The surface of the Earth is whizzing by as Hubble orbits, and the pointing system, designed to track the distant stars, cannot track an object on the Earth. The shortest exposure time on any of the Hubble instruments is 0.1 seconds, and in this time Hubble moves about 700 meters, or almost half a mile. So a picture Hubble took of Earth would be all streaks.
OK except the Hubble is a repurposed Keyhole satellite. Yes, its optics were redesigned for astronomy but the original model was for Earth surveillance.
Hence, the super-fast spy plane was developed, capable of violating borders guaranteed by international law, racing in to take photos, and racing back out again before the outraged victim country could defend itself.
Wrong on two counts: the SR-71 was a reconnaissance plane, not a spy plane. A spy dresses up in civilian clothes driving an unmarked car and says "I'm just a travelling salesman!". Military reconnaissance has regular uniforms and markings, which the SR-71 and its crew did. Also, they never directly overflew hostile countries. The 12 mile offshore limit for coastal and right over the border on land was close enough to see pretty deep from 100K feet up.
The only thing you can do with federal debt instruments is sell them at a discount (take a loss) or not buy any more. Its not on-demand debt and the Treasury has a schedule when it pays out so who owns existing debt doesn't really matter in terms of security. The US's political inability to live within its means is a "national security" problem caused 100% by our congresscritters, not the Chinese or anyone else external.
Which is why I said it was unlikely, not impossible.
You should know by now that on this forum as soon as something supposedly "rare" or "unlikely" has happened to one person's aunt's friend then its an everyday occurrence.
My water bill for a family of 4 is at the 2K gallon rate which is about 16 gallons each for a month and the bill is around $27. Yet a family of 3 tenants at our rental consistently use 10K+ for a bill over $100. I can't figure out how they can possibly use so much; wtf people?
No, US carriers killed radio.Calling Verizon to ask for their ROM to not block the FM chip in early Notes was met with "all you have to do is subscribe to our radio streaming service if you want radio!"
Please elaborate. What's the link between the NSA snoops leaving, and this being discovered? Because I don't see it. Why would *anyone* leave a job at the NSA because of this discovery?
Per that other article, people are leaving the NSA because of sucky pay and management, obviously not because of this discovery. Then someone who was there and has been exploiting this problem for a while "discovers" it now that they're in the private sector primarily because they don't want to be snooped by their former colleagues.
The summary is incorrect. You can still fly on a 747 in the US, just not on a domestic airline. Just go to SFO and you'll see plenty of 747s parked at the international terminals. They just aren't flying for any US based carrier.
That's exactly what the summary said, you just didn't parse it properly. In order to ride in a 747, you need to travel abroad. As in, leave from the international terminal.
Is it a coincidence that this flaw in CPUs since '96 has only been recently discovered and the article from a few days ago that top tech snoops are leaving the NSA?
blame Holland, Bermuda, and Ireland for being dumb.
This is the crux of it; big companies with major income can afford MUCH smarter lobbyists to get loopholes written and accountants to exploit them than legislatures can afford accountants to check over tax laws to prevent loopholes.
Is spying on competing services really that expensive? They've got their app developed, their not-employees employees use their own cars... all Uber has to do is shuffle bits and collect a percentage. How are they still losing money??
or the fact that Disney splits box-office grosses with theater owners.
How many times have I read that the reason for the very high food prices is that the theaters don't get keep revenue from the ticket sales? Is this not true? Have we been lied to and the reason the food prices are so high is simply that people will pay the absurd prices?
As an example, Regal Cinemas: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/e... Admissions (ticket sales) was $1,454M while Film Rental was $785M. So out of ticket sales, they kept slightly less than half. Concessions was "only" $553M. But the whole business, after all the expenses, made $175M. On $2,158M total revenues that's just 8%. So, yes, theatres turn a profit but at 8% they aren't exactly fleecing viewers with absurd prices.
If you took a brain with the sheer efficiency and complexity of a spider/cockroach and scaled it up to a cat sized organism you could potentially have an organism far more intelligent than us.
I once saw an animation of how one would drive a Tesla up to the charging station where a robot arm reaches up from below and swaps out the depleted battery for a charged one. Did they not go with that? It seems that would eliminate the wait times hogging a charging cord.
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The surface of the Earth is whizzing by as Hubble orbits, and the pointing system, designed to track the distant stars, cannot track an object on the Earth. The shortest exposure time on any of the Hubble instruments is 0.1 seconds, and in this time Hubble moves about 700 meters, or almost half a mile. So a picture Hubble took of Earth would be all streaks.
http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/answer.php.id=78&cat=topten
It should be obvious.
OK except the Hubble is a repurposed Keyhole satellite. Yes, its optics were redesigned for astronomy but the original model was for Earth surveillance.
Hence, the super-fast spy plane was developed, capable of violating borders guaranteed by international law, racing in to take photos, and racing back out again before the outraged victim country could defend itself.
Wrong on two counts: the SR-71 was a reconnaissance plane, not a spy plane. A spy dresses up in civilian clothes driving an unmarked car and says "I'm just a travelling salesman!". Military reconnaissance has regular uniforms and markings, which the SR-71 and its crew did. Also, they never directly overflew hostile countries. The 12 mile offshore limit for coastal and right over the border on land was close enough to see pretty deep from 100K feet up.
The only thing you can do with federal debt instruments is sell them at a discount (take a loss) or not buy any more. Its not on-demand debt and the Treasury has a schedule when it pays out so who owns existing debt doesn't really matter in terms of security.
The US's political inability to live within its means is a "national security" problem caused 100% by our congresscritters, not the Chinese or anyone else external.
Which is why I said it was unlikely, not impossible.
You should know by now that on this forum as soon as something supposedly "rare" or "unlikely" has happened to one person's aunt's friend then its an everyday occurrence.
This should be a lesson on how important human contact is for people. If it was -13F and a blizzard, they would likely be saying something else.
If someone else braves -13F and a blizzard to drive your dinner to you, that's a lot MORE reason to say "thank you" to them/it.
My water bill for a family of 4 is at the 2K gallon rate which is about 16 gallons each for a month and the bill is around $27. Yet a family of 3 tenants at our rental consistently use 10K+ for a bill over $100. I can't figure out how they can possibly use so much; wtf people?
Video killed radio.
No, US carriers killed radio.Calling Verizon to ask for their ROM to not block the FM chip in early Notes was met with "all you have to do is subscribe to our radio streaming service if you want radio!"
Wouldn't putting Alexa on your pc just result in Cortanna and Alexa having a cat fight...
More like a cycles fight, especially when both are combined with the Meltdown and Spectre fix drivers.
That's no moon; that's yo mama https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Please elaborate. What's the link between the NSA snoops leaving, and this being discovered? Because I don't see it. Why would *anyone* leave a job at the NSA because of this discovery?
Per that other article, people are leaving the NSA because of sucky pay and management, obviously not because of this discovery. Then someone who was there and has been exploiting this problem for a while "discovers" it now that they're in the private sector primarily because they don't want to be snooped by their former colleagues.
The summary is incorrect. You can still fly on a 747 in the US, just not on a domestic airline. Just go to SFO and you'll see plenty of 747s parked at the international terminals. They just aren't flying for any US based carrier.
That's exactly what the summary said, you just didn't parse it properly. In order to ride in a 747, you need to travel abroad. As in, leave from the international terminal.
Is it a coincidence that this flaw in CPUs since '96 has only been recently discovered and the article from a few days ago that top tech snoops are leaving the NSA?
The intention matters with everything else that ends up in court, why not this?
The intention is to take full advantage of the tax laws as written. That's an intention to behave legally.
blame Holland, Bermuda, and Ireland for being dumb.
This is the crux of it; big companies with major income can afford MUCH smarter lobbyists to get loopholes written and accountants to exploit them than legislatures can afford accountants to check over tax laws to prevent loopholes.
Have you ever seen someone using wechat? imagine facebook except more banal. who would WANT to store all its traffic???
Is spying on competing services really that expensive? They've got their app developed, their not-employees employees use their own cars... all Uber has to do is shuffle bits and collect a percentage. How are they still losing money??
How many times have I read that the reason for the very high food prices is that the theaters don't get keep revenue from the ticket sales? Is this not true? Have we been lied to and the reason the food prices are so high is simply that people will pay the absurd prices?
As an example, Regal Cinemas: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/e...
Admissions (ticket sales) was $1,454M while Film Rental was $785M. So out of ticket sales, they kept slightly less than half. Concessions was "only" $553M. But the whole business, after all the expenses, made $175M. On $2,158M total revenues that's just 8%. So, yes, theatres turn a profit but at 8% they aren't exactly fleecing viewers with absurd prices.
I really cannot fathom any sane reason to travel to that country.
The world is (supposed to be) a slightly better place every time a news reporter travels somewhere to get a story. At least in theory.
bought 3 smart bulbs and an echo dot for ~$100 that work just fine, and I don't have to fiddle with switches when I'm carrying a laundry basket
Light bulbs with built in motion sensors cost a lot less.
verified trades can cost as much as $20 to execute ... that's still too high to compete with the likes of Visa and MasterCard
The Mastercard fee on a transaction of last week's BC price of $19K would be a LOT more than $20.
If you took a brain with the sheer efficiency and complexity of a spider/cockroach and scaled it up to a cat sized organism you could potentially have an organism far more intelligent than us.
You've just hypothesized Yoda.
Mining via a million unsuspecting phone owners beats any individual motherboard no matter how many slots.
exactly what he is ranting about?
The grammar is too horrific to discern the exact subject.
I once saw an animation of how one would drive a Tesla up to the charging station where a robot arm reaches up from below and swaps out the depleted battery for a charged one. Did they not go with that? It seems that would eliminate the wait times hogging a charging cord.
I normally keep the GPS tagging turned off in my camera but the next trip to China it's going to stay on the whole time. That'll show 'em.