The time to short the stock is well past. One shorts when public information is low and you have special knowledge of the situation, be that insider information, a unique knowledge of the industry, or particular experience.
Shorting Sony at this point in time, when all the smart money (which knows more than you) has already set a rational price based on reasonable odds is nothing more than tying your hands.
Unlike a traditional (long) position you would have locked yourself into a time window, preventing you from a full range of actions based on later information.
I hear what you're saying regarding vision, and while that wasn't the limitation I was thinking about upon further thought perhaps you are right.
I was thinking about the (currently) uniquely human ability to judge range and wind through a combination of complex and subtly visual clues, rules-of-thumb, intuition and experience (the way tall prairie grass responds to a 10mph wind in late dry summer is different than how it responds the day after a rain, etc). There is no reason, though, that a sufficiently complex expert-system paired even with today's camera technology probably couldn't do the same.
In all seriousness; how long until the military just deploys (via parachute drop, or soldier) robots into decent vantage points and then just get them to identify targets and have a remote operator push the button... scary stuff.
The value of a sniper team is not just in their targeted lethality, but also in their scouting, observation abilities, and ability to move. A robosniper limited to a fixed position is just as much a sitting duck as a static artillery tube.
A robot which finds its own cover and provides a remote control gun barrel might be within the limits of modern (or foreseeable) technology, but one which is capable of moving stealthily from spot to spot? One which can climb stairs and over rubble in a bombed out building in the afternoon and craw through a drainage ditch that night? One which is able to read the wind and range passively without giving away their position through the radiation of active sensors? No, I don't think such a robot will be seen in my lifetime, likely not my (unborn) children's.
As it stands now savvy users can simply check out a epub library book to their PC with Adobe Digital Editions, seamlessly remove the DRM with calibre, then convert and upload to their Kindle with one-button via your Kindle's free email address. If Amazon doesn't make their service work without a PC I've gained nothing.
I almost died of the analysis-paralysis suffered looking for an ebook reader, and finally settled on the Kindle as the best bang for the buck today. While I feel epub is the future (especially now that google has weighed in) with calibre I Just Don't Care.
The sad thing is it shouldn't be better than HE-AAC. Being low latency does tend to mean one is better at the kind of time-domain issues many find so objectionable, but outside that OPUS is really packing a MUCH smaller toolkit than HE-AAC.
This is really egg on AAC's face, IMHO, and quite the upset. OPUS is so immature the bitstream isn't even stable yet.
HE-AAC uses SBR to reduce its data footprint. This results in worse reproduction of the source audio than LE-AAC at same bitrate (and often even lower bitrate). The whole deal with HE is that it can maintain good quality at very low bitrate, by giving up accuracy. So far, Apple's LE-AAC encoder in their Core Audio framework is the best choice for digitally non-lossless compression.
While your rant appears informative if not insightful on its face, it is completely missing the point.
This is a test of audio codecs at low bitrates.
I don't know what this "LE-AAC" is you speak of (and rather suspect you don't either) but AAC-LC was actually in this test, as the low anchor.
At these bitrates (~64kbps) HE-AAC (despite its "low-accuracy" as you put it) is perceptually better sounding than AAC-LC. Lossy audio codecs (even the LE-AAC [sic] encoder in Apple's Core Audio framework you love) can only be judged by how they sound, not how they look. "Accuracy" is not a metric very worthy of discussion.
So for this to be effective, you have to aim fairly precisely at someone's eyeball. Presuming they aren't cooperating by standing stock-still with their eyes open and looking at you, the chances of managing a "hit" before they do whatever it is you would prefer they didn't must be quite small.
The angular diameter of the full moon (or the sun) is just about half that, and I think you'll find that is plenty large to paint a face quickly and easily.
At least it'll kill USB drive viruses and the even worse autolaunching U3 crapware on some USB drives lol.
Nope. U3 "crapware" works because a U3 flash drive mounts with two USB endpoints, one of them identifying itself as a CD drive. All the autorun "magic" of U3 happens from the CD-ROM endpoint.
Or...you know....they just didn't find the problem. Considering that it only happened to be about 4 times within a 3 year time span, a few months of testing won't necessarily reproduce the problem.
A few months times dozens of drivers and hundreds of vehicles, including every single one with a unexplained reported sudden acceleration problem they were able to get their hands on.
If you had reported your sudden acceleration issue to your dealer the NHTSA would have contacted you.
Since you didn't mention the fact of their contact, much less the method which all of us in the loop should know, I call BOGUS.
From you post, it sounds like cracking a 9-digit password via rainbow tables is pretty trivial, yeah? As computers get faster and storage gets cheaper, the value of "trivial" gets correspondingly larger, but humans aren't getting any better at remembering passwords.
Humans don't need to get any better. Increasing the salt size in proportion to the increases in attacker resources works perfectly fine, and is resource asymmetric in favor of the defender.
You stop brute force through limitations on attempts, and you stop hash reversal through salts. All the problems are failures to implement one of these two simple steps.
But, even if that were true, there are still very good reasons to recycle paper such as saving trees
Saving them from what? A life of indentured servitude? Seriously, the use of old-growth timber in paper making is a whole other topic, one which need not be used to muddy the merits of using paper products as a carbon sequestration vector.
I wonder if "THEY" already have one of these quantum computers and are keeping a lid on it so they can snoop on the PGP of our enemies. Would it be possible to develop one of these in secrecy?
Simplistically: If THEY bought out 50% of the researchers in the field, without arousing suspicion amongst those who turned down the offer, THEY would only have a 50% chance of having one first.
More realistically, If THEY bought out a significant percentage of the researchers in the field, without arousing suspicion amongst those who turned down the offer, THEY would likely only be a few months / years (at best) ahead. And since the outlook on the QC front is rather bleak (in terms of a functional QC with any real power) the odds are strongly in favor of THEY not having squat.
Especially in today's world it isn't like top researchers are fragmented and isolated. In the past it was possible for a governmental organization to use its greater vision to collect isolated researchers and be the first to introduce them to each other, magnifying their individual efforts. Today everybody who is anybody in these fields is at least aware of the others, if not following closely.
The fact that amp-hour ratings are only valid for the specific amperage specified is true - but be careful extrapolating your experience with lead-acid deep-cycle batteries to LiPoly ones.
There is a (relatively) huge difference in amp-hour capacity of a lead-acid battery at 1/2 amp and the same battery at 4 amps of draw. This is due to the internal resistance of the battery, though, and as such affects the much lower internal resistance lithium chemistry batteries less than lead-acid ones.
Lightroom is likely more than you need, but Lightroom does this. I convert my various (nef, cr2) raw files to DNG upon importation to my library, and save metadata to the files themselves, not XML sidecar files.
While Adobe Lightroom will want work with its own database, by always syncing metadata to file you will have a 100% portable set of images.
They filter the signal by putting a shield of radio-absorbing material under the antenna itself. Unlike your phone, hand held, or removable car one, the orientation of the receiver is a given and such techniques can be employed.
Non-survey grade GPS positioning is a code-based lock, not carrier, so there is no phase correlation that I am aware of.
Not all differential signals are ground based, the geo-sync WAAS satellites are the most common free source of differential signals (outside mobile phone applications)(at lest in the west, and there is no common terrestrial differential correction elsewhere in the world), while there are also many commercial differential sources, most all are based upon satellite relays.
As to your worry "that people may have not thoroughly considered what may go wrong", I feel those fears are founded (no offense) on ignorance. The system proposed here would replace only the primary layer in a multi-layered system. A replacement which not only closes more risk vectors than it opens, but shifts the risk factors which do exist further from likelihood.
Who needs anti satellite weapons? In the second Iraq war, wasn't Iraq using GPS jamming equipment for a while? Heck, last time I was in DC I noticed that my GPS would blink out around the White House. Although direct jamming equipment I don't worry about as much as the possibility of spoofing equipment.
Spoofing a moving GPS receiver is near impossible, and spoofing a receiver which is in the air harder still. It is common for quality GPS navigation antennas to reject all signals from below, as they are assuredly multipath. Unless your spoofer is above the aircraft, monitoring the aircraft's position, and delivering unto the aircraft a targeted spoof signal specifically designed to be plausible, it will be rejected and you will have created nothing more than an expensive jammer.
what if some big foreign country who has anti satellite weapons decides to blow up our GPS satellites?
A - Shooting down a bird would be an act of war. A stupid act of war as the shooter would be obvious. You can't secretly launch such an attack. Repercussions would be quick and severe.
B - While the possibility exists, the GPS birds are way up there (12,500 miles), there are currently 30 of them (a more than 2x redundancy for this type of navigation), and 10 more are going up soon.
Not to mention the fact every bird is in constant view of at lest one ground monitoring station (any disruption or degradation would be noticed immediately) and fallback procedures (increase traffic lane spacing) are in place.
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The time to short the stock is well past.
One shorts when public information is low and you have special knowledge of the situation, be that insider information, a unique knowledge of the industry, or particular experience.
Shorting Sony at this point in time, when all the smart money (which knows more than you) has already set a rational price based on reasonable odds is nothing more than tying your hands.
Unlike a traditional (long) position you would have locked yourself into a time window, preventing you from a full range of actions based on later information.
A gun mounted on a vehicle could, in theory, replace a sharpshooter, not a sniper.
I hear what you're saying regarding vision, and while that wasn't the limitation I was thinking about upon further thought perhaps you are right.
I was thinking about the (currently) uniquely human ability to judge range and wind through a combination of complex and subtly visual clues, rules-of-thumb, intuition and experience (the way tall prairie grass responds to a 10mph wind in late dry summer is different than how it responds the day after a rain, etc). There is no reason, though, that a sufficiently complex expert-system paired even with today's camera technology probably couldn't do the same.
The value of a sniper team is not just in their targeted lethality, but also in their scouting, observation abilities, and ability to move. A robosniper limited to a fixed position is just as much a sitting duck as a static artillery tube.
A robot which finds its own cover and provides a remote control gun barrel might be within the limits of modern (or foreseeable) technology, but one which is capable of moving stealthily from spot to spot? One which can climb stairs and over rubble in a bombed out building in the afternoon and craw through a drainage ditch that night? One which is able to read the wind and range passively without giving away their position through the radiation of active sensors? No, I don't think such a robot will be seen in my lifetime, likely not my (unborn) children's.
As it stands now savvy users can simply check out a epub library book to their PC with Adobe Digital Editions, seamlessly remove the DRM with calibre, then convert and upload to their Kindle with one-button via your Kindle's free email address. If Amazon doesn't make their service work without a PC I've gained nothing.
I almost died of the analysis-paralysis suffered looking for an ebook reader, and finally settled on the Kindle as the best bang for the buck today. While I feel epub is the future (especially now that google has weighed in) with calibre I Just Don't Care.
The sad thing is it shouldn't be better than HE-AAC. Being low latency does tend to mean one is better at the kind of time-domain issues many find so objectionable, but outside that OPUS is really packing a MUCH smaller toolkit than HE-AAC.
This is really egg on AAC's face, IMHO, and quite the upset. OPUS is so immature the bitstream isn't even stable yet.
While your rant appears informative if not insightful on its face, it is completely missing the point.
This is a test of audio codecs at low bitrates.
I don't know what this "LE-AAC" is you speak of (and rather suspect you don't either) but AAC-LC was actually in this test, as the low anchor.
At these bitrates (~64kbps) HE-AAC (despite its "low-accuracy" as you put it) is perceptually better sounding than AAC-LC. Lossy audio codecs (even the LE-AAC [sic] encoder in Apple's Core Audio framework you love) can only be judged by how they sound, not how they look. "Accuracy" is not a metric very worthy of discussion.
Is this your entry in "how many incorrect statements can be made in one post"?
The angular diameter of the full moon (or the sun) is just about half that, and I think you'll find that is plenty large to paint a face quickly and easily.
Unless you make your attached cargo hold neutrally buoyant the change in your boat's ride height would be very obvious and attract attention.
Forget the 1000-core cluster. I want to know where I can get 1,000,000 images of people with all the (major) body parts zoned and referenced.
That's an impressive test corpus.
Nope. U3 "crapware" works because a U3 flash drive mounts with two USB endpoints, one of them identifying itself as a CD drive. All the autorun "magic" of U3 happens from the CD-ROM endpoint.
A few months times dozens of drivers and hundreds of vehicles, including every single one with a unexplained reported sudden acceleration problem they were able to get their hands on.
If you had reported your sudden acceleration issue to your dealer the NHTSA would have contacted you.
Since you didn't mention the fact of their contact, much less the method which all of us in the loop should know, I call BOGUS.
I don't understand what the incentive is to stop using IRC for command and control.
Humans don't need to get any better. Increasing the salt size in proportion to the increases in attacker resources works perfectly fine, and is resource asymmetric in favor of the defender.
You stop brute force through limitations on attempts, and you stop hash reversal through salts. All the problems are failures to implement one of these two simple steps.
You're comparing a local privilege escalation exploit (*unix) to a remote one (Win) as if they are even the same ballgame?
L O fucking L.
Saving them from what? A life of indentured servitude? Seriously, the use of old-growth timber in paper making is a whole other topic, one which need not be used to muddy the merits of using paper products as a carbon sequestration vector.
Simplistically:
If THEY bought out 50% of the researchers in the field, without arousing suspicion amongst those who turned down the offer, THEY would only have a 50% chance of having one first.
More realistically,
If THEY bought out a significant percentage of the researchers in the field, without arousing suspicion amongst those who turned down the offer, THEY would likely only be a few months / years (at best) ahead.
And since the outlook on the QC front is rather bleak (in terms of a functional QC with any real power) the odds are strongly in favor of THEY not having squat.
Especially in today's world it isn't like top researchers are fragmented and isolated. In the past it was possible for a governmental organization to use its greater vision to collect isolated researchers and be the first to introduce them to each other, magnifying their individual efforts. Today everybody who is anybody in these fields is at least aware of the others, if not following closely.
The fact that amp-hour ratings are only valid for the specific amperage specified is true - but be careful extrapolating your experience with lead-acid deep-cycle batteries to LiPoly ones.
There is a (relatively) huge difference in amp-hour capacity of a lead-acid battery at 1/2 amp and the same battery at 4 amps of draw. This is due to the internal resistance of the battery, though, and as such affects the much lower internal resistance lithium chemistry batteries less than lead-acid ones.
What does this tell us? It tells us you need to compare apples to oranges.
Compare a ARM SoC to a x86 processor and all its support chips.
Lightroom is likely more than you need, but Lightroom does this.
I convert my various (nef, cr2) raw files to DNG upon importation to my library, and save metadata to the files themselves, not XML sidecar files.
While Adobe Lightroom will want work with its own database, by always syncing metadata to file you will have a 100% portable set of images.
They filter the signal by putting a shield of radio-absorbing material under the antenna itself. Unlike your phone, hand held, or removable car one, the orientation of the receiver is a given and such techniques can be employed.
Non-survey grade GPS positioning is a code-based lock, not carrier, so there is no phase correlation that I am aware of.
Not all differential signals are ground based, the geo-sync WAAS satellites are the most common free source of differential signals (outside mobile phone applications)(at lest in the west, and there is no common terrestrial differential correction elsewhere in the world), while there are also many commercial differential sources, most all are based upon satellite relays.
As to your worry "that people may have not thoroughly considered what may go wrong", I feel those fears are founded (no offense) on ignorance. The system proposed here would replace only the primary layer in a multi-layered system. A replacement which not only closes more risk vectors than it opens, but shifts the risk factors which do exist further from likelihood.
Spoofing a moving GPS receiver is near impossible, and spoofing a receiver which is in the air harder still. It is common for quality GPS navigation antennas to reject all signals from below, as they are assuredly multipath. Unless your spoofer is above the aircraft, monitoring the aircraft's position, and delivering unto the aircraft a targeted spoof signal specifically designed to be plausible, it will be rejected and you will have created nothing more than an expensive jammer.
A - Shooting down a bird would be an act of war. A stupid act of war as the shooter would be obvious. You can't secretly launch such an attack. Repercussions would be quick and severe.
B - While the possibility exists, the GPS birds are way up there (12,500 miles), there are currently 30 of them (a more than 2x redundancy for this type of navigation), and 10 more are going up soon.
Not to mention the fact every bird is in constant view of at lest one ground monitoring station (any disruption or degradation would be noticed immediately) and fallback procedures (increase traffic lane spacing) are in place.
As are some easements, to clarify. Point is there are many ways the agreements can be written, and many do not involve a simple one-time payment.