I've seen a few documentaries on the technologies involved. Off the top of my head, one of the ideas was to drop a cooling chemical onto the ocean ahead of one side of the hurricane. It would be sort of like "applying the brakes" to that side. There was some similar idea involving the use of algae.
Resources will never run out, thanks to conservation of matter.
Even that is a bit misleading in most cases. For example, even if you assume that the energy to do so is readily available, turning the exhaust from a car's tailpipe, the heat from it's radiator, the sound waves from it's stereo, the cold air from it's AC system, and the vehicle's forward momentum back into gasoline is most impractical.
One guy was afraid of global cooling and he got onto the cover of Time. It was about as scientific as the Time Cube guy getting mainstream media coverage.
If you did any research into the issue you'd know that. You're another "informed skeptic," no doubt.
True, this is the best argument I've seen for geo-engineering. We're already fucking with the environment drastically with no plan or real intent (but with known negative effects), why not fuck with it in a planned way towards a positive goal?
True, this is why we have never tried to change the course of storms, even though we certainly have the technology to do it. For example hurricane Irene could have been redirected a bit towards the middle of the Atlantic, surely for less money than the damage it caused.
Probably doesn't help that there's zero political will to spend money on avoiding/preventing problems before they hit us in the face.
Yeah I was just going to say I hope he's not connecting to the PLC directly because their built-in security is a joke. Connecting to a computer via SSH/VPN that controls the PLC would be more acceptable (although it's best to airgap PLCs whenever possible).
And for once that response is quite fitting, unlike when it's used in arguments over Wikileaks, because that's the information that's actually being protected by encryption right now.
They'd have to trace radio waves basically. And it would be practically impossible to triangulate (or even detect the presence of) a directional transmitter on the ground, as long as it's hidden (easy to do in a cluttered urban environment).
A list of pakistani IP ranges, and a simple app that pings things and then spews random data at an IP if it responds. Simple. You could probably even do it in a shellscript.
Sounds like a great idea, dilute their logs with crap. Heck don't make it random, use random text from Pakistani websites to make it harder to filter out.
Bin Laden was living in a mansion within sight of a military academy and other terrorists targeted for raids would conveniently skip town once Pakistani authorities were notified. So it's fair to assume at least somebody in Pakistan's government knew he was there. The question is whether this was the government's unofficial policy on the matter or just one guy spying for Al Quaeda.
Yeah but social fixes are difficult to impossible while technical fixes are generally not that hard. So if you can work around a social problem with a technical solution, go for it!
Also you should use 4096 bit RSA key pairs, it's not the default but you can generate them with OpenSSL. And of course, generate them with a passphrase.
I assume you'd use some kind of pre-shared key so that the two systems can know which errors are encrypted data and which are just errors. Otherwise you'd get legitimate errors mixed in with your encrypted data.
Good gracious, its as if, because MPAA commits one wrong, it excuses us circumventing the legal system just to spite them for that wrong. Illegal is illegal, whether or not you like the prosecution. Are people really pushing for anarchy and the abolition of the justice system?
This is funny. When the MPAA does something wrong to the public, it's no excuse to break the laws that the MPAA made as a result, illegal is illegal!
If I bribed a politician to make it illegal to refuse to give me money on request, and I asked you for all the money in your wallet, by your logic you'd have to oblige me.
The conservatives are partially correct. In the habitats we offer them Pandas are completely incapable of surviving without human assistance. They require insanely huge bamboo forests to sustain their pathetically wasteful lifestyle and slow reproduction.
But humans at least reduced those huge forests down to a point where they couldn't sustain a panda population, so IMO it's our responsibility to to keep them from going extinct.
It's like if a race of super-intelligent sea creatures flooded the earth except for a few microscopic little islands and found that humans couldn't survive on them or thrive in little under-water biodomes, then the conservative aqua-people argued that humans should just be allowed to go extinct since they're so sucky at surviving despite the best efforts by the aqua-people.
Because it would be safe to say that in 20-30 years your ICE car is going to look like a sad old relic compared to an electric car. In addition to being less efficient and more maintenance-intensive as it is now, in the future it will also be slower. Possibly at some point it may even have a shorter range (would require several fillups while an electric car could do it all on one charge).
There's steganography, which is horribly inefficient since you have to basically send your small bit of encrypted data along with a huge mass of what is essentially padding, and deniable encryption (looks like random data), which in most use cases isn't so easily deniable since people don't normally send random data to each other (it's useful for delivering large amounts of encrypted data via sneakernet on apparently normal storage media though).
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But then what were they waiting for, and why alert the other terrorists?
Whoa you're right, it is hard to find this stuff online. Here's one article:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-tropical-cyclones-be-stopped
I've seen a few documentaries on the technologies involved. Off the top of my head, one of the ideas was to drop a cooling chemical onto the ocean ahead of one side of the hurricane. It would be sort of like "applying the brakes" to that side. There was some similar idea involving the use of algae.
Resources will never run out, thanks to conservation of matter.
Even that is a bit misleading in most cases. For example, even if you assume that the energy to do so is readily available, turning the exhaust from a car's tailpipe, the heat from it's radiator, the sound waves from it's stereo, the cold air from it's AC system, and the vehicle's forward momentum back into gasoline is most impractical.
These are scientists who are saying this.
You must be new to this, to the AGW denialist, the word "scientist" lends about as much trust as "crackwhore."
Hey dude you typed in the URL for Freerepublic wrong.
One guy was afraid of global cooling and he got onto the cover of Time. It was about as scientific as the Time Cube guy getting mainstream media coverage.
If you did any research into the issue you'd know that. You're another "informed skeptic," no doubt.
True, this is the best argument I've seen for geo-engineering. We're already fucking with the environment drastically with no plan or real intent (but with known negative effects), why not fuck with it in a planned way towards a positive goal?
True, this is why we have never tried to change the course of storms, even though we certainly have the technology to do it. For example hurricane Irene could have been redirected a bit towards the middle of the Atlantic, surely for less money than the damage it caused.
Probably doesn't help that there's zero political will to spend money on avoiding/preventing problems before they hit us in the face.
Yeah I was just going to say I hope he's not connecting to the PLC directly because their built-in security is a joke. Connecting to a computer via SSH/VPN that controls the PLC would be more acceptable (although it's best to airgap PLCs whenever possible).
And for once that response is quite fitting, unlike when it's used in arguments over Wikileaks, because that's the information that's actually being protected by encryption right now.
They'd have to trace radio waves basically. And it would be practically impossible to triangulate (or even detect the presence of) a directional transmitter on the ground, as long as it's hidden (easy to do in a cluttered urban environment).
A list of pakistani IP ranges, and a simple app that pings things and then spews random data at an IP if it responds. Simple. You could probably even do it in a shellscript.
Sounds like a great idea, dilute their logs with crap. Heck don't make it random, use random text from Pakistani websites to make it harder to filter out.
If you're really paranoid you can use quad-ROT533 with double bit inversion, but that's overkill.
Bin Laden was living in a mansion within sight of a military academy and other terrorists targeted for raids would conveniently skip town once Pakistani authorities were notified. So it's fair to assume at least somebody in Pakistan's government knew he was there. The question is whether this was the government's unofficial policy on the matter or just one guy spying for Al Quaeda.
Yeah but social fixes are difficult to impossible while technical fixes are generally not that hard. So if you can work around a social problem with a technical solution, go for it!
Also you should use 4096 bit RSA key pairs, it's not the default but you can generate them with OpenSSL. And of course, generate them with a passphrase.
Pfft who needs to do that. Just buy some unauthorized certs like Iran did, but don't let the news leak this time.
Whoa nice. Check out the password function too.
I assume you'd use some kind of pre-shared key so that the two systems can know which errors are encrypted data and which are just errors. Otherwise you'd get legitimate errors mixed in with your encrypted data.
Great idea! Send your girlfriend right over.
Good gracious, its as if, because MPAA commits one wrong, it excuses us circumventing the legal system just to spite them for that wrong. Illegal is illegal, whether or not you like the prosecution. Are people really pushing for anarchy and the abolition of the justice system?
This is funny. When the MPAA does something wrong to the public, it's no excuse to break the laws that the MPAA made as a result, illegal is illegal!
If I bribed a politician to make it illegal to refuse to give me money on request, and I asked you for all the money in your wallet, by your logic you'd have to oblige me.
The conservatives are partially correct. In the habitats we offer them Pandas are completely incapable of surviving without human assistance. They require insanely huge bamboo forests to sustain their pathetically wasteful lifestyle and slow reproduction.
But humans at least reduced those huge forests down to a point where they couldn't sustain a panda population, so IMO it's our responsibility to to keep them from going extinct.
It's like if a race of super-intelligent sea creatures flooded the earth except for a few microscopic little islands and found that humans couldn't survive on them or thrive in little under-water biodomes, then the conservative aqua-people argued that humans should just be allowed to go extinct since they're so sucky at surviving despite the best efforts by the aqua-people.
Funny? Yes. Insightful? Also yes.
Because it would be safe to say that in 20-30 years your ICE car is going to look like a sad old relic compared to an electric car. In addition to being less efficient and more maintenance-intensive as it is now, in the future it will also be slower. Possibly at some point it may even have a shorter range (would require several fillups while an electric car could do it all on one charge).
There's steganography, which is horribly inefficient since you have to basically send your small bit of encrypted data along with a huge mass of what is essentially padding, and deniable encryption (looks like random data), which in most use cases isn't so easily deniable since people don't normally send random data to each other (it's useful for delivering large amounts of encrypted data via sneakernet on apparently normal storage media though).