> Although he is bound by Google's non-disclosure agreements
So what's in those NDA's? Sergei's arse size?
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Most recycling is like this anyway:
1) Collect at (govnmt-run) recycling center
2) Put into large container
3) Ship to "recycler" in China
4) Recycler puts container contents into the ground while collecting money
5) Ship empty container back to recycling center
It's about California-style guilt abatment. One can then complain how China is evil and how communismcapitalism exploits poor workers etc.
California's Top Exports to China: Waste and Scrap on second place (via "China's Cap On American Garbage: Pseudo-Environmental States Impacted Most")
One day people will probably have to use thermonuclear devices to fuse all the crap into a mass of radioactive slag that can be resaonable forgotten about.
Holy stuff, this is deep in Chemtrail/Morgellons terroritory.
And not a single one of the forum 'tards who tells him/her to seek professional help now because cognitive apparatus malfunction, LOL.
When the Reality of Philip K. Dick is intruding this dimension, the problem is probably with you.
Never heard of using a speaker as an input device? :-) You need to do some serious review of current audio system technology...
Right. I suspect to use the speakers as input device, with the piezo as transducer, you need a very precise wattmeter across the piezo so that you can find out how much energy you are actually pumping into the atmosphere in the different frequency bands given your input signal. So you have the expected power spectrum during Δt [computed from the output signal] and the actual power spectrum during Δt [measured from the wattmeter], which tells you how much energy the atmosphere is actually absorbing or even giving back. Then you have to pass the two spectra through a possibly nonlinear map to find out what the incoming signal might actually be. Will you hear the wife working in the kitchen over Stoya's lovely moans? (Just a research example, of course). Sounds feasible (PUN!), but does anyone do it and do boards have hardware to do it?
Osama's computer was set up?
That's the first time I hear of this.
AFAIK, CIA had to fake a polio vaccination drive to collect DNA, then a physical hit happened which the Pakistanis may or may not have know about, and finally they left, taking the harddisk with them. Then a body was dumped at sea more mysteriously than a Roswell-related disappearance.
But then again, Seymour Hersh says about that raid "Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true", so who knows.
I lolled at Here's a guy who's run Linux on a Western Digital hard drive motherboard.
Embedded stuff is amazing, sadly I haven't had an occasion to look at it since I had to run floating point calculations on COP microcontrollers in the 90's.
Have an upvote.
Those typically don't want to pay. Just look at the Concorde. Though tickets were expensive it had to be subsidized, and of course Concorde flights, like all flights never were affordable to the general public.
This just means they don't want to pay for glorious shit, so the taxpayer steps in because he's supposed to pay for glorious shit at the call of a politician preening his feathers using glorious shit.
How that makes sense is anyone's guess. Maybe that taxpayer had preferred a new frying pan instead. Oh well.
NOTHING LEFT TO CUT!
"Many technological marvels of the 20th century were the result of military research. I suspect the amount of public and private wealth realized from the Internet dwarfs the money put into developing ARPANET."
False dichotomy fallacy. Many more technological marvels of the 20th century were the result of non-military research. The counterfactual is: if the money had been left in the economy, what would people have come up with, quite probably more efficiently?
I will also say that the bill for all this has not even be paid yet. There WILL be suffering. MUCH suffering.
Inb4 the "Plasma Universe" horde discovers this article and uphelds it as particularly telling proof of their belief in a, well, "Plasma Universe" while hatin' on good old Gravitation.
Is that what you want, El Reg? Are you stirring the pot?
Meanwhile....
"Faraday rotation is sensitive only to magnetic fields in ionized gas! Although magnetized gas in the Galaxy with a low ionization fraction does not contribute significantly to Faraday rotation, gas with the ionization fraction of the warm and cold neutral media is still affected by Lorentz forces due to ion-neutral collisions. Therefore, if a field is present in the neutral gas but does not have an evident RM signature due to the low electron density, it could still be dynamically important. Because most of the RM detections reported here are concentrated in narrow, possibly shocked filaments, the magnetic field lines are likely compressed. Because the mass contained in the filaments is larger than can be explained by swept-up gas from the ambient ISM, the filaments are most likely gas stripped and decelerated from the HVC."
You now picture the above explained to you breathlessly by a lab-coat equipped gorgeous Young Scientist (evidently female) barely old enough to be out of high school, this with "Navy CSI" eagerness, while infographic porn designed by the Best Of CNN is being exhibited out-of-focus in swirling, cool blue shades (with zests of warm orange) on several large flat-panel displays in the background.
Also, scary music.
> Is it possible to win sports bets consistently over the long haul?
Seeing how quite a few games are rigged (and I hear you can find this out by checking how the bets are standing relative to the historical averages, in yuropean football and sumo wrestling at least), I would not put my money on it.
On the other hand, you can make money by detecting the rigged game in the first place as you then have good information from the future.
Oh, come on. It's not like FB would hoover up the whole industry and its dependencies like the Blob from Zuckerberg. It's just a search graph with Hadoop. You need a war or government for THAT.
Those who want the good stuff will find it and get it. Those who won't spend time on Facebook will spend it elsewhere. Life goes on etc.
> I think Einstein would suggest that "common sense" is a very bad indicator as to what is right and what is wrong.
I would think your would find out that this would not be so.
Also, I meant "use common sense to detect crankery" not "use common sense to detect new physics". The former is generally >> easier than the latter.
Hawking doesn't say much really.
For "Saddle Shaped" that's "Negative Overall Curvature", see Riemann Surfaces and General Relativity, in the 1920s or so. Experimentally, not detected at the present time; indeed the universe is pretty much at 0 intrinsic curvature. Why? Dunno, LOL!
<I<Dark Matter doesn't exist</i>
A peremptory statement followed by utter FAIL because replacing "dark matter" would demand that gravity "decay" SLOWER over large distances.
As in time flows slower that farther away from a strong gravitational source.
Again, arse backwards. Also, it is "proper time" and it does not "flow" in any particular way.
"Black holes have no basis in General Relativity..."
Dear Plasma-Universe Colleague,
Your paper has received all the attention that it deserved. Unfortunately, I am currently unable to write up a complete analysis of your doubtlessly well-reasoned ideas since my cat had a little accident and I needed cellulose-based material in a hurry. Rest assured, however, that further submissions on your part will be looked at with the same intellectual curiosity as your latest missive managed to elicit.
Believe me always, yours faithfully,
etc. etc.