I'm not sure about the economics, but one would think eventually it would be cheaper to grow meat in a vat than raise a few million animals, pay for their feed, clean their waste, and then spend the time and money shipping them off to the slaughter house.
At least it would take less energy and be more environmental friendly or don't stink up the local area...
Ever drove by a pig farm? They have a ton by the coast in North Carolina and they don't call em pigs for nothing.
I remember back in the days of Ultima Online about the GM Scandal of one of the red robes had been caught selling items on Ebay that he was actually making.
If you were to make a correct anology you would say your neighbor is making a chemical that is in the air and floats over to your property. You freely enjoy in this chemical say... infinite supply of Oxygen.
If your neighbor did not wish for you to not use his oxygen then he should not allow it to leave his property.
If bandwidth can be a tangible thing that is stolen then one could sue anyone who is interfering with your wireless connection wheather that is an airport or other legitimate wireless access points.
And if you leave your front door unlocked you are granting access to anyone who wants to enter. NOT!
I don't know about the ethics of the crime itself, but most insurance companies have clauses saying if you fail to lock your doors on house or car they aren't liable to damages or loss because of theft.
Look, a community doesn't really mean a one world government and everyone is being nice and friendly. It means each Nation is his/her own house and they do their own thing, but we are all stuck on the same block (earth).
You stay in your house and do whatever you please, but when you go over to the neighbors house and kick in his door and drag him out into the street and start beating on him, then the rest of the remaining neighbors might get concerned.
If it was a continous trend, they might all band together one day and decide to remove you from the neighborhood. You might be the strongest person on the block but even if they don't physical confront you, they might refuse to trade with you or sell you things.
A nation shouldn't capitulate to every demand another nation hands it, but refusal to compromise or meet some type of common ground will only result in economic failure and unneeded conflict.
Besides if they were really pro-American or even Nationalists in power they wouldn't be outsourcing American jobs, right?
You insensitive clod! I am an American and I feel perhaps the course of our government is incorrect!
There are some things I agree with the current Administration, but mostly I don't and I used to consider myself a Republican.
But seriously, he is stating a view many non-Americans have. Considering most of the world is non-American I would say its safe to say they are the majority.
America must wake up and have at least awareness of the international community. We can't just dictate policy forever to other nations. China itself is surpassing us economically and militarily and other nations are making scientific discoveries by leaps and bounds. Our dependency on oil is dangerously becoming a threat to our economy since we have peaked on internal oil production and must rely on other nations.
That and it's just polite... Who knows, we might need financial aid from Europe and Japan come 2050 AD when there isn't any more oil. What comes around goes around.
Because the rest of the world will be using IPv6 in a short bit while we won't. Although I think China uses their own DNS servers as it is, so it's a moot point for them.
Hrm... Wouldn't an Xbox with Tivo software installed work better? (Or at least be cooler?)
Either way, if MS licenses out Xbox to 3rd party vendors who make xbox's that can play Xbox games just a as good as the regular xbox360 then they can save a ton of money if they make most of their money of the games themselves and not worry about console costs.
I was being humorous... One would think there would be policies against sticky notes on monitors unlike most major companies. *coughs*
Besides, NSA actually hires mostly non-family types and those with little room for national security issues. However, that said... People are human and passwords can be extracted or bought even at the highest levels.
That said... How valuable are your teeth? How about your toes? Fingers? Remember you only need one good hand to write down your password.
When the DS came out last year, I was really tempted to sell the one I pre-ordered. There was about 2-4 weeks where they wouldn't have any in stores because they didn't make enough and I was recalling they were really selling hot on ebay, but I enjoyed mine too much to sell it.
I can knock you unconscious and drag your limp body over to the scanner and place your hand on it without your help.
You know... If your security can't detect someone dragging a body around (aka Solid Snake syndrome) then perhaps you should be looking at more obvious problems than biometrics.
"With a password you can actually deny an agressor access. They'd have to torture you until you gave it up."
Most people underestimate the power of physical or mental pain (or even starvation).
Given the appropriate tools anyone can be made to do anything or believe anything. You can hold out, but a skilled mental engineer will break you and make you believe he is the son of god, 2+2=3, there are 4 light bulbs, he can walk on water, and make you believe that your parents, kids, and wife or spies and you have no qualms about murdering them.
Secondly, your scenario assumes that torture is the only tool. Personally, if I captured an NSA agent I'd show him nice video tapes of one of our agents talking to his kids widley grinning at the camera. Or maybe setup an encouter with a "woman of the night" and leave picutres in his mailbox with instructions on what to do if he doesn't want his wife to see them.
But thats kind of barbaric and mostly would raise alarm bells if agents suddenly started missing... If I were in charge of some foreign intelligence ring I'd resort to more subtle methods like bribing NSA janitors to look under keyboards and look for sticky notes on monitors.
And maybe Planet Side where advancement is not as important as an MMORPG (the/. news post said MMOG right?) where the player just jumping into the battle and starts killing other players right away without worrying about gaining levels. There are advancements in both games but they only give slight advantages where as a level 60 vs 5 in EQ would be totally unfair (and is why they don't allow combat with that big of a range of player)
Exactly! How do you really prounouce "pwned"? "Pee-owned" or "owned"? And shouting "S... T... F... U..." over a microphone is rather lame. Although I have met people who have said "LOL" in real life.
Have you ever played any DS FPS games like Metroid or Golden Eye?
It's seemed really weird at first, but once I figured out the correct way to use the pen and touch screen it plays just as good as a mouse sans the extra WASD setup. The left four way pad seems to be lacking a bit since you can't hit secondary button ands have to use your left index finger to shoot, but it feels like it works.
From what I've heard on the Nintendo rumor mill, you are going to be (or supposed to be) able to interface your DS with the new Nintendo system. It might be a problem with DS required games, but it would be one hell of a great wireless controller for RTS or FPS games.
Maybe Sony or Microsoft could come up with something similar and controller like?
I had an Great Uncle who participated in costal defense drills as Boy Scouts on the East Coast. It didn't involve weapons training, but mostly camping on the beach looking for U-Boats. But believe me... If things had gone poorly in Europe and German landing craft had established a beach head in New Foundland, every man, woman, and child would be learning to use some sort of weapon.
I think Boy Scouts in UK had weapons training, but I can't confirm that.
Soviets and Germans both had 13 years olds in the Military. I think Russians had actual Females. The German leadership had an aversion to Women even working in factories.
Actually, I met a Norwegian girl at Dragoncon last year and we discussed politics at a bar. She mentioned that back home that all College is free even to foreigners. All you have to do is live there. I explained my disbelief and she stated that she knows a few people from the UK that live with her just for that.
Actually, the Soviets made some of the most interesting and possibly disturbing movies of all time. From what I remember about Soviet media is that all works are property of the State (or people depending on who is giving the speach) and all proceeds when to the government. As far as I know you could copy and distribute if you really wanted since there was no such thing as copyright as long as didn't say anything bad about the state or politics.
"People tend to think of ethanol and see an endless cycle: corn is used to produce ethanol, ethanol is burned and gives off carbon dioxide, and corn uses the carbon dioxide as it grows," he said. "But that isn't the case. Fossil fuel actually drives the whole cycle.
I think he is failing to see that the problem lies with Fossil Fuels being electricity producers. It might not be as feasible as one thinks, but we might as well switch to as much nuclear power or some other alternative or spend billions (trillion if needed ) of dollars to actually get Fusion up and running.
Seriously, the oil gravy train at best can only last 100 years given the rate of expansion from US and China. (pessimists would say by 2020)
I don't know about global warming, but eventually if we rely on natural oil we'll be walking more.
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I'm not sure about the economics, but one would think eventually it would be cheaper to grow meat in a vat than raise a few million animals, pay for their feed, clean their waste, and then spend the time and money shipping them off to the slaughter house.
At least it would take less energy and be more environmental friendly or don't stink up the local area...
Ever drove by a pig farm? They have a ton by the coast in North Carolina and they don't call em pigs for nothing.
I remember back in the days of Ultima Online about the GM Scandal of one of the red robes had been caught selling items on Ebay that he was actually making.
Thefy implies something was stolen.
If you were to make a correct anology you would say your neighbor is making a chemical that is in the air and floats over to your property. You freely enjoy in this chemical say... infinite supply of Oxygen.
If your neighbor did not wish for you to not use his oxygen then he should not allow it to leave his property.
If bandwidth can be a tangible thing that is stolen then one could sue anyone who is interfering with your wireless connection wheather that is an airport or other legitimate wireless access points.
And if you leave your front door unlocked you are granting access to anyone who wants to enter. NOT!
I don't know about the ethics of the crime itself, but most insurance companies have clauses saying if you fail to lock your doors on house or car they aren't liable to damages or loss because of theft.
At the current rate of human population growth there will be more humans than atoms in 17,000 years.
Trust me, I'm scratching my head too.
Look, a community doesn't really mean a one world government and everyone is being nice and friendly. It means each Nation is his/her own house and they do their own thing, but we are all stuck on the same block (earth).
You stay in your house and do whatever you please, but when you go over to the neighbors house and kick in his door and drag him out into the street and start beating on him, then the rest of the remaining neighbors might get concerned.
If it was a continous trend, they might all band together one day and decide to remove you from the neighborhood. You might be the strongest person on the block but even if they don't physical confront you, they might refuse to trade with you or sell you things.
A nation shouldn't capitulate to every demand another nation hands it, but refusal to compromise or meet some type of common ground will only result in economic failure and unneeded conflict.
Besides if they were really pro-American or even Nationalists in power they wouldn't be outsourcing American jobs, right?
You insensitive clod! I am an American and I feel perhaps the course of our government is incorrect!
There are some things I agree with the current Administration, but mostly I don't and I used to consider myself a Republican.
But seriously, he is stating a view many non-Americans have. Considering most of the world is non-American I would say its safe to say they are the majority.
America must wake up and have at least awareness of the international community. We can't just dictate policy forever to other nations. China itself is surpassing us economically and militarily and other nations are making scientific discoveries by leaps and bounds. Our dependency on oil is dangerously becoming a threat to our economy since we have peaked on internal oil production and must rely on other nations.
That and it's just polite... Who knows, we might need financial aid from Europe and Japan come 2050 AD when there isn't any more oil. What comes around goes around.
Because the rest of the world will be using IPv6 in a short bit while we won't. Although I think China uses their own DNS servers as it is, so it's a moot point for them.
Hrm... Wouldn't an Xbox with Tivo software installed work better? (Or at least be cooler?)
Either way, if MS licenses out Xbox to 3rd party vendors who make xbox's that can play Xbox games just a as good as the regular xbox360 then they can save a ton of money if they make most of their money of the games themselves and not worry about console costs.
I was being humorous... One would think there would be policies against sticky notes on monitors unlike most major companies. *coughs*
Besides, NSA actually hires mostly non-family types and those with little room for national security issues. However, that said... People are human and passwords can be extracted or bought even at the highest levels.
That said... How valuable are your teeth? How about your toes? Fingers? Remember you only need one good hand to write down your password.
When the DS came out last year, I was really tempted to sell the one I pre-ordered. There was about 2-4 weeks where they wouldn't have any in stores because they didn't make enough and I was recalling they were really selling hot on ebay, but I enjoyed mine too much to sell it.
Thats because the mods have no more points left to mod him down ;)
I can knock you unconscious and drag your limp body over to the scanner and place your hand on it without your help.
You know... If your security can't detect someone dragging a body around (aka Solid Snake syndrome) then perhaps you should be looking at more obvious problems than biometrics.
"With a password you can actually deny an agressor access. They'd have to torture you until you gave it up."
Most people underestimate the power of physical or mental pain (or even starvation).
Given the appropriate tools anyone can be made to do anything or believe anything. You can hold out, but a skilled mental engineer will break you and make you believe he is the son of god, 2+2=3, there are 4 light bulbs, he can walk on water, and make you believe that your parents, kids, and wife or spies and you have no qualms about murdering them.
Secondly, your scenario assumes that torture is the only tool. Personally, if I captured an NSA agent I'd show him nice video tapes of one of our agents talking to his kids widley grinning at the camera. Or maybe setup an encouter with a "woman of the night" and leave picutres in his mailbox with instructions on what to do if he doesn't want his wife to see them.
But thats kind of barbaric and mostly would raise alarm bells if agents suddenly started missing... If I were in charge of some foreign intelligence ring I'd resort to more subtle methods like bribing NSA janitors to look under keyboards and look for sticky notes on monitors.
And maybe Planet Side where advancement is not as important as an MMORPG (the /. news post said MMOG right?) where the player just jumping into the battle and starts killing other players right away without worrying about gaining levels. There are advancements in both games but they only give slight advantages where as a level 60 vs 5 in EQ would be totally unfair (and is why they don't allow combat with that big of a range of player)
I don't mean to sound like a troll, flamer, asshat, or other nasty forum lurker, but does the computational power of a console make or break it?
Well if computational power makes or breaks the console, then we'd all be playing Atari Jaguars and Neo-Geo's today.
Exactly! How do you really prounouce "pwned"? "Pee-owned" or "owned"? And shouting "S... T... F... U..." over a microphone is rather lame. Although I have met people who have said "LOL" in real life.
Have you ever played any DS FPS games like Metroid or Golden Eye?
It's seemed really weird at first, but once I figured out the correct way to use the pen and touch screen it plays just as good as a mouse sans the extra WASD setup. The left four way pad seems to be lacking a bit since you can't hit secondary button ands have to use your left index finger to shoot, but it feels like it works.
From what I've heard on the Nintendo rumor mill, you are going to be (or supposed to be) able to interface your DS with the new Nintendo system. It might be a problem with DS required games, but it would be one hell of a great wireless controller for RTS or FPS games.
Maybe Sony or Microsoft could come up with something similar and controller like?
There are only two reasons the Japanese surrendered.
1. Because the Emperor said so.
2. They got to keep the Emperor.
Otherwise we could have destroyed every city and they would have never gave up, Atomic bomb or not.
Remember, the Emperor had to force the surrender since the top brass had planned to remove him if he tried (hence the recording of the surrender).
I had an Great Uncle who participated in costal defense drills as Boy Scouts on the East Coast. It didn't involve weapons training, but mostly camping on the beach looking for U-Boats. But believe me... If things had gone poorly in Europe and German landing craft had established a beach head in New Foundland, every man, woman, and child would be learning to use some sort of weapon.
I think Boy Scouts in UK had weapons training, but I can't confirm that.
Soviets and Germans both had 13 years olds in the Military. I think Russians had actual Females. The German leadership had an aversion to Women even working in factories.
Actually, I met a Norwegian girl at Dragoncon last year and we discussed politics at a bar. She mentioned that back home that all College is free even to foreigners. All you have to do is live there. I explained my disbelief and she stated that she knows a few people from the UK that live with her just for that.
Actually, the Soviets made some of the most interesting and possibly disturbing movies of all time. From what I remember about Soviet media is that all works are property of the State (or people depending on who is giving the speach) and all proceeds when to the government. As far as I know you could copy and distribute if you really wanted since there was no such thing as copyright as long as didn't say anything bad about the state or politics.
Actually if he was poor, they would accuse him of being a vagrant wanting handouts just like those people they harp about downloading movies.
If he was just middle class they'd accuse him of not putting enough effort in making his own money while relying on public schools for his kids.
From Article:
"People tend to think of ethanol and see an endless cycle: corn is used to produce ethanol, ethanol is burned and gives off carbon dioxide, and corn uses the carbon dioxide as it grows," he said. "But that isn't the case. Fossil fuel actually drives the whole cycle.
I think he is failing to see that the problem lies with Fossil Fuels being electricity producers. It might not be as feasible as one thinks, but we might as well switch to as much nuclear power or some other alternative or spend billions (trillion if needed ) of dollars to actually get Fusion up and running.
Seriously, the oil gravy train at best can only last 100 years given the rate of expansion from US and China. (pessimists would say by 2020)
I don't know about global warming, but eventually if we rely on natural oil we'll be walking more.
George just wants to not have to replace his iPod batteries... EVER!