What Congressional hearings? We've already had the whole NSA thing blow up, and half of Congress was frothing at the mouth at any suggestion of legislative action to restrict the surveillance, because "we need it for teh terrorists!".
One pathway for electron/positron collision can produce a neutral Z and a Higgs. In fact, they already tried that at the Large Electron Positron collider, the predecessor to the LHC. It came very close, at 115 GeV. There were hints of the Higgs, and so it came as no real surprise to find it just 10% higher.
This is actually a more efficient way of producing Higgs particles, at lower energies. The LHC produces the Higgs with two quarks, but there are six quarks involved in the proton/proton collision, so a lot of the energy you put in doesn't produce Higgs bosons. (In very rare instances you'll get two Higgs bosons, but most of the time the other quarks just produce other stuff.)
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If the water is deep enough and the USV can dive deep enough, its trivial to wait it out. A submarine for instance has little fear of a hurricane unless its stuck trying to get out of port because they waited too long.
Except, the difference in this case is this thing is at the surface.
Which means it couldn't dive to wait it out.
It's submerged, but only a little, and it has a mast sticking out of the water.
So, how trivial is it to ride this out when you're barely under the water? It seems less so.
Don't suppose you also sell tinfoil hats that could protect me from the NSA's mind-reading rays?
The problem is, the current version of the rays can penetrate tin-foil.
What you need is a layer of pudding between your head and the tinfoil, chocolate works best. You'll need to shave your head first to be ensured of it working.
Well, James Gosling was mentioned, so that's pretty impressive, right?
You know, I've been trying to figure out WTF that mention was all about.
So far, I've got nothing other than it serves as a very oblique reference to 2011.
As 'news' reporting, I rank that right up there with "in 1984, the same year Sally Baker showed me her underwear, there was a chemical leak in Bhopal India".
It's just spurious junk.
Slashdot continues to decline, and the 'editors' continue to be a joke.
Why would they refuse it?
Greedy. Corporate. Assholes.
So the only thing destroying live smallpox samples does is reduce the chances of a catastrophic screw-up.
You seem to underestimate the historical tendency of crazy tyrants to decide "if I can't win, everybody dies".
WTF do you think "mutually assured destruction" was all about? The premise that nobody would actually be crazy enough to destroy the entire world.
I think you attribute too much rationality to geopolitics. Now think of North Korea, and tell me just how much rationality you see.
Don't forget the goofy comic relief character. There's always one of those.
Oh, and you need the military guy (or the guys in dark suits and sunglasses) in charge of making the weaponized version just in case, and who demonstrate that the good guys are sometimes crazy delusional bastards, and that morality is a grey area (especially when you think you're defending your country).
There needs to be the greedy capitalist only interested in profit, even if that means some loss of life.
You may also need a puppy to complete this trope. Or some other foil which has natural immunity that everybody needs to capture first.
You might also need Steven Seagal just in case things get testy, but if he's the sherrif you're covered.
If we voluntarily destroy all our samples, and some other nation doesn't, then there will be that much less smallpox. This is a valuable goal in itself, even if it doesn't mean that the virus has been completely eradicated.
Except that governments have essentially stated that they're not willing to get rid of their stuff, in case someone else uses it.
So, lots of research is conducted under the guise "well, we can find a cure in case someone else does it". The problem is, that same research can be used to make the weapons in the first place.
You're saying the GPs argument doesn't make sense, but in fact governments have been using it for decades.
It's real, and it's happening right now. If you don't think that's true, then you're somewhat out of touch.
The researchers were hoping to leverage the power of presence: the idea that people recognize another sentient being in the environment, and are more responsive as a result.
... The interviewer isnâ(TM)t quite a sentient AI; it relies on a dialogue tree similar to telephone customer service: tell the computer all the simple things, then press 0 for a human to explain the story behind your streaking arrest.
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In other words, it won't understand you, has a limited set of responses it knows how to deal with, and will piss people off.
And some fed (who had to wait around for your interview and strap you into the electrodes anyway) will come back to an apoplectic interviewee who is tired of the stupid machine because it doesn't understand nuance, inflection, or anything else. Which is precisely why trained humans do this job.
Tell you what though, I hear they have this really cool program which pretends to be a 13 year old speaking his non native language.
I just don't see this being anything more than a gimmick to get funding, and will never actually amount to anything in the near term.
that you don't speak the L in solder is completely new to me, what would be the reason?
Well, the obvious answer is several hundred years of separation before we had any form of telephony or occasion to hear it spoken.
Take Newfoundland (a province of Canada), for example. There are Irish accents which haven't existed in Ireland for a few hundred years. Why? Because they were remote places, without a lot of interaction, and the accent remained intact even after it had died out in County Cork.
Why is there High German and Low German? Again, either geography, class, or something else. My guess is mostly class.
In North America you're talking about a huge land area, settled over time by people from all sorts of places, and with no fast transportation between them.
Even regionally the pronunciation can change quite a bit. Heck, I don't have the same inflections as most of my family does. I've actually been asked where I'm from by people who grew up in the same area.
In the UK, there's massive differences in accents -- some class based, apparently, and some region based. There are plenty of people in the UK who, as far as I understand, will say "hise" instead of "house". Why that would be, I have no idea.
For instance, I have known more than a few Brits who almost can't say "th". So, instead of "thought", it comes out as "fought". They don't even hold their mouth/tongue the way you would to make the "th" sound, they make an entirely different sound, essentially the way I'd make an "f" sound. Similarly, in my limited experience, a lot of German speakers turn the "th" into more of a "z" sound, so you can get "zinking" instead of "thinking".
Beyond that, you'd need to ask a linguist. Over time, what you grew up hearing and saying defines how you say it, and what you can say. I strongly suspect there are some sounds that some people simply cannot make if they didn't learn early enough.
Sometimes, I do wonder if accents aren't sometimes the equivalent of a regional speech impediment, and they will always affect how you speak.
The longer I live, and the more non-native speakers of English I meet, the more I have a hard time explaining all of the corner cases in English, because it's made up of stuff from so many different languages.
How many people are going to read this and take advantage of the flaw before Apple approves the release to the AppStore? That's one argument for Android. Not having to wait for releases of App updates.
Apple does allow for emergency updates that get you approved in about a day tops.
Though the big question is what do you get with your login? What does it let you do? Do you have to pay for it or is it free?
I mean, if it's only to submit news to CNN and comment on their posts, then really it's NBD that it's in the clear - not ideal, but really, you get to post news as someone else, whoop-di-do.
Just like how you can log into
(Oh, and you need to sniff the password while the user is using it, so while it's easy to do, practically speaking, I don't think you're that likely to encounter too many people using it to make it worthwhile).
It also still doesn't give anyone permission to generate their own h.264 video files (outside of webrtc "video-chatting" inside the browser) legally without paying someone a patent "poll-tax" for permission, so this is still "consume-only".
I'm also under the impression that there are,absurdly, potential patent-license issues with the.mp4 file format that h.264 video is most often stored in. Finally, of course unless the usual obstructionist Apple and Microsoft ever implement opus codec support, this also doesn't give you the legal ability to include sound (mp3 or aac, typically, for h.264 videos) with the video. Hope everybody likes silent movies...
If you have a camcorder, the license to create h.264 is present as part of the camcorder. This includes phones and everything else people submit to YouTube, for example.
The only constraint is that if you post content online, you cannot take payment on the content itself - i.e., you can put it online, you can put ads around it, but you cannot force someone to pay to view that content (commercial activity). So those videos on YouTube where you have to pay in order to view them come under a different license.
As for the Mp4 format being patented - it's RAND by Apple ages ago (MP4 is a subset of the QuickTime MOV format). If Apple's asserting any patents on the format, that is. But since people mass-license the h.264 patents through the MPEG-LA, that means any patents Apple has on MP4 are included in the license fee you pay to create or display the content.
Sound is licensed under a separate agreement - MP3 or AAC. Again, your typical MPEG-LA license for h.264 will probably include use licenses for AAC (most typical format) so you can have a soundtrack.
If not, there's always PCM as well - handled by the format just fine.
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