NF2 trashes the auditory nerve. This technology will be useless to you in its current form. It may, though, lead to advances in the understanding of neural encoding which will be able to improve those ABS implants.
I'm not sure which is stupider though. Surrogates had such a fantastic concept, but threw it all away with an utterly ridiculous ending.
Because our 'hero' can cause a few trillion dollars in economic damage, a new civil war, the return of disease, planes falling from the sky, accidents on an epic scale... and yet still somehow get away with it?
It'd be very localised neuropathic pain, coming just from the area of the interface... so couldn't the nerves just be re-severed? Worst case you'd lose a bit more sensation in your limb-stump and be left with a big medical bill.
It'd make sense to retain the pain response for the purposes of avoiding damage - the mechanics of the arm might handle high temperature for a while, but the plastic artificial skin would melt on contact.
Of course it's broadcast. It's coax - it has to be sent to the whole segment, because it's a shared media. The modems just have a simple filter in them that only forwards frames to the user if they are addressed appropriatly. If you don't mind hacking the modem firmware, you can easily view the downstream traffic to everyone on your segment (Though not the upstream - different frequency band, I doubt the modem is even capable of receiving there). If the network is properly set up, it'll be encrypted though.
Cable modems actually solved that a long time ago. The modems themselves are the authentication token - they each have a unique private key embedded in them, and the network uses that. Or rather, should use that - the type of impersonation attack that the article describes is only possible if the ISP has disabled encryption on their network (I'm assuming it's some version of DOCSIS), which is just really stupid of them.
Worse, actually. He was impersonating modems using sniffed MAC addresses, which is only possible if the network is running without encryption - a feature that should be easily supported by DOCSIS (BPI has been in there since version 1.0), if the ISP were willing to fork out for the equipment. Coax is a shared medium, which means that every customer's data was being sent to every other customer on that segment, in cleartext - the only thing to stop someone from sniffing all the facebook accounts, emails, MMORPG logins and other non-SSL data they could desire would be the firewall in their modems, which is easily broken with a hacked firmware. That's a massive security worry right there - the ISP were lucky he only exploited it for theft of service, rather than sniffing all traffic and selling details to scammers who might use it for ID theft, spam and the looting of World of Warcraft accounts.
Their computer tech sucked - the British pwned them on that front. Likewise with radar. They did excel in rocketry, rocket guidance and Really Big Guns.
The utility of a base depends upon how many factors it has (more factors mean easier mental arithmatic) and practicality (Two small and numbers are impractical to write down, too many and you can't tell the symbols apart easily). In these regards ten is a practical number, though it could be strongly argued that eight or twelve would be even better, or even as many as sixteen.
That isn't how history worked though. There was no conference of bases where the greatest mathematical minds of the day sat down and decided which number system should be used. No, base ten just became dominant by accident: It was pretty convenient, and the habbit of finger-counting meant things tended to come in tens anyway. A few ancient cultures did use other bases (Babylon's number system was very complex, but could be simplified by just calling it a form of base twelve), they just didn't endure - and the idea of place-power-counting didn't even catch on until long after written numbers were being recorded using additive-subtractive methods (Roman numerals are the best known, but just about everyone in the ancient world used something similar).
Math in education *is* about rote memorisation of solution recipies though. It's all about the grades. Any teacher who tried to teach mathematics at a more abstract level would eventually find himself out of a job after his students all flunk the exams. If you want to fix the system, start by fixing the exams.
I've never read it, but there is a class of books where characterisation is severely neglected yet the book is still good because it shows an excellent setting. The characters are really just a narrative tour guide.
Freenet is the most paranoid of the networks, which in turn means also the slowest performing. It's just really, really, slow. On the upside, I doubt the combined efforts of the US and Chinese governments could track down a user on Freenet through the network - it's that hard to trace. They'd have to rely on the human factor - maybe send him a unique link to a story on a news site, then take the logs and grep to see which IP requested it.
The serial-auth on ut2k4 was *almost* able to function with no negative effects for legitimate customers. Almost. There was but one flaw: The demand for legitimate serials for pirate use grew so great that some people wrote trojans for the express purpose of stealing the serials from those who actually purchased the game, resulting in the banning of many legal users after their serials were taken.
You're right, but an MOV is itsself not too dissimilar to two diodes back-to-back. I just described it that way because just about everyone on Slashdot should know how a diode works, but an MOV is a more obscure component.
Every computer and mobile phone has a calculator. So does the leading portable music player. To be caught without a calculator, you have to actually try to seek the wilderness out.
You'd also need some way to put the starting charge in, but that's easy enough: A tiny dynamo on a hand crank. It wouldn't be the first time you've had to turn a handle to start a car.
In princible you could push-start it without a battery, you just need a capacitor - it only has to store enough energy for a few sparks. The only practical use I can see for this would be running a car in temperatures so low that batteries wouldn't function. The petrol won't freeze until -80c, so if you want to modify your common car to run in the antartic that might be the way to do it.
Electrically, surge protectors are basically two diodes back-to-back. They'll provide some protection - hopefully the crucial miliseconds it'll take for a circuit breaker to trip. Not enough for a really nasty surge, but better than nothing.
Only a diesel, and even then it's difficult. A petrol engine needs a little charge in the battery for the ignition to run. Not that it matters, solar effects aren't going to fry any cars. They don't work like that.
But the violent and intolerant believers would simply turn it around: They would condemn the peaceful and tolerant Christians as a heretical perversion of the true faith, a softness that invites doubt and corruption.
Why just the new testament? The great thing about Christianity is that you can pick and choose so easily. Ignore the bits of the OT you don't like, but accept those you do. Or have you never seen an anti-gay preacher quoting Leviticus, or a creationist quoting Genesis? Just because most denominations don't consider the OT binding law doesn't mean that believers won't take it into consideration.
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NF2 trashes the auditory nerve. This technology will be useless to you in its current form. It may, though, lead to advances in the understanding of neural encoding which will be able to improve those ABS implants.
I'm not sure which is stupider though. Surrogates had such a fantastic concept, but threw it all away with an utterly ridiculous ending.
Because our 'hero' can cause a few trillion dollars in economic damage, a new civil war, the return of disease, planes falling from the sky, accidents on an epic scale... and yet still somehow get away with it?
It'd be very localised neuropathic pain, coming just from the area of the interface... so couldn't the nerves just be re-severed? Worst case you'd lose a bit more sensation in your limb-stump and be left with a big medical bill.
It'd make sense to retain the pain response for the purposes of avoiding damage - the mechanics of the arm might handle high temperature for a while, but the plastic artificial skin would melt on contact.
Of course it's broadcast. It's coax - it has to be sent to the whole segment, because it's a shared media. The modems just have a simple filter in them that only forwards frames to the user if they are addressed appropriatly. If you don't mind hacking the modem firmware, you can easily view the downstream traffic to everyone on your segment (Though not the upstream - different frequency band, I doubt the modem is even capable of receiving there). If the network is properly set up, it'll be encrypted though.
Doing what? Competing with the millions of others who are just as skilled?
Cable modems actually solved that a long time ago. The modems themselves are the authentication token - they each have a unique private key embedded in them, and the network uses that. Or rather, should use that - the type of impersonation attack that the article describes is only possible if the ISP has disabled encryption on their network (I'm assuming it's some version of DOCSIS), which is just really stupid of them.
Worse, actually. He was impersonating modems using sniffed MAC addresses, which is only possible if the network is running without encryption - a feature that should be easily supported by DOCSIS (BPI has been in there since version 1.0), if the ISP were willing to fork out for the equipment. Coax is a shared medium, which means that every customer's data was being sent to every other customer on that segment, in cleartext - the only thing to stop someone from sniffing all the facebook accounts, emails, MMORPG logins and other non-SSL data they could desire would be the firewall in their modems, which is easily broken with a hacked firmware. That's a massive security worry right there - the ISP were lucky he only exploited it for theft of service, rather than sniffing all traffic and selling details to scammers who might use it for ID theft, spam and the looting of World of Warcraft accounts.
A dalmation kidney.
Maybe a geneticist could start looking into repairing the damage done by reckless selective breeding?
Their computer tech sucked - the British pwned them on that front. Likewise with radar. They did excel in rocketry, rocket guidance and Really Big Guns.
The utility of a base depends upon how many factors it has (more factors mean easier mental arithmatic) and practicality (Two small and numbers are impractical to write down, too many and you can't tell the symbols apart easily). In these regards ten is a practical number, though it could be strongly argued that eight or twelve would be even better, or even as many as sixteen.
That isn't how history worked though. There was no conference of bases where the greatest mathematical minds of the day sat down and decided which number system should be used. No, base ten just became dominant by accident: It was pretty convenient, and the habbit of finger-counting meant things tended to come in tens anyway. A few ancient cultures did use other bases (Babylon's number system was very complex, but could be simplified by just calling it a form of base twelve), they just didn't endure - and the idea of place-power-counting didn't even catch on until long after written numbers were being recorded using additive-subtractive methods (Roman numerals are the best known, but just about everyone in the ancient world used something similar).
Math in education *is* about rote memorisation of solution recipies though. It's all about the grades. Any teacher who tried to teach mathematics at a more abstract level would eventually find himself out of a job after his students all flunk the exams. If you want to fix the system, start by fixing the exams.
I've never read it, but there is a class of books where characterisation is severely neglected yet the book is still good because it shows an excellent setting. The characters are really just a narrative tour guide.
Freenet is the most paranoid of the networks, which in turn means also the slowest performing. It's just really, really, slow. On the upside, I doubt the combined efforts of the US and Chinese governments could track down a user on Freenet through the network - it's that hard to trace. They'd have to rely on the human factor - maybe send him a unique link to a story on a news site, then take the logs and grep to see which IP requested it.
The serial-auth on ut2k4 was *almost* able to function with no negative effects for legitimate customers. Almost. There was but one flaw: The demand for legitimate serials for pirate use grew so great that some people wrote trojans for the express purpose of stealing the serials from those who actually purchased the game, resulting in the banning of many legal users after their serials were taken.
You're right, but an MOV is itsself not too dissimilar to two diodes back-to-back. I just described it that way because just about everyone on Slashdot should know how a diode works, but an MOV is a more obscure component.
Every computer and mobile phone has a calculator. So does the leading portable music player. To be caught without a calculator, you have to actually try to seek the wilderness out.
You'd also need some way to put the starting charge in, but that's easy enough: A tiny dynamo on a hand crank. It wouldn't be the first time you've had to turn a handle to start a car.
In princible you could push-start it without a battery, you just need a capacitor - it only has to store enough energy for a few sparks. The only practical use I can see for this would be running a car in temperatures so low that batteries wouldn't function. The petrol won't freeze until -80c, so if you want to modify your common car to run in the antartic that might be the way to do it.
Electrically, surge protectors are basically two diodes back-to-back. They'll provide some protection - hopefully the crucial miliseconds it'll take for a circuit breaker to trip. Not enough for a really nasty surge, but better than nothing.
Blockages on hilled sewers have happened before. The result is unpleasant. Just imagine all the toilets running backwards.
Only a diesel, and even then it's difficult. A petrol engine needs a little charge in the battery for the ignition to run. Not that it matters, solar effects aren't going to fry any cars. They don't work like that.
War back then was simpler. You didn't have to worry about civilian casualties or public relations so much.
But the violent and intolerant believers would simply turn it around: They would condemn the peaceful and tolerant Christians as a heretical perversion of the true faith, a softness that invites doubt and corruption.
Why just the new testament? The great thing about Christianity is that you can pick and choose so easily. Ignore the bits of the OT you don't like, but accept those you do. Or have you never seen an anti-gay preacher quoting Leviticus, or a creationist quoting Genesis? Just because most denominations don't consider the OT binding law doesn't mean that believers won't take it into consideration.