True, but the pendulum sure went a long way away from the democrats given Trump elected president over Hillary... The really sad thing is that it's been swinging this way now for nearly 8 years now and seems to be gaining speed to me.
The question is, how far will it go before it swings back? I'm afraid a lot more... How inconsequential will the democrats be by then? The answer depends on what happens legislatively over the next year or so and if Trump's efforts actually help the economy or not. The first issue is an open question still, but the economy seems to be swinging Trump's way at this point.
You are obviously not hearing me... Trump isn't flip flopping from his perspective, what's happening is he is speaking in unpolished terms that YOU hear in ways that look like flip flops to you. Remember this guys is NOT skilled in political speaking or PR polished, focus group tested phrases... Especially on the campaign trail and when he's speaking impromptu.
For instance, his stated goal of everybody having health insurance means something different to him than you. He is discussing his *goal* not the means to the goal. He's not saying "universal government provided coverage" but everybody being able to afford coverage... He's not discussing the means to get there, only the goal. You choose to interpret his words as him endorsing a specific means to that goal so you see a flip flop when he doesn't sign up to the means you assumed.
Donald Trump speaks with more genuine conviction than any politician of our time
Then why does he flip flop so often?
Reality hits most of us eventually..
However, in this case I think Trump's issue is that he is not skilled in political speaking, the close parsing of focus grouped statements which don't actually mean ANYTHING specific if you look a them, but sure sound like they do to the pre-disposed listeners. Trump just says stuff that most political candidates wouldn't touch with a 10' pole because they are fraught with political mine fields. You need to understand that Trump WANTS a lot of this stuff he is heard to "promise" but he's not really making the policy statements you would like to think he's making. He's making grand statements which he knows are not truly possible to fulfill in full, but represent the direction he wants to head, and PC parsing words be damned.
It's actually part of his charm to his voters.... The ability to dispense of the PC double speak and make clear statements. Of course this hands his detractors some nice ammo.... Which is why I think Trump has been a bit more careful of late... Oh, not that he's stepping away from the controversy, no he stirs that on purpose, but stepping back from making promises which he cannot possibly keep...
China will eventually faced with the prospect of just disconnecting from the rest of the world or giving up on censorship. Depends on if they want to turn into a huge version of North Korea or not. I'm guessing, not.
What seems to be happening is AMD delivered a good processor with good performance..
I built a machine with one this month for my kid. Very good performance for the power consumed if you ask me. You do have to throw expensive memory at them, but not THAT much more expensive...
I'm guessing my experience is not unique and it's nice to know that I'm not alone. However, all this really says is that folks who are building performance systems and are interested enough in their system's performance to run a benchmark program and tending to use the new offerings from AMD more often than they did before. It's good for AMD, but it's hard to make this into a clear trend in their favor over Intel. When you are starting below the basement, any step up is an improvement...
Actually, no, the Fukushima reactors where not designed to fail safe. They all required supplemental cooling water to be circulated or they would meltdown. When the power failed, that's exactly what they did. The hydrogen gas was produced BECAUSE the reactors where melting down.
Chernobyl was cased by the reactor going prompt critical briefly in an event known as an excursion. The operators caused this by pulling out too many of the control rods then when correcting their mistake and re-inserting them a design flaw caused a brief increase in power output. This breifly increased the instantaneous power output of the reactor to a huge value which flashed a lot of water to high pressure steam in a big hurry which then exploded and disassembled the reactor and set the graphite used as a moderator on fire.
Neither of these events would be possible with a modern reactor "fail safe" design.
This has already been done... At least in theory. Where the nuclear reactor will "fail safe" regardless of how stupid the operators might be. The core is designed so that if it goes over temp it will disassemble itself in a controlled way, stopping the fission reaction, and dispersing the components so they can cool using convection and not breach the containment structure.
The "trick" was to use mechanical components designed to melt at specific safe temperatures with a mechanical design that allowed gravity to pull the necessary components apart should the temperature exceed the designed melting point.
Before even Billy's silly intern became news. The USA was pretty disrespected in some circles since Korea proved we were prone to be stupid pacifists.. One could argue it was common even before that...
I remember a couple episodes of "Third Rook from the Son" that were really quite terrible.
Just a couple? That was a horrid show, a weekly dose of "Howard the Duck". Complete with a stupid concept, aliens, uninteresting story lines, humorless jokes, horrible acting and an unremarkable cast. I don't think there is even ONE episode I'd choose to watch more than once...
Still... I'm not inclined to believe that Immarsat shipped "baked in" encryption technology based on implementation in silicon. What MIGHT be an issue is having the horsepower necessary to use a less easily broken encryption algorithm or longer key baked into the phone.
We've been shipping firmware driven DSP equipment since the advent of digital cell phone technology, which has been available for 25+ years and standard for the at least 20. Unless Immarsat was building their stuff based on the dark ages of technology, they will be able to update software. They may not have the processing power to encrypt with the latest technology, but I'm sure they can field new firmware and fix the problem if their hardware has enough performance..
I'm sure they can support multiple encryption technologies at the ground stations pretty quickly, then if you don't care that Chia can listen in you can use the old equipment, or if you want a measure of privacy you can upgrade. So I doubt this is a huge issue for anybody.
In this case, the Satiates are doing a bit more than just relaying data to a ground station, but they are acting more like cell towers, handing a call from one satellite to another as they move in low earth orbit. Also, the "ground station" may not be in view at all times, so they use the satellites to relay the call to one that has a ground station in view.
Now I'm not saying that the satellite treats the audio stream as anything more than packets of data, but the signaling portion IS important....
I can assure you that satellites are well secured. Usually they have multiple out of band (i.e. on a separate frequency, and even a separate set of radios) RF administrative channels which are well encrypted and secured using multiple means. These channels are both time locked (i.e. only active at planned times) and require signing of each data packet and then require detailed knowledge of the communications protocol to actually do anything to the satellite. They are assets which are too valuable to just throw up there unprotected...
I seriously doubt doing updates to the phones is a problem at all, I'll bet they push updates all the time. Satellites are routinely updated and I'm guessing is not a serious problem.
What really will be the problem is the common encryption problem of key distribution... Unless you can hide the keys from disclosure, your goose is cooked...
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Dare I ask you exactly which constitutional right of yours Trump has trampled on? Do be specific....
True, but the pendulum sure went a long way away from the democrats given Trump elected president over Hillary... The really sad thing is that it's been swinging this way now for nearly 8 years now and seems to be gaining speed to me.
The question is, how far will it go before it swings back? I'm afraid a lot more... How inconsequential will the democrats be by then? The answer depends on what happens legislatively over the next year or so and if Trump's efforts actually help the economy or not. The first issue is an open question still, but the economy seems to be swinging Trump's way at this point.
You are obviously not hearing me... Trump isn't flip flopping from his perspective, what's happening is he is speaking in unpolished terms that YOU hear in ways that look like flip flops to you. Remember this guys is NOT skilled in political speaking or PR polished, focus group tested phrases... Especially on the campaign trail and when he's speaking impromptu.
For instance, his stated goal of everybody having health insurance means something different to him than you. He is discussing his *goal* not the means to the goal. He's not saying "universal government provided coverage" but everybody being able to afford coverage... He's not discussing the means to get there, only the goal. You choose to interpret his words as him endorsing a specific means to that goal so you see a flip flop when he doesn't sign up to the means you assumed.
Then why does he flip flop so often?
Reality hits most of us eventually..
However, in this case I think Trump's issue is that he is not skilled in political speaking, the close parsing of focus grouped statements which don't actually mean ANYTHING specific if you look a them, but sure sound like they do to the pre-disposed listeners. Trump just says stuff that most political candidates wouldn't touch with a 10' pole because they are fraught with political mine fields. You need to understand that Trump WANTS a lot of this stuff he is heard to "promise" but he's not really making the policy statements you would like to think he's making. He's making grand statements which he knows are not truly possible to fulfill in full, but represent the direction he wants to head, and PC parsing words be damned.
It's actually part of his charm to his voters.... The ability to dispense of the PC double speak and make clear statements. Of course this hands his detractors some nice ammo.... Which is why I think Trump has been a bit more careful of late... Oh, not that he's stepping away from the controversy, no he stirs that on purpose, but stepping back from making promises which he cannot possibly keep...
MS Haze... Vapor-ware computing in your home town.
The more will slip though your fingers...
China will eventually faced with the prospect of just disconnecting from the rest of the world or giving up on censorship. Depends on if they want to turn into a huge version of North Korea or not. I'm guessing, not.
Yep, the current administration is rolling back the previous administration's actions one regulation after another..
Isn't that what the current president said he'd do? That's what I remember from the campaign...
What seems to be happening is AMD delivered a good processor with good performance..
I built a machine with one this month for my kid. Very good performance for the power consumed if you ask me. You do have to throw expensive memory at them, but not THAT much more expensive...
I'm guessing my experience is not unique and it's nice to know that I'm not alone. However, all this really says is that folks who are building performance systems and are interested enough in their system's performance to run a benchmark program and tending to use the new offerings from AMD more often than they did before. It's good for AMD, but it's hard to make this into a clear trend in their favor over Intel. When you are starting below the basement, any step up is an improvement...
You don't lose anything if you keep the deposit... Just buy new ones.. Right?
Seems like a great way to sell umbrellas to me... Here borrow this, but if you don't bring it back I'm going to charge you...
Actually, no, the Fukushima reactors where not designed to fail safe. They all required supplemental cooling water to be circulated or they would meltdown. When the power failed, that's exactly what they did. The hydrogen gas was produced BECAUSE the reactors where melting down.
Chernobyl was cased by the reactor going prompt critical briefly in an event known as an excursion. The operators caused this by pulling out too many of the control rods then when correcting their mistake and re-inserting them a design flaw caused a brief increase in power output. This breifly increased the instantaneous power output of the reactor to a huge value which flashed a lot of water to high pressure steam in a big hurry which then exploded and disassembled the reactor and set the graphite used as a moderator on fire.
Neither of these events would be possible with a modern reactor "fail safe" design.
This has already been done... At least in theory. Where the nuclear reactor will "fail safe" regardless of how stupid the operators might be. The core is designed so that if it goes over temp it will disassemble itself in a controlled way, stopping the fission reaction, and dispersing the components so they can cool using convection and not breach the containment structure.
The "trick" was to use mechanical components designed to melt at specific safe temperatures with a mechanical design that allowed gravity to pull the necessary components apart should the temperature exceed the designed melting point.
You kidder you....
Wow! That's shocking!
This thing will go by boat, then rail, then truck followed by a short trip via forklift.
They will stuff everything into multi modal shipping containers...
Before even Billy's silly intern became news. The USA was pretty disrespected in some circles since Korea proved we were prone to be stupid pacifists.. One could argue it was common even before that...
Can we test again?
Third time is the charm...
Seems crash testing is a craps shoot with your Tesla anyway..
For you yes it is illegal... For the government? Not so much...
I don't those words mean what you think they mean... They certainly do not describe what the rules actually are.
Buyer beware..
I'm sure Nelson will provide the data directly to an advertiser who wants to get the information from them. Not sure if they charge for it though.
A fax machine for punch cards? How does that work?
I remember a couple episodes of "Third Rook from the Son" that were really quite terrible.
Just a couple? That was a horrid show, a weekly dose of "Howard the Duck". Complete with a stupid concept, aliens, uninteresting story lines, humorless jokes, horrible acting and an unremarkable cast. I don't think there is even ONE episode I'd choose to watch more than once...
Still... I'm not inclined to believe that Immarsat shipped "baked in" encryption technology based on implementation in silicon. What MIGHT be an issue is having the horsepower necessary to use a less easily broken encryption algorithm or longer key baked into the phone.
We've been shipping firmware driven DSP equipment since the advent of digital cell phone technology, which has been available for 25+ years and standard for the at least 20. Unless Immarsat was building their stuff based on the dark ages of technology, they will be able to update software. They may not have the processing power to encrypt with the latest technology, but I'm sure they can field new firmware and fix the problem if their hardware has enough performance..
I'm sure they can support multiple encryption technologies at the ground stations pretty quickly, then if you don't care that Chia can listen in you can use the old equipment, or if you want a measure of privacy you can upgrade. So I doubt this is a huge issue for anybody.
In this case, the Satiates are doing a bit more than just relaying data to a ground station, but they are acting more like cell towers, handing a call from one satellite to another as they move in low earth orbit. Also, the "ground station" may not be in view at all times, so they use the satellites to relay the call to one that has a ground station in view.
Now I'm not saying that the satellite treats the audio stream as anything more than packets of data, but the signaling portion IS important....
I can assure you that satellites are well secured. Usually they have multiple out of band (i.e. on a separate frequency, and even a separate set of radios) RF administrative channels which are well encrypted and secured using multiple means. These channels are both time locked (i.e. only active at planned times) and require signing of each data packet and then require detailed knowledge of the communications protocol to actually do anything to the satellite. They are assets which are too valuable to just throw up there unprotected...
I seriously doubt doing updates to the phones is a problem at all, I'll bet they push updates all the time. Satellites are routinely updated and I'm guessing is not a serious problem.
What really will be the problem is the common encryption problem of key distribution... Unless you can hide the keys from disclosure, your goose is cooked...