One (partitioned) Key to rule them all, One Key to find them, One Key to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
need anyone say more?
At least in the Tolkien fantasies we got orcs, wizards, castles and beautiful elvish women. Here we just get a bunch of overweight, ugly guys, some half assed Star Trek furniture and an ugly old building from the 1960's.
No key until they at they at least update their image to include a smoking volcano.
.[Terrorists].. under certain circumstances, [have] used the United States Postal Service, United Parcel Service, and Federal Express in order to facilitate their terrorist doings.
I don't see where this is true at all. According to numerous, recent news reports, the only thing that domestic terrorists have used to advance their cause has been the FBI.
Move to a sailboat and Bob's your uncle. You can have a nice RO system for about $20K USD that will fit your bill quite nicely with the added bonus that if you don't like your neighbors you can move a bit. No central utilities (well, shore power if you like). No lawn (just algae).
The downsides is that you will spend an occasional weekend chasing down leaks and pressure spikes. RO is a very, very cranky technology that doesn't really scale well. You see those pictures? Thousands of plastic pipes, pumps, wires, gizmos. And because it's really hard to parallel the process you can't just do what big computer data centers do these days - just ignore failing subsystems for a while and rely on redundancy. That's sort of the Holy Grail in this field - plug in modules - but water and brine and other Nasty Chemicals just don't run down wires or fiber optic cables.
Natural gas isn't "clean". It's cleaner than coal and an excellent bridge technology as it uses turbines than essentially can run off of anything that you can get to explode. But it creates lots of CO2 and uses a non renewable source. So don't pat yourselves on the back too hard.
How long before it's mandated that each toilet have one of these to cut costs in the socialist healthcare system?
Oh, rather a long time since this isn't remotely what the study is trying to do. We don't really know what a 'good' stool sample is yet, but studies like this have tantalizing clues. According TFA one can tell whether a population is 'lean' or 'obese' with an approximate selectivity of 80%. Scanning TFA didn't reveal exactly where this came from but this sort of analysis may well lead to you shitting in a cup rather than peeing in it the next time you go the the clinic.
Some long term studies like this over many years and in many places could be very interesting indeed.
OTOH, they mention that 90+% of the fecal matter in the studies sewer systems are from non human sources. This leads inquiring minds to wonder if there are that many rats in a typical city.
Life is dangerous! There are things out there that can kill you!
This is just one of Obama's (or any president for that matter, this sort of thing is hardly limited to him) attempts at pushing some sort of agenda. In this case, trying to get people to care about climate change.
Warning of the perils to the planet has gotten the president only so far; polls consistently show the public is skeptical that the steps Obama has taken to curb pollution are worth the cost to the economy. So Obama is aiming to put a spotlight on ways that climate change will have real impacts on the body, like more asthma attacks, allergic reactions, heat-related deaths and injuries from extreme weather.
If he can't scare you with tales of the oceans boiling off or Florida turning into (more of) a swamp, then he has to do something else. Think of the children!
While you're more correct than is comfortable, there is still quite a bit bits-on-the-ground stuff that NASA could do with with essentially current tech. We have ONE fully functional lander on Mars. ONE beat up mini rover and a bunch of orbital infrastructure. A dozen Curiosity class rovers would do wonders to improve our knowledge of Mars. Knowledge that we really should have before we drop meat popsicles on the planet.
Yes, NASA is pork. So is pretty much everything else in government. Beats textured vegetable protein anyday.
Nobody really cares if it is a single celled bug. If it can be clearly shown to be extra terrestrial it blows the doors on the origins of life wide open. We just need a wee bit of DNA to make one of the momentous discoveries of biology ever.
Of course, if it's 7 feet tall, blue and looks like Zoe Saldana then all the better.
The existing rovers on Mars move at an average speed of 30 meters per hour. Average human walking speed is over 100x faster. This is just one of many metrics by which the most advanced and most expensive probes ever created fail to match human performance.
Have you ever seen a field geologist? They do not move at 30 meters per hour. If you're lucky, you can get them to move that far in a day.
Why would you care if these were printed? You want porcelain plates? Look it up on Amazon. You want a custom desk? Look it up on the general Internet. These things aren't going to be made at home on your makerbot, nor are they going to be produced at Kinkos+.
You've made absolutely no case for 3D printing here.
Probably not. Unless your needs run to Star Wars figurines, plastic spoons or other objects made primarily out of a single material, the next couple of generation printers are going to be pretty unrewarding. If you a running a prototyping shop and need an object that is going to be part of another object, you might find that one of the many fabrication shops already in existence can help you create the object of your desires. It might be CNC milled, it might be printed via laser sintering, it might be created using another technique - but these services exist.
3D printing is a long ways away from creating complicated, useful objects that have a broad enough appeal to justify production of the thingy-bob on every other street corner. Star Trek type replicator? We're not even talking the same universe here.
Look, we're talking about dinosaurs here. Things that haven't been seen on this planet for hundreds of millions of years (well, except for the three digit UID guys). Twenty years is just pocket change.
It wasn't depression per se. It was his personality profile. This might have been seen ahead of time - the Internet Echo Chamber is full of mental health professionals who are convinced that screening tests would have picked this guy out before he went postal, but I have my doubts. Psychological screening tests are interesting and at times useful but they have crap for track records in terms of specificity and sensitivity. They are also very intrusive, annoying and hard to interpret, administer and follow.
No system will ever be perfect and you can never cover ever edge case. If the cockpit doors had not been hardened, the pilot (and rest of the cabin) could have broken in and prevented the crash. Then the next 911-style terrorist could have plowed another plane into the ground. Although I agree that current wages, job security and benefits for commuter pilots is pretty marginal, it isn't at all clear that this played into his decision. After all, he was German - a country with a well developed social benefit system. If he could not fly, then (I'm presuming) he would have been eligible for medical and / or retraining benefits. It's not like he would have become homeless. So other things were working in his psyche.
Modern flight control computers are pretty sophisticated but epistemology is just not one of those things typically programmed in. You can't make an aircraft that 'will refuse to destroy itself' - other than have it refuse to start up in the first place. Physics dictates that there are situations where the plane goes from flyable to unflyable rather quickly (cf, Air France 447) - the 'computer' was trying really hard not to crash, just didn't work out that way. The current Airbus system has been criticized for it's propensity for the plane to override the pilots - it obviously works the vast majority of times, but we've seen several instances where the automation systems created more problems than they solved.
Computers are not, and will not be that 'smart' for quite some time.
It's useful for still photography - DSLRs are pushing 50 MB file sizes - a large 8K screen would be wonderful for Photoshop. Not so sure about the iMac format - that's basically just laptop parts slapped behind the panel. Maybe Apple can make an iMac + that's build from real computer parts.
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These are unsubstantiated claims, and basically there is a 0% chance this is true. This should set your BS alarms ringing pretty loud.
In other words, a typical Slashdot story.
One (partitioned) Key to rule them all, One Key to find them,
One Key to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
need anyone say more?
At least in the Tolkien fantasies we got orcs, wizards, castles and beautiful elvish women. Here we just get a bunch of overweight, ugly guys, some half assed Star Trek furniture and an ugly old building from the 1960's.
No key until they at they at least update their image to include a smoking volcano.
.[Terrorists].. under certain circumstances, [have] used the United States Postal Service, United Parcel Service, and Federal Express in order to facilitate their terrorist doings.
I don't see where this is true at all. According to numerous, recent news reports, the only thing that domestic terrorists have used to advance their cause has been the FBI.
Let's get rid of them and see how things improve.
What are you doing in England, then?
Move to a sailboat and Bob's your uncle. You can have a nice RO system for about $20K USD that will fit your bill quite nicely with the added bonus that if you don't like your neighbors you can move a bit. No central utilities (well, shore power if you like). No lawn (just algae).
The downsides is that you will spend an occasional weekend chasing down leaks and pressure spikes. RO is a very, very cranky technology that doesn't really scale well. You see those pictures? Thousands of plastic pipes, pumps, wires, gizmos. And because it's really hard to parallel the process you can't just do what big computer data centers do these days - just ignore failing subsystems for a while and rely on redundancy. That's sort of the Holy Grail in this field - plug in modules - but water and brine and other Nasty Chemicals just don't run down wires or fiber optic cables.
Plumbing is bitch.
Natural gas isn't "clean". It's cleaner than coal and an excellent bridge technology as it uses turbines than essentially can run off of anything that you can get to explode. But it creates lots of CO2 and uses a non renewable source. So don't pat yourselves on the back too hard.
No, don't suck it up. That's the problem. Wiping out the aquifers just kicks the can down the road.
You need to start picking up the can and recycling it.
How long before it's mandated that each toilet have one of these to cut costs in the socialist healthcare system?
Oh, rather a long time since this isn't remotely what the study is trying to do. We don't really know what a 'good' stool sample is yet, but studies like this have tantalizing clues. According TFA one can tell whether a population is 'lean' or 'obese' with an approximate selectivity of 80%. Scanning TFA didn't reveal exactly where this came from but this sort of analysis may well lead to you shitting in a cup rather than peeing in it the next time you go the the clinic.
Some long term studies like this over many years and in many places could be very interesting indeed.
OTOH, they mention that 90+% of the fecal matter in the studies sewer systems are from non human sources. This leads inquiring minds to wonder if there are that many rats in a typical city.
Or if something else lives down there.
** Not Serious ***
** Not a valid technical solution ***
** Do not try this at home **
** Professional driver on closed course **
Na, we solve this by getting rid of DNS and just going to straight IP addresses.
That will shut down this eternal September nonsense right quick.
Bigger than a Brontosaurus, no feathers. Lame.
We could call it "Zuckerman's Law".
This may be the most relevant post in the thread. It all makes sense if you look at it this way.
Not that politicians have to make sense...
Life is dangerous! There are things out there that can kill you!
This is just one of Obama's (or any president for that matter, this sort of thing is hardly limited to him) attempts at pushing some sort of agenda. In this case, trying to get people to care about climate change.
Warning of the perils to the planet has gotten the president only so far; polls consistently show the public is skeptical that the steps Obama has taken to curb pollution are worth the cost to the economy. So Obama is aiming to put a spotlight on ways that climate change will have real impacts on the body, like more asthma attacks, allergic reactions, heat-related deaths and injuries from extreme weather.
If he can't scare you with tales of the oceans boiling off or Florida turning into (more of) a swamp, then he has to do something else. Think of the children!
Of course, since water is the 'universal solvent' this does not bode well for us.
We're going to need a planet sized can of WD-40 to keep the galaxy from dissolving.
Now, now. Stop being such a downer.
While you're more correct than is comfortable, there is still quite a bit bits-on-the-ground stuff that NASA could do with with essentially current tech. We have ONE fully functional lander on Mars. ONE beat up mini rover and a bunch of orbital infrastructure. A dozen Curiosity class rovers would do wonders to improve our knowledge of Mars. Knowledge that we really should have before we drop meat popsicles on the planet.
Yes, NASA is pork. So is pretty much everything else in government. Beats textured vegetable protein anyday.
Nobody really cares if it is a single celled bug. If it can be clearly shown to be extra terrestrial it blows the doors on the origins of life wide open. We just need a wee bit of DNA to make one of the momentous discoveries of biology ever.
Of course, if it's 7 feet tall, blue and looks like Zoe Saldana then all the better.
The existing rovers on Mars move at an average speed of 30 meters per hour. Average human walking speed is over 100x faster. This is just one of many metrics by which the most advanced and most expensive probes ever created fail to match human performance.
Have you ever seen a field geologist? They do not move at 30 meters per hour. If you're lucky, you can get them to move that far in a day.
Why would you care if these were printed? You want porcelain plates? Look it up on Amazon. You want a custom desk? Look it up on the general Internet. These things aren't going to be made at home on your makerbot, nor are they going to be produced at Kinkos+.
You've made absolutely no case for 3D printing here.
Probably not. Unless your needs run to Star Wars figurines, plastic spoons or other objects made primarily out of a single material, the next couple of generation printers are going to be pretty unrewarding. If you a running a prototyping shop and need an object that is going to be part of another object, you might find that one of the many fabrication shops already in existence can help you create the object of your desires. It might be CNC milled, it might be printed via laser sintering, it might be created using another technique - but these services exist.
3D printing is a long ways away from creating complicated, useful objects that have a broad enough appeal to justify production of the thingy-bob on every other street corner. Star Trek type replicator? We're not even talking the same universe here.
I, for one, welcome our brave, new, micron-accurate D&D action figure and spork overlords.
Look, we're talking about dinosaurs here. Things that haven't been seen on this planet for hundreds of millions of years (well, except for the three digit UID guys). Twenty years is just pocket change.
It wasn't depression per se. It was his personality profile. This might have been seen ahead of time - the Internet Echo Chamber is full of mental health professionals who are convinced that screening tests would have picked this guy out before he went postal, but I have my doubts. Psychological screening tests are interesting and at times useful but they have crap for track records in terms of specificity and sensitivity. They are also very intrusive, annoying and hard to interpret, administer and follow.
No system will ever be perfect and you can never cover ever edge case. If the cockpit doors had not been hardened, the pilot (and rest of the cabin) could have broken in and prevented the crash. Then the next 911-style terrorist could have plowed another plane into the ground. Although I agree that current wages, job security and benefits for commuter pilots is pretty marginal, it isn't at all clear that this played into his decision. After all, he was German - a country with a well developed social benefit system. If he could not fly, then (I'm presuming) he would have been eligible for medical and / or retraining benefits. It's not like he would have become homeless. So other things were working in his psyche.
Modern flight control computers are pretty sophisticated but epistemology is just not one of those things typically programmed in. You can't make an aircraft that 'will refuse to destroy itself' - other than have it refuse to start up in the first place. Physics dictates that there are situations where the plane goes from flyable to unflyable rather quickly (cf, Air France 447) - the 'computer' was trying really hard not to crash, just didn't work out that way. The current Airbus system has been criticized for it's propensity for the plane to override the pilots - it obviously works the vast majority of times, but we've seen several instances where the automation systems created more problems than they solved.
Computers are not, and will not be that 'smart' for quite some time.
It's useful for still photography - DSLRs are pushing 50 MB file sizes - a large 8K screen would be wonderful for Photoshop. Not so sure about the iMac format - that's basically just laptop parts slapped behind the panel. Maybe Apple can make an iMac + that's build from real computer parts.