Yeah, but that's not a method for making a 3d model from a picture of a tree or other organic structure.

They aren't space communists, they are space fascists.


EDIT: crap, got confused, you are talking about the Tau, nevermind

It's worth noting that the 'used future' presented in Star Wars stood in stark contrast to the gleaming utopias of other science fiction movies of the time. Star Wars should be recognized as a progenitor of 'gritty' sci-fi world building

no picture needed; but that doesn't mean people don't want one.

Yeah, I spent a lot of time in high school dissolving Styrofoam in gasoline to make napalm. You'd be surprised how much Styrofoam it takes before it stops being a liquid and starts being more of a gel.

Pretty cool;

Clearly you do not see. If everyone encrypted all their data then no one could be considered suspicious for doing so. There's nothing 'pubertal' about considering ways we might make it more difficult for the government to do things that are illegal, immoral, and totally unnecessary.

I get that thinking that the President and/or Congress do as the American people tell them to is naive. On the other side of the coin, thinking that we are powerless to influence them is defeatist. If nothing else, we can ensure that when elected officials decide to ignore the will of the people, it as expensive as…

Who's we?
http://defundthensa.com/

Just because it didn't work the first time doesn't mean you abandon the idea. It could easily still get traction.

The point was to encrypt the unimportant stuff so that the NSA can't focus their energies ONLY on the secret stuff :)

Did we do that to bankers? That would have been sweet...

Why would your internet speed affect your ability to encrypt data before you send it and decrypt if after you receive it? Are you sending un-encrypted data to a remote server and having it encrypt it for you or something?

I call for a more direct approach to dealing with the NSA: partially defund them. Make it clear to the administrators of the NSA that betraying the trust of the American people have financial consequences that damage their ability to do their job. If they have enough money to spy on Americans, they have too much…

Not everybody applauds apples engineering 'achievements'

I think we should be thankful they didn't waste our tax dollars on GOOD editing and animation, right?

I don't think anyone is questioning the value of 3D printing, it's going to be huge, but that's not the technology that Musk is talking about or showcasing here.

Yeah, but it's not actually being directed at Musk; just directed at the shoddy media coverage around him.

Um, if rotating something in 3D constitutes "designing" it, then I designed the fucking iPhone. Seriously Gawker blogs, who do you think you are doing a favor for by pretending that Musk has done things that he has not yet done. Shouldn't you be doing some like, Journalism or something? If you want to start an Elon…

I'm getting the feeling you think that the mines would get their own frequency instead of sending encrypted packets across a frequency that they share (multiplexed) with myriad other devices. Imagine being in a Starbucks and trying to determine the position of a specific cell phone by measuring the signal strength of…

Well, no, it wouldn't. First of all, the channels that it's broadcasting on are probably fairly noisy. There's going to be all kinds of communication being multiplexed over military frequencies; and it would be very hard to distinguish what was a mine 20 feet away from you, and what was a airplane 200 miles away from…