The damage caused by leaded gas (even what little remains via avgas) is probably much, much higher than that caused by electronic solder.
Lets consider the 3 following ways that lead can enter the supply of materials that go into humans. 1. Leaded gas was a big big issue because the lead is now a particulate in the air, it will be breathed in or will settle as dust into either a water supply or onto soil which then gets rained on and drains into a water supply. 2. Lead solder on pipes, while not a particulate immediately, it will sometimes corrode into the water in the pipe because lead/copper touching and being dissimilar metals (always have to be very careful with dissimilar metals when in a wet environment) 3. Lead solder on electronics, will probably end up in the dump where they will there be rained on and the solder may enter the water supply that way. Note that equipment that is supposed to last a long time or will not be disposed of into a dump are usually exempt from the lead ban. In particular military, medical, and aerospace equipment is usually exempt.
Considering that the removal of lead from gas and paint caused blood lead levels to go from 16 g/dL in 1976 to only 3 g/dL in 1991, while lead in electronics was only regulated in 1993, the removal of lead from avgas is a much bigger issue than the removal of lead from solder.
My problem with the game isn't the servers, that was resolved rather quickly, it's the way that traffic objects work. Traffic objects are anything that travels along a road, so buses, streetcars, garbage trucks, and sims trying to get to and from work.
Every traffic object just goes to whatever is closest and meets their needs, regardless of how many others are also going there. You end up with 10 buses that hang out at 3 or 4 bus stops and traffic jams because every single worker is trying to get to the same job.
Instead as traffic objects get destinations the destination should have the required number of objects go down. As each sim is assigned a work destination the number of required workers should go down, and if a bus with 20 slots left is assigned to a bus stop with 30 people waiting them the next bus should see that 10 people need to be picked up.
While this will decrease performance it is well worth it. The only problem I can see that cant be easily dealt with is if there are multiple threads assigning sims to destinations.
Even if you don't sequester the carbon and just put it out a smoke stack you're still at an advantage over normal coal burning. One of the major problems with coal burning is not the CO2, but the fly ash that contains heavy metals and causes respiratory problems. This process allows for those heavy metals to be contained in the coal ash which is kept within the plant. Depending on the concentration of metals in the ash it may be economical to mine the ash.
Additionally since the CO2 is pure it can be used industrially without having to distill out the nitrogen that you would if you got it from regular burning.
Ok, so first, if the crime doesn't happen, how do you know you prevented it? Maybe it just didn't happen.
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You don't look at individual crimes, you take a selection of areas with similar crime statistics, implement the prediction system in some of them, then see how the crime rates change.
Second, doesn't this seem like there will now be a market for anti-prediction? That is, find out where the cops think the crime will occur, and do the crime somewhere else. Because the cops will be somewhere else, your chances of getting caught are less
Perhaps there will be a market for anti-prediction, but the types of crimes that this aims to prevent (or even just be more response to calls about) aren't usually done by sophisticated criminals. Any anti-prediction system would first have to be able to aggregate crime statistics then apply the prediction algorithm, then find areas outside the predicted zones. If you have all that already, you might as well just sell the prediction algorithm to the police rather than make an unethical program that has a very small (and secretive) user base that wouldn't pay much for your system in the first place.
Unfortunately individual police officers were drawing from a much smaller pool of data which was then put through their personal biases. If an officer had a racial or cultural bias then they may perceive an area as having more crime, when the actual statistics don't match.
My suggestion is to switch to GWT whenever you can. Google Web Toolkit lets me write and debug in java but the end product is in JavaScript with no plugins required.
I used to use flex and gwt is superior in my opinion.
Maybe the tariffs are because the Chinese have been subsidizing their solar exports in violation of the trade agreements?
Part of the problem will of course be that photovoltaics aren't reliable. Concentrated solar onto molten salt and wind are much more reliable than photovoltaics. Or we could just go nuclear.
afaik the current limitations with plasma torch garbage disposal is not the power, but the plasma degrades the materials making up the furnace too quickly. If the input is general waste then the process produces as much energy as it takes. It needs energy to start or if the input doesn't have enough hydrocarbons.
Except some crashes are impossible to prevent. There will be some ambulance chasers that try to cash in on these crashes, regardless of whose fault it actually is. A likely outcome is that the lawyers trying to get money from autonomous car makers will change the question from "whose fault was it?" to "Why didn't your car prevent the crash?". Even if none of the lawyers win, the makers still have to spend a lot of money defending themselves.
One thing I didn't understand about the Deus Ex world was their inability to hide augmentations. A lot of prejudice could have been stopped if augmentations were more discreet. Also most of the social problems could have been reduced if the anti-rejection drug, neroprozine wasn't sold at aubsurd prices.
It's more like this: The objective of the BART group is to run the trains, safely and on schedule. A train station is a dangerous place during a protest. Protests, being large relatively immobile crowds have the possibility of pushing people into places where they shouldn't be. Between an enclosed space causing crush problems, the electrical lines for the trains, and the trains themselves, I wouldn't want to be in a train station during a protest.
Probably they decided to shut down the stations for two reasons: So that nobody would get hurt (which would then be blamed on BART's response) and so that hopefully the protesters would get bored and leave sooner so they could resume service.
Well they can blow up conventionally. Chernobyl exploded because the reactor's graphite moderation rods caught fire and the uranium fuel produced so much heat that the structures covering the reactor became pressure vessels and exploded. Chernobyl didn't have a massive containment building like all western reactors do.
You're giving the computer too much credit. The choice that the computer makes is dependent on how it was programmed. No computer at the application level is purely logical. An AI isn't going to be driving your car, an automated driving program is. The driving program won't even consider your worth compared to the 7-year old. It's likely that it will be programmed to chose paths which will cause the least damage while prioritizing some types of damage.
Having an AI driving your car is silly, I don't want my car to have an existential crisis while on the freeway. Having an automated driving program driving a car would be fantastic.
The story goes on that he was then able to destroy specific virii (including cancerous) by using a highly modulated RF carrier, where the modulation frequency (ie not so much the specific carrier frequency but rather its amplitude modulation frequency). Then the consipracy theories start, where his machine threatened the cancer establishment (AMA), and all his work, machines and lab were maliciously destroyed/discredited.
Cells are cancerous, but virii can cause a cell to be cancerous. A virus itself cannot be cancerous, because it cannot reproduce alone. More importantly, this magical technique can tell the difference between a healthy cell and a cancerous cell, which might only be two or three switched genes out of trillions? And this will work over my entire body, despite any reflection and other interference? Virii are a bit more believable, but still, the difference between two virii could be only a single gene swap.
Maybe the reason he was discredited was because it didn't work? Considering this technique could wipe out all viral, bacterial and fungal infections, as well as all cancers... I'm inclined to believe that it didn't work.
As long as it doesn't contain any cells, couldn't you take each protein and have a bacterium produce it? You would no longer have to worry about sterility issues, since no animal was involved. I know it would be by no means simple, but it would allow for completely ethical mass production.
The problem is that they are not private networks.
The way the internet is designed you have no way of knowing the path your packets will take, or even if the return packets take the same path. Each packet you send to the same destination might take a different path. I have Charter, the server uses AT&T, but all of our traffic might go through Verizon.
You are not also paying for an IP address from their servers, there are no servers in this situation. There are routers, but just because they route for me doesn't mean they can do whatever they want to my traffic. This is especially true since at every hop on the internet there is some sort of routing happening, so you're in effect saying that every single router in between two hosts can do whatever they want to the traffic.
Real net neutrality isn't giving the government any power over the internet, but rather that the government denying power to the Telcos.
DMCA is already a US government construct, and is a darn good one compared to the alternative. DMCA gives copyright holders an opportunity to remove infringing content without resorting to court actions. Now this doesn't mean that the system isn't abused, but imagine getting sued instead of getting a DMCA request, it would be horrible!
By piracy site takedowns I assume you mean the US government seizing web addresses, which is DNS and has NOTHING to do with net neutrality. The only way that piracy site takedowns could have anything to do with net neutrality is if the US government somehow forces the routers to drop certain addresses from their tables, which would do nothing because of our good friend dynamic IPs.
They might also implement it via RED. As an outbound queue fills packets going into that queue start getting dropped. This is done to prevent TCP global synchronization, and is standard practice. But if you change the rules a little, saying that packets coming from payer X get into the queue more often than non-payer Y, you've effectively lowered Y's performance during congestion without impacting Y during non-congestion.
Or it could be done via managing router queues. In order to route a packet you must inspect it anyways. Instead of having 1 outbound queue from a router you have two, three, or more. The outbound port sends from the high-priority queue more often, but still sends from the lower priority queues, or else to the hosts it appears to be congestion or a dead connection.
It could also be done via policy based routing on the AS level. An AS is a set of routers divided from other routers by political divisions rather than any technological reasons (AT&T routers vs Verizon routers). Each AS communicates routes and speeds via BGP. You direct the payer packets towards the faster AS you're connected to, then send the non-payer packets over to the slower AS.
There is no real way to speed up some packets without slowing down others, unless you literally build a whole new faster network, in which case why not put the other packets on there too?
I hate it how anyone uses a SSN as both an identifier and an authentication number. If someone gets your SSN, then you are screwed, and getting a new one is hard because you have to go through and replace your identifier everywhere.
Really SSN should only be used as a unique identifier, especially since they are fairly predicable. If you know when and where someone was issued a SSN then you can narrow the possibilities down to just a few.
Ideally everyone would have a credit card sized device that generates authentication numbers, as well as a passcode of some sort (not a password, but a rather large number). The credit card device is actually generating public keys, which is used to encrypt the passcode.
Someone intercepts your traffic? they don't know your public key, nor your passcode Someone steals your device? they don't know the passcode Someone somehow gets your passcode? they don't have the device.
Thus the attacker would have to be physically present to get the device, as well as cunning to get the passcode.
The authoritative body has its own private key which is used to ensure that the response can only be from the government.
The hard part is of course getting people to remember (and not write down) their passcode, and being able to physically identify someone in order to issue them a new device/passcode.
Although not necessary you could also have the person trying to do the authentication sign another piece of data with their company's private key. You could mandate that only registered banks and government could even try to authenticate people.
I'd suggest an infrasonic microphone, feelings normally associated with haunting have been shown to also be caused by sounds in the 1-20 Hz range. Places normally considered haunted have been shown to have infrasonic sources that when turned off, cause the feelings to disappear.
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The damage caused by leaded gas (even what little remains via avgas) is probably much, much higher than that caused by electronic solder.
Lets consider the 3 following ways that lead can enter the supply of materials that go into humans.
1. Leaded gas was a big big issue because the lead is now a particulate in the air, it will be breathed in or will settle as dust into either a water supply or onto soil which then gets rained on and drains into a water supply.
2. Lead solder on pipes, while not a particulate immediately, it will sometimes corrode into the water in the pipe because lead/copper touching and being dissimilar metals (always have to be very careful with dissimilar metals when in a wet environment)
3. Lead solder on electronics, will probably end up in the dump where they will there be rained on and the solder may enter the water supply that way. Note that equipment that is supposed to last a long time or will not be disposed of into a dump are usually exempt from the lead ban. In particular military, medical, and aerospace equipment is usually exempt.
Considering that the removal of lead from gas and paint caused blood lead levels to go from 16 g/dL in 1976 to only 3 g/dL in 1991, while lead in electronics was only regulated in 1993, the removal of lead from avgas is a much bigger issue than the removal of lead from solder.
If it needs a 100m runway isn't it really just an untra-light plane?
A Helicopter is much closer to a flying car than this thing...
And of course I post on the wrong topic, please ignore.
If it needs a 100m runway isn't it really just an untra-light plane?
A Helicopter is much closer to a flying car than this thing...
My problem with the game isn't the servers, that was resolved rather quickly, it's the way that traffic objects work. Traffic objects are anything that travels along a road, so buses, streetcars, garbage trucks, and sims trying to get to and from work.
Every traffic object just goes to whatever is closest and meets their needs, regardless of how many others are also going there. You end up with 10 buses that hang out at 3 or 4 bus stops and traffic jams because every single worker is trying to get to the same job.
Instead as traffic objects get destinations the destination should have the required number of objects go down. As each sim is assigned a work destination the number of required workers should go down, and if a bus with 20 slots left is assigned to a bus stop with 30 people waiting them the next bus should see that 10 people need to be picked up.
While this will decrease performance it is well worth it. The only problem I can see that cant be easily dealt with is if there are multiple threads assigning sims to destinations.
Even if you don't sequester the carbon and just put it out a smoke stack you're still at an advantage over normal coal burning. One of the major problems with coal burning is not the CO2, but the fly ash that contains heavy metals and causes respiratory problems. This process allows for those heavy metals to be contained in the coal ash which is kept within the plant. Depending on the concentration of metals in the ash it may be economical to mine the ash.
Additionally since the CO2 is pure it can be used industrially without having to distill out the nitrogen that you would if you got it from regular burning.
Ok, so first, if the crime doesn't happen, how do you know you prevented it? Maybe it just didn't happen.
.
You don't look at individual crimes, you take a selection of areas with similar crime statistics, implement the prediction system in some of them, then see how the crime rates change.
Second, doesn't this seem like there will now be a market for anti-prediction? That is, find out where the cops think the crime will occur, and do the crime somewhere else. Because the cops will be somewhere else, your chances of getting caught are less
Perhaps there will be a market for anti-prediction, but the types of crimes that this aims to prevent (or even just be more response to calls about) aren't usually done by sophisticated criminals. Any anti-prediction system would first have to be able to aggregate crime statistics then apply the prediction algorithm, then find areas outside the predicted zones. If you have all that already, you might as well just sell the prediction algorithm to the police rather than make an unethical program that has a very small (and secretive) user base that wouldn't pay much for your system in the first place.
Unfortunately individual police officers were drawing from a much smaller pool of data which was then put through their personal biases. If an officer had a racial or cultural bias then they may perceive an area as having more crime, when the actual statistics don't match.
My suggestion is to switch to GWT whenever you can. Google Web Toolkit lets me write and debug in java but the end product is in JavaScript with no plugins required.
I used to use flex and gwt is superior in my opinion.
Maybe the tariffs are because the Chinese have been subsidizing their solar exports in violation of the trade agreements?
Part of the problem will of course be that photovoltaics aren't reliable. Concentrated solar onto molten salt and wind are much more reliable than photovoltaics. Or we could just go nuclear.
afaik the current limitations with plasma torch garbage disposal is not the power, but the plasma degrades the materials making up the furnace too quickly. If the input is general waste then the process produces as much energy as it takes. It needs energy to start or if the input doesn't have enough hydrocarbons.
Except some crashes are impossible to prevent. There will be some ambulance chasers that try to cash in on these crashes, regardless of whose fault it actually is. A likely outcome is that the lawyers trying to get money from autonomous car makers will change the question from "whose fault was it?" to "Why didn't your car prevent the crash?". Even if none of the lawyers win, the makers still have to spend a lot of money defending themselves.
One thing I didn't understand about the Deus Ex world was their inability to hide augmentations. A lot of prejudice could have been stopped if augmentations were more discreet.
Also most of the social problems could have been reduced if the anti-rejection drug, neroprozine wasn't sold at aubsurd prices.
It's more like this:
The objective of the BART group is to run the trains, safely and on schedule.
A train station is a dangerous place during a protest. Protests, being large relatively immobile crowds have the possibility of pushing people into places where they shouldn't be. Between an enclosed space causing crush problems, the electrical lines for the trains, and the trains themselves, I wouldn't want to be in a train station during a protest.
Probably they decided to shut down the stations for two reasons: So that nobody would get hurt (which would then be blamed on BART's response) and so that hopefully the protesters would get bored and leave sooner so they could resume service.
They had to trim it to get it to fit in the lunar lander...
Well they can blow up conventionally. Chernobyl exploded because the reactor's graphite moderation rods caught fire and the uranium fuel produced so much heat that the structures covering the reactor became pressure vessels and exploded.
Chernobyl didn't have a massive containment building like all western reactors do.
Unless you're planning to visit the nuclear plants themselves, it won't affect anything. The Fukushima Daiichi plant is 250km away from Tokyo.
Not really, middle of Tokyo has a ridiculous population density but the more rural regions have a relatively low population density.
You're giving the computer too much credit. The choice that the computer makes is dependent on how it was programmed. No computer at the application level is purely logical.
An AI isn't going to be driving your car, an automated driving program is. The driving program won't even consider your worth compared to the 7-year old. It's likely that it will be programmed to chose paths which will cause the least damage while prioritizing some types of damage.
Having an AI driving your car is silly, I don't want my car to have an existential crisis while on the freeway. Having an automated driving program driving a car would be fantastic.
The story goes on that he was then able to destroy specific virii (including cancerous) by using a highly modulated RF carrier, where the modulation frequency (ie not so much the specific carrier frequency but rather its amplitude modulation frequency).
Then the consipracy theories start, where his machine threatened the cancer establishment (AMA), and all his work, machines and lab were maliciously destroyed/discredited.
Cells are cancerous, but virii can cause a cell to be cancerous. A virus itself cannot be cancerous, because it cannot reproduce alone. More importantly, this magical technique can tell the difference between a healthy cell and a cancerous cell, which might only be two or three switched genes out of trillions? And this will work over my entire body, despite any reflection and other interference?
Virii are a bit more believable, but still, the difference between two virii could be only a single gene swap.
Maybe the reason he was discredited was because it didn't work?
Considering this technique could wipe out all viral, bacterial and fungal infections, as well as all cancers... I'm inclined to believe that it didn't work.
As long as it doesn't contain any cells, couldn't you take each protein and have a bacterium produce it? You would no longer have to worry about sterility issues, since no animal was involved. I know it would be by no means simple, but it would allow for completely ethical mass production.
The problem is that they are not private networks.
The way the internet is designed you have no way of knowing the path your packets will take, or even if the return packets take the same path. Each packet you send to the same destination might take a different path. I have Charter, the server uses AT&T, but all of our traffic might go through Verizon.
You are not also paying for an IP address from their servers, there are no servers in this situation. There are routers, but just because they route for me doesn't mean they can do whatever they want to my traffic. This is especially true since at every hop on the internet there is some sort of routing happening, so you're in effect saying that every single router in between two hosts can do whatever they want to the traffic.
Real net neutrality isn't giving the government any power over the internet, but rather that the government denying power to the Telcos.
DMCA is already a US government construct, and is a darn good one compared to the alternative. DMCA gives copyright holders an opportunity to remove infringing content without resorting to court actions. Now this doesn't mean that the system isn't abused, but imagine getting sued instead of getting a DMCA request, it would be horrible!
By piracy site takedowns I assume you mean the US government seizing web addresses, which is DNS and has NOTHING to do with net neutrality. The only way that piracy site takedowns could have anything to do with net neutrality is if the US government somehow forces the routers to drop certain addresses from their tables, which would do nothing because of our good friend dynamic IPs.
They might also implement it via RED. As an outbound queue fills packets going into that queue start getting dropped. This is done to prevent TCP global synchronization, and is standard practice. But if you change the rules a little, saying that packets coming from payer X get into the queue more often than non-payer Y, you've effectively lowered Y's performance during congestion without impacting Y during non-congestion.
Or it could be done via managing router queues. In order to route a packet you must inspect it anyways. Instead of having 1 outbound queue from a router you have two, three, or more. The outbound port sends from the high-priority queue more often, but still sends from the lower priority queues, or else to the hosts it appears to be congestion or a dead connection.
It could also be done via policy based routing on the AS level. An AS is a set of routers divided from other routers by political divisions rather than any technological reasons (AT&T routers vs Verizon routers). Each AS communicates routes and speeds via BGP. You direct the payer packets towards the faster AS you're connected to, then send the non-payer packets over to the slower AS.
There is no real way to speed up some packets without slowing down others, unless you literally build a whole new faster network, in which case why not put the other packets on there too?
I hate it how anyone uses a SSN as both an identifier and an authentication number. If someone gets your SSN, then you are screwed, and getting a new one is hard because you have to go through and replace your identifier everywhere.
Really SSN should only be used as a unique identifier, especially since they are fairly predicable. If you know when and where someone was issued a SSN then you can narrow the possibilities down to just a few.
Ideally everyone would have a credit card sized device that generates authentication numbers, as well as a passcode of some sort (not a password, but a rather large number). The credit card device is actually generating public keys, which is used to encrypt the passcode.
Someone intercepts your traffic? they don't know your public key, nor your passcode
Someone steals your device? they don't know the passcode
Someone somehow gets your passcode? they don't have the device.
Thus the attacker would have to be physically present to get the device, as well as cunning to get the passcode.
The authoritative body has its own private key which is used to ensure that the response can only be from the government.
The hard part is of course getting people to remember (and not write down) their passcode, and being able to physically identify someone in order to issue them a new device/passcode.
Although not necessary you could also have the person trying to do the authentication sign another piece of data with their company's private key. You could mandate that only registered banks and government could even try to authenticate people.
I'd suggest an infrasonic microphone, feelings normally associated with haunting have been shown to also be caused by sounds in the 1-20 Hz range. Places normally considered haunted have been shown to have infrasonic sources that when turned off, cause the feelings to disappear.
http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/ghost-in-machine.pdf (7 page PDF)