On the other hand, if weapons are easy enough to obtain that a little old lady has one, you can be sure every criminal with violent intent will have at least equal weaponry. The big change is that without arms, the little old lady gets a mugging and a beating - with arms, the criminal shoots her from behind just in case. Yes, there will be some cases of citizens successfully killing their attacker - but the odds are not in their favor in any encounter, as the criminal has the advantage of surprise, less inhibition against shooting another person and a greater incentive to stay practiced with his weapon of choice. Eventually the criminal will lose - all he needs is one bad day - but potentially having killed many innocents first.
But non-experts don't care about that. They don't know one orbit from another. So long as something is out the atmosphere and isn't going to fall down right away, that's spacey enough.
There was the reveal a few months back that any candidate would need perfect teeth to be considered. The excuse was offered that imperfect teeth could pose a health problem in zero-gravity, which no-one buys - and sure enough, she looks like a Chinese hottie. I'm guessing that they probably had a pool of potential female candidates, all of them qualified for the job, and once the vital qualifications were met they picked the one who would look best on the propaganda posters. This is supposed to be a statement of the greatness of China - it wouldn't do if their poster-woman had a gap whenever she smiled.
RGB were the chosen wavelengths only because by mixing them in appropriate ratios it is possible to reproduce the perception of most colors to human vision. If there were any non-humans animals smart enough to judge, they'd tell you that all the colors on television look wrong. Humans see subjective colors, not spectrographs. To represent a color with precision would require storing the entire spectrum, which is impractical.
The mathematics of CMYK say that f you have full use of C, M and Y all absorbing you should get nothing reflecting at all - pure black. But real inks don't work quite like that, they reflect a little light even in regions of the spectrum the user would rather they didn't, so what you'd actually get is a murky blackish-brown. That's why the extra K: The additional black allows for the imperfect nature of ink to be corrected for.
The whole field of computing is built on three-primary color specification anyway. Either RGB, or HSV, or YUV, or some varient of them. Or CMYK, in which the K is really a fudge-factor used to account for real inks not behaving like mathematically ideal inks. So even if someone built a display of a wider gamut, good luck finding any content to use it. I suspect this is just marketing being allowed to write the press report.
Intercepting DNS would risk easy detection. Better to just intercept the TCP connection by IP address - trivial to do, anyone who has ever set up a transparent proxy knows how - and use that. You need to be upstream of your target, but plenty of easy uses for that. For example, the government of China is well-known to use industrial espionage on behalf of Chinese companies - how about putting the update-hacker in hotels, to snare the laptops of business travelers? All the trojan need do is transmit the documents folder back to the attacker's server and then destroy all evidence of it's own existence. Grab the contents of enough laptops, and you're sure to get something juicy. And it shouldn't need saying that this would be an excellent way for government forces to get a spy trojan into citizen's laptops, whether that be a police force gathering evidence against a drug dealer network or an oppressive state spying on dissidents for anything that can publicly justify some jail time or reveal their contacts.
They object to the government actually doing anything as a matter of ideology. To most of them, if a job has to be done and isn't going to be sorted by the free market, then the government needs to pay a commercial interest to do it.
In their more extreme form, they become the Rand-spewing market-worshipping objectivists.
Having access to Microsoft's signing certs for updates and drivers would be a huge help. I imagine the US government has some involvement - even if they don't want the certs themselves, they also don't want an employee with access forced to leak them after agents for China/Iran/Other kidnap and threaten to murder his daughter. So it's in the best interests of the US to at the very least ensure Microsoft's internal security team is doing their job.
With the need for ultra-low latency, I imagine they'll be running these links without encryption so you can read every transaction that way. You might even be able to squeeze your own frames in during idle periods and make false transactions. Oh, what fun an attacker could have!
We try to pretend they don't exist, and nudists live in fear because they know that if anything looks even the remotest bit suggestive involving children then they'll have a lynch mob coming to visit. Just run an image search on 'nudist' - you'll notice that children are entirely absent, because no-one would be dumb enough to share that part of the photo album with the world.
"For years I have heard about Europe being very pro-privacy."
Europe is not entirely united. There is a lot of national variation. The UK is particually susceptable to the old 'think of the children' - we've been in a pedophile-panic here for years that is even worse than in the US.
I like the EVE solution: If it's within the in-universe rules and doesn't involve hacking, it's actively encouraged. Stab those backs! Never fight fair! Bastardly tactics are not only encouraged, it's the only way to win.
Aimbots are actually FPS cheats, not RPG. They intercept data from the game in order to track the position of all players and obsticles, and the very instant that a valid shot can be made by the user's character they will supply the appropriate movement data to turn and fire with perfect mathematical precision. They were for a time the bane of Counterstrike - an aimbot-using player with was effectively invincible, as anyone who had a potential shot at him would be instantly killed by the aimbot. Many different anti-cheating measures were incorporated into CS in order to defeat the use of these aimbots.
Other helpful cheater programs included modifying the client to make all walls translucent, thus allowing the cheater to see enemies lurking in wait behind cover, and changing the field of view and control response so that any weapon could be used for sniping, even a pistol.
Or a hybrid. Onboard computer does the rapid-response compensation for changing atmospheric conditions, while the operator tells it where to and where to point the cameras. Should be able to do everything at 750ms you'd want from a drone - they aren't used for dogfighting.
Wasn't there a story some months back about stores charging higher prices to those shopping from an iPad? Nothing to do with supports, just targetted pricing: Market research determined that iPad users would be willing to spend more in general (Presumably the penny-pinchers wouldn't buy iPads), and so it made business sense to use this correlation to determine more optimal prices on a targetted-for-the-user basis.
Revenge isn't rational. When I was first laid off, I stole the department's best set of pliars. Not because they were worth much, but because they were really nice pliars and I just felt really annoyed. Me and a coworker were exactly equal in qualifications, skill and productivity, so it was fairly clear that the decision over who to fire came down to him being the one willing to go down the pub with the boss and play the occasional game of football.
The nation may indeed be center-right, depending how you define the term - but Palin was not, by any reasonable definition. She was on the far right, and very vocal about it too. Her views could be summed up with the old expression: 'Praise God and pass the ammo.'
This being America, I'm guessing that in the event of civil war or prolonged rioting there will be a lot of other people with guns too. And plenty of criminals. And any criminal with half a brain, knowing his victim may be armed, is going to shoot them in the back.
The US constitution doesn't address chainguns and drones because those were not around at the time of writing. Court rulings in more recent times have done their best to make some sort of consistant interpretation with nothing to interpret.
I think there is a fear of incrimentalism. The concern that if the government is allowed to impose even the tiniest regulation on guns, then tomorrow they'll impose another tiny one, and then another, until the day comes when gun ownership is legal but subject to so many conditions and such a mountain of paperwork that it becomes impractical for all but the most dedicated. It's a familiar stance from debates on abortion.
That's the situation in the UK. Gun crime barely exists, as we have guns so regulated even criminals have a hard time getting their hands on one. Knife crime, on the other hand... But at least these alternative weapons are rather less powerful than a gun. Easier to survive, easier for an unarmed defendant to counter.
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On the other hand, if weapons are easy enough to obtain that a little old lady has one, you can be sure every criminal with violent intent will have at least equal weaponry. The big change is that without arms, the little old lady gets a mugging and a beating - with arms, the criminal shoots her from behind just in case. Yes, there will be some cases of citizens successfully killing their attacker - but the odds are not in their favor in any encounter, as the criminal has the advantage of surprise, less inhibition against shooting another person and a greater incentive to stay practiced with his weapon of choice. Eventually the criminal will lose - all he needs is one bad day - but potentially having killed many innocents first.
But non-experts don't care about that. They don't know one orbit from another. So long as something is out the atmosphere and isn't going to fall down right away, that's spacey enough.
Eventually they'll have done everything at least once, and then we can stop making a fuss over it.
There was the reveal a few months back that any candidate would need perfect teeth to be considered. The excuse was offered that imperfect teeth could pose a health problem in zero-gravity, which no-one buys - and sure enough, she looks like a Chinese hottie. I'm guessing that they probably had a pool of potential female candidates, all of them qualified for the job, and once the vital qualifications were met they picked the one who would look best on the propaganda posters. This is supposed to be a statement of the greatness of China - it wouldn't do if their poster-woman had a gap whenever she smiled.
RGB were the chosen wavelengths only because by mixing them in appropriate ratios it is possible to reproduce the perception of most colors to human vision. If there were any non-humans animals smart enough to judge, they'd tell you that all the colors on television look wrong. Humans see subjective colors, not spectrographs. To represent a color with precision would require storing the entire spectrum, which is impractical.
The mathematics of CMYK say that f you have full use of C, M and Y all absorbing you should get nothing reflecting at all - pure black. But real inks don't work quite like that, they reflect a little light even in regions of the spectrum the user would rather they didn't, so what you'd actually get is a murky blackish-brown. That's why the extra K: The additional black allows for the imperfect nature of ink to be corrected for.
The whole field of computing is built on three-primary color specification anyway. Either RGB, or HSV, or YUV, or some varient of them. Or CMYK, in which the K is really a fudge-factor used to account for real inks not behaving like mathematically ideal inks. So even if someone built a display of a wider gamut, good luck finding any content to use it. I suspect this is just marketing being allowed to write the press report.
Intercepting DNS would risk easy detection. Better to just intercept the TCP connection by IP address - trivial to do, anyone who has ever set up a transparent proxy knows how - and use that. You need to be upstream of your target, but plenty of easy uses for that. For example, the government of China is well-known to use industrial espionage on behalf of Chinese companies - how about putting the update-hacker in hotels, to snare the laptops of business travelers? All the trojan need do is transmit the documents folder back to the attacker's server and then destroy all evidence of it's own existence. Grab the contents of enough laptops, and you're sure to get something juicy. And it shouldn't need saying that this would be an excellent way for government forces to get a spy trojan into citizen's laptops, whether that be a police force gathering evidence against a drug dealer network or an oppressive state spying on dissidents for anything that can publicly justify some jail time or reveal their contacts.
They object to the government actually doing anything as a matter of ideology. To most of them, if a job has to be done and isn't going to be sorted by the free market, then the government needs to pay a commercial interest to do it.
In their more extreme form, they become the Rand-spewing market-worshipping objectivists.
Having access to Microsoft's signing certs for updates and drivers would be a huge help. I imagine the US government has some involvement - even if they don't want the certs themselves, they also don't want an employee with access forced to leak them after agents for China/Iran/Other kidnap and threaten to murder his daughter. So it's in the best interests of the US to at the very least ensure Microsoft's internal security team is doing their job.
With the need for ultra-low latency, I imagine they'll be running these links without encryption so you can read every transaction that way. You might even be able to squeeze your own frames in during idle periods and make false transactions. Oh, what fun an attacker could have!
"Her continued praising leaves me baffled."
She was very good with one-liners. Powerful weapons in politics.
I still remember her by one line: "Thatcher, Thatcher, School Milk Snatcher!"
We try to pretend they don't exist, and nudists live in fear because they know that if anything looks even the remotest bit suggestive involving children then they'll have a lynch mob coming to visit. Just run an image search on 'nudist' - you'll notice that children are entirely absent, because no-one would be dumb enough to share that part of the photo album with the world.
"For years I have heard about Europe being very pro-privacy."
Europe is not entirely united. There is a lot of national variation. The UK is particually susceptable to the old 'think of the children' - we've been in a pedophile-panic here for years that is even worse than in the US.
I like the EVE solution: If it's within the in-universe rules and doesn't involve hacking, it's actively encouraged. Stab those backs! Never fight fair! Bastardly tactics are not only encouraged, it's the only way to win.
Aimbots are actually FPS cheats, not RPG. They intercept data from the game in order to track the position of all players and obsticles, and the very instant that a valid shot can be made by the user's character they will supply the appropriate movement data to turn and fire with perfect mathematical precision. They were for a time the bane of Counterstrike - an aimbot-using player with was effectively invincible, as anyone who had a potential shot at him would be instantly killed by the aimbot. Many different anti-cheating measures were incorporated into CS in order to defeat the use of these aimbots.
Other helpful cheater programs included modifying the client to make all walls translucent, thus allowing the cheater to see enemies lurking in wait behind cover, and changing the field of view and control response so that any weapon could be used for sniping, even a pistol.
Only if they find out.
Or a hybrid. Onboard computer does the rapid-response compensation for changing atmospheric conditions, while the operator tells it where to and where to point the cameras. Should be able to do everything at 750ms you'd want from a drone - they aren't used for dogfighting.
Wasn't there a story some months back about stores charging higher prices to those shopping from an iPad? Nothing to do with supports, just targetted pricing: Market research determined that iPad users would be willing to spend more in general (Presumably the penny-pinchers wouldn't buy iPads), and so it made business sense to use this correlation to determine more optimal prices on a targetted-for-the-user basis.
Revenge isn't rational. When I was first laid off, I stole the department's best set of pliars. Not because they were worth much, but because they were really nice pliars and I just felt really annoyed. Me and a coworker were exactly equal in qualifications, skill and productivity, so it was fairly clear that the decision over who to fire came down to him being the one willing to go down the pub with the boss and play the occasional game of football.
The nation may indeed be center-right, depending how you define the term - but Palin was not, by any reasonable definition. She was on the far right, and very vocal about it too. Her views could be summed up with the old expression: 'Praise God and pass the ammo.'
So there are no slots... but I imagine on the 8GB model mainboard, you'll find a conspicuous gap somewhere for soldering extra memory chips in.
This being America, I'm guessing that in the event of civil war or prolonged rioting there will be a lot of other people with guns too. And plenty of criminals. And any criminal with half a brain, knowing his victim may be armed, is going to shoot them in the back.
The US constitution doesn't address chainguns and drones because those were not around at the time of writing. Court rulings in more recent times have done their best to make some sort of consistant interpretation with nothing to interpret.
I think there is a fear of incrimentalism. The concern that if the government is allowed to impose even the tiniest regulation on guns, then tomorrow they'll impose another tiny one, and then another, until the day comes when gun ownership is legal but subject to so many conditions and such a mountain of paperwork that it becomes impractical for all but the most dedicated. It's a familiar stance from debates on abortion.
That's the situation in the UK. Gun crime barely exists, as we have guns so regulated even criminals have a hard time getting their hands on one. Knife crime, on the other hand... But at least these alternative weapons are rather less powerful than a gun. Easier to survive, easier for an unarmed defendant to counter.