By the way, does anyone know what happened to "common carrier" status for ISPs? I do recall they were fighting for that. Installing this kind of sniffer systems completely goes against such a possible status.
Most ISPs wouldn't want it. Common carriers have to offer service to anyone who can pay for it. They can't pick and choose customers, or offer special rates to favored customers. Their rates are often regulated by the state or the federal government.
Firstly, AES-256 smacks of a marketing gimmick. AES-128 is perfectly
sufficient for anything that anyone wishes to protect; nobody has ever
discovered a weakness in AES-128 that would be cause for
concern. Using AES-256 bloats the key size while providing absolutely
no additional protection above and beyond what we already get from
AES-128. Whenever I hear of a crypto product advertising AES-256, I am
suspicious that the company is more concerned with marketing than it
is with actually providing good level-headed security.
The NSA disagrees with you. They require AES-256 for the protection of TS (Top Secret) data. AES-128 is only authorized for the protection of data classified as Secret and below.
Customs officers do not need warrants, probable cause, reasonable suspicion or any of that crap. This is settled law and practice. If you went before the Supreme Court, they would laugh at you. It isn't any different in other countries. I've seen people get the contents of their luggage dumped on the floor and examined with a fine-toothed comb, just because the customs officer didn't like the way they looked.
I thought it was common knowledge. If you limit your education to what is taught in the classroom, you will never be a well-educated person. The detonation of the Mike device was an important point in the cold war and the arms race between the USA and USSR. The "invention" of the bikini was a notable point in the cultural history of the West during the 1950s.
Any patents held by RCA would have expired many decades ago. They invented the connector in the 1930s.
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It was the first Ariane V launch. They had reused software from an earlier model of the Ariane without properly testing it in its new environment. Think of it this way, you take the speedometer module from your Trabant and install it in a Ferrari. The first time that you exceed 100 km/h, the speedometer module fails with an overflow error because the type for speed was defined as 0..100. The problem was that Ariane's management was cutting corners on requirements analysis and testing. The software performed as designed, it just wasn't designed for the Ariane V.
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One of the advantages of a language like Ada is that more problems can be detected at compile time and corrected at low cost, as opposed to languages like C that assume that you know what you're doing and are optimized for speed. Ada also has run-time checks that can catch many problems. It's usually more efficient for the project to do the work up-front, rather than to hack together something and debug it.
I was flipping through the channels on my TV and caught the tail-end of a German version that was filmed during World War II. It wasn't that bad, except for the clumsy bits of propaganda that had been added to the story.
"Getting there faster" is a legitimate issue for international flights. I find flying to be stressful, and the thought of being stuck on an airplane for 12+ hours makes me cringe. It takes nearly 24 hours to fly to Australia from the USA.
I'd like to see some robotic spiders, like in the movie "Runaway" with Tom Selleck. How small can you make a power source that would allow them to be useful? Batteries aren't very efficient for their mass and volume.
Not really. It depends on the material and shape. If you look at objects as oscillators. an important factor is the Q (quality factor). That determines how quickly the object loses energy when excited at its resonant frequency. A bell cast from brass has a high Q when compared to a bell made from fiberglass. You need a high Q to accumulate and store energy. An object with a low Q just quickly dissipates the energy as heat.
RTFA. There is an unrelated legal dispute between the two companies and Boeing wanted to tie the licensing of the patent to a settlement of that dispute.
I've always wondered how much internal documentation Microsoft has generated for their products. Things like formal specifications, as opposed to "look at the source code".
That isn't the FCC's job. The FAA certifies the hardware, including radios, used on an aircraft. The FCC's standards for consumer electronic equipment are not very stringent. They also lack the money and people needed to take an aggressive approach to enforcement.
Not one plane has complained about avionic radio interference. With tens of thousands of people in the air every day, and at least one person on every flight forgetting to turn it off (or leaving it on on purpose), we'd have heard about an issue.
You aren't looking very hard. I've read reports of that sort of incident in the
Aviation Safety Reporting System. They aren't common, but they do happen. As a general rule, passenger radios (transmitters and receivers) should be turned off during flight, especially during takeoffs and landings. FM broadcast band radios are well known for their potential to cause interference via local oscillator radiation.
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The NSA disagrees with you. They require AES-256 for the protection of TS (Top Secret) data. AES-128 is only authorized for the protection of data classified as Secret and below.
Customs officers do not need warrants, probable cause, reasonable suspicion or any of that crap. This is settled law and practice. If you went before the Supreme Court, they would laugh at you. It isn't any different in other countries. I've seen people get the contents of their luggage dumped on the floor and examined with a fine-toothed comb, just because the customs officer didn't like the way they looked.
The next time you're in Saudi Arabia, visit the thriving Jewish community in Medina.
I'd like to see an aquarium on a shake table, with fish.
The USAF developed special goggles to protect pilots from being blinded by the flash of nuclear weapons.
I'd take that report with a grain of salt. The first impulse of many bureaucracies is to blame all problems on the flight crew.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike
Any patents held by RCA would have expired many decades ago. They invented the connector in the 1930s.
It was the first Ariane V launch. They had reused software from an earlier model of the Ariane without properly testing it in its new environment. Think of it this way, you take the speedometer module from your Trabant and install it in a Ferrari. The first time that you exceed 100 km/h, the speedometer module fails with an overflow error because the type for speed was defined as 0..100. The problem was that Ariane's management was cutting corners on requirements analysis and testing. The software performed as designed, it just wasn't designed for the Ariane V.
One of the advantages of a language like Ada is that more problems can be detected at compile time and corrected at low cost, as opposed to languages like C that assume that you know what you're doing and are optimized for speed. Ada also has run-time checks that can catch many problems. It's usually more efficient for the project to do the work up-front, rather than to hack together something and debug it.
I was flipping through the channels on my TV and caught the tail-end of a German version that was filmed during World War II. It wasn't that bad, except for the clumsy bits of propaganda that had been added to the story.
I believe there was no requirement to even have a radio, let alone a 24-hour watch on the distress frequency. That changed after the Titanic sunk.
"Getting there faster" is a legitimate issue for international flights. I find flying to be stressful, and the thought of being stuck on an airplane for 12+ hours makes me cringe. It takes nearly 24 hours to fly to Australia from the USA.
I'd like to see some robotic spiders, like in the movie "Runaway" with Tom Selleck. How small can you make a power source that would allow them to be useful? Batteries aren't very efficient for their mass and volume.
Your knowledge is deficient. Congress provided the FCC with that authority when they enacted the All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962.
Not really. It depends on the material and shape. If you look at objects as oscillators. an important factor is the Q (quality factor). That determines how quickly the object loses energy when excited at its resonant frequency. A bell cast from brass has a high Q when compared to a bell made from fiberglass. You need a high Q to accumulate and store energy. An object with a low Q just quickly dissipates the energy as heat.
RTFA. There is an unrelated legal dispute between the two companies and Boeing wanted to tie the licensing of the patent to a settlement of that dispute.
NASA/CR-2001-210866, Personal Electronic Devices and Their Interference With Aircraft Systems
I've always wondered how much internal documentation Microsoft has generated for their products. Things like formal specifications, as opposed to "look at the source code".
That isn't the FCC's job. The FAA certifies the hardware, including radios, used on an aircraft. The FCC's standards for consumer electronic equipment are not very stringent. They also lack the money and people needed to take an aggressive approach to enforcement.
You aren't looking very hard. I've read reports of that sort of incident in the Aviation Safety Reporting System. They aren't common, but they do happen. As a general rule, passenger radios (transmitters and receivers) should be turned off during flight, especially during takeoffs and landings. FM broadcast band radios are well known for their potential to cause interference via local oscillator radiation.
They go nicely with cold pitcher of lager. I want my baby back ribs!
It seems like every few years someone releases another film in 3D, and they all suck.