They're dynamically reprogrammable, but its not like you can just just instantly flip to another ROM. These things take time to switch to another configuration. They are much better suited for batch operation, running one task completely before moving onto the next, than multitasking.
There is good reason to believe they are trying to smuggle contraband. The authority is merely conducting a body cavity search, using their standard issue fleshy probe.
That is a violation of the Fifth Amendment. Taking a breathalyzer test, field sobriety, or otherwise would be self incrimination. You have a constitutional right to refuse any action that would result in such.
It sounds like the specific POP the google DNS server is being fed is overloaded with traffic.
That sounds exactly what was surmised in the summary.
When you use Google or Open DNS to resolve the Apple domain name, all the requests to Akamai appear to be coming from the same location and they're all directed to the same server pool, overloading that pool and causing the slow downloads.
Ironically, the Wii, which IMO has the best hardware control scheme for First Person Shooters of all the consoles, was not included in this competition.
The Wii is piss poor for anything but rail shooters. Aiming to the side of the screen to turn is one of the clumsiest things I've ever done in a video game.
The VOIP restriction appears to only ban computer-to-phone calls not computer-to-computer calls. So skype-to-skype calls are ok but not skype-to-phone calls.
Where do handheld computers factor into that? Devices like the iPod touch and tablets with all the hardware to make a VOIP call, and a similar form factor to a phone, but no access to the cell networks.
Exactly. The California law allows for $50 per violation, up to $25,000 per day. The federal law allows for $250 per violation, up to $2,000,000 total. Settling out of court for a few thousand each case means he is not tying up their time, not causing a significant monetary hit, and not bringing any publicity to his cause.
It's simple. You use breeder reactors and fuel reprocessing. Your waste drops to next to nothing. The waste you do produce is very radioactive, meaning it only needs to be stored for a few decades before it is depleted. Your usable fuel supply grows by about 500 times, and you don't have to send it through an extremely costly refinement process. It's not like they're anything new, they've been around in experimental form since the 50s, and there have been a handful of production reactors over the years. But wait, they produce plutonium as one of their intermediate products, and that can be used to make more fission bombs. We can't have that.
A ten kilometer long track at a survivable 4g acceleration gets you to about Mach 8. Discounting air friction all the way up, you've still only got enough energy to make it about a third of the way to orbit. You can't dig down to arbitrary depths for obvious reasons. A shallow launch angle is just going to increase your frictional losses. You can't build a ramp at the end of the track without killing your crew.
Magnetic launch is a nice idea and may work fine for bulk materials that can withstand very high acceleration, but it just doesn't scale for human launches.
No. The problem with using QKD is that it requires all involved parties to be able to exchange entangled particles. You can't do that on a switched network. You MUST have direct fiber optic links for it to work.
The most basic problem is that businesses exist to make profit. They are not going to invest in speculative research. They are not going to invest in something not likely to pay off within a few years. People speak so fondly of Bell Labs specifically because it was the rarity. It was the one exception where a private company dumped huge amounts of money into projects with no foreseeable gain, and as a result, developed all sorts of revolutionary technology.
Evolutionary research is safe. Revolutionary research is risky. Business doesn't like risk.
There are patents going back a decade pertaining to using microfluidic ducts as a heat transfer mechanism. Every few months now, there's another article on slashdot about one of the chip giants testing out such manufacturing techniques. Just a few links from a quick googling...
Your average desktop with 2-4 sticks of 8 or 16 module memory isn't a concern. When you're talking servers with 16 sticks of 36 module memory and ECC, it really adds up.
Phone cables can be replaced, and a lot of people make good money doing it so it actually helps some who are not criminals. I'm just sayin'...
They're causing in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property damage for at most a few hundred dollars in scrap metal. The cost for unnecessary repairs eventually trickles down to higher prices for goods and services from those companies. They are a worthless drain on society. There is no way you can claim there is any benefit.
Those transmission level power transformers take up half a flatbed, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's going to require some very heavy equipment to install, and they may have to ship the replacement some distance. It's not like a lineman with a pickup truck is going to be able to pick one up from the local depot.
A mortar will require a several person crew to carry and several minutes set up. This can be carried by a single person and fired within a matter of seconds.
Solid rockets are basically one giant combustion chamber. The outer skin is just a form to hold the propellant in shape while it hardens. The propellant itself is the pressure containment vessel. You must leave a sufficient amount of material to withstand that several thousand PSI all the way to combustion cutoff, or you risk a rupture.
The fuel fraction of SRBs is indeed very high. The usable fuel fraction is considerably lower.
Essentially the other issues are that solid boosters are smaller and cheaper.
Solid rocket boosters are generally significantly lower ISP, meaning they are significantly larger. Liquid rockets are far more complex, and thus far more costly to design and build, however there is no reason you cannot build a recovery mechanism into the launch system to recover those expensive motors.
An SSD usually uses considerably less power even during writing than RAM. Consider that a stick of RAM is going to have to continually refresh each of its 16 or 32 chips, while flash is only going to power up those that it is currently accessing at that time.
These devices are for tapping into the insulated residential power lines. At less than 240V anywhere in the world, there is insufficient flux to inductively pull power any distance.
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They're dynamically reprogrammable, but its not like you can just just instantly flip to another ROM. These things take time to switch to another configuration. They are much better suited for batch operation, running one task completely before moving onto the next, than multitasking.
If its just illegal... I got an email from Kofi Annan recently asking me to help him move some funds through my bank account.
Funny thing. That is called fraud, and it is already illegal.
There is good reason to believe they are trying to smuggle contraband. The authority is merely conducting a body cavity search, using their standard issue fleshy probe.
That is a violation of the Fifth Amendment. Taking a breathalyzer test, field sobriety, or otherwise would be self incrimination. You have a constitutional right to refuse any action that would result in such.
We have a business class RoadRunner line in south west Ohio, and their DNS servers have all sorts of problems.
It sounds like the specific POP the google DNS server is being fed is overloaded with traffic.
That sounds exactly what was surmised in the summary.
When you use Google or Open DNS to resolve the Apple domain name, all the requests to Akamai appear to be coming from the same location and they're all directed to the same server pool, overloading that pool and causing the slow downloads.
Ironically, the Wii, which IMO has the best hardware control scheme for First Person Shooters of all the consoles, was not included in this competition.
The Wii is piss poor for anything but rail shooters. Aiming to the side of the screen to turn is one of the clumsiest things I've ever done in a video game.
The VOIP restriction appears to only ban computer-to-phone calls not computer-to-computer calls. So skype-to-skype calls are ok but not skype-to-phone calls.
Where do handheld computers factor into that? Devices like the iPod touch and tablets with all the hardware to make a VOIP call, and a similar form factor to a phone, but no access to the cell networks.
Exactly. The California law allows for $50 per violation, up to $25,000 per day. The federal law allows for $250 per violation, up to $2,000,000 total. Settling out of court for a few thousand each case means he is not tying up their time, not causing a significant monetary hit, and not bringing any publicity to his cause.
It's simple. You use breeder reactors and fuel reprocessing. Your waste drops to next to nothing. The waste you do produce is very radioactive, meaning it only needs to be stored for a few decades before it is depleted. Your usable fuel supply grows by about 500 times, and you don't have to send it through an extremely costly refinement process. It's not like they're anything new, they've been around in experimental form since the 50s, and there have been a handful of production reactors over the years. But wait, they produce plutonium as one of their intermediate products, and that can be used to make more fission bombs. We can't have that.
A ten kilometer long track at a survivable 4g acceleration gets you to about Mach 8. Discounting air friction all the way up, you've still only got enough energy to make it about a third of the way to orbit. You can't dig down to arbitrary depths for obvious reasons. A shallow launch angle is just going to increase your frictional losses. You can't build a ramp at the end of the track without killing your crew.
Magnetic launch is a nice idea and may work fine for bulk materials that can withstand very high acceleration, but it just doesn't scale for human launches.
No. The problem with using QKD is that it requires all involved parties to be able to exchange entangled particles. You can't do that on a switched network. You MUST have direct fiber optic links for it to work.
Someone has been reading XKCD.
The most basic problem is that businesses exist to make profit. They are not going to invest in speculative research. They are not going to invest in something not likely to pay off within a few years. People speak so fondly of Bell Labs specifically because it was the rarity. It was the one exception where a private company dumped huge amounts of money into projects with no foreseeable gain, and as a result, developed all sorts of revolutionary technology.
Evolutionary research is safe. Revolutionary research is risky. Business doesn't like risk.
There are patents going back a decade pertaining to using microfluidic ducts as a heat transfer mechanism. Every few months now, there's another article on slashdot about one of the chip giants testing out such manufacturing techniques. Just a few links from a quick googling...
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/coolers/display/20031008155430.html
http://www.electronics-cooling.com/2002/11/electroosmotic-microchannel-cooling-system-for-microprocessors/
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2424&page=11
http://www.w7forums.com/nanotechnology-delivers-revolutionary-pumpless-water-cooling-t6658.html
Your average desktop with 2-4 sticks of 8 or 16 module memory isn't a concern. When you're talking servers with 16 sticks of 36 module memory and ECC, it really adds up.
Do you trust the same company that writes the software that needs a virus scanner, to write your virus scanner?
Phone cables can be replaced, and a lot of people make good money doing it so it actually helps some who are not criminals. I'm just sayin'...
They're causing in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property damage for at most a few hundred dollars in scrap metal. The cost for unnecessary repairs eventually trickles down to higher prices for goods and services from those companies. They are a worthless drain on society. There is no way you can claim there is any benefit.
Those transmission level power transformers take up half a flatbed, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's going to require some very heavy equipment to install, and they may have to ship the replacement some distance. It's not like a lineman with a pickup truck is going to be able to pick one up from the local depot.
Is that a device that works by the zimulated emission of photons?
A mortar will require a several person crew to carry and several minutes set up. This can be carried by a single person and fired within a matter of seconds.
Solid rockets are basically one giant combustion chamber. The outer skin is just a form to hold the propellant in shape while it hardens. The propellant itself is the pressure containment vessel. You must leave a sufficient amount of material to withstand that several thousand PSI all the way to combustion cutoff, or you risk a rupture.
The fuel fraction of SRBs is indeed very high. The usable fuel fraction is considerably lower.
Essentially the other issues are that solid boosters are smaller and cheaper.
Solid rocket boosters are generally significantly lower ISP, meaning they are significantly larger. Liquid rockets are far more complex, and thus far more costly to design and build, however there is no reason you cannot build a recovery mechanism into the launch system to recover those expensive motors.
An SSD usually uses considerably less power even during writing than RAM. Consider that a stick of RAM is going to have to continually refresh each of its 16 or 32 chips, while flash is only going to power up those that it is currently accessing at that time.
These devices are for tapping into the insulated residential power lines. At less than 240V anywhere in the world, there is insufficient flux to inductively pull power any distance.