If the bomber is not using a stand off missile. No you want to stop them before they get to your territory not after. And really? The UK depends on aircraft more than missiles vs Russia because it has more empty space???? What map are you looking at?
" Open Hardware is basically doing what already happens with customization of ARM today, except people wouldn't have to pay ARM Holdings for the privilege." So would pay for ARM to develop new CPUs
Yes. The original idea for the U2 was to take the F-104 and put a big wing on it. From the wikipedia. "Johnson's design, named CL-282, was based on the Lockheed XF-104 with long, slender wings and a shortened fuselage. The design was powered by the General Electric J73 engine " A lot of changes where made but yea it really was.
" The first purpose built guided missile cruisers were put in service in the early 80s, " No the USS Long Beach CGN-9 as built in the 1950s.CGN= Cruiser Guided Missile. You then had the California and Virginia class cruisers as well but for a while I think they were called frigates before what where called DEs Destroyer Escorts were changed to Frigates. "and could sink ships at 10x the range the big guns on the New Jersey could hit. The Harpoon anti-ship missile went into service in the 70s." Range of the 16" guns on the New Jersey class was 14+ miles. The Harpoon did not have 140 mile range. The ASM version of the Tomahawk did but those have been withdrawn from service and did not go into service until the 1980s so wrong again. "Destroyers traditionally play mainly anti-submarine and anti-aircraft roles," Destroyers are traditional do anything ships. They originally were designed to "Destroy" torpedo boats attacking ships of the line like battleships. In fact they were called Torpedo Boat Destroyers which was shortened to Destroyer.
After World War II is when they started to become more specialized for ASW and AAW.
Since WWII the US Navy has followed a stand policy for anti-ship attacks. Carrier aircraft have been the the US's primary anti-ship weapon.
The Vulcan did nave a much lower RCS than other aircraft of it's size. The buried engines helped because the long duct reduced the angle at which you could see the fan by a lot. Vulcan vs a B-1B, B2, F-117, F-35, or F-22 and the Vulcan is a barn door. Vulcan vs a B-47, B-52, TU-16, Bear, TU-22, or even a TU-22m and it looks really good.
The engines are still the TF-33 that came with the H out of the factory. The TF-33 is a J-57 based turbofan and the J-57 was what was on the the A-F versions of the 52.
1. People are scared. 2. People want the government to do "something". You are always in trouble when someone starts saying "We have to do something". Without a good idea of what that something should be.
The law is dumb. Use a VPN to a nation without the restriction on tor and use TOR. Going to outlaw VPNs? Not really possible or even a good idea.
" one has to wonder if taking away a little bit from fusion research and giving it to research for batteries and renewables might be a better use of limited resources." Probably not. Battery research is already getting a huge amount of funding from commercial sources. Every cell phone, laptop, tablet, and power tool maker is putting money into batteries. All the incentives for development are already in place for batteries. Frankly the problems with improved batteries is one of chemistry and physics at this point and not one of funding.
Dude you so fell for it. Red Mercury is very real and dangerous. It can take out an entire city with ease. It is a meta-stable nuclear isomer that when you apply a resonant magnetic field will cause a cascade release of photons in the gamma ray range powerful enough to act a trigger in e thermonuclear device. Even without a fusion device it would cause a large gamma ray event. Thank goodness that ISIS is still wasting it's time with small terror attacks like the one in France. If they ever dedicated themselves 100% to the acquisition of red mercury they might destroy the western world.
"In the very earliest days of NASA, since NASA was a civilian agency, NASA had a policy of using "civilian" rockets. Which meant that they had to develop their rockets from scratch rather than using modified ICBMs."
What the heck are you talking about. The first satellite booster was the Juno-1/Jupiter-C which was based on the Redstone SRBM. The Thor which evolved into the Delta was an IRBM. The Atlas used for Score and any number of launches including the Mercury orbital flights was the USs first ICBMs The Titan II was used for Gemini and evolved into the Titan III, Titan IV, and so on was an ICBM!
So what? Really what does that have to do with is it real or manufactured? BTW I see lots of news all the time about all the people being killed in Iraq and Syria so I really do not know what you mean by no one cares.
"I do have a gut feeling that some of the people who maintain them are paranoid and not really smart, so I don't trust them to have people on them for good reasons." A paranoid not really smart person does not get to be the keeper of any watch list "at the federal level" in the US. Those tend to be weeded out since they also generate too much noise.
"You sound reasonable, but I have nothing that shows you are true." You also have nothing that shows I am incorrect except that it sounds reasonable and frankly logical. The simple fact that most of the people that post on slashdot that they fear that they are on a watch list never get arrested or even harassed.
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No you are wrong.
And CDs are not a lossy format.
I am sure they have but now they have a pattern to look for.
If the bomber is not using a stand off missile.
No you want to stop them before they get to your territory not after. And really? The UK depends on aircraft more than missiles vs Russia because it has more empty space???? What map are you looking at?
Ahh so you follow the classic definition of AI.
AI is what we can not make a computer do well yet.
" Open Hardware is basically doing what already happens with customization of ARM today, except people wouldn't have to pay ARM Holdings for the privilege."
So would pay for ARM to develop new CPUs
"That's because you can't catch the bomber."
No that is because the bomber is already over your territory.
Actually the west gave up on true interceptors in the 60s. Also if you are in a stern chase you have already lost.
Yes.
The original idea for the U2 was to take the F-104 and put a big wing on it.
From the wikipedia.
"Johnson's design, named CL-282, was based on the Lockheed XF-104 with long, slender wings and a shortened fuselage. The design was powered by the General Electric J73 engine "
A lot of changes where made but yea it really was.
ASW is anti-submarine warfare.
ASuW is anti-ship. "I think"
" The first purpose built guided missile cruisers were put in service in the early 80s, "
No the USS Long Beach CGN-9 as built in the 1950s.CGN= Cruiser Guided Missile.
You then had the California and Virginia class cruisers as well but for a while I think they were called frigates before what where called DEs Destroyer Escorts were changed to Frigates.
"and could sink ships at 10x the range the big guns on the New Jersey could hit. The Harpoon anti-ship missile went into service in the 70s."
Range of the 16" guns on the New Jersey class was 14+ miles. The Harpoon did not have 140 mile range. The ASM version of the Tomahawk did but those have been withdrawn from service and did not go into service until the 1980s so wrong again.
"Destroyers traditionally play mainly anti-submarine and anti-aircraft roles,"
Destroyers are traditional do anything ships. They originally were designed to "Destroy" torpedo boats attacking ships of the line like battleships. In fact they were called Torpedo Boat Destroyers which was shortened to Destroyer.
After World War II is when they started to become more specialized for ASW and AAW.
Since WWII the US Navy has followed a stand policy for anti-ship attacks. Carrier aircraft have been the the US's primary anti-ship weapon.
But it really sucked in range, sensors, and weapons. Great hot rod but really not a great interceptor.
No it does not.
The U-2 was actually based of the F-104. The Canberra was a great plane but they are not related except in mission.
The Vulcan did nave a much lower RCS than other aircraft of it's size. The buried engines helped because the long duct reduced the angle at which you could see the fan by a lot.
Vulcan vs a B-1B, B2, F-117, F-35, or F-22 and the Vulcan is a barn door.
Vulcan vs a B-47, B-52, TU-16, Bear, TU-22, or even a TU-22m and it looks really good.
The F-4, F-15, F-16, C-130, Nimitz class carrier, Saturn-V, Atlas, Titan, Delta, Bell Jetranger, Chinook, and the list goes on and on.
The engines are still the TF-33 that came with the H out of the factory.
The TF-33 is a J-57 based turbofan and the J-57 was what was on the the A-F versions of the 52.
1. People are scared.
2. People want the government to do "something". You are always in trouble when someone starts saying "We have to do something". Without a good idea of what that something should be.
The law is dumb. Use a VPN to a nation without the restriction on tor and use TOR.
Going to outlaw VPNs?
Not really possible or even a good idea.
The definition of true AI is simple.
Tasks that we can not do well with a computer yet.
" one has to wonder if taking away a little bit from fusion research and giving it to research for batteries and renewables might be a better use of limited resources."
Probably not. Battery research is already getting a huge amount of funding from commercial sources. Every cell phone, laptop, tablet, and power tool maker is putting money into batteries. All the incentives for development are already in place for batteries. Frankly the problems with improved batteries is one of chemistry and physics at this point and not one of funding.
Dude you so fell for it. Red Mercury is very real and dangerous. It can take out an entire city with ease. It is a meta-stable nuclear isomer that when you apply a resonant magnetic field will cause a cascade release of photons in the gamma ray range powerful enough to act a trigger in e thermonuclear device. Even without a fusion device it would cause a large gamma ray event.
Thank goodness that ISIS is still wasting it's time with small terror attacks like the one in France. If they ever dedicated themselves 100% to the acquisition of red mercury they might destroy the western world.
Exactly, Uber is the Walmart of transportation.
"In the very earliest days of NASA, since NASA was a civilian agency, NASA had a policy of using "civilian" rockets. Which meant that they had to develop their rockets from scratch rather than using modified ICBMs."
What the heck are you talking about.
The first satellite booster was the Juno-1/Jupiter-C which was based on the Redstone SRBM.
The Thor which evolved into the Delta was an IRBM.
The Atlas used for Score and any number of launches including the Mercury orbital flights was the USs first ICBMs
The Titan II was used for Gemini and evolved into the Titan III, Titan IV, and so on was an ICBM!
No x86/x64 won.
" Are there that many x64 based supercomputers out there?"
Yes.
Including the number one and number two on the top 500 list.
So what?
Really what does that have to do with is it real or manufactured?
BTW I see lots of news all the time about all the people being killed in Iraq and Syria so I really do not know what you mean by no one cares.
"I do have a gut feeling that some of the people who maintain them are paranoid and not really smart, so I don't trust them to have people on them for good reasons."
A paranoid not really smart person does not get to be the keeper of any watch list "at the federal level" in the US. Those tend to be weeded out since they also generate too much noise.
"You sound reasonable, but I have nothing that shows you are true."
You also have nothing that shows I am incorrect except that it sounds reasonable and frankly logical. The simple fact that most of the people that post on slashdot that they fear that they are on a watch list never get arrested or even harassed.