If a customer would ever ask a question, why his wireless service bill is so high, he would be given an answer that the bill includes amortization of $45 Billion of previously capitalized expenses, which companies had to pay.
And this would be a lie. The only reason cell bills are high is because that is the price people are willing to pay.
To be equally pedantic: the meaning of words change over time, most especially when technical terms are adopted by the common population. When speaking of frequencies, transmissions, filtering, etc, broadband means exactly what you describe. When speaking of internet access, broadband means "high speed".
One of the biggest reasons a lot of people that use Google+ is that it's easier to keep posts relatively private. I don't need to have pictures of my kids published to everyone on the net, or tell everyone in the world when I'm on vacation, or have all kinds of crap out there for potential employers to find. Google+ makes it easy to post to a small (or large) group without posting publicly. Basing numbers on public posts is FUD, it's worse than meaningless, it's misleading.
What they are, admittedly awkwardly, trying to say is that the Fast Radio Burst was detected as it was happening, enabling follow up investigations to catch the immediate after effects. Previous such bursts were detected much later, too late to do any kind of follow up leading some to question if the events were even extra planetary.
Now now, we all know vacuum stabilization events travel out from their sources at the speed of light, if it were to happen it would be against the laws of physics to see it coming.
More interesting is one of the actual proposed explanations. A massive spinning magnetron gradually slowing down until centrifugal force can't keep it from collapsing into a black hole anymore. And when the source of the magnetic field suddenly gets cut off from the outside universe by being engulfed by the event horizon, the magnetic field has no where to go but... out. The most powerful magnetic field in the universe getting converted almost instantly to energy; creating a spark that lasts seconds and outputs more energy than the sun has in the past million years.
Round trip to a satellite, 3ms. Hell, call it 15 if the angle is high. Then the satellite hops, which would take place at c with a microwave link, compared to.66c with fiber. Not to mention there are many fiber links that are anything but direct line. I could easily see such a system outperforming ground networks when it comes to latency. Now, congestion could be a problem obviously. It will have to be seen if they can put enough links into orbit cheaply enough to prevent issues.
I had a teacher fail me on a programming assignment because I was using things she hadn't taught yet.
Depending on what you mean that isn't necessarily a bad thing in a programming course. If the purpose of an assignment is to learn about data structures by recreating them and you back everything with std:vector, you aren't really completing the assignment even if all the functionality is there. Of course, it's also entirely possible that the teacher just didn't know what they were doing or, more concernedly, simply on a power trip; so no judgement, just pointing out a possible counter argument.
Dude... everything that's happened and been exposed and you still think stuff like this is pure conspiracy theory bullshit? Even if it's not something they currently do, it's certainly within their repertoire.
That's like saying betting on a coin flip isn't a luck based game. Given enough flips you'll come out even betting heads every time. The same is true of roulette, craps, etc.
Online poker sites make their money from the rake, a percentage of each pot goes to the table. Unless you are so obviously advantaged that other players get upset and leave, unlikely unless you're actually cheating, online casinos have no incentive to ban you.
His point is, we're already doing it blindly. How would you feel if we were going into an ice age and people were proposing dumping billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere to in an attempt to reverse it?
And not every form of ethics revolves around informed consent.
They aren't saying roving hypergoats are devouring entire star systems. They are saying there could be migrating civilizations so powerful that they effectively mine and deplete entire stars. There have been thought experiments done focusing on how such a thing could be possible. For instance, here is a wikipage about a few designs for the type of things they are talking about in the article, none of which are really that wildly impossible.
The Revelation Space series also had devices and civilizations capable of destroying, mining, moving, and otherwise using stars to advance their own ends.
There is a qualitative difference between any one conversation being overheard and every conversation being overheard. I may not have an expectation that something I say is private, but I do have an expectation that there isn't a database of everything I've ever said in public ever.
He's not talking technical problems preventing an abort, he's talking political. Engineers working on the Challenger program wanted to abort, expressed concern about the exact issues that caused the accident, and got overridden by management.
This is highly debatable. Much of our "smarts" amounts to education, research, modern tools, and discoveries made over thousands of years. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that. Even if you argue by smart you mean intelligence and thinking skills, you still have to consider nutrition and health both of which can have a huge impact on adult intelligence levels.
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If a customer would ever ask a question, why his wireless service bill is so high, he would be given an answer that the bill includes amortization of $45 Billion of previously capitalized expenses, which companies had to pay.
And this would be a lie. The only reason cell bills are high is because that is the price people are willing to pay.
To be equally pedantic: the meaning of words change over time, most especially when technical terms are adopted by the common population. When speaking of frequencies, transmissions, filtering, etc, broadband means exactly what you describe. When speaking of internet access, broadband means "high speed".
One of the biggest reasons a lot of people that use Google+ is that it's easier to keep posts relatively private. I don't need to have pictures of my kids published to everyone on the net, or tell everyone in the world when I'm on vacation, or have all kinds of crap out there for potential employers to find. Google+ makes it easy to post to a small (or large) group without posting publicly. Basing numbers on public posts is FUD, it's worse than meaningless, it's misleading.
What they are, admittedly awkwardly, trying to say is that the Fast Radio Burst was detected as it was happening, enabling follow up investigations to catch the immediate after effects. Previous such bursts were detected much later, too late to do any kind of follow up leading some to question if the events were even extra planetary.
Now now, we all know vacuum stabilization events travel out from their sources at the speed of light, if it were to happen it would be against the laws of physics to see it coming.
More interesting is one of the actual proposed explanations. A massive spinning magnetron gradually slowing down until centrifugal force can't keep it from collapsing into a black hole anymore. And when the source of the magnetic field suddenly gets cut off from the outside universe by being engulfed by the event horizon, the magnetic field has no where to go but... out. The most powerful magnetic field in the universe getting converted almost instantly to energy; creating a spark that lasts seconds and outputs more energy than the sun has in the past million years.
it's not 3d printed concrete. it's 3d printed mortar.
Actually it's not even that. It's 3D printed concrete forms, which are then shipped to the site, plumbed, wired, and filled with concrete.
Round trip to a satellite, 3ms. Hell, call it 15 if the angle is high. Then the satellite hops, which would take place at c with a microwave link, compared to .66c with fiber. Not to mention there are many fiber links that are anything but direct line. I could easily see such a system outperforming ground networks when it comes to latency. Now, congestion could be a problem obviously. It will have to be seen if they can put enough links into orbit cheaply enough to prevent issues.
You can, but if your busy looking for the one it makes it a lot less likely to find the other.
My email contains important technical information that I may need for years after I composed that email.
Why the hell are you storing important technical information on an email server? That's a much bigger wtf than IT and legal doing their jobs.
I had a teacher fail me on a programming assignment because I was using things she hadn't taught yet.
Depending on what you mean that isn't necessarily a bad thing in a programming course. If the purpose of an assignment is to learn about data structures by recreating them and you back everything with std:vector, you aren't really completing the assignment even if all the functionality is there. Of course, it's also entirely possible that the teacher just didn't know what they were doing or, more concernedly, simply on a power trip; so no judgement, just pointing out a possible counter argument.
your tinfoil beanie is slipping
Dude... everything that's happened and been exposed and you still think stuff like this is pure conspiracy theory bullshit? Even if it's not something they currently do, it's certainly within their repertoire.
That's like saying betting on a coin flip isn't a luck based game. Given enough flips you'll come out even betting heads every time. The same is true of roulette, craps, etc.
Online poker sites make their money from the rake, a percentage of each pot goes to the table. Unless you are so obviously advantaged that other players get upset and leave, unlikely unless you're actually cheating, online casinos have no incentive to ban you.
His point is, we're already doing it blindly. How would you feel if we were going into an ice age and people were proposing dumping billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere to in an attempt to reverse it?
And not every form of ethics revolves around informed consent.
That's like asking "what's the benefit of studying this mold growing on my oranges?". No one knows. Maybe nothing. Maybe everything.
What spam filters?
Seven comments in, so far there's 4 jokes, 2 anti-us spam/trolls, and 1 crank. Quality discussion there.
"Standing up to extremists" was done by "targeted killings, against Muslim civilians". Yes, if accurate I would call that terrorism.
They aren't saying roving hypergoats are devouring entire star systems. They are saying there could be migrating civilizations so powerful that they effectively mine and deplete entire stars. There have been thought experiments done focusing on how such a thing could be possible. For instance, here is a wikipage about a few designs for the type of things they are talking about in the article, none of which are really that wildly impossible.
The Revelation Space series also had devices and civilizations capable of destroying, mining, moving, and otherwise using stars to advance their own ends.
There is a qualitative difference between any one conversation being overheard and every conversation being overheard. I may not have an expectation that something I say is private, but I do have an expectation that there isn't a database of everything I've ever said in public ever.
may have more to do with launch windows than anything else
Yes, the next ISS launch window is Friday morning.
He's not talking technical problems preventing an abort, he's talking political. Engineers working on the Challenger program wanted to abort, expressed concern about the exact issues that caused the accident, and got overridden by management.
Yep, that's why everyone lands their boost stage and cuts their costs by a significant fraction... right?
Ancient peoples were just as smart as us
This is highly debatable. Much of our "smarts" amounts to education, research, modern tools, and discoveries made over thousands of years. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that. Even if you argue by smart you mean intelligence and thinking skills, you still have to consider nutrition and health both of which can have a huge impact on adult intelligence levels.