“I feel better with the heightened security because I feel safe,” said Belisle, who was flying to Washington, D.C., to visit her son in Virginia.
Source: my local newspaper this morning. We call it security theatre. It's annoying, wasteful, ineffective in our minds. For much of the world, it's a teddy bear that keeps the closet monsters away. People just feel better.
Wide bandwidths, and ultimately covers just about everything from 100kHz to 3GHz. Transmit, receive, etc. Using this device, which costs about $1-2 thousand for a full kit and transmitter, you can listen to entire bands at once (the $750 unit handles 8MHz). These units have been used to create cell phone base stations.
Well, not so much. The info from the posting, the IP address, and the witness statements corroborate to provide more than reasonable doubt that he did not commit the crime. That's very different from saying that the info from the IP address is beyond reasonable doubt.
Most evidence, with enough effort, can be faked. We usually call those conspiracies.
It would be a great amount of effort for a small robbery to perform this task and to get the corroborating evidence. There is very reasonable doubt that he committed the crime.
I would have been better to word that as, "An antenna is almost always, and effectively so for purposes of discussion, equally optimal in efficiency for any power amount that it is not above the maximum acceptable power input."
The antenna isn't what determines the amount of power used to transmit. A suited antenna can make a transmitter more efficient; alternately, it can be so badly tuned that the transmitter fries because most of the energy is reflected back. My handheld amateur radio can transmit on 2 meters at.05, 1, 2.5 or 5 watts. Regardless of power used, unless the load is so big it would melt the antenna, the same antenna is optimal regardless of the power input. I know my Linksys access point could have its settings changed and the transmitter powered adjusted at will.
In terms of the iPhone, my understanding is this: the WiFi system is only on when the phone is active (lit screen). Nothing ever wakes the iPhone by WiFi. I don't feel up for testing it because I'm not at home, but you can check this by trying to ping your phone when it is asleep. The bluetooth system is always listening (it takes power to listen, so this draw is constant even when the phone is in your pocket) because devices will initiate a connection to the phone. The same with the cellular bands so you can receive calls.
I wasn't aiming to point out something outside. It doesn't have to be novel, or advanced. While Oracle implements materialized views, using MySQL I have to do it myself.
Denormalization has never been novel. The point was just to give the parent of my comment an example of denormalization, and why one might do it.
One example: I deal with healthcare claims. We keep everything normalized on insertion, but we also create some redundant, denormalized tables (data warehousing). Almost every query needs the same basic claim information, but I'm doing it in a query with one or two joins instead of 10.
If something goes south with my manipulated tables, or I need a strange field, I still have my source data in a pure form. For a standard query, though, I can operate an order of magnitude faster by adding redundant tables that only have to be written once on insert by a trigger.
Existing law covered new technology. It doesn't have to have a "cyber stalking" law. It was still harassment... same as mailing a postcard or leaving a sticky note.
I'll sum up their argument: We use security through obscurity, and that makes us better. You should pay us for that. Also, when we say "cloud-based," we really just mean "in our data centers." They're really abusing the definition of cloud computing, just because it's the current profit-generating buzzword.
With respect to the capsule, yes. Without a resistive force to hold the capsule relatively in place, though, I think the expected result is that the capsule would be pulled relative to the sail. The fin of a sailboat in the water is a key part of being able to turn the boat. The water resists lateral motion. Nothing like that is available in space.
It can't work like a sailboat does... steering partly into the wind, or changing the sail angle to alter the thrust exerted. There's no resistive force to work against, so it just kind of goes where it is taken.
3G shiny and new? Try the US. As far as AT&T is concerned, most of Maine still operates only on EDGE. We had no 3G at all in the state a year ago. I think Metro Boston's roll-out is pretty recent too.
Because they got such fame that they ended up having to setup basic services such as a fully staffed comms center, fire department, and medical treatment / evacuation system?
I'm surprised about the Verizon Burner Service ad. Perhaps they decided to setup a mobile tower somebody else experimented with one last year.
It's a great PR line, but I don't think it's safe to say that they were never at risk. Just because motions didn't happen does NOT mean that motions couldn't have happened.
I did make a tenuous statement about the "being arrested is usually close to knowing..." bit, so I'll concede that right away. What he did was still dangerous, though, and did present a risk to trains. A greater risk if he knew what he was saying.
"Potentially causing trains to crash isn't illegal? What about making every traffic light in the city green?" Oh, and before anybody calls me on that joke, traffic lights have hardware interlocks which make it impossible to do so. Despite this, some major cities have direct control of signals where you could do a tic-tac-toe pattern and make it impossible to drive more than a block in a straight line. That would be non-hazardous and rather amusing.
PS, knowing why you're being arrested is usually pretty close to knowing that you did something illegal. Twit. For this one, a felony charge warranted.
Roughly quoting Bruce from a few hours ago at DEFCON: "Cryptographers need to write papers... the best way to write something is to break something. Nobody wants to read about all the work you did to setup something... they want to know how you tore it apart. That's how you get cred before you submit an algorithm."
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That's a common traffic light configuration for a left-hand turn light in addition to a normal light. (L / N stand for left / normal).
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That's a common traffic light configuration for a right-hand turn light in addition to a normal light. (N / R stand for normal / right).
If they were obscured in a diffuse manner, perhaps you can see the issue that arises for somebody unfamiliar with the intersection.
“I feel better with the heightened security because I feel safe,” said Belisle, who was flying to Washington, D.C., to visit her son in Virginia.
Source: my local newspaper this morning. We call it security theatre. It's annoying, wasteful, ineffective in our minds. For much of the world, it's a teddy bear that keeps the closet monsters away. People just feel better.
Wide bandwidths, and ultimately covers just about everything from 100kHz to 3GHz. Transmit, receive, etc. Using this device, which costs about $1-2 thousand for a full kit and transmitter, you can listen to entire bands at once (the $750 unit handles 8MHz). These units have been used to create cell phone base stations.
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That shows up as the first on-topic post... too bad it was cut short. Is that the "Don't rub our noses in our shit," clause of their new AUP?
Well, not so much. The info from the posting, the IP address, and the witness statements corroborate to provide more than reasonable doubt that he did not commit the crime. That's very different from saying that the info from the IP address is beyond reasonable doubt.
Most evidence, with enough effort, can be faked. We usually call those conspiracies.
It would be a great amount of effort for a small robbery to perform this task and to get the corroborating evidence. There is very reasonable doubt that he committed the crime.
The theoretical optimal :)
I would have been better to word that as, "An antenna is almost always, and effectively so for purposes of discussion, equally optimal in efficiency for any power amount that it is not above the maximum acceptable power input."
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The antenna isn't what determines the amount of power used to transmit. A suited antenna can make a transmitter more efficient; alternately, it can be so badly tuned that the transmitter fries because most of the energy is reflected back. My handheld amateur radio can transmit on 2 meters at .05, 1, 2.5 or 5 watts. Regardless of power used, unless the load is so big it would melt the antenna, the same antenna is optimal regardless of the power input. I know my Linksys access point could have its settings changed and the transmitter powered adjusted at will.
In terms of the iPhone, my understanding is this: the WiFi system is only on when the phone is active (lit screen). Nothing ever wakes the iPhone by WiFi. I don't feel up for testing it because I'm not at home, but you can check this by trying to ping your phone when it is asleep. The bluetooth system is always listening (it takes power to listen, so this draw is constant even when the phone is in your pocket) because devices will initiate a connection to the phone. The same with the cellular bands so you can receive calls.
I wasn't aiming to point out something outside. It doesn't have to be novel, or advanced. While Oracle implements materialized views, using MySQL I have to do it myself.
Denormalization has never been novel. The point was just to give the parent of my comment an example of denormalization, and why one might do it.
One example: I deal with healthcare claims. We keep everything normalized on insertion, but we also create some redundant, denormalized tables (data warehousing). Almost every query needs the same basic claim information, but I'm doing it in a query with one or two joins instead of 10.
If something goes south with my manipulated tables, or I need a strange field, I still have my source data in a pure form. For a standard query, though, I can operate an order of magnitude faster by adding redundant tables that only have to be written once on insert by a trigger.
Existing law covered new technology. It doesn't have to have a "cyber stalking" law. It was still harassment... same as mailing a postcard or leaving a sticky note.
Thankfully there's enough unwashed masses behind me that I'm starting to look good by comparison.
They should turn off Edu4's Internet too.
I'll sum up their argument: We use security through obscurity, and that makes us better. You should pay us for that. Also, when we say "cloud-based," we really just mean "in our data centers." They're really abusing the definition of cloud computing, just because it's the current profit-generating buzzword.
Hmm... Inertial Damper... *draws a huge arrow on his motorcycle schematic pointing to the front forks*
Heinsenberg compensator = Registered ECC setup for RAM.
Zero-point module: processor with no floating point instructions.
With respect to the capsule, yes. Without a resistive force to hold the capsule relatively in place, though, I think the expected result is that the capsule would be pulled relative to the sail. The fin of a sailboat in the water is a key part of being able to turn the boat. The water resists lateral motion. Nothing like that is available in space.
It can't work like a sailboat does... steering partly into the wind, or changing the sail angle to alter the thrust exerted. There's no resistive force to work against, so it just kind of goes where it is taken.
Passing the orbit of Pluto will give a round-trip time of over 12 hours for the speed of light.
After 2.5 years, it will be a 2 day affair.
We might need something that can think on its own to have any useful input.
3G shiny and new? Try the US. As far as AT&T is concerned, most of Maine still operates only on EDGE. We had no 3G at all in the state a year ago. I think Metro Boston's roll-out is pretty recent too.
Because they got such fame that they ended up having to setup basic services such as a fully staffed comms center, fire department, and medical treatment / evacuation system?
I'm surprised about the Verizon Burner Service ad. Perhaps they decided to setup a mobile tower somebody else experimented with one last year.
OK, try it again after emptying a six round revolver and continuing to pull the trigger.
Sorry, I own 0.8181818181 already. You can't have it.
It's a great PR line, but I don't think it's safe to say that they were never at risk. Just because motions didn't happen does NOT mean that motions couldn't have happened.
I did make a tenuous statement about the "being arrested is usually close to knowing..." bit, so I'll concede that right away. What he did was still dangerous, though, and did present a risk to trains. A greater risk if he knew what he was saying.
"Potentially causing trains to crash isn't illegal? What about making every traffic light in the city green?" Oh, and before anybody calls me on that joke, traffic lights have hardware interlocks which make it impossible to do so. Despite this, some major cities have direct control of signals where you could do a tic-tac-toe pattern and make it impossible to drive more than a block in a straight line. That would be non-hazardous and rather amusing.
PS, knowing why you're being arrested is usually pretty close to knowing that you did something illegal. Twit. For this one, a felony charge warranted.
Roughly quoting Bruce from a few hours ago at DEFCON: "Cryptographers need to write papers... the best way to write something is to break something. Nobody wants to read about all the work you did to setup something... they want to know how you tore it apart. That's how you get cred before you submit an algorithm."