If some programmer "writes" a virus we just need a team of programmers to reverse engineer it and "write" an anti-virus. I can see it now Mcaffee Biological Edition Pro 2009. Annual subscription...$99.99.
I am pretty sure a surveillance device as small and mobile as a fly would not end up in the public sector anytime soon. If it did, every pedo in the world would save up to buy one so they could use it in some elementary school bathroom. If/Once it does enter the public sector, some sort of device will be invented to detect/disable it. Every government official would carry one of these detection devices; if for no other reason, to protect national security. Expanding that argument, I don't think any technological device will give you the transparency you desire.
If your work is anything like mine, this tool would not help you. The apps it runs are for accessing the internet, if you don't log in to your work's network you probably won't have internet access. That is unless the servers at your work are set up different then mine.
I have a problem with the conclusion of this study. The study concludes that people who watch and positively rate these videos are taking the information spewed out as the truth. There are many reasons to give a video a high rating, for example, the video is funny or the video shows a provocative POV. Actually, I think truthful information is probably pretty low on the reasons why one would give a video a positive rating.
Look at TV. Which has higher ratings, NOVA on PBS or "insert new reality show here" on "some other network". That doesn't mean that the population of the united states feels the information NOVA is untrue or that the lessons learned on reality TV should be applied in life. They are merely looking for entertainment value.
If there is really this much interest in figuring out how the rocks move, its pretty easy to do. Mount a solar powered camera with a motion detector. If the rock moves start shooting. If you really want to get fancy, you could do a continual time lapse to catch the movement if it is too slow for the motion detector.
I think they do this kinda thing when you want to get pictures of wild animals in there natural habitat and the cameras are avaliable at your nearest outdoor outfitter.
I see you have a +5 insightful, so this is for you and everyone who agrees with you. Get out of the/. science section if you do not want to hear about this stuff till it hits market. Two years from now if this display is good enough to be sold, you can read about it in/. hardware. Many of us enjoy hearing of new discoveries even if they may never make it to market.
It looks like the mannequin was just the first test. The last line of the article says they will have to do surgery on a live pig before they try anything on humans. Plus, if robots can build cars faster and more precisely then humans who says they can preform a better surgery.
If you have a global scale nuclear war, I don't think the objective would be to seize some asset of your enemy because there would be almost no assets remaining. In my mind, if someone started a nuclear war today the only goal would be the genocide of a section of people of think differently then you. Therefore, if a small group of those people are hiding away on a rock in space the military value of destroying them is pretty high. I could see a government official saying the group of people hiding on that rock are just waiting there for an opportunity to hurt us so it is worth the cost of getting rid of them. For a real world example look at how much we (America) spend (money/people/time) in Afghanistan hunting terrorists. They have nothing we want, but we want to get rid of them so they don't cause us problems in the future.
I will preface this post by saying that I am not attacking you directly. I only want give you links to the information you requested. 1. http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=19 55237&page=1 20/20 story you referenced. In reading the article it looks like your description of the story is misleading. They do not say secondhand smoke is not dangerous, only that there is a group of extremists that take banning smoking way too far. 2. http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.498/pub_det ail.asp You said the anti-smoking lobby does not give details how they confirm people die from smoking. This is response of the American Council on Science and Health to the article "Lies, Damned Lies & 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths" published by the Cato Institute and the National Smokers Alliance. It details how statistical information is gathered and verified. 3. http://www.cato.org/dailys/04-29-99.html You said most people diagnosed of dying of smoking are over age 70. Even according to this is the website for CATO (part of the pro-tobacco lobby) 52% of people diagnosed with dying due to smoking were over 70. So a guess according to the tobacco lobby you are technically correct (if only by a margin of 2%)
I guess that is why we like to see facts and reasoning in posts, even if it does take a couple of minutes to look them up. Anyone can make of the cuff statements about things they heard once upon a time.(Sorry guess that last line was a bit of a personal attack.)
I am no windows programmer, but I always wondered, if you were going to make some malware program, couldn't you map the OK button to cancel and the cancel button to OK? That way if the user tries to press cancel they end up running whatever code you wanted them to. I am probably missing something here because if that was possible it would probably be done already.
I am not an expert but it seems logical that the most comfortable position should be in the middle of the range of motion for the joint. If I rotate my right arm clockwise to its extent the palm is facing up. If I rotate it counter-clockwise to its extent the palm is facing right. Therefore, the middle of the range of motion would be 45 degrees clockwise from the palm facing down. It also happens to be how I naturally end up gripping my standard mouse. (Forefinger on the left button, pinky dragging on the mousepad). Just a thought.
Even if the inks chemical composition is patented what stops a 3rd party from making a cartridge that fits the printer and uses a more "generic" ink formula? I think inkjets ionize the ink so they can use magnetic field to direct where it lands on the page when printing so some of the ink's properties would have similar but I assume they don't need to be exact.
Or else, it would be interesting for them to release WIN 3.1 again with some networking features, USB, and such. Hey, at least it would run fast; really, who uses the start button anyway?
I am fairly confident that the government satisfies most of the people in our country. If the majority of American citizens were fed up with the government things would change, and new parties would be put in power. However, most people are content with their day-to-day life and choose not to put any effort into changing things. In short, the government will never be able to satisfy everyone, so there will always be a segment of "so-called anarchists" who want things changed, and if enough of these people come together things will change. If it was desired by the people, there could be a revolution without a shot being fired.
Where do you get the figure everyone needs to have at least 3 kids? I would think to maintain a population in which the average age of death is not changing the average person needs to have 1 child (2 per couple). Apparently I am wrong because the CIA https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos /us.html says in the US today the fertility rate is 2.09/woman and the population growth rate is at.91% including immigration.
You are correct. I don't think you would get very far on 15KWH with anything like today's cars. The car in the article weighed about 100 lbs and had a range of 200 mi. If you extrapolate that to 1900 lbs (weight of a Geo Metro) you could have a car with a range of 200 mi that uses 285KWH. Even with this new fast charging technology it would take about 3 hours at 240V and 375A or at home 40 hours at 240V and 30A. I think we need to rethink our power grid or drive really light cars for the technology to be viable.
Its sad that in the United States today you have to be an extremist to be successful. It seems that no one is looking out for Joe Public anymore. I suppose that is because Joe Public isn't a fan of voting and even those who do put less research into it then they do the new *insert new gadget here* they plan on buying.
Everyone should get together and start voting for the smaller parties. Maybe if we get the Republicans and Democrats out of power we could be relatively corruption free for a while. Another fun idea would be to implement a lottery system in which any citizen has an equal chance for election like the ancient Greeks had.
TFA states the energy storage of the battery was 15 KWH. Therefore to charge it in 10 minutes would require 90 KW or 375 Amp service at 240 Volts. Now this would be a lot of current for a household circuit but totally within reason for a "filling station". A typical household application (30 Amps at 240 Volts) would be able to charge the battery in 2hrs 5min.
Is it OK to have police officers patrolling your neighborhood?
The way I see it, cameras are merely a more cost-effective method of the classic patrol officer. An officer on patrol can only police one neighborhood; an officer in a monitoring booth can patrol many more neighborhoods. As an added bonus, if a crime is committed you have videotape which is more objective then the eye-witness account of a patrol officer.
What is the difference between a patrol officer walking by you on the sidewalk and a officer watching you walk on the sidewalk from a camera?
First Law of Thermodynamics: Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. The total amount of energy and matter in the Universe remains constant, merely changing from one form to another. The First Law of Thermodynamics (Conservation) states that energy is always conserved; it cannot be created or destroyed. In essence, energy can be converted from one form into another.
Therefore converting heat energy to electrical energy will cause a drop in the total heat energy of the system (Earth). Therefore, sense earth would have the same number of molecules and less heat energy = lower temperature.
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If some programmer "writes" a virus we just need a team of programmers to reverse engineer it and "write" an anti-virus. I can see it now Mcaffee Biological Edition Pro 2009. Annual subscription...$99.99.
Will it make me run slower?
Or you could just put a large Faraday Cage around your entire house. That should stop those pesky RC bugs.
Works well for spying in the Amazon!
I am pretty sure a surveillance device as small and mobile as a fly would not end up in the public sector anytime soon. If it did, every pedo in the world would save up to buy one so they could use it in some elementary school bathroom. If/Once it does enter the public sector, some sort of device will be invented to detect/disable it. Every government official would carry one of these detection devices; if for no other reason, to protect national security. Expanding that argument, I don't think any technological device will give you the transparency you desire.
If your work is anything like mine, this tool would not help you. The apps it runs are for accessing the internet, if you don't log in to your work's network you probably won't have internet access. That is unless the servers at your work are set up different then mine.
I have a problem with the conclusion of this study. The study concludes that people who watch and positively rate these videos are taking the information spewed out as the truth. There are many reasons to give a video a high rating, for example, the video is funny or the video shows a provocative POV. Actually, I think truthful information is probably pretty low on the reasons why one would give a video a positive rating. Look at TV. Which has higher ratings, NOVA on PBS or "insert new reality show here" on "some other network". That doesn't mean that the population of the united states feels the information NOVA is untrue or that the lessons learned on reality TV should be applied in life. They are merely looking for entertainment value.
If there is really this much interest in figuring out how the rocks move, its pretty easy to do. Mount a solar powered camera with a motion detector. If the rock moves start shooting. If you really want to get fancy, you could do a continual time lapse to catch the movement if it is too slow for the motion detector. I think they do this kinda thing when you want to get pictures of wild animals in there natural habitat and the cameras are avaliable at your nearest outdoor outfitter.
I see you have a +5 insightful, so this is for you and everyone who agrees with you. Get out of the /. science section if you do not want to hear about this stuff till it hits market. Two years from now if this display is good enough to be sold, you can read about it in /. hardware. Many of us enjoy hearing of new discoveries even if they may never make it to market.
It is not Degrees Kelvin, it is only Kelvin. Not sure why but I remember my Physics professor beating it into our heads.
Obviously the person wouldn't drive the flying car, the flying car would drive the person.
It looks like the mannequin was just the first test. The last line of the article says they will have to do surgery on a live pig before they try anything on humans. Plus, if robots can build cars faster and more precisely then humans who says they can preform a better surgery.
If you have a global scale nuclear war, I don't think the objective would be to seize some asset of your enemy because there would be almost no assets remaining. In my mind, if someone started a nuclear war today the only goal would be the genocide of a section of people of think differently then you. Therefore, if a small group of those people are hiding away on a rock in space the military value of destroying them is pretty high. I could see a government official saying the group of people hiding on that rock are just waiting there for an opportunity to hurt us so it is worth the cost of getting rid of them. For a real world example look at how much we (America) spend (money/people/time) in Afghanistan hunting terrorists. They have nothing we want, but we want to get rid of them so they don't cause us problems in the future.
Looking at history, if someone found a way to colonize Mars it wouldn't be long until someone else found a way to destroy said colony.
I will preface this post by saying that I am not attacking you directly. I only want give you links to the information you requested.9 55237&page=1 20/20 story you referenced. In reading the article it looks like your description of the story is misleading. They do not say secondhand smoke is not dangerous, only that there is a group of extremists that take banning smoking way too far.t ail.asp You said the anti-smoking lobby does not give details how they confirm people die from smoking. This is response of the American Council on Science and Health to the article "Lies, Damned Lies & 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths" published by the Cato Institute and the National Smokers Alliance. It details how statistical information is gathered and verified.
1. http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1
2. http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.498/pub_de
3. http://www.cato.org/dailys/04-29-99.html You said most people diagnosed of dying of smoking are over age 70. Even according to this is the website for CATO (part of the pro-tobacco lobby) 52% of people diagnosed with dying due to smoking were over 70. So a guess according to the tobacco lobby you are technically correct (if only by a margin of 2%)
I guess that is why we like to see facts and reasoning in posts, even if it does take a couple of minutes to look them up. Anyone can make of the cuff statements about things they heard once upon a time.(Sorry guess that last line was a bit of a personal attack.)
I am no windows programmer, but I always wondered, if you were going to make some malware program, couldn't you map the OK button to cancel and the cancel button to OK? That way if the user tries to press cancel they end up running whatever code you wanted them to. I am probably missing something here because if that was possible it would probably be done already.
I am not an expert but it seems logical that the most comfortable position should be in the middle of the range of motion for the joint. If I rotate my right arm clockwise to its extent the palm is facing up. If I rotate it counter-clockwise to its extent the palm is facing right. Therefore, the middle of the range of motion would be 45 degrees clockwise from the palm facing down. It also happens to be how I naturally end up gripping my standard mouse. (Forefinger on the left button, pinky dragging on the mousepad). Just a thought.
Even if the inks chemical composition is patented what stops a 3rd party from making a cartridge that fits the printer and uses a more "generic" ink formula? I think inkjets ionize the ink so they can use magnetic field to direct where it lands on the page when printing so some of the ink's properties would have similar but I assume they don't need to be exact.
Or else, it would be interesting for them to release WIN 3.1 again with some networking features, USB, and such. Hey, at least it would run fast; really, who uses the start button anyway?
I am fairly confident that the government satisfies most of the people in our country. If the majority of American citizens were fed up with the government things would change, and new parties would be put in power. However, most people are content with their day-to-day life and choose not to put any effort into changing things. In short, the government will never be able to satisfy everyone, so there will always be a segment of "so-called anarchists" who want things changed, and if enough of these people come together things will change. If it was desired by the people, there could be a revolution without a shot being fired.
Where do you get the figure everyone needs to have at least 3 kids? I would think to maintain a population in which the average age of death is not changing the average person needs to have 1 child (2 per couple). Apparently I am wrong because the CIA https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos /us.html says in the US today the fertility rate is 2.09/woman and the population growth rate is at .91% including immigration.
Just trying to figure out where my math is wrong.
You are correct. I don't think you would get very far on 15KWH with anything like today's cars. The car in the article weighed about 100 lbs and had a range of 200 mi. If you extrapolate that to 1900 lbs (weight of a Geo Metro) you could have a car with a range of 200 mi that uses 285KWH. Even with this new fast charging technology it would take about 3 hours at 240V and 375A or at home 40 hours at 240V and 30A. I think we need to rethink our power grid or drive really light cars for the technology to be viable.
Its sad that in the United States today you have to be an extremist to be successful. It seems that no one is looking out for Joe Public anymore. I suppose that is because Joe Public isn't a fan of voting and even those who do put less research into it then they do the new *insert new gadget here* they plan on buying.
Everyone should get together and start voting for the smaller parties. Maybe if we get the Republicans and Democrats out of power we could be relatively corruption free for a while. Another fun idea would be to implement a lottery system in which any citizen has an equal chance for election like the ancient Greeks had.
Where did you get your 10,000 amp service number?
TFA states the energy storage of the battery was 15 KWH. Therefore to charge it in 10 minutes would require 90 KW or 375 Amp service at 240 Volts. Now this would be a lot of current for a household circuit but totally within reason for a "filling station". A typical household application (30 Amps at 240 Volts) would be able to charge the battery in 2hrs 5min.
Maybe we should look at another question.
Is it OK to have police officers patrolling your neighborhood?
The way I see it, cameras are merely a more cost-effective method of the classic patrol officer. An officer on patrol can only police one neighborhood; an officer in a monitoring booth can patrol many more neighborhoods. As an added bonus, if a crime is committed you have videotape which is more objective then the eye-witness account of a patrol officer.
What is the difference between a patrol officer walking by you on the sidewalk and a officer watching you walk on the sidewalk from a camera?
Yes I can explain thermodynamics here.
First Law of Thermodynamics: Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. The total amount of energy and matter in the Universe remains constant, merely changing from one form to another. The First Law of Thermodynamics (Conservation) states that energy is always conserved; it cannot be created or destroyed. In essence, energy can be converted from one form into another.
Therefore converting heat energy to electrical energy will cause a drop in the total heat energy of the system (Earth). Therefore, sense earth would have the same number of molecules and less heat energy = lower temperature.