Almost nothing is done locally anymore, even though so much of what is shipped off to "the cloud" was able to be handled by the processors available twenty years ago.
If some company sells a product that does anything at all for you, they'll design it such that they can slurp up as much personal information as possible.
It shows that the Australian government is authoritarian and the people are capable of being bullied into compliance.
Getting rid of drunk driving is a laudable goal, but keeping people from driving even 1 kph over an arbitrarily set speed limit is not. What will they go after next and why is this sort of behavior a good thing?
You do know that the US president doesn't actually have a "LAUNCH TEH NUKES" button on his desk, right? Even if Trump was literally Hitler and actually wanted to start WW3, his command would have to filter through quite a few more rational minds before anything actually happened.
Honestly, as wacky as the place seems, North Korea probably has a similar arrangement too. Most people want to continue to be alive tomorrow and know that starting a nuclear war is just about the worst way to ensure that it happens.
Aperture synthesis works for optical wavelengths, too. The advantage of a smoothly translating satellite (versus multiple discrete cameras) is that you have a aperture that increases in size continuously with time (and you can get data from every point along the line, exposure time allowing).
The difficulties then remain that the observed angle of the target changes with image time, as well as the path through the atmosphere, the length of the path through the atmosphere, and the atmospheric makeup at the time of the image. It's not that bad of a problem, really.
I think that the AC was mixing up synthesis imaging and interferometry...
Another aspect of this is that it is apparently just as easy to accidentally select the test option instead of the actual alert option. If a shift change is enough to mix these up, in an actual emergency an operator could easily end up thinking he sent an alert out when he really just triggered a test.
Philosophically, I'm not entirely convinced that life imprisonment is less cruel than execution, assuming that a person is accurately determined to be a permanent and irreparable menace to others.
Practically, even the best judicial systems aren't infallible and will certainly execute or permanently imprison innocent people. At least those with life in prison have the opportunity to fix a mistaken conviction.
If your "god" thinks he still owns the things he gifts, he's a friggin sociopath.
Was that your first clue?
Politicians, corporate executives, and other dangerous sociopaths are looked upon so favorably in our culture because we have a long history of worshipping dangerous sociopaths.
Besides vengeance, there's also the defensive action of removing a dangerous person from society. The motivation behind life and death sentences is to protect society from irredeemable people who cannot be rehabilitated.
As much as I hate scams, I wouldn't necessarily put a scammer into that bucket, though.
I regularly stream games using Steam (including twitch FPS) and I rarely have any issues. I've even used it over a VPN from shitty hotel wifi and the latency isn't that bad. My Windows box is headless and only exists to host games.
Since you mentioned it, I played the entirety of Prey over a VPN from another continent. The ~160 ms latency may have slightly biased my play style, but it made playing it on my laptop possible.
You're sure full of hostility and assumptions. I'm not white and I'm certainly not conservative, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not the one with a racist agenda here.
I don't see where any of your quotes says that King's end goal isn't the removal of race as a factor for judging a person's worth. The world you seem to be set on building is one where race is ever more important for that. Catching up and building an equal foundation is not the same thing as inverting power structures and perpetuating hatred and division.
Thanks for more poignant quotes though. King is much more eloquent and far far less hateful than you. Reading him almost gets rid of the nasty taste in my mouth that reading your words left.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -MLK
You guys would tear him apart these days for the things that he said, if you ever even bothered to read them!
There will almost certainly be a "dealer mode" so that the car won't serve up ads when you're test driving it. (That will also be the focus of hacking efforts, which will start a fun new arms race.)
The ads will only be mentioned during the upsell portion of the purchase (to disable them by recurring subscription fee) or, if they can't be disabled, buried in the fine print.
What you describe surely happens, but left lane "camping" is a very real thing and seems to be getting worse. Examples from my recent experience, which you can find ample evidence of on Youtube:
- There's a stretch of interstate that I used to take to work that had miles-long stretches of cars packing the left lane (which is decorated by regular "Keep Right Except to Pass" signs) and nobody in the right lane at all.
- People regularly enter interstate highways and immediately head for the far left lane, regardless of how occupied any of the other lanes are.
- Around here, if you see a pickup truck or an old person in a luxury sedan, they are invariably in the left lane and going at or below the speed limit. All of the rest of the traffic is streaming around them on the right.
TL;DR: Left lane "camping" is (very very often) not just a figment in the imagination of impatient people.
If that's true, I'm a little impressed that the cop managed hit his intended target at 50+ yards on the first shot. They usually empty the magazine, reload, and empty it again and only seem to hit bystanders and the surrounding buildings.
Can it be triggered accidentally? Would a lightning strike on the water above the bomb cause any trouble?
Coded control messages. The probability of an accidental trigger drops significantly.
Are they wired into the internet so you can detonate them from anywhere on the net? What if some hacker figures out how to trigger them?
No. Why would you do that?
How long do the explosives last while sitting in saltwater? Will they still go boom after 1 year of immersion?
A solved problem: Parts of some World War II naval minefields still exist because they are too extensive and expensive to clear. It is possible for some of these 1940s-era mines to remain dangerous for many years to come. Even circa 1870's mines lasted "several years" submerged.
Lots of issues with the old "put a bomb on it and wait decades for war" plan.
Solvable issues that were tackled centuries to decades ago.
When cops feel threatened, they start randomly shooting at people.
This alert is very useful for letting you know that you may want to stay inside and away from windows. If the 'threat' is driving a blue pickup truck, you may want to not drive your blue pickup truck (or white pickup truck, or red car), lest it be turned into swiss cheese.
It's an alert that the police are off of their leash and won't be held accountable for any damage or injury that they cause.
First, Elcomsoft cracked the signing system; they didn't design it.
Without knowing anything about this story, my guess is that the signing certificate was embedded in every firmware update from the camera manufacturer. The signing algorithm itself was probably some standard one and wasn't the reason for the crack.
- Apple charges fixed 30% fee of the retail price of the app for providing a fixed cost service (hosting, etc).
- Qualcomm is charging a fixed percentage of the price of the retail phone for providing a fixed cost component.
Why does one of these strike you as an abomination, while the other is perfectly fine? The fee is "variable" because it's tied to the retail price of the final product (determined to maximize profits) and not the actual cost of the service/component.
As a customer, and not a manufacturer, I'm not sympathetic with Apple in this situation at all.
Even with Qualcomm's pricing tricks, there is no difference at all in the price that a customer pays (as is demonstrated by both of these models costing the same) and the unit cost of the modem is minuscule when compared to the profit margin on the device. If Qualcomm closed up shop or gave the modems away for free, the cost that customers pay for the phone wouldn't change a cent. Delivering an inferior product because they want to quibble over a tiny fraction of the cost of the phone is bullshit.
Oh, US units are definitely not easy to work with, being part of a customary system of measure with arbitrary (or no) base units, arbitrary conversion factors, and identically named units. The ounce isn't even that bad of an example, since an ounce (weight) of water occupies an ounce of volume (under specific conditions). That's similar to a gram of water occupying a milliliter of volume (under specific conditions).
But the US system wasn't causing any confusion in this thread, since it's all in metric units. The confusion here is due to people deliberately adding arbitrary conversion factors and identically named units to the metric system and turning it into another shitty customary system of measure. The foundations of the metric system were enlightened and rational, but the current users aren't so much.
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Almost nothing is done locally anymore, even though so much of what is shipped off to "the cloud" was able to be handled by the processors available twenty years ago.
If some company sells a product that does anything at all for you, they'll design it such that they can slurp up as much personal information as possible.
It shows that the Australian government is authoritarian and the people are capable of being bullied into compliance.
Getting rid of drunk driving is a laudable goal, but keeping people from driving even 1 kph over an arbitrarily set speed limit is not. What will they go after next and why is this sort of behavior a good thing?
You do know that the US president doesn't actually have a "LAUNCH TEH NUKES" button on his desk, right? Even if Trump was literally Hitler and actually wanted to start WW3, his command would have to filter through quite a few more rational minds before anything actually happened.
Honestly, as wacky as the place seems, North Korea probably has a similar arrangement too. Most people want to continue to be alive tomorrow and know that starting a nuclear war is just about the worst way to ensure that it happens.
I didn't understand. Can you re-write it using only words with 3 letters or less?
He did mix up homophones, use incorrect subject/verb agreement, and use generally poor sentence structure. Isn't that good enough?
Aperture synthesis works for optical wavelengths, too. The advantage of a smoothly translating satellite (versus multiple discrete cameras) is that you have a aperture that increases in size continuously with time (and you can get data from every point along the line, exposure time allowing).
The difficulties then remain that the observed angle of the target changes with image time, as well as the path through the atmosphere, the length of the path through the atmosphere, and the atmospheric makeup at the time of the image. It's not that bad of a problem, really.
I think that the AC was mixing up synthesis imaging and interferometry...
Another aspect of this is that it is apparently just as easy to accidentally select the test option instead of the actual alert option. If a shift change is enough to mix these up, in an actual emergency an operator could easily end up thinking he sent an alert out when he really just triggered a test.
Philosophically, I'm not entirely convinced that life imprisonment is less cruel than execution, assuming that a person is accurately determined to be a permanent and irreparable menace to others.
Practically, even the best judicial systems aren't infallible and will certainly execute or permanently imprison innocent people. At least those with life in prison have the opportunity to fix a mistaken conviction.
If your "god" thinks he still owns the things he gifts, he's a friggin sociopath.
Was that your first clue?
Politicians, corporate executives, and other dangerous sociopaths are looked upon so favorably in our culture because we have a long history of worshipping dangerous sociopaths.
Besides vengeance, there's also the defensive action of removing a dangerous person from society. The motivation behind life and death sentences is to protect society from irredeemable people who cannot be rehabilitated.
As much as I hate scams, I wouldn't necessarily put a scammer into that bucket, though.
Unless you spend all of your time in thick mountainous tunnels, that's a solved problem.
A pretty inexpensively solved problem, really.
I regularly stream games using Steam (including twitch FPS) and I rarely have any issues. I've even used it over a VPN from shitty hotel wifi and the latency isn't that bad. My Windows box is headless and only exists to host games.
Since you mentioned it, I played the entirety of Prey over a VPN from another continent. The ~160 ms latency may have slightly biased my play style, but it made playing it on my laptop possible.
You're sure full of hostility and assumptions. I'm not white and I'm certainly not conservative, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not the one with a racist agenda here.
I don't see where any of your quotes says that King's end goal isn't the removal of race as a factor for judging a person's worth. The world you seem to be set on building is one where race is ever more important for that. Catching up and building an equal foundation is not the same thing as inverting power structures and perpetuating hatred and division.
Thanks for more poignant quotes though. King is much more eloquent and far far less hateful than you. Reading him almost gets rid of the nasty taste in my mouth that reading your words left.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -MLK
You guys would tear him apart these days for the things that he said, if you ever even bothered to read them!
There will almost certainly be a "dealer mode" so that the car won't serve up ads when you're test driving it. (That will also be the focus of hacking efforts, which will start a fun new arms race.)
The ads will only be mentioned during the upsell portion of the purchase (to disable them by recurring subscription fee) or, if they can't be disabled, buried in the fine print.
One of the early signs of brain damage is mistyping < as [ and > as ]
...and completely losing awareness of the word "fewer".
What you describe surely happens, but left lane "camping" is a very real thing and seems to be getting worse. Examples from my recent experience, which you can find ample evidence of on Youtube:
- There's a stretch of interstate that I used to take to work that had miles-long stretches of cars packing the left lane (which is decorated by regular "Keep Right Except to Pass" signs) and nobody in the right lane at all.
- People regularly enter interstate highways and immediately head for the far left lane, regardless of how occupied any of the other lanes are.
- Around here, if you see a pickup truck or an old person in a luxury sedan, they are invariably in the left lane and going at or below the speed limit. All of the rest of the traffic is streaming around them on the right.
TL;DR: Left lane "camping" is (very very often) not just a figment in the imagination of impatient people.
If that's true, I'm a little impressed that the cop managed hit his intended target at 50+ yards on the first shot. They usually empty the magazine, reload, and empty it again and only seem to hit bystanders and the surrounding buildings.
I wonder how you remote detonate explosives underwater. There some special radio for that? Does it work from more then 1 mile away?
Extremely low frequency radio
Can it be triggered accidentally? Would a lightning strike on the water above the bomb cause any trouble?
Coded control messages. The probability of an accidental trigger drops significantly.
Are they wired into the internet so you can detonate them from anywhere on the net? What if some hacker figures out how to trigger them?
No. Why would you do that?
How long do the explosives last while sitting in saltwater? Will they still go boom after 1 year of immersion?
A solved problem: Parts of some World War II naval minefields still exist because they are too extensive and expensive to clear. It is possible for some of these 1940s-era mines to remain dangerous for many years to come. Even circa 1870's mines lasted "several years" submerged.
Lots of issues with the old "put a bomb on it and wait decades for war" plan.
Solvable issues that were tackled centuries to decades ago.
When cops feel threatened, they start randomly shooting at people.
This alert is very useful for letting you know that you may want to stay inside and away from windows. If the 'threat' is driving a blue pickup truck, you may want to not drive your blue pickup truck (or white pickup truck, or red car), lest it be turned into swiss cheese.
It's an alert that the police are off of their leash and won't be held accountable for any damage or injury that they cause.
(Also, my dentist's name is CowboyNeal.)
That's funny because he's my proctologist.
First, Elcomsoft cracked the signing system; they didn't design it.
Without knowing anything about this story, my guess is that the signing certificate was embedded in every firmware update from the camera manufacturer. The signing algorithm itself was probably some standard one and wasn't the reason for the crack.
I'd watch that.
- Apple charges fixed 30% fee of the retail price of the app for providing a fixed cost service (hosting, etc).
- Qualcomm is charging a fixed percentage of the price of the retail phone for providing a fixed cost component.
Why does one of these strike you as an abomination, while the other is perfectly fine? The fee is "variable" because it's tied to the retail price of the final product (determined to maximize profits) and not the actual cost of the service/component.
As a customer, and not a manufacturer, I'm not sympathetic with Apple in this situation at all.
Even with Qualcomm's pricing tricks, there is no difference at all in the price that a customer pays (as is demonstrated by both of these models costing the same) and the unit cost of the modem is minuscule when compared to the profit margin on the device. If Qualcomm closed up shop or gave the modems away for free, the cost that customers pay for the phone wouldn't change a cent. Delivering an inferior product because they want to quibble over a tiny fraction of the cost of the phone is bullshit.
Oh, US units are definitely not easy to work with, being part of a customary system of measure with arbitrary (or no) base units, arbitrary conversion factors, and identically named units. The ounce isn't even that bad of an example, since an ounce (weight) of water occupies an ounce of volume (under specific conditions). That's similar to a gram of water occupying a milliliter of volume (under specific conditions).
But the US system wasn't causing any confusion in this thread, since it's all in metric units. The confusion here is due to people deliberately adding arbitrary conversion factors and identically named units to the metric system and turning it into another shitty customary system of measure. The foundations of the metric system were enlightened and rational, but the current users aren't so much.