While there's a few unsubstantiated rumors floating on this topic (cites?), control of spare parts is much more effective than backdoors in code.
Iran's F-14 force was effectively grounded by the embargo Carter placed after the fall of the Shah - fighters and other complex equipment need a steady stream of parts, and a veritable torrent under non-peacetime use. Search fas.org or aerospaceweb for "iran f-14" for a couple views on this, among other sites.
As pointed out, backdoors carry the risk of being used against you. But if you've got all the spare parts, you get to fly.
Because of the European take-back regulations, BMW and other automakers have been designing their cars to be taken apart and recycled faster and easier for several years now.
Back in one of my environmental engineering classes, we saw a film on one of these take-back plants. It took a couple people just an hour or so to strip a BMW from all its recyclable parts, including stuff like draining (and saving) the fluids, pulling off all plastic parts, etc.
And BMW is always watching and feeding back into the design process. They've reduced the types of plastics used to have less bins and sorting involved. They've reduced the use of gluing, welding, and riveting of parts on and replaced with mechnical fasteners (screws, bolts), making it easier to take apart. Instead of a taillight assy having two types of plastic (lens, backshell) being glued or rivetted together, now its one type that may snap together.
German car fetishists may voice concern that stuff like this may reduce the quality or performance of their favorite vehicles, but to me that means they aren't as purist as they claim, they don't trust the same engineers that designed their favorite cars in the first place.
Yes, and then we look at the world population density map:
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/worldsoils/ma pi ndx/popden.html
And see the density of all of Europe (and India) and see how they don't have the empty space the USA does. India has 3x the US population in 1/3 the land area = 10x the density. And wonder why there are more particulates in the air.
Yes, and of course one could assume that aerosols are the only form of pollution there is (of course not), or that other pollutants are produced in proportion with them (of course not).
A penny isn't that heavy compared to the string it was hanging from. Since a piece of string likely has a very low terminal velocity, the wind blowing the string back probably caused Maxim's test to err well on the low side. It's also possible that the penny was hung from the string in a position where it could not settle into it's most aerodynamic profile.
One of the better uses for multimedia I've seen is interactive training applications. Back when I was at school TA'ing a course on the net, we invited a doctor from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med School's Interactive Media Lab to show some of the work they've been doing.
The first programs at the time (1996ish) was a disc for doctors on decisions and interactions with AIDS patients (from initial visits to test for the disease to advanced stages and treatment). The disc used live actors, branching decisions, and other media to help teach doctors how to deal with patient interaction and decision making.
The second disc I saw less of, but was made for treatment and actions in combat medical situations - stuff like setting priorities, setting up mobile hospital areas, limited resources. Again, a mix of live actors, commentary, decision branching, and other presentation tools.
I think these are great first stage tools for jobs where people tend to get thrown into new situations - the use of live actors and decision making pulls you into a continuing story, letting you learn from mistakes and obtain a bit of the benefit of live interaction at reasonable cost. Better than class lectures, less risk than being tossed into real life.
I was shopping for noise cancellation phones and while they tend to cancel the noise fairly well, every pair I tried colored the sound pretty sharply (from cheap Maxell's to $200 Sennheiser's).
Quick test: have the salesperson take you into a _quiet_ room. Listen to a few types of music with the cancellation turned off and on. Since there's no noise to cancel, it should sound the same either way, right?
Nope, all 5 sets I've tried tend to cancel out their own sounds, dropping out different frequency bands even with the volume turned way down.
I haven't downloaded the reader, but couldn't find anything on the website about whether or not the reader is sending any personal or other info back to glassbook. Anyone see anything on this?
Use internet junkbuster.. makes everything better, and now helps protect privacy too:-)
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Good example of quality GPL'd software, even has win32 versions. I've been using it for a while even with a cable link to speed up web page loading and get rid of the ads..
Sometimes I wonder how many closed source bugs have been known before the bulletin/news went public, with the fix withheld until there was a known "problem". Which can make the response time seem really nice if you're just holding onto the bugfix and releasing at the right moment.
And I'll still wonder what's with the legalese every bulletin has about "no known people being affected" by the security bug.
I wouldnt say that all the sources of error are losses. There should be several effects on the energy passing through the water which may have ot be measures real-time.
The conductivity may change with temperature of the water. Anything sitting in the water might be dissolving and changing the conductivity as well. The boiling itself may have an effect on the energy passing through the system.
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Dare you call That Which Must Be Consumed Cold a wine?
My eyes, they burn at the sight of that brand name!
And it always seems that I've seen the stories before..
Give me an R!
Give me a P!
Give me an I!
What's that spell?
M-I-T Wan-na-be!
(Yes, I was accepted to both schools mentioned, but attended neither, so no sour grapes accusations)
While there's a few unsubstantiated rumors floating on this topic (cites?), control of spare parts is much more effective than backdoors in code.
Iran's F-14 force was effectively grounded by the embargo Carter placed after the fall of the Shah - fighters and other complex equipment need a steady stream of parts, and a veritable torrent under non-peacetime use. Search fas.org or aerospaceweb for "iran f-14" for a couple views on this, among other sites.
As pointed out, backdoors carry the risk of being used against you. But if you've got all the spare parts, you get to fly.
Because of the European take-back regulations, BMW and other automakers have been designing their cars to be taken apart and recycled faster and easier for several years now.
Back in one of my environmental engineering classes, we saw a film on one of these take-back plants. It took a couple people just an hour or so to strip a BMW from all its recyclable parts, including stuff like draining (and saving) the fluids, pulling off all plastic parts, etc.
And BMW is always watching and feeding back into the design process. They've reduced the types of plastics used to have less bins and sorting involved. They've reduced the use of gluing, welding, and riveting of parts on and replaced with mechnical fasteners (screws, bolts), making it easier to take apart. Instead of a taillight assy having two types of plastic (lens, backshell) being glued or rivetted together, now its one type that may snap together.
German car fetishists may voice concern that stuff like this may reduce the quality or performance of their favorite vehicles, but to me that means they aren't as purist as they claim, they don't trust the same engineers that designed their favorite cars in the first place.
Mod the two AC posts up, they are correct about Opera's automatic RAM cache feature, which explains this behavior.
-A happy (and registered) Opera user
Yes, and then we look at the world population density map:
a pi ndx/popden.html
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/worldsoils/m
And see the density of all of Europe (and India) and see how they don't have the empty space the USA does. India has 3x the US population in 1/3 the land area = 10x the density. And wonder why there are more particulates in the air.
Yes, and of course one could assume that aerosols are the only form of pollution there is (of course not), or that other pollutants are produced in proportion with them (of course not).
A penny isn't that heavy compared to the string it was hanging from. Since a piece of string likely has a very low terminal velocity, the wind blowing the string back probably caused Maxim's test to err well on the low side. It's also possible that the penny was hung from the string in a position where it could not settle into it's most aerodynamic profile.
For comparison, raindrops fall about 30 mph.
This is what happens when hardware geeks go too far and overclock your Ron Jeremy special edition vibrating butt plug.
I blame everything on [H]ardOCP of course.
One of the better uses for multimedia I've seen is interactive training applications. Back when I was at school TA'ing a course on the net, we invited a doctor from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med School's Interactive Media Lab to show some of the work they've been doing.
The first programs at the time (1996ish) was a disc for doctors on decisions and interactions with AIDS patients (from initial visits to test for the disease to advanced stages and treatment). The disc used live actors, branching decisions, and other media to help teach doctors how to deal with patient interaction and decision making.
The second disc I saw less of, but was made for treatment and actions in combat medical situations - stuff like setting priorities, setting up mobile hospital areas, limited resources. Again, a mix of live actors, commentary, decision branching, and other presentation tools.
I think these are great first stage tools for jobs where people tend to get thrown into new situations - the use of live actors and decision making pulls you into a continuing story, letting you learn from mistakes and obtain a bit of the benefit of live interaction at reasonable cost. Better than class lectures, less risk than being tossed into real life.
I was shopping for noise cancellation phones and while they tend to cancel the noise fairly well, every pair I tried colored the sound pretty sharply (from cheap Maxell's to $200 Sennheiser's).
Quick test: have the salesperson take you into a _quiet_ room. Listen to a few types of music with the cancellation turned off and on. Since there's no noise to cancel, it should sound the same either way, right?
Nope, all 5 sets I've tried tend to cancel out their own sounds, dropping out different frequency bands even with the volume turned way down.
If anyone finds a set that doesn't, let me know..
-zlexiss
I haven't downloaded the reader, but couldn't find anything on the website about whether or not the reader is sending any personal or other info back to glassbook. Anyone see anything on this?
zlexiss
And why exactly are we trying to hump doorknobs on cold winter days?
Use internet junkbuster.. makes everything better, and now helps protect privacy too :-)
http://www.junkbuster.com
Good example of quality GPL'd software, even has win32 versions. I've been using it for a while even with a cable link to speed up web page loading and get rid of the ads..
Sometimes I wonder how many closed source bugs have been known before the bulletin/news went public, with the fix withheld until there was a known "problem". Which can make the response time seem really nice if you're just holding onto the bugfix and releasing at the right moment.
And I'll still wonder what's with the legalese every bulletin has about "no known people being affected" by the security bug.
zlxiss
I wouldnt say that all the sources of error are losses. There should be several effects on the energy passing through the water which may have ot be measures real-time.
The conductivity may change with temperature of the water. Anything sitting in the water might be dissolving and changing the conductivity as well. The boiling itself may have an effect on the energy passing through the system.