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I suspect that this is only good when the suspected person doesn’t know to expect it, and how it’s judged. When he does, he’ll have worked out how to draw the visual details along with the rest of his story. Of course, I could be wrong, he might still give himself away.
How long do you think it will take for this to be adopted by intelligence services worldwide? 😉 So much for hiding conversations from electronic eavesdroppers by holding them near running water. (My guess: they’ve already got it. I could be wrong, but it’s an obvious idea to any science guy — or hard science …
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I was somewhat surprised when I read that people are getting more intelligent, on average, every decade. (Here’s more evidence of it.) But it makes sense… no matter what the cause, more people are learning how to think better all the time. And more people believe they can be smarter, from seeing smarter people around …
First, for those of you who know and care about it: after seven years of work, the theory for Project X is successfully finished! (Hurray!) However, I haven’t found a simple — but not too simple — use for it so I could prove that it works. I’m not sure I’ll be able to commercialize …
Many old wives’ tales actually do have a basis in fact, and it’s not a good idea to dismiss them out of hand. For instance, it’s easy to dismiss your grandmother’s warning that you’ll catch a cold if you go out without a coat when it’s cold. The cold is caused by a virus, and …
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? This isn’t a perfect society, by a long shot, so those who have authority must be held accountable for exercising that authority responsibly. And the best way to do that is to give everyone — especially their superiors and the courts — the ability to see their behavior first-hand. If they …
I’ve always thought that computers could do more to protect themselves from theft. Even something as simple as full drive encryption, built into all hard drives, would at least prevent any thief from getting the data on a machine (and the data is usually worth far more than the machine itself). Apparently someone at Intel …
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Wow… I always thought of bugs as little more than self-reproducing low-level biological robots, but I didn’t realize they had bugs of their own. 😉 If this happened in practically any other species, the entire group affected by it (and the genes responsible for it) would essentially cease to exist, because once locked into it …
So take that and blow it out your saddle-bags, reactionary eighties parents! 😉
Our cell phone company has just started adding a $2 charge for any customer that still receives a mailed bill. They’re promising to donate an additional $2 to a charity for any customer that goes paperless, too. I expected this sort of thing to happen years ago. Companies have been touting paperless billing for more …
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