OK, I'll go ahead and correct myself before the "fact nazis" can. [shakes tiny fist at those who require facts] I misread the summary as saying they would be spending the 50B next year instead of over the next 8 years. Currently, 1/2 of the Russian space budget goes to the ISS, hopefully this additional money will allow them to expand some exploratory programs that have been cut.
Funny how broke-ass Russia can afford to spend 50B next year on their space program but the much richer USA pleads poverty and will spend less than 1/3 of that. No wonder Russia/USSR has consistently had a better space program than the Americans.
Not to mention that if I have a RC helicopter with a Canon Handycam bolted to it that I use to do aerial photography or surveying or something else not related to law enforcement, I am of course allowed to use it and passing a law saying I can't is a violation of my civil rights and personal freedom.
If the Texas legislature has its way you WON'T be able to do what you are describing. There is a currently proposed bill to make hobby flying with a camera a crime. For authoritarians, letting the police do it == good, letting the public do it == bad.
Virgin Galactic can get people/objects into orbit fairly cheap, they use a method to fly up high then use small rockets to get a lot of weight out of earth's gravity, surely a 20-50kg object can't be hard to get out there, it requires no human life support or anything like that, only basic heating to keep the electrics happy.
Fucking pessimists.....
Except that Virgin Galactic has NEVER launched anything into orbit, and they don't currently have any plans to launch any people into orbit. The Spaceship One/Spaceship Two craft are SUBorbital. There is a world of difference between "Going up 100 miles" and "Going fast enough to stay in orbit". Virgin Galactic has announced plans to create an orbital launch vehicle but they currently have no hardware and it isn't going to be "fairly cheap", they are saying 10 million dollars per 100 kg payload, so once they actually build something count on it being about 20 million for a 50 kg payload.
And certainly the stuff that two consenting couples film, and then voluntarily put up on the Internet is not bad.
What am I talkin' about? I'm talkin' about sex, boy, what the hell you talkin' about? I'm talkin' about l'amour! I'm talkin' that me and Dot are swingers, as in "to swing." I'm talkin' about wife swappin'. I'm talkin' about what they call nowadays open marriage. I'm talk...
OpenPGP as implemented in Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG), and possibly other applications is a private-key/public-key encryption method. You encrypt with the public key, which cannot decrypt what it encrypts. Thus, the whole world can have copies of your public key. You decrypt only with your private key, which does not encrypt. Thus, you try to keep your private key truly private.
However, there is another consideration. You have a pass phrase that is used to encrypt your private key for storage on your computer. That is, your private key exists on your computer only in an encrypted form that cannot be used without first decrypting it with your pass phrase. My pass phrase has well over 30 characters (over 240 bits), including blank spaces and special characters. It exists only in my head plus on a piece of paper in a very secure and remote location in case I drop dead.
I use PGP. To decrypt a file, I must enter my pass phrase, which PGP then uses to decrypt my private key. PGP then uses the decrypted private key to decrypt the file.
Sure, this is how individual file encryption works but with partition or whole disk encryption (which is what the article is talking about), there is a symmetric key that is encrypted to either a passphrase or a asymmetric key on a hardware token and the disk is encrypted to this symmetric key. When the computer boots, it prompts the user for either the passphrase or token which it uses to decrypt the symmetric key located in the boot sector. It then puts the symmetric key into memory and uses that key to decrypt blocks of the disk as they are read.
The decrypted key is in a cache and can be reused so that I do not have to keep typing my pass phrase. The cache is automatically purged after a user-set interval of time. I can also manually purge the cache, which I always do when I am through decrypting. Purging the cache should be standard procedure for anyone concerned about keeping encrypted data secure.
In this case it doesn't cache the decrypted key, it caches the passphrase. When it need to access the key again it will load it from disk and decrypt it with the passphrase. If you always purge the cache after decryption, why not just turn the caching feature off?
marijuana use in the absence of other substances impairs driving very little
Yeah, my stoner roommate used to say shit like that too. Of course, he also claimed it helped him study, but unless one considers watching the Cartoon Network all day "studying" then I never saw any evidence of it. And, while I never was a full-time stoner myself, I did smoke enough to know that I sure as shit wouldn't have felt comfortable driving on it (or doing anything else that required concentration).
Of course, I'm sure the stoner brigade can produce a plethora of studies claiming that weed is a fucking miracle cure-all with no downsides whatsoever, written by the same kind of biased researchers that produce studies showing that burning shit-tons of coal is great for the environment.
So your "gut feeling" is more relevant than peer-reviewed studies because you "feel" that the researchers are biased? Please refute the data with data, not emotional reactions to the "stoner brigade". For example, here is a study on driving under the influence of Cannabis that cites several other studies, if you have a problem with the data please point out the problem instead of resorting to logical fallacies.
While on the subject, does anyone have the source for this quote? "Driving within three hours of smoking pot is associated with a near doubling of the risk of fatal crashes"
Role of Cannabis in Motor Vehicle Crashes, Michael N. Bates and Tony A. Blakely 1999
The conclusion certainly isn't from that paper, I read the study and its conclusion was that Cannabis may decrease the risk of fatal accidents.
"There is no evidence that consumption of cannabis alone increases the risk of culpability for traffic crash fatalities or injuries for which hospitalization occurs, and may reduce those risks."
Mormons have no paid clergy. No one in the Mormon church is making a living of it's members unlike most other religions
Normal members that perform duties for the church (Bishop, Stake Leaders, etc.) don't get paid but people higher in the hierarchy (like the church president) do draw a salary from the church.
It's not a "No True Scotsman" fallacy if your argument is that "Mormon scripture and belief do not support the boinking of 12 year olds, and no longer support the idea of multiple wives"
Why, isn't God infallible? Why would he suddenly change his mind about what was a central tenet of the church? Unless it wasn't actually a revelation from God that made them stop the practice (not that Mormons would compromise their religious beliefs because of political pressure).
If Bush went on the soft-show circuit instead of meeting with foreign heads of state, ppl. like *you* and your ilk would jump on the internet post-haste and complain it about.
Yes, *you would*, and you _know it_.
Oh, you mean like Bush's 2004 appearance on Dr. Phil? That kind of "soft-show"? That kind of waste of time? Maybe instead of campaigning Obama should be reading books with schoolchildren while the WTC burns.
Extremely very few people have a solar charging system. For practically all people, the cost of their electric bill would increase more than they were spending on gasoline. Also a car can be had for about 16k, whereas the hybrids cannot. For almost all people, it just costs more.
I think it is fantastic, it immediately addresses the concerns people raise about long range trips. You can just do the normal charge cycle for daily commute/errands/etc. and hook up the trailer when travelling long distances. I think they ended the program because of the negative perception of having to pull/back up a trailer for people who are not familiar with pulling one, but it is certainly a great idea what deserves more attention. If a fully electric vehicle with a trailer like this were available on the market today I would immediately buy it. It's silly to haul all the weight of an engine as in a hybrid if you are not using it. Perhaps the aftermarket will come up with a solution like this for current electric vehicles.
This one day will stop, once the general public understands what is going on.
Have you met the "general public"? You seem to have a much higher opinion of them than they deserve. As long as there is bread and circuses the public is NEVER going to understand what is going on. These banks own the politicians and regulators - they are never going to be punished.
Well, you aren't going to be able to grab hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin in the trunk of a car on its way out of the country. That's one of their favorite tactics -- prove it's drug money and you get to keep the cash
It would be great if the law actually worked like that. Unfortunately, in those cases it is not the police that have to prove it is drug money, it is up to person from who they seized the money to prove it is not drug money. There have been many documented cases where the police have seized money that had nothing to do with drugs, then the owner has to sue the state to get the money back. Wikipedia says the costs to do this are high, "usually totaling around $10,000 and can take up to three years". So if the total amount seized is less than that the rightful owner of the money would be better off financially to not pursue action, meanwhile the police are buying all kinds of new (para)military gear with the money they wrongfully seize.
The issue is also what the humidity was in the room in which the head-disk module was assembled/sealed.
Except that hard drives are generally not sealed. They have a filtered breathing hole to exchange air with the outside. Otherwise, the casing would balloon when you took your computer on an airplane or when the drive is shipped via air.
Not that I'm entirely sure how I feel about Google using drones to improve Google Earth.
Who says that Google (or Apple) is using drones for this? I have seen no source that indicates the photographs are taken from drones, but this thread is full of people talking about drones. Does anyone have a source for these claims? I was under the impression that these pictures were being taken from regular airplanes.
Why wouldn't there be a vein of iron ore on the Moon? There are veins of it on the Earth.
The moon doesn't have veins of iron ore because it doesn't have an atmosphere that contains oxygen and never experienced the Great Oxygen Catastrophe, and thus does not have the banded iron formations which is the source of almost all the minable iron on the earth's surface.
I look forward to Mickey Mouse coming out of copyright protection myself.
Mickey Mouse is NEVER coming out of copyright protection. Every time that event has gotten close Disney simply has their shills in the government extend the copyright term. According to the Supreme Court, as long as the term is "forever minus 1 day" it fits the constitutional requirement for copyright terms of a limited duration.
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OK, I'll go ahead and correct myself before the "fact nazis" can. [shakes tiny fist at those who require facts] I misread the summary as saying they would be spending the 50B next year instead of over the next 8 years. Currently, 1/2 of the Russian space budget goes to the ISS, hopefully this additional money will allow them to expand some exploratory programs that have been cut.
Funny how broke-ass Russia can afford to spend 50B next year on their space program but the much richer USA pleads poverty and will spend less than 1/3 of that. No wonder Russia/USSR has consistently had a better space program than the Americans.
Not to mention that if I have a RC helicopter with a Canon Handycam bolted to it that I use to do aerial photography or surveying or something else not related to law enforcement, I am of course allowed to use it and passing a law saying I can't is a violation of my civil rights and personal freedom.
If the Texas legislature has its way you WON'T be able to do what you are describing. There is a currently proposed bill to make hobby flying with a camera a crime. For authoritarians, letting the police do it == good, letting the public do it == bad.
Virgin Galactic can get people/objects into orbit fairly cheap, they use a method to fly up high then use small rockets to get a lot of weight out of earth's gravity, surely a 20-50kg object can't be hard to get out there, it requires no human life support or anything like that, only basic heating to keep the electrics happy.
Fucking pessimists.....
Except that Virgin Galactic has NEVER launched anything into orbit, and they don't currently have any plans to launch any people into orbit. The Spaceship One/Spaceship Two craft are SUBorbital. There is a world of difference between "Going up 100 miles" and "Going fast enough to stay in orbit". Virgin Galactic has announced plans to create an orbital launch vehicle but they currently have no hardware and it isn't going to be "fairly cheap", they are saying 10 million dollars per 100 kg payload, so once they actually build something count on it being about 20 million for a 50 kg payload.
The problem with electronics in space isn't the vacuum, but rather radiation of all sorts, including solar flares and cosmic radiation.
That is sort of what makes building spacecraft electronics sort of expensive. Consumer electronics typically can't survive that sort of punishment.
If space electronics have to be so hardened why is NASA sending satellites running on Android phones to space?
Yeah, I known what you were saying, but you originally said 2 couples, not 2 people. Two couples is a different ball game.
And certainly the stuff that two consenting couples film, and then voluntarily put up on the Internet is not bad.
What am I talkin' about? I'm talkin' about sex, boy, what the hell you talkin' about? I'm talkin' about l'amour! I'm talkin' that me and Dot are swingers, as in "to swing." I'm talkin' about wife swappin'. I'm talkin' about what they call nowadays open marriage. I'm talk...
OpenPGP as implemented in Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG), and possibly other applications is a private-key/public-key encryption method. You encrypt with the public key, which cannot decrypt what it encrypts. Thus, the whole world can have copies of your public key. You decrypt only with your private key, which does not encrypt. Thus, you try to keep your private key truly private.
However, there is another consideration. You have a pass phrase that is used to encrypt your private key for storage on your computer. That is, your private key exists on your computer only in an encrypted form that cannot be used without first decrypting it with your pass phrase. My pass phrase has well over 30 characters (over 240 bits), including blank spaces and special characters. It exists only in my head plus on a piece of paper in a very secure and remote location in case I drop dead.
I use PGP. To decrypt a file, I must enter my pass phrase, which PGP then uses to decrypt my private key. PGP then uses the decrypted private key to decrypt the file.
Sure, this is how individual file encryption works but with partition or whole disk encryption (which is what the article is talking about), there is a symmetric key that is encrypted to either a passphrase or a asymmetric key on a hardware token and the disk is encrypted to this symmetric key. When the computer boots, it prompts the user for either the passphrase or token which it uses to decrypt the symmetric key located in the boot sector. It then puts the symmetric key into memory and uses that key to decrypt blocks of the disk as they are read.
The decrypted key is in a cache and can be reused so that I do not have to keep typing my pass phrase. The cache is automatically purged after a user-set interval of time. I can also manually purge the cache, which I always do when I am through decrypting. Purging the cache should be standard procedure for anyone concerned about keeping encrypted data secure.
In this case it doesn't cache the decrypted key, it caches the passphrase. When it need to access the key again it will load it from disk and decrypt it with the passphrase. If you always purge the cache after decryption, why not just turn the caching feature off?
marijuana use in the absence of other substances impairs driving very little
Yeah, my stoner roommate used to say shit like that too. Of course, he also claimed it helped him study, but unless one considers watching the Cartoon Network all day "studying" then I never saw any evidence of it. And, while I never was a full-time stoner myself, I did smoke enough to know that I sure as shit wouldn't have felt comfortable driving on it (or doing anything else that required concentration).
Of course, I'm sure the stoner brigade can produce a plethora of studies claiming that weed is a fucking miracle cure-all with no downsides whatsoever, written by the same kind of biased researchers that produce studies showing that burning shit-tons of coal is great for the environment.
So your "gut feeling" is more relevant than peer-reviewed studies because you "feel" that the researchers are biased? Please refute the data with data, not emotional reactions to the "stoner brigade". For example, here is a study on driving under the influence of Cannabis that cites several other studies, if you have a problem with the data please point out the problem instead of resorting to logical fallacies.
http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/2/222.full.pdf
While on the subject, does anyone have the source for this quote? "Driving within three hours of smoking pot is associated with a near doubling of the risk of fatal crashes"
Role of Cannabis in Motor Vehicle Crashes, Michael N. Bates and Tony A. Blakely 1999
The conclusion certainly isn't from that paper, I read the study and its conclusion was that Cannabis may decrease the risk of fatal accidents.
"There is no evidence that consumption of cannabis alone increases the risk of culpability for traffic crash fatalities or injuries for which hospitalization occurs, and may reduce those risks."
It has what plants want?
Nope, it has what plants crave
Mormons have no paid clergy. No one in the Mormon church is making a living of it's members unlike most other religions
Normal members that perform duties for the church (Bishop, Stake Leaders, etc.) don't get paid but people higher in the hierarchy (like the church president) do draw a salary from the church.
It's not a "No True Scotsman" fallacy if your argument is that "Mormon scripture and belief do not support the boinking of 12 year olds, and no longer support the idea of multiple wives"
Why, isn't God infallible? Why would he suddenly change his mind about what was a central tenet of the church? Unless it wasn't actually a revelation from God that made them stop the practice (not that Mormons would compromise their religious beliefs because of political pressure).
And why pick on Mormons, who've never, as far as I can tell, been known to blow up people they disagree with?
I guess Mark Hofmann didn't get the memo.
But Linus (Mr. Torvalds to you) isn't American. Therefore, it is just one of those quaint European customs, really.
Except that he IS an American, he lives in the United States and obtained US citizenship in 2010.
If Bush went on the soft-show circuit instead of meeting with foreign heads of state, ppl. like *you* and your ilk would jump on the internet post-haste and complain it about.
Yes, *you would*, and you _know it_.
Oh, you mean like Bush's 2004 appearance on Dr. Phil? That kind of "soft-show"? That kind of waste of time? Maybe instead of campaigning Obama should be reading books with schoolchildren while the WTC burns.
Extremely very few people have a solar charging system. For practically all people, the cost of their electric bill would increase more than they were spending on gasoline. Also a car can be had for about 16k, whereas the hybrids cannot. For almost all people, it just costs more.
Where are you getting your numbers? Snopes estimates that electricity costs would be about 2/3 of the cost of driving a 4 cylinder engine that gets 32 MPG (it would be much better for me as my electricity costs are below the average they quote). You would have to pay quite a bit per kWH for the bill to be more than you are currently spending on gasoline. Snopes is actually considering a worst case scenario (worst case mileage in the Volt, compared to a car that gets much better mileage than the national average), if you compared actual Volt usage to the average MPG in the US the Volt would come out much further ahead than they cite (and the Volt is not the most efficient hybrid car available either).
I never understood why they couldn't hitch up a trailer carrying a gasoline generator. BAMF, instant hybrid that could travel interstate.
Actually, Toyota did this years ago with the RAV4-EV
http://www.evnut.com/rav_longranger.htm
I think it is fantastic, it immediately addresses the concerns people raise about long range trips. You can just do the normal charge cycle for daily commute/errands/etc. and hook up the trailer when travelling long distances. I think they ended the program because of the negative perception of having to pull/back up a trailer for people who are not familiar with pulling one, but it is certainly a great idea what deserves more attention. If a fully electric vehicle with a trailer like this were available on the market today I would immediately buy it. It's silly to haul all the weight of an engine as in a hybrid if you are not using it. Perhaps the aftermarket will come up with a solution like this for current electric vehicles.
This one day will stop, once the general public understands what is going on.
Have you met the "general public"? You seem to have a much higher opinion of them than they deserve. As long as there is bread and circuses the public is NEVER going to understand what is going on. These banks own the politicians and regulators - they are never going to be punished.
Here's a couple:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/20/asset-forfeiture-wisconsin-bail-confiscated_n_1522328.html
http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/easy-money-civil-asset-forfeiture-abuse-police
These are just a couple I pulled off a Google search for "civil forfeiture abuse" but there are hundreds, if not thousands, of similar cases.
Well, you aren't going to be able to grab hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin in the trunk of a car on its way out of the country. That's one of their favorite tactics -- prove it's drug money and you get to keep the cash
It would be great if the law actually worked like that. Unfortunately, in those cases it is not the police that have to prove it is drug money, it is up to person from who they seized the money to prove it is not drug money. There have been many documented cases where the police have seized money that had nothing to do with drugs, then the owner has to sue the state to get the money back. Wikipedia says the costs to do this are high, "usually totaling around $10,000 and can take up to three years". So if the total amount seized is less than that the rightful owner of the money would be better off financially to not pursue action, meanwhile the police are buying all kinds of new (para)military gear with the money they wrongfully seize.
The issue is also what the humidity was in the room in which the head-disk module was assembled/sealed.
Except that hard drives are generally not sealed. They have a filtered breathing hole to exchange air with the outside. Otherwise, the casing would balloon when you took your computer on an airplane or when the drive is shipped via air.
Not that I'm entirely sure how I feel about Google using drones to improve Google Earth.
Who says that Google (or Apple) is using drones for this? I have seen no source that indicates the photographs are taken from drones, but this thread is full of people talking about drones. Does anyone have a source for these claims? I was under the impression that these pictures were being taken from regular airplanes.
Why wouldn't there be a vein of iron ore on the Moon? There are veins of it on the Earth.
The moon doesn't have veins of iron ore because it doesn't have an atmosphere that contains oxygen and never experienced the Great Oxygen Catastrophe, and thus does not have the banded iron formations which is the source of almost all the minable iron on the earth's surface.
I look forward to Mickey Mouse coming out of copyright protection myself.
Mickey Mouse is NEVER coming out of copyright protection. Every time that event has gotten close Disney simply has their shills in the government extend the copyright term. According to the Supreme Court, as long as the term is "forever minus 1 day" it fits the constitutional requirement for copyright terms of a limited duration.