True. But the question is, how expensive is such an EMP device really? How much profit is in an illegally felled tree? The risk of being caught using such a device in a rainforest is probably pretty low. And I suppose felling, transporting and selling trees is nothing some 3rd rate would be criminal can easily do. It is a business, which probably has enough money and manpower to pull something like that trough. If there isn't even a cheaper methods to get around the tracking devices.
What makes RF weapons so dangerous is their compactness and ability to be powered by hand-carried energy sources. Experts say that their range of intensity is from 200 meters to 1,000 meters, or from some 656 feet to 3,281 feet.
Even if I had a 3D printer. The cases of most phones are good enough for me. I have not modded my pc either.
But Nokia, want to do something really revolutionary? Give users the power to install their own systems. Lumia with android? Lumia with maemo? Meego? I would buy it at once. Lumia with Windoze? Keep it. Don't want it even for free.
...are there copyright trolls, too? Strangely I never heard this term. Maybe because copyright does not harm big corporations like patents? Why should I care for one and not the other? 'Patent troll' is a propaganda concept of huge companies like Apple, Microsoft and others against small companies which throw a spanner in the works of their profit interests. For me as average consumer I could not care less. Or who really thinks that savings will reach the end user? The corporations just want to use inventions for free. Not much different from people who download stuff and are sued into oblivion by copyright trolls.
... I don't want to have something to do with organizations like PETA (living in Germany with equivalent organizations, which are in no way different). Though there might be at least some merit in what they are doing, I just can't bring it over me to support totally braindead fanatics.
Do we discuss here about a written manual or properly written and commented code? I have code that is older than 10 years. I still understand it. Ok, there are parts, which really embarrass me when I see them, but I have no problem understanding them.
I'm sorry to say it, but if that's the way you feel, there's very little chance that anybody will ever get any use out of your code.
And I wrote that I don't care. Either I am paid and do the documentation, or I do stuff in my free time for me and do whatever I like. You are certainly right when you say that most people are not interested to fight their way through the source. So what? I don't write my free code for other people. I write it for me. I just dump the results on sourceforge or gitorious. Useless? Perhaps not always. I fought more than once my way through other peoples code. Usually not to learn how to use a program, but how certain things are done. Releasing my sources is not for end users, I care only for paying end users, but for other coders.
I am a freelancer, I am doing what the customer pays me for. I also write open source software in my free time. You don't like it? I don't care. I don't do it for you. I write it for me. I don't need a manual for my own code. So why do I publish my code at all? Why not? Maybe it is useful for someone. I just don't feel any obligation to make it useful for anyone but me.
It's not hard to understand. You are the one not understanding.
I really should not answer. It is useless anyways. Let's suppose I don't do it for you, I do it for me.
Do you believe that for two observers in two different inertial frames time moves with different speed? Yes? You believe that distances between to points could be different between two people in two different inertial frames? Yes?
Do you believe, that simultaneity might also be dependent on the inertial frame a person lives in? That for two people in two different inertial frames an event might not happen at the same time? No? Sorry, is also a result of special relativity.
So if for two people one an the same event does not happen at the same time, the event, which is in one persons past, is in the others persons future. This is usually no problem, both persons can never communicate with each other. Those inertial frames are causally decoupled.
Causally decoupled unless the communication happens faster than light. With a faster than light signal both people can communicate an the one person can tell the other person what will happen in his future. This causes paradoxes.
And no, it does not matter at all how the signal is sent. All that matters is the time when the information arrives. If it is earlier than it possibly could have arrived by normal means, e.g. with a laser, the information could have come from an inertial frame where a certain event, which is already in the past for the sender, is still in the future in the receiver's inertial frame.
But of course, I will again get the answer, that there is not ftl communication because the A-ship never moves at all, and space is warped and warp bubble, and blah. No problem. If you like, tell me the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it.
The physicist is just doing math. His equations are correct. They solve some problems of ftl travel. But this does not mean they solve every problem and it does not mean they are in any way applicable in this universe.
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Setup EMP charge. Bulldozers wait outside 'blast range'. Clean area. Move bulldozers in. Profit.
Of course everything depends on how feasible such an EMP device really is. Probably some sort of cell phone jammer would be totally sufficient.
True. But the question is, how expensive is such an EMP device really? How much profit is in an illegally felled tree? The risk of being caught using such a device in a rainforest is probably pretty low. And I suppose felling, transporting and selling trees is nothing some 3rd rate would be criminal can easily do. It is a business, which probably has enough money and manpower to pull something like that trough. If there isn't even a cheaper methods to get around the tracking devices.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/how-to-for-emp-weapon-stunningly-accessible/
You are kidding if you disregard the stupidity of the average sheeple.
For now it is math. Whether it is really relevant for real world physics is a totally different question.
Even if I had a 3D printer. The cases of most phones are good enough for me. I have not modded my pc either.
But Nokia, want to do something really revolutionary? Give users the power to install their own systems. Lumia with android? Lumia with maemo? Meego? I would buy it at once. Lumia with Windoze? Keep it. Don't want it even for free.
Actually this is true.
Stupid copy restriction?
It's about Scientology. So it never can be a religious debate.
I doubt the church, especially the catholic church would like it.
Easy if they have something to lose, you hear: 'You just have to believe'. If they don't have much to lose, they'll kill you.
Insulting? Experienced.
Really? Too bad, if I had black skin and lived in the USA, I would worry even today.
...are there copyright trolls, too? Strangely I never heard this term. Maybe because copyright does not harm big corporations like patents? Why should I care for one and not the other? 'Patent troll' is a propaganda concept of huge companies like Apple, Microsoft and others against small companies which throw a spanner in the works of their profit interests. For me as average consumer I could not care less. Or who really thinks that savings will reach the end user? The corporations just want to use inventions for free. Not much different from people who download stuff and are sued into oblivion by copyright trolls.
Out of curiosity I went to https://www.coursera.org/. What do I at once on the first page?
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution
... I don't want to have something to do with organizations like PETA (living in Germany with equivalent organizations, which are in no way different). Though there might be at least some merit in what they are doing, I just can't bring it over me to support totally braindead fanatics.
Why issue? I am sure he won't hinder any science, which is used to build deadlier weapons. What more do Americans need?
So, the man is an idiot. What are the people who elected him?
Do we discuss here about a written manual or properly written and commented code? I have code that is older than 10 years. I still understand it. Ok, there are parts, which really embarrass me when I see them, but I have no problem understanding them.
And I wrote that I don't care. Either I am paid and do the documentation, or I do stuff in my free time for me and do whatever I like. You are certainly right when you say that most people are not interested to fight their way through the source. So what? I don't write my free code for other people. I write it for me. I just dump the results on sourceforge or gitorious. Useless? Perhaps not always. I fought more than once my way through other peoples code. Usually not to learn how to use a program, but how certain things are done. Releasing my sources is not for end users, I care only for paying end users, but for other coders.
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Nope, not interested at all. I am totally satisfied with a more or less convenient life.
I am a freelancer, I am doing what the customer pays me for. I also write open source software in my free time. You don't like it? I don't care. I don't do it for you. I write it for me. I don't need a manual for my own code. So why do I publish my code at all? Why not? Maybe it is useful for someone. I just don't feel any obligation to make it useful for anyone but me.
The ad routines will be added to the kernel. If you remove them it won't boot anymore because it is not signed anymore.
I really should not answer. It is useless anyways. Let's suppose I don't do it for you, I do it for me.
Do you believe that for two observers in two different inertial frames time moves with different speed? Yes? You believe that distances between to points could be different between two people in two different inertial frames? Yes?
Do you believe, that simultaneity might also be dependent on the inertial frame a person lives in? That for two people in two different inertial frames an event might not happen at the same time? No? Sorry, is also a result of special relativity.
So if for two people one an the same event does not happen at the same time, the event, which is in one persons past, is in the others persons future. This is usually no problem, both persons can never communicate with each other. Those inertial frames are causally decoupled.
Causally decoupled unless the communication happens faster than light. With a faster than light signal both people can communicate an the one person can tell the other person what will happen in his future. This causes paradoxes.
And no, it does not matter at all how the signal is sent. All that matters is the time when the information arrives. If it is earlier than it possibly could have arrived by normal means, e.g. with a laser, the information could have come from an inertial frame where a certain event, which is already in the past for the sender, is still in the future in the receiver's inertial frame.
But of course, I will again get the answer, that there is not ftl communication because the A-ship never moves at all, and space is warped and warp bubble, and blah. No problem. If you like, tell me the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it.
The physicist is just doing math. His equations are correct. They solve some problems of ftl travel. But this does not mean they solve every problem and it does not mean they are in any way applicable in this universe.