A picture *is* worth a thousand words (so moving pictures are at least a thousand).

But that doesn't mean that every set of a thousand words can be represented by one single picture.

One could image the editors being just a little bit 'happier' with the proof if just a bit more information was provided about the number 7825.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but 7825 has to be part of at least one Pythagorean Triple, no? If you take all the integers up to 7824 and you can divide them up, but then you fail when you add 7825, then 7825 has to be part of a triple, otherwise it wouldn't be a tipping point.

So there has to be at least one set of numbers a and b such that a + b = 7825. a and b must be smaller than 7825 which is why 7825 has to be the c in the Pythagorean theorem.

So if any such numbers a and b could be given as additional information, the reason for 7825 would be clearer.

Like if you're dividing red and blue marbles over 2 containers and you can't have two of the same color in a container. You can divide 4 of them, 1 of each color in each container, but when you try to place a fifth, all containers are full.

Here, same thing: when you reach 7825, all the containers are full and you can't squeeze in an extra triple anywhere.

You wanna be really scared?

Use the 'Groups' button to show the Iridium 33 Collision Debris.

That's from ONE collision between two satellites.

You are quite right.

Then again, he also mentions that "some sites have 8+ pumps with 2 devices in each".

Just being able to update both devices in a single pump should already cut his worktime in half, while having two stations down instead of one should not affect the business very much.

Or how about aiming for a distribution of east/south/west facing fixed installations that matches the distribution of electricity demand over the day?

Have you ever read what happened in Yellowstone when the wolves were reintroduced?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Now, okay, the wolf is an apex predator who has a much bigger effect on the ecosystem than a pigeon. But I believe this is one of the best examples you can give that putting species back where they've gone extinct can have some very beneficial effects.

We have managed to establish a basic form of communication with some chimpanzees, well within human liftetimes, because they are able to see us (visual sensors in the right frequancy band) and they are able to make delicate motions that we can see.

If we make contact with aliens of approximately that level of sophistication, we should be fine.

Add to that the possibility of them hearing us (again, sensors in the right range) and hopefully vice-versa, and we should not have too much problems that cannot be overcome.

I believe that what he meant is that drivers "require some means of illumination at night" in order to spot "some things (like animals and pedestrians)" so that they don't run them over.

Thanks for that link, I found it very interesting.

But also worrying.

I mean, looking at everything Cerberus can do without apparently being detectable on the phone... How can I know that my phone doesn't have something similar installed on it?

Every big player in the industry seems convinced #2 and #3 are incompatible...

From TFA:

"This release implements support for the Secure Element. A netlink API is available to enable, disable and discover NFC attached (embedded or UICC ones) secure elements. With some userspace help, this allows to support NFC payments, used to implement financial transactions. Only the pn544 driver currently supports this API."

In other words, the kernel now contains the necessary API so the PC can correctly talk to a NFC Secure Element which is needed to be able to make payments over NFC, in tandem with userspace tools.

So yeah, the label is a bit misleading...

Technically, every Nobel Prize also rewards all the winner's teachers...

The problem is that one of the rights you do not have is the right to go wherever you please.

Thus, the government is not infringing on your rights. They are requiring that you waive certain of your rights in order to obtain the right to enter their territory. Merely protesting against it won't help.

You're coming at this from the wrong side. You're assuming this exists to allow a consciousness to be detached from a physical body. I'd say it's more likely that this allows a consciousness to form, to emerge, from any and all 'proper' physical bodies.

In other words, the development of a foetus just needs to create the physical neurons in the brain. Conscience will then emerge from the firing neurons on its own. And because it wasn't tied down to the actual physical body to begin with, some leeway remains to project it outside.

You're asking how we evolved from a consciousness tied to a body to one that isn't. What proof do you have that consciousness was ever tied to a body to start with?