You could tax everyone who makes $1m or more per year (you know, the evil hated rich people) at a rate of 100% (confiscate all of their earnings for the year), and it wouldn't close the deficit - not even close!
Straw man.
a) There aren't that many making over a million a year (about 300,000).
b) Corporations.
Wireless networks are not secure even with WPA/WPA2, unless you feel like changing the password every other day. Even my grandma is sharp enough to follow the instructions on various youtube-clips for cracking WPA/WPA2..
Oh? Beyond brute-forcing with dictionary passwords? Mind providing a link to one of those videos?
I think I would've heard of WPA2 being broken, it being AES-based and all...
Some of those might be intentional: I run an unencrypted wifi AP which is
bandwidth limited and routed through Tor as a public service. It is used regularly.
Also not covered will be those with open APs but additional authentification/encryption
layers, e.g. using a VPN.
Around here (not Australia, admittedly), open wifi is nearly non-existent (and all open
ones I've encountered over the last two years or so seem to fall into the categories above) -
WEP "secured" APs are another story however, there is still a worrying number of those around.
And I'm certain most WEP users are entirely unaware of their de-facto openness.
I don't want anyone to "look after my email", I simply want someone to provide transport, storage and protocols / user interface required for me to access it, without any privacy implications that are not mandated by that service. If you think that a business would be unable to provide this without stealing/exploiting private information, you're overly paranoid and should have grave concerns when seeing a doctor, or talking to a lawyer.
No it didn't: "At exactly the moment that the clue is revealed on the game board, a text is sent electronically to Watson’s
POWER7 chips. So, Watson receives the clue text at the same time it hits Brad Rutter’s and Ken Jennings’ retinas."
[source: IBM research blog]
Yes, and as geeks we understand that the quoted number is an approximate
one and the data generated are not inherenly binary, so there is no need
for either the precision of "exactly one PiB" or the context of "this is binary".
In fact, the decimal prefix is the much more sensible one to use here.
The similarities are so close that this is actually a direct copy, not original work. And in the absence of any kind of credit or mention of Neal Stephenson's name, the word plagarism leaps to mind.
If the computer is compromised, what transaction is displayed on screen and what is sent out to the bank can be two entirely different things. You type your own transaction (data stored locally, not sent) and see it on the confirmation screen (data retrieved locally). You send out fraudulent transaction (data not displayed but sent) and authenticate it (in response to data received but not displayed).
The text message comes to a mobile phone - different device, (usually) not
interconnected with the computer. There is no "local retrieval" of the fake
transaction data, it all comes via the mobile carrier.
It's certainly possible to attack both, but that's considerably harder to do.
I'm not sure what you mean by diving toward the ground at 2G's... but if you're inverted pulling +2G's it's always going to feel like +2G's regardless of your attitude... not one G.
Depends entirely on your frame of reference. Your parent meant 2G in the frame of Earth,
which would indeed feel like 1G in the plane. That's how you can fly inverted and still keep
your coffee in the cup.
(Earth's gravity isn't magically cancelling one G... it's actually a weak force that is easily overridden by acceleration forces.)
No magic here, but of course Earth is cancelling 1G. If you are in free fall, you are being accelerated
with 1G (roughly 9.81m/s^2). The G meter you are carrying will show you an acceleration of 0 (zero) in
your own - accelerated - frame of reference.
Where did you think the definition of 1G comes from? It's "the idealized acceleration on planet Earth by planet Earth".
Really? Think about that again, please. The astronauts on board the International Space Station are not accelerating... they're in a continous free fall at a constant speed around the Earth (called orbiting).
Think about that again please. The ISS is in a free fall because it is constantly accelerating.
That's what's called orbiting.
What do you think keeps a spacecraft in orbit and from flying off in a straight line?
Yup, constant acceleration by gravity.
Acceleration in the physical sense doesn't always mean "change of speed".
If the acceleration is always perpendicular to an object's movement, it means
"change of velocity without change of speed", and that's exactly what
happens in a circular orbit. No, velocity and speed aren't the same thing.
The reality is, all modern commercial airliners are run by software.
This.
That "Boeing yay, Airbus nay" fanboyism only makes the fanboy look stupid really.
Boeing builds perfectly fine aircraft. Airbus builds perfectly fine aircraft. Get over it.
It sounds like the automated systems disengaged at the beginning of the descent and the 32-year-old co-pilot put the plane into a 35 degree up angle, and the plane stayed at that angle even until impact.
Careful, that's the angle of attack, i.e. the direction of the airflow. Pitch attitude (the plane's
attitude towards the horizon) was only 16.2 degrees. Altitude indication never was lost though, so
there's really no excuse for both pilots not noticing a constant loss of altitude despite nose up.
I'm not sure that this is true in the EU. Both the right to privacy and the right to free speech are enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Right, so the EU Court of Human Rights would balance those out against each other and decide which one trumps which in this particular situation.
JFTR: There is no EU Court of Human Rights. The Court you mean is
the European Court of Human Rights, which is not an EU institution
but an institution of the Council of Europe.
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You could tax everyone who makes $1m or more per year (you know, the evil hated rich people) at a rate of 100% (confiscate all of their earnings for the year), and it wouldn't close the deficit - not even close!
Straw man.
a) There aren't that many making over a million a year (about 300,000).
b) Corporations.
If you want to water plants, great, but why bake them at the same time???
How else would you grow baked beans?
... they wanted the video to be interesting, and adding sound to what we'd expect to *produce* sound makes it seem more natural.
It also makes it wrong, which I could - albeit grudgingly - live with
in a SciFi movie, but this is supposed to be about science.
Wireless networks are not secure even with WPA/WPA2, unless you feel like changing the password every other day. Even my grandma is sharp enough to follow the instructions on various youtube-clips for cracking WPA/WPA2..
Oh? Beyond brute-forcing with dictionary passwords? Mind providing a link to one of those videos?
I think I would've heard of WPA2 being broken, it being AES-based and all...
Some of those might be intentional: I run an unencrypted wifi AP which is
bandwidth limited and routed through Tor as a public service. It is used regularly.
Also not covered will be those with open APs but additional authentification/encryption
layers, e.g. using a VPN.
Around here (not Australia, admittedly), open wifi is nearly non-existent (and all open
ones I've encountered over the last two years or so seem to fall into the categories above) -
WEP "secured" APs are another story however, there is still a worrying number of those around.
And I'm certain most WEP users are entirely unaware of their de-facto openness.
Install AdBlock Plus and quit whining about ads. You only put up with ads 'cause you choose to.
You are part of the problem. Just because you don't see the ads doesn't mean their resources are not loaded.
If you use ABP, that's exactly what it means.
My poor little SeaMonkey is only up to 2.1. Somebody obviously needs to get their sh*t together!
Well, SeaMonkey 2.2 has been out for three days now...
I don't want anyone to "look after my email", I simply want someone to provide transport, storage and protocols / user interface required for me to access it, without any privacy implications that are not mandated by that service. If you think that a business would be unable to provide this without stealing/exploiting private information, you're overly paranoid and should have grave concerns when seeing a doctor, or talking to a lawyer.
National Security Letter.
Watson used voice recognition.
No it didn't: "At exactly the moment that the clue is revealed on the game board, a text is sent electronically to Watson’s
POWER7 chips. So, Watson receives the clue text at the same time it hits Brad Rutter’s and Ken Jennings’ retinas."
[source: IBM research blog]
Nicola Tesla invented a bladeless turbine nearly 100 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbine
Wich has exactly nothing to do with "no moving parts" ventilation, as it is about
spinning a big disc using a flow of gas or liquid.
Yes, and as geeks we understand that the quoted number is an approximate
one and the data generated are not inherenly binary, so there is no need
for either the precision of "exactly one PiB" or the context of "this is binary".
In fact, the decimal prefix is the much more sensible one to use here.
The similarities are so close that this is actually a direct copy, not original work. And in the absence of any kind of credit or mention of Neal Stephenson's name, the word plagarism leaps to mind.
No at all, Stephenson in fact does properly assign credit. I'd consider him entirely in the clear.
Or you could just use http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tune
It's not really obvious though...
If the computer is compromised, what transaction is displayed on screen and what is sent out to the bank can be two entirely different things. You type your own transaction (data stored locally, not sent) and see it on the confirmation screen (data retrieved locally). You send out fraudulent transaction (data not displayed but sent) and authenticate it (in response to data received but not displayed).
The text message comes to a mobile phone - different device, (usually) not
interconnected with the computer. There is no "local retrieval" of the fake
transaction data, it all comes via the mobile carrier.
It's certainly possible to attack both, but that's considerably harder to do.
This rule in Adblock Plus takes care of it:
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LTS versions are only offered upgrades to the next LTS version
unless non-LTS upgrades are explicitly enabled by the user.
And that is different from reading a book or napping, how?
Headphones.
Yes, the plane's own entertainment system uses headphones too,
but the PA system ties into those, so the crew can still get your attention.
I'm not sure what you mean by diving toward the ground at 2G's... but if you're inverted pulling +2G's it's always going to feel like +2G's regardless of your attitude... not one G.
Depends entirely on your frame of reference. Your parent meant 2G in the frame of Earth,
which would indeed feel like 1G in the plane. That's how you can fly inverted and still keep
your coffee in the cup.
(Earth's gravity isn't magically cancelling one G... it's actually a weak force that is easily overridden by acceleration forces.)
No magic here, but of course Earth is cancelling 1G. If you are in free fall, you are being accelerated
with 1G (roughly 9.81m/s^2). The G meter you are carrying will show you an acceleration of 0 (zero) in
your own - accelerated - frame of reference.
Where did you think the definition of 1G comes from? It's "the idealized acceleration on planet Earth by planet Earth".
Really? Think about that again, please. The astronauts on board the International Space Station are not accelerating... they're in a continous free fall at a constant speed around the Earth (called orbiting).
Think about that again please. The ISS is in a free fall because it is constantly accelerating.
That's what's called orbiting.
What do you think keeps a spacecraft in orbit and from flying off in a straight line?
Yup, constant acceleration by gravity.
Acceleration in the physical sense doesn't always mean "change of speed".
If the acceleration is always perpendicular to an object's movement, it means
"change of velocity without change of speed", and that's exactly what
happens in a circular orbit. No, velocity and speed aren't the same thing.
The reality is, all modern commercial airliners are run by software.
This.
That "Boeing yay, Airbus nay" fanboyism only makes the fanboy look stupid really.
Boeing builds perfectly fine aircraft. Airbus builds perfectly fine aircraft. Get over it.
It sounds like the automated systems disengaged at the beginning of the descent and the 32-year-old co-pilot put the plane into a 35 degree up angle, and the plane stayed at that angle even until impact.
Careful, that's the angle of attack, i.e. the direction of the airflow. Pitch attitude (the plane's
attitude towards the horizon) was only 16.2 degrees. Altitude indication never was lost though, so
there's really no excuse for both pilots not noticing a constant loss of altitude despite nose up.
Isn't this plane fly by wire?
Yes it is.
If so, the stick should have been recorded as nose down, but the control surface as not responding...
And that it wasn't. Quoting directly from the report:
"the inputs made by the PF [pilot flying, as opposed to PNF] were mainly nose-up"
They will do just what the anti-nuclear Germans have done: buy electricity from countries like France. Just don't ask how they generated it.
Germany is a net exporter of electricity.
I'm not sure that this is true in the EU. Both the right to privacy and the right to free speech are enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Right, so the EU Court of Human Rights would balance those out against each other and decide which one trumps which in this particular situation.
JFTR: There is no EU Court of Human Rights. The Court you mean is
the European Court of Human Rights, which is not an EU institution
but an institution of the Council of Europe.
Yes, it's complicated.
You can see these without any extra tools in XP if you're using the command line.
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