So if a mega blizzard struck on the next winter, leaving thousands isolated and on short supplies... they will be chanting "peace and love"?
Maybe the correlation can be explained just by time: there are social factors that are leading to increasingly more violent societies (e.g. increasing awareness of social rights).
They'll all be huddling together for warmth, instead of walking around thinking "next fucker that says 'hot enough for you' is going to find his brains on the floor".
Perfect example of the butterfly effect and floating point errors in weather. Over time, it can even change a person's name who wrote a book on weather simulations in the 60's. I bet no one predicted that!
I did, but nobody listened to me until it was too late.
Actually no, fuck the terrorists, they're third world noobs living in mud huts and the best they could do in 12 years of trying realyl hard is to hijack a few planes with knives.
In a lot of ways that's a "better" feat than crashing a plane with a rogue GPS signal. There's next to nothing feasible the government could do to the people to stop this happening.
OTOH, by taking down a few planes with knives the terrorists have manage to make the American government really work hard against the people, instead of for the people. Some might argue that it was already, but it's definitely worse now. The average American is now worse off because of 9/11, mainly because of the governments reaction, not the terrorist act itself.
If i was a terrorist, i'd be pretty pleased with myself.
And the practical reason for this is what, exactly?
Do the doctor can tell them they shouldn't have done, something they already did, and already know shouldn't have?
Maybe, just maybe, HMO and insurance companies could benefit from this but, the person? How exactly?
The person will benefit because the insurance company will offer lower premiums in exchange for having this device fitted and a clause that means they can opt out of covering any medical expenses that are a consequence of your overeating/smoking/etc. Of course your insurance company and you may have different interpretations of the word 'benefit'.
Like any electronic device though it should be easy to destroy. Sticking your head in the microwave on high for 30 seconds should short it out.
Someone needs to write a RAID 0 style encrypted 'driver' that stores your data striped on Google Drive, Skydrive and Dropbox (and what ever else).
I assume you say raid0 so that even if someone got the encryption keys and also managed to hack one of the providers, they'd still only have access to 1/nth of the data. As others pointed out this breaks badly if even one provider goes down.
Better would be a truecrypt style drive that did RAID6 across multiple accounts on multiple providers, which would give better reliability and still only reveal a fraction of the data (which is still encrypted) if someone hacked the provider
But really, there is likely someone on your staff who is going to have the keys to the data, and have a family, and unless your data still seems important when someone has a gun to the head of someone you love, extreme levels of encryption and protection are a waste of time. Put an encrypted backup of your data in the cloud and be done with it. If you really need a live copy of your data in the cloud then encrypt that all the way back to the endpoint so even if the provider gets hacked they still need your keys.
Dogs didn't evolve from wolves. Dogs were bred from wolves. There is a world of difference. And that breeding program was designed to maximize certain aspects of canine intelligence. A dog is a man-made creation that has no relation to evolutionary development. In this light, the fact that dogs exhibit mimicry while almost no other animal does is not surprising.
The difference is purely semantic. The difference is that dogs didn't evolve from wolves through natural selection, they evolved via human selection (which may still considered natural), but it's still an evolution.
There are not stupid forced gag orders in Canada. If some government official asks to install unknown equipment on a private companies network, the company can effectively say "go fuck yourself", and the courts will back the company.
That's not to say it doesn't happen because of corruption and bribes and general shadiness with all the big ISPs, but it's not universal among companies, and no can force small ISPs to comply.
Fuck America is screwed up.
OTOH, at least the average American isn't under the delusion that this sort of shit doesn't happen in their country.
You'd probably be charged with a wide range of crimes, like tampering with evidence, disrupting an investigation, espionage and wiretapping (because the NSA is authorized, but you aren't).
It's optimistic to think that criminal charges would be filed against you... doing so would give you the right to legally defend yourself and they sure don't want that.
The team believes that the virus may carry the genes from a long-dead branch of the tree of life, one that possibly even started on Mars or somewhere else.
Other scientists are skeptical
No shit? That's one heck of an extraordinary claim right there. It'd be very fascinating if true, but that's going to need some strong evidence backing it. Either way, a virus of its size is still quite interesting.
Easy to prove. Just compare the genetic material in the virus to all the other life we've found on Mars (or somewhere else).
When there is a tornado warning my phone alerts me 3 - 5 minutes before the sirens in the neighborhood go off. That 3 - 5 minutes can mean the difference between getting to the basement and living, being horribly injured as friends of mine in Joplin were, or being dead. I'll leave the feature on.
I would too. I'd want it off between 10pm-7am for Amber Alerts though. If you deprive enough people of sleep then you are going to increase the likelihood of accidents during the day. Not much point putting peoples lives at risk to save a child - I mean unless the child just happens to be in your room when the alarm goes off the information isn't going to do you much good to most.
OTOH if you were out on the road at 4am then other traffic tends to stand out more and the alert could actually do some good... I guess this is justification to track everyone's movements to see who's up and about, only to better target 4am Amber Alerts of course. Anybody who objects to this government tracking is obviously a pedophile. WONT SOMEBODY __PLEASE__ THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
So we can answer the question from the article: to make perfect broccoli, nuke it from the orbit, that's the only way to be sure. That's the only good kind of broccoli.
Careful not to over-nuke it though, otherwise the nutrients are lost.
. . . means 9 hours of no light pollution. Awesome, for watching the amazing aurora borealis! No TV? No Internet? Get outside, and look at a sky that you will never see again!
Of course, let's hope that hospitals and such are prepared . ..
... for the triffid uprising after everyone goes blind!
Dr. Hibbert: Another broccoli-related death.
Marge: But I thought broccoli was...
Dr. Hibbert: Oh yes. One of the deadliest plants on earth. It tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste.
It's all good business though. My country can afford to give your country 1 million dollars outright, or 100 million dollars if you use it to buy product/workers from my country to improve both our situations.
Yeah I smell a rat too. Even the slashdot summary has been cherry-picked from TFA and the actual study, and some text invented - TFA or the study does not include the text "main effect now is that poor people living in urban areas are subsidizing rich people living in country areas", or anything like it, so someone has been drawing their own conclusions.
I didn't read the whole 54 pages of the study though... maybe those are valid conclusions to draw, but just because slashdot is willing to accept the testimony of jfruh with no credentials to suggest anything other than they can spell at a 6th grade level, it doesn't mean I have to.
We thought we were pretty cool putting a gold plated disc on voyager. Maybe peppering the universe with crystals embedded in rock would be a better way of spreading the word... better start looking inside those meteorites!
I question how the motivation behind developing this app differs from, say, developing an app to allow others to publicly geotag homes of people believed to belong to a particular religion or political party.
It differs because a list of people belonging to a religion or political party doesn't help you if you need to find a gun in a hurry.
Anti-reflection coatings by themselves are nothing new. AR coatings that are scratch-resistant might be more tricky. But I would be really impressed if they can make it anti-reflective even when covered with fingerprints.
AR coatings are based on thin layers with thicknesses tuned and accurate to 20 nm or less and well defined refractive indices, matched to the refractive index of the air on one side and the glass on the other side. It's hard if not impossible to make a coating that keeps working even with an undefined number of micrometers of skin grease on top.
My glasses (eyewear) have a very nice AR coating, but fingerprints turn it into a colorful reflector.
It probably doesn't matter so much. Almost everyone seems to insist on putting a screen protector on which mucks the whole thing up anyway.
(the only useful thing i've seen a screen protector do is hold the fragments together when it cracks, but that's like wrapping yourself in bandages all day so your guts don't fall out in the unlikely event that you get hit by a car)
Pictures show the aircraft sat on the ground with the tail missing and the forward roof burnt out but it certainly did NOT cartwheel or bits would be scattered down the runway. It seems that all passengers and crew have been accounted for with no fatalities.
Ganty
That's what I would have thought, but it turns out someone had a camera pointed in that direction at the time of the crash, and even if it wasn't strictly a cartwheel, it is completely reasonable for a witness to describe it that way as it does look like it spun on at least a 45 degree angle. Could just be the angle the camera though (An animated version of the events shows no such thing).
It's also possible that the footage is from a completely different crash. Wouldn't be the first time.
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So if a mega blizzard struck on the next winter, leaving thousands isolated and on short supplies... they will be chanting "peace and love"?
Maybe the correlation can be explained just by time: there are social factors that are leading to increasingly more violent societies (e.g. increasing awareness of social rights).
They'll all be huddling together for warmth, instead of walking around thinking "next fucker that says 'hot enough for you' is going to find his brains on the floor".
by Jmaes Gleick.
Perfect example of the butterfly effect and floating point errors in weather. Over time, it can even change a person's name who wrote a book on weather simulations in the 60's. I bet no one predicted that!
I did, but nobody listened to me until it was too late.
Seems easier just to shoot it out of the sky...
Actually no, fuck the terrorists, they're third world noobs living in mud huts and the best they could do in 12 years of trying realyl hard is to hijack a few planes with knives.
In a lot of ways that's a "better" feat than crashing a plane with a rogue GPS signal. There's next to nothing feasible the government could do to the people to stop this happening.
OTOH, by taking down a few planes with knives the terrorists have manage to make the American government really work hard against the people, instead of for the people. Some might argue that it was already, but it's definitely worse now. The average American is now worse off because of 9/11, mainly because of the governments reaction, not the terrorist act itself.
If i was a terrorist, i'd be pretty pleased with myself.
And the practical reason for this is what, exactly?
Do the doctor can tell them they shouldn't have done, something they already did, and already know shouldn't have?
Maybe, just maybe, HMO and insurance companies could benefit from this but, the person? How exactly?
The person will benefit because the insurance company will offer lower premiums in exchange for having this device fitted and a clause that means they can opt out of covering any medical expenses that are a consequence of your overeating/smoking/etc. Of course your insurance company and you may have different interpretations of the word 'benefit'.
Like any electronic device though it should be easy to destroy. Sticking your head in the microwave on high for 30 seconds should short it out.
Someone needs to write a RAID 0 style encrypted 'driver' that stores your data striped on Google Drive, Skydrive and Dropbox (and what ever else).
I assume you say raid0 so that even if someone got the encryption keys and also managed to hack one of the providers, they'd still only have access to 1/nth of the data. As others pointed out this breaks badly if even one provider goes down.
Better would be a truecrypt style drive that did RAID6 across multiple accounts on multiple providers, which would give better reliability and still only reveal a fraction of the data (which is still encrypted) if someone hacked the provider
But really, there is likely someone on your staff who is going to have the keys to the data, and have a family, and unless your data still seems important when someone has a gun to the head of someone you love, extreme levels of encryption and protection are a waste of time. Put an encrypted backup of your data in the cloud and be done with it. If you really need a live copy of your data in the cloud then encrypt that all the way back to the endpoint so even if the provider gets hacked they still need your keys.
Dogs didn't evolve from wolves. Dogs were bred from wolves. There is a world of difference. And that breeding program was designed to maximize certain aspects of canine intelligence. A dog is a man-made creation that has no relation to evolutionary development. In this light, the fact that dogs exhibit mimicry while almost no other animal does is not surprising.
The difference is purely semantic. The difference is that dogs didn't evolve from wolves through natural selection, they evolved via human selection (which may still considered natural), but it's still an evolution.
There are not stupid forced gag orders in Canada. If some government official asks to install unknown equipment on a private companies network, the company can effectively say "go fuck yourself", and the courts will back the company.
That's not to say it doesn't happen because of corruption and bribes and general shadiness with all the big ISPs, but it's not universal among companies, and no can force small ISPs to comply.
Fuck America is screwed up.
OTOH, at least the average American isn't under the delusion that this sort of shit doesn't happen in their country.
Indeed, what is the fair market value for smearing excrement on the Constitution? $50/month?
What kind of excrement?
You'd probably be charged with a wide range of crimes, like tampering with evidence, disrupting an investigation, espionage and wiretapping (because the NSA is authorized, but you aren't).
It's optimistic to think that criminal charges would be filed against you... doing so would give you the right to legally defend yourself and they sure don't want that.
At the very least i'd be doing a grep for things like "kill all humans" in the source code.
Most likely this virus has come from the oceans' depths...
... of mars.
The team believes that the virus may carry the genes from a long-dead branch of the tree of life, one that possibly even started on Mars or somewhere else.
Other scientists are skeptical
No shit? That's one heck of an extraordinary claim right there. It'd be very fascinating if true, but that's going to need some strong evidence backing it. Either way, a virus of its size is still quite interesting.
Easy to prove. Just compare the genetic material in the virus to all the other life we've found on Mars (or somewhere else).
When there is a tornado warning my phone alerts me 3 - 5 minutes before the sirens in the neighborhood go off. That 3 - 5 minutes can mean the difference between getting to the basement and living, being horribly injured as friends of mine in Joplin were, or being dead. I'll leave the feature on.
I would too. I'd want it off between 10pm-7am for Amber Alerts though. If you deprive enough people of sleep then you are going to increase the likelihood of accidents during the day. Not much point putting peoples lives at risk to save a child - I mean unless the child just happens to be in your room when the alarm goes off the information isn't going to do you much good to most.
OTOH if you were out on the road at 4am then other traffic tends to stand out more and the alert could actually do some good... I guess this is justification to track everyone's movements to see who's up and about, only to better target 4am Amber Alerts of course. Anybody who objects to this government tracking is obviously a pedophile. WONT SOMEBODY __PLEASE__ THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
Actually as a PC repair guy who often does this very thing I say they should throw the contractor in jail, he is making us all look bad.
Making you look bad is not a criminal offense. You'd need to take it up in a civil court, and they don't throw people in jail.
So we can answer the question from the article: to make perfect broccoli, nuke it from the orbit, that's the only way to be sure. That's the only good kind of broccoli.
Careful not to over-nuke it though, otherwise the nutrients are lost.
9 hours no electricity?
. . . means 9 hours of no light pollution. Awesome, for watching the amazing aurora borealis! No TV? No Internet? Get outside, and look at a sky that you will never see again!
Of course, let's hope that hospitals and such are prepared . . .
... for the triffid uprising after everyone goes blind!
And i'll pretend that the typo in the subject was subtly deliberate.
Dr. Hibbert: Another broccoli-related death.
Marge: But I thought broccoli was...
Dr. Hibbert: Oh yes. One of the deadliest plants on earth. It tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste.
It's all good business though. My country can afford to give your country 1 million dollars outright, or 100 million dollars if you use it to buy product/workers from my country to improve both our situations.
Yeah I smell a rat too. Even the slashdot summary has been cherry-picked from TFA and the actual study, and some text invented - TFA or the study does not include the text "main effect now is that poor people living in urban areas are subsidizing rich people living in country areas", or anything like it, so someone has been drawing their own conclusions.
I didn't read the whole 54 pages of the study though... maybe those are valid conclusions to draw, but just because slashdot is willing to accept the testimony of jfruh with no credentials to suggest anything other than they can spell at a 6th grade level, it doesn't mean I have to.
We thought we were pretty cool putting a gold plated disc on voyager. Maybe peppering the universe with crystals embedded in rock would be a better way of spreading the word... better start looking inside those meteorites!
I question how the motivation behind developing this app differs from, say, developing an app to allow others to publicly geotag homes of people believed to belong to a particular religion or political party.
It differs because a list of people belonging to a religion or political party doesn't help you if you need to find a gun in a hurry.
Anti-reflection coatings by themselves are nothing new. AR coatings that are scratch-resistant might be more tricky. But I would be really impressed if they can make it anti-reflective even when covered with fingerprints.
AR coatings are based on thin layers with thicknesses tuned and accurate to 20 nm or less and well defined refractive indices, matched to the refractive index of the air on one side and the glass on the other side. It's hard if not impossible to make a coating that keeps working even with an undefined number of micrometers of skin grease on top.
My glasses (eyewear) have a very nice AR coating, but fingerprints turn it into a colorful reflector.
It probably doesn't matter so much. Almost everyone seems to insist on putting a screen protector on which mucks the whole thing up anyway.
(the only useful thing i've seen a screen protector do is hold the fragments together when it cracks, but that's like wrapping yourself in bandages all day so your guts don't fall out in the unlikely event that you get hit by a car)
Pictures show the aircraft sat on the ground with the tail missing and the forward roof burnt out but it certainly did NOT cartwheel or bits would be scattered down the runway. It seems that all passengers and crew have been accounted for with no fatalities.
Ganty
That's what I would have thought, but it turns out someone had a camera pointed in that direction at the time of the crash, and even if it wasn't strictly a cartwheel, it is completely reasonable for a witness to describe it that way as it does look like it spun on at least a 45 degree angle. Could just be the angle the camera though (An animated version of the events shows no such thing).
It's also possible that the footage is from a completely different crash. Wouldn't be the first time.