Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2012-10-29 Thread Robert Lynn
Just make sure you are an engineer - will need someone to design and maintain all of the killing machines. On 28 October 2012 23:31, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I had seen this before. This must

Re: [Vo]:Home made data logging ammeter

2012-10-29 Thread Michele Comitini
Some things can be handled with scilab + xcos http://www.scilab.org/products/xcos http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/DAQ If you do not need RT signal analysis, consider spitting data acquisition and data analysis. Most loggers today have large memory or at least async data communication

Re: [Vo]:New publication on my Blog

2012-10-29 Thread Peter Gluck
Thank you dear Steven! The ways to good music are very tortuous sometimes. For example the aria Mio babbino caro is used in at least 23 movies of very different kinds. i will confess sincerely that my relation with vampires are inexistent, I ignore them- they are criminal parasites and they exist

[Vo]:Skynet Could be Carbon Based

2012-10-29 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.kurzweilai.net/carbon-nanotubes-to-replace-silicon-ibm http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/39250.wss Carbon nanotubes represent a new class of semiconductor materials whose electrical properties are more attractive than silicon, particularly for building nanoscale

[Vo]:Mischaracterizations of verdict against seismologists.

2012-10-29 Thread Harry Veeder
Mischaracterizations of the L'Aquila Lawsuit Verdict http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.cz/2012/10/mischaracterizations-of-laquila-lawsuit.html On March 31, 2009, in L’Aquila, six days before a deadly magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed 308 people, Bernardo De Bernardinis, then deputy chief of Italy’s

Re: [Vo]:Mischaracterizations of verdict against seismologists.

2012-10-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
This whole story is an outrage. It is simply dreadful. Are they trying to outlaw science and academic freedom, or are they trying to outlaw mistakes? - Jed

RE: [Vo]:Skynet Could be Carbon Based

2012-10-29 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Terry Blanton http://www.kurzweilai.net/carbon-nanotubes-to-replace-silicon-ibm Carbon nanotubes represent a new class of semiconductor materials whose electrical properties are more attractive than silicon, particularly for building nanoscale transistor devices

Re: [Vo]:Mischaracterizations of verdict against seismologists.

2012-10-29 Thread Harry Veeder
Did you read it? In the process of asserting themselves as the legitimate authorities on local seismological conditions, the seismologists appeared to *minimize* the risk of a major earthquake. One seismologist in an attempt to quell public alarm said the recent cluster of tremors *reduced* the

[Vo]:Piantelli patent filed in 2009, soon granted... Is rossi infriging?

2012-10-29 Thread Alain Sepeda
I just found in a comment that piantelli patent : https://register.epo.org/espacenet/application?lng=entab=doclistnumber=EP09806118filter=INCOMING it seems to protect LENR in micro/nanopowder... some cristallography discussion... talking of H- ions... cerium catalyst...

[Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-29 Thread a.ashfield
Budgerigars have tetrachromatic color vision and one named Puck had a vocabulary of 1728 words.They obviously don't have the brain power or incentive to develop science or civilization but they are sentient. The difference between sentience and intelligence seems blurred.I have long advocated

[Vo]:LENR-CANR.org down for hours

2012-10-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
LENR-CANR has been offline for 3 hours, and it will be another 2 hours or so. Jumpline is upgrading the server. It is unusual to have such a long service outage in this day and age. It isn't the storm that whacked it. Jumpline is in Columbus, OH. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-29 Thread David Roberson
A design of this nature might be interesting to follow. Why not add the ability to detect when it is injured by some form of pain response? Then add the other senses to allow the machine to experience things that a new child would encounter. Even with these additions, I would not expect a

[Vo]:Hurricane Sandy and the cost of the 1960s space program

2012-10-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
I recall that in the 1960s many people complained about the cost of the space program. They thought that developing rockets was a waste of money, especially the moon race. The space program brought us weather satellites, communication satellites and the GPS. My guess is that the money we will

Re: [Vo]:Hurricane Sandy and the cost of the 1960s space program

2012-10-29 Thread ChemE Stewart
Jed, The central pressure of that storm is down to 946 mB pressure which says she will be extremely powerful and devastating. It will be the equivalent of an F5 tornado along with a billion tons of water whipping around. It appears to be tracking exactly to the point of the massive sinkhole

Re: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real

2012-10-29 Thread a.ashfield
Dave wrote:/I would not expect a present day design to behave in/ /a manner that remotely resembles a human. Our brain appears to be a massively parallel data processing environment while most computers process one instruction at a time. We need to understand parallel systems far better/

Re: [Vo]:Mischaracterizations of verdict against seismologists.

2012-10-29 Thread mixent
In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:59:53 -0400: Hi, [snip] Media reports of the Major Risk Committee meeting and the subsequent press conference seem to focus on countering the views offered by Mr. Giuliani, whom they viewed as unscientific and had been battling in

Re: [Vo]:Mischaracterizations of verdict against seismologists.

2012-10-29 Thread Michele Comitini
Journalist around the world are comparing those lazy professors to real scientists persecuted in the past. Galileo is the most named. I just remind that Galileo used his intelligence to make *correct* predictions that went against the established Truth , that eventually led him to be sentenced

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR.org down for hours

2012-10-29 Thread Michele Comitini
Does it go faster now? Did they give you more space? A least some payback for the trouble! mic 2012/10/29 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com LENR-CANR has been offline for 3 hours, and it will be another 2 hours or so. Jumpline is upgrading the server. It is unusual to have such a long

Re: [Vo]:Piantelli patent filed in 2009, soon granted... Is rossi infriging?

2012-10-29 Thread Teslaalset
See my response at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Piantelli-2009-patent-be-granted-4105916%2ES%2E180023153?qid=f0a2390c-0b90-4da1-91f4-1cdd87dbd904trk=group_most_recent_rich-0-b-ttlgoback=%2Egmr_4105916_mSplash=1 On Monday, October 29, 2012, Alain Sepeda wrote: I just found in a

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR.org down for hours

2012-10-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michele Comitini michele.comit...@gmail.com wrote: Does it go faster now? Did they give you more space? I can't tell if it is faster. It is working again, anyway. Just came on. I don't need more disk space. They have limits on bandwidth but they do not monitor it correctly, so they do not

Re: [Vo]:Hurricane Sandy and the cost of the 1960s space program

2012-10-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: If your daughter is anywhere near the path of the center of that thing I would get her out. I can't get her anywhere. No one in that area is going anywhere. She is in Manhattan, in a place a few blocks beyond where the mayor's evacuation map shows

Re: [Vo]:Mischaracterizations of verdict against seismologists.

2012-10-29 Thread David Roberson
If prediction of earthquakes were a solid accurate science then perhaps they should be punished, but that is clearly not the situation. No one has been able to reliably make such a prediction with anything that resembles regularity so these poor guys should not be held in too much disregard.

Re: [Vo]:Hurricane Sandy and the cost of the 1960s space program

2012-10-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is a comment from Slate, saying that the 1938 storm was another superstorm like Sandy: What Happened the Last Time a “Frankenstorm” Hit New York? As New Englanders brace for Hurricane Sandy—the “Frankenstorm” that is expected to reach full intensity Monday evening and

[Vo]:Hurricane Sandy and the cost of the 1960s space program

2012-10-29 Thread ChemE Stewart
My model for Irene shows that she lost her energetic particle near Stafford, VA. http://www.businessinsider.com/giant-sinkhole-threatens-homes-in-stafford-virginia-2011-9 Sandy's energetic particle will be with her until she hits the Erie Canal area, not too far from where one of her family

Re: [Vo]:Mischaracterizations of verdict against seismologists.

2012-10-29 Thread Michele Comitini
The matter is much simpler than could appear. It's only a simple question. More than 300 people died, because buildings collapsed. Did someone that was regarded as competent and with an official role say that in l'Aquila there was no danger because of possible earthquakes? In Japan an earthquake