I heard they don't have enough detectors to triangulate the source based on speed of light delays.
If the source is persistent, and you can determine the direction of the source relative to your array... you don't need multiple detectors. The rotation of the Earth will provide you with a short baseline and a (very) coarse position estimate. The orbit of the Earth around the Sun will provide you with a longer baseline and increasingly fine position estimates.
Though it's a bit more complex as the motion of the detector (and source) is a higher proportion of baseline length, submarines do something like this (using the change in position of the detector) to determine target range using only passive sonar.
No, the Navy doesn't "suspect" cyber attacks. They don't "suspect" anything at this stage of the investigation. This article is nothing but irresponsible clickbait.
This is probably fueled by the many rightwing nutjob sites that have already pronounced the accident to be an attack. The same nutjob websites that whupped up fears of a US Army takeover during Jade Helm and pronounced that the USS Enterprise was rigged with bombs so Obama could sink it on it's last deployment and start a war.
Interesting qualification given that this is generally what the feature has been used for.
No. This feature's use hasn't been limited to large scale disasters - it's mostly used for very small scale and localized things (such as Charlottesville or various shootings).
We're not living lives of fear, we're living lives of anxiety. We always have. You may not remember the bombings in Manchester in 1996. I do. I had a lump in my throat for about 10 hours while I was wondering if my cousin who worked in the area was still alive before a family member finally managed to get him on the phone.
You're just playing idiotic semantic games by trying to substitute "anxiety" for "fear" and trying to pretend the latter is different while demonstrating that you treat them as equivalent.
I've had friends and family who live near the sites of accidents, attacks and disasters - and never felt more than a moment of concern. Accidents, attacks, and disasters are generally small, and cities generally big. Except for something large scale (like a weather related issue or a quake), there's generally no particular reason to feel concerned.
But I admit I'm the outlier. Since the onset of the 24/7 news cycle in the late 70's/early 80's the vast majority of people have become conditioned to living in fear. Social media didn't create this, it just amplified it.
The $408 million TDRS-M was built and launched with the sole purpose to extend the useful life of NASA's constant communications infrastructure, supporting the astronauts around-the-clock aboard the International Space Station, supplying contact with the Hubble Space Telescope and transmitting the data from almost 40 science spacecraft studying Earth's environment and space.
The military and the NRO use a substantial portion of the TDRS systems bandwidth as well.
Without Bannon Trump will have a far harder time keeping in sync with the people responsible for putting him in office.
Not being in sync with racists, Nazis, and various clueless fools that failed to realize that was who Trump really is... How exactly is this a problem?
Or are you one of those clueless fools who bought his bullshit yourself?
Sorry, there's really no reason or justification for pirating Disney movies. Or any movies, really. If you don't want to pay what the companies that made them are asking, then don't watch. This is the entitlement mentality at it's worst. Nobody owes you anything, and you don't need movies. It's not like stealing bread to feed your family.
I wish I had mod points - because you hit the nail on the head. Disney splitting from Netflix doesn't lead to piracy, a sense of self entitlement leads to piracy. All the split does is change the level of self entitlement that causes people to cross the line.
Regardless of the ethics... This guy is risking his entire livelihood by doing a talk and interview.
0.o How? Do you think companies are going to magically start finally getting rid of the hackers? Or somehow suddenly become omni-competent at doing so?
The problem is nobody learns the basic smalltalk skills anymore and the people you're with are "real" and not as interesting and entertaining as the 50 people in your facebook friends list who can always keep you going.
Facebook has only been around for a decade or so - so the only people that could not have learned smalltalk are those under their early 20's or so. People older than that should have already learned.
Before the smartphone I'd go out to dinner with family and friends and eventually the conversation would inevitably die and... and we'd come up with smalltalk and jokes to pick things up and get the conversation moving again which brings out people's personalities and depth
Now? We check our smartphones.
That's not a smartphone problem - that's a you and your friends problem. Either through the inability or unwillingness to carry on a conversation, or the inability or unwillingness to not drag out the phone. As you say, you've done it yourself - which just further exposes the bullshit in your claim that "nobody had learned" - because elsewhere you claim to have been around before and after.
I'm not so sure about that. Unless you're building a company out in the middle of nowhere, it seems like it'd be a perfect opportunity for the right people to ditch SV and live somewhere less hectic
You're missing the key thing that makes and keeps SV so attractive despite it's disadvantages - if the startup you're working for folds, there's ten others hiring tomorrow. You don't have to move, you just change your commute. If the startup you're working for in Bumfuck, NY folds... it's going to be much harder to find comparable work without pulling up stakes. (And much harder to jump a sinking ship.)
This also works to the disadvantage of the employer. You're no longer competing to hire the best currently available, but the much smaller pool of the best currently available willing to re-locate to Bumfuck, NY. It's also harder to attract capital because of the same density issues that make SV attractive to employees.
Somehow or other, they managed to blame themselves for the shitty pictures their iPhone was taking.
Looking at the number of professional grade pictures taken with an iPhone, and the numerous photographs I've taken over the years - they were right.
They're old people so it takes them a minute to pull out the phone, remember how to operate it, and take a photo.
Yeah, they can't remember the trivial operation it takes to take a picture with an iPhone, but they can follow the more complex procedure your list for using a P&S? You're either lying, full of shit, or both.
To photographers, not all background blur is created equal.
True among that minority of photographers that use bokeh as an artistic tool. Very true among the much larger number of people owning a camera seeking to justify themselves and the amount of money they spent and equating the same as skill and talent. (Look! My photo has cool bokeh! That makes it good! And me cool!) The quality of the bokeh is also popular among reviewers as it's something that can be tested and easily displayed on a computer screen. All this lends an air of excessive importance to something that's but one tool in a photographer's toolbox and is really only useful in a narrow range of circumstances.
The term wasn't even invented until the late 90's. And even then, it's use was relatively limited until the rise of photo sharing sites and the need for mediocre photographers to differentiate themselves from other mediocre photographers. As a result, it's become something like the 0-60 ratings you see in car magazines... Something few people use in the real world, but which has become a mistaken proxy for quality because of [cool|wow|sexy] factor.
Apple shrank all that down to a button in a phone.
And they did all that because bokeh is fashionable. And because it's fashionable, the ability to create it lends a mistaken sense of overall capability to the camera and creates a mistaken sense of accomplishment in the wielder because it "looks professional".
No other phone to my knowledge has tried to do this.
No other phone relies so heavily on selling sizzle instead of steak than the iPhone. No other phone has to rely so heavily on marketing to retain it's market share.
Either it is money or it is glorified pokemon cards. You can't have it both ways.
I've pointed that out many times over the years... it's a deep flaw in the basic philosophy of crypto-currency - they want it both ways. They want legitimacy, *and* they want complete freedom with no controls or regulation. They don't grasp that the latter is a necessary consequence of the former.
Seriously, Etherium, Bitcoin and the like are unique mathematical stores of value, more similar to that rare drop you got in your MMO than a security instrument.
It's funny... all the alt.currency advocates were all about how "cryptocurrency is real money" - until the government started actually treating them as real money. Now they're backpedaling.
Honestly, I do not know understand why it is an issue to dislike someone because they are Muslim.
I don't know if you're American or not, but here's how things work in America: It's perfectly OK to dislike someone because they are Muslim. It's is not OK to take action against someone because they are Muslim.
Which is unsurprising, since pretty much nobody said that. Space fan(atics) remember it, though the 'memory' is created from whole cloth. For some reason they feel a need to be persecuted.
You do realize that's just virtually content free ad copy? No? Learn to fucking think, moron.
You're very mistaken if you think just tossing links impresses anyone. All that proves is what you've already demonstrated - you have no idea what you're talking about.
IMO There is "Testing" and there us using RED-TAPE to stifle innovation. Guess which one this is?
I'll take option 'C' - total ignorance on your part.
That Plasma Deposition and Laser Sintering hava BOTH been previously proven to produce parts up to 3x physically stronger then their standard manufacturing method counterparts
"3x stronger" sounds impressive - but it's actually pretty meaningless. 3x stronger - by what measurement? Compression? Tension? And how does it compare in hardness or ductility any of the dozen other ways to specify the performance of metal?
Which would be relevant if you were consuming them in food. You aren't, you're using them in a form (heated vapors) that isn't generally accepted as being safe. You're also handling them at concentration far, far above those found in products on the grocery shelf.
In fact, the MSDS forms for propylene glycol and glycerin make for some very interesting reading.
Both recommend avoiding inhaling the vapors.
as long as my sources do not lie about the base components (VG and PG) I should be way safer
Have your sources provided you with actual data, or do they merely repeat the mantra "it's food grade, so it must be safe"?
There are no such things as "addictives", unless they mean aroma. And again, those, if coming from a reliable, trusted source, should be safe.
Why should they be safe coming from a "reliable, trusted" source? Have you seen their data, or are you (again) merely repeating the essentially religious (that is groundless and taken on faith) propaganda of the vaping community?
As soon as everyone realizes that fact that most Uber drivers actually LOSE MONEY when you figure in the low rates they pay people combined with the total cost of driving for them (insurance, gas, auto maintenance, etc) most honest figures come up with either less than minimum wages or you are actually losing money on the deal.
From people I know that have done some part time Uber hustling, they say they make decent side money.
If the people you know are anything like the people I know... They see the cash coming in and pronounce it decent, but they don't know accounting and don't do the math to see if it is decent.
Potential employees at a nonprofit expect to receive salaries, and executives are no exception. If you don't pay them market-competitive salaries, then you are likely to get less talented workers.
Something nobody is questioning or debating.
The question is, how much responsibility did these executives have?
No, that's not the question at all. The question is, what are these executives doing that justifies these salaries?
That is the heart of the matter - what are the donors to the Wikimedia Foundation getting for their money?
Radio Shack should have been the convenience-store of electronics. It should have had later hours, opening say noon and closing at 9pm, such that geeks that were working on their hobby projects could have somewhere to go to get those capacitors or relays that they needed when they either ran-short or were in a pinch to complete it.
In a world where those odd parts were anything but just barely profitable (they were mostly loss leaders), such a move might have made sense. Especially if there were around a thousand times more such geeks in the general population than in our world.
Radio Shack could have arguably charged ten times what the components were worth if they were readily available and purchasable in small quantities, people in a hurry are willing to pay the extra markup to have it now.
Had they done that, they still would have gone broke.
Folks, Radio Shack started moving away from being a purveyor of parts, adding high end audio, back in the 1930's because there wasn't enough money in parts. They started shifting to consumer grade gear back in the 1950's because there wasn't enough money in parts+high end audio gear. There's simply not enough geeks to make retailing parts a viable concern. Never has been, never will be.
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If the source is persistent, and you can determine the direction of the source relative to your array... you don't need multiple detectors. The rotation of the Earth will provide you with a short baseline and a (very) coarse position estimate. The orbit of the Earth around the Sun will provide you with a longer baseline and increasingly fine position estimates.
Though it's a bit more complex as the motion of the detector (and source) is a higher proportion of baseline length, submarines do something like this (using the change in position of the detector) to determine target range using only passive sonar.
No, the Navy doesn't "suspect" cyber attacks. They don't "suspect" anything at this stage of the investigation. This article is nothing but irresponsible clickbait.
This is probably fueled by the many rightwing nutjob sites that have already pronounced the accident to be an attack. The same nutjob websites that whupped up fears of a US Army takeover during Jade Helm and pronounced that the USS Enterprise was rigged with bombs so Obama could sink it on it's last deployment and start a war.
No. This feature's use hasn't been limited to large scale disasters - it's mostly used for very small scale and localized things (such as Charlottesville or various shootings).
You're just playing idiotic semantic games by trying to substitute "anxiety" for "fear" and trying to pretend the latter is different while demonstrating that you treat them as equivalent.
I've had friends and family who live near the sites of accidents, attacks and disasters - and never felt more than a moment of concern. Accidents, attacks, and disasters are generally small, and cities generally big. Except for something large scale (like a weather related issue or a quake), there's generally no particular reason to feel concerned.
But I admit I'm the outlier. Since the onset of the 24/7 news cycle in the late 70's/early 80's the vast majority of people have become conditioned to living in fear. Social media didn't create this, it just amplified it.
The military and the NRO use a substantial portion of the TDRS systems bandwidth as well.
Not being in sync with racists, Nazis, and various clueless fools that failed to realize that was who Trump really is... How exactly is this a problem?
Or are you one of those clueless fools who bought his bullshit yourself?
You're not even remotely neutral. You're very plainly biased - and and ignorant to boot.
I wish I had mod points - because you hit the nail on the head. Disney splitting from Netflix doesn't lead to piracy, a sense of self entitlement leads to piracy. All the split does is change the level of self entitlement that causes people to cross the line.
0.o How? Do you think companies are going to magically start finally getting rid of the hackers? Or somehow suddenly become omni-competent at doing so?
Facebook has only been around for a decade or so - so the only people that could not have learned smalltalk are those under their early 20's or so. People older than that should have already learned.
That's not a smartphone problem - that's a you and your friends problem. Either through the inability or unwillingness to carry on a conversation, or the inability or unwillingness to not drag out the phone. As you say, you've done it yourself - which just further exposes the bullshit in your claim that "nobody had learned" - because elsewhere you claim to have been around before and after.
Just goes to prove you don't need a government or central bank to eff up a currency.
You're missing the key thing that makes and keeps SV so attractive despite it's disadvantages - if the startup you're working for folds, there's ten others hiring tomorrow. You don't have to move, you just change your commute. If the startup you're working for in Bumfuck, NY folds... it's going to be much harder to find comparable work without pulling up stakes. (And much harder to jump a sinking ship.)
This also works to the disadvantage of the employer. You're no longer competing to hire the best currently available, but the much smaller pool of the best currently available willing to re-locate to Bumfuck, NY. It's also harder to attract capital because of the same density issues that make SV attractive to employees.
Looking at the number of professional grade pictures taken with an iPhone, and the numerous photographs I've taken over the years - they were right.
Yeah, they can't remember the trivial operation it takes to take a picture with an iPhone, but they can follow the more complex procedure your list for using a P&S? You're either lying, full of shit, or both.
(disclaimer: iPhone (4) owner and photographer)
True among that minority of photographers that use bokeh as an artistic tool. Very true among the much larger number of people owning a camera seeking to justify themselves and the amount of money they spent and equating the same as skill and talent. (Look! My photo has cool bokeh! That makes it good! And me cool!) The quality of the bokeh is also popular among reviewers as it's something that can be tested and easily displayed on a computer screen. All this lends an air of excessive importance to something that's but one tool in a photographer's toolbox and is really only useful in a narrow range of circumstances.
The term wasn't even invented until the late 90's. And even then, it's use was relatively limited until the rise of photo sharing sites and the need for mediocre photographers to differentiate themselves from other mediocre photographers. As a result, it's become something like the 0-60 ratings you see in car magazines... Something few people use in the real world, but which has become a mistaken proxy for quality because of [cool|wow|sexy] factor.
And they did all that because bokeh is fashionable. And because it's fashionable, the ability to create it lends a mistaken sense of overall capability to the camera and creates a mistaken sense of accomplishment in the wielder because it "looks professional".
No other phone relies so heavily on selling sizzle instead of steak than the iPhone. No other phone has to rely so heavily on marketing to retain it's market share.
I've pointed that out many times over the years... it's a deep flaw in the basic philosophy of crypto-currency - they want it both ways. They want legitimacy, *and* they want complete freedom with no controls or regulation. They don't grasp that the latter is a necessary consequence of the former.
It's funny... all the alt.currency advocates were all about how "cryptocurrency is real money" - until the government started actually treating them as real money. Now they're backpedaling.
I don't know if you're American or not, but here's how things work in America: It's perfectly OK to dislike someone because they are Muslim. It's is not OK to take action against someone because they are Muslim.
Which is unsurprising, since pretty much nobody said that. Space fan(atics) remember it, though the 'memory' is created from whole cloth. For some reason they feel a need to be persecuted.
You do realize that's just virtually content free ad copy? No? Learn to fucking think, moron.
You're very mistaken if you think just tossing links impresses anyone. All that proves is what you've already demonstrated - you have no idea what you're talking about.
You do realize that just describes testing protocols and doesn't really answer the questions I asked? No? Learn to fucking read you moron.
I'll take option 'C' - total ignorance on your part.
"3x stronger" sounds impressive - but it's actually pretty meaningless. 3x stronger - by what measurement? Compression? Tension? And how does it compare in hardness or ductility any of the dozen other ways to specify the performance of metal?
Which would be relevant if you were consuming them in food. You aren't, you're using them in a form (heated vapors) that isn't generally accepted as being safe. You're also handling them at concentration far, far above those found in products on the grocery shelf.
In fact, the MSDS forms for propylene glycol and glycerin make for some very interesting reading.
Both recommend avoiding inhaling the vapors.
Have your sources provided you with actual data, or do they merely repeat the mantra "it's food grade, so it must be safe"?
Why should they be safe coming from a "reliable, trusted" source? Have you seen their data, or are you (again) merely repeating the essentially religious (that is groundless and taken on faith) propaganda of the vaping community?
If the people you know are anything like the people I know... They see the cash coming in and pronounce it decent, but they don't know accounting and don't do the math to see if it is decent.
Something nobody is questioning or debating.
No, that's not the question at all. The question is, what are these executives doing that justifies these salaries?
That is the heart of the matter - what are the donors to the Wikimedia Foundation getting for their money?
In a world where those odd parts were anything but just barely profitable (they were mostly loss leaders), such a move might have made sense. Especially if there were around a thousand times more such geeks in the general population than in our world.
Had they done that, they still would have gone broke.
Folks, Radio Shack started moving away from being a purveyor of parts, adding high end audio, back in the 1930's because there wasn't enough money in parts. They started shifting to consumer grade gear back in the 1950's because there wasn't enough money in parts+high end audio gear. There's simply not enough geeks to make retailing parts a viable concern. Never has been, never will be.