I wonder which of them will be the first to open up their implementation to scrutiny? Showing us a nice little padlock icon is all very well, but encryption is *hard*, and getting it right is subtle.
An assurance that they cannot access any of the data themselves would be a start, because it points to true end-to-end (rather than end-to-middleman, which is much less useful...)
If you can access your messages from more than one device, then it is a sign that all is not well in paradise, as they may hold the keys themselves (in which case what is the point), but not necessarily.
If trust is part of security, then do you trust the security?;)
'None of the waste appears to have escaped from Tank AY 102 into the environment, the contractor, Washington River Protection Solutions, said.'
The leak is between the inner liner and the outer liner, so actually ZERO has actually escaped. So, unlikely the retarded mdsolar style summary, the double shell tank has done EXACTLY what it was designed to. This is like complaining about a seatbelt and airbag doing its just after a minor accident where no one got hurt.
Of course we cannot let facts get in the way of our good healthy radiation terror! All those years of duck-and-cover drills as the Reds rained nuclear death on our heads would have been wasted!
Perhaps similar to the time in 1985 when America used ITS ASAT missile to hit the P78-1 SOLWIND satellite, resulting in a need for additional anti-collision design for the ISS?
FWIW the FY1C was 750kg, the SOLWIND was 850kg.. so they should have had rather similar debris clouds..
Or, perhaps it is somehow different? After all, when the US did it, no one else had... Perhaps being first makes it better?
Once being an airline pilot was a premier occupation. Pay was large, work was easy, you stayed in the best hotels and were tested like royalty.
Unfortunately that was a long time ago. These days it borders on bus driving. Long hours, average pay, and fast eroding working conditions.
Is it any surprise they grab at any chance to feel more important? Grab a little media attention and make people sit up and take notice again?
Sad but true.
Lightning strikes are far worse than laser pointers.. And a goose will do as much damage as any non commercial drone.. But it's attention they really want. To be important and respected again. Sad.
Why on earth would you think you need AC-AC conversion for a connector? The battery management is going to take care of the battery charging, and thats a set amount of loss (it doesnt care how the power gets to it..) The charger unit itself can be designed to produce whatever voltage makes sense to drive the battery controller. In a direct connection system, that connection will be at that sensible voltage, and believe it or not, to push power (even 20kw) down a nice fat conductor does not need any fancy conversion so long as the voltages are sane anyway (which they are for car charging).
As an example, a Tesla battery is a 375v battery (pack of course, not cell). at 20kW thats 53A, not tiny but not huge. 1% loss is 200W, which at 53A is 3.77V, in other words 0.27 ohms. Thats not a big challenge for a reasonably designed high current connection. Standard NEMA connections will do 600V 60A, and pin and sleeve go to 400A+... Tesla pushed 125Kw+ through its connector for supercharger stations, so 20kW is going to be rather low loss.
However this system is very VERY different, its losses are magnetic, and they are impressed with themselves with having only 10% loss.. That should tell you something.
The 'fun' part is the 10% coupling waste (versus I would imagine much less than 1% for plugin charging). Remember, we are not talking about the battery charge efficiency here, their 10% is just for the transfer of power to the car..
So, thats 'only' 2kw continuous loss. Thank god everyone is converting their houses to LED lighting, which still wont offset the losses here.
That not enough sodium in your diet can be detrimental to one's health. And more importantly, not enough Iodine, depending on location, can be pretty bad also.
Bring on the Iodised salt!
Come on people, is it that complicated? everything in moderation, and a well rounded and balanced diet?
Of course, if they can invent a Chocolate fork... I suspect they will do well.
While I wouldnt normally bother, because this information is SO easy to find.. here you are a couple of examples. https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/christy_dec8.jpg http://notrickszone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/73-climate-models_reality.gif
There are plenty more around..
As you can see, the climate 'models' are doing a pretty piss poor job of predicting anything. Does that prove a negative for AGW? of course not, you cannot prove a negative. But it *does* prove that there is currently no evidence for a positive in these models....
So, do they pay you cash, or is it a 'discount/voucher off a new model at standard price'? Because unless its the first, its not comparable, of course.....
Ah, no. The realization came quite a long time ago, that Marketing is the specialty of Apple. This is just some more nice warm fuzzy marketing.
Of course they wont actually use this - as it wont work if the phone has physical damage - just look at the methods used - they require nice smooth surfaces for the vacuum handlers, screws that remove cleanly, etc, etc.
NO WAY IN HELL this will work for the type of phones generally thrown away. Most phones in good enough condition to be workable in this 'robot' should simply be reused, perhaps step or two down the tech food chain.
But it makes a cute little video with some upbeat marketing message. Job done.
Keep cranking that lie mdsolar... you never know, if you shill enough bs, one day someone may believe some of it!
BTW, care to explain why the fatality rates in solar power are higher than nuclear? I am sure you are aware that they are.. But I am just as sure you wont want to admit it. (hint for the uninitiated, its because of installers falling during installations, and its quite a problem). http://physics.kenyon.edu/people/sullivan/PHYS102/PHYS102F12Lecture15.pdf
Sigh, do we REALLY need to keep seeing this halflife BS?
Halflife is basically inversely proportional to amount of emitted radiation. In other worse, the nasty atoms have short halflives, the not so nasty ones longer, and the quite safe ones very long.
THAT, folks, is why Nagasaki and Hiroshima are thriving cities with actually lower than average cancer rates.
Which basically makes it clear that there IS NO ISSUE.
A few quotes for those who cannot bother reading the article:
'The low levels of radioactivity that remain are in normally inaccessible areas that are controlled in accordance with stringent procedures' 'The radioactive contamination found on the ships involved in Operation Tomodachi is at such low levels that it does not pose a health concern to the crews, their families, or maintenance personnel' ' the Reagan’s ventilation system was contaminated with 0.01 millirems of radiation per hour, according to the Navy. Nuclear Regulatory Commission guidelines advise no more than 2 millirems of radiation in one hour in any unrestricted area' '“Personnel working on potentially contaminated systems were monitored with sensitive dosimeters, and no abnormal radiation exposures were identified' 'Of the 1,360 individuals aboard the Reagan who were monitored by the Navy following the incident, more than 96 percent were found not to have detectable internal contamination, the Navy said. The highest measured dose was less than 10 percent of the average annual exposure to someone living in the United States'
And the whole article wraps up, after showing quite clearly that there is NO ISSUE, by pointing out that a bunch of money-grabbing US navy staff are trying to push a baseless lawsuit for such things as 'genetic immune system diseases, headaches, difficulty concentrating, thyroid problems, bloody noses, rectal and gynecological bleeding, weakness in sides of the body accompanied by the shrinking of muscle mass, memory loss, leukemia, testicular cancer, problems with vision, high-pitch ringing in the ears and anxiety', from doses that are fractions of quite normal background exposure.In other worse for anything they could dream of that has happened since then. Their may reasoning seems to be 'Well, the Navy cleaned the decks after, it must have been dangerous!', so they appear to be suing on the basis that due care was taken!
The real news here is how ridiculously out of perspective many people are about radiation risks.
Lets hope none of those sailors like bananas! they better sue Ecuador!
Figured that out all by yourself, did you? TFA even talked about that.
The thesis is that stone tools preceded evidence of cooking by some long period of time. So the tools were used to beat the food into submission. Barbecue came later.
Might be where the term 'beating a dead horse' came from.
Actually no, I didnt 'figure that out all by myself', because, as you say, it is well known. As far as I can tell they dont provide any solid evidence that stone tools actually drove such changes. They seem to be just deciding that arbitrarily, then thrashing around looking for possible reasons for it.
Cooking has very well documented and researched effects on physiology, perhaps you should do a little research. Their theory has much less behind it.
And the other small factor they missed.. Cooking! Cooking has a large known effect on consumption and abduction of food. Especially meat. Resulting in needing to eat less quantity and being easier to chew..
No.. That couldn't be a factor.. Must have been those thin slices. Sigh.
Chewing cooked food is much much easier.. Making a larger difference than sliced meat (you don't think stone tools produce nice thin slices do you?)
Sounds a lot like someone flash of the moment idea that they rushed to publish rather than something with much backing
Except for the small fact that so far their models have proven to be very very wrong. Until they can show any form of prediction, iterative models are garbage. And no, iterative models cannot be wrong in the 5 year timeframe, but right in the longer term (except by sheer chance), because errors are cumulative.
The part you are missing is that the left in the US is often further to the right than the right in most other countries (assuming you ignore the fringes of both). Yes, believe it or not left and right tend to be relative to local center, and in the US that has been drifting to the right since about 1492..
Nothing wrong with that of course, every country is free to want what it wants from politics, just dont fall in to the trap of thinking that the USAs left and right align with most other countries left and right.
Since you ask a serious question, then why not a serious answer.
My ballpark would be 100,000 people dead depending heavily on the type of ordinance (HE, AP, Incendary, Frag, etc) so, that is around 1% of the population. Remember, those shells will land roughly randomly - I am assuming they have been setup to specifically target the population (if totally random then it will be MUCH lower).
However your figures are highly flawed, as you are not allowing for losses in the NK artillery, or for desertions in people who dont actually want to shell their own families (remember, Korea was only separated a few generations ago), equipment failure, etc. You are also assuming all of those pieces can reach high popluation densities, however the border is long and the ranges not that great.
By your own claims (and I agree) their most common artillery piece is similar to the D20, around 20km range. The center is Seoul is 30-40km from the border (30 if you count a specific inset area..), so they only have the closer areas to target, which are lower density. They would also need to have concentrated all their artillery in a very small and specific region to even target Seoul.
And, lastly, think about what they would 'gain' by such an attack. The rest of the world would wipe them out. No more young girl harems for the great leader, no more european sportscars, no more playstation, no more living as kings for the ruling class. If they are lucky they will be reduced to running and hiding while they are being hunted after the fall of their state.
As things stands the US has a nice easy to present bogeyman which is almost zero actual threat to the US. If they removed them, they would gain little, and lose a useful political piece (got to keep the unwashed masses scared of something, god forbid peace came to the middle east, nice to have a backup!)
The US gets to prod them with a stick from time to time (always nice to carry out live fire exercises right on their ocean border zones) to keep the system churning away, NK gets to point to a terrible enemy to their existence, really it works for those in power on both sides.
Or did you think it was for the benefit of the general masses on either side? Really?
And what then mr know-it-all? Tell me, what exactly do you think their second step would be, and what do you think the worlds reaction (for example, China..) would be? Perhaps N.Korea can invade someone with their highly capable navy, using their extensive airforce for air cover, and hold the ground against the efforts of the rest of the world?
They want such weapons to protect what they have now, which almost certainly includes their access to nice western toys for their elite. They will rattle their sabers for two reasons which are really the same. To try and maintain their power/position, both internal and external (hence 2.)
There is no scenario where they 'win' any form of external attack. The people in power there currently enjoy absolute power, and all the trimmings that comes with. Why exactly would they want to wipe that out by launching an actual attack, short of being on the brink of losing that power?
The difficulty will come when change eventually comes from N.Korea, THAT is when things get touchy.
I can only assume you have not be taken advantage of by Microsofts windows 10 'upgrade' yet?
And anyway, it is patently obviously not the watch doing this, its the associated smartphone app that does it. Should it be? Almost certainly not. Is it common as mud? Pretty much.
I would also suggest that if we measure a country by stupid statements of politicians, then it would not be hard to find the world leader in stupid. I suspect it would be a country located somewhere between Mexico and Canada..
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I wonder which of them will be the first to open up their implementation to scrutiny?
Showing us a nice little padlock icon is all very well, but encryption is *hard*, and getting it right is subtle.
An assurance that they cannot access any of the data themselves would be a start, because it points
to true end-to-end (rather than end-to-middleman, which is much less useful...)
If you can access your messages from more than one device, then it is a sign that all is not well in paradise,
as they may hold the keys themselves (in which case what is the point), but not necessarily.
If trust is part of security, then do you trust the security? ;)
'None of the waste appears to have escaped from Tank AY 102 into the environment, the contractor, Washington River Protection Solutions, said.'
The leak is between the inner liner and the outer liner, so actually ZERO has actually escaped.
So, unlikely the retarded mdsolar style summary, the double shell tank has done EXACTLY what it was designed to.
This is like complaining about a seatbelt and airbag doing its just after a minor accident where no one got hurt.
Of course we cannot let facts get in the way of our good healthy radiation terror! All those years of duck-and-cover
drills as the Reds rained nuclear death on our heads would have been wasted!
Perhaps similar to the time in 1985 when America used ITS ASAT missile to hit the P78-1 SOLWIND satellite, resulting in a need for additional anti-collision design for the ISS?
FWIW the FY1C was 750kg, the SOLWIND was 850kg.. so they should have had rather similar debris clouds..
Or, perhaps it is somehow different? After all, when the US did it, no one else had... Perhaps being first makes it better?
Don't forget..
Once being an airline pilot was a premier occupation. Pay was large, work was easy, you stayed in the best hotels and were tested like royalty.
Unfortunately that was a long time ago. These days it borders on bus driving. Long hours, average pay, and fast eroding working conditions.
Is it any surprise they grab at any chance to feel more important? Grab a little media attention and make people sit up and take notice again?
Sad but true.
Lightning strikes are far worse than laser pointers.. And a goose will do as much damage as any non commercial drone.. But it's attention they really want. To be important and respected again.
Sad.
Why on earth would you think you need AC-AC conversion for a connector?
The battery management is going to take care of the battery charging, and thats a set amount of loss (it doesnt care how the power gets to it..)
The charger unit itself can be designed to produce whatever voltage makes sense to drive the battery controller.
In a direct connection system, that connection will be at that sensible voltage, and believe it or not, to push power (even 20kw)
down a nice fat conductor does not need any fancy conversion so long as the voltages are sane anyway (which they are for car
charging).
As an example, a Tesla battery is a 375v battery (pack of course, not cell).
at 20kW thats 53A, not tiny but not huge.
1% loss is 200W, which at 53A is 3.77V, in other words 0.27 ohms.
Thats not a big challenge for a reasonably designed high current connection.
Standard NEMA connections will do 600V 60A, and pin and sleeve go to 400A+...
Tesla pushed 125Kw+ through its connector for supercharger stations, so 20kW is going to be rather low loss.
However this system is very VERY different, its losses are magnetic, and they are impressed with themselves with having only 10% loss..
That should tell you something.
Yes yes, terrible summary.
The 'fun' part is the 10% coupling waste (versus I would imagine much less than 1% for plugin charging).
Remember, we are not talking about the battery charge efficiency here, their 10% is just for the transfer of power to the car..
So, thats 'only' 2kw continuous loss. Thank god everyone is converting their houses to LED lighting, which still wont
offset the losses here.
Go Progress!
That not enough sodium in your diet can be detrimental to one's health.
And more importantly, not enough Iodine, depending on location, can be pretty bad also.
Bring on the Iodised salt!
Come on people, is it that complicated? everything in moderation, and a well rounded and balanced diet?
Of course, if they can invent a Chocolate fork... I suspect they will do well.
After all.. I won't know what to think until he tells me.. ;)
Sigh..
It is if you need to get in to the car to pop the hood (or trunk depending on model) to charge the battery!!
Or are you just planning to walk away and buy a new car?
While I wouldnt normally bother, because this information is SO easy to find..
here you are a couple of examples.
https://curryja.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/christy_dec8.jpg
http://notrickszone.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/73-climate-models_reality.gif
There are plenty more around..
As you can see, the climate 'models' are doing a pretty piss poor job of predicting anything.
Does that prove a negative for AGW? of course not, you cannot prove a negative.
But it *does* prove that there is currently no evidence for a positive in these models....
So, do they pay you cash, or is it a 'discount/voucher off a new model at standard price'?
Because unless its the first, its not comparable, of course.....
Ah, no.
The realization came quite a long time ago, that Marketing is the specialty of Apple.
This is just some more nice warm fuzzy marketing.
Of course they wont actually use this - as it wont work if the phone has physical damage - just look at the methods used - they require nice
smooth surfaces for the vacuum handlers, screws that remove cleanly, etc, etc.
NO WAY IN HELL this will work for the type of phones generally thrown away.
Most phones in good enough condition to be workable in this 'robot' should simply be reused, perhaps step or two down the tech food chain.
But it makes a cute little video with some upbeat marketing message.
Job done.
Keep cranking that lie mdsolar... you never know, if you shill enough bs, one day someone may believe some of it!
BTW, care to explain why the fatality rates in solar power are higher than nuclear? I am sure you are aware that they
are.. But I am just as sure you wont want to admit it.
(hint for the uninitiated, its because of installers falling during installations, and its quite a problem).
http://physics.kenyon.edu/people/sullivan/PHYS102/PHYS102F12Lecture15.pdf
Sigh, do we REALLY need to keep seeing this halflife BS?
Halflife is basically inversely proportional to amount of emitted radiation.
In other worse, the nasty atoms have short halflives, the not so nasty ones longer, and the quite safe ones very long.
THAT, folks, is why Nagasaki and Hiroshima are thriving cities with actually lower than average cancer rates.
Which basically makes it clear that there IS NO ISSUE.
A few quotes for those who cannot bother reading the article:
'The low levels of radioactivity that remain are in normally inaccessible areas that are controlled in accordance with stringent procedures'
'The radioactive contamination found on the ships involved in Operation Tomodachi is at such low levels that it does not pose a health concern to the crews, their families, or maintenance personnel'
' the Reagan’s ventilation system was contaminated with 0.01 millirems of radiation per hour, according to the Navy. Nuclear Regulatory Commission guidelines advise no more than 2 millirems of radiation in one hour in any unrestricted area'
'“Personnel working on potentially contaminated systems were monitored with sensitive dosimeters, and no abnormal radiation exposures were identified'
'Of the 1,360 individuals aboard the Reagan who were monitored by the Navy following the incident, more than 96 percent were found not to have detectable internal contamination, the Navy said. The highest measured dose was less than 10 percent of the average annual exposure to someone living in the United States'
And the whole article wraps up, after showing quite clearly that there is NO ISSUE, by pointing out that a bunch of money-grabbing US navy staff are trying to push a baseless lawsuit for such things as 'genetic immune system diseases, headaches, difficulty concentrating, thyroid problems, bloody noses, rectal and gynecological bleeding, weakness in sides of the body accompanied by the shrinking of muscle mass, memory loss, leukemia, testicular cancer, problems with vision, high-pitch ringing in the ears and anxiety', from doses that are fractions of quite normal background exposure.In other worse for anything they could dream of that has happened since then.
Their may reasoning seems to be 'Well, the Navy cleaned the decks after, it must have been dangerous!', so they appear to be suing on the basis that due care was taken!
The real news here is how ridiculously out of perspective many people are about radiation risks.
Lets hope none of those sailors like bananas! they better sue Ecuador!
Figured that out all by yourself, did you? TFA even talked about that.
The thesis is that stone tools preceded evidence of cooking by some long period of time. So the tools were used to beat the food into submission. Barbecue came later.
Might be where the term 'beating a dead horse' came from.
Actually no, I didnt 'figure that out all by myself', because, as you say, it is well known.
As far as I can tell they dont provide any solid evidence that stone tools actually drove such changes. They seem to be just deciding that arbitrarily, then thrashing around looking for possible reasons for it.
Cooking has very well documented and researched effects on physiology, perhaps you should do a little research. Their theory has much less behind it.
Cooked your dead horse enough for you?
And the other small factor they missed.. Cooking!
Cooking has a large known effect on consumption and abduction of food. Especially meat. Resulting in needing to eat less quantity and being easier to chew..
No.. That couldn't be a factor.. Must have been those thin slices. Sigh.
Chewing cooked food is much much easier.. Making a larger difference than sliced meat (you don't think stone tools produce nice thin slices do you?)
Sounds a lot like someone flash of the moment idea that they rushed to publish rather than something with much backing
Damn you and your facts! Dont you know that the science is settled?
Except for the small fact that so far their models have proven to be very very wrong.
Until they can show any form of prediction, iterative models are garbage.
And no, iterative models cannot be wrong in the 5 year timeframe, but right in the longer term (except by sheer chance), because errors are cumulative.
All pretty much scientific method 101 here kids.
The part you are missing is that the left in the US is often further to the right than the right in most other countries (assuming you ignore the fringes of both).
Yes, believe it or not left and right tend to be relative to local center, and in the US that has been drifting to the right since about 1492..
Nothing wrong with that of course, every country is free to want what it wants from politics, just dont fall in to the trap of thinking that
the USAs left and right align with most other countries left and right.
Since you ask a serious question, then why not a serious answer.
My ballpark would be 100,000 people dead depending heavily on the type of ordinance (HE, AP, Incendary, Frag, etc)
so, that is around 1% of the population. Remember, those shells will land roughly randomly - I am assuming they have been
setup to specifically target the population (if totally random then it will be MUCH lower).
However your figures are highly flawed, as you are not allowing for losses in the NK artillery, or for desertions in people who dont
actually want to shell their own families (remember, Korea was only separated a few generations ago), equipment failure, etc.
You are also assuming all of those pieces can reach high popluation densities, however the border is long and the ranges not that great.
By your own claims (and I agree) their most common artillery piece is similar to the D20, around 20km range.
The center is Seoul is 30-40km from the border (30 if you count a specific inset area..), so they only have the closer areas to
target, which are lower density. They would also need to have concentrated all their artillery in a very small and specific region to even
target Seoul.
And, lastly, think about what they would 'gain' by such an attack. The rest of the world would wipe them out.
No more young girl harems for the great leader, no more european sportscars, no more playstation, no more living as kings for the ruling class.
If they are lucky they will be reduced to running and hiding while they are being hunted after the fall of their state.
Hard to see their motivation for such an attack..
Why?
As things stands the US has a nice easy to present bogeyman which is almost zero actual threat to the US.
If they removed them, they would gain little, and lose a useful political piece (got to keep the unwashed masses scared of something,
god forbid peace came to the middle east, nice to have a backup!)
The US gets to prod them with a stick from time to time (always nice to carry out live fire exercises right on their ocean border zones) to
keep the system churning away, NK gets to point to a terrible enemy to their existence, really it works for those in power on both sides.
Or did you think it was for the benefit of the general masses on either side? Really?
And what then mr know-it-all?
Tell me, what exactly do you think their second step would be, and what do you think the worlds reaction (for example, China..) would be?
Perhaps N.Korea can invade someone with their highly capable navy, using their extensive airforce for air cover, and hold the ground against
the efforts of the rest of the world?
They want such weapons to protect what they have now, which almost certainly includes their access to nice western toys for their elite.
They will rattle their sabers for two reasons which are really the same. To try and maintain their power/position, both internal and external (hence 2.)
There is no scenario where they 'win' any form of external attack.
The people in power there currently enjoy absolute power, and all the trimmings that comes with. Why exactly would they want to wipe that out
by launching an actual attack, short of being on the brink of losing that power?
The difficulty will come when change eventually comes from N.Korea, THAT is when things get touchy.
I can only assume you have not be taken advantage of by Microsofts windows 10 'upgrade' yet?
And anyway, it is patently obviously not the watch doing this, its the associated smartphone app that does it.
Should it be? Almost certainly not. Is it common as mud? Pretty much.
I would also suggest that if we measure a country by stupid statements of politicians, then it would not be hard to find the world leader in stupid.
I suspect it would be a country located somewhere between Mexico and Canada..