I see alot of people talking about uses of these nanotubes in a space elevator, but honestly, this can't be the only application. I was thinking another application could possibly be drill bits. If we can make these nanotubes more cost effective then actual industrial grade diamond we could use them as pieces of drill bits, I think:)
I am a student, so I don't know much about this, but surely there have to be applications for super strong materials etc.
So, google is branching out of the internet and into phones... well this certainly seems like a great idea. No one wants to spend the time to load up a web browser and web pages. This would make it alot easier to get google on phones, and this introduces google onto phones that can't get on the web, but can get sms's.
If the car knows when you are going over the speed limit... how long will it be until your car gives you a ticket for speeding? I predict that in the future, cars that give tickets to their drivers will be available to low income families (at special rates) and to regular folk that come packaged with a nice tax break somewhere.
Your car just gave you a three hundred dollar ticket.../discuss
Cost of running Cern?
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Happy 50th Cern!
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Can humanity possibly put a price on knoledge? Is there a limit to the ammount of money we should spend to learn - to further our understanding of the world around us?
Google news is still in beta because it can't differentiate between real news and editorials. As much as I like google news, I get most of my news from rss feeds (slashdot/scifiwire ect...) As far as I am concerned, Google needs to either decide to stay nonprofit with the google news, OR pay out the cash and sell adds.
Now that I reread this, it's gonna get modded down... oh well.:)
Flying Cars - a bad idea.
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NYT On Flying Cars
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Flying cars, while a dream for many are not as great as everyone believes they are. Imagine everything that can go wrong in a car today, then imagine it going wrong 300 feet in the air.
Blade Runner is an excelent example of how I would build the future, flying car wise, that is: Only the Cops, and Emergency Services have flying cars. Compare this to a movie like The Fifth Element, where we see gridlock... in three dimensions.
Rather then flying cars, I would look twords increasing the land speed, and effectiveness of current automobiles. One company (don't remember the name sorry) has designed/built a concept car that would use a form of wireless networking, to link up with others of the same make, forming essentially road traines traveling to destinations near eachother.
Another good example would be from another movie (sorry for all the movie refrences, but I hope they explain my point) would be the cars from Minority report, and AI. Both movies by the same director, in which cars can travel at much faster velocities then they do now, and can controll themselves in one form or another, flying vehicles are left to emergency services.
To summarize what I said: Flying cars/vehicles should be for EMS and other Emergency Services, while we should look to upgrade our current cars, roads, and driving techniques.
Google, as much as we love it, is a priviate company, and they have to abide by the laws, regulations and codes of conduct in forign countries, whose markets they wish to enter.
Don't get upset with goodle over cencorship, get upset with the government who's laws they must abide.
I'm sorry for my lack of sources, but.... I was under the impression from reading IMDB and a few other web sites that ROTK wasn't going to come out on DVD until they put the extended addition back out in theaters. I had thought that they planned to send ROTK back to theaters to announce that they were finally done with the film the way Peter Jackson wanted it to be and that the Extended Editions werer the real versions.
X-prize => Priviate citizen's in space => tourist's in space => priviate "space resort" => Advertisements in space => advertisements visible from earth in space => coca cola constlation / starbucks galaxy?
Serriously, if we have tourists in space, they are gonna want to spend time up there, so we will need long term staff in space... Space tourourism (sp) is not a feasible buisness for many years to come imo.
Rather then finding new relavent links...
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Broken Links No More?
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How about this, lets find a better way to eliminate bad links. Have a bot scan your companies, web site, and every time you find a link to an outside source, save that page to your servers, if the link gets screwed up, you can replace it with a link to the saved web page in your server until you can do something about it.
This would not work with large web sites, but if it is just a link to a how-to guide or something small like that this would work.
Gosh. If I was a student, I would be snatching these things up like gold, then pawning them on ebay to teh pedofiles.
This only adds a false sence of security, without biometric identification on these usb things, anyone can become a 16 year old male. Lets go chat up NAMBLA and ask them what they think!
The new design of the ps2 is special, but it's nothing extraordinary. Ever since the new version of the PS1 came out people have been waiting for a better looking PS2. What is amazing frankly is 120 games by the end of the year. I know that was announced in Japan, so it will filter down a little before it gets to us, but this strikes me as kind of strange. From what I read it looks like sony has made all of these games and not had any outside companies assist with the 120 to come.
Considering that sony announced the PS3 would debut at next years E3, I would have thought that they woud have used the rescources to create 120 PS2 games, to create PS3 games for the first launch.
Bush's supporters have been shown to vote for him soely on moral ground. The poorest county in america voted more then 80% for Bush. Why you ask? Because Bush has the Christian Right, a sizeable population. Bush can screw the enviroment, tax people into the ground, reinstate the draft, declare war on canada and mexico and still have the christian right's vote.
If people will wake up and realize that voting for Bush without understanding the issues is killing our country, then perhapse they will change... but until then bush can look forward to having all the bible thumpers under his belt, and abusing his power more and more. Ah well, personally, I think you should have to have a slashdot account to vote this year.
First of, I am not a trained professional. I am a high school senior but I believe that I understand the principals behind this technology.
The term solar sail is a modern misnomer. Solar sails are only capable of accelerating away from a star. This is because the sail is powered by reflecting solar radiation/solar wind. (I'm not sure, but I believe that this is limited by the inverse square law, which means that every time you double the distance between you and the source of the radiation, you decrease it's power 4 times. AKA it's power decreases exponentially as you travel away from it.) This means that in the expanse between stars, there will be essentially no acceleration, and in fact, depending on the size of your sail, some drag. Because space is not really empty (one hydrogen atom per square meter, which would add up if you need to travel light years with fully deployed several KM wide solar sails.)
While the best way to use solar sails would be to put human power behind them, that is to fire lasers at the sails to continue powering them past the heliopause, enabling them to continue accelerating past our solar system.
The simple option for travel would be to have a craft capable retracting it's sail, retract its sails once it leaves the area of acceleration, and then deploy them once it arrives in it's target solar system, slowing it down.
Solar sails are also impractical for travel in a solar system (with the exception of traveling from an inner plannet straight out to a planet more distant from the sun.) Solar sails can not function like sails on an ocean.
The reason sails work on an ocean is because boats have centerboards, solar sail craft do not have centerboards (because space doesn't have the matter to support one) they would simply drift away from the sun.
Conclusion: Solar sails, while wonderful and interesting, will never have a practical use transporting humans simply because it would take hundreds of thousands of years to travel between stars.
I also believe that if we begin constructing solar sail craft to travel to distant stars, we should (if we don't we are doing something wrong) be able to travel to the star and back before a solar sail craft would get there to begin collecting data. If I screwed up anything flame me as much as you want.
First of, I am not a trained professional. I am a high school senior but I believe that I understand the principals behind this technology.
The term solar sail is a modern misnomer. Solar sails are only capable of accelerating away from a star. This is because the sail is powered by reflecting solar radiation/solar wind. (I'm not sure, but I believe that this is limited by the inverse square law, which means that every time you double the distance between you and the source of the radiation, you decrease it's power 4 times. AKA it's power decreases exponentially as you travel away from it.) This means that in the expanse between stars, there will be essentially no acceleration, and in fact, depending on the size of your sail, some drag. Because space is not really empty (one hydrogen atom per square meter, which would add up if you need to travel light years with fully deployed several KM wide solar sails.)
While the best way to use solar sails would be to put human power behind them, that is to fire lasers at the sails to continue powering them past the heliopause, enabling them to continue accelerating past our solar system. The simple option for travel would be to have a craft capable retracting it's sail, retract its sails once it leaves the area of acceleration, and then deploy them once it arrives in it's target solar system, slowing it down.
Solar sails are also impractical for travel in a solar system (with the exception of traveling from an inner plannet straight out to a planet more distant from the sun.) Solar sails can not function like sails on an ocean. The reason sails work on an ocean is because boats have centerboards, solar sail craft do not have centerboards (because space doesn't have the matter to support one) they would simply drift away from the sun.
Conclusion: Solar sails, while wonderful and interesting, will never have a practical use transporting humans simply because it would take hundreds of thousands of years to travel between stars. I also believe that if we begin constructing solar sail craft to travel to distant stars, we should (if we don't we are doing something wrong) be able to travel to the star and back before a solar sail craft would get there to begin collecting data.
If I screwed up anything flame me as much as you want.
Ok, I am 18, going to be a senior in high school, so this doesn't apply to me, however my mother is the CLC (Chief legal council) for a large hospital. The hospital is going to be upgrading their hardware and are currently negotiating between two diffrent companies.
Part of the reason that the data is unsecure is because the doctors need to access the data. The doctors at this hospital are pushing for all data to be accessable over the wireless network so they can use their wifi enabled devices/pda's to get information about patients perscribe medicine. And frankly wifi (802.11X) is not the most secure thing on earth.
In terms of making the discovery, Rosalind Franklin took pictures of the structure of DNA, Watson and Crick just looked at the pictures and deduced the structure.
So I guess you could patent the picture taking process. Toodles.
If you could design hardware that replicated a human brain, that is if you could design a mechanical brain thats function was similar to human brain in function and features, you could transfer "essence" you could also build AI - or for that matter, have hardware that has to be thought software, not programmed.
I wrote an ask/. article very similar to this yesterday. My question was, will the integration of computers and our brains lead to practical immortality? Can a human consciousness, memories, and personality be transfered to hardware in such a way that the person can continue to learn? Duplication of the human brain seems to be the next step.
[PERSONALLY]: I would jump at the opportunity to be a test subject in any experiment of the kind. Imagine the power of a human brain connected to your cooperation network and the internet. Actually intelligent antivirus software, intelligent searches and an intelligent filing system. I would sell my brain for however long was necessary to any cooperation if I could attain immortality this way. [/PERSONALLY]
Ah, I did read it but I thought that he did indeed take apart a game boy. Makes much more sense now, I am going to go reread it and see where I got confused.
Ok, call me crazy, but I bought a Gameboy Advance SP so I could play games when I wasn't infront of my TV. And, when I am playing games on my TV or computer, I don't want to be playing gba games. If I recall correctally, they make a thing, that you stick on the bottom of a gamecube that lets it play gba games, its probably cheaper and more effective then sticking a whole gameboy into a console.
Speaking of a gameboy in a console, how did he end up hooking it up a tv? Last time I was at best buy looking around, I didn't see any way to connect it, and I was looking for cube cables, so I believe I would have seen the adaptors if there were any.
"CNet's News.com is reporting that 3 men have been arrested for allegedly blackmailing websites by threatening DDoS attacks if they didn't pay between $10,000 and $55,000"
They are asking for way too much money. If they had set realistic goals for themselves, they would not have ended up in a position like they are in today. Frankly, asking for the ammount of cash that they did seems very juvinile. Just my $.02
I will be a senior at a "laptop school" on the east coast. At my school, each student is forced to rent an iBook to use during the four school years. Now since the entire school is based on Macs, many many students purchase iPods to go along with their Macs. In the last month of school, several dozen students found a program that would allow iPods to display text from files on the iPod. Six of these students were caught cheating on their final exams, and two were caught after having downloaded a 32 gig dictionary to their iPods and using them on the SAT.
iPods are a great tool as long as everyone realizes that they are not radios, they are hard drives and can be used to remove data surreptitiously, or to covertly access data, or just general data storage.
All camera's are the same in that they capture light through a lense. In fact, still cameras are nothing more then light tight boxes that capture light. A video camera is more complex obviously, but it still needs to see light through a lense.
Last time that I was at a camera store, I remember glancing down at a nice Sony digital vid camera and being surprised to see that the optics were Carl Zeiss. If this holds true to the Sony line, then this is deffinatly a major pro for the Sony line, Carl Zeiss is one of, if not the best producer of optics in the camera business.
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I see alot of people talking about uses of these nanotubes in a space elevator, but honestly, this can't be the only application. I was thinking another application could possibly be drill bits. If we can make these nanotubes more cost effective then actual industrial grade diamond we could use them as pieces of drill bits, I think :)
I am a student, so I don't know much about this, but surely there have to be applications for super strong materials etc.
So, google is branching out of the internet and into phones... well this certainly seems like a great idea. No one wants to spend the time to load up a web browser and web pages. This would make it alot easier to get google on phones, and this introduces google onto phones that can't get on the web, but can get sms's.
If the car knows when you are going over the speed limit... how long will it be until your car gives you a ticket for speeding? I predict that in the future, cars that give tickets to their drivers will be available to low income families (at special rates) and to regular folk that come packaged with a nice tax break somewhere.
/discuss
Your car just gave you a three hundred dollar ticket...
Can humanity possibly put a price on knoledge? Is there a limit to the ammount of money we should spend to learn - to further our understanding of the world around us?
/mod me off topic if you want
Google news is still in beta because it can't differentiate between real news and editorials. As much as I like google news, I get most of my news from rss feeds (slashdot/scifiwire ect...) As far as I am concerned, Google needs to either decide to stay nonprofit with the google news, OR pay out the cash and sell adds.
:)
Now that I reread this, it's gonna get modded down... oh well.
Flying cars, while a dream for many are not as great as everyone believes they are. Imagine everything that can go wrong in a car today, then imagine it going wrong 300 feet in the air.
Blade Runner is an excelent example of how I would build the future, flying car wise, that is: Only the Cops, and Emergency Services have flying cars. Compare this to a movie like The Fifth Element, where we see gridlock... in three dimensions.
Rather then flying cars, I would look twords increasing the land speed, and effectiveness of current automobiles. One company (don't remember the name sorry) has designed/built a concept car that would use a form of wireless networking, to link up with others of the same make, forming essentially road traines traveling to destinations near eachother.
Another good example would be from another movie (sorry for all the movie refrences, but I hope they explain my point) would be the cars from Minority report, and AI. Both movies by the same director, in which cars can travel at much faster velocities then they do now, and can controll themselves in one form or another, flying vehicles are left to emergency services.
To summarize what I said: Flying cars/vehicles should be for EMS and other Emergency Services, while we should look to upgrade our current cars, roads, and driving techniques.
Google, as much as we love it, is a priviate company, and they have to abide by the laws, regulations and codes of conduct in forign countries, whose markets they wish to enter.
Don't get upset with goodle over cencorship, get upset with the government who's laws they must abide.
I'm sorry for my lack of sources, but.... I was under the impression from reading IMDB and a few other web sites that ROTK wasn't going to come out on DVD until they put the extended addition back out in theaters. I had thought that they planned to send ROTK back to theaters to announce that they were finally done with the film the way Peter Jackson wanted it to be and that the Extended Editions werer the real versions.
anyone?
X-prize => Priviate citizen's in space => tourist's in space => priviate "space resort" => Advertisements in space => advertisements visible from earth in space => coca cola constlation / starbucks galaxy? Serriously, if we have tourists in space, they are gonna want to spend time up there, so we will need long term staff in space... Space tourourism (sp) is not a feasible buisness for many years to come imo.
How about this, lets find a better way to eliminate bad links. Have a bot scan your companies, web site, and every time you find a link to an outside source, save that page to your servers, if the link gets screwed up, you can replace it with a link to the saved web page in your server until you can do something about it.
This would not work with large web sites, but if it is just a link to a how-to guide or something small like that this would work.
Gosh. If I was a student, I would be snatching these things up like gold, then pawning them on ebay to teh pedofiles.
This only adds a false sence of security, without biometric identification on these usb things, anyone can become a 16 year old male. Lets go chat up NAMBLA and ask them what they think!
The new design of the ps2 is special, but it's nothing extraordinary. Ever since the new version of the PS1 came out people have been waiting for a better looking PS2. What is amazing frankly is 120 games by the end of the year. I know that was announced in Japan, so it will filter down a little before it gets to us, but this strikes me as kind of strange. From what I read it looks like sony has made all of these games and not had any outside companies assist with the 120 to come.
Considering that sony announced the PS3 would debut at next years E3, I would have thought that they woud have used the rescources to create 120 PS2 games, to create PS3 games for the first launch.
Bush's supporters have been shown to vote for him soely on moral ground. The poorest county in america voted more then 80% for Bush. Why you ask? Because Bush has the Christian Right, a sizeable population. Bush can screw the enviroment, tax people into the ground, reinstate the draft, declare war on canada and mexico and still have the christian right's vote.
If people will wake up and realize that voting for Bush without understanding the issues is killing our country, then perhapse they will change... but until then bush can look forward to having all the bible thumpers under his belt, and abusing his power more and more. Ah well, personally, I think you should have to have a slashdot account to vote this year.
"Samsung has also included a built-in microphone" Anyone else see something funny with this statement?
Well my formatting died, sorry guys. Take two:
First of, I am not a trained professional. I am a high school senior but I believe that I understand the principals behind this technology.
The term solar sail is a modern misnomer. Solar sails are only capable of accelerating away from a star. This is because the sail is powered by reflecting solar radiation/solar wind. (I'm not sure, but I believe that this is limited by the inverse square law, which means that every time you double the distance between you and the source of the radiation, you decrease it's power 4 times. AKA it's power decreases exponentially as you travel away from it.) This means that in the expanse between stars, there will be essentially no acceleration, and in fact, depending on the size of your sail, some drag. Because space is not really empty (one hydrogen atom per square meter, which would add up if you need to travel light years with fully deployed several KM wide solar sails.)
While the best way to use solar sails would be to put human power behind them, that is to fire lasers at the sails to continue powering them past the heliopause, enabling them to continue accelerating past our solar system.
The simple option for travel would be to have a craft capable retracting it's sail, retract its sails once it leaves the area of acceleration, and then deploy them once it arrives in it's target solar system, slowing it down.
Solar sails are also impractical for travel in a solar system (with the exception of traveling from an inner plannet straight out to a planet more distant from the sun.) Solar sails can not function like sails on an ocean.
The reason sails work on an ocean is because boats have centerboards, solar sail craft do not have centerboards (because space doesn't have the matter to support one) they would simply drift away from the sun.
Conclusion: Solar sails, while wonderful and interesting, will never have a practical use transporting humans simply because it would take hundreds of thousands of years to travel between stars.
I also believe that if we begin constructing solar sail craft to travel to distant stars, we should (if we don't we are doing something wrong) be able to travel to the star and back before a solar sail craft would get there to begin collecting data. If I screwed up anything flame me as much as you want.
First of, I am not a trained professional. I am a high school senior but I believe that I understand the principals behind this technology. The term solar sail is a modern misnomer. Solar sails are only capable of accelerating away from a star. This is because the sail is powered by reflecting solar radiation/solar wind. (I'm not sure, but I believe that this is limited by the inverse square law, which means that every time you double the distance between you and the source of the radiation, you decrease it's power 4 times. AKA it's power decreases exponentially as you travel away from it.) This means that in the expanse between stars, there will be essentially no acceleration, and in fact, depending on the size of your sail, some drag. Because space is not really empty (one hydrogen atom per square meter, which would add up if you need to travel light years with fully deployed several KM wide solar sails.) While the best way to use solar sails would be to put human power behind them, that is to fire lasers at the sails to continue powering them past the heliopause, enabling them to continue accelerating past our solar system. The simple option for travel would be to have a craft capable retracting it's sail, retract its sails once it leaves the area of acceleration, and then deploy them once it arrives in it's target solar system, slowing it down. Solar sails are also impractical for travel in a solar system (with the exception of traveling from an inner plannet straight out to a planet more distant from the sun.) Solar sails can not function like sails on an ocean. The reason sails work on an ocean is because boats have centerboards, solar sail craft do not have centerboards (because space doesn't have the matter to support one) they would simply drift away from the sun. Conclusion: Solar sails, while wonderful and interesting, will never have a practical use transporting humans simply because it would take hundreds of thousands of years to travel between stars. I also believe that if we begin constructing solar sail craft to travel to distant stars, we should (if we don't we are doing something wrong) be able to travel to the star and back before a solar sail craft would get there to begin collecting data. If I screwed up anything flame me as much as you want.
Ok, I am 18, going to be a senior in high school, so this doesn't apply to me, however my mother is the CLC (Chief legal council) for a large hospital. The hospital is going to be upgrading their hardware and are currently negotiating between two diffrent companies. Part of the reason that the data is unsecure is because the doctors need to access the data. The doctors at this hospital are pushing for all data to be accessable over the wireless network so they can use their wifi enabled devices/pda's to get information about patients perscribe medicine. And frankly wifi (802.11X) is not the most secure thing on earth.
In terms of making the discovery, Rosalind Franklin took pictures of the structure of DNA, Watson and Crick just looked at the pictures and deduced the structure. So I guess you could patent the picture taking process. Toodles.
If you could design hardware that replicated a human brain, that is if you could design a mechanical brain thats function was similar to human brain in function and features, you could transfer "essence" you could also build AI - or for that matter, have hardware that has to be thought software, not programmed.
I wrote an ask /. article very similar to this yesterday. My question was, will the integration of computers and our brains lead to practical immortality? Can a human consciousness, memories, and personality be transfered to hardware in such a way that the person can continue to learn? Duplication of the human brain seems to be the next step.
[PERSONALLY]: I would jump at the opportunity to be a test subject in any experiment of the kind. Imagine the power of a human brain connected to your cooperation network and the internet. Actually intelligent antivirus software, intelligent searches and an intelligent filing system. I would sell my brain for however long was necessary to any cooperation if I could attain immortality this way. [/PERSONALLY]
Ah, I did read it but I thought that he did indeed take apart a game boy. Makes much more sense now, I am going to go reread it and see where I got confused.
Thanks for pointing my mistake out.
Ok, call me crazy, but I bought a Gameboy Advance SP so I could play games when I wasn't infront of my TV. And, when I am playing games on my TV or computer, I don't want to be playing gba games. If I recall correctally, they make a thing, that you stick on the bottom of a gamecube that lets it play gba games, its probably cheaper and more effective then sticking a whole gameboy into a console.
Speaking of a gameboy in a console, how did he end up hooking it up a tv? Last time I was at best buy looking around, I didn't see any way to connect it, and I was looking for cube cables, so I believe I would have seen the adaptors if there were any.
"CNet's News.com is reporting that 3 men have been arrested for allegedly blackmailing websites by threatening DDoS attacks if they didn't pay between $10,000 and $55,000"
They are asking for way too much money. If they had set realistic goals for themselves, they would not have ended up in a position like they are in today. Frankly, asking for the ammount of cash that they did seems very juvinile. Just my $.02
I will be a senior at a "laptop school" on the east coast. At my school, each student is forced to rent an iBook to use during the four school years. Now since the entire school is based on Macs, many many students purchase iPods to go along with their Macs. In the last month of school, several dozen students found a program that would allow iPods to display text from files on the iPod. Six of these students were caught cheating on their final exams, and two were caught after having downloaded a 32 gig dictionary to their iPods and using them on the SAT. iPods are a great tool as long as everyone realizes that they are not radios, they are hard drives and can be used to remove data surreptitiously, or to covertly access data, or just general data storage.
All camera's are the same in that they capture light through a lense. In fact, still cameras are nothing more then light tight boxes that capture light. A video camera is more complex obviously, but it still needs to see light through a lense.
Last time that I was at a camera store, I remember glancing down at a nice Sony digital vid camera and being surprised to see that the optics were Carl Zeiss. If this holds true to the Sony line, then this is deffinatly a major pro for the Sony line, Carl Zeiss is one of, if not the best producer of optics in the camera business.