Governments do sponsor a lot of the development, either through contracts/loan support (like Solyndra) or through university research (which may be direct or simply letting them use the facilities cheaply). In any case, they aren't trying to "take it away", what they want is for them to sell the technology at below market prices. Realistically speaking, the companies will make back their research profits selling in developed countries anyways (or they would never have developed it in the first place). What the companies want is to be able to sell it at full market value in other countries as well. In fact, they could sell it for much less (ideally, whole-sale prices, but probably above that) and lose nothing or even make a small profit, but their greed prevents that. They view selling things for less than as much as they can a "loss." They don't want to make a small profit, they want to make all the profit (which ironically ends up making the less money, since they end up not selling in those countries at all).
The problem TFA specifically addresses is the problem of pollution and "green" technology. The developed world, understandably, has done most of the research in that field. What the IPO is basically saying is they don't give a shit if the developing world gets clean technology or not. That severely hampers the ability of developing nations to control pollution and CO2 emissions, even if they want to, which can have a global impact down the line on the entire planet. And that is frankly the problem, because it would mean the short-term selfishness of the corporations (in and of itself actually understandable and acceptable, in many ways: they're in it for the profit, after all) will, in the long term, do tremendous damage to the planet (which is not acceptable).
Not to mention it is in the best interest of the world for undeveloped countries to develop stably, not just for pollution concerns. An unsustainable but otherwise relatively developed country is a recipe for World War III, in the long run. Possibly even nuclear war, if they are developed enough and desperate enough.
Yes, it does prevent spoofing. How do you send a valid, encrypted signal if you don't have the encryption key? This isn't like public-key encryption where anyone can generate a valid signal: if the encryption key itself is secret, you can't either encrypt or decrypt the signal without knowing it, and that does prevent spoofing. You can jam the signal, sure, but not spoof it. For reference, the source P-code, which is encrypted with the W-code (the details of which are secret) is 720 gigabytes long, and only replays once a week or so (each satellite has it's own P-code). The W-code is significantly smaller, but probably still long enough that brute-forcing it is impossible. A replay attack is impossible, as long as the W-code and the P-code are not in sync (i.e. the encrypted Y-code doesn't repeat, which it doesn't). The result is that the encrypted signal is little better than noise to an observer: you can't fake it.
The only problem with the current system is that you can't always use the encrypted system alone (you have to lock on to the unencrypted signal first). The modernization of the GPS system is looking to fix that problem, too.
Scientists could detect the individual particles because of a combination of the radar's3MW power, narrow 0.22 degree beamwidth, and an unprecedented range resolution as fine as 0.5m. This combination of radar attributes allows researchers to sample a volume of cloud about the size of a small bus (roughly 14 m3) when operating at a range of 2 km.
In other words, if you know where the stealth aircraft is to within the region of a small bus, this thing can find it!...so long as it isn't more than 2km away.
This radar is completely worthless in finding a stealth aircraft, or any aircraft at all for that matter. As presented, it doesn't even have any uses for that at all. Maybe you could extend it to that, but the narrow bandwidth and high power means it will be pretty well worthless for stealth detection.
This is plane wrong. One of the drones sends the video stream back unecrypted and it was a large issues quite recently. Also all GPS signals are unencrypted. How people took this long to realize it is beyond me. I knew this was possible back in high-school I just didn't realize it would be so cheap to do.
No, the drone sent a video signal to the ground unencrypted (it was intended to be visible to troops, and was presumably unencrypted to allow ease of viewing. Stupid, yes, but it makes a kind of sense). And military GPS signals are encrypted, specifically to prevent spoofing. The P-code the military GPS system uses is encrypted, and has been for years.
It isn't surprising. It would be surprising if they managed to hack a drone that used encrypted GPS, which is (hopefully) what the military drone was using (and also one reason people are skeptical about Iran's claims).
Turns out it wasn't a religious text (didn't notice that till after I commented). The "red crucifix" is a somewhat religious snippet, though, even if the text itself was primarily a historical chronicle.
Merely containing sexually explicit material does not make it "porn". Porn as such is specifically produced to create sexual arousal, the Bible is not, no more than a medical textbook is. Adult content, perhaps, but not porn.
GW2 doesn't have a monthly subscription model, so they don't need a time sink system as much as WoW did. That means they can actually make the crafting fun, rather than just laborious.
Yeah, I'm not sure what they plan on doing about that. Seems like it could be a major issue. They might not even have a solution to that yet, although TFA seems to be thinking this is going to be used for Flash memory, rather than CPU transistors, which makes heat considerably less of an issue.
This technology bears about the same resemblance to what Intel is doing as anaglyph 3D does to a hologram. Intel basically just stuck a 3rd gate on top of two others, stacking normal planar transistors. It's "3D" in the technical sense, but only barely. This new(ish) technology takes essentially a single block and molds it into arbitrarily many levels of transistors, so you can have a stack of dozens or hundreds deep. Much more difficult, and potentially far more rewarding.
1. Random ballpark guess, I'd say 5 years, and it will probably be extremely expensive then (likely for enterprise and professionals who need extremely high density NAND).
2. It probably won't, not for a while anyways. It should allow much (much) higher density, but only after they start mass producing it. So, don't expect to be buying 1TB flash cards for $100 anytime soon. It will also almost certainly have major reliability issues for a long time to come, due to the difficulties with the process. Seriously, don't even start looking forward to it yet, it's that far away.
We've convicted people of DUI for walking down the street. Seriously. It was upheld on the basis that he could have gotten in a motor vehicle, because he had his car keys on him. Bonus: The car didn't even run.
Do you have a source for that story? Because I've not heard about that happening. The only story I can find on Google is about a woman who was seen with an "unsteady gait" walking towards her car, and got pulled over because of it (the officer using the unsteadiness as probable cause, which is a stretch but still).
Build something from other various products. How is hobby building anything more than consumerism?
Other than they both involved buying stuff, in just about every possible way. For one thing, hobby building usually requires thinking, innovation, and creativity, as well as re-use and a ton of other stuff consumerism finds absolutely abhorrent.
Might want to look up the definitions of accuracy and precision again. GPS is not absolutely accurate, not by a long shot. There are inherent inaccuracies. It might be absolutely precise (although it isn't that either), but it is not absolutely accurate. There are consistent errors introduced by a large range of issues, from clock synchronization to atmospheric distortions (you can look them up here). It's impossible to create a positioning system that is absolutely accurate without violating several laws of physics (at the extreme end, quantum mechanics would have a thing or two to say, but the limits of the materials prevents most measurements from getting nearly that close at the level the GPS operates).
Yes. Are you simply being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic? The GPS system isn't accurate enough for the measurements necessary. Whether it is precise enough isn't even in question, if the measurements aren't that accurate. The precision would probably depend on the quality of the receiver, but I think they are theoretically much much better than the accuracy... but it doesn't matter, because the system inherently isn't that accurate, due to well known problems.
GPS is nowhere near accurate enough. You are talking about yearly see-level variations of a handful of millimeters a year. GPS is only accurate to a few centimeters, at best, with maximum augmentation (practically the error is in the range of 10 cm or more). Nowhere near good enough.
But, correct me if I'm wrong, there is zero evidence that happened, correct? Only innuendo and "questions"?
Maybe it's also time for Apple to answer the question of whether or not Steve Jobs liked to rape chickens? I'm not saying he did, mind you, I just think the question should be asked.*
*Note: I'm not actually asking the question, because it's stupid. Just like this story. The only point in "asking" a question like this, without actual evidence, is to incite outrage. Nothing more. I'm sure someone on the transplant list might feel differently about this story. Not because they should, but because it was designed to target their feelings against this doctor/Apple/Steve Jobs. Why? I don't know, ad revenues is my best guess. I'm just saying that Slashdot shouldn't encourage it, because "news reporting" like this, frankly, belongs in tabloids and sites like TimeCube, not on Slashdot.
Mind, if there is actual evidence that the doctor took a bribe to get Jobs pushed up the transplant list, that is a little different. It still probably shouldn't be on Slashdot, but at least I'd know it wasn't sensationalist trash designed to incite rage for no particular reason besides money (other than, possibly, attempts to ignite class warfare and/or Apple hatred. I'm fine with Apple hate, BTW, I just think people should dislike them for what they've actually done, not crap like this).
Ok, so. It's a gossip piece, but it belongs on Slashdot's homepage because it involves Steve Jobs in a semi-tangential sort of way? Right, OK.
It is extremely common for people who happen to know another person to be cut a nice deal when selling property. In fact, I might even say that is normal. Jobs knew a guy, guy wanted to buy his house, Jobs sold it to him, end of story NO ONE GIVES A SHIT.
I'm not even sure what the summary is implying, and I really don't feel it is worth taking the time to find out. This isn't even "news", it's just sensationalistic crap (I'm assuming, I only skimmed the summary).
The problem is that "literal" is not always clear. For example, if I say someone is "dumb as a rock", I intend the words metaphorically, and thus the actual literal meaning is figurative, not the literal meaning of the individual words. The Bible is full of metaphors, which aren't intended to be taken word for word literally. Classic example in the creation story is that it takes place over six "days", yet the sun wasn't created until several "days" into the story, which means the literal meaning of "day" couldn't apply. And therefore what is meant by "day" is a figure and not a period of sunlight and darkness. Same with light and darkness being created before the sun or stars: most Christian theologians interpret that as the creation of the angels, and separation of the angels from the demons.
Finding the literal meaning of a text at the figurative level is quite common in classic literature, but a lot of people don't realize this.
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Governments do sponsor a lot of the development, either through contracts/loan support (like Solyndra) or through university research (which may be direct or simply letting them use the facilities cheaply). In any case, they aren't trying to "take it away", what they want is for them to sell the technology at below market prices. Realistically speaking, the companies will make back their research profits selling in developed countries anyways (or they would never have developed it in the first place). What the companies want is to be able to sell it at full market value in other countries as well. In fact, they could sell it for much less (ideally, whole-sale prices, but probably above that) and lose nothing or even make a small profit, but their greed prevents that. They view selling things for less than as much as they can a "loss." They don't want to make a small profit, they want to make all the profit (which ironically ends up making the less money, since they end up not selling in those countries at all).
The problem TFA specifically addresses is the problem of pollution and "green" technology. The developed world, understandably, has done most of the research in that field. What the IPO is basically saying is they don't give a shit if the developing world gets clean technology or not. That severely hampers the ability of developing nations to control pollution and CO2 emissions, even if they want to, which can have a global impact down the line on the entire planet. And that is frankly the problem, because it would mean the short-term selfishness of the corporations (in and of itself actually understandable and acceptable, in many ways: they're in it for the profit, after all) will, in the long term, do tremendous damage to the planet (which is not acceptable).
Not to mention it is in the best interest of the world for undeveloped countries to develop stably, not just for pollution concerns. An unsustainable but otherwise relatively developed country is a recipe for World War III, in the long run. Possibly even nuclear war, if they are developed enough and desperate enough.
Public domain? No. GPL? Yes, which is probably what the OP meant (and to be pedantic, it is the engine that is GPL, not the game as such).
Yes, it does prevent spoofing. How do you send a valid, encrypted signal if you don't have the encryption key? This isn't like public-key encryption where anyone can generate a valid signal: if the encryption key itself is secret, you can't either encrypt or decrypt the signal without knowing it, and that does prevent spoofing. You can jam the signal, sure, but not spoof it. For reference, the source P-code, which is encrypted with the W-code (the details of which are secret) is 720 gigabytes long, and only replays once a week or so (each satellite has it's own P-code). The W-code is significantly smaller, but probably still long enough that brute-forcing it is impossible. A replay attack is impossible, as long as the W-code and the P-code are not in sync (i.e. the encrypted Y-code doesn't repeat, which it doesn't). The result is that the encrypted signal is little better than noise to an observer: you can't fake it.
The only problem with the current system is that you can't always use the encrypted system alone (you have to lock on to the unencrypted signal first). The modernization of the GPS system is looking to fix that problem, too.
Scientists could detect the individual particles because of a combination of the radar's3MW power, narrow 0.22 degree beamwidth, and an unprecedented range resolution as fine as 0.5m. This combination of radar attributes allows researchers to sample a volume of cloud about the size of a small bus (roughly 14 m3) when operating at a range of 2 km.
In other words, if you know where the stealth aircraft is to within the region of a small bus, this thing can find it!...so long as it isn't more than 2km away.
This radar is completely worthless in finding a stealth aircraft, or any aircraft at all for that matter. As presented, it doesn't even have any uses for that at all. Maybe you could extend it to that, but the narrow bandwidth and high power means it will be pretty well worthless for stealth detection.
This is plane wrong. One of the drones sends the video stream back unecrypted and it was a large issues quite recently. Also all GPS signals are unencrypted. How people took this long to realize it is beyond me. I knew this was possible back in high-school I just didn't realize it would be so cheap to do.
No, the drone sent a video signal to the ground unencrypted (it was intended to be visible to troops, and was presumably unencrypted to allow ease of viewing. Stupid, yes, but it makes a kind of sense). And military GPS signals are encrypted, specifically to prevent spoofing. The P-code the military GPS system uses is encrypted, and has been for years.
It isn't surprising. It would be surprising if they managed to hack a drone that used encrypted GPS, which is (hopefully) what the military drone was using (and also one reason people are skeptical about Iran's claims).
Turns out it wasn't a religious text (didn't notice that till after I commented). The "red crucifix" is a somewhat religious snippet, though, even if the text itself was primarily a historical chronicle.
Merely containing sexually explicit material does not make it "porn". Porn as such is specifically produced to create sexual arousal, the Bible is not, no more than a medical textbook is. Adult content, perhaps, but not porn.
GW2 doesn't have a monthly subscription model, so they don't need a time sink system as much as WoW did. That means they can actually make the crafting fun, rather than just laborious.
And yet, without the religious text, there wouldn't even be a written record of what happened at all. I'd say everyone wins.
Yeah, I'm not sure what they plan on doing about that. Seems like it could be a major issue. They might not even have a solution to that yet, although TFA seems to be thinking this is going to be used for Flash memory, rather than CPU transistors, which makes heat considerably less of an issue.
This technology bears about the same resemblance to what Intel is doing as anaglyph 3D does to a hologram. Intel basically just stuck a 3rd gate on top of two others, stacking normal planar transistors. It's "3D" in the technical sense, but only barely. This new(ish) technology takes essentially a single block and molds it into arbitrarily many levels of transistors, so you can have a stack of dozens or hundreds deep. Much more difficult, and potentially far more rewarding.
1. Random ballpark guess, I'd say 5 years, and it will probably be extremely expensive then (likely for enterprise and professionals who need extremely high density NAND).
2. It probably won't, not for a while anyways. It should allow much (much) higher density, but only after they start mass producing it. So, don't expect to be buying 1TB flash cards for $100 anytime soon. It will also almost certainly have major reliability issues for a long time to come, due to the difficulties with the process. Seriously, don't even start looking forward to it yet, it's that far away.
We've convicted people of DUI for walking down the street. Seriously. It was upheld on the basis that he could have gotten in a motor vehicle, because he had his car keys on him. Bonus: The car didn't even run.
Do you have a source for that story? Because I've not heard about that happening. The only story I can find on Google is about a woman who was seen with an "unsteady gait" walking towards her car, and got pulled over because of it (the officer using the unsteadiness as probable cause, which is a stretch but still).
Build something from other various products. How is hobby building anything more than consumerism?
Other than they both involved buying stuff, in just about every possible way. For one thing, hobby building usually requires thinking, innovation, and creativity, as well as re-use and a ton of other stuff consumerism finds absolutely abhorrent.
Might want to look up the definitions of accuracy and precision again. GPS is not absolutely accurate, not by a long shot. There are inherent inaccuracies. It might be absolutely precise (although it isn't that either), but it is not absolutely accurate. There are consistent errors introduced by a large range of issues, from clock synchronization to atmospheric distortions (you can look them up here). It's impossible to create a positioning system that is absolutely accurate without violating several laws of physics (at the extreme end, quantum mechanics would have a thing or two to say, but the limits of the materials prevents most measurements from getting nearly that close at the level the GPS operates).
Precision != Accuracy.
Yes. Are you simply being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic? The GPS system isn't accurate enough for the measurements necessary. Whether it is precise enough isn't even in question, if the measurements aren't that accurate. The precision would probably depend on the quality of the receiver, but I think they are theoretically much much better than the accuracy... but it doesn't matter, because the system inherently isn't that accurate, due to well known problems.
GPS is nowhere near accurate enough. You are talking about yearly see-level variations of a handful of millimeters a year. GPS is only accurate to a few centimeters, at best, with maximum augmentation (practically the error is in the range of 10 cm or more). Nowhere near good enough.
But, correct me if I'm wrong, there is zero evidence that happened, correct? Only innuendo and "questions"?
Maybe it's also time for Apple to answer the question of whether or not Steve Jobs liked to rape chickens? I'm not saying he did, mind you, I just think the question should be asked.*
*Note: I'm not actually asking the question, because it's stupid. Just like this story. The only point in "asking" a question like this, without actual evidence, is to incite outrage. Nothing more. I'm sure someone on the transplant list might feel differently about this story. Not because they should, but because it was designed to target their feelings against this doctor/Apple/Steve Jobs. Why? I don't know, ad revenues is my best guess. I'm just saying that Slashdot shouldn't encourage it, because "news reporting" like this, frankly, belongs in tabloids and sites like TimeCube, not on Slashdot.
Mind, if there is actual evidence that the doctor took a bribe to get Jobs pushed up the transplant list, that is a little different. It still probably shouldn't be on Slashdot, but at least I'd know it wasn't sensationalist trash designed to incite rage for no particular reason besides money (other than, possibly, attempts to ignite class warfare and/or Apple hatred. I'm fine with Apple hate, BTW, I just think people should dislike them for what they've actually done, not crap like this).
Ok, so. It's a gossip piece, but it belongs on Slashdot's homepage because it involves Steve Jobs in a semi-tangential sort of way? Right, OK.
It is extremely common for people who happen to know another person to be cut a nice deal when selling property. In fact, I might even say that is normal. Jobs knew a guy, guy wanted to buy his house, Jobs sold it to him, end of story NO ONE GIVES A SHIT.
I'm not even sure what the summary is implying, and I really don't feel it is worth taking the time to find out. This isn't even "news", it's just sensationalistic crap (I'm assuming, I only skimmed the summary).
Users logged into Facebook will be given the option to reduce their costs by selling video from hidden cameras inside the hotel room.
"Option"?
Maybe he is doing both.
The problem is that "literal" is not always clear. For example, if I say someone is "dumb as a rock", I intend the words metaphorically, and thus the actual literal meaning is figurative, not the literal meaning of the individual words. The Bible is full of metaphors, which aren't intended to be taken word for word literally. Classic example in the creation story is that it takes place over six "days", yet the sun wasn't created until several "days" into the story, which means the literal meaning of "day" couldn't apply. And therefore what is meant by "day" is a figure and not a period of sunlight and darkness. Same with light and darkness being created before the sun or stars: most Christian theologians interpret that as the creation of the angels, and separation of the angels from the demons.
Finding the literal meaning of a text at the figurative level is quite common in classic literature, but a lot of people don't realize this.
Well then that's not a Windows virus now is it. If it was written to infect a Mac, then it is a Mac virus.
No, it's a Windows virus and a Mac virus. Same code, works on both (maybe different sections of the code, but still).