The silly part of all this: once we perfect the science and engineering of fusion power we’re still only going to use it as a heat source to boil water and power a steam turbine.
Is there any research into finding a way to extract electrical energy DIRECTLY from nuclear reactions? i.e. What are the theoretical and practical possibilities of a nuclear fuel cell?
It looks like a useless exploit for any practical purpose. I highly doubt the contents of a CPU cache would remain static for long enough to extract any information of value.
Am I the only one thinking this is an indirect demonstration of potential ICBM MIRV capability? IIRC, the physics and engineering behind launching multiple satellites into different orbits on a single rocket is not that far off from putting multiple warheads on a single ICBM.
Old people are more likely to lose their sense of smell. Old people are more likely to die within 5 years. Therefore, people who lose their sense of smell are more likely to die within 5 years.
This is the whole "ice cream causes drownings" all over again.
I wear a self-winding mechanical watch precisely BECAUSE it's not "smart". It tells the time (in 3 time zones, on a 24-hour basis) and displays the date. The date function isn't even "smart" in that I have to manually advance the date at the end of months that have less than 31 days.
We're trying to make smaller and smaller cars out of silicon, because then we can fit more cars onto parking lots. The number of cars we can fit onto a parking lot has been doubling approximately every 18 months for the past half-century, but we appear to be approaching some hard physical limits for the actual size of cars. In addition to the limits imposed by the size of the cars themselves (below a certain size, cars start interacting at a quantum level with the other cars around them), there are also challenges inherent in manufacturing cars at such a tiny scale. There is some new car-making technology on the horizon that may resolve these issues by using higher-frequency car-making lasers in our car foundries. But top researchers still have technical hurdles to pass before they can manufacture cars that are smaller than 7nm.
Easier car analogy: you can only shrink the car so much before the limiting factor is not the size of your cars, but how precisely (and how thin) you can paint the parking lines.
Why do we keep inventing and enforcing new "terrorism" laws when (AFAIK) every terrorism offence could simply be classified as "traditional" common-law crime and just prosecuted as such? Examples: conspiracy, murder, arson (includes bombing), kidnapping, forcible confinement (hostage taking), extortion (blackmail), piracy (hijacking), treason/sedition/espionage, etc.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There known knowns and there are known unknowns, but there are also unknown unknowns, things we don't know that we don't know!
Couldn't they trace the serial number on the returned box, match that up to the iTunes account used to activate the missing iPad, and nail the perps that way?
Disclaimer: I classify myself as a libertarian and I'm an engineer by training so take this with a (very large) grain of salt.
Maybe engineers tend to be libertarian because when you apply a systems analysis approach to what is wrong with government/the system/the world it just turns out that the rational common sense "solutions" all end up falling under the libertarian umbrella. How probable (or improbable) can it be that so many (supposedly/hopefully) smart and rational people can all be wrong?
As far as I can recall, the US dropped support for the Kurds after Turkey complained about the "risks" of having an independent Kurdish state. Turkey has a Kurd province bordering Iraq ands did not want to see its own internal Kurdish independence movement.
I have a (B.Eng) degree in software engineering. I started out in the R&D startup world in 2003, doing the usual CS/SE things like QA, maintenance programming, and finally ending up in requirements analysis/system design. In 2007 I decided that I didn't want to spend my life working for stock options that aren't worth the paper they're printed on and went for a career change into IT. With zero helpdesk experience I interviewed for a senior Linux sysadmin position in the IT outsourcing branch of at a major (Fortune500) telco -- got a job offer the same day. Fast forward 5 years later I'm still with the same company but I'm now a sales engineer supporting salespeople that sell the same IT services I used to run. The kicker -- I make double the money that I did doing R&D.
I'd say that if you know your shit and can get shit done, then it doesn't matter if you're trying to do CS with IT experience (or vice versa). Good employers will even consider it an asset to have experience from "the other side of the fence". IMHO IT knowledge will make you a better programmer, and CS knowledge will make you a better sysadmin. You'd be surprised how many PHP/Java web developers don't understand the support consequences of their sloppy code -- they only see as far as QA. A PHP injection flaw on a web page that gets 10M+ views/day will generate a LOT of phone calls.
Instead of trying to add (what I would consider) spurious features to the UI such as Ribbon, they should start by fixing all the suck that is currently Windows Explorer. There is ZERO reason it should be as single-threaded as it currently is -- network problems should NEVER freeze the GUI.
Maybe the problem is that there are very few or no HS prerequisites for CS? I can't imagine university Physics not having HS Physics as a prereq, or Chemical Engineering not having HS Chem as a prereq. Why shouldn't CS have a basic programming knowledge (any language, knowledge of loops, conditionals, etc.) as a required foundation?
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The silly part of all this: once we perfect the science and engineering of fusion power we’re still only going to use it as a heat source to boil water and power a steam turbine.
Is there any research into finding a way to extract electrical energy DIRECTLY from nuclear reactions? i.e. What are the theoretical and practical possibilities of a nuclear fuel cell?
GPS. My Lexus automatically adjusts the clock using the GPS time beacon.
I thought that too while I read it at first, but that isn't true. The likelihood is this would be used to obtain private keys.
A key (even a short symmetric one) is 128 bits, if not 256 (ex: AES). Public/private keys are even longer at 2048 bits.
Even at 60 bits/hour, that’s 2 hours minimum to extract a key. Will the cach contents remain unchanged for that long?
It looks like a useless exploit for any practical purpose. I highly doubt the contents of a CPU cache would remain static for long enough to extract any information of value.
Bell Canada "Gigabit Fibe" FTTH up here in Canuckistan. $150 CAD for full unlimited 940 Mbps up / 100 Mbps down. I pull down 3-4 TB a month.
Am I the only one thinking this is an indirect demonstration of potential ICBM MIRV capability? IIRC, the physics and engineering behind launching multiple satellites into different orbits on a single rocket is not that far off from putting multiple warheads on a single ICBM.
This is useless without more information/data.
Old people are more likely to lose their sense of smell.
Old people are more likely to die within 5 years.
Therefore, people who lose their sense of smell are more likely to die within 5 years.
This is the whole "ice cream causes drownings" all over again.
I wear a self-winding mechanical watch precisely BECAUSE it's not "smart". It tells the time (in 3 time zones, on a 24-hour basis) and displays the date. The date function isn't even "smart" in that I have to manually advance the date at the end of months that have less than 31 days.
The best part is that I LIKE IT that way.
I wear a mechanical self-winding wristwatch. I would never wear a smart watch.
We're trying to make smaller and smaller cars out of silicon, because then we can fit more cars onto parking lots. The number of cars we can fit onto a parking lot has been doubling approximately every 18 months for the past half-century, but we appear to be approaching some hard physical limits for the actual size of cars. In addition to the limits imposed by the size of the cars themselves (below a certain size, cars start interacting at a quantum level with the other cars around them), there are also challenges inherent in manufacturing cars at such a tiny scale. There is some new car-making technology on the horizon that may resolve these issues by using higher-frequency car-making lasers in our car foundries. But top researchers still have technical hurdles to pass before they can manufacture cars that are smaller than 7nm.
Easier car analogy: you can only shrink the car so much before the limiting factor is not the size of your cars, but how precisely (and how thin) you can paint the parking lines.
IANAL.
Why do we keep inventing and enforcing new "terrorism" laws when (AFAIK) every terrorism offence could simply be classified as "traditional" common-law crime and just prosecuted as such? Examples: conspiracy, murder, arson (includes bombing), kidnapping, forcible confinement (hostage taking), extortion (blackmail), piracy (hijacking), treason/sedition/espionage, etc.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. There known knowns and there are known unknowns, but there are also unknown unknowns, things we don't know that we don't know!
Couldn't they trace the serial number on the returned box, match that up to the iTunes account used to activate the missing iPad, and nail the perps that way?
Disclaimer: I classify myself as a libertarian and I'm an engineer by training so take this with a (very large) grain of salt. Maybe engineers tend to be libertarian because when you apply a systems analysis approach to what is wrong with government/the system/the world it just turns out that the rational common sense "solutions" all end up falling under the libertarian umbrella. How probable (or improbable) can it be that so many (supposedly/hopefully) smart and rational people can all be wrong?
As far as I can recall, the US dropped support for the Kurds after Turkey complained about the "risks" of having an independent Kurdish state. Turkey has a Kurd province bordering Iraq ands did not want to see its own internal Kurdish independence movement.
I have a (B.Eng) degree in software engineering. I started out in the R&D startup world in 2003, doing the usual CS/SE things like QA, maintenance programming, and finally ending up in requirements analysis/system design. In 2007 I decided that I didn't want to spend my life working for stock options that aren't worth the paper they're printed on and went for a career change into IT. With zero helpdesk experience I interviewed for a senior Linux sysadmin position in the IT outsourcing branch of at a major (Fortune500) telco -- got a job offer the same day. Fast forward 5 years later I'm still with the same company but I'm now a sales engineer supporting salespeople that sell the same IT services I used to run. The kicker -- I make double the money that I did doing R&D. I'd say that if you know your shit and can get shit done, then it doesn't matter if you're trying to do CS with IT experience (or vice versa). Good employers will even consider it an asset to have experience from "the other side of the fence". IMHO IT knowledge will make you a better programmer, and CS knowledge will make you a better sysadmin. You'd be surprised how many PHP/Java web developers don't understand the support consequences of their sloppy code -- they only see as far as QA. A PHP injection flaw on a web page that gets 10M+ views/day will generate a LOT of phone calls.
I had the same initial reaction when I read TFA. If I had any points I'd mod you up.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Mod parent up!
...wouldn't the certs be useless without the associated private keys?
Instead of trying to add (what I would consider) spurious features to the UI such as Ribbon, they should start by fixing all the suck that is currently Windows Explorer. There is ZERO reason it should be as single-threaded as it currently is -- network problems should NEVER freeze the GUI.
And they shouldn't. This functionality should be handled at the transport/network/data-link layers of the telecommunications stack, not in the app.
You're assuming that the child even belongs to the non-cheating spouse to begin with...
Someone has been watching too much 24 Season 7.
Maybe the problem is that there are very few or no HS prerequisites for CS? I can't imagine university Physics not having HS Physics as a prereq, or Chemical Engineering not having HS Chem as a prereq. Why shouldn't CS have a basic programming knowledge (any language, knowledge of loops, conditionals, etc.) as a required foundation?
George Carlin said it best: "Think of how stupid the average person is. Now realize that half of the population is dumber than that."