Comment Re:And how is (Score 1) 124
how is the UN going to protect anybodys privacy?
with the cunning use of words
how is the UN going to protect anybodys privacy?
with the cunning use of words
Of course fire investigators will point to a piece of new technology as the cause of the fire
Bullshit. My uneducated guess is that they will instead use the analisys techniques outlined here
The street is where you keep your car.
Yeh, it's so convenient to keep your Tesla charging apparatus on the street.
and link to something.. ANYTHING slashdot has done in the last few years.
what does slashdot do?
Scratch that. We pontificate. We're very good at that.
DRM is bad.
I was watching this recently posted video of Ray Kurzweil interviewing Robert Freitas, a "nanobot theoretician", about the current state of nanotech. Freitas suggested the use of DRM techniques as a way of preventing the malicious use of nanotechnology. Seems like a "good" application to me. There's another video of RK interviewing Eric Drexler whichh is also interesting.
Conducting that research, however, is what science is all about: test claims to see if they're correct.
No. They spent a billion dollars on it. They were clutching at shadows after the lights were turned on.
And now it's time to ban commercials featuring unrealistically beautified people.
You want to look at ugly people? Think of the hotness!
hmmmm. I mainly agree, but as a point of accuracy...
it took 1.8B years to form and even if that is off by 1/2, that means 900M years
900M is about right according to wikipedia
The thing is, for much of that time Earth would have been a ball of lava, so once it cooled down life got going quite quickly.
the right conditions would have been present in the 15M years available
The summary actually says the the universe was about 15 million years old and would have lasted several million years. So...yeh, too short for anything useful to happen. One wonders what could be cool enough after only 15B years , and do you really need something as big as a planet?
OK, so the heavy elements began to be manufactured after just 3 million years, but were they manufactured in large numbers?
And how long does it take for those heavy elements to disperse through the universe and then coalesce into a planet around a suitable star? Seems like it might be longer than 15 million years.
And life took 500 million years to get started after Earth formed. For sure, for some of that time the Earth was too hot for life to occur but 15 million years seems too short for anything useful to happen. Maybe some RNA and some enzymes if you're lucky, but that would be about it.
the dwells all around get dry
Not that I read TFA or anything, but since thuse aquifers are under the ocean, I'm pretty sure they've got nothing to do with the water table in Lybia.
by all accounts quite tasty
In PNG human meat is referred to as "long pig"
offering bouncy rides.
When Australia was first settled a few people did indeed try it. I remember a school teacher showing us some drawings of special saddles and other stuff that people had made for the purpose. The problem is that a roo large enough to carry a human is a powerful and aggressive animal, it puts up a hell of a fight. There were at least a couple of people that somehow managed to saddle the roo and then mount the saddle, but in both cases the roo just bashed them into a tree tree or something. The first seven people to try it were all killed. I've never heard of anyone trying it since.
I can just about guarantee that if you knew how genuine fish sauce was made, you wouldn't put it in your mouth.
I counter-guarantee that if you knew how awesome and useful it is, you wouldn't care how it is made. It should be called "magic sauce"
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.