First Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? and now A Shopping-Scanner Darkly? Next article we'll undoubtedly be called Flow My Oily Tears, the Android Said.
The effect was that of a Cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination, with vast aggregations of night-black masonry embodying monstrous perversions of geometrical laws. There were truncated cones, sometimes terraced or fluted, surmounted by tall cylindrical shafts here and there bulbously enlarged and often capped with tiers of thinnish scalloped disks; and strange beetling, table-like constructions suggesting piles of multitudinous rectangular slabs or circular plates or five-pointed stars with each one overlapping the one beneath. There were composite cones and pyramids either alone or surmounting cylinders or cubes or flatter truncated cones and pyramids, and occasional needle-like spires in curious clusters of five. All of these febrile structures seemed knit together by tubular bridges crossing from one to the other at various dizzy heights, and the implied scale of the whole was terrifying and oppressive in its sheer gigantism. The general type of mirage was not unlike some of the wilder forms observed and drawn by the arctic whaler Scoresby in 1820, but at this time and place, with those dark, unknown mountain peaks soaring stupendously ahead, that anomalous elder-world discovery in our minds, and the pall of probable disaster enveloping the greater part of our expedition, we all seemed to find in it a taint of latent malignity and infinitely evil portent.
Likely? No... but if it happened it might make certian people reconsider that greenhouse gas/climate change tradeoff issue.:)
It is very useful to be able to communicate this stuff electronically, so if email is to be plain text only, how do you propose I do this?
Losing HTML doesn't mean you lose the ability to have email attachments. MIME should still work in the absence of HTML.
But just for fun, you could return to the classics and UUENCODE it.
Its been a while, but circa 1997 Microsoft Exchange used to automatically change a UUENCODed section in an email into an attachment. (Or maybe it was Outlook that did it.) Anyway, it happened automagically. It was pretty useful for doing automatic archives via email from a linux system.
I fully support any company, big-or-small, in suing some squatter who buys up every domain name like "Spiderman-3.com" "Spiderman3.com" and "Spidey3.com," and simply puts up a ransom-note-like "this domain name for sale - $500,000!" index.html on it.
The scarey^H^H^H^H^H^Hfunny part is that such 'investors' have already registered names up to spiderman10.com.
Spiderman11.com is currently still available. Act now!:)
U = I * R, or I = U / R. There's a direct and linear proportionality between the two, so "it's current that kills" vs "it's voltage that kills" is just splitting hairs.
Direct and linear porotionality? You neglect the dimensions. Resistance is not a dimensionless constant. In more practical terms the V in Ohm's law is across a load, but the current I is flux through it. Very Very diffrent. A bird can perch on a high tension wire and be at thousands of volts with respect to ground, but have no current through it, therefore it doesn't die. Nor is this merely an issue of picking arbitrary measuring points. The impedence of the human body is not a simple resistor. You can have high frequency high voltages running across you as a surface charge, the so called skin effect, with no harm.
So in another way you could say it's not current either, but _charge_ that kills you. (As in Q = I * T.)
Lets pick a supposed lethal current. Off the first page of a google search, http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy002 93.htm gives an example of 0.07 amps. It doesn't say how long, but lets assume a few heartbeats worth and call it 10 seconds. So that would mean that you consider 0.7 columbs lethal.
But then if I were to take a 10 microamps, and course it through you for 28 hours, you'd have had more than a whole columb go through you.
When the range of "punishments" is as stupidly large as 450V, which is _far_ into the lethal range
Just for future reference, its current that's deadly, not voltage. For example you get zapped by way more than 450 volts from a static spark like you get from scuffing your feet on some carpet.
I love this comment about the Supreme Court overturning Florida state law. What the Supreme Court said was the Florida Supreme court did not have the right to change the voting laws in the middle of an election.
Upon due consideration of the difficulties identified to this
point, it is obvious that the recount cannot be conducted in
compliance with the requirements of equal protection and due process
without substantial additional work. It would require not only the
adoption (after opportunity for argument) of adequate statewide
standards for determining what is a legal vote, and practicable
procedures to implement them, but also orderly judicial review of any
disputed matters that might arise.
Seems that the Supreme Court is saying the Florida Court was not only expected to make Florida election laws (case law really, not statutory law) in the middle of an election, but that their real error was not making ENOUGH new 'law'.
In fact MS has used the MAC address when forming Globally Unique IDs in the past.
At one point the easiest way for a program in Windows to get the MAC address of its main network connection was to get the systems GUID.
Not surprising that they might continue the practice in XBox and send a MAC addressed based GUID soplace else in the protocol other than the ethernet frame.
"the prospect of charging money for software was a crime against humanity." - Richard Stallman
Slight attribute bobble there. Let me fix it for you:
"[Richarm M Stallman] said that all software should be free and the prospect of charging money for software was a crime against humanity." -- Brian Reid
If you can get them to accept brain scans all the better.
I think that current technology would only worked in unscripted situations.
As I recall the way MRI style brain scans related to being a truth detector was that they were used to measure where activity was occuring in the brain. Recalling actual memories, activity was diffuse, occuring many places. When internally constructing a fable, actvity was localized in a particular lobe.
So if the politician was reading from a teleprompter,or perhaps even merely well rehersed in the lie, that particular lobe probably would not be showing up like a flare.
It also might be hard to get a politician to hold a press conference while laying down inside a huge magnet.
So we're supposed to get a tool that takes a politicians statement and fact checks it.
Against what? why the data on the Internet, of course.
So it might go something like this:
Step 1: Politician says "Foo is creating weapons of mass destruction"
Step 2: Google truthiness detector finds supporting statements on Wikipedia, Drudge Report, and Rense.com.
Step 3: Detector says "Support found"
Step 4: ?
Step 5: PROFIT!
Imagine a google like device existing in the 15th century that answered question based on common concencious in the documents exisiting at the time.
Columbus: The world is round Ye Olde Magic Truthiness detector: APPARENTLY FALSE
Copernicus: The Earth Moves about the Sun Ye Olde Magic Truthiness detector: APPARENTLY FALSE
Even if sources get weighted somehow, its not like nobody ever proposed injecting disinformation into the more traditionally reliable sources.
I think it would be hard to automate listening for the 'Ring of Truth'. Really one has to look at the source of the data and the consistancy of the data, as well as critiques of that viewpoint. Which means basically you need to review the supporting and critical data.
Isn't that what plain old google is supposed to find for you?
Information is not a story, a song, or a movie. For those too ignorant to understand, use a bloody dictionary : http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/information. Even a non fiction book is not information. It may -CONTAIN- information, but the book itself, including the author or editor's original words are not information.
Definition of information 2b at your URL:
the attribute inherent in and communicated by one of two or more alternative sequences or arrangements of something (as nucleotides in DNA or binary digits in a computer program) that produce specific effects."
So you are saying the books you use don't contain sequences of symbols (you know, like letters or punctuation) that produce specific effects (you know, like trigger associations with words from a natural language when interpreted by your brain)?
What the subtitle refers to is the false stories that he was found dead in his home on February 22, 1994 that propagated on the internet and the insights he had from watching the situation unfold.
I really hope that again the current story is also unfounded. But I am afraid its not, so I will be sending a check.
For all those 'the hippy should gedda job' folks, they might be interested to know that RAW was a (little l) libertarian before it was cool. It fact he was probably one of the seed crystals that fostered the 'coolness' on the internet back in the day.
How long do you think that straight track would have to be to obviate the need for high-g payloads? (Hint: *very* long)
It could be made more economical by making it dual use. Build it between two important land sites. Then it can also be used for cargo. Acceleration for 50% of the travel time, 50% deceleration transports cargo between point A and point B. 100% acceleration is an orbital launch.
But an addtional advantage to a ring is that it gives you basically a 360 circle of choice for launch directions. A linear accelerator gives you basically two.
Slashdot Mirror
prior art-ish Applie IIe circuit
0 6.html
http://web.pdx.edu/~heiss/technotes/aiie/tn.aiie.
Whoopie.
Because Fenner's patent used a tristate buffer instead of an open collector NPN transitor they own this kind of joystick?
geesh.
First Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? and now A Shopping-Scanner Darkly? Next article we'll undoubtedly be called Flow My Oily Tears, the Android Said.
Hmm, why not BladeRIAAnner?
Show me [a law that applied retroactively] that was passed and executed and still stands up to judicial review.
Just one.
Ok. Tax laws changed after a house was sold changes taxes owed on house sale retroactively:
decision here
Windows code names seem to come from resorts
Oh? Do they have one named "Portmeirion" ?
It would seem most appropriate, especially for that final version you won't be able to get away from.
Likely? No... but if it happened it might make certian people reconsider that greenhouse gas/climate change tradeoff issue.
It is very useful to be able to communicate this stuff electronically, so if email is to be plain text only, how do you propose I do this?
Losing HTML doesn't mean you lose the ability to have email attachments. MIME should still work in the absence of HTML.
But just for fun, you could return to the classics and UUENCODE it.
Its been a while, but circa 1997 Microsoft Exchange used to automatically change a UUENCODed section in an email into an attachment. (Or maybe it was Outlook that did it.) Anyway, it happened automagically. It was pretty useful for doing automatic archives via email from a linux system.
I'm sure an PS/3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in less than a second
I fully support any company, big-or-small, in suing some squatter who buys up every domain name like "Spiderman-3.com" "Spiderman3.com" and "Spidey3.com," and simply puts up a ransom-note-like "this domain name for sale - $500,000!" index.html on it.
:)
The scarey^H^H^H^H^H^Hfunny part is that such 'investors' have already registered names up to spiderman10.com.
Spiderman11.com is currently still available. Act now!
Does the law contain a "You killed it, you clean it!" provision?
It's not a centimeter, millimeter, or even nanometer different. It physically can't be different.
EUREKA!
U = I * R, or I = U / R. There's a direct and linear proportionality between the two, so "it's current that kills" vs "it's voltage that kills" is just splitting hairs.
2 93.htm gives an example of 0.07 amps. It doesn't say how long, but lets assume a few heartbeats worth and call it 10 seconds. So that would mean that you consider 0.7 columbs lethal.
Direct and linear porotionality? You neglect the dimensions. Resistance is not a dimensionless constant. In more practical terms the V in Ohm's law is across a load, but the current I is flux through it. Very Very diffrent. A bird can perch on a high tension wire and be at thousands of volts with respect to ground, but have no current through it, therefore it doesn't die. Nor is this merely an issue of picking arbitrary measuring points. The impedence of the human body is not a simple resistor. You can have high frequency high voltages running across you as a surface charge, the so called skin effect, with no harm.
So in another way you could say it's not current either, but _charge_ that kills you. (As in Q = I * T.)
Lets pick a supposed lethal current. Off the first page of a google search, http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00
But then if I were to take a 10 microamps, and course it through you for 28 hours, you'd have had more than a whole columb go through you.
Think you'd die?
When the range of "punishments" is as stupidly large as 450V, which is _far_ into the lethal range
Just for future reference, its current that's deadly, not voltage. For example you get zapped by way more than 450 volts from a static spark like you get from scuffing your feet on some carpet.
I think you fail to get it. A low performance engine cannot lift ANYTHING into space. No matter how cheap a reliable.
:)
Tell that to the Duchy of Grand Fenwick
At least they don't have to worry about nuking the site from orbit.
That window of opportunity has closed.
I love this comment about the Supreme Court overturning Florida state law. What the Supreme Court said was the Florida Supreme court did not have the right to change the voting laws in the middle of an election.
Actually the Supreme Court said this:
Upon due consideration of the difficulties identified to this
point, it is obvious that the recount cannot be conducted in
compliance with the requirements of equal protection and due process
without substantial additional work. It would require not only the
adoption (after opportunity for argument) of adequate statewide
standards for determining what is a legal vote, and practicable
procedures to implement them, but also orderly judicial review of any
disputed matters that might arise.
Seems that the Supreme Court is saying the Florida Court was not only expected to make Florida election laws (case law really, not statutory law) in the middle of an election, but that their real error was not making ENOUGH new 'law'.
In fact MS has used the MAC address when forming Globally Unique IDs in the past.
At one point the easiest way for a program in Windows to get the MAC address of its main network connection was to get the systems GUID.
Not surprising that they might continue the practice in XBox and send a MAC addressed based GUID soplace else in the protocol other than the ethernet frame.
"the prospect of charging money for software was a crime against humanity." - Richard Stallman
Slight attribute bobble there. Let me fix it for you:
"[Richarm M Stallman] said that all software should be free and the prospect of charging money for software was a crime against humanity." -- Brian Reid
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-00287-4., chapter 6
Great be;ching clouds of H2S, eh.
I suppose in that scenario, Mankinds final words should be
"He who smell't it dealt it!
If you can get them to accept brain scans all the better.
I think that current technology would only worked in unscripted situations.
As I recall the way MRI style brain scans related to being a truth detector was that they were used to measure where activity was occuring in the brain. Recalling actual memories, activity was diffuse, occuring many places. When internally constructing a fable, actvity was localized in a particular lobe.
So if the politician was reading from a teleprompter,or perhaps even merely well rehersed in the lie, that particular lobe probably would not be showing up like a flare.
It also might be hard to get a politician to hold a press conference while laying down inside a huge magnet.
So we're supposed to get a tool that takes a politicians statement and fact checks it.
Against what? why the data on the Internet, of course.
So it might go something like this:
Step 1: Politician says "Foo is creating weapons of mass destruction"
Step 2: Google truthiness detector finds supporting statements on Wikipedia, Drudge Report, and Rense.com.
Step 3: Detector says "Support found"
Step 4: ?
Step 5: PROFIT!
Imagine a google like device existing in the 15th century that answered question based on common concencious in the documents exisiting at the time.
Columbus: The world is round
Ye Olde Magic Truthiness detector: APPARENTLY FALSE
Copernicus: The Earth Moves about the Sun
Ye Olde Magic Truthiness detector: APPARENTLY FALSE
Even if sources get weighted somehow, its not like nobody ever proposed injecting disinformation into the more traditionally reliable sources.
I think it would be hard to automate listening for the 'Ring of Truth'. Really one has to look at the source of the data and the consistancy of the data, as well as critiques of that viewpoint. Which means basically you need to review the supporting and critical data.
Isn't that what plain old google is supposed to find for you?
I don't see much new proposed here.
Definition of information 2b at your URL:
So you are saying the books you use don't contain sequences of symbols (you know, like letters or punctuation) that produce specific effects (you know, like trigger associations with words from a natural language when interpreted by your brain)?
What does that leave? Picture books?
Robert Anton Wilsons autobiography is titled Cosmic Trigger. There were several updates/sequals including Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death
What the subtitle refers to is the false stories that he was found dead in his home on February 22, 1994 that propagated on the internet and the insights he had from watching the situation unfold.
I really hope that again the current story is also unfounded. But I am afraid its not, so I will be sending a check.
For all those 'the hippy should gedda job' folks, they might be interested to know that RAW was a (little l) libertarian before it was cool. It fact he was probably one of the seed crystals that fostered the 'coolness' on the internet back in the day.
How long do you think that straight track would have to be to obviate the need for high-g payloads? (Hint: *very* long)
It could be made more economical by making it dual use. Build it between two important land sites. Then it can also be used for cargo. Acceleration for 50% of the travel time, 50% deceleration transports cargo between point A and point B. 100% acceleration is an orbital launch.
But an addtional advantage to a ring is that it gives you basically a 360 circle of choice for launch directions. A linear accelerator gives you basically two.
Someone needs to write a new paper for the peer reviewed journals to counter this paper in light of the "Johnny can't code" factor.
I suppose they could title it "Lack of Go To Statement Considered Harmful"
Actually perl has a goto statement , so feel free use perl like a line programming language if you really want to.
Hmm. Thats the same frequency as the radar used to track clouds
W-band ARM Cloud Radar (WACR)
So it reflects off of water droplets.
Hmm. I wonder if fog machines will be de reguire for mass protests in the near future.
Personally I'd think that would look a lot more hip than space blanket ponchos