Right, but RFID will only help track tagged assets. You cannot use RFID to track things that are not tagged. It just becomes a nightmare. You have to have total control over position of everything entering and leaving the system area and the mannor in which it moves, which is near impossible with any untrained users. And if they are untagged, 99.999% of the time they're going to be untrained.
(Trust me, i've tried)
The closest you can do in your analogy is look for tags leaving the bldg and assume they're being abducted. It won't stop someone from entering the building and going on a killing spree, stalking, or planning an abduction just outside the school
Actually, that excuse is fading fast. Many people are using thermally sensing contact pads, and there are a coupe vendors that actually analyize the sweat from the fingertip (that's what make the fingerprint) to make sure it's a real finger. Next stop will probably be IR scan of finger to make sure it contains protiens or something else attributable to a real finger.
The other side is to make the reader part of the equasion too (such as those USB/fingerprint combo drives). This means you keep any latent prints on the reader with you--and you'd need a card just to try to fake out the system in the first place. Combine the fingerprint reader card with the rotating key sytem (like those on many dial-in access cards) and you shouldn't have to worry about all the fancy stuff I mentioned above anyway:-)
Technically, if you're flying fast enough you'll compress even the 1 molecule per m^3 in space on the leading edges and a spacecraft could behave somewhat like an airplane.
That's just using as-they-are zombies. My inclination was the great-grandparent was discussing how a system of zombies could attack one address faster. My observation ( in the grandparent) was that each of the 1000 zombies would have to repeat each others work and each would take 60 seconds unless they were discussing the failed hashes with each other.
Performing a zombie mailing as you indicated still slows down spammers. I would think 1.5 mil/day is better than 1.5 mil (or more) an hour with an equivalent zombie network and no hashes.
However, the zombies, to be effective as more than a single entity, will have to talk to each other. This adds:
-Complexity -Time (not as much as doing it by thyself, or it would be pointless) -Something that can be used as a unique trait to distinguish zombies from normal machines
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But on the lighter side, should there be a PC version that can network with these console llamas, well...
#3 can be replaced also, though not in the method you're thinking of. It's lock an key
When the key becomes comprimised, you don't (just) change the key, you change the lock. By acquiring a new biometrics system (lets say iris) you force everyone to use a diffferent key. The old, comprimised key become invalid.
This could also be as simple as tweaking the encoding algorhythim of the biometric if the comprimise is electronic and not physical.
Round-up is special because it is protien based. As such, it is quite bio-degradable and the runoff risk is very minimal. As such, only only kills what it's directly sprayed on (not what the runoff touches)
The other advantage of protien based was you can make genes to make other protiens to neutralize it. What everyone is finding out is that it also means plants evolve to resist it faster.
Other herbicides also work, but there are runoff problems and then can contaminate the soil, effictively salting it, running it to streams killing fish, and leech into groundwater.
(Disclaimer: The above from a Monsanto lecture given to interns awhile back.)
What will most likely happen is some DEA dude will give Monsanto a resistant crop and they will make a version of round up with some small variances in the inactive sites on the protien. Thus, the new formula should have mostly the same properties and effect, but the minor differences tend to break whatever the new plants are using to break down the origional round-up.
I believe this is similar to how penicilin knock-offs are made for penicillin resistant bacteria. If not, the main point was they have (limited) ways of breaking natural defenses when they become resilient to something:-)
As the other poster stated, anything kept in a cage isn't under normal psychological conditions anyway.
The major point is, that we have junkies. Now. With all the laws.
We also have junkies for everything else, from alcohol to nasal spray and even to the Internet. However, since something is illegal, who's going to stop using it? Not the junkies, just the normal people who can control themselves. Why? Because they can control themselves...
This is the big reason behind legalization. You're basically depriving normal people of use. The downside is you will probably have more junkies, but if 5% can't handle it, why punish the other 95%?
The main bugging factor in legalization for me is that physical addiction for many (NOT all) illegal substances is quite high. However this may be a result of the laws. Alcohol has been around forever and while still physically addicting, there are very few problems per % of people who have ever used alcohol. It is probably thanks to human evolution. Those who couldn't hold their liquor died directly, of poverty, or Darwin-Award behaivor through the thousands of years since its use began. I believe Hemp may also fall in this catagory, as I (think) it's been around longer than even tobacco (which is still quite physically addictive).
Yes, it would probably take more 1000's of years to get there with other drugs. But I would rather us as a species to be naturally tolerable in equlibrium than in a self protected steady state of reduced exposure. Plus, legalization could open a road for pharmicuticals to alter the drugs to reduce unfavorible side effects if enough market exists.
Right, but this is still stupid form the networks POV. It would be easier for the broadcaster to offer it themselves on P2P (or directly) and count the logged tracker hits (or ppl reaching % downloaded=100%)to the ratings. This would also ensure that the commercials are in the shared file.
Yes people could still skip the ads, but they can do that during (semi)live TV / VCR taped shows anyway. If the network has a fat pipe (paid for by the extra ratings) then no one would have a need to share amongst themselves anyway. Just give your buddy the link to the sup3rf@st broadcaster's link.
True, but the Constitution also doesn't say anything about the acquisition of land. There were to camps to this that formed when the Louisana Purchase was being debated:
If it doesn't say you can, then you can't. If it doesn't say you can't, then you can.
Needless to say, the second won out (I think as a result of a presedential election--it was a major campaign topic)
[All the above from my memory of History class in HS]
Being good at it, doesn't mean being right at doing it, though.
It may not make it right. But, unfortunately, most of the rest of the world subscribes to it. This is why we have armed forces. You may see this as a lowest common denominator, but to much of the rest of the world it is the greatest common denominator as well.
No one likes the preverbial "killing thousands to save millions", yet sometimes it's the only way. The members of the armed forces volunteer to do this dangerous, last resort work which is anything but pretty. And that's the beginning of why they are brave.
[One of the reasons we spend so much on getting advanced weapons is to provide the ability to _appear_ that we can kill millions. This alone can prevent the killing thousands part and save all those lives. The motivation of fear is the same, but the outcome is ideal: no weapons used, no additional lives lost]
If the (entire) world was able to find solutions to all problems and differences through discussion, we wouldn't need an armed forces.
It may be more than lack of concentration vs. exposure. It's possible that as the burning cigerette is inhaled, you're inhaling partially/still reacting chemicals at a high temperature. By the time they're exhaled, the reaction has mostly completed and the temperature has dropped. If most of the poisons are found in that partially reacted state, there is truth that 2nd hand smoke isn't as dangerous. Carbon Monoxide _could_ fall in this category, as could elemental heavy metals.
It is also possible that the reason poisonous items are mostly harmful to the inhaler is that they are more water soluable and dissolve in the lungs easier. As such, the smoke they exhale would be "purified". The not-as-easy to dissolve items would stand just as small a chance to be dissolved in anyone else's lungs as well (more if they weren't dissolved because of saturation, less because of reduced gas temperature)
Just my $0.02. Sorry for playing devil's advocate...
Steam distillation uses a LOT of energy, since you're basically boiling water. The only real way it could be cost effective is if it's coupled with power generation. Boil seawater to make steam, Steam turns turbine, then is cooled as distilled water. The only place this is done I can think of where this is done is nuclear submarines.
Only problem is having your power plant pass FDA/USDA/? approval for production of foodstuffs.
There are other ways using membranes/osmosis and evaporation.
Do NOT remove the box. Taking a shower and watching a cat torn between staying in a box it just crapped in and leaving through a torrent of water has it's positive moments!
Sort of not really. Warfighter is a term created to denote all active military personel.
Thus, while soldiers are warfighters, the term "warfighter" also includes (for the U.S.) sailors, airmen, and marines.
The difference may be academic to you, but it matters to the actual people represented above. They're proud of their branch, and the term "soldier" technically refers just to the Army.
If you don't believe me go find a Marine and call him a sailor.
Given as they can take blood and do a "midichlorian count" (something Lucas introduces in TPM), Vader should suspect something anyway. DNA could determine paternity.
Your arguement would also imply that Quigon and ObiWai shouldn't be able to spot young Anakin and sense his potential during TPM, though you could argue it to death:
"He's self taught" "Then why didn't Leigh self teach" etc.
Because, as discussed above, this is not a solid tube. Your own quote says:
Baughman's team spins fibers made of carbon nanotubes and.
The greater the length of nanotube, the less epoxy needed to hold the woven elevator ribbon together. Since the epoxy weighs a lot more than the nanotube, this is a good thing and reduces load on the ribbon from its own weight
This won't happen. There is a reason video gamers have a stereotype of fat and lazy non-athletes. Once athletic skill is required for a game, don't expect that game to do well on the shelves. The reason will simbly be that it's no fun to lose, which is why the stereotypical gamer is regarded as shunning athletics in the first place. I know there are people who are athletic and gamers, but for the purpose of the stereotype you presented in your post, I think this is accurate.
The other reason is that there is no way to ensure the reliability of the controller for cheating purposes, yet have dissimilar movements by players. Either every player has a equal maximum speed regardless of physical ability, or someone somewhere will increase the signal gain on their walking device, or rebuild it from lighter parts, or something to move faster than Carl Lewis. How are you going to police that? You can't, really...
I think the primary problem is that "Politions" is a bit broad. This may be a bit of a nitpick, and I apologise for spelling mistakes in advance.
Production of laws is only really handled by the legislature. And while lawyers can make laws that do exactly what they mean to do, that doesn't mean that's what the people want. So, additionally, the ledgislature needs to also be prevvy to NOT make laws that disagree with 51% of the people in the area they represent.
The executive branch needs to represent 51% of the country. Making laws (i.e. lawyer-skills) is not as necessary, he just signs them in (or not)
Judicial branch is the opposite. Just make sure the law in question is not in violation of the law and spirit of the Constitution. No majority representation needed (hense not directly voted in)
As such, just being a lawyer should be fine for a Justice position, but House/Senate also (should) require representing your elector area to the majority in addition to having law skills.
Except that the vapor pressure of water is higher than the external pressure in space. Therefore, all liquid water will be boiling and any solid ice will be subliming off into space.
Plus, as the volume of water you carry with you to repair the cracks increases, the surface area of the ship carrying it increases as well. Despite not having done a SA to V proportionality, I think SA will increase faster than volume. So at some point you can make a ship too large to be resealed with ice at a given rate. Where that point is depends on the rate of water depletion to fix cracks, etc. you would encounter.
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Right, but RFID will only help track tagged assets. You cannot use RFID to track things that are not tagged. It just becomes a nightmare. You have to have total control over position of everything entering and leaving the system area and the mannor in which it moves, which is near impossible with any untrained users. And if they are untagged, 99.999% of the time they're going to be untrained.
(Trust me, i've tried)
The closest you can do in your analogy is look for tags leaving the bldg and assume they're being abducted. It won't stop someone from entering the building and going on a killing spree, stalking, or planning an abduction just outside the school
Actually, that excuse is fading fast. Many people are using thermally sensing contact pads, and there are a coupe vendors that actually analyize the sweat from the fingertip (that's what make the fingerprint) to make sure it's a real finger. Next stop will probably be IR scan of finger to make sure it contains protiens or something else attributable to a real finger.
:-)
The other side is to make the reader part of the equasion too (such as those USB/fingerprint combo drives). This means you keep any latent prints on the reader with you--and you'd need a card just to try to fake out the system in the first place.
Combine the fingerprint reader card with the rotating key sytem (like those on many dial-in access cards) and you shouldn't have to worry about all the fancy stuff I mentioned above anyway
Technically, if you're flying fast enough you'll compress even the 1 molecule per m^3 in space on the leading edges and a spacecraft could behave somewhat like an airplane.
That's just using as-they-are zombies. My inclination was the great-grandparent was discussing how a system of zombies could attack one address faster. My observation ( in the grandparent) was that each of the 1000 zombies would have to repeat each others work and each would take 60 seconds unless they were discussing the failed hashes with each other.
Performing a zombie mailing as you indicated still slows down spammers. I would think 1.5 mil/day is better than 1.5 mil (or more) an hour with an equivalent zombie network and no hashes.
However, the zombies, to be effective as more than a single entity, will have to talk to each other. This adds:
-Complexity
-Time (not as much as doing it by thyself, or it would be pointless)
-Something that can be used as a unique trait to distinguish zombies from normal machines
But on the lighter side, should there be a PC version that can network with these console llamas, well...
:-).
Let the drive-by fragfest of FPS n00bs begin
It was Paradise Pete. I want my $500 bucks
#3 can be replaced also, though not in the method you're thinking of. It's lock an key
When the key becomes comprimised, you don't (just) change the key, you change the lock. By acquiring a new biometrics system (lets say iris) you force everyone to use a diffferent key. The old, comprimised key become invalid.
This could also be as simple as tweaking the encoding algorhythim of the biometric if the comprimise is electronic and not physical.
Round-up is special because it is protien based. As such, it is quite bio-degradable and the runoff risk is very minimal. As such, only only kills what it's directly sprayed on (not what the runoff touches)
:-)
The other advantage of protien based was you can make genes to make other protiens to neutralize it. What everyone is finding out is that it also means plants evolve to resist it faster.
Other herbicides also work, but there are runoff problems and then can contaminate the soil, effictively salting it, running it to streams killing fish, and leech into groundwater.
(Disclaimer: The above from a Monsanto lecture given to interns awhile back.)
What will most likely happen is some DEA dude will give Monsanto a resistant crop and they will make a version of round up with some small variances in the inactive sites on the protien. Thus, the new formula should have mostly the same properties and effect, but the minor differences tend to break whatever the new plants are using to break down the origional round-up.
I believe this is similar to how penicilin knock-offs are made for penicillin resistant bacteria. If not, the main point was they have (limited) ways of breaking natural defenses when they become resilient to something
As the other poster stated, anything kept in a cage isn't under normal psychological conditions anyway.
The major point is, that we have junkies. Now. With all the laws.
We also have junkies for everything else, from alcohol to nasal spray and even to the Internet. However, since something is illegal, who's going to stop using it? Not the junkies, just the normal people who can control themselves. Why? Because they can control themselves...
This is the big reason behind legalization. You're basically depriving normal people of use. The downside is you will probably have more junkies, but if 5% can't handle it, why punish the other 95%?
The main bugging factor in legalization for me is that physical addiction for many (NOT all) illegal substances is quite high. However this may be a result of the laws. Alcohol has been around forever and while still physically addicting, there are very few problems per % of people who have ever used alcohol. It is probably thanks to human evolution. Those who couldn't hold their liquor died directly, of poverty, or Darwin-Award behaivor through the thousands of years since its use began. I believe Hemp may also fall in this catagory, as I (think) it's been around longer than even tobacco (which is still quite physically addictive).
Yes, it would probably take more 1000's of years to get there with other drugs. But I would rather us as a species to be naturally tolerable in equlibrium than in a self protected steady state of reduced exposure. Plus, legalization could open a road for pharmicuticals to alter the drugs to reduce unfavorible side effects if enough market exists.
Right, but this is still stupid form the networks POV. It would be easier for the broadcaster to offer it themselves on P2P (or directly) and count the logged tracker hits (or ppl reaching % downloaded=100%)to the ratings. This would also ensure that the commercials are in the shared file.
Yes people could still skip the ads, but they can do that during (semi)live TV / VCR taped shows anyway. If the network has a fat pipe (paid for by the extra ratings) then no one would have a need to share amongst themselves anyway. Just give your buddy the link to the sup3rf@st broadcaster's link.
True, but the Constitution also doesn't say anything about the acquisition of land. There were to camps to this that formed when the Louisana Purchase was being debated:
If it doesn't say you can, then you can't.
If it doesn't say you can't, then you can.
Needless to say, the second won out (I think as a result of a presedential election--it was a major campaign topic)
[All the above from my memory of History class in HS]
Being good at it, doesn't mean being right at doing it, though.
It may not make it right. But, unfortunately, most of the rest of the world subscribes to it. This is why we have armed forces. You may see this as a lowest common denominator, but to much of the rest of the world it is the greatest common denominator as well.
No one likes the preverbial "killing thousands to save millions", yet sometimes it's the only way. The members of the armed forces volunteer to do this dangerous, last resort work which is anything but pretty. And that's the beginning of why they are brave.
[One of the reasons we spend so much on getting advanced weapons is to provide the ability to _appear_ that we can kill millions. This alone can prevent the killing thousands part and save all those lives. The motivation of fear is the same, but the outcome is ideal: no weapons used, no additional lives lost]
If the (entire) world was able to find solutions to all problems and differences through discussion, we wouldn't need an armed forces.
It may be more than lack of concentration vs. exposure. It's possible that as the burning cigerette is inhaled, you're inhaling partially/still reacting chemicals at a high temperature. By the time they're exhaled, the reaction has mostly completed and the temperature has dropped. If most of the poisons are found in that partially reacted state, there is truth that 2nd hand smoke isn't as dangerous. Carbon Monoxide _could_ fall in this category, as could elemental heavy metals.
It is also possible that the reason poisonous items are mostly harmful to the inhaler is that they are more water soluable and dissolve in the lungs easier. As such, the smoke they exhale would be "purified". The not-as-easy to dissolve items would stand just as small a chance to be dissolved in anyone else's lungs as well (more if they weren't dissolved because of saturation, less because of reduced gas temperature)
Just my $0.02. Sorry for playing devil's advocate...
Sensible != Sensitive.
Plus, if we had a truly international audience, wouldn't all the hand motions from opposite sides of the planet cancel?
There are places where devices are confiscated on-site if they have a camera. Lacking of functionality is better than lacking the entire device
Steam distillation uses a LOT of energy, since you're basically boiling water. The only real way it could be cost effective is if it's coupled with power generation. Boil seawater to make steam, Steam turns turbine, then is cooled as distilled water. The only place this is done I can think of where this is done is nuclear submarines.
Only problem is having your power plant pass FDA/USDA/? approval for production of foodstuffs.
There are other ways using membranes/osmosis and evaporation.
Do NOT remove the box. Taking a shower and watching a cat torn between staying in a box it just crapped in and leaving through a torrent of water has it's positive moments!
Sort of not really. Warfighter is a term created to denote all active military personel.
Thus, while soldiers are warfighters, the term "warfighter" also includes (for the U.S.) sailors, airmen, and marines.
The difference may be academic to you, but it matters to the actual people represented above. They're proud of their branch, and the term "soldier" technically refers just to the Army.
If you don't believe me go find a Marine and call him a sailor.
Given as they can take blood and do a "midichlorian count" (something Lucas introduces in TPM), Vader should suspect something anyway. DNA could determine paternity.
Your arguement would also imply that Quigon and ObiWai shouldn't be able to spot young Anakin and sense his potential during TPM, though you could argue it to death:
"He's self taught"
"Then why didn't Leigh self teach"
etc.
Because, as discussed above, this is not a solid tube. Your own quote says:
Baughman's team spins fibers made of carbon nanotubes and.
The greater the length of nanotube, the less epoxy needed to hold the woven elevator ribbon together. Since the epoxy weighs a lot more than the nanotube, this is a good thing and reduces load on the ribbon from its own weight
I beleve you're thinking of Iomega and the Click Of Death
This won't happen. There is a reason video gamers have a stereotype of fat and lazy non-athletes. Once athletic skill is required for a game, don't expect that game to do well on the shelves. The reason will simbly be that it's no fun to lose, which is why the stereotypical gamer is regarded as shunning athletics in the first place. I know there are people who are athletic and gamers, but for the purpose of the stereotype you presented in your post, I think this is accurate.
The other reason is that there is no way to ensure the reliability of the controller for cheating purposes, yet have dissimilar movements by players. Either every player has a equal maximum speed regardless of physical ability, or someone somewhere will increase the signal gain on their walking device, or rebuild it from lighter parts, or something to move faster than Carl Lewis. How are you going to police that? You can't, really...
I think the primary problem is that "Politions" is a bit broad. This may be a bit of a nitpick, and I apologise for spelling mistakes in advance.
Production of laws is only really handled by the legislature. And while lawyers can make laws that do exactly what they mean to do, that doesn't mean that's what the people want. So, additionally, the ledgislature needs to also be prevvy to NOT make laws that disagree with 51% of the people in the area they represent.
The executive branch needs to represent 51% of the country. Making laws (i.e. lawyer-skills) is not as necessary, he just signs them in (or not)
Judicial branch is the opposite. Just make sure the law in question is not in violation of the law and spirit of the Constitution. No majority representation needed (hense not directly voted in)
As such, just being a lawyer should be fine for a Justice position, but House/Senate also (should) require representing your elector area to the majority in addition to having law skills.
Except that the vapor pressure of water is higher than the external pressure in space. Therefore, all liquid water will be boiling and any solid ice will be subliming off into space.
Plus, as the volume of water you carry with you to repair the cracks increases, the surface area of the ship carrying it increases as well. Despite not having done a SA to V proportionality, I think SA will increase faster than volume. So at some point you can make a ship too large to be resealed with ice at a given rate. Where that point is depends on the rate of water depletion to fix cracks, etc. you would encounter.