Lawson says that this also raises the possibility of using the FasTrak system to create false alibis, by overwriting one's own ID onto another driver's device before committing a crime. The toll system's logs would appear to show the perpetrator driving at another location when the crime was being committed, he says.
Pardon me, but wouldn't it be a heck of a lot easy just to have a friend drive your car while you're off somewhere else committing a crime? To say nothing of the fact that if you wrote your ID into somebody else's transceiver, you'd be expected to pay all of their tolls -- something most criminals wouldn't be too keen to do.
No the _real_ fun with this will be when they start using this system to fine speeders. Then you can clone the ID, drive through a toll booth, drive the cloned ID through a toll both 100 miles away a minute later, then laugh as they fine you for traveling 600mph in your old AMC Gremlin...
They should be going after and nailing to the wall anybody who makes copyrighted material available FOR PROFIT, regardless of the number of files. They should leave people who are just to stupid to configure their file sharing software properly alone. My local library makes thousands of CDs and DVDs available for copying (physical media, not over the 'net)... shouldn't they be prosecuted under German law?
Thank you, I wasn't aware of one-way heat pipes, and that would certainly be useful in conjunction with the technology in the article. However, technically I still don't think that counts as "no moving parts", as the liquid within the heat pipe still moves. The other goal, a silent refrigerator, may also be difficult to achieve, since most materials exhibit thermal expansion and contraction when changing temperatures; this probably would as well. As a child, we had electric baseboard heaters, basically a 6-foot long resistor with a heat sink on it. You would think that would be silent, wouldn't you? No, every time it turned on or off, it emitted a clanking noise about once per second for a couple minutes, until the heat sink temperature stabilized again.
Sort of my thought too... you need some sort of heat "valve" to enforce one-directional heat transfer with this technology (Maxwell's daemon, anyone?), otherwise the heat just flow back in the same direction with you reverse the electric field. I can't think of any way of doing this without moving parts, so I feel the "solid state refrigerator" claim is a bit of a misnomer.
What percentage of concert ticket sales does the record company get? It's obvious that musicians should embrace file-sharing, but the people fighting against it are (for the most part) record companies, not musicians. For a record company, alternative distribution channels really do threaten their control of the industry. And to some of these dinosaurs, control is more important than economic realities...
I don't know a lot about Islam, but wouldn't a real follower of Islam have written "Allhu Akbar" or the equivalent in Arabic script," ", and not the "Allah is great" that was in the anthrax letters? Seems like this was a pretty crude attempt to pin the scare on Islamic extremists... I'd expect a lot more sophistication from a government conspiracy.
The modders DID click on the link, they just realized that modding it "funny" would spoil the surprise... I was going to post the same comment myself, but somebody else beat me to it. True, it is only funny the first time you see it, so it is an old joke to 90% of slashdotters.
It is momentous only because it finally proves that sustainable human life is possible on Mars. However, since Mars is sadly lacking a Magnetosphere, the fact that water and oxygen are available there isn't as useful as we would like it to be. Hmm... how hard is it to build a dome that blocks out all harmful cosmic radiation, yet still lets in the sunlight necessary for photosynthesis? Since any Terran originated life on Mars would require a pressurized dome anyway, how big a win is a Martian colony over a lunar or asteroid belt colony? Seems the only advantage of Mars is earth-like gravity, which is also a disadvantage if you ever want to leave the colony...
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By claiming the termination "fee" is part of their rates, isn't T-Mobile pretty much asking for the fee to be regulated by the FCC? The proration does sound fare to me, however.
How high off the ground does a vehicle need to get before it is no longer considered a hovercraft? I don't think this vehicle has ever reached that altitude. "If you can fly it as 3 feet, you can fly it at 3000 feet" is bullshit, if I understand something called "ground effect" correctly.
The point is that women have more slow-twitch muscle mass, while men have more fast-twitch muscle mass. Men to better at high-impact sports, but they burn energy a lot faster. Women have an edge in endurance sports. If you take into consideration the differences between men and women, I'm sure you could construct a sport where the best women almost always beat the best men. There are also gymnastics events that men don't even bother to compete at (e.g. balance beam). Yes, men have an advantage in the majority of sports because to date most sports have been designed to reward male characteristics. Men and women are different. That difference can be an advantage or disadvantage depending on the application.
there is no case where the world's best female athlete can beat the world's best male athlete at any physical sport. Bullshit. Women do better at Ultramarathons. "In 2002 Pam Reed, a 42-year-old mother of five, became the first woman to win the prestigious Badwater 135-mile ultra... by a margin of nearly five hours." Sweeping generalizations like yours are usually wrong...
You're confusing cultural differences, which are real, with racial differences, which are illusory. Yes, in the predominant "black" culture in the US, it is more socially acceptable for men who don't feel they can adequately provide for their families to abandon them; I believe statistics show there are proportionally more black single moms. That doesn't mean all people with dark skin buy into this cultural norm. A large number of caucasian men also abandon their families -- there is just more of a stigma attached to it in their culture. Also, the genes for African external physical characteristics are dominant genes, so saying the behavior of "blacks" in America is caused by their race, when many of them are in fact of predominantly European, not African decent, is just bad science.
I'm a redneck married to an African woman from Sierra Leone. Cultural, Africans are different from American blacks. American blacks assume I am biased against them and shy away from socializing with me until after they get to know me. Africans have been dealing with diversity for so long that it is second nature for them; they make no assumptions about me and welcome me with open arms. Of course, the Africans immigrants I deal with are some of the best and brightest people from Sierra Leone and Nigeria who had the motivation and means to emigrate to the US. They are not necessarily representative of the average person from their countries.
Does acknowledging cultural differences I've observed with my own eyes make me a racist?
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaem, Computer Networks, 4th Ed. p. 91
Why would someone download video clips with embedded ads if there were another source for the same clips without the ads?
Because, quite frankly, the video resolution on YouTube sucks! I for one would gladly suffer through a few ads in order to view a show that is not streamed in highly compressed QVGA. Why all the networks don't simply use the same advertising supported broadcast for free business model on the internet that they have been using on the airwaves for 70 years is beyond me. In the early days of television, actors used to stop in the middle of a live routine to hawk product. Networks need to work on repealing the laws preventing them from doing so and go back to the model where the advertising is indistinguishable from the program. (Since this is being done anyway with product placement and most gameshows.) Make it hard enough to edit out the advertising, and nobody will bother to do so... and you can count all those downloads as consumer eyes when selling sponsorships. Remember that bandwidth cost money, and nobody is going to host high-quality video without a compensating revenue stream, even if they are getting all their content for free.
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Or perhaps a shocking confirmation that His Holiness the Pope is in fact a strong adherent to the state religion of Vatican City?
They're heisencows... observing them changes the direction they are pointing.
Pardon me, but wouldn't it be a heck of a lot easy just to have a friend drive your car while you're off somewhere else committing a crime? To say nothing of the fact that if you wrote your ID into somebody else's transceiver, you'd be expected to pay all of their tolls -- something most criminals wouldn't be too keen to do.
No the _real_ fun with this will be when they start using this system to fine speeders. Then you can clone the ID, drive through a toll booth, drive the cloned ID through a toll both 100 miles away a minute later, then laugh as they fine you for traveling 600mph in your old AMC Gremlin...
They should be going after and nailing to the wall anybody who makes copyrighted material available FOR PROFIT, regardless of the number of files. They should leave people who are just to stupid to configure their file sharing software properly alone. My local library makes thousands of CDs and DVDs available for copying (physical media, not over the 'net)... shouldn't they be prosecuted under German law?
I always suspected Yoda was a Buddhist.
Thank you, I wasn't aware of one-way heat pipes, and that would certainly be useful in conjunction with the technology in the article. However, technically I still don't think that counts as "no moving parts", as the liquid within the heat pipe still moves. The other goal, a silent refrigerator, may also be difficult to achieve, since most materials exhibit thermal expansion and contraction when changing temperatures; this probably would as well. As a child, we had electric baseboard heaters, basically a 6-foot long resistor with a heat sink on it. You would think that would be silent, wouldn't you? No, every time it turned on or off, it emitted a clanking noise about once per second for a couple minutes, until the heat sink temperature stabilized again.
Sort of my thought too... you need some sort of heat "valve" to enforce one-directional heat transfer with this technology (Maxwell's daemon, anyone?), otherwise the heat just flow back in the same direction with you reverse the electric field. I can't think of any way of doing this without moving parts, so I feel the "solid state refrigerator" claim is a bit of a misnomer.
How copyright got to it's current state: "$"
Nah... let's keep the old business model and attempt to prevent people from comparison shopping in order to prop up the old business model instead!
If you don't mind MP3 quality audio, I'd say pretty much every disk is easily replaceable.
A GUI is really just a set of training wheels for a new application. Once you know what you're doing, you can go faster without it!
What percentage of concert ticket sales does the record company get? It's obvious that musicians should embrace file-sharing, but the people fighting against it are (for the most part) record companies, not musicians. For a record company, alternative distribution channels really do threaten their control of the industry. And to some of these dinosaurs, control is more important than economic realities...
You should be thankful. Trust me, these congresscritters do a lot less damage when they are on vacation!
I don't know a lot about Islam, but wouldn't a real follower of Islam have written "Allhu Akbar" or the equivalent in Arabic script," ", and not the "Allah is great" that was in the anthrax letters? Seems like this was a pretty crude attempt to pin the scare on Islamic extremists... I'd expect a lot more sophistication from a government conspiracy.
The modders DID click on the link, they just realized that modding it "funny" would spoil the surprise... I was going to post the same comment myself, but somebody else beat me to it. True, it is only funny the first time you see it, so it is an old joke to 90% of slashdotters.
It is momentous only because it finally proves that sustainable human life is possible on Mars. However, since Mars is sadly lacking a Magnetosphere, the fact that water and oxygen are available there isn't as useful as we would like it to be. Hmm... how hard is it to build a dome that blocks out all harmful cosmic radiation, yet still lets in the sunlight necessary for photosynthesis? Since any Terran originated life on Mars would require a pressurized dome anyway, how big a win is a Martian colony over a lunar or asteroid belt colony? Seems the only advantage of Mars is earth-like gravity, which is also a disadvantage if you ever want to leave the colony...
By claiming the termination "fee" is part of their rates, isn't T-Mobile pretty much asking for the fee to be regulated by the FCC? The proration does sound fare to me, however.
How high off the ground does a vehicle need to get before it is no longer considered a hovercraft? I don't think this vehicle has ever reached that altitude. "If you can fly it as 3 feet, you can fly it at 3000 feet" is bullshit, if I understand something called "ground effect" correctly.
The point is that women have more slow-twitch muscle mass, while men have more fast-twitch muscle mass. Men to better at high-impact sports, but they burn energy a lot faster. Women have an edge in endurance sports. If you take into consideration the differences between men and women, I'm sure you could construct a sport where the best women almost always beat the best men. There are also gymnastics events that men don't even bother to compete at (e.g. balance beam). Yes, men have an advantage in the majority of sports because to date most sports have been designed to reward male characteristics. Men and women are different. That difference can be an advantage or disadvantage depending on the application.
there is no case where the world's best female athlete can beat the world's best male athlete at any physical sport. Bullshit. Women do better at Ultramarathons. "In 2002 Pam Reed, a 42-year-old mother of five, became the first woman to win the prestigious Badwater 135-mile ultra ... by a margin of nearly five hours." Sweeping generalizations like yours are usually wrong...
You're confusing cultural differences, which are real, with racial differences, which are illusory. Yes, in the predominant "black" culture in the US, it is more socially acceptable for men who don't feel they can adequately provide for their families to abandon them; I believe statistics show there are proportionally more black single moms. That doesn't mean all people with dark skin buy into this cultural norm. A large number of caucasian men also abandon their families -- there is just more of a stigma attached to it in their culture. Also, the genes for African external physical characteristics are dominant genes, so saying the behavior of "blacks" in America is caused by their race, when many of them are in fact of predominantly European, not African decent, is just bad science. I'm a redneck married to an African woman from Sierra Leone. Cultural, Africans are different from American blacks. American blacks assume I am biased against them and shy away from socializing with me until after they get to know me. Africans have been dealing with diversity for so long that it is second nature for them; they make no assumptions about me and welcome me with open arms. Of course, the Africans immigrants I deal with are some of the best and brightest people from Sierra Leone and Nigeria who had the motivation and means to emigrate to the US. They are not necessarily representative of the average person from their countries. Does acknowledging cultural differences I've observed with my own eyes make me a racist?
Somehow I think the psych evaluations for astronauts are not stringent enough!
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaem, Computer Networks, 4th Ed. p. 91
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Because, quite frankly, the video resolution on YouTube sucks! I for one would gladly suffer through a few ads in order to view a show that is not streamed in highly compressed QVGA. Why all the networks don't simply use the same advertising supported broadcast for free business model on the internet that they have been using on the airwaves for 70 years is beyond me. In the early days of television, actors used to stop in the middle of a live routine to hawk product. Networks need to work on repealing the laws preventing them from doing so and go back to the model where the advertising is indistinguishable from the program. (Since this is being done anyway with product placement and most gameshows.) Make it hard enough to edit out the advertising, and nobody will bother to do so... and you can count all those downloads as consumer eyes when selling sponsorships. Remember that bandwidth cost money, and nobody is going to host high-quality video without a compensating revenue stream, even if they are getting all their content for free.