Look at it from a galactic scale and you will note that we are not anywhere near the action when it comes to the resources this galaxy has to offer. If you are an advanced intelligence capable of interstellar travel and you need more resources then you are going to head for the closest stars and from those you would choose the one that put you on an optimal path toward the most dense parts of the galaxy. So what about Sol, where is our sun, off on the edge of the galaxy on an arm and near the edge of the arm so even if the consumptive nomads started their journey further out along this arm that we are on they would be travelling along the arms core, not near us. So how many likely system are so close to us that this logic does not matter, bugger all and then our signal may actually give the others a hint that they should choose the nearest other star to plunder as it is a lower risk proposition. In other words even if the "other" is a huge big heartless star eating robot the chances of it existing are slim and the chances of it finding it logical to come our way are even slimmer. Do the math, we are galactic hill billies and need not fear the traffic on the main roads.
The plasma can be run through a powerful magnetic and electric field configuration which will allow individual elements and their isotopes to be separated for recycling. In theory you can clean up any waste, no mater how contaminated, in this technology. The key is to recover all of the heat generated by breakdown of the atomic bonds in the waste stream, then use that heat efficiently to drive electrical power generators.
Why do people think these disks are for archival storage, they are really just good for moving data around without a network.
If you want to archive things you copy them 3 or more times then periodically compare the copies before copying them again into a new location.
i.e. keep the data in multiple streams that are kept in motion so that issues around physical media become irrelevant.
e.g. get 3 1TB drives and copy the data on to all three, then when those drives are almost full and 2TB are as cheap as the 1TB drives were, you then compare and copy the data onto the new drives.
The ideal method is to have this managed by the operating system and a network file system, where you just keep adding more storage to the data cloud and the system allows the old hardware to be removed as it fails with no impact on the data. To be totally sure you need to also spread the data over multiple locations to account for potential large scale disasters.
All a bit much for you? Just get a 1TB external drive that is mirroring your data (it has two disks inside), then start saving for the 2TB one to move across to in the future.
You need to lease longevity, you can't buy it, which is that the DVD disk delusion is all about. It is an ongoing cost to maintain your data.
Genetic material held as frozen tissue cultures will allow a temporary but total destruction of any plant species in the wild. Once the pathogen dies off due to lack of hosts the stocks of the plant can be rapidly replenished. It is the temporal equivalent of crop rotation. Gene blending between infertile varieties of plants is also possible.
dan@tekgnu.com
End user systems could bid in realtime for access to a given percentage of available bandwidth. This would allow heavy users to trade latency for average data throughput and should spread loads more evenly. You could go so far as to set p2p tasks to wait until off peak times when the cost drops below a given level. This method can also involve routing priorities.
dan@tekgnu.com
And if you make a carbon nano torus containing compressed hydrogen you have a nano super conducting magnet.
I wonder if you can cut a template out of a 2d sheet of graphene using a particle beam so that when it is allowed to fold up it will form such a torus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene
If that works you can make any form that is a developable surface from a graphene template.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developable_surface
The idea being that the template is folded into the surface while in the presence of hydrogen under extreme pressure so that the hydrogen is trapped inside in an almost metallic configuration.
dan@tekgnu.com
If you can get the pressure high enough on the hydrogen trapped in a long carbon nano tube with end caps, then you have a high temperature super conductor.
dan@tekgnu.com
1. Specific elements/particles according to supply and demand. 2. Knowledge of what can be done with said elements.
When you have post human super AI and nano-tech then the cost of making things is zero once the elemental materials and energy are accounted for, that folds into just elements because energy is derived from elements (fusion or fission feed stock)
Knowledge can travel at light speed, or perhaps faster if quantum coherence becomes usable over interstellar distances, then the coherence of particle pairs will be consumed to provide instantaneous knowledge over any distance. Spreading particle pairs over such distances will take time but can be done in advance of their use.
The cost of knowledge will be proportional to the computational time required to create it, this will be determined by the size and speed of the logic engines assigned to the task.
Finding a means of trading knowledge for access to QC network bandwidth will be interesting. Perhaps knowledge will be free, but the cost of getting it in real time will not be, otherwise you would need to wait for it to propagate at light speed.
So in the future galactic commerce may be centered around access to quantum coherence bandwidth.
Because it is FASTER. Multi core is a bunch of computers anyway, but they are very close together so there intercommunications are orders of magnitude faster than other options that involve a network.
I made the suggestion because I believe that it is doable now, using existing CPU technology. Also, what makes you think that it would take more effort than any other method? It works at a very low level, potentially making use of the visualization capabilities of the CPU, if not, then that is the area of a new CPU that would be modified to make it possible. Essentualy part of the CPU is pseudo alalog in it's behavior and this allows the majority of cores to detirmine the outcome, rather than a single on/off state that is vulnerable to being randomised by radiation.
Spreading a computation over time also offers protection, i.e. if you run the logic with the same inputs later you should get the same result, so if you use a pipeline that is redundant you get this type of protection.
dan@tekgnu.com
Tho ensure the integrity of data and program logic flow under conditions that can cause bit flipping, just run multiple copies of your code on a multi-core CPU and have any thread that does not match the majority become invalid. If three threads agree and the other will not self terminate then they vote it of the CPU. Each thread has it's own memory blocks too, so you have the computational equivalent of a RAID. It would be cheaper and faster than Intel's idea as no roll-back is required, just perhaps a block copy to over-write the corrupted code/data. Anyone interested in cooking up this in a custom Linux kernel?
It would not be the first time that a government has gone to great length to convince others that the stolen data they have is real, when really it is not, rather it is carefully crafted misinformation designed to fubar any project or plans it is used in.
This story and others like it are part of a move by publishers and the traditional media to undermine a phenomena that they are terrified of because it makes them less relevant to many people. While Wikipedia is imperfect it is still no worse that the traditional media, which has always been vulnerable to corrupt editorial manipulation, marketing scams and shoddy journalism.
One in ten Americans are Latino. One in Ten Americans are Blogging. One in ten Americans are either practicing sadomasochists or have engaged in at least one sadomasochistic experience in their lifetime. One in ten Americans are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. One in ten Americans are reckoned to have got their first job at McDonald's. One in ten Americans are unemployable because of draconian drug laws. One in ten Americans are sued each year. One in ten Americans are receiving food stamps. One in ten Americans are without health insurance. One in ten Americans are foreign-born. One in ten Americans are trying to start a business at any given time. One in ten Americans are gay. One in ten Americans are tattooed. One in ten Americans are vegetarian. (Probably as a result of their experiences working at McDonald's.) One in ten Americans are currently addicted to alcohol or drugs. One in ten Americans are behind bars. One in ten Americans are affected with liver disease.
If you want to rise to high level management roles as a geek, you just need to role play the non-violent psychopathic personality type and you will fit in perfectly. Oh and having pointy hair helps.
Perhaps that experiment will become the precursor to inserting "enhanced" mitochondrial DNA into human embryos, giving future humans metabolic abilities they do not currently have.
However, even just being able to remove a defect from a maternal blood line is a good thing.
Given that a lot of people may have defective genes as a result of the geographical isolation of their ancestors (inbreeding), any form of cloning to produce offspring is not a good idea. There are already over 500 diseases caused by genes. Better to breed with a person from as different a genetic group as possible, to ensure your child's genome is as robust and diverse as possible. As an example of inbreeding recent DNA analysis has shown that all blue eyed people share a single common ancestor.
For a good visualization of human genetic diversity. http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ Pick a mate that is on the most distant part of the human family tree from yourself.
There is a very good reason that sexual reproduction evolved, it works well and protects the integrity of the genome.
It is clear that the idea is to make the DEFAULT internet environment more benign and "Kid Safe" there is no indication that adults will be restricted in what they can access. In particular they have the choice of using http://www.torproject.org/ to ensure their private access to anything they wish.
Filtering the content access of naive adults is also a good idea, it could significantly reduce the harm done to some people by online criminals.
Close the door, just don't lock it and make me sign for the key if I choose, as a worldly and competent adult, to walk through it.
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Look at it from a galactic scale and you will note that we are not anywhere near the action when it comes to the resources this galaxy has to offer. If you are an advanced intelligence capable of interstellar travel and you need more resources then you are going to head for the closest stars and from those you would choose the one that put you on an optimal path toward the most dense parts of the galaxy. So what about Sol, where is our sun, off on the edge of the galaxy on an arm and near the edge of the arm so even if the consumptive nomads started their journey further out along this arm that we are on they would be travelling along the arms core, not near us. So how many likely system are so close to us that this logic does not matter, bugger all and then our signal may actually give the others a hint that they should choose the nearest other star to plunder as it is a lower risk proposition. In other words even if the "other" is a huge big heartless star eating robot the chances of it existing are slim and the chances of it finding it logical to come our way are even slimmer. Do the math, we are galactic hill billies and need not fear the traffic on the main roads.
Lamarck's Signature : How Retrogenes Are Changing Darwin's Natural Selection Paradigm Published Dec 1 1999 http://www.amazon.com/Lamarcks-Signature-Retrogenes-Changing-Selection/dp/0738201715
The plasma can be run through a powerful magnetic and electric field configuration which will allow individual elements and their isotopes to be separated for recycling. In theory you can clean up any waste, no mater how contaminated, in this technology. The key is to recover all of the heat generated by breakdown of the atomic bonds in the waste stream, then use that heat efficiently to drive electrical power generators.
Who needs "numbers" when you have 1 and 0, or something and nothing. As any geek knows that's all you need to be able to count, or rule the world. ;-)
http://www.webelements.com/periodicity/abundance_seawater/ With solar/wind/wave power and new nanomembranes it will be viable to mine the sea for almost all rare elements.
Why do people think these disks are for archival storage, they are really just good for moving data around without a network. If you want to archive things you copy them 3 or more times then periodically compare the copies before copying them again into a new location. i.e. keep the data in multiple streams that are kept in motion so that issues around physical media become irrelevant. e.g. get 3 1TB drives and copy the data on to all three, then when those drives are almost full and 2TB are as cheap as the 1TB drives were, you then compare and copy the data onto the new drives. The ideal method is to have this managed by the operating system and a network file system, where you just keep adding more storage to the data cloud and the system allows the old hardware to be removed as it fails with no impact on the data. To be totally sure you need to also spread the data over multiple locations to account for potential large scale disasters. All a bit much for you? Just get a 1TB external drive that is mirroring your data (it has two disks inside), then start saving for the 2TB one to move across to in the future. You need to lease longevity, you can't buy it, which is that the DVD disk delusion is all about. It is an ongoing cost to maintain your data.
Genetic material held as frozen tissue cultures will allow a temporary but total destruction of any plant species in the wild. Once the pathogen dies off due to lack of hosts the stocks of the plant can be rapidly replenished. It is the temporal equivalent of crop rotation. Gene blending between infertile varieties of plants is also possible. dan@tekgnu.com
End user systems could bid in realtime for access to a given percentage of available bandwidth. This would allow heavy users to trade latency for average data throughput and should spread loads more evenly. You could go so far as to set p2p tasks to wait until off peak times when the cost drops below a given level. This method can also involve routing priorities. dan@tekgnu.com
So if I leverage the results of another algorithm so that I can make mine simpler that is now seen as adding data?
http://strangemonkeydoll.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/steelcage.jpg
And if you make a carbon nano torus containing compressed hydrogen you have a nano super conducting magnet. I wonder if you can cut a template out of a 2d sheet of graphene using a particle beam so that when it is allowed to fold up it will form such a torus? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene If that works you can make any form that is a developable surface from a graphene template. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developable_surface The idea being that the template is folded into the surface while in the presence of hydrogen under extreme pressure so that the hydrogen is trapped inside in an almost metallic configuration. dan@tekgnu.com
If you can get the pressure high enough on the hydrogen trapped in a long carbon nano tube with end caps, then you have a high temperature super conductor. dan@tekgnu.com
Hmmm, so I see.
1. Specific elements/particles according to supply and demand.
2. Knowledge of what can be done with said elements.
When you have post human super AI and nano-tech then the cost of making things is zero once the elemental materials and energy are accounted for, that folds into just elements because energy is derived from elements (fusion or fission feed stock)
Knowledge can travel at light speed, or perhaps faster if quantum coherence becomes usable over interstellar distances, then the coherence of particle pairs will be consumed to provide instantaneous knowledge over any distance. Spreading particle pairs over such distances will take time but can be done in advance of their use.
The cost of knowledge will be proportional to the computational time required to create it, this will be determined by the size and speed of the logic engines assigned to the task.
Finding a means of trading knowledge for access to QC network bandwidth will be interesting. Perhaps knowledge will be free, but the cost of getting it in real time will not be, otherwise you would need to wait for it to propagate at light speed.
So in the future galactic commerce may be centered around access to quantum coherence bandwidth.
Because it is FASTER. Multi core is a bunch of computers anyway, but they are very close together so there intercommunications are orders of magnitude faster than other options that involve a network. I made the suggestion because I believe that it is doable now, using existing CPU technology. Also, what makes you think that it would take more effort than any other method? It works at a very low level, potentially making use of the visualization capabilities of the CPU, if not, then that is the area of a new CPU that would be modified to make it possible. Essentualy part of the CPU is pseudo alalog in it's behavior and this allows the majority of cores to detirmine the outcome, rather than a single on/off state that is vulnerable to being randomised by radiation. Spreading a computation over time also offers protection, i.e. if you run the logic with the same inputs later you should get the same result, so if you use a pipeline that is redundant you get this type of protection. dan@tekgnu.com
Tho ensure the integrity of data and program logic flow under conditions that can cause bit flipping, just run multiple copies of your code on a multi-core CPU and have any thread that does not match the majority become invalid. If three threads agree and the other will not self terminate then they vote it of the CPU. Each thread has it's own memory blocks too, so you have the computational equivalent of a RAID. It would be cheaper and faster than Intel's idea as no roll-back is required, just perhaps a block copy to over-write the corrupted code/data. Anyone interested in cooking up this in a custom Linux kernel?
dan@tekgnu.com
It would not be the first time that a government has gone to great length to convince others that the stolen data they have is real, when really it is not, rather it is carefully crafted misinformation designed to fubar any project or plans it is used in.
This story and others like it are part of a move by publishers and the traditional media to undermine a phenomena that they are terrified of because it makes them less relevant to many people. While Wikipedia is imperfect it is still no worse that the traditional media, which has always been vulnerable to corrupt editorial manipulation, marketing scams and shoddy journalism.
One in ten Americans are Latino.
One in Ten Americans are Blogging.
One in ten Americans are either practicing sadomasochists or have engaged in at least one sadomasochistic experience in their lifetime.
One in ten Americans are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
One in ten Americans are reckoned to have got their first job at McDonald's.
One in ten Americans are unemployable because of draconian drug laws.
One in ten Americans are sued each year.
One in ten Americans are receiving food stamps.
One in ten Americans are without health insurance.
One in ten Americans are foreign-born.
One in ten Americans are trying to start a business at any given time.
One in ten Americans are gay.
One in ten Americans are tattooed.
One in ten Americans are vegetarian. (Probably as a result of their experiences working at McDonald's.)
One in ten Americans are currently addicted to alcohol or drugs.
One in ten Americans are behind bars.
One in ten Americans are affected with liver disease.
No wonder they don't have time for sleep!
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22One+in+Ten+Americans+Are%22+-sleep
If you want to rise to high level management roles as a geek, you just need to role play the non-violent psychopathic personality type and you will fit in perfectly. Oh and having pointy hair helps.
But I would have end with,
"...and Steve has a tiny wiener."
Perhaps that experiment will become the precursor to inserting "enhanced" mitochondrial DNA into human embryos, giving future humans metabolic abilities they do not currently have.
However, even just being able to remove a defect from a maternal blood line is a good thing.
Given that a lot of people may have defective genes as a result of the geographical isolation of their ancestors (inbreeding), any form of cloning to produce offspring is not a good idea. There are already over 500 diseases caused by genes. Better to breed with a person from as different a genetic group as possible, to ensure your child's genome is as robust and diverse as possible. As an example of inbreeding recent DNA analysis has shown that all blue eyed people share a single common ancestor.
For a good visualization of human genetic diversity.
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/
Pick a mate that is on the most distant part of the human family tree from yourself.
There is a very good reason that sexual reproduction evolved, it works well and protects the integrity of the genome.
It is clear that the idea is to make the DEFAULT internet environment more benign and "Kid Safe" there is no indication that adults will be restricted in what they can access. In particular they have the choice of using http://www.torproject.org/ to ensure their private access to anything they wish.
Filtering the content access of naive adults is also a good idea, it could significantly reduce the harm done to some people by online criminals.
Close the door, just don't lock it and make me sign for the key if I choose, as a worldly and competent adult, to walk through it.
Given that this seems to be the only photo that of the actual toys, http://environment.newscientist.com/data/images/ns /cms/dn12168/dn12168-1_280.jpg there is a good chance that the entire story is a hoax.
Show me one photo of even a small cluster of these toys in the water.