Sure, if by "more" you mean "quite a lot less than". They sold about 60 million units last year. All told, Apple have sold about 120 million worldwide.
If you can stop a significant fraction of the missiles, that still gives you a massive reduction in total damage, provided of course your enemy doesn't have so many weapons even a few percentage points can wipe out everything. And besides, it still gives an advantage even in that case: if you need to fire all your missiles, and you need to fire some of them later on, that means the defending country has time to retaliate (so you can't rely on first strike-advantage), plus all their missiles will still hit, which may well mean you never get to fire the later missiles after the system is overwhelmed. And the defender would retaliate, and quickly, make no mistake.
Anyways, missile defense was never about a full-scale war. It was always gamesmanship and preventing smaller powers with only a dozen or so missiles from threatening anyone and everyone (countries like North Korea, potentially).
You mean like the "Not For Individual Sale" labels on most bulk-packaged items?
Not even close. They put that on there as a legal disclaimer. I forget the exact details, but the gist is that the company is required to provided nutritional information, pricing, etc. on items packaged for individual sale. You certainly can re-sell them that way, but then you have to fulfill the burden of supplying that information when necessary (if you want to follow the law).
Obfuscated electronics design contest: solving a simple problem in a complex manner. Destruction of battlefield electronics is not a new science. A small gridwork of thermite inside the case and a small igniter. Trigger how you will.
Sure, and you can also strap a few pounds of C-4 onto it. But it sounds like DARPA wants to design them to literally dissolve, i.e. a non-violent change that won't burn through the case orand kill people nearby if you aren't careful. TFA mentions medical electronics that dissolve in biofluid, so I'm assuming it's similar to that. Cases where using thermite to simply burn the board isn't an option.
As to why, I'm not sure, but it's DARPA, their answer usually tends to be "to see if we can."
Yes, and we know they are red shifted because they are (by hypothesis, actually, we can't prove this yet) the same structure there as they are here. Otherwise, the "red-shifting" would be essentially meaningless.
Yeah, the klan meetings just aren't the same anymore. Damn Political correctness!
I know, lynching people and burning crosses is clearly the same as making a LEGO set that kinda sort of (if you squint really hard) looks like the Hagia Sophia (/sarcasm).
Good example of why political correctness has become such a problem, though.
Star Trek was an abomination. Being able to beam into warp destroys the Star-Trek universe worse than midichlorians ever did.
Not at all. All Scotty had to do was reverse the polarity of the beam, and boom! Problem solved!
Seriously, if you are worried about the coherency of the Star Trek universe... well, lets just say that ship sailed around, oh, the second episode of the original series? Being generous. Transporters alone "destroyed" the Star Trek universe. Hell, they weren't even supposed to exist (they are vastly more advanced than the Federation should have had, given the rest of their technology), but the show didn't have the budget for a shuttle.
The problem with time travel is that there is no analytical method to say what would happen, since we have absolutely no clue how or if time travel would work in any way shape or form. Or in other words you are wrong because you assume a faulty ability to analyze time-travel, when in fact the utter lack of any basis or knowledge of such a phenomenon would prevent any such analysis.
But the Wiper file in Shamoon doesn't share the same code as the one in Flame, which is why experts suspect a copycat is at work.
Containing a file with the same name as another virus barely even counts as a "copycat" in my opinion, especially given the extremely generic nature of the name and operation (in this case wiping the disc clean to erase evidence of the virus, an operation that dates back at least a decade among malware). The two viruses don't even do the same thing.
I ended up pirating the entire catalog of D&D products because I couldn't find the AD&D 2nd Edition books for sale in either print or PDF form. So at least in my case, not printing them in the first place lead to piracy. Hopefully more companies get with the program.
Actually, it was your desire to own something which was not made available which led to piracy in the first place. Justify it how you will, but you are the one to blame for your illegal/illegitimate actions (illegitimate probably being the better word). Just because they didn't sell them, it doesn't mean you HAVE to own them.
Sure, but had they printed them or otherwise made them available he wouldn't have pirated them (assuming he is telling the truth), so it was still them not making it available that lead to his piracy. A thing can have multiple causes, you know, and WotC's stupidity is partly responsible (as, of course, is his desire for them one way or the other).
Probably because, from a quick glance, the only thing worse in his review than the new installer is the review itself. Seriously, he should stop trying to be funny, because, well, he isn't. I particularly love how he has no less than 3 screenshots of an option called "full disk summary and options" in a section complaining about how it doesn't display the full information about the disk (seems he never bothered to click on it). True, he shouldn't have to click on it, given the design of the installer, but clearly the basic installer screen didn't like his setup, so the fallback option seems logical.
Actually, it's more a matter of perspective. While it might seem that the whole world is following the open debate about evolution vs. creationism from the US point of view, actually, most of the world isn't.
I don't think he was limiting his comment to just evolution. Lots of countries have lots of dirty laundry in lots of areas. The US has an open press and a massive presence on the Internet, plus a significant fraction of total world population and a disproportionate influence over the world. Hence, it's laundry gets aired very openly.
I think his point was that if your phone or other device gives you access to all of your sites, then the single password on your phone is the same as using the same password on all your sites. Basically, hack the phone algorithm and you now have access to everything the person does.
But to do that you need access to the phone itself, and if you have that access you can get any password the user inputs anyways, which means this system is at least as reliable as any password system, but with advantages passwords don't have.
True, but if that password manager gets compromised by, say, Red October via capturing your keystrokes, everything is compromised for all sites until you take the time individually change each one,.
Currently, with Google Authenticator, I have it set up to authenticate me for a number of things, as if it gets compromised, simply telling it to re-sync again re-secures all of my credentials. Much, much better management. Single point control.
LastPass offers Google Authenticator security over the vault, which means even if they get the master password they still wouldn't be able to access my vault. This does, however, mean the vault is technically not under my complete control (since I don't store it locally, although I do keep a semi-regular back of it). But, the advantage is worth it in my opinion.
Presumably because people are taught from birth that communism is evil but it's okay to invite monarchist totalitarians to the barbeque? And if they're rich and likely to bring plenty booze, so much the better.
One of the fundamental principles of communism is that it must spread and take over the entire world. Marx himself said that. Communism inherently cannot co-exist peacefully with non-communist countries, not if they are sticking to their ideology even moderately. That's why people are taught from birth that communism is evil. Because it is.
The relevant quote from the end of the Communist Manifesto (Chapter 4 if you want to find it yourself):
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
OTOH, most monarchical totalitarians are perfectly willing to let everyone else live in peace so long as their power isn't threatened. Pragmatically speaking, most countries are fine with that so long as they keep their humanitarian fouls to a relative minimum. Other countries only turn their attention towards them when they either a) expand their power by conquering other countries (or threatening to), or b) start murdering lots of people in cold blood. And even those can be ignored if it's politically convenient, since starting war over someone else's problem is... well, frowned upon, at least after the fact, when people notice the bill.
Just like you can't simulate weather in a computer because it contains no water?
A curious example, considering we haven't yet actually simulated a weather pattern with any degree of accuracy whatsoever. Sure, we've got models, but those models work with a resolution of a few dozen square kilometers, which has about as much connection to how weather actually works as a clay-ball model does to the shape of an atom. To actually simulate weather, you'd have to have a resolution down to individual atoms. The only way to accurately simulate weather is, indeed, either to have a "computer" that contains water and air, or one several dozen orders of magnitude (at least, probably more) more powerful than we currently have.
Computers do not tend to handle enormously complex non-linear problems very well.
Because of the difficulty of retrieving the capsules, DARPA is concentrating on non-lethal assets, so there’s no conflict with treaties involving munitions and their disposal.
I think DARPA is concerned about the politics of potentially leaving dangerous weapons just lying around. They obviously could be used for anything that can be stored for long period of time, if they manage to get them working.
Just gotta ask: have they tried it on any OTHER models? Because that's an OLD OLD router that shouldn't even be running cisco/linksys firmware anymore.
If by "OLD OLD" you mean "is still produced, sold, and obviously supported, and can be purchased on Newegg right this second with stock firmware" then sure. It's an extremely common router, even among the non-techie crowd, so I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of them are still on stock firmware.
For any useful application, I'll have to replace these like toner cartridges, probably even more often.
About every 3 years, if you write 65GB of data to them every single day. What the hell kind of application are you working with that requires you to write 65GB of data a day? I probably write closer to a couple of gigs a day, which means these will last for more like a hundred years.
Raise awareness of what, exactly? Violent videogames? That seems... odd, unless you are working for a marketing department. The dangers of violent video games? What dangers? I've seen exactly zero evidence of any such dangers (TFA says there is "ample evidence" but, of course, they don't actually cite what that evidence is, exactly). The only awareness that seems to have been raised is that the group behind this are a bunch of scared people lashing out at what they don't understand, desperately looking for something to blame. They said they wanted to "prompt discussions", but you can't have meaningful discussions without some evidence about how or even if video games have negative effects, and there is no such evidence.
Then you would have looked somewhat better. Now you're worse than Dropbox.
Well, see, they did tell you. It says, on Wikipedia and Nokia's developer page, that the browser in question uses a proxy. Their developer page and the Wikipedia page.
The idea of drilling a tunnel is to focus the explosion so more energy goes upwards, similar to how guns use a barrel rather than just hitting a bullet at the explosive end pointed in the right direction. At a quick guess, a nuke in a moderately deep hole could have about twice the effect of a surface detonation, but that's assuming 100% of the charge gets directed upwards (some will go into the ground or be wasted by other things).
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The iPad is doing more than that, per year.
Sure, if by "more" you mean "quite a lot less than". They sold about 60 million units last year. All told, Apple have sold about 120 million worldwide.
But 100M is still a pretty significant number.
If you can stop a significant fraction of the missiles, that still gives you a massive reduction in total damage, provided of course your enemy doesn't have so many weapons even a few percentage points can wipe out everything. And besides, it still gives an advantage even in that case: if you need to fire all your missiles, and you need to fire some of them later on, that means the defending country has time to retaliate (so you can't rely on first strike-advantage), plus all their missiles will still hit, which may well mean you never get to fire the later missiles after the system is overwhelmed. And the defender would retaliate, and quickly, make no mistake.
Anyways, missile defense was never about a full-scale war. It was always gamesmanship and preventing smaller powers with only a dozen or so missiles from threatening anyone and everyone (countries like North Korea, potentially).
You mean like the "Not For Individual Sale" labels on most bulk-packaged items?
Not even close. They put that on there as a legal disclaimer. I forget the exact details, but the gist is that the company is required to provided nutritional information, pricing, etc. on items packaged for individual sale. You certainly can re-sell them that way, but then you have to fulfill the burden of supplying that information when necessary (if you want to follow the law).
Obfuscated electronics design contest: solving a simple problem in a complex manner. Destruction of battlefield electronics is not a new science. A small gridwork of thermite inside the case and a small igniter. Trigger how you will.
Sure, and you can also strap a few pounds of C-4 onto it. But it sounds like DARPA wants to design them to literally dissolve, i.e. a non-violent change that won't burn through the case orand kill people nearby if you aren't careful. TFA mentions medical electronics that dissolve in biofluid, so I'm assuming it's similar to that. Cases where using thermite to simply burn the board isn't an option.
As to why, I'm not sure, but it's DARPA, their answer usually tends to be "to see if we can."
We don't. They are all red shifted ...
Yes, and we know they are red shifted because they are (by hypothesis, actually, we can't prove this yet) the same structure there as they are here. Otherwise, the "red-shifting" would be essentially meaningless.
Yeah, the klan meetings just aren't the same anymore. Damn Political correctness!
I know, lynching people and burning crosses is clearly the same as making a LEGO set that kinda sort of (if you squint really hard) looks like the Hagia Sophia (/sarcasm).
Good example of why political correctness has become such a problem, though.
Star Trek was an abomination. Being able to beam into warp destroys the Star-Trek universe worse than midichlorians ever did.
Not at all. All Scotty had to do was reverse the polarity of the beam, and boom! Problem solved!
Seriously, if you are worried about the coherency of the Star Trek universe... well, lets just say that ship sailed around, oh, the second episode of the original series? Being generous. Transporters alone "destroyed" the Star Trek universe. Hell, they weren't even supposed to exist (they are vastly more advanced than the Federation should have had, given the rest of their technology), but the show didn't have the budget for a shuttle.
The problem with time travel is that there is no analytical method to say what would happen, since we have absolutely no clue how or if time travel would work in any way shape or form. Or in other words you are wrong because you assume a faulty ability to analyze time-travel, when in fact the utter lack of any basis or knowledge of such a phenomenon would prevent any such analysis.
You appear to have missed a rather key quote:
But the Wiper file in Shamoon doesn't share the same code as the one in Flame, which is why experts suspect a copycat is at work.
Containing a file with the same name as another virus barely even counts as a "copycat" in my opinion, especially given the extremely generic nature of the name and operation (in this case wiping the disc clean to erase evidence of the virus, an operation that dates back at least a decade among malware). The two viruses don't even do the same thing.
I ended up pirating the entire catalog of D&D products because I couldn't find the AD&D 2nd Edition books for sale in either print or PDF form. So at least in my case, not printing them in the first place lead to piracy. Hopefully more companies get with the program.
Actually, it was your desire to own something which was not made available which led to piracy in the first place. Justify it how you will, but you are the one to blame for your illegal/illegitimate actions (illegitimate probably being the better word). Just because they didn't sell them, it doesn't mean you HAVE to own them.
Sure, but had they printed them or otherwise made them available he wouldn't have pirated them (assuming he is telling the truth), so it was still them not making it available that lead to his piracy. A thing can have multiple causes, you know, and WotC's stupidity is partly responsible (as, of course, is his desire for them one way or the other).
Probably because, from a quick glance, the only thing worse in his review than the new installer is the review itself. Seriously, he should stop trying to be funny, because, well, he isn't. I particularly love how he has no less than 3 screenshots of an option called "full disk summary and options" in a section complaining about how it doesn't display the full information about the disk (seems he never bothered to click on it). True, he shouldn't have to click on it, given the design of the installer, but clearly the basic installer screen didn't like his setup, so the fallback option seems logical.
Actually, it's more a matter of perspective. While it might seem that the whole world is following the open debate about evolution vs. creationism from the US point of view, actually, most of the world isn't.
I don't think he was limiting his comment to just evolution. Lots of countries have lots of dirty laundry in lots of areas. The US has an open press and a massive presence on the Internet, plus a significant fraction of total world population and a disproportionate influence over the world. Hence, it's laundry gets aired very openly.
I think his point was that if your phone or other device gives you access to all of your sites, then the single password on your phone is the same as using the same password on all your sites. Basically, hack the phone algorithm and you now have access to everything the person does.
But to do that you need access to the phone itself, and if you have that access you can get any password the user inputs anyways, which means this system is at least as reliable as any password system, but with advantages passwords don't have.
True, but if that password manager gets compromised by, say, Red October via capturing your keystrokes, everything is compromised for all sites until you take the time individually change each one,.
Currently, with Google Authenticator, I have it set up to authenticate me for a number of things, as if it gets compromised, simply telling it to re-sync again re-secures all of my credentials. Much, much better management. Single point control.
LastPass offers Google Authenticator security over the vault, which means even if they get the master password they still wouldn't be able to access my vault. This does, however, mean the vault is technically not under my complete control (since I don't store it locally, although I do keep a semi-regular back of it). But, the advantage is worth it in my opinion.
Presumably because people are taught from birth that communism is evil but it's okay to invite monarchist totalitarians to the barbeque? And if they're rich and likely to bring plenty booze, so much the better.
One of the fundamental principles of communism is that it must spread and take over the entire world. Marx himself said that. Communism inherently cannot co-exist peacefully with non-communist countries, not if they are sticking to their ideology even moderately. That's why people are taught from birth that communism is evil. Because it is.
The relevant quote from the end of the Communist Manifesto (Chapter 4 if you want to find it yourself):
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
OTOH, most monarchical totalitarians are perfectly willing to let everyone else live in peace so long as their power isn't threatened. Pragmatically speaking, most countries are fine with that so long as they keep their humanitarian fouls to a relative minimum. Other countries only turn their attention towards them when they either a) expand their power by conquering other countries (or threatening to), or b) start murdering lots of people in cold blood. And even those can be ignored if it's politically convenient, since starting war over someone else's problem is... well, frowned upon, at least after the fact, when people notice the bill.
Just like you can't simulate weather in a computer because it contains no water?
A curious example, considering we haven't yet actually simulated a weather pattern with any degree of accuracy whatsoever. Sure, we've got models, but those models work with a resolution of a few dozen square kilometers, which has about as much connection to how weather actually works as a clay-ball model does to the shape of an atom. To actually simulate weather, you'd have to have a resolution down to individual atoms. The only way to accurately simulate weather is, indeed, either to have a "computer" that contains water and air, or one several dozen orders of magnitude (at least, probably more) more powerful than we currently have.
Computers do not tend to handle enormously complex non-linear problems very well.
I'd be interested to see a telomere study. Physiologically she's four years old, but is she four at the cellular and genetic levels?
According to this study, her telomeres match her chronological age, so she appears to be aging in that sense.
!growing != !aging
Sure, but the summary specifies that she doesn't age, so unless you know that's wrong, your point is kinda pointless.
No they're not, Curiosity is currently on Mars and they plan on keeping it there.
I'd be quite impressed if they didn't plan on leaving it there.
From TFA:
Because of the difficulty of retrieving the capsules, DARPA is concentrating on non-lethal assets, so there’s no conflict with treaties involving munitions and their disposal.
I think DARPA is concerned about the politics of potentially leaving dangerous weapons just lying around. They obviously could be used for anything that can be stored for long period of time, if they manage to get them working.
Just gotta ask: have they tried it on any OTHER models? Because that's an OLD OLD router that shouldn't even be running cisco/linksys firmware anymore.
If by "OLD OLD" you mean "is still produced, sold, and obviously supported, and can be purchased on Newegg right this second with stock firmware" then sure. It's an extremely common router, even among the non-techie crowd, so I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of them are still on stock firmware.
For any useful application, I'll have to replace these like toner cartridges, probably even more often.
About every 3 years, if you write 65GB of data to them every single day. What the hell kind of application are you working with that requires you to write 65GB of data a day? I probably write closer to a couple of gigs a day, which means these will last for more like a hundred years.
Raise awareness of what, exactly? Violent videogames? That seems... odd, unless you are working for a marketing department. The dangers of violent video games? What dangers? I've seen exactly zero evidence of any such dangers (TFA says there is "ample evidence" but, of course, they don't actually cite what that evidence is, exactly). The only awareness that seems to have been raised is that the group behind this are a bunch of scared people lashing out at what they don't understand, desperately looking for something to blame. They said they wanted to "prompt discussions", but you can't have meaningful discussions without some evidence about how or even if video games have negative effects, and there is no such evidence.
Then you would have looked somewhat better. Now you're worse than Dropbox.
Well, see, they did tell you. It says, on Wikipedia and Nokia's developer page, that the browser in question uses a proxy. Their developer page and the Wikipedia page.
The idea of drilling a tunnel is to focus the explosion so more energy goes upwards, similar to how guns use a barrel rather than just hitting a bullet at the explosive end pointed in the right direction. At a quick guess, a nuke in a moderately deep hole could have about twice the effect of a surface detonation, but that's assuming 100% of the charge gets directed upwards (some will go into the ground or be wasted by other things).