Steelhead. Not rainbow trout. Same species, but the ocean-going variety are called steelhead.
Except that the steel should attract the magnetite and the fish would end up swimming in circles.
But on a more serious note, where does the trout get the magnetite from? Nibbling on rocks? Is there some giant deposit deep in the ocean (next to a derelict alien spaceship perhaps)? Can they filter it out from the water?
Just imagine if you could use this as an indoor navigation system (IPS) on your smartphone. Compared to most other IPSes, which require thousands of WiFi or Bluetooth base stations to achieve comparable accuracy, this infrastructure-free approach sounds like it would be rather awesome.
Yeah, all you would need is a bunch of ground up trout noses.
Personally, I'd like to see some experiments attempting to create an arsenic-based politician. Of course, I realize that there would likely be many, many failures on the road to succes, but such is science.
They can tap it. They do tap it. They're building a nationwide infrastructure to capture all the IP header data at each point where it enters a telecommunications network. YES, THEY CAN DO THIS. THEY ALREADY HAVE DONE THIS. THEY DO THIS ALL THE TIME.
But anyway, how many non-Apple products are 'repaired'? Rather depends on your definition of repair - replacing a battery could be considered repair and certainly Apple falls short compared to some other manufacturers. However, so far, replacing an iPhone battery has not exactly been a technical challenge for all but the most mechanically declined. It remains to be seen if the newer MacBooks with the glued in battery will really challenge anyone. I suspect it wont.
While I think Apple can be taken to task for gluing a battery in rather than putting some clips on it, it's a small issue overall. I don't think it all counts towards whether or not a device is recyclable since it isn't hard to pry the battery or display out if you aren't looking to retain function.
And if you use a slightly more reasonable definition of 'repair' - replace a bad screen or other component - who actually does that these days? The person interested in such things is definitely an edge case (or nut case). The average consumer and the average store is going to toss a defective device and pick up a new shiny.
You're not a B-level movie celebrity who's ego is wider than a first class seat. You know, the kind that shows up on the news for having been tossed off a plane for being an abuse, inebriated asshole.
I think they're doing it so they can keep tabs on these bozos. If they get too rowdy, a few milligrams of haloperidol will get them to sit down and enjoy the flight - staring straight ahead and drooling the entire way. A definite improvement on their usual behavior.
Exactly. Certain Israeli factions would love for Iran (or Syria or pretty much anybody else they're having hissy fits with) to strike first. It gives them a big moral advantage.
Unless Iran gets to the point of having enough weapons to significantly degrade the Israeli military it's just a bluff. The problem then is determining when enough is enough. Just like N. Korea. One or two unreliable weapons isn't a huge existential threat. A couple of dozen could well be.
Does that mean that UN itself is going to stop turning around, and trying to take it over every other week. And go hand in hand with the dictatorships of the world to throw the shackles on the rest of the world in order to protect their "sensitives" from the rest of us?
Of course not, you silly person.
They're the good guys. They're in white (and that pretty blue). They're on your side.
Serious question. On some stories (there are certain patterns but I won't bore you), I notice a lot of the kinds of comments I am replying to right now. These comments have blatant racist/vulgar/nsfw word-spewings and are almost always from AC's. Is this some kind of coordinated effort to keep people at work or anywhere else there may be filters for this kind of stuff from reading this content? I notice it a lot on anything that praises open source or even tangentially like this Android running device. Just curious about people's thoughts.
The problem is that Slashdot's "4Chan and Mutant Repellant" shield works as well as the rest of Slashcode. That is, it's pretty buggy. Sometimes it gets the job done, other times not so much.
The point being is that OPEC sets a ceiling on how much oil it pumps out each month. If you are interested in $2 / gallon gasoline, you want OPEC to produce flat out and, in fact, punch wells in every square foot of space you own.
If you're OPEC and trying to manage a non renewable resource, you don't want to do that. While OPEC isn't the only source of oil (and neither is China the only source of Rare Earths), they produce enough to partially control prices.
OTOH, forcing countries to change laws the primarily benefit US / Western Europe / IMF interests really crosses the line about what a 'charity' is all about.
For further entertainment, read up on the International Monetary Fund and the 'World Bank'.
Let's let Monsanto go for a bit - I would just point out that few things are purely good or evil, the world is much more complicated.
However, the vaccine business is clearly not a win for the 'free market'. The early vaccines were not developed by drug companies, they were developed by universities. Even the measles vaccine which was in part developed by the person who started Merck was employed in a government funded lab.
Vaccines make so little money and are so hard to produce that the US government had to write special legislation to entice Big Pharma into making them. That legislation shows just what a mess things are in the US at present. But I think it is quite reasonable to rage at Big Pharma while simultaneously trying to get them to behave in a socially responsible manner.
And the Gates Foundation is an example of this. They certainly do some good, but their structure is really set up to benefit large Western organizations, some governmental, some non governmental. Read up on the machinations of the International Monetary Fund some time. Take some generic anti nausea medication first.
The test kit comes with a booklet that the manufacturer and the FDA spent quite a bit of time going back and forth about. It attempts to clearly delineate what the test can and cannot do and impresses the need to get repeat testing. Remember, this took years to get cleared and not because of the technology itself - that's pretty cut and dried.
The hard part was setting the false positive and negative rates and trying to educate the general public on how to approach this issue. Whether or not their decisions were correct remains to be seen.
The big issue, IMHO, is the fact that you're only testing for one disease. If you went into a doctor's office or an STD clinic, you would typically get tested for the other communicable diseases that tend to ride along with HIV (gonorrhea, chlamydia and to a lesser extent, syphilis and Herpes). While these won't kill you right off the bat, they are important enough in their own right.
No test is 100% accurate. Even ones done in a lab setting. In particular, these HIV tests require the body to produce antibodies to the virus. No antibodies, no positive test. You don't make antibodies instantly - it takes on the order of 10 - 14 days. So, if you were in contact with an HIV positive person and then ran out and got tested you would test negative. A couple of weeks later, the story might be different.
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"Si tacuisses, philosophus fuisses" - Because this quantum wave easily collapses in the presence of human voice ;-)
Btw.: Since English is not my native language, can anyone tell me an appropriate English proverb?
Maybe if you translated it first.
That's why lots of sites had articles like this.
If you ignored the obvious idiot sites, I thought the general reaction to the Higgs Boson was pretty good. Idiot sites like ABC, CBC, MSNBC and CNN.
You need a different dentist^Horal hygenist.
How the hell do you think they get guys to come back an pay money to get poked at with sharp pointy instruments? We're not all into BDSM.
More Novacaine!
Steelhead. Not rainbow trout. Same species, but the ocean-going variety are called steelhead.
Except that the steel should attract the magnetite and the fish would end up swimming in circles.
But on a more serious note, where does the trout get the magnetite from? Nibbling on rocks? Is there some giant deposit deep in the ocean (next to a derelict alien spaceship perhaps)? Can they filter it out from the water?
Just imagine if you could use this as an indoor navigation system (IPS) on your smartphone. Compared to most other IPSes, which require thousands of WiFi or Bluetooth base stations to achieve comparable accuracy, this infrastructure-free approach sounds like it would be rather awesome.
Yeah, all you would need is a bunch of ground up trout noses.
What's not to like?
Personally, I'd like to see some experiments attempting to create an arsenic-based politician. Of course, I realize that there would likely be many, many failures on the road to succes, but such is science.
They can tap it. They do tap it. They're building a nationwide infrastructure to capture all the IP header data at each point where it enters a telecommunications network. YES, THEY CAN DO THIS. THEY ALREADY HAVE DONE THIS. THEY DO THIS ALL THE TIME.
[citation needed]
See, we found it. Not hard.
**---__ FBI __---**
And with the rest of the Slashdot posters who chime in they could sell several dozen. Probably even enough to give Windows Phone a run for it's money.
Unrepairability.
Which may or not be a word...
But anyway, how many non-Apple products are 'repaired'? Rather depends on your definition of repair - replacing a battery could be considered repair and certainly Apple falls short compared to some other manufacturers. However, so far, replacing an iPhone battery has not exactly been a technical challenge for all but the most mechanically declined. It remains to be seen if the newer MacBooks with the glued in battery will really challenge anyone. I suspect it wont.
While I think Apple can be taken to task for gluing a battery in rather than putting some clips on it, it's a small issue overall. I don't think it all counts towards whether or not a device is recyclable since it isn't hard to pry the battery or display out if you aren't looking to retain function.
And if you use a slightly more reasonable definition of 'repair' - replace a bad screen or other component - who actually does that these days? The person interested in such things is definitely an edge case (or nut case). The average consumer and the average store is going to toss a defective device and pick up a new shiny.
All this will actually result in is people asking "oh, did we to school together?" and them having to explain they merely digitally stalked you.
You're a fish? How do you type?
You're not a B-level movie celebrity who's ego is wider than a first class seat. You know, the kind that shows up on the news for having been tossed off a plane for being an abuse, inebriated asshole.
I think they're doing it so they can keep tabs on these bozos. If they get too rowdy, a few milligrams of haloperidol will get them to sit down and enjoy the flight - staring straight ahead and drooling the entire way. A definite improvement on their usual behavior.
Exactly. Certain Israeli factions would love for Iran (or Syria or pretty much anybody else they're having hissy fits with) to strike first. It gives them a big moral advantage.
Unless Iran gets to the point of having enough weapons to significantly degrade the Israeli military it's just a bluff. The problem then is determining when enough is enough. Just like N. Korea. One or two unreliable weapons isn't a huge existential threat. A couple of dozen could well be.
I'm not worried about someone screwing up.
I'm worried about the one nation who figures out how to prematurely detonate a nuke from orbit.
Imagine the world's nuclear stockpile becoming a liability overnight.
I'm worried about aliens with tractor beams.
So there.
Does that mean that UN itself is going to stop turning around, and trying to take it over every other week. And go hand in hand with the dictatorships of the world to throw the shackles on the rest of the world in order to protect their "sensitives" from the rest of us?
Of course not, you silly person.
They're the good guys. They're in white (and that pretty blue).
They're on your side.
My crazy neighbor Jimmy just declared he is High Gnome King of the 3rd Parallel Crux of the 14th Arm of the Correlian Empire.
I'm sure people will get right on that, too.
Yeah, well, Obama campaigned on 'Hope and Change' and people believed that.
The bar is pretty low these days.
Serious question. On some stories (there are certain patterns but I won't bore you), I notice a lot of the kinds of comments I am replying to right now. These comments have blatant racist/vulgar/nsfw word-spewings and are almost always from AC's. Is this some kind of coordinated effort to keep people at work or anywhere else there may be filters for this kind of stuff from reading this content? I notice it a lot on anything that praises open source or even tangentially like this Android running device. Just curious about people's thoughts.
The problem is that Slashdot's "4Chan and Mutant Repellant" shield works as well as the rest of Slashcode. That is, it's pretty buggy. Sometimes it gets the job done, other times not so much.
The point being is that OPEC sets a ceiling on how much oil it pumps out each month. If you are interested in $2 / gallon gasoline, you want OPEC to produce flat out and, in fact, punch wells in every square foot of space you own.
If you're OPEC and trying to manage a non renewable resource, you don't want to do that. While OPEC isn't the only source of oil (and neither is China the only source of Rare Earths), they produce enough to partially control prices.
Same with China.
Buy cheap, sell dear.
OTOH, forcing countries to change laws the primarily benefit US / Western Europe / IMF interests really crosses the line about what a 'charity' is all about.
For further entertainment, read up on the International Monetary Fund and the 'World Bank'.
Hmm....
Let's let Monsanto go for a bit - I would just point out that few things are purely good or evil, the world is much more complicated.
However, the vaccine business is clearly not a win for the 'free market'. The early vaccines were not developed by drug companies, they were developed by universities. Even the measles vaccine which was in part developed by the person who started Merck was employed in a government funded lab.
Vaccines make so little money and are so hard to produce that the US government had to write special legislation to entice Big Pharma into making them. That legislation shows just what a mess things are in the US at present. But I think it is quite reasonable to rage at Big Pharma while simultaneously trying to get them to behave in a socially responsible manner.
And the Gates Foundation is an example of this. They certainly do some good, but their structure is really set up to benefit large Western organizations, some governmental, some non governmental. Read up on the machinations of the International Monetary Fund some time. Take some generic anti nausea medication first.
The test kit comes with a booklet that the manufacturer and the FDA spent quite a bit of time going back and forth about. It attempts to clearly delineate what the test can and cannot do and impresses the need to get repeat testing. Remember, this took years to get cleared and not because of the technology itself - that's pretty cut and dried.
The hard part was setting the false positive and negative rates and trying to educate the general public on how to approach this issue. Whether or not their decisions were correct remains to be seen.
The big issue, IMHO, is the fact that you're only testing for one disease. If you went into a doctor's office or an STD clinic, you would typically get tested for the other communicable diseases that tend to ride along with HIV (gonorrhea, chlamydia and to a lesser extent, syphilis and Herpes). While these won't kill you right off the bat, they are important enough in their own right.
No test is 100% accurate. Even ones done in a lab setting. In particular, these HIV tests require the body to produce antibodies to the virus. No antibodies, no positive test. You don't make antibodies instantly - it takes on the order of 10 - 14 days. So, if you were in contact with an HIV positive person and then ran out and got tested you would test negative. A couple of weeks later, the story might be different.
Wrap the rascal.
My the Higgs Bison be with you.
No thanks. They are large, bad tempered animals. Much like politicians.
And they smell just about the same.
In this case, those are the same person.
He who has himself as a client has a fool for a lawyer.
Serves you right. You let all those New Yorkers in and bad things happen....