Faraday cages aren't magic interference stoppers. The emission here was most likely via the power supply cables (or, less likely, data), and those would have to pass through the cage.
Here's how you fix it: 1. Read an article on noise surpression, choke design, capacitive coupling in inductors, choke self-resonance and core material selection. 2. Go ask your nearest ham to build you a noise filter.
I've wondered about the possibility of launching giant expanding foam cans into LEO and squirting it out. The foam is low density, high cross-sectional area - perfect for objects to collide with, altering their velocity in a way that will probably result in burn-up. Then the foam, being highly susceptible to even the tiniest atmospheric drag, de-orbits in weeks to months. It'd be silly to try to sweep all of LEO that way, but still curious just how infeasible it is.
I remember, when I was very young, my father's car. It was an old car even then. This car was so old it had a choke. Operating it required monitoring of oil temperature. Just starting the thing up could only by done by someone who knew how the engine worked, the effect of adjusting air-fuel ratio and the changes in performance of the engine with operating speed and temperature. It frequently had minor mechanical issues which he had to diagnose and repair - congealed gunk in the oil sump, a drained battery after leaving the headlights on, a slipped fanbelt, ignition timings thrown off by general wear, misfirings due to spark plug age.
This was the microcomputer of cars: It did what it needed to do, but it needed a skilled operator able to invest a lot of time in learning to use their tools. People didn't want to go through all that, but they needed cars, so they learned.
Now look at a modern car. Reliability has improved to the point that hardly anything ever goes wrong. Even if the user does something silly like leave the headlights on, the onboard computer will shut them off again before the battery is damaged. The ECU constantly monitors engine state and automatically adjusts it for optimal operation. The driver is happy: They can drive to where they want without needing to spend hours studying a manual, learning the theory of operation, and becoming familiar with all the quirks of their particular model.
The downside is that when anything does go wrong, the driver is utterly helpless. They may be vaguely aware that there is a thing called a 'piston' in that engine somewhere, but that's the depth of their knowledge. They have no hope of fixing it. The car is designed to reflect this too, as the space shuttle console of dials is now reduced to a single 'check engine' light. When it breaks down, which isn't often, they need to go to a professional.
That's where computers are now. They have advanced in user-friendliness to the point that the user need not know how they work in depth, and the user does not want to know. It's a good model, but it discourages curiosity too. The inside is a black box, sealed away behind that 'check engine' light - or the software equivilent, an easy-to-use graphical interface that shows the user only what they need to see to accomplish their task.
I can't say about the US, but I actually work in the education sector in the UK. The biggest problem I see in education here is 'teaching to the test.' Grades have become the goal above all others, so much lesson time is spent on endless practice exams. The curriculum is followed to the letter. Curiosity is discouraged, because it leads to students 'wasting time' learning things that are not on the test - or worse, learning things in a way that does not maximise their exam score. Logical and critical thinking is not something that can be easily graded in a standardised exam paper. Science focuses on memorisation of tables of facts, maths focuses on solving the standard exam form questions over and over. Even english lit is about learning the appropriate notes on each study text, the key points that must be mentioned to get marks.
There's no grand scheme in play to make the students stupid. Just a lot of teachers and administrators who realise that if their students don't get better grades than the school down the road, it's their job on the line.
Try stopping it - run a traffic monitor and take a look. It takes a ridiculous amount of effort to disable all the spyware. It's not just a matter of changing a few buried registry settings, you have to deliberately break services that can't be disabled and use an external firewall because the Windows internal one has hard-coded exceptions.
They do that already. It's a very old tactic. It predates the internet - even back then there were groups of do-gooders who organised newsletters identifying what they had decided was the latest filth on TV and urging their supporters to write letters to the channel, the regulator and the adertisers expressing their outrage and demanding it be pulled.
The people sending the complaints didn't actually watch the program they were complaining about, of course. They would never pollute their homes with it.
Perhaps not offensive, but certainly not accurate. PragerU produces videos that a slick, polished, and packed full of half-truths and occasional outright lies.
Whining is not a partisan thing, even if the subject is. There are plenty of whiny liberals tying to get things pulled for offending them. There are also plenty of whiny conservatives trying to get things pulled for offending them.
Europe doesn't want to depend on the US, so they built Galileo. Russia doesn't want to depend on either, so they built GLONASS. China, likewise, is building BeiDou. There are now three operating sat-sav systems operated by three politically independent countries (or, for Galileo, consortium of countries), and another under construction. Most phones support at least two of the three, and high-end phones all three of them.
Money certainly can buy more life. It can't buy endless life - at least not yet - but a plentiful supply of money allows access to a lot of expensive treatments which will cure conditions that might kill a less-financed patient. Buying time, in a quite literal manner.
Focus group racism: "I'm not racist, but my audience are, and I know this book/movie/advertisment will sell better if I can keep a white guy on the poster."
Hollywood isn't great at portraying a liberal message either. Hollywood is there to make money, and you don't make money by saying things that will upset half the country and a good part of the international audience too - except for the low-budget films which can still turn a profit with niche markets.
They love patriotism, certainly. The empty patriotism of flag waving symbolism, where America is the greatest country ever and single-handily responsible for beating Hitler. Conversely, they hate to make America look bad - any film set during the eras of segregation or slavery is probably going to downplay them, unless the movie is specifically about how great Americans overcame such things.
The government makes a good bogeyman sometimes - it's a decent stock villain if you want some malicious force for the heroes to triumph over. You could call that a conservative message if you wanted, but it's really only incidental.
Plasma is unstable. It takes a level of power quite difficult to handle just to generate the small jet for a plasma cutter. If you want a plasma thrower, such a thing could be built - but you'll need to carry around a foot-wide umbilical to the nearest substation to supply power and cooling water.
1. Wouldn't work. Any halfway-intelligent SWATer has a library of low-tech ways to make an untraceable call. There's a piece of archaic technology called a 'payphone' for a start. If that's not available, you just need a ladder - it's easy to climb a pole and hook into a random pair of wires up there. Besides, there are times when there are legitimate reasons for wanting to deliver an anonymous message.
2. Is the real area where reform is needed.
3. No threat of punishment will deter idiots. They think themselves untouchable.
It's a tasteless joke. The cat was named reference to its deformity. Feline dwarfism, one of those genetic things that plagues purebreds. Once it became famous the owners wisely avoided using the name, and now use Grumpy Cat in public.
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Faraday cages aren't magic interference stoppers. The emission here was most likely via the power supply cables (or, less likely, data), and those would have to pass through the cage.
Here's how you fix it:
1. Read an article on noise surpression, choke design, capacitive coupling in inductors, choke self-resonance and core material selection.
2. Go ask your nearest ham to build you a noise filter.
What you want here isn't just a shield, it's a choke - the emission was probably via the power supply cable.
I've wondered about the possibility of launching giant expanding foam cans into LEO and squirting it out. The foam is low density, high cross-sectional area - perfect for objects to collide with, altering their velocity in a way that will probably result in burn-up. Then the foam, being highly susceptible to even the tiniest atmospheric drag, de-orbits in weeks to months. It'd be silly to try to sweep all of LEO that way, but still curious just how infeasible it is.
It's the first piece of UWP software anyone actually wanted to pirate.
I remember, when I was very young, my father's car. It was an old car even then. This car was so old it had a choke. Operating it required monitoring of oil temperature. Just starting the thing up could only by done by someone who knew how the engine worked, the effect of adjusting air-fuel ratio and the changes in performance of the engine with operating speed and temperature. It frequently had minor mechanical issues which he had to diagnose and repair - congealed gunk in the oil sump, a drained battery after leaving the headlights on, a slipped fanbelt, ignition timings thrown off by general wear, misfirings due to spark plug age.
This was the microcomputer of cars: It did what it needed to do, but it needed a skilled operator able to invest a lot of time in learning to use their tools. People didn't want to go through all that, but they needed cars, so they learned.
Now look at a modern car. Reliability has improved to the point that hardly anything ever goes wrong. Even if the user does something silly like leave the headlights on, the onboard computer will shut them off again before the battery is damaged. The ECU constantly monitors engine state and automatically adjusts it for optimal operation. The driver is happy: They can drive to where they want without needing to spend hours studying a manual, learning the theory of operation, and becoming familiar with all the quirks of their particular model.
The downside is that when anything does go wrong, the driver is utterly helpless. They may be vaguely aware that there is a thing called a 'piston' in that engine somewhere, but that's the depth of their knowledge. They have no hope of fixing it. The car is designed to reflect this too, as the space shuttle console of dials is now reduced to a single 'check engine' light. When it breaks down, which isn't often, they need to go to a professional.
That's where computers are now. They have advanced in user-friendliness to the point that the user need not know how they work in depth, and the user does not want to know. It's a good model, but it discourages curiosity too. The inside is a black box, sealed away behind that 'check engine' light - or the software equivilent, an easy-to-use graphical interface that shows the user only what they need to see to accomplish their task.
Conspiracy theory much?
I can't say about the US, but I actually work in the education sector in the UK. The biggest problem I see in education here is 'teaching to the test.' Grades have become the goal above all others, so much lesson time is spent on endless practice exams. The curriculum is followed to the letter. Curiosity is discouraged, because it leads to students 'wasting time' learning things that are not on the test - or worse, learning things in a way that does not maximise their exam score. Logical and critical thinking is not something that can be easily graded in a standardised exam paper. Science focuses on memorisation of tables of facts, maths focuses on solving the standard exam form questions over and over. Even english lit is about learning the appropriate notes on each study text, the key points that must be mentioned to get marks.
There's no grand scheme in play to make the students stupid. Just a lot of teachers and administrators who realise that if their students don't get better grades than the school down the road, it's their job on the line.
Try stopping it - run a traffic monitor and take a look. It takes a ridiculous amount of effort to disable all the spyware. It's not just a matter of changing a few buried registry settings, you have to deliberately break services that can't be disabled and use an external firewall because the Windows internal one has hard-coded exceptions.
But as more people move to mobile, capacities decrease - you can't assume everyone is sitting at their desktop any more.
I know exactly what message I'd send. It'd be in unary encoding: 2 3 5 7 11 13.
It's the message that many on this planet want to receive: "You are not alone."
I think "military good, everything else bad" isn't a Trump thing, it's just a more general Republican thing.
They do that already. It's a very old tactic. It predates the internet - even back then there were groups of do-gooders who organised newsletters identifying what they had decided was the latest filth on TV and urging their supporters to write letters to the channel, the regulator and the adertisers expressing their outrage and demanding it be pulled.
The people sending the complaints didn't actually watch the program they were complaining about, of course. They would never pollute their homes with it.
Perhaps not offensive, but certainly not accurate. PragerU produces videos that a slick, polished, and packed full of half-truths and occasional outright lies.
Whining is not a partisan thing, even if the subject is. There are plenty of whiny liberals tying to get things pulled for offending them. There are also plenty of whiny conservatives trying to get things pulled for offending them.
Europe doesn't want to depend on the US, so they built Galileo. Russia doesn't want to depend on either, so they built GLONASS. China, likewise, is building BeiDou. There are now three operating sat-sav systems operated by three politically independent countries (or, for Galileo, consortium of countries), and another under construction. Most phones support at least two of the three, and high-end phones all three of them.
He might have been - I don't know about the specifics of state law, but there's usually some version of 'obstructing traffic' that can be used.
Money certainly can buy more life. It can't buy endless life - at least not yet - but a plentiful supply of money allows access to a lot of expensive treatments which will cure conditions that might kill a less-financed patient. Buying time, in a quite literal manner.
Focus group racism: "I'm not racist, but my audience are, and I know this book/movie/advertisment will sell better if I can keep a white guy on the poster."
You can't really deny it's true.
Hollywood isn't great at portraying a liberal message either. Hollywood is there to make money, and you don't make money by saying things that will upset half the country and a good part of the international audience too - except for the low-budget films which can still turn a profit with niche markets.
They love patriotism, certainly. The empty patriotism of flag waving symbolism, where America is the greatest country ever and single-handily responsible for beating Hitler. Conversely, they hate to make America look bad - any film set during the eras of segregation or slavery is probably going to downplay them, unless the movie is specifically about how great Americans overcame such things.
The government makes a good bogeyman sometimes - it's a decent stock villain if you want some malicious force for the heroes to triumph over. You could call that a conservative message if you wanted, but it's really only incidental.
Cartoon birds tend to hold things with remarkably prehensile feathers. In the furry community, we call those 'fwingers.'
Knotweed, perhaps. That sounds like a good application of a flamethrower.
Plasma is unstable. It takes a level of power quite difficult to handle just to generate the small jet for a plasma cutter. If you want a plasma thrower, such a thing could be built - but you'll need to carry around a foot-wide umbilical to the nearest substation to supply power and cooling water.
1. Wouldn't work. Any halfway-intelligent SWATer has a library of low-tech ways to make an untraceable call. There's a piece of archaic technology called a 'payphone' for a start. If that's not available, you just need a ladder - it's easy to climb a pole and hook into a random pair of wires up there. Besides, there are times when there are legitimate reasons for wanting to deliver an anonymous message.
2. Is the real area where reform is needed.
3. No threat of punishment will deter idiots. They think themselves untouchable.
It's a tasteless joke. The cat was named reference to its deformity. Feline dwarfism, one of those genetic things that plagues purebreds. Once it became famous the owners wisely avoided using the name, and now use Grumpy Cat in public.
A picture of a cat with a genetic deformity caused by generations of purebred inbreeding is worth more than most people will earn in a lifetime.
Bring on the meteor. There is no intelligent life here.
Sorry, but nope. Not even the spooky magic of entanglement can transmit information instantly, though it is useful for a few other things.