The chapter ended with a simple, and straight-forward comment to the effect of: nothing is better than simply placing a small pebble in one of your shoes.
shoes. Your shadow might be able to change clothing, headwear, glasses, gait, etc. fairly easily, but few people carry an extra pair of shoes.
Considering Kepler found 2600 exoplanets (maybe a few more will be found in exising data) by looking a small sliver of the sky, more advanced telescopes looking at different parts of the sky will certainly yield even more worthwhile discoveries.
Can you explain us how do you create antimatter in this universe?
First method: Create isotopes that have a decay mode that emits anti-matter (usually in the form of positrons). This is a tried-and-true method and is already being used in industrial applications of anti-matter.
Second method: Smash particles together with enough oomph. Some anti-matter will be generated. Capture and isolate it.
Instrumentation is nice, but try doing it on a smallish target (think microcontroller) which has to run in real-time, with mediocre and possibly buggy debug adapters.
Shtoopid problems might be programmer hell. Shtoopid problems on a small target that is hard to instrument is the laparascopic version of programmer hell.
of this is some kind of recognition that China has many problems of an existential risk nature and that they need Xi.
Sorry, but a country - especially a People's Republic - that is reliant on one single person being a certain political office without alternative, is heading for trouble.
What about the egalitarian thing? Everyone being replaceable? Clear chain of succession?
We don't store data unencrypted and we don't have access to our customer's keys.
Err... really? Apple doesn't have a backdoor to encrypted data on the users device, but most things stored in their cloud service are readable to them.
They do that by saying if you as a bank wish to interact with the US banking system you must pass data to the IRS on US citizen's. So if as a bank I have no wish to interact with the US banking system then I can tell the US government to go pound sand and there is nothing the US government can do about it.
Yes it can. Simply make a bilateral treaty with the other country, and the requirement to pass US person financial information to the IRS can be passed into law in the other country.
The other country also gets financial information on their citiziens in the USA; but since only two countries in the world tax based on citizenship instead of residence, the information is basically useless to the other country.
The best hack the aliens could possibly do is give us plans that LOOK like they'll create something we really want, like an interstellar warp drive, infinite clean energy or the like, but once turned on it actually blows up the planet.
Even more insidious: They could give use plans to something that actually works as advertised, as long as is is built with eight sigma accuracy. Anything worse, and it'll blow up the solar system.
In a few years, they'll know whether we are worthy as manufacturing contractors, or not.
Copyright should apply as long as the holder uses it for economic gain, i.e. by making the work in question available to the public for a resonable amount of money or other, nonmonetary forms of compensation.
Under no circumstances whatsoever should copyright be usable to deprive the public of access to something that has already been published. Why? Because loss of access to information and culture leads straight back into the dark ages.
(including the non-sensored versions of US songs, which kids listen to!).
This is even funnier in Germany, where AFN states that their songs are not censored since they are playing the same FCC-compliant versions as in the US.
And only a few MHz next to AFN there's a local (German) station with an English host who likes to ad lib some expletives, and of course all songs are the non-FCC compliant versions. Ha ha.
Besides that the easiest european language most likely is Spanish, and the really easy languages are Japanese and Thai (and don't come me with that "tone" issue..
Japanese isn't tonal.
There is not even a spelling problem, everything is written exactly as it is pronounced.
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shoes. Your shadow might be able to change clothing, headwear, glasses, gait, etc. fairly easily, but few people carry an extra pair of shoes.
... when applied to other peoples expensive Apple gadgets.
Considering Kepler found 2600 exoplanets (maybe a few more will be found in exising data) by looking a small sliver of the sky, more advanced telescopes looking at different parts of the sky will certainly yield even more worthwhile discoveries.
You can, but you don't have to. There are other ways.
First method: Create isotopes that have a decay mode that emits anti-matter (usually in the form of positrons). This is a tried-and-true method and is already being used in industrial applications of anti-matter.
Second method: Smash particles together with enough oomph. Some anti-matter will be generated. Capture and isolate it.
Instrumentation is nice, but try doing it on a smallish target (think microcontroller) which has to run in real-time, with mediocre and possibly buggy debug adapters.
Shtoopid problems might be programmer hell. Shtoopid problems on a small target that is hard to instrument is the laparascopic version of programmer hell.
It is an actual Lead I ECG, but a fairly crummy version that was filtered into oblivion in order to reduce noise.
Why use herbicides at all in a robotic weed removal application? Just have the bot zap the undesired plants with lasers or something.
They creep me out and I will take my business elsewhere.
Magnitude ~11, that's really dim.
... and how does it compare to existing static code analyzers? It's not that static code analysis is a completely new technique.
Sorry, but a country - especially a People's Republic - that is reliant on one single person being a certain political office without alternative, is heading for trouble.
What about the egalitarian thing? Everyone being replaceable? Clear chain of succession?
Err ... really? Apple doesn't have a backdoor to encrypted data on the users device, but most things stored in their cloud service are readable to them.
The normal way of taxation is by place of residence, afaik.
Yes it can. Simply make a bilateral treaty with the other country, and the requirement to pass US person financial information to the IRS can be passed into law in the other country.
The other country also gets financial information on their citiziens in the USA; but since only two countries in the world tax based on citizenship instead of residence, the information is basically useless to the other country.
Even more insidious: They could give use plans to something that actually works as advertised, as long as is is built with eight sigma accuracy. Anything worse, and it'll blow up the solar system.
In a few years, they'll know whether we are worthy as manufacturing contractors, or not.
Under no circumstances whatsoever should copyright be usable to deprive the public of access to something that has already been published. Why? Because loss of access to information and culture leads straight back into the dark ages.
2. How do I turn it off/disable it/prevent it from getting on my desktop PC in the first place? (Oh, wait: "Delete Windows 10."?)
And naive enough to work for next to nothing.
Or something resembling a tribe, just with higher technology.
So who should you believe ?
Setting up fake accounts on social media and posting bullshit with the intent to influence does not constitute hacking.
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Yes you can. However, in a Japanese environment, you can't read a thing because Kanji are used by everyone else.
And listening and reading comprehension are more important than (and prerequisite for) verbal and written communication.
This is even funnier in Germany, where AFN states that their songs are not censored since they are playing the same FCC-compliant versions as in the US.
And only a few MHz next to AFN there's a local (German) station with an English host who likes to ad lib some expletives, and of course all songs are the non-FCC compliant versions. Ha ha.
Japanese isn't tonal.
There is not even a spelling problem, everything is written exactly as it is pronounced.
One word: Kanji.