Why not go the extra mile and put RFID tags on cops, judges, politicians, doctors, bankers, pharmacists, etc
Most passive RFID tags have a maximum read distance of less than 6". Unless the tags are in their shoes and a continuous underground antenna network is built to read them, they can't be used for tracking. It's also possible that scanners could be installed in every door in the city and you could tell the last door the person being tracked walked through.
There is presently no infrastructure in place to track people with RFID. Why is nobody afraid of carrying a cell phone? If the phone company wanted to, they could track you using the base stations already in place, you are uniquely identified by your phone, and they have all your personal information on file.
Being afraid of RFID tracking is even more irrational than being afraid to carry a phone.
Most MRI measurements are extremely sensitive to any metal/magnetic material in the image field of view. If you had any metal near your head (a bobby pin or a paper clip, etc), it would destroy the image, assuming it didn't get pulled off by the magnet.
As for tinfoil, the article doesn't say what field the magnet is, but it's probably between 3 and 7 tesla (128-300 MHz). At those frequencies, the skin dept of aluminum is small enough that you wouldn't be able to see anything through the tinfoil.
Most commercial website operators will probably not like the idea of insulting 90% of their visitors. Even if the message is rephrased (I've seen sites that say something like 'this site recommends downloading a standards compliant browser') it will confuse and annoy the general public.
I googled supraconducter to make sure it wasn't some new type of material, but since it's apparent you mean superconductor, there is no power dissipated (R=0 so I^2R = 0, although you're right, it's finite) but there is still an upper limit on the amount of current a given superconductor can accomodate before it stops superconducting.
You're writing a protest letter to a government organization, not posting to an online forum. Saying things like free as in beer and _emphasizing_ words with underscores makes you look more like some nut and is likely to result in your letter being dismissed all the more quickly.
The Globe and Mail did a story* last week about this. All over the earth, there are deposits of methane trapped in ice, amounting to an estimated 565e12 ft^3.
If something similar existed on mars, it could be slowly releasing methane.
*The link seems to work for me about 1/2 the time, and half the time I'm sent to a 'Premium Content, Login Required Page'. Sorry.
I don't know about Switzerland, but in Canada, it's my understanding that ~50000 years ago, much of the country was covered in glaciers. These glaciers began to recede without human intervention and continue to recede today.
I don't want to comment on greenhouse gas related climate change, but it seems to me that humankind may not be solely responsible for the glacier melting.
While I recognize that the paper represents legitimate research, it does bear an uncanny resemblance to those produced by the automatic paper generator, right down to the axis labels.
If they can make a file with the same size and hash as a real file, when data from their file is mixed in with a real file, won't the new file have a different hash. This would at least slow the spread of these fake files.
Microsoft has dozens of fonts patented. I assume it's the same for Adobe, etc.
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That's interesting. DC distribution = no EMFs generated. Whether or not EMFs have any real health effects, removing them would be good PR for the power companies.
There was a discussion yesterday about using LEDs to replace incandescent lights. One thing that came up was the power losses associated with stepping down the mains voltage to voltages required by LEDs.
Even if the carbon nanotubes are not technically superconductors, if their resistance is much lower than copper they might be ideal for low voltage home wiring. You could step the mains down to 5 or 12 volts in a central location in your house, and power the all your low voltage electronics without having to worry about I^2R losses.
You're right. The problem is that you're wasting power. A 20mA LED powered by 5V with an appropriate resistor will use (including power dissipated in the resistor) 5V x 20mA = 100mW. Do the same thing at 120V and you're using 120V x 20mA = 2.4W which immediately destroys the efficieny advantage of the LED. What's needed is an efficient transformer or DC/DC converter.
I found a paper written by Najib Callaos on IEEEXPLORE.
Most people won't have a subscription so here's the abstract (it reads like one of the randomly generated papers):
Toward a practical methodological theory
Callaos, N. de Callaos, B.
Dept. de Procesos y Sistemas, Simon Bolivar Univ., Caracas, Venezuela;
Abstract
The general objective of this paper is to describe the way the authors have been relating general system theory (GST) to practice. The authors applied GST to design a methodology for software development, first. Then, by means of the experience/knowledge learned from applying the methodology to specific systems, a continuous redesigning process started, which simultaneously generalized the methodologies and increased its complexity adding new modules for an increasing diversity of diverse-tasks needed for different systems/situations. The methodological kernel increased it generality and the sub-methodological modules increased its details. This paved the way for a general systems methodology which, when including cognitive/thinking method would return to the theoretical realm, i.e. to a methodological theory which, in turn, would pave the way to theoretical methodology
I don't know if they're sponsors but it seems the NRC has put a bunch of papers in these conferences. I did a search for Systemics (a good choice because it's essentially a buzzword that wouldn't appear in many other places) and got a bunch of conference related hits.
I'm going to write something to the NRC. It certainly isn't good for their credibility to be publishing in bullshit conferences like this.
You can be a reviewer for the conference targeted by MIT by signing up here. I filled out the form (which doesn't really ask you anything) and was sent four papers to review the next day (I didn't review them). This randomly generated paper was probably reviewed by someone who did the same.
Last year, I got a Suntrust Banking phishing email. It was the first one I'd seen that used a script to draw a box with a fake URL in it over the real one.
The real URL was mail.iiisci.org/s (no longer works). I had never head of IIISCI at the time and assumed it to be legitimate. I wrote to the webmaster to tell them their site was being used for a phishing scam, and I've been getting invitations to their conferences evers since.
From TFA: the collar detects changes in capacitance caused by movement of the vocal cords
It's not reading your mind. The only danger would be if you were muttering things about you boss under your breath.
This technology has been previously explored by Canadian researchers. I can't find a better link right now bet here's a MacLeans story about one of the scientists. From the article:
by attaching sensors over the face and throat muscles that form words, scientists can detect what a person is saying through mouth movement -- in a form of indirect lip-reading -- even in a noisy jet cockpit.
All reputable scientific journals have a peer review system wherin the research to be published must first be scrutinized by other experts in the field. I don't see why free access to research publications would change this.
I have a few friends in CS who got CO-OP jobs with the Communications Security Establishment in Ottawa. No pre-existing security clearance was needed. You might also try the RCMP.
Perhaps they'll wage a similar disinformation campaign to indoctrinate our children to believe in the sacredness of intellectual property, and thus get people to accept that encryption should be illegal, to prevent information piracy....
Don't you remember the copyright weasel ?
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Why not go the extra mile and put RFID tags on cops, judges, politicians, doctors, bankers, pharmacists, etc
Most passive RFID tags have a maximum read distance of less than 6". Unless the tags are in their shoes and a continuous underground antenna network is built to read them, they can't be used for tracking. It's also possible that scanners could be installed in every door in the city and you could tell the last door the person being tracked walked through.
There is presently no infrastructure in place to track people with RFID. Why is nobody afraid of carrying a cell phone? If the phone company wanted to, they could track you using the base stations already in place, you are uniquely identified by your phone, and they have all your personal information on file.
Being afraid of RFID tracking is even more irrational than being afraid to carry a phone.
Most MRI measurements are extremely sensitive to any metal/magnetic material in the image field of view. If you had any metal near your head (a bobby pin or a paper clip, etc), it would destroy the image, assuming it didn't get pulled off by the magnet. As for tinfoil, the article doesn't say what field the magnet is, but it's probably between 3 and 7 tesla (128-300 MHz). At those frequencies, the skin dept of aluminum is small enough that you wouldn't be able to see anything through the tinfoil.
Most commercial website operators will probably not like the idea of insulting 90% of their visitors. Even if the message is rephrased (I've seen sites that say something like 'this site recommends downloading a standards compliant browser') it will confuse and annoy the general public.
I googled supraconducter to make sure it wasn't some new type of material, but since it's apparent you mean superconductor, there is no power dissipated (R=0 so I^2R = 0, although you're right, it's finite) but there is still an upper limit on the amount of current a given superconductor can accomodate before it stops superconducting.
You're writing a protest letter to a government organization, not posting to an online forum. Saying things like free as in beer and _emphasizing_ words with underscores makes you look more like some nut and is likely to result in your letter being dismissed all the more quickly.
To make it easier, here's the source
The Globe and Mail did a story* last week about this. All over the earth, there are deposits of methane trapped in ice, amounting to an
estimated 565e12 ft^3.
If something similar existed on mars, it could be slowly releasing methane.
*The link seems to work for me about 1/2 the time, and half the time I'm sent to a 'Premium Content, Login Required Page'. Sorry.
I don't know about Switzerland, but in Canada, it's my understanding that ~50000 years ago, much of the country was covered in glaciers. These glaciers began to recede without human intervention and continue to recede today.
I don't want to comment on greenhouse gas related climate change, but it seems to me that humankind may not be solely responsible for the glacier melting.
Plagiarism, broadly, is passing off someones work as your own. In any context, it is easy to see why this is wrong (immoral).
'IP' is defined differently depending on the country, organization etc. Learning to respect IP is very context dependant.
The two are different.
While I recognize that the paper represents legitimate research, it does bear an uncanny resemblance to those produced by the automatic paper generator, right down to the axis labels.
If they can make a file with the same size and hash as a real file, when data from their file is mixed in with a real file, won't the new file have a different hash. This would at least slow the spread of these fake files.
Microsoft has dozens of fonts patented. I assume it's the same for Adobe, etc.
That's interesting. DC distribution = no EMFs generated. Whether or not EMFs have any real health effects, removing them would be good PR for the power companies.
There was a discussion yesterday about using LEDs to replace incandescent lights. One thing that came up was the power losses associated with stepping down the mains voltage to voltages required by LEDs.
Even if the carbon nanotubes are not technically superconductors, if their resistance is much lower than copper they might be ideal for low voltage home wiring. You could step the mains down to 5 or 12 volts in a central location in your house, and power the all your low voltage electronics without having to worry about I^2R losses.
You're right. The problem is that you're wasting power. A 20mA LED powered by 5V with an appropriate resistor will use (including power dissipated in the resistor) 5V x 20mA = 100mW. Do the same thing at 120V and you're using 120V x 20mA = 2.4W which immediately destroys the efficieny advantage of the LED.
What's needed is an efficient transformer or DC/DC converter.
I found a paper written by Najib Callaos on IEEEXPLORE.
Most people won't have a subscription so here's the abstract (it reads like one of the randomly generated papers):
Toward a practical methodological theory
Callaos, N. de Callaos, B.
Dept. de Procesos y Sistemas, Simon Bolivar Univ., Caracas, Venezuela;
Abstract
The general objective of this paper is to describe the way the authors have been relating general system theory (GST) to practice. The authors applied GST to design a methodology for software development, first. Then, by means of the experience/knowledge learned from applying the methodology to specific systems, a continuous redesigning process started, which simultaneously generalized the methodologies and increased its complexity adding new modules for an increasing diversity of diverse-tasks needed for different systems/situations. The methodological kernel increased it generality and the sub-methodological modules increased its details. This paved the way for a general systems methodology which, when including cognitive/thinking method would return to the theoretical realm, i.e. to a methodological theory which, in turn, would pave the way to theoretical methodology
I don't know if they're sponsors but it seems the NRC has put a bunch of papers in these conferences. I did a search for Systemics (a good choice because it's essentially a buzzword that wouldn't appear in many other places) and got a bunch of conference related hits.
I'm going to write something to the NRC. It certainly isn't good for their credibility to be publishing in bullshit conferences like this.
You can be a reviewer for the conference targeted by MIT by signing up here. I filled out the form (which doesn't really ask you anything) and was sent four papers to review the next day (I didn't review them). This randomly generated paper was probably reviewed by someone who did the same.
Last year, I got a Suntrust Banking phishing email. It was the first one I'd seen that used a script to draw a box with a fake URL in it over the real one. The real URL was mail.iiisci.org/s (no longer works). I had never head of IIISCI at the time and assumed it to be legitimate. I wrote to the webmaster to tell them their site was being used for a phishing scam, and I've been getting invitations to their conferences evers since.
From TFA: the collar detects changes in capacitance caused by movement of the vocal cords It's not reading your mind. The only danger would be if you were muttering things about you boss under your breath.
This technology has been previously explored by Canadian researchers. I can't find a better link right now bet here's a MacLeans story about one of the scientists. From the article: by attaching sensors over the face and throat muscles that form words, scientists can detect what a person is saying through mouth movement -- in a form of indirect lip-reading -- even in a noisy jet cockpit.
All reputable scientific journals have a peer review system wherin the research to be published must first be scrutinized by other experts in the field. I don't see why free access to research publications would change this.
I have a few friends in CS who got CO-OP jobs with the Communications Security Establishment in Ottawa. No pre-existing security clearance was needed. You might also try the RCMP.
Perhaps they'll wage a similar disinformation campaign to indoctrinate our children to believe in the sacredness of intellectual property, and thus get people to accept that encryption should be illegal, to prevent information piracy....
Don't you remember the copyright weasel ?