I'm thinking their 'patented application' is rather bogus. Sure it can easily detect if it's moving faster than a person should be able to. Using GPS and mapping, it can also make a pretty good guess if it's following on a road. (Usually not accurate enough in the phones to tell reliable though.) Now as to being able to identify if it's user is the driver, unless the driver decided to tell it, that's total B.S. to put it nicely.
Not only did Han shoot first, Greedo didn't even get a shot off, he just died like the scumbag that he was. Don't forget that Greedo had just told Han that he's basically going to take him out back and blow his head off.
Librarians naturally abhor such things, but it is true that the library has limited storage and the managers that make these policies tend not to be librarians, or even give a crap what's important to those below them and thus often make such flaky rulings resulting in the people it affects finding creative ways around them.
You may be right, but librarians have a nearly genetic imperative to prevent the loss of any book, even if nobody has read it in centuries. It's also a point of professional pride and the loss of books is at odds with their stated goals. If you really want to see what it's like, hold a book burning in front of your local library.
Most databases of people have at least one, if not several, fake entries. They are used as tests and filler. If it were illegal, every company out there would be utterly screwed.
Um... The nazis tried to turn an alien asteroid ufo that crashed there eons ago into a base, but it had xenomorphs and they all got ate or turned into baby xeonomorph incubators. At least until some badass non-human combat junkies dreds got bored with buzzing other uncontacted planets and decided to go there and party predator style!
(Did I make enough references in that one? I could probably squeeze in a few more, but it's just about 3am here. Night!)
You read armchair conspiracy nuts rantings on a field they don't even understand, much less have a decade or more of professional experience in. Over 90% of the worlds climatologists agree on Global Warming, and that's amazing! If you put 4 scientists from virtually any field together in one room, they'll almost always start arguing. That's part of their jobs! Yes, arguing with each other. They do it more politely and professionally than their neighbors, but they try to tear down everyones ideas. Those ideas only stand if they can withstand the intellectual assault. Global Warming has been standing for a VERY long time despite so many people, not the least of which is the climatologists themselves, trying to knock it down. And you're relying on some bozo that hasn't even earned a degree in climatology. That's just wow. You should really learn how to vet your sources.
The models reflect the historical climate accurately. So there is a very high probability that those same models predictions of future climate are also reasonably accurate. They use all that data to build and test the models.
Actually the economists and their studies say that they don't. Actually they are a drain on the economy. Any money going to a middle or lower class person creates far more economic health & activity than it does going to a rich person. You wouldn't believe how huge of a difference! This is of course, not based on common sense, because frankly common sense is an illusion, rather it's based on the mechanisms of economic systems. You don't believe me? No problem, just go look it up, the documentation is out there, and it includes the work of people that won Nobels for their work in economics. If you want to argue about it, argue with the world experts, not just an insignificant person like me that reads lots of things.
By the way, that entire trickledown economics stuff was discredited long before Regan espoused it. It's only taught by sub-standard and questionable places because the majority of economists already know it's total bunk. (Also from world class economists. Really, you people should read some of their articles and reports.)
Forced into contact? Name one person with a still functioning and non-undead brain who wasn't pretty sure the moment snowden was in russia there was somebody cozied up and standing in his undies with him. Come on, there's no way any country would pass up that opportunity to get info from somebody, it's only how public will they be about it.
No, they don't. (That's not a hypothetical situation in the slightest, and a lot closer than a few hundred miles.) As a matter of fact, they just track them, unless it's apparently disabled/floating and in US waters - aka 12 mile limit. Fisherman pick up far more spy buoys than everyone else combined. Those used to be mostly Soviet, but I don't know what they're finding these days.
So how is china being adult? This is the equivalent of seeing someone else playing with a toy in the park across the street from your house. Following them around for a while, then as they go to pick up their toys, you run up and steal one of them and run home. And now when the kid you stole it from yells about that jerk that stole his toy, you agree to return it because they're making such a fuss about it, while completely ignore that you STOLE it from them.
Actually you're pretty off topic there, but our space probes tend to be build with OLD technology because it's had massive amounts of testing over time in extremely hostile conditions. Not something the new tech has the advantage of. When dealing with sending stuff out there where it will never have a service call, you want the best chance of not having component failures. I believe I saw an article where NASA said that they tend to build those things with 20+ year old electronics, despite them really wanting the power of modern stuff.
So since when has the US been surrounding china with military bases and stolen chinese property? No, seriously, list them.
So the US insisting upon the return of their stolen unmanned vehicle for measuring oceanic conditions that was stolen in an act of piracy from international waters is a threat to world peace? How so? Please explain.
Also, please note that it can be argued that international laws would have allowed them to fire on the pirates for their acts of piracy. (ianal) Is that what you think would be an appropriate response that wouldn't threaten world peace? Shooting instead of talking? If so, please explain how someone from Bizzarro World ended up on this planet. (For further references on Bizzarro World, please see Superman & DC comics.)
News flash, china has been doing that since at least the 70s. International waters are international waters for a lot of reasons, and any member of the world can insist that international waters remain international waters and piracy (theft at sea of ships or equipment) be stopped. China doesn't care that those are recognized international waters and is trying to take them over and make them chinas personal swimming pool, screwing over everyone there, including the other countries who's waters they are trying to steal.
Start the anchor points with oil rigs refitted to be battlestations? Great for hollywood, but not all that realistic in the real world. Hmmm... I should put that in one of my games... heheheh
They have recently claimed several other uninhabited islands that were previously claimed by other countries, or were considered unclaimable by international laws. Building an island out there on a reef isn't recognized as a viable claim any more than putting an oil rig out there would be a viable claim. (ianal)
So yes, china is on an expansion grab and is trying to annex the ocean, including unclaimable international waters and the waters of other nations.
Actually china is trying to claim waters far in excess of their legal rights by international law. In fact, their claims infringe upon the claims and recognized rights of at least 3 other countries. China is going an aquatic land grab, and is either going to get away with it, or start a nasty war. At this rate, I'm betting that they want a war.
I guess they were hoping the US ship would open fire on them for their act of piracy so they could really fire up the crocodile tears. But since that didn't happen, they only get to whine about us calling them for doing something illegal and stupid.
A defector bring a gift, isn't the same as swooping in and grabbing something from it's rightful owners, especially with them right there.
They probably just downloaded it's data and were annoyed that all it had were current and temp readings, or something equally oceanographic, but not very espionage oriented.
If it comes out with reproducible results larger than the margin of error, then there's something to work with, even if their theory is snorting dried pixie feces.
I remember seeing a lot of people on those particular subjects that were mentioned yelling and screaming it's fake simply because they didn't have a theory that these people would accept. That's not good science. That's not even in the realm of science.
I seem to recall that a couple places did replicate the LENR results, one of the first was either the University of Oregon, or Oregon State University. The only difference they'd seen between a setup that succeeded and one that failed was the level of surface fractures on the platinum (catalyst, cathode, some kind of thingie made of platinum) of the one that succeeded, though their output was lower than the rate inventors were claiming.
Never forget, our physics, and all the rest of our sciences, are wrong. However, they are less wrong than they were in the past, and scientists are working all the time to make them more correct every day. Time goes on and science gets better. Old theories are replaced by better ones, and the universe continues still completely indifferent to our squabbles. So sometimes why won't know why something works, and sometimes we'll understand it good enough, but perfect knowledge is a fantasy.
It's only 'secure' until someone finds a way to exploit it.
Always assume that they will find a vulnerability eventually, but it's still your job to eliminate all of the vulnerabilities you can, and make it as hard as feasible for any attacker to get in.
Of course there's the issue of resource to deal with. Sure if you had infinite time & other resources to work on the software before release/implementation, you could get something that will take longer than the heat death of the universe to become vulnerable, but since when has ANYONE ever worked under such an ideal and yet utterly unrealistic situation?
It falls down to the old development triad every time. The options are Good, Fast, and Cheap, but you can only choose two of those options. (Sometimes I think the government gets stuck with only getting one option)
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I'm thinking their 'patented application' is rather bogus. Sure it can easily detect if it's moving faster than a person should be able to. Using GPS and mapping, it can also make a pretty good guess if it's following on a road. (Usually not accurate enough in the phones to tell reliable though.)
Now as to being able to identify if it's user is the driver, unless the driver decided to tell it, that's total B.S. to put it nicely.
Not only did Han shoot first, Greedo didn't even get a shot off, he just died like the scumbag that he was. Don't forget that Greedo had just told Han that he's basically going to take him out back and blow his head off.
If this holds up it's going to be a huge mess, especially for fox and beitbart.
Librarians naturally abhor such things, but it is true that the library has limited storage and the managers that make these policies tend not to be librarians, or even give a crap what's important to those below them and thus often make such flaky rulings resulting in the people it affects finding creative ways around them.
You may be right, but librarians have a nearly genetic imperative to prevent the loss of any book, even if nobody has read it in centuries.
It's also a point of professional pride and the loss of books is at odds with their stated goals.
If you really want to see what it's like, hold a book burning in front of your local library.
Most databases of people have at least one, if not several, fake entries. They are used as tests and filler. If it were illegal, every company out there would be utterly screwed.
Um...
The nazis tried to turn an alien asteroid ufo that crashed there eons ago into a base, but it had xenomorphs and they all got ate or turned into baby xeonomorph incubators. At least until some badass non-human combat junkies dreds got bored with buzzing other uncontacted planets and decided to go there and party predator style!
(Did I make enough references in that one? I could probably squeeze in a few more, but it's just about 3am here. Night!)
You read armchair conspiracy nuts rantings on a field they don't even understand, much less have a decade or more of professional experience in.
Over 90% of the worlds climatologists agree on Global Warming, and that's amazing! If you put 4 scientists from virtually any field together in one room, they'll almost always start arguing. That's part of their jobs! Yes, arguing with each other. They do it more politely and professionally than their neighbors, but they try to tear down everyones ideas. Those ideas only stand if they can withstand the intellectual assault.
Global Warming has been standing for a VERY long time despite so many people, not the least of which is the climatologists themselves, trying to knock it down.
And you're relying on some bozo that hasn't even earned a degree in climatology.
That's just wow. You should really learn how to vet your sources.
The models reflect the historical climate accurately.
So there is a very high probability that those same models predictions of future climate are also reasonably accurate.
They use all that data to build and test the models.
Yes. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to sell the same thing to multiple people, or to otherwise knowingly sell more of a product than you have.
I didn't know trump had gone to the UAE.
Actually the economists and their studies say that they don't. Actually they are a drain on the economy. Any money going to a middle or lower class person creates far more economic health & activity than it does going to a rich person. You wouldn't believe how huge of a difference!
This is of course, not based on common sense, because frankly common sense is an illusion, rather it's based on the mechanisms of economic systems.
You don't believe me? No problem, just go look it up, the documentation is out there, and it includes the work of people that won Nobels for their work in economics.
If you want to argue about it, argue with the world experts, not just an insignificant person like me that reads lots of things.
By the way, that entire trickledown economics stuff was discredited long before Regan espoused it. It's only taught by sub-standard and questionable places because the majority of economists already know it's total bunk.
(Also from world class economists. Really, you people should read some of their articles and reports.)
Forced into contact?
Name one person with a still functioning and non-undead brain who wasn't pretty sure the moment snowden was in russia there was somebody cozied up and standing in his undies with him. Come on, there's no way any country would pass up that opportunity to get info from somebody, it's only how public will they be about it.
No, they don't. (That's not a hypothetical situation in the slightest, and a lot closer than a few hundred miles.)
As a matter of fact, they just track them, unless it's apparently disabled/floating and in US waters - aka 12 mile limit.
Fisherman pick up far more spy buoys than everyone else combined. Those used to be mostly Soviet, but I don't know what they're finding these days.
So how is china being adult? This is the equivalent of seeing someone else playing with a toy in the park across the street from your house. Following them around for a while, then as they go to pick up their toys, you run up and steal one of them and run home. And now when the kid you stole it from yells about that jerk that stole his toy, you agree to return it because they're making such a fuss about it, while completely ignore that you STOLE it from them.
Actually you're pretty off topic there, but our space probes tend to be build with OLD technology because it's had massive amounts of testing over time in extremely hostile conditions. Not something the new tech has the advantage of. When dealing with sending stuff out there where it will never have a service call, you want the best chance of not having component failures. I believe I saw an article where NASA said that they tend to build those things with 20+ year old electronics, despite them really wanting the power of modern stuff.
So since when has the US been surrounding china with military bases and stolen chinese property?
No, seriously, list them.
So the US insisting upon the return of their stolen unmanned vehicle for measuring oceanic conditions that was stolen in an act of piracy from international waters is a threat to world peace? How so? Please explain.
Also, please note that it can be argued that international laws would have allowed them to fire on the pirates for their acts of piracy. (ianal)
Is that what you think would be an appropriate response that wouldn't threaten world peace? Shooting instead of talking? If so, please explain how someone from Bizzarro World ended up on this planet. (For further references on Bizzarro World, please see Superman & DC comics.)
News flash, china has been doing that since at least the 70s.
International waters are international waters for a lot of reasons, and any member of the world can insist that international waters remain international waters and piracy (theft at sea of ships or equipment) be stopped.
China doesn't care that those are recognized international waters and is trying to take them over and make them chinas personal swimming pool, screwing over everyone there, including the other countries who's waters they are trying to steal.
Start the anchor points with oil rigs refitted to be battlestations?
Great for hollywood, but not all that realistic in the real world.
Hmmm... I should put that in one of my games... heheheh
They have recently claimed several other uninhabited islands that were previously claimed by other countries, or were considered unclaimable by international laws. Building an island out there on a reef isn't recognized as a viable claim any more than putting an oil rig out there would be a viable claim. (ianal)
So yes, china is on an expansion grab and is trying to annex the ocean, including unclaimable international waters and the waters of other nations.
Actually china is trying to claim waters far in excess of their legal rights by international law. In fact, their claims infringe upon the claims and recognized rights of at least 3 other countries. China is going an aquatic land grab, and is either going to get away with it, or start a nasty war. At this rate, I'm betting that they want a war.
I guess they were hoping the US ship would open fire on them for their act of piracy so they could really fire up the crocodile tears. But since that didn't happen, they only get to whine about us calling them for doing something illegal and stupid.
A defector bring a gift, isn't the same as swooping in and grabbing something from it's rightful owners, especially with them right there.
They probably just downloaded it's data and were annoyed that all it had were current and temp readings, or something equally oceanographic, but not very espionage oriented.
If it comes out with reproducible results larger than the margin of error, then there's something to work with, even if their theory is snorting dried pixie feces.
I remember seeing a lot of people on those particular subjects that were mentioned yelling and screaming it's fake simply because they didn't have a theory that these people would accept. That's not good science. That's not even in the realm of science.
I seem to recall that a couple places did replicate the LENR results, one of the first was either the University of Oregon, or Oregon State University. The only difference they'd seen between a setup that succeeded and one that failed was the level of surface fractures on the platinum (catalyst, cathode, some kind of thingie made of platinum) of the one that succeeded, though their output was lower than the rate inventors were claiming.
Never forget, our physics, and all the rest of our sciences, are wrong. However, they are less wrong than they were in the past, and scientists are working all the time to make them more correct every day. Time goes on and science gets better. Old theories are replaced by better ones, and the universe continues still completely indifferent to our squabbles. So sometimes why won't know why something works, and sometimes we'll understand it good enough, but perfect knowledge is a fantasy.
It's only 'secure' until someone finds a way to exploit it.
Always assume that they will find a vulnerability eventually, but it's still your job to eliminate all of the vulnerabilities you can, and make it as hard as feasible for any attacker to get in.
Of course there's the issue of resource to deal with. Sure if you had infinite time & other resources to work on the software before release/implementation, you could get something that will take longer than the heat death of the universe to become vulnerable, but since when has ANYONE ever worked under such an ideal and yet utterly unrealistic situation?
It falls down to the old development triad every time.
The options are Good, Fast, and Cheap, but you can only choose two of those options.
(Sometimes I think the government gets stuck with only getting one option)