That's still very useful for a number of situations.
1) Ship en-route to Alpha Centauri-- They entangle their transmitter and receptor beams at the launch, stay in realtime contact the entire flight. Flight takes many decades, but they stay in contact with earth in realtime. (as long as the beams never lose power, and thus stop being entangled.)
2) SETI wants to talk to aliens in a target system. They send the rough equivalent of a modem's negotiation signal for however many years it takes for polarized light to get there. Hopefully, the aliens know about this kind of entanglement, and can entangle their own beam with the incoming polarized light. The aliens can now alter the polarization state of the beam on earth, and send a return message. The return message is received "instantly." Once the channel is open, realtime communication is possible.
Neither of those is possible with traditional entangled photons.
The basic gist that I can derive, is that the polarization state of one beam is directly entangled with the polarization state of the other beam.
So, if you measure the polarization of beam A, you will instantly know the polarization state of beam B.
This is more useful than the quantum states of individual photons A and B, which is what we had previously-- because the state of the polarization is not destroyed by the measurement, and the polarization of the beams can be manipulated to encode data.
This means that somebody modulating the polarization of beam A, can send a message to the person monitoring beam B, at FTL speeds, because the polarization of beam B will change in accordance with the modulation that the sender at beam A is doing, "instantly."
They just figured out non-local data transmission at FTL speeds.
They arent transmitting quantum states, they are transmitting polarization data, which can be used to encode classical information, and transmitted such classical information.
This means that you can transmit from point A to point B, "instantly", as long as you can entangle the two points.
Does this mean that causality is only a suggestion, or will the physical constraint of having to usefully entangle the two points save the day here?
Again, you can block installation of all further attempts by creating a dummy GWX folder in/%systemroot%/system32 and putting a DENY ACL for everyone on it, then making dummy registry keys and putting similar ACLs on those.
any time MS decides they want to put the dick in, the update service will be told no. No it can't write there, No it cant change that, and no that cannot be run.
1) Holding the government accountable for its actions is not the same as "hating" the country. Please stop pretending that it is.
2) "Terrorist" is such a loosely used word (when used by the US government) that just about anyone that exposes, or otherwise makes the US look bad for its blatantly anti-civil behaviors is branded such, because apparently being accountable for their actions is "Terrifying" to government officials. Yes, this means that if you mention the NSA spooks installing listening equipment next door to a public restroom, you will be branded a terrorist, and ooops, I guess now you are a bad bad man, and deserve to go to GITMO! See how loose definitions work there? Not good. Just because the government labels somebody a "Terrorist" does not mean that they enact political change through the use of mass terror. (You know, what a REAL terrorist actually does.)
Underlying both of those points of contention is the false notion that disobeying government's wishes is fundamentally wrong/immoral. I hate to Godwin, but by that logic, the people who refused to tell the germans where all the jews were hiding were horrible people.
Basically, I am with Taco above-- I do not "hate America", I hate what America is becoming, through the blind obsequiousness of people like you.
Please, for the love of all that is wholesome and good, stop drinking the government koolaid.
Due to MS's insistence on pushing the Get windows 10! "update" to my systems, I have started treating it like it was a very aggressive form of malware.
So far my solution is able to block installation.
Basically, create a dummy GWX folder in the %systemroot%/system32 folder, then put DENY ACL on everything for the Everyone object. This keeps windows update from putting anything in there. (And even if somehow it manages to actually put something in there, it wont be permitted to run.)
Then do a similar thing with all the registry keys associated with the get windows 10 update. (Then the keys already exist, but cannot be read by anyone. This prevents the windows update service from setting any values, essentially hamstringing the software it wants to install.)
From then on, every time windows tries to install the "update", it will fail. (For obvious reasons.)
This is a bit of a PITA, but it works, and works more reliably than some other options. Windows update screams angrily in the system log about it, but MS can go fuck itself. I can't think of a better way to tell MS that, "No, I DO NOT WANT Windows 10, Stop asking!" than that.
USB (including 3.0) is still a polled-state system, requring the CPU to constantly talk with the ports.
It's reasonably fast, and has a wide install base for devices, but not all devices lend themselves well to USB in a serious fashion. Specifically, you cannot really add RAM or a CPU over the USB bus, and things like USB serial ports are quirky beasts. Not to mention the penalties that the polled-state design of USB imposes if you want high speed disk drives attached.
Most SoCs already resemble a mini internal PCI bus on phones. Giving a header to that should be reasonably simple, and would give a wider assortment of high power device capabilities than USB.
With root access, along with Linux Deploy and SSH/VNC client apps installed, I get my money's worth.
I buy retro phones with HW keyboards. They feel more like a very portable linux pc that way. In the linux chroot environment, I can run any linux usermode app I want, run any system daemon I want, and muck about with custom mounted filesystems. (even mounting image files on the sdcard into useful places that are visible from android.)
I bought my HTC Doubleshot second hand off ebay, and put a custom built cyanogenmod on it with some additional kernel modules (like binfmtmisc, zram, nfs, and pals) to make the chrooted linux more useful.
The phone ecosystem is in dire need of a REAL system bus expansion architecture.
Android especially is based on linux (while iOS is based on MacOSX, which is based partly on BSD), which has baked in support for mixed CPU types, exotic memory technologies, and other goodies. A proper system bus implementation could get all that footwork brought to work for the device in question.
Say for instance, another CPU, or added RAM, a different cellular modem (or satellite modem), an ethernet jack, perhaps even eSATA or a physical serial port.
They could solve the driver/kernel module issue with an MTD squashfs with a digital signature on it, baked into each device. Contains the module source code and config script along with a vetted compiler binary. builds the module, then drops it in the system storage. Complies with GPL completely that way, and the end user doesnt need to see anything other than a "please wait while your device is configured." splash from android. (this mechanism is a security hole big enough to drive a bus through. Needs secure digital signature enforcement on the partition inside the device, read only partition in the device, and other such restrictions to avoid giving a mechanism to attackers with local access. This isnt necessarily a bad thing either. It means that a root user enabling card with dummy hardware could be put in the slot to give end users root access to their device. (contains dummy compile script, and copies SU, Busybox, and pals to the device) Sadly, it could be used by law enforcement for the same purposes. Using encrypting filesystems becomes important.)
Existing drivers can be leveraged if the slot resembles an express card slot at the software level.
If I were designing a slot architecture for android, this is the direction I would take anyway. (Just remember that a slot that can do anything truly useful (like add a GPU, add RAM, etc), needs access to the front side bus, which basically makes it a naked debug port through which law enforcement can insert their deeply coveted "magic keys". They can have their own little system on chip attached that shares the bus with the host cpu, and can do anything the host cpu does, for better or for worse. I dont consider that a good thing, but I dont see a solution, other than to just not have the port at all.)
I like the idea of a standards based expansion port for cellphones that lets you add beefier hardware later. But to do that right, and keep it user friendly, you either need to distribute kernel modules over the store with crypto, or do what I proposed above, and have a naked access port to the system bus. (with all the danger that enables.)
From a security standpoint, sandboxing/segregating the memory range associated with the slot and some other tricks might improve matters, by preventing DMA reads from devices sitting in that range from seeing main system memory, and requring active participation from the host cpu for data moves in and out, thus crippling "magic key" use, but it would also make it much harder to put certain kinds of hardware on the port.
Kind of a curious thought experiment. How would you guys go about it?
I have considered combining AR with the Emotiv EEG controller for some years now.
The EEG input device allows full hands-free operation of the embedded platform (but has several outstanding bugs related to signal noise, and user training). This means google-glass can now be used without having to, for example, touch the eyepiece to take a picture, or start recording video-- Or regions of the AR image can be enhanced/manipulated based on user attention focus.
A low-cost (300$ is not low cost, unless you live in some hyper inflated local economy. Yes Silicon valley, you are a hyper inflated economy.) synthesis of these could enable all kinds of useful applications, from AR assisted night driving with bright IR LED based headlights and computer processing (does not blind other drivers, gives lots of illumination for the computer to do image capture with, and the resulting presentation requires no physical input method. Not even "pinch to zoom".)
To take off though, the fully integrated product needs to approach the 100$ price point. That includes hardware and software.
We aren't there yet.
(Other, highly lucrative applications: Soldiers with AR targeting. Limited upper body exo-harnesses intended to collect EEG motor-area data and correct body posture accordingly for precision sniping, etc. Hollywood already thought of this shit years ago. Tech is just catching up.)
how fast can you drive the gpio pins, and do they support pwm?
it may be possible ti slap another device on the gpio to serve as an ethernet asic, and give a wired interface.
also, I seem to remember USB to ethernet dongles being a thing. If you dont want to hardware hack, that might be a solution.
Besides, this is all discounting the real interesting thing this enables, and that is being the compute core of a DIY robot. It is small form factor, reasonably powerful, now runs linux, and can accept remote commands over wifi. It has some GPIOs for controlling the robot with.
Something simple, like a DIY wifi enabled toy car, is just an arduino and some shell scripts away.
I can think of some pretty clever things one could put this up to. (Simply because it is openwrt, does not mean it needs to be a router. the wifi chip can be run in STA mode instead of AP mode just fine on openwrt. )
Stress is known to cause systemic problems, ranging from weight gain, endocrine disruption, hair loss, and now neurodegernative conditions.
However, the actual costs of these ill health effects is not factored into the cost benefit analyses of major employers in nearly all conditions, as something other than just a potential source of losing valuable worker resources.
Seems to me that since the US has an endemic problem with stress and mental illness, at the same time also lacking good mental health infrastructure, that those causing the endemic problem (major employers who saddle on way more hours of work per employee than is sane or reasonable) should be made to pay this real cost, by being found culpable for causation of the very real health effects that thier high stress work environments induce, by means of having to pay for adult care in appropriate facilities for dementia patients, and for the costs of antipsychotics, psychoactive drugs, and mental health therapy for those they have harmed and are actively harming.
By introducing this new liability, the profit motive of forcing people into those situations will evaporate, and better working conditions should come forward naturally.
Of course, the reality is that these employers will seek radical outsourcing first, but if they all try that all at once, congress would have no choice but to intervene and introduce new labor and subcontracting laws.
Other than forcing employers to bear the weight of their own shit, (and thus reducing profits), I dont see the downside.
I realize this is an old topic now, and you are unlikely to respond, but all the same:
The alcubierre warp drive does not exactly violate c. The ship itself remains motionless inside its local spacetime. What happens instead, is that the spacetime just outside that which contains the ship is bent like hell, and causes contraction and expansion at faster than light speeds. This drags the local spacetime around with it.
So, the issue with "Hey, I can go backwards in time with it!" is avoided. The ship has normal causality inside its local spacetime. it does not have time dialation, because the ship does not move inside that curved spacial geometry. What happens instead is that an event shock forms around the ship, preventing information from entering or leaving the pocket of spacetime inside, and the whole bubble rips off like a bat out of hell. The event shock interacts with matter and virtual particles as normal space is compressed in front of the vehicle, and that energy builds up like bug splatter on a windshield.
When the vessel exits FTL mode travel, it will release that accumulated energy.
The equations for the alcubierre warp drive are sound in terms of theoretical physics. The devil is in the details. It requires an exotic material with negative mass, or requires exotic negative energy. The only contender for this exotic negative energy is the casimir effect, but the effects of that phenomenon are much too small to be useful to create a warp drive.
An alternative may however be possible. Spacetime is not "empty", even in an otherwise perfect vacuum. There is always some level of background energy/particle phenomena in the form of short lived virtual particles. If a means of modulating this energy density can be found, reducing the rate of virtual particle pair production will have similar consequences to having negative mass or negative energy present. That would satisfy that requirement for alcubierre's warp drive physics.
Is there a way to modulate/control the rate of virtual particle pair production? Hell if I know.
Oh my, I have been insulted by an anonymous coward. Whatever shall I do?/s
go invent conspiracy theories about "space nutters" somewhere else, dumbass. The argument that there are no aliens out there loses steam daily as missions like Kepler give statistical samplings of planetary system compositions. The suggestion of it being from FTL use is less convoluted than the suggestion that it is a Dyson swarm, because FTL is going to be an essential technology to construct a dyson swarm. I threw it out there, not because I believed it was true, but because it was a similarly improbable reasoning for the observed phenomenon, and suggested a means to disprove it.
That's significantly better than jumping whole horse on the ad hominem fun ride, like you just did.
There's another possibility that's just as far out, and would explain the missing IR.
It's a traffic hub for small FTL ships.
If they use something like an alcubierre metric based warp drive, then the gravitational fields around the craft will scatter the star's light into vectors that are no longer straight lines away from the star. This will result in the star's effective brightness being reduced.
Get enough of them going in and out of the system routinely, and you will get the observed phenomenon.
To me, the obvious thing to do is look for gravitational waves coming from the system. If you can't catch their broadcasts (because they use something other than open channel radio), then look for the propwash.
Really now, there are very good algorithms out there. Would it have really been that hard to sub out the encryption module of their source code with a vetted encryption algorithm?
Oh--- right-- Probably not using properly modularized code! Because FIRST TO MARKET or some similarly retarded reason.
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and
By Forbes demanding deactivation of adblockers to view the content, they have instituted a "Technological Measure" as described in the last part of section B--"or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work."-- which makes the use of an anti-adblocker blocker an illegal circumvention technology.
It being weak as fuck does not matter. It is a technological measure, instituted to gain "authorized" access to the works that they hold copyright to, and being made to see adverts so that they get money can be seen as "a process or treatment with the authority of the copyright owner to gain access to the work."
Encryption is not necessary. Just an attempt to institute a technological measure to cockblock free access.
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DII uses BINK video codec. RAD would never allow the codec to go foss.
Proprietary game tools are totally a thing. DII is not fully home grown like the DOOM engine was.
That's still very useful for a number of situations.
1) Ship en-route to Alpha Centauri-- They entangle their transmitter and receptor beams at the launch, stay in realtime contact the entire flight. Flight takes many decades, but they stay in contact with earth in realtime. (as long as the beams never lose power, and thus stop being entangled.)
2) SETI wants to talk to aliens in a target system. They send the rough equivalent of a modem's negotiation signal for however many years it takes for polarized light to get there. Hopefully, the aliens know about this kind of entanglement, and can entangle their own beam with the incoming polarized light. The aliens can now alter the polarization state of the beam on earth, and send a return message. The return message is received "instantly." Once the channel is open, realtime communication is possible.
Neither of those is possible with traditional entangled photons.
The basic gist that I can derive, is that the polarization state of one beam is directly entangled with the polarization state of the other beam.
So, if you measure the polarization of beam A, you will instantly know the polarization state of beam B.
This is more useful than the quantum states of individual photons A and B, which is what we had previously-- because the state of the polarization is not destroyed by the measurement, and the polarization of the beams can be manipulated to encode data.
This means that somebody modulating the polarization of beam A, can send a message to the person monitoring beam B, at FTL speeds, because the polarization of beam B will change in accordance with the modulation that the sender at beam A is doing, "instantly."
We have people named all kinds of things in the US. They are still Americans.
Germany is a cosmopolitan, modern industrial nation. There is no reason why a native born German citizen cannot have that name.
They just figured out non-local data transmission at FTL speeds.
They arent transmitting quantum states, they are transmitting polarization data, which can be used to encode classical information, and transmitted such classical information.
This means that you can transmit from point A to point B, "instantly", as long as you can entangle the two points.
Does this mean that causality is only a suggestion, or will the physical constraint of having to usefully entangle the two points save the day here?
Again, you can block installation of all further attempts by creating a dummy GWX folder in /%systemroot%/system32 and putting a DENY ACL for everyone on it, then making dummy registry keys and putting similar ACLs on those.
any time MS decides they want to put the dick in, the update service will be told no. No it can't write there, No it cant change that, and no that cannot be run.
I'd say the solution is to fight fire with fire.
Javascript is able to catch, and also to trigger, events like mouseclick.
So, just have a plugin that injects a random delay on mouse click, with a slider.
BOOM. Fingerprinting busted.
APK is that you?
By the way you keep cross posting this, one would think that MS has patented the HOSTS file or something.
And that is the danger inherent with any secret court.
It astounds me that some people consider the very idea of the FISA court to be a good one.
If those people are afraid of terrorists, why the fuck arent they afraid of the biggest terrorist in the room?
Hello AC.
I see you have drunk the Koolaid.
Points in contention:
1) Holding the government accountable for its actions is not the same as "hating" the country. Please stop pretending that it is.
2) "Terrorist" is such a loosely used word (when used by the US government) that just about anyone that exposes, or otherwise makes the US look bad for its blatantly anti-civil behaviors is branded such, because apparently being accountable for their actions is "Terrifying" to government officials. Yes, this means that if you mention the NSA spooks installing listening equipment next door to a public restroom, you will be branded a terrorist, and ooops, I guess now you are a bad bad man, and deserve to go to GITMO! See how loose definitions work there? Not good. Just because the government labels somebody a "Terrorist" does not mean that they enact political change through the use of mass terror. (You know, what a REAL terrorist actually does.)
Underlying both of those points of contention is the false notion that disobeying government's wishes is fundamentally wrong/immoral. I hate to Godwin, but by that logic, the people who refused to tell the germans where all the jews were hiding were horrible people.
Basically, I am with Taco above-- I do not "hate America", I hate what America is becoming, through the blind obsequiousness of people like you.
Please, for the love of all that is wholesome and good, stop drinking the government koolaid.
Due to MS's insistence on pushing the Get windows 10! "update" to my systems, I have started treating it like it was a very aggressive form of malware.
So far my solution is able to block installation.
Basically, create a dummy GWX folder in the %systemroot%/system32 folder, then put DENY ACL on everything for the Everyone object. This keeps windows update from putting anything in there. (And even if somehow it manages to actually put something in there, it wont be permitted to run.)
Then do a similar thing with all the registry keys associated with the get windows 10 update. (Then the keys already exist, but cannot be read by anyone. This prevents the windows update service from setting any values, essentially hamstringing the software it wants to install.)
From then on, every time windows tries to install the "update", it will fail. (For obvious reasons.)
This is a bit of a PITA, but it works, and works more reliably than some other options. Windows update screams angrily in the system log about it, but MS can go fuck itself. I can't think of a better way to tell MS that, "No, I DO NOT WANT Windows 10, Stop asking!" than that.
There is also a sexually transmitted cancer that affects dogs, and then there is transmitted blood cancers from transfusions in humans.
contagious cancer is already a thing.
Many parts of northern Missouri.
feel free to fact check.
USB (including 3.0) is still a polled-state system, requring the CPU to constantly talk with the ports.
It's reasonably fast, and has a wide install base for devices, but not all devices lend themselves well to USB in a serious fashion. Specifically, you cannot really add RAM or a CPU over the USB bus, and things like USB serial ports are quirky beasts. Not to mention the penalties that the polled-state design of USB imposes if you want high speed disk drives attached.
Most SoCs already resemble a mini internal PCI bus on phones. Giving a header to that should be reasonably simple, and would give a wider assortment of high power device capabilities than USB.
With root access, along with Linux Deploy and SSH/VNC client apps installed, I get my money's worth.
I buy retro phones with HW keyboards. They feel more like a very portable linux pc that way. In the linux chroot environment, I can run any linux usermode app I want, run any system daemon I want, and muck about with custom mounted filesystems. (even mounting image files on the sdcard into useful places that are visible from android.)
I bought my HTC Doubleshot second hand off ebay, and put a custom built cyanogenmod on it with some additional kernel modules (like binfmtmisc, zram, nfs, and pals) to make the chrooted linux more useful.
I have gotten my money's worth.
The phone ecosystem is in dire need of a REAL system bus expansion architecture.
Android especially is based on linux (while iOS is based on MacOSX, which is based partly on BSD), which has baked in support for mixed CPU types, exotic memory technologies, and other goodies. A proper system bus implementation could get all that footwork brought to work for the device in question.
Say for instance, another CPU, or added RAM, a different cellular modem (or satellite modem), an ethernet jack, perhaps even eSATA or a physical serial port.
They could solve the driver/kernel module issue with an MTD squashfs with a digital signature on it, baked into each device. Contains the module source code and config script along with a vetted compiler binary. builds the module, then drops it in the system storage. Complies with GPL completely that way, and the end user doesnt need to see anything other than a "please wait while your device is configured." splash from android. (this mechanism is a security hole big enough to drive a bus through. Needs secure digital signature enforcement on the partition inside the device, read only partition in the device, and other such restrictions to avoid giving a mechanism to attackers with local access. This isnt necessarily a bad thing either. It means that a root user enabling card with dummy hardware could be put in the slot to give end users root access to their device. (contains dummy compile script, and copies SU, Busybox, and pals to the device) Sadly, it could be used by law enforcement for the same purposes. Using encrypting filesystems becomes important.)
Existing drivers can be leveraged if the slot resembles an express card slot at the software level.
If I were designing a slot architecture for android, this is the direction I would take anyway. (Just remember that a slot that can do anything truly useful (like add a GPU, add RAM, etc), needs access to the front side bus, which basically makes it a naked debug port through which law enforcement can insert their deeply coveted "magic keys". They can have their own little system on chip attached that shares the bus with the host cpu, and can do anything the host cpu does, for better or for worse. I dont consider that a good thing, but I dont see a solution, other than to just not have the port at all.)
I like the idea of a standards based expansion port for cellphones that lets you add beefier hardware later. But to do that right, and keep it user friendly, you either need to distribute kernel modules over the store with crypto, or do what I proposed above, and have a naked access port to the system bus. (with all the danger that enables.)
From a security standpoint, sandboxing/segregating the memory range associated with the slot and some other tricks might improve matters, by preventing DMA reads from devices sitting in that range from seeing main system memory, and requring active participation from the host cpu for data moves in and out, thus crippling "magic key" use, but it would also make it much harder to put certain kinds of hardware on the port.
Kind of a curious thought experiment. How would you guys go about it?
I have considered combining AR with the Emotiv EEG controller for some years now.
The EEG input device allows full hands-free operation of the embedded platform (but has several outstanding bugs related to signal noise, and user training). This means google-glass can now be used without having to, for example, touch the eyepiece to take a picture, or start recording video-- Or regions of the AR image can be enhanced/manipulated based on user attention focus.
A low-cost (300$ is not low cost, unless you live in some hyper inflated local economy. Yes Silicon valley, you are a hyper inflated economy.) synthesis of these could enable all kinds of useful applications, from AR assisted night driving with bright IR LED based headlights and computer processing (does not blind other drivers, gives lots of illumination for the computer to do image capture with, and the resulting presentation requires no physical input method. Not even "pinch to zoom".)
To take off though, the fully integrated product needs to approach the 100$ price point. That includes hardware and software.
We aren't there yet.
(Other, highly lucrative applications: Soldiers with AR targeting. Limited upper body exo-harnesses intended to collect EEG motor-area data and correct body posture accordingly for precision sniping, etc. Hollywood already thought of this shit years ago. Tech is just catching up.)
how fast can you drive the gpio pins, and do they support pwm?
it may be possible ti slap another device on the gpio to serve as an ethernet asic, and give a wired interface.
also, I seem to remember USB to ethernet dongles being a thing. If you dont want to hardware hack, that might be a solution.
Besides, this is all discounting the real interesting thing this enables, and that is being the compute core of a DIY robot. It is small form factor, reasonably powerful, now runs linux, and can accept remote commands over wifi. It has some GPIOs for controlling the robot with.
Something simple, like a DIY wifi enabled toy car, is just an arduino and some shell scripts away.
I can think of some pretty clever things one could put this up to. (Simply because it is openwrt, does not mean it needs to be a router. the wifi chip can be run in STA mode instead of AP mode just fine on openwrt. )
Stress is known to cause systemic problems, ranging from weight gain, endocrine disruption, hair loss, and now neurodegernative conditions.
However, the actual costs of these ill health effects is not factored into the cost benefit analyses of major employers in nearly all conditions, as something other than just a potential source of losing valuable worker resources.
Seems to me that since the US has an endemic problem with stress and mental illness, at the same time also lacking good mental health infrastructure, that those causing the endemic problem (major employers who saddle on way more hours of work per employee than is sane or reasonable) should be made to pay this real cost, by being found culpable for causation of the very real health effects that thier high stress work environments induce, by means of having to pay for adult care in appropriate facilities for dementia patients, and for the costs of antipsychotics, psychoactive drugs, and mental health therapy for those they have harmed and are actively harming.
By introducing this new liability, the profit motive of forcing people into those situations will evaporate, and better working conditions should come forward naturally.
Of course, the reality is that these employers will seek radical outsourcing first, but if they all try that all at once, congress would have no choice but to intervene and introduce new labor and subcontracting laws.
Other than forcing employers to bear the weight of their own shit, (and thus reducing profits), I dont see the downside.
I realize this is an old topic now, and you are unlikely to respond, but all the same:
The alcubierre warp drive does not exactly violate c. The ship itself remains motionless inside its local spacetime. What happens instead, is that the spacetime just outside that which contains the ship is bent like hell, and causes contraction and expansion at faster than light speeds. This drags the local spacetime around with it.
So, the issue with "Hey, I can go backwards in time with it!" is avoided. The ship has normal causality inside its local spacetime. it does not have time dialation, because the ship does not move inside that curved spacial geometry. What happens instead is that an event shock forms around the ship, preventing information from entering or leaving the pocket of spacetime inside, and the whole bubble rips off like a bat out of hell. The event shock interacts with matter and virtual particles as normal space is compressed in front of the vehicle, and that energy builds up like bug splatter on a windshield.
When the vessel exits FTL mode travel, it will release that accumulated energy.
The equations for the alcubierre warp drive are sound in terms of theoretical physics. The devil is in the details. It requires an exotic material with negative mass, or requires exotic negative energy. The only contender for this exotic negative energy is the casimir effect, but the effects of that phenomenon are much too small to be useful to create a warp drive.
An alternative may however be possible. Spacetime is not "empty", even in an otherwise perfect vacuum. There is always some level of background energy/particle phenomena in the form of short lived virtual particles. If a means of modulating this energy density can be found, reducing the rate of virtual particle pair production will have similar consequences to having negative mass or negative energy present. That would satisfy that requirement for alcubierre's warp drive physics.
Is there a way to modulate/control the rate of virtual particle pair production? Hell if I know.
Oh my, I have been insulted by an anonymous coward. Whatever shall I do? /s
go invent conspiracy theories about "space nutters" somewhere else, dumbass. The argument that there are no aliens out there loses steam daily as missions like Kepler give statistical samplings of planetary system compositions. The suggestion of it being from FTL use is less convoluted than the suggestion that it is a Dyson swarm, because FTL is going to be an essential technology to construct a dyson swarm. I threw it out there, not because I believed it was true, but because it was a similarly improbable reasoning for the observed phenomenon, and suggested a means to disprove it.
That's significantly better than jumping whole horse on the ad hominem fun ride, like you just did.
Catch you later AC.
There's another possibility that's just as far out, and would explain the missing IR.
It's a traffic hub for small FTL ships.
If they use something like an alcubierre metric based warp drive, then the gravitational fields around the craft will scatter the star's light into vectors that are no longer straight lines away from the star. This will result in the star's effective brightness being reduced.
Get enough of them going in and out of the system routinely, and you will get the observed phenomenon.
To me, the obvious thing to do is look for gravitational waves coming from the system. If you can't catch their broadcasts (because they use something other than open channel radio), then look for the propwash.
Really now, there are very good algorithms out there. Would it have really been that hard to sub out the encryption module of their source code with a vetted encryption algorithm?
Oh--- right-- Probably not using properly modularized code! Because FIRST TO MARKET or some similarly retarded reason.
Damnit. Stupid missing close tags.
Here's the other section--
(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, thatâ"
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that personâ(TM)s knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
(3) As used in this subsectionâ"
(A) to âoecircumvent a technological measureâ means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
(B) a technological measure âoeeffectively controls access to a workâ if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
No. No it isnt.
Here's a link--
https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
And here's the pertinent section's text.
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