Is it somehow more illegal to trespass someone's house if they have 5 locks on their door vs only one? Why should it be more or less illegal to do something based on how difficult it is? It is the behavior that the effort allows that is being punished, either trespassing or accessing someone else's email without permission.
I've seen two, very slightly different, angles of the object and the orange light is only present in one of them. Seems to me that a rocket exhaust should be quite visible regardless of the angle, and that it's appearance/disappearance would make a reflection seem more likely. As for the contrail forming right on the object, if it is an airplane most of it's velocity is directly away from the camera. There could be a mile between the contrail and the plane and from that angle it would look like they were right next to each other.
More likely, the FAA and DoD just aren't organized for this kind of investigation. If you had gotten on the phone with the FAA or an AFB while the thing was in the air and said "What the heck is that? It's tracking heading 270, at somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand feet", you would could have gotten the answer instantly: "identifies as flight 808 out of LA". As it is, it seems like no one was really interested in this until it got put on the news that night, well after it would beyond radar range. So far as I know, the airports and Air Force bases don't keep recordings of their radar tracks, they have no way to look back at what was happening at that time.
Except that you can verify. You can look up the what time this flight left. You can use a bit of deductive reasoning, a little bit of knowledge about flight paths, and the publicly available Standard Instrument Departures for the given airport to figure out an approximate location and altitude that the plane would be at a given time. You can even, apparently, if the summary is accurate, look back at random webcams that were pointing in the right direction at the right time to see if the plane is there and leaving a contrail.
So yeah, if you believe that the government can create that good of a cover story with that much independent evidence in a 36 hour period, well, you have more faith in government agencies than I do.
There has been speculation that the software that they were using collects this data by default or that it is an setting that is easy to turn on without realizing it. I really don't get it, this is like complaining that the guy with his finger on the nuclear launch button brought a butter knife to work. For what possible reason would Google collect this information on purpose? The payoff is zilch, and the risk of backlash is huge. Everything points to this just being a stupid accident.
Until they come out of said meeting with a massive patent sharing agreement that does little but guarantee that there will never be a new competitor in the market ever again.
It's just software, we're not talking about something that takes billions of dollars worth of resources to produce. If the couple hundred software guys that the NSA employs can think of something, you can put good money on at least one of the hundreds of thousands of software guys that don't work for the NSA coming up with a similar idea. Now, if we were talking about some novel decryption scheme sure, there aren't that many people working on that outside of intelligence circles. But we're talking about writing secure, consistent software, something that is of interest to every CS and CE professor in the world.
That's an awfully high level summary, considering that Google keeps track of every search term you've ever entered, being able to see which services you've signed up for isn't quite the level of detail that I had in mind.
So wait... how exactly can I view, let alone export, all the personal data that Google has collected on me over the years? What if I want to switch to a different search engine but don't want to lose all the behind the scenes tweaking that can be done with a good decades worth of search history?
None of those in the article go out looking for trouble, they go out looking for people in trouble. Generally none of them have ever used their offensive equipment, they rely on contacting the talking problems through, being a witness to any criminal events, scaring the bad guys away by (literally) shining light on their crimes, and, if necessary, contacting the police.
Click "Instant Is On", click "Off". Tadaa! You're right back to the 'good old days'.
Personally, i thought Instant was jarring and annoying at first, but I decided to give it a couples days to get used to it. Turns out I think it's actually pretty nice, if nothing else it lets you change your queries on the fly, adding more keywords if necessary to narrow down your search by just continuing to type.
I don't know about you, but current eReaders just are not conducive to the way I use textbooks. The half second delay to turn a page is nothing if you're reading from start to finish for pleasure, but would be quite painful if you were trying to browse for pertinent information. The delay also makes typing in search queries awkward and tedious. I'd much rather use a full tablet device with the much faster response time and presumably more processing power available, especially if the book and interface were designed for that use. I love my Kindle, but I couldn't imagine trying to study from it or anything substantially similar to it. Of course, maybe your study habits are different from mine.
You pushing the button isn't the placebo effect by itself, the fact that it makes you feel better about the situation is. Without the button, people complain about how long they have to wait for 'walk' to light up or for how long it takes the doors on the elevator to close. With the button, people don't. Nothing has changed, the button doesn't do anything except give people the illusion of control.
The common given advice "if you put something on the net, you have given up control of it" does not equate to "if it's on the net, I can do whatever I want with it". The first is a warning, "hey, people can really easily take your stuff", the second is unethical and against the law.
Well you did say name one so here is one. And yeah, when I was on vacation in Chicago, without easy access to a computer, it was quite handy to be able to pull it up on my droid.
Why do so many articles ignore the fact that there is more to Flash than video? Granted, most games aren't going to play well on a mobile device but there are lots of Flash based sites that work just fine. Being able to access those sites or not is a pretty big deal if your out and about and need to look up information on a nearby business.
Imagine you run a business and the shit hits the fan; revenue is down 50%, your customers aren't buying because they don't have any money, and you can't afford to pay the bills, let alone the payroll. What are you going to do if you want to keep your business running? Fire a lot of staff? Negotiate a short term loan with the bank? Negotiate a payment plan with the people you owe money to?
Now imagine it's 3 years later and revenues are back up, not to what they were before but they're getting close and trending upward. So now what are you going to do? You'll hire some staff back, doubtless, but during the past three years you've been forced to find ways to make your business works with less staff so it won't be as many as you needed before the bad years. Not to mention you're still paying off all those high interest debts and payment plans, even with revenue up you can't afford to take the risk of hiring someone you don't 100% need.
This is pretty much exactly the position my wife's work found themselves in; revenues are up, workload is up but what should be discretionary cash is going toward paying off their old debts. Meanwhile they can't hire those two new staff persons (increasing from 4) they really need to support that revenue because the money isn't there. It'll be a at least 6 months, maybe a year before the debt is paid down and they can start hiring again, despite that fact that they have more customers than ever.
If you knew anything about North Korea, you already knew that. The article is actually about the methods, technology, and people that are working to show the world what the real conditions are like inside North Korea. There are a shocking number of people in the world that believe NK's official statements and state guided tours of carefully chosen locations. They see pictures of a somewhat backward but otherwise prosperous city, but only because the city in it's entirety has been build, maintained and even populated to create the illusion of prosperity when the rare foreigner comes to visit.
The reality is brutal; people starving, people murdered in the name of the government, people kidnapped and forced into slavery for some imagined offense. Without the people working to get the truth out there would only be the official news leaving the country, that's why the people who take these huge risks are so important to everyone in NK.
Still, if the article is factually accurate with the information they give I wouldn't want to be the guy. They've got pictures from 3 different locations that the guy has been including pictures of people he's been in contact with. Now it seems that the pictures are careful to avoid landmarks and identifying features but a good, well equipped intelligence service would probably be able to identify him just based on the pictures and his stated occupation. North Korea's internal intelligence certainly has the practice, whether they have the data and equipment needed to do the analysis I don't know.
See this picture of a fellow time traveler for another example. Modern people see a guy with a printed T-Shirt, modern sunglasses, and an SLR camera. However, the printed T could just as easily be a sweater with a college logo on it, the 'modern' sunglasses were in fact available in 1940, and the SLR camera is almost definitely a Kodak model that would have been old even at the time the picture was taken.
I think they're saying that this is someone's hardware hack, rather than a faked up render. Something about it just doesn't feel like a finished professional grade product, but I guess that's just a gut feeling. If they could get this thing to be a decent Android phone and were able to give it the ability to play PSP games, I think they would have a marketable device. I know there's a bunch of PSP games that I would be interested in but I have no desire for a dedicated handheld gaming device.
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Is it somehow more illegal to trespass someone's house if they have 5 locks on their door vs only one? Why should it be more or less illegal to do something based on how difficult it is? It is the behavior that the effort allows that is being punished, either trespassing or accessing someone else's email without permission.
I've seen two, very slightly different, angles of the object and the orange light is only present in one of them. Seems to me that a rocket exhaust should be quite visible regardless of the angle, and that it's appearance/disappearance would make a reflection seem more likely. As for the contrail forming right on the object, if it is an airplane most of it's velocity is directly away from the camera. There could be a mile between the contrail and the plane and from that angle it would look like they were right next to each other.
More likely, the FAA and DoD just aren't organized for this kind of investigation. If you had gotten on the phone with the FAA or an AFB while the thing was in the air and said "What the heck is that? It's tracking heading 270, at somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand feet", you would could have gotten the answer instantly: "identifies as flight 808 out of LA". As it is, it seems like no one was really interested in this until it got put on the news that night, well after it would beyond radar range. So far as I know, the airports and Air Force bases don't keep recordings of their radar tracks, they have no way to look back at what was happening at that time.
Except that you can verify. You can look up the what time this flight left. You can use a bit of deductive reasoning, a little bit of knowledge about flight paths, and the publicly available Standard Instrument Departures for the given airport to figure out an approximate location and altitude that the plane would be at a given time. You can even, apparently, if the summary is accurate, look back at random webcams that were pointing in the right direction at the right time to see if the plane is there and leaving a contrail.
So yeah, if you believe that the government can create that good of a cover story with that much independent evidence in a 36 hour period, well, you have more faith in government agencies than I do.
There has been speculation that the software that they were using collects this data by default or that it is an setting that is easy to turn on without realizing it. I really don't get it, this is like complaining that the guy with his finger on the nuclear launch button brought a butter knife to work. For what possible reason would Google collect this information on purpose? The payoff is zilch, and the risk of backlash is huge. Everything points to this just being a stupid accident.
Until they come out of said meeting with a massive patent sharing agreement that does little but guarantee that there will never be a new competitor in the market ever again.
It's just software, we're not talking about something that takes billions of dollars worth of resources to produce. If the couple hundred software guys that the NSA employs can think of something, you can put good money on at least one of the hundreds of thousands of software guys that don't work for the NSA coming up with a similar idea. Now, if we were talking about some novel decryption scheme sure, there aren't that many people working on that outside of intelligence circles. But we're talking about writing secure, consistent software, something that is of interest to every CS and CE professor in the world.
That's an awfully high level summary, considering that Google keeps track of every search term you've ever entered, being able to see which services you've signed up for isn't quite the level of detail that I had in mind.
So wait... how exactly can I view, let alone export, all the personal data that Google has collected on me over the years? What if I want to switch to a different search engine but don't want to lose all the behind the scenes tweaking that can be done with a good decades worth of search history?
Popular teens more likely to get laid, take drugs. More at eleven.
None of those in the article go out looking for trouble, they go out looking for people in trouble. Generally none of them have ever used their offensive equipment, they rely on contacting the talking problems through, being a witness to any criminal events, scaring the bad guys away by (literally) shining light on their crimes, and, if necessary, contacting the police.
Click "Instant Is On", click "Off". Tadaa! You're right back to the 'good old days'.
Personally, i thought Instant was jarring and annoying at first, but I decided to give it a couples days to get used to it. Turns out I think it's actually pretty nice, if nothing else it lets you change your queries on the fly, adding more keywords if necessary to narrow down your search by just continuing to type.
I don't know about you, but current eReaders just are not conducive to the way I use textbooks. The half second delay to turn a page is nothing if you're reading from start to finish for pleasure, but would be quite painful if you were trying to browse for pertinent information. The delay also makes typing in search queries awkward and tedious. I'd much rather use a full tablet device with the much faster response time and presumably more processing power available, especially if the book and interface were designed for that use. I love my Kindle, but I couldn't imagine trying to study from it or anything substantially similar to it. Of course, maybe your study habits are different from mine.
You pushing the button isn't the placebo effect by itself, the fact that it makes you feel better about the situation is. Without the button, people complain about how long they have to wait for 'walk' to light up or for how long it takes the doors on the elevator to close. With the button, people don't. Nothing has changed, the button doesn't do anything except give people the illusion of control.
The common given advice "if you put something on the net, you have given up control of it" does not equate to "if it's on the net, I can do whatever I want with it". The first is a warning, "hey, people can really easily take your stuff", the second is unethical and against the law.
Well you did say name one so here is one. And yeah, when I was on vacation in Chicago, without easy access to a computer, it was quite handy to be able to pull it up on my droid.
Why do so many articles ignore the fact that there is more to Flash than video? Granted, most games aren't going to play well on a mobile device but there are lots of Flash based sites that work just fine. Being able to access those sites or not is a pretty big deal if your out and about and need to look up information on a nearby business.
Find a budget theater for crying out loud. The one I go to has $5 tickets, $3 popcorn, and $2 drinks. That same trip would be under $20 there.
Imagine you run a business and the shit hits the fan; revenue is down 50%, your customers aren't buying because they don't have any money, and you can't afford to pay the bills, let alone the payroll. What are you going to do if you want to keep your business running? Fire a lot of staff? Negotiate a short term loan with the bank? Negotiate a payment plan with the people you owe money to?
Now imagine it's 3 years later and revenues are back up, not to what they were before but they're getting close and trending upward. So now what are you going to do? You'll hire some staff back, doubtless, but during the past three years you've been forced to find ways to make your business works with less staff so it won't be as many as you needed before the bad years. Not to mention you're still paying off all those high interest debts and payment plans, even with revenue up you can't afford to take the risk of hiring someone you don't 100% need.
This is pretty much exactly the position my wife's work found themselves in; revenues are up, workload is up but what should be discretionary cash is going toward paying off their old debts. Meanwhile they can't hire those two new staff persons (increasing from 4) they really need to support that revenue because the money isn't there. It'll be a at least 6 months, maybe a year before the debt is paid down and they can start hiring again, despite that fact that they have more customers than ever.
If you knew anything about North Korea, you already knew that. The article is actually about the methods, technology, and people that are working to show the world what the real conditions are like inside North Korea. There are a shocking number of people in the world that believe NK's official statements and state guided tours of carefully chosen locations. They see pictures of a somewhat backward but otherwise prosperous city, but only because the city in it's entirety has been build, maintained and even populated to create the illusion of prosperity when the rare foreigner comes to visit.
The reality is brutal; people starving, people murdered in the name of the government, people kidnapped and forced into slavery for some imagined offense. Without the people working to get the truth out there would only be the official news leaving the country, that's why the people who take these huge risks are so important to everyone in NK.
Still, if the article is factually accurate with the information they give I wouldn't want to be the guy. They've got pictures from 3 different locations that the guy has been including pictures of people he's been in contact with. Now it seems that the pictures are careful to avoid landmarks and identifying features but a good, well equipped intelligence service would probably be able to identify him just based on the pictures and his stated occupation. North Korea's internal intelligence certainly has the practice, whether they have the data and equipment needed to do the analysis I don't know.
See this picture of a fellow time traveler for another example. Modern people see a guy with a printed T-Shirt, modern sunglasses, and an SLR camera. However, the printed T could just as easily be a sweater with a college logo on it, the 'modern' sunglasses were in fact available in 1940, and the SLR camera is almost definitely a Kodak model that would have been old even at the time the picture was taken.
Used unqualified, 'Automatic' means self-loading, not necessarily fully-automatic, rapid firing.
Except there are a number of 'semi-automatic' rifles that can be converted to full auto in about 30s with a metal file.
I think they're saying that this is someone's hardware hack, rather than a faked up render. Something about it just doesn't feel like a finished professional grade product, but I guess that's just a gut feeling. If they could get this thing to be a decent Android phone and were able to give it the ability to play PSP games, I think they would have a marketable device. I know there's a bunch of PSP games that I would be interested in but I have no desire for a dedicated handheld gaming device.