To think that some of the engineers didn't even know a patch existed... anyway, why are they running it on Windows? Quite dangerous to be on such an unstable system.
On another note...interesting that newspapers cited MARC issue as signal related; an invasion of the network is much more dangerous and the public couldn't hear this, could they?
The "Foundation" series by Issac Azimov never really seemed too far fetched to me. The ability of dedicated mathematicians to predict the course of large enough groups of human beings seemed to me to be perfectly reasonable, given enough variables and a population size that minimizes the chance for really unique/aberant behaviours. Now we have the computing power to back it all up.
For those of you who will counter that I'm neglecting the point of the Second Foundation manipulating things... don't spoil it for me. Seldon still had to get at least the first several decades right you know.
Re:Shooting them down? I think there is a treaty..
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Whether or not there is a treaty preventing the willful destruction of foreign satellites during peacetime does not mean that we don't have/aren't developing this capability in the event of hostilities. Also, who's to say that, with all that space debris out there, "accidents" won't happen from time to time?
Remember, all the really great stuff we know about was developed during the seventies and eighties (GPS, stealth, various surveillance platforms). Certainly you don't think that the military would have developed nothing new in that time? The countries that are in so-called competition with us are trying to build capabilities that we've had for decades now. It's probably only because the military has way better stuff now that they even declassified most of the stuff we know about today. If other countries try to field satellites that could operate against us, you can be sure the military has some sort of stealthy hunter-killer or ground based system that can knock out their stuff super quick.
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To think that some of the engineers didn't even know a patch existed ... anyway, why are they running it on Windows? Quite dangerous to be on such an unstable system.
On another note...interesting that newspapers cited MARC issue as signal related; an invasion of the network is much more dangerous and the public couldn't hear this, could they?
The "Foundation" series by Issac Azimov never really seemed too far fetched to me. The ability of dedicated mathematicians to predict the course of large enough groups of human beings seemed to me to be perfectly reasonable, given enough variables and a population size that minimizes the chance for really unique/aberant behaviours. Now we have the computing power to back it all up.
For those of you who will counter that I'm neglecting the point of the Second Foundation manipulating things... don't spoil it for me. Seldon still had to get at least the first several decades right you know.
Whether or not there is a treaty preventing the willful destruction of foreign satellites during peacetime does not mean that we don't have/aren't developing this capability in the event of hostilities. Also, who's to say that, with all that space debris out there, "accidents" won't happen from time to time?
Remember, all the really great stuff we know about was developed during the seventies and eighties (GPS, stealth, various surveillance platforms). Certainly you don't think that the military would have developed nothing new in that time? The countries that are in so-called competition with us are trying to build capabilities that we've had for decades now. It's probably only because the military has way better stuff now that they even declassified most of the stuff we know about today. If other countries try to field satellites that could operate against us, you can be sure the military has some sort of stealthy hunter-killer or ground based system that can knock out their stuff super quick.