I think the problem is that they want the range that a high sectional density projectile allows. If the range is short, than many more defensive installations are required.
One 20mm CRAM can cover the area of multiple low sectional density 7.62 or.50 caliber guns and the later still need all of the same command and control.
How much debris is generated from an exploding Patriot missile versus, say, a Phalanx burst? I'm surprised the patriot is safer to shoot.
The Phalanx system designed for this, CRAM, uses 20mm projectiles which self destruct before hitting the ground and when the sectional density of the remains of the shell is small enough, it is no longer a threat when it hits the ground. This is why shotguns are both short range and safe for bystanders who get hit with shot fired into the air. I do not think CRAM does it but the larger systems made for the same purpose operate as flack so have the same advantage.
At 20mm why not just make it a belt fed automatic 10 gauge shotgun pumping out some BB shot or maybe up to some 000 buckshot. For small things like this it seem like any small consumer drone would be easily dealt with more effectively instead of using a 20mm cannon since you have a bit more spray in the pray 'n spray.
That would work and shot falling to the ground would be relatively safe (who hasn't been hit by shot near a skeet range?) but the effective range is awfully short.
This is why I think people should be able to use shotguns to shoot drones down over their property. If a drone is in shotgun range, then it is close and falling shot is hardly a hazard to anything. I wonder though what the best shot size would be.
What they need as a starting point is something like AEGIS, but that is plug and play onto any vehicle. Something as simple as a turret that is radar-controlled and that uses 5.56 could shred consumer drones all day. It's be a foregone conclusion if they use 7.62.
They prefer to use larger diameter projectiles like 20mm for this so that they can self destruct before hitting the ground and causing friendly causalities. Shooting straight up and down might not be a problem but most intercepts are going to occur at elevations where this is a significant hazard.
I remember coming out of the theater after seeing #2 (The Matrix: Reloaded) and thinking, "Huh, not fully what I was hoping for, but that ending could herald interesting things. If Neo can affect reality after waking up then they must be in a layered Matrix. The idea of layered realities and never knowing which one is finally real could be a cool way to wrap up the series." Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine they'd take the route of Neo being future-Jesus who has completely unexplainable powers in the real world, and we're going to abandon any aspirations of science fiction and go headlong into pure fantasy.
It's hard to imagine how they could screw the story up even worse. Then again, as Douglas Adams said, "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
I had the same thought and was disappointed with the ultimate reason.
Instead of a reboot, I'd like to see John Steakley's 'Armor', which basically borrows the premise of Starship Troopers the book (a bug war on an alien planet) but is primarily action focused. When I saw the first preview for the ST movie, I actually thought it *was* Armor before they showed the title. Also, it's just a really good book.
I can think of lots of movies closely based on books that I would rather see that we could do well now starting with Footfall and Lucifer's Hammer. Based on recent production values, they could even be done as series instead of multipart movies.
Not merely power suits. Power suits that launch out miniature nuclear weapons like grandma handing out cookies at Christmas.
The creators explained why there were no power suits in the Starship Troopers movie. The state of special effects at the time would have allowed either alien bugs or power suits but not both and there was no movie without alien bugs.
However, wouldn't that reflect in odd behaviour in all electronics? That would stand out, no?
The only way the power line could be affecting the SSDs is if the computer was losing power which most SSDs are intolerant of. The ones with internal power backup should handle power loss fine but in practice even some of them do not.
Power loss while programming Flash can be fatal to the drive do to corruption of the Flash translation layer. Unlike a hard drive, it can result in more than just an incomplete write; it can result in data corruption.
And that's it in a nutshell. We all need to pay in ahead of time to avoid much, much higher costs (and worse outcomes) later.
We can do this in a proper free market capitalist way, though. At birth, each baby should be presented with a bill for $316,600 (the average lifetime cost of health insurance). If the baby or its parents cannot promptly pay this bill in advance, it gets aborted for financial irresponsibility. This plan could get conservative support because it'd instantly solve the long-lamented problem of non-wealthy people reproducing.
And then Congress can replace the money payed for the baby's future health with an IOU and spend it. That is brilliant!
You can get a clamp-on ammeter for less than 900 euros.
This plus an AC voltmeter would be good for testing using a load which has a power factor of 1 but that is the type of load that the utility meter is probably working correctly with. Inductive, capacitive, and non-linear loads require more than a clamp-on ammeter and AC voltmeter to verify.
The compartmentalization that's supposed to prevent federal agencies from treading upon the rights those within the borders of the United States has been eroded in the name of the Wahr on Terrah to where if they want to circumvent, they can circumvent.
The compartmentalization has been gone for a long time. The NSA and other agencies forward intelligence which was gained in violation of the 4th to domestic law enforcement and parallel construction and other things prevent court review not that the court wouldn't find the practice acceptable somehow anyway.
WinXP has 8.5% because really old PCs get "refurbished" (aka have WinXP re-installed on them using the existing license) and then are sold for peanuts to the third-world. It's legal and people can buy a PC for 50 bucks or so. They don't care if they are vulnerable to two-year-old font exploits (sadly).
Add to this that the current Windows does not support older PC hardware at all.
No surprise that Vista has only 0.78% of the market (https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0), although it is something of a surprise that XP has 8.5% (same source), but Microsoft ended support almost three years ago. I'm of the feeling that any software ending support for these platforms is reasonable and should really be presented as FYI.
If Microsoft had provided a replacement for XP, then the continued use of it would be surprising.
Those are the times when we need our phone to be answered the most. Our friends and family are not the ones crying wolf here, but they are the ones who will suffer if we allow ourselves to harden.
They will not be the only ones who suffer but I guess that is too bad because the phone companies turned phones into a means of SPAM delivery in the quest for money. The assumption that people answer their phone is no longer true whether they have one or not and if it gets bad enough, fewer will have them.
Well, an agency like the NSA does do more than one thing, you know.
This is called the selective attention fallacy. We all know that the NSA does many legitimate and non-controversial things. We just act like everyone there is involved in the controversial ones.
Sure the NSA does more than one thing. One part of the agency subverts encryption systems. Another part of the agency pretends to secure encryption systems while helping the other part subvert them. Even NIST managed to get dragged into providing a false sense of security at the cost of their own reputation.
Yes, as LTE-U doesn't employ LBT (listen-before-talk). That said, the interference is likely to be of a similar magnitude as another Wi-Fi access point operating on the same channel.
Just like the Motorola Canopy systems which completely trash the channels they operate on?
Some ISPs deployed Canopy just to block WISPs which became amusing when some WISPs deployed Ubiquiti Airmax systems which blocked Canopy.
Basically no one obeys speed limits. The posted speed limits are at best suggestions, and at worst revenue generators for the local governments. And many other traffic rules are casually disobeyed. Except for the stop sign, I don't see much voluntary compliance of traffic law.
This is more indicative of your area than the general way people behave on the roads. Also calling it a revenue generator is a bit extreme. Paying a fine for something completely within your control makes this a 100% voluntary gesture.
How about paying a fine for obeying the law? Where I am, police pull people over and give tickets for laws they did not break and the magistrate judges do not care and why should they? The fines pay the cities and them.
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I think the problem is that they want the range that a high sectional density projectile allows. If the range is short, than many more defensive installations are required.
One 20mm CRAM can cover the area of multiple low sectional density 7.62 or .50 caliber guns and the later still need all of the same command and control.
How much debris is generated from an exploding Patriot missile versus, say, a Phalanx burst? I'm surprised the patriot is safer to shoot.
The Phalanx system designed for this, CRAM, uses 20mm projectiles which self destruct before hitting the ground and when the sectional density of the remains of the shell is small enough, it is no longer a threat when it hits the ground. This is why shotguns are both short range and safe for bystanders who get hit with shot fired into the air. I do not think CRAM does it but the larger systems made for the same purpose operate as flack so have the same advantage.
At 20mm why not just make it a belt fed automatic 10 gauge shotgun pumping out some BB shot or maybe up to some 000 buckshot. For small things like this it seem like any small consumer drone would be easily dealt with more effectively instead of using a 20mm cannon since you have a bit more spray in the pray 'n spray.
That would work and shot falling to the ground would be relatively safe (who hasn't been hit by shot near a skeet range?) but the effective range is awfully short.
This is why I think people should be able to use shotguns to shoot drones down over their property. If a drone is in shotgun range, then it is close and falling shot is hardly a hazard to anything. I wonder though what the best shot size would be.
What they need as a starting point is something like AEGIS, but that is plug and play onto any vehicle. Something as simple as a turret that is radar-controlled and that uses 5.56 could shred consumer drones all day. It's be a foregone conclusion if they use 7.62.
They prefer to use larger diameter projectiles like 20mm for this so that they can self destruct before hitting the ground and causing friendly causalities. Shooting straight up and down might not be a problem but most intercepts are going to occur at elevations where this is a significant hazard.
I remember coming out of the theater after seeing #2 (The Matrix: Reloaded) and thinking, "Huh, not fully what I was hoping for, but that ending could herald interesting things. If Neo can affect reality after waking up then they must be in a layered Matrix. The idea of layered realities and never knowing which one is finally real could be a cool way to wrap up the series." Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine they'd take the route of Neo being future-Jesus who has completely unexplainable powers in the real world, and we're going to abandon any aspirations of science fiction and go headlong into pure fantasy.
It's hard to imagine how they could screw the story up even worse. Then again, as Douglas Adams said, "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
I had the same thought and was disappointed with the ultimate reason.
Instead of a reboot, I'd like to see John Steakley's 'Armor', which basically borrows the premise of Starship Troopers the book (a bug war on an alien planet) but is primarily action focused. When I saw the first preview for the ST movie, I actually thought it *was* Armor before they showed the title. Also, it's just a really good book.
I can think of lots of movies closely based on books that I would rather see that we could do well now starting with Footfall and Lucifer's Hammer. Based on recent production values, they could even be done as series instead of multipart movies.
Not merely power suits. Power suits that launch out miniature nuclear weapons like grandma handing out cookies at Christmas.
The creators explained why there were no power suits in the Starship Troopers movie. The state of special effects at the time would have allowed either alien bugs or power suits but not both and there was no movie without alien bugs.
Good point. I didn't consider that.
However, wouldn't that reflect in odd behaviour in all electronics? That would stand out, no?
The only way the power line could be affecting the SSDs is if the computer was losing power which most SSDs are intolerant of. The ones with internal power backup should handle power loss fine but in practice even some of them do not.
Power loss while programming Flash can be fatal to the drive do to corruption of the Flash translation layer. Unlike a hard drive, it can result in more than just an incomplete write; it can result in data corruption.
We can do this in a proper free market capitalist way, though. At birth, each baby should be presented with a bill for $316,600 (the average lifetime cost of health insurance). If the baby or its parents cannot promptly pay this bill in advance, it gets aborted for financial irresponsibility. This plan could get conservative support because it'd instantly solve the long-lamented problem of non-wealthy people reproducing.
And then Congress can replace the money payed for the baby's future health with an IOU and spend it. That is brilliant!
If they treated his eyesight, then they could not collect data about how it deteriorates after spending time in space.
You can get a clamp-on ammeter for less than 900 euros.
This plus an AC voltmeter would be good for testing using a load which has a power factor of 1 but that is the type of load that the utility meter is probably working correctly with. Inductive, capacitive, and non-linear loads require more than a clamp-on ammeter and AC voltmeter to verify.
The compartmentalization that's supposed to prevent federal agencies from treading upon the rights those within the borders of the United States has been eroded in the name of the Wahr on Terrah to where if they want to circumvent, they can circumvent.
The compartmentalization has been gone for a long time. The NSA and other agencies forward intelligence which was gained in violation of the 4th to domestic law enforcement and parallel construction and other things prevent court review not that the court wouldn't find the practice acceptable somehow anyway.
WinXP has 8.5% because really old PCs get "refurbished" (aka have WinXP re-installed on them using the existing license) and then are sold for peanuts to the third-world. It's legal and people can buy a PC for 50 bucks or so. They don't care if they are vulnerable to two-year-old font exploits (sadly).
Add to this that the current Windows does not support older PC hardware at all.
No surprise that Vista has only 0.78% of the market (https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0), although it is something of a surprise that XP has 8.5% (same source), but Microsoft ended support almost three years ago. I'm of the feeling that any software ending support for these platforms is reasonable and should really be presented as FYI.
If Microsoft had provided a replacement for XP, then the continued use of it would be surprising.
Latency could be compensated for but LCDs have too much persistence compared to CRTs for this to work.
The UIs will improve.
That is a laugh.
Can we replace D.C. with a swamp? It was a swamp before so restoration should be relatively easy.
Those are the times when we need our phone to be answered the most. Our friends and family are not the ones crying wolf here, but they are the ones who will suffer if we allow ourselves to harden.
They will not be the only ones who suffer but I guess that is too bad because the phone companies turned phones into a means of SPAM delivery in the quest for money. The assumption that people answer their phone is no longer true whether they have one or not and if it gets bad enough, fewer will have them.
That sounds like the biodiesel tax loophole:
http://www.npr.org/templates/s...
Well, an agency like the NSA does do more than one thing, you know.
This is called the selective attention fallacy. We all know that the NSA does many legitimate and non-controversial things. We just act like everyone there is involved in the controversial ones.
Sure the NSA does more than one thing. One part of the agency subverts encryption systems. Another part of the agency pretends to secure encryption systems while helping the other part subvert them. Even NIST managed to get dragged into providing a false sense of security at the cost of their own reputation.
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I mean, this has got to be a real kick in the balls to the telecoms. Competition from Google is going to be expensive.
Why would the ISPs care? Transfer caps, artificially limited transit and peering bandwidth, and zero rating can handle Google's video services.
Without AMD, the market would be Itanium.
Yes, as LTE-U doesn't employ LBT (listen-before-talk). That said, the interference is likely to be of a similar magnitude as another Wi-Fi access point operating on the same channel.
Just like the Motorola Canopy systems which completely trash the channels they operate on?
Some ISPs deployed Canopy just to block WISPs which became amusing when some WISPs deployed Ubiquiti Airmax systems which blocked Canopy.
Basically no one obeys speed limits. The posted speed limits are at best suggestions, and at worst revenue generators for the local governments. And many other traffic rules are casually disobeyed. Except for the stop sign, I don't see much voluntary compliance of traffic law.
This is more indicative of your area than the general way people behave on the roads. Also calling it a revenue generator is a bit extreme. Paying a fine for something completely within your control makes this a 100% voluntary gesture.
How about paying a fine for obeying the law? Where I am, police pull people over and give tickets for laws they did not break and the magistrate judges do not care and why should they? The fines pay the cities and them.