Also the US, a country that has shown that even it is unwilling to disregard the Geneva Conventions, wouldn't be so stupid as to blatantly break the GC.
Oh puhhhhhlEASE! I was actually TOLD during a machine gun training course (Marines) that yes we are not allowed to shoot at people with large caliber bullets like those in the M2 (.50 caliber, 12.7mm). BUT we are allowed to shoot at their gear!
And then you proceed to learn how to employ such weapons against groups of moving and emplaced gear, how to respond to counterattacks from gear, and how to identify the most likely locations that gear will appear while attacking a static defensive line.
Why do you think the military is so hot for precision weapons nowadays? Because during the Gulf War (true) precision weapons like the Tomahawk and other fun laser guided goodies accounted for something like 3% of the tonnage of munitions expended, BUT they accounted for something like 90% of the targets destroyed.
That's efficient. Efficiency is a "force multiplier". And force multipliers are what win wars, because you either don't have to try as hard as your enemy or you can try just as hard and get more results.
So now they are deploying the ultimate in precision munitions, the laser. All this bullshit about people being blinded is stupid. These weapons will make many current tactics in warfare completely obsolete. If they work.
Obviously UCAV's won't be replacing real pilots for anything but specific missions anytime soon.
I can see some interesting possibilities with this though. You could give a whole new meaning to the EWO (Electronics Warfare Officer / Copilot) on planes like the F-14 and such. One fighter/bomber with a real pilot and EWO, and three or four UCAVS under his control... Each with specific capabilities loaded on.
You'd have to get the controls away from the "truck sized" stage and probably into a virtual display but this would be a big force multiplier.
There was already rolling DSL blackouts last year from all the DSL providers that went out of business dsl.net without even a fucking 'Bend over now, cuz tomorrow you'll have no DSL'
If you read the article, you'll note the Cailfornia is going to regulate the business practices and quality of service. Not the prices.
I don't know why people say it is so hard to remember passwords... I literally don't even know my password at work! I'm serious, here's why:
Think of a password thats easy to remember: your name then birthday, like JSmith032302. Easy right? but a bad password. So hash it on your keyboard. I type my passwords in using the key above and to the right. If it is a number or the key above and to the right is a number I 'shift key' it. I also use 'capitalization'. SO the EZ to remember password JSmith022302 becomes the password IEk(^u)@@#)#.
They don't get much harder than that. And as for using a different password for eash web site, use the website name as part of your 'unhashed' password instead of your name.
Dr. Forward has a VERY interesting whitepaper out that has taken the "beanstalk" idea to a much more usable conclusion. Rotating tethers. You don't need one great big bloody stalk. You just need a couple "rotavators" that toss everything to each other.
The one in the lowest orbit is just long enough to dip down into the atmosphere, where you "dock" with it using some type of plane, etc. THen the end keeps swinging up and tosses the cargo into orbit like a giant sling (a kilometers long sling). You also put one in orbit around the Moon. Easy travel back and forth. Look it up.
Read the FAQ:
Additionally, NT4 uptimes cycle back to zero after 49.7 days, and give timestamps exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at this precise point, while HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD also cycle back to zero after 497 days
The 50th server has an Avg uptime of 597.
So the fact that Linux doesn't make the list seems irrelevant, no?
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It's only one sentence in the article, but the important thing is that it targets missles IN THE BOOST PHASE ONLY. That is why it's computer controlled. Like the article says, the weapon only has about 18 seconds to identify, target, fire on a missle.
One other thing, YES it fires on ballistic missles, but these would be SHORT RANGE ballistic missles, a la SCUD missles, and tactical nukes, Indian and Pakistani bangers, etc.;) These planes will probably NEVER be used as a "national defense" system. Lasing a MIRV would be next to impossible and probably wouldn't do a hell of a lot of good anyway. There was an article on these in Scientific American a year or two ago I think.
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Also the US, a country that has shown that even it is unwilling to disregard the Geneva Conventions, wouldn't be so stupid as to blatantly break the GC.
Oh puhhhhhlEASE!
I was actually TOLD during a machine gun training course (Marines) that yes we are not allowed to shoot at people with large caliber bullets like those in the M2 (.50 caliber, 12.7mm). BUT we are allowed to shoot at their gear!
And then you proceed to learn how to employ such weapons against groups of moving and emplaced gear, how to respond to counterattacks from gear, and how to identify the most likely locations that gear will appear while attacking a static defensive line.
Geneva convention my ass.
You are exactly right.
And for those who don't see it let me explain...
Why do you think the military is so hot for precision weapons nowadays? Because during the Gulf War (true) precision weapons like the Tomahawk and other fun laser guided goodies accounted for something like 3% of the tonnage of munitions expended, BUT they accounted for something like 90% of the targets destroyed.
That's efficient. Efficiency is a "force multiplier". And force multipliers are what win wars, because you either don't have to try as hard as your enemy or you can try just as hard and get more results.
So now they are deploying the ultimate in precision munitions, the laser. All this bullshit about people being blinded is stupid. These weapons will make many current tactics in warfare completely obsolete. If they work.
Obviously UCAV's won't be replacing real pilots for anything but specific missions anytime soon.
I can see some interesting possibilities with this though. You could give a whole new meaning to the EWO (Electronics Warfare Officer / Copilot) on planes like the F-14 and such. One fighter/bomber with a real pilot and EWO, and three or four UCAVS under his control... Each with specific capabilities loaded on.
You'd have to get the controls away from the "truck sized" stage and probably into a virtual display but this would be a big force multiplier.
If these lights truly become widespread over the next few years, how will that affect ground based radio astronomy with all the extra interference?
And could the intereference add up enough to affect newer space observatories like CHANDRA?
There was already rolling DSL blackouts last year from all the DSL providers that went out of business dsl.net without even a fucking 'Bend over now, cuz tomorrow you'll have no DSL'
If you read the article, you'll note the Cailfornia is going to regulate the business practices and quality of service. Not the prices.
I don't know why people say it is so hard to remember passwords... I literally don't even know my password at work! I'm serious, here's why:
Think of a password thats easy to remember: your name then birthday, like JSmith032302. Easy right? but a bad password. So hash it on your keyboard. I type my passwords in using the key above and to the right. If it is a number or the key above and to the right is a number I 'shift key' it. I also use 'capitalization'. SO the EZ to remember password JSmith022302 becomes the password IEk(^u)@@#)#.
They don't get much harder than that. And as for using a different password for eash web site, use the website name as part of your 'unhashed' password instead of your name.
The one in the lowest orbit is just long enough to dip down into the atmosphere, where you "dock" with it using some type of plane, etc. THen the end keeps swinging up and tosses the cargo into orbit like a giant sling (a kilometers long sling). You also put one in orbit around the Moon. Easy travel back and forth. Look it up.
Additionally, NT4 uptimes cycle back to zero after 49.7 days, and give timestamps exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at this precise point, while HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD also cycle back to zero after 497 days
The 50th server has an Avg uptime of 597.
So the fact that Linux doesn't make the list seems irrelevant, no?
It's only one sentence in the article, but the important thing is that it targets missles IN THE BOOST PHASE ONLY. That is why it's computer controlled. Like the article says, the weapon only has about 18 seconds to identify, target, fire on a missle. One other thing, YES it fires on ballistic missles, but these would be SHORT RANGE ballistic missles, a la SCUD missles, and tactical nukes, Indian and Pakistani bangers, etc. ;) These planes will probably NEVER be used as a "national defense" system. Lasing a MIRV would be next to impossible and probably wouldn't do a hell of a lot of good anyway. There was an article on these in Scientific American a year or two ago I think.