Probably easier to just make it really, really big. Say, 100MT. The destructive potential might be slightly lessened with a sub-optimal detonation altitude, but that's still enough boom to wipe out a city. 100MT is huge, even by nuclear standards.
The US does have an effective defence against a full-scale Russian attack. They have their own missiles, and procedures for a final retaliatory strike. That's how deterrence works: "I can't win this war, but I can sure as hell make you lose."
He did organise the risky annexation of the Crimean peninsula though. He's an oppressive tyrant, we all know this - but that doesn't mean he is acting entirely selfishly. Perhaps he really does believe in rebuilding the glory of Russia and his people. A superweapon could be a valuable tool in achieving this aim, as it would reduce the risk of NATO getting involved in any further conquests for fear of escalation.
No faster-than-light communication or travel seems to be a very fundamental part of the way the universe works. The laws of physics conspire against our sci-fi dreams.
It's hard to say with only incomplete information, but what little commentary I have seen on he Russian efforts suggests it wasn't aimed just at electing Trump. It was aimed to fuel division and increase hostility by producing material aimed at both left and right to convince them that the opposing faction are not merely in disagreement, but are a dangerous and evil force that must be fought and exterminated, and that only traitors seek compromise.
They saw a trend that was to their favor. They pushed further in that direction.
They also know what their priority must be for now: Policy and influence entrenchment. They need to not only achieve their objectives, but achieve them in such a way that they cannot be overturned for many years no matter what happens electorally. One key means to do this is appointments, especially to judicial positions - they successfully stalled a lot of appointments during Obama's second term and created a substantial backlog of empty positions, so Trump is now in the process of filling them up with people who are sympathetic to Republican policies. That means that even of Dems gain the advantage politically, the Republicans will still maintain influence beyond the number of their representatives.
Tell us, how exactly does one go about 'testing for psychopathy' in a reliable manner? Or do you propose just turning refugees away if they fail a psychiatric evaluation, even if there is no evidence of any criminal history?
Heat must be monitored to ensure it is properly cooked, but if you are trying to make something humans will judge you need to evaluate it by an equivalent of human senses too. Monitor color.
A lot of people these days are time-poor. We work an eight hour day, and spend the rest of the day too bleh from work to want to make any effort. Time spent cooking is time not spent doing things we actually enjoy. This is why the microwave meal is so popular: Stick it in, turn dial, instant dinner with no effort at all. Sure, it probably tastes like cardboard - but you don't eat it for the taste, you eat it for fuel so you can get back to recreation.
That can happen, in some industries. It does not happen in all. The coal mining industry, for example - improved technology there boosted per-worker productivity massively over a few decades, and it now hires a fraction of the workforce it once did.
It's a simple enough matter to point a camera at a steak. Hire that chef to cook fifty of them beneath the camera and you can develop a crude but effective 'is it done yet?' model by evaluating color.
Sort of. Methane is much more potent per-mol than carbon dioxide, but it's a matter of quantity and persistence as well. Methane doesn't last long in the atmosphere - it eventually degrades into carbon dioxide, which does hang around. Carbon dioxide is also released in much greater quantities than any other gas by human activity, as 'burn stuff' remains the dominant means of producing useful energy.
Set aside some of the ridiculous hyperbole and optimistic technological claims of the article, and look just at the technologies it mentions. Some of them are pretty cool and could have their valued uses. I've praised IPFS many times on this site because it has the potential to distribute static content in a manner that is more affordable, reliable, and bandwidth-efficient than just putting it up on web servers. Throw in a bit of decentralised wireless, and your cellphone data use could plumet - rather than download all those big updates over the cell network, it'll just ask the phone of the person sitting next to you to send them via wlan, and only need to go to the cell network if it can't find a copy in range.
Just don't view distribution as a way to 'replace the internet.' It's a supplement. It can do certain things better.
When people are being polite, they talk about deterrence and reformation.
There are the polite fiction of society.
Deep down, the real motivation is much more primal: The basic urge to see bad people made to suffer for betraying the tribe. If sufficient suffering is not inflicted, people will feel that justice has not been served.
Easier said that done. Any halfway competent prankster would simply fall back to low-tech means of concealing their identity: - Stolen cellphone. - Payphone. - Climb up a pole and hook directly up to someone else's wires.
Murder charges are not strict liability - you need to be able to show the accused intended the death. It's not enough for the accused to have merely caused the death through reckless stupidity. If it were, there would be a great many bad drivers on death row.
If you start prosecuting every crime committed, you're doing to need bigger prisons. I doubt there's a single person over the age of twenty in the US who hasn't done something illegal. The system works only because police have limited resources so have to let almost everything go uninvestigated.
No. All white noise *is* the same - it has to have a uniform distribution of frequency intensity. What that site generates isn't white noise, it's colored noise. Off-white noise.
Disney could, and may well have, simply ran a google search for 'zootopia full download' and piped the results straight into an automatic notice filer script. If it happens that they also ended up DMCAing out some obscure independent production by the same title, or a one-author webcomic or novel... well, it happens. No loss to Disney. The people who wrote the DMCA did anticipate this situation, along with outright DMCA abuse in cases of clear fair use, so they addressed it by including the counter-notice process. They failed to see just how big the internet would get.
You can't. That's the point. Part of the purpose of them is to be unregulatable. Criminals don't just mean fraudsters and terrorists - it also means churches in Saudi Arabia, human rights lawyers in China and anti-government media in Russia.
It's usually polite to stick a giant NSFW tag when linking to a site like that - it's pretty obvious what 'pornhub' means, but 'e621' is meaningless to outsiders.
Not quite true. The DMCA requires a statement under penalty of perjury that the party filing the takedown is authorised to represent the copyright holder of the work the notice claims is being infringed. It doesn't require any such statement under perjury that the item being taken down is actually infringing. This is intentional, to recognise that there will be errors in identification - when a copyright holder or their enforcement agent goes enforcing they might find thousands of hits on their search, they don't have to manually download and view every file so they can tick the confirmation box. A bit of collateral takedown is considered acceptable, because there's a counter-notice process for that.
I doubt Trump cares even the tiniest bit about copyright extension. It's not a headline issue, like healthcare or immigration.
If a copyright extension is passed, it'll probably be in the form of some small bill that passes with little fanfare in the background with bipartisan support while the focus of the media is upon something more exciting to the public.
I'm as eager as anyone here to bash the Republicans - their tax plan is a joke, their claim to support small government is hypocritical to an extreme, and their stance on immigration is outright sociopathic - but on this particular issue, the Democrats are really no different.
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Probably easier to just make it really, really big. Say, 100MT. The destructive potential might be slightly lessened with a sub-optimal detonation altitude, but that's still enough boom to wipe out a city. 100MT is huge, even by nuclear standards.
The US does have an effective defence against a full-scale Russian attack. They have their own missiles, and procedures for a final retaliatory strike. That's how deterrence works: "I can't win this war, but I can sure as hell make you lose."
He did organise the risky annexation of the Crimean peninsula though. He's an oppressive tyrant, we all know this - but that doesn't mean he is acting entirely selfishly. Perhaps he really does believe in rebuilding the glory of Russia and his people. A superweapon could be a valuable tool in achieving this aim, as it would reduce the risk of NATO getting involved in any further conquests for fear of escalation.
No faster-than-light communication or travel seems to be a very fundamental part of the way the universe works. The laws of physics conspire against our sci-fi dreams.
It's hard to say with only incomplete information, but what little commentary I have seen on he Russian efforts suggests it wasn't aimed just at electing Trump. It was aimed to fuel division and increase hostility by producing material aimed at both left and right to convince them that the opposing faction are not merely in disagreement, but are a dangerous and evil force that must be fought and exterminated, and that only traitors seek compromise.
They saw a trend that was to their favor. They pushed further in that direction.
Which is eleven years according to the summary, for involuntary manslaughter. It's not murder without intent. He's a dumb-ass, not a murderer.
They also know what their priority must be for now: Policy and influence entrenchment. They need to not only achieve their objectives, but achieve them in such a way that they cannot be overturned for many years no matter what happens electorally. One key means to do this is appointments, especially to judicial positions - they successfully stalled a lot of appointments during Obama's second term and created a substantial backlog of empty positions, so Trump is now in the process of filling them up with people who are sympathetic to Republican policies. That means that even of Dems gain the advantage politically, the Republicans will still maintain influence beyond the number of their representatives.
Tell us, how exactly does one go about 'testing for psychopathy' in a reliable manner? Or do you propose just turning refugees away if they fail a psychiatric evaluation, even if there is no evidence of any criminal history?
Heat must be monitored to ensure it is properly cooked, but if you are trying to make something humans will judge you need to evaluate it by an equivalent of human senses too. Monitor color.
A lot of people these days are time-poor. We work an eight hour day, and spend the rest of the day too bleh from work to want to make any effort. Time spent cooking is time not spent doing things we actually enjoy. This is why the microwave meal is so popular: Stick it in, turn dial, instant dinner with no effort at all. Sure, it probably tastes like cardboard - but you don't eat it for the taste, you eat it for fuel so you can get back to recreation.
That can happen, in some industries. It does not happen in all. The coal mining industry, for example - improved technology there boosted per-worker productivity massively over a few decades, and it now hires a fraction of the workforce it once did.
Why not?
It's a simple enough matter to point a camera at a steak. Hire that chef to cook fifty of them beneath the camera and you can develop a crude but effective 'is it done yet?' model by evaluating color.
Sort of. Methane is much more potent per-mol than carbon dioxide, but it's a matter of quantity and persistence as well. Methane doesn't last long in the atmosphere - it eventually degrades into carbon dioxide, which does hang around. Carbon dioxide is also released in much greater quantities than any other gas by human activity, as 'burn stuff' remains the dominant means of producing useful energy.
Set aside some of the ridiculous hyperbole and optimistic technological claims of the article, and look just at the technologies it mentions. Some of them are pretty cool and could have their valued uses. I've praised IPFS many times on this site because it has the potential to distribute static content in a manner that is more affordable, reliable, and bandwidth-efficient than just putting it up on web servers. Throw in a bit of decentralised wireless, and your cellphone data use could plumet - rather than download all those big updates over the cell network, it'll just ask the phone of the person sitting next to you to send them via wlan, and only need to go to the cell network if it can't find a copy in range.
Just don't view distribution as a way to 'replace the internet.' It's a supplement. It can do certain things better.
When people are being polite, they talk about deterrence and reformation.
There are the polite fiction of society.
Deep down, the real motivation is much more primal: The basic urge to see bad people made to suffer for betraying the tribe. If sufficient suffering is not inflicted, people will feel that justice has not been served.
Easier said that done. Any halfway competent prankster would simply fall back to low-tech means of concealing their identity:
- Stolen cellphone.
- Payphone.
- Climb up a pole and hook directly up to someone else's wires.
Murder charges are not strict liability - you need to be able to show the accused intended the death. It's not enough for the accused to have merely caused the death through reckless stupidity. If it were, there would be a great many bad drivers on death row.
That's what manslaughter charges are for.
If you start prosecuting every crime committed, you're doing to need bigger prisons. I doubt there's a single person over the age of twenty in the US who hasn't done something illegal. The system works only because police have limited resources so have to let almost everything go uninvestigated.
No. All white noise *is* the same - it has to have a uniform distribution of frequency intensity. What that site generates isn't white noise, it's colored noise. Off-white noise.
More importantly, it gives a cover for mistakes.
Disney could, and may well have, simply ran a google search for 'zootopia full download' and piped the results straight into an automatic notice filer script. If it happens that they also ended up DMCAing out some obscure independent production by the same title, or a one-author webcomic or novel... well, it happens. No loss to Disney. The people who wrote the DMCA did anticipate this situation, along with outright DMCA abuse in cases of clear fair use, so they addressed it by including the counter-notice process. They failed to see just how big the internet would get.
You can't. That's the point. Part of the purpose of them is to be unregulatable. Criminals don't just mean fraudsters and terrorists - it also means churches in Saudi Arabia, human rights lawyers in China and anti-government media in Russia.
Immunity, perhaps. State sponsored hackers don't have to worry about getting caught, so they can be reckless.
It's usually polite to stick a giant NSFW tag when linking to a site like that - it's pretty obvious what 'pornhub' means, but 'e621' is meaningless to outsiders.
For example, NSFW NSFW NSFW https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcFVJjeL...
Look carefully and you can find me.
That site was actually made as a test utility for IPFS, an experimental distributed store protocol.
Not quite true. The DMCA requires a statement under penalty of perjury that the party filing the takedown is authorised to represent the copyright holder of the work the notice claims is being infringed. It doesn't require any such statement under perjury that the item being taken down is actually infringing. This is intentional, to recognise that there will be errors in identification - when a copyright holder or their enforcement agent goes enforcing they might find thousands of hits on their search, they don't have to manually download and view every file so they can tick the confirmation box. A bit of collateral takedown is considered acceptable, because there's a counter-notice process for that.
I doubt Trump cares even the tiniest bit about copyright extension. It's not a headline issue, like healthcare or immigration.
If a copyright extension is passed, it'll probably be in the form of some small bill that passes with little fanfare in the background with bipartisan support while the focus of the media is upon something more exciting to the public.
I'm as eager as anyone here to bash the Republicans - their tax plan is a joke, their claim to support small government is hypocritical to an extreme, and their stance on immigration is outright sociopathic - but on this particular issue, the Democrats are really no different.