Oh look its another goth chick blogging about Google and whats bad and whatever... Go back in your cave... noone told you to get involved with Google+ neither Google will go with you cause you based your life around Google+ ...
Why people nowadays take everything so granted... Guess what before 90 years people were going to the toilet...hmmm on their GARDENS!
haha jokes... well I see why fb wanted to create their own framework since the whole site is in php and it would take em a lot of time to translate it something else (i think most nowadays is JS anyways) but srsly, why people are trying to make faster frameworks for php ... no idea. It doesn't get any faster due its design. At least join one of the open source projects and help that.
Combine all those working on those open source frameworks for years and all together create something fast...
I wonder if carbon dating would work. Seems like it ought to, since C14 is produced in the upper atmosphere, so if's been sealed then it wouldn't get any new C14. The small amount of decay over 42 years might be trouble to measure.
A potentially crazier idea: measure the trace amounts of uranium, plutonium, and other long-lived fallout products. Atmospheric nuclear testing continued on a semi-regular basis until 1980, and so the makeup and concentration of the fallout would be different if it had been unsealed after 1972.
Carbon-14 dating should work in principle, but in practice the error on carbon-14 dating is several decades. So that's out.
I'm not sure about tritium dating for the water. Reading the USGS website on it, it seems to indicate that the way tritium dating works is that they seal some water in a copper tube and see how much helium magically appears as the tritium decays. They ask for two 500mL (two 1 pint) samples.
So if tritium has been decaying into a sealed glass container for 40 years, should there be a measurable amount of helium in the container?
well I agree but I just can't believe anything like that nowadays...
If you want people to believe that the bottle is sealed since 1972 then prove it as well. Not just a photo of a giant bottle with some plants in it.
Amazing article from a young kid, bright, smart keep it up!
Let them take it to the appstore and see if they can really get it down due to copyrights. I don't think they can sue you about anything, you'r just using public data...
Also something else, take it up with your parents or whoever has you at that school, and consider changing schools. Make it a scandal for them.
School trying to sue defendless student after having a bright idea for an app using public data...
Well tbh he has a fair point, and I tend to be true on what I write. I get a lot of down-votes cause I guess I am speaking my mind and I ain't try to write some scientific report for someone to read...
In the other hand am tired of NSA posts and posts against Google... it has become a cliche. Yes I want to learn if NSA is spying on me etc etc but not every time there is a post about it I'd like it to be 1st thing I see.
I guess my opinion is different than others... I hope my comment gets a lot of Down-Votes cause I tend to keep my karma on - for Hackernews, cause I have a + karma in real life and I need some balance.
> Swift looks fine, the only thing I don't like its that is for Apple only products... that kinda defeats the purpose of having a programming language.
There are many programming languages that in practice tend to be locked to one platform or another. C# isn't only on Windows and Objective-C isn't only on iOS, but very few people learn either of those languages with the expectation of "write once, run anywhere." (I've found that generally people who use C# on other platforms do so because they already know C# and don't want to learn something else.)
On principle I'd like to see Apple put Swift under a free software license of some kind and ideally make a cross-platform reference implementation, but realistically, even if they do that it's unlikely to ever get wide use anywhere but Apple products.
You can write code for non-apple products, its just that the libraries are lacking. I don't see how this defeats "the purpose of a programming language".
"Apple has recently added new functionality to their runtime, including built-in exception handling, etc. Hopefully these will be ported to the GNU runtime in the future."
My general point is that programming languages don't have to be cross platform to be useful. Certainly handy from a developer's point of view, but just a convenience.
You can't really blame a kid at that age... Kids at that age have no sense of fear or can't recognize what is punishable or not. Everything is a game, especially years back as that internet was not so evolved and the laws around it weren't so strict.
Its Valve's fault for letting a 16 y/o install malwares on their computers... When you are developing something you got to be serious about its security as well if you want it to remain a secret. It feels to me like their employees and IT department had no actual sense of what security was (Employees going off installing whatever on their computer, and IT team not being able to track down malware and outgoing packets to unknown sources...)
Hmmm I guess its about time that Greece starts claiming those copyrights! Who knows we might exit crysis at the end of the day! Lets start by copyrighting Democracy!...
Why people nowadays take everything so granted... Guess what before 90 years people were going to the toilet...hmmm on their GARDENS!