What would be really cool is if they could turn this technology around and build something like the "regeneration" machine in The Fifth Element...
Instead of Nip/Tuck it would be Cut/Paste
You would have to be careful if you were to do a face lift, though. If you use a coprighted image, the person would come out with the word VOID printed across their new face... Not that the wouldn't be funny too.....
Kind of reminiscent of the Futurama episode "I Dated A Robot" where they download celebrities onto blank robots.
Someone should write a program that makes the pop-up ad server serve up so many ads that it crashes.
Like, something that requests the pop-up ad, then closes the window. Or, for other types of ads, requests the ads, then denies the content from the site. The program would do this so rapidly that they server would be bogged down in ad requests, without the ads actually making it to the other end - basically a DoS attack, except one might be able to argue that the ad service was being used for what it was created to do..... serve ads.
The best thing about this is that anyone with an ad service contract would definitely violate their ToS, especially Google's ad-serving policies, because of the sheer number of ad requests.
I'm not a programmer, so what I'm saying may probably will not make a whole bunch of sense to anyone who is a programmer, but just an idea i would like to see happen.
Has Yahoo! really become so desperate that is has to push downloads of a browser that includes it as the default search engine? I'm suprised that Microsoft hasn't recognized the fact that the Yahoo search page is so jam-packed with useless crap that nobody wants to use it, and that is the main reason why Google has become such a strong leader in search engines. Pepople don't like Yahoo for the same reason they don't like AOL: Wayyy to much advertising and "feaure" crap crammed into the search page. If Microsoft was smart, they would have told Yahoo to go shove their service, and approched Google instead.
This could be a flimsy pretext to a 'War of the Worlds' joke.....
BTW..... When I was a kid, I once saw this horror/scary movie on TV about a converted battleship that was powered by blood. It was really weird, but I remember it being sorta cool. Wish I could remember it now.....
The worst part of the super-thick clamshell pakaging plastic is when you have to pull and pry so hard to get it open that the plastic suddenly gives and you wind up ripping the pakaging - and the item - in two.
If they start changing money fit this ruling, I'm just going to start removing the changes or ironing out the Braille or embossing just out of sheer spite of this judge and his ruling.
Judges are NOT activists. This is another swing at judicial credibility that causes people to stop taking the rule of law seriously..... and I don't blame them.
Judges are becoming just as slimy as personal injury lawyers. They are believing that they have to make something of themselves in order to justify their occupation and give their career some meaning. Well, that's not how it works. You become a good judge by interpreting the law fairly, not by becoming an activist judge and defaulting to the less fortunate and/or more popular party.
POLITICIANS PREFER UNARMED PEASANTS......That reason and the fact that there are idiots who would rather steal stuff than earn the money to buy it on their own.
The guy who posted below me, the one who says he is the 'owner' of several sites, claims that thy need the info for contact issues. Hmmmmm..... One has to ask, though, where exactly the spammers get their supply of email addresses FROM..... sites just like his. Yeah, we believe you.....
Spam-And-Eggers like him are the hosts that the spammers feed off of, and most likely pay off in return for massive lists of email addresses that they can add to their already massive lists of email targets.
The main reason that site owners don't like disappearing email lists is that the emails are non-existant by the time they try to sell the lists to spammers. Additioanlly, no spammer is going to want to do business with someone who is supplying them with non-existant email addresses. Now that spammers have become wary of disappearing addresses, the value for such lists will go down, since it can now be expected that more and more of the addresses on the list are non-existant.
Yeah, that's it. Blame being poor. The (main) reason people are poor is because they lack the motivation to make anything of themselves, especially in high school where it matters. Being poor isn't a justification of dropping out of school, nor is coming from a 'bad neighborhood', it's a BAD explaination.
People drop out of high school because they ARE lazy, with a good measure of stupid mixed in. Not only that, but people think that they are set for life working a menial, hourly job. The people who do this think that it is an OK thing to do, as the government is supposed to provide whatever they can't afford. People need to suffer for their bad choices, because it is the only thing that will shock them into getting their act together. Why should I, and taxpayers like me who made the decision to SUCK UP THE PAIN AND STAY IN SCHOOL pay for services that these people can't pay for because they made the concious decision to drop out of school and forfeit higher incomes that would allow them to pay for these things on their own? The United States has become a Welfare State where people are 'baby-ed' whenever their bad choices catch up and bite them in the ass. How much simpler can it possibly get? If you want the opportunity of a better life, then stay in school.
If you make the decision to drop out of high school, and you are the only one who can keep you out of high school, then you deserve to be living on the street, starving and freezing your ass off. I'd be happy to let you do that. In the mean time, I would welcome the cast-aside Vietnam vets to take your job from you. They deserve a better life more than you do.
The United States needs to stop bailing out people who make horrible decisions. People continue to make the bad choices because they can COUNT ON the Government to bail them out when they need it. If you are poor, and cannot provide a safe environment for your children, those children DESERVE to be taken away from you and given a better life, where they will be taught to make GOOD CHOICES, so they don't end up like you.
Sometimes, being insensitive IS being equal and fair. No one has the right to a good life - they have the right to make a good life.
Look, I'm not trashing the kid, but people creating fusion in their basement is not new, or even remotely new. Philo Farnsworth did it a long time ago.. It's cool that he managed to do it, but it has been done so many times, the uniquness of the whole thing is non-existant. Anyone, pretty much anyone with a moderate knowledge of physics and electronics, not to mention a significant amount of free time, can do that.
I'm not questioning has actions of actually doing it, because I think that it is a pretty cool thing to do, like the Boy Scout who built a completely functioning breeder reactor in his garden shed, all while being completely undetected. What I am calling into question is the unique-ness of the whole thing. Is it really news? Have other people done it before? Kudos to the kid who did it, but it really isn't new.
Philo Farnsworth did this ages ago. So what's the big deal? All of a sudden, just because someone does something that has a techy-sounding name, it becomes newsworthy regardless of the fact that it is NOTHING new?
In a speech class that I took over the summer, we had to select and explain a topic of our choosing, and then give a speech on it. Needless to say, every single person who used the Wikipedia as their primary source for information gave very shady supporting "facts" to there statements, and it wasn't only me saying that. When we gave feedback abd asked about facts that didn't seem quite right, the source was the Wikipedia. I'm not saying that Wiki is bad - it is very well intentioned and I support it. However, the fact that every idoit can put in there 2 cents on topics makes it anything but a credible source, even remotely.
After about half of the speeches were given, it became quite a class discussion about the validity of Wiki, and it was deemed as a wholly unacceptable source for information that was going to be used in a factual manner.
I cringe whenever I hear from teachers the the Wikipedia is a valid source of information for class projects, because I know it contains about as many facts as it does errors.
Just because something is in the Wikipedia does NOT mean that it is valid.
Why only a square kilometer? Again, some idiot had missed the forest for hte trees.
The polar caps on Mars are composed almost ENTIRELY out of carbon dioxide, with a little bit of water mixed in. Why don't they focus the mirrors onto the polar caps and vaporize the solid CO2? Not only will they be able to build up the atmosphere, but the CO2 will create a "greenhouse effect" and WARM THE ENTIRE PLANET. Possibly, this CO2atmosphere may be able to help absorb some of the massive amounts of radiation that bombards Mars. Further more, they could set aside a small area and use more mirrors to super-heat the ground and try to free some of the oxygen that is trapped in the iron oxide 'soil' and possibly create a (somewhat) breathable atmosphere.
So:
Mirrors on the polar caps would vaporize CO2 to create a 'greenhouse'-type atmosphere.
Mirrors on designated areas would super-heat iron oxide in the ground for oxygen (possibly).
Theoretically, you could create weather 'patterns' on Mars so that the cold polar areas and super-hot areas would interact with each other to produce wind patterns that would behave much the same way as on Earth. The continued addition of C02 to the atmosphere would be helped in part to warming of Mars by the release of CO2. The outside acceleration of CO2 vaporization by the mirrors could be stopped when the planet becomes warm enough to cause the release of CO2 to be self-sustaining. Outside intervention could be eliminated when the deposition of CO2 at the polar areas become equal to the vaporization by climatic action.
End Result: AN ENTIRE PLANET WARMED, instead of one lousy square kilometer.
Cost Comparison: Multply the article's cost of warming 1 square kilometer by the number of square kilometers of surface area that Mars has. You get the idea.
Now, you would most likely probably need (for basic terraforming), say, 5 square kilometers for polar cap vaporization and 5 square kilometers for oxygen evaporization/atmospheric warming to get proces started. The speed of terraforming would depend on how may mirros are allotted to polar cap vaporization and surface heating. But it would happen eventually.
(INSERT FUTURAMA QUOTE HERE)
----- Another half-baked engineering student on his way to getting a 'degree'. Hopefully, the other half of his brain will come into being and he will finally be (remotely) worthy of the title "Engineer". If you are going to propose an idea to the mass media, THINK IT THROUGH FIRST!
Keep in mind, I am only throwing this out there as a rough idea, so don't think it has been thought out for months or anything.
Furthermore, why are people digging up old technology any repackagng it as "new"? I wish scientists would go back to the days of inventing things, rather than just giving techy-sounding names to old technologies and calling them new and innovative, or even patenting them.
Creating technology is alot more than digging up something that has been around before and giving it a name that nobody can pronounce and a patent.
They left out the part where George H.W. Bush signed the order that made most of DARPA public. This is the part of DARPA that GREW INTO the Internet. Curious how they left it out. At least they didn't include the part where Al Gore 'invented' the Internet.
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What would be really cool is if they could turn this technology around and build something like the "regeneration" machine in The Fifth Element...
Instead of Nip/Tuck it would be Cut/Paste
You would have to be careful if you were to do a face lift, though. If you use a coprighted image, the person would come out with the word VOID printed across their new face... Not that the wouldn't be funny too.....
Kind of reminiscent of the Futurama episode "I Dated A Robot" where they download celebrities onto blank robots.
I guess that is why the dog farts seem to ravel across the room so fast that they have the ability to knock people over.....
All hail the mighty Mom particle, for it keeps the Universe in order.....
The Meaning/Origins of Life are relative depending on who asks the question:
Politicans: Votes.
Governemnt: Taxes.
Office Managers: Getting status reports.
Office Workers: Writing status reports.
Labor/Trade Unions: Complaining.
Corporate Executives: Golf.
Hermes Conrad: Requisition forms.
Nerds/Geeks: 42.
Soap Opera Junkies: 24
Rednecks: NASCAR
NASCAR: Rednecks
It's really not a hard question.....
Hell yeah I would sue him! I'd make damn sure he starves for what he did.
Someone should write a program that makes the pop-up ad server serve up so many ads that it crashes.
Like, something that requests the pop-up ad, then closes the window. Or, for other types of ads, requests the ads, then denies the content from the site. The program would do this so rapidly that they server would be bogged down in ad requests, without the ads actually making it to the other end - basically a DoS attack, except one might be able to argue that the ad service was being used for what it was created to do..... serve ads.
The best thing about this is that anyone with an ad service contract would definitely violate their ToS, especially Google's ad-serving policies, because of the sheer number of ad requests.
I'm not a programmer, so what I'm saying may probably will not make a whole bunch of sense to anyone who is a programmer, but just an idea i would like to see happen.
Has Yahoo! really become so desperate that is has to push downloads of a browser that includes it as the default search engine? I'm suprised that Microsoft hasn't recognized the fact that the Yahoo search page is so jam-packed with useless crap that nobody wants to use it, and that is the main reason why Google has become such a strong leader in search engines. Pepople don't like Yahoo for the same reason they don't like AOL: Wayyy to much advertising and "feaure" crap crammed into the search page. If Microsoft was smart, they would have told Yahoo to go shove their service, and approched Google instead.
Simplicity sells.
This could be a flimsy pretext to a 'War of the Worlds' joke.....
BTW..... When I was a kid, I once saw this horror/scary movie on TV about a converted battleship that was powered by blood. It was really weird, but I remember it being sorta cool. Wish I could remember it now.....
The worst part of the super-thick clamshell pakaging plastic is when you have to pull and pry so hard to get it open that the plastic suddenly gives and you wind up ripping the pakaging - and the item - in two.
Wow... The english they use was worse than Borat's english.
If they start changing money fit this ruling, I'm just going to start removing the changes or ironing out the Braille or embossing just out of sheer spite of this judge and his ruling.
Judges are NOT activists. This is another swing at judicial credibility that causes people to stop taking the rule of law seriously..... and I don't blame them.
Judges are becoming just as slimy as personal injury lawyers. They are believing that they have to make something of themselves in order to justify their occupation and give their career some meaning. Well, that's not how it works. You become a good judge by interpreting the law fairly, not by becoming an activist judge and defaulting to the less fortunate and/or more popular party.
I DO! That is one of the reasons I own guns.
.....That reason and the fact that there are idiots who would rather steal stuff than earn the money to buy it on their own.
POLITICIANS PREFER UNARMED PEASANTS.
The guy who posted below me, the one who says he is the 'owner' of several sites, claims that thy need the info for contact issues. Hmmmmm..... One has to ask, though, where exactly the spammers get their supply of email addresses FROM..... sites just like his. Yeah, we believe you.....
Spam-And-Eggers like him are the hosts that the spammers feed off of, and most likely pay off in return for massive lists of email addresses that they can add to their already massive lists of email targets.
The main reason that site owners don't like disappearing email lists is that the emails are non-existant by the time they try to sell the lists to spammers. Additioanlly, no spammer is going to want to do business with someone who is supplying them with non-existant email addresses. Now that spammers have become wary of disappearing addresses, the value for such lists will go down, since it can now be expected that more and more of the addresses on the list are non-existant.
Tetris.....the Game Boy version. Undeniably the best game ever. PERIOD.
Now it's only a matter of time before Jesse Jackson and the NAACP file a lawsuit to stop this mad scientist and his "blackness maker"
hehe....
.....for humor.
Mod parent up!
Could this 'new' device possibly be a THERMOCOUPLE?!
Yeah, that's it. Blame being poor. The (main) reason people are poor is because they lack the motivation to make anything of themselves, especially in high school where it matters. Being poor isn't a justification of dropping out of school, nor is coming from a 'bad neighborhood', it's a BAD explaination.
People drop out of high school because they ARE lazy, with a good measure of stupid mixed in. Not only that, but people think that they are set for life working a menial, hourly job. The people who do this think that it is an OK thing to do, as the government is supposed to provide whatever they can't afford. People need to suffer for their bad choices, because it is the only thing that will shock them into getting their act together. Why should I, and taxpayers like me who made the decision to SUCK UP THE PAIN AND STAY IN SCHOOL pay for services that these people can't pay for because they made the concious decision to drop out of school and forfeit higher incomes that would allow them to pay for these things on their own? The United States has become a Welfare State where people are 'baby-ed' whenever their bad choices catch up and bite them in the ass. How much simpler can it possibly get? If you want the opportunity of a better life, then stay in school.
If you make the decision to drop out of high school, and you are the only one who can keep you out of high school, then you deserve to be living on the street, starving and freezing your ass off. I'd be happy to let you do that. In the mean time, I would welcome the cast-aside Vietnam vets to take your job from you. They deserve a better life more than you do.
The United States needs to stop bailing out people who make horrible decisions. People continue to make the bad choices because they can COUNT ON the Government to bail them out when they need it. If you are poor, and cannot provide a safe environment for your children, those children DESERVE to be taken away from you and given a better life, where they will be taught to make GOOD CHOICES, so they don't end up like you.
Sometimes, being insensitive IS being equal and fair. No one has the right to a good life - they have the right to make a good life.
Look, I'm not trashing the kid, but people creating fusion in their basement is not new, or even remotely new. Philo Farnsworth did it a long time ago.. It's cool that he managed to do it, but it has been done so many times, the uniquness of the whole thing is non-existant. Anyone, pretty much anyone with a moderate knowledge of physics and electronics, not to mention a significant amount of free time, can do that.
I'm not questioning has actions of actually doing it, because I think that it is a pretty cool thing to do, like the Boy Scout who built a completely functioning breeder reactor in his garden shed, all while being completely undetected. What I am calling into question is the unique-ness of the whole thing. Is it really news? Have other people done it before? Kudos to the kid who did it, but it really isn't new.
Philo Farnsworth did this ages ago. So what's the big deal? All of a sudden, just because someone does something that has a techy-sounding name, it becomes newsworthy regardless of the fact that it is NOTHING new?
In a speech class that I took over the summer, we had to select and explain a topic of our choosing, and then give a speech on it. Needless to say, every single person who used the Wikipedia as their primary source for information gave very shady supporting "facts" to there statements, and it wasn't only me saying that. When we gave feedback abd asked about facts that didn't seem quite right, the source was the Wikipedia. I'm not saying that Wiki is bad - it is very well intentioned and I support it. However, the fact that every idoit can put in there 2 cents on topics makes it anything but a credible source, even remotely.
After about half of the speeches were given, it became quite a class discussion about the validity of Wiki, and it was deemed as a wholly unacceptable source for information that was going to be used in a factual manner.
I cringe whenever I hear from teachers the the Wikipedia is a valid source of information for class projects, because I know it contains about as many facts as it does errors.
Just because something is in the Wikipedia does NOT mean that it is valid.
Why only a square kilometer? Again, some idiot had missed the forest for hte trees.
The polar caps on Mars are composed almost ENTIRELY out of carbon dioxide, with a little bit of water mixed in. Why don't they focus the mirrors onto the polar caps and vaporize the solid CO2? Not only will they be able to build up the atmosphere, but the CO2 will create a "greenhouse effect" and WARM THE ENTIRE PLANET. Possibly, this CO2atmosphere may be able to help absorb some of the massive amounts of radiation that bombards Mars. Further more, they could set aside a small area and use more mirrors to super-heat the ground and try to free some of the oxygen that is trapped in the iron oxide 'soil' and possibly create a (somewhat) breathable atmosphere.
So:
Mirrors on the polar caps would vaporize CO2 to create a 'greenhouse'-type atmosphere.
Mirrors on designated areas would super-heat iron oxide in the ground for oxygen (possibly).
Theoretically, you could create weather 'patterns' on Mars so that the cold polar areas and super-hot areas would interact with each other to produce wind patterns that would behave much the same way as on Earth. The continued addition of C02 to the atmosphere would be helped in part to warming of Mars by the release of CO2. The outside acceleration of CO2 vaporization by the mirrors could be stopped when the planet becomes warm enough to cause the release of CO2 to be self-sustaining. Outside intervention could be eliminated when the deposition of CO2 at the polar areas become equal to the vaporization by climatic action.
End Result: AN ENTIRE PLANET WARMED, instead of one lousy square kilometer.
Cost Comparison:
Multply the article's cost of warming 1 square kilometer by the number of square kilometers of surface area that Mars has. You get the idea.
Now, you would most likely probably need (for basic terraforming), say, 5 square kilometers for polar cap vaporization and 5 square kilometers for oxygen evaporization/atmospheric warming to get proces started. The speed of terraforming would depend on how may mirros are allotted to polar cap vaporization and surface heating. But it would happen eventually.
(INSERT FUTURAMA QUOTE HERE)
-----
Another half-baked engineering student on his way to getting a 'degree'. Hopefully, the other half of his brain will come into being and he will finally be (remotely) worthy of the title "Engineer". If you are going to propose an idea to the mass media, THINK IT THROUGH FIRST!
Keep in mind, I am only throwing this out there as a rough idea, so don't think it has been thought out for months or anything.
I learned this in grade school.
Furthermore, why are people digging up old technology any repackagng it as "new"? I wish scientists would go back to the days of inventing things, rather than just giving techy-sounding names to old technologies and calling them new and innovative, or even patenting them.
Creating technology is alot more than digging up something that has been around before and giving it a name that nobody can pronounce and a patent.
They left out the part where George H.W. Bush signed the order that made most of DARPA public. This is the part of DARPA that GREW INTO the Internet. Curious how they left it out. At least they didn't include the part where Al Gore 'invented' the Internet.