From the summary of how the stingray works, doing what amounts to a spoof/man in the middle attack, I don't think it can work as a bridge. I'm sure a good electronic communications engineer and programmer could get it to do that with enough time, but the FBI doesn't have those kinds of people on hand, and it wouldn't have been fast enough for the disaster at hand in the first place.
Technically what they were finally successful in trademarking is "Microsoft Windows", but that doesn't stop them from sicking a pack of rabid lawyers on anyone using the word "Windows" for damn near anything.
If I take call right after call, I got through a certain number of calls. If after each call, I spent some time hitting the net, or reading a couple pages out of a novel, or whatever, just something to get my mind off that last call, my stats went up by around 20%-30%. This wasn't a fluke either. I had a supervisor that made me take that time, and we had tracked the numbers for the days I did or didn't have that small diversion. According to him, it's like a mental palette cleanser. Well whatever is really going on, it helps. Sometimes the most efficient speed to work at is NOT pedal to the metal bat outta hell speed.
Just uncreative idiots. Besides, the dissolve in acid gag is on a show or movie about every other year. It's been around since before color tv. It was even in those ancient radio dramas, or serials, or whatever they called those audio only shows from before tv. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in print before radio. Of course, idiots will do all kinds of stupid things, even without tv, just look at any history book.
100% Secure = 100% Unusable Security is a balancing act between usability, functionality, and safety. You'll never get 100% in any of those without having less than that in the other two categories. Sure, they may get closer to 100%, but at what cost? Is the machine running slower? Does it eat up huge amounts of HD? Does it take a 5 minutes to verify an authorized users biometrics before allowing them to do anything and if they leave it's immediate 'secure' area it totally resets? Not that those are what this one is or isn't doing, I was just illustrating the point that you can't have perfect security, and have a usable machine because there are always trade- offs. Especially since it's under the rule of diminishing returns. Although one great way to easily improve security is to remove humans from the loop. Of course, then you are just talking about some kind of backend or infrastructure type thing since it's only 'users' would be other machines, and even that can be compromised by compromising the machines that are allowed to be users. That's why I say that a machine that is totally secure, is also totally unusable. It's the only way to prevent the machine being compromised, but that's not really any good to anyone either.
Armature noun 1. the rotating coil or coils of a dynamo or electric motor. 2. a metal framework on which a sculpture is molded with clay or similar material.
I think you mean: Amateur noun 1. a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid basis.
synonyms: nonprofessional, nonspecialist, layman, layperson; adjective 1. engaging or engaged in without payment; nonprofessional. "an amateur archaeologist"
synonyms: nonprofessional, nonspecialist, lay; dilettante "an amateur sportsman"
Sorry, but I just couldn't resist.;) Were you using a voice to text app? Sometimes those things make really strange mistakes.
There is a definitions based line dividing "Telecommunications" and "Information Services". We see certain for profit entities try to skip over that line once again to get the best of both worlds and none of the responsibilities. It's like they're in a jumprope contest.
Lets see... Your other browsers are STILL THERE, and if you open one of them, it will ask you if you want to make it your default browser. Real freaking difficult. On the other hand, it's not MSs responsibility to ensure that old versions of other peoples software is compliant with their new OS, so yes, it makes sense to have upgrades change the default to one they know will work. That way the users that prefer the other browsers can use the default one to download a new version of the one they prefer, even if their old version of it doesn't freaking work properly in the new OS.
There is nothing stopping you from easily changing the default, and there are reasons why an OS upgrade shouldn't leave the pre-upgrade default on an unverified 3rd party software. Don't like it, then welcome to the reality of having to cater to millions of virtual computer illiterates that will panic and freak if the slightest thing goes wrong. You are just a footnote of annoyance vs a possible flood of pissed off users.
I can complain about MS as much or more than virtually anyone that's sane, but look at the big picture rather than your own little reflection. If you want to complain, make it about something that is unreasonable, or just plain broken or F'd up. (There's lots of that out there. I'll give you one hint, don't do the express install, use the other one where you can pick what some of the defaults will be, you'll be shocked.)
By fuel, they are referring to reaction mass. It's that stuff you propel out of the ship in the opposite direction of the one you want to go in. The EM Drive has nothing to do with how the electricity is generated anymore than your toaster does, though both need it to do their job. We have many satellites that have power, mostly via solar, that have been decommissioned and deorbited because they were out of reaction mass, excluding the amount used to deorbit them. If you don't need reaction mass, that's no longer an issue.
In conventional space drive technology, you have two basic types. One burns fuel, which becomes a hot and expansive gas that then rushes out the thrust nozzles and provides thrust in the opposite direction. It doesn't matter if it was solid or liquid before it was burned. The other is the Ion drive, which uses electricity to ionize a reaction mass and that then shoots out the thrust nozzle and you get thrust just like the other one. The real difference is the reaction mass isn't itself burned, rather it's ionized. So it's still pretty similar. In both cases, you have a finite amount of reaction mass, which must be expelled to provide thrust, and before it's expelled you have to use more of it just to cart around the amount that isn't yet expelled. Think of it this way, you have an electric cart that when it's carrying nothing but itself and it's one battery, it can go 20 feet before running out of power. Well, you can't go back for more batteries after you start out, so if you want to go further, you will need to carry the extra batteries with you. Let's say you want to go 310 feet. Well, that would take a total of 16 batteries, but it's also massively increased the weight of the cart, so one battery will no longer propel it 20', but only 12'. Well crud, now you need more batteries, but that adds more weight, and of course, the need for more batteries. Do you see the dilemma here? Sure, we have a small advantage, that if we travel slower, we use less power, but there are limits to that other than human lifespans and patience, both of which are relatively short. That's part of why a reactionless drive is so fantastic. It doesn't have to conserve reaction mass, so it they can do a space version of petal to the metal as much as they want, so long as they don't screw the approach vectors. Travelling with short bursts of small thrust become obsolete as you can leadfoot it like crazy, and no space cops to bust you for going over the limit. So instead of a 3000lb probe of which 2800lbs is reaction mass with only 200lb for instrumentation, you know can have an 800lb probe with maybe 600lb of instrumentation. And even better yet, it doesn't even have to be a one way trip. As long as the hardware holds out, it can come home, or even divert to other points of interest. No longer having to rely on a reaction mass is a HUGE deal.
An ion thruster is a very efficient reaction mass based thruster, It still has to drag all that reaction mass along, despite it's only real purpose being that it's thrown out like garbage just to provide thrust. It takes thrust to push that reaction mass around the place, up until you actually throw it out the window, which is actually out the directed nozzle or whatever. And what happens when you run out of reaction mass? You have no more thrust.
On the other hand, if you have a reactionless thruster, as long as you provide it with power, it will give you thrust. Slap on solar panels, or if it's a deep space mission, nuclear batteries or the like, and you are set. As an added bonus, you can use that constant acceleration trick to really build up some speed. Something you can't do with reaction mass because you don't ever have enough, even for a tiny trip like to the moon.
"Integrity" and "Politicians". Can those two words actually exist in the same sentence without something like "lack of", "non-existent", or even "laughable" also being included?
If you believe that, you are really stupid, and probably infected already. I've worked in the middle of mac support guys, and I've heard plenty of calls from people who's macs were infected. It's real bozo, now stop deluding yourself. Hopefully the forceful language will get AC to reconsider his flawed and incorrect position, but to be honest, he's probably to stupid to realize it.
I guess that would depend on frequency, strength of signal, and if they even use something we understand like electromagnetic radiation for communication.
The whole "Earth-sized" thing is a misnomer because apparently journalists are stupid. All it really means is "This isn't a gas giant". Outside of that one point, it's pretty much a crap shoot.
So yet again a member of a government organization has willfully engaged in Identity Theft and/or Copyright or Trademark Infringement. Will they get arrested? Of course no. Heck, they won't even get a slap on the wrist as soon as the press quiets down. I guess it doesn't matter what country it is, they seem to think the laws apply to other people.
It wasn't me, but a friend of mine. They had one of those ancient tape banks you see in old black and white sci-fi movies. For real. The day I was in his shop and saw it, I asked him about the antique, and he got really pissed and started venting. Apparently they had stuff on those giant tape reels, and absolutely refused to upgrade to something faster, cheaper, and more reliable, like a floppy disk for instance. To make things worse, the damn thing was so freaking slow, they had to have a special interface/buffer built, but it kept blowing out because of the massive differences. Of course, he was the poor schlub that had to try and fix the piece of archaic trash. (I had nothing to do with it, so I'm just repeating a paraphrase of his rant and take no stance on it's accuracy.) I'm not going to tell you what organization it was that would insist on something this stupid and wasteful, but I'm pretty sure you can make a decent guess.
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From the summary of how the stingray works, doing what amounts to a spoof/man in the middle attack, I don't think it can work as a bridge. I'm sure a good electronic communications engineer and programmer could get it to do that with enough time, but the FBI doesn't have those kinds of people on hand, and it wouldn't have been fast enough for the disaster at hand in the first place.
Technically what they were finally successful in trademarking is "Microsoft Windows", but that doesn't stop them from sicking a pack of rabid lawyers on anyone using the word "Windows" for damn near anything.
If I take call right after call, I got through a certain number of calls.
If after each call, I spent some time hitting the net, or reading a couple pages out of a novel, or whatever, just something to get my mind off that last call, my stats went up by around 20%-30%.
This wasn't a fluke either. I had a supervisor that made me take that time, and we had tracked the numbers for the days I did or didn't have that small diversion. According to him, it's like a mental palette cleanser. Well whatever is really going on, it helps. Sometimes the most efficient speed to work at is NOT pedal to the metal bat outta hell speed.
Just uncreative idiots. Besides, the dissolve in acid gag is on a show or movie about every other year. It's been around since before color tv. It was even in those ancient radio dramas, or serials, or whatever they called those audio only shows from before tv. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in print before radio.
Of course, idiots will do all kinds of stupid things, even without tv, just look at any history book.
100% Secure = 100% Unusable
Security is a balancing act between usability, functionality, and safety.
You'll never get 100% in any of those without having less than that in the other two categories.
Sure, they may get closer to 100%, but at what cost? Is the machine running slower? Does it eat up huge amounts of HD? Does it take a 5 minutes to verify an authorized users biometrics before allowing them to do anything and if they leave it's immediate 'secure' area it totally resets?
Not that those are what this one is or isn't doing, I was just illustrating the point that you can't have perfect security, and have a usable machine because there are always trade- offs. Especially since it's under the rule of diminishing returns. Although one great way to easily improve security is to remove humans from the loop. Of course, then you are just talking about some kind of backend or infrastructure type thing since it's only 'users' would be other machines, and even that can be compromised by compromising the machines that are allowed to be users.
That's why I say that a machine that is totally secure, is also totally unusable. It's the only way to prevent the machine being compromised, but that's not really any good to anyone either.
Sweetpea Entertainment was responsible for those steaming piles. Now if they can keep those creeps out of this one, it has a chance at being good.
No, but if you look at Sweetpea Entertainments record, you might think otherwise.
Armature
;) Were you using a voice to text app? Sometimes those things make really strange mistakes.
noun
1. the rotating coil or coils of a dynamo or electric motor.
2. a metal framework on which a sculpture is molded with clay or similar material.
I think you mean:
Amateur
noun
1. a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid basis.
synonyms: nonprofessional, nonspecialist, layman, layperson;
adjective
1. engaging or engaged in without payment; nonprofessional.
"an amateur archaeologist"
synonyms: nonprofessional, nonspecialist, lay; dilettante
"an amateur sportsman"
Sorry, but I just couldn't resist.
...And Germany changed it's laws so he can no longer make bank by making a flop.
I had plenty of tasty food when I was in the UK. It would probably have made a modern nutritionist have an apoplectic fit, but still.
Interesting.... Last year he claimed to have NEVER even heard of Soylent Green, and now he's saying it was inspired by it?!?!?!
He's full of it.
There is a definitions based line dividing "Telecommunications" and "Information Services".
We see certain for profit entities try to skip over that line once again to get the best of both worlds and none of the responsibilities.
It's like they're in a jumprope contest.
Lets see... Your other browsers are STILL THERE, and if you open one of them, it will ask you if you want to make it your default browser.
Real freaking difficult.
On the other hand, it's not MSs responsibility to ensure that old versions of other peoples software is compliant with their new OS, so yes, it makes sense to have upgrades change the default to one they know will work. That way the users that prefer the other browsers can use the default one to download a new version of the one they prefer, even if their old version of it doesn't freaking work properly in the new OS.
There is nothing stopping you from easily changing the default, and there are reasons why an OS upgrade shouldn't leave the pre-upgrade default on an unverified 3rd party software. Don't like it, then welcome to the reality of having to cater to millions of virtual computer illiterates that will panic and freak if the slightest thing goes wrong. You are just a footnote of annoyance vs a possible flood of pissed off users.
I can complain about MS as much or more than virtually anyone that's sane, but look at the big picture rather than your own little reflection. If you want to complain, make it about something that is unreasonable, or just plain broken or F'd up. (There's lots of that out there. I'll give you one hint, don't do the express install, use the other one where you can pick what some of the defaults will be, you'll be shocked.)
If they outlaw chimps, only chimp outlaws will fling feces at you.
Did you attend the University of Oregon? :P
Otherwise, yeah, you probably aren't a duck.
By fuel, they are referring to reaction mass. It's that stuff you propel out of the ship in the opposite direction of the one you want to go in.
The EM Drive has nothing to do with how the electricity is generated anymore than your toaster does, though both need it to do their job.
We have many satellites that have power, mostly via solar, that have been decommissioned and deorbited because they were out of reaction mass, excluding the amount used to deorbit them. If you don't need reaction mass, that's no longer an issue.
In conventional space drive technology, you have two basic types.
One burns fuel, which becomes a hot and expansive gas that then rushes out the thrust nozzles and provides thrust in the opposite direction. It doesn't matter if it was solid or liquid before it was burned.
The other is the Ion drive, which uses electricity to ionize a reaction mass and that then shoots out the thrust nozzle and you get thrust just like the other one. The real difference is the reaction mass isn't itself burned, rather it's ionized. So it's still pretty similar.
In both cases, you have a finite amount of reaction mass, which must be expelled to provide thrust, and before it's expelled you have to use more of it just to cart around the amount that isn't yet expelled.
Think of it this way, you have an electric cart that when it's carrying nothing but itself and it's one battery, it can go 20 feet before running out of power. Well, you can't go back for more batteries after you start out, so if you want to go further, you will need to carry the extra batteries with you. Let's say you want to go 310 feet. Well, that would take a total of 16 batteries, but it's also massively increased the weight of the cart, so one battery will no longer propel it 20', but only 12'. Well crud, now you need more batteries, but that adds more weight, and of course, the need for more batteries.
Do you see the dilemma here?
Sure, we have a small advantage, that if we travel slower, we use less power, but there are limits to that other than human lifespans and patience, both of which are relatively short.
That's part of why a reactionless drive is so fantastic. It doesn't have to conserve reaction mass, so it they can do a space version of petal to the metal as much as they want, so long as they don't screw the approach vectors. Travelling with short bursts of small thrust become obsolete as you can leadfoot it like crazy, and no space cops to bust you for going over the limit. So instead of a 3000lb probe of which 2800lbs is reaction mass with only 200lb for instrumentation, you know can have an 800lb probe with maybe 600lb of instrumentation. And even better yet, it doesn't even have to be a one way trip. As long as the hardware holds out, it can come home, or even divert to other points of interest. No longer having to rely on a reaction mass is a HUGE deal.
An ion thruster is a very efficient reaction mass based thruster,
It still has to drag all that reaction mass along, despite it's only real purpose being that it's thrown out like garbage just to provide thrust.
It takes thrust to push that reaction mass around the place, up until you actually throw it out the window, which is actually out the directed nozzle or whatever.
And what happens when you run out of reaction mass? You have no more thrust.
On the other hand, if you have a reactionless thruster, as long as you provide it with power, it will give you thrust. Slap on solar panels, or if it's a deep space mission, nuclear batteries or the like, and you are set.
As an added bonus, you can use that constant acceleration trick to really build up some speed. Something you can't do with reaction mass because you don't ever have enough, even for a tiny trip like to the moon.
"Integrity" and "Politicians". Can those two words actually exist in the same sentence without something like "lack of", "non-existent", or even "laughable" also being included?
I'd bet that's extremely illegal. I'm pretty sure the word "conspiracy" is somewhere in the legal description as well. ianal
If you believe that, you are really stupid, and probably infected already.
I've worked in the middle of mac support guys, and I've heard plenty of calls from people who's macs were infected.
It's real bozo, now stop deluding yourself.
Hopefully the forceful language will get AC to reconsider his flawed and incorrect position, but to be honest, he's probably to stupid to realize it.
I guess that would depend on frequency, strength of signal, and if they even use something we understand like electromagnetic radiation for communication.
And the cow orbited over the moon...
Did anyone think about the aeronautically deprived pigs?
The whole "Earth-sized" thing is a misnomer because apparently journalists are stupid. All it really means is "This isn't a gas giant". Outside of that one point, it's pretty much a crap shoot.
So yet again a member of a government organization has willfully engaged in Identity Theft and/or Copyright or Trademark Infringement. Will they get arrested? Of course no. Heck, they won't even get a slap on the wrist as soon as the press quiets down. I guess it doesn't matter what country it is, they seem to think the laws apply to other people.
It wasn't me, but a friend of mine. They had one of those ancient tape banks you see in old black and white sci-fi movies. For real. The day I was in his shop and saw it, I asked him about the antique, and he got really pissed and started venting. Apparently they had stuff on those giant tape reels, and absolutely refused to upgrade to something faster, cheaper, and more reliable, like a floppy disk for instance. To make things worse, the damn thing was so freaking slow, they had to have a special interface/buffer built, but it kept blowing out because of the massive differences. Of course, he was the poor schlub that had to try and fix the piece of archaic trash. (I had nothing to do with it, so I'm just repeating a paraphrase of his rant and take no stance on it's accuracy.)
I'm not going to tell you what organization it was that would insist on something this stupid and wasteful, but I'm pretty sure you can make a decent guess.