msn messages are between sender and receiver. Microsoft has a duty to encrypt these messages so that no one else can read them. No one includes Microsoft.
What next? Microsoft will start auto correcting my grammar? So that the receiver gets messages with everything spelled correctly and with correct grammar? Why not just start sending messages with what Microsoft thinks I want to say?
Really. This should be the same as the post office. Stay the fuck out of my personal correspondence. If you can't do that, there should be a law saying you are spying and should be in jail.
Honestly people. How can you tell China that deleting content is bad when an American company is setting this type of example? I'm tired of "Do as we say, not as we do."
Modern planes are designed to take lightening strikes. Their electrical systems are designed to be shielded and highly resistant to interference.
If a 2 watt cell phone signal causes problems in a relatively new plane, I would argue there is a significant problem in the plane's electrical systems. Either the electrical systems are damaged or there is a design flaw.
That said. If you are a CEO of a major corporation, you need to be careful. That is good advice. If I was CEO of Intel, I would be just as careful in the US as in China.
If lots of hydrogen works well, specifically what material are you referring to? For instance, is water good? Methane? How much would it take to stop something such as 5 MeV protons?
Please detail what you mean by "small storm shelter".
About the Magnetic field. You should be able to deflect high energy charged particles as long as you have a strong enough magnetic field. Small and powerful or larger and weaker would work. If the ship has any computers, a powerful magnetic field might cause problems. I have played with ion trap mass spectrometers. For a big trap ( maybe 10cm in diameter ), the magnet to generate 2 or 3 T (tesla) is scary big and powerful. It _will_ eat your cell phone.
This problem could make a manned trip to Mars impossible. The radiation in open space from one solar flare would fry a bunch of astronauts. Sending people to Mars becomes a gamble on the odds of a solar event occurring. Worse yet. There is no technology within reach that can protect astronauts from this type of radiation. A few feet of lead shielding might help some, but the weight would be too much to get into space. Plus, try slowing down all that mass when you arrive at Mars. Perhaps a nuclear powered wire loop ( super conducting??? ) with a circumference of a mile or two? Something with enough kick to deflect super high speed charged particles a few meters - enough to keep them away from the crew?... I don't see any way to get people to mars with an acceptably high probability of survival.
Can the handset makers put their foot down? Can they simply say: we only support this list of 5 major frequencies that are used worldwide? Phones would be smaller if they didn't have to be 5-band (or more).
Seriously, all these frequencies is stupid. People need phones that work world wide.
If I was Samsung and Verizon wants a phone for their LTE network, I would tell them. 1) you must promise now to buy x ( 1 million? ) at an inflated price. 2) You must pay Y million ( 50 million? ) today to cover our development costs to build a phone that works on only your stupid network. 3) We have the right to make it a one band phone. If your network coverage is bad, it will not be able to switch over to another network.
ok. 100 people a year. 10 years. I sincerely doubt the "terrorists" could kill 1000 people in 10 years on US soil.
Perhaps the terrorists are actually hyper intelligent beings who knew all along that if they could only trick us into radiating ourselves out of fear of them and we would do their job for them while they kick back and enjoy some of that great Mideast sun and sand. 1000 dead and all they had to do was say "Boo!"
If I can get 80,000 in loans canceled, that is 80,000 in after tax cash saved over the next few years. I can buy the BMW with cash. I didn't run up that much debt to get a degree in art history.
Oh how I wish this had been an option. The day after graduation, I would have filed for bankruptcy. It would have saved me from having to work my butt off for years. I could have bought a nice BMW and saved for a house.
I'm sure prosecutors will say that he could have caused massive destruction and killed scores of people.
I wonder how he would get the plastic explosive to go off at precisely the right moment. Assume this thing is going 100mpg, if you are a millisecond too early, it explodes harmlessly in the air. If you are a millisecond too late, the plastic explosive will go splat and detonator will go flying into pieces. Let's not even get into making a proper shaped charge.
Remember the NYC firecracker bomber who put some natural gas canisters in a car in Times Square? Getting natural gas to explode is tricky. The best he could have hoped for was to break the windows of the car. I sincerely doubt he could even created an explosion strong enough to break the windows. Prosecutors claimed he could have killed dozens. I don't think they will let the truth get in their way when they go after this airplane bomber.
There are two issues here. One is the desire to kill and attempting to kill. The other is the actual threat level. It seems this guy wanted to kill. But the threat level doesn't seem to be high enough to cause concern.
There seems to be a desire to describe the enemy as very very dangerous. If the enemy is extremely dangerous, then we need a massive force of people - all with high paying jobs that come with huge retirement parachutes. Unless these people find and stop plots to kill 100's of 1000's of people, why are we paying them and going broke in the process? 35,000 people die in car accidents a year and we get excited about that. How many people have been killed on US soil by terrorists since 2002? How many actual plots that would have resulted in actual fatalities have been stopped?
The law is now "first to file." As long as there is nothing on file, IBM no long has to invent anything. Anything they see and think "that is clever" or "I wonder if there is a patent on that?" will be quickly written up as a new patent. By reading scientific research, watching for new apps, looking at every business process, etc., IBM can find things others haven't patented. They can start filing 10,000 patents a month on everything imaginable. The only problem is: I bet Microsoft already has a team of 500 lawyers already doing this, and I bet the first patent M$ filed was for this very process of patenting everything in site.
If I Microsoft, I would have teams sifting through the Linux source code filing patents on everything in site. As long as they are first to file, they get the patent and ownership.
if building a hybrid vehicle involves getting the rare earth metals from china where chinese children get cancer and die, it is zero emissions as long as we don't see it.
mining the rare earth metals used in electronics is a particularly dirty pursuit.
2. Go to rural Alabama and ask those people about US intellectual property law. See how well they do. Somehow Americans expect people in a distant country who grew up under a communist regime ( not so communist for only the last 10 years. This is Kunming - not Shanghai or Beijing or Shenzhen ) to understand the laws of a country 5,000 miles away when a lot of Americans don't know American law. Then try asking people in Alabama making wood products to be shipped to China about the intricacies of Chinese building codes. If they don't know all the answers, what do you expect? We should put them in jail for not following Chinese laws?
Honestly people. Chinese in Kunming lived in a world from 200 years ago until just recently.
I don't mind 1600x1200. It works perfectly fine for me. I wish I could buy a laptop with in this format. I don't understand 1920x1080 at all. I very rarely need or use the 1920 pixel width, but with only 1080 pixels high I can't see enough lines of text, code or webpage to be efficient. Someone should tell the monitor manufactures that some people use computers for work. I don't watch movies all day at the office. Besides, if a line of text runs from one end of the screen to the other on a 1920 pixel wide monitor, it's hard not to get lost.
Ironically, 1920x1080 works really well as a 1080x1920 monitor on the desktop ( rotate 90 degrees ). The problem comes with the laptops. It's really hard to type sideways.
Another issue with 1920x1080 or 1366 x 768 laptop screens. Look at 90% of websites, word docs, pdfs, etc. They are designed to be tall and narrow. Much of the screen is unused. I would say about 30% of the screen up and down the left and right sides is unused space most of the time. However, you are still using battery power to illuminate the back light for that unused screen space.
I know these guys are rich, but this seems crazy. They are using their own private vehicles.
If the government allows this, what next? Listing every license plate through all the toll booths? What about the release of all the vehicular movement from the tracking devices in lower Manhattan? Private citizens should have some right not to be publicly tracked.
What about GPS tracking of cars for mileage taxation. If that ever happens, why shouldn't that data be released just like the airplane data.
The sad truth is that most people at work need to do work, not watch videos. However, their screens have 768 pixels from top to bottom. That is less than an iPhone!
Personally, I think anything less than 1200 pixels from top to bottom is too not enough. I don't what to only see 10 lines of code at a time. However, it is almost impossible to find a monitor at 1600 x 1200 these days. Finding something at 1920 x 1080 is easy. However, this is much wider than I need and not tall enough.
The sad thing is look at most web pages, word docs, PDF's etc. on a wide screen monitor. There are huge areas with no text or anything useful running down the side. These items are all tall and narrow, but people are building screens to be wide and not tall.
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msn messages are between sender and receiver. Microsoft has a duty to encrypt these messages so that no one else can read them. No one includes Microsoft.
What next? Microsoft will start auto correcting my grammar? So that the receiver gets messages with everything spelled correctly and with correct grammar? Why not just start sending messages with what Microsoft thinks I want to say?
Really. This should be the same as the post office. Stay the fuck out of my personal correspondence. If you can't do that, there should be a law saying you are spying and should be in jail.
Honestly people. How can you tell China that deleting content is bad when an American company is setting this type of example? I'm tired of "Do as we say, not as we do."
Modern planes are designed to take lightening strikes. Their electrical systems are designed to be shielded and highly resistant to interference.
If a 2 watt cell phone signal causes problems in a relatively new plane, I would argue there is a significant problem in the plane's electrical systems. Either the electrical systems are damaged or there is a design flaw.
That said. If you are a CEO of a major corporation, you need to be careful. That is good advice. If I was CEO of Intel, I would be just as careful in the US as in China.
If lots of hydrogen works well, specifically what material are you referring to? For instance, is water good? Methane?
How much would it take to stop something such as 5 MeV protons?
Please detail what you mean by "small storm shelter".
About the Magnetic field. You should be able to deflect high energy charged particles as long as you have a strong enough magnetic field. Small and powerful or larger and weaker would work. If the ship has any computers, a powerful magnetic field might cause problems. I have played with ion trap mass spectrometers. For a big trap ( maybe 10cm in diameter ), the magnet to generate 2 or 3 T (tesla) is scary big and powerful. It _will_ eat your cell phone.
This problem could make a manned trip to Mars impossible. The radiation in open space from one solar flare would fry a bunch of astronauts. Sending people to Mars becomes a gamble on the odds of a solar event occurring. Worse yet. There is no technology within reach that can protect astronauts from this type of radiation. A few feet of lead shielding might help some, but the weight would be too much to get into space. Plus, try slowing down all that mass when you arrive at Mars. Perhaps a nuclear powered wire loop ( super conducting??? ) with a circumference of a mile or two? Something with enough kick to deflect super high speed charged particles a few meters - enough to keep them away from the crew?...
I don't see any way to get people to mars with an acceptably high probability of survival.
My guess is the x-rays travel at 299,792,458 m/s - just like every other photon.
Perhaps the poster's meaning is "pulse with the shortest duration"
Can the handset makers put their foot down? Can they simply say: we only support this list of 5 major frequencies that are used worldwide? Phones would be smaller if they didn't have to be 5-band (or more).
Seriously, all these frequencies is stupid. People need phones that work world wide.
If I was Samsung and Verizon wants a phone for their LTE network, I would tell them. 1) you must promise now to buy x ( 1 million? ) at an inflated price. 2) You must pay Y million ( 50 million? ) today to cover our development costs to build a phone that works on only your stupid network. 3) We have the right to make it a one band phone. If your network coverage is bad, it will not be able to switch over to another network.
ok. 100 people a year. 10 years. I sincerely doubt the "terrorists" could kill 1000 people in 10 years on US soil.
Perhaps the terrorists are actually hyper intelligent beings who knew all along that if they could only trick us into radiating ourselves out of fear of them and we would do their job for them while they kick back and enjoy some of that great Mideast sun and sand. 1000 dead and all they had to do was say "Boo!"
You are missing the whole point.
If I can get 80,000 in loans canceled, that is 80,000 in after tax cash saved over the next few years. I can buy the BMW with cash. I didn't run up that much debt to get a degree in art history.
Oh how I wish this had been an option. The day after graduation, I would have filed for bankruptcy. It would have saved me from having to work my butt off for years. I could have bought a nice BMW and saved for a house.
Good to see the Democratics acting as a counterbalance to the Republicans.
What is next? Open season on the baby seals in Monterey Bay?
I'm sure prosecutors will say that he could have caused massive destruction and killed scores of people.
I wonder how he would get the plastic explosive to go off at precisely the right moment. Assume this thing is going 100mpg, if you are a millisecond too early, it explodes harmlessly in the air. If you are a millisecond too late, the plastic explosive will go splat and detonator will go flying into pieces. Let's not even get into making a proper shaped charge.
Remember the NYC firecracker bomber who put some natural gas canisters in a car in Times Square? Getting natural gas to explode is tricky. The best he could have hoped for was to break the windows of the car. I sincerely doubt he could even created an explosion strong enough to break the windows. Prosecutors claimed he could have killed dozens. I don't think they will let the truth get in their way when they go after this airplane bomber.
There are two issues here. One is the desire to kill and attempting to kill. The other is the actual threat level. It seems this guy wanted to kill. But the threat level doesn't seem to be high enough to cause concern.
There seems to be a desire to describe the enemy as very very dangerous. If the enemy is extremely dangerous, then we need a massive force of people - all with high paying jobs that come with huge retirement parachutes. Unless these people find and stop plots to kill 100's of 1000's of people, why are we paying them and going broke in the process? 35,000 people die in car accidents a year and we get excited about that. How many people have been killed on US soil by terrorists since 2002? How many actual plots that would have resulted in actual fatalities have been stopped?
The law is now "first to file." As long as there is nothing on file, IBM no long has to invent anything. Anything they see and think "that is clever" or "I wonder if there is a patent on that?" will be quickly written up as a new patent. By reading scientific research, watching for new apps, looking at every business process, etc., IBM can find things others haven't patented. They can start filing 10,000 patents a month on everything imaginable. The only problem is: I bet Microsoft already has a team of 500 lawyers already doing this, and I bet the first patent M$ filed was for this very process of patenting everything in site.
If I Microsoft, I would have teams sifting through the Linux source code filing patents on everything in site. As long as they are first to file, they get the patent and ownership.
Would there be a problem if all the code is in C++ and uses a propriety database?
Or will you have to re-write everything from scratch to match Amazon's API?
At what energy density does a battery start becoming a battery/bomb hybrid?
irony.
if building a hybrid vehicle involves getting the rare earth metals from china where chinese children get cancer and die, it is zero emissions as long as we don't see it.
mining the rare earth metals used in electronics is a particularly dirty pursuit.
Battery powered cars are 100% clean!!! Zero emissions. Zero pollution.
No, that isn't a heat plume from a Honeywell AGT1500C turbine raising 30 feet into the air. The cow is farting.
There is only one proper response.
BURN HIM!
1. I've read that the products sold were genuine.
2. Go to rural Alabama and ask those people about US intellectual property law. See how well they do. Somehow Americans expect people in a distant country who grew up under a communist regime ( not so communist for only the last 10 years. This is Kunming - not Shanghai or Beijing or Shenzhen ) to understand the laws of a country 5,000 miles away when a lot of Americans don't know American law. Then try asking people in Alabama making wood products to be shipped to China about the intricacies of Chinese building codes. If they don't know all the answers, what do you expect? We should put them in jail for not following Chinese laws?
Honestly people. Chinese in Kunming lived in a world from 200 years ago until just recently.
two words:
keystroke logger
I don't mind 1600x1200. It works perfectly fine for me. I wish I could buy a laptop with in this format. I don't understand 1920x1080 at all. I very rarely need or use the 1920 pixel width, but with only 1080 pixels high I can't see enough lines of text, code or webpage to be efficient. Someone should tell the monitor manufactures that some people use computers for work. I don't watch movies all day at the office. Besides, if a line of text runs from one end of the screen to the other on a 1920 pixel wide monitor, it's hard not to get lost.
Ironically, 1920x1080 works really well as a 1080x1920 monitor on the desktop ( rotate 90 degrees ). The problem comes with the laptops. It's really hard to type sideways.
Another issue with 1920x1080 or 1366 x 768 laptop screens. Look at 90% of websites, word docs, pdfs, etc. They are designed to be tall and narrow. Much of the screen is unused. I would say about 30% of the screen up and down the left and right sides is unused space most of the time. However, you are still using battery power to illuminate the back light for that unused screen space.
I know these guys are rich, but this seems crazy. They are using their own private vehicles.
If the government allows this, what next? Listing every license plate through all the toll booths? What about the release of all the vehicular movement from the tracking devices in lower Manhattan? Private citizens should have some right not to be publicly tracked.
What about GPS tracking of cars for mileage taxation. If that ever happens, why shouldn't that data be released just like the airplane data.
That's exactly what I've been doing! It's awkward, but it works.
Today's monitors are all about HD TV.
The sad truth is that most people at work need to do work, not watch videos. However, their screens have 768 pixels from top to bottom. That is less than an iPhone!
Personally, I think anything less than 1200 pixels from top to bottom is too not enough. I don't what to only see 10 lines of code at a time. However, it is almost impossible to find a monitor at 1600 x 1200 these days. Finding something at 1920 x 1080 is easy. However, this is much wider than I need and not tall enough.
The sad thing is look at most web pages, word docs, PDF's etc. on a wide screen monitor. There are huge areas with no text or anything useful running down the side. These items are all tall and narrow, but people are building screens to be wide and not tall.