enabling them to lift 200-pound payloads without tiring. Well, the person wearing the suit might not get tired quickly, but what about the suit itself? It has a power source, TFA seemed light about details regarding how long a portable power source for this would last holding up 200 lbs...
From FTA: "Five years ago Jane Longhurst, a teacher from Brighton, was murdered. It later emerged her killer had been compulsively accessing websites such as Club Dead and Rape Action, which contained images of women being abused and violated."
I agree that a substantial number of rapists and molesters and whatnot probably do get off on "violent" porn. But so do quite a few very normal people who will never rape someone. Consensual kink is a gorgeous thing, an expression of incredible trust. The fact that some rapists get off on it is insufficient to justify banning it, after all, last I heard quite a few rapists drink water and eat bread.
Of course, this parallels some sex laws already enacted where I live. It's legal to have sex with someone who's 16, provided you're not in a position of authority over them... But have a picture of you having sex with your 16 year old girlfriend? Not a wise move.
I think that both laws are ridiculous personally. If it's not illegal to do, then it shouldn't be illegal to represent digitally with a bunch of 1s and 0s.
How deeply can/do they search a laptop while I'm waiting to get on my plane?
I know encryption gets their panties in a twist, but suppose I have data I want kept private is just burying it in a weird location good enough? What are they actually looking for, and how would they be searching for it? Unlikely to get them disclosing said techniques publicly, so... Rampant speculation?:P
I'm pretty sure that the lesson is "don't do evil in ways where you stand a good chance of getting caught. Do lots and lots of evil (if it's profitable) in areas where you're not likely to get bad publicity/legal action out of it.
I'm not an electrical engineer, but... What the hell do you put that energy into? Some sort of massive capacitor that can be discharged gradually into the system? I'm not sure that those are able to absorb that much electricity that quickly at an even remotely reasonable price. Just directly funneling into the power grid seems like it'd cause all sorts of issues. Massive spike of energy that lasts a second or so? Sure it'll power quite a few homes, but it'd also melt quite a few lines I'd think.
Well, I think you almost hit the nail on the head. "most predictions from the 60s and 70s..." There were quite a few of them right? Seemed like every author or magazine wrote at least one article talking about what stuff would be like in the year 2000, 2010, etc...
So we've got plenty of predictions from the 60s and 70s, and this guy mananged to get several of his right (though others are way way off).
What's that they say about an infinite number of monkeys? We only had a finite (if large) number of predictors, but unlike monkeys most of them wont just write down "j,kmdsxzqw3i98" either. It's nice for him that he got some stuff mostly right, but unlike you being impressed at this, I would have been more impressed if none of them did.
As for the driverless car thing, I think that it could conceivably happen in my own lifetime, but I don't expect it anytime soon. Certainly not as a common thing in the next decade.
There's an entry about it on wikipedia. It's a Christian lobby group that's had supposed influence over past presidents.
In short, it's mission statement is:
"To develop and maintain an informal association of people banded together, to go out as "ambassadors of reconciliation," modeling the principles of Jesus, based on loving God and loving others. To work with the leaders of other nations, and as their hearts are touched, the poor, the oppressed, the widows and the youth of their country will be impacted in a positive manner. Youth groups will be developed under the thoughts of Jesus, including loving others as you want to be loved."
Not a fan of big brother - but I've love to be writing the tech that does it!!! So that you could write a backdoor into the program, and later be able to find out anything you want about anyone? >=)
Of course, writing a backdoor into the NSA's fusion software would probably be the sort of thing that'd get you put on A List of Bad People... But they'd have to catch you first. Given the myriad of stories we see on slashdot about government incomptence with all things technological, I don't think it's beyond imagination that you could slip a bit of code past them. Hell, they'd be lucky to find it amongst the many bugs that would be wrote into the code (by people other than you).
effectively no ill effect? We're straying well into Off Topic areas now, but I can think of some small downsides to having AIDS.
Try telling potential sex partners you're HIV positive. See how many are comfortable fully exploring a sexual relationship with you then.
There will be a coupld people out there who'd be willing sure, provided you use condoms, etc... But not that many really.
Now, factor into it the odds of a typical/. poster getting laid? Already slim.
Slim odds * tiny odds == negligible odds.
So, I can live for decades with HIV? Great! Wait, I'll be lucky to ever have sex again?...:(
Lying/lying by omission and not telling your partner about your AIDS isn't really an option either IMO.
7.5 million years ago you say?
But... according to the summary: "the explosion took place 7.5 billion years ago"
And in order for our offensive behaviours to get to the aliens, we would have to give time for our message to get there.
So really, what the hell did you people do to piss them off 15 billion years ago?!
Supporting life seems fairly easy. As you say, there are extremophiles right here that might be able to make a go in rather unpleasant (to most life) environments.
The bigger question IMO is if life could readily start in such environments. I suppose it's short sighted of me, but I'd always thought of life originating in relatively normal environments and then migrating to those really hot/cold/acidic/basic/whatever places. Perhaps life can live on Titan/Ganymede, but would it need to be transplanted life from Earth?
If I had mod points I might be tempted to mod you funny =\
Science has a stranglehold on the modern mind?
And yet, horoscopes/astrology/tarot cards are all read by uncounted millions every day, and a not insignificant number of those people believe them. Not just reading them for a laugh, but because the fact that they're a Scorpio means that they'll have certain events happen to them, and should react in a certain way. People believe in spirits, and luck(most especially when gambling, but other times as well)
I think that people nowadays have a greater appreciation for science than they did 4000 years ago... But it's ignored for many many things.
And the pattern of thinking nowadays is permanent? Rather arrogant don't you think? We're just one decade out of how many? Why should our way of thinking about the universe be expected to last any longer than others? Our ancestors probably thought that their's would be eternal too. I think that the scientific method is the best way to arrive at progressively closer approximations of Truth... but who are you to say it'll endure, unchanging, as the dominant method of thinking forever?
Still, as I said I hope the scientific method will stay. * Kandenshi knocks on wood for luck!
OK, read what I said. That the disorder has to interfere with the person in a clinically significant way. Then read your link.
E. The avoidance, anxious anticipation, or distress in the feared social or performance situation(s) interferes significantly with the person's normal routine, occupational (academic) functioning, or social activities or relationships, or there is marked distress about having the phobia. Not sure that you really chose the right DSM diagnosis to use as a "counter-example" to what I said.
Still, I don't pretend that the DSM IV-tr is flawless or perfect. I'd have to be CRAZY to think that(look for it in the DSM-V:P) There are a number of disorders that are badly described, or with what I feel to be insufficient evidence for them.
The entire "personality disorders" area is riddled with issues. You can have two people get the same diagnosis who share NONE of the same symptoms. This "pick 4 of 10" thing is convenient, but I question whether they're really describing the same disorder, or if that disorder exists. Most of the reason for the DSM is so that I can say "Suffers from PTSD" and you can quickly make a variety of inferences as to what symptoms the person shows, how to treat it, etc... That's lacking in a number of places in the DSM.
And yes, there are areas where the requirement for clinically significant distress or impairment is missing. That's why I qualified my earlier statemtents with "reluctant" etc...
The DSM(the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) typically uses when it causes clinically significant distress on the part of the person, or in their work, social, personal lives.
The DSM is usually reluctant to pathologize something unless it's really bothering the person themselves, or makes it impossible for them to live a normal life.
You have a tendency to check twice if the door to your house is locked after leaving? That's not really going to cause you major problems, and odds are you're not freaking out about it. Not OCD.
Have frequent compulsions to drive back home and check if your door is locked, occuring throughout the day, making you get fired from your job, ruining your social life and making you feel like crap? That might be more likely to get you that diagnosis.
You doing lots of e-mail for work is not likely to interfere with your ability to work.:P So you're fine.
Heroin junkies might not mind their heroin(though some do), but if it screws up their lives then it's something the DSM will look at.
That said, quite a few people use stupid passwords. My own for/. is itself moderately secure, but I've used it for many different websites I don't really worry about too much. That weakens it a bit. Someone, somewhere, probably DOES have DrPepper as a password. There are worse things I suppose, but I'm hardly shocked to hear that fingerprint scanners have yet more flaws in them.
They're the exact same as most security measures. They make you feel secure while providing only limited Actual Security. A fingerprint scanner on my media would be sufficient to slow down any random person who tries to see what I've got on my HDD. That might be enough for me. Is anyone using a thumbprint scanner as the only security measure on stuff they really truly definitely do want kept private and secure?:\ Seems improbable.
Basically, it's a website dedicated to posting stuff anonymously that businesses/governments/etc... would not approve of. Airing all their dirty laundry/skeletons in their closet, etc...
An entire city floating using massive fans?... I'm not an engineer or anything, but that sounds like it'd be awfully noisy. And maybe a weee bit windy.
Sounds like a cool idea though! (what with the windchill and all)
I'd rather not risk human life on a mission where we're basically saying
"whoop! We're not really sure what things will be like once you get there...
Not really 100% sure what we'll have you do upon arrival either...
Good luck!"
For that, I'm all in favor of some general purpose robots, followed by more fine-tuned robots:P
I to am gratified to know that the billions of dollars borrowed, and that will have be repaid by my children, were so well spent. Your children will be paying the interest on that loan. It's unlikely they'll be able to afford to pay the whole thing right off.
Now your grandchildren... MAYBE they might pay it off.
That's why I still get a fair bit of my music off of IRC. There are more than a few channels on several servers that let you grab entire albums in a nice shiny.rar file. Decent quality too for the most part.
While one has the option of setting up your own XDCC server to gain priority in other people's queues, it's quite fine to just sit back and leech. There are many thousands of albums in the room I'm idling in right now, from a wide range of genres. Busy getting a gift for my brother(who just got an 80 gig iPod and doesn't know how he's going to fill it). Unless "/ctcp Sandman1971 xdcc send #4245" counts as "uploading" then it seems pretty legal to me.
Well, even with Gore winning the popular vote it was fairly close. Quite a few millions of The People did vote for him.
I'll agree to the 2004 election having some irregularities that could/should have been investigated/punished better, but I'm also pretty confident that a hell of a lot of people voted for him in that election too.
As for your last comment, remember that your circle of friends and acquitances are a self-selected sample, and not representative of the population at large down there:P None of my friends would have voted for Bush if they were American, but I know that polls up here indicate that *some* people support him. Not a great many, but some certainly do.
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From FTA: "Five years ago Jane Longhurst, a teacher from Brighton, was murdered. It later emerged her killer had been compulsively accessing websites such as Club Dead and Rape Action, which contained images of women being abused and violated."
I agree that a substantial number of rapists and molesters and whatnot probably do get off on "violent" porn. But so do quite a few very normal people who will never rape someone. Consensual kink is a gorgeous thing, an expression of incredible trust. The fact that some rapists get off on it is insufficient to justify banning it, after all, last I heard quite a few rapists drink water and eat bread.
Of course, this parallels some sex laws already enacted where I live. It's legal to have sex with someone who's 16, provided you're not in a position of authority over them... But have a picture of you having sex with your 16 year old girlfriend? Not a wise move.
I think that both laws are ridiculous personally. If it's not illegal to do, then it shouldn't be illegal to represent digitally with a bunch of 1s and 0s.
How deeply can/do they search a laptop while I'm waiting to get on my plane?
:P
I know encryption gets their panties in a twist, but suppose I have data I want kept private is just burying it in a weird location good enough?
What are they actually looking for, and how would they be searching for it? Unlikely to get them disclosing said techniques publicly, so... Rampant speculation?
An interesting idea... But kinda risky don't you think?
I think we should form an action group to hold a vote on if we should make a committe to vote on what sort of switch to use.
I'm pretty sure that the lesson is "don't do evil in ways where you stand a good chance of getting caught. Do lots and lots of evil (if it's profitable) in areas where you're not likely to get bad publicity/legal action out of it.
I'm not an electrical engineer, but...
What the hell do you put that energy into? Some sort of massive capacitor that can be discharged gradually into the system? I'm not sure that those are able to absorb that much electricity that quickly at an even remotely reasonable price.
Just directly funneling into the power grid seems like it'd cause all sorts of issues. Massive spike of energy that lasts a second or so? Sure it'll power quite a few homes, but it'd also melt quite a few lines I'd think.
Well, I think you almost hit the nail on the head. "most predictions from the 60s and 70s..." There were quite a few of them right? Seemed like every author or magazine wrote at least one article talking about what stuff would be like in the year 2000, 2010, etc...
,kmdsxzqw3i98" either. It's nice for him that he got some stuff mostly right, but unlike you being impressed at this, I would have been more impressed if none of them did.
So we've got plenty of predictions from the 60s and 70s, and this guy mananged to get several of his right (though others are way way off).
What's that they say about an infinite number of monkeys? We only had a finite (if large) number of predictors, but unlike monkeys most of them wont just write down "j
As for the driverless car thing, I think that it could conceivably happen in my own lifetime, but I don't expect it anytime soon. Certainly not as a common thing in the next decade.
To be honest, I can't see this selling for much anyway. Surely everyone will see that it'd never hold up in court, and ignore the auction?
What would be the point in buying such a patent for 99.99% of the businesses out there when you could never use it?
In short, it's mission statement is: "To develop and maintain an informal association of people banded together, to go out as "ambassadors of reconciliation," modeling the principles of Jesus, based on loving God and loving others. To work with the leaders of other nations, and as their hearts are touched, the poor, the oppressed, the widows and the youth of their country will be impacted in a positive manner. Youth groups will be developed under the thoughts of Jesus, including loving others as you want to be loved."
Of course, writing a backdoor into the NSA's fusion software would probably be the sort of thing that'd get you put on A List of Bad People... But they'd have to catch you first. Given the myriad of stories we see on slashdot about government incomptence with all things technological, I don't think it's beyond imagination that you could slip a bit of code past them. Hell, they'd be lucky to find it amongst the many bugs that would be wrote into the code (by people other than you).
Try telling potential sex partners you're HIV positive. See how many are comfortable fully exploring a sexual relationship with you then.
There will be a coupld people out there who'd be willing sure, provided you use condoms, etc... But not that many really.
Now, factor into it the odds of a typical
Slim odds * tiny odds == negligible odds.
So, I can live for decades with HIV? Great! Wait, I'll be lucky to ever have sex again?
Lying/lying by omission and not telling your partner about your AIDS isn't really an option either IMO.
7.5 million years ago you say?
But... according to the summary: "the explosion took place 7.5 billion years ago"
And in order for our offensive behaviours to get to the aliens, we would have to give time for our message to get there. So really, what the hell did you people do to piss them off 15 billion years ago?!
Supporting life seems fairly easy. As you say, there are extremophiles right here that might be able to make a go in rather unpleasant (to most life) environments.
The bigger question IMO is if life could readily start in such environments. I suppose it's short sighted of me, but I'd always thought of life originating in relatively normal environments and then migrating to those really hot/cold/acidic/basic/whatever places. Perhaps life can live on Titan/Ganymede, but would it need to be transplanted life from Earth?
If I had mod points I might be tempted to mod you funny =\
Science has a stranglehold on the modern mind?
And yet, horoscopes/astrology/tarot cards are all read by uncounted millions every day, and a not insignificant number of those people believe them. Not just reading them for a laugh, but because the fact that they're a Scorpio means that they'll have certain events happen to them, and should react in a certain way. People believe in spirits, and luck(most especially when gambling, but other times as well)
I think that people nowadays have a greater appreciation for science than they did 4000 years ago... But it's ignored for many many things.
And the pattern of thinking nowadays is permanent? Rather arrogant don't you think? We're just one decade out of how many? Why should our way of thinking about the universe be expected to last any longer than others? Our ancestors probably thought that their's would be eternal too. I think that the scientific method is the best way to arrive at progressively closer approximations of Truth... but who are you to say it'll endure, unchanging, as the dominant method of thinking forever?
Still, as I said I hope the scientific method will stay.
* Kandenshi knocks on wood for luck!
Make sure you bring me your receipt showing you voted for my uncle Tony or else your thumbs and you will be spending some time apart.
Still, I don't pretend that the DSM IV-tr is flawless or perfect. I'd have to be CRAZY to think that(look for it in the DSM-V
The entire "personality disorders" area is riddled with issues. You can have two people get the same diagnosis who share NONE of the same symptoms. This "pick 4 of 10" thing is convenient, but I question whether they're really describing the same disorder, or if that disorder exists. Most of the reason for the DSM is so that I can say "Suffers from PTSD" and you can quickly make a variety of inferences as to what symptoms the person shows, how to treat it, etc... That's lacking in a number of places in the DSM.
And yes, there are areas where the requirement for clinically significant distress or impairment is missing. That's why I qualified my earlier statemtents with "reluctant" etc...
The DSM(the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) typically uses when it causes clinically significant distress on the part of the person, or in their work, social, personal lives.
:P So you're fine.
The DSM is usually reluctant to pathologize something unless it's really bothering the person themselves, or makes it impossible for them to live a normal life.
You have a tendency to check twice if the door to your house is locked after leaving? That's not really going to cause you major problems, and odds are you're not freaking out about it. Not OCD.
Have frequent compulsions to drive back home and check if your door is locked, occuring throughout the day, making you get fired from your job, ruining your social life and making you feel like crap? That might be more likely to get you that diagnosis.
You doing lots of e-mail for work is not likely to interfere with your ability to work.
Heroin junkies might not mind their heroin(though some do), but if it screws up their lives then it's something the DSM will look at.
If you really were a Dr Pepper fan, you'd know that there is no period/fullstop in the name. :P
/. is itself moderately secure, but I've used it for many different websites I don't really worry about too much. That weakens it a bit. Someone, somewhere, probably DOES have DrPepper as a password. There are worse things I suppose, but I'm hardly shocked to hear that fingerprint scanners have yet more flaws in them.
:\ Seems improbable.
Just check the wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Pepper#Name_formatting, or look at one of your many cases of Dr Pepper if you don't believe me.
That said, quite a few people use stupid passwords. My own for
They're the exact same as most security measures. They make you feel secure while providing only limited Actual Security. A fingerprint scanner on my media would be sufficient to slow down any random person who tries to see what I've got on my HDD. That might be enough for me. Is anyone using a thumbprint scanner as the only security measure on stuff they really truly definitely do want kept private and secure?
Feel like you want more information on a *wiki?
Why not just go to wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks
Basically, it's a website dedicated to posting stuff anonymously that businesses/governments/etc... would not approve of. Airing all their dirty laundry/skeletons in their closet, etc...
An entire city floating using massive fans? ... I'm not an engineer or anything, but that sounds like it'd be awfully noisy. And maybe a weee bit windy.
Sounds like a cool idea though! (what with the windchill and all)
For that, I'm all in favor of some general purpose robots, followed by more fine-tuned robots
Now your grandchildren... MAYBE they might pay it off.
Eve may have cut the lines, but she was provoked! My sympathies lie very much in Eve's favour.
That's why I still get a fair bit of my music off of IRC. .rar file. Decent quality too for the most part.
There are more than a few channels on several servers that let you grab entire albums in a nice shiny
While one has the option of setting up your own XDCC server to gain priority in other people's queues, it's quite fine to just sit back and leech. There are many thousands of albums in the room I'm idling in right now, from a wide range of genres. Busy getting a gift for my brother(who just got an 80 gig iPod and doesn't know how he's going to fill it). Unless "/ctcp Sandman1971 xdcc send #4245" counts as "uploading" then it seems pretty legal to me.
Well, even with Gore winning the popular vote it was fairly close. Quite a few millions of The People did vote for him.
:P None of my friends would have voted for Bush if they were American, but I know that polls up here indicate that *some* people support him. Not a great many, but some certainly do.
I'll agree to the 2004 election having some irregularities that could/should have been investigated/punished better, but I'm also pretty confident that a hell of a lot of people voted for him in that election too.
As for your last comment, remember that your circle of friends and acquitances are a self-selected sample, and not representative of the population at large down there