I believe that many of the ISPs have been spoiled: all these years, and in particular after the aDSL boom, they were used into money pouring in with no real expenses in place-- especially since most of them did not even have to bother with digging the actual streets for more cables, since that was supposed to be a phone provider's domain (a Someone Else's Problem situation)
What has changed now is that internet usage is catching up, things are really starting to look like they did some years back in the shiny ISP commercials ("stream your videos EVERYWHERE!", "do this!", "do that!") --or at least they have to, and the ISPs are incapable to meet all those demands they have been encouraging all these years their subscribers to place upon them. When they were promising streaming for everyone, everywhere, always, what did they expect would happen? Okay, they fished and got themselves clients, but with clients comes traffic demand, and now they have to deliver what they promised.
Delivering to millions of subscribers involves, well, being more involved, actually. Which may demand digging or otherwise innovating for better infrastructure. When ISPs got into "the game" most of them thought all they need do is lease some copper, or some fiber optic, and money would be flowing in endlessly and effortlessly- check stockpricees and you will see ISPs spiking a tenfold on "the golden aDSL era" of about 2006 to 2008. Now they see that's not the case, and they have started complaining because their profit margin is not as high as they expected it to be, so no more bonuses and fat paychecks.
Of course they will try to keep their money: I foresee either a radical increase on pricing, a radical cap on streaming and total disregard of net neutrality, or both.
it must have been those pesky hackers; the virus did it.
No, I'm not buyin it.
The military is the military, they do not "do" plausible deniability: they receive orders, and execute them.
My guess is that these are nested "rootkits", if you will, reflecting the various levels of clearance that exist in a military foodchain. One can then log in and spy on all the others that his clearance allows him to.
"...I'm just not clear on what the Nobel Prize actually is."
More importantly, how do you cut it in half? A clean laser cut would be an obvious choice, and then you get half a statue or smth. How cool would that be?
North America has invested billions of dollars to detect [..] Color me surprised.
Exactly. There is NO all-showing wallscreen with blinking lights representing enemies of the state and incoming dangers, while people in suits walk around and have meetings in the flashy cubicles below. The administrator's cubicle is NOT made mostly out of glass, and it's NOT featuring more elevation, overseeing the other cuibles. GPS tracking devices are NOT.25" small, their batteries DO NOT last forever, and THEY DON'T always transmit. The phones DON'T use the same ringtone, and there is NO brainstorming geek room with the least repulsive geek secretly longing a date with the hot blonde field agent that sees him as a friend. There is NO quantum computer in the basement, cracking open algorithms in a mater of 'few minutes'. There is NO Jack Bauer. You have been lied to, America. Lied to, by your own Fox network.
Especially when "all it takes is some membranes". There is a way to use a similar process, and make fresh water out of sea water- it is called 'reverse osmosis', it is brilliant, slow but otherwise efficient and it pretty much works on its own and yields -at a naive first look- huge amounts of free fresh drinkable water. But the membranes involved are the ones that do all the trick, and they are pretty damn expensive to acquire and maintain.
"How is it that Israel -- a country of 7.1 million people, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources -- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the United Kingdom?"
With help from the US, and draconian law enforcement?
Do you even think that Israel would exist today without US backup?
Plus, the list you are mentioning (partially) and the concept of a "startup-up company" are economic indexes, and we all know how much they reflect the truth- You are missing the point of my post; so what if you get a "hit" on one of those? That doesn't cast away any dark age veils, and doesn't disentangle politics from research. If anything, it messes them up even more.
Politicians are greedy, and want to have control on everything. Including economy and research. And AFAIK, even more so in Israel, because of the military background of prominent state officials.
For a military state such as Israel, it is impressive that every now and then they come up with innovations; not very many, but they do come up with them.
Personally, I think one shouldn't rigidly judge citizens of a state by the macroscopic behavior of their state- just because some of their state officials act as nationalistic fascists with no respect for human life, it doesn't mean that all of the population approves. I think everybody deserves a chance to prove themselves.
perhaps they were once the cores of massive gas giant planets that had their thick atmospheres stripped after drifting too close to their parent stars?
(emphasis mine)
Let's assume they did. How did they drift back out?
Tree trunks are indeed denser towards the outer region, but that's because they use the middle region to draw water. Perhaps he needs a more elegant example to sell his idea?
.. they still use "miles per hour" and "miles" - I thought they switched to the metric system.
All the engineering know-how for the US space program is already laid down in inches, inches squared, lbs and the like. Miscalculations are perhaps easier to spot if one uses the S.I. system of units (errors will "stand out" more), but switching to something different from a proven method involves time, money and caveats.
After all, their actions speak for themselves; these people know how to tune space missions, and have been doing so for years.
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Is it possible that graphene-boron nitride is also the optimal neutron shielding material?
No.
. . . but boron nitride.
Nobody ever likes molten Boron.
I believe that many of the ISPs have been spoiled: all these years, and in particular after the aDSL boom, they were used into money pouring in with no real expenses in place-- especially since most of them did not even have to bother with digging the actual streets for more cables, since that was supposed to be a phone provider's domain (a Someone Else's Problem situation)
What has changed now is that internet usage is catching up, things are really starting to look like they did some years back in the shiny ISP commercials ("stream your videos EVERYWHERE!", "do this!", "do that!") --or at least they have to, and the ISPs are incapable to meet all those demands they have been encouraging all these years their subscribers to place upon them. When they were promising streaming for everyone, everywhere, always, what did they expect would happen? Okay, they fished and got themselves clients, but with clients comes traffic demand, and now they have to deliver what they promised.
Delivering to millions of subscribers involves, well, being more involved, actually. Which may demand digging or otherwise innovating for better infrastructure. When ISPs got into "the game" most of them thought all they need do is lease some copper, or some fiber optic, and money would be flowing in endlessly and effortlessly- check stockpricees and you will see ISPs spiking a tenfold on "the golden aDSL era" of about 2006 to 2008. Now they see that's not the case, and they have started complaining because their profit margin is not as high as they expected it to be, so no more bonuses and fat paychecks.
Of course they will try to keep their money: I foresee either a radical increase on pricing, a radical cap on streaming and total disregard of net neutrality, or both.
it must have been those pesky hackers; the virus did it.
No, I'm not buyin it.
The military is the military, they do not "do" plausible deniability: they receive orders, and execute them.
My guess is that these are nested "rootkits", if you will, reflecting the various levels of clearance that exist in a military foodchain. One can then log in and spy on all the others that his clearance allows him to.
Oh yea, and all Greek citizens are millionaires now.
"...I'm just not clear on what the Nobel Prize actually is."
More importantly, how do you cut it in half? A clean laser cut would be an obvious choice, and then you get half a statue or smth. How cool would that be?
Throw them into a neutron star, THEN nuke them from orbit.
See? It really does!
Now go vote!
Remotely! Here is your remote!
No one has yet succeeded in the marketplace with a collapsible container
Sure they have. Their invention is called 'cardboard boxes'.
North America has invested billions of dollars to detect [..] Color me surprised.
Exactly. There is NO all-showing wallscreen with blinking lights representing enemies of the state and incoming dangers, while people in suits walk around and have meetings in the flashy cubicles below. The administrator's cubicle is NOT made mostly out of glass, and it's NOT featuring more elevation, overseeing the other cuibles. GPS tracking devices are NOT .25" small, their batteries DO NOT last forever, and THEY DON'T always transmit. The phones DON'T use the same ringtone, and there is NO brainstorming geek room with the least repulsive geek secretly longing a date with the hot blonde field agent that sees him as a friend. There is NO quantum computer in the basement, cracking open algorithms in a mater of 'few minutes'. There is NO Jack Bauer. You have been lied to, America. Lied to, by your own Fox network.
interesting project that offers up recordings of Linux command line sessions
Like .bash_history ?
Nobody can 'prevent you from suing them'. Especially through EULAs.
Forget about metal detectors. This can make submarines invisible.
If the crime took place in the U.S., U.S. law handles it.
The crime took (takes) place in the internet.
Especially when "all it takes is some membranes". There is a way to use a similar process, and make fresh water out of sea water- it is called 'reverse osmosis', it is brilliant, slow but otherwise efficient and it pretty much works on its own and yields -at a naive first look- huge amounts of free fresh drinkable water. But the membranes involved are the ones that do all the trick, and they are pretty damn expensive to acquire and maintain.
"How is it that Israel -- a country of 7.1 million people, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources -- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the United Kingdom?"
With help from the US, and draconian law enforcement?
Do you even think that Israel would exist today without US backup?
Plus, the list you are mentioning (partially) and the concept of a "startup-up company" are economic indexes, and we all know how much they reflect the truth- You are missing the point of my post; so what if you get a "hit" on one of those? That doesn't cast away any dark age veils, and doesn't disentangle politics from research. If anything, it messes them up even more.
Politicians are greedy, and want to have control on everything. Including economy and research. And AFAIK, even more so in Israel, because of the military background of prominent state officials.
it's not american ...
I think that it kind of is.
.. and with such headlines, the population gets convinced that we got Star Trek technology standing by.
No wonder why half the population thinks that astronaut training takes places in "antigravity chambers".
(person at the hospital) "What do you mean you don't have this type of blood? Why don't you just print some, I read it on the news."
For a military state such as Israel, it is impressive that every now and then they come up with innovations; not very many, but they do come up with them.
Personally, I think one shouldn't rigidly judge citizens of a state by the macroscopic behavior of their state- just because some of their state officials act as nationalistic fascists with no respect for human life, it doesn't mean that all of the population approves. I think everybody deserves a chance to prove themselves.
perhaps they were once the cores of massive gas giant planets that had their thick atmospheres stripped after drifting too close to their parent stars?
(emphasis mine)
Let's assume they did. How did they drift back out?
MHD is pretty rubbish for submarines
You mean it is pretty rubbish for military operations, because it may be noisy. Otherwise, I believe, it is pretty damn cool.
Tree trunks are indeed denser towards the outer region, but that's because they use the middle region to draw water. Perhaps he needs a more elegant example to sell his idea?
Isn't this pretty well the way we discover all extra-solar planets? Through star wobble?
No, it is not.
But for sure if the star wobbles, then it is a candidate host for planets.
Other methods are then used in conjunction with this one. Or, transits are detected first and then one takes a look for wobbling.
Ready now? Okay.
One,
.. two ..
Five!
.. they still use "miles per hour" and "miles" - I thought they switched to the metric system.
All the engineering know-how for the US space program is already laid down in inches, inches squared, lbs and the like. Miscalculations are perhaps easier to spot if one uses the S.I. system of units (errors will "stand out" more), but switching to something different from a proven method involves time, money and caveats.
After all, their actions speak for themselves; these people know how to tune space missions, and have been doing so for years.