1. There aren't a lot of smart people on Twitter to ask hard questions
2. Even if there were, it's very hard to carry any kind of intelligent discourse 140 characters at a time - it would have been used like an RSS feed to walls of text that either journalists would TL;DR at, or the public would TL;DR at the responses to.
3. Anything that doesn't make the mainstream news might as well have not happened. You know something that wouldn't make the mainstream news? Anything that can be ignored and stands a serious chance of derailing a war. War is as lucrative for the media as it is for the "defense" industry. They want that gravy train to leave the station, only afterwards can the debate over whether it should be rolling safely begin.
4. Too many Americans were still thirsty for brown people blood at the time and would not have any of your unpatriotic traitor-speak.
5. Even if the last 4 weren't problems, the Bush administration wouldn't give a damn what anyone had to say, the plans for the Iraq war were being made years in advance, it was about oil and would have happened within Bush's first term one way or another, and everything else was just an excuse or a half-assed attempt at post-hoc rationalization. I once saw a Slashdotter sum it up nicely: "One day Saddam said he would trade oil in Euros instead of USD, soon after, he was hiding in a hole in the ground while his country burned down around him."
Because this allows any Average Joe at home to print the action of a gun, the legally controlled part, all on his own with no skill or expensive machinery and then obtain the other parts as easily as buying some used videogames, and assemble a working weapon. Legally it's no different from making a gun in a home metal shop but practically, it greatly lowers the barriers of entry to making a home-built firearm that has never been on any records of any kind. It also allows high-capacity mags to be made at home more easily, if that matters.
I'd think it was really cool if this weren't a weapon we were talking about, especially one that can kill at long range and high frequency.
The hacker's system has to be vulnerable to the "counter measure." So for a telnet connection for example, there would have to be a vulnerability in the telnet client. There is such a thing as an offensive strike but it's not like IRL kinetic warfare where you can just hurl a thing at another thing.
And this is why I feel zero pity when layoffs or just about anything bad hit people in the "defense" industry. They're all like this. "Oh is there blood all over my hands? I couldn't see it because I'm neck-deep in MONIEZ LOLZ!"
I meant "overinflated" as in not optimal for street use...you're telling me you run the same pressures on the track and on the street? It would make sense if you drive the car just as hard on the street, but otherwise you'd get horribly uneven tire wear.
And contact patch size doesn't change with the angle between the tire and the road? I dunno about you but I'm not driving on rounded motorcycle tires, you're kind of asking me to throw out the basics of suspension design theory here. And are you trying to suggest that weight has no effect on contact patch size either?
You've been doing this for 20 years so there must be a huge misunderstanding between us.
Depends. The setting I use for my car on the track is overinflated for the street, but when you're in a hard corner the tire flattens out evenly which means the tire grip increases as you push the car harder into a corner. So an "overinflated" setting gives the best cornering. You can get similar effects for braking and acceleration (other factors are involved of course), and it's not unusual for a car to perform best all-around with tires that are definitely overinflated for street use.
In Google Reader you can do that, you just click on the feed you want to view in the "Subscriptions" list on the left instead of "All items" which mixes them all together.
But it's fun to mix the satire news with the real news and guess which is which.
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting, possibly the first time I didn't regret reading an InfoWorld article.
Beaten, came here to say this. And you don't need any special case for this, just more intake airflow than exhaust and filters on all the intakes.
Now, to hack into RIAA headquarters and launch an attack from there in the name of Al Quaeda! Take off every drone!
A gun is long range and high-frequency compared to any non-projectile weapon or even many bows.
1. There aren't a lot of smart people on Twitter to ask hard questions
2. Even if there were, it's very hard to carry any kind of intelligent discourse 140 characters at a time - it would have been used like an RSS feed to walls of text that either journalists would TL;DR at, or the public would TL;DR at the responses to.
3. Anything that doesn't make the mainstream news might as well have not happened. You know something that wouldn't make the mainstream news? Anything that can be ignored and stands a serious chance of derailing a war. War is as lucrative for the media as it is for the "defense" industry. They want that gravy train to leave the station, only afterwards can the debate over whether it should be rolling safely begin.
4. Too many Americans were still thirsty for brown people blood at the time and would not have any of your unpatriotic traitor-speak.
5. Even if the last 4 weren't problems, the Bush administration wouldn't give a damn what anyone had to say, the plans for the Iraq war were being made years in advance, it was about oil and would have happened within Bush's first term one way or another, and everything else was just an excuse or a half-assed attempt at post-hoc rationalization. I once saw a Slashdotter sum it up nicely: "One day Saddam said he would trade oil in Euros instead of USD, soon after, he was hiding in a hole in the ground while his country burned down around him."
Because this allows any Average Joe at home to print the action of a gun, the legally controlled part, all on his own with no skill or expensive machinery and then obtain the other parts as easily as buying some used videogames, and assemble a working weapon. Legally it's no different from making a gun in a home metal shop but practically, it greatly lowers the barriers of entry to making a home-built firearm that has never been on any records of any kind. It also allows high-capacity mags to be made at home more easily, if that matters.
I'd think it was really cool if this weren't a weapon we were talking about, especially one that can kill at long range and high frequency.
I don't want to powerlessly follow the news of this stupid thing going on while completely unable to stop it, as with UEFI secure boot.
Destroy the incentive to pirate with a low price and no DRM. You've already got the low price part done right.
Relevant:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/25/1988286/wikileaks-how-us-tried-to-stop.html
But but but, he BROKE the RULES!
The hacker's system has to be vulnerable to the "counter measure." So for a telnet connection for example, there would have to be a vulnerability in the telnet client. There is such a thing as an offensive strike but it's not like IRL kinetic warfare where you can just hurl a thing at another thing.
This doesn't explain why DRM is on games and other software though...
Walk around with your smartphone recording video with the red LED blinking all the time, see what happens.
I predict they won't become any less illegal though.
Or like this.
And this is why I feel zero pity when layoffs or just about anything bad hit people in the "defense" industry. They're all like this. "Oh is there blood all over my hands? I couldn't see it because I'm neck-deep in MONIEZ LOLZ!"
I do autocross and track days and I run higher pressures than would be ideal for the street for both...definitely seems to be working.
I meant "overinflated" as in not optimal for street use...you're telling me you run the same pressures on the track and on the street? It would make sense if you drive the car just as hard on the street, but otherwise you'd get horribly uneven tire wear.
And contact patch size doesn't change with the angle between the tire and the road? I dunno about you but I'm not driving on rounded motorcycle tires, you're kind of asking me to throw out the basics of suspension design theory here. And are you trying to suggest that weight has no effect on contact patch size either?
You've been doing this for 20 years so there must be a huge misunderstanding between us.
There's nothing wrong with them in the same sense that there's nothing wrong with Vibram shoes or fanny packs.
And if you can get to "better than average" there's another, even bigger improvement!
Depends. The setting I use for my car on the track is overinflated for the street, but when you're in a hard corner the tire flattens out evenly which means the tire grip increases as you push the car harder into a corner. So an "overinflated" setting gives the best cornering. You can get similar effects for braking and acceleration (other factors are involved of course), and it's not unusual for a car to perform best all-around with tires that are definitely overinflated for street use.
You can, it's called hypermiling.
In Google Reader you can do that, you just click on the feed you want to view in the "Subscriptions" list on the left instead of "All items" which mixes them all together.
But it's fun to mix the satire news with the real news and guess which is which.
Yep I'd like to filter off CNN's "fast facts" and "N things you should know about" articles, and news about certain celebrities.
Actually now that I think of it, almost all the crap I'd like to filter comes in on the CNN feed...
Maybe Kim Jong-Un will have a public screening of that video. Attendance will be mandatory.