Aye I was thinking the idea would be for a more opt in approach and people would do either a seti at home type application or it would get sent off to a nerd somewhere with some computing power. Since the gentleman running the project picked the raspberry pi as a platform it already has cellular capability to phone home collected data over time.
Though personally I would be a bit iffy about leaving my rasberry pi out on a mountain range somewhere un-attended. Also the places you mention that would be good spots for listening are possibly pretty remote, thinking white sands, the Ft Bliss missile range, Arizona, Nellis, places way out away from civilization that have Airforce or Army Airbases near them.
Also those networks should be redundant and decentralized this way its harder to take down an entire network. Even if its treated as only an aid, the side with the aid may have a distinct advantage over the side without. This is were having your network consist of many technologies and generations of hardware is nice. One shouldn't phase out old hardware that still works just because its "obsolete" falling back to networks of short wave radio's when your satellites and drop ships get knocked out of the sky means you are not out of the fight just yet.
Anyway as far as technical set up the BSG series demonstrates a winning scenario spot on. The Russians did well in this regard and some of their old tanks still work just fine enough to be a problem in places like Syria.
I figured sonar and the like was high powered and non-passive. But after seeing the link below from anonymous in another thread of the discussion I see the idea of passive acoustic sensing has been around long enough (pre WWII) to be highly developed.
Hehe, yeah, but a whole bunch of these all over the place in a distributed network that all dumped to one database could make a very interesting historical map of drone flight paths.
Good job. This tech could be used for a lot of other good things as well. Basically an electronic ear for specific frequencies. I'm surprised it's not much more developed.
Question is, will it have better acuity then a trained dog with excellent hearing?
Just to be a douche bag online, it sounds like the only sane reason to have children is to hope they support you down the road because obvious our social programs have no chance =P
The student is not a terrorist. At most the kid is acting out because of issues going on in the world or at home. Shoving them in the fascist meat reactor of the criminal system and ending their education is not the answer to making one more productive member of society.
Its also an issue of authoritarianism. They cannot and will not go against the mandates of their written code of conduct. Because of terrorism. Its all about the bomb and setting an example.
In effect these crazy shits of educators think its more important to make an example out of a student then to educate one. This is actually nothing new. They just got ammunition to take it to a whole new level. I hope they loose their jobs and potentially face lawsuits or jail time for harassment if they don't back down.
And the idea behind government is to protect us from these kinds of things and make the playing field fair. In a legal sense. This is the very definition of a lawful and good society vs a tyranny or oppressive one.
No I we should get a royalty on every successful purchase someone makes from their services or the publishers they represent. Since that is obviously one copy we did not pirate;p
I agree, but I think when people get together to create a common good without being forcibly made to act in this way groups and socialism can work on smaller scales. The premise is not bad. It works in MMO's were a group can hold a spawn and keep individuals from accessing certain content. It works when people form corporations and invest their assets mutually towards an end result etc...
Aye, I thought about this too, I'm not sure. But I figured I would try to interpret the article anyway for my own sake and just for an informative response (yours). Thanks =)
From what I can read in the linked article, the energy is supposed to be taken out of the system by laser cooling. At a low energy state the ions are then supposed to develop a cyclical motion, rather then a continuous one. Such that they wouldn't be moving at a constant velocity. Without adding energy this is not supposed to happen as we understand it. Or thats the idea behind the experiment, to see if it will. I don't grasp what made Wilczek think they would behave this way in the first place, other then crystals having certain spatial properties because of the charge of their ions.
Then again as an after thought, certain conditions do not have the demand to create a large supply. Take for example the recent discontinuation of a certain antidote for a certain spider or snake bite, I cannot remember the details, but stuff like that would be largely ignored by research or manufacturers if there was no demand.
It is likely that better competition would drive cost down. The argument I have heard in response to that is the market would be flooded with snake oil salesmen which would harm far more then the extreme cost of of certain medicines. I disagree with that but I felt it was worth pointing out. There are plenty of "bad drugs" on the market now.
Aye, simulations are the perfect application for that kind of set up. Artists like the multiple monitors, and the set up that comes to mind is from an artist who is also an avid Eve Online player.
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Aye I was thinking the idea would be for a more opt in approach and people would do either a seti at home type application or it would get sent off to a nerd somewhere with some computing power. Since the gentleman running the project picked the raspberry pi as a platform it already has cellular capability to phone home collected data over time.
Though personally I would be a bit iffy about leaving my rasberry pi out on a mountain range somewhere un-attended. Also the places you mention that would be good spots for listening are possibly pretty remote, thinking white sands, the Ft Bliss missile range, Arizona, Nellis, places way out away from civilization that have Airforce or Army Airbases near them.
Yes, I did not think very deeply about it. I should have known better.
Also those networks should be redundant and decentralized this way its harder to take down an entire network. Even if its treated as only an aid, the side with the aid may have a distinct advantage over the side without. This is were having your network consist of many technologies and generations of hardware is nice. One shouldn't phase out old hardware that still works just because its "obsolete" falling back to networks of short wave radio's when your satellites and drop ships get knocked out of the sky means you are not out of the fight just yet.
Anyway as far as technical set up the BSG series demonstrates a winning scenario spot on. The Russians did well in this regard and some of their old tanks still work just fine enough to be a problem in places like Syria.
I figured sonar and the like was high powered and non-passive. But after seeing the link below from anonymous in another thread of the discussion I see the idea of passive acoustic sensing has been around long enough (pre WWII) to be highly developed.
Hehe, yeah, but a whole bunch of these all over the place in a distributed network that all dumped to one database could make a very interesting historical map of drone flight paths.
Good job. This tech could be used for a lot of other good things as well. Basically an electronic ear for specific frequencies. I'm surprised it's not much more developed.
Question is, will it have better acuity then a trained dog with excellent hearing?
Nothing got disabled. Worst case scenario information that could be used to disable may have been garnered.
Though... for such a big bad country the U.S. is certainly taking all these intrusions in stride...
Cats in space =)
Cats.
Just to be a douche bag online, it sounds like the only sane reason to have children is to hope they support you down the road because obvious our social programs have no chance =P
The student is not a terrorist. At most the kid is acting out because of issues going on in the world or at home. Shoving them in the fascist meat reactor of the criminal system and ending their education is not the answer to making one more productive member of society.
Better to kill or enslave the lower classes while their young rather then disenfranchising them after they've got an education...
Its also an issue of authoritarianism. They cannot and will not go against the mandates of their written code of conduct. Because of terrorism. Its all about the bomb and setting an example.
In effect these crazy shits of educators think its more important to make an example out of a student then to educate one. This is actually nothing new. They just got ammunition to take it to a whole new level. I hope they loose their jobs and potentially face lawsuits or jail time for harassment if they don't back down.
And the idea behind government is to protect us from these kinds of things and make the playing field fair. In a legal sense. This is the very definition of a lawful and good society vs a tyranny or oppressive one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z79jnz9v60
Producing the program is completely legal.
Using the program or selling it to people who use it illegally (might be) an issue.
AFAIK its a British company. The U.S. endorses lots of these international companies anyway.
No I we should get a royalty on every successful purchase someone makes from their services or the publishers they represent. Since that is obviously one copy we did not pirate ;p
Hahahaha, this was great, I didn't know BSD did these little diddies =)
I agree, but I think when people get together to create a common good without being forcibly made to act in this way groups and socialism can work on smaller scales. The premise is not bad. It works in MMO's were a group can hold a spawn and keep individuals from accessing certain content. It works when people form corporations and invest their assets mutually towards an end result etc...
Aye, I thought about this too, I'm not sure. But I figured I would try to interpret the article anyway for my own sake and just for an informative response (yours). Thanks =)
From what I can read in the linked article, the energy is supposed to be taken out of the system by laser cooling. At a low energy state the ions are then supposed to develop a cyclical motion, rather then a continuous one. Such that they wouldn't be moving at a constant velocity. Without adding energy this is not supposed to happen as we understand it. Or thats the idea behind the experiment, to see if it will. I don't grasp what made Wilczek think they would behave this way in the first place, other then crystals having certain spatial properties because of the charge of their ions.
They still don't now... I barely understand what is on his wiki page. It bears further research.
Then again as an after thought, certain conditions do not have the demand to create a large supply. Take for example the recent discontinuation of a certain antidote for a certain spider or snake bite, I cannot remember the details, but stuff like that would be largely ignored by research or manufacturers if there was no demand.
It is likely that better competition would drive cost down. The argument I have heard in response to that is the market would be flooded with snake oil salesmen which would harm far more then the extreme cost of of certain medicines. I disagree with that but I felt it was worth pointing out. There are plenty of "bad drugs" on the market now.
Aye, simulations are the perfect application for that kind of set up. Artists like the multiple monitors, and the set up that comes to mind is from an artist who is also an avid Eve Online player.