The background story is that New York time wrote an editorial in 1920 lambasting a Professor named Robert Goddard for writing an scientific paper where he had the nerve to suggest that humans could someday use one of the liquid fueled rockets he was working on to send a machine to the moon. Well at least he didn't suggest that a person could go. I mean that would have been just insane. Robert Goddard had what little support he had dry up and was publicly humiliated so he worked in secret out in New Mexico. One does wonder what he might have done if the Times had supported is bold idea? Did the Time bother to write a retraction when V2s where falling on London? No. Did they write a retraction before Robert Goddard's death? No. Did they even bother to write a retraction when Sputnik was launched? No. They waited until man walked on the Moon. Reporters are indoctrinated that they are the protectors of our freedom and that it is there job to explain things to us. Too bad they are not taught to just gather and report facts so that we can figure out what they mean for ourselves.
But this will have another effect hopefully. It should remove IP adresses as just cause for arrest and search warrants. Hopefully it will come out just how easy it is to spoof an IP address. It is like getting a warrant because the guy said his name was John Smith.
When the Wii was there where still a lot of none HD TVs in peoples homes so Nintendo targeted standard def and kept the prices low. Now HDTV is very common and thanks to Moores law Nintendo can come out with a console that will probably outperform the 360 and PS/3 and be cheaper. Now Nintendo can produce a new machine that will out perform the completion and cost less just as the Wii sales start to drop. Brilliant marketing plan and it will sell like hotcakes.
Maybe but Space X has not put a person into orbit yet or launched the Falcon 9 Heavy. And of course NASA was predicting a man a Mars, moon bases, and large manned spacestations by the 1990s back in the 1960s. Af could have done all of that as well if someone would have paid for it.
Well the US did win at Pearl Harbor because they didn't get the carriers and honestly the loss of life was relatively low. The fact that Japan didn't knock out the carriers, the fuel dump, and the dry docks really did make the attack on Pearl Harbor. Even the losses to the Battleships where not that great. Of the eight battleships damaged or sunk at Perl Harbor only two where total losses. Four fo the eight where back into service before the end of 1942 and the last two that where not total losses where back in service in 1944. What Pearl Harbor did was just make the US enraged and unified the nation but did little long term damage.
Of course I remember going into a video store and asked them where Apollo 13 was. I wanted to cry when they told me it was in sci-fi! I had to ask why but all I got was because it was about space! Ever get the feeling that a large percentage of the population really doesn't understand? Of course I also had a discussion very artsy friend of mine about Apollo 13 and how I really thought it should have gotten best picture over Braveheart. She actually told me that Braveheart was a better movie because you knew how Apollo 13 ended before you saw the movie. I had to say "You didn't know the english won?" Good freaking heavens.
Yes and no. Modern military radios use spread spectrum and encryption to make them hard to locate and hard to listen in on. Now the rest of this is just off the cuff and some historical information. There are several ways make it even more secure. For on thing is forward units could choose to transmit only when they absolutely need to. They would listen and not talk. To keep say a head quarters secret you could have several transmitter sites linked to the HQ by cable or fiber. They can take out one transmitters but that isn't a big deal because you can just change to a new transmitter but the HQ stays hidden. Of course the in modern combat this is exactly what they do but they use commsat as the transmitter. Like everything in life it is a trade off but the US is really good at secure communications.
Umm... Gold is cheap compared to interplanetary travel. Heck even if you found a mountain of diamonds the size of basketballs it still wouldn't be worth it. I think gold would have to hit something like $100,000 and ounce to make hauling it from the moon practical. And rare earths? Just not that rare and no most currencies are not backed by gold reserves.
No this is why we are not doomed and are human. We are tool users and makers. Convert CO2 back into gas? Increase the green house effect and warm mars? If Mars is lifeless the Yea go for it. I would probably not use nukes but if we could hit it with a comet that could also add a good bit of water and release it into the atmosphere. Yes even a thermonuclear warhead can be a tool for creation.
I know I am hopping that it will not be approved. After all Sprint is crabbing about it big time. I think T-Mobile is also worried that it will not go through since they put such strong penalties on AT&T if the sale fails.
Probably should buy TMobile and ClearWire for the spectrum. It would be cheaper. But Apple will not do that for the same reason that Microsoft isn't building a phone. Apple does not want to tick off the carriers. Plus for Apple it gives someone else to blame. Do you really think Apple wants worry about things like not enough towers in Idaho or a saturated network in SF? Naw better to rake in the money. Now Google should think about buying TMobile.
Except Microsoft is still selling XP. I mean new copies of it to day. I can still buy a PC that comes new from the factory with XP. How long did Microsoft support 98 after it stopped selling it? Windows 2000? That is the difference. Stop XP should have five years from the day they stop selling it.
They do have lost password recovery and that is a fact. This was a clarification of the TOS because the old one was actually just not possible. Employees can not look at your data. AKA it is not allowed by the rules. You can not go to the store naked. Not because it is physically impossible to go to the store naked but because you will face repercussions if you do. Some smart lawyer or engineer realized that there TOS was inaccurate and fixed it. English a fuzzy language. Simple truth is that anytime you do not control the encryption keys from start to finish there is a chance for someone to decrypt and read the data. Even then it really depends on how paranoid you want to be. Do you personally audit the code for GPG and or Truecrypt and compile you own copies? After auditing the code for GCC and the libraries and then verifying the binary is correctly generated? If not how do you know that they are not transmitting a copy of your keys to a remote server? Complete privacy that does not depend on laws and company policy being enforced is just not possible. Heck even with ssl connections it is completely possible for a man in the middle attack between your computer and any website if a certain company employees wants to bad enough. I promise you can not come up with any online storage system where you upload none encrypted data that meets your concept of complete privacy. It just can not be done.
Dropbox really is a good service. Sure it is a more like a lock box you get at Office Depot and not Fort Knox but who needs Fort Knox? I can take a picture with my phone and put it into dropbox and it shows up on my desktop at home. I can share a folder with my wife so she can grab the pictures on her laptop. It is free for two gigs. It really is just a really good service. Dropbox should be commended for correcting their terms of service. No one could have lived up a TOS stating that it is impossible for any employee to read your data and keep the service users friendly. So people are now screaming because Dropbox has corrected the language of the TOS so that is now clear. Good freaking greif talk about people expecting a tech unicorns and fairy farts. What is really good about it is that YOU can make it extremely secure if you want to. Use your Dropbox shared folder to house a truecrypt container. Or just live with it as a pretty secure storage solution because frankly it is really cool and works really well.
I can't imagine any game being worth $60 at all. They all tend to come down in price after a few months and then you know what is crap and what is gold. Plus on the console Used games rock. I do very rarely buy new games but it really is rare. That is just me but I can not speak for other peoples proprieties.
Yes and no. The F-15 and F-16 also lack stealth "reduced radar cross section" and can not super cruise. Frankly I feel the F-35s lack of supercruise is one of it's big downsides as well as the cost of the VSTOL version. Also you as airframes get old they also get more expensive to keep flying. You mentioned upgrades and that brings me back to an idea I had a few decades ago. I thought wouldn't it be great if you upgraded the F-8 With a modern turbofan, new avionics, and maybe a composite wing. It would be the best F-8 ever. The problem is that it would be 90% the cost of an F-16 with 70% of the performance and with an old airframe that is just going to bet more and more expensive to keep in the air. An F-15 would not equal the F-22 and the F-16 will not match the F-35. Of course the F-15 is going to be inservice until at least 2025 or maybe longer. The F-4 didn't retire until 1996. Not bad since first flight was in 1958. Or almost 40 years. There is lots of room for debate but way too many people just repeat other's words with no real understanding and then have the ego to call those that disagree with them idiots.
That depends how low you feel you must go. Now that Dalvik is a JIT there is probably less need but still not zero. And yes I agree with you that one should do all of the above but the leap from Dalvik to C++ using OS calls is not exactly what I would consider bit banging the hardware. Now bypassing the OS and going to the hardware... Well that is just not what one should do on a Mobile device IMHO. I am pretty sure that a lot of games use the NDK and OS calls for a bit more speed. Oh and I have worked on Linux driver code. I was shocked with just how much you can do at such a high level. I was afraid I was going to have to brush off my assembly but I added the features I needed with just c.
??? A desktop does a large number of things not one thing really well. mobile is the new desktop... So mobile must do many things well and not one thing really well? Or it isn't really the new desktop and should stay specialized mobile device that isn't as flexible as the desktop? You are really contradiction yourself.
"Who the hell are we gonna fight that a well trained pilot in the F18 or even the F15-F16 won't be at the very least an even match? " Do you know what the prize is for second place in air combat? A tombstone.
So all of your examples are all based on 70s tech. Some of it early 70s tech. Yes they have been upgraded over the years but the basic airframes are all from the 1970s except for the F-18E/F which is sort of from the 90s. And the F-15 was considered way to expensive when new. The thing is that we will be flying the F-22 and probably the F-35 for the next 30 plus years. You do not build a new fighter for the threats of today but for the threats 20 years from now. And the Mig-31 isn't really a fighter it is an interceptor The real current threats from from the SU-3x line of fighters but I am guessing that you are not really into military aviation that much. Nice to see that you lack of knowledge didn't stop you from voice such a long and loud opinion. BTW the problem with drones is now and will be for a while is bandwidth. It takes a lot of bandwidth to uplink all the sensor data that a modern combat aircraft can gather and then you have the problem of time of signal for control. Until the drones are autonomous and pick pick their own targets "Wow how about that for a really bad idea?" and can handle air to air combat on their own they will be server limits to what they can do vs a manned aircraft.
But it will lead to app fragmentation because you will have to include X86 as well as arm in the binaries for any program that uses the NDK. Which will increase the size of the apps or you will have to include an ARM to X86 JIT compiler or maybe an ARM to X86 install time compiler.
Well with Android I just don't see the value but with Windows I do. At least with a Windows X86 tablet you will look like a PC so idiotic websites like Hulu and CBS.com will not restrict content because you are on a "mobile" device or on an "embedded device" and not a laptop or PC. I can watch Big Bang Theory on my laptop but not on phone because??? And if I hook a box to my TV like Boxee it is different than watching it on my pc because??? Other than that I would agree but I do wish that we where seeing more native Linux on ARM devices and not so much Android.
But again that also is a given. Even if they use a public private key system you do not keep the only copy of the keys. Dropbox has a recover lost password feature. If it does then there is no way that they encrypt the private key with your password then then store the key with a one way hash. If they did then you could never have the I lost my password function. Not only that but really? This is slashdot and even if they did all of that you still type your password into the website and the app. So the only thing that they keeps one of the developers from just grabbing your password is by company policy.
If it possible to click a link that says "lost password" on a file storage site and not have your old files unreadable then they can decrypt your files. That is programing 101. If someone can come up with a method that allows you to recover or rest a lost password and not have the files be unreadable and still make it impossible for any employee to read the files I would love to hear how that could work because I am pretty sure it is impossible.
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That story was confirmation for you? Some guy posting on slashdot?
Here is documented proof that it has been that way for a long time.
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-07/new-york-times-nasa-youre-right-rockets-do-work-space
The background story is that New York time wrote an editorial in 1920 lambasting a Professor named Robert Goddard for writing an scientific paper where he had the nerve to suggest that humans could someday use one of the liquid fueled rockets he was working on to send a machine to the moon. Well at least he didn't suggest that a person could go. I mean that would have been just insane. Robert Goddard had what little support he had dry up and was publicly humiliated so he worked in secret out in New Mexico. One does wonder what he might have done if the Times had supported is bold idea?
Did the Time bother to write a retraction when V2s where falling on London? No.
Did they write a retraction before Robert Goddard's death? No.
Did they even bother to write a retraction when Sputnik was launched? No.
They waited until man walked on the Moon.
Reporters are indoctrinated that they are the protectors of our freedom and that it is there job to explain things to us. Too bad they are not taught to just gather and report facts so that we can figure out what they mean for ourselves.
But this will have another effect hopefully. It should remove IP adresses as just cause for arrest and search warrants. Hopefully it will come out just how easy it is to spoof an IP address. It is like getting a warrant because the guy said his name was John Smith.
When the Wii was there where still a lot of none HD TVs in peoples homes so Nintendo targeted standard def and kept the prices low. Now HDTV is very common and thanks to Moores law Nintendo can come out with a console that will probably outperform the 360 and PS/3 and be cheaper. Now Nintendo can produce a new machine that will out perform the completion and cost less just as the Wii sales start to drop. Brilliant marketing plan and it will sell like hotcakes.
Maybe but Space X has not put a person into orbit yet or launched the Falcon 9 Heavy. And of course NASA was predicting a man a Mars, moon bases, and large manned spacestations by the 1990s back in the 1960s. Af could have done all of that as well if someone would have paid for it.
Well the US did win at Pearl Harbor because they didn't get the carriers and honestly the loss of life was relatively low. The fact that Japan didn't knock out the carriers, the fuel dump, and the dry docks really did make the attack on Pearl Harbor. Even the losses to the Battleships where not that great. Of the eight battleships damaged or sunk at Perl Harbor only two where total losses. Four fo the eight where back into service before the end of 1942 and the last two that where not total losses where back in service in 1944. What Pearl Harbor did was just make the US enraged and unified the nation but did little long term damage.
Of course I remember going into a video store and asked them where Apollo 13 was. I wanted to cry when they told me it was in sci-fi! I had to ask why but all I got was because it was about space! Ever get the feeling that a large percentage of the population really doesn't understand? Of course I also had a discussion very artsy friend of mine about Apollo 13 and how I really thought it should have gotten best picture over Braveheart. She actually told me that Braveheart was a better movie because you knew how Apollo 13 ended before you saw the movie. I had to say "You didn't know the english won?"
Good freaking heavens.
Yes and no. Modern military radios use spread spectrum and encryption to make them hard to locate and hard to listen in on. Now the rest of this is just off the cuff and some historical information. There are several ways make it even more secure. For on thing is forward units could choose to transmit only when they absolutely need to. They would listen and not talk. To keep say a head quarters secret you could have several transmitter sites linked to the HQ by cable or fiber. They can take out one transmitters but that isn't a big deal because you can just change to a new transmitter but the HQ stays hidden. Of course the in modern combat this is exactly what they do but they use commsat as the transmitter.
Like everything in life it is a trade off but the US is really good at secure communications.
Umm... Gold is cheap compared to interplanetary travel. Heck even if you found a mountain of diamonds the size of basketballs it still wouldn't be worth it. I think gold would have to hit something like $100,000 and ounce to make hauling it from the moon practical. And rare earths? Just not that rare and no most currencies are not backed by gold reserves.
No this is why we are not doomed and are human. We are tool users and makers. Convert CO2 back into gas? Increase the green house effect and warm mars? If Mars is lifeless the Yea go for it.
I would probably not use nukes but if we could hit it with a comet that could also add a good bit of water and release it into the atmosphere.
Yes even a thermonuclear warhead can be a tool for creation.
I know I am hopping that it will not be approved. After all Sprint is crabbing about it big time. I think T-Mobile is also worried that it will not go through since they put such strong penalties on AT&T if the sale fails.
Okay then October 22, 2015 It should actually be a function of how long it was for sale or minium five years.
Probably should buy TMobile and ClearWire for the spectrum. It would be cheaper. But Apple will not do that for the same reason that Microsoft isn't building a phone. Apple does not want to tick off the carriers. Plus for Apple it gives someone else to blame. Do you really think Apple wants worry about things like not enough towers in Idaho or a saturated network in SF?
Naw better to rake in the money. Now Google should think about buying TMobile.
Except Microsoft is still selling XP. I mean new copies of it to day. I can still buy a PC that comes new from the factory with XP.
How long did Microsoft support 98 after it stopped selling it? Windows 2000?
That is the difference. Stop XP should have five years from the day they stop selling it.
They do have lost password recovery and that is a fact. This was a clarification of the TOS because the old one was actually just not possible.
Employees can not look at your data. AKA it is not allowed by the rules. You can not go to the store naked. Not because it is physically impossible to go to the store naked but because you will face repercussions if you do. Some smart lawyer or engineer realized that there TOS was inaccurate and fixed it. English a fuzzy language. Simple truth is that anytime you do not control the encryption keys from start to finish there is a chance for someone to decrypt and read the data. Even then it really depends on how paranoid you want to be. Do you personally audit the code for GPG and or Truecrypt and compile you own copies? After auditing the code for GCC and the libraries and then verifying the binary is correctly generated? If not how do you know that they are not transmitting a copy of your keys to a remote server? Complete privacy that does not depend on laws and company policy being enforced is just not possible. Heck even with ssl connections it is completely possible for a man in the middle attack between your computer and any website if a certain company employees wants to bad enough. I promise you can not come up with any online storage system where you upload none encrypted data that meets your concept of complete privacy. It just can not be done.
Dropbox really is a good service. Sure it is a more like a lock box you get at Office Depot and not Fort Knox but who needs Fort Knox? I can take a picture with my phone and put it into dropbox and it shows up on my desktop at home. I can share a folder with my wife so she can grab the pictures on her laptop. It is free for two gigs. It really is just a really good service.
Dropbox should be commended for correcting their terms of service. No one could have lived up a TOS stating that it is impossible for any employee to read your data and keep the service users friendly. So people are now screaming because Dropbox has corrected the language of the TOS so that is now clear. Good freaking greif talk about people expecting a tech unicorns and fairy farts.
What is really good about it is that YOU can make it extremely secure if you want to. Use your Dropbox shared folder to house a truecrypt container.
Or just live with it as a pretty secure storage solution because frankly it is really cool and works really well.
I can't imagine any game being worth $60 at all. They all tend to come down in price after a few months and then you know what is crap and what is gold. Plus on the console Used games rock. I do very rarely buy new games but it really is rare. That is just me but I can not speak for other peoples proprieties.
Yes and no. The F-15 and F-16 also lack stealth "reduced radar cross section" and can not super cruise. Frankly I feel the F-35s lack of supercruise is one of it's big downsides as well as the cost of the VSTOL version.
Also you as airframes get old they also get more expensive to keep flying. You mentioned upgrades and that brings me back to an idea I had a few decades ago. I thought wouldn't it be great if you upgraded the F-8 With a modern turbofan, new avionics, and maybe a composite wing. It would be the best F-8 ever. The problem is that it would be 90% the cost of an F-16 with 70% of the performance and with an old airframe that is just going to bet more and more expensive to keep in the air.
An F-15 would not equal the F-22 and the F-16 will not match the F-35. Of course the F-15 is going to be inservice until at least 2025 or maybe longer. The F-4 didn't retire until 1996. Not bad since first flight was in 1958. Or almost 40 years. There is lots of room for debate but way too many people just repeat other's words with no real understanding and then have the ego to call those that disagree with them idiots.
Because we in Swedish secret police make it our business to know everything.
Too bad you didn't just move to IPV6 at that time.
That depends how low you feel you must go. Now that Dalvik is a JIT there is probably less need but still not zero. And yes I agree with you that one should do all of the above but the leap from Dalvik to C++ using OS calls is not exactly what I would consider bit banging the hardware. Now bypassing the OS and going to the hardware... Well that is just not what one should do on a Mobile device IMHO.
I am pretty sure that a lot of games use the NDK and OS calls for a bit more speed.
Oh and I have worked on Linux driver code. I was shocked with just how much you can do at such a high level. I was afraid I was going to have to brush off my assembly but I added the features I needed with just c.
???
A desktop does a large number of things not one thing really well. mobile is the new desktop... So mobile must do many things well and not one thing really well? Or it isn't really the new desktop and should stay specialized mobile device that isn't as flexible as the desktop?
You are really contradiction yourself.
And the average consumer.. Of course it is hackable.
I don't have a Boxee I got a ROKU which is really cool and cheap.
"Who the hell are we gonna fight that a well trained pilot in the F18 or even the F15-F16 won't be at the very least an even match? "
Do you know what the prize is for second place in air combat? A tombstone.
I love strong opinion with weak knowledge. You go on about how the Russians planes are all 70s tech. Well they are not and lets just go through the list of current US aircraft shall we?
F-15 first flight 1972 entered service 1976. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle.
F-16 first flight 1974 entered service 1978 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16
F-18 first flight 1978 entered service 1983 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-18
F-18E first flight 1995 entered service 1999 I will give the Super Hornet second timeline since it really is a massive update to the Hornet and really isn't the same aircraft even if it derived from it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_F/A-18E/F_Super_Hornet
So all of your examples are all based on 70s tech. Some of it early 70s tech. Yes they have been upgraded over the years but the basic airframes are all from the 1970s except for the F-18E/F which is sort of from the 90s.
And the F-15 was considered way to expensive when new. The thing is that we will be flying the F-22 and probably the F-35 for the next 30 plus years. You do not build a new fighter for the threats of today but for the threats 20 years from now. And the Mig-31 isn't really a fighter it is an interceptor The real current threats from from the SU-3x line of fighters but I am guessing that you are not really into military aviation that much. Nice to see that you lack of knowledge didn't stop you from voice such a long and loud opinion.
BTW the problem with drones is now and will be for a while is bandwidth. It takes a lot of bandwidth to uplink all the sensor data that a modern combat aircraft can gather and then you have the problem of time of signal for control. Until the drones are autonomous and pick pick their own targets "Wow how about that for a really bad idea?" and can handle air to air combat on their own they will be server limits to what they can do vs a manned aircraft.
But it will lead to app fragmentation because you will have to include X86 as well as arm in the binaries for any program that uses the NDK. Which will increase the size of the apps or you will have to include an ARM to X86 JIT compiler or maybe an ARM to X86 install time compiler.
Well with Android I just don't see the value but with Windows I do. At least with a Windows X86 tablet you will look like a PC so idiotic websites like Hulu and CBS.com will not restrict content because you are on a "mobile" device or on an "embedded device" and not a laptop or PC.
I can watch Big Bang Theory on my laptop but not on phone because??? And if I hook a box to my TV like Boxee it is different than watching it on my pc because???
Other than that I would agree but I do wish that we where seeing more native Linux on ARM devices and not so much Android.
But again that also is a given. Even if they use a public private key system you do not keep the only copy of the keys. Dropbox has a recover lost password feature. If it does then there is no way that they encrypt the private key with your password then then store the key with a one way hash. If they did then you could never have the I lost my password function. Not only that but really? This is slashdot and even if they did all of that you still type your password into the website and the app. So the only thing that they keeps one of the developers from just grabbing your password is by company policy.
If it possible to click a link that says "lost password" on a file storage site and not have your old files unreadable then they can decrypt your files. That is programing 101. If someone can come up with a method that allows you to recover or rest a lost password and not have the files be unreadable and still make it impossible for any employee to read the files I would love to hear how that could work because I am pretty sure it is impossible.