So none of these times did we almost nuked our self... The first on in 1950 at Travis the bomb wasn't armed. AKA it had no nuclear material in it. So there was zero chance that we would get nuked. The second at Fermi 1. A reactor problem that was contained and couldn't have caused a nuclear explosion as in a bomb going off. It could have been bad but the systems worked. The third was another un armed bomb. The forth another reactor problem and again the emergency systems worked and no chance of a bomb like blast. The last was a when a training tap was played on real systems. Yes air craft where launched and that mistake was never made again but the the safety systems and procedures worked. What is this a piece of FUD? Good at scaring children,people that will not bother to read, and those that are already full of fear mindless fear. Move on nothing to see here.
Since flying a drone in US airspace is very difficult and they do require pilots. Yes from a light airplane. I would guess that it would cost a lot less than the street view cars do. You can probably get a plane and a pilot for less than 100 an hour. It can probably a city in one day. 8x100=$800. Then think about how many hours it will take to drive all over a city at say $20 an hour. The shots from an airplane will be a lot cheaper.
They may have had a warrant and at least one judge has ruled that one isn't required since you don't have to have a warrant to follow someone while they are driving. A judge on the east coast had a different ruling so we will see. Also the write up is just a little one sided. This guy and a roommate/friend that wrote a post that "had something to do with mall or a bomb". He went moved to Egypt for a few years and then came back but his family stayed and he had already been interviewed by FBI and as was his rights wanted a lawyer with him before he would talk. This person wasn't just somebody out of the blue. It is an uncomfortable fact that if someone you are close too makes comments about blowing up something and you are active in a community where people have commented terrorists attacks you will probably get looked at.
Or let's change this up. If this guy was a member of a fundamentalist church and a buddy of his make a comment about blowing up an abortion clinic would you have a problem the FBI investigating him?
I do think that there is too much anti Muslim hysteria in the US. And that we our government needs to follow the that no wiretapping/searching without a warrant rule they wrote back about 200 years ago. However if this guys friend did plant a bomb in a mall and killed a few dozen people after posting that comment on the internet how many people we be up in arms? Think about all the nut jobs of late that have first posted some waked manifesto to the internet and then went on a shooting spree.
Guess what folks if you post on the internet you are screaming it in the middle of the city for all to hear. Don't be surprised if you scream that you are going to break the law the police may hear you.
Since most disasters I am speaking of are man made I would say that isn't a big worry. The bigest concern would be dependence. People not trying to save themselves because you will do it for them. Stopping a hurricane would probably be risky. Stoping a dam from breaking or delaying it long enough for people to get away would be safe.
"but I have a feeling most people aren't sociopaths" really? Read Slashdot comments at -3 or the comments on CNN, Digg, and Engadget. That should change your mind.
That is the scary thing isn't it. After reading many of the posts on Slashdot over the years I can say it is pretty likely that I would be one of the first people to start work on a Kryponite gun. Is there that large of a number of people that really feel they have the wisdom and the right to rule with God like powers? Now that I think about it using super powers like that to stop oil spills, floods, fires, plane crashes, and all the other seemingly trivial things really is the wisest choice. You can not "fix society" society must fix it's self. You can fix physical problems people must be educated and convinced.
I question the idea that the core apps will be better. The browser? The maps? Will it have turn by turn navigation? Email? Maybe if you use exchange but what about gmail? Also will exchange support be as good as RIMs? I don't know if you can say that the 3rd party apps will be higher quality until we see them. There may be fewer fluff apps but what really counts are those few super apps that everybody uses. Things like Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Navigation, Pandora, 4Square and so on. What I think will kill WP7 is that it will be mainly on AT&T. It will be sitting next to the iPhone and the big iPhone displays. The WM7 phones will probably cost the same as the iPhone and the plan will cost the same. So as an end user at AT&T you will have a choice. An the iPhone. The cool phone with all the apps, games, and add on known to man. Or for the same price. A windows phone with less apps and games... That is the rub in the US. The one big thing they could have is Zune pass. If are supporting Zune pass on the WM7 then for music fans it could be a big selling point. Hey it may do well but right now they are starting off as my mother would say, "a day late and a dollar short". If I was on AT&T I can honestly say that I most likely get an iPhone.
Really well here you go. http://beagleboard.org/hardware http://gumstix.com/ There are a lot more but beagleboard is the closest I have seen to a mini ITX board. Just plug in a keyboard, mouse and monitor and you are good to go.
Umm he did mention Obama. You are looking for bias that at least isn't documented in the above post. So I would say that you own roman_mir and apology.
Yes but the Iphone has cut and paste now and has multi-tasking limited but a lot of people say it makes all the difference. Android and WebOS have true multitasking as well. I will add that Microsoft WinMo 6.5 also has multitasking and cut n paste. Thing is that when IOS was lacking those features all it had to complete with was WinMo, RIM, Symbian, and PalmOS.
WM7 must face both IOS and Android in their current state and honestly I don't see a big draw yet. We will see but WM7 must compete with IOS4 and with Android 2.2 today.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can get any buzz with this. It has to be better than IOS, Android, and WebOS. It is only available in the US on AT&T and maybe TMobile. So on AT&T will people buy it over the iPhone? Will AT&T push it much? TMobile is the smallest carrier but they are a good carrier. Will they push it over Android since they have a long record with Android and the G2 has just launched? Microsoft is just in a very bad position. It isn't like the XBox where they came from nothing. They have a product that for the most part is boring and have been beaten up by both Apple and Android in this market. Unless WP7 is just super great it will be blah... Or to put it better it will be the Next of Kin.
Notice that I said don't do well yet. That means that it is doable in software. If it is doable in software it is doable in a bio brain since bio brains write software.
I guess if you want to do get into things like calculating out pi to the final digit or real time ray tracing then you are correct. But I think my definition is a pretty dang good one for the most part.
I was thinking of the probe and not the boosters. One the actual probe I would still go with the very little ferrous material. Actually I thought steel usually wins for strength per volume but I am not and expert on exotic alloys.
Probably not steel engineering. Very little steel tends to be used on space craft. Ti and AL have must higher strength to weight ratios. But I know what you mean.
Funny but I have came up with the same definition about 20 years ago. I just simplified it. AI is what programs don't do well yet. I remember reading old books where things like playing checkers and Chess where considered AI problems.
It does but it doesn't Back in the day they where called Microcomputers and or HomeComputers. You tended to call computers like the Atari, C64, Vic20, TI99/4a, Apple II, and RadioShack CoCo Home computers. You had them at home and could play a lot of cool games on them they had color and often sound. They would run their own OS and didn't use a Z80. Computers like the Kaypro2X, Osbourne, TRS-80 Model II, and the Zenith Heathkit line microcomputers. They usually ran CP/M the Model II could run CP/M and where serious computers. They also tended to have Z-80s.8080s, and or 8085s for the cpu.These where used for business.
You did have a lot of cross over with the very early machines like the PET, Apple II, and TRS-80 model 1. When IBM came into the market they wouldn't call their computer a home computer. And they wouldn't call it a microcomputer since it was 16 bits so they called it a personal computer or a PC. Since then PC really meant to just about everybody a Intel computer running MS-DOS or windows. For a while Atari STs, Amigas, Macs, and Intel running OS/2 tried to get their computers called Personal Workstations to show just how much more advanced they where then the old 8088/DOS machines. That didn't last long plus PW makes a bad acronym. So while PC has come to mean all desktops and laptops it traditionally means Wintel it's forefather Intel+MS-DOS. If you honestly think it is generic then why was their ever the term PC Compatible to describe a computer? Frankly they are all still microcomputers unless you have something using old bit-slice tech sitting on your desk.
Checking the code is one thing writing your own OS from the ground up is another. I can see where you are coming from but it can also be your typical government boondoggle as well. Take a look at it this way. What would be the fastest and most economical way to produce a standards compliant OS? 1. Write one from scratch. 2. Spent money on auditing and securing an existing OS like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solais "the open version" or Linux? Maybe if you want to be cutting edge like Minix3, Plan9, Dragonfly BSD, or HURD. The real problem will be trying to secure your entire stack. There will be the driver issue followed by all sorts of firmware. Every time you want to add new hardware to the stack you will have to do a lot of auditing. Frankly that is one reason I would tend to go with Minix3 or HURD. Those both are microkernels. Since performance these days is less of an issue the added abstraction may be worth it.
But before you go off on the fellow about how this is stupid I suggest you read about the R101. A great cautionary tail about what happens when a goverments thinks it can do everything better. I am not saying that governments have no roll, but one does have to consider what a bunch of politicians really know about computer security and software development. Over all I would say a from the ground up general purpose OS seems like a huge waste of resources as anything but a research project.
You can pretty much unlatch them all from the outside. Really with good reason. If the cable breaks you do not want to have a way in without cutting the hood off. At best it is just to slow them down.
Shakespeare says it is. "Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise; This fortress, built by nature for herself, Against infection, and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world; This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,"
And Winston Churchill "What tragedies, what horrors, what crimes has Hitler and all that Hitler stands for brought upon Europe and the world! The ruins of Warsaw, of Rotterdam, of Belgrade are monuments which will long recall to future generations the outrage of unopposed air bombing applied with calculated scientific cruelty to helpless populations. Here in London and throughout the cities of our island and in Ireland there may also be seen marks of devastation. They are being repaid and presently they will be more than repaid. " Churchill also called England "this island fortress".
While not true, England has been called an Island nation by many people and at many times in many pretty famous works of literature. And as I have show by pretty famous Englishman.
You see that is the problem. People in the EU think they are the center of the world and don't even know their own history or literature. Unlike here in the US where we get a more balanced world based historical education. Yea I just said that to tick off the EU folks that like say that we don't know any history.
They work like you say but I wouldn't call that "secure". Easy to tell you are from the EU. Glow plug wires? Spark plug wires most likely if the show was from the US. Diesel cars are few and far between here.
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So none of these times did we almost nuked our self... ,people that will not bother to read, and those that are already full of fear mindless fear. Move on nothing to see here.
The first on in 1950 at Travis the bomb wasn't armed. AKA it had no nuclear material in it.
So there was zero chance that we would get nuked.
The second at Fermi 1. A reactor problem that was contained and couldn't have caused a nuclear explosion as in a bomb going off. It could have been bad but the systems worked.
The third was another un armed bomb.
The forth another reactor problem and again the emergency systems worked and no chance of a bomb like blast.
The last was a when a training tap was played on real systems. Yes air craft where launched and that mistake was never made again but the the safety systems and procedures worked.
What is this a piece of FUD? Good at scaring children
You are probably right. Even at 200 hour it is sitll not going to be as expensive as street view.
Since flying a drone in US airspace is very difficult and they do require pilots. Yes from a light airplane.
I would guess that it would cost a lot less than the street view cars do.
You can probably get a plane and a pilot for less than 100 an hour. It can probably a city in one day. 8x100=$800. Then think about how many hours it will take to drive all over a city at say $20 an hour. The shots from an airplane will be a lot cheaper.
They may have had a warrant and at least one judge has ruled that one isn't required since you don't have to have a warrant to follow someone while they are driving. A judge on the east coast had a different ruling so we will see.
Also the write up is just a little one sided. This guy and a roommate/friend that wrote a post that "had something to do with mall or a bomb". He went moved to Egypt for a few years and then came back but his family stayed and he had already been interviewed by FBI and as was his rights wanted a lawyer with him before he would talk.
This person wasn't just somebody out of the blue. It is an uncomfortable fact that if someone you are close too makes comments about blowing up something and you are active in a community where people have commented terrorists attacks you will probably get looked at.
Or let's change this up.
If this guy was a member of a fundamentalist church and a buddy of his make a comment about blowing up an abortion clinic would you have a problem the FBI investigating him?
I do think that there is too much anti Muslim hysteria in the US. And that we our government needs to follow the that no wiretapping/searching without a warrant rule they wrote back about 200 years ago.
However if this guys friend did plant a bomb in a mall and killed a few dozen people after posting that comment on the internet how many people we be up in arms? Think about all the nut jobs of late that have first posted some waked manifesto to the internet and then went on a shooting spree.
Guess what folks if you post on the internet you are screaming it in the middle of the city for all to hear.
Don't be surprised if you scream that you are going to break the law the police may hear you.
Since most disasters I am speaking of are man made I would say that isn't a big worry.
The bigest concern would be dependence. People not trying to save themselves because you will do it for them.
Stopping a hurricane would probably be risky. Stoping a dam from breaking or delaying it long enough for people to get away would be safe.
So you would be Tony Stark. Cool.
"but I have a feeling most people aren't sociopaths"
really? Read Slashdot comments at -3 or the comments on CNN, Digg, and Engadget.
That should change your mind.
And it doesn't matter if they like it or not.
That is the scary thing isn't it. After reading many of the posts on Slashdot over the years I can say it is pretty likely that I would be one of the first people to start work on a Kryponite gun.
Is there that large of a number of people that really feel they have the wisdom and the right to rule with God like powers?
Now that I think about it using super powers like that to stop oil spills, floods, fires, plane crashes, and all the other seemingly trivial things really is the wisest choice.
You can not "fix society" society must fix it's self. You can fix physical problems people must be educated and convinced.
I question the idea that the core apps will be better. The browser? The maps? Will it have turn by turn navigation? Email? Maybe if you use exchange but what about gmail?
Also will exchange support be as good as RIMs?
I don't know if you can say that the 3rd party apps will be higher quality until we see them.
There may be fewer fluff apps but what really counts are those few super apps that everybody uses.
Things like Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Navigation, Pandora, 4Square and so on.
What I think will kill WP7 is that it will be mainly on AT&T. It will be sitting next to the iPhone and the big iPhone displays.
The WM7 phones will probably cost the same as the iPhone and the plan will cost the same.
So as an end user at AT&T you will have a choice.
An the iPhone. The cool phone with all the apps, games, and add on known to man. Or for the same price. A windows phone with less apps and games...
That is the rub in the US. The one big thing they could have is Zune pass. If are supporting Zune pass on the WM7 then for music fans it could be a big selling point.
Hey it may do well but right now they are starting off as my mother would say, "a day late and a dollar short".
If I was on AT&T I can honestly say that I most likely get an iPhone.
Really well here you go.
http://beagleboard.org/hardware
http://gumstix.com/
There are a lot more but beagleboard is the closest I have seen to a mini ITX board.
Just plug in a keyboard, mouse and monitor and you are good to go.
"I don't like pie"
You are a freak and must be removed from the gene pool before you reproduce! That is just unnatural.
Umm he did mention Obama. You are looking for bias that at least isn't documented in the above post.
So I would say that you own roman_mir and apology.
Yes but the Iphone has cut and paste now and has multi-tasking limited but a lot of people say it makes all the difference.
Android and WebOS have true multitasking as well.
I will add that Microsoft WinMo 6.5 also has multitasking and cut n paste.
Thing is that when IOS was lacking those features all it had to complete with was WinMo, RIM, Symbian, and PalmOS.
WM7 must face both IOS and Android in their current state and honestly I don't see a big draw yet. We will see but WM7 must compete with IOS4 and with Android 2.2 today.
Where is cut and paste and multitasking?
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can get any buzz with this. It has to be better than IOS, Android, and WebOS. It is only available in the US on AT&T and maybe TMobile. So on AT&T will people buy it over the iPhone? Will AT&T push it much? TMobile is the smallest carrier but they are a good carrier. Will they push it over Android since they have a long record with Android and the G2 has just launched?
Microsoft is just in a very bad position. It isn't like the XBox where they came from nothing. They have a product that for the most part is boring and have been beaten up by both Apple and Android in this market.
Unless WP7 is just super great it will be blah... Or to put it better it will be the Next of Kin.
Notice that I said don't do well yet. That means that it is doable in software. If it is doable in software it is doable in a bio brain since bio brains write software.
I guess if you want to do get into things like calculating out pi to the final digit or real time ray tracing then you are correct.
But I think my definition is a pretty dang good one for the most part.
I was thinking of the probe and not the boosters.
One the actual probe I would still go with the very little ferrous material. Actually I thought steel usually wins for strength per volume but I am not and expert on exotic alloys.
Probably not steel engineering. Very little steel tends to be used on space craft. Ti and AL have must higher strength to weight ratios.
But I know what you mean.
Funny but I have came up with the same definition about 20 years ago. I just simplified it.
AI is what programs don't do well yet. I remember reading old books where things like playing checkers and Chess where considered AI problems.
It does but it doesn't
Back in the day they where called Microcomputers and or HomeComputers.
You tended to call computers like the Atari, C64, Vic20, TI99/4a, Apple II, and RadioShack CoCo Home computers. You had them at home and could play a lot of cool games on them they had color and often sound. They would run their own OS and didn't use a Z80.
Computers like the Kaypro2X, Osbourne, TRS-80 Model II, and the Zenith Heathkit line microcomputers. They usually ran CP/M the Model II could run CP/M and where serious computers. They also tended to have Z-80s.8080s, and or 8085s for the cpu.These where used for business.
You did have a lot of cross over with the very early machines like the PET, Apple II, and TRS-80 model 1.
When IBM came into the market they wouldn't call their computer a home computer. And they wouldn't call it a microcomputer since it was 16 bits so they called it a personal computer or a PC.
Since then PC really meant to just about everybody a Intel computer running MS-DOS or windows.
For a while Atari STs, Amigas, Macs, and Intel running OS/2 tried to get their computers called Personal Workstations to show just how much more advanced they where then the old 8088/DOS machines. That didn't last long plus PW makes a bad acronym.
So while PC has come to mean all desktops and laptops it traditionally means Wintel it's forefather Intel+MS-DOS.
If you honestly think it is generic then why was their ever the term PC Compatible to describe a computer?
Frankly they are all still microcomputers unless you have something using old bit-slice tech sitting on your desk.
Checking the code is one thing writing your own OS from the ground up is another.
I can see where you are coming from but it can also be your typical government boondoggle as well.
Take a look at it this way. What would be the fastest and most economical way to produce a standards compliant OS?
1. Write one from scratch.
2. Spent money on auditing and securing an existing OS like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solais "the open version" or Linux?
Maybe if you want to be cutting edge like Minix3, Plan9, Dragonfly BSD, or HURD.
The real problem will be trying to secure your entire stack. There will be the driver issue followed by all sorts of firmware. Every time you want to add new hardware to the stack you will have to do a lot of auditing. Frankly that is one reason I would tend to go with Minix3 or HURD. Those both are microkernels. Since performance these days is less of an issue the added abstraction may be worth it.
But before you go off on the fellow about how this is stupid I suggest you read about the R101.
A great cautionary tail about what happens when a goverments thinks it can do everything better. I am not saying that governments have no roll, but one does have to consider what a bunch of politicians really know about computer security and software development.
Over all I would say a from the ground up general purpose OS seems like a huge waste of resources as anything but a research project.
Michoud maybe but what about Houston?
You can pretty much unlatch them all from the outside. Really with good reason. If the cable breaks you do not want to have a way in without cutting the hood off.
At best it is just to slow them down.
How many Libraries of Congress is that?
Shakespeare says it is.
"Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise;
This fortress, built by nature for herself,
Against infection, and the hand of war;
This happy breed of men, this little world;
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands;
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,"
And Winston Churchill
"What tragedies, what horrors, what crimes has Hitler and all that Hitler stands for brought upon Europe and the world! The ruins of Warsaw, of Rotterdam, of Belgrade are monuments which will long recall to future generations the outrage of unopposed air bombing applied with calculated scientific cruelty to helpless populations. Here in London and throughout the cities of our island and in Ireland there may also be seen marks of devastation. They are being repaid and presently they will be more than repaid. "
Churchill also called England "this island fortress".
While not true, England has been called an Island nation by many people and at many times in many pretty famous works of literature. And as I have show by pretty famous Englishman.
You see that is the problem. People in the EU think they are the center of the world and don't even know their own history or literature. Unlike here in the US where we get a more balanced world based historical education.
Yea I just said that to tick off the EU folks that like say that we don't know any history.
They work like you say but I wouldn't call that "secure".
Easy to tell you are from the EU. Glow plug wires? Spark plug wires most likely if the show was from the US. Diesel cars are few and far between here.