Even if we did know fp, we would still only be taking the Drake equation from 1 known and 6 unknown terms to 2 known and 5 unknown terms. The answer goes from "haven't got a clue" to "pretty much haven't got a clue".
The US government has tested relatively modern cars (1986-2002) and found EMP had very little effect (full report can be read here):
The potential EMP vulnerability of automobiles derives from the use of built-in electronics that support multiple automotive functions. Electronic components were first
introduced into automobiles in the late 1960s. As time passed and electronics technologies evolved, electronic applications in automobiles proliferated. Modern automobiles
have as many as 100 microprocessors that control virtually all functions. While electronic
applications have proliferated within automobiles, so too have application standards and
electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility (EMI/EMC) practices.
Thus, while it might be expected that increased EMP vulnerability would accompany the
proliferated electronics applications, this trend, at least in part, is mitigated by the
increased application of EMI/EMC practices.
We tested a sample of 37 cars in an EMP simulation laboratory, with automobile vintages ranging from 1986 through 2002. Automobiles of these vintages include extensive
electronics and represent a significant fraction of automobiles on the road today. The
testing was conducted by exposing running and nonrunning automobiles to sequentially
increasing EMP field intensities. If anomalous response (either temporary or permanent)
was observed, the testing of that particular automobile was stopped. If no anomalous
response was observed, the testing was continued up to the field intensity limits of the
simulation capability (approximately 50 kV/m).
Automobiles were subjected to EMP environments under both engine turned off and
engine turned on conditions. No effects were subsequently observed in those automobiles
that were not turned on during EMP exposure. The most serious effect observed on running automobiles was that the motors in three cars stopped at field strengths of approximately 30 kV/m or above. In an actual EMP exposure, these vehicles would glide to a
stop and require the driver to restart them. Electronics in the dashboard of one automobile
were damaged and required repair. Other effects were relatively minor. Twenty-five
automobiles exhibited malfunctions that could be considered only a nuisance (e.g.,
blinking dashboard lights) and did not require driver intervention to correct. Eight of the
37 cars tested did not exhibit any anomalous response.
If you promise to help a bully with his homework, he might protect you from other bullies trying to beat you up. It doesn't mean bullies aren't evil, it just means they are occasionally useful to combat other bullies.
The worst thing about lawyers is that some eventually become politicians, creating unnecessarily complex laws that require yet more lawyers to navigate (no conflict-of-interest there).
Fair enough, however "driving recklessly" is difficult to even define, much less prove in a court of law. If you think getting a fine for going 10mph over the speed limit is arbitrary, think about getting a fine for driving recklessly.
"But officer, I wasn't driving recklessly."
"In my opinion you were. You were driving 10mph faster than I would have driven in those circumstances. Case closed."
I can see how that would be a problem. I wonder why ISPs in areas like NZ don't have servers to cache the 1000 most popular foreign websites and update them on a daily or hourly basis so that data is just coming across the Pacific once instead of separately for each Kiwi web-surfer? Maybe copyright issues prevent that? Or maybe today's interactive-flash-web2.0 sites don't cache well? That was the beauty of Usenet; upload globally, download locally.
The headmaster has defended the scheme, saying, 'It is a biometric recognition system and no image of a fingerprint is ever stored.... The thumbprint creates a mathematical template.
Is that supposed to be reassuring? It's a bit like saying, 'Don't worry, I'm not taking a photo of your credit card, I'm just creating a mathematical representation of the number.' Does he think the reason parents might object to this system is they are worried that photos of their children's fingers might fall into the hands of child pornographers with a finger-tip fetish?
By the way, does this mean that Thumbless Joe (the boy our woodshop teacher all warned us about during the table-saw safety lecture) can't borrow books from the library?
Put another way, do you as a/. reader think Rupert Murdoch is an idiot? He's an idiot who is almost certainly worth about a million times what you are
You think rich people can't make mistakes? Conrad Black was a super rich newspaper baron once too, now he sits in a federal prison. If life is fair, Rupert can be his bunk-mate.
Google, Microsoft, NASA, The World Bank, and Yahoo! are unlikely partners...
Not at all, especially if you believe in the Illuminati-Bilderberg-FakeMoonLanding-YahooGoogleSoftMonopoly Conspiracy Theory. What's perplexing is why they left out the Rand Corporation, the Mafia and the CIA/NSA/FBI/JPL/DEA/EPA/NRA/FDA (AKA the TLA Group).
12 year olds have more disposable income than you, so don't expect fewer of them on a paid network. They don't have mortgage/rent or car payments. They don't have to buy their own food. They just ask for Mommy's credit card (or don't ask, Mommy won't notice anyway).
No, something happens when you get to 88 MPH. Although that may have been a different documentary, Return to Tomorrow? Withdraw to the Subsequent Time? Something like that.
Getting the brakes to fail at any time after the car is in motion would be impressive.
Pretty easy actually; you put a slow leak in the brake fluid line instead of just cutting it. Of course, my knowledge of automotive sabotage is based totally on MacGyver reruns rather than actual experience, YMMV.
The money derived from parking meters typically doesn't even pay for the cost of the meter-maids to enforce them. They are not a revenue source for the city, but rather a way to control how long people park in busy downtown areas.
Running and running-efficiently-on-battery-power are two very different things. I suspect WebOS is highly optimized for the ARM and it would take time to re-optimize it for the Atom.
The iPad (and iPhone, and iPod) charge on 5 volts DC from the USB connector (which is sort of a defacto international standard for charging portable devices). It doesn't care whether you have 110V/60Hz AC or 220V/50Hz AC mains; your computer (or wall wart) takes care of that.
Apple changed the rules after the game started
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FALSE. They do have the right, so long as they tell you first and then leave it up to you to decide if you want to play by those rules. You CHOSE to buy Apple fully aware of the restrictions, then blame Apple when those restrictions finally affect you in a negative way.
But that's the problem, they DIDN'T tell me first. They snuck this clause into the EULA of the most recent update. It's a little late in the game to be changing the rules, especially when Adobe invested a lot of time and money into creating an iPhone development tool which followed all of Apple's rules up to that point.
As Google does a decent job fighting spam on Google Mail, some usenet providers such as my ISP and even AIOE do a good job filtering the crap out of newsgroups.
You're lucky to have a good ISP. Most ISPs treat usenet like a red-headed stepchild, many block binary and alt groups, have cut back on retention times/number of groups and some have even dropped support for usenet entirely, telling their customers to "use google groups".
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Can I borrow your phone? I need to do a colonoscopy.
Even if we did know fp, we would still only be taking the Drake equation from 1 known and 6 unknown terms to 2 known and 5 unknown terms. The answer goes from "haven't got a clue" to "pretty much haven't got a clue".
The worst thing about lawyers is that some eventually become politicians, creating unnecessarily complex laws that require yet more lawyers to navigate (no conflict-of-interest there).
"But officer, I wasn't driving recklessly."
"In my opinion you were. You were driving 10mph faster than I would have driven in those circumstances. Case closed."
I can see how that would be a problem. I wonder why ISPs in areas like NZ don't have servers to cache the 1000 most popular foreign websites and update them on a daily or hourly basis so that data is just coming across the Pacific once instead of separately for each Kiwi web-surfer? Maybe copyright issues prevent that? Or maybe today's interactive-flash-web2.0 sites don't cache well? That was the beauty of Usenet; upload globally, download locally.
Considering the current hate between Adobe and Apple, I'm a bit surprised myself.
They did not "remove a whole group". The previous estimates of 30 to 100 million species also did not include bacteria.
Is that supposed to be reassuring? It's a bit like saying, 'Don't worry, I'm not taking a photo of your credit card, I'm just creating a mathematical representation of the number.' Does he think the reason parents might object to this system is they are worried that photos of their children's fingers might fall into the hands of child pornographers with a finger-tip fetish?
By the way, does this mean that Thumbless Joe (the boy our woodshop teacher all warned us about during the table-saw safety lecture) can't borrow books from the library?
Some states require it also ... but only if you look Mexican.
In other words: when anonymous phones are outlawed, only outlaws will have anonymous phones.
You think rich people can't make mistakes? Conrad Black was a super rich newspaper baron once too, now he sits in a federal prison. If life is fair, Rupert can be his bunk-mate.
Not at all, especially if you believe in the Illuminati-Bilderberg-FakeMoonLanding-YahooGoogleSoftMonopoly Conspiracy Theory. What's perplexing is why they left out the Rand Corporation, the Mafia and the CIA/NSA/FBI/JPL/DEA/EPA/NRA/FDA (AKA the TLA Group).
12 year olds have more disposable income than you, so don't expect fewer of them on a paid network. They don't have mortgage/rent or car payments. They don't have to buy their own food. They just ask for Mommy's credit card (or don't ask, Mommy won't notice anyway).
Mikey likes it!
No, something happens when you get to 88 MPH. Although that may have been a different documentary, Return to Tomorrow? Withdraw to the Subsequent Time? Something like that.
Pretty easy actually; you put a slow leak in the brake fluid line instead of just cutting it. Of course, my knowledge of automotive sabotage is based totally on MacGyver reruns rather than actual experience, YMMV.
I agree. Now the guy who invented the pay toilet, that's another story.
The money derived from parking meters typically doesn't even pay for the cost of the meter-maids to enforce them. They are not a revenue source for the city, but rather a way to control how long people park in busy downtown areas.
The epi-pen is mightier than the sword. Besides, epi-pens are no longer needed since the school has a zero-tolerance policy on allergens.
Running and running-efficiently-on-battery-power are two very different things. I suspect WebOS is highly optimized for the ARM and it would take time to re-optimize it for the Atom.
Then the candy would be a medication for her and she would be in violation of the school's zero-tolerance policy on drugs.
The iPad (and iPhone, and iPod) charge on 5 volts DC from the USB connector (which is sort of a defacto international standard for charging portable devices). It doesn't care whether you have 110V/60Hz AC or 220V/50Hz AC mains; your computer (or wall wart) takes care of that.
But that's the problem, they DIDN'T tell me first. They snuck this clause into the EULA of the most recent update. It's a little late in the game to be changing the rules, especially when Adobe invested a lot of time and money into creating an iPhone development tool which followed all of Apple's rules up to that point.
You're lucky to have a good ISP. Most ISPs treat usenet like a red-headed stepchild, many block binary and alt groups, have cut back on retention times/number of groups and some have even dropped support for usenet entirely, telling their customers to "use google groups".