Can't you modify those Beofungs to do encryption just by installing
some new firmware? Seems like it should be really easy to do. I've even had
nightmares that the Chinese could do so "over the air".

Maybe instead of Common Core, we should be teaching Common Lisp?

Speaking of procrastination... I've been putting off looking for a really
good nootropic stack that is cheap and effective and can be obtained easily
at brick and mortor places like CVS/RiteAID/Target/Walmart. I would like to
hear your stack suggestions and some usage notes.

What if the problem came more from the black asphalt road surface grabbing
sunlight and radiating the heat back into the atmosphere than the engines
spewing diesel smoke? (a massive 'Urban Heat Island'

http://heatisland2009.lbl.gov/...

a continent wide and replicated many times to allow vehicular access to the
interesting areas) If that were the case, how would switching back to dirt
roads affect your choice of transportation? I'm thinking a monster truck
with high ground clearance and extra winches for getting unstuck in the mud
would be a much better choice for driving to the grocery store to pick up
your 150# of groceries or dropping off your kid at school. Of course, that
would reduce the Govs opportunities to tax you.

Zimbardo is just doing more market research to find out if he is going to
make more money writing a book that exploits young men with Asperger's
Syndrome. He knows these clinical subjects probably won't sue him because
they are too busy with their Pr0n and Geamze.

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

Let's prove him wrong!

Also, when I'm at work, I'm thinking about how I can make a potion using
Bear Claws + Giant's Toe + Hanging Moss to Damage Magicka Regen + Fortify
Health + *Fortify One-Handed*.

I might give Zimbardo more credence if he also looked at porn that occurs as a
natural story line inside the video game, making them dependent and linked
to one another in inexplicable ways. Using a shotgun approach and blaming
this one behavior on two possible motivations without making a distinction
that one activity might be leading to another is being lazy as a
researcher. Maybe he should publish a book on how to make money selling
snake oil. That's probably too much to ask...

I think what we are seeing here is caused by the "publish or perish"
paradigm. The deep ocean currents capturing energy and storing it and moving
it around the globe has been known for a long time. The climate modelers
chose to ignore it so they could simplify things and write something that
looked "close enough" and publish *something* before their funding ran out.
Or they hand-waived and said it was too expensive to acquire accurate
time-series data from deep ocean currents, and hence, ignored. The "peer
review" cycle is just so much crap, since if I constantly poo-poo your
results, you'll do the same for my results. If we aren't in positions to do
that, then we aren't 'peers'.

The corollary here is that climate models simply cannot be made to be
accurate without 'all the data', and 'all the data' is either too expensive
to acquire, or can't be acquired in a short enough time to publish in the
peer review cycle.

It happens all the time in academia, and is a big part of this whole
problem. How do you tease out the "close enough" BS results from the "what
really happens" models? Good luck with that! Just don't claim 'deniers' are
the problem here. They are obviously not the problem.

Any machine left in the garden does what? That's right! It RUSTS! Or, is
trampled by the deer herd that comes to eat your perfectly grown tomatoes. I
guess you could open-source mount a rifle with laser guided computer optics
to handle the deer, but what about the rust problem? Also, in California
anyway, the Santa Ana's kick up and blow everything around, including dust,
sand, grit, and pollution film from China that will gum up anything you put
on a machine to prevent rust. Not trying to be an Eeyore, just giving the
DIY designers a 'heads-up' on some potential problems that I happen to know
about from experience.

The robot could lay down enough rails in front of it to move in that
direction, then pick them up and move them along itself. I think I saw this
in a claymation movie once. Nick Park?

Maybe there was a layer of dead plankton that built up over time, and
provided some 'cushion' so later arrivals had a softer landing on the
surface of the ISS?

All those cars travelling too close together at high rates of speed will
become a large, bloody, smoking hole in the world if a moose misses the
"Moose Crossing" sign and tries to cross at the wrong spot. Food for
thought.

What if your robocar drops you off at work, then parks itself in the parking
garage and waits for your signal to drive back to the front door to pick you
up and take you home. But, while it's parked, some bad guy uploads a virus
to it, and it runs around and kills people, then parks itself, and
resets/reloads to saved sane backups. When you call it, it comes around to pick
you up at the front door, but it's covered in blood and body parts. Pop
quiz: what do you do, wildcat? (constraint: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper,
Sandra Bullock are all on vacation. You are on your own.)

Couldn't you just stick a colored lens over the driverless cars' visual
sensors, and change all the lights to 'green'?

Nowadays, It's not "loner". It's "gamer". (as in video gamer)

Maybe the study has published results based on data collected using an
aperatus that had a hole in it, and the plastic they were collecting leaked
out, instead of being counted.

Cables used to recharge electic cars don't work very well after you have
driven over them a few times with your dually diesel one-ton pickup truck
because your wife left them drapped across the gravel driveway.