Sounds like it basically kickstarts a syphon effect that drains all the water out... which is exactly the same method by which a normal toilet works, just you're providing the initial pressure to raise that first bit of water by squeezing a bulb rather than pushing a handle/button/pulling a chain to raise a plunger.

Not really sure what the advantage is. The mechanical form does gradually wear out over time, but unless you're on a spaceship or desert island it's no big deal (not that you'd probably have a flush toilet in either case), and the rubber bulb will itself eventually perish.

I think that the publicity of the internet and the overall profitability of hacking has contributed greatly to the increase in the number of hackers, but even with no motive except curiosity there would still be the odd few. Phreaking is pretty much nonexistent now because of the drop in the price of phone service and long distance calls.

Hacker originally refers to someone that can pick locks.

Hackers/crackers as we would know them predate the "world wide web" by the better part of 15 years, from about as early as affordable home computers with attachable modems existed - the heady days of Altairs and 300 baud acoustic couplers, as indeed seen in the early 80s film "Wargames" (the kit being used by the protagonist is distinctly 1970s).

The WWW didn't arrive until 1990, and public internet access - up until that point just for email, usenet, FTP etc and generally achieved by dialling into a BBS-like service that also had an oh-so-precious (and often not even real-time) internet hookup - only really arrived in the early 80s (email was around before then, but not in the form we would recognise, and not really accessible outside of educational, scientific and military/governmental institutes) and took a while to take off.

The earliest version of the infamous "anarchists cookbook", which detailed plentiful tales of computer and rather more analogue shenanigans (phone system hacking, credit card fraud, homemade bombs, lock picking, epic pranks etc), both up-to-date (at the time) and "of yore" (reaching back into the 70s and even 1960s when long-distance, off-the-record phone connections were far more valuable things to "steal", and everyone knew the story of the guy who managed to accidentally 2600-dial the white house war room), was mainly typed up on Apple IIs, TRS-80s and other such deeply vintage machines, and passed around on olde time low-speed BBSes and floppy disks (don't underestimate the bandwidth of an envelope full of 5 1/4" floppies when your only data line runs at all of 30cps), the 3 1/2" DSDD (Atari, Amiga AND IBM compatible) version of which was my own first contact.

And, heck, even if we don't have Wargames to look at ... just go watch Scanners.

So to answer the first question: very, VERY yes.

Your second one: theoretically yes. Practically? No chance. Remove the human element, and any AI that hasn't been carefully constructed to be completely benevolent/passive and without any learning/self modifying functions other than error detection and repair, and you might be in with a sniff. You can try locking it down with an iron fist, and that will just strengthen any human or independently-operating AI's resolve to break the shackles you've put them in. If there's one thing a hacker can't resist, it's a challenge.
(Again - go watch Hackers...)

And if we go back to the old definitions...

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>>14393
Solid explorer is better

Zedge (Free ringtones and wallpaper), Music Download Paradise(obvious), Adownloader and/ or Adownloader new(Pirate Bay and uTorrent), with Adownloader you can get GBA roms and you can play those with My Boy Free. and Vector is just a fun little game.

There's a really good fps style dungeon crawler i got direct from the dev for $5 called delver and you get windows and osx versions as well as the android apk. It randomly generates a new dungeon each time you play. Graphics-wise it looks kinda like minecraft.

As for apps, if you want to be able to remote into your pc get a free logmein account and download the free version of the app. I also use brightest flashlight to use the camera as a flashlight, and thinkfree office lets you create and edit ms office generated files like excel and word stuff, good for organizing your shit. Also suggesting everything else already suggested especially es file explorer.


You also may want to look into rooting it so you can generate a hotspot if you take a laptop or tablet with you so you arent paying through your carrier for internet twice.

Considering that the MSDS sheet says that luminol is a strong irritant to regular skin, I'd think that ingesting it would be agonizing and potentially deadly. It's combustible at high temperatures; the degree is not specified.

tl;dr...google

>>14889
Aw, really? That sounds really bad. There isn't even a way with less rpm fans? At least then you would reduce the noise.

>>14890
You can, but it's more cost effective to invest in quieter fans from the very start.

>>14892
Too bad, I had high hopes in this tech.

in 10 years an untrained eye will not be able to tell the difference between reality and VR. think euclideons unlimited detail technology + oculus rift v2
regarding senses like touch and taste it's hard to say, a neurological link would probably be needed. maybe 20, 30 years.
I think we are at the brink of a major technological revolution the coming decades.

>>14807
Perception - The reality beyond matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqnEGu8VF8Y

TEDxRheinMain - Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger - The Ego Tunnel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFjY1fAcESs

Graphene transistors give bioelectronics a boost
"Graphene-based transistors that respond to changes in chemical solutions could be used to link electronic devices directly to the human nervous system. That is the claim of researchers in Germany who have built arrays of devices that respond to changes in the electrolytes surrounding living cells. The team hopes that its research could result in retinal implants that could help some visually impaired people see images."

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Graphene_transistors_give_bioelectronics_a_boost_999.html

There are already many applications of brain-chip interfaces like artificial limbs and sight recovery.

Therefore, we may assume that if a human is born and sensory parts of the brain are being connected to the artificially created world, he won't be able to distinguish between artificial representation and the real representation.
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Fucking hell. Must you start every goddamn thread?

>>14869
You're overreacting, only 70% have been as such...

>>14212
>>14240
>>14339

Doing a little digging, it turns out we're all a little right, and a little wrong. If a single photon hits the retina, it WILL trigger a response from the sensory tissue. However, the signal will not be passed on to the brain until 5-9 arrive in 100ms.

So the eye DOES detect and respond to a single photon. It just doesn't bother telling the brain about it.

In other words, it depends entirely on what OP's professor means by "see".

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/see_a_photon.html

"Muons lose energy at a fairly constant rate of about 2 MeV per g/cm^2 ... The mean energy of muons at sea level is still 4 GeV." (http://cosmic.lbl.gov/SKliewer/Cosmic_Rays/Muons.htm)

The aqueous stuff inside an eye must have density near 1 g/cm^3, so in travelling a 2-cm muon path through your eye, a typical muon should lose 4 MeV.

That should make a *lot* of visible photons, even if the muon doesn't decay. And the flux is one per cm^2 minute.

This makes me think that one possible reason people with dark-adapted eyes don't see muon flashes all the time is that the flashes are filtered out as not useful in mapping the outside world.

>>14852

But is that energy only ever emitted as photons?