The unabomber did that sort of stuff. He left tons of false clues in the packages he sent, and it caused the FBI to undergo the most expensive manhunt in its history. Only they didn't even catch him, his writing was recognized by his brother.
Making things more energy efficient, throughout history, has counter intuitively increased the demand and thus the consumption of those energy resources.
You've already made an error in assuming they would "figure it out" to begin with. Most of them are mentally ill, are essentially incapable of "figuring that out", or are unable to recognize they are even harming someone. Harsher prison sentences or abuse from other inmates will never solve the problem.
What they need is treatment, and the security to be able to get treatment without fear of reprisal from other people so they can work on their problems before they hurt someone. Ignorance and failure to accept that simple fact and calls for harsher penalties from the "tough on crime" crowd will never solve the issue, but it will simply make pedophiles keep their mouths shut, avoid treatment, and ultimately hurt someone, further destroying their life and causing abuse for their victim.
Am I the only person who is immediately suspicious when they said "convict criminals"?
Someone isn't a criminal until they are tried and found guilty. Using the language of "convict criminals" it is assumed that the people accused are guilty anyway, so why even both with their civil rights.....
People would occasionally do that in my University classes of several hundred. I couldn't resist a reply-all with a simple "what", or better yet, "hey josh, what did you get for problem 7", then the ensuing storm of people reply-all messages saying not to do that, etc.
I love reply-all, I have gmail setup to use it by default. In my opinion it's a lot easier to avoid accidentally sending messages to everyone if your default behavior is to reply to everyone.
It sure would be nice if google laid the smack down on all of those bogus electronics datasheet archive websites. Those are totally useless and make it very difficult to find specs on old parts.
It will until Netflix gets sued for violating patent "technology for reproducing a metadata stream that is streamed from a real time source" or some similar nonsense
Human players are allowed to do that, and if they fail to come up with the answer after buzzing, they get penalized. Same thing could be true for the machine.
And the reason I wouldn't care is because the vast majority of molestation cases are perpetrated by someone the child's family knows and trusts. It's not going to be some boogeyman on the street. Its going to be your brothers or sisters, in laws, your childs teacher, coach, etc. One of them. Or you or your spouse. This monitoring stuff doesn't protect your children against the real danger to kids.
A company called Stratasys makes machines that print parts out of ABS plastic, the same stuff used in happy meal toys. Sure, they take longer and are more expensive per part than an injection molded part, but you most definitely can make durable parts from those machines. Where I work we have Stratasys Dimension machine, and I have made camera and medical device housings that are being used "in the field".
The gold standard in my opinion is when the GUI utilities are essentially glorified config-file editors. Having a service that is configured with a respectable text-file (xml config files are awful), and ships with a good GUI application to guide configuration, is absolutely fantastic.
At one time, compilers and developing kits were also very expensive. As the cost of the machines comes down, so will the cost of tools to drive them. Some day there will exist a program like Blender, but using parametric surfaces and will be more like Pro/Engineer or Solidworks than like Maya.
And packages like Pro/E, doesn't really cost all that much when your printer costs $35 grand or more, your engineers cost 100 grand/year or more, their workstations a few thousands, and injection molds for your prototyped parts that easily cost 50,000 each. Reduce the prices of all the other things and the price of the software will fall. Engineer time will still be expensive, but vendors will have to compete with free software offerings.
This is actually not at all how patents are supposed to work. Patents were designed to encourage inventors to disclose the secrets of the invention. There is hardly any tricky engineering that went into this.
They don't "not work" because of "technology and frequency differences,", they have trouble because the oligopoly of telecom providers has worked hard to actively prevent unlocked phones from being marketable.
And that's why we've had epidemics of super-powered vaccine resistant smallpox, polio, and whooping cough sweep through and destroy huge populations.........or not.
Biking is faster, and much easier. Create large ducts for high speed travel, where even modestly powered fans can create a good tailwind, allowing bikers to easily achieve 20-30mph in them.
Its taken 50 years and trillions of dollars and billions of man hours of work to accomplish that. It sure as hell isn't easier scaling things down.
And what happens when your netbook doesn't provide enough computational power to get a job done? That's right, you get a bigger computer with more power. Its a lot cheaper to buy 10 more netbooks than it is to get a desktop processor even smaller.
I give it more credit for artistic value with the figures placed around than for the technical difficulties.
I built a plotter capable of those drawings for my 2nd year engineering class using a few stepper motors, a bunch of paint stirrer sticks, epoxy and an AVR microcontroller.
It's been known for a long time that robots and computerized systems are vastly superior to humans at simple tasks, their only downside is the upfront cost and often inflexibility.
One of the neatest applications I saw recently was in a factory where macadamia nuts were shelled. The nuts would pass through a big set of rollers, cracking the shells open. Then, the shell casings and the nuts would fall down, and a computer vision system would detect the nuts and the shells. Everything then fell through a collection of compressed air blowers, that would precisely blow the macademia nuts out of the stream of falling shells onto a conveyor platform, while the shells would fall seperated into a hopper off to somewhere else.
Science and technology has driven more social change than any other factor in human history.
Politicians and military leaders sure talk a lot and get the most attention, but its scientists and engineers that really make the world a better place and are most worthy of any kind of piece prize.
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More like the Art of Failing, in your case.
Not really. Well encrypted data is indiscernible from random data. Same with well compressed data.
The unabomber did that sort of stuff. He left tons of false clues in the packages he sent, and it caused the FBI to undergo the most expensive manhunt in its history. Only they didn't even catch him, his writing was recognized by his brother.
Making things more energy efficient, throughout history, has counter intuitively increased the demand and thus the consumption of those energy resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Making things more efficient is always a good idea, but it's not going to cut down on energy usage as long as human beings are involved.
You've already made an error in assuming they would "figure it out" to begin with. Most of them are mentally ill, are essentially incapable of "figuring that out", or are unable to recognize they are even harming someone. Harsher prison sentences or abuse from other inmates will never solve the problem.
What they need is treatment, and the security to be able to get treatment without fear of reprisal from other people so they can work on their problems before they hurt someone. Ignorance and failure to accept that simple fact and calls for harsher penalties from the "tough on crime" crowd will never solve the issue, but it will simply make pedophiles keep their mouths shut, avoid treatment, and ultimately hurt someone, further destroying their life and causing abuse for their victim.
Am I the only person who is immediately suspicious when they said "convict criminals"?
Someone isn't a criminal until they are tried and found guilty. Using the language of "convict criminals" it is assumed that the people accused are guilty anyway, so why even both with their civil rights.....
People would occasionally do that in my University classes of several hundred. I couldn't resist a reply-all with a simple "what", or better yet, "hey josh, what did you get for problem 7", then the ensuing storm of people reply-all messages saying not to do that, etc.
I love reply-all, I have gmail setup to use it by default. In my opinion it's a lot easier to avoid accidentally sending messages to everyone if your default behavior is to reply to everyone.
It sure would be nice if google laid the smack down on all of those bogus electronics datasheet archive websites. Those are totally useless and make it very difficult to find specs on old parts.
It will until Netflix gets sued for violating patent "technology for reproducing a metadata stream that is streamed from a real time source" or some similar nonsense
Human players are allowed to do that, and if they fail to come up with the answer after buzzing, they get penalized. Same thing could be true for the machine.
I wouldn't care.
And the reason I wouldn't care is because the vast majority of molestation cases are perpetrated by someone the child's family knows and trusts. It's not going to be some boogeyman on the street. Its going to be your brothers or sisters, in laws, your childs teacher, coach, etc. One of them. Or you or your spouse. This monitoring stuff doesn't protect your children against the real danger to kids.
A company called Stratasys makes machines that print parts out of ABS plastic, the same stuff used in happy meal toys. Sure, they take longer and are more expensive per part than an injection molded part, but you most definitely can make durable parts from those machines. Where I work we have Stratasys Dimension machine, and I have made camera and medical device housings that are being used "in the field".
The gold standard in my opinion is when the GUI utilities are essentially glorified config-file editors. Having a service that is configured with a respectable text-file (xml config files are awful), and ships with a good GUI application to guide configuration, is absolutely fantastic.
At one time, compilers and developing kits were also very expensive. As the cost of the machines comes down, so will the cost of tools to drive them. Some day there will exist a program like Blender, but using parametric surfaces and will be more like Pro/Engineer or Solidworks than like Maya.
And packages like Pro/E, doesn't really cost all that much when your printer costs $35 grand or more, your engineers cost 100 grand/year or more, their workstations a few thousands, and injection molds for your prototyped parts that easily cost 50,000 each. Reduce the prices of all the other things and the price of the software will fall. Engineer time will still be expensive, but vendors will have to compete with free software offerings.
This is actually not at all how patents are supposed to work. Patents were designed to encourage inventors to disclose the secrets of the invention. There is hardly any tricky engineering that went into this.
They don't "not work" because of "technology and frequency differences,", they have trouble because the oligopoly of telecom providers has worked hard to actively prevent unlocked phones from being marketable.
And that's why we've had epidemics of super-powered vaccine resistant smallpox, polio, and whooping cough sweep through and destroy huge populations.........or not.
Biking is faster, and much easier. Create large ducts for high speed travel, where even modestly powered fans can create a good tailwind, allowing bikers to easily achieve 20-30mph in them.
Its taken 50 years and trillions of dollars and billions of man hours of work to accomplish that. It sure as hell isn't easier scaling things down.
And what happens when your netbook doesn't provide enough computational power to get a job done? That's right, you get a bigger computer with more power. Its a lot cheaper to buy 10 more netbooks than it is to get a desktop processor even smaller.
And all decent encryption algorithms can be compromised by side channel attacks if the implementation is half-baked.
I give it more credit for artistic value with the figures placed around than for the technical difficulties.
I built a plotter capable of those drawings for my 2nd year engineering class using a few stepper motors, a bunch of paint stirrer sticks, epoxy and an AVR microcontroller.
Intelligence may be evenly distributed, but education is not. Education is more important because it allows one to learn from people before them.
It's been known for a long time that robots and computerized systems are vastly superior to humans at simple tasks, their only downside is the upfront cost and often inflexibility.
One of the neatest applications I saw recently was in a factory where macadamia nuts were shelled. The nuts would pass through a big set of rollers, cracking the shells open. Then, the shell casings and the nuts would fall down, and a computer vision system would detect the nuts and the shells. Everything then fell through a collection of compressed air blowers, that would precisely blow the macademia nuts out of the stream of falling shells onto a conveyor platform, while the shells would fall seperated into a hopper off to somewhere else.
The tools on sysinternals are tools that should come with windows from day one.
Science and technology has driven more social change than any other factor in human history.
Politicians and military leaders sure talk a lot and get the most attention, but its scientists and engineers that really make the world a better place and are most worthy of any kind of piece prize.