How can NY secede when it's power and water is US?
NYS is pretty independent about water. Long Island uses ground water, NYC uses upstate reservoirs, etc. It also borders on two Great Lakes.
Power is another story, but even though it's tied into the Eastern grid, the real dependency is on Hydro-Quebec. So what makes obvious sense is for both NYS and Quebec to secede and form an independent country.
I vote for Rosalind Franklin, who should be recognized as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Also to her credit, she left us no boring novels.
I was about to post that myself. A duplicate from Friday. Come on folks, if a couple of casual readers can immediately spot a duplicate post, can't the editors? This has gotten ridiculous.
These cars with remote/keyless entry and start are already being stolen, even directly off of dealer lots. The criminals have already figured out what he was going to present, and are using it to their advantage.
Do you know whether they've been using this specific hack though, or whether they've been breaking into cars with the same sort of "security" system? That does make a difference. Otherwise it's like saying that computers get hacked, so it doesn't matter how you reveal information about a specific exploit.
>No struggle with convoluted keyboard shortcuts — only easy GUI navigation via toolbar buttons!
is a feature? Why on earth would you use Emacs if you don't intend to edit by muscle memory?
I think the GUI stuff is for package installation. I agree that if you don't have escape-meta-alt-control-shift for editing commands then Emacs isn't Emacs. I like having a menu driven backup for things I rarely use, but for stuff you commonly use keystrokes are much faster. Having to constantly switch between keyboard and mouse is very slow and clunky.
Emacs with packages like ProofGeneral, agda-mode, tuareg-mode, haskell-mode, SLIME and so on is the most convenient (or sometimes the only) frontend to some of the finest programming languages and theorem provers.
Agreed. One of the reasons I've stuck with Emacs is because it seems to have a mode for every language ever created, and Emacs runs on almost every platform ever created. It's closest competition in that respect seems to be Eclipse. I may well switch because a number of the embedded development environments I use are moving towards being Eclipse based, and I hate switching between editors. Once I get used to it the commands in an editor become almost instinctive, so I can concentrate on the code rather than the editor.
Why is that fortunate? Do you fancy yourself part of a technocratic elite that always knows best? Label the stuff and let people decide for themselves.
I am a trained geneticist and have been involved in genetics/genomics research for more than 20 years. I can categorically assure you that this book is complete and utter nonsense; in this particular case the one-star reviews are bang on.
Argument from authority, even your own authority, is meaningless. It's quite another thing if you point out why you believe the book is nonsense, based on your understanding.
I was approaching a tractor trailer in Utah one moment, and the next the GPS was in a "Recalculating" frenzy and I was jumping from Montana to Iowa and points in between.
Sounds like your GPS needs better position filtering.
Try reading the paragraph that starts with "Developing a full spoofer-based control system for a UAV is a difficult problem..."
You mean the paragraph that also says "causing a UAV to spin out of control and crash is not difficult with a spoofer"?
"Constructing from scratch a sophisticated GPS spoofer like the one developed by UT is not easy..."
Which ends with "the trend toward software-defined GNSS receivers for research and development, where receiver functionality is defined entirely in software downstream of the A/D converter, has significantly lowered the bar to spoofer development in recent years."
or the one that starts with "There are also a number of promising non-cryptographic techniques for civil GPS spoofing detection...".
Which certainly jibes well with my statement that "it is possible to fix".
You're welcome to pay attention if you feel like it but it won't get the problem fixed any faster.
That's true of most of the news I read. Should I take it that you never read news or consider the possibilities unless changing it is under your direct control? If so, why are you even reading this site or commenting here?
Just because it can be done by highly educated professional researchers who do nothing but try to find ways to do this does not mean terrorists can do it.
No, it doesn't. I'm not going to loose sleep over this. But that doesn't mean it's not a concern and shouldn't be fixed.
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How can NY secede when it's power and water is US?
NYS is pretty independent about water. Long Island uses ground water, NYC uses upstate reservoirs, etc. It also borders on two Great Lakes.
Power is another story, but even though it's tied into the Eastern grid, the real dependency is on Hydro-Quebec. So what makes obvious sense is for both NYS and Quebec to secede and form an independent country.
There is a second method, and I am asserting no special Texan privilege by saying so. I am basically alluding to the Second Amendment.
You folks tried that once. How did it work out?
I vote for Rosalind Franklin, who should be recognized as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Also to her credit, she left us no boring novels.
I was about to post that myself. A duplicate from Friday. Come on folks, if a couple of casual readers can immediately spot a duplicate post, can't the editors? This has gotten ridiculous.
These cars with remote/keyless entry and start are already being stolen, even directly off of dealer lots. The criminals have already figured out what he was going to present, and are using it to their advantage.
Do you know whether they've been using this specific hack though, or whether they've been breaking into cars with the same sort of "security" system? That does make a difference. Otherwise it's like saying that computers get hacked, so it doesn't matter how you reveal information about a specific exploit.
As a resident of Virginia, where taxes are low and there a lot of good software engineers employed tenuously in the government contracting business
Yes, NoVa and MD do a wonderful job of sucking off the government teat.
What type of idiot thinks:
>No struggle with convoluted keyboard shortcuts — only easy GUI navigation via toolbar buttons!
is a feature? Why on earth would you use Emacs if you don't intend to edit by muscle memory?
I think the GUI stuff is for package installation. I agree that if you don't have escape-meta-alt-control-shift for editing commands then Emacs isn't Emacs. I like having a menu driven backup for things I rarely use, but for stuff you commonly use keystrokes are much faster. Having to constantly switch between keyboard and mouse is very slow and clunky.
Emacs with packages like ProofGeneral, agda-mode, tuareg-mode, haskell-mode, SLIME and so on is the most convenient (or sometimes the only) frontend to some of the finest programming languages and theorem provers.
Agreed. One of the reasons I've stuck with Emacs is because it seems to have a mode for every language ever created, and Emacs runs on almost every platform ever created. It's closest competition in that respect seems to be Eclipse. I may well switch because a number of the embedded development environments I use are moving towards being Eclipse based, and I hate switching between editors. Once I get used to it the commands in an editor become almost instinctive, so I can concentrate on the code rather than the editor.
It let's old timers who are too lazy to update their skill set ...
If you consider a person's editor of choice a significant part of their "skill set", then you must have a very low bar for "skill sets".
Not clear if consumers will go for it though.
Fortunately most of them will never know. :p
Why is that fortunate? Do you fancy yourself part of a technocratic elite that always knows best? Label the stuff and let people decide for themselves.
But almost equally important is rapid transportation.
What do you mean by rapid? Ships, even sailing ships, are plenty fast enough to spread all sorts of agricultural pests.
I am a trained geneticist and have been involved in genetics/genomics research for more than 20 years. I can categorically assure you that this book is complete and utter nonsense; in this particular case the one-star reviews are bang on.
Argument from authority, even your own authority, is meaningless. It's quite another thing if you point out why you believe the book is nonsense, based on your understanding.
Round-Up (glyphosate) is an herbicide and not a pesticide
Herbicides are pesticides. Pesticide is a very broad term. You may be confusing it with insecticide.
That's true if you suddenly make a major change in heading, but a few degrees is another matter.
Fusion power? That's 20 years off.
I was approaching a tractor trailer in Utah one moment, and the next the GPS was in a "Recalculating" frenzy and I was jumping from Montana to Iowa and points in between.
Sounds like your GPS needs better position filtering.
Didn't you learn anything from Dr. Evil? Just shooting them is nowhere near as classy as sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!
I speak with authority in these matters because I am a shipyard prostitute.
A time honored profession.
Try reading the paragraph that starts with "Developing a full spoofer-based control system for a UAV is a difficult problem..."
You mean the paragraph that also says "causing a UAV to spin out of control and crash is not difficult with a spoofer"?
"Constructing from scratch a sophisticated GPS spoofer like the one developed by UT is not easy..."
Which ends with "the trend toward software-defined GNSS receivers for research and development, where receiver functionality is defined entirely in software downstream of the A/D converter, has significantly lowered the bar to spoofer development in recent years."
or the one that starts with "There are also a number of promising non-cryptographic techniques for civil GPS spoofing detection...".
Which certainly jibes well with my statement that "it is possible to fix".
You're welcome to pay attention if you feel like it but it won't get the problem fixed any faster.
That's true of most of the news I read. Should I take it that you never read news or consider the possibilities unless changing it is under your direct control? If so, why are you even reading this site or commenting here?
Just because it can be done by highly educated professional researchers who do nothing but try to find ways to do this does not mean terrorists can do it.
No, it doesn't. I'm not going to loose sleep over this. But that doesn't mean it's not a concern and shouldn't be fixed.
If all you need to tell your bearing is the rudder position, then why was the compass considered a big deal?
Awesome, we can make James Bond movies happen!
On Slashdot you can easily find the know-how to do everything in a James Bond movie, except get the girl.
These clowns have no clue about how real navigation SYSTEMS, like the ones I work on, work.
We are so impressed. You've heard of redundancy and sanity checking. Ooh-ahh.
I'm not going to give these idiots what they need ...
Don't worry, they can figure it out just fine without your vast and impressive knowledge.
Iran claimed that's what they did.
Ok, I'll bite. What's a DVL? (my usual deacronymizing techniques fail me).
If it's ITAR controlled though, that means a lot of ships won't have it. Best to keep the compass and sextant handy. Maybe even keep your eyes open.