Annnnd noone thinks that DST creates more time either. It allows us to enjoy longer periods of sunlight during waking hours over the summer season.
Except it DOESNT do that.
The relation between when the luser gets up compared to the sun and when he goes to work does that. What TIME it is when that happens is not part of the causative loop.
All clocks should be on GMT all the time. Not modified, ever.
Figure out when you need to go to work yourself. Figure out when you need to get up yourself. Figure out what local lunch time is yourself.
And don't give me "but the schools" bullshit. Schools now days have rotating "starting late" days that fuck up any normal schedule anyway. They absolutely can adjust to a random bullshit reason not to start, so they can adjust for a longer lived jump in time during the year as the school system, local latitude and weather dictate. They'll get MORE freedom to deal with the problems they might have.
If a large number of robocall reports were being made in real time, wouldn't that help identify the physical source?
First, phone numbers can and are often "spoffed".
Second, just like with Intertube Spam, I can bust out 100,000's of robo-calls in one day from a disposable phone number (MagicJack and the like), and than move on untraced.
The phone companies know where the call is coming from. They just don't know it's a "bad call" when it is actually happening. You are very very confused if you think what the phone companies and guys running the switches can see is the caller ID number that shows up on the phone. (Caller ID can be spoofed.)
On the other hand, a system of rapid reporting can make those numbers useless after an hour of robo calling, rather than a day.
Who the hell picks up the phone now days anyway? I just let it ring or silence it. It's incredibly megalomaniac to think the call is actually important on any account. They can leave a voice mail, they can email, text, or find me on Facebook. If I don't know them, they are trying to sell / scam something and they can fuck off.
I've seen several images of American Civil War bullets being dug up welded together. There were battles where there was so much musket and rifle fire and so densely targeted that a few bullets actually collided in mid air Granted; this was an accidental result, the product of sheer numbers. It invalidates your specific claim without invalidating the point I think you were trying to make about using lasers to down incoming missiles/artillery/etc.
Modern jacketed bullets won't stick when they collide, and are generally moving a lot faster than a.51 cal musket ball. So they would break apart instead when they do collide. Modern firefights usually involve more bullets going down range too. They probably are colliding, it's just that nobody notices.
Bypassing your security is easy. Step 1, Bad Guy kills your dog in front of you. Step 2, Bad Guy then puts the gun to your head and starts removing body parts till Bad Guy has access. Lets face it, its not exactly the Bad Guys problem that you are bleeding to death on your carpet. It's a hell of a plan you've got.
Why is it you liberal idiots always assume only bad guys have guns?
Step 0, bad guy spotted on approach and hit three times in the gut with.357 rounds. Better yet, a 12 gauge at the doorway.
Maybe YOUR plan is give up your tender butthole. Not everybody is like that.
If vendors didn't pander to people running IE 5 then they would sack the fuck up and call their nephew to spend 5 minutes installing Teamviewer and Google Chrome.
People who refuse to run modern shit on their hardware may be the majority, but only because assholes are willing to bend over backwards selling them "lazy" as a commodity.
Not sure what the GP is going on about.
In my observations, retiring Windows XP drastically reduced the number of issues from "my stuff doesn't work, it's new, I bought it 10 years ago, why not?" complaints.
There was a small cadre of folks re-installing XP on new machines (I did it too) because there wasn't a reason not to. After Nosebleed and Hearbeep (or whatever) happened last year I shut off old ciphers on all my stuff. And know what? NOBODY NOTICED. I get an occasional hit from China or other shitholes I don't care about trying it, and they often come along with other probes so it's not real traffic.
So the point is, GP isn't correct when he's talking about his "majority," there is no such group. They're gone. The idea that there is a technically adept person running old shit because it still works, who also doesn't know it's risky, and also can't afford to upgrade to new shit is a Venn diagram with three unconnected circles on it.
Go ahead and run what you want as a hobby if you get fulfillment from it. If your hobby puts you at risk, or can't be used somewhere, tough shit.
They probable siezed the entire contents of the datacenter, just to be sure they got everything offending. Might mean a few thousand customers will be inconvenienced, but it's the only way to be sure.
The only thing this is "sure" to do is absolutely kill the formerly thriving data center / cloud computing business in Canada.
With that much data, they barely have the justice / investigation capability in the ENTIRE COUNTRY to sort through it all, and it demonstrates without a doubt the capaiblity that they DO have is technically ignorant to the point of not being able to read labels and cross reference it with customer records.
The result will be more, but more distributed hosting of such things there by people that know the CA authorities are idiiots, and less economic activity of the obvious and apparently too good to resist concentrations of all data type activity regardless of legal status because nobody wants their legit servers sized by ignorant and out of control mounted pigs.
Some days I just wish America's Hat would just fall the fuck off.
Playing catch-up made Google make some stupid decisions.
iGoogle was absolutely awesome. I resorted to making my own web page for a while, but then switched to a place called "NetVibes" While they are after a corporate "watch overall my stuff" type environment, carefully picking the apps to put on your page gives you a useful start-up interface.
Anybody remember how the censored inages (and other search results) because of the evil of porn?
[citation needed]
There is plenty of porn on web search and image search. If something is missing, and you think it's deliberate, please explain what and why you think so.
Watching too much cranial-rectal-inversion porn or something?
Just last week, Google censored the fuck out of Blogger blogs with "porn" on them, then had to change the rules again due to people being pissed off about it, settling on "we didn't mean to delete it, here, you just have to hide it."
You'd have to browse Pubmed with blinders on to miss all the studies of how weight training leads to injuries. Just picking one author who writes about them, here's 1234 studies on it. I only do body weight exercises now, and I count myself lucky that I only have one mild uncorrectable shoulder injury from my lifting days.
Makes me wonder if the studies controlled for crossfit idiocy or not.
A sauna is like exercising, in that it's hot, uncomfortable, and you sweat too much. But the advantage is that you get to sit down and do nothing.
The sweat may be the key to this. Salt isn't bad for you, as long as you are pissing or sweating it out. Something that the "western world" folks do a lot less of during the course of their lives. Higher sustained salt loads in the blood and tissues may cause some harm.
Americans have no interest in those jobs. I see no shortage of minimum wage, unskilled labor job postings here. Problem is most people think they're better than that.
They have no interest in those jobs because they are "under the table" and don't pay minimum, don't pay taxes, don't have work rules, and don't allow advancement.
The fact that the illegal is here, and can't work, means the job he takes is automatically depreciated to whatever he will take it for. If there were NO illegals, all those jobs would pay what the market is willing to bear, a lot more.
It absolutely fucking amazes me that the same set of folks who cry all over a "living wage" and want healthcare and unions and all that also want to torpedo the balance of wages by letting all the illegals in the country. It's almost as if, the democrats are... lying... to their constituents.
Actually they are not.
The one who are vaccined survive. The ones who aren't risk to die. The problem is for the minority of children below roughly 12 month, they are to young to be vaccined and if they catch the desease they might die from it.
Everyone who actually is vaccined does not need to bother how many others are vaccined. Except if it is the postman, the milk man and another important servant who suddenly dies from an easily preventable illness.
I am not sure I am going to be too upset about an event that keeps the snotting, drooling, noisy, stinky, bulky, and slow crotch droppings from being dragged out into inappropriate public places all the time.
"Let's keep Junior and Juniess at home for the first several years cuz they might catch something and die" is OK in my book.
No need for such over-complicated and over-engineered solutions.
Each gun already imprints a unique microscopic signature on a bullet and casing. Just submit a scan of a fired bullet and cartridge to a central database for each new firearm sold, where it's linked to the serial number. They're test-fired before use anyhow, so I'll bet the manufacturer could easily add a forensic-type scanner to the manufacturing process, likely completely automated as well. Then we wouldn't have to rely on serial numbers on the gun at all then. Any bullet in good condition could likely be linked with the serial number using that database.
Law enforcement already uses this technique, but can only perform matching tests if the gun or additional fired rounds are found. This wouldn't require any new technology at all, only new procedures.
Not really. Those "unique" qualities are only such for a limited time.
Using, or even cleaning, the firearm will cause them to change.
Someone wanting to use the firearm, and change it's ballistics characteristics needs only a few minutes with the a few tools. File, sandpaper, perhaps a punch.
If the gun is fired and then tossed, they can match them. Fired and kept and the owner wants to change it's profile, it's really easy.
Get yourself a firearm, and use it. Stop watching so much TV.
If you do it stupidly, like put a "1" through an "A", it would be fairly obvious and narrow the search down.
Punching 1 through an A leaves the firearm with two possible choices in that digit. Do this for 9 digits, and you get 2^9 = 512 possibilities. Punch twice through each digit and you get 3^9 possibilities.
In fact, punch *all* the digits in each position, then file it down.
This will rapidly be entered into the "big book of best practices" for criminals.
And it's also a moot point, since easy access to guns reduces crime, and it's likely that 3-d printed guns will be easily available in the next decade or so.
(And so what if the 3-d printed gun is reliable for only the first couple or shots? That only means that you use your 3-d printed gun that took 2 hours to print and $3 to build a couple of times and then melt it down.)
It's also simply illegal (to various degrees in various states and jurisdictions) to have a serial number removed.
Knowing it goes only a little ways toward solving the crime it was used in.
On the other hand, it is VERY useful if you are a gun grabber and want to make a political point.
This particular technique has been known for over two decades. I heard about it in college.
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The article suggests that the earth's rotation would cause the dropped to hit the wall on the way down. So why can't the tunnel curve to account for this? Presumably it would curve the other way as it exits. It also suggests that going from North to South pole wouldn't work because of their relative altitudes, but is there an antipodal point where the altitudes are close enough feasibly go from one side to another - e.g. build a tunnel / raised platform to bring each side to the same altitude. I realise this is all completely hypothetical, bad movie remakes notwithstanding.
You are going to have to excavate quite a bit of material. It seems like that would be a handy thing to do, build yourself a shield volcano around the entry point to get above sea level. And then on one side, build a hill or cliff to make entry high enough on the near side to get to entry on the other side.
See, this is what happens when you let theoretical physicists dream about stuff. Sometimes you need less Dc Cooper and more M. Eng Wolowitz.
First off, the new reactor have lifetimes of 30-50 with no refuel. Look up the S9G reactor.
Secondly, within 5 years, China will have a navy with far more ships than america.
Third, the world, esp america, is not at peace. For all intents and purposes, we are currently in WW3.
Fourth, by going to small ships, you need a lot of them. In addition, by building them small, more single mission, it means much lower costs. Think of spacex with their new rockets and SATs.
LOL. 5 years?
It'll take them that long to steal the plans for such ships from other countries, let alone figure out how to build and run them.
China's economy is going to collapse for other reasons long before they get a chance to build a competitive navy. Yeah, they can dominate their little section of the world but they aren't projecting force any time soon with anything other than a big bridge made of human bodies.
Ships can launch surface to surface missiles and torpedoes as well. Ships are still perfectly capable of killing other ships. They just don't line up and broadside each other with 15 inchers anymore.
Is it only me or does this really sound utterly gay?
To be fair, those ships are already full of seamen.
Everyone running ad blocking software is not sustainable, since ads pay for a lot of stuff. People also don't want to have to directly pay for things (plus, could you imagine if every website was paywalled?)
Seems to me that the best solution is to just run unintrusive ads. People don't really mind ads all that much, they just hate it when they're noisy (literally and metaphorically) and get in the way
Until the unsustainability point is reached, nobody gives a shit.
How about this, YOU PAY ME to show me ads. I use that account to micro-pay for the content I want to see (without ads). This will be a de-facto support of the good or wanted content on the internet by the people who want to exploit the internet. Remember, my eyeballs are the PRODUCT not the target.
Then I can choose my level of consumption to fit my annoyance, and you get to stay in business.
Ads are not just annoying, they are a threat to the stability of the computer and the integrity of the data on it; therefore are also a financial and criminal risk to the person who user it. You can't tell me you've never had a friend or old relative get infected with some shit right? Ever hear of cryptoblocker? It gets in, through ad networks exploiting security holes.
The ad companies have already realized that they can set up *.adserver.com and dish out ads from an infinite number of hostnames. Some of them have even started setting up CDN networks using IP Anycast: pull a tiny file from the closest server by IP with the IP of the ad server to pull the final ad from, no hostnames at all. After all, it's not like a human is ever going to intentionally visit your adserver so why bother with a human readable hostname?
Hosts had its heyday, and there are still a lot of hidebound ad companies too big'n'slow'n'stupid to change that you can block so there's certainly merit in continuing it for now, but it's going the way of the buggy whip.
Maybe you should get a job writing a new hosts file driver for Microsoft that can handle wildcards and IP blocks.
Maybe a few of them. Maybe on the particular porn or torrent sites you frequent.
A relatively stale HOSTS file I use is still QUITE effective at blocking ads.
The next step, will be to set some static DNS settings up in HOST and then install and use a DNS server on which, I run authoritative zones for places I don't want to see. While more of a pain, it'll be more effective.
And when they register domains, it'll be blocks of IP addresses. They'll spend more money trying to get ads to my network than just taking the revenue hit of the three users ON my network will ever cost them.
Make a bunch of links in the site, state, "Click for daily specials" and link to Facebook.
And, for you whankers that are going to claim "I don't use Facebook", a business can make it so the profile is completely public so no account is needed.
" A few decades from now we will have more knowledge about geology, radiation, engineering, etc."
And a few decades from then someone will be there to point out that in a few more decades "we" will know even more.
And a few decades from that...
And a few decades from that...
Meanwhile the waste sits in what was supposed to be temporary storage requiring more maintenance than permanent storage would, opening it up to more chances for an accident or even theft. And this is at the power plants, near population centers as opposed to in the middle of a desert mountain.
If there is a concern that we might want to re-use it some day just go get it back from the mountain!
In other words; "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good."
It's the cost of being first adopters. It's easier to build modern infrastructure when you have no infrastructure to begin with. We've got legacy systems for everything: finance, IT, cable, phone, nuclear, etc., etc. The next people in line implement the next generation using lessons learned from the implementations before them.
Likewise, it's easy for one industry in a country to be ahead of the same industry in the US.
Cell phone usage was faster in places that had NO PHONES before that. Beating out the US.
Tiny little compact places full of small people in tiny apartments got fiber optic sooner than the gigantic US with lots of space between places that would be hooked up, and competing options for TV and data.
Little twisty road countries with no hills and only 40 KM between major cities and their entire border have better ratios of people biking to work, beating out the gigantic and spread out not to mention hilly in many places US.
Finding one little piss ass country that has something better when one is cherry picking for something better is easy, unsurprising and boring. Find a country that has almost all of the stuff in the US has, and does _ALL_ of it better and I'll be impressed.
> Stopping malware is not a priority for advertising companies.
> The priority is to do whatever they can to help advertisers, because advertisers give them money.
Yes, but there is a gap between the two statements. How about:
The priority is to do whatever they can to help malware (while only appearing incompetent and not actually evil), because malware spreaders are giving them money.
All I am saying that this is a very slippery slope. Google is most certainly helping to spread malware, and they are probably making money from it. And they could do more to avoid it if they wanted to...
Malware is the primary reason why I have aggressive ad blocking strategies.
I don't see ads on the internet.
If I never had to clean up some poor sap's computer of malware caused by ads, I wouldn't care about ads. I have the bandwidth to handle it. I just don't want my shit infected.
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Annnnd noone thinks that DST creates more time either. It allows us to enjoy longer periods of sunlight during waking hours over the summer season.
Except it DOESNT do that.
The relation between when the luser gets up compared to the sun and when he goes to work does that. What TIME it is when that happens is not part of the causative loop.
All clocks should be on GMT all the time. Not modified, ever.
Figure out when you need to go to work yourself. Figure out when you need to get up yourself. Figure out what local lunch time is yourself.
And don't give me "but the schools" bullshit. Schools now days have rotating "starting late" days that fuck up any normal schedule anyway. They absolutely can adjust to a random bullshit reason not to start, so they can adjust for a longer lived jump in time during the year as the school system, local latitude and weather dictate. They'll get MORE freedom to deal with the problems they might have.
If a large number of robocall reports were being made in real time, wouldn't that help identify the physical source?
First, phone numbers can and are often "spoffed".
Second, just like with Intertube Spam, I can bust out 100,000's of robo-calls in one day from a disposable phone number (MagicJack and the like), and than move on untraced.
The phone companies know where the call is coming from. They just don't know it's a "bad call" when it is actually happening. You are very very confused if you think what the phone companies and guys running the switches can see is the caller ID number that shows up on the phone. (Caller ID can be spoofed.)
On the other hand, a system of rapid reporting can make those numbers useless after an hour of robo calling, rather than a day.
Who the hell picks up the phone now days anyway? I just let it ring or silence it. It's incredibly megalomaniac to think the call is actually important on any account. They can leave a voice mail, they can email, text, or find me on Facebook. If I don't know them, they are trying to sell / scam something and they can fuck off.
I've seen several images of American Civil War bullets being dug up welded together. There were battles where there was so much musket and rifle fire and so densely targeted that a few bullets actually collided in mid air Granted; this was an accidental result, the product of sheer numbers. It invalidates your specific claim without invalidating the point I think you were trying to make about using lasers to down incoming missiles/artillery/etc.
Modern jacketed bullets won't stick when they collide, and are generally moving a lot faster than a .51 cal musket ball. So they would break apart instead when they do collide. Modern firefights usually involve more bullets going down range too. They probably are colliding, it's just that nobody notices.
Bypassing your security is easy. Step 1, Bad Guy kills your dog in front of you. Step 2, Bad Guy then puts the gun to your head and starts removing body parts till Bad Guy has access. Lets face it, its not exactly the Bad Guys problem that you are bleeding to death on your carpet. It's a hell of a plan you've got.
Why is it you liberal idiots always assume only bad guys have guns?
Step 0, bad guy spotted on approach and hit three times in the gut with .357 rounds. Better yet, a 12 gauge at the doorway.
Maybe YOUR plan is give up your tender butthole. Not everybody is like that.
Then you're part of the problem.
If vendors didn't pander to people running IE 5 then they would sack the fuck up and call their nephew to spend 5 minutes installing Teamviewer and Google Chrome.
People who refuse to run modern shit on their hardware may be the majority, but only because assholes are willing to bend over backwards selling them "lazy" as a commodity.
Not sure what the GP is going on about.
In my observations, retiring Windows XP drastically reduced the number of issues from "my stuff doesn't work, it's new, I bought it 10 years ago, why not?" complaints.
There was a small cadre of folks re-installing XP on new machines (I did it too) because there wasn't a reason not to. After Nosebleed and Hearbeep (or whatever) happened last year I shut off old ciphers on all my stuff. And know what? NOBODY NOTICED. I get an occasional hit from China or other shitholes I don't care about trying it, and they often come along with other probes so it's not real traffic.
So the point is, GP isn't correct when he's talking about his "majority," there is no such group. They're gone. The idea that there is a technically adept person running old shit because it still works, who also doesn't know it's risky, and also can't afford to upgrade to new shit is a Venn diagram with three unconnected circles on it.
Go ahead and run what you want as a hobby if you get fulfillment from it. If your hobby puts you at risk, or can't be used somewhere, tough shit.
They probable siezed the entire contents of the datacenter, just to be sure they got everything offending. Might mean a few thousand customers will be inconvenienced, but it's the only way to be sure.
The only thing this is "sure" to do is absolutely kill the formerly thriving data center / cloud computing business in Canada.
With that much data, they barely have the justice / investigation capability in the ENTIRE COUNTRY to sort through it all, and it demonstrates without a doubt the capaiblity that they DO have is technically ignorant to the point of not being able to read labels and cross reference it with customer records.
The result will be more, but more distributed hosting of such things there by people that know the CA authorities are idiiots, and less economic activity of the obvious and apparently too good to resist concentrations of all data type activity regardless of legal status because nobody wants their legit servers sized by ignorant and out of control mounted pigs.
Some days I just wish America's Hat would just fall the fuck off.
Playing catch-up made Google make some stupid decisions.
iGoogle was absolutely awesome. I resorted to making my own web page for a while, but then switched to a place called "NetVibes" While they are after a corporate "watch overall my stuff" type environment, carefully picking the apps to put on your page gives you a useful start-up interface.
Anybody remember how the censored inages (and other search results) because of the evil of porn?
[citation needed]
There is plenty of porn on web search and image search. If something is missing, and you think it's deliberate, please explain what and why you think so.
Watching too much cranial-rectal-inversion porn or something?
Just last week, Google censored the fuck out of Blogger blogs with "porn" on them, then had to change the rules again due to people being pissed off about it, settling on "we didn't mean to delete it, here, you just have to hide it."
Do you even know what DejaNews IS kid?
You'd have to browse Pubmed with blinders on to miss all the studies of how weight training leads to injuries. Just picking one author who writes about them, here's 1 2 3 4 studies on it. I only do body weight exercises now, and I count myself lucky that I only have one mild uncorrectable shoulder injury from my lifting days.
Makes me wonder if the studies controlled for crossfit idiocy or not.
A sauna is like exercising, in that it's hot, uncomfortable, and you sweat too much. But the advantage is that you get to sit down and do nothing.
The sweat may be the key to this. Salt isn't bad for you, as long as you are pissing or sweating it out. Something that the "western world" folks do a lot less of during the course of their lives. Higher sustained salt loads in the blood and tissues may cause some harm.
Americans have no interest in those jobs. I see no shortage of minimum wage, unskilled labor job postings here. Problem is most people think they're better than that.
They have no interest in those jobs because they are "under the table" and don't pay minimum, don't pay taxes, don't have work rules, and don't allow advancement.
The fact that the illegal is here, and can't work, means the job he takes is automatically depreciated to whatever he will take it for. If there were NO illegals, all those jobs would pay what the market is willing to bear, a lot more.
It absolutely fucking amazes me that the same set of folks who cry all over a "living wage" and want healthcare and unions and all that also want to torpedo the balance of wages by letting all the illegals in the country. It's almost as if, the democrats are... lying... to their constituents.
Actually they are not. The one who are vaccined survive. The ones who aren't risk to die. The problem is for the minority of children below roughly 12 month, they are to young to be vaccined and if they catch the desease they might die from it. Everyone who actually is vaccined does not need to bother how many others are vaccined. Except if it is the postman, the milk man and another important servant who suddenly dies from an easily preventable illness.
I am not sure I am going to be too upset about an event that keeps the snotting, drooling, noisy, stinky, bulky, and slow crotch droppings from being dragged out into inappropriate public places all the time.
"Let's keep Junior and Juniess at home for the first several years cuz they might catch something and die" is OK in my book.
Why does my browser visit these websites when I only want to visit slashdot?
dice.com, fonts.googleapis.com, fsdn.com, google-analytics.com, googletagservices.com, janrain.com, ooyala.com, rpxnow.com, scorecardresearch.com, taboola.com, zedo.com ...
Whew. At least it doesn't have zombo.com on that list.
No need for such over-complicated and over-engineered solutions.
Each gun already imprints a unique microscopic signature on a bullet and casing. Just submit a scan of a fired bullet and cartridge to a central database for each new firearm sold, where it's linked to the serial number. They're test-fired before use anyhow, so I'll bet the manufacturer could easily add a forensic-type scanner to the manufacturing process, likely completely automated as well. Then we wouldn't have to rely on serial numbers on the gun at all then. Any bullet in good condition could likely be linked with the serial number using that database.
Law enforcement already uses this technique, but can only perform matching tests if the gun or additional fired rounds are found. This wouldn't require any new technology at all, only new procedures.
Not really. Those "unique" qualities are only such for a limited time.
Using, or even cleaning, the firearm will cause them to change.
Someone wanting to use the firearm, and change it's ballistics characteristics needs only a few minutes with the a few tools. File, sandpaper, perhaps a punch.
If the gun is fired and then tossed, they can match them. Fired and kept and the owner wants to change it's profile, it's really easy.
Get yourself a firearm, and use it. Stop watching so much TV.
If you do it stupidly, like put a "1" through an "A", it would be fairly obvious and narrow the search down.
Punching 1 through an A leaves the firearm with two possible choices in that digit. Do this for 9 digits, and you get 2^9 = 512 possibilities. Punch twice through each digit and you get 3^9 possibilities.
In fact, punch *all* the digits in each position, then file it down.
This will rapidly be entered into the "big book of best practices" for criminals.
And it's also a moot point, since easy access to guns reduces crime, and it's likely that 3-d printed guns will be easily available in the next decade or so.
(And so what if the 3-d printed gun is reliable for only the first couple or shots? That only means that you use your 3-d printed gun that took 2 hours to print and $3 to build a couple of times and then melt it down.)
It's also simply illegal (to various degrees in various states and jurisdictions) to have a serial number removed.
Knowing it goes only a little ways toward solving the crime it was used in.
On the other hand, it is VERY useful if you are a gun grabber and want to make a political point.
This particular technique has been known for over two decades. I heard about it in college.
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The article suggests that the earth's rotation would cause the dropped to hit the wall on the way down. So why can't the tunnel curve to account for this? Presumably it would curve the other way as it exits. It also suggests that going from North to South pole wouldn't work because of their relative altitudes, but is there an antipodal point where the altitudes are close enough feasibly go from one side to another - e.g. build a tunnel / raised platform to bring each side to the same altitude. I realise this is all completely hypothetical, bad movie remakes notwithstanding.
You are going to have to excavate quite a bit of material. It seems like that would be a handy thing to do, build yourself a shield volcano around the entry point to get above sea level. And then on one side, build a hill or cliff to make entry high enough on the near side to get to entry on the other side.
See, this is what happens when you let theoretical physicists dream about stuff. Sometimes you need less Dc Cooper and more M. Eng Wolowitz.
First off, the new reactor have lifetimes of 30-50 with no refuel. Look up the S9G reactor. Secondly, within 5 years, China will have a navy with far more ships than america. Third, the world, esp america, is not at peace. For all intents and purposes, we are currently in WW3. Fourth, by going to small ships, you need a lot of them. In addition, by building them small, more single mission, it means much lower costs. Think of spacex with their new rockets and SATs.
LOL. 5 years?
It'll take them that long to steal the plans for such ships from other countries, let alone figure out how to build and run them.
China's economy is going to collapse for other reasons long before they get a chance to build a competitive navy. Yeah, they can dominate their little section of the world but they aren't projecting force any time soon with anything other than a big bridge made of human bodies.
Ships can launch surface to surface missiles and torpedoes as well. Ships are still perfectly capable of killing other ships. They just don't line up and broadside each other with 15 inchers anymore.
Is it only me or does this really sound utterly gay?
To be fair, those ships are already full of seamen.
Everyone running ad blocking software is not sustainable, since ads pay for a lot of stuff. People also don't want to have to directly pay for things (plus, could you imagine if every website was paywalled?)
Seems to me that the best solution is to just run unintrusive ads. People don't really mind ads all that much, they just hate it when they're noisy (literally and metaphorically) and get in the way
Until the unsustainability point is reached, nobody gives a shit.
How about this, YOU PAY ME to show me ads. I use that account to micro-pay for the content I want to see (without ads). This will be a de-facto support of the good or wanted content on the internet by the people who want to exploit the internet. Remember, my eyeballs are the PRODUCT not the target.
Then I can choose my level of consumption to fit my annoyance, and you get to stay in business.
Ads are not just annoying, they are a threat to the stability of the computer and the integrity of the data on it; therefore are also a financial and criminal risk to the person who user it. You can't tell me you've never had a friend or old relative get infected with some shit right? Ever hear of cryptoblocker? It gets in, through ad networks exploiting security holes.
Nice to see you're still pushing that.
The ad companies have already realized that they can set up *.adserver.com and dish out ads from an infinite number of hostnames. Some of them have even started setting up CDN networks using IP Anycast: pull a tiny file from the closest server by IP with the IP of the ad server to pull the final ad from, no hostnames at all. After all, it's not like a human is ever going to intentionally visit your adserver so why bother with a human readable hostname?
Hosts had its heyday, and there are still a lot of hidebound ad companies too big'n'slow'n'stupid to change that you can block so there's certainly merit in continuing it for now, but it's going the way of the buggy whip.
Maybe you should get a job writing a new hosts file driver for Microsoft that can handle wildcards and IP blocks.
Maybe a few of them. Maybe on the particular porn or torrent sites you frequent.
A relatively stale HOSTS file I use is still QUITE effective at blocking ads.
The next step, will be to set some static DNS settings up in HOST and then install and use a DNS server on which, I run authoritative zones for places I don't want to see. While more of a pain, it'll be more effective.
And when they register domains, it'll be blocks of IP addresses. They'll spend more money trying to get ads to my network than just taking the revenue hit of the three users ON my network will ever cost them.
This situation is what Facebook is for.
Make a bunch of links in the site, state, "Click for daily specials" and link to Facebook.
And, for you whankers that are going to claim "I don't use Facebook", a business can make it so the profile is completely public so no account is needed.
" A few decades from now we will have more knowledge about geology, radiation, engineering, etc."
And a few decades from then someone will be there to point out that in a few more decades "we" will know even more.
And a few decades from that...
And a few decades from that...
Meanwhile the waste sits in what was supposed to be temporary storage requiring more maintenance than permanent storage would, opening it up to more chances for an accident or even theft. And this is at the power plants, near population centers as opposed to in the middle of a desert mountain.
If there is a concern that we might want to re-use it some day just go get it back from the mountain!
In other words; "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good."
It's the cost of being first adopters. It's easier to build modern infrastructure when you have no infrastructure to begin with. We've got legacy systems for everything: finance, IT, cable, phone, nuclear, etc., etc. The next people in line implement the next generation using lessons learned from the implementations before them.
Likewise, it's easy for one industry in a country to be ahead of the same industry in the US.
Cell phone usage was faster in places that had NO PHONES before that. Beating out the US.
Tiny little compact places full of small people in tiny apartments got fiber optic sooner than the gigantic US with lots of space between places that would be hooked up, and competing options for TV and data.
Little twisty road countries with no hills and only 40 KM between major cities and their entire border have better ratios of people biking to work, beating out the gigantic and spread out not to mention hilly in many places US.
Finding one little piss ass country that has something better when one is cherry picking for something better is easy, unsurprising and boring. Find a country that has almost all of the stuff in the US has, and does _ALL_ of it better and I'll be impressed.
> Stopping malware is not a priority for advertising companies.
> The priority is to do whatever they can to help advertisers, because advertisers give them money.
Yes, but there is a gap between the two statements. How about:
The priority is to do whatever they can to help malware (while only appearing incompetent and not actually evil), because malware spreaders are giving them money.
All I am saying that this is a very slippery slope. Google is most certainly helping to spread malware, and they are probably making money from it. And they could do more to avoid it if they wanted to...
Malware is the primary reason why I have aggressive ad blocking strategies.
I don't see ads on the internet.
If I never had to clean up some poor sap's computer of malware caused by ads, I wouldn't care about ads. I have the bandwidth to handle it. I just don't want my shit infected.
"Look what Thag do!"