This thing is aimed for certain missions. Missions like catching unaware enemy in the house by mapping their house and defenses from inside with something they are unlikely to even notice.
You noisy big toy will tell everyone with a gun that there's an attack coming. Oops. You saved a few k on costs of your recon drone and you lost a squad to alert enemy ambushing you.
But it was cheap.
That is the reason why military hardware is generally more expensive. It has extremely stringent requirements, and lives actually depend on it working exactly as intended.
No. But it makes good headlines and sells whatever "security expert of the day" happens to be peddling.
On most of the web, a good secure 8 random character password that you don't reuse on other sites is about a few orders of magnitude too secure for hackers to even bother thinking about cracking. The "account hacks" are usually about people managing to steal a list of user names and passwords from some shitty forum that has old version of BBS software, and then trying those combinations of user names and passwords on other sites. Pretty much all brute force methods require direct access to database that is badly encrypted (perhaps behind a weak password that they intend to crack?).
Other then these scenarios, vast majority of "your password is too short and as a result not secure" is scaremongering bullshit.
Full disclosure: I have several battle.net accounts, a LoL account and countless other similar game accounts that are very much wanted in hack and sell world, all under the same email. I get absolutely hammered by "your account is being closed for hacking, click here to fix" phishing emails and other similar bullshit on that email address. My WoW account was very valuable for a couple of years (very good server, easily within top 0.1% of people in terms of wealth and in top 1% in terms of rare items and progression, legendary and so on). Didn't get hacked a single time. Several guildies and countless people I know had their accounts hacked during this time, some more then once. I used, and still use a short UNIQUE password for each account. Not a single account breach.
Why? Because no one sane brute forces remote passwords when doing actual hacking for profit. It's bloody stupid to even bother trying. There are far more profitable and easier methods, that actually work.
Take a look at early prototyped of various prototypes when things went over one generation. Like first prototype implementations of MFDs, or first HUDs, or first HMDs.
They looked daft and fake as hell because they were bad prototypes when people were trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.
There is a reason why people don't play football while wearing 10kg shoes on each foot. By your argument, that doesn't matter as long as all parties wear 10kg shoes.
Has it ever occurred to you that benefit has NOTHING to do with enjoyment if no one is enjoying it due to retarded lack of responsiveness due to latency?
One of the main reasons why WoW is so popular is that its so damn responsive due to very permissive ruleset on what client can do mostly independent of server. Things like moving around for example.
Having latency on your every motion is utterly horrible in MMO. It goes against one of the core reasons why WoW is so successful.
You brag about it when it's desperately needed to keep the spirit of a nation that has been under severe blockade for years and decades. It's about propaganda value. Not actual hardware.
If you're 300 nautical miles away, why would a fighter pilot care? It's not his zone of engagement.
The "flying AAM site" MiG-31 probably could detect you, but even that plane wouldn't be able to engage. And it's the longest range air to air fighter craft in existence as of writing this with no analogues in NATO arsenal. It's max engagement range is sitting at 228km (according to wikipedia) and it's a high speed interceptor designed to rush to target at mach 2.8. So yeah, your poor ground hugging Cessna is toast. MiG-31 is designed to hunt and kill ground hugging cruise missiles, not piss slow civilian prop aircraft.
FYI most of the early prototyping of aircraft involves messing around with small scale drones shaped like various prototypes of the fighter. This is likely one such prototype.
Same goes for cockpit mockups. Some are used to demonstrate instruments and largely forego controls. This is useful when testing things like layout of instruments when shifting from one type of instruments to another (analogue dedicated instruments to digital MFDs for example).
The "plane" doesn't look that different from what early prototyping looks like for any modern fighter. A small scale drone shaped like a fighter to test basic airworthiness and such.
Of a "production" of F-14 I imagine. Have you seen early prototypes? I'm not sure about F-14, but I've seen some early mock ups of AH-64. It was cobbled together from old CRT displays. Literally.
If you were a apache pilot/gunner today, you'd call it a fake at first glance.
Plane itself is internal propaganda. Look at the unveiling date, compare to the rest of Iranian fighter programs. Vaporware aimed at general populace to foster patriotism.
You'd be surprised at stuff you see stuck in early prototype cockpits. They used to shove production CRT TVs to showcase early versions of multifunctional displays in military prototyping. Because just making a TFT panel back then cost huge amounts to make a couple for every prototype. Then production stuff carried TFTs.
Regardless, this thing is obvious vaporware aimed at internal propaganda, just like the rest of Iran's fighter jet programs. But cockpit mockup and usage of everyday crap in it isn't the telling part. It's the build of the thing, like ridiculously small engine intakes or radome that couldn't fit any modern military jet radar. Cockpit could actually be a real prototype (though doubtful).
Pretty much this. Iran had multiple similar vaporware "homegrown" fighter jet projects that are supposed to be operational, and yet they have to use Frogfoots for anti air combat over Persian Gulf.
Pretty much all of Iran's "own fighters" have been vaporware so far. This is pretty well known. They cannot really make anything of their own with all the crippling sanctions that isn't overly cheap knockoff.
That said, it doesn't mean that they can't test new stuff. Most planes start off as drones and eventually move to production. Most of the Russian and various Western jets that jumped up in generation had severe teething problems of their own (F-22 and F-35 make great examples here), and those nations actually have great expertise in designing these planes, not to mention economies that can support huge development costs associated with these programs. Iran lacks all of these.
Iran could, and likely is working on something. It's highly unlikely to be practical and working fighter jet, just like all of its previous fighter jets. Beyond the propaganda bullshit, it shows that with all the sanctions, they still have some degree of expertise and skill and every once in a while they have to show off something like this. Something that will never become a practical application, but to show that they still have some semblance of capability of making a high tech device.
And then they sell their anti ship missiles that cost next to nothing and manage to cripple a high tech Israeli ship. Or have a NATO general win war games using nothing but their low quality, but cheap and numerous hardware against significantly more technologically advanced NATO forces.
Cessna 172 has a huge radar cross section. Those wing mounts and engine are shiners. You're talking about flying under radar horizon, which is not stealthy as any modern fighter is equipped with look down-shoot down radar which will find you and light you up like a christmas tree in a matter of seconds of entering its range.
It's a mock up. Do you seriously think that early tech prototypes designed to showcase potential cockpits are made of production hardware and materials anywhere?
This is normal for low quality RW optical media. RW disks are photosensitive media, and exposure to light slowly "kills" them.
Generally, these disks are not meant to last years. Some high quality ones are, but they cost far more then cheap ones that crapped themselves in barely a year or so.
Don't FPGA chips require logic on top of transistors to function? This suggestion appears to make this unnecessary as transistor level hardware becomes reprogrammable without additional stuff on top.
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If they have indeed invented a way to ship items on the internet, rather then on delivery vans, I think they deserve the patent! :D
Difference:
This thing is aimed for certain missions. Missions like catching unaware enemy in the house by mapping their house and defenses from inside with something they are unlikely to even notice.
You noisy big toy will tell everyone with a gun that there's an attack coming. Oops. You saved a few k on costs of your recon drone and you lost a squad to alert enemy ambushing you.
But it was cheap.
That is the reason why military hardware is generally more expensive. It has extremely stringent requirements, and lives actually depend on it working exactly as intended.
If they get site's database, you're dependent on their encryption strength of the database, not your password length.
No. But it makes good headlines and sells whatever "security expert of the day" happens to be peddling.
On most of the web, a good secure 8 random character password that you don't reuse on other sites is about a few orders of magnitude too secure for hackers to even bother thinking about cracking. The "account hacks" are usually about people managing to steal a list of user names and passwords from some shitty forum that has old version of BBS software, and then trying those combinations of user names and passwords on other sites. Pretty much all brute force methods require direct access to database that is badly encrypted (perhaps behind a weak password that they intend to crack?).
Other then these scenarios, vast majority of "your password is too short and as a result not secure" is scaremongering bullshit.
Full disclosure: I have several battle.net accounts, a LoL account and countless other similar game accounts that are very much wanted in hack and sell world, all under the same email. I get absolutely hammered by "your account is being closed for hacking, click here to fix" phishing emails and other similar bullshit on that email address. My WoW account was very valuable for a couple of years (very good server, easily within top 0.1% of people in terms of wealth and in top 1% in terms of rare items and progression, legendary and so on). Didn't get hacked a single time. Several guildies and countless people I know had their accounts hacked during this time, some more then once. I used, and still use a short UNIQUE password for each account. Not a single account breach.
Why? Because no one sane brute forces remote passwords when doing actual hacking for profit. It's bloody stupid to even bother trying. There are far more profitable and easier methods, that actually work.
I would go that "it's going to be worse then my E-450 laptop" in terms of responsiveness. It may have better graphical fidelity though.
Lack of controls responsiveness would mean that such game would have to have zero micro management and would still be painfully uncomfortable to play.
Take a look at early prototyped of various prototypes when things went over one generation. Like first prototype implementations of MFDs, or first HUDs, or first HMDs.
They looked daft and fake as hell because they were bad prototypes when people were trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.
There is a reason why people don't play football while wearing 10kg shoes on each foot. By your argument, that doesn't matter as long as all parties wear 10kg shoes.
Has it ever occurred to you that benefit has NOTHING to do with enjoyment if no one is enjoying it due to retarded lack of responsiveness due to latency?
One of the main reasons why WoW is so popular is that its so damn responsive due to very permissive ruleset on what client can do mostly independent of server. Things like moving around for example.
Having latency on your every motion is utterly horrible in MMO. It goes against one of the core reasons why WoW is so successful.
You brag about it when it's desperately needed to keep the spirit of a nation that has been under severe blockade for years and decades. It's about propaganda value. Not actual hardware.
MMOs don't need "better AI". They need CONSISTENT AI.
In many cases, AI being too good is actually a very bad thing for a MMO.
I suspect it was "selling ultimate DRM to publishers".
Then publishers noticed what kind of turd it was and pulled the financing.
Turn based-anything comes to mind. Turn based strategy for example.
But that's pretty much it. Anything real time is dead on that latency.
If you're 300 nautical miles away, why would a fighter pilot care? It's not his zone of engagement.
The "flying AAM site" MiG-31 probably could detect you, but even that plane wouldn't be able to engage. And it's the longest range air to air fighter craft in existence as of writing this with no analogues in NATO arsenal. It's max engagement range is sitting at 228km (according to wikipedia) and it's a high speed interceptor designed to rush to target at mach 2.8. So yeah, your poor ground hugging Cessna is toast. MiG-31 is designed to hunt and kill ground hugging cruise missiles, not piss slow civilian prop aircraft.
FYI most of the early prototyping of aircraft involves messing around with small scale drones shaped like various prototypes of the fighter. This is likely one such prototype.
Same goes for cockpit mockups. Some are used to demonstrate instruments and largely forego controls. This is useful when testing things like layout of instruments when shifting from one type of instruments to another (analogue dedicated instruments to digital MFDs for example).
The "plane" doesn't look that different from what early prototyping looks like for any modern fighter. A small scale drone shaped like a fighter to test basic airworthiness and such.
Of a "production" of F-14 I imagine. Have you seen early prototypes? I'm not sure about F-14, but I've seen some early mock ups of AH-64. It was cobbled together from old CRT displays. Literally.
If you were a apache pilot/gunner today, you'd call it a fake at first glance.
Plane itself is internal propaganda. Look at the unveiling date, compare to the rest of Iranian fighter programs. Vaporware aimed at general populace to foster patriotism.
But cockpit isn't the part that is telling.
You'd be surprised at stuff you see stuck in early prototype cockpits. They used to shove production CRT TVs to showcase early versions of multifunctional displays in military prototyping. Because just making a TFT panel back then cost huge amounts to make a couple for every prototype. Then production stuff carried TFTs.
Regardless, this thing is obvious vaporware aimed at internal propaganda, just like the rest of Iran's fighter jet programs. But cockpit mockup and usage of everyday crap in it isn't the telling part. It's the build of the thing, like ridiculously small engine intakes or radome that couldn't fit any modern military jet radar. Cockpit could actually be a real prototype (though doubtful).
Pretty much this. Iran had multiple similar vaporware "homegrown" fighter jet projects that are supposed to be operational, and yet they have to use Frogfoots for anti air combat over Persian Gulf.
Pretty much all of Iran's "own fighters" have been vaporware so far. This is pretty well known. They cannot really make anything of their own with all the crippling sanctions that isn't overly cheap knockoff.
That said, it doesn't mean that they can't test new stuff. Most planes start off as drones and eventually move to production. Most of the Russian and various Western jets that jumped up in generation had severe teething problems of their own (F-22 and F-35 make great examples here), and those nations actually have great expertise in designing these planes, not to mention economies that can support huge development costs associated with these programs. Iran lacks all of these.
Iran could, and likely is working on something. It's highly unlikely to be practical and working fighter jet, just like all of its previous fighter jets. Beyond the propaganda bullshit, it shows that with all the sanctions, they still have some degree of expertise and skill and every once in a while they have to show off something like this. Something that will never become a practical application, but to show that they still have some semblance of capability of making a high tech device.
And then they sell their anti ship missiles that cost next to nothing and manage to cripple a high tech Israeli ship. Or have a NATO general win war games using nothing but their low quality, but cheap and numerous hardware against significantly more technologically advanced NATO forces.
Cessna 172 has a huge radar cross section. Those wing mounts and engine are shiners. You're talking about flying under radar horizon, which is not stealthy as any modern fighter is equipped with look down-shoot down radar which will find you and light you up like a christmas tree in a matter of seconds of entering its range.
It's a mock up. Do you seriously think that early tech prototypes designed to showcase potential cockpits are made of production hardware and materials anywhere?
This is normal for low quality RW optical media. RW disks are photosensitive media, and exposure to light slowly "kills" them.
Generally, these disks are not meant to last years. Some high quality ones are, but they cost far more then cheap ones that crapped themselves in barely a year or so.
Don't FPGA chips require logic on top of transistors to function? This suggestion appears to make this unnecessary as transistor level hardware becomes reprogrammable without additional stuff on top.