They've really had to engineer a new way to capture and store data on the Large Hadron Collider. Here's what excites the crap out of me. The two biggest obstacles standing in our way with regard to real teleportation are the little matter of tearing apart a being, and then storing the information about that being and transmitting it.
The folks at LHC have had to come up with whole new ways to capture data regarding the proton collisions. It is said that they'll generate the contect of 10,000 Encyclopedia Brittanica's every minute. So - that would solve storing meta data for say, teleportation.
So in other words - things like blogger, typepad etc. are all going to shrivel up.
And of course you know what proof of identity will be, a credit card. But it sucks for adults like me who don't have a credit card. I refuse to have one.
Where he paints a positively glowing story of India in his book "The World Is Flat". He gets lots wrong but lots right in the book. Namely that business will go to the cheapest places in the world.
In one chapter of the book he even says that some untouchables in India are feeling the benefit. Something tells me he didn't get the whole story.
Comfortably? Yikes! Then of course there are the old PS2 type connectors on older PC's. I can't tell you how many times people broke the guide pin off, or better yet, managed to flatten all the pins.
Reminds me of when I worked for the ADIR unit at Brown University. One day I get a call from one of the women in the Brown Annual Fund. She just moved her office around and now her computer and phone won't work.
I asked if she remember to plug everything back in and she said that she did but it was hard getting the one for the computer into the jack.
When I got over there I found she'd managed to plug the 8 conductor (Cat-5) connector into the one for the phone which was 4 conductor. The jack was all busted out but I tugged it out of the wrong one, got everything connected the right way and lo and behold it worked. I told her next time she moved her office she HAD to call IT FIRST!
So true. I'm technically capable of it, have access to all the tools etc. but I don't do it. Why, because I've been the victim of it. Had my bank account wiped clean and fought the bank and finally won.
What most people don't want to hear is how insecure our banking system REALLY is.
How do I explain this to you. Many judges and attorneys have no idea what the Constitution or the Bill of Rights actually says. I should know, I worked with a lot of clueless ones.
What the hell is with cops lately? Honestly I've worked with the boys in blue on several occasions in my capacity as a consultant.
They've all been great guys. But I guess I saw their good sides. The guy is within his rights to record on HIS property. I can tell you that the PD will be seeing a fat lawsuit very soon.
It won't go soon enough in my book. You know, Caldera wasn't a bad company and then when they bought out SCO and assumed the name, it all went to hell.
It became a money grab. That the suit has even gone on this long particularly since IBM has the funds to essentially bury SCO's attorneys in mounds of documentation that would take them decades to sort through, surprises me.
When they began plans to relocate I-195 through Providence one of the things mentioned was burying the high tension lines that were strung directly over India Point park.
The shit storm went back and forth on that one. At the time Narragansett Electric was hemming and hawing about the cost. I was working at the state AG's office at the time and our public utilities unit knew that Narragansett could afford to bury the lines and still maintain low cost. Even went public with it.
But in the end, our Public Utilities Commission turned a deaf ear to it. Now National Grid (They bought Narragansett and are looking at buying New England Gas.) is going to pass the full cost of the project to ratepayers.
I'm sorry but basic utilities like water, electric and gas should NEVER be run for-profit. Because when things are run for-profit they tend to abuse their power and setup their PUC rules and regs so it ALWAYS benefits the company. Not to mention letting outside plant rot so they can give a return to their shareholders.
Where I live they cheaped out. They wanted the telephone poles removed from the main street so they basically string electric, phone and cable on the back streets, then duct it underground to the main street. So we're still susceptible to power outages during storms.
Highlights of this include watching a transformer get blown off a pole by lightning, and then watching the now conductors arc like crazy until the breakers finally gave out. Or how about watching them have to replace undergroun transformer after transformer because some nitwit had wired one side of it the wrong way. I call National Grid "The Third World Power Company". Because that's exactly what it is.
The dancing cop in the picture? That's Providence, RI's own Tony Lepore, the Dancing Cop. They trot him out around holidays and he's usually directing traffic on Dorrance St. between Westminster and Weybosset.
When I got my WAP I immediately secured it to prevent unauthorized parties using my bandwidth. But I noticed there were a ton of wide open wireless networks around me.
Within a couple weeks time I suddenly noticed the other networks locking down one by one. I had tipped off one business about their wide open router. But beyond that never told anyone.
Friend of mine is leeching a neighbors signal. The neighbor is completely clueless. And it's likely to remain that way for quite a while. I told her that when she finally breaks down and gets a broadband connection and wireless setup that she should secure it as best she can. And I guarantee all the open networks around her will suddenly clam up too.
Which is exactly why you need to get the Dell Decrapifier script.
Luckily my Dell laptop came with pc-cillin which wasn't all that hard to remove and replace with what *I* wanted to run.
That's ok - Dell even turns on Windows Firewall on machines they ship these days. When we rolled a bunch out our past experience with XP had been that the firewall wasn't turned out. When we couldn't VNC to the machines we knew something was up. Sure enough, firewalls were turned on.
Why can't we just get a plain vanilla install of the OS anymore? Life was so much better then.
I have to wonder about RF shielding. After all, even 802.11 gear runs at 2.4GHz, that's enough to cook ones private parts after extended use of a laptop. And with processors going in the same frequency range you can bet they're radiating RF. Luckily I made the decision not to have kids, but to those who might, you may want to reconsider resting that laptop in your lap.
They recently installed an MRI unit down the hall from my office. I got to watch them build it, right down to the copper grid impregnated wallboard that was then tied to ground. The reason they use it is because am MRI machine has to have RF silence, since it uses an RF signal to detect the change in spin.
What would prevent me from installing such a system in a theatre or restaurant? Nothing. It is totally passive. The only thing I'd be worried about is liability should some moron decide to shoot up the theatre, or someone had a health emergency and couldn't get a signal.
Initially it'll be used for basic public safety measures. But over time the cops will dream up new uses, like watching drug transactions, or people, etc.
Just take an old microwave oven, extract magnetron and waveguide, fashion a nice little parabola to focus the signal and take aim.
That's because Peapod pulls from regular Stop & Shop stores and distro centers. They also have agreements with other grocers in areas where Stop & Shop isn't prevalent.
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They've really had to engineer a new way to capture and store data on the Large Hadron Collider. Here's what excites the crap out of me. The two biggest obstacles standing in our way with regard to real teleportation are the little matter of tearing apart a being, and then storing the information about that being and transmitting it.
The folks at LHC have had to come up with whole new ways to capture data regarding the proton collisions. It is said that they'll generate the contect of 10,000 Encyclopedia Brittanica's every minute. So - that would solve storing meta data for say, teleportation.
So in other words - things like blogger, typepad etc. are all going to shrivel up. And of course you know what proof of identity will be, a credit card. But it sucks for adults like me who don't have a credit card. I refuse to have one.
And if you're running Thunderbird, along with things like Popfile, etc. you have a much smaller chanced of this being a problem.
Everyone to whom I've recommended Firefox has also received the recommendation that they install Thunderbird and Popfile.
This is just McAffee trying to drum up business.
Where he paints a positively glowing story of India in his book "The World Is Flat". He gets lots wrong but lots right in the book. Namely that business will go to the cheapest places in the world.
In one chapter of the book he even says that some untouchables in India are feeling the benefit. Something tells me he didn't get the whole story.
Comfortably? Yikes! Then of course there are the old PS2 type connectors on older PC's. I can't tell you how many times people broke the guide pin off, or better yet, managed to flatten all the pins.
Reminds me of when I worked for the ADIR unit at Brown University. One day I get a call from one of the women in the Brown Annual Fund. She just moved her office around and now her computer and phone won't work.
I asked if she remember to plug everything back in and she said that she did but it was hard getting the one for the computer into the jack.
When I got over there I found she'd managed to plug the 8 conductor (Cat-5) connector into the one for the phone which was 4 conductor. The jack was all busted out but I tugged it out of the wrong one, got everything connected the right way and lo and behold it worked. I told her next time she moved her office she HAD to call IT FIRST!
So true. I'm technically capable of it, have access to all the tools etc. but I don't do it. Why, because I've been the victim of it. Had my bank account wiped clean and fought the bank and finally won.
What most people don't want to hear is how insecure our banking system REALLY is.
How do I explain this to you. Many judges and attorneys have no idea what the Constitution or the Bill of Rights actually says. I should know, I worked with a lot of clueless ones.
I say that all we who read this send the Judge a copy of the U.S. Constitution. Seems he needs a lesson.
What the hell is with cops lately? Honestly I've worked with the boys in blue on several occasions in my capacity as a consultant.
They've all been great guys. But I guess I saw their good sides. The guy is within his rights to record on HIS property. I can tell you that the PD will be seeing a fat lawsuit very soon.
It won't go soon enough in my book. You know, Caldera wasn't a bad company and then when they bought out SCO and assumed the name, it all went to hell.
It became a money grab. That the suit has even gone on this long particularly since IBM has the funds to essentially bury SCO's attorneys in mounds of documentation that would take them decades to sort through, surprises me.
But in the end I think IBM will prevail.
When they began plans to relocate I-195 through Providence one of the things mentioned was burying the high tension lines that were strung directly over India Point park.
The shit storm went back and forth on that one. At the time Narragansett Electric was hemming and hawing about the cost. I was working at the state AG's office at the time and our public utilities unit knew that Narragansett could afford to bury the lines and still maintain low cost. Even went public with it.
But in the end, our Public Utilities Commission turned a deaf ear to it. Now National Grid (They bought Narragansett and are looking at buying New England Gas.) is going to pass the full cost of the project to ratepayers.
I'm sorry but basic utilities like water, electric and gas should NEVER be run for-profit. Because when things are run for-profit they tend to abuse their power and setup their PUC rules and regs so it ALWAYS benefits the company. Not to mention letting outside plant rot so they can give a return to their shareholders.
Where I live they cheaped out. They wanted the telephone poles removed from the main street so they basically string electric, phone and cable on the back streets, then duct it underground to the main street. So we're still susceptible to power outages during storms.
Highlights of this include watching a transformer get blown off a pole by lightning, and then watching the now conductors arc like crazy until the breakers finally gave out. Or how about watching them have to replace undergroun transformer after transformer because some nitwit had wired one side of it the wrong way. I call National Grid "The Third World Power Company". Because that's exactly what it is.
The dancing cop in the picture? That's Providence, RI's own Tony Lepore, the Dancing Cop. They trot him out around holidays and he's usually directing traffic on Dorrance St. between Westminster and Weybosset.
I'm serious. Abolish it. I'm a license holder and I still say abolish it. Then re-form it as a bandwidth manager only.
Ok, I can see some serious AI potential here. Imagine if Sony ships their next gen of robotic dogs with this software?
Then the damned dogs would have a mind of their own. Hmm. That would make them more like a cat wouldn't it.
My XPS M140 has a 180W power brick. That isn't energy efficient in my eyes.
But it is media center ready, even though I chose XP Pro over Media Center becuase that's what I needed.
I do hear the drive on occasion though.
When I got my WAP I immediately secured it to prevent unauthorized parties using my bandwidth. But I noticed there were a ton of wide open wireless networks around me.
Within a couple weeks time I suddenly noticed the other networks locking down one by one. I had tipped off one business about their wide open router. But beyond that never told anyone.
Friend of mine is leeching a neighbors signal. The neighbor is completely clueless. And it's likely to remain that way for quite a while. I told her that when she finally breaks down and gets a broadband connection and wireless setup that she should secure it as best she can. And I guarantee all the open networks around her will suddenly clam up too.
Which is exactly why you need to get the Dell Decrapifier script.
Luckily my Dell laptop came with pc-cillin which wasn't all that hard to remove and replace with what *I* wanted to run.
That's ok - Dell even turns on Windows Firewall on machines they ship these days. When we rolled a bunch out our past experience with XP had been that the firewall wasn't turned out. When we couldn't VNC to the machines we knew something was up. Sure enough, firewalls were turned on.
Why can't we just get a plain vanilla install of the OS anymore? Life was so much better then.
Excellent point! I hadn't even thought of that when I saw it.
I have to wonder about RF shielding. After all, even 802.11 gear runs at 2.4GHz, that's enough to cook ones private parts after extended use of a laptop. And with processors going in the same frequency range you can bet they're radiating RF. Luckily I made the decision not to have kids, but to those who might, you may want to reconsider resting that laptop in your lap.
Cooked gonads tend not to work so well.
They recently installed an MRI unit down the hall from my office. I got to watch them build it, right down to the copper grid impregnated wallboard that was then tied to ground. The reason they use it is because am MRI machine has to have RF silence, since it uses an RF signal to detect the change in spin.
What would prevent me from installing such a system in a theatre or restaurant? Nothing. It is totally passive. The only thing I'd be worried about is liability should some moron decide to shoot up the theatre, or someone had a health emergency and couldn't get a signal.
Give Dubya and company a little more time and it'll be just as cheap to shift it all back to the U.S. as was to ship it to India in the first place.
Initially it'll be used for basic public safety measures. But over time the cops will dream up new uses, like watching drug transactions, or people, etc.
Just take an old microwave oven, extract magnetron and waveguide, fashion a nice little parabola to focus the signal and take aim.
That's because Peapod pulls from regular Stop & Shop stores and distro centers. They also have agreements with other grocers in areas where Stop & Shop isn't prevalent.
And while we're at it, why don't we apply copyright law against all those stolen ideas in Hollywood.