The question was whether these unmaned armed aircraft could be construted to be ground launched "cruise missiles" under the terms of the treaty. The treaty can now be seen to be a bit to general in its definition. I'm sure you could come up with a more specific defintion (I think requiring it to include a warhead might help).
The term "cruise missile" means an unmanned, self-propelled vehicle that sustains flight through the use of aerodynamic lift over most of its flight path. The term "ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM)" means a ground-launched cruise missile that is a weapon-delivery vehicle.
and
The term "intermediate-range missile" means a GLBM or a GLCM having a range capability in excess of 1000 kilometers but not in excess of 5500 kilometers.
In the broadest reading, if you squint right, you could say this of the Predator. But evidently from the spirit of the treaty they aren't (they're not even close to being nuclear capable -- carrying one or two Hellfires is at the limit of their payload) but the Pentagon lawyers worried about this for a while.
Ultimately the lawyers decided that it wasn't a violation and Predators fly sucessfully for the CIA with kills to their name (AQs third in command Mohamed Atef in Afghanistan in Novemeber 2001 and the commander of the USS Cole attack Abu Ali in Yemen in Novemeber 2002).
This is the first time I recall Apple doing a security update that didn't just apply to the current minor version of Mac OS X and the last version of the "legacy OS" 10.2.
So Apple have released a security update for both 10.3.4 and 10.3.5 which might imply (either/or):
there is a major customer who has not moved to 10.3.5 and they need these security fixes
perhaps they recognize that many xServe admins have not moved up to 10.3.5 yet.
Apple recognizes there is a reason people are not moving from 10.3.4 to 10.3.5 (what might that be?)
Anyone know the real answer? Inquiring minds and all that.
It may not have been planned, but MS did a great job merging two completely seperate code bases. The DOS/Win9x codebase merged against the NT base under XP, and now, within 3 years, 50% of Windows users on the desktop run XP.
There is no DOS/Win9x code in XP.
There is a straight development line from NT to 2000 to XP.
The DOS/Win9x/ME team borged the Win CE team.
I know. I was there.
And what's more than that I actually used Copland (at WWDC). It was barely integrated together and just barely worked (so it was more than just vapor).
And I have the System 8 (i.e. Copland not the System 8 released) glow-in-the-dark boxer shorts to prove it. They must be collectible.
The one thing I can't figure out is how they make a resonant cavity this small... they obviously have some way around it.
Others have been asking what's the use as one of their papers says:
In particular, there has been much recent interest in highly miniaturized atomic clocks ~volume,1 cm ) for various military and civilian applications, including antijam global positioning, and synchronization of encryption keys and communications networks.
If you know the time precisely you can lock up to the long frame encoded GPS signal without needing CA (more vulnerable to jamming).
Perhaps that's because this is what Google does when it's not recognizing your password to prevent brute forcing. So I don't beleive this is true in general (though perhaps it might be true for a different referer or agent?).
But perhaps he's sure his password is correct?
I'm currently having problems logging in to my account manually. And none my usual paswords seem to be working.
Then I try to get it to send me my password it asks me a question I'm pretty sure I didn't provide an answer when I signed up (as I can't remeber the answer to that question).
Very odd.
Any one else having a problem with GMail authentication or have I just lost my mind?
The rection is very exothermic (generates a lot of heat). In fact enough heat to cause serious burns (an extra complication). The trick for using the version issued to the army in powedered form is to be trained to use just enough powder.
Would anyone have them at home. Sure. Imagine a deep glass wound to the neck, arm or leg without immediate treatment (pressure to the wound or this material) you could be dead in minutes. I think this will find it's way into better First Aid boxes. EMT and other first responders (including the police) could use it now.
Col. Vetrov, aka Farewell, died because of the CIA involvement (If I remember well, he was caught communicating to American agents after the big explosion mentioned), and before DGSE could smuggle him and his family out of the USSR. In short, he paid the price for American incompetence.
About the time [Gus Weiss] met with Casey, Vetrov fell into a tragic episode with a woman and a fellow KGB officer in a Moscow park. In circumstances that are not clear, he stabbed and killed the officer and then stabbed but did not kill the woman. He was arrested, and, in the ensuing investigation, his espionage activities were discovered; he was executed in 1983. CIA had enough intelligence to institute protective countermeasures.
It is unclear if he had been discovered by Soviet counterintelligence but it doesn't appear that he was comprimised directly by his defection in place.
The usual thing that kills BOTH Apple motherboards and peripherals is CRAPPY worn out firewire CABLES.
The problem comes when the strain releif doesn't releive the strain (beware of twisting the cables especially on cheap firewire cables) and the power lines in the cable nail the PHY on the Firewire/IDE bridge board or the PHY on the motherboard.
Whenever you have a firewire problem that you think has killed either a drive or a motherboard SWAP OUT THE CABLE FIRST.
A sacrificial firewire hub or at the very least PCI card also helps trouble shooting.
And yes sometimes just waiting helps (if the self-resetting fuse has blown...)
It's obvious that the guys at Cocoatech don't have a great grasp of the intricacies of the GPL (and didn't run this by their IP lawyers which I suspect they don't have).
They can do one of three things:
Release the source for Pathfinder. I don't see this happening -- this is not an outcome they had banked on. Hardline GPL zealots will of course continue to bray that "they released the product so they MUST release ALL of their sources".
Remove the iTerm functionality from their product. The simplest and easiest fixed especially whilst they consider their options.
License the source for iTerm under non-GPL terms from the original authors. The owners of the source (though this would mean that they wouldn't be able to take GPLed fixes unless the author of those fixes agreed to whatever license OR the other license is LGPL.
Give them a break so that they can fix their mistake (from Eblen Moglen's writings on the subject this is the FSF prefered method) at least until it becomes clear that the breach of the GPL is egregious.
Who knows they might even release some source this way!
They have a customized version of iBlog that only works to the local drive or.Mac -- the Blogger API part is disabled (way to go on de facto standards) that's availible for another 26 days (until Nov 26th). Hardly an integrated solution.
I guess its a carrot for Lifi to sell the "whole" product.
I actually thought Apple would do this for 10.3 and they may still do it (they have to show something at MWSF in January or perhaps WWDC).
Perhaps add it to iLife or Safari?
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The design data rate for Galileo with the high-gain antenna was 134 kiloBIT per second. The NYer fact checkers missed the 8x larger claim for 134kbyte/s rate in the article:-)
For the more semi-technical details see this article
Most NASA PR contained the following paragraph:
Galileo's high-gain antenna was to have provided a 134- kilobit-per-second real-time data rate from Jupiter. Had no improvements been made in the Deep Space Network, only a 10-bit per second data rate would have been possible with Galileo's small low-gain antenna for most of the mission. With these improvements, however, along with the changes made on the spacecraft, further increase the downlinked data to an effective rate of 1,000 bits per second.
RTF New Yorker article for the full story of the software effort that saved Galileo.
And an unclassified "photo" of a CAV http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/roadmap/irm/inter net/d od/photos/cav.htm
More details on the system (using ICBMs for delivery -- conventional ballistic missiles): http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/roadmap/ir m/internet/f orceapp/init/html/cbmcav.htm
(U) The Military Space Plane (MSP) could carry several CAVs, each containing multiple submunitions. Payloads under consideration for the CAV include three 250 lb small smart bombs, six 90 lb powered LOCAAS (Low Cost Autonomous Attack System) munitions, a hard and deeply buried target (HDBT) penetrator, a deployable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Hunter/Killer package, an agent defeat payload, and other special weapon payloads.
Interesting collection of items.
The LOCAAS system is like a mini-cruise missile http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/ locaas.ht m
And NASA is interested in hypersonic vehicles too over the next 20 years... the Hyper-X series X43A, B and C. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/0 2072 4075743.htm http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/ne ws/photos/200 2/photos02-182.html
Why do they have a picture of a Quicksilver Mac?
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Why do they have a picture of a Quicksilver Mac on their home page with Linare PC in the same graphic?
That is retrovirues that have transcribed their RNA into DNA and merged it with out genome. About 8% of the genomic DNA is from ERVs i.e. they exceed by far the number of protein-coding gene sequences.
The Hollywood summary would go something like: "Soul of a New Machine" meets "Citizen Kane".
I read an advanced reader copy and really enjoyed it. Much more than I expected. Before I read the Introduction I was in eye-rolling mode "Another paeon to Dean Kamen". Fortunatly it isn't. It shows his good traits and his weakeness.
It is an intereting view of how an engineering team moves from a good idea to research project to production mode. And how a smart, guy with vision can get in the way of this.
Dean Kamen comes off as a rather souless, monomanical patriach with a serious control issue. I would have like to have heard more about him out of work hours.
Steve Jobs (and Bezos and Doerr) all make interesting cameo apperances. The "shit your pants" meeting in the excerpt is the most hilarious part of the book.
Steve Kemper is a good writer and an interesting speaker too.
Actually these are still British Colonies and not cities:
Gibraltar.gi Saint Helena.sh
In addition to the remainder of the British Empire (the sun still doesn't set):
British Indian Ocean Territory.io Pitcairn Islands.pn Falkland Islands.fk South Georgia.gs Ascension Island.ac Antigua and Barbuda.ag Guernsey.gg Heard and McDonald Islands.hm Isle of Man.im Jersey.je Virgin Islands (British).vg
We propose an analysis that we call smoothed analysis which can help explain the
success of many algorithms that both worst-case and average case cannot. In smoothed
analysis, we measure the performance of an algorithm under slight random perturbations of
arbitrary inputs. In particular, we consider Gaussian perturbations of inputs to algorithms
that take real inputs, and we measure the running times of algorithms in terms of their
input size and the variance of the Gaussian perturbations.
We show that the simplex method has polynomial smoothed complexity. The simplex
method is the classic example of an algorithm that is known to perform well in practice but
which takes exponential time in the worst case[KM72, Mur80, GS79, Gol83, AC78, Jer73,
AZ99]. In the late 1970's and early 1980's the simplex method was shown to converge in
expected polynomial time on various distributions of random inputs by researchers including
Borgwardt, Smale, Haimovich, Adler, Karp, Shamir, Megiddo, and Todd[Bor80, Bor77,
Sma83, Hai83, AKS87, AM85, Tod86]. However, the last 20 years of research in probability,
combinatorics and numerical analysis have taught us that the random instances considered
in these analyses may have special properties that one might not find in practice.
Obviously you have not actually watched all the Kubrick movies from DVD. All his non-anamorphic movies are intended to be 4:3. At least EWS, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket are.
Really. There's even a comment at the beginning of "Eyes Wide Shut" DVD that says "as the director intended"! Shocking but true. Same for all of his other movies.
You can get Lolita (and others) in wide screen although the original was shot in 4:3.
Other directors go the other way: Woody Allen has it written into his film contracts that his movies may only be released in widescreen.
BTW, the way a lot of "conventional" (i.e. non-anamporphic) widescreen movies are converted to 4:3 is by not putting the matte in when transfering to video. These movies (and TV shows) are shot onto 4:3 ratio 35mm stock. The view-finder might have 16:9 or 2.35:1 or whatever pair of lines set up (usually in the 24 frame video) so the director can see what he intends to put on screen but light lands across the entire frame. Rather than pan and scanning you get more info than you expect.
This leads to odd bugs: in the opening scene of Apocolypse Now there is a chopper shot with view over the jungle (shot from the helicopter). In the widescreen version it looks fine. You are flying over he jungle in some undefined manner. In the 4:3 version you can see the choppers shadow in the lower left corner.
The previous Shared Source license was for debugging purposes (so you could figure out why some of your code wasn't working by stepping through OS code). If you changes to the source you could only do it for debugging purposes and you could not make a device (your product) that used the changed code.
This license allows you to make changes to the MSFT source code and ship a device containing those changes (subject to other conditions).
The info you point to is not the Premium program for commercial use but a Shared Source program for non-commercial use. This program (and I suspect the Premium program) don't allow redistribution of source code.
Slashdot Mirror
The question of weapons on Predators (Hellfire's) was based on a technical reading of the Treaty Between The United States of America and The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles aka the INF (Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty.
The question was whether these unmaned armed aircraft could be construted to be ground launched "cruise missiles" under the terms of the treaty. The treaty can now be seen to be a bit to general in its definition. I'm sure you could come up with a more specific defintion (I think requiring it to include a warhead might help).
and
In the broadest reading, if you squint right, you could say this of the Predator. But evidently from the spirit of the treaty they aren't (they're not even close to being nuclear capable -- carrying one or two Hellfires is at the limit of their payload) but the Pentagon lawyers worried about this for a while.
Ultimately the lawyers decided that it wasn't a violation and Predators fly sucessfully for the CIA with kills to their name (AQs third in command Mohamed Atef in Afghanistan in Novemeber 2001 and the commander of the USS Cole attack Abu Ali in Yemen in Novemeber 2002).
Really helps when you have the facts? No?
- A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me
- The Dogs of Bedlam Farm : An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me
You can read an interview with John.Perhaps dealing with real dogs is easier than dealing with the Dogs of Slashdot.
So Apple have released a security update for both 10.3.4 and 10.3.5 which might imply (either/or):
- there is a major customer who has not moved to 10.3.5 and they need these security fixes
- perhaps they recognize that many xServe admins have not moved up to 10.3.5 yet.
- Apple recognizes there is a reason people are not moving from 10.3.4 to 10.3.5 (what might that be?)
Anyone know the real answer? Inquiring minds and all that.There is no DOS/Win9x code in XP.
There is a straight development line from NT to 2000 to XP.
The DOS/Win9x/ME team borged the Win CE team.
I know. I was there.
And what's more than that I actually used Copland (at WWDC). It was barely integrated together and just barely worked (so it was more than just vapor).
And I have the System 8 (i.e. Copland not the System 8 released) glow-in-the-dark boxer shorts to prove it. They must be collectible.
All the [published] papers are here in PDF form.
The one thing I can't figure out is how they make a resonant cavity this small
Others have been asking what's the use as one of their papers says:
If you know the time precisely you can lock up to the long frame encoded GPS signal without needing CA (more vulnerable to jamming).
Perhaps that's because this is what Google does when it's not recognizing your password to prevent brute forcing. So I don't beleive this is true in general (though perhaps it might be true for a different referer or agent?).
But perhaps he's sure his password is correct?
I'm currently having problems logging in to my account manually. And none my usual paswords seem to be working.
Then I try to get it to send me my password it asks me a question I'm pretty sure I didn't provide an answer when I signed up (as I can't remeber the answer to that question).
Very odd.
Any one else having a problem with GMail authentication or have I just lost my mind?
The rection is very exothermic (generates a lot of heat). In fact enough heat to cause serious burns (an extra complication). The trick for using the version issued to the army in powedered form is to be trained to use just enough powder.
Would anyone have them at home. Sure. Imagine a deep glass wound to the neck, arm or leg without immediate treatment (pressure to the wound or this material) you could be dead in minutes. I think this will find it's way into better First Aid boxes. EMT and other first responders (including the police) could use it now.
No, not near Redmond (unless you consider B.C. Canada near Redmond).
Whistler is a ski resort in BC.
Longhorn is a bar in Whistler, BC.
Popular with the execs on the project, apparently.
Curiously it should is mirrored at
Evergreen (a liberal arts collage in Olympia, WA) that Matt Groening attended as an undergrad.
Hence the street address for the Simpson's house -- Evergreen Terrace.
No.
As this Studies in Intelligence article says:
It is unclear if he had been discovered by Soviet counterintelligence but it doesn't appear that he was comprimised directly by his defection in place.
The usual thing that kills BOTH Apple motherboards and peripherals is CRAPPY worn out firewire CABLES.
...)
r tFailures.htm
The problem comes when the strain releif doesn't releive the strain (beware of twisting the cables especially on cheap firewire cables) and the power lines in the cable nail the PHY on the Firewire/IDE bridge board or the PHY on the motherboard.
Whenever you have a firewire problem that you think has killed either a drive or a motherboard SWAP OUT THE CABLE FIRST.
A sacrificial firewire hub or at the very least PCI card also helps trouble shooting.
And yes sometimes just waiting helps (if the self-resetting fuse has blown
Wiebe has a great FAQ on this:
http://www.wiebetech.com/pressreleases/FireWirePo
Reading it can save you a great deal of grief (for any platform user -- not just Macheads!).
They can do one of three things:
Give them a break so that they can fix their mistake (from Eblen Moglen's writings on the subject this is the FSF prefered method) at least until it becomes clear that the breach of the GPL is egregious.
Who knows they might even release some source this way!
Well no they haven't.
.Mac -- the Blogger API part is disabled (way to go on de facto standards) that's availible for another 26 days (until Nov 26th). Hardly an integrated solution.
They have a customized version of iBlog that only works to the local drive or
I guess its a carrot for Lifi to sell the "whole" product.
I actually thought Apple would do this for 10.3 and they may still do it (they have to show something at MWSF in January or perhaps WWDC).
Perhaps add it to iLife or Safari?
For the more semi-technical details see this article
Most NASA PR contained the following paragraph:
RTF New Yorker article for the full story of the software effort that saved Galileo.
The CAV stuff was the stuff of a SF book a decade or so ago for a USSR/USA war: David's Sling.
c h/x-4 1.htm
r net/d od/photos/cav.htm
r m/internet/f orceapp/init/html/cbmcav.htm
t /f orceapp/init/html/cavmsp.htm
/ locaas.ht m
... the Hyper-X series X43A, B and C.0 2072 4075743.htme ws/photos/200 2/photos02-182.html
X-41 CAV
http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/laun
And an unclassified "photo" of a CAV
http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/roadmap/irm/inte
More details on the system (using ICBMs for delivery -- conventional ballistic missiles):
http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/roadmap/i
http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/roadmap/irm/interne
(U) The Military Space Plane (MSP) could carry several CAVs, each containing multiple submunitions. Payloads under consideration for the CAV include three 250 lb small smart bombs, six 90 lb powered LOCAAS (Low Cost Autonomous Attack System) munitions, a hard and deeply buried target (HDBT) penetrator, a deployable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Hunter/Killer package, an agent defeat payload, and other special weapon payloads.
Interesting collection of items.
The LOCAAS system is like a mini-cruise missile
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart
And NASA is interested in hypersonic vehicles too over the next 20 years
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/
http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/n
Why do they have a picture of a Quicksilver Mac on their home page with Linare PC in the same graphic?
...
Seems a little dodgy to me
They will be selling this watch for $199 later in the year but not under the Fossil brand.
Look for Abacus Watches
And my personal gripes:
1. No bluetooth
2. No Mac support (theough you never know it might just work with Palm Desktop).
Or perhaps DNA accumulated from other sources. Like endogenous retroviruses.
That is retrovirues that have transcribed their RNA into DNA and merged it with out genome. About 8% of the genomic DNA is from ERVs i.e. they exceed by far the number of protein-coding gene sequences.
So the question is what are they doing there?
Do they help mediating jumping genes?.
When did they arrive?
Are they involved in schizophrenia or any other diseases?
Find out more here or here.
Greg Bear has put this to good use in some of his recent books: "Darwin's Radio", "Vitals" and "Darwin's Children".
Interesting the link says Photos but this plane doesn't exist as a physical object :-)
These are images, simulations, whatever. They aren't photos.
It's a great book!
The Hollywood summary would go something like: "Soul of a New Machine" meets "Citizen Kane".
I read an advanced reader copy and really enjoyed it. Much more than I expected. Before I read the Introduction I was in eye-rolling mode "Another paeon to Dean Kamen". Fortunatly it isn't. It shows his good traits and his weakeness.
It is an intereting view of how an engineering team moves from a good idea to research project to production mode. And how a smart, guy with vision can get in the way of this.
Dean Kamen comes off as a rather souless, monomanical patriach with a serious control issue. I would have like to have heard more about him out of work hours.
Steve Jobs (and Bezos and Doerr) all make interesting cameo apperances. The "shit your pants" meeting in the excerpt is the most hilarious part of the book.
Steve Kemper is a good writer and an interesting speaker too.
Strongly recommended.
Actually these are still British Colonies and not cities:
.gi .sh
.io .pn .fk .gs .ac .ag .gg .hm .im .je .vg
Gibraltar
Saint Helena
In addition to the remainder of the British Empire (the sun still doesn't set):
British Indian Ocean Territory
Pitcairn Islands
Falkland Islands
South Georgia
Ascension Island
Antigua and Barbuda
Guernsey
Heard and McDonald Islands
Isle of Man
Jersey
Virgin Islands (British)
"Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time" by Daniel A. Spielman and Shang-Hua Teng
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DS/0111050
Quote (from the intro):
We propose an analysis that we call smoothed analysis which can help explain the success of many algorithms that both worst-case and average case cannot. In smoothed analysis, we measure the performance of an algorithm under slight random perturbations of arbitrary inputs. In particular, we consider Gaussian perturbations of inputs to algorithms that take real inputs, and we measure the running times of algorithms in terms of their input size and the variance of the Gaussian perturbations.
We show that the simplex method has polynomial smoothed complexity. The simplex method is the classic example of an algorithm that is known to perform well in practice but which takes exponential time in the worst case[KM72, Mur80, GS79, Gol83, AC78, Jer73, AZ99]. In the late 1970's and early 1980's the simplex method was shown to converge in expected polynomial time on various distributions of random inputs by researchers including Borgwardt, Smale, Haimovich, Adler, Karp, Shamir, Megiddo, and Todd[Bor80, Bor77, Sma83, Hai83, AKS87, AM85, Tod86]. However, the last 20 years of research in probability, combinatorics and numerical analysis have taught us that the random instances considered in these analyses may have special properties that one might not find in practice.
Obviously you have not actually watched all the Kubrick movies from DVD. All his non-anamorphic movies are intended to be 4:3. At least EWS, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket are.
Really. There's even a comment at the beginning of "Eyes Wide Shut" DVD that says "as the director intended"! Shocking but true. Same for all of his other movies.
You can get Lolita (and others) in wide screen although the original was shot in 4:3.
Other directors go the other way: Woody Allen has it written into his film contracts that his movies may only be released in widescreen.
BTW, the way a lot of "conventional" (i.e. non-anamporphic) widescreen movies are converted to 4:3 is by not putting the matte in when transfering to video. These movies (and TV shows) are shot onto 4:3 ratio 35mm stock. The view-finder might have 16:9 or 2.35:1 or whatever pair of lines set up (usually in the 24 frame video) so the director can see what he intends to put on screen but light lands across the entire frame. Rather than pan and scanning you get more info than you expect.
This leads to odd bugs: in the opening scene of Apocolypse Now there is a chopper shot with view over the jungle (shot from the helicopter). In the widescreen version it looks fine. You are flying over he jungle in some undefined manner. In the 4:3 version you can see the choppers shadow in the lower left corner.
A little clarification:
The previous Shared Source license was for debugging purposes (so you could figure out why some of your code wasn't working by stepping through OS code). If you changes to the source you could only do it for debugging purposes and you could not make a device (your product) that used the changed code.
This license allows you to make changes to the MSFT source code and ship a device containing those changes (subject to other conditions).
The info you point to is not the Premium program for commercial use but a Shared Source program for non-commercial use. This program (and I suspect the Premium program) don't allow redistribution of source code.
NOTE: not all Shared Source licenses are the same. The license for Rotor (the SSCLI) is much more liberal.
I don't not speak for MSFT though I used to work for them in Win CE.
A v- (a "v dash") at MSFT is a vendor not an agency temp (they're a- -- "a-dash").
:-)
He doesn't work for MSFT he works for some company with a relationship to MSFT. So he can't give away MSFT licenses.
Yes, I'm ex-MSFT