be if MIchael Bay reads slashdot?
What do I know though? I won't pay over the odds for a piece of technology just because it looks cool. I don't think I'm the target market.
I mean, they do such a good job providing sensible information on nuclear power, the Chernobyl diasaster and numerous other topics...
In similar news, despite a wide variety of new content, online pornography remains disproportionately popular.
I am not aware of any statistics related to violent crime from a country which has gone from liberal gun laws (US style) to restrictive gun laws - can you point me to a link? I fully agree that improving healthcare and decriminalising drugs would work wonders for violent crime rates.
Over in the USA you have a different situation - guns are widely available and would remain so even if tighter laws were introduced. Solution? God knows.
"Better clarity and resolution for video
Guess I don't need no stinkin' high def TV, it's just my low-quality power cable that is lowering my TV's resolution.