IIRC Americans are yet to hear about this wondrous thing invented by a German a while ago and perfected by French, German and Japanese (in that particular order).
It is called diesel. It can run on nearly any sh**t starting from use oil from McDonalds and finishing with low grade heating oil and jet fuel. Including jatropha oil.
One thing it cannot run on is ethanol. So the corn farmers in the USA are safe unless the USA market diseasel car engine share start approaching that in other countries. AFAIK it is 70%+ in France and 40-50% in the rest of EU.
This means that it should be FCC decertified right here, right now. This device cannot go through the door of an aeroplane per current regulations anywhere in the world.
Are these regulations relevant, correct or not is not relevant. They are there and must be followed until changed.
The owner instead of training the parrot to be a dumb pet treated the bird using common approaches for children (especially ones with learning disabilities) with an amazing result. The parrot could talk and reason up to a level of roughly 3-3.5 year old. I have seen the bird on a BBC documentary (PBS originally) and if this is the same bird I remember that was totally nuts. I could not believe what I see and what I hear. It was surreal. This is news. Sad unfortunately.
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Independent media has always been an oxymoron. End of the day someone pays for the cheese.
Aaaa... The good old 00, FF, AA, 55, 5A, A5, 00. This is what memory tests used to do in the days where the memory tech implied possible interference between adjacent bits. I am not sure if this is of any particular relevance to modern hard disk tech though...
Wanna try to picket a UK naval base and not let the whole fleet group out to go and kick some Iraqis for a week? Want to stand in the way of a frigate coming out of harbour?
Wanna run the gauntlet of Japanese whaling boats and stand between them and a whale? Each harpoon has at least one pound of TNT in it by the way. Granted, it is not a cannon shell, but it can do some hefty damage...
Wanna stand in the way of French towboats towing an asbestous ladden ship to India for disassembly? We all very well know how much they value protestors life...
1. Who won for Bush and Co the Y2K election? Who mobilised a certain part of the American population to vote for the righteous man and who taught them who is the righteous man this time? 2. Who is one of the major supporters of Mr Thompson?
Probably. Actually it may be either bad science or bad journalism.
AFAIK the annoyance no 1 contaminant in nuclear waste is radiactive Rutenium. Whatever you do it always ends up in both your "pure" fraction and your "waste" in significant quantities and has a spectrum of isotopes which while not very long lived, have a halftime long enough just to be a major annoyance. So if someone in the arctic has discovered something that absorbs it in quantity and tried to explain his discovery to a Russian journalist over one of those standard "beyond the arctic circle" cocktails known as "Vupej, poliarnikom budesh" the resulting article on the morning after would have been something like this.
So it may be not the bullshit detector going off the scale. It may be the alcohol one when applied to an illiterate journalist.
A Government agency of a country whose main opponent is heavily dependant on the Internet finds the owner of the botnet and put a nice simlpe and utterly conventional 9mm gun to his head to surrender the keys to it.
A day later it uses this newly attained power to wipe out its adversary off the Internet map. While some internal company communication still occurs communication between companies which is mostly done over the Internet dies instantly. Stock market goes into a tailspin and the economy of the victim collapses into deep recession.
Considering the level of dependence USA and most NATO countries have on the Internet for day-to-day operation of their business infrastructure this plot is not far off in the future.
Well, they didn't test it against WebKit/Safari/Konq, which blazes through Javascript tests
It may blaze through tests, but in real life Konq is considerably slower than Firefox. I have to deal with a number of javascript ladden juggernauts like the ex-PeopleSoft eBusieness suite on a daily basis and konq is visibly much slower than Firefox.
No need for that in particular. A well designed DRM can be completely open from the ground up, because it is nothing but a form of well designed crypto.
For example - if the video is encrypted using a key which has been negotiated using publick key cryptography vs the card key and the final decryption is on the card there is very little you can do. In fact if it is designed correctly there is nothing you can do. You can watch the video stream past your very eyes, have the source to all components and not be able to get it.
Err... Sorry mate, but your claims do not compute.
For the reference all of our current physical concepts and mathematical derivations that lead to them make some sense only within the concepts of continuity and discreetness as defined in Aristotelian Philosophy and its descendants
They for example do not make any effing sense if we try to transplant them onto Xenon grounds.
Without these fundamental concepts modern physics (and mathematics) go straight out of the window in its entirety.
So philosophy first. Otherwise you do not have fundamental concepts like continuity, discreetness, etc. Math follows. Physics is the Math rightful bitch. Chemistry, Biology, Neurology, Psychology, Sociology and Economics form the rest of the pecking order.
I hate to break your illusions, but a significant portion of the so called physics "laws" are actually mathematical derivations from abstract non-Law concepts and/or results of logical and philosophical "mental experiments".
Just one example: Ideal gas laws are surprise, surprise a derivation from the Shroedinger equation for a black box problem. AFAIK the Shroedinger equation is not a law. It is a result of a mental experiment construct. By the way you can also derive a significant portion of the so called laws of thermodynamics from there.
Plenty of others.
So in reality the chain is probably: philosophy, math, physics, chemistry and biology as the bottom feeder.
Disclaimer - as a person who abandoned a nearly finished degree in mol biol and has a degree in Physical Chemistry and Theoretical Physics I am probably severely biased.
I am aware that the warhead would have most likely failed to arm. In fact it should fail to arm without a code. I do not know to what extent this would have prevented firing the missile and spilling a significant quantity of plutonium around whatever it has hit. Details like this and the actual level of integration between the missile avionics and the warhead are most likely classified.
Similarly, I do not know if you can simply dump it either if it refuses to fire. The latter AFAIK is standard practice - if something has refused to work properly unless you have a very good reason you do not try to land with it.
You have no idea how close you are from the truth. And the truth is that cold war is back with a vengeance.
Russians have dusted off their Bears and Backfires and are sending them on patrol loaded with cruise missiles, so does the USA. As it is in these cases it is an open question who started first. The Russians are saying the that the Americans did, the Americans are saying that the Russians did it.
Anyway, it is all irrelevant now as both sides are happily dusting off their toys to show them off. As a result nukes that have stayed in storage for the last 17+ years are now out and about being loaded and unloaded on patrol bombers. This is all done by staff that has done this only as a training exercise and has never had to do it for real. It was only a matter of time until they were loaded on the wrong bomber which is most likely what happened here. Thanks god the bomber in question did not do any test firing.
UK clearly keeps more. It keeps enough to perform parenthood analysis and fuzzy matching which gives the probability that you are a relative of someone who has committed the crime from where the evidence originates. In order to have that capability they should AFAIK have at least a 2000+ marker fingerprint if not more. They are also very proudly trumpeting about this capability.
This level of detail is enough to get sufficient initial correlation to a blood group and immunotype to chose a shortlist of victims for an "unfortunate" accident so someone can get a suitable transplant. It is also enough for a GATTACA society.
It is only a matter of time until more people notice that there are alternatives like Madrid-Barajas, Paris-CDG, Amsterdam-Schiphol and quite a few others. Every single one of them is so much more comfortable and better organised than Heathrow it is simply unreal. Prices are comparable if not lower. It may be slower by half an hour to an hour, but this is easily compensated by the considerably quicker security and customs.
The only reason to fly through Heathrow is to fly to the UK. Flying through Heathrow for USA-EU or USA-elsewhere transit is outright stupid. Plenty of better choices out there.
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If the OFF button does not turn the radio off by default - to hell yes.
It does not actually.
IIRC Americans are yet to hear about this wondrous thing invented by a German a while ago and perfected by French, German and Japanese (in that particular order).
It is called diesel. It can run on nearly any sh**t starting from use oil from McDonalds and finishing with low grade heating oil and jet fuel. Including jatropha oil.
One thing it cannot run on is ethanol. So the corn farmers in the USA are safe unless the USA market diseasel car engine share start approaching that in other countries. AFAIK it is 70%+ in France and 40-50% in the rest of EU.
Screw the hospital equipment.
This means that it should be FCC decertified right here, right now. This device cannot go through the door of an aeroplane per current regulations anywhere in the world.
Are these regulations relevant, correct or not is not relevant. They are there and must be followed until changed.
Actually on a second though the most fun is a post van.
The owner instead of training the parrot to be a dumb pet treated the bird using common approaches for children (especially ones with learning disabilities) with an amazing result. The parrot could talk and reason up to a level of roughly 3-3.5 year old.
I have seen the bird on a BBC documentary (PBS originally) and if this is the same bird I remember that was totally nuts. I could not believe what I see and what I hear. It was surreal.
This is news. Sad unfortunately.
Independent media has always been an oxymoron. End of the day someone pays for the cheese.
Er... Why?
Glue them to a bus. Best of all a long range one. Or a delivery van.
Aaaa...
The good old 00, FF, AA, 55, 5A, A5, 00. This is what memory tests used to do in the days where the memory tech implied possible interference between adjacent bits. I am not sure if this is of any particular relevance to modern hard disk tech though...
Really, Ever heard of Rainbow Warrior?
Really,
Wanna try to picket a UK naval base and not let the whole fleet group out to go and kick some Iraqis for a week? Want to stand in the way of a frigate coming out of harbour?
Wanna run the gauntlet of Japanese whaling boats and stand between them and a whale? Each harpoon has at least one pound of TNT in it by the way. Granted, it is not a cannon shell, but it can do some hefty damage...
Wanna stand in the way of French towboats towing an asbestous ladden ship to India for disassembly? We all very well know how much they value protestors life...
You are missing something.
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Ask yourself the following questions:
1. Who won for Bush and Co the Y2K election? Who mobilised a certain part of the American population to vote for the righteous man and who taught them who is the righteous man this time?
2. Who is one of the major supporters of Mr Thompson?
Add 2 and 2
Probably. Actually it may be either bad science or bad journalism.
AFAIK the annoyance no 1 contaminant in nuclear waste is radiactive Rutenium. Whatever you do it always ends up in both your "pure" fraction and your "waste" in significant quantities and has a spectrum of isotopes which while not very long lived, have a halftime long enough just to be a major annoyance. So if someone in the arctic has discovered something that absorbs it in quantity and tried to explain his discovery to a Russian journalist over one of those standard "beyond the arctic circle" cocktails known as "Vupej, poliarnikom budesh" the resulting article on the morning after would have been something like this.
So it may be not the bullshit detector going off the scale. It may be the alcohol one when applied to an illiterate journalist.
If he has used credentials stolen from P2P to access a company or a financial system this charge will very nicely stick.
Plot No 4.
A Government agency of a country whose main opponent is heavily dependant on the Internet finds the owner of the botnet and put a nice simlpe and utterly conventional 9mm gun to his head to surrender the keys to it.
A day later it uses this newly attained power to wipe out its adversary off the Internet map. While some internal company communication still occurs communication between companies which is mostly done over the Internet dies instantly. Stock market goes into a tailspin and the economy of the victim collapses into deep recession.
Considering the level of dependence USA and most NATO countries have on the Internet for day-to-day operation of their business infrastructure this plot is not far off in the future.
It may blaze through tests, but in real life Konq is considerably slower than Firefox. I have to deal with a number of javascript ladden juggernauts like the ex-PeopleSoft eBusieness suite on a daily basis and konq is visibly much slower than Firefox.
No need for that in particular. A well designed DRM can be completely open from the ground up, because it is nothing but a form of well designed crypto.
For example - if the video is encrypted using a key which has been negotiated using publick key cryptography vs the card key and the final decryption is on the card there is very little you can do. In fact if it is designed correctly there is nothing you can do. You can watch the video stream past your very eyes, have the source to all components and not be able to get it.
Err... Sorry mate, but your claims do not compute.
For the reference all of our current physical concepts and mathematical derivations that lead to them make some sense only within the concepts of continuity and discreetness as defined in Aristotelian Philosophy and its descendants
They for example do not make any effing sense if we try to transplant them onto Xenon grounds.
Without these fundamental concepts modern physics (and mathematics) go straight out of the window in its entirety.
So philosophy first. Otherwise you do not have fundamental concepts like continuity, discreetness, etc. Math follows. Physics is the Math rightful bitch. Chemistry, Biology, Neurology, Psychology, Sociology and Economics form the rest of the pecking order.
Really...
I hate to break your illusions, but a significant portion of the so called physics "laws" are actually mathematical derivations from abstract non-Law concepts and/or results of logical and philosophical "mental experiments".
Just one example: Ideal gas laws are surprise, surprise a derivation from the Shroedinger equation for a black box problem. AFAIK the Shroedinger equation is not a law. It is a result of a mental experiment construct. By the way you can also derive a significant portion of the so called laws of thermodynamics from there.
Plenty of others.
So in reality the chain is probably: philosophy, math, physics, chemistry and biology as the bottom feeder.
Disclaimer - as a person who abandoned a nearly finished degree in mol biol and has a degree in Physical Chemistry and Theoretical Physics I am probably severely biased.
Except, Physics is nothing but a certain application of Mathematics
Similarly, I do not know if you can simply dump it either if it refuses to fire. The latter AFAIK is standard practice - if something has refused to work properly unless you have a very good reason you do not try to land with it.
simple physics. And chemistry your honour, and chemistry.
You have no idea how close you are from the truth. And the truth is that cold war is back with a vengeance.
Russians have dusted off their Bears and Backfires and are sending them on patrol loaded with cruise missiles, so does the USA. As it is in these cases it is an open question who started first. The Russians are saying the that the Americans did, the Americans are saying that the Russians did it.
Anyway, it is all irrelevant now as both sides are happily dusting off their toys to show them off. As a result nukes that have stayed in storage for the last 17+ years are now out and about being loaded and unloaded on patrol bombers. This is all done by staff that has done this only as a training exercise and has never had to do it for real. It was only a matter of time until they were loaded on the wrong bomber which is most likely what happened here. Thanks god the bomber in question did not do any test firing.
Talking out of my arse... Sorry... 10 + gender using STR going up to 13 - 15 is what they currently use.
We are talking about UK, not USA, wake up please.
UK clearly keeps more. It keeps enough to perform parenthood analysis and fuzzy matching which gives the probability that you are a relative of someone who has committed the crime from where the evidence originates. In order to have that capability they should AFAIK have at least a 2000+ marker fingerprint if not more. They are also very proudly trumpeting about this capability.
This level of detail is enough to get sufficient initial correlation to a blood group and immunotype to chose a shortlist of victims for an "unfortunate" accident so someone can get a suitable transplant. It is also enough for a GATTACA society.
It will very quickly stop being a connecting hub.
It is only a matter of time until more people notice that there are alternatives like Madrid-Barajas, Paris-CDG, Amsterdam-Schiphol and quite a few others. Every single one of them is so much more comfortable and better organised than Heathrow it is simply unreal. Prices are comparable if not lower. It may be slower by half an hour to an hour, but this is easily compensated by the considerably quicker security and customs.
The only reason to fly through Heathrow is to fly to the UK. Flying through Heathrow for USA-EU or USA-elsewhere transit is outright stupid. Plenty of better choices out there.