The 50megaton Tsar Bomba: "All buildings in the village of Severny (both wooden and brick), located 55 kilometres (34 mi) from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range, were destroyed. In districts hundreds of kilometers from ground zero wooden houses were destroyed, stone ones lost their roofs, windows and doors, and radio communications were interrupted for almost one hour. One participant in the test saw a bright flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse even at a distance of 270 kilometres (170 mi). The heat from the explosion could have caused third-degree burns 100 km (62 mi) away from ground zero. A shock wave was observed in the air at Dikson settlement 700 kilometres (430 mi) away; windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 kilometres (560 mi)."
TX is 660 mi wide, 800 mi long. A bomb with a burst-damage radius of 100 mi wouldn't "destroy" Texas - although it would certainly mess some shit up.
NOAA: U.S. Completes Record 11 Straight Years Without Major Hurricane Strike
(CNSNews.com) â" Today marks the completion of a record-breaking 11 years without a major hurricane striking the U.S. mainland, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).... The current 11-year stretch with no major hurricane striking the United States is the longest since record-keeping began, according to NOAA data going back to 1851.
Seriously, the media organizations in this country have decided that HRC would be our next president. It doesn't actually matter what she did or didn't do, the legality, the money, etc.
It's miserable and unfair to be in poverty. And simply giving them broadband will not solve that. Therefore I offer a simpler solution:
Why not just mandate that the poor "not be poor" anymore? We should just give them all say, $100,000 per year, and then nobody will be poor and everyone will be happy.
"That sequence of events followed the lander's largely trouble-free approach to the Martian surface..."
Er, not to split hairs here but it was a largely trouble free approach to MARS. After it arrived at Mars and after the bit following orbital insertion and correction, the next steps would be: - separation - descent...and then all the OTHER steps of a fairly complex landing sequence went spectacularly wrong.
So it's a heck of a stretch to say anything but a trivial portion of its "approach to the Martian surface" wasn't a complete botch...?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, not that extraordinary proof is required to dismiss them. I can "prove" that corals have existed for hundreds of millions of years. During this span, the world has suffered long-duration changes AS WELL AS extremely catastrophic short-duration changes - supervolcanoes, meteorite impacts, etc - that changed the climate for decades.
Coral survived.
Look at the historical temp record - there's a 'pulse' of temp and CO2 every 120k-140k years. Just like we're experiencing now. And the last one was about 120k-140k years ago (so this would be right on time).
Let's remember that coral is - literally - one of the oldest life forms on the planet. They existed in much warmer, higher CO2 environments for hundreds of millions of years.
The tocsin that 'coral are dying' (implying that they're going to die out) is one of the more nakedly disingenuous pleas coming from the AGW crowd.
I just think it's hard to believe most of the protesters' claims about 'violation' when from what I've read, there's ALREADY a gas pipeline running along the route the oil pipeline is proposed to follow?
Maybe so, but the POINT is really the smoke and mirrors campaign.
Even criminals can accuse other criminals of murder, and the background of the accuser doesn't intrinsically change whether the accused is guilty (or not).
From the article: "researchers assess with moderate confidence that the group is operating from the Russian Federation and is gathering intelligence on behalf of the Russian government"
I know it fits the playbook to simply call them "Russian Hackers" but hey, maybe...journalism instead?
...that as a geological feature, the GBR is relatively new.
As it only developed over the last 8000 years or so (since the last ice age) it's entirely possible that - in geological spans - the GBR is an ephemeral thing, like foam on the crest of a wave to us. To our short timeframe it seems permanent but it really isn't.
I know, that's not part of the FUD-creed, so downvote me to oblivion.
...there have been conversations about the consequences of such for 30+ years (certainly since the concept of EMP gained widespread understanding).
If the country's emergency planners haven't already taken that into account (insofar as they're able with whatever budget they're given) they should be fired.
So we should replace an electronic system that's moderately difficult to hack, with a system that's hackable with nothing more high-tech than the willingness to pop mailboxes?
The fact that this was sent as a CERTIFIED letter shows that it was a) widespread b) being actively ignored by management...and that it was bad enough that Hambek felt he had to cover his OWN ass with a letter like this. I'm guessing at LEAST a year of bullshit preceded this letter, could be three or more.
Of course, I think it provides far MORE potential for pernicious harm and ruin.
The bad guys are far more numerous, and have better incentives, than the good guys, in terms of the Wild West of cyberwarfare. At the moment, the initiative belongs to the attacker.
Furthermore, we have a society WEDDED to the idea that every flippin' power station, every traffic light, every car, even the bloody coffeemakers "should" be connected to the web. The overwhelming bulk of these are woefully un- or under-protected, and everyday security rests primarily in obscurity. "There's just too many juicy things to attack, I hope I'm too insignificant to bother with..."
Multiply this to the exponential power of AI? I'm not super-optimistic at the result.
Look, there's a large segment of people are (apparently) too stupid generally to avoid "don't open the fucking executable attached to the email some random person just sent you". I can't *imagine* how much harm will result from an AI-derived attack vector that can more or less infinitely evolve and replicate.
Automakers With The Lowest (And Highest) Recall Rates...Toyota/Lexus/Scion led the pack for the second year in a row with nearly 5.3 million cars and trucks recalled, followed by the Chrysler Group at around 4.7 million and Honda/Acura with nearly 2.8 million models recalled. While these would seem to be staggering numbers, as NHTSA points out theyâ(TM)re not weighed against sales, and as such arenâ(TM)t necessarily a predictor of a given model lineâ(TM)s inherent safety or its long-term reliability.
A critical part failure in a human controlled vehicle is bad enough. I submit that there are at least an order of magnitude more potential points of failure in an autonomous vehicle. Perhaps it's wise to move a little more carefully before this becomes widespread.
What is it about presidents at the end of their second terms that they love to float space goals?
Bush, near the end of his 2nd term: ""Our third goal," Bush said, "is to return to the moon by 2020, as the launching point for missions beyond." He proposed sending robotic probes to the lunar surface by 2008, with a human mission as early as 2015, "with the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods of time." "
While I'd love it ever to be true, I can't imagine any post Obama congress will fund it at all.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.warrenpaint.com/ind... (ie what you get if you enter paint.net) is going to get slashdotted.
The 50megaton Tsar Bomba:
"All buildings in the village of Severny (both wooden and brick), located 55 kilometres (34 mi) from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range, were destroyed. In districts hundreds of kilometers from ground zero wooden houses were destroyed, stone ones lost their roofs, windows and doors, and radio communications were interrupted for almost one hour. One participant in the test saw a bright flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse even at a distance of 270 kilometres (170 mi). The heat from the explosion could have caused third-degree burns 100 km (62 mi) away from ground zero. A shock wave was observed in the air at Dikson settlement 700 kilometres (430 mi) away; windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 kilometres (560 mi)."
TX is 660 mi wide, 800 mi long. A bomb with a burst-damage radius of 100 mi wouldn't "destroy" Texas - although it would certainly mess some shit up.
I'm not sure using the term "re-kindle" is the best choice of words.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar...
"Why at this point does it even matter?"
Seriously, the media organizations in this country have decided that HRC would be our next president. It doesn't actually matter what she did or didn't do, the legality, the money, etc.
To be clear: the voting is a pointless detail.
"If a manufacturer made a device that connected to the public phone system, that could be compromised and made to call thousands of people at random"
ie 2016 campaign pollsters?
If you just see the 2016 campaign as a giant DDOS attack on the concept of democracy, a lot of things start to make sense.
I live in MN.
I can predict "winter weather" - whatever the hell that means, precisely - to the same degree of accuracy 10 YEARS in advance.
"In 2026, we will see 'winter weather' in Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb and well into March".
If at least 2/3 of the years follow the normal weather patterns, I've just beaten their supercomputer.
...a very large sum of money that everyone complaining is going to vote for Hillary Clinton.
I'm sure that's just coincidence.
It's miserable and unfair to be in poverty. And simply giving them broadband will not solve that. Therefore I offer a simpler solution:
Why not just mandate that the poor "not be poor" anymore?
We should just give them all say, $100,000 per year, and then nobody will be poor and everyone will be happy.
That should work just fine.
"That sequence of events followed the lander's largely trouble-free approach to the Martian surface..."
Er, not to split hairs here but it was a largely trouble free approach to MARS. ...and then all the OTHER steps of a fairly complex landing sequence went spectacularly wrong.
After it arrived at Mars and after the bit following orbital insertion and correction, the next steps would be:
- separation
- descent
So it's a heck of a stretch to say anything but a trivial portion of its "approach to the Martian surface" wasn't a complete botch...?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, not that extraordinary proof is required to dismiss them. I can "prove" that corals have existed for hundreds of millions of years. During this span, the world has suffered long-duration changes AS WELL AS extremely catastrophic short-duration changes - supervolcanoes, meteorite impacts, etc - that changed the climate for decades.
Coral survived.
Look at the historical temp record - there's a 'pulse' of temp and CO2 every 120k-140k years. Just like we're experiencing now. And the last one was about 120k-140k years ago (so this would be right on time).
Corals survived.
So...there you go.
"no coral"
Let's remember that coral is - literally - one of the oldest life forms on the planet.
They existed in much warmer, higher CO2 environments for hundreds of millions of years.
The tocsin that 'coral are dying' (implying that they're going to die out) is one of the more nakedly disingenuous pleas coming from the AGW crowd.
So when Trump's campaign sets up the same tool, so that every time HRC twats, Trump gets $?
Is that just as neat?
I just think it's hard to believe most of the protesters' claims about 'violation' when from what I've read, there's ALREADY a gas pipeline running along the route the oil pipeline is proposed to follow?
Maybe so, but the POINT is really the smoke and mirrors campaign.
Even criminals can accuse other criminals of murder, and the background of the accuser doesn't intrinsically change whether the accused is guilty (or not).
From the article:
"researchers assess with moderate confidence that the group is operating from the Russian Federation and is gathering intelligence on behalf of the Russian government"
I know it fits the playbook to simply call them "Russian Hackers" but hey, maybe...journalism instead?
...that as a geological feature, the GBR is relatively new.
As it only developed over the last 8000 years or so (since the last ice age) it's entirely possible that - in geological spans - the GBR is an ephemeral thing, like foam on the crest of a wave to us. To our short timeframe it seems permanent but it really isn't.
I know, that's not part of the FUD-creed, so downvote me to oblivion.
Because we had democrats screaming for years after Hanging Chads in 2000 that the public was too stupid to be trusted to operate a paper ballot.
...there have been conversations about the consequences of such for 30+ years (certainly since the concept of EMP gained widespread understanding).
If the country's emergency planners haven't already taken that into account (insofar as they're able with whatever budget they're given) they should be fired.
I'm not sure "booby trapping a drone so it blows up if captured" is precisely the same as "attacking" someone with said drone?
So we should replace an electronic system that's moderately difficult to hack, with a system that's hackable with nothing more high-tech than the willingness to pop mailboxes?
The fact that this was sent as a CERTIFIED letter shows that it was ...and that it was bad enough that Hambek felt he had to cover his OWN ass with a letter like this.
a) widespread
b) being actively ignored by management
I'm guessing at LEAST a year of bullshit preceded this letter, could be three or more.
Of course, I think it provides far MORE potential for pernicious harm and ruin.
The bad guys are far more numerous, and have better incentives, than the good guys, in terms of the Wild West of cyberwarfare. At the moment, the initiative belongs to the attacker.
Furthermore, we have a society WEDDED to the idea that every flippin' power station, every traffic light, every car, even the bloody coffeemakers "should" be connected to the web. The overwhelming bulk of these are woefully un- or under-protected, and everyday security rests primarily in obscurity. "There's just too many juicy things to attack, I hope I'm too insignificant to bother with..."
Multiply this to the exponential power of AI? I'm not super-optimistic at the result.
Look, there's a large segment of people are (apparently) too stupid generally to avoid "don't open the fucking executable attached to the email some random person just sent you". I can't *imagine* how much harm will result from an AI-derived attack vector that can more or less infinitely evolve and replicate.
Are you angry because it's probably aimed at your company?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ji...
Automakers With The Lowest (And Highest) Recall Rates ...Toyota/Lexus/Scion led the pack for the second year in a row with nearly 5.3 million cars and trucks recalled, followed by the Chrysler Group at around 4.7 million and Honda/Acura with nearly 2.8 million models recalled. While these would seem to be staggering numbers, as NHTSA points out theyâ(TM)re not weighed against sales, and as such arenâ(TM)t necessarily a predictor of a given model lineâ(TM)s inherent safety or its long-term reliability.
A critical part failure in a human controlled vehicle is bad enough.
I submit that there are at least an order of magnitude more potential points of failure in an autonomous vehicle. Perhaps it's wise to move a little more carefully before this becomes widespread.
What is it about presidents at the end of their second terms that they love to float space goals?
Bush, near the end of his 2nd term:
""Our third goal," Bush said, "is to return to the moon by 2020, as the launching point for missions beyond." He proposed sending robotic probes to the lunar surface by 2008, with a human mission as early as 2015, "with the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods of time." "
While I'd love it ever to be true, I can't imagine any post Obama congress will fund it at all.