No, you fools! Russia has nothing to do with this. He's just IN TRANSIT. He is just wandering through an airport. In the civilized world, that is international territory for the purposes of free transit. He's not 'visiting' Russia.
I don't think he has been formally accused of 'treason' - which has a very, very narrow definition in the US. He's been accused of 'espionage' which is different.
Yes, lets get this idea of In Transit in front of your Average American. In most countries, you can land at an airport and 'not be in the country' - you are in transit. You don't have to show your passport, you don't need a Visa, you don't need much except directions to the next flight.
In the current Soviet States of America, you may need all of those things and some additional paperwork.
The upshot is that Snowden is likely just connecting to somewhere else without the annoying hassles he would if he tried it in the US. Russia isn't necessarily the good guys, it's just that the US is turning out to be the obese 1600 pound poorly trained gorilla.
Nope, and if the Google Glass is just a passive recorder, the FDA needn't get involved. If it has anything to do with the actual procedure, then all bets are off.
Walk off the net. Google can't do much (unless one of it's driverless cars runs you over). You and The SHADOW seem to think that network computers are life, the universe and everything. The world isn't like that. Most of the human population at present isn't connected to the Internet.
Unless SkyNet Jr. gets a hold of the vast majority of physical infrastructure, it's impact will be rather limited. A couple of RPGs could take out a Google network center. A pissed off A-10 pilot could take out the entirety of the NSA.
I've got my battery powered flashlight and my box of Doritos. I'm not worried in the slightest.
First, the unibody Macs have batteries that are replaceable by anyone with a Torx driver and enough eye-hand coordination to use it. Secondly, if the Apple branded battery squashed bits inside the Mac, you'd have a good warranty claim to replace the whole computer. What's not to like?
Currently, I think LiOn batteries are a crap shoot. Of the dozen or so I have on various bits of equipment, I've had one Apple brand battery expand rapidly, one aftermarket battery for an older white MacBook do the same, one Nikon battery actually start smoking, two Wasabi batteries go tits up and one GoPro battery just petulantly refuse to do anything right out the box.
That's why all my battery chargers sit on a nice 1/4 thick aluminum plate with 72 inches of clear ceiling above them.
No, the cellular structure isn't intact. And it's not intact for the brain mentioned in TFA. A quick glimpse of the sections indicates that they were stained in a variant of the hemotoxylin / eosin stain - one use commonly in light microscopy but one that doesn't even preserve structure at electron microscopy levels, much less biochemically useful levels of detail.
Remember, the process is something like this: Dead person - checked two or three times to make sure they're dead. No brain function. Drain blood, likely embalm the person (in formaldehyde, a very potent protein cross linking chemical that stops virtually all chemical reactions). Cut out brain. Go through a number of other steps to preserve (ie, stop biochemical reactions), soak the brain in wax then slice it nice and thin. Profit! (or more likely, work your butt off for a couple of years going through all those slices).
So, what you are seeing is a protein-crosslinked husk. It's not functional.
Now, the diffusion stuff is really interesting - that's more functional. But it doesn't have the level of structural detail. We will likely get there eventually if we don't blow ourselves back into Medieval times, but we're a long ways away from that.
If you only get chump change, you do busy work. I agree in general that NASA should be doing bigger, more important things, but they're sort of resource constrained at the moment.
And, actually, you do figure out how to deal with long term issues in space by sticking up a metal can and orbiting earth for ten years. Yes, we could have done better, we could be doing better, but with the money and political power that exists, all you get is the ISS. Remember, space is hard. Really hard. The ISS has returned a lot of boring but important data on how people and materials survive in LEO. You don't get that data by watching Star Trek reruns.
And that 'fucking telescope' that has your panties in a bunch has a much better chance of significantly changing our world view than any reasonably feasible manned program.
Actually, NASA has done a shitload of stuff since Apollo. They have been doing long term, small scale research on a whole raft of subjects including plain ol planes. They've organized some pretty impressive technology for the Mars / Jupiter / Saturn unmanned probes. They've kept the ISS up and running.
It all makes sense really. Since the Apollo landing, computer generated graphics have come a long way. It should not be hard nor expensive to "travel" to the Moon and Mars, Hollywood style. Would make an excellent reality show, one that was more true to life than most of them on the small screen these days. Hell, NASA could even make money from this. Works for Industrial Light and Magic, doesn't it?
No, that only applies if the manufacturer in question is trying to gain a competitive advantage. Given Balmer's mishandling of Microsoft over the past decade, it's hard to argue that Microsoft is competing with anyone other than themselves.
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According to the press, they don't snoop as much on internal traffic as they do on international traffic.
Ah yes, damning with faint praise.
No, you fools! Russia has nothing to do with this. He's just IN TRANSIT. He is just wandering through an airport. In the civilized world, that is international territory for the purposes of free transit. He's not 'visiting' Russia.
Why should they bother? Since when has reality had anything to do with what we post?
You must be new here.
I don't think he has been formally accused of 'treason' - which has a very, very narrow definition in the US. He's been accused of 'espionage' which is different.
Yes, lets get this idea of In Transit in front of your Average American. In most countries, you can land at an airport and 'not be in the country' - you are in transit. You don't have to show your passport, you don't need a Visa, you don't need much except directions to the next flight.
In the current Soviet States of America, you may need all of those things and some additional paperwork.
The upshot is that Snowden is likely just connecting to somewhere else without the annoying hassles he would if he tried it in the US. Russia isn't necessarily the good guys, it's just that the US is turning out to be the obese 1600 pound poorly trained gorilla.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.
Endoscopic procedures are always recorded. That image would show, in gory detail, if there was any problem. The Google Gas doesn't change anything.
Nope, and if the Google Glass is just a passive recorder, the FDA needn't get involved. If it has anything to do with the actual procedure, then all bets are off.
A GoPro or similar would have worked fine and had better visual quality.
Nothing (new) to see here, move along.
Walk off the net. Google can't do much (unless one of it's driverless cars runs you over). You and The SHADOW seem to think that network computers are life, the universe and everything. The world isn't like that. Most of the human population at present isn't connected to the Internet.
Unless SkyNet Jr. gets a hold of the vast majority of physical infrastructure, it's impact will be rather limited. A couple of RPGs could take out a Google network center. A pissed off A-10 pilot could take out the entirety of the NSA.
I've got my battery powered flashlight and my box of Doritos. I'm not worried in the slightest.
also get rid of testes the people who are good at test cramming can master.
I truly hope you did not mean what you wrote.
Mr. Cummings, I thought you were dead....
Cool. That means that the blow-up-50-pixels-to-a-life-sized-image technology is real. I can throw away all of those heavy telephoto lenses!
Progress as Promised.
You clearly have never worked for the government. Don't blame malice when clearly incompetence is at work here.
Ah, but malice AND incompetence. The perfect partners.
First, the unibody Macs have batteries that are replaceable by anyone with a Torx driver and enough eye-hand coordination to use it. Secondly, if the Apple branded battery squashed bits inside the Mac, you'd have a good warranty claim to replace the whole computer. What's not to like?
Currently, I think LiOn batteries are a crap shoot. Of the dozen or so I have on various bits of equipment, I've had one Apple brand battery expand rapidly, one aftermarket battery for an older white MacBook do the same, one Nikon battery actually start smoking, two Wasabi batteries go tits up and one GoPro battery just petulantly refuse to do anything right out the box.
That's why all my battery chargers sit on a nice 1/4 thick aluminum plate with 72 inches of clear ceiling above them.
No, the cellular structure isn't intact. And it's not intact for the brain mentioned in TFA. A quick glimpse of the sections indicates that they were stained in a variant of the hemotoxylin / eosin stain - one use commonly in light microscopy but one that doesn't even preserve structure at electron microscopy levels, much less biochemically useful levels of detail.
Remember, the process is something like this: Dead person - checked two or three times to make sure they're dead. No brain function. Drain blood, likely embalm the person (in formaldehyde, a very potent protein cross linking chemical that stops virtually all chemical reactions). Cut out brain. Go through a number of other steps to preserve (ie, stop biochemical reactions), soak the brain in wax then slice it nice and thin. Profit! (or more likely, work your butt off for a couple of years going through all those slices).
So, what you are seeing is a protein-crosslinked husk. It's not functional.
Now, the diffusion stuff is really interesting - that's more functional. But it doesn't have the level of structural detail. We will likely get there eventually if we don't blow ourselves back into Medieval times, but we're a long ways away from that.
I wanna be your first upload.
Oh really? You want to be a beta tester for that? Me, I'm waiting for rev 3, at least.
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I don't recall anything in that modern definition as relating to 'expressing feelings' or 'sharing'.
You insensitive clod.
If you only get chump change, you do busy work. I agree in general that NASA should be doing bigger, more important things, but they're sort of resource constrained at the moment.
And, actually, you do figure out how to deal with long term issues in space by sticking up a metal can and orbiting earth for ten years. Yes, we could have done better, we could be doing better, but with the money and political power that exists, all you get is the ISS. Remember, space is hard. Really hard. The ISS has returned a lot of boring but important data on how people and materials survive in LEO. You don't get that data by watching Star Trek reruns.
And that 'fucking telescope' that has your panties in a bunch has a much better chance of significantly changing our world view than any reasonably feasible manned program.
Actually, NASA has done a shitload of stuff since Apollo. They have been doing long term, small scale research on a whole raft of subjects including plain ol planes. They've organized some pretty impressive technology for the Mars / Jupiter / Saturn unmanned probes. They've kept the ISS up and running.
All of this isn't as sexy as the Shuttle or Apollo programs and NASA would be glad to ramp up it's efforts had it been given some decent long term funding and had Congress resisted the urge to micromanage everything. There have been setbacks of course. The James Webb Telescope/a) (successor to the Hubble) is over budget and over time. Sometimes rocket science is hard.
Given the constraints they have had to work under, I'm surprised they get anything done.
It all makes sense really. Since the Apollo landing, computer generated graphics have come a long way. It should not be hard nor expensive to "travel" to the Moon and Mars, Hollywood style. Would make an excellent reality show, one that was more true to life than most of them on the small screen these days. Hell, NASA could even make money from this. Works for Industrial Light and Magic, doesn't it?
You people are too literal sometimes.
Yeah, Google is just pissed that the government is crowding in on their turf.
Don't be evil, my ass.
No, that only applies if the manufacturer in question is trying to gain a competitive advantage. Given Balmer's mishandling of Microsoft over the past decade, it's hard to argue that Microsoft is competing with anyone other than themselves.
No, it's not brilliant. It's depressing.
Except the way the economy is going, you can replace "Ragastan" with Newark, New Jersey.