It sounds like a lovely idea, but I think anyone inventing this would be killed. The reason being that the implications for society are huge - and I don't think society could change quickly enough to cope.
Can the machine reproduce itself? Like a virus invading a host organism, the rate of spread will be important.. if you invent such a machine, then the first thing to do is not sell it, but to make a bunch of copies and distribute them far and wide..
Thats because "rich" will have changed. When there are no more "have"s and "have not"s, everybody will be rich, and the only people who will be richer than anybody else will be the ones who provide power and raw materials.. and that certainly won't be you.
Doesn't matter, it was only obtained through animal testing so it should be off limits regardless of how it is obtained now.
Well now, a) thats easy for you to say, and b) once knowledge is gained it would be wrong not to use it
Consider the experiments that were done on Jews during WW2 regarding exposure and hypothermia. Abhorrent though it was, the results of those experiments may be still valid today and you can't just throw that data away, it can never be reproduced.
More seriously, all sorts of people touch the sand at the beach, and many of them eat food at the beach after touching the sand, and not washing their hands.
Even more seriously, what is commonly known as seagulls are not restricted to beach areas and are not really even sea gulls as you don't see them very far out to sea. Instead, they live all over the country here (UK) and are known for being vicious scavengers who will even attack humans in the street for their food.
I read that the Faroese have a good recipe for seagull
What would be interesting to see what westfield's reaction would be if you had a mechanism (from LCD film to... duct tape) for covering up your license plate each time you enter it. While I don't know the specifics of the law as it pertains to carparks in Australia - I'm sure regardless of what the law is, the rent-a-cops would bar your entry stating "private property".
The device I'm imagining would be a blank reflective backplate of the correct colour with an LCD overlay that could display any number and look like a real plate. Couple this with a camera with numberplate recognition software built into the vehicle and you can adapt your plate continuously according to the traffic stream. In fact you have two cameras front and rear, and you just turn invisible as your rear plate shows what the rear plate of the car in front is displaying, and your front plate shows what the front plate of the car behind is showing.
I wonder how long it will be before such a device is a) possible to make, and b) available to buy..
I'd be curious to know how people in the UK feel about the congestion fee toll which also can essentially know when your car was at certain places.
You'd probably be more curious to know how people in the UK feel about the automatic number plate recognition cameras that are installed all over the country which already essentially know when your car was at certain places, and the data is available in real time to the police.
It's a good thing if teachers have a Facebook account that deals with class related issues, allows students to communicate about homework, ask questions, expand the subject, etc.
If that requires that students also have a Facebook account, just to get access to the teacher.. then that would be a horribly wrong thing. (and my experience of facebook is that if you don't have an account, you can't actually use the site)
It's a bad thing if teachers have a Facebook account they use to buddy with their students simply to share pictures, schmooze, gossip and otherwise engage in behavior that is unbecoming a teacher.
Sharing pictures, schmoozing, gossiping and otherwise engaging in social behaviour.. thats exactly what social networking sites like Facebook are for!
I'm no scientist either, but I'm fairly certain both the epicenter of said earthquake, and the projected landfall of Hurricane Irene, are both in the United States.
An old school friend was contacted by blackmailers a few years back and they asked for £10000. In return, they said they wouldn't kill his family. He contacted the Police and they eventually caught the people.
<nit>Well, I'm pretty sure that is extortion not blackmail.. but perhaps he was not in the best mood to care about the difference</nit>
Surely this system will track where you are and at what time you drive?
In the UK there are already automatic number plate recognition cameras in many many locations. They don't seem to be advertised all that well, alas.. For instance, I count at least five on a 10 mile stretch of country road that I regularly cycle along and which most car drivers (that I know) have never even noticed.. In fact I was told that many of the 'traffic monitoring' cameras (thats the blue ones, alongside most major roads), which previously took a low resolution image every minute or so and beamed it back to base have been silently upgraded to record number plates instead in recent years but I don't have a car so I don't know if that is generally known..
So if you have a keyring laser, try this.. in a darkened room, with your eyes closed and/or a blindfold, shine it onto the soft tissue at the upper back of your mouth.. you can see it glowing too, right? I can certainly detect that.. Alas I don't have a keyring laser anymore, but I fully believe that you may be able to detect one shining into your ear canal..
But kids, don't shine that laser into your remaining ear!
I have had a few near-misses due to anti-lock brakes caused entirely by algorithms that aren't good enough.
and forgive me, but I wonder, how many near-misses have you had that would have been actual accidents but for the algorithms that react faster than you? I don't suppose you even noticed any..
Even if they weren't, how would you live the rest of your life on $1,000,000?
Well now, I'm not greedy for a massive house in the suburbs with a pool and a ferrari, so would buy a reasonable place to live for myself, plus a few small apartments that I would rent out and live off the income
I think the problem with your calculations is that you assume we would be able to extract *all* the available oxygen from that litre, you should be looking at the DO of the discarded water to see how efficient the process is going to be..
No, you will need more than a standard Bluetooth dongle to sniff packets from the air.. the BlueZ hcidump program only dumps packets passing through the host OS stack (to or from the host), and the controller cannot be set to 'promiscuous' mode like a wifi radio can..
during an Agean cruise last summer, I saw at many many places that sea urchins would manipulate bits of weed or anything else they could find to a position above their bodies, presumably to shelter from the sun during the heat of the day.. (in water less than 3m). I didn't take any pictures though, so I guess this diver gets to keep his prize..
English has become so degenerate over the years that it lost the capability to represent anything other than male or female.
Whats funny is that I have a cup on my desk, and it is neither male nor female..
It is conventional for all vehicles and containers to be considered female.
AFAIK in german, ships are generally considered to be male.. (German speakers feel free to contradict, but I have a boat built by a german speaker and it has a male name)
I think you would be hard pressed to find some land that did not have any kind of government claiming jurisdiction over rocket launches or anything else you might conceivably want to do..
On the other hand, international waters is only 12 miles offshore, and the picture didn't show many waves. Sheltered waters actually flatten down pretty quickly once the wind stops as there is no swell from other weather systems (hundreds of miles away) feeding the waves which batter against the shores. Also, I understand platforms resting on submerged flotation are generally pretty stable anyway.
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But your grandma only has one one of them: Skype. Due to the network effect, Skype has an effective monopoly on free phone service. While the barrier to entry in this market is technically low, in the real world filled with real users it's probably insurmountable.
In the real world, with an interoperable protocol then it would be surmountable.. Microsoft like Skype because it is not interoperable. Software already exists that can do VoIP, and more can be written, but their customer base is unassailable because Skype refuses to talk with it.
Don't forget though, that in Europe, Microsoft were battered by the justice system. They were told to be open and provide interoperability. I wonder if *this* deal means that Skype must now become open, or if Microsoft will do everything they can to keep the protocols private..
If you've ever played Monopoly you should recall what happens when one player gets all the money.. the game is declared over, and it is all taken away.
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Can the machine reproduce itself? Like a virus invading a host organism, the rate of spread will be important.. if you invent such a machine, then the first thing to do is not sell it, but to make a bunch of copies and distribute them far and wide..
Thats because "rich" will have changed. When there are no more "have"s and "have not"s, everybody will be rich, and the only people who will be richer than anybody else will be the ones who provide power and raw materials.. and that certainly won't be you.
Well now, a) thats easy for you to say, and b) once knowledge is gained it would be wrong not to use it
Consider the experiments that were done on Jews during WW2 regarding exposure and hypothermia. Abhorrent though it was, the results of those experiments may be still valid today and you can't just throw that data away, it can never be reproduced.
Even more seriously, what is commonly known as seagulls are not restricted to beach areas and are not really even sea gulls as you don't see them very far out to sea. Instead, they live all over the country here (UK) and are known for being vicious scavengers who will even attack humans in the street for their food.
I read that the Faroese have a good recipe for seagull
The device I'm imagining would be a blank reflective backplate of the correct colour with an LCD overlay that could display any number and look like a real plate. Couple this with a camera with numberplate recognition software built into the vehicle and you can adapt your plate continuously according to the traffic stream. In fact you have two cameras front and rear, and you just turn invisible as your rear plate shows what the rear plate of the car in front is displaying, and your front plate shows what the front plate of the car behind is showing.
I wonder how long it will be before such a device is a) possible to make, and b) available to buy..
You'd probably be more curious to know how people in the UK feel about the automatic number plate recognition cameras that are installed all over the country which already essentially know when your car was at certain places, and the data is available in real time to the police.
If that requires that students also have a Facebook account, just to get access to the teacher.. then that would be a horribly wrong thing. (and my experience of facebook is that if you don't have an account, you can't actually use the site)
Sharing pictures, schmoozing, gossiping and otherwise engaging in social behaviour.. thats exactly what social networking sites like Facebook are for!
I'm no scientist either, but I'm fairly certain both the epicenter of said earthquake, and the projected landfall of Hurricane Irene, are both in the United States.
<nit>Well, I'm pretty sure that is extortion not blackmail.. but perhaps he was not in the best mood to care about the difference</nit>
In the UK there are already automatic number plate recognition cameras in many many locations. They don't seem to be advertised all that well, alas.. For instance, I count at least five on a 10 mile stretch of country road that I regularly cycle along and which most car drivers (that I know) have never even noticed.. In fact I was told that many of the 'traffic monitoring' cameras (thats the blue ones, alongside most major roads), which previously took a low resolution image every minute or so and beamed it back to base have been silently upgraded to record number plates instead in recent years but I don't have a car so I don't know if that is generally known..
So if you have a keyring laser, try this.. in a darkened room, with your eyes closed and/or a blindfold, shine it onto the soft tissue at the upper back of your mouth.. you can see it glowing too, right? I can certainly detect that.. Alas I don't have a keyring laser anymore, but I fully believe that you may be able to detect one shining into your ear canal..
But kids, don't shine that laser into your remaining ear!
Surely the purpose is to deflect responsibility from the investors, not the people who make the decisions directly..?
and forgive me, but I wonder, how many near-misses have you had that would have been actual accidents but for the algorithms that react faster than you? I don't suppose you even noticed any..
friday is not wednesday
Well now, I'm not greedy for a massive house in the suburbs with a pool and a ferrari, so would buy a reasonable place to live for myself, plus a few small apartments that I would rent out and live off the income
I think the problem with your calculations is that you assume we would be able to extract *all* the available oxygen from that litre, you should be looking at the DO of the discarded water to see how efficient the process is going to be..
No, you will need more than a standard Bluetooth dongle to sniff packets from the air.. the BlueZ hcidump program only dumps packets passing through the host OS stack (to or from the host), and the controller cannot be set to 'promiscuous' mode like a wifi radio can..
during an Agean cruise last summer, I saw at many many places that sea urchins would manipulate bits of weed or anything else they could find to a position above their bodies, presumably to shelter from the sun during the heat of the day.. (in water less than 3m). I didn't take any pictures though, so I guess this diver gets to keep his prize..
Whats funny is that I have a cup on my desk, and it is neither male nor female..
AFAIK in german, ships are generally considered to be male.. (German speakers feel free to contradict, but I have a boat built by a german speaker and it has a male name)
I think you would be hard pressed to find some land that did not have any kind of government claiming jurisdiction over rocket launches or anything else you might conceivably want to do..
On the other hand, international waters is only 12 miles offshore, and the picture didn't show many waves. Sheltered waters actually flatten down pretty quickly once the wind stops as there is no swell from other weather systems (hundreds of miles away) feeding the waves which batter against the shores. Also, I understand platforms resting on submerged flotation are generally pretty stable anyway.
watch it?
it started out as a radio show.. feh, kids!
Yes.
Sorry, did you envision that all this data is just for sale to 'Trusted Persons' ? They won't be strangers, they will be customers!
In the real world, with an interoperable protocol then it would be surmountable.. Microsoft like Skype because it is not interoperable. Software already exists that can do VoIP, and more can be written, but their customer base is unassailable because Skype refuses to talk with it.
Don't forget though, that in Europe, Microsoft were battered by the justice system. They were told to be open and provide interoperability. I wonder if *this* deal means that Skype must now become open, or if Microsoft will do everything they can to keep the protocols private..
If you've ever played Monopoly you should recall what happens when one player gets all the money.. the game is declared over, and it is all taken away.
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Correction: Frederick Pohl, what was I thinking..