Wouldn't an electromagnetic rail gun induce massive currents in any conductors in its payload? I'd assume that pretty much rules out putting anything electronic into space with it.
To me, all the applications I just came up with are in the same league with what this guy proposes. And I think his idea is much more far fetched than my own.
So just because you can list a bunch of things which you don't think exist but should, this guy's idea is ridiculous? That seems like a very poor argument.
I have an even better idea. Why don't we use all of the extra CO2 in our atomosphere to make dry ice? Everyone knows that dry ice is way better than water ice at cooling things down, so it will be much better for cooling the planet down. We can even dump it in the ocean to replace the melting polar ice caps!
This concern is not valid considering that Westinghouse is currently owned entirely by British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL). Also, DOE does not get very involved in the business side of things. This would be an NRC issue.
Not entirely. Anything related to DoD (not DOE) is not primarily owned by BNFL. When CBS corporation split up the company in 2000, the DoD stiuplated that US based companies must have a controlling share in those divisions.
I don't think most rational humans want to see Iraq become a terrorist state. This is why we need to stay the course at this point and why playing politics with the Iraqi war is going to do more damage than good to a potential presidential canidate.
Would you personally be willing to die to "stay the course"? Would you ask your children to die for this cause? You're assuming that we can win the war in Iraq. If we can't win, then letting more of our bravest and most patriotic citizens die needlessly is equivalent to murdering them.
If anyone in this administration, including the president, lied or ignored evidence in order to push this war on the people, then they should be executed for treason.
Just like a citizen who is not guilty of any crimes should welcome the friendly government agent asking for his papers, if AT&T is innocent they should welcome this. If they have not been breaking laws by complying with the NSA, then they have nothing to fear. Should AT&T attempt to fight this, it must be because they are definitely guilty of violating laws.
Hell my brother had it car broken into once. The window smashed by a chunk of concrete (it was still inside) and the only thing missing was his coat, sunglasses and a broken camera we were always too lazy to simply take out.
I've had my car broken into several times. They always take the items that are easy for them to re-use or have street value. They may leave things with actual value. It's best to hide anything which could be sold for more than about $5.
He'd have to have one hell of a connection and a large disk array at home. I have yet to see DSL service which can handle several hundred gigs of data each day.
Causality can never be proven through statistics, but that doesn't make statistics entirely useless. If statistics show a strong correlation between shooting people in the head and death, it doesn't prove that the shooting had anything to do with it. If your goal is to not kill people, it may be a good idea to avoid these actions based on the correlation.
Check out SyncML. It's meant for exactly this. It also does appointments and to-do as well.
You can pretty much do whatever you want with these phones. Nokia has released a free dev kit based on gcc. The API docs are freely available. There is even a (semi limited) emulator for testing apps on your desktop. You can remotely install your apps via bluetooth to test them, and supposedly you can remote debug via gdb (I never got that to work). The only real limitations are the semi slow CPU and Nokia's semi crazy macros for memory allocation (necessary to eliminate the need for an MMU) and their somewhat hard to use API (built to minimize resource usage so the devices have a reasonable battery life).
Would under volting it really then save more or would you just end up with a laptop that is dog slow?
You might be removing the ability of the system to manage its own power. This was the case with my desktop. Dropping the CPU frequency on my P4 based desktop actually made it consume more electricity. At its factory speeds, the system uses abotu 90W when not doing a whole lot, and about 215W when under heavy load. Dropping the CPU frequency to 300MHz caused it to idle at about 110W usage. I did not experiment with dropping the voltage however, which may have produced a net savings.
Kim Jong Il likely won't be firing any of those missiles at hostile places. They will need the accuracy near his targets. In order for any of these software upgrades to make sense, they would have to be distortable near potential missile targets. I would bet that the US government has the capability to distort the signal within seconds over potential targets.
If the US government has thought things through, they've made GPS remappable in emergency situations. So instead of that $99 guidance system being a benefit to lunatic dictators, it is now a remote control in the hands of the US govt. This could be used to fool the missiles into thinking they're over a target such as Tokyo when in reality they're harmlessly over the ocean or harmfully in Pyongyang.
Just because google doesn't find a reference to it doesn't make it erroneus. Perhaps the article author used a source which is not available for Google's indexing, such as a book?
More, Osama has been living in a cave, and I'm pretty sure he believes this is war, even if you don't.
I just wish the US government still believed in finding Osama and hadn't moved the vast majority of the troops elsewhere. We dropped the ball in Afghanistan and left before destroying him, and we'll likely see another domestic terrorist attack because of our leader's failure to finish the job.
Well, you can run MOST of office. There's no Outlook or MS Access, which prevents Macs from being used in many corporate environments. It looks like Entourage can finally work with an Exchange server, which may eliminate a barrier to Mac adoption in the corporate world.
"This must be evolution just because you think so, even though I'm not a biologist and have not done any research before making this statement. Some people who do not think it is evolution share this viewpoint with others who I am grouping with many other people who have made some claims that turned out to be nothing to worry about in the past"
In most of the US, a public transportation system would be more expensive than cars. Buses are great and all, but if they always run less than a quarter full, they're actually less efficient than cars (because they are so much bigger).
Automobiles are only cheaper because they are more heavily subsidized than public transit. Gas taxes, vehicle registration, and other fees do not come anywhere close to paying for roads and other direct costs. In addition, they don't do a thing to pay for things such as policing of motor vehicles, paying for hospital care for people who get sick from smog and don't have insurance, wars and covert ops in the middle east to keep OPEC weak, etc.
You're right that America doesn't have the population density needed to make public transit work well, but only because of poor urban planning which worshipped the automobile. Most midsize US cities are locked in a never ending cycle of sprawl.
In America cars are considered a god given right. There are many people who shouldn't be driving but are still given licenses. If you're driving a 1 ton vehicle while drunk or have poor vision, there is almost nothing that the engineers can do to prevent you from eventually killing someone.
Computers are a different story. Your mom might install spyware by accident or run a worm, but it's not entirely her fault. Quite a bit of spyware is installed through browser holes, which are not your mother's fault. If she runs an email which looks like it's coming from one of her friends but is really a worm, is it her fault that smtp is so poorly designed that it can't verify the sender? If the worm spreads to the other computers on the lan or floods network equipment, is it her fault that the equipment is poorly designed or not secure enough to handle such an attack?
I've had several sets of speakers with an analog volume knob and a headphone jack where the L and R volumes weren't quite equal. At low volumes (using the analog knob) one channel was much louder than the other. Increasing the volume with the knob made them balanced. Using the computer's mixer to reduce the volume to the same low level produced balanced results.
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Wouldn't an electromagnetic rail gun induce massive currents in any conductors in its payload? I'd assume that pretty much rules out putting anything electronic into space with it.
Converting a module would be very expensive.
More expensive than keeping the shuttle in operation for many more years?
To me, all the applications I just came up with are in the same league with what this guy proposes. And I think his idea is much more far fetched than my own.
So just because you can list a bunch of things which you don't think exist but should, this guy's idea is ridiculous? That seems like a very poor argument.
I have an even better idea. Why don't we use all of the extra CO2 in our atomosphere to make dry ice? Everyone knows that dry ice is way better than water ice at cooling things down, so it will be much better for cooling the planet down. We can even dump it in the ocean to replace the melting polar ice caps!
This concern is not valid considering that Westinghouse is currently owned entirely by British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL). Also, DOE does not get very involved in the business side of things. This would be an NRC issue.
Not entirely. Anything related to DoD (not DOE) is not primarily owned by BNFL. When CBS corporation split up the company in 2000, the DoD stiuplated that US based companies must have a controlling share in those divisions.
I don't think most rational humans want to see Iraq become a terrorist state. This is why we need to stay the course at this point and why playing politics with the Iraqi war is going to do more damage than good to a potential presidential canidate.
Would you personally be willing to die to "stay the course"? Would you ask your children to die for this cause? You're assuming that we can win the war in Iraq. If we can't win, then letting more of our bravest and most patriotic citizens die needlessly is equivalent to murdering them.
If anyone in this administration, including the president, lied or ignored evidence in order to push this war on the people, then they should be executed for treason.
Just like a citizen who is not guilty of any crimes should welcome the friendly government agent asking for his papers, if AT&T is innocent they should welcome this. If they have not been breaking laws by complying with the NSA, then they have nothing to fear. Should AT&T attempt to fight this, it must be because they are definitely guilty of violating laws.
...where all you had to is run some javascript to get unfiltered results.
If bypassing the court is effective at stopping terrorist attacks, and "Clinton did it too", then why did it fail to prevent 9/11?
No, 99% of the time they break into the older cars looking for an aftermarket stereo.
Hell my brother had it car broken into once. The window smashed by a chunk of concrete (it was still inside) and the only thing missing was his coat, sunglasses and a broken camera we were always too lazy to simply take out.
I've had my car broken into several times. They always take the items that are easy for them to re-use or have street value. They may leave things with actual value. It's best to hide anything which could be sold for more than about $5.
He'd have to have one hell of a connection and a large disk array at home. I have yet to see DSL service which can handle several hundred gigs of data each day.
Causality can never be proven through statistics, but that doesn't make statistics entirely useless. If statistics show a strong correlation between shooting people in the head and death, it doesn't prove that the shooting had anything to do with it. If your goal is to not kill people, it may be a good idea to avoid these actions based on the correlation.
Check out SyncML. It's meant for exactly this. It also does appointments and to-do as well.
You can pretty much do whatever you want with these phones. Nokia has released a free dev kit based on gcc. The API docs are freely available. There is even a (semi limited) emulator for testing apps on your desktop. You can remotely install your apps via bluetooth to test them, and supposedly you can remote debug via gdb (I never got that to work). The only real limitations are the semi slow CPU and Nokia's semi crazy macros for memory allocation (necessary to eliminate the need for an MMU) and their somewhat hard to use API (built to minimize resource usage so the devices have a reasonable battery life).
I used a P3 Kill-A-Watt:l ectric_usage_monitor_review
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/kill_a_watt_e
Would under volting it really then save more or would you just end up with a laptop that is dog slow?
You might be removing the ability of the system to manage its own power. This was the case with my desktop. Dropping the CPU frequency on my P4 based desktop actually made it consume more electricity. At its factory speeds, the system uses abotu 90W when not doing a whole lot, and about 215W when under heavy load. Dropping the CPU frequency to 300MHz caused it to idle at about 110W usage. I did not experiment with dropping the voltage however, which may have produced a net savings.
Kim Jong Il likely won't be firing any of those missiles at hostile places. They will need the accuracy near his targets. In order for any of these software upgrades to make sense, they would have to be distortable near potential missile targets. I would bet that the US government has the capability to distort the signal within seconds over potential targets.
If the US government has thought things through, they've made GPS remappable in emergency situations. So instead of that $99 guidance system being a benefit to lunatic dictators, it is now a remote control in the hands of the US govt. This could be used to fool the missiles into thinking they're over a target such as Tokyo when in reality they're harmlessly over the ocean or harmfully in Pyongyang.
Even Google had no references to it
Just because google doesn't find a reference to it doesn't make it erroneus. Perhaps the article author used a source which is not available for Google's indexing, such as a book?
More, Osama has been living in a cave, and I'm pretty sure he believes this is war, even if you don't.
I just wish the US government still believed in finding Osama and hadn't moved the vast majority of the troops elsewhere. We dropped the ball in Afghanistan and left before destroying him, and we'll likely see another domestic terrorist attack because of our leader's failure to finish the job.
In the case of nuclear weapons, all you need to do is make sure your enemy thinks the code is bug free.
Well, you can run MOST of office. There's no Outlook or MS Access, which prevents Macs from being used in many corporate environments. It looks like Entourage can finally work with an Exchange server, which may eliminate a barrier to Mac adoption in the corporate world.
To summarize your argument:
"This must be evolution just because you think so, even though I'm not a biologist and have not done any research before making this statement. Some people who do not think it is evolution share this viewpoint with others who I am grouping with many other people who have made some claims that turned out to be nothing to worry about in the past"
In most of the US, a public transportation system would be more expensive than cars. Buses are great and all, but if they always run less than a quarter full, they're actually less efficient than cars (because they are so much bigger).
Automobiles are only cheaper because they are more heavily subsidized than public transit. Gas taxes, vehicle registration, and other fees do not come anywhere close to paying for roads and other direct costs. In addition, they don't do a thing to pay for things such as policing of motor vehicles, paying for hospital care for people who get sick from smog and don't have insurance, wars and covert ops in the middle east to keep OPEC weak, etc.
You're right that America doesn't have the population density needed to make public transit work well, but only because of poor urban planning which worshipped the automobile. Most midsize US cities are locked in a never ending cycle of sprawl.
In America cars are considered a god given right. There are many people who shouldn't be driving but are still given licenses. If you're driving a 1 ton vehicle while drunk or have poor vision, there is almost nothing that the engineers can do to prevent you from eventually killing someone.
Computers are a different story. Your mom might install spyware by accident or run a worm, but it's not entirely her fault. Quite a bit of spyware is installed through browser holes, which are not your mother's fault. If she runs an email which looks like it's coming from one of her friends but is really a worm, is it her fault that smtp is so poorly designed that it can't verify the sender? If the worm spreads to the other computers on the lan or floods network equipment, is it her fault that the equipment is poorly designed or not secure enough to handle such an attack?
I've had several sets of speakers with an analog volume knob and a headphone jack where the L and R volumes weren't quite equal. At low volumes (using the analog knob) one channel was much louder than the other. Increasing the volume with the knob made them balanced. Using the computer's mixer to reduce the volume to the same low level produced balanced results.