Yep. How can it possibly be cheaper/easier to build spacecraft out in space. You still have to send materials up there, surely it's easier to send them into earth orbit than the other side of the moon.
I certainly hope.Net is secure...because the '.Net security updates' utterly fail to install themselves on any machine I own. Doesn't matter what version (v1.0 to whatever they're at now), doesn't matter what OS version (I've got XP and 7), I don't think a single one has ever installed. These days I don't even bother trying unless I'm already in a bad mood.
It's shenanigans like that that made me lose any lingering respect I had for Mythbusters.
Um, that was done in the part "recreate the myth" where they stop doing science and try to find out what conditions would be needed to recreate the myth (sometimes it gets ridiculous, yes).
in a world with much more present and pressing issues like war, hunger, unemployment, recession, etc. you can't very well expect every newspaper to lead with a "Average Global Temps Expected to Rise By 1-2 Degrees Celsius Over the Next 50-100 years" headline
Of all the problems you list, global warming is the only one the general public can do anything about.
(In fact it pretty much *has* to be the general public, barring an energy breakthrough...)
there must be a majority that do not think the same way. Otherwise we would not have to endure the this kind of BS speak on a regular basis.
We know marketers lie all the time (they have to...)
I always thought the buzzword speak was just a formalized system for filling the allotted time with sound while saying as little as possible that could be verified later on.
Right, plenty of animals out there are electrosensitive, sharks and many predators that hunt in mud or murky water have receptors that respond to the tiny electric signals
That's electric current, transmitted through a conductive medium. No scientist will have a problem with that.
"Electrosensitive" in the context of this thread is a label people apply to themselves when they think electronic devices make them ill. It's not electric current in water, it's (relatively) low frequency electromagnetic waves traveling through air. Back in the 70's it was overhead power lines, these days it's WiFi, mobile phones, etc.
As for the ESP prize, as others have pointed out if anyone actually has such powers they probably wouldn't advertise it. Kids learn early that being different is dangerous to your well being, and adults who don't choose to blind themselves to such things realize that there really are plenty of shadowy organizations in the world, government and otherwise, that would be interested in controlling or destroying such a person. Opportunistic or self-deluded individuals on the other hand don't have to worry about such things.
If there was a percentage of the human race with ESP powers there'd be no such thing as a casino.
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Celebrities go around spouting politics all the time. They even tell us about the science of vaccines, etc.
A smart person voices a political opinion and it's a scandal? We should be backing him up, not trying to silence him.
Try saying "Nascar Sucks" in redneck country. See what happens.
even working in software, I can count the number of times I've used algebra on one hand.
How do you factorize code without algebra?
Figuring out how much money a better-MPG car will save you.
Start by using GPM as a metric.
You'd think engineers'd know that 1/x is a curve, but nooooo...
Still it's not as bad as measuring rainfall in liters per square meter like we do here in Spain.
Bottom line: Getting the basic math right would mean the public wouldn't have to. Or at least, not so much.
Link should be this: hot chicks
I thought the reason they changed to flat squares was so it would scale properly. Guess I was wrong. Egg meet face.
...and why are they sending hot chicks through multiple times? Sometimes calling their buddies over to make sure the scan is 'thorough'?
Didn't people learn anything from Windows Vista?
Yep. How can it possibly be cheaper/easier to build spacecraft out in space. You still have to send materials up there, surely it's easier to send them into earth orbit than the other side of the moon.
Problem is, Times Roman looks crap on computer screens. 76dpi simply doesn't work.
What does ActiveX have to do with .Net?
I certainly hope .Net is secure...because the '.Net security updates' utterly fail to install themselves on any machine I own. Doesn't matter what version (v1.0 to whatever they're at now), doesn't matter what OS version (I've got XP and 7), I don't think a single one has ever installed. These days I don't even bother trying unless I'm already in a bad mood.
Flashblock will fix that for you. Videos don't play until you click them.
I live in Europe and fail to see this "hoarding" thing. I call bullshit.
Me too.
The trouble with your analogy is that I'm a grown adult...and the government is NOT my fucking parent....
If you'd start acting like an adult they wouldn't need to.
He tries to dim them with dimmer switches.
It's shenanigans like that that made me lose any lingering respect I had for Mythbusters.
Um, that was done in the part "recreate the myth" where they stop doing science and try to find out what conditions would be needed to recreate the myth (sometimes it gets ridiculous, yes).
'under penalty of perjury'
So...what's the penalty for perjury in the USA? Doesn't that change it from a civil to a criminal case?
I would have hoped they're storing a hash of your password, making any limit completely arbitrary.
I guess I was wrong.
Have you lived in New York? Mostly when you look out of a window you see a dirty brick wall. If you're lucky is has no grafitti.
in a world with much more present and pressing issues like war, hunger, unemployment, recession, etc. you can't very well expect every newspaper to lead with a "Average Global Temps Expected to Rise By 1-2 Degrees Celsius Over the Next 50-100 years" headline
Of all the problems you list, global warming is the only one the general public can do anything about.
(In fact it pretty much *has* to be the general public, barring an energy breakthrough...)
I do not question the availability of the disk space for all those data - after all, NSA has an unlimited budget on purchasing hard disks.
It says "gather", not "store".
But ...How are they going to crunch all those data?
It's not all gathered in one place. If each wiretap box has its own CPU then the compute load will be very widely spread.
there must be a majority that do not think the same way. Otherwise we would not have to endure the this kind of BS speak on a regular basis.
We know marketers lie all the time (they have to...)
I always thought the buzzword speak was just a formalized system for filling the allotted time with sound while saying as little as possible that could be verified later on.
When I ordered mine Farnell quoted 3 weeks for delivery.
It arrived 8 days later.
Right, plenty of animals out there are electrosensitive, sharks and many predators that hunt in mud or murky water have receptors that respond to the tiny electric signals
That's electric current, transmitted through a conductive medium. No scientist will have a problem with that.
"Electrosensitive" in the context of this thread is a label people apply to themselves when they think electronic devices make them ill. It's not electric current in water, it's (relatively) low frequency electromagnetic waves traveling through air. Back in the 70's it was overhead power lines, these days it's WiFi, mobile phones, etc.
As for the ESP prize, as others have pointed out if anyone actually has such powers they probably wouldn't advertise it. Kids learn early that being different is dangerous to your well being, and adults who don't choose to blind themselves to such things realize that there really are plenty of shadowy organizations in the world, government and otherwise, that would be interested in controlling or destroying such a person. Opportunistic or self-deluded individuals on the other hand don't have to worry about such things.
If there was a percentage of the human race with ESP powers there'd be no such thing as a casino.