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Because you can't keep music in an mp3. Just ask Neil Young.

There are enough errors in the parent that I think a few corrections are necessary.

(1) The USA GPS system was designed from Reagan's 1983 directive onwards to be used by both civilians and the military, and to provide better accuracy to the military. The first GPS satellites were launched in 1989. So it's not really accurate to say "when the system was opened up to civilian use in the late 90's."

(2) The "discrepancy" in civilian signals was known as "Selective Availability" (SA) by "dithering" the clock, and it was designed in from the start so that if an enemy tried to use civilian GPS, civilian GPS could be degraded worldwide without disturbing military GPS. That doesn't mean SA was always enabled. In fact, during the Gulf War, there was a shortage of military GPS units, so the military handed out civilian GPSs and turned off SA.

(3) The " idea of checking GPS against a known good reading" has three forms: differential GPS; only useful locally for work like surveying; WAAS, designed and implemented by the Federal Aviation Administration; and NDGPS, which is still being implemented on US land by Dept of Transportation (it's fully for US waterways thanks to the Coast Guard). WAAS is what you're using now unless you're a ship captain. The point is that except for local surveying equipment, the "someone" who made GPS better is your federal government. This is not a case of clever entrepreneurs outsmarting the government, this is another case of the government providing a new infrastructure that enabled new industries and widespread benefits.

(4) The reason President Clinton turned of the global selective availability dithering is because by then the GPS constellation had a new ability to deny civilian GPS regionally. So it's not accurate to say, as you did, " that the military eventually discarded the idea of putting in an intentional margin of error for civilian signals." In fact, the military has a better method than ever for putting error into some regional civilian signals. http://archive.wired.com/polit...

The South African National Defence Force "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday."

http://www.wired.com/2012/07/g...

I'm a New Yorker who makes frequent use of the yellow cabs here and has had the pleasure of using London cabs.

In NYC, it's basically the taxi's the are licensed. Any yellow cab has to have a medallion and they are expensive... often going for $750k+ USD. Once you have the medallion you can lease/rent it to just about any hack who qualifies for a drivers license.

In London, it's the drivers that are heavily regulated. The tests are notoriously hard and London cabbies either have or acquire neurology that is much more spatially oriented than normal.

The difference may be subtle to most people but it's important. When you get in a cab in NYC, you usually need to be explicit about the route that should be taken. Nefarious types will often take you through Times Square, Union Square, Canal Street or other traffic nightmares to run up the tab. London cabbies pride themselves (at least in my experience) on on knowing every last back road that will get you there that much faster.

So I see their point. They're a group of professionals.... who act like professionals. They've put a lot of time and effort into becoming such, I'd want to protect my turf as well.

Memories decay upon recall. Your brain basically alters the memory slightly each time. This can be used to erase or alter memories.

a 'Special Projects' group that would tackle disruptive technology

"But the missions are different. We want to make things better and ship them. That will always be primary for us. It will be secondary for them."

Well you should have fixed and released the Courier dual-screen tablet instead of cancelling it if you wanted to introduce disruptive tech no?

From 2006 "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool"
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029...
~"functioned whether the phone was powered on or off."
Today is more about gov malware in your modern mobile OS.
So yes the telco software/hardware layers are fair game to any gov and have been for years with court docs mentioned in the US press.
The journalism going back years was the result of US court documents.
Now just get it all http://www.wired.com/2014/03/s...
Also see the http://www.reuters.com/article... ideas around domestic phone records.

They sign extensive NDA's and "must" deny any and all usage of stingray cell phone "dummy tower" interception devices also - why?

Yep:
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/s...
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/h...

or, if you prefer your news from /., there's this
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

They sign extensive NDA's and "must" deny any and all usage of stingray cell phone "dummy tower" interception devices also - why?

Yep:
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/s...
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/h...

or, if you prefer your news from /., there's this
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

I disagree that it's newsworthy. It has nothing to do with being a sheep -- turn your energy to the education, disease (due to anti-vaxxers) or net neutrality issues we're having domestically. We have such larger problems to fix that a missing airplane halfway across the world shouldn't even register on the scale. But it's a convenient distraction from our own problems so it's good 'infotainment'.

If you think I'm a sheep because I don't give a shit about an electrical fire in an airplane, you're amazingly misguided.

What if a university did mandatory recording of every lecture and posted them online?

Can't post them online without permission from the presentor, due to their copyright.

Some professors have even gone so far as to force students to turn in all their notes at the end of the semester, for destruction, and file lawsuits against professional notetakers.

Nope it's impossible to do a Jurassic Park on dinosaurs, DNA just won't last long enough:

http://www.wired.com/2012/10/j...

http://www.wired.com/2013/10/t...

This must have changed since I was at SJSU in the early 90s.

I never heard it expressed that math ignorance was a good thing.

In fact, the only time it came up was when Chem/Phys mocked Bio as "Science for people that can't do math."

Geometry is important to HUM. How do you study Pythagoras, Roman architecture and art, Renaissance architecture and art, without it?

And as the Digital world eclipses the brick and mud world the HUM people better get with the fucking program.

Some of Andy Warhol's early digital work done on an Amiga was nearly lost recently.

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/a...

Yes, the Bush admin was stupid to plan to end the Shuttle program before having their replacement "Constellation" program up-and-running (so the money used to operate the shuttles could be shifted to development of the new system - which was scheduled to be operational for ISS missions by 2013). The shuttle program was not, however, irreversibly gone when Obama came into office. President Obama not only put the final nail in the coffin of the shuttle program, but his administration:

1. Ordered the shuttle infrastruture to be either demolished or sold-off so that the decision could never be undone.

2. Cancelled the follow-on Constellation program

3. Cancelled ALL American manned spaceflight programs in his 2010 budget proposal (which congress UNANIMOUSLY threw into the trash bin). Yes, he has subsequently seen how unpopular this was and has extended the life of the ISS (an easy bone to throw to activists) but he has done nothing to make sure a new system is in place while he is still in office (which he COULD have easily done with some of the hundreds of billions of dollars in his "stimulus bill")

4. After the Contellation program ended, and congress DEMANDED in their 2010 NASA budget law that Obama have NASA build a big new rocket to enable future Moon and Mars missions, Obama's team decided to rip all the re-usable engines out of the shuttles and prepare them for one-time use on the giant new rocket (each flight will use four shuttle engines for less than 8 minutes and then crash them into the ocean). EVERY shuttle in a museum display now has dummy engines, and none will be left for future engineers to study (the way young engineers today are able to go study real Apollo engines - one of which was recently removed from storage and had its powerpack test-fired on a test stand with modern instruments)

5. Obama has added $40 BILLION PER YEAR to the food stamp program, doubling its cost (which whould have been unneeded had his economic plans succeeded in reviving the economy and is not matched to poverty rates which have NOT doubled since Bush left office), and in 2009 spent about $850 BILLION on "stimulus" but he currently is proposing to cut the NASA budget (which is approx $17 Billion per year) ...... but at this very same time, Obama is picking a fight with congress over funding for "commercial crew" of only several hundred million dollars.

The real point I'm making is that the policy wonks in the permanent political establishment of Washington D.C. (both Republican AND Democrat) has always hated spending money on manned spaceflight; the OMB has tried to get presidents to kill the shuttle program for decades. With the loss of Columbia in 2003, the anti-spaceflight Republican-leaning budget wonks helped convince the Bush team to kill the shuttle, but failed to get him to abandon manned spaceflight. When Obama got into office (after campaigning on a promise to teachers unions that he would shift money from NASA to education for 5 years) he went on the anti-manned-spaceflight war path to the delight of the anti-spaceflight Democrats (who'd been trying to gut NASA since Walter Mondale tried to use the Apollo 1 fire to do it). The current sad state of NASA is a bi-partisan mess that the establishment in Washington D.C. WANTED.... these things are NOT conspiracies but they are also NOT accidents. In 1959 we could put monkeys into space and we currently cannot.

NASA under Obama has a "commercial crew program" (a manned follow-up to the currently successful Bush administration "commercial cargo program") which pretends to provide a bright future BUT the commercial vendors are making systems for access to the ISS which will go away in the 2024-2028 timeframe leaving them with no destination and no NASA funding. If you want those commercial guys to succeed over the long-term, NASA needs to need them for access to LEO (for a space station and/or to meet-up with trans-lunar vehicles) at a high-enough flight rate (supporting rare mars bootprints-and-flags missions won't be enough) to justify all the overhead and infrastructure.

Right well "signed by anybody" isn't that much different from a code safety perspective than unsigned code, you still have to trust who it is signed by and while they might not be able to modify existing apps we can see that from the malware examples on Android (even though I don't believe that many are particularly widely circulated) that this doesn't make much of a difference in terms of their ability to be malicious.

It very much does, actually. Your phone stores a keyring of known publishers for your apps. If you try to patch an app that has a different certificate, you'll be made well aware that something is off.

The one you refer to was a research project, it's hardly a "major slipup" (I'm sure platform fanboys would like it portrayed that way but I don't have a religious devotion to any technology platform), in fact it had exactly zero impact on anybody, period.

How about this one then:

http://www.wired.com/2012/07/f...

Of course, the iOS one was found only after the Android app of the same name was discovered. Nobody would have checked otherwise and it would have still been in the wild by now. And that wasn't the first either:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

In fact in all three of these incidents, Apple never discovered any of them. If there is any other real malware in the wild, the authors aren't going to tell Apple about it first of all, and second of all, no independent security researchers outside of Apple are allowed to vet them (except for jailbroken users.) Unless the malware author makes a major screwup like creating an Android malware app of the same name, (or making it blatantly obvious to the end user) it'll never be found.

No i don't think that's true at all, I guess I'm an Apple user (amongst Windows, Android and Gentoo) and I pointed out that whilst they are very good they are not perfect, which is the same as Google with the Play Store.

If you don't think apple users commonly go around spouting that "Macs don't get viruses," then I've got a bridge to sell you. Fuck, Apple even had a commercial effectively making a similar claim.

Obviously if you restrict yourself to the Google Play store it is very much the same thing as using an iOS device which is restricted to the Apple App Store. But that negates the biggest advantage of Android.

That's just the thing: You don't HAVE to do so. For most users, it's a pretty good idea, and they do exactly that. However for people like me, I'll get apps such as adfree, or like how I patched the Kindle app myself to show ebook PIDs so I could dedrm my own kindle ebooks. Try that on an ipad. In fact I'll answer for you because I already own one: It can't be done.

Neither is inherently more secure, it comes down to flexibility and if you provide the freedom to do whatever the user wants and they take it then - just like on desktop systems - the user needs to take on additional responsibility, which they usually aren't capable of or willing to do.

Other than sticking to the play store, right? On the contrary, there really is no good standard app source on Windows or OSX unless you want a good selection of mostly crappy ones.

Yes a vast domestic records database... recall Groundbreaker? The domestic side seems to have been an ongoing project.
http://www.wired.com/2007/10/n...

Would be better with a floppy raid attached for backup: http://www.wired.com/2009/05/f...

Actually a neat project but I wanted to be snarky...

Let's ignore for a minute how it is to navigate the internet through Tor. Let's also ignore for a minute that the FBI has compromised roughly half of Tor sites and that they control a fair number of Tor nodes. Why do you think masking your IP will help you at all when you log onto Facebook and *give them* all your personal data?

Seriously, wtf is up with people thinking that they should get everything they want all the time?

Well, I want a pony. AND I want the flying car I was promised. All together, like NOW.

OH MY GOD does that mean I'm a BRONIE ?


Instant gratification vs delayed gratification vs trusting sources perhaps you shouldn't. I think people like to think that hard work and sacrifice always pay off. If you're lucky it does, if not you're like the farmer with their crops eaten by bugs / destroyed by hail / pick a disaster. You survive and try to plan so that it doesn't happen again.

Just because you want it and wave your hands doesn't always make it so, Mr. Picard.

From my essay discussing excellence vs. elitism & privilege: http://www.pdfernhout.net/post...
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So, the question becomes, how do we go about getting the whole world both accepted into Princeton and also with full tenured Professorships (researchy ones without teaching duties except as desired? :-) And maybe with robots to do anything people did not want to do? This is just intended as a humorous example, of course. I'm not suggesting Princeton would run the world of the future or that everyone would really have Princeton faculty ID cards and parking stickers. Still, that's a thought. :-) That motel for scholars, The Institute For Advanced Study, is already a bit like this (no required teaching duties), so it's an even better model. :-)
http://www.ias.edu/about/missi...

But you might object, who will run the kitchens, repair the roofs, plant Prospect Garden, and so forth? Essentially, who will be the Morlocks to support and maybe eat the Eloi on staff? :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

Well, that's where this analogy breaks down, although one could perhaps imagine robots as the Morlocks (maybe without the whole eating PU staff for fuel thing).
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/m...
"A prototype robot capable of hunting down over 100 slugs an hour and using their rotting bodies to generate electricity is being developed by engineers at the University of West England's Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory."

So, for the rest of this essay, I'll assume the "scarcity" world (at least in the USA) currently works more like, say, G. William Domhoff suggests:
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whor...
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whor...
"Q: So, who does rule America?
A: The owners and managers of large income-producing properties; i.e., corporations, banks, and agri-businesses. But they have plenty of help from the managers and experts they hire. ... I will try to demonstrate how rule by the wealthy few is possible despite free speech, regular elections, and organized opposition:
* "The rich" coalesce into a social upper class that has developed institutions by which the children of its members are socialized into an upper-class worldview, and newly wealthy people are assimilated.
* Members of this upper class control corporations, which have been the primary mechanisms for generating and holding wealth in the United States for upwards of 150 years now.
* There exists a network of nonprofit organizations through which members of the upper class and hired corporate leaders not yet in the upper class shape policy debates in the United States.
* Members of the upper class, with the help of their high-level employees in profit and nonprofit institutions, are able to dominate the federal government in Washington.
* The rich, and corporate leaders, nonetheless claim to be relatively powerless.
* Working people have less power than in many other

So chronologically ...

2012-06-?? Video filmed
2014-03-05 arXiv.org submission
2012-03-07 Video published on TED
2014-03-07 wired.com article
2014-03-08 pipedot.org story
2014-03-10 slashdot.org first story
2014-03-14 economist.com article
2014-03-15 slashdot.org second story

So, someone may have filmed the video a few years ago, but the video was only posted online recently. Afterwards the story made the rounds on various news sites over the next few weeks. Hardly that old of news...

Looks like Russia's been thinking about a moon base for a couple of years now: http://www.wired.com/2012/03/r...

Singapore, or as William Gibson put it: Disneyland with the death penalty.

I'm wondering if the $25,000 round is inert, or if it includes guidance.

The Navy has been talking about railgun projectiles with GPS guidance. All it would take is movable steering fins and a computer to drive them.

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/guided-supersonic-bullets/

No matter how good your targeting computers are, I think you need active guidance any time you are talking about a 100-mile range.

If I have done my math correctly, it will take about 67 seconds for a Mach 7 projectile to travel 100 miles (and that's assuming constant speed, not accounting for drag). That's a long time for a free-flying projectile to be subject to random winds.

Of course I'm not a physicist or ballistics expert. If I have made a mistake here, please let me know.

Regulations are exactly what is used to prevent competition. Local governments create monopolies through what are called franchise agreements. Unfortunately most people get confused about that and blame unregulated markets. (others don't even know what a free market is!)

Long charging times for electric vehicles stop any journey where the trip is greater than the battery range.

Yes they do, but we don't need this tech to fix it. Existing batteries can do it just fine, if we would only invest in enough high power charging points.

And, what happens with a MIM? Someone spoofs a cell phone tower, and intercepts your communications. They get the strong certificate, and they are in. Wireless communications (radio) has been known to be inherently insecure by the armed forces since the days of the first radios.

http://www.wired.com/2010/07/i...

Assuming the first thing the pilots did wasn't turn off the communications system to try and prevent the fire from spreading.

The VERY FIRST thing you would do is alert the ground you had a problem. Not turn off all hope of getting help. There is no fire that is STOPPED by turning off a radio!

And even if it were the case the pilots were the stupidest people on earth AND acting in direct violation of aviation emergency procedures in order to take an action that would not help anyone, it STILL doesn't explain flying calming in a straight line for seven hours after with a raging fire eating at the planes controls and superstructure and fuel tanks. Sorry man, CNN's Black Hole is more likely than your Faerie Fire.

No cutting off power and your locator is the first step in a fire.

These are standard operating procedures as you need to shut it all off to find the short. Besides what is ground control going to do? You need to do a quick change course to the nearest airport while you find and shut down the damn thing before everyone dies!

Another is to try to suffocate the fire if it is a tire fire by flying at 45,000 feet. Check. Next if the crew gets oxygen afixiation the next step is to cruise at 12,000 feet if the fire is still going. Check. All good so far. ... now here is the mystery. Let's say it was a fire. The captain and crew are incapacitated from carbon monoxide. The fire would take down the whole aircraft. It would burn through the wires for the computer auto pilot and crash the plane well before 7 hours. Or the structure would fail as it would burn through the luggage and explode the fuel compartment.

Also the path is changed again in the final arc. Why? Wouldn't it logically be on the same new path and be half way between Australia and Africa if the crew did die? That is west of perth alright but WAAY farther west. What in the mathematically geometry that says it is in the search area? Distance wise why wouldn't it be on the other side of the arc southwest instead of southeast?

Also if the plane is flying lower you have more friction if it still was at 12,000 feet. So wouldn't it logically be farther north as it would run out of fuel quicker too?

For example, birds' touted ability to navigate by way of feeling the Earth's magnetic field is apparently enhanced by the observer effect.

http://www.wired.com/2009/06/b...

Very, very interesting link here, but I must take issue with your description. Saying that the bird's ability to navigate is enhanced by the observer effect made me think that birds measured in experiments more reliably found their destinations, while birds that didn't got lost more, or something to that effect. The observer effect deals exclusively with the fact that a measured thing seems to behave differently than an unmeasured thing. I'm imagining the double-slit experiment with a flock of birds... which, come to think of it, sound pretty awesome. They're working on doing it with viruses, so who knows?

This article, though, has more to do with quantum spin and something akin to the Stern-Gerlach apparatus - very interesting, but something else entirely. Still, I now have an ambition to have my eyes augmented with superoxide and cryptochrome so I can visualize magnetic fields. Mmm.

My understanding is that we have some pretty good examples of 'larger than just a few elementary particles' superposition and observer effects that have been demonstrated.

For example, birds' touted ability to navigate by way of feeling the Earth's magnetic field is apparently enhanced by the observer effect.

http://www.wired.com/2009/06/b...

Now... cellular level effects are still pretty small, but it's an example of a living organism we can hold in our hands (and pet, if you're a bird person.) learning to use quantum effects in its everyday life.

For an example of superposition in living organisms, one needs to look no further than our abundant flora, where superposition apparently increases the efficiency of photosynthesis, without which our current biosphere would pretty much collapse and we'd all die.

http://mappingignorance.org/20...

So, I think we're looking at a bell-curve like thing here. The bigger the 'observability' of a phenomenon, the less likely we are to experience it in our lifetimes. My guess is that huge, say, planetary-scale, examples of superposition are quite possible... just so very unlikely that one hasn't happened observably in human history (and probably the history of the universe.)

Not that one data point is enough but hasn't this been done before? http://www.wired.com/2011/10/f... So now we're in a space race with the Russians to... stay secluded on Earth the longest?

Exactly, this will be the standard for all other time standards. Just like they have their standard kilogram stored in a vault in france for reference: http://www.wired.com/2013/01/k...

Who said center console display? I thought it was implied there would be a screen on each door (or near it). Like this http://www.wired.com/2014/04/t...

The car makers want it bad because just changing the tech to camera and display will net them a few mpg. Also the displays can have augmented reality, unlike plain mirrors, and they can highlight objects in view and add in data from blind spot detectors.

As for cost, it's not [too] expensive, the screen on the S4 is $160, that's a 1080p 5" OLED display. A halfway decent 1080p camera is $30 (see the raspberry pi camera), the electronics to run both are less than $30 (again, see the raspberry pi). So I could build up the entire electronics package using off the shelf tech for $220 in parts per door(minus the screen/raspberry pi interface), so say $250 and a car manufacturer can probably do $150-200 per door. All the other bodywork and such is mostly nothing as they already do it. So I'd say they could work the option down to $500-700 using todays tech. In a few years I expect that to go down. It might not be entry level cost right now, but it's not crazy, they charge more for option packages that do less.

Re: WHY DO THEY GO ON RECORD
If you make a fuss you join
"Only One Big Telecom CEO Refused To Give The NSA The Access It Wanted... And He's Been In Jail For 4 Years"
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
NSA Domestic Surveillance Began 7 Months Before 9/11, Convicted Qwest CEO Claims
http://www.wired.com/2007/10/n...

Interesting enough that it's worth a link.

"Swartz was not an asshole, he was however a moron, who let occupioer types convince him that just because you protest, you cannot be arrested for your protests", by MouseTheLuckyDog

"The prosecution of Aaron Swartz was motivated, in part, by the 2008 “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” the internet activist had penned advocating for civil disobedience against copyright law, Swartz’s attorney confirmed Friday." ref

"A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. ref

Reality. At the end of the day, what will the insurance company accept as sufficient security...

No, the security only has to be sufficient enough to blame you for the theft.

the balance of easy usability vs number of features vs security implementation, with a modern electric computerised vehicle that might best be left to a consultation between the sales consultant and the end user

The salesman and customer are the least informed for making security tradeoffs, and the complications of having multiple security arrangements across a fleet of supported vehicle isn't worth the extra headache for the manufacturer.

The "balance" of this situation should not lie in the boneheaded territory of elementary security mistakes... if you're going to have a remotely accessible API, hire programmers who understand security and have them design the damn thing to be secure from the ground up. It's not impossible or mystical or some big unknown.

This is good analysis in my opinion. However, I think the biggest thing folks have overlooked is the most valuable asset facebook owns:

The largest database of human faces on Earth mappable to real people.

Put a tiny video camera on a Rift, shrink the size to a pair of ski goggles and all of a sudden these apps start to make real sense. Look at a person, it facially recognizes them and pulls up all their "like" stats. One might even augment reality to such a point that entire environments could be overlaid with agreed upon conditions.

Q: How many people does it take to create a reality? A: One. But two is better. (P.K. Dick)

Zuckerberg is not an idiot.

***** Hard to see how to avoid the hushmail scenario ***** http://www.wired.com/threatlev... ***** http://www.wired.com/threatlev... ***** https://www.hushmail.com/about... ("But I thought the data was always encrypted") *****

***** Hard to see how to avoid the hushmail scenario ***** http://www.wired.com/threatlev... ***** http://www.wired.com/threatlev... ***** https://www.hushmail.com/about... ("But I thought the data was always encrypted") *****

Wow. John Carmack quit his job at iD (Zenimax) to be the CTO at Occulus Rift and then in less than six months is probably getting a few dozen millions of dollars.

Talk about knowing where to be at the right time....

Same with Marc Andreesen and his VC cash infusion of $75 million just a few months ago. Those guys are going to turn that $75 mill into a bunch more through this turn and burn deal. Not so much a 'burn,' but it is a very quick harvesting on their investment.

This is the most credible explanation I've seen thus far. (It was mentioned here a few days ago, but I'm too lazy to track down the link right now.)

So it's now somewhere on the coast of somalia?

This is the most credible explanation I've seen thus far. (It was mentioned here a few days ago, but I'm too lazy to track down the link right now.)

We begin with Goodfellows argument for a fire which, by the way, was also raised by another anaylyst. The we demolish Slates counter argument.

1) There's an electrical fire, all the breakers are tripped (removing the data transponders and maybe the communications). http://www.airtrafficmanagemen... http://www.wired.com/autopia/2...

The Malaysian primary radar inferred a flight path with the turns at VAMPI and GIVAL after the Lankawi International airport overflight:
supposed: flight path :http://skyvector.com/?ll=10.332212843477643,95.11743164439306&chart=304&zoom=8&plan=F.WM.IGARI:F.WM.VAMPI:F.WM.GIVAL:F.VO.IGREX

So Slate asks how do we account for the red herring turns at VAMPI and GIVAL?

3) Coincidentally, after the incapacitated MH370 overshoots the airport, at that very moment UTC March 7 18:00, another 777 flown by Singapore Airlines (Flight SIA 68) crosses MH370s flight path.

http://www.flightradar24.com/2...

4) MH370 is low since its trying to land and so the Malaysian Royal Airforce primary radar is having some trouble following it. The primary radar initially sees one 777 (MH370) then after losing it confuses this with SIA 68, which is the only 777 they can now see in the air at the same GPS coordinate.

5) SIA68 then executes two planned waypoint turns (GIVAL and IGREX), so we get the red herring that a skilled pilot was in control of the flight just before SIA 68, not MH370, goes off the end of the Malaysian radar

We add one more flourish to explain why the Indonesians also missed the (tiny) overflight of one of their archpeligo, a point Slate did not raise.

6) The pilots are incapacitated as MH370 continues on the same line, skims low over the tip of indonesia and flys out into open ocean. As it happens at 18:05 UTC Flight UAE343 (as well as one other flight before it) , also a 777, is also flying over the tip of Indonesia at that same moment so again a potential for misattributed distant radar returns.

http://www.flightradar24.com/2...

Finally tie it into a bow to answer slates last objection:

7) if you extend that line out it will eventually intersect the supposed last ping satellite transmission radius somewhere far off the west coast of Australia, perhaps vaguely near the Coco islands. I can't be too precise because the maps are not draw with correct spherical geometry.

8) since Goodfellow's claim a new set of facts has come out that aid it further. It has been now revealed that the Lankawi overflight path was entered into the computer prior to the "goodnight all is well" message from the co-pilot to the tower. Some people saw that premeditaion as suspicious. However It has also been revealed that extremely conscientious pilots do this routinely. they program the nearest escape path into their flight computers and keep it updated as they travel from way point to way point. they don't hit the execute button. It's just there already to go if things go south and no matter who is flying the plane at that moment. Goodfellow also said the first thing he saw was a pilot who already knew what he was going to do in an emergency and didn't have to think about it. So rather than being suspicious it explains a lot.

Goodfellow also noted that while there is some uncertainty about the strange climb and dives inferred from the (altitude-unreliable) radar data, that these are consistent with a huge smoky fire: climb to 40,000 feet in a desperate move to starve it of oxygen. Then dive at a ridiculous rate to try to blow it out or at least get close to ground for a ditch in the ocean.

the theory is that by the time they got close to L

AC wrote: " Thank god for people like Julian Simon. http://www.wired.com/wired/arc... "

See also: http://www.juliansimon.com/wri...

Still, markets can fail due to unpriced externalities (like pollution or military costs of defending oil supply lines) or unaccounted-for systemic risks (like derivatives or programmed trading leading to market collapse). Example, from Greenspan:
"Greenspan Destroys Deregulation in 16 Seconds"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

So, there are limits to what unregulated markets alone can do.

The gift economy, the subsistence economy, and them democratically planned economy can all provide alternatives for times when the exchange economy fails.

wrong starting battery's are crap for off-grid. the amp hrs are low and the plates thin they will quickly die under such usage..deep cycle battery's are different and widly used in off grid.

There's nearly always going to be a better option than the one you have before you. Having electricity conveniently available from the grid is a widely accepted best-case scenario.

But if, during the zombie apocalypse, you happen to be nesting near a car lot instead of an upscale San Fran Neighborhood, maybe you can make do.

An excellent example is Li's copula, widely credited for triggering the 08 financial crisis.

Don't blame Tim for the ignorance of so-called, "News Analysts"

I'm not.

I'm blaming Tim for not setting things straight in all those CNN, BBC, Fox, MSNBC, etc TV appearances (and thats just in the US)...

Those interviews where it's his talking head and the screen graphics say "Invented World Wide Web"

If he's anywhere near the scientist he pretends to be, he should have **explained that 'the internet' was around long before his work**

He should have been the ***FIRST*** person to give credit to the Stanford team that did 'invent the internet' as we know it as exemplified in the Mother of All Demos: http://www.wired.com/wiredente...

Instead TBL accepted a knighthood from the Queen of England & helped stifle development of web standards in support of DRM

fsck TBL & the horse he rode in on...he's a charlatan