4. Contrary to popular notion, there is no 'safe' location outdoors to take shelter from lightning, although your car will offer some protection (read: its a crude faraday cage) provided that you do not come in contact with any metal object.
Please do not confuse a faraday cage with the skin effect. The skin effect is actually what is occuring. The skin effect occurs when very high frequency currents travel through conductos. This results in the current traveling around the very edges of the conductor. Hence you can in fact place your hand on the metal frame of the car opposite the side in which lighting strikes because electricity will never travel that path. I've seen this demonstrated plenty of times on a two story van da graaf generator. Now if your dumb enough to be touching the outside of the car....
Redacting electronic documents right is HARD. See, for example, The NSA's guide to redacting word documents as PDF.
Im reading the instructions and skimming through them and what do I see?? A bretheren of clippy. At one point it seems like she/he is writing down all the secrets. Either one of two things is going on. The document is a fake or I should join the government because they need all the help they could get.
Theft of services??? How about trespassing. Much easier to get him on that especially since the deputies told him to stop hanging around in the parking lot.
"They told him to come pick it up," said Ms. Gomez, speaking in the apartment of her building's superintendent last Thursday. She said she had bought the phone for $50 on a subway platform in Queens and had given it to her daughter. "We said he could have it if he gave the money we paid for it," she added.
Why? It's his property. He has every right to get back because it's his!!!!!!!! Not yours. You have no right to charge anyone money because YOU GOT RIPPED OFF.
You forgot Tesla's electric car that ran on either broadcast power or power from the air/Earth with technology similiar to Moray's. It seems much of Tesla's paperwork was seized by the Office of Alien Property immediately after Tesla's death (even though Tesla was a US citizen), and it's unknown how much of his paperwork "disappeared" even though "much" of it was returned to his nephew.
No. This idea never came to fuition because it's physically impossible. Tesla wanted to use the Tesla coils as a way to broadcast energy. The problem being that the energy drops off rather quickly as you move away from the coil.
Arggg read the article they said they wanted to test the theoretical limits of these chips. They know speed increases with temperature. They wanted to know how much.
It's against the law to do limit pictures of public places. It took me about five minutes to find the law. You really can't get more explicit than:
(a) Pictorial Representations Permitted. -- The copyright in an architectural work that has been constructed does not include the right to prevent the making, distributing, or public display of pictures, paintings, photographs, or other pictorial representations of the work, if the building in which the work is embodied is located in or ordinarily visible from a public place.
Seriously, currently most of the worlds researchers are at www.robocup2006.org. Interstingly the medal count looks quite differnt there, with Germany leading with 11 medals, China 9, Japan 6 and Iran 5...
I didn't really bother looking at the team count for all the events but this makes sense. It actually appears that the medal count has to do more with how many teams attended from each country. It's pretty much exactly the same breakdown I saw for the same group.
But whats the difference between a robot and a robot with a human brain inside of it that can rip a normal humans arms off? (think Ghost in the Shell)
You just said the same thing I said only a lot more verbese. I was even thinking of Ghost in the Shell when I wrote that stupid psot.
The robot, having the disctinct advantage of being electronic through and through can use his computing power at the speed of electrons running from his eyes to his CPU and to his arms (which is near speed of light) and has the speed. Not only that the average human mind can not simply make more than 5 guess on the next best move. (Kasaprov the chess champion can do something like 12 next best moves).
Yeah but AI researchers are tending to move away from this idea completely or use more of a reactive paradign combined with the ability to predict certain situations. It's just simply too fragile of a method for it to ever really to standoff on it's own.
Robots will still have the advantage
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In 2050, the question "Is a team of robots capable of beating a team of humans in football?" will be irrelevant (or at least very different from what it is now). What is a human? Do "cyborg-like" modifications to one's body allow him to be considered human? Etc etc...
Well think of it logically. With robotics there is no limit to how powerful you can make their sensors and motors without causing harm to anything. It's just a matter of technology. WIth humans you can't just start attaching parts in a slapdash manner. That arm which can lift a couple thousand pounds will rip the socket and pretty much kill you if you use it to the potential. Robots don't have that problem. PS. If you can guess where I learned this Ill give you a cookie.
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http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060608_robocup.ht ml The competition is not just about robots preforming soccer. There are two other events that are completely unrelated to soccer. One event is search and rescue and the newest competition involves domestic applications. PS. This is probably the only time I will ever watch a soccer event.
I click on the Netscape headline about how it's a ripoff of Digg which leads to an article about how Netscape is ripping off of Digg which links back to the Netscape article about how it's a ripoff of Digg which leads to an article about how Netscape is ripping off of Digg. Also, Netscape is using those stupid popup adds that get around Firefox.
There are many highly qualified and intelligent people here (it's a top 20 university) with very vapid social lives.
I have a very vapid social life but Im pretty sure that employers will still flock to me. Searching on goolge will result in the fact that I like robots, I once counted gypsy mothes, and I one a scholarship. The only thing that doesn't belong is Kaiju Big Battel.
Meh... Dilbert moments always occur no matter what
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I have to say my first engineering internship/coop/whatever you wanna call it has been rather pleasant. It is probably due to the fact that my boss actually has a degree in physics. Well this week has been the strangest Dilbert moment ever. Four days out of the five I had to work with someone using a jackhammer about ten feet away. No one's innepitude caused it (except maybe the people who built the building) but it had to happen because a rock/large concrete slab had to go in order for some construction to resume. It was something that would happen to Dilbert.
What legal rights, if any, can the school use to ban someone from hosting a website? Furthermore, what rights does the U.S. Government have to censor such websites?
Bah.. There are probably plenty of Supremem Court cases related to this but without being a lawyer it's really hard to draw analogies. The closest argument I can find that seems to make sense is this link to a wikipedia article about public forums. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_forum PS. If you really want to find out who is right have your friend take the school to court and bring it all the way to the Supreme Court need be. Then you will really know.
Yeesh... It switches between the terms battery and capacitor like they are interchangable. It's really annoying because in one sentence they use capacitor and then in the other they use battery. Battery stores energy using chemistry while a capacitor stores energy in electric fields.
Google complies with the DMCA, which requires it censor certain search results (for example, "kazaalite" http://www.google.com/search?q=kazaalite will display a notice at the bottom indicating search results were removed).
Yeah but google links to the complaint which is probably just as bad because it explicitly states which websites are removed.:) Jeez the website google links is a cournicopia of websites people think are either doing copyright infringement or selling warez.
If we could rid ourselves of silly arbitrary superstitions great advancements in science will follow.
Yeah... Sure. Isaac Newton spent time researching alchemy than actually working on physics. Roger Bacon came up with the scientific method. Copernicus came up with the theory of the heliocentric model of physics.
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Please do not confuse a faraday cage with the skin effect. The skin effect is actually what is occuring. The skin effect occurs when very high frequency currents travel through conductos. This results in the current traveling around the very edges of the conductor. Hence you can in fact place your hand on the metal frame of the car opposite the side in which lighting strikes because electricity will never travel that path. I've seen this demonstrated plenty of times on a two story van da graaf generator. Now if your dumb enough to be touching the outside of the car....
Im reading the instructions and skimming through them and what do I see?? A bretheren of clippy. At one point it seems like she/he is writing down all the secrets. Either one of two things is going on. The document is a fake or I should join the government because they need all the help they could get.
Theft of services??? How about trespassing. Much easier to get him on that especially since the deputies told him to stop hanging around in the parking lot.
Why? It's his property. He has every right to get back because it's his!!!!!!!! Not yours. You have no right to charge anyone money because YOU GOT RIPPED OFF.
No. This idea never came to fuition because it's physically impossible. Tesla wanted to use the Tesla coils as a way to broadcast energy. The problem being that the energy drops off rather quickly as you move away from the coil.
Arggg read the article they said they wanted to test the theoretical limits of these chips. They know speed increases with temperature. They wanted to know how much.
Next time he should read the freaking website before he commnents. Not everything at that competition was battlebots.
I didn't really bother looking at the team count for all the events but this makes sense. It actually appears that the medal count has to do more with how many teams attended from each country. It's pretty much exactly the same breakdown I saw for the same group.
You just said the same thing I said only a lot more verbese. I was even thinking of Ghost in the Shell when I wrote that stupid psot.
Yeah but AI researchers are tending to move away from this idea completely or use more of a reactive paradign combined with the ability to predict certain situations. It's just simply too fragile of a method for it to ever really to standoff on it's own.
http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060608_robocup.ht ml The competition is not just about robots preforming soccer. There are two other events that are completely unrelated to soccer. One event is search and rescue and the newest competition involves domestic applications. PS. This is probably the only time I will ever watch a soccer event.
Weird... I can actually get refrences to the massacre using Yahoo China by searching Tianenmen Square massacre.
No. You still stole something and you can get arrested. Unautorhized taking of property is theft.
I click on the Netscape headline about how it's a ripoff of Digg which leads to an article about how Netscape is ripping off of Digg which links back to the Netscape article about how it's a ripoff of Digg which leads to an article about how Netscape is ripping off of Digg. Also, Netscape is using those stupid popup adds that get around Firefox.
Reminds me of the time Peter bought that stuff from the pharmacy. You know the hillarious results that ensued afterwords.
I have a very vapid social life but Im pretty sure that employers will still flock to me. Searching on goolge will result in the fact that I like robots, I once counted gypsy mothes, and I one a scholarship. The only thing that doesn't belong is Kaiju Big Battel.
I have to say my first engineering internship/coop/whatever you wanna call it has been rather pleasant. It is probably due to the fact that my boss actually has a degree in physics. Well this week has been the strangest Dilbert moment ever. Four days out of the five I had to work with someone using a jackhammer about ten feet away. No one's innepitude caused it (except maybe the people who built the building) but it had to happen because a rock/large concrete slab had to go in order for some construction to resume. It was something that would happen to Dilbert.
Bah.. There are probably plenty of Supremem Court cases related to this but without being a lawyer it's really hard to draw analogies. The closest argument I can find that seems to make sense is this link to a wikipedia article about public forums.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_forum
PS. If you really want to find out who is right have your friend take the school to court and bring it all the way to the Supreme Court need be. Then you will really know.
I read the article and I saw a picture of a movie star. Pretty random even though the blurb said she backed net netrality.
Yeesh... It switches between the terms battery and capacitor like they are interchangable. It's really annoying because in one sentence they use capacitor and then in the other they use battery. Battery stores energy using chemistry while a capacitor stores energy in electric fields.
It's called Infantry. Unfortunately, Sony bought to the rights to it and litterally nerfed the population.
Yeah but google links to the complaint which is probably just as bad because it explicitly states which websites are removed.
Yeah... Sure. Isaac Newton spent time researching alchemy than actually working on physics. Roger Bacon came up with the scientific method. Copernicus came up with the theory of the heliocentric model of physics.