Any government program designed to hand out money attracts fraud in great numbers, why assume that this isn't happening here?
Artificial contamination with radioactive materials is trivial to test for and, in our current political climate, would land anyone trying to dabble in such things in prison for life + half an eternity for nuclear terrorism... if they survive their arrest by the SWAT team (or rather, the SEK or GSG9).
Because, YOU TWIT, 198 mph and 0-62 in 3.2 seconds isn't really fast.
That's probably the street-legal version that comes with a governor.
Seriously. Any sedan with 200+ hp can go 150 mph (and that's usually due a governor), so I don't see any reason why this thing shouldn't be able to go much, much faster than 198 mph other than being artifically limited.
And how long before we're mining the crap out of these planets to get our un-obtainium?
Since there was an article about the discovery of a room-temperature superconductor earlier, I doubt we'll ever have to.
BTW: The one thing that bothered me most in Avatar was that, while they mentioned it takes 6-years to get to Pandora, they never mention how long it took to discover Pandora.
Since Pandora is in the Alpha Centauri system, they found it in the first place they looked.
That's a lot of Galaxy to look at.
Since the interstellar ships in Avatar travel well below c, they don't go anywhere on a galatic scale in six years.
No, but it makes it easier for an auditing body to do so,
Official auditing bodies could have the source code any time they ask for. They don't.
, or for competitors to point out (and prove) that their device is safer.
... which still doesn't help you a lot if you don't know _their_ hardware. Your software might malfunction in one out of 2^21 cases due to some obscure bug, but their hardware could go up in flames the second you look at it the wrong way.
... if you don't know the hardware it runs on and the external circuitry.
Really. Finding security holes in software that runs on a plain vanilla PC is one thing, finding the cause of glitches in the nanosecond range on an embedded system is another thing entirely.
NEVADA GAMING COMMISSION has the code to slots games so why can't the FDA get the code to med systems?
Why do you think the FDA can't do that? They can basically do anything they want, followed by the threat to kick you (the manufacturer) out of the US market and/or shut down your factories if they're in the US.
I like the Museum of Science and Industry, but it's a place where I would take my kids while they're young. Too much of the stuff looks somewhat dumbed-down to make it palatable to a young audience and/or the general public. If I want to see, say, the evolution of steam engines to steam turbines, the Deutsche Museum is definitely the place to go, though it's not as kid-friendly. Unfortunately, they also had to move several exhibits (cars, trains) to different locations since they're running out of space.
... is a way of using chemical energy supplied by the body to generate electricity. And to make it a bit more challenging, harnessing this energy must not harm the body in question.
A patent on that would be a license to print money.
That's because it should be known to someone who's qualified to mess with the software of the phone.
It's basically a write-once memory cell that says "I work" (if not written to 0) or "I'm bricked" (if writen to 0). And since it's sitting somewhere on a custom chip and is only a few microns large, good luck at trying to short that. You might be able to pull of stuff like that if you have specialized tools to mess with ICs, but you can probably by a truckload of cellphones for the price of those tools.
- the appropriate analogy is 9 women giving birth to one baby 1 month after conception.
Then again, this is slashdot, but it's good for learning new stuffs
The woman-month is even more mythical than the man-month in this case.
... then our processors also have millions already.
A neuron is a fairly simple processing element, after all. Complexity comes from the sheer number of connections with other neurons that a single neuron can have.
I'd guess that describing subatomic particles is the realm of quantum mechanics, not relativity (which is about things that have lots of mass and/or move fast).
I sincerely dislike them because they are yet another way for your private medical treatments to end up in someone else's database where you have no control over them.
And I dislike them because saving for something that has a huge standard deviation that's largely uncontrolladble on its costs is fairly pointless.
Such a plan will end up with too many people who a) have large medical expenses before they have accumulated significant savings or b) have expenses that exceed their savings by an order or two of magnitude or c) never need to tap into the medical savings account, making it mostly a waste for them.
Medical costs aren't like the costs for buying a car, a house, or for retirement. You cannot plan you medical costs, while you can pretty much plan the last three.
The reason most IT workers don't fit well in the medical field as they all have what some would diagnose as ADD/ADHD. ADD and ADHD don't mesh well with medicine.
Err... if you look at the hours some physicians work, they'll have to have ADHD in order not have a breakdown of some sort.
ADHD patients can make splendid physicians, especially since this kind of job usually comes with all the support staff that ADHDers so desperately need (secretaries to keep track of all the appointments, OR staff to prepare the OR and clean it up afterwards, etc).
I have a case like that in my family. _Great_ doctors, but unable to function in a world where there isn't someone to remind him of appointments and clean up after him.
This is a very bad thing, because humans in the path of this ray would receive a dose of ionising radiation of 10,000 sieverts, and as Bones McCoy would doubtless confirm, the lethal dose is 6 sieverts.
The result? Death in one second.
The LHC beam can melt (or even vaporize? I don't remember) fifty kilograms of copper in a few milliseconds. If a person gets hit by that, there'll be nothing left to die in one second. Discussing the dose is pretty ridiculous - it won't be the ionizing radiation that kills you, but that most of your body suddenly phase-changes to "vapor".
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Artificial contamination with radioactive materials is trivial to test for and, in our current political climate, would land anyone trying to dabble in such things in prison for life + half an eternity for nuclear terrorism ... if they survive their arrest by the SWAT team (or rather, the SEK or GSG9).
He can have mine, where he'll write code that helps save lives everyday, for less than six figures.
That's probably the street-legal version that comes with a governor.
Seriously. Any sedan with 200+ hp can go 150 mph (and that's usually due a governor), so I don't see any reason why this thing shouldn't be able to go much, much faster than 198 mph other than being artifically limited.
Since there was an article about the discovery of a room-temperature superconductor earlier, I doubt we'll ever have to.
BTW: The one thing that bothered me most in Avatar was that, while they mentioned it takes 6-years to get to Pandora, they never mention how long it took to discover Pandora.
Since Pandora is in the Alpha Centauri system, they found it in the first place they looked.
That's a lot of Galaxy to look at.
Since the interstellar ships in Avatar travel well below c, they don't go anywhere on a galatic scale in six years.
Official auditing bodies could have the source code any time they ask for. They don't.
, or for competitors to point out (and prove) that their device is safer.
Really. Finding security holes in software that runs on a plain vanilla PC is one thing, finding the cause of glitches in the nanosecond range on an embedded system is another thing entirely.
How will you find out if your competitors do that if they don't open their code?
I don't know about you but if I had a piece of hardware which my life depended on I'd want to be able to inspect the design and code for faults.
Start with your car.
Why do you think the FDA can't do that? They can basically do anything they want, followed by the threat to kick you (the manufacturer) out of the US market and/or shut down your factories if they're in the US.
Have a nice day.
I like the Museum of Science and Industry, but it's a place where I would take my kids while they're young. Too much of the stuff looks somewhat dumbed-down to make it palatable to a young audience and/or the general public. If I want to see, say, the evolution of steam engines to steam turbines, the Deutsche Museum is definitely the place to go, though it's not as kid-friendly. Unfortunately, they also had to move several exhibits (cars, trains) to different locations since they're running out of space.
The _original_, however, probably contains enough stuff to keep any geek busy for a month. And the beer is better, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Museum
A patent on that would be a license to print money.
That's because it should be known to someone who's qualified to mess with the software of the phone.
It's basically a write-once memory cell that says "I work" (if not written to 0) or "I'm bricked" (if writen to 0). And since it's sitting somewhere on a custom chip and is only a few microns large, good luck at trying to short that. You might be able to pull of stuff like that if you have specialized tools to mess with ICs, but you can probably by a truckload of cellphones for the price of those tools.
.. I suggest administering facts combined with strong stimuli, like electric shocks, whips or baseball bats.
... but because I dislike the business model behind them.
Down at the neuron level, the brain does arithmetics on pulse frequency modulated signals.
The woman-month is even more mythical than the man-month in this case.
*SCNR*
A neuron is a fairly simple processing element, after all. Complexity comes from the sheer number of connections with other neurons that a single neuron can have.
I'd guess that describing subatomic particles is the realm of quantum mechanics, not relativity (which is about things that have lots of mass and/or move fast).
3) If PA's/NP's screw up, the physician is going to be held liable. Ouch.
So "they" get to sell you two marginally-functional products where one would be sufficient? Someone's gonna make a killing with this business plan.
And if you get chronically ill, you're still screwed.
And I dislike them because saving for something that has a huge standard deviation that's largely uncontrolladble on its costs is fairly pointless.
Such a plan will end up with too many people who a) have large medical expenses before they have accumulated significant savings or b) have expenses that exceed their savings by an order or two of magnitude or c) never need to tap into the medical savings account, making it mostly a waste for them.
Medical costs aren't like the costs for buying a car, a house, or for retirement. You cannot plan you medical costs, while you can pretty much plan the last three.
Don't forget biogas. Even though that comes with its own share of problems, namely "cornfield deserts".
Err ... if you look at the hours some physicians work, they'll have to have ADHD in order not have a breakdown of some sort.
ADHD patients can make splendid physicians, especially since this kind of job usually comes with all the support staff that ADHDers so desperately need (secretaries to keep track of all the appointments, OR staff to prepare the OR and clean it up afterwards, etc).
I have a case like that in my family. _Great_ doctors, but unable to function in a world where there isn't someone to remind him of appointments and clean up after him.
Even change a head gasket on a running engine? That's what doctors occasionally have to do.
The LHC beam can melt (or even vaporize? I don't remember) fifty kilograms of copper in a few milliseconds. If a person gets hit by that, there'll be nothing left to die in one second. Discussing the dose is pretty ridiculous - it won't be the ionizing radiation that kills you, but that most of your body suddenly phase-changes to "vapor".