But without actual hardware-based booby-traps (like Dan Brown-style acid vials inside the HDD casing, or a dead-man's-switch that destroys all data on shut-down), the drive should still be vulnerable to being taken apart and each platter imaged optically.
At today's data densities, this is bloody expensive and takes ages for anything
over a couple of kilobytes. And then you have some kilobytes of encrypted data.
Big deal.
There is no Space Shuttle with that name;-).
Endeavour (British spelling because it is named after James Cook's ship),
however, was indeed built there.
it appears that not everyone is able to observe stroboscopic events under continuous illumination. This was a huge surprise to me, because I have always seen car and bicycle wheels start to "turn backwards" at a certain frequency in daylight conditions.
You probably don't.
I thought so for a while too, but when I started to really pay attention to it,
it turned out that every time I saw some strobe effect in daylight, there was
an artificial light source involved.
As far as I know by now, there is no synchronization happening in the eye,
i.e. even if a single rod or cone in the eye has a certain "firing rate", it would
not result in a strobe effect, because its neighbors are not in synch with it.
If you cheerfully shut down the communications network that keeps trains from colliding, or E911 services from working, or otherwise disrupt life-or-death decisions, then I'm all for a shoot first, ask later response if you get caught.
If an interrupted cable in your train safety system leads to any kind
of dangerous situation, you need to have a serious look
at the fundamentals of this system, because it is already defective.
There's a reason stuff like this is supposed to "fail safe".
When the Channel Tunnel (between Britain and France) was being dug, and the diggers from each end met in the middle, they found they were about 50cm out - each side had been measuring their depth relative to their own definition of "sea level".
[citation needed] - Yes, they were off by about 35-50cm (depending on the source - also, there are three
tunnels, so those numbers might be for different ones). However, this was hailed as an enormous success
for surveying at the time, thanks to advanced laser measurnig technology and special high-precision gyrotheodolites.
The design allowed for an offset of over two meters.
Unfortunately the launch was delayed, so we didn't get to see blast off.
I'm now really thinking about taking a week to fly over there, it's not like it'll happen again....
I wish you good luck. I went there last November for the original launch date,
and had more than a week. Still didn't get to see the launch. Grumble.
And yes, I'm considering trying again too, it is a part of history I really
wouldn't want to have missed completely.
Video resolution and quality are inependent (see "10 megapixel" cameras in mobile phones...). At the low bitrates youtube is encoding the HD resolutions, the quality is rather mediocre.
Since the members of the MPEG group are making such good money from the royalties [...]
MPEG != MPEG-LA
The first is an ISO standards body, the second... well... some sort of protection racket association, I guess.
And I'm sure the misleading name similarity is pure coincidence.
It would be great if Sony, Apple, Microsoft, and several Android phone makers would implement a simple development switch in their phones — these would obviously void the warranty [...]
Technically and mechanically, any modern airliner up to a Boeing 747
or an Airbus A380 is capable of doing a barrel roll - however, you
would have to disable multiple envelope protection levels in the
flight computer to be allowed to do it.
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My CFLs do indeed flicker - accoring to the data sheet, their flicker frequency is 50kHz.
I highly doubt you'll be able to see that...
he OSM data for my area is very detailed, including building outlines, landmarks, park benches, and dog poop dispensers (no kidding).
Ewwwwwww...
But without actual hardware-based booby-traps (like Dan Brown-style acid vials inside the HDD casing, or a dead-man's-switch that destroys all data on shut-down), the drive should still be vulnerable to being taken apart and each platter imaged optically.
At today's data densities, this is bloody expensive and takes ages for anything
over a couple of kilobytes. And then you have some kilobytes of encrypted data.
Big deal.
Endeavor was built in LA.
There is no Space Shuttle with that name ;-).
Endeavour (British spelling because it is named after James Cook's ship),
however, was indeed built there.
it appears that not everyone is able to observe stroboscopic events under continuous illumination. This was a huge surprise to me, because I have always seen car and bicycle wheels start to "turn backwards" at a certain frequency in daylight conditions.
You probably don't.
I thought so for a while too, but when I started to really pay attention to it,
it turned out that every time I saw some strobe effect in daylight, there was
an artificial light source involved.
As far as I know by now, there is no synchronization happening in the eye,
i.e. even if a single rod or cone in the eye has a certain "firing rate", it would
not result in a strobe effect, because its neighbors are not in synch with it.
Could someone familiar with Apple stuff please explain
what exactly this key is for?
Why would a wifi AP need a secret key?
Also, Google has started producing full-length movies, such as Girl Walks Into a Bar .
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."
Good job, google...
Have a look at the other side of the Ocean: Professor Cuthbert Calculus: Realistic moon rocket in the mid-1950s, color TV, mini submarine, ...
If you cheerfully shut down the communications network that keeps trains from colliding, or E911 services from working, or otherwise disrupt life-or-death decisions, then I'm all for a shoot first, ask later response if you get caught.
If an interrupted cable in your train safety system leads to any kind
of dangerous situation, you need to have a serious look
at the fundamentals of this system, because it is already defective.
There's a reason stuff like this is supposed to "fail safe".
Quantum entaglement can not be used for faster-than-light transmission of information.
...or brute force the whole string (password+captcha) which is twice as long so will take an order of magnitude longer.
So 1,000,000 is an order of magnitude more than 1,000? Is has twice as many zeros...
You have a weird definition for "order of magnitude".
When the Channel Tunnel (between Britain and France) was being dug, and the diggers from each end met in the middle, they found they were about 50cm out - each side had been measuring their depth relative to their own definition of "sea level".
[citation needed] - Yes, they were off by about 35-50cm (depending on the source - also, there are three
tunnels, so those numbers might be for different ones). However, this was hailed as an enormous success
for surveying at the time, thanks to advanced laser measurnig technology and special high-precision gyrotheodolites.
The design allowed for an offset of over two meters.
Because google is not for sale.
Despite google being a publicly traded company, the founders retain
enough voting rights to keep the majority no matter what.
How many of those weapons tests happened on a densely populated island, with a population center of tens of millions of people downwind?
Abstentions to the Security Council vote : Russia, China (no surprises so far), Brazil, India (mmh?), Germany (WTF?).
FWIW, causeway pictures I took on Thursday: https://www.facebook.com/album.php?...
A facebook link that requires a login to host photos you want to share on slashdot?
Are you shooting for a "funny troll" mod?
Unfortunately the launch was delayed, so we didn't get to see blast off.
I'm now really thinking about taking a week to fly over there, it's not like it'll happen again....
I wish you good luck. I went there last November for the original launch date,
and had more than a week. Still didn't get to see the launch. Grumble.
And yes, I'm considering trying again too, it is a part of history I really
wouldn't want to have missed completely.
Video resolution and quality are inependent (see "10 megapixel" cameras in mobile phones...). At the low bitrates youtube is encoding the HD resolutions, the quality is rather mediocre.
Since the members of the MPEG group are making such good money from the royalties [...]
MPEG != MPEG-LA
The first is an ISO standards body, the second... well... some sort of protection racket association, I guess.
And I'm sure the misleading name similarity is pure coincidence.
The article is just about Microsoft's warranty on its software.
A warranty on Microsoft software? Riiiight...
Look at your microwave, DVD player, or any electronic. Find that piece of tape that says "warranty void if broken"
To what part of the phone's software is that tape attached?
So, opening the operating system of the phone is like opening the case of an electronic device.
There's a reason why we have different words for "hardware" and "software", you know.
It would be great if Sony, Apple, Microsoft, and several Android phone makers would implement a simple development switch in their phones — these would obviously void the warranty [...]
Why?
I know nothing about balloon design. How do you dampen perturbations?
With water.
"This video contains content from UMG. It is not available in your country."
actually, jumbo-jet airframes can't really safely barrel-roll anyhow
Yes they can. Done correctly, a barrel roll is a 1g maneuver.
It has been done with a Boeing 707
Technically and mechanically, any modern airliner up to a Boeing 747
or an Airbus A380 is capable of doing a barrel roll - however, you
would have to disable multiple envelope protection levels in the
flight computer to be allowed to do it.