The old policy used to be "if it's open, make them drink it." That should still work pretty well against whatever nasty chemicals you need to make a binary explosive.
I think the answer to "Why don't Marty's parent recognize him?" is simpler. They have the same effect that was happening to Marty in 1955, in reverse. When Marty traveled back, the picture of his family starts to fade as he gets away from that timeline. So once he leaves, the timelines merge, and his parents' memory of him fades, just like his picture faded, until the memory is erased.
"And God was like 'Moses, dude, you totally need to kill your son.' And Moses was all "WTF?" but then he goes "Meh, F it." So God's all "LOL, dude you were totally gonna do it. I pranked you good!'"
(former LMCO employee) The problem with the scenario is that the contractors don't take any initiative to improve the system, so they are just as much to blame as the government bureaucracy that required the inefficiency in the first place.
My experience was that the mindset was very much "That's the way we do it, we're not going to change." The company was happier to churn out 1 LOC per hour, and bid and schedule as such, rather than look at improving the development lifecycle to improve production. I've seen the User Groups, the User Reps, and the PMO, and it was incredibly frustrating to have to do what the PMO wanted, not what the users wanted.
That's really the problem with using non-IT companies in IT: they treat software like a non-software discipline, and that leads to Big Design Up Front, Waterfall, AnalysisParalysis and all the other things that lead to late, buggy, over budget software. If the company would say "We can do it your way for X, or do it our way for 1/2 X and it will be better," surely someone in the government would realize that.5 X < X. But they don't.
Launch costs. I'm assuming these will be in geo-synchronous orbit, rather than LEO, so the cost to orbit would be higher.
Reading the article, the larger sized calculations are for example, and not very realistic. How would you unfurl an 8,400 km sail from a current launch vehicle?
Statistically, the likelihood of a terrorist hijacking is so low that profiling wouldn't make any difference. Assuming that 99% of all airline passengers are not terrorists, profiling "foreigners" does not offer any advantage over random screening. And, the foreign nationals have the right to be as offended by profiling as you do by random screening.
As Dave Letterman once said "Your odds of winning the lottery aren't much different if you don't even buy a ticket."
Not really. The major cities should have some broadband coverage available, leaving rural areas to dialup or nothing. As more people get online that weren't, it makes sense that they would use their only option.
The difference is that Kyllo had a clear "privacy" boundary - the inside of your home. This case may set the precedent for "expectation of privacy" since you are in a public space while being imaged. I don't see how the case could be won, though. All the law enforcement would need to do is claim reasonable suspicion of whatever they're searching for, and then the right to search everyone in the area, just like at the airport.
I've had it happen. Here in Colorado, our toll roads went to automated camera billing. You drive through and it takes a picture of your license plate and mails you the bill. I have not driven on the toll roads since they made that change. In December, I received a bill in the mail for accessing one of the many tollbooths, far from my house, on a Monday morning (when I was at work).
I called the company that runs the toll booths and they said they would drop the charge, no problem. Now, if I hadn't called and just paid it, hey, that would have been free revenue for them!
I remember when I was a dumb teenager, friends of mine would put tape on their license plate to change the numbers. That alone would probably be enough to confuse a red light camera.
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And all we need to do is get rid of those pesky Appalachian mountains to get at it.
The old policy used to be "if it's open, make them drink it." That should still work pretty well against whatever nasty chemicals you need to make a binary explosive.
Crazy things like you don't fight terrorism with aircraft carriers?
I think the answer to "Why don't Marty's parent recognize him?" is simpler. They have the same effect that was happening to Marty in 1955, in reverse. When Marty traveled back, the picture of his family starts to fade as he gets away from that timeline. So once he leaves, the timelines merge, and his parents' memory of him fades, just like his picture faded, until the memory is erased.
We all know the answer to that one: 1.21 gigawatts!
So you're saying we should protest in favor of "No Representation without Taxation!"
I really don't want to read the new version:
"And God was like 'Moses, dude, you totally need to kill your son.' And Moses was all "WTF?" but then he goes "Meh, F it." So God's all "LOL, dude you were totally gonna do it. I pranked you good!'"
(former LMCO employee)
The problem with the scenario is that the contractors don't take any initiative to improve the system, so they are just as much to blame as the government bureaucracy that required the inefficiency in the first place.
My experience was that the mindset was very much "That's the way we do it, we're not going to change." The company was happier to churn out 1 LOC per hour, and bid and schedule as such, rather than look at improving the development lifecycle to improve production. I've seen the User Groups, the User Reps, and the PMO, and it was incredibly frustrating to have to do what the PMO wanted, not what the users wanted.
That's really the problem with using non-IT companies in IT: they treat software like a non-software discipline, and that leads to Big Design Up Front, Waterfall, AnalysisParalysis and all the other things that lead to late, buggy, over budget software. If the company would say "We can do it your way for X, or do it our way for 1/2 X and it will be better," surely someone in the government would realize that .5 X < X. But they don't.
Launch costs. I'm assuming these will be in geo-synchronous orbit, rather than LEO, so the cost to orbit would be higher.
Reading the article, the larger sized calculations are for example, and not very realistic. How would you unfurl an 8,400 km sail from a current launch vehicle?
Statistically, the likelihood of a terrorist hijacking is so low that profiling wouldn't make any difference. Assuming that 99% of all airline passengers are not terrorists, profiling "foreigners" does not offer any advantage over random screening. And, the foreign nationals have the right to be as offended by profiling as you do by random screening.
As Dave Letterman once said "Your odds of winning the lottery aren't much different if you don't even buy a ticket."
Not really. The major cities should have some broadband coverage available, leaving rural areas to dialup or nothing. As more people get online that weren't, it makes sense that they would use their only option.
Isn't that just proof we're not supposed to eat chicken, either?
The difference is that Kyllo had a clear "privacy" boundary - the inside of your home. This case may set the precedent for "expectation of privacy" since you are in a public space while being imaged. I don't see how the case could be won, though. All the law enforcement would need to do is claim reasonable suspicion of whatever they're searching for, and then the right to search everyone in the area, just like at the airport.
Perhaps he was dictating...
Worst. Yakov Smirnoff joke. Ever.
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for all Volvo owners drops to zero."
I thought the NYT, Times UK and Der Speigel got to review the "leak" before it was published.
I've had it happen. Here in Colorado, our toll roads went to automated camera billing. You drive through and it takes a picture of your license plate and mails you the bill. I have not driven on the toll roads since they made that change. In December, I received a bill in the mail for accessing one of the many tollbooths, far from my house, on a Monday morning (when I was at work).
I called the company that runs the toll booths and they said they would drop the charge, no problem. Now, if I hadn't called and just paid it, hey, that would have been free revenue for them!
I remember when I was a dumb teenager, friends of mine would put tape on their license plate to change the numbers. That alone would probably be enough to confuse a red light camera.
If they can teach Intelligent Design in science class, does that mean that they have to teach Atheism in religion class?
Teach the controversy!
Until the Earth decides that molten rock beats molten salt.
Yes, but what happens if you listen to it backwards?
It's pronounced pavé.
Smoke signals.
No, it's not.
FTFY