But why wouldn't such a gene that allows a species to be resistant against something detrimental to its health develop naturally?
I have always wanted to use this answer: because ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
Evolution proceeds with small changes to existing genes and you do not get spontaneous generation of completely new genes. One reason for this is that there are many more ways to get a gene wrong than right. So while there may be a gene in a species which would provide a significant advantage, a different species may not be able to evolve it because it lacks a gene similar enough to evolve from or the intermediate steps from an existing similar gene to another may be less fit than the existing similar gene. Evolution can get "hung up" on local fitness maxima.
We have ultra-reliable software here on Earth too; what do you think powers our planes and car engine controllers? When was the last time your car's ECU or ABS controller "crashed" and had to be rebooted?
And getting less reliable all the time do to increasing integration and complexity.
And it really doesn't matter. There are a lot of small mistakes you can make to bring down a network. That is why you know the equipment and you are careful around it, if you are any good at your job.
I largely agree however why add *another* source of failure?
Now you have and Cisco invented it first! I look forward to the patent so Cisco can prevent other network equipment manufacturers from implementing this vital feature. It needs to be exclusive to Cisco.
The output from an actual WiFi transmitter would be more interesting since almost all of them use mediocre antennas with weird radiation patterns and group delay instead of close to ideal horn antennas.
Manufacturers of test equipment stopped producing service manuals in about 1990 but did so even for things which were still repairable so I do not think it was in response to changes in technology. I see the current trend of locking things down using DRM and the DMCA as an extension to this.
What the FCC is wanting to require is that the SDR chips in these devices only accept radio firmware loads that are signed....
The FCC does not give a flying crap about the *router* firmware... "(think Tomato, DD-WRT, OpenWRT, etc.)", what they care about is the radio, in the same way they care about the baseband firmware in mobile phones.
And when the same processor is used to do both in less expensive implementations, the result will be the same. Or the FCC could decide that since the transceiver firmware is loaded as a binary blob, this directive applies to the main processor as well.
Since less expensive WiFi implementations either use the host processor directly or for loading a binary blob, at some point the FCC's directive will apply to the entire device.
Even in cases where it would not, I expect the manufacturers to take advantage of it either as an excuse or by designing the entire device so everything is covered.
The "intellectual property" behind schematics, source code, is the rubric given for not releasing schematics, construction models/diagrams and repair components-- but also because they don't want to support the costs of modders, hackers, and others from whom they make not one penny. A few vendors are smart enough to make a few pennies from these communities, but it's not the focus of their business.
Schematics and detailed service manuals disappeared around 1990 and *before* electronics became too difficult to repair.
Then they usually walk me over to TSA where my bags are hand-inspected by the TSA before letting me apply my own, high-quality locks to my bag. I'd swear its saved line-standing time.
At some point thieves are going to catch on to this and high quality locks will become the new "steal me" tag like when they placed a tag indicating a firearm on the outside of the luggage.
She didn't have a stopover in NY, she was flying out of NY.
It would not have mattered although in both cases she should have been protected by federal law if she was just traveling through New York and was legal at her starting point and destination.
Hunters traveling to Maine with firearms are arrested by New York if their plane is diverted do to bad weather. New Jersey, Illinois, and Massachusetts do the same thing. This is despite the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act:
There are plenty of options, for anyone who isn't a felon. Blank guns and black powder pistols are available via mail order with no additional paperwork. For anyone who is not adverse to filling out a 4473, there are many options in the ~$100 range, and many worth actually having and using for ~$300.
"Antique" muzzle loading firearms meaning those produced before 1898 and replicas of such are not "firearms" for the purpose of federal law and even felons may own them unless state law says otherwise. I assume TSA would treat them as firearms however.
If I were doing this and did not have a suitable firearm already, I would use an old junk shotgun receiver.
When i've used zipties, TSA has always left me a note saying they opened the bag. They also used a new zip tie to relock the baggage.(I keep a ziplock bag of zipties in the top compartment of my luggage.)
I do this also however TSA has *never* used my included zip ties or their own to refasten the luggage and others report them cutting the luggage open instead of the zip tie.
Might as well use twisted piano wire as a fastener so you get the satisfaction of ruining their diagonal cutter or knife.
I except you will TSA gets cut for each one sold. Like the cost of TSA harassment is built into each ticket. And it is service not a tax. So no write off for most
It is a tax supporting a job program although since money is fungible it really supports everything and is better called extortion.
I was reinforcing your point; I was not disagreeing.
Pournelle's Empire of Man series stressed this aspect of frontier worlds where you have solders travel via FTL starship, use weapon which are chemical slug throwers instead of energy weapons, and travel locally using steamboats and horses. The local infrastructure could not support anything more complex. The only high technology you would have is what you can carry that does not require maintenance.
Incidentally, I am not sure I would categorize the Wild West as having more crime or anarchy. Chicago and other major cities were wretched hives of scum and villainy even then.
If I were doing it, I would look at the distribution and randomize the time between pulses. Integration then averages out the spoofed responses while strengthening the real ones.
Techniques for nanosecond (and better) level synchronization are obscure but not difficult; they involve various methods of interpolation which avoids the need for fast digital clocks.
Latency is a problem however. Instead of using high speed circuits it is easier to measure the time between triggers and uses this to generate the false response based on the previous trigger; the false response can then be accurately sent even before the pulse is received. This suggests an easy countermeasure; randomize or at least vary the time between pulses.
One of the excuses the the FBI/CIA gave to Congress for torture in furtherance of interrogation referred to 24 and how they just thought that was how it was done.
That's why it was so genius. Out in space, you're not going to have police nearby, or any kind of structured society, it'd be just like the Wild West (which actually wasn't that "wild", contrary to popular opinion).
To roughly borrow a phrase from Pournelle's Empire of Man series which had the same Wild West science fiction vibe:
"Horses breed more horses. Vehicles breed refineries and air pollution."
A frontier world will lack the infrastructure to support ubiquitous high technology.
This is all there is to learn from this case; that the government willfully endorses this type of behavior. They hand out some minuscule fines every once in a while to placate citizens who cannot comprehend math, but ultimately let companies blatantly conspire to reduce wages.
This settlement is less than a tenth of the dollar amount necessary to actually punish these companies more than they benefited. And if you are a regular who doesn't punish someone more than they benefited, you are explicitly endorsing their behavior.
Think of it as a fee for a permit to engage in anticompetitive behavior instead of a fine.
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I have always wanted to use this answer: because ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
Evolution proceeds with small changes to existing genes and you do not get spontaneous generation of completely new genes. One reason for this is that there are many more ways to get a gene wrong than right. So while there may be a gene in a species which would provide a significant advantage, a different species may not be able to evolve it because it lacks a gene similar enough to evolve from or the intermediate steps from an existing similar gene to another may be less fit than the existing similar gene. Evolution can get "hung up" on local fitness maxima.
And getting less reliable all the time do to increasing integration and complexity.
I largely agree however why add *another* source of failure?
Now you have and Cisco invented it first! I look forward to the patent so Cisco can prevent other network equipment manufacturers from implementing this vital feature. It needs to be exclusive to Cisco.
The output from an actual WiFi transmitter would be more interesting since almost all of them use mediocre antennas with weird radiation patterns and group delay instead of close to ideal horn antennas.
They do not have to vote; they pick who gets voted on.
And as you point out, they finance the candidates. How many do they have to support? Both of them.
Manufacturers of test equipment stopped producing service manuals in about 1990 but did so even for things which were still repairable so I do not think it was in response to changes in technology. I see the current trend of locking things down using DRM and the DMCA as an extension to this.
And when the same processor is used to do both in less expensive implementations, the result will be the same. Or the FCC could decide that since the transceiver firmware is loaded as a binary blob, this directive applies to the main processor as well.
Since less expensive WiFi implementations either use the host processor directly or for loading a binary blob, at some point the FCC's directive will apply to the entire device.
Even in cases where it would not, I expect the manufacturers to take advantage of it either as an excuse or by designing the entire device so everything is covered.
Schematics and detailed service manuals disappeared around 1990 and *before* electronics became too difficult to repair.
Not legally:
http://www.npr.org/sections/al...
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/d...
At some point thieves are going to catch on to this and high quality locks will become the new "steal me" tag like when they placed a tag indicating a firearm on the outside of the luggage.
It would not have mattered although in both cases she should have been protected by federal law if she was just traveling through New York and was legal at her starting point and destination.
Hunters traveling to Maine with firearms are arrested by New York if their plane is diverted do to bad weather. New Jersey, Illinois, and Massachusetts do the same thing. This is despite the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Antique" muzzle loading firearms meaning those produced before 1898 and replicas of such are not "firearms" for the purpose of federal law and even felons may own them unless state law says otherwise. I assume TSA would treat them as firearms however.
If I were doing this and did not have a suitable firearm already, I would use an old junk shotgun receiver.
I do this also however TSA has *never* used my included zip ties or their own to refasten the luggage and others report them cutting the luggage open instead of the zip tie.
Might as well use twisted piano wire as a fastener so you get the satisfaction of ruining their diagonal cutter or knife.
You give to much credit to the TSA screeners and everybody above them.
It is a tax supporting a job program although since money is fungible it really supports everything and is better called extortion.
What else is there to do? Anytime we vote for a Democrat or Republican we support these laws and this behavior.
I was reinforcing your point; I was not disagreeing.
Pournelle's Empire of Man series stressed this aspect of frontier worlds where you have solders travel via FTL starship, use weapon which are chemical slug throwers instead of energy weapons, and travel locally using steamboats and horses. The local infrastructure could not support anything more complex. The only high technology you would have is what you can carry that does not require maintenance.
Incidentally, I am not sure I would categorize the Wild West as having more crime or anarchy. Chicago and other major cities were wretched hives of scum and villainy even then.
If I were doing it, I would look at the distribution and randomize the time between pulses. Integration then averages out the spoofed responses while strengthening the real ones.
Techniques for nanosecond (and better) level synchronization are obscure but not difficult; they involve various methods of interpolation which avoids the need for fast digital clocks.
Latency is a problem however. Instead of using high speed circuits it is easier to measure the time between triggers and uses this to generate the false response based on the previous trigger; the false response can then be accurately sent even before the pulse is received. This suggests an easy countermeasure; randomize or at least vary the time between pulses.
May have been the losing story. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
In all seriousness, there were not enough episodes to have a story arc but it was planned. How much story arc was in the first season of Babylon 5?
One of the excuses the the FBI/CIA gave to Congress for torture in furtherance of interrogation referred to 24 and how they just thought that was how it was done.
To roughly borrow a phrase from Pournelle's Empire of Man series which had the same Wild West science fiction vibe:
"Horses breed more horses. Vehicles breed refineries and air pollution."
A frontier world will lack the infrastructure to support ubiquitous high technology.
Think of it as a fee for a permit to engage in anticompetitive behavior instead of a fine.