You have good taste, sir! But have you ever drank Tokaji? Used to be the wine of the Austrian emperors, while there was an empire, and Louis XIV called it "Wine of kings, king of wines".
The F-117 was used in the Serbian conflict because it had the ability to make quick, stealthy precision strikes on the Serbian air command, paving the way for the heavy cavalry to move in and decimate the ground forces.
As a Hungarian, I'm also pleased that the one and only time the Goblin was downed was at the hands of a Hungarian commander, one Zoltán Dani, who used an old modified Russian radar unit operating at very long wavelengths to defeat the F-117's stealth capability, and used manual guidance on the missiles along with several spotters who reported the flight path.
As for the new Chinese stealth fighter, it's reported to be an even match for the Raptor, and used designs on a Lockheed HDD that was not wiped before being sold overseas. I wonder what else remained on that drive, though...
Almost everything radiates RF these days. Unless you know the carrier frequency, your detector is going to get swamped by signals: cellphones, RFID, GDOs, pagers, car alarms, radio and TV broadcasts, WIFI, etc; there's just too much junk out there to sweep blindly.
If you can make out the details so you know it's a drone, it's probably close enough for the field of an EPFCG to fry it. Not that I'd condone that sort of thing, just sayin'...
In light of [my Hungarian experience] in doesn't seem so harsh, does it?
I'm not sure former Soviet satellites are the gold standard here.
The legal system has been pretty much overhauled during the system shift of 1989-1990, leaving no traces of the Soviet laws, and if I remember my Secret Services course correctly, the law governing background checks (along with the rest of the secret services) was reworked in 1995 again, with my professor taking part in the process. And before someone brings it up, the current overhauling of the system, while not entirely logical or beneficial, does not figure into this matter, as the internship application was last summer, way before the current government took power.
As for gold standards, I'm not sure a country with an agency like the TSA deciding who can fly and harassing passengers is the gold standard here.
Therse background checks are stupid/wasteful because they ask the wrong questions of the wrong people. And they are invasive because the government really doesn't need to stick its nose up scientist's pants.
The wrong people? Maybe. The wrong questions? I don't know, not without having seen the form. "The government doesn't need to stick its nose up scientists' pants"? If those scientists can be blackmailed with something they have/had in their pants, or where that went, the government has every right and reason to stick its nose in there. Like what Beardo the Bearded said: "Oh, wouldn't it be terrible if your boss and dad found out that you were gay? If you got me a copy of MIL-TFD-41 I'd be too busy reading it to mail this picture to them." Or you banged a prostitute, or even the neighbor's dog. If someone happened to take a few pics, you could be up to your neck in shit.
Since I honestly answered heterosexual to that question, I wouldn't know if it's actually a failing point. I didn't get the internship in the end, but I doubt the results of the check had anything to do with that.
I don't really get it, what's the big deal over this whole issue? These guys are raging because they were about to get a thorough background check before they were let into possession of government info. Personal experience, I applied for an internship at the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, and part of the requirement was submitting to a Type-C background check, which is the most thorough of the three types in the Hungarian system: it includes a written questionnaire (which, I might add, included questions on my sexual orientation, and whether I know of anything can be used to blackmail me, such as homosexuality and addictions), a statement from you, and anyone living in the same household, that you consent to overt/covert surveillance and questioning of relatives and neighbors. All this for an internship, during which I probably wouldn't have been given access to any sensitive materials. In light of this, such a check on people having access to government tenders and cutting-edge tech being developed, that other countries might show an interest in doesn't seem so harsh, does it?
Rocket fuel, apparently. But to get rocket fuel (read: hydrogen and oxygen) you have to split the mined moon-water, which means you'll need some energy source to do the splitting. Where will that energy come from? Vast solar panel arrays? Nuclear? Geothermal? (does the moon have any geothermal energy to be tapped?)
Not only rocket fuel, if the fusion research finally bears fruit, Helium-3 is more abundant on the Moon then on Earth. Additionally, the low gravity of the Moon enables metallurgic techniques impossible or uneconomical here, which may result that are worth the increased price; and they can be smelted from locally available metals from the regolith.
The problem is not just energy, the real problem is legal: the Outer Space Treaty does forbid exploitation (which the article claims it doesn't), only permitting sampling for research purposes, and what the article leaves out is that all extraterrestrial territory is, by definition, common heritage of mankind. This means, by extension, that so are the extracted resources, so any nation on Earth can form a claim to them, such as Zimbabwe, as well as a claim to a tour of the extraction facility and a presence on the Moon. I'm not sure the five current space-capable nations would want to bear the costs to that. The sea floor has a similar status, but in that case, there's the International Seabed Authority to regulate the situation. However, no such body has been set up in relation to the Moon (although the Moon agreement did call for the establishment of one, but since it was never ratified by the space-states, one could say it failed due to lack of interest).
Thus, the first obstacle to be tackled is the legal status of the Moon, the required governing body, and the status of extraterrestrial real-estate in national law. Only then can (should) corporations and states think about the technological and energy challenges.
Finally, something reminded me that I need to work on my thesis...
What most people miss is that glasses need not be transparent. Being a glass only means it's amorphous, without an ordered crystalline structure, that confers unique properties. It does NOT mean, however, that the material passes light in any way.
If I were the Air Force IT manager, I'd favor these over the PS3: the cluster would take up a lot less space/have a lot more processing power in the same room.
Although I don't see why Sony removed the Other OS. The consoles generate sales and revenue even if they're not used for playing, so it should be fine to sell them for code cracking as well as gaming, no?
If memory serves me right, both the UK and Sweden are members of the Council of Europe, as well as signatories of the European Agreement on Human Rights. Now, the agreement expressly forbids extradition if there's a chance of capital punishment in the recipient country. Which means that Assange cannot be legally turned over to US custody, since Gitmo violates the human rights treaties massively, and execution... well, we all know the deal.
So the only recourse left for the US is kidnapping by CIA, but that's going to get them in a sticky situation too, even if it won't submit to the International Court of Justice's authority.
We're talking about a transmission session key, not a hard-coded authentication key. Unlike Sony's master keys, these are only used for a single flight session, expiring afterwards, while the software generates a new key for the next session.
Random, non-reused. Best if done right before launch and communicated to the drone by wire, for the utmost security.
As one poster said in another comment thread: "Assume Joe Average's "rofl" response to someone sending him a picture of a cat in a Santa hat, needs to be safe from the transcendent intelligences existing in the High Beyond portion of the galaxy. Then only relax that assumption when it's inconvenient. I think we'll find there are many scenarios where it's not inconvenient." This, I believe falls under the "Not inconvenient" heading.
If the drone uses a sufficiently long one-shot key (a 128-bit random string comes to mind) to encrypt the communication with the operator, there's no way they can crack it fast enough to hijack the drone before the 40 minute lifetime runs out.
Shameless self-promotion: I covered this in my blog when Hackaday did an article on a study about this.
The real threat isn't just someone stealing your car, imagine parking a car on the overpass above a busy highway, with a high-power transmitter, and beaming a bit of code at cars that disables the brakes. Or how easy untraceable assassinations will become: since the code can be made to erase itself after execution, nobody can prove it wasn't a technical error but sabotage.
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You have good taste, sir!
But have you ever drank Tokaji? Used to be the wine of the Austrian emperors, while there was an empire, and Louis XIV called it "Wine of kings, king of wines".
The F-117 was used in the Serbian conflict because it had the ability to make quick, stealthy precision strikes on the Serbian air command, paving the way for the heavy cavalry to move in and decimate the ground forces.
As a Hungarian, I'm also pleased that the one and only time the Goblin was downed was at the hands of a Hungarian commander, one Zoltán Dani, who used an old modified Russian radar unit operating at very long wavelengths to defeat the F-117's stealth capability, and used manual guidance on the missiles along with several spotters who reported the flight path.
As for the new Chinese stealth fighter, it's reported to be an even match for the Raptor, and used designs on a Lockheed HDD that was not wiped before being sold overseas. I wonder what else remained on that drive, though...
And walk around with a parabola dish strapped to my head? I'd rather take my chances with the drone, thanks...
Almost everything radiates RF these days. Unless you know the carrier frequency, your detector is going to get swamped by signals: cellphones, RFID, GDOs, pagers, car alarms, radio and TV broadcasts, WIFI, etc; there's just too much junk out there to sweep blindly.
Aim coil at drone, charge, stand back, fire explosive, laugh. I rest my case.
Just use it responsibly.
If you can make out the details so you know it's a drone, it's probably close enough for the field of an EPFCG to fry it. Not that I'd condone that sort of thing, just sayin'...
In light of [my Hungarian experience] in doesn't seem so harsh, does it?
I'm not sure former Soviet satellites are the gold standard here.
The legal system has been pretty much overhauled during the system shift of 1989-1990, leaving no traces of the Soviet laws, and if I remember my Secret Services course correctly, the law governing background checks (along with the rest of the secret services) was reworked in 1995 again, with my professor taking part in the process. And before someone brings it up, the current overhauling of the system, while not entirely logical or beneficial, does not figure into this matter, as the internship application was last summer, way before the current government took power.
As for gold standards, I'm not sure a country with an agency like the TSA deciding who can fly and harassing passengers is the gold standard here.
Therse background checks are stupid/wasteful because they ask the wrong questions of the wrong people. And they are invasive because the government really doesn't need to stick its nose up scientist's pants.
The wrong people? Maybe.
The wrong questions? I don't know, not without having seen the form.
"The government doesn't need to stick its nose up scientists' pants"? If those scientists can be blackmailed with something they have/had in their pants, or where that went, the government has every right and reason to stick its nose in there. Like what Beardo the Bearded said: "Oh, wouldn't it be terrible if your boss and dad found out that you were gay? If you got me a copy of MIL-TFD-41 I'd be too busy reading it to mail this picture to them." Or you banged a prostitute, or even the neighbor's dog. If someone happened to take a few pics, you could be up to your neck in shit.
Since I honestly answered heterosexual to that question, I wouldn't know if it's actually a failing point. I didn't get the internship in the end, but I doubt the results of the check had anything to do with that.
I don't really get it, what's the big deal over this whole issue? These guys are raging because they were about to get a thorough background check before they were let into possession of government info. Personal experience, I applied for an internship at the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, and part of the requirement was submitting to a Type-C background check, which is the most thorough of the three types in the Hungarian system: it includes a written questionnaire (which, I might add, included questions on my sexual orientation, and whether I know of anything can be used to blackmail me, such as homosexuality and addictions), a statement from you, and anyone living in the same household, that you consent to overt/covert surveillance and questioning of relatives and neighbors. All this for an internship, during which I probably wouldn't have been given access to any sensitive materials.
In light of this, such a check on people having access to government tenders and cutting-edge tech being developed, that other countries might show an interest in doesn't seem so harsh, does it?
Rocket fuel, apparently. But to get rocket fuel (read: hydrogen and oxygen) you have to split the mined moon-water, which means you'll need some energy source to do the splitting. Where will that energy come from? Vast solar panel arrays? Nuclear? Geothermal? (does the moon have any geothermal energy to be tapped?)
Not only rocket fuel, if the fusion research finally bears fruit, Helium-3 is more abundant on the Moon then on Earth. Additionally, the low gravity of the Moon enables metallurgic techniques impossible or uneconomical here, which may result that are worth the increased price; and they can be smelted from locally available metals from the regolith.
The problem is not just energy, the real problem is legal: the Outer Space Treaty does forbid exploitation (which the article claims it doesn't), only permitting sampling for research purposes, and what the article leaves out is that all extraterrestrial territory is, by definition, common heritage of mankind. This means, by extension, that so are the extracted resources, so any nation on Earth can form a claim to them, such as Zimbabwe, as well as a claim to a tour of the extraction facility and a presence on the Moon. I'm not sure the five current space-capable nations would want to bear the costs to that.
The sea floor has a similar status, but in that case, there's the International Seabed Authority to regulate the situation. However, no such body has been set up in relation to the Moon (although the Moon agreement did call for the establishment of one, but since it was never ratified by the space-states, one could say it failed due to lack of interest).
Thus, the first obstacle to be tackled is the legal status of the Moon, the required governing body, and the status of extraterrestrial real-estate in national law. Only then can (should) corporations and states think about the technological and energy challenges.
Finally, something reminded me that I need to work on my thesis...
What most people miss is that glasses need not be transparent. Being a glass only means it's amorphous, without an ordered crystalline structure, that confers unique properties. It does NOT mean, however, that the material passes light in any way.
Not necessarily. Code breaking requires massive parallelism, for which the PS3/PS4's Cell processor is very well suited.
As for the PSP2, there's no word on the CPU yet, whether it'll be like a Cell or a single-core CPU.
If I were the Air Force IT manager, I'd favor these over the PS3: the cluster would take up a lot less space/have a lot more processing power in the same room.
Although I don't see why Sony removed the Other OS. The consoles generate sales and revenue even if they're not used for playing, so it should be fine to sell them for code cracking as well as gaming, no?
Or can the master key be extracted to hack in an "Other OS" option?
This deserves a Stella-Award.
Seriously, courts worldwide (but especially in the US) need a sanity check: if the lawsuits reeks of insanity, throw it out without trying it.
I think we all know the answer to that. Youtube, Firefox and Google Video VS. MSIE, the probably most hated browser?
If memory serves me right, both the UK and Sweden are members of the Council of Europe, as well as signatories of the European Agreement on Human Rights. Now, the agreement expressly forbids extradition if there's a chance of capital punishment in the recipient country. Which means that Assange cannot be legally turned over to US custody, since Gitmo violates the human rights treaties massively, and execution ... well, we all know the deal.
So the only recourse left for the US is kidnapping by CIA, but that's going to get them in a sticky situation too, even if it won't submit to the International Court of Justice's authority.
Or crazy drunk crop-duster pilots with armed missiles on a jammed release.
Only in the US. The Hungarian systems are working fine. Except for the political system, but that's another topic...
And if I were an invasion, I would alien Britain first.
Don't. The Doctor will kick your ass.
We're talking about a transmission session key, not a hard-coded authentication key. Unlike Sony's master keys, these are only used for a single flight session, expiring afterwards, while the software generates a new key for the next session.
Random, non-reused. Best if done right before launch and communicated to the drone by wire, for the utmost security.
If it's random and software generated? 100%.
One should certainly (fervently) hope so.
As one poster said in another comment thread: "Assume Joe Average's "rofl" response to someone sending him a picture of a cat in a Santa hat, needs to be safe from the transcendent intelligences existing in the High Beyond portion of the galaxy. Then only relax that assumption when it's inconvenient. I think we'll find there are many scenarios where it's not inconvenient." This, I believe falls under the "Not inconvenient" heading.
Probably/hopefully never.
If the drone uses a sufficiently long one-shot key (a 128-bit random string comes to mind) to encrypt the communication with the operator, there's no way they can crack it fast enough to hijack the drone before the 40 minute lifetime runs out.
Shameless self-promotion: I covered this in my blog when Hackaday did an article on a study about this.
The real threat isn't just someone stealing your car, imagine parking a car on the overpass above a busy highway, with a high-power transmitter, and beaming a bit of code at cars that disables the brakes. Or how easy untraceable assassinations will become: since the code can be made to erase itself after execution, nobody can prove it wasn't a technical error but sabotage.