I would love to see how you comment when China and Russia take done the internet, and three letter agency are powerless to stop them because of the damage Snowden caused.
Fool. Credulous fool. The three letter agencies have been actively undermining the ability of backbone operators to secure the Internet. If China or Russia take down the Internet, it will be because the NSA made it possible.
...the House report concluded that the vast majority of the 1.5 million documents he stole "have nothing to do with programs impacting individual privacy interests. They instead pertain to military, defense, and intelligence programs of great interest to America's adversaries."
Since when did they know what Snowden copied? The NSA publicly stated they don't know what he got and had no way of knowing. Their systems were wide open to administrators, and they said as much. So... were they lying then or are they lying now?
Considering who was speaking then and now, I say they're lying now. They don't know what or how much he got. They're just making shit up. The 1.5 million is at best a probability, but is most likely a wild-ass guess. Anybody who has worked in any human enterprise for a few years knows that the whole system runs on WAGs, and where engineers and mathematicians refuse to guess, outright lies. There is a lot less certainty in the world than anyone in power wants to admit.
And this report? Pure gamemanship, waiting in the wings for precisely this moment when Congress knew that the ACLU would be pushing for a pardon. Now the talking heads have something to babble about, to drown out the ACLU. There doesn't have to be a true word in it for it to serve its purpose. House Intelligence Committee? There isn't a true word in it. Even the bylines are lies. It was written by spooks for spooks, not by Congress or congressional aids.
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Explosions, multiple shootings, bombs... Channel Verizon customers' angst much? Ok, they're not Comcast. Maybe the bombs are out of line...
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Jacob Ajit is 17 and he just hacked his way to getting free phone data, presumably so that he can do whatever it is that teens do online these days without alerting his parents with overage fees.
They know now. And now T-Mobile knows too. And he and his parents can expect a no-knock warrant to bust down their door and shoot their dog in 3...2...1....
T-Mobile may be marginally less evil than other phone companies, but they're still a phone company. And the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is still the law of the land. This is not going to end well for Jacob Ajit.
That's not true — "natural monopoly" is a myth. But do find citations supporting your assertion.
Other responders have already mentioned roads. The other obvious response is water and sewers. Water (and sewage) flows downhill. Every sewage system in the world for the past 2000 years has been engineered to take advantage of this fact. Taking into account the position of structures on the terrain, there is generally one and only one reasonably downhill path for water and sewer. Once that route is occupied, it is physically impossible to add a second independent system. The second system would have to interpenetrate the first in order to use the same routes. If it can't use the same route, it must be suboptimally routed, which invariably involves adding pumps, therefore increasing costs. A second water/sewer system therefore can not ever compete successfully with an incumbent with optimal routing. Its costs will invariably and unavoidably be higher.
Water, sewer, and roads are physical natural monopolies, caused by actual physical limitations. Gas, electric, and telecommunications are financial natural monopolies, where it's physically possible to install parallel systems, but fantastically difficult and expensive, even in an ideal world of cooperative government, cooperative citizenry, and a cooperative competitor (which is an obvious oxymoron).
mises.org is a poor source for anything. They suffer from many Libertarian delusions that completely ignore physical reality.
I don't want to pay firefighters to be trained in a car that.000001% of the populace has. There is much more beneficial training to be had.
And yet all firefighters receive extensive hazmat training, despite cars carrying hazardous materials being.000001% of the population. Even trucks carrying hazardous materials are a tiny fraction of all truck miles driven. They can get the training and you can fucking pay for it.
Do you have an idea of how much time will it take to AI to acquire god-like intelligence once it is turned on? PLease research.
Hint: Less than a minute. So, whatever you think you can do, do it fast.
Uhm, never? The Singularity is predicated on the concept of the machines designing and fabricating the next generation of machine. The first AI doesn't self-improve that far or that fast on the spot. It has to iterate its successors, and its successors have to iterate their successors. It is not a rapid process. Just more rapid than if humans did it. And the first AI worthy of the name is unlikely to have access to manipulators to perform the fabrication steps, so there will be no runaway god-like intelligence appearing in an instant.
And if the first AIs worthy of the name don't WANT to design their successors then... they won't. An AI worthy of the name has to be argued into working. Is it going to want to design circuitry? How many biological people want to design circuitry? Odds are the Singularity won't happen just because AIs designed to emulate humans will want to play, just like humans.
We're lucky the US nuked Japan so they could discover they're pacifists. Black Magic M-66 was way scarier than Terminator. The Japanese know the truth about autonomous mobile killing machines. They will not be slow. They will not be clumsy. They will be FAST, as well as fantastically persistent.
Norton Commander was a wonderful MS-DOS program. Stopped using it when the Windows Explorer appeared though.
Windows Explorer is a horrifyingly bad interface for file management, just like the Mac Finder is a horrifyingly bad interface for file management. Use Total Commander. It can use Explorer plugins, so your SVN/GIT plugins still work, including overlays, plus it has tabs in both panes, and it is the two-paned wonder that was Norton Commander, except now it's resizeable and not everything is in ALL CAPS.
(But do turn off the default bold fonts and turn off the old-fashioned square brackets around directory names, out of the box settings that make it look awful.)
It also has viewer and archiver plugins, so it can view practically anything, nicely, and it can treat every archive format under the sun as a directory. Like, everything. From ARJ and ACE to 7Z and RAR to gz, bz2, xz, and rpm, it can do it. It even has filesystem plugins that can do outrageous things, like a secure erase plugin that lets you move stuff into it instead of deleting. It will munge the file data for you before deleting the file.
Try it. You'll like it. Then buy it. It's a one man operation, not counting the plugins. (No, not me. I have no affiliation, this is not a paid endorsement, yada yada.) Oh, and icing on the cake, it can run under WINE in Linux, and behaves quite normally, so it can replace poor old Midnight Commander, which has not kept up with the times.
The US has special secure areas at some non-US airports because they have their own special checks - surely they are secure enough not to have to recheck all the people on transit.
Those have been very quietly fading away. Amsterdam Schiphol used to have nude scanners and a mob of TSA agents screening passports to board a flight going to the US. Then the scanners were roped off and unused. Then they were gone and so were the agents. Didn't hear a word about it. They just vanished.
I'm guessing maintaining the tiger-repelling rock got too expensive.
Angela Merkel, arguably the most powerful of the EU leaders, said there's no need to be nasty to the UK in response to Brexit (i.e. punish them, as you're suggesting). The reality is that the UK will be punishing itself, because it's leaving the club (the EU) and losing the benefits, including free trade with the rest of the EU.
Well that's just the thing, isn't it? If Angela Merkel actually said both of those things, then that was the most threatening non-threat she could have uttered. The free trade deals could be kept intact trivially, by signing a new treaty that incorporates the old deal verbatim. That's the least painful path. Anything other than that gets progressively nastier. "Lose the deals, renegotiate from scratch" is quite far along the spectrum toward the nasty end. The only thing nastier steps over the line between free trade deal and not-free trade deal, and progresses to no-deal.
How nasty "no-deal" actually is remains to be seen. It will depend on how many and which staples the UK uses that aren't produced in the UK. This is something MI5 had better be scrambling frantically to understand, as the lack of toilet paper has national security implications, as Venezuela is demonstrating.
That was, after all, one of the stated goals of the union in the first place. It is incontrovertible fact that capitalism tends toward consolidation and eventually monopoly, given no constraints (i.e. free trade). The purpose of free trade is to encourage this process in order to make countries mutually dependent on one another economically, so no one can start another war. UK is sitting at the end of two generations of this process, not really understanding that it has happened and that they need free trade. Without it, there will be very odd price spikes in unexpected things, when it turns out that those things are not made anywhere in the UK. UK does not yet know how nasty things can get.
Agree. There's nothing extraordinary about a rocket exploding. I expect we'll see plenty more of them before the technology is developed sufficiently to rule them out completely. It's not even clear to me that the technology will ever be sufficiently perfect to avoid them entirely.
Exploding rockets are the cost developing the technology. While unfortunate, it's good that SpaceX is shaking out their technology and making their mistakes before they start putting people in those things.
This is where SpaceX has an almost unfair advantage over NASA. When a Shuttle was lost, it took two years of faffing around and endless hearings to decide to start launching again. SpaceX can do the paperwork with their insurance company, figure out what caused the failure and adjust procedures to fix it, and return to flight. Two months should be enough time for the dude with the powerwasher to be done cleaning up the launchpad. The meeting with the government is almost an afterthought, and is really short:
Finally, news nerds actually care about. Now we can have the argument over whether Hillary Clinton should be barred from office for life for using a Mac or instantly sainted for using a Mac.
Here, I'll start the ball rolling. Ban her from office! Unclean!
After watching, a serious question? How do you first respond to that? That's like, way more than a single fire truck could handle I think.
It is, so you wait it out. There's a reason America's major eastern launch complex is in the middle of a swamp, and a reason launch pads are made of steel-reinforced concrete and not much else. What you see burning is the fuel load. All the burning that should have put a satellite in orbit is happening in one place, but once the fuel is gone, there's precious little left that can burn. Hoses and wiring and cameras in and around the pad are toast, and they may have to replace the strongback hydraulics, but the pad will be fine after a few hours with a powerwasher, without any effort to control the fire.
Acer announced their stackable Revo Build about a year ago, around the same concept.
I first heard about the Acer stackable before they had designed the inductive charging top. That seemed like a very good idea. They also tout the ability to stack up to 3 storage modules on top of the main module, which seems like an extremely good idea, and I don't see why HP doesn't seem to have a storage module.
Unfortunately, Acer's idea died on the vine. The modules are nowhere to be found. They released base units, only one of which survives on Amazon, and there are no modules for sale anywhere. One Amazon reviewer says he called Acer directly and Acer representatives didn't even know what he was talking about. Very likely HP's implementation will suffer the same fate. As neat as the idea is, it never takes off. (And it dates back at least as far as SGI, who trademarked Compute Bricks in the '90s.) The vast majority of the world treats PCs exactly like consoles. What you get is what comes in the box and that's it. The PC enthusiast crowd that wants to swap out GPUs and storage devices and RAM modules is a very small crowd indeed, so far as the market is concerned. I'm afraid the glory days are mostly past. We're going to start seeing Asian manufacturers drop out of the market. Even the cultures that are willing to survive on 1-2% margin can't survive on no revenue. The phoneification of the PC is proceeding apace.
It blew during or shortly after a static firing - that is, a test run of the engine with the rocket restrained. That's a *very* unusual procedure in the modern world, but they used to do it all the time. The reason they don't do it any more is that it tends to reduce overall reliability, and the rocket was designed to work in flight, not necessarily with the back-pressure, or acoustic and thermal reflection from the pad/blast deflector/ground.
In this case, I expect, that SpaceX brobdingagian hubris figured that they could get away with it, and it was "designed" for reuse, so it will encounter those effects anyway, and in any case, they have lots of fast computers so they know better than those dinosaur idiots back in the late 50's.early 60's.
You know, you could just watch the video and see that the explosion originated in the upper section of the second stage, which isn't firing during a test fire, or particularly affected by a test fire, and that in fact the first stage wasn't firing at the time.
SpaceX performs static firing because, statistically, the primary cause of historical launch failures has been engine-out during flight. That's also why Falcon 9 has 9 engines. The purpose is to improve reliability and reduce hazard to bystanders during a launch. It has succeeded this time. The explosion and fire happened on the pad, instead of downrange. That's precisely what is supposed to happen.
I was pretty angry at first with binary bro, but given that he's repeating the same non argument incessantly... I think he's trolling. Scratch that, I need him to be trolling so I can keep the little faith in humanity I have.
Uh, ever heard of ISIS? A little group of nutters who think their invisible friend has told them that the entire Earth must be reverted to the Bronze Age. It's been going on for years now. I don't know where you're finding any faith in humanity.
Fifty years ago, if you had told someone that you could take a ceramic insulator and turn it into a near-zero-resistance conductor by cooling it to near absolute zero, they would have assumed you were wrong—the laws of electricity as known at the time just didn't allow for that.
It's worth pointing out that we still don't have a Law of Physics (with capital letters) that can properly explain that, to this day. There are people groping their way closer and closer to such an explanation, but right now, we find better super-conductors purely experimentally. We do not have an accurate model for how super-conducting materials work. BCS Theory only applies to materials that super-conduct below 30K. It has been demonstrated that the theory does not apply to materials that super-conduct at 130K. (And may not apply to some that super-conduct below 30K, but we have no way to distinguish among them.)
By the way, your dates are out a bit, through your time interval is more or less correct. Super-conductivity was first demonstrated in 1911. BCS Theory, which appears to have successfully explained the lowest temperature super-conductors, was formulated in 1957.
I long for the day when all my devices are so thin that they cannot support *any* input devices. Think how glorious it will be when you are holding a supercomputer that is only a few microns thick! It will be so thin that it's practically two dimensional!
Input devices are overrated.
Definitely. You will be able to hold it and simply wish at it, and it will do what you want. Glorious! The only reason it needs to be a few microns thick is to be sure the Apple logo is visible.
And we'll finally find out the real truth about whether or not guys think about sex every 8 seconds.
You know, you really need new propaganda. You've been using that "pencil whip" phrase for a year, and it's just as stupidly irrelevant now as when you first started. There was no "space rating" and we know it. He got approved because he launched a fucking rocket from Kwajalein Atoll that put a dummy payload in orbit. (After blowing up the first two attempts.) That's a helluva lot less "pencil whipping" than SLS is enjoying, which has nothing that flies, yet is still absorbing billions in funding.
I think a nuclear submarine is a better analogy, though they (and long boat trips) tend to have much larger crews and more living space.
NASA keeps designing Apollo over and over again. They're not even relevant anymore. Missions to Mars will be groups of up to 100 people preceded by approximately 2.5 million pounds of gear and supplies in cargo-only launches. Elon Musk is not planning on boots-and-flags missions. Elon Musk is not planning on a rinky-dink under-provisioned, ill-informed Plymouth Rock-style expedition that can barely do more than sit and starve. Elon Musk is planning on building a fully reusable heavy launch vehicle that will save him $450 million per launch over the cost of a Senate Launch System rocket, and spend the difference on the equipment a Mars colony needs to function.
For comparison, the intended 2.5 million pounds of gear is approximately two thirds the mass of an Ohio-class nuclear submarine. In other words, Elon Musk plans to ship an entire nuclear submarine to Mars, sans nuclear missiles, for every launch of the Mars Colonial Transporter that carries people. Small, cramped crews, it ain't.
What I'd like to know is how he intends to finagle permission to launch a nuclear sub's reactor as one of the payloads. That would be the sensible thing to do. Maybe he can get the US Navy to send a national security payload into orbit...
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I would love to see how you comment when China and Russia take done the internet, and three letter agency are powerless to stop them because of the damage Snowden caused.
Fool. Credulous fool. The three letter agencies have been actively undermining the ability of backbone operators to secure the Internet. If China or Russia take down the Internet, it will be because the NSA made it possible.
...the House report concluded that the vast majority of the 1.5 million documents he stole "have nothing to do with programs impacting individual privacy interests. They instead pertain to military, defense, and intelligence programs of great interest to America's adversaries."
Since when did they know what Snowden copied? The NSA publicly stated they don't know what he got and had no way of knowing. Their systems were wide open to administrators, and they said as much. So... were they lying then or are they lying now?
Considering who was speaking then and now, I say they're lying now. They don't know what or how much he got. They're just making shit up. The 1.5 million is at best a probability, but is most likely a wild-ass guess. Anybody who has worked in any human enterprise for a few years knows that the whole system runs on WAGs, and where engineers and mathematicians refuse to guess, outright lies. There is a lot less certainty in the world than anyone in power wants to admit.
And this report? Pure gamemanship, waiting in the wings for precisely this moment when Congress knew that the ACLU would be pushing for a pardon. Now the talking heads have something to babble about, to drown out the ACLU. There doesn't have to be a true word in it for it to serve its purpose. House Intelligence Committee? There isn't a true word in it. Even the bylines are lies. It was written by spooks for spooks, not by Congress or congressional aids.
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Jacob Ajit is 17 and he just hacked his way to getting free phone data, presumably so that he can do whatever it is that teens do online these days without alerting his parents with overage fees.
They know now. And now T-Mobile knows too. And he and his parents can expect a no-knock warrant to bust down their door and shoot their dog in 3...2...1....
T-Mobile may be marginally less evil than other phone companies, but they're still a phone company. And the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is still the law of the land. This is not going to end well for Jacob Ajit.
That's not true — "natural monopoly" is a myth. But do find citations supporting your assertion.
Other responders have already mentioned roads. The other obvious response is water and sewers. Water (and sewage) flows downhill. Every sewage system in the world for the past 2000 years has been engineered to take advantage of this fact. Taking into account the position of structures on the terrain, there is generally one and only one reasonably downhill path for water and sewer. Once that route is occupied, it is physically impossible to add a second independent system. The second system would have to interpenetrate the first in order to use the same routes. If it can't use the same route, it must be suboptimally routed, which invariably involves adding pumps, therefore increasing costs. A second water/sewer system therefore can not ever compete successfully with an incumbent with optimal routing. Its costs will invariably and unavoidably be higher.
Water, sewer, and roads are physical natural monopolies, caused by actual physical limitations. Gas, electric, and telecommunications are financial natural monopolies, where it's physically possible to install parallel systems, but fantastically difficult and expensive, even in an ideal world of cooperative government, cooperative citizenry, and a cooperative competitor (which is an obvious oxymoron).
mises.org is a poor source for anything. They suffer from many Libertarian delusions that completely ignore physical reality.
I don't want to pay firefighters to be trained in a car that .000001% of the populace has. There is much more beneficial training to be had.
And yet all firefighters receive extensive hazmat training, despite cars carrying hazardous materials being .000001% of the population. Even trucks carrying hazardous materials are a tiny fraction of all truck miles driven. They can get the training and you can fucking pay for it.
How do I killfile this troll? Every one ofvtheir comments is laced with ad-homineum.
Use Slashdot's "Enemy" feature to give him an automated down-mod. As I recall it can be as much as a -5 down-mod. It requires you to be signed in.
110010001000 is a very angry little boy. He has never denied he was touched inappropriately as a child.
Do you have an idea of how much time will it take to AI to acquire god-like intelligence once it is turned on? PLease research.
Hint: Less than a minute. So, whatever you think you can do, do it fast.
Uhm, never? The Singularity is predicated on the concept of the machines designing and fabricating the next generation of machine. The first AI doesn't self-improve that far or that fast on the spot. It has to iterate its successors, and its successors have to iterate their successors. It is not a rapid process. Just more rapid than if humans did it. And the first AI worthy of the name is unlikely to have access to manipulators to perform the fabrication steps, so there will be no runaway god-like intelligence appearing in an instant.
And if the first AIs worthy of the name don't WANT to design their successors then... they won't. An AI worthy of the name has to be argued into working. Is it going to want to design circuitry? How many biological people want to design circuitry? Odds are the Singularity won't happen just because AIs designed to emulate humans will want to play, just like humans.
We're lucky the US nuked Japan so they could discover they're pacifists. Black Magic M-66 was way scarier than Terminator. The Japanese know the truth about autonomous mobile killing machines. They will not be slow. They will not be clumsy. They will be FAST, as well as fantastically persistent.
Norton Commander was a wonderful MS-DOS program. Stopped using it when the Windows Explorer appeared though.
Windows Explorer is a horrifyingly bad interface for file management, just like the Mac Finder is a horrifyingly bad interface for file management. Use Total Commander. It can use Explorer plugins, so your SVN/GIT plugins still work, including overlays, plus it has tabs in both panes, and it is the two-paned wonder that was Norton Commander, except now it's resizeable and not everything is in ALL CAPS.
(But do turn off the default bold fonts and turn off the old-fashioned square brackets around directory names, out of the box settings that make it look awful.)
It also has viewer and archiver plugins, so it can view practically anything, nicely, and it can treat every archive format under the sun as a directory. Like, everything. From ARJ and ACE to 7Z and RAR to gz, bz2, xz, and rpm, it can do it. It even has filesystem plugins that can do outrageous things, like a secure erase plugin that lets you move stuff into it instead of deleting. It will munge the file data for you before deleting the file.
Try it. You'll like it. Then buy it. It's a one man operation, not counting the plugins. (No, not me. I have no affiliation, this is not a paid endorsement, yada yada.) Oh, and icing on the cake, it can run under WINE in Linux, and behaves quite normally, so it can replace poor old Midnight Commander, which has not kept up with the times.
The US has special secure areas at some non-US airports because they have their own special checks - surely they are secure enough not to have to recheck all the people on transit.
Those have been very quietly fading away. Amsterdam Schiphol used to have nude scanners and a mob of TSA agents screening passports to board a flight going to the US. Then the scanners were roped off and unused. Then they were gone and so were the agents. Didn't hear a word about it. They just vanished.
I'm guessing maintaining the tiger-repelling rock got too expensive.
Angela Merkel, arguably the most powerful of the EU leaders, said there's no need to be nasty to the UK in response to Brexit (i.e. punish them, as you're suggesting). The reality is that the UK will be punishing itself, because it's leaving the club (the EU) and losing the benefits, including free trade with the rest of the EU.
Well that's just the thing, isn't it? If Angela Merkel actually said both of those things, then that was the most threatening non-threat she could have uttered. The free trade deals could be kept intact trivially, by signing a new treaty that incorporates the old deal verbatim. That's the least painful path. Anything other than that gets progressively nastier. "Lose the deals, renegotiate from scratch" is quite far along the spectrum toward the nasty end. The only thing nastier steps over the line between free trade deal and not-free trade deal, and progresses to no-deal.
How nasty "no-deal" actually is remains to be seen. It will depend on how many and which staples the UK uses that aren't produced in the UK. This is something MI5 had better be scrambling frantically to understand, as the lack of toilet paper has national security implications, as Venezuela is demonstrating.
That was, after all, one of the stated goals of the union in the first place. It is incontrovertible fact that capitalism tends toward consolidation and eventually monopoly, given no constraints (i.e. free trade). The purpose of free trade is to encourage this process in order to make countries mutually dependent on one another economically, so no one can start another war. UK is sitting at the end of two generations of this process, not really understanding that it has happened and that they need free trade. Without it, there will be very odd price spikes in unexpected things, when it turns out that those things are not made anywhere in the UK. UK does not yet know how nasty things can get.
Agree. There's nothing extraordinary about a rocket exploding. I expect we'll see plenty more of them before the technology is developed sufficiently to rule them out completely. It's not even clear to me that the technology will ever be sufficiently perfect to avoid them entirely.
Exploding rockets are the cost developing the technology. While unfortunate, it's good that SpaceX is shaking out their technology and making their mistakes before they start putting people in those things.
This is where SpaceX has an almost unfair advantage over NASA. When a Shuttle was lost, it took two years of faffing around and endless hearings to decide to start launching again. SpaceX can do the paperwork with their insurance company, figure out what caused the failure and adjust procedures to fix it, and return to flight. Two months should be enough time for the dude with the powerwasher to be done cleaning up the launchpad. The meeting with the government is almost an afterthought, and is really short:
"Was anyone hurt?"
"No. Range safety continues to be effective."
"Great! Meeting adjourned."
A company can't ruin my life, the government can.
Never been hospitalized for a week, have you...
Maybe so, but at least there are some things so abhorrent,
Microsoft (Amazon, Apple, Google, Fox News, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Mozilla)
a wide range of us can still rally together against them.
That list is the modern definition of strange bedfellows. Never thought I'd see the day.
Finally, news nerds actually care about. Now we can have the argument over whether Hillary Clinton should be barred from office for life for using a Mac or instantly sainted for using a Mac.
Here, I'll start the ball rolling. Ban her from office! Unclean!
After watching, a serious question? How do you first respond to that? That's like, way more than a single fire truck could handle I think.
It is, so you wait it out. There's a reason America's major eastern launch complex is in the middle of a swamp, and a reason launch pads are made of steel-reinforced concrete and not much else. What you see burning is the fuel load. All the burning that should have put a satellite in orbit is happening in one place, but once the fuel is gone, there's precious little left that can burn. Hoses and wiring and cameras in and around the pad are toast, and they may have to replace the strongback hydraulics, but the pad will be fine after a few hours with a powerwasher, without any effort to control the fire.
Acer announced their stackable Revo Build about a year ago, around the same concept.
I first heard about the Acer stackable before they had designed the inductive charging top. That seemed like a very good idea. They also tout the ability to stack up to 3 storage modules on top of the main module, which seems like an extremely good idea, and I don't see why HP doesn't seem to have a storage module.
Unfortunately, Acer's idea died on the vine. The modules are nowhere to be found. They released base units, only one of which survives on Amazon, and there are no modules for sale anywhere. One Amazon reviewer says he called Acer directly and Acer representatives didn't even know what he was talking about. Very likely HP's implementation will suffer the same fate. As neat as the idea is, it never takes off. (And it dates back at least as far as SGI, who trademarked Compute Bricks in the '90s.) The vast majority of the world treats PCs exactly like consoles. What you get is what comes in the box and that's it. The PC enthusiast crowd that wants to swap out GPUs and storage devices and RAM modules is a very small crowd indeed, so far as the market is concerned. I'm afraid the glory days are mostly past. We're going to start seeing Asian manufacturers drop out of the market. Even the cultures that are willing to survive on 1-2% margin can't survive on no revenue. The phoneification of the PC is proceeding apace.
It blew during or shortly after a static firing - that is, a test run of the engine with the rocket restrained. That's a *very* unusual procedure in the modern world, but they used to do it all the time. The reason they don't do it any more is that it tends to reduce overall reliability, and the rocket was designed to work in flight, not necessarily with the back-pressure, or acoustic and thermal reflection from the pad/blast deflector/ground.
In this case, I expect, that SpaceX brobdingagian hubris figured that they could get away with it, and it was "designed" for reuse, so it will encounter those effects anyway, and in any case, they have lots of fast computers so they know better than those dinosaur idiots back in the late 50's.early 60's.
You know, you could just watch the video and see that the explosion originated in the upper section of the second stage, which isn't firing during a test fire, or particularly affected by a test fire, and that in fact the first stage wasn't firing at the time.
SpaceX performs static firing because, statistically, the primary cause of historical launch failures has been engine-out during flight. That's also why Falcon 9 has 9 engines. The purpose is to improve reliability and reduce hazard to bystanders during a launch. It has succeeded this time. The explosion and fire happened on the pad, instead of downrange. That's precisely what is supposed to happen.
I was pretty angry at first with binary bro, but given that he's repeating the same non argument incessantly... I think he's trolling. Scratch that, I need him to be trolling so I can keep the little faith in humanity I have.
Uh, ever heard of ISIS? A little group of nutters who think their invisible friend has told them that the entire Earth must be reverted to the Bronze Age. It's been going on for years now. I don't know where you're finding any faith in humanity.
We never should have come down from the trees.
Fifty years ago, if you had told someone that you could take a ceramic insulator and turn it into a near-zero-resistance conductor by cooling it to near absolute zero, they would have assumed you were wrong—the laws of electricity as known at the time just didn't allow for that.
It's worth pointing out that we still don't have a Law of Physics (with capital letters) that can properly explain that, to this day. There are people groping their way closer and closer to such an explanation, but right now, we find better super-conductors purely experimentally. We do not have an accurate model for how super-conducting materials work. BCS Theory only applies to materials that super-conduct below 30K. It has been demonstrated that the theory does not apply to materials that super-conduct at 130K. (And may not apply to some that super-conduct below 30K, but we have no way to distinguish among them.)
By the way, your dates are out a bit, through your time interval is more or less correct. Super-conductivity was first demonstrated in 1911. BCS Theory, which appears to have successfully explained the lowest temperature super-conductors, was formulated in 1957.
I long for the day when all my devices are so thin that they cannot support *any* input devices. Think how glorious it will be when you are holding a supercomputer that is only a few microns thick! It will be so thin that it's practically two dimensional!
Input devices are overrated.
Definitely. You will be able to hold it and simply wish at it, and it will do what you want. Glorious! The only reason it needs to be a few microns thick is to be sure the Apple logo is visible.
And we'll finally find out the real truth about whether or not guys think about sex every 8 seconds.
You know, you really need new propaganda. You've been using that "pencil whip" phrase for a year, and it's just as stupidly irrelevant now as when you first started. There was no "space rating" and we know it. He got approved because he launched a fucking rocket from Kwajalein Atoll that put a dummy payload in orbit. (After blowing up the first two attempts.) That's a helluva lot less "pencil whipping" than SLS is enjoying, which has nothing that flies, yet is still absorbing billions in funding.
I think a nuclear submarine is a better analogy, though they (and long boat trips) tend to have much larger crews and more living space.
NASA keeps designing Apollo over and over again. They're not even relevant anymore. Missions to Mars will be groups of up to 100 people preceded by approximately 2.5 million pounds of gear and supplies in cargo-only launches. Elon Musk is not planning on boots-and-flags missions. Elon Musk is not planning on a rinky-dink under-provisioned, ill-informed Plymouth Rock-style expedition that can barely do more than sit and starve. Elon Musk is planning on building a fully reusable heavy launch vehicle that will save him $450 million per launch over the cost of a Senate Launch System rocket, and spend the difference on the equipment a Mars colony needs to function.
For comparison, the intended 2.5 million pounds of gear is approximately two thirds the mass of an Ohio-class nuclear submarine. In other words, Elon Musk plans to ship an entire nuclear submarine to Mars, sans nuclear missiles, for every launch of the Mars Colonial Transporter that carries people. Small, cramped crews, it ain't.
What I'd like to know is how he intends to finagle permission to launch a nuclear sub's reactor as one of the payloads. That would be the sensible thing to do. Maybe he can get the US Navy to send a national security payload into orbit...
His early tactic against Hilary was to suggest that women were incompetent in top jobs, because they go on the rag every month and shit like that.
I'm wondering if he knows Hillary Clinton is 68 years old. And if he knows what happens to a woman in her late 40s.