If you only want to live a free life, and enjoy the things nature gives you, Anarchy is perfect.
If you only want things the free market can give you, Libertarianism is perfect. (and the free market can give most things that people want. I'm far to realistic to think it can deliver everything.)
Well, the idea is that light doesn't actual have mass. However, the fact that it is affected by "gravity" shows that there is something else at play.
The explanation brought about by relativity is that mass distorts spacetime around it, and we observe the resulting effects as gravity.
Relativity also predicts an "effective mass" for light which depends on its energy (which in turn depends only on its wavelength). Hence the famous equation E=mc^2.
Except you don't usually send checks to people you don't know, unless you are buying something.
So really, it's more analogous to a pundit loudly proclaiming that it is perfectly safe to walk around inside a prison. This is then demonstrated by walking through a prison with $100 bills stuck out of his pocket. Somebody decides to prove otherwise and steals the money solely to illustrate the point.
It's only been a hundred years since we started throwing decent amounts of radio waves into the sky. You know, I never really thought about it that way. The odds of ET being outside of 100 light years is astronomically better than within 100 light years.
However, on a different train of thought - what are the odds of current civilization living another 1000 years? I mean, we already have weapons that could decimate the entire world population within a matter of days. I hate to be a pessimist, but I can't help but think that the more knowledge we gather, the more likely we are to blow everyone up (not to mention natural disasters).
Which leads us to the question - how likely is it for two intelligent races to occur close enough together in the universe for them to make contact before one of them dies out?
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VeriFace facial recognition security How is this a good idea?
I mean, I thought fingerprint scanning on laptops was a bad idea, but facial recognition? All You have to do to beat this is take a picture of the person, and print it out!
Then, even if you know they can get in, your ****ed, because you can't easily change your face.
I don't even see why the people on "To Catch a Predator" should be on a sex offender list. Two reasons:
1. That show is the definition of entrapment. The only reason it isn't enforced is because it is performed by citizens, not police officers.
2. If they are really that dangerous, then they should be in jail. If not, then they have paid their debt to society. Putting them on a list only reminds them every day what they did - making it impossible for them to move on and become a different, better person - something that otherwise would be possible.
We should really put a term limit on every office. That way no one stays in control for too long.
It's just too easy for the layman to vote for the guy who he recognizes from the last ballot. Although that probably doesn't matter on partisan tickets (which are unfortunately necessary). Now, if we abolished zoning and had federal representation based on percentages, maybe some states (Texas) wouldn't be stuck with all reps from one party(-exaggeration).
I don't see what all the fuss is about mercury. My parents used to play with mercury in chemistry class with their bare hands, and they don't have any of the health issues which some studies are currently trying to link to mercury.
Sure it is bad to be inhaling it, or consuming it, but outside of what is contained in fish, that is a non-issue. It doesn't evaporate until 629.88 K, or 674.11 F. So, unless your boiling it on your stove, or drinking it, you should be okay.
We definitely need to work to keep it out of any bodies of water, but that doesn't affect CFL's NEAR as much as coal plants and the like.
There is a reason why the RSA Factoring Challenge is no longer active.
RSA-640 took approximately 30 2.2GHz-Opteron-CPU years to crack according to the submitters, over five months of calendar time. (This is about half the effort for RSA-200, the 663-bit number that the team factored in 2004.)
I can guarantee you that the NSA has a processing farm with a LOT more than 30 CPUs.
The Worst Guy In History invaded Poland. We went to war to stop him. We won. HURRAH! Then we went home and left Poland to the tender mercies of The Second Worst Guy In History. I'm not sure they'll forgive us all that much...
That seems like a good experiment to try. You should contact them and tell them about it. It could save them a lot of time and money.
If it does turn out to just be storing energy, it would be interesting to see why it is converted back into photons of the same wavelength when the field is turned off.
On the other hand, if it is just refracting the light, I could imaging this being used to create a sort of DRAM for photons. The reason I say DRAM is because I imagine it would have to be refreshed in order to replace photons being absorbed. That is, unless you could find a way to have the storage mechanism automatically replace/duplicate lost photons in a way similar to semiconductor lasers.
My understanding of trademarks is that they are meant to protect a company's brand. In which case, I fail to see how this infringes, as Best Buy does not sell T-shirts, and therefore no customer could possibly be confused.
It's kinda like the difference between Apple Corps Ltd. and Apple Inc.. One is a record company, and one is a computer company. Neither infringes the other's trademark, because they don't deal in the same products (or atleast they didn't until Apple started selling songs on iTunes).
Are you refering to EHD thrusters? These operate by accelerating ions away from the vehicle. Yes, such thrusters have been used, but they are only useful for very small acceleration.
In other words, it's useless for getting out of the atmosphere.
On the topic of contemporary physics, just because we don't understand it doesn't mean its not correct or useful. There's a lot of mathematics out there that I don't even begin to understand that has made huge impacts on the current state of science.
I fail to see how a private company could ever fund such an endeavor. The reason commercial spacecraft are becoming more viable is because companies need to put satellites into orbit, and they are willing to pay a lot to do it.
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That only depends on what your goals are.
If you only want to live a free life, and enjoy the things nature gives you, Anarchy is perfect.
If you only want things the free market can give you, Libertarianism is perfect. (and the free market can give most things that people want. I'm far to realistic to think it can deliver everything.)
Well, the idea is that light doesn't actual have mass. However, the fact that it is affected by "gravity" shows that there is something else at play.
The explanation brought about by relativity is that mass distorts spacetime around it, and we observe the resulting effects as gravity.
Relativity also predicts an "effective mass" for light which depends on its energy (which in turn depends only on its wavelength). Hence the famous equation E=mc^2.
Except you don't usually send checks to people you don't know, unless you are buying something.
So really, it's more analogous to a pundit loudly proclaiming that it is perfectly safe to walk around inside a prison. This is then demonstrated by walking through a prison with $100 bills stuck out of his pocket. Somebody decides to prove otherwise and steals the money solely to illustrate the point.
I guess a free market DOES solve all problems!
Who would have guessed?
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It says it is more efficient than Stirling engines, but I wonder if it is more efficient than a full blown solar steam plant.
However, I suppose it doesn't have to be if it can be used in confined areas.
However, on a different train of thought - what are the odds of current civilization living another 1000 years? I mean, we already have weapons that could decimate the entire world population within a matter of days. I hate to be a pessimist, but I can't help but think that the more knowledge we gather, the more likely we are to blow everyone up (not to mention natural disasters).
Which leads us to the question - how likely is it for two intelligent races to occur close enough together in the universe for them to make contact before one of them dies out?
Exactly my thoughts.
What's stopping some guy from voting "his guy" 99, and everyone else 0?
NOTHING!
And it so happens that such outliers would dramatically skew the results of the election - further incentive to vote as such.
Develop more controllable H2 + O2 rocket reactors, and that problem is solved.
Although that is only one example, and most likely not the safest solution.
That is the most accurate, yet useless statement I have ever read.
No copyright governs use. Copyright only governs distribution!
Guess what! GPL is copyright!
I mean, I thought fingerprint scanning on laptops was a bad idea, but facial recognition? All You have to do to beat this is take a picture of the person, and print it out!
Then, even if you know they can get in, your ****ed, because you can't easily change your face.
I don't even see why the people on "To Catch a Predator" should be on a sex offender list. Two reasons:
1. That show is the definition of entrapment. The only reason it isn't enforced is because it is performed by citizens, not police officers.
2. If they are really that dangerous, then they should be in jail. If not, then they have paid their debt to society. Putting them on a list only reminds them every day what they did - making it impossible for them to move on and become a different, better person - something that otherwise would be possible.
I prefer Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
We should really put a term limit on every office. That way no one stays in control for too long.
It's just too easy for the layman to vote for the guy who he recognizes from the last ballot. Although that probably doesn't matter on partisan tickets (which are unfortunately necessary). Now, if we abolished zoning and had federal representation based on percentages, maybe some states (Texas) wouldn't be stuck with all reps from one party(-exaggeration).
Thats not entirely true. The brain performs a mix of the two, and possibly other strategies for problem solving.
Read some books about autism and calculating savants if you want to learn more about the computational side of the brain.
I don't see what all the fuss is about mercury. My parents used to play with mercury in chemistry class with their bare hands, and they don't have any of the health issues which some studies are currently trying to link to mercury.
Sure it is bad to be inhaling it, or consuming it, but outside of what is contained in fish, that is a non-issue. It doesn't evaporate until 629.88 K, or 674.11 F. So, unless your boiling it on your stove, or drinking it, you should be okay.
We definitely need to work to keep it out of any bodies of water, but that doesn't affect CFL's NEAR as much as coal plants and the like.
Did you know that the inactivated influenza vaccine regularly given to children contains mercury? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal
Honestly, compared to some of the other, more common, household chemicals, mercury really is not that dangerous.
There is a reason why the RSA Factoring Challenge is no longer active.
RSA-640 took approximately 30 2.2GHz-Opteron-CPU years to crack according to the submitters, over five months of calendar time. (This is about half the effort for RSA-200, the 663-bit number that the team factored in 2004.)
I can guarantee you that the NSA has a processing farm with a LOT more than 30 CPUs.
Saddam Hussein?
That seems like a good experiment to try. You should contact them and tell them about it. It could save them a lot of time and money.
If it does turn out to just be storing energy, it would be interesting to see why it is converted back into photons of the same wavelength when the field is turned off.
On the other hand, if it is just refracting the light, I could imaging this being used to create a sort of DRAM for photons. The reason I say DRAM is because I imagine it would have to be refreshed in order to replace photons being absorbed. That is, unless you could find a way to have the storage mechanism automatically replace/duplicate lost photons in a way similar to semiconductor lasers.
My understanding of trademarks is that they are meant to protect a company's brand. In which case, I fail to see how this infringes, as Best Buy does not sell T-shirts, and therefore no customer could possibly be confused.
It's kinda like the difference between Apple Corps Ltd. and Apple Inc.. One is a record company, and one is a computer company. Neither infringes the other's trademark, because they don't deal in the same products (or atleast they didn't until Apple started selling songs on iTunes).
Well, one reason might be that the world population is so large already, that we need to decrease it.
However, I'm not really sure discouraging depictions of sex really accomplishes that. It seems to me that it would do the exact opposite.
Couldn't they just run the UI as 32bit and the actual algorithms as separate 64 bit processes?
May take some engineering, but it seems like it could be possible.
Are you refering to EHD thrusters? These operate by accelerating ions away from the vehicle. Yes, such thrusters have been used, but they are only useful for very small acceleration.
In other words, it's useless for getting out of the atmosphere.
On the topic of contemporary physics, just because we don't understand it doesn't mean its not correct or useful. There's a lot of mathematics out there that I don't even begin to understand that has made huge impacts on the current state of science.
I fail to see how a private company could ever fund such an endeavor. The reason commercial spacecraft are becoming more viable is because companies need to put satellites into orbit, and they are willing to pay a lot to do it.
Yes, because banning file sharing will help the kids learn right from wrong....
You know nothing about kids.