Try to envision a world in which the FAA would write a regulation including the phrase "but if it's just a SMALL fire, then heck, just toss it out the door and carry on".
Rotating with respect to itself. Every particle in that space station (assuming it's rotating) is under tension, experiencing a net force and hence a net acceleration. Let a bit go, and it'll fly off in a straight line. (At that point, the particle could argue that it's at rest, and the space station is both rotating and moving linearly, because the particle *would* be in an inertial reference frame.) You don't need a reference frame to measure force, just velocity.
As for whether observing a rotating object implies that "something" must have accelerated it in the past, that's a question for the philosophers.
Hmm? Sure. A rotating space station is a non-inertial reference frame, in the sense that objects in it are undergoing acceleration (caused by the tensile force holding their particles together). So you can just measure the apparent centrifugal force at a particular radius, do a little math, and find out the angular velocity of each ring. Or you could just jump off the stations. As you floated away into the void, you'd see whichever ones were rotating, rotating. (Better bring a radio, so you can tell the rest of us. Or a rope, I suppose.)
In an attempt to test whether the higher numbers of cardiovascular deaths were simply a statistical blip or a genuine sign of the effect of traveling into deep space, the scientists exposed mice to the same type of radiation that the astronauts would have experienced. After six months, which is the equivalent of 20 human years, the mice showed damage to arteries that is known to lead to the development of cardiovascular disease in humans.
Well, no. The scientists slammed the mice with ~6-12 months' worth of radiation in ten minutes. Yeah, they probably had artery damage. Stuff like that happens when you stick a mouse in the microwave.
One generally uses a long, complex password for their password vault (which is fine, since you only have to remember the one password). This, combined with PBKDF2 backed by SHA-256 iterations, means that it's not realistically possible to brute-force the vault before the sun goes out.
The problem again is LastPass. Nobody knows if their security practices are any good, and the attack surface is huge.
Well, their online security practices are relatively unknown, but they're also kind of beside the point. Yes, LastPass won't hand out someone's vault without some sort of authentication, but that's just fences around brick walls. The real means of security is in the client, which is the only part capable of decrypting the vault (decryption keys never being uploaded). The client source code is available and has been audited, so you can feel pretty good about that, short of the Ken Thompson hack or the possibility of the local computer itself being hacked (which, of course, would affect any password manager).
The exploit doesn't seem to have anything to do with "the cloud". Once you're logged in to LastPass and your vault is downloaded, password decryption and form filling happen locally.
Stripping it for parts? Well, there's a HD and a BluRay, of course, and a fan, and some cables; those would be worth a few bucks put together.
Beyond that there's a couple of circuit boards with lots of chips soldered to them. If you have a BGA rework station and a steady hand, you could recover the ICs. But if you're looking for a graphics card, a socketable CPU, memory DIMMs... you're out of luck. There's no reason for MS to make the xbone a PC on the inside, and every reason for them not to.
I don't see where the false advertising is. Want to use 200 GB during August? Fine, you can do that, just as advertised, and you'll pay the advertised price for it. But you won't be a customer of theirs in September.
Zero-risk is kind of a weird strategy for someone holding stock, but okay, whatever. So the stock price finds a lower equilibrium, because people feel that 5G's gonna be an overall negative for the carriers. So what? The carriers still have to deal with it. Whichever one finds the right balance between ramp-up costs and early-mover benefits will do the best, meaning they all have a strong incentive to be that one.
I cannot believe I'm explaining the invisible hand of the market to someone who's arguing *against* government regulation.
As an investor, you're going to support a 5G rollout because if your competitors do and you don't, your portfolio will be well and truly screwed in a few years. Maybe you think the early-mover bonus is going to cover the costs and maybe you don't, but either way you clearly can't afford to hang back. The only real question is what effect it'll have on the rollout *schedule*.
Heh, no they aren't. 4G data plans in the EU don't even come *close* to $70/month. Vodafone Germany's most expensive data-only plan, for instance, is only 30 euro.
More importantly, though, nobody's making distinctions between 3G and 4G anymore. Early on, 4G was only offered by some of the providers, and at a hefty premium. As more providers followed suit to maintain feature parity, that premium shrank and disappeared. So the market rewarded the early movers, incentivised the industry as a whole to roll out 4G, and kept prices fair. And this was was accomplished without any significant zero-rating or usurious peering charges.
What makes you think it'd be any different this time?
My mental health expert taught me how to set things on fire with my mind. I find I'm much better at dealing with the problems I face in life now, much more creative at solving those problems, and much happier as a result.
This season, we're seeing more of an intellectual/anti-intellectual split... or perhaps a technocrat/populist split. The idea that any group of people in Silicon Valley wouldn't fall pretty squarely on the former categories, compared to the population of the country as a whole, is laughable; but if Facebook was looking for a paleoconventional liberal bias, I can see why they wouldn't necessarily find one. The prevailing economic libertarianism in geek circles covers up a lot of social progressivism if you're looking for a traditional red/blue categorization.
Because that's what they agreed to. They signed a contract saying "We'll pay you X amount of dollars, and use the software for Y amount of years, and then stop using the software. We understand that you're under no obligation to allow us to renew the license, for any amount of dollars." Which was certainly a really, really stupid contract for them to have signed, but hey, here we are.
So what, aid organizations should only help the most needy country? "Screw you, Kenya, you'll get yours AFTER Somalia has been thoroughly chickened"?
I don't think that offering livestock aid to the rural poor is necessarily insulting. Certainly I don't think the intended recipients would reject it as an insult. As for the government, well, they're overseeing consistently strong trade surpluses thanks to an abundance of natural resources; and as you pointed out, they already have the production capabilities. If they don't want foreign aid organizations to be feeding their people, they can damn well do it themselves.
But if the security auditors are only looking for code that gets signals from the microphone, they might miss code that gets signals from the vibrator.
Sure, but this is a "requires physical access" hack, meaning the attacker could instead just tee the microphone into whatever ADC they were planning to wire the vibration motor into.
Motors, piezo buzzers, etc. make decent microphones. *Microphones* make even better microphones. And there's one right there.
If one were Satoshi and found at this stage that he was "not strong enough to out himself", the logical course of action would be to backpedal and call the whole thing a hoax. After all, if the thing you were not strong enough to do was reveal your identity, continuing to assert that identity -- regardless of willingness to provide proof -- would be pretty silly.
This isn't the "not strong enough to do the right thing" move. It's the "got called on his BS and looking for a way to save face" move.
India, China, and Turkey, just like right now. It's time for the US to wake up to the fact that they aren't primarily a producer of raw goods, like they were in the nineteenth century. Every time someone in Belgium buys an iPhone, China makes a little bit of money, and the US makes considerably more money.
The consequences of the entire world not working are fairly straightforward to predict, but that's not the issue here. The issue is a mismatch between the country's -global economic positioning and its local economic policies.
Moreover, only split actually-paid fees (not trial accounts), and only after Amazon takes its cut. That way, there'd be no way for an independent cartel of publishers and readers to collude in a way that let them come out ahead.
That doesn't solve one of the problems the article mentioned -- driving up popularity and visibility, so that real readers end up buying fake books -- but that's a problem Amazon is already dealing with.
All ye who would piss and moan about capped network plans: Consider how much of your unlimited internet plan's cost would be subsidizing some stoner's gigantic Simpsons hoard. Hint: It's bigger than yours.
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Not a ton. LastPass has better 2FA support, and you might prefer one UI to the other, but ultimately the two solutions are pretty similar in approach.
Try to envision a world in which the FAA would write a regulation including the phrase "but if it's just a SMALL fire, then heck, just toss it out the door and carry on".
Rotating with respect to itself. Every particle in that space station (assuming it's rotating) is under tension, experiencing a net force and hence a net acceleration. Let a bit go, and it'll fly off in a straight line. (At that point, the particle could argue that it's at rest, and the space station is both rotating and moving linearly, because the particle *would* be in an inertial reference frame.) You don't need a reference frame to measure force, just velocity.
As for whether observing a rotating object implies that "something" must have accelerated it in the past, that's a question for the philosophers.
Hmm? Sure. A rotating space station is a non-inertial reference frame, in the sense that objects in it are undergoing acceleration (caused by the tensile force holding their particles together). So you can just measure the apparent centrifugal force at a particular radius, do a little math, and find out the angular velocity of each ring. Or you could just jump off the stations. As you floated away into the void, you'd see whichever ones were rotating, rotating. (Better bring a radio, so you can tell the rest of us. Or a rope, I suppose.)
Maybe this isn't the best moment to suggest that people route all their internet traffic through Opera's servers.
In an attempt to test whether the higher numbers of cardiovascular deaths were simply a statistical blip or a genuine sign of the effect of traveling into deep space, the scientists exposed mice to the same type of radiation that the astronauts would have experienced. After six months, which is the equivalent of 20 human years, the mice showed damage to arteries that is known to lead to the development of cardiovascular disease in humans.
Well, no. The scientists slammed the mice with ~6-12 months' worth of radiation in ten minutes. Yeah, they probably had artery damage. Stuff like that happens when you stick a mouse in the microwave.
I have no idea. Probably not. They probably use "password1" for all their sites. Whom shall we blame for that?
One generally uses a long, complex password for their password vault (which is fine, since you only have to remember the one password). This, combined with PBKDF2 backed by SHA-256 iterations, means that it's not realistically possible to brute-force the vault before the sun goes out.
The problem again is LastPass. Nobody knows if their security practices are any good, and the attack surface is huge.
Well, their online security practices are relatively unknown, but they're also kind of beside the point. Yes, LastPass won't hand out someone's vault without some sort of authentication, but that's just fences around brick walls. The real means of security is in the client, which is the only part capable of decrypting the vault (decryption keys never being uploaded). The client source code is available and has been audited, so you can feel pretty good about that, short of the Ken Thompson hack or the possibility of the local computer itself being hacked (which, of course, would affect any password manager).
The exploit doesn't seem to have anything to do with "the cloud". Once you're logged in to LastPass and your vault is downloaded, password decryption and form filling happen locally.
Stripping it for parts? Well, there's a HD and a BluRay, of course, and a fan, and some cables; those would be worth a few bucks put together.
Beyond that there's a couple of circuit boards with lots of chips soldered to them. If you have a BGA rework station and a steady hand, you could recover the ICs. But if you're looking for a graphics card, a socketable CPU, memory DIMMs... you're out of luck. There's no reason for MS to make the xbone a PC on the inside, and every reason for them not to.
I don't see where the false advertising is. Want to use 200 GB during August? Fine, you can do that, just as advertised, and you'll pay the advertised price for it. But you won't be a customer of theirs in September.
Zero-risk is kind of a weird strategy for someone holding stock, but okay, whatever. So the stock price finds a lower equilibrium, because people feel that 5G's gonna be an overall negative for the carriers. So what? The carriers still have to deal with it. Whichever one finds the right balance between ramp-up costs and early-mover benefits will do the best, meaning they all have a strong incentive to be that one.
I cannot believe I'm explaining the invisible hand of the market to someone who's arguing *against* government regulation.
As an investor, you're going to support a 5G rollout because if your competitors do and you don't, your portfolio will be well and truly screwed in a few years. Maybe you think the early-mover bonus is going to cover the costs and maybe you don't, but either way you clearly can't afford to hang back. The only real question is what effect it'll have on the rollout *schedule*.
Heh, no they aren't. 4G data plans in the EU don't even come *close* to $70/month. Vodafone Germany's most expensive data-only plan, for instance, is only 30 euro.
More importantly, though, nobody's making distinctions between 3G and 4G anymore. Early on, 4G was only offered by some of the providers, and at a hefty premium. As more providers followed suit to maintain feature parity, that premium shrank and disappeared. So the market rewarded the early movers, incentivised the industry as a whole to roll out 4G, and kept prices fair. And this was was accomplished without any significant zero-rating or usurious peering charges.
What makes you think it'd be any different this time?
My mental health expert taught me how to set things on fire with my mind. I find I'm much better at dealing with the problems I face in life now, much more creative at solving those problems, and much happier as a result.
This season, we're seeing more of an intellectual/anti-intellectual split... or perhaps a technocrat/populist split. The idea that any group of people in Silicon Valley wouldn't fall pretty squarely on the former categories, compared to the population of the country as a whole, is laughable; but if Facebook was looking for a paleoconventional liberal bias, I can see why they wouldn't necessarily find one. The prevailing economic libertarianism in geek circles covers up a lot of social progressivism if you're looking for a traditional red/blue categorization.
Because that's what they agreed to. They signed a contract saying "We'll pay you X amount of dollars, and use the software for Y amount of years, and then stop using the software. We understand that you're under no obligation to allow us to renew the license, for any amount of dollars." Which was certainly a really, really stupid contract for them to have signed, but hey, here we are.
So what, aid organizations should only help the most needy country? "Screw you, Kenya, you'll get yours AFTER Somalia has been thoroughly chickened"?
I don't think that offering livestock aid to the rural poor is necessarily insulting. Certainly I don't think the intended recipients would reject it as an insult. As for the government, well, they're overseeing consistently strong trade surpluses thanks to an abundance of natural resources; and as you pointed out, they already have the production capabilities. If they don't want foreign aid organizations to be feeding their people, they can damn well do it themselves.
The country is not first world by any measure, but people are not starving to death on the streets either.
No, you're right. The parts of Bolivia where people are starving to death generally don't have streets.
But if the security auditors are only looking for code that gets signals from the microphone, they might miss code that gets signals from the vibrator.
Sure, but this is a "requires physical access" hack, meaning the attacker could instead just tee the microphone into whatever ADC they were planning to wire the vibration motor into.
Motors, piezo buzzers, etc. make decent microphones. *Microphones* make even better microphones. And there's one right there.
If one were Satoshi and found at this stage that he was "not strong enough to out himself", the logical course of action would be to backpedal and call the whole thing a hoax. After all, if the thing you were not strong enough to do was reveal your identity, continuing to assert that identity -- regardless of willingness to provide proof -- would be pretty silly.
This isn't the "not strong enough to do the right thing" move. It's the "got called on his BS and looking for a way to save face" move.
India, China, and Turkey, just like right now. It's time for the US to wake up to the fact that they aren't primarily a producer of raw goods, like they were in the nineteenth century. Every time someone in Belgium buys an iPhone, China makes a little bit of money, and the US makes considerably more money.
The consequences of the entire world not working are fairly straightforward to predict, but that's not the issue here. The issue is a mismatch between the country's -global economic positioning and its local economic policies.
Moreover, only split actually-paid fees (not trial accounts), and only after Amazon takes its cut. That way, there'd be no way for an independent cartel of publishers and readers to collude in a way that let them come out ahead.
That doesn't solve one of the problems the article mentioned -- driving up popularity and visibility, so that real readers end up buying fake books -- but that's a problem Amazon is already dealing with.
All ye who would piss and moan about capped network plans: Consider how much of your unlimited internet plan's cost would be subsidizing some stoner's gigantic Simpsons hoard. Hint: It's bigger than yours.