Posts by I am David Jones 111 publicly visible posts • joined 6 May 2012
„The papers, published in Nature and Science (here are the links to the two other studies), show that people's political opinions aren't generally swayed by political news being posted and shared on Facebook“
I guess what is relevant is whether, for those whose political opinions *are* swayed by FB, whether there is a tendency to move towards or away from the centre.
I think the use of the term “victim blaming” in this context is totally wrong as it devalues the concept as it is generally used (eg rape/domestic abuse victims).
If you’re a megacorps up against state (-sponsored) adversaries then you have resources applenty and attacks are guaranteed (and to a large extent legitimate) so security is all down to you.
I’ve had a good few laptops over the years, and the Lenovo I briefly had was the only one that didn’t have working Ethernet or wifi after a clean Windows install.
I don’t care if the blame lies with MS or Lenovo, no way was I going to accept having to faff about with a separate computer to get the drivers to get Windows working on the Lenovo.
So I returned it and went looking elsewhere, and won’t bother even trying another Lenovo.
Actually, I believe the main problem is the spreading of the pulse.
You start with a well defined pulse of light that is easy to detect. This contains a large range of frequencies.
As it travels down the fibre, the effect of the refractive index of the fibre depends on the frequency. So the different frequencies spread out and the pulse becomes a smear which is harder, and eventually impossible, to detect.
This is direct from old memory so apologies for any mistakes.
Just don’t ask me how this relates to entangled pairs…
“Saying that that proportions of the met have issues is not really any different to saying society at large has issues”
It absolutely is different in my book. People who are paid to police illegal behaviour, and who are given extra powers to do so, should be held to a much higher standard. Basically zero tolerance for their own illegal behaviour and for any colleagues who see it but don’t report it.
And while we’re on the subject… why do we even have different names for the same profession based on nationality? Is this unique to spacefarers?
It’ll only get more ridiculous as the number of spacefaring nations increases, each desperately trying to come up with a catchy name that represents their nation.
They are all astronauts. End of. Rant over.
It looks like they just have a chamber rotating around a horizontal axis, eliminating the concepts of up and down or averaging out the effects of gravity. They use a vertical axis chamber to represent normal gravity. Doesn’t count as what I’d hope “simulated microgravity” to look like, but presumably it is sufficient for their purposes.
The patent system is blind to the amount of effort involved in leading to an innovation, and imo rightfully so. Why should there be no protection for an invention following a eureka* moment ?
How would you even begin to verify how much effort went into an invention?
*I’m not saying this constitutes a eureka moment. As I noted elsewhere, this is a patent application that has not yet been examined for novelty and non-obviousness.
Despite living in Germany a while, I still can’t gauge how offensive English swear words are to Germans. Certainly they don’t baulk at f and s words in songs on the radio.
And ‘shitstorm’ seems to be widely accepted and it always makes me chuckle when I see it as a huge headline on the front page of a serious paper :)
Not really. Most alleged sightings seem to boil down to “small thing moving fast in the sky”. No smartphone will be able to capture that well, even if you had advance warning and could set up a tripod.
So for once I won’t fully agree with Randall https://xkcd.com/1235/
Absolutely! Every now and again I read about some development, like a new paint or wingtip design, that will save 1-2% in fuel and hence $billions in annual savings. But they’re happy to throw away 10-30% (or whatever it is) just for wireless charging???
I genuinely can’t think of a single advantage of wireless changing for a plane that is parked up for (dis)embarkation.
Same for cars tbh.
Having said all that, in-air wireless charging could be fun :)
Anyone can study social media/Facebook, just as anyone can study tobacco companies.
What I think this is about is getting privileged access to data/APIs to help with the research, and no doubt FB do indeed keep this for “friendly” researchers.
But I doubt that tobacco firms opened up their internal archives to any random person that asked…
For those who are questioning the substantive merit of the food container invention, bear in mind that a patent application will not even land on an examiner’s desk until certain formal requirements are met. These include eg fees being paid and a valid inventor being named.
Without commenting specifically on Dr Thaler’s invention, many many patent applications have no chance of being granted and they should not be taken as indicative of how easy/hard it is to meet patentability requirements.
As I’ve said before, this is clearly a test case and the invention itself is irrelevant.
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