Seems like Douglas Adams was way ahead of you and the Pentagon on this one.:) I think that's because he drank the Kool-Aid. Back when it still had vitamins A,C,I and D in them.
If you work at a cubicle farm or live in a dormitory where there are a number of women working or living together for a long time, you may want to ask the women to compare the dates of there periods. The results may surprise you. More information here and here.
More evidence for the reality of the effect of pheromones on humans comes from the study of menstrual synchrony (women who live together tend to menstruate at the same time).
What is interesting is that the effect takes quite long (2 to 4 months) to fully manifest itself. Applied to "fear gas", I believe this could mean the effect could be quite insidious, like a slowly rising feeling of unrest or discontent in a population after secretly dusting them with pheromones for a long time.
I think the key word there is "presumably": as in totally unfounded. I bet that Mohammed Jihad is still pissing his pants before he goes to kill himself even if he is pretty sure he's getting 72 virgins. Only now he'll have his axillary sweat glands 'surgically' removed (probably dressed up as a "rite of passage" ritual) prior to being sent out "in the field".
Then just use a marker pen with ink which is removable, any colour you like (as long as it blocks infrared) to paint over the IR receiver lens. Jeez, be creative:-)
They could have used 'draughtsman's pencils' (don't know the right word for them), in which a thin core is pushed forward by very small amounts using the button on the top. Much more accurate than those old roller-ball pens, one less kind of pressurized item in a possibly hostile environment, and refillable, so quite tree-saving. Maybe those pencils had not been invented yet back then, I don't know...
Very well put. (sorry I don't have modpoints today.)
However, I do smell a wumpus (or rather, a creepy hideous lock-in) lurking in the business department.
It is quite possible that the owner of the establishment pays a fee to the ASCAP or somesuch to be able to legally broadcast music and TV to his customers. If one individual customer asks for it to be switched off, the waiters or the owner might feel much less compelled to comply because money was paid to be able to broadcast in the first place, and no-one wants to risk turning away customers who do want to watch or listen to it.
there should never be "accidents" when it comes to air travel Yup, "accidents" are redefined as "actual process parameters exceeding specification maximum (or minimum) values."
Now that is a complete furphy. Data flow network can be completely separate from a control system. If hardware can only detect an single increase in power that is all that it is capable of, it can not magically mystically accept digital data transmission. It all depends on how you define "accept (a) digital data transmission" and, more importantly, how the system will respond to it.
To cut to the chase, let's suppose some evil hacker has found out that smoke detectors in the cabin generate interrupts in the safety monitoring system. The hacker can then modulate the signal from one or more smoke detectors in an attempt to DoS the monitoring system or cause it to malfunction in some other way, thereby opening up yet other ways to influence airplane operation (involving crew response, passenger reactions, etc.). Attention to tiny details does matter in those situations.
I don't know why governments have such a hard-on for passports and other identifiers [like drivers licenses] to be accessible wirelessly. My guess is there will be eleventy-two-and-a-half bazillion answers to your question scattered around the posts in this discussion, but let's put mine directly and neatly below it.
Passports and drivers licenses are simply the most common IDs that people carry on their person when they move about./me dons tinfoil hat Making these IDs scannable wirelessly allows Big Brother to track people carrying them remotely. That innocuous looking traffic light at the crossing, that lamp post on the street corner or that turnstile at the subway entrance could serve more than just the purpose which its shape and form may seem to convey./me takes off tinfoil hat, wraps tinfoil hat around IDs, puts package into pocket
Should we expect a real-life version of "Die Another Day" with some rich weirdo turning a peaceful lagoon into an instant Jacuzzi with some low Earth-orbiting help while aiming for world domination?
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Sorry about the missing end tag. I think it must have gotten lost in the woods somewhere.
I think that's because he drank the Kool-Aid. Back when it still had vitamins A,C,I and D in them.
If you work at a cubicle farm or live in a dormitory where there are a number of women working or living together for a long time, you may want to ask the women to compare the dates of there periods. The results may surprise you. More information here and here.
More evidence for the reality of the effect of pheromones on humans comes from the study of menstrual synchrony (women who live together tend to menstruate at the same time).
What is interesting is that the effect takes quite long (2 to 4 months) to fully manifest itself.
Applied to "fear gas", I believe this could mean the effect could be quite insidious, like a slowly rising feeling of unrest or discontent in a population after secretly dusting them with pheromones for a long time.
You got it :-)
miki@miki:~$ dig -t AXFR state.nd.us > zone
Whoops, better get my towel out, for the Vogons will be after me soon. Hey Marvin, can you please get the POV gun and guard the door? Thank you...
Querying a single DNS record != Requesting a zone transfer .
Just modulate a singing Tesla coil with the right ringtone...
Stick the business end of it in a bullhorn. Pack that which doesn't fit in a camcorder backpack. Stand at the picket fence...
Duct tape to the rescue!
I'd ROFL if they try to slam it with the DMCA as a "free speech disruption device."
Then just use a marker pen with ink which is removable, any colour you like (as long as it blocks infrared) to paint over the IR receiver lens. Jeez, be creative :-)
They could have used 'draughtsman's pencils' (don't know the right word for them), in which a thin core is pushed forward by very small amounts using the button on the top. Much more accurate than those old roller-ball pens, one less kind of pressurized item in a possibly hostile environment, and refillable, so quite tree-saving.
Maybe those pencils had not been invented yet back then, I don't know...
Very well put. (sorry I don't have modpoints today.)
However, I do smell a wumpus (or rather, a creepy hideous lock-in) lurking in the business department.
It is quite possible that the owner of the establishment pays a fee to the ASCAP or somesuch to be able to legally broadcast music and TV to his customers. If one individual customer asks for it to be switched off, the waiters or the owner might feel much less compelled to comply because money was paid to be able to broadcast in the first place, and no-one wants to risk turning away customers who do want to watch or listen to it.
To cut to the chase, let's suppose some evil hacker has found out that smoke detectors in the cabin generate interrupts in the safety monitoring system. The hacker can then modulate the signal from one or more smoke detectors in an attempt to DoS the monitoring system or cause it to malfunction in some other way, thereby opening up yet other ways to influence airplane operation (involving crew response, passenger reactions, etc.). Attention to tiny details does matter in those situations.
&smiley;
Passports and drivers licenses are simply the most common IDs that people carry on their person when they move about.
Making these IDs scannable wirelessly allows Big Brother to track people carrying them remotely. That innocuous looking traffic light at the crossing, that lamp post on the street corner or that turnstile at the subway entrance could serve more than just the purpose which its shape and form may seem to convey.
That depends. When A,C,V are all unequal to zero, and A = 0.013043478D, 1.5VDC == 115VAC .
Time to bring MathML to Slash (and to the masses) :)
Should we expect a real-life version of "Die Another Day" with some rich weirdo turning a peaceful lagoon into an instant Jacuzzi with some low Earth-orbiting help while aiming for world domination?
This gives a whole different meaning to that Bruce Springsteen/Manfred Mann's Earth Band song...