I read a story about a military intelligence officer at the Pentagon who forged a security badge to test if anyone actually looked at them. He borrowed a Soviet KGB officer's uniform and had his picture taken wearing the uniform. He pasted the picture on the forged badge. He then wandered through the Pentagon wearing the forged badge. Nobody challenged him or took a second look at his badge.
Have you ever seen TEMPEST certified equipment? While the specifications are classified, a quick look at the hardware will tell you how serious they are about shielding everything that might be a source of radiation. That includes LCD displays, cables and anything that contains high-speed digital logic. See this page for some typical products.
TEMPEST attacks are not limited to "easy" targets like high-voltage CRTs. Anything that produces electromagnetic emanations is a potential target. That usually means that everything must be shielded, including all cables and power connections.
Are they going to be able to convince everyone to move to LA? For someone settled in San Francisco, picking up and moving to LA would be quite a shock.
Most of it I could accept as filmmaker's license, but the scene where a fault/crevasse chased and ate a train was too much for me. That's worse than that silly Jaws sequel where the shark travels around the world to exact its revenge on the Brody family.
Seems like more of a problem of the attitude towards technology of gyms and some of their customers. Camera phones are not going to go away. Video cameras are slowly becoming ubiquitous in many places. Image capturing devices are going to eventually become an unavoidable part of modern society. Just wait until people with poor vision routinely wear electronic vision correction/enhancement devices. Even people with normal vision may choose to wear devices that enhance their vision and provide visual interfaces to computer networks.
If you don't want your picture taken, you may have to wear burqa at all times.
Do any of the video chip manufacturers make free and complete documentation available for their GPUs? Everything that I have read in the past has said that they are encumbered with NDAs and claims of trade secrets. I'd prefer not to waste my time dealing with companies that treat their customers as potential enemies.
If it's like my cell phone, it's a crippled form of GPS. The phone can receive signals from the GPS constellation but it doesn't have the electronics required to decode and process them. Instead, the GPS data is relayed to the cellular company's cell site, which has the equipment needed to calculate your position.
The problem with the episodes shown on TV is that they are usually edited to stuff in more commercials. Like commercial radio, the number of minutes devoted to advertising in an hour of TV has slowly grown over the years. That means that they have to hack out scenes to fit in the additional commercials.
I thought the usual rule in science was, if your theory conflicts with your observations, there is something wrong with your theory. Maybe there is no "missing matter", just an incomplete or defective theory of gravity.
The drug companies would not sell as much if they didn't advertise so much. They would still have to cover the fixed costs of drug development and testing. Advertising is a necessary cost of selling drugs, or anything else, to a mass market.
For systems that don't have a console, and even for those that do, a parallel port connected to a set of LEDs can be very useful. you can run the system at full speed and monitor important events on the LEDs.
Scientists don't make grandiose claims before they've even left to do their investigation.
I assume you've never read a grant proposal?
Scientists are just as human as the rest of us mere mortals. Scientists doing public fundraising for expeditions have been known to hype their subject of interest.
OTOH, one can't convert thermal energy back into microwaves, so the heat must get out of the food by thermal conduction, which isn't very quick in the usual food substances.
Everything with a temperature above absolute zero emits black body radiation, which includes microwaves. See Planck's law of black body radiation.
I've been told by people who worked on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), that the Soviets viewed it as a major opportunity for industrial espionage under the cover of "international cooperation". ASTP was arguably a project among equals in the space race. The Chinese have a long way to go before they reach that point. ESA had better be careful that they don't get played by the Chinese.
Police officers only check licence plate numbers if they have a reason to suspect something is wrong
That isn't true in many places. When you have police cars with two officers and a mobile data terminal, it's common for the non-driver officer to type in the plate numbers of other cars on the mobile data terminal. The mobile data terminal allows them to run many plates without tying up the radio channel or the people at the communications center. Think of it as the police version of playing instant lottery.
There may not be an IP address associated with "xxx.stuff.com". The system in question may not even use TCP/IP, although that is becoming more of a rarity. Mail can be transported over networks other than ones based on TCP/IP.
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They've been doing that since the 1950s, for toys and other products marketed to children.
What I like are their sections on how to write "requests for bids", so that only a particular TI calculator meets the specifications. At least in the federal government, you are not supposed to do that, or admit to doing it.
Notice the gaping loopholes. It also doesn't protect you from private entities that want your SSN as a condition of doing business with them, such as landlords, employers, banks, etc.
I thought that this current was naturally variable, it runs for a long period of time, shuts down for a long period of time, and restarts when the conditions are right. I wish I could remember where I read that so I could cite it. If true, the current will eventually shut down, regardless of Man's influence on the climate of Earth.
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I read a story about a military intelligence officer at the Pentagon who forged a security badge to test if anyone actually looked at them. He borrowed a Soviet KGB officer's uniform and had his picture taken wearing the uniform. He pasted the picture on the forged badge. He then wandered through the Pentagon wearing the forged badge. Nobody challenged him or took a second look at his badge.
Have you ever seen TEMPEST certified equipment? While the specifications are classified, a quick look at the hardware will tell you how serious they are about shielding everything that might be a source of radiation. That includes LCD displays, cables and anything that contains high-speed digital logic. See this page for some typical products.
To be pedantic, the Earth is an oblate spheroid, not a sphere. This becomes important when you use things like GPS.
TEMPEST attacks are not limited to "easy" targets like high-voltage CRTs. Anything that produces electromagnetic emanations is a potential target. That usually means that everything must be shielded, including all cables and power connections.
Are they going to be able to convince everyone to move to LA? For someone settled in San Francisco, picking up and moving to LA would be quite a shock.
Most of it I could accept as filmmaker's license, but the scene where a fault/crevasse chased and ate a train was too much for me. That's worse than that silly Jaws sequel where the shark travels around the world to exact its revenge on the Brody family.
Seems like more of a problem of the attitude towards technology of gyms and some of their customers. Camera phones are not going to go away. Video cameras are slowly becoming ubiquitous in many places. Image capturing devices are going to eventually become an unavoidable part of modern society. Just wait until people with poor vision routinely wear electronic vision correction/enhancement devices. Even people with normal vision may choose to wear devices that enhance their vision and provide visual interfaces to computer networks. If you don't want your picture taken, you may have to wear burqa at all times.
Do any of the video chip manufacturers make free and complete documentation available for their GPUs? Everything that I have read in the past has said that they are encumbered with NDAs and claims of trade secrets. I'd prefer not to waste my time dealing with companies that treat their customers as potential enemies.
Cool, you could make a nuclear hand grenade. There would be a slight problem with employing it. It would also kill the person who threw the grenade.
See here, it was one of the few PCs that used the 80186.
If it's like my cell phone, it's a crippled form of GPS. The phone can receive signals from the GPS constellation but it doesn't have the electronics required to decode and process them. Instead, the GPS data is relayed to the cellular company's cell site, which has the equipment needed to calculate your position.
The problem with the episodes shown on TV is that they are usually edited to stuff in more commercials. Like commercial radio, the number of minutes devoted to advertising in an hour of TV has slowly grown over the years. That means that they have to hack out scenes to fit in the additional commercials.
I thought the usual rule in science was, if your theory conflicts with your observations, there is something wrong with your theory. Maybe there is no "missing matter", just an incomplete or defective theory of gravity.
The drug companies would not sell as much if they didn't advertise so much. They would still have to cover the fixed costs of drug development and testing. Advertising is a necessary cost of selling drugs, or anything else, to a mass market.
If you assume that the requirements are correct and that there are no bugs in the compiler, libraries and hardware.
For systems that don't have a console, and even for those that do, a parallel port connected to a set of LEDs can be very useful. you can run the system at full speed and monitor important events on the LEDs.
I assume you've never read a grant proposal?
Scientists are just as human as the rest of us mere mortals. Scientists doing public fundraising for expeditions have been known to hype their subject of interest.
Tritium isn't illegal to use, it's just regulated. There are many commercial products that use tritium. I've owned a few.
Everything with a temperature above absolute zero emits black body radiation, which includes microwaves. See Planck's law of black body radiation.
I've been told by people who worked on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), that the Soviets viewed it as a major opportunity for industrial espionage under the cover of "international cooperation". ASTP was arguably a project among equals in the space race. The Chinese have a long way to go before they reach that point. ESA had better be careful that they don't get played by the Chinese.
That isn't true in many places. When you have police cars with two officers and a mobile data terminal, it's common for the non-driver officer to type in the plate numbers of other cars on the mobile data terminal. The mobile data terminal allows them to run many plates without tying up the radio channel or the people at the communications center. Think of it as the police version of playing instant lottery.
There may not be an IP address associated with "xxx.stuff.com". The system in question may not even use TCP/IP, although that is becoming more of a rarity. Mail can be transported over networks other than ones based on TCP/IP.
What I like are their sections on how to write "requests for bids", so that only a particular TI calculator meets the specifications. At least in the federal government, you are not supposed to do that, or admit to doing it.
Notice the gaping loopholes. It also doesn't protect you from private entities that want your SSN as a condition of doing business with them, such as landlords, employers, banks, etc.
I thought that this current was naturally variable, it runs for a long period of time, shuts down for a long period of time, and restarts when the conditions are right. I wish I could remember where I read that so I could cite it. If true, the current will eventually shut down, regardless of Man's influence on the climate of Earth.