To be fair, the request was to upload images to Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia itself (who don't host media files AFAIK). The rules and processes for deletions are differerent, and most users can't delete images on Wikimedia Commons, they can only request they get deleted (with a specific reason). Details.
Except that this is really a bit of a crap measurement so far. The large discrepancy between the two measured values means that neither can be trusted with much accuracy. If you take the difference between the two values as due to an unknown systematic error, which seems likely, then the uncertainty you get (500 ppm) is MUCH larger than the currently quoted uncertainty on G which is 46 ppm.
This aren't the only measurements that have done that. They are all over the place. There'a nice chart at the top of this page. As the Wikipedia page you linked to says:
Some measurements published in the 1980s to 2000s were, in fact, mutually exclusive. Establishing a standard value for G with a standard uncertainty better than 0.1% has therefore remained rather speculative.
What smartmodem AT command unlocks a cellphone? And once it is supposedly unlocked though this magical AT command, there are other magical AT commands to emulate touch events?
LG smartphones. From the paper:
To demonstrate this attack, we combine AT commands to bypass the lock screen (AT%KEYLOCK=0), navigate to the settings menu using touchscreen automation, and allow USB debugging from our attacking machine (AT%USB=adb). The KEYLOCK AT command bypasses the lock screen even if a pattern or passcode is set. From there, arbitrary touch events can be sent to control the phone(*). Given that nearly 28% of users do not have a pin, pattern, or biometric lock, this attack would still be feasible even without the LG-specific KEYLOCK command
* Once these commands are patched, visit https://github.com/FICS/atcmd for an automated script and the required utilities
Samsung phones have AT commands for touch events, but no magic unlock command.
Not on LG phones. On those, you can unlock the phone, send arbitrary touch events to do whatever you want, and access files in/sdcard, all with just a USB connection. Samsung are also some what vulnerable, but at least their screenlock can't be bypassed. However, the paper points out 28% of smartphone users to not have a pin, pattern, or biometric lock set. Also, Samsung allow phone calls to be made/answered using the AT commands even if locked.
Google Ngrams currently puts it close to 50:50 for British English, but with "potatoes" winning historically. It's about 90:10 in favour of "potatoes" for American English.
You can basically detect the chemical makeup of the fluids using X-Rays and CT techniques if you have the proper source and detector setups. At $300K for each machine, I'm guessing they have the capability to do this in the hardware, just not implemented and/or validated yet in the software.
They are using L3's ClearScan scanner, described as combining "dual-energy CT technology and advanced explosives detection algorithms". It's not really x-ray spectroscopy, but it can be used to measure effective atomic number as well as density.
An object’s material type can be better determined by using both its density and effective atomic number than by using the density alone. For example, water and the explosive ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate and fuel oil) can have similar physical densities. However, they differ significantly in effective atomic numbers.
The summary and article are misleading. Yes, a bunch of specific restrictions were removed, but they were replaced with some more generic restrictions. Instead, ISPs would now be prohibited from:
Impairing or degrading lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service, or use of a non-harmful device, subject to reasonable network management practices.
Engaging in paid prioritization.
Unreasonably interfering with, or unreasonably disadvantaging, either an end user's ability to select, access, and use broadband Internet access service or the lawful Internet content, applications, services, or devices of the end user's their choice, or an edge provider's ability to make lawful content, applications, services, or devices available to an end users. Reasonable network management shall not be considered a violation of this paragraph.
See page 14 of the PDF for full details. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't judge if these new restrictions prevent an ISP from charging websites fees for carrying their content, or zero-rating the ISP's own content.
Ben Cutler, who is in charge of Microsoft's Project Natick, is quoted in the article as saying:
Additionally because there are no people, we can take all the oxygen and most of the water vapour out of the atmosphere which reduces corrosion, which is a significant problem in data centres
You're assuming the "average temperature of space" is 1K?
No one said anything about the average temperature of space. The coldest place known in the universe (outside of a lab) is the Boomerang Nebula, and it does indeed have a measured temperature of 1 K.
My memory of signing up for Gmail was that Google was quite open about using the data anonymously for various purposes, a position more honest than many others who do the same without the courtesy of saying so.
When I signed up for Gmail they said they would be scanning my email so they could my adverts more relevant. The welcome email Google sent my in 2004 included this paragraph:
You may also have noticed some text ads or related links to the right of this message. They're placed there in the same way that ads are placed alongside Google search results and, through our AdSense program, on content pages across the web. The matching of ads to content in your Gmail messages is performed entirely by computers; never by people. Because the ads and links are matched to information that is of interest to you, we hope you'll find them relevant and useful.
So they certainly said they would be reading email for targeted advertizing purposes back in 2004.
It is sold to others, but not as renewable energy. Google buys the electricity it uses retail, but is also has a license in the US (and presumably other places) to buy and sell power wholesale. For every GWh they buy and use retail, they buy the same amount of renewable energy on the wholesale market, and sell it on again but without the renewable energy "certification".
The answer is the renewable energy certificates (RECs) issued by the renewables industry to record every unit of energy that’s produced by renewable means. Producers can use RECs to verify how much clean energy they produce, and consumers can buy that verification to match against their consumption. When Google buys renewable energy, in addition to the physical power we also buy its corresponding RECs. We then sell the renewable electricity back to the wholesale market but retain the RECs. We run our facilities with ordinary power purchased from local utilities and permanently “retire” the RECs against our actual energy consumption, thus reducing our carbon footprint.
A few years ago, some laptops used to come with HyperSpace or Splashtop, pre-installed cut down linux systems that could be used to surf the net, Skype, play music, etc. They didn't use separate SOCs, but HyperSpace at least could use virtualization to run both your main O/S and the HyperSpace O/S at the same time.
I think they were primarily intended to get around long boot times in situations where you wanted an instant-on web browser, and not as a security measure when connecting to a hostile local network.
Still, Hughes converted to the flat-Earth belief recently, shortly after his first fundraising campaign for the rocket earned just $310 of its $150,000 goal. His second campaign, this time posted after his conversion and with the support of the flat-Earth community, succeeded in hitting its $7,875 goal.
That doesn't always work. Sometimes the larger image is the (hotlinked) original image, but sometimes it's the same size as the thumbnail, and is either an image hosted in gstatic.com, or a base64 encoded data URL. It seems to me the larger an image is, the less likely it is to be hotlinked from Google's image search pages.
They adjusted for at least: age, sex, body mass index, height, physical activity, smoking status, energy intake, family history of cancer, and educational level. So no, it's not the "fatness" of the people eating the food.
Nowadays there's the option of a constellation of micro-satellites like Earth-i's Vivid-i that use off-the-shelf components, get reasonable resolution (sub 1m), and only cost a few 10s of millions each to buy and launch. Many nations could afford to maintain a large enough constellation of those to provide blanket coverage - Earth-i reckon 15 of them can image most places on Earth 3 times a day. This stuff is only going to become cheaper.
The dialer on the phone knows that 911 is 'special'. Or at least, that is trivial to program. So it can turn on the gps and try its best to get a position. Then the problem is to get the information across. It could send the coordinates to 911 by SMS. They would need to have a mobile phone there receiving 911 SMSes, not that hard.
The funny thing is that every Android phone since Gingerbread (2010) can already send an SMS with location data when an emergency call is made. That's 99% of all Android phones. Google call it Emergency Location Service although it's actually Google's implementation of Advanced Mobile Location. It's currently used by the emergency services in the UK, Estonia, Lithuania, Belgium, Iceland, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand and parts of Austria. All it takes is for the mobile providers to configure a number to send the SMSes to, and to forward them to the 911 responders.
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I wasn't expecting that.
To be fair, the request was to upload images to Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia itself (who don't host media files AFAIK). The rules and processes for deletions are differerent, and most users can't delete images on Wikimedia Commons, they can only request they get deleted (with a specific reason). Details.
Except that this is really a bit of a crap measurement so far. The large discrepancy between the two measured values means that neither can be trusted with much accuracy. If you take the difference between the two values as due to an unknown systematic error, which seems likely, then the uncertainty you get (500 ppm) is MUCH larger than the currently quoted uncertainty on G which is 46 ppm.
This aren't the only measurements that have done that. They are all over the place. There'a nice chart at the top of this page. As the Wikipedia page you linked to says:
Some measurements published in the 1980s to 2000s were, in fact, mutually exclusive. Establishing a standard value for G with a standard uncertainty better than 0.1% has therefore remained rather speculative.
What smartmodem AT command unlocks a cellphone? And once it is supposedly unlocked though this magical AT command, there are other magical AT commands to emulate touch events?
LG smartphones. From the paper:
To demonstrate this attack, we combine AT commands to bypass the lock screen (AT%KEYLOCK=0), navigate to the settings menu using touchscreen automation, and allow USB debugging from our attacking machine (AT%USB=adb). The KEYLOCK AT command bypasses the lock screen even if a pattern or passcode is set. From there, arbitrary touch events can be sent to control the phone(*). Given that nearly 28% of users do not have a pin, pattern, or biometric lock, this attack would still be feasible even without the LG-specific KEYLOCK command
* Once these commands are patched, visit https://github.com/FICS/atcmd for an automated script and the required utilities
Samsung phones have AT commands for touch events, but no magic unlock command.
Not on LG phones. On those, you can unlock the phone, send arbitrary touch events to do whatever you want, and access files in /sdcard, all with just a USB connection. Samsung are also some what vulnerable, but at least their screenlock can't be bypassed. However, the paper points out 28% of smartphone users to not have a pin, pattern, or biometric lock set. Also, Samsung allow phone calls to be made/answered using the AT commands even if locked.
Google Ngrams currently puts it close to 50:50 for British English, but with "potatoes" winning historically. It's about 90:10 in favour of "potatoes" for American English.
They'll have to do that anyway, as CDNs sometimes use DNS to direct users to a content server local to the user.
"Cut" refers to cutting through hills to make streets flatter: http://www.foundsf.org/index.p...
June, 2017. PHX were one of the first airports anywhere to try this out.
You can basically detect the chemical makeup of the fluids using X-Rays and CT techniques if you have the proper source and detector setups. At $300K for each machine, I'm guessing they have the capability to do this in the hardware, just not implemented and/or validated yet in the software.
They are using L3's ClearScan scanner, described as combining "dual-energy CT technology and advanced explosives detection algorithms". It's not really x-ray spectroscopy, but it can be used to measure effective atomic number as well as density.
To quote a paper on the subject:
An object’s material type can be better determined by using both its density and
effective atomic number than by using the density alone. For example, water and the explosive ANFO
(Ammonium Nitrate and fuel oil) can have similar physical densities. However, they differ significantly
in effective atomic numbers.
The summary and article are misleading. Yes, a bunch of specific restrictions were removed, but they were replaced with some more generic restrictions. Instead, ISPs would now be prohibited from:
Impairing or degrading lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service, or use of a non-harmful device, subject to reasonable network management practices.
Engaging in paid prioritization.
Unreasonably interfering with, or unreasonably disadvantaging, either an end user's ability to select, access, and use broadband Internet access service or the lawful Internet content, applications, services, or devices of the end user's their choice, or an edge provider's ability to make lawful content, applications, services, or devices available to an end users. Reasonable network management shall not be considered a violation of this paragraph.
See page 14 of the PDF for full details. I'm not a lawyer, so I can't judge if these new restrictions prevent an ISP from charging websites fees for carrying their content, or zero-rating the ISP's own content.
Ben Cutler, who is in charge of Microsoft's Project Natick, is quoted in the article as saying:
Additionally because there are no people, we can take all the oxygen and most of the water vapour out of the atmosphere which reduces corrosion, which is a significant problem in data centres
You're assuming the "average temperature of space" is 1K?
No one said anything about the average temperature of space. The coldest place known in the universe (outside of a lab) is the Boomerang Nebula, and it does indeed have a measured temperature of 1 K.
My memory of signing up for Gmail was that Google was quite open about using the data anonymously for various purposes, a position more honest than many others who do the same without the courtesy of saying so.
When I signed up for Gmail they said they would be scanning my email so they could my adverts more relevant. The welcome email Google sent my in 2004 included this paragraph:
You may also have noticed some text ads or related links to the right of this message. They're placed there in the same way that ads are placed alongside Google search results and, through our AdSense program, on content pages across the web. The matching of ads to content in your Gmail messages is performed entirely by computers; never by people. Because the ads and links are matched to information that is of interest to you, we hope you'll find them relevant and useful.
So they certainly said they would be reading email for targeted advertizing purposes back in 2004.
Siemens have built a pilot of the overhead catenary in Carson, California. They're building another just south of Frankfurt in Germany.
From the picture it looks like the overhead version will only work with trucks, but the rails embedded in tarmac version will work most vehicles.
It is sold to others, but not as renewable energy. Google buys the electricity it uses retail, but is also has a license in the US (and presumably other places) to buy and sell power wholesale. For every GWh they buy and use retail, they buy the same amount of renewable energy on the wholesale market, and sell it on again but without the renewable energy "certification".
There is more details here.
The answer is the renewable energy certificates (RECs) issued by the renewables industry to record every unit of energy that’s produced by renewable means. Producers can use RECs to verify how much clean energy they produce, and consumers can buy that verification to match against their consumption. When Google buys renewable energy, in addition to the physical power we also buy its corresponding RECs. We then sell the renewable electricity back to the wholesale market but retain the RECs. We run our facilities with ordinary power purchased from local utilities and permanently “retire” the RECs against our actual energy consumption, thus reducing our carbon footprint.
A few years ago, some laptops used to come with HyperSpace or Splashtop, pre-installed cut down linux systems that could be used to surf the net, Skype, play music, etc. They didn't use separate SOCs, but HyperSpace at least could use virtualization to run both your main O/S and the HyperSpace O/S at the same time.
I think they were primarily intended to get around long boot times in situations where you wanted an instant-on web browser, and not as a security measure when connecting to a hostile local network.
I think he recently became a flat earther, so your statement about not being a real flat farther might be truer than you intended
He did. From an article posted last November:
Still, Hughes converted to the flat-Earth belief recently, shortly after his first fundraising campaign for the rocket earned just $310 of its $150,000 goal. His second campaign, this time posted after his conversion and with the support of the flat-Earth community, succeeded in hitting its $7,875 goal.
They can do, yes. The article links to a piece about a so-called dolphin attack, that gets voice assistants to respond to ultrasonic signals.
Live came before free oxygen in Earth's atmosphere. It was life that put it there in the first place, in the great oxygenation event.
That doesn't always work. Sometimes the larger image is the (hotlinked) original image, but sometimes it's the same size as the thumbnail, and is either an image hosted in gstatic.com, or a base64 encoded data URL. It seems to me the larger an image is, the less likely it is to be hotlinked from Google's image search pages.
They adjusted for at least: age, sex, body mass index, height, physical activity, smoking status, energy intake, family history of cancer, and educational level. So no, it's not the "fatness" of the people eating the food.
The article couldn't be bothered to actually include any of the photos taken from the plane, but I think you can find one of them here.
Nowadays there's the option of a constellation of micro-satellites like Earth-i's Vivid-i that use off-the-shelf components, get reasonable resolution (sub 1m), and only cost a few 10s of millions each to buy and launch. Many nations could afford to maintain a large enough constellation of those to provide blanket coverage - Earth-i reckon 15 of them can image most places on Earth 3 times a day. This stuff is only going to become cheaper.
The dialer on the phone knows that 911 is 'special'. Or at least, that is trivial to program. So it can turn on the gps and try its best to get a position. Then the problem is to get the information across. It could send the coordinates to 911 by SMS. They would need to have a mobile phone there receiving 911 SMSes, not that hard.
The funny thing is that every Android phone since Gingerbread (2010) can already send an SMS with location data when an emergency call is made. That's 99% of all Android phones. Google call it Emergency Location Service although it's actually Google's implementation of Advanced Mobile Location. It's currently used by the emergency services in the UK, Estonia, Lithuania, Belgium, Iceland, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand and parts of Austria. All it takes is for the mobile providers to configure a number to send the SMSes to, and to forward them to the 911 responders.