According to TFA, "The TSA, which asked Congress for a $100 million cut in its 2015 budget..."
So the real story here is that they can't spend fast enough. This likely just reflects a broken or understaffed procurement organization.
I keep a mnemonic around in my phone because I've got nearly 100 accounts online for various things - but I know what the password is from that and, even then, I can usually cycle through any variations to get to the one it was.
But how do you pass that info along to family members... especially ones like mine who are not tech savvy!!!
Paper in a lockbox!
Each of your heirs has to memorize and regularly recite their own personal secret passphrase in order to remain in your will. Your lawyer has a large envelope with a instructions and a set of smaller envelopes containing SD cards, one for each heir. The lawyer doesn't know what's in the outer envelope until you die, and it's no use to her without the passphrases. She can't be forced to cough it up while you live (solicitor-client priviledge). It isn't that tough, nor novel. Count on greed and the tools used by the powerful to protect themselves, they'll remain operative.
400,000 vehicles a year from 1,500 tons of steel a day
If they run 365 days, that's 1368.75 kg of steel per vehicle. Even if they only run 250 days, it's 937.5 kg. Crap, that's massive, even without all the plastic, leather, wiring, batteries, hoses, etc.
Or they are someone who, as somebody who is *not* a scientist, as you have noted above, does not believe that further scientific study in the area would add any further understanding of value, and so the money is, in their view, more wisely spent elsewhere. They could be entirely wrong in this view, but they have it nonetheless.
Or as a scientist examining different questions, they see bigger returns on money spent elsewhere.
Or as an established scientist examining the question, they see further study by others as potentially conflicting with their own findings.
Or as a scientist examining the question, they see no testable predictions (string theory anyone?) and therefore reject the field from characterization as a science.
But in this simple case, a politician funded by big coal finds an organized group armed with inconvenient evidence, then eliminates the messenger before the evidence gets any stronger.
Or, Texas could add the judgement to an individual's license renewal fees. If you don't pay them, you can't drive.
Some places already do this for unpaid traffic tickets, or even red light camera tickets. I've never before heard of it for civil debts, as it only works against drivers. It is useless for those "scofflaws" who take transit, or Uber, or limo service.
i bet however that they'll probably find that the scientists secretly installed bitcoin mining on them already...
Makes sense. Liquid xenon would be a great coolant, so you can overclock the crap out of the rigs. They'll be able to convert bitcoin into the toys they really wanted to buy, when they could only get funding for this "dark matter" grailquest. Face it, if you couldn't find a nail with your hammer, a bigger hammer is not likely to be the most effective way to proceed.
It really is stunning how bad the technology used in the US payment processing industry. It is still routine to have mag stripe only terminals and gas pumps, backed up with Zipcode entry as a "security" measure. Chip and PIN is regarded as a novelty. NFC is almost never seen in the wild. Visitors from the civilized world (locally called "aliens") either laugh or rage at these things. Being told one needs to leave a credit card at the counter in order to pump gas is rightly seen as insulting to the customer while threatening their security. Nothing stops the counter clerk from cloning the card while the customer pumps. Then they charge exhorbitant "service fees" for Interac processing, several times what is charged elsewhere. No wonder tourists hate the place.
The CA nickel is actually made of nickel, so it is ferromagnetic, unlike the US 5 cent piece, which is not. Coin detectors have a magnet to distinguish them in the US. This was done to preclude steel slugs being passed off as coins.
"On the beach" is the key to the problem. All of Florida is built on sand, so as sea level rises dikes won't be enough to keep the water out, it will simply go under them. You'd need a waterproof basement floor, plus pumps to deal with the inevitable leaks and breaches. You need to turn the whole place into a ship. It is just not going to happen. Florida is doomed, but they're still in denial.
Resonance requires a driving force with the same frequency as the system that's vibrating
Close. If some part of the driving force is at that same frequency, you still get resonance. Feed enough noise into a hi-Q bandpass filter and you get resonant tone at the centre frequency. Apply positive feedback and the tone gets louder. With loop gain greater than unity it grows until limited either by the available power (saturation and clipping) or by physical damage that changes the system (either shifting its centre frequency, e.g. due to a broken window in the room changing its echo delay, or else reducing the loop gain, e.g. due to a torn speaker cone). This is true whether the system loop is speaker/airpressure/mike/amplifier/repeat or attack angle/normal airpressure/lift/torque/repeat.
So we're back to leaving it in a Faraday cage inside a concrete block with no connections, parts, power, or display. Sounds like an optimal Windows implementation to me.
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Moto had prior art
According to TFA, "The TSA, which asked Congress for a $100 million cut in its 2015 budget..."
So the real story here is that they can't spend fast enough. This likely just reflects a broken or understaffed procurement organization.
What marketing idiot decided that people would pay $3 to play a cell phone game during a meal?
That would be the marketing idiot who has watched spoiled kids' behaviour when parents arrive without a full charge on their fondleslabs.
The problem is death. :)
I keep a mnemonic around in my phone because I've got nearly 100 accounts online for various things - but I know what the password is from that and, even then, I can usually cycle through any variations to get to the one it was.
But how do you pass that info along to family members... especially ones like mine who are not tech savvy!!!
Paper in a lockbox!
Each of your heirs has to memorize and regularly recite their own personal secret passphrase in order to remain in your will. Your lawyer has a large envelope with a instructions and a set of smaller envelopes containing SD cards, one for each heir. The lawyer doesn't know what's in the outer envelope until you die, and it's no use to her without the passphrases. She can't be forced to cough it up while you live (solicitor-client priviledge). It isn't that tough, nor novel. Count on greed and the tools used by the powerful to protect themselves, they'll remain operative.
I am currently reaching into every autonomous war drone
Which is it then, Watson, autonomous, or drone?
So ranges greater then a few thousand meters can only be realized in extremely clear weather?
In space, the weather is usually clear.
created and deployed by the US
Just out of curiosity, what countries' vendors might be imagined to be potentially safe from inserting such. Iceland? Switzerland? Luxembourg?
400,000 vehicles a year from 1,500 tons of steel a day
If they run 365 days, that's 1368.75 kg of steel per vehicle. Even if they only run 250 days, it's 937.5 kg. Crap, that's massive, even without all the plastic, leather, wiring, batteries, hoses, etc.
"Have an A1 day"
Or they are someone who, as somebody who is *not* a scientist, as you have noted above, does not believe that further scientific study in the area would add any further understanding of value, and so the money is, in their view, more wisely spent elsewhere. They could be entirely wrong in this view, but they have it nonetheless.
Or as a scientist examining different questions, they see bigger returns on money spent elsewhere.
Or as an established scientist examining the question, they see further study by others as potentially conflicting with their own findings.
Or as a scientist examining the question, they see no testable predictions (string theory anyone?) and therefore reject the field from characterization as a science. But in this simple case, a politician funded by big coal finds an organized group armed with inconvenient evidence, then eliminates the messenger before the evidence gets any stronger.
Sorry, this technology only works in your mom's basement.
How can we engineer a system to produce power affordably?
Ask Elon to do it!
No, they'll understand "this bike comes with a free bonus weapon", and you'll be in the clink. Wizard move.
Vigilant works for the 25% mark up
Yeah. And just how is it that their cost of doing business is proportional to the fine collected?
people who made the police look
Those people are called "legislators". Make your own guess who they work for.
camera on a police car, with the right backend, could almost completely replace police officers
This can be prevented by mounting the cameras on the police officers.
Or, Texas could add the judgement to an individual's license renewal fees. If you don't pay them, you can't drive.
Some places already do this for unpaid traffic tickets, or even red light camera tickets. I've never before heard of it for civil debts, as it only works against drivers. It is useless for those "scofflaws" who take transit, or Uber, or limo service.
the less of two totalitarian dictatorships
I've heard faint praise before, but somehow that sets a new low bar.
i bet however that they'll probably find that the scientists secretly installed bitcoin mining on them already...
Makes sense. Liquid xenon would be a great coolant, so you can overclock the crap out of the rigs. They'll be able to convert bitcoin into the toys they really wanted to buy, when they could only get funding for this "dark matter" grailquest. Face it, if you couldn't find a nail with your hammer, a bigger hammer is not likely to be the most effective way to proceed.
It really is stunning how bad the technology used in the US payment processing industry. It is still routine to have mag stripe only terminals and gas pumps, backed up with Zipcode entry as a "security" measure. Chip and PIN is regarded as a novelty. NFC is almost never seen in the wild. Visitors from the civilized world (locally called "aliens") either laugh or rage at these things. Being told one needs to leave a credit card at the counter in order to pump gas is rightly seen as insulting to the customer while threatening their security. Nothing stops the counter clerk from cloning the card while the customer pumps. Then they charge exhorbitant "service fees" for Interac processing, several times what is charged elsewhere. No wonder tourists hate the place.
The CA nickel is actually made of nickel, so it is ferromagnetic, unlike the US 5 cent piece, which is not. Coin detectors have a magnet to distinguish them in the US. This was done to preclude steel slugs being passed off as coins.
"On the beach" is the key to the problem. All of Florida is built on sand, so as sea level rises dikes won't be enough to keep the water out, it will simply go under them. You'd need a waterproof basement floor, plus pumps to deal with the inevitable leaks and breaches. You need to turn the whole place into a ship. It is just not going to happen. Florida is doomed, but they're still in denial.
Resonance requires a driving force with the same frequency as the system that's vibrating
Close. If some part of the driving force is at that same frequency, you still get resonance. Feed enough noise into a hi-Q bandpass filter and you get resonant tone at the centre frequency. Apply positive feedback and the tone gets louder. With loop gain greater than unity it grows until limited either by the available power (saturation and clipping) or by physical damage that changes the system (either shifting its centre frequency, e.g. due to a broken window in the room changing its echo delay, or else reducing the loop gain, e.g. due to a torn speaker cone). This is true whether the system loop is speaker/airpressure/mike/amplifier/repeat or attack angle/normal airpressure/lift/torque/repeat.
Think On-Star where you say "hey, can you find me a Sushi restaurant?"
Apparently that is an actual thing, I'm not sure.
We used to call that Yellow Pages, but now there's an app for that. Of course real drivers don't eat sushi, but a passenger might.
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1) No, it is not unhackable.
It is so long as they never release it.
So we're back to leaving it in a Faraday cage inside a concrete block with no connections, parts, power, or display. Sounds like an optimal Windows implementation to me.
>A million monkeys could bang on keyboards all day long and nothing would break.
And if Dell is any indication, wouldn't fix anything either.
Racist much?