This is a matter of personal preference. In gravity, the WHOLE story is due to bad physics. If the movie was realistic, there would have been no movie whatsoever.
1. Satellite orbits are offset, because of launch details, and precisely so that the ridiculous snowball effect does not occur... but the movie needs a problem, so these old reliable villains the Russians oblige by forgetting what space agencies have known for at least half a century.
2. Debris would not be completing their orbit nearly as quickly, but the movie needs a recurring danger, so they do.
3. The orbits of the installations in the movie are nowhere close to each other, but the movie needs to visit interesting places, so the actors travel ridiculous distances and match speeds unattainable with what they have.
4. Once Clooney is hanging off Bullocks, they have stopped relative to the station, which means they have achieved orbital speed, but the movie needs a heroic sacrifice, so...
The problem is that everything in this movie happens because someone who should know physics does not, or because physics do not work the way they do in real life. I would not particularly care to watch a movie about a cute couple trying to escape Cannibalistic Papists, or one about a cute couple using the scientific method to prove their is no god. This movie is at the same level of 'story', as far as I am concerned. Nice visuals, though. Wish they did not have all the morons obscuring the view and babbling to distract me.
You could buy stuff on-line using France's Minitel long before '84. Definitely by '82, possibly earlier. A friend of mine living in Bretagne had been telling me about it for a few years before it came to Alsace.
You needed a credit card, and preventing kids from shopping for porn was already a problem.
Young whisper snappers. Twenty years ago, there used to be scanners which could plug into the keyboard, or the serial port, and which needed power on top of that.
Different vendors used to come up with all sort of crazy ports. I remember one adapter that had on one side, the standard DB9 male with the outer shell split in two and carrying power, and on the other side two separate ports for power and for a keyboard (the pre-ps2, 6 din mini-din, no less)
The manual made a big deal how the cable could be used in many configurations, but I remember that there was one combination that was pretty much guaranteed to fry the power supply. No wonder it did not take off, but the concept was there - RS 232 and 12V power - 11 wires, 9 for the former and two for the latter, and able to fit a standard DB9.
I haven't seen that monstrosity for a while, but I am pretty sure it's still sitting in a maintenance cupboard at one of our plants. I'll try to see who made the things.
Not the first time Apple tries to patent something that someone thought up decades earlier, and someone else implemented successfully years earlier.
You are right on all counts as to where this is headed.
But we will take some time before we get there. I am afraid that my wetware will give out before the hardware becomes too expensive. In any case, I already pay an insurance premium for having modified my car, and I already pay for using the track, which is, after all, the only place where I can really put every single horsepower to work.
1. Can you read? I explicitly stated what car I drive.
2. Why would I worry about making you rich, even if I were? If some of my money ends in your pockets, you presumably provided a service I considered worth paying for.
3. You should understand that at some point, one stops minding overpaying for things one enjoys, as long as the surcharge does not affect one's quality of life. You may think that this makes me a moron, but that does not matter much to me.
It's no surprise to anyone that people like you exist, but please, do not act as if you are the norm, and everyone else is 'stupid', has no 'money sense', or tries 'to prove that they are higher on the simian food chain'. I enjoy video games, programming and driving, and I enjoy them in pretty much the same fashion. I used to enjoy martial arts, but now that I am pushing 50, the risks outweigh the reward. I know that one day my reflexes will erode to the point where driving will not give me the satisfaction of doing something well. It's clear to me that it already doesn't do much for you...
For some of us, $50K for a car that we enjoy driving is neither a particularly momentous expense, nor an attempt to prove anything. It's an indulgence, of course, but in my book, anyone who never indulges in anything is someone to pity, not to admire.
As for your opinions on luxury cars, and the supposed superiority of Lexus... do you really think that driving enthusiasts care about the rants of someone who admits to hating driving?! My wife enjoys her Audi A3, and I love my 460hp Volvo S60-R. Her car's trim is wood, mine's is brushed aluminum. If one of us prefered plastic, there'd be nothing wrong with it, either.
And you know what? It's a matter of personal preference, and I am very, very happy to work in a country where can afford to indulge my personal preferences, and where I am allowed to do so. As for you, you stupid tool, who wants to prevent others from doing what they enjoy because you hate it, and probably suck at it, fuck you! I spent my first twenty years in a country where power hungry morons enforced mediocrity, and I bet that you would have loved it there. Probably would have floated to the top, too.
Actually, now that I have had two minutes to think about it, I have a theory.
It may be that the thieves did not hack the remote, maybe they are triggering accident detection, which unlocks the doors. If I were a Honda engineer, this is what I would look at first.
Hell, maybe Honda is even blameless. I know some car dealerships push poorly thought-out mods on their customers. I would check to see whether there isn't a local dealership that is peddling a 'safety' add-on.
Some are vulnerable to replay attacks, but Hondas (and Acuras, which are Hondas) most definitely should not be. There was an European study that used more than just simple replay attacks, and they found a dozen brands of remote devices that were susceptible. Hondas were not amongst them.
This said, the article is retarded. I hope it's not the police officers' stupidity, but the authors'.
1) Of course they will go for the passenger's door, you morons, that's where drivers leave their stuff, and that's where the glove compartment is. The thieves are not stealing the cars, they are burglarizing them.
2) Of course, it will not work on all cars, you morons. The remotes use different protocols, and the thieves clearly have cracked Honda's. This will not help them much with Ford's.
3) Ok... three I'll keep to myself. As a former law enforcement agent, I'm sure the officers know that one, and are keeping it close to their chest. The authors are still morons, though.
Kilometer means 1000 meters. Milli-, nano-, kilo-, terra- are ways to conveniently denote powers of ten. It's a system of prefixes, and yes, it is defined in the metric system.
You got it all wrong. Exhausting more crap reduces your fuel efficiency.
I have replaced every car I've owned with a newer, more powerful one. Every single one has been more fuel efficient.
My current car is a heavily modified S60-R Volvo. Yes, it is heavier than my old Supra, and it has 460hps at the wheel (with the AWD fuse pulled) But it is also a Ultra Low Emission vehicle, and the first time I had it smog checked, the guy did it twice, because all but one of the categories on the California Smog check form were 0 (Zero point Zero)
The guy could not believe him eyes nor his machine. I have a bigger (than original) turbo, a dual intercooler, and a modified exhaust. After every single one of these modifications, the power AND the fuel efficiency went up.
So right now, I have a car that gets 31.1mpg on my daily commute, which is 12 miles highway and 5 miles streets.
The pressure that matters is not the pressure at the time the shot is fired, but the pressure at the time the bullet gets past the gas tube. 100kPa is only 1% of 10Mpa, but by the time the bullet passes the gas tube in a Kalashnikov, the pressure is barely over one megapascal.
And it is not about the pressure differential on the two sides of the bullet. It's about the fact that the gas in the gas tube has to do some work compressing a spring, while the gas in the barrel is accelerating a bullet, which would be A LOT easier without air resistance, while the spring is not affected at all.
Even on Earth, gun heat can be a VERY BIG deal, and not only for automatic weapons (which have to be air/water/etc cooled) I know people who have burned themselves on their guns, and, at least in the 80s, most machine guns would have been ruined if fired even at 20% of their maximum rate. (Or at least, they would have needed their barrels swapped constantly)
I bet you see the problem with air cooled guns that overheat even in air. When you fire them in space, there's no air to carry the heat away. It does not matter whether the sun shines or not, but it matters that the only cooling is through radiation.
You definitely have a point with lubricants. Yes, many would evaporate/freeze/etc...
But you are wrong about the reloading. Quite a few guns are rather finicky about the pressure inside the gas tube. For example, the AK-47 you brought up requires attachments when you are using non-standard ammunition, because sometimes, the pressure isn't enough to cycle. Other guns will not cycle properly if they are not shouldered properly, i.e. if the whole gun is allowed to go back.
When firing in vacuum, the lack of air resistance will let the bullet leave the barrel more easily, and will make it harder for the gas chasing it to do it's job in the gas tube. The effects will be compounded if the shooter is not properly braced (much harder if there's nothing pressing down on his soles)
The first shot will be even better than the one you'd get on Earth. The power already contains the oxidants the combustion needs, and there will be no air resistance.
The rest of the shot are trickier. If the gun is an automatic, and has not been modified, you may need to chamber the rounds manually, because the lack of air resistance may mess up the automatic action.
If the gun is a revolver, you will be able to fire all chambers as usual, but the gun will be only cooling by radiating heat AND through the contact with your gloves. That may become uncomfortable rather quickly.
And of course, you may have problems with recoil. Unless you have anchored yourself rather well, you will start moving in very complex way, especially if you do not fire the bullet along a line passing through your center of mass and the end of the barrel.
Or, you just may be making enough that it is not worth your time to spend the effort to protect yourself against malware and the -AA goons.
There isn't all that much media I'm interested in, and I can easily afford it. If anything, I would like to help artists/programers to generate more good stuff.
In my book, if you are pirating stuff, you are a combination of (1) poor (2) greedy (3) having something to prove (4) an asshole.
I'm at worst (4) and I have other ways of displaying that.
Yes, you caught us. I'm doing my part in trying to 'genocide' you. Due to hatred and jealousy, I married a blue eyed woman, and am thus doing my part in insuring that there are fewer blue eyed people in the next generation.
It runs in the family - my father was also led by hatred and jealousy to marry my green eyed mother. I wonder whether this means that I carry the hated genes myself... I better go and drown myself... in beer.
It's not for profit, because there's nothing worth lifting off the Moon.
It will not work as a proof of concept, because what we learn from it will not apply to a space elevator anchored on Earth.
Maybe I should elaborate on the this. The Moon rotates slowly. Remember, the same side always faces the Earth, thus its rotation period is the same as its orbital period. So for a space elevator to stay up, it would have to be quite long, anchored at an equatorial point facing Earth, and the higher end would have to be close enough to Earth for the forces to balance. (Attraction from Earth, attraction from the Moon, pull exerted by the string/rail...)
I am not a physicist, nor have I done the math. I do not even know whether the above setup is workable. But I do not believe that another setup is even remotely possible, and I do know that we would not learn much about building an elevator from Earth even if we built an elevator from the Moon in the above fashion.
Basically, I believe this is bullshit. Now that I have probably revealed my ignorance, I'll go and RTFA. Probably I'll learn that the summary's misleading.
When I was growing up in Bulgaria, Clifford Simak was certainly considered one of the great ones. For some reason, he, together with Isaac Asimov and Arthur Clarke, was one of the three most translated Western Sci-Fi authors.
For obvious reasons, Harry Harrison, Heinlein, and Orwell were less likely to be translated... because their anti-totalitarianism was more overt.
Basically, Apple has the ability to decrypt the data, and all the government needs is a court order to force them to do so. At the same time government officials are deploring their ability to access the data. Three possibilities that I see:
1. The government is attempting to deceive people into storing data where government officials can access it with a court order.
2. Some government officials do not have a problem admitting that they would love to access personal data without a court order, i.e. without probable cause.
3. Some government officials do not mind to supplement their income by advertising for Apple.
I frankly would have no problem with 1), would not be surprised by 3) but suspect the answer is 2)
You should be a bit more precise, because what you said is broadly true, but factually incorrect. I.e. your post was sloppy.
Some 9mm rounds are designed to defeat armor, for example the 9x31 subsonic used in the Vintorez.
Some 7.62 rounds will be easily stopped by level 1-2 armor, for example the 7.62x25 for the Tokarev.
It's silly to talk about caliber, when what matters is the kind of weapon that's firing the round. Body armor is mostly effective against pistols. Few of them offer any significant protection against assault rifles, and nothing you can wear will help you much against battle rifles, most sniper rifles, or machine guns.
Yes, gun enthusiasts can spend hours discussing the merits of a.45 handgun vs a 9mm one, but at the end of the day a pistol is a pistol, a rifle a rifle, and the significance of calibers is infinitesimal in comparison.
At the risk of feeding the troll, I'll try to explain and give you just one example where your approach is inadequate.
Quite a few people get born with genitalia that are halfway in between. In such cases, in most Western countries, a surgeon works to push the newborn's genitalia into one of the two common configurations. Now a day the doctors have more tools that they used to - they can check the chromosomes and assign the children to the gender they most closely match.
And they still make mistakes, or sometimes just have no good option. Note that in some case (XXY, XXYY) the kid is screwed anyway. It will look male, but will not be able to compete with XY males physically - weak muscles, useless fat accumulation, etc...
And then you have kids which were assigned 'female' at birth, but because of one reason or another, are more or less male on the inside. Worst case scenario, the surgeon totally fucked up. So the genitalia is female, or a scary simulacra thereof, but everything else - muscles, hormones, etc... is male. Such a person will not only destroy his/her competitors, but do so by such a large margin that it's humiliating. And usually they do not look too female on the outside either. So the other women complain. And the issue gets raised, and a decision has to be taken.
And not matter which way it goes, people get upset. As an enigineer, I can see that there are three solutions:
1. Let all genders compete together. In too many sports, it will deny women any chance to even qualify.
2. XXs compete with XXs, XYs with XYs, and anyone else is out, period. Harsh on a lot of athletes, and unnecessary, because of...
3. XXs compete with XXs, everyone else competes with everyone else.
I cannot even comprehend why anyone rational has a problem with #3. But most progressive foo-rights organizations are in arms against it, and there is no way for sports officials to impose it without committing political suicide.
So we have #4 - Tests are conducted, and most of the people tested are EVENTUALLY allowed to compete with the women.
The test results kept secret, and the competitors of the 'woman' are left unhappy.
Oh, come on. The very idea to use a CD is kinda dim, and plain pictures on a titanium plate is a much better way to go about it, but if you have to use digital media, there are formats that any civilized person will decipher rather quickly.
Assuming sequential binary, here is a simple video format that is extremely inefficient, but I think everyone will understand.
Simple bitmap, and begin by repeating an empty frame a few times. A empty 8x8 frame would look like this: 1111111110000001100000011000000110000001100000011000000111111111
Repeat it enough times for the reader to get that there is a pattern, then start flipping the zeros to ones to produce your images.
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This is a matter of personal preference. In gravity, the WHOLE story is due to bad physics. If the movie was realistic, there would have been no movie whatsoever.
1. Satellite orbits are offset, because of launch details, and precisely so that the ridiculous snowball effect does not occur... but the movie needs a problem, so these old reliable villains the Russians oblige by forgetting what space agencies have known for at least half a century.
2. Debris would not be completing their orbit nearly as quickly, but the movie needs a recurring danger, so they do.
3. The orbits of the installations in the movie are nowhere close to each other, but the movie needs to visit interesting places, so the actors travel ridiculous distances and match speeds unattainable with what they have.
4. Once Clooney is hanging off Bullocks, they have stopped relative to the station, which means they have achieved orbital speed, but the movie needs a heroic sacrifice, so...
The problem is that everything in this movie happens because someone who should know physics does not, or because physics do not work the way they do in real life. I would not particularly care to watch a movie about a cute couple trying to escape Cannibalistic Papists, or one about a cute couple using the scientific method to prove their is no god. This movie is at the same level of 'story', as far as I am concerned. Nice visuals, though. Wish they did not have all the morons obscuring the view and babbling to distract me.
You could buy stuff on-line using France's Minitel long before '84. Definitely by '82, possibly earlier. A friend of mine living in Bretagne had been telling me about it for a few years before it came to Alsace.
You needed a credit card, and preventing kids from shopping for porn was already a problem.
Young whisper snappers. Twenty years ago, there used to be scanners which could plug into the keyboard, or the serial port, and which needed power on top of that.
Different vendors used to come up with all sort of crazy ports. I remember one adapter that had on one side, the standard DB9 male with the outer shell split in two and carrying power, and on the other side two separate ports for power and for a keyboard (the pre-ps2, 6 din mini-din, no less)
The manual made a big deal how the cable could be used in many configurations, but I remember that there was one combination that was pretty much guaranteed to fry the power supply. No wonder it did not take off, but the concept was there - RS 232 and 12V power - 11 wires, 9 for the former and two for the latter, and able to fit a standard DB9.
I haven't seen that monstrosity for a while, but I am pretty sure it's still sitting in a maintenance cupboard at one of our plants. I'll try to see who made the things.
Not the first time Apple tries to patent something that someone thought up decades earlier, and someone else implemented successfully years earlier.
You are right on all counts as to where this is headed.
But we will take some time before we get there. I am afraid that my wetware will give out before the hardware becomes too expensive. In any case, I already pay an insurance premium for having modified my car, and I already pay for using the track, which is, after all, the only place where I can really put every single horsepower to work.
1. Can you read? I explicitly stated what car I drive.
2. Why would I worry about making you rich, even if I were? If some of my money ends in your pockets, you presumably provided a service I considered worth paying for.
3. You should understand that at some point, one stops minding overpaying for things one enjoys, as long as the surcharge does not affect one's quality of life. You may think that this makes me a moron, but that does not matter much to me.
It's no surprise to anyone that people like you exist, but please, do not act as if you are the norm, and everyone else is 'stupid', has no 'money sense', or tries 'to prove that they are higher on the simian food chain'. I enjoy video games, programming and driving, and I enjoy them in pretty much the same fashion. I used to enjoy martial arts, but now that I am pushing 50, the risks outweigh the reward. I know that one day my reflexes will erode to the point where driving will not give me the satisfaction of doing something well. It's clear to me that it already doesn't do much for you...
For some of us, $50K for a car that we enjoy driving is neither a particularly momentous expense, nor an attempt to prove anything. It's an indulgence, of course, but in my book, anyone who never indulges in anything is someone to pity, not to admire.
As for your opinions on luxury cars, and the supposed superiority of Lexus... do you really think that driving enthusiasts care about the rants of someone who admits to hating driving?! My wife enjoys her Audi A3, and I love my 460hp Volvo S60-R. Her car's trim is wood, mine's is brushed aluminum. If one of us prefered plastic, there'd be nothing wrong with it, either.
And you know what? It's a matter of personal preference, and I am very, very happy to work in a country where can afford to indulge my personal preferences, and where I am allowed to do so. As for you, you stupid tool, who wants to prevent others from doing what they enjoy because you hate it, and probably suck at it, fuck you! I spent my first twenty years in a country where power hungry morons enforced mediocrity, and I bet that you would have loved it there. Probably would have floated to the top, too.
Actually, now that I have had two minutes to think about it, I have a theory.
It may be that the thieves did not hack the remote, maybe they are triggering accident detection, which unlocks the doors. If I were a Honda engineer, this is what I would look at first.
Hell, maybe Honda is even blameless. I know some car dealerships push poorly thought-out mods on their customers. I would check to see whether there isn't a local dealership that is peddling a 'safety' add-on.
Some are vulnerable to replay attacks, but Hondas (and Acuras, which are Hondas) most definitely should not be. There was an European study that used more than just simple replay attacks, and they found a dozen brands of remote devices that were susceptible. Hondas were not amongst them.
This said, the article is retarded. I hope it's not the police officers' stupidity, but the authors'.
1) Of course they will go for the passenger's door, you morons, that's where drivers leave their stuff, and that's where the glove compartment is. The thieves are not stealing the cars, they are burglarizing them.
2) Of course, it will not work on all cars, you morons. The remotes use different protocols, and the thieves clearly have cracked Honda's. This will not help them much with Ford's.
3) Ok... three I'll keep to myself. As a former law enforcement agent, I'm sure the officers know that one, and are keeping it close to their chest. The authors are still morons, though.
Kilometer means 1000 meters. Milli-, nano-, kilo-, terra- are ways to conveniently denote powers of ten. It's a system of prefixes, and yes, it is defined in the metric system.
Si is a system of units. Abbreviation from SystÃme international des unités (I may be missing an 'e' or an accent, somewhere)
The two are systems, both are quite French, but their origins are about a century apart, if I am not mistaken.
You got it all wrong. Exhausting more crap reduces your fuel efficiency.
I have replaced every car I've owned with a newer, more powerful one. Every single one has been more fuel efficient.
My current car is a heavily modified S60-R Volvo. Yes, it is heavier than my old Supra, and it has 460hps at the wheel (with the AWD fuse pulled) But it is also a Ultra Low Emission vehicle, and the first time I had it smog checked, the guy did it twice, because all but one of the categories on the California Smog check form were 0 (Zero point Zero)
The guy could not believe him eyes nor his machine. I have a bigger (than original) turbo, a dual intercooler, and a modified exhaust. After every single one of these modifications, the power AND the fuel efficiency went up.
So right now, I have a car that gets 31.1mpg on my daily commute, which is 12 miles highway and 5 miles streets.
It means before sunrise and after sunset, but not too long either way. Refraction by the atmosphere.
The pressure that matters is not the pressure at the time the shot is fired, but the pressure at the time the bullet gets past the gas tube. 100kPa is only 1% of 10Mpa, but by the time the bullet passes the gas tube in a Kalashnikov, the pressure is barely over one megapascal.
And it is not about the pressure differential on the two sides of the bullet. It's about the fact that the gas in the gas tube has to do some work compressing a spring, while the gas in the barrel is accelerating a bullet, which would be A LOT easier without air resistance, while the spring is not affected at all.
Even on Earth, gun heat can be a VERY BIG deal, and not only for automatic weapons (which have to be air/water/etc cooled) I know people who have burned themselves on their guns, and, at least in the 80s, most machine guns would have been ruined if fired even at 20% of their maximum rate. (Or at least, they would have needed their barrels swapped constantly)
I bet you see the problem with air cooled guns that overheat even in air. When you fire them in space, there's no air to carry the heat away. It does not matter whether the sun shines or not, but it matters that the only cooling is through radiation.
You definitely have a point with lubricants. Yes, many would evaporate/freeze/etc...
But you are wrong about the reloading. Quite a few guns are rather finicky about the pressure inside the gas tube. For example, the AK-47 you brought up requires attachments when you are using non-standard ammunition, because sometimes, the pressure isn't enough to cycle. Other guns will not cycle properly if they are not shouldered properly, i.e. if the whole gun is allowed to go back.
When firing in vacuum, the lack of air resistance will let the bullet leave the barrel more easily, and will make it harder for the gas chasing it to do it's job in the gas tube. The effects will be compounded if the shooter is not properly braced (much harder if there's nothing pressing down on his soles)
The first shot will be even better than the one you'd get on Earth. The power already contains the oxidants the combustion needs, and there will be no air resistance.
The rest of the shot are trickier. If the gun is an automatic, and has not been modified, you may need to chamber the rounds manually, because the lack of air resistance may mess up the automatic action.
If the gun is a revolver, you will be able to fire all chambers as usual, but the gun will be only cooling by radiating heat AND through the contact with your gloves. That may become uncomfortable rather quickly.
And of course, you may have problems with recoil. Unless you have anchored yourself rather well, you will start moving in very complex way, especially if you do not fire the bullet along a line passing through your center of mass and the end of the barrel.
Or, you just may be making enough that it is not worth your time to spend the effort to protect yourself against malware and the -AA goons.
There isn't all that much media I'm interested in, and I can easily afford it. If anything, I would like to help artists/programers to generate more good stuff.
In my book, if you are pirating stuff, you are a combination of (1) poor (2) greedy (3) having something to prove (4) an asshole.
I'm at worst (4) and I have other ways of displaying that.
Yeah, and my bicycle smokes any Ferrari... in miles per calorie efficiency.
The iPad2 is the second coming of Christ, we got it already.
Yes, you caught us. I'm doing my part in trying to 'genocide' you. Due to hatred and jealousy, I married a blue eyed woman, and am thus doing my part in insuring that there are fewer blue eyed people in the next generation.
It runs in the family - my father was also led by hatred and jealousy to marry my green eyed mother. I wonder whether this means that I carry the hated genes myself... I better go and drown myself... in beer.
It's not for profit, because there's nothing worth lifting off the Moon.
It will not work as a proof of concept, because what we learn from it will not apply to a space elevator anchored on Earth.
Maybe I should elaborate on the this. The Moon rotates slowly. Remember, the same side always faces the Earth, thus its rotation period is the same as its orbital period. So for a space elevator to stay up, it would have to be quite long, anchored at an equatorial point facing Earth, and the higher end would have to be close enough to Earth for the forces to balance. (Attraction from Earth, attraction from the Moon, pull exerted by the string/rail...)
I am not a physicist, nor have I done the math. I do not even know whether the above setup is workable. But I do not believe that another setup is even remotely possible, and I do know that we would not learn much about building an elevator from Earth even if we built an elevator from the Moon in the above fashion.
Basically, I believe this is bullshit. Now that I have probably revealed my ignorance, I'll go and RTFA. Probably I'll learn that the summary's misleading.
When I was growing up in Bulgaria, Clifford Simak was certainly considered one of the great ones. For some reason, he, together with Isaac Asimov and Arthur Clarke, was one of the three most translated Western Sci-Fi authors.
For obvious reasons, Harry Harrison, Heinlein, and Orwell were less likely to be translated... because their anti-totalitarianism was more overt.
Basically, Apple has the ability to decrypt the data, and all the government needs is a court order to force them to do so. At the same time government officials are deploring their ability to access the data. Three possibilities that I see:
1. The government is attempting to deceive people into storing data where government officials can access it with a court order.
2. Some government officials do not have a problem admitting that they would love to access personal data without a court order, i.e. without probable cause.
3. Some government officials do not mind to supplement their income by advertising for Apple.
I frankly would have no problem with 1), would not be surprised by 3) but suspect the answer is 2)
You should be a bit more precise, because what you said is broadly true, but factually incorrect. I.e. your post was sloppy.
Some 9mm rounds are designed to defeat armor, for example the 9x31 subsonic used in the Vintorez.
Some 7.62 rounds will be easily stopped by level 1-2 armor, for example the 7.62x25 for the Tokarev.
It's silly to talk about caliber, when what matters is the kind of weapon that's firing the round. Body armor is mostly effective against pistols. Few of them offer any significant protection against assault rifles, and nothing you can wear will help you much against battle rifles, most sniper rifles, or machine guns.
Yes, gun enthusiasts can spend hours discussing the merits of a .45 handgun vs a 9mm one, but at the end of the day a pistol is a pistol, a rifle a rifle, and the significance of calibers is infinitesimal in comparison.
> you and your 'colleagues' just won a lottery
Sure, it sounds like a lottery. No way the ACM finalists would be able to find jobs on the basis of their skills alone. It has to be luck.
"I believe in luck. That's how I explain the success of people whom I hate and envy"
At the risk of feeding the troll, I'll try to explain and give you just one example where your approach is inadequate.
Quite a few people get born with genitalia that are halfway in between. In such cases, in most Western countries, a surgeon works to push the newborn's genitalia into one of the two common configurations. Now a day the doctors have more tools that they used to - they can check the chromosomes and assign the children to the gender they most closely match.
And they still make mistakes, or sometimes just have no good option. Note that in some case (XXY, XXYY) the kid is screwed anyway. It will look male, but will not be able to compete with XY males physically - weak muscles, useless fat accumulation, etc...
And then you have kids which were assigned 'female' at birth, but because of one reason or another, are more or less male on the inside. Worst case scenario, the surgeon totally fucked up. So the genitalia is female, or a scary simulacra thereof, but everything else - muscles, hormones, etc... is male. Such a person will not only destroy his/her competitors, but do so by such a large margin that it's humiliating. And usually they do not look too female on the outside either. So the other women complain. And the issue gets raised, and a decision has to be taken.
And not matter which way it goes, people get upset. As an enigineer, I can see that there are three solutions:
1. Let all genders compete together. In too many sports, it will deny women any chance to even qualify.
2. XXs compete with XXs, XYs with XYs, and anyone else is out, period. Harsh on a lot of athletes, and unnecessary, because of...
3. XXs compete with XXs, everyone else competes with everyone else.
I cannot even comprehend why anyone rational has a problem with #3. But most progressive foo-rights organizations are in arms against it, and there is no way for sports officials to impose it without committing political suicide.
So we have #4 - Tests are conducted, and most of the people tested are EVENTUALLY allowed to compete with the women.
The test results kept secret, and the competitors of the 'woman' are left unhappy.
Oh, come on. The very idea to use a CD is kinda dim, and plain pictures on a titanium plate is a much better way to go about it, but if you have to use digital media, there are formats that any civilized person will decipher rather quickly.
Assuming sequential binary, here is a simple video format that is extremely inefficient, but I think everyone will understand.
Simple bitmap, and begin by repeating an empty frame a few times. A empty 8x8 frame would look like this: 1111111110000001100000011000000110000001100000011000000111111111
Repeat it enough times for the reader to get that there is a pattern, then start flipping the zeros to ones to produce your images.
I think that most people would get it.