The sea dragon was a gigantic rocket designed to be as simple as possible. It was never done full scale, though small scale tests were done and the design was considered viable. It was designed to bring 550 tons to LEO, which is about the same as Musks's super rocket.
A few awesome facts about the sea dragon : - 2 stages, with a single engine (the same) for each stage - The first stage of the Saturn V can fit in the engine bell - It is a pressurized tank design. No turbo-pumps, the engine is basically 2 valves and an igniter - The first stage burns kerosene + LOX. Regular kerosene, not the more expensive RP-1. The 2nd stage uses hydrogen - Designed to be launched directly from the sea, with most of the rocket being underwater. The rocket would be powerful enough to destroy any launchpad anyways. - Made from 8mm sheet steel, in a ship yard, using the same techniques they use to build submarines - Reuseable. It is designed to be able to resist a fall back into water. No costly delicate parts to break
The whole idea behind this rocket was to make things BIG instead of complex. It is terribly inefficient compared to current designs but it is so huge that it doesn't matter.
While bribing developers to weaken encryption is most likely not above what intelligence agencies do, this could also be a PR move. By saying an intelligence agency attempted to bribe your devs, it implies that : - Your app is so secure that it can't be cracked by external means - That your company standards are so high that bribes don't work - That the government is watching and using unethical methods, and that an app like the one you offer is needed - Competitors may have been bribed too, and if they aren't saying anything, they may have fallen for it
Considering the flaws of Telegram, this may be just an attempt to make it feel more secure than it really is.
wireless charging! Welcome to 2013! your improving apple, only a few years behind everyone else now.
Apple is always the first. When it isn't, it is the first to "do it right". In the case of wireless charging, the technology exists but it is lacking courage. I mean, the regular charging port is still there.
You are right. I live in France, and I assumed that the copyright system is similar to "droit d'auteur". It is nowadays but it used to be completely different. "droit d'auteur" is focused on more on moral rights and copyright is more about economics. For example, there is no concept of "work for hire" in the French system.
Netflix is the best think that happened in the fight against piracy, because it is convenient and affordable.
Among my group of friends, torrents/DDL were the way we got movies. We did it without even thinking. DVDs were too expensive and cumbersome, BluRays even more so. And with TV you don't really get to choose when and what you watch, also ads. Some of us even paid for a seedbox or some premium account on a DDL or streaming site. So money wasn't the problem. Then came Netflix. And now, most of my friends have a subscription and the torrent hunt ritual ended.
How to fight even better? Make things even more convenient. Make content available on all platforms, in all countries. Even if it means a small extra fee, people are ready to pay.
Now, we have a bunch of companies in the movie business going together, including Netflix, and instead of using that unique opportunity to make things better for consumers and turn them away from piracy, they pursue their repressive tactics that never worked.
and thats because the social contract has been nullified. The deal was that we give them a temporary monopoly and in return they add to the public domain.
No, that's the idea behind patents, not copyright. For the author, copyright is not temporary, and has never been. It is always life + X years. The original point of the post mortem period was to preserve the original work. The copyright economy we have now is a new thing. That "social contract" never really was.
Oh, the Earth will be fine. And life will have no problem adapting. It was never the question. The question, is how we humans will deal with it. Humanity as a specie is not really in danger but the consequences will be... inconfortable and expensive. Maybe comparable to a world war, but without the economic boom that follows.
There is kind of a conundrum here. The best way to prove authenticity is to reveal as much metadata as possible. This is also how you get caught. In fact getting caught is a great proof of authenticity. And we now know that all documents with the same printer dots as the ones that got the guy caught are likely to be authentic.
...that you could upgrade the CPU in the future with something that fit the same socket?
It is more about repairing, or salvaging. I never upgraded a CPU in my life without also changing the motherboard and RAM, or the complete laptop. By the time you'll want a better CPU, the latest generation will probably won't be compatible. And you might end up limited by basically everything else.
Pros don't repair, unless they are in the repair business They call the service center and expect some guy to show up the next day with a working computer in exchange for the broken one. What happens behind the scenes is not their problem.
Yes. Smartphones have what is called a "baseband". It is the part that manages all radio functions, plus others. It can be separate or integrated in the main SoC. In the case of the Snapdragon 835, it is integrated. The baseband is actually a complete system with its own CPU, RAM and OS, with complete access to the rest of the system. It is completely closed. It also cannot be disabled because it is essential to the phone normal functions, overwriting its firmware may cause a hard brick. Intel AMT is small fry by comparison.
The idea here is to store a complete movie in a few kB.
If we are talking about an actual movie as made by a director, this is impossible. There is simply too much entropy. The 8 kB stated size is just sufficient to encode an already dense screenplay to the theoretical limit. You probably can't even keep the original dialogue intact at that point. In theory, one could imagine an analyst AI able to turn a movie into such a script and forward it to a director AI which is able to recreate the movie. But it won't be the original movie but an interpretation of it. In the same way that a single play can change drastically depending on the performers.
What is possible however is to make a movie especially designed to fit in a few kB. In fact, if you look at some demoscene productions, this is exactly it. Some 64k or less intros could qualify as small movies.
Facebook applied for a patent. If the patent is granted, only Facebook will be able to spy on you like this. Or at least, it will require other parties do deal with Facebook first before they can implement this technology for themselves. And if you are privacy conscious, you probably don't use Facebook, so that's a win.
It is a negative because as a result, they get passed over by their competitors. Essentially showing the world that wiping user data after six months is a bad idea.
Oh, that Thunderf00t video... It raises very good points but the catastrophic failure argument doesn't hold. Ironically, a good demonstration is in one of his later video on the subject, the one with the imploding tank. First thing, yes, people may die, crashing at supersonic speeds tends to do that. It will be expensive, rescuing trapped people will be difficult, etc... Definitely not fun. However, what he misses is that the tube will be more than 100000 times longer than it is wide. The wall of air traveling at the speed of sound destroying everything in its wake will gradually slow down over some distance. Furthermore, as shown in the imploding tank video, in case of damage, the pipe will likely collapse and partially seal itself, limiting further damage. The tank in the video is just the size of a railroad car and only half of it collapsed.
I don't believe in the Hyperloop but the risk of catastrophic failure is not the reason.
Good to hear they're making a version of Windows specifically for professional use. It should then come without all the crap bloatware, ads, and telemetry, right? Right?
These are enterprise editions. In particular the LTSB version which doesn't include "bloatware" and has a much more conservative update policy. Because LTSB has no Edge and no Windows Store, I suppose to ads are gone too, Telemetry can be restricted to the bare minimum ("security" level), which is not possible with home/pro.
"Pro" is between "home" and "enterprise" in term of crapiness. Considering that enterprise editions are supposed to be more mature, it make take some time before the "pro workstation" features become available for enterprise.
AFAIK software have no legal right. It should be the responsibility of the lawyer using the software. Closed or open source doesn't matter, what is important are the results and the legal entity backing them.
If a lawyer uses voodoo magic to find culpability, why not, as long as the facts are right. If not, he better get a good explanation. "magic" won't cut it. Same for the software. The good thing with open source is that it is easier to explain results when challenged.
I'd like opensource everywhere but I don't think it is the main point here. There is opensource bullshit too.
AMOLED is preferred for VR headsets. The main advantages of AMOLED are better blacks, which is important in a completely dark headset and faster response times, which is essential in VR. Resolution is important too but it has to go together with fast graphics to ensure a low latency, otherwise you may get sick.
By safe they speak only about emergency medical treatment. It doesn't include long term damage (non-emergencies) and severity. You can get to the hospital just because you got into a situation you couldn't control, or because someone else panicked, but you were never in danger to begin with.
Tobacco is probably really safe by this metric. Cancer usually won't get you in an emergency room... Still interesting, and the results make sense, just know it is not all there is to drug safety.
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The sea dragon was a gigantic rocket designed to be as simple as possible. It was never done full scale, though small scale tests were done and the design was considered viable. It was designed to bring 550 tons to LEO, which is about the same as Musks's super rocket.
A few awesome facts about the sea dragon :
- 2 stages, with a single engine (the same) for each stage
- The first stage of the Saturn V can fit in the engine bell
- It is a pressurized tank design. No turbo-pumps, the engine is basically 2 valves and an igniter
- The first stage burns kerosene + LOX. Regular kerosene, not the more expensive RP-1. The 2nd stage uses hydrogen
- Designed to be launched directly from the sea, with most of the rocket being underwater. The rocket would be powerful enough to destroy any launchpad anyways.
- Made from 8mm sheet steel, in a ship yard, using the same techniques they use to build submarines
- Reuseable. It is designed to be able to resist a fall back into water. No costly delicate parts to break
The whole idea behind this rocket was to make things BIG instead of complex. It is terribly inefficient compared to current designs but it is so huge that it doesn't matter.
While bribing developers to weaken encryption is most likely not above what intelligence agencies do, this could also be a PR move.
By saying an intelligence agency attempted to bribe your devs, it implies that :
- Your app is so secure that it can't be cracked by external means
- That your company standards are so high that bribes don't work
- That the government is watching and using unethical methods, and that an app like the one you offer is needed
- Competitors may have been bribed too, and if they aren't saying anything, they may have fallen for it
Considering the flaws of Telegram, this may be just an attempt to make it feel more secure than it really is.
wireless charging! Welcome to 2013! your improving apple, only a few years behind everyone else now.
Apple is always the first. When it isn't, it is the first to "do it right".
In the case of wireless charging, the technology exists but it is lacking courage. I mean, the regular charging port is still there.
You are right.
I live in France, and I assumed that the copyright system is similar to "droit d'auteur". It is nowadays but it used to be completely different.
"droit d'auteur" is focused on more on moral rights and copyright is more about economics. For example, there is no concept of "work for hire" in the French system.
Netflix is the best think that happened in the fight against piracy, because it is convenient and affordable.
Among my group of friends, torrents/DDL were the way we got movies. We did it without even thinking. DVDs were too expensive and cumbersome, BluRays even more so. And with TV you don't really get to choose when and what you watch, also ads.
Some of us even paid for a seedbox or some premium account on a DDL or streaming site. So money wasn't the problem.
Then came Netflix. And now, most of my friends have a subscription and the torrent hunt ritual ended.
How to fight even better? Make things even more convenient. Make content available on all platforms, in all countries. Even if it means a small extra fee, people are ready to pay.
Now, we have a bunch of companies in the movie business going together, including Netflix, and instead of using that unique opportunity to make things better for consumers and turn them away from piracy, they pursue their repressive tactics that never worked.
and thats because the social contract has been nullified. The deal was that we give them a temporary monopoly and in return they add to the public domain.
No, that's the idea behind patents, not copyright.
For the author, copyright is not temporary, and has never been. It is always life + X years. The original point of the post mortem period was to preserve the original work.
The copyright economy we have now is a new thing. That "social contract" never really was.
Maybe it is, indeed, the Russians.
Chess is notoriously popular in Russia, so it is possible that Russians played a large number of these 2^31 games.
Oh, the Earth will be fine. And life will have no problem adapting. It was never the question.
The question, is how we humans will deal with it.
Humanity as a specie is not really in danger but the consequences will be... inconfortable and expensive. Maybe comparable to a world war, but without the economic boom that follows.
Procedural graphics and processed food go well together.
So we thought that aliens were just emitting radio signals and we now discover that they are actually sending us comets.
Very, very impressive.
There is kind of a conundrum here.
The best way to prove authenticity is to reveal as much metadata as possible. This is also how you get caught.
In fact getting caught is a great proof of authenticity. And we now know that all documents with the same printer dots as the ones that got the guy caught are likely to be authentic.
...that you could upgrade the CPU in the future with something that fit the same socket?
It is more about repairing, or salvaging.
I never upgraded a CPU in my life without also changing the motherboard and RAM, or the complete laptop.
By the time you'll want a better CPU, the latest generation will probably won't be compatible. And you might end up limited by basically everything else.
Pros don't repair, unless they are in the repair business
They call the service center and expect some guy to show up the next day with a working computer in exchange for the broken one. What happens behind the scenes is not their problem.
Yes.
Smartphones have what is called a "baseband". It is the part that manages all radio functions, plus others. It can be separate or integrated in the main SoC. In the case of the Snapdragon 835, it is integrated.
The baseband is actually a complete system with its own CPU, RAM and OS, with complete access to the rest of the system. It is completely closed. It also cannot be disabled because it is essential to the phone normal functions, overwriting its firmware may cause a hard brick.
Intel AMT is small fry by comparison.
The idea here is to store a complete movie in a few kB.
If we are talking about an actual movie as made by a director, this is impossible. There is simply too much entropy. The 8 kB stated size is just sufficient to encode an already dense screenplay to the theoretical limit. You probably can't even keep the original dialogue intact at that point.
In theory, one could imagine an analyst AI able to turn a movie into such a script and forward it to a director AI which is able to recreate the movie. But it won't be the original movie but an interpretation of it. In the same way that a single play can change drastically depending on the performers.
What is possible however is to make a movie especially designed to fit in a few kB. In fact, if you look at some demoscene productions, this is exactly it. Some 64k or less intros could qualify as small movies.
Facebook applied for a patent.
If the patent is granted, only Facebook will be able to spy on you like this. Or at least, it will require other parties do deal with Facebook first before they can implement this technology for themselves.
And if you are privacy conscious, you probably don't use Facebook, so that's a win.
It is a negative because as a result, they get passed over by their competitors. Essentially showing the world that wiping user data after six months is a bad idea.
I would have loved to read it but I am a bit tied up at the moment.
Oh, that Thunderf00t video...
It raises very good points but the catastrophic failure argument doesn't hold. Ironically, a good demonstration is in one of his later video on the subject, the one with the imploding tank.
First thing, yes, people may die, crashing at supersonic speeds tends to do that. It will be expensive, rescuing trapped people will be difficult, etc... Definitely not fun.
However, what he misses is that the tube will be more than 100000 times longer than it is wide. The wall of air traveling at the speed of sound destroying everything in its wake will gradually slow down over some distance.
Furthermore, as shown in the imploding tank video, in case of damage, the pipe will likely collapse and partially seal itself, limiting further damage. The tank in the video is just the size of a railroad car and only half of it collapsed.
I don't believe in the Hyperloop but the risk of catastrophic failure is not the reason.
The short of it: it's basically a pipeline
You mean a tube used to transport large quantities of liquids between two places? A very good comparison.
Good to hear they're making a version of Windows specifically for professional use. It should then come without all the crap bloatware, ads, and telemetry, right? Right?
These are enterprise editions.
In particular the LTSB version which doesn't include "bloatware" and has a much more conservative update policy. Because LTSB has no Edge and no Windows Store, I suppose to ads are gone too, Telemetry can be restricted to the bare minimum ("security" level), which is not possible with home/pro.
"Pro" is between "home" and "enterprise" in term of crapiness. Considering that enterprise editions are supposed to be more mature, it make take some time before the "pro workstation" features become available for enterprise.
AFAIK software have no legal right.
It should be the responsibility of the lawyer using the software. Closed or open source doesn't matter, what is important are the results and the legal entity backing them.
If a lawyer uses voodoo magic to find culpability, why not, as long as the facts are right. If not, he better get a good explanation. "magic" won't cut it. Same for the software. The good thing with open source is that it is easier to explain results when challenged.
I'd like opensource everywhere but I don't think it is the main point here. There is opensource bullshit too.
The Texas legislature says the bathroom bill is about privacy . Aren't Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in favor of privacy????
Actually, yes.
They don't want anyone but them to know about your secrets.
AMOLED is preferred for VR headsets.
The main advantages of AMOLED are better blacks, which is important in a completely dark headset and faster response times, which is essential in VR.
Resolution is important too but it has to go together with fast graphics to ensure a low latency, otherwise you may get sick.
By safe they speak only about emergency medical treatment.
It doesn't include long term damage (non-emergencies) and severity.
You can get to the hospital just because you got into a situation you couldn't control, or because someone else panicked, but you were never in danger to begin with.
Tobacco is probably really safe by this metric. Cancer usually won't get you in an emergency room...
Still interesting, and the results make sense, just know it is not all there is to drug safety.