Very few people today have this sort of mindset. I recall reading about how GPS had become so reliable and they were looking to disable the precursor system used for naval navigation. What if the GPS unit craps out? What about the satellite? Or weather interference?
(Ah, you know what, that was LORAN actually. I knew the name in your post looked familiar. d: )
I wonder, could you place a frame of infrared lights around a license plate? It'd just look like glass beads or some other sort of decoration to the naked eye but would probably blind out cameras trying to get a read on the plate. It'd be about as close to cloak as we can expect to get cheaply.
The mistake you make is thinking that such an intelligent idea would be used by a group of people who think that holding a handgun sideways is a good thing.
Universities these days just worry about publishing and other things that get them grants, but don't care too much about the students, especially the undergrads, which is all the degree most of them are going to get...
Hint hint, it's because publishing gets grants. Grants get accolades. Accolades bring in donators. Donators + Grants = $$$$. How many universities actually care about teaching their students and how many care about meeting the bare minimum requirements in order to keep the gravy train rolling?/p.
But which is more productive - writing up "this failed"
Writing up "this failed" is absolutely just as (if not more) productive. Too many published papers are "this works" and not "this didn't work". A huge part of science, mathematics, etc. is failing and then explaining how and why you failed.
What's the worst that can happen? "Oh noes, Professor Straya tried a completely logical methodology but it didn't work out?" The only fear is to be exposed as incompetent (contaminated experiment, bad methodology, etc.) and that's a good thing as well.
My brain couldn't come up with the proper term for the cables. I was wondering more about the method of deployment for the cable than anything else. I imagine that they would be composed of some super material such as carbon nanotubes or the like.
No, I don't think drones will work very well in space, unless you invent some sort of FTL communication system.
Who says you have to control them in real-time? Treat them more like really, really smart bombs. Fire them off and they swarm and attack an enemy ship. The only signals you'd need to worry about are "recall" and "cease fire".
Okay, let me posit a situation using the Standard Gundam Thesis of "United Army of People from Earth" and "United Army of People Living in Colonies".
There is a very large space station (colony) sitting at Lagrange 1. We'll call that C. Earth will be called E. Earth and the Colony have two spaceships duking it out, labelled as Es and Cs respectively. Now look at this helpful ASCII diagram:
C . . . Es . . . Cs . . . E
The Earth ship is in-between the Colony ship and their colony, and the Colony ship is in-between the Earth ship and our favorite little blue marble. If either side fires a railgun, tactical nuke, etc. then there is the very real chance of it missing and impacting the thing they really care about behind the enemy ship.
Are you so sure that they would still fire flak, railguns, missiles, lasers, etc. indiscriminately?
That's because while it's perfectly natural for animals to kill and eat other animals (including for humans to do it), the activists believe that unlike other carnivorous animals we have a choice.
On the sliding scale of "vegetarian" to "meat eater", I'm definitely way into "cook me up a 16 oz. steak" territory, but I'm pretty sure that very, very few people actually need to eat meat (if any). We do have a choice.
"The girl says 'Oh uh-uh, wait a minute! Wait a minute! Just because I'm dressed this way does not make me a whore!' Which is true. Gentlemen, that is true. Just because they dress a certain way doesn't mean they are a certain way. Don't ever forget it. But ladies, you must understand that is fucking confusing. It just is. Now that would be like me, Dave Chappelle, the comedian, walking down the street in a cop uniform. Somebody might run up on me, saying, 'Oh, thank god. Officer, help us! Come on! They're over here. Help us!' - 'Oh-hoh! Just because I'm dressed this way does not make me a police officer!' See what I mean? All right, ladies, fine. You are not a whore. But you are wearing a whore's uniform." -Dave Chappelle
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Very few people today have this sort of mindset. I recall reading about how GPS had become so reliable and they were looking to disable the precursor system used for naval navigation. What if the GPS unit craps out? What about the satellite? Or weather interference?
(Ah, you know what, that was LORAN actually. I knew the name in your post looked familiar. d: )
I wonder, could you place a frame of infrared lights around a license plate? It'd just look like glass beads or some other sort of decoration to the naked eye but would probably blind out cameras trying to get a read on the plate. It'd be about as close to cloak as we can expect to get cheaply.
The mistake you make is thinking that such an intelligent idea would be used by a group of people who think that holding a handgun sideways is a good thing.
Yeah, that's almost as insane as having a national power grid that has unpatched Windows XP PCs connected live to the Internet! It'd never happen.
Universities these days just worry about publishing and other things that get them grants, but don't care too much about the students, especially the undergrads, which is all the degree most of them are going to get...
Hint hint, it's because publishing gets grants. Grants get accolades. Accolades bring in donators. Donators + Grants = $$$$. How many universities actually care about teaching their students and how many care about meeting the bare minimum requirements in order to keep the gravy train rolling?/p.
But which is more productive - writing up "this failed"
Writing up "this failed" is absolutely just as (if not more) productive. Too many published papers are "this works" and not "this didn't work". A huge part of science, mathematics, etc. is failing and then explaining how and why you failed.
What's the worst that can happen? "Oh noes, Professor Straya tried a completely logical methodology but it didn't work out?" The only fear is to be exposed as incompetent (contaminated experiment, bad methodology, etc.) and that's a good thing as well.
My brain couldn't come up with the proper term for the cables. I was wondering more about the method of deployment for the cable than anything else. I imagine that they would be composed of some super material such as carbon nanotubes or the like.
The Google protects.
As long as the enemies of The Google still draw breath, there can be no peace.
What I wonder is how they would get the cable up there.
I mean, is this gonna be like running wire? Just attach it to a rocket pulling a giant steel string up into orbit?
They were gonna fix the roads up, too, but they they got hiiiiiigh. (Laaaaaa dah dah).
It can't detect anything smaller than 2".
Yes, but knowing our government they'd buy them all from Belkin. Then we'd still have the iconic imagery of a trail of flame following the rocket up.
Ah HA! What if they go with a hardware dongle and they ship said dongles using a method that takes longer than a week to get there?
I know you're joking, but you could just emulate a USB stick with what amounts to an .iso of the dongle.
P.S., am I the only one who is uncomfortable with the term "dongle"?
you could instead construct a different binary for each customer when they download it
Isn't that basically the same thing as a serial key? You know, those things that crackers/hackers always reverse-engineer and make generators for?
It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. -Robert Fulghum
No, I don't think drones will work very well in space, unless you invent some sort of FTL communication system.
Who says you have to control them in real-time? Treat them more like really, really smart bombs. Fire them off and they swarm and attack an enemy ship. The only signals you'd need to worry about are "recall" and "cease fire".
Yeah, pretty much that.
Okay, let me posit a situation using the Standard Gundam Thesis of "United Army of People from Earth" and "United Army of People Living in Colonies".
There is a very large space station (colony) sitting at Lagrange 1. We'll call that C. Earth will be called E. Earth and the Colony have two spaceships duking it out, labelled as Es and Cs respectively. Now look at this helpful ASCII diagram:
C . . . Es . . . Cs . . . E
The Earth ship is in-between the Colony ship and their colony, and the Colony ship is in-between the Earth ship and our favorite little blue marble. If either side fires a railgun, tactical nuke, etc. then there is the very real chance of it missing and impacting the thing they really care about behind the enemy ship.
Are you so sure that they would still fire flak, railguns, missiles, lasers, etc. indiscriminately?
It'd be more money than most companies have before it even got halfway to that point.
How about we end the ridiculous schemes and just get copyright knocked down to 1 year after public release?
you have virtually no recourse.
Yes you do. It's called "Get them the hell out of public school and into a private one".
Of course he is doing something illegal. We all are. If you think that you are not, you probably haven't considered your actions very carefully.
Like hell I am! I follow every law to the letter, even the ones that contradict each other! I learned how to do that in Sunday School.
That's because while it's perfectly natural for animals to kill and eat other animals (including for humans to do it), the activists believe that unlike other carnivorous animals we have a choice.
On the sliding scale of "vegetarian" to "meat eater", I'm definitely way into "cook me up a 16 oz. steak" territory, but I'm pretty sure that very, very few people actually need to eat meat (if any). We do have a choice.
And if I dress like a hawk and eat the pigeon sitting on a tree?
Then I'd hope to whatever deity you may or may not believe in that this one doesn't find you.
"The girl says 'Oh uh-uh, wait a minute! Wait a minute! Just because I'm dressed this way does not make me a whore!' Which is true. Gentlemen, that is true. Just because they dress a certain way doesn't mean they are a certain way. Don't ever forget it. But ladies, you must understand that is fucking confusing. It just is. Now that would be like me, Dave Chappelle, the comedian, walking down the street in a cop uniform. Somebody might run up on me, saying, 'Oh, thank god. Officer, help us! Come on! They're over here. Help us!' - 'Oh-hoh! Just because I'm dressed this way does not make me a police officer!' See what I mean? All right, ladies, fine. You are not a whore. But you are wearing a whore's uniform." -Dave Chappelle
Maybe they can make it a condition of your job to join, but can they really make you use it?
"We feel you're not really 'fitting in' with the corporate culture, so we're unfortunately going to have to let you go. Security will escort you out."