It's amusing to read the reports on right-leaning news sites. According to them, he was forced out by the 'gay mafia.' They use that phrase quite a lot.
Wormholes are one of the great disapointments of exotic physics, because they can't actually be used for anything.
Yay, a FTL portal to the distant universe! That... no object can traverse. Including light. Oh.
Much like entanglement, which promises instantainous action over any distance and thus FTL communication - but, on closer examination, can't be used to send classical information.
The limitation in stargate was due to that energy: It accumulated. Pumping energy into the wormhole, it can't go anywhere, so the wormhole structure just gets more high-energy and harder to contain. Beyond 38 minutes the gate can't maintain stability, and even it if were possible the eventually closing of the wormhole would release all the energy accumulated within in a rather large explosion. One of the times the 38 minute rule was broken was through the use of a superweapon designed to do exactly that.
Another wasn't really in violation: The source was in orbit around a black hole. Close orbit. The time dilation just drew it out - while it seemed like more than 38 minutes at the recieving end, it was still far less at the opening end, from where the wormhole is created and stabilised.
100K titles. It's about 1MB for a largeish novel. That's 100GB - but text compresses wonderfully, a 4:1 ratio is easily achieveable. That's 25GB... and flash is cheap, a 32GB onboard flash is easily affordable. So technologically it'd be easy to put the entire library on every device.
Exactly. This is very much a hardware thing - and if you want a processor embedded in your chip, it's because you want to run software. Spending time messing around with intricate hardware design is just going to divert you from the important tasks.
I'd have thought the NSA would very much like DNSSEC. After all, they certainly have access to the root keys. It would improve security enough to stop the typical rogue-wifi attacks, but not enough to stop state-sponsored organised attackers.
I think a more likely explanation is that there is some sort of approval process, and whichever committee needs to approve the books only had time to skim and rubber-stamp three hundred.
Radio doesn't go through water. It's actually a serious problem for submarines. They can't communicate while submerged. The solution is an antenna on a float and a long wire they can let rise to the surface. They do have ELF radio, which can penetrate water through a combination of low frequency and sheer force of transmission power, but the bandwidth is so low it's limited to basic text messages - usually of the form 'pop up your antenna so we can talk properly.'
With half-decent compression, it'll easily fit in flash. No, I think this is more of a paperwork issue: I imagine there is an approvals process that every book must go through first, where a few officers have to submit a consensus that the book is not detrimental to morale or portrays America in a negative fashion.
Easy. Don't bother to secure it. Just make it harmless.
Screen. Five button keypad. SD card slot. So what if some attacker manages to root it? They can't do a thing from there: No radio interface to report back, no USB to compromise connected devices, no microphone or camera for spying. The worst you can do is find out what the crew are reading, with no way to report it back. Maybe you could imply their schedules a little. The very worst a compromised device could do is write some sort of virus to an SD card - which isn't going near any secure systems anyway.
They probably are bottlenecked by the approval process. I imagine someone going through all the books beforehand to make sure they don't contain any anti-American themes or elements that could demoralise the crew.
Presumably they will be updated via replacement when the ship docks. Ship gets new devices, the old ones go back to the manufacturer to crack the case and hook a programmer up. Only with approved patriotic books, of course.
It protects you against copyright infringement, but not patent infringement. The famous reverse-engineering of the IBM PC BIOS was back in the days before software patents were considered valid - if exactly the same thing happened today, IBM could certainly have sued and won an injunction and massive damages.
Yes, because they prioritized Netflix traffic. But if they'd properly upgraded their network, then Netflix would have worked without needing to be prioritized - and Comcast couldn't have charged them extra.
Because the criminal justice system isn't about just protecting the public, and it's barely about rehabilitation at all. It's about vengence. It's there to satisfy peoples' natural desire to see those who break the rules of society made to suffer. The appearance of civilisation says it is no longer acceptable to openly torture criminals (Though few will object to some accidential torture), but arbitary punishments are still ok.
Comcast isn't actually 'restricting' the connection. They are simply providing a poor service by not upgrading their network. That creates the problem of poor performance, and they can then charge extra to fix it.
The real issue is the perverse incentive it creates. If the 'regular' traffic class is good enough for reliable streaming, there is no reason Netflix et all will pay the ISP for prioritisation - so in order to protect that revenue stream, the ISP needs to make sure that the non-priority performane is sufficiently poor. The obvious way to do this is by withholding vital network upgrades in order to create congestion.
Indeed. Pirates have noticed this too. Once legal services become cheap, reliable and convenient in any region the number of pirates in the community drops sharply. It's a serious problem - piracy is a community, and it falls apart when half the members lose interest because they can get what they want quicker on Netflix.
They use a much simpler method these days: The agency just has a list of every home in the country without a license. While there are some people who actually have no TV, this is actually a very rare thing indeed, so they just pick addresses at random and send someone around to check from time to time. If you've got no TV license, you can expect an inspector to drop in every couple of years to make sure you have no TV either.
Different meaning. In audio circles, compression is a technique used during mastering to make the sound louder without inducing clipping artifacts by selectively amplifying the quieter portions of the audio.
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It's amusing to read the reports on right-leaning news sites. According to them, he was forced out by the 'gay mafia.' They use that phrase quite a lot.
Wormholes are one of the great disapointments of exotic physics, because they can't actually be used for anything.
Yay, a FTL portal to the distant universe! That... no object can traverse. Including light. Oh.
Much like entanglement, which promises instantainous action over any distance and thus FTL communication - but, on closer examination, can't be used to send classical information.
Both ends are still behind an event horizon. Whatever goes in does come out - eventually, as Hawking radiation.
The limitation in stargate was due to that energy: It accumulated. Pumping energy into the wormhole, it can't go anywhere, so the wormhole structure just gets more high-energy and harder to contain. Beyond 38 minutes the gate can't maintain stability, and even it if were possible the eventually closing of the wormhole would release all the energy accumulated within in a rather large explosion. One of the times the 38 minute rule was broken was through the use of a superweapon designed to do exactly that.
Another wasn't really in violation: The source was in orbit around a black hole. Close orbit. The time dilation just drew it out - while it seemed like more than 38 minutes at the recieving end, it was still far less at the opening end, from where the wormhole is created and stabilised.
Why do they even need to tailor it?
100K titles. It's about 1MB for a largeish novel. That's 100GB - but text compresses wonderfully, a 4:1 ratio is easily achieveable. That's 25GB... and flash is cheap, a 32GB onboard flash is easily affordable. So technologically it'd be easy to put the entire library on every device.
Exactly. This is very much a hardware thing - and if you want a processor embedded in your chip, it's because you want to run software. Spending time messing around with intricate hardware design is just going to divert you from the important tasks.
"roll your own mini 8-bit core with opcodes customized for your app (this is not that hard"
Not that hard by Verilog standards. The sight of it tends to make software developers run in terror.
I'd have thought the NSA would very much like DNSSEC. After all, they certainly have access to the root keys. It would improve security enough to stop the typical rogue-wifi attacks, but not enough to stop state-sponsored organised attackers.
The NSA will try to infiltrate the IETF.
I think a more likely explanation is that there is some sort of approval process, and whichever committee needs to approve the books only had time to skim and rubber-stamp three hundred.
Radio doesn't go through water. It's actually a serious problem for submarines. They can't communicate while submerged. The solution is an antenna on a float and a long wire they can let rise to the surface. They do have ELF radio, which can penetrate water through a combination of low frequency and sheer force of transmission power, but the bandwidth is so low it's limited to basic text messages - usually of the form 'pop up your antenna so we can talk properly.'
With half-decent compression, it'll easily fit in flash. No, I think this is more of a paperwork issue: I imagine there is an approvals process that every book must go through first, where a few officers have to submit a consensus that the book is not detrimental to morale or portrays America in a negative fashion.
Easy. Don't bother to secure it. Just make it harmless.
Screen. Five button keypad. SD card slot. So what if some attacker manages to root it? They can't do a thing from there: No radio interface to report back, no USB to compromise connected devices, no microphone or camera for spying. The worst you can do is find out what the crew are reading, with no way to report it back. Maybe you could imply their schedules a little. The very worst a compromised device could do is write some sort of virus to an SD card - which isn't going near any secure systems anyway.
They probably are bottlenecked by the approval process. I imagine someone going through all the books beforehand to make sure they don't contain any anti-American themes or elements that could demoralise the crew.
Presumably they will be updated via replacement when the ship docks. Ship gets new devices, the old ones go back to the manufacturer to crack the case and hook a programmer up. Only with approved patriotic books, of course.
It protects you against copyright infringement, but not patent infringement. The famous reverse-engineering of the IBM PC BIOS was back in the days before software patents were considered valid - if exactly the same thing happened today, IBM could certainly have sued and won an injunction and massive damages.
Yes, because they prioritized Netflix traffic. But if they'd properly upgraded their network, then Netflix would have worked without needing to be prioritized - and Comcast couldn't have charged them extra.
Because the criminal justice system isn't about just protecting the public, and it's barely about rehabilitation at all. It's about vengence. It's there to satisfy peoples' natural desire to see those who break the rules of society made to suffer. The appearance of civilisation says it is no longer acceptable to openly torture criminals (Though few will object to some accidential torture), but arbitary punishments are still ok.
Comcast isn't actually 'restricting' the connection. They are simply providing a poor service by not upgrading their network. That creates the problem of poor performance, and they can then charge extra to fix it.
The real issue is the perverse incentive it creates. If the 'regular' traffic class is good enough for reliable streaming, there is no reason Netflix et all will pay the ISP for prioritisation - so in order to protect that revenue stream, the ISP needs to make sure that the non-priority performane is sufficiently poor. The obvious way to do this is by withholding vital network upgrades in order to create congestion.
The BBC would like to close that loophole, before more people start using it, but that can only be done at charter renewal.
(X) Encrypt peer connections.
Indeed. Pirates have noticed this too. Once legal services become cheap, reliable and convenient in any region the number of pirates in the community drops sharply. It's a serious problem - piracy is a community, and it falls apart when half the members lose interest because they can get what they want quicker on Netflix.
They use a much simpler method these days: The agency just has a list of every home in the country without a license. While there are some people who actually have no TV, this is actually a very rare thing indeed, so they just pick addresses at random and send someone around to check from time to time. If you've got no TV license, you can expect an inspector to drop in every couple of years to make sure you have no TV either.
Different meaning. In audio circles, compression is a technique used during mastering to make the sound louder without inducing clipping artifacts by selectively amplifying the quieter portions of the audio.