So let me get this straight, he wants to protect these places that are obviously of more value than say, my house or my family's house by making them immediately obvious on a map?
What will this prevent? "You know Osama, I just think we're in the wrong place. See the building is all fuzzy on this picture, and that one looks normal! I'm just so confused!"
In the end, by altering the image of potential targets, you only make them more obvious.
Blair Witch put me to sleep. The only decent part was the last second, and it wasn't worth the wait.
Cloverfield kept me interested in what was going to happen next. There were suspenseful moments when you can see the monster approach, or you don't know what it's going to do. There were well-timed revelations throughout the movie, and there was no impenetrable barrier of luck around the protagonists.
On a related note, Hud apparently plays a larger role in the ARG than is let on in the move. The only sites I know about are 1-18-08.com and slusho.com. These are related to the viral ARG campaign. Slusho has been around since J.J.'s Alias days though. That's where it was introduced.
They didn't just shake it around wildly though.
I've seen a lot of postings about the shakey camera, but it wasn't all that shaky and the only times it was was when they were running away from something. (They wouldn't care about the camera)
I think it was quite good. The story had a beginning, middle, and end for the people. The monster was secondary, it could have been anything like an air raid, but how much fun would that have been.
One last thing, if you wait to the end of the credits there is one last piece of audio. It's unintelligible, but that's because it was backwards. It has since been recorded and reversed. It is a broken radio transmission that says, "It's still alive".
They never once told me that my copper would be permanently disabled until the tech walked out to the end of the driveway with wire cutters. He also assured me that it could be reconnected if I ever canceled FIOS. If this is not true, I am certainly miffed.
So, if you carry that programmable HP chip on you in lieu of an RFID and you use that in conjunction with biometrics. If your 'password' on the chip is ever compromised, it can be fixed. It could even be implanted.
I'm sure it's been mentioned many times, but there is no perfect encryption. Today, people get their cards cloned every day by careless businesses that leave data lying around. I don't know about you, but I can't change my thumb print or my retina. (Minority report is still a ways off) Thumbprints can be captured with a digital camera from nearby without contact for example. You can't do that with a credit card in someone's wallet.
I have done my research on transmission losses. The losses are less than the losses of running an alternator off of a piston engine in the first place. Even at it's worst, you are about 30% more efficient using all coal than you are burning gas in a variable RPM, small scale engine with high loss alternator that idles every time it stops, and doesn't regain energy lost in breaking. Even with batteries, you're still burn'n less stuff.
That said, nobody seems to be mentioning the prior slashdot articles about carbon nanotube capacitors. By using carbon nanotubes, the surface area inside the capacitor is now high enough that small capacitors can be used in place of batteries for the same charge in small electronics. Best of all it has no effective life ilke a battery does, so it doesn't need to be replaced, and capacitors charge VERY quickly. I've seen people ask about 'filling up quickly and continueing?' THAT is how you do it. Have your coast-to-coast drive that you'll never take anyway.
Doesn't anyone actually READ/.? There are carbon nanotube capacitors in development right now for replacement of batteries for portable electronics. The use of carbon nanotubes increases the surface area inside the capacitor to the point that the size of the device can be reduced to a battery size. That said, capacitors have the advantage of EXTREMELY quick charge and ability to discharge high currents. They also have no memory, and would outlive any mechanical device they're powering.
"Here in Texas"
I live in Texas too, and you tell me if you can use your laptop, or start your car in the afternoon. I can.
I've seen some posts as well that claim that you're only replacing one evil for the other. Those people are reading articles sponsored by, you guessed it, oil companies! The best gasoline engines built to date are 30% efficient, and even affordable electric motors are 90% efficient. Most power companies have a diverse energy portfolio that includes wind and solar. Moreover, the turbines used at even coal plants are FAR more efficient than a piston engine. In the end, after transmitting the power over the grid and getting power PURELY from coal, you're still putting a minimum of 30% less carbon in the air. Best of all, the equivalent price to a gallon of gas is about $0.60.
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What will this prevent? "You know Osama, I just think we're in the wrong place. See the building is all fuzzy on this picture, and that one looks normal! I'm just so confused!"
In the end, by altering the image of potential targets, you only make them more obvious.
Am I the only person who reads terrorism symbols into this?
The monster attacks unexpectedly, resulting in some very 9/11 moments. People run and try to help others as they can.
Then the military runs in and tries to kill it, but can't. Nobody knows what it is, and it drops small agents wherever it goes that are hard to find.
Blair Witch put me to sleep. The only decent part was the last second, and it wasn't worth the wait. Cloverfield kept me interested in what was going to happen next. There were suspenseful moments when you can see the monster approach, or you don't know what it's going to do. There were well-timed revelations throughout the movie, and there was no impenetrable barrier of luck around the protagonists. On a related note, Hud apparently plays a larger role in the ARG than is let on in the move. The only sites I know about are 1-18-08.com and slusho.com. These are related to the viral ARG campaign. Slusho has been around since J.J.'s Alias days though. That's where it was introduced.
They didn't just shake it around wildly though. I've seen a lot of postings about the shakey camera, but it wasn't all that shaky and the only times it was was when they were running away from something. (They wouldn't care about the camera) I think it was quite good. The story had a beginning, middle, and end for the people. The monster was secondary, it could have been anything like an air raid, but how much fun would that have been. One last thing, if you wait to the end of the credits there is one last piece of audio. It's unintelligible, but that's because it was backwards. It has since been recorded and reversed. It is a broken radio transmission that says, "It's still alive".
They never once told me that my copper would be permanently disabled until the tech walked out to the end of the driveway with wire cutters. He also assured me that it could be reconnected if I ever canceled FIOS. If this is not true, I am certainly miffed.
So, if you carry that programmable HP chip on you in lieu of an RFID and you use that in conjunction with biometrics. If your 'password' on the chip is ever compromised, it can be fixed. It could even be implanted.
I'm sure it's been mentioned many times, but there is no perfect encryption. Today, people get their cards cloned every day by careless businesses that leave data lying around. I don't know about you, but I can't change my thumb print or my retina. (Minority report is still a ways off) Thumbprints can be captured with a digital camera from nearby without contact for example. You can't do that with a credit card in someone's wallet.
I have done my research on transmission losses. The losses are less than the losses of running an alternator off of a piston engine in the first place. Even at it's worst, you are about 30% more efficient using all coal than you are burning gas in a variable RPM, small scale engine with high loss alternator that idles every time it stops, and doesn't regain energy lost in breaking. Even with batteries, you're still burn'n less stuff.
That said, nobody seems to be mentioning the prior slashdot articles about carbon nanotube capacitors. By using carbon nanotubes, the surface area inside the capacitor is now high enough that small capacitors can be used in place of batteries for the same charge in small electronics. Best of all it has no effective life ilke a battery does, so it doesn't need to be replaced, and capacitors charge VERY quickly. I've seen people ask about 'filling up quickly and continueing?' THAT is how you do it. Have your coast-to-coast drive that you'll never take anyway.
Doesn't anyone actually READ /.? There are carbon nanotube capacitors in development right now for replacement of batteries for portable electronics. The use of carbon nanotubes increases the surface area inside the capacitor to the point that the size of the device can be reduced to a battery size. That said, capacitors have the advantage of EXTREMELY quick charge and ability to discharge high currents. They also have no memory, and would outlive any mechanical device they're powering.
"Here in Texas"
I live in Texas too, and you tell me if you can use your laptop, or start your car in the afternoon. I can.
I've seen some posts as well that claim that you're only replacing one evil for the other. Those people are reading articles sponsored by, you guessed it, oil companies! The best gasoline engines built to date are 30% efficient, and even affordable electric motors are 90% efficient. Most power companies have a diverse energy portfolio that includes wind and solar. Moreover, the turbines used at even coal plants are FAR more efficient than a piston engine. In the end, after transmitting the power over the grid and getting power PURELY from coal, you're still putting a minimum of 30% less carbon in the air. Best of all, the equivalent price to a gallon of gas is about $0.60.