How is this a problem? If the device detects explosives then you are taken to a secondary more "personal" search. I doubt that the false positive rate would be that high that it would be undoable... after all, the TSA is basically doing a 100% search rate as is.
I browse at -1 for reasons like this. There is absolutely no reason that this should have been modded down. Since I never get mod points despite a solid posting records and metamodding, all I can do is appeal to someone else to mod this back up.
* GPS * Stealth Technology * Materials that are currently used in electronics today * Real-time voice to text translation * Advances in certain types of lasers
Your argument is basically that spending on future tech has a high failure rate. To that I say "duh, of course it does".
DARPA sure gave an enormous boost to computer-driven cars. In my opinion, DARPA has done a lot to advance science... it is a shame that so much science seems to depend on military whims, however.
The original concept for the Borg was pretty awesome. Originally they were to be an insectoid species without the idea of individual worth. It would have been a tremendous thought experiment on how an individual-oriented viewpoint would have collided with a species that has no such concept. The bottom line is the budget wouldn't allow for the insect species and we ended up with a watered down "help me, I'm an individual trapped by an oppressive queen". Not nearly the same tension as we could have had.
So you are right about First Contact (time travel sucks in Science Fiction anyhow). Voyager certainly accelerated this.
Part of my original response was the assumption that you would die fairly shortly after arriving on Mars. Between a lack of health care and radiation and the inhospitable nature of the planet, your life span is likely months or maybe a couple of years.
I'm not an expert, I've tried to research this, but I find contradictory information which I assume is related to the political nature of the issue. In a nutshell, why can't we use GPS to determine the actual impact of rising sea levels? It would seem to me to be very elementary to place some sort of beacon in a few spots to determine what the actual sea level is. Granted, you might have to wait for calm waters, but nothing about this seems difficult.
Huh? What? Insurance is about mitigating risk. Risk is the uncertainty of outcome. There is no risk at all in this instance... a 100% chance of death. In this case, you are offering payment for someone to essentially commit suicide. Insurance has no role here.
If you look at statistics per kilometer driven, there is little difference between the genders. Men tend to drive a lot more than women (at least in the US, I don't know about internationally). It seems both genders have their stereotypes that are unfounded.
This episode made me hate Voyager. Between that and making the Borg into a completely weak opponent and turning the Q into an incompetent race, it was an utter blight on the Star Trek genre.
A very interesting thought. I don't know about being "captured", but I would expect some type of disturbance, possible the smaller getting flung out into space or at least into a futher out orbit.
Do we know if these two planets are in the same orbital plane? Do we know if we are dealing with roughly circular orbits?
You are right. Can you imagine having Mars flit by us only 2 Million kilometers away? If my mental math is right, we'd see Mars at its closest about every 25 years or so, and it would appear to be huge, almost as big as our moon would appear.
Yes, migration seems to be thrown around a lot as an explanation for otherwise unexplainable planetary configurations. However, I am not sure what you mean by out "universe is a lot more dynamic". If you mean that there is a lot we don't understand, I will agree. But ultimately science works by creating a hypothesis, testing against observed data and then either throwing out the hypothesis and starting over or refining original hypothesis. I am not an expert, but I am not aware of any other hypothesis that accounts for two dramatically different planets forming in a similar orbit around the sun.
In any event, the more star systems we find the more data points we'll have. I would predict that if planetary migration were the cause of such odd configurations that we'd see those odd configurations more in older start systems than newer ones. First, you have the obvious time factor. A star ten times older has had ten times the opportunity to have its planets disrupted. Second, the universe was smaller, galaxies had a lot more rogue bodies to do the disruption. Again, I;m not an expert... but if you saw that type of distribution pattern, I would say it bolsters planetary migration theory.
Short of a planetary migration after formation, I don't see how this is possible. The characteristics of a planet would have a lot to do with how far the interstellar material is from the central sun. Even if there were differences between planetary systems initial interstellar material, I would still expect to see similar planetary characteristics for planets in similar orbits.
Laugh if you want, but you could have said the same thing about the ACLU a few decades ago. And whether you like the ACLU or not, they have had a tremendous impact on our legal and social landscape.
I don't know if the EFF will have a similar impact, but they will certainlyhave no less than snarky slashdot commenters.
You realize that Obama has increased troops to Afghanistan and only removed troops from Iraq when forced to by their government? Gitmo is also still open.
I voted for Obama based on two things: I hated how George Bush increased deficits recklessly and I hated how the Republican cavalierly meddled in other country's affairs using military might.
515 miles isn't impressive for a solar powered flight? Maybe I am naive, but this seems like quite an accomplishment to me. Perhaps you would like to pull something out of your resume that is more impressive?
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How is this a problem? If the device detects explosives then you are taken to a secondary more "personal" search. I doubt that the false positive rate would be that high that it would be undoable... after all, the TSA is basically doing a 100% search rate as is.
I browse at -1 for reasons like this. There is absolutely no reason that this should have been modded down. Since I never get mod points despite a solid posting records and metamodding, all I can do is appeal to someone else to mod this back up.
Not useless. Not everyone who reads Slashdot is a developer.
Okay, let's try
* GPS
* Stealth Technology
* Materials that are currently used in electronics today
* Real-time voice to text translation
* Advances in certain types of lasers
Your argument is basically that spending on future tech has a high failure rate. To that I say "duh, of course it does".
DARPA sure gave an enormous boost to computer-driven cars. In my opinion, DARPA has done a lot to advance science... it is a shame that so much science seems to depend on military whims, however.
The original concept for the Borg was pretty awesome. Originally they were to be an insectoid species without the idea of individual worth. It would have been a tremendous thought experiment on how an individual-oriented viewpoint would have collided with a species that has no such concept. The bottom line is the budget wouldn't allow for the insect species and we ended up with a watered down "help me, I'm an individual trapped by an oppressive queen". Not nearly the same tension as we could have had.
So you are right about First Contact (time travel sucks in Science Fiction anyhow). Voyager certainly accelerated this.
Part of my original response was the assumption that you would die fairly shortly after arriving on Mars. Between a lack of health care and radiation and the inhospitable nature of the planet, your life span is likely months or maybe a couple of years.
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, it's cold as hell
Wait I thought your name was Elvado, not Elton!
I'm not an expert, I've tried to research this, but I find contradictory information which I assume is related to the political nature of the issue. In a nutshell, why can't we use GPS to determine the actual impact of rising sea levels? It would seem to me to be very elementary to place some sort of beacon in a few spots to determine what the actual sea level is. Granted, you might have to wait for calm waters, but nothing about this seems difficult.
The extra fuel for the two of them would be prohibitive.
Huh? What? Insurance is about mitigating risk. Risk is the uncertainty of outcome. There is no risk at all in this instance... a 100% chance of death. In this case, you are offering payment for someone to essentially commit suicide. Insurance has no role here.
If you look at statistics per kilometer driven, there is little difference between the genders. Men tend to drive a lot more than women (at least in the US, I don't know about internationally). It seems both genders have their stereotypes that are unfounded.
This episode made me hate Voyager. Between that and making the Borg into a completely weak opponent and turning the Q into an incompetent race, it was an utter blight on the Star Trek genre.
A very interesting thought. I don't know about being "captured", but I would expect some type of disturbance, possible the smaller getting flung out into space or at least into a futher out orbit.
Do we know if these two planets are in the same orbital plane? Do we know if we are dealing with roughly circular orbits?
You are right. Can you imagine having Mars flit by us only 2 Million kilometers away? If my mental math is right, we'd see Mars at its closest about every 25 years or so, and it would appear to be huge, almost as big as our moon would appear.
Yes, migration seems to be thrown around a lot as an explanation for otherwise unexplainable planetary configurations. However, I am not sure what you mean by out "universe is a lot more dynamic". If you mean that there is a lot we don't understand, I will agree. But ultimately science works by creating a hypothesis, testing against observed data and then either throwing out the hypothesis and starting over or refining original hypothesis. I am not an expert, but I am not aware of any other hypothesis that accounts for two dramatically different planets forming in a similar orbit around the sun.
In any event, the more star systems we find the more data points we'll have. I would predict that if planetary migration were the cause of such odd configurations that we'd see those odd configurations more in older start systems than newer ones. First, you have the obvious time factor. A star ten times older has had ten times the opportunity to have its planets disrupted. Second, the universe was smaller, galaxies had a lot more rogue bodies to do the disruption. Again, I;m not an expert... but if you saw that type of distribution pattern, I would say it bolsters planetary migration theory.
Short of a planetary migration after formation, I don't see how this is possible. The characteristics of a planet would have a lot to do with how far the interstellar material is from the central sun. Even if there were differences between planetary systems initial interstellar material, I would still expect to see similar planetary characteristics for planets in similar orbits.
If I had to bet, I'd go with planetary migration.
I knew they were around since the 30's. You have only discovered that I am old and think of the 30's as just a few decades ago :)
Laugh if you want, but you could have said the same thing about the ACLU a few decades ago. And whether you like the ACLU or not, they have had a tremendous impact on our legal and social landscape.
I don't know if the EFF will have a similar impact, but they will certainlyhave no less than snarky slashdot commenters.
Blatantly false. Since US kids have a problem with reasoning and I am not a kid I must not have reasoning problems.
Technically true but practically wrong. The President has much more of an influence on spending than any ten congresscritters combined.
You realize that Obama has increased troops to Afghanistan and only removed troops from Iraq when forced to by their government? Gitmo is also still open.
I voted for Obama based on two things: I hated how George Bush increased deficits recklessly and I hated how the Republican cavalierly meddled in other country's affairs using military might.
I feel like a fool.
148 PCs * 21 days is around ten years of PC time. Not much in the grand scheme of things.
515 miles isn't impressive for a solar powered flight? Maybe I am naive, but this seems like quite an accomplishment to me. Perhaps you would like to pull something out of your resume that is more impressive?