There may be something to metabolism around "afterglow", women glowing when they're pregnant, unusual mental capacity, etc. which could easily generate 10 or 100 x the intensity observed in this study, and thus be observable by many people. (All sorts of biological processes span several orders of magnitude in concentration, intensity, energy, etc., and plenty of other bio-luminescent organisms show that the energy levels required to emit naked eye visible light are mostly not harmful to the organism.)
Excuse me for not sharing your excitement, but this is way too close to some happy new-age hippie karma pipe dream. Sorry about that, but please apply a little bit of critical thought here.
The light in question is 1000 times less intense than our sensitivity. Even if you increase it hundredfold it does not become observable by many people. It is STILL invisible - in absolute darkness, nonetheless.
Your ideas further assume this invisible light could be noticeable in broad daylight. Which, I am afraid to say, almost certainly brings this idea well into crackpot land.
Others can probably expand further on why we need a certain amount of photons for the receptors in our eyes to trigger and how it would be impossible for that mechanism to work when we're 3 orders of magnitude off the threshold.
The worst example, and a sign of things to come, was when Google Ads went down awhile back and took a bunch of websites down with it, including (as I remember) Slashdot. If your page included google ads, it just wouldn't load. I don't think AJAX is going to help with that. Feel free to disagree, but be specific.
Well, it's kind of obvious: Ads should support loading through AJAX.
"We'll take your site down with us" is not a great selling point.
Well, I tell people that I am outdated with regards to fixing computers, I used to do it when I started to play with computers but now the time I would spend fixing my aunt virus infected computer would make me loose too much money compared to spending that time on my regular work.
So maybe competent people do not want to do this kind of work, I don't anyway...
They have stopped to call me since a while and this is a good thing, charging them more than the price of the computer to fix it wouldn't fly and that is what it costs me in lost income;-))
Family: Set up a NAS, teach them the concept of external storage and why they must use it. Shortcut on desktop and in my documents. Attach USB disk to NAS and set up daily + weekly + monthly + yearly snapshot.
Rotate the backup USB disk between homes once a year or so.
Come reinstall, disk crash or burned down house. Your aunt will not lose her digital photos from 3 years past.
Did you know they can't even reproduce without artificial insemination? How is that considered a good thing? It's horrible. Our neighbors have one, and we dog-sat while they were gone. The poor thing could barely breathe. It was so bad, that when it was sleeping, if you didn't hear this rasping groaning snore coming from it, you'd think it was dying.
The British KC and many others are breeding dogs for looks at the cost of anything else, including health.
Several breeds looked quite different 100 years ago, but have bred to have their features exaggerated into an increasingly "perfect" style.
Health issues, inbreeding (and most likely a huge reduction in the gene pool) for any breed of dog is the result.
In my opinion, the people should have been jailed for animal cruelty. Dogs are doomed to a life of pain and disease because their genes have are being butchered to give them unnatural looks. In many ways this is worse than what is possible in an act of violence against a dog.
There are risks in having an open WLAN. Some of them have something to do with you becoming suspected of crime, some are about how other people can commit crimes against you. It can be argued if the police is the best organization to educate about this or not but police certainly can do it and it is important thing to do.
My WLAN is secured, but my SSID contains my cell phone number and an invitation for requesting the password.
Got a message twice from people in need of checking email.
I'll switch passwords after a week. Should nasty stuff happen, I have their phone number logged and would hand it to the police.
Her setup is more like a fortress filled with cruise missiles that can be launched with lots of advanced warning of attack.
And atom bombs! And ninjas! In a whiny white fortress on a mountaintop. Totally sweet!
Sir, you seem to have gone a bit over top with your war-analogies, somehow implying that virtual machines can cause a digital equivalent of "cruise missile" damage to attackers. At best, such a setup would render attacks useless.
May I suggest a car analogy?:
A dirty old car you drive in the nasty neighborhoods (not really caring if it is destroyed) as well as a fancy Mercedes to drive to the places you know for certain nothing bad will happen to the car.
It could be the 1997 bloop that the Navy picked up on their sonar equipment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop). It looked like a biological entity, but was far to big to be any known creature.
Which wouldn't rule out it being a shoggoth.
Dead whale?
Whales are pretty big things to start with, I could imagine them feeding enough microbes to set up a temporary ecosystem that would exist for a while even after the whale corpse had decayed.
And it could be a way for someone to establish plausible deniability that they were posting a torrent. e.g. a blog post deploring the loss of revenue for Metalica with a picture of the band's latest almbum that happens to hide a torrent for that albumn. ("oh the irony, I just grabbed that image off google images and little did I know that particular one held a torrent. wink wink")
Wish I could mod you up. This the point the GP misses. All the scenarios he mentions are niches, which probably will not see the GPS being replaced by smartphones in the near future.
GGP also misses the key point of a "trend". Standalone units might be more specialized today, but phones evolve fast.
The "hard" problems are multitasking and battery life. Separate devices allows you to browse your address book while keeping an eye on the map. Ask for directions over the phone while plotting it into your GPS.
If this is true it will be just like speed dial and later the cell phone contact list. Yes we did lose the ability to recite everybody's number, but we rarely miss it.
But dialing a number from memory is often faster than using a contact list.
I want this implementation: - When selecting a contact to dial, number is displayed. - You can press "dial" - OR type the number, turning each digit green as you go.
Unless I am in extreme hurry, I'd take the extra seconds to dial the number. Over time, I would learn the numbers and actually save time by not having to use the contact list that often.
Not to mention that phones get left at home, lost, stolen, runs out of battery or various other minor happenings. Being able to dial numbers from memory is pretty neat. And fast.
Blizzard should be willing to develop LAN functionality as a patch, place the code in escrow, and include a contractual provision on the box which automatically authorizes release of patch by the escrow agent if online service is terminated.
Code in escrow? How to ensure it's bug-free?
It would need to be tested by a large number of players. And retested after all other patches to the game, or the escrow patch would be buggy and worthless. Oh, and you can't leak the code during all that testing.
I am willing to bet that this budget analysis guys rand the lost sales versus the gained revenue and it came out ahead to do drop the LAN.
They might be proven otherwise.
Blizzard releasing SC2 without LAN support means the pirates will release with LAN support. I trust pirates to figure out how to make a small LAN-based home-bnet server utility, which will be bundled with the pirated game. The end result is that the pirate version is better than the original product, since it does not require a Internet connection to have some friends over and play SC2 with them. It might also be more stable than sending all the packets round-trip over teh Internets instead of sending them to the next table.
Investor A gives you $5 Bn. Investor B gives you $10 Bn. After 3 years, investor A pulls out -- you pay him $10 Bn in earnings & principal. So now you have $0, but you owe Investor B $10 Bn plus earnings. So what do you have left?
I have $5 Bn, and your testimony there is nothing left of B's $10 Bn. Nice bookkeeping!
What shocks me is that he didn't run to some country with a non-extradite treaty with the US. I'm sure he has to have some money stashed away somewhere, enough to hire a blackwater/XI style group to smuggle him out.
But if he "escaped", do you think his sons would get off with no penalty, or do you suppose the public would demand to keep the hunt up until someone had been punished?
But it doesn't really matter, does it? These were the extremely wealthy who were conned.
As far as the general public is concerned, it's not a big deal when the wealthy steal from the wealthy.
Excuse me, but...
I lost my job over this when my employer tanked because of Madoff's scam, and I never had a dime invested with him. This has affected all kinds of people!
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And it's not a big deal when the wealthy steal from the poor -- that's business as usual.
I though Europe was blocked 2 years or so earlier. Didn't know that France was an exception. Or he was lucky with his IP block being considered American.
The cellphone method works great and has never bothered me until I had to enter a 63-character WPA key into an iPhone. This is something you can't do from memory, so you're moving your eyes back and forth between a plaintext copy, and trying to remember just where you left off. Agony.
I'll one-up your agony: Hooking a digital photo frame up. No keyboard, no touchscreen. Selecting letters one at a time by clicking left-left-left-left until correct symbol appears, then push "ok". *cringe*
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There may be something to metabolism around "afterglow", women glowing when they're pregnant, unusual mental capacity, etc. which could easily generate 10 or 100 x the intensity observed in this study, and thus be observable by many people. (All sorts of biological processes span several orders of magnitude in concentration, intensity, energy, etc., and plenty of other bio-luminescent organisms show that the energy levels required to emit naked eye visible light are mostly not harmful to the organism.)
Excuse me for not sharing your excitement, but this is way too close to some happy new-age hippie karma pipe dream. Sorry about that, but please apply a little bit of critical thought here.
The light in question is 1000 times less intense than our sensitivity. Even if you increase it hundredfold it does not become observable by many people. It is STILL invisible - in absolute darkness, nonetheless.
Your ideas further assume this invisible light could be noticeable in broad daylight. Which, I am afraid to say, almost certainly brings this idea well into crackpot land.
Others can probably expand further on why we need a certain amount of photons for the receptors in our eyes to trigger and how it would be impossible for that mechanism to work when we're 3 orders of magnitude off the threshold.
The worst example, and a sign of things to come, was when Google Ads went down awhile back and took a bunch of websites down with it, including (as I remember) Slashdot. If your page included google ads, it just wouldn't load. I don't think AJAX is going to help with that. Feel free to disagree, but be specific.
Well, it's kind of obvious: Ads should support loading through AJAX.
"We'll take your site down with us" is not a great selling point.
Well, I tell people that I am outdated with regards to fixing computers, I used to do it when I started to play with computers but now the time I would spend fixing my aunt virus infected computer would make me loose too much money compared to spending that time on my regular work.
So maybe competent people do not want to do this kind of work, I don't anyway...
They have stopped to call me since a while and this is a good thing, charging them more than the price of the computer to fix it wouldn't fly and that is what it costs me in lost income ;-))
Family:
Set up a NAS, teach them the concept of external storage and why they must use it. Shortcut on desktop and in my documents. Attach USB disk to NAS and set up daily + weekly + monthly + yearly snapshot.
Rotate the backup USB disk between homes once a year or so.
Come reinstall, disk crash or burned down house. Your aunt will not lose her digital photos from 3 years past.
Did you know they can't even reproduce without artificial insemination? How is that considered a good thing? It's horrible. Our neighbors have one, and we dog-sat while they were gone. The poor thing could barely breathe. It was so bad, that when it was sleeping, if you didn't hear this rasping groaning snore coming from it, you'd think it was dying.
The British KC and many others are breeding dogs for looks at the cost of anything else, including health.
Several breeds looked quite different 100 years ago, but have bred to have their features exaggerated into an increasingly "perfect" style.
Health issues, inbreeding (and most likely a huge reduction in the gene pool) for any breed of dog is the result.
In my opinion, the people should have been jailed for animal cruelty. Dogs are doomed to a life of pain and disease because their genes have are being butchered to give them unnatural looks. In many ways this is worse than what is possible in an act of violence against a dog.
Oh no.. Watch the movie "Naked Space" With Leslie Nielsen, Patrick MacNee, and Cinty Williams.
The highlight of the movie is an alien singing "I'm going to eat your face."
HA! You whippersnappers should get acquainted with Ed Wood.
May I suggest "Glen or Glenda"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_or_Glenda
There are risks in having an open WLAN. Some of them have something to do with you becoming suspected of crime, some are about how other people can commit crimes against you. It can be argued if the police is the best organization to educate about this or not but police certainly can do it and it is important thing to do.
My WLAN is secured, but my SSID contains my cell phone number and an invitation for requesting the password.
Got a message twice from people in need of checking email.
I'll switch passwords after a week. Should nasty stuff happen, I have their phone number logged and would hand it to the police.
Her setup is more like a fortress filled with cruise missiles that can be launched with lots of advanced warning of attack.
And atom bombs! And ninjas! In a whiny white fortress on a mountaintop. Totally sweet!
Sir, you seem to have gone a bit over top with your war-analogies, somehow implying that virtual machines can cause a digital equivalent of "cruise missile" damage to attackers. At best, such a setup would render attacks useless.
May I suggest a car analogy?:
A dirty old car you drive in the nasty neighborhoods (not really caring if it is destroyed) as well as a fancy Mercedes to drive to the places you know for certain nothing bad will happen to the car.
It could be the 1997 bloop that the Navy picked up on their sonar equipment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop). It looked like a biological entity, but was far to big to be any known creature.
Which wouldn't rule out it being a shoggoth.
Dead whale?
Whales are pretty big things to start with, I could imagine them feeding enough microbes to set up a temporary ecosystem that would exist for a while even after the whale corpse had decayed.
This is going to sound wacky, but I really just want to think it through.
What if we made the kind of fraud that's apparently exercised by music and movie studio accountants, punishable by death?
How would that play out in society and culture?
Answer:
Music and movie studios would lobby and twist the law until they could hand out death sentences for piracy.
"What we would like to do is leverage existing wikis by augmenting our internal wiki with an external wiki"
What does that even mean? If you want to design something, you'll have to use more precise language.
His example is much clearer:
For example, links to company-specific wiki pages would be available in Wikipedia pages.
One solution could be a Firefox greasemonkey script, as someone above already suggested.
And it could be a way for someone to establish plausible deniability that they were posting a torrent. e.g. a blog post deploring the loss of revenue for Metalica with a picture of the band's latest almbum that happens to hide a torrent for that albumn. ("oh the irony, I just grabbed that image off google images and little did I know that particular one held a torrent. wink wink")
That would be steganography.
According to TFA, Hid.im pictures look like this: http://torrentfreak.com/images/hidim.jpg
Just when I was going to patent my "process for delivering an online response to a website article post", judges start remembering the Bilski Test!
You would never be able to implement that without paying royalties for the "process for transferring information between computers" patent, anyway.
since all south korean online banking is done with windows computers, friday will seriously suck.
I've been scanning the news for updates on this.
Now it's past 9 PM in Seoul, and I still can't find any news on what actually happened, just a lot of stories like TFA.
Nothing happened?
It is interesting that we are ok with violence, but fret over sex (At least in the US).
It's not just interesting, it's mind boggling.
Violence is bad, murder is generally considered to be the worst thing you can do. Sex is great, and actually required for human survival.
And which of these do we freely display in movies, while the other is only hinted at or avoided?
Wish I could mod you up. This the point the GP misses. All the scenarios he mentions are niches, which probably will not see the GPS being replaced by smartphones in the near future.
GGP also misses the key point of a "trend". Standalone units might be more specialized today, but phones evolve fast.
The "hard" problems are multitasking and battery life. Separate devices allows you to browse your address book while keeping an eye on the map. Ask for directions over the phone while plotting it into your GPS.
If this is true it will be just like speed dial and later the cell phone contact list. Yes we did lose the ability to recite everybody's number, but we rarely miss it.
But dialing a number from memory is often faster than using a contact list.
I want this implementation:
- When selecting a contact to dial, number is displayed.
- You can press "dial" - OR type the number, turning each digit green as you go.
Unless I am in extreme hurry, I'd take the extra seconds to dial the number. Over time, I would learn the numbers and actually save time by not having to use the contact list that often.
Not to mention that phones get left at home, lost, stolen, runs out of battery or various other minor happenings. Being able to dial numbers from memory is pretty neat. And fast.
Blizzard should be willing to develop LAN functionality as a patch, place the code in escrow, and include a contractual provision on the box which automatically authorizes release of patch by the escrow agent if online service is terminated.
Code in escrow? How to ensure it's bug-free?
It would need to be tested by a large number of players. And retested after all other patches to the game, or the escrow patch would be buggy and worthless. Oh, and you can't leak the code during all that testing.
I am willing to bet that this budget analysis guys rand the lost sales versus the gained revenue and it came out ahead to do drop the LAN.
They might be proven otherwise.
Blizzard releasing SC2 without LAN support means the pirates will release with LAN support. I trust pirates to figure out how to make a small LAN-based home-bnet server utility, which will be bundled with the pirated game. The end result is that the pirate version is better than the original product, since it does not require a Internet connection to have some friends over and play SC2 with them. It might also be more stable than sending all the packets round-trip over teh Internets instead of sending them to the next table.
Investor A gives you $5 Bn.
Investor B gives you $10 Bn.
After 3 years, investor A pulls out -- you pay him $10 Bn in earnings & principal.
So now you have $0, but you owe Investor B $10 Bn plus earnings.
So what do you have left?
I have $5 Bn, and your testimony there is nothing left of B's $10 Bn. Nice bookkeeping!
What shocks me is that he didn't run to some country with a non-extradite treaty with the US. I'm sure he has to have some money stashed away somewhere, enough to hire a blackwater/XI style group to smuggle him out.
But if he "escaped", do you think his sons would get off with no penalty, or do you suppose the public would demand to keep the hunt up until someone had been punished?
Excuse me, but...
I lost my job over this when my employer tanked because of Madoff's scam, and I never had a dime invested with him. This has affected all kinds of people!
Grandparent post, 2 sentences later:
...err, I mean. Isn't this old news?
I though Europe was blocked 2 years or so earlier. Didn't know that France was an exception. Or he was lucky with his IP block being considered American.
"Before the movie "50 First Dates", there was a sci-fi short story that posited this, with horrifying consequences"
It must suck that your example of this is a crappy rom-com with Adam Sandler rather than a brilliant film like Memento.
Or groundhog day. Was that the first movie to explore this concept, or are there older movies with a similar plot?
The cellphone method works great and has never bothered me until I had to enter a 63-character WPA key into an iPhone. This is something you can't do from memory, so you're moving your eyes back and forth between a plaintext copy, and trying to remember just where you left off. Agony.
I'll one-up your agony: Hooking a digital photo frame up. No keyboard, no touchscreen. Selecting letters one at a time by clicking left-left-left-left until correct symbol appears, then push "ok". *cringe*
Way too short.
Everyone should have use long, hard passwords! I always use "D1am0ndVibrat0r"