That assumes I have a phone like an iPhone. Even if someone gave me one, I'm not willing to pay that much for a phone contract. When I can get a voice + data plan for 10 bucks a month or so, I'll think about it.
Yes, I also realize that I don't want to pay for a cell phone contract in order to listen to stuff I can just download and throw on my player. I don't really care if I'm listening to Science Friday on Friday or Sunday.
About 21 megapixels on a full frame SLR is already pushing the resolution limit of reasonably priced lenses (IE, L series glass). You might get a bit more than that, say 30 megapixels. Beyond that you're exceeding the Dawe's limit of the optics, and you're just not going to get any more detail this way than by just interpolating the digital 30 megapixel image.
It's a bookmarklet that I save on my browser. There is no transmission of the data nor pickup of javascript once installed. It's simple javascript, easy for any programmer to look at. I've looked it over. It's not a trojan.
There's also a version that you can grab and install on your own website for when you're using someone else's browser and can't install the bookmarklet. It's simple code too, I've looked at it and it's fine.
I wouldn't buy an MP3 player without an FM radio. It's how I listen to NPR. The MP3 part is how I listen to audiobooks and podcasts of NPR shows that aren't carried on my local station or are on when I'm at work.
I have the same password everywhere, but I use SuperGenPass so really I don't. I only have to REMEMBER one password, but what gets sent in to each site is different and looks like mWIfG7QG or something like that.
Any other constant RF signal source. That means all cell phones, cordless phones, etc. In fact, it's likely that any reasonably nearby radio station has a signal strength greater than that of a wifi hub more than a few feet away.
Clearly to be safe they need to build a 10 million dollar faraday cage around every school.
No. I don't keep my phone on. I'm pretty sure it's not doing anything sneaky while off, because I can leave it off for a month at a time and the battery is still in good shape, so it's not doing much, if anything when off.
It'd still be nice if they were available for those of us that want them. I drive like a grandma and rarely even go on the expressway. My car probably goes a month at a time without ever going over 50 MPH.
The meaning of life is to plant trees that we will not live to sit in the shade of.
Thousands of generations of people who are no longer living gave you everything you have now. Will you give something to the future, or will you just be another leech?
In fact I believe that a few years back, someone was killed by a vigilante who discovered a "sex offender" living nearby and decided to take care of the problem themselves. Turns out that he was on the list for public urination. So the guy was killed for taking a leak outside.
If you mean that no Volvo will ever kill anyone. Maybe you can shield the people inside, but IMO it doesn't count unless it won't kill anyone else either, including people in other cars, pedestrians and cyclists.
The automobile industry seems to be fixated on building tanks that can survive anything, and somewhat to warning people that they're doing stupid things. The reality is that almost all car fatalities are the results of people doing stupid things, and if anyone is betting that people will stop doing stupid things, they're up against very tall odds.
I really need to write a check to Wikileaks. And EFF. And ACLU. This liberty thing could get expensive, what with us having to fund the fight against the people who we elected to uphold it, who are also using our money.
Not really. A black hole isn't a magic vacuum cleaner, it's just a gravitational mass. It's not going to suck up anything that isn't in an intersecting orbit anyway. And we would have to get the mass to make it somewhere, meaning we'd have to boost up enough mass to make it, which is hellaciously expensive. If you try to make one that only weighs a few hundred kilograms, it's going to be even less effective than the equivalent in conventional matter, since it would be a point, even its event horizon would be microscopic, so even if something collided with it, it would just punch a hole through the other object as it passed through, it wouldn't even be able to swallow a paint chip.
In order to make one with even a golf-ball sized event horizon you'd probably have to boost up more material than we've ever put into orbit in the past.
Actually it's apparently not difficult to get your browser to reveal your browsing history. Most browsers are going to fix that in the next major release, but it's still no guarantee there won't be another way.
Also, logging DNS isn't good enough anyway - that doesn't really reveal history, only sites, and then only that something referenced them - could have been an embedded ad or anything. What they'd have to log would be HTTP requests.
Totally doesn't hold up. Back when MySpace was big, I don't think I knew more than 2 or 3 people with MySpace pages. It was pretty much exclusively a teen/college hangout.
These days the only people that I know who do NOT have Facebook pages are people without internet connections at all (lots of my family) and people who are security curmudgeons (like me). Even people who barely get on the internet use Facebook. Lots of people only even have an internet connection so that they CAN use Facebook.
You laugh, but the PC is many orders of magnitude more reliable than any early computer I had. I can't even remember the last time I had a PC crash; it's been years. Even when a program crashes, it's just that program, not the whole system. Back in the 80s I was happy if the system only locked up 3 or 4 times a day.
is that with habit, they turn into "no look barely slow downs." As a regular cyclist, and given that cyclists are often accused of blowing stop signs and lights (I don't), I have been watching cars for a couple of years, and to date I have not yet seen a single car actually stop at a stop sign unless there was traffic present.
The problem that I've seen is that especially in rural areas like where I am, people follow the same routes day after day, and almost every time there's no traffic there, so after a few months, people start to assume there's no traffic, and they blow the sign without even looking. I've watched people go through stop signs without even turning their head.
It's especially a problem for cyclists, because car drivers are really only looking for things that can hurt them, not for more vulnerable road users like cyclists and pedestrians. Coming to a complete stop gives them an extra second or two to register something other than a couple ton steel box in the road.
They're right, the emulator experience is not the same.
To really be accurate, the emulator would have to crash a bunch, require you to spend hours cleaning contacts with pencil erasers, screwing with cassette deck head alignment, beating on flaky equipment with your fist, and having to buy replacement cables every few months.
Kids these days don't know what they're missing with stuff that just works. I sometimes want to slap them around when they complain about hard drives that crash every 10 years on average. I had stuff that crashed every 10 minutes and I paid 10 times as much for it.
No, the basis of science is to make claims that are testable. That does not mean provable. It means falsifiable.
When an experiment in science matches the hypothesis, it doesn't "prove" something, it indicates that the hypothesis appears to be correct within the limits of the experiment. If it does not match the hypothesis, then the theory behind the hypothesis is faulty and must be revised or discarded.
Science progresses when previous theories are shown to be incorrect or incomplete, and are revised or replaced.
And experiments are also required to be reproduceable by anyone who wishes to test the theory and can recreate the experiment.
Religion does not leave any room for falsification. You can't prove a religious belief false, that's how the belief system is structured. It may be possible for an actual divine act to occur and convince people that a belief is true, but it's unlikely to be replicatable at will by skeptics who did not witness the event, and some witnesses may choose to believe another explanation than divine intervention.
Uh, actually, one of the primary reasons that the FCC originally and still allows amateur radio the really impressive set of bands and technologies that they are allowed is that they ARE there for emergency communications.
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Autorun is completely evil. You're an idiot if you don't disable it as soon as you unbox your computer. That is all.
That assumes I have a phone like an iPhone. Even if someone gave me one, I'm not willing to pay that much for a phone contract. When I can get a voice + data plan for 10 bucks a month or so, I'll think about it.
Yes, I also realize that I don't want to pay for a cell phone contract in order to listen to stuff I can just download and throw on my player. I don't really care if I'm listening to Science Friday on Friday or Sunday.
About 21 megapixels on a full frame SLR is already pushing the resolution limit of reasonably priced lenses (IE, L series glass). You might get a bit more than that, say 30 megapixels. Beyond that you're exceeding the Dawe's limit of the optics, and you're just not going to get any more detail this way than by just interpolating the digital 30 megapixel image.
It's a bookmarklet that I save on my browser. There is no transmission of the data nor pickup of javascript once installed. It's simple javascript, easy for any programmer to look at. I've looked it over. It's not a trojan.
There's also a version that you can grab and install on your own website for when you're using someone else's browser and can't install the bookmarklet. It's simple code too, I've looked at it and it's fine.
I wouldn't buy an MP3 player without an FM radio. It's how I listen to NPR. The MP3 part is how I listen to audiobooks and podcasts of NPR shows that aren't carried on my local station or are on when I'm at work.
I have the same password everywhere, but I use SuperGenPass so really I don't. I only have to REMEMBER one password, but what gets sent in to each site is different and looks like mWIfG7QG or something like that.
Any other constant RF signal source. That means all cell phones, cordless phones, etc. In fact, it's likely that any reasonably nearby radio station has a signal strength greater than that of a wifi hub more than a few feet away.
Clearly to be safe they need to build a 10 million dollar faraday cage around every school.
No. I don't keep my phone on. I'm pretty sure it's not doing anything sneaky while off, because I can leave it off for a month at a time and the battery is still in good shape, so it's not doing much, if anything when off.
It'd still be nice if they were available for those of us that want them. I drive like a grandma and rarely even go on the expressway. My car probably goes a month at a time without ever going over 50 MPH.
Don't have to, World Community Grid has already been doing cancer cure grid computing for years.
This one is complete:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/hdc/overview.do
These two are still running:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/hcc1/overview.do
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/hfcc/overview.do
The meaning of life is to plant trees that we will not live to sit in the shade of.
Thousands of generations of people who are no longer living gave you everything you have now. Will you give something to the future, or will you just be another leech?
In fact I believe that a few years back, someone was killed by a vigilante who discovered a "sex offender" living nearby and decided to take care of the problem themselves. Turns out that he was on the list for public urination. So the guy was killed for taking a leak outside.
If you mean that no Volvo will ever kill anyone. Maybe you can shield the people inside, but IMO it doesn't count unless it won't kill anyone else either, including people in other cars, pedestrians and cyclists.
The automobile industry seems to be fixated on building tanks that can survive anything, and somewhat to warning people that they're doing stupid things. The reality is that almost all car fatalities are the results of people doing stupid things, and if anyone is betting that people will stop doing stupid things, they're up against very tall odds.
I really need to write a check to Wikileaks. And EFF. And ACLU. This liberty thing could get expensive, what with us having to fund the fight against the people who we elected to uphold it, who are also using our money.
Not really. A black hole isn't a magic vacuum cleaner, it's just a gravitational mass. It's not going to suck up anything that isn't in an intersecting orbit anyway. And we would have to get the mass to make it somewhere, meaning we'd have to boost up enough mass to make it, which is hellaciously expensive. If you try to make one that only weighs a few hundred kilograms, it's going to be even less effective than the equivalent in conventional matter, since it would be a point, even its event horizon would be microscopic, so even if something collided with it, it would just punch a hole through the other object as it passed through, it wouldn't even be able to swallow a paint chip.
In order to make one with even a golf-ball sized event horizon you'd probably have to boost up more material than we've ever put into orbit in the past.
Actually it's apparently not difficult to get your browser to reveal your browsing history. Most browsers are going to fix that in the next major release, but it's still no guarantee there won't be another way.
Also, logging DNS isn't good enough anyway - that doesn't really reveal history, only sites, and then only that something referenced them - could have been an embedded ad or anything. What they'd have to log would be HTTP requests.
Totally doesn't hold up. Back when MySpace was big, I don't think I knew more than 2 or 3 people with MySpace pages. It was pretty much exclusively a teen/college hangout.
These days the only people that I know who do NOT have Facebook pages are people without internet connections at all (lots of my family) and people who are security curmudgeons (like me). Even people who barely get on the internet use Facebook. Lots of people only even have an internet connection so that they CAN use Facebook.
You laugh, but the PC is many orders of magnitude more reliable than any early computer I had. I can't even remember the last time I had a PC crash; it's been years. Even when a program crashes, it's just that program, not the whole system. Back in the 80s I was happy if the system only locked up 3 or 4 times a day.
is that with habit, they turn into "no look barely slow downs." As a regular cyclist, and given that cyclists are often accused of blowing stop signs and lights (I don't), I have been watching cars for a couple of years, and to date I have not yet seen a single car actually stop at a stop sign unless there was traffic present.
The problem that I've seen is that especially in rural areas like where I am, people follow the same routes day after day, and almost every time there's no traffic there, so after a few months, people start to assume there's no traffic, and they blow the sign without even looking. I've watched people go through stop signs without even turning their head.
It's especially a problem for cyclists, because car drivers are really only looking for things that can hurt them, not for more vulnerable road users like cyclists and pedestrians. Coming to a complete stop gives them an extra second or two to register something other than a couple ton steel box in the road.
They're right, the emulator experience is not the same.
To really be accurate, the emulator would have to crash a bunch, require you to spend hours cleaning contacts with pencil erasers, screwing with cassette deck head alignment, beating on flaky equipment with your fist, and having to buy replacement cables every few months.
Kids these days don't know what they're missing with stuff that just works. I sometimes want to slap them around when they complain about hard drives that crash every 10 years on average. I had stuff that crashed every 10 minutes and I paid 10 times as much for it.
And just imagine - there will at least have to be a way to navigate all sites WITHOUT FLASH.
WITHOUT FLASH MAN!!!!
No, the basis of science is to make claims that are testable. That does not mean provable. It means falsifiable.
When an experiment in science matches the hypothesis, it doesn't "prove" something, it indicates that the hypothesis appears to be correct within the limits of the experiment. If it does not match the hypothesis, then the theory behind the hypothesis is faulty and must be revised or discarded.
Science progresses when previous theories are shown to be incorrect or incomplete, and are revised or replaced.
And experiments are also required to be reproduceable by anyone who wishes to test the theory and can recreate the experiment.
Religion does not leave any room for falsification. You can't prove a religious belief false, that's how the belief system is structured. It may be possible for an actual divine act to occur and convince people that a belief is true, but it's unlikely to be replicatable at will by skeptics who did not witness the event, and some witnesses may choose to believe another explanation than divine intervention.
It's tic-tac-toe that teaches him the concept of an unwinnable game though.
Uh, actually, one of the primary reasons that the FCC originally and still allows amateur radio the really impressive set of bands and technologies that they are allowed is that they ARE there for emergency communications.
What do you think Field Day is all about?