On the other hand - unlike municipal and other laws that prevent you from stringing your own cable on telephone poles or under roads: absolutely nothing is stopping you from putting up your own satellites.
Actually, no, there are laws saying that you can't put up your own satellites without permission from your government. Even if you don't launch them from your own country. https://www.technologyreview.c...
In the US, you need FCC permission to operate, and FAA permission to launch.
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/regulations/
We should probably consider ANY hardware manufactured in a country with an uber-authoritarian, paranoid government to be suspect.
If you credit Wired, the problem isn't that Huwei is compromised by the Chinese government (although it probably is. Their government holds very tight control over everything.).
The problem is that their software QC is slipshod.
From https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-threat-isnt-backdoors-its-bugs/:
"Though the geopolitical discourse has gotten heated, the report concluded that the flaws in Huawei's code are related to "basic engineering competence and cyber security hygiene" and could be exploited by anyone."
It's amusing to see all the whataboutism on/., but, really, although the U.S. has problems, it's nothing compared to mainland China.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/disappearances-forced-confessions-china-targets-dissent-n505046 https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17684226/uighur-china-camps-united-nations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China
https://freedomhouse.org/blog/china-s-quiet-drive-normalize-repression
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/17/chinas-growing-intolerance-for-dissent-will-come-at-a-high-price
What we need is for having more than 2 kids to be as socially unacceptable as thievery.
This article is about Britain. In Britain, the total fertility rate was 1.76 children per woman (per 2017 data). Since replacement rate is 2.1, this means that the intrinsic population growth is negative.
...As is, having more than 2 kids is actually celebrated by most people. "Wow, you have 5 kids! Good on you! Must be a lot of effort!"
I can't think of anybody in my social circle who would say that. Where do you live?
Oh, and, no place in Britain is more than 70 miles from the coast line- so if desalination was used as a last resort for fresh water at least it wouldn't have far to travel...
From the summary: "Domestic and industrial consumption is a relatively small part of the picture, he explained, with the water needed for agriculture perhaps being of greater concern."
It's reasonably plausible to desalinate a small amount of water for drinking, or even the slightly larger amount for washing, cooking, and bathing. But domestic water is trivial compared to the large amounts of water used in agriculture.
... If you're playing sports at the collegiate level, it's because you're actually fucking good at it. The world knows this. Exactly how long did stupid celebrities think they were going to get away with pimping their fake elite athletes?
The coaches were in on it. The kids weren't actually getting recruited by the team, but the coach said the were to get them preferential admission.
Exactly. They weren't getting athletic scholarships, they were just getting an endorsement from the head coach that they were "prospects" for the team. That bumps them up the admission scale.
Once they're admitted, they don't have to join the team. Nobody will even know that they were labelled a prospect; that's all in the confidential admissions paperwork.
What ever happened to getting your kid into college the good old fashioned way? Donating enough money to get a building named after you and guaranteed admission to any descendants.
According to TFA, most of these parents paid the consultant $250k to $450k. ...
Read the actual article. The people accepting the bribes got maybe 350 K to 450K. The people arranging the bribes got a lot more.
Exempli gratia: "In another example, Lelling said former Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith took $400,000 to designate a potential student as a recruit for the team — boosting the student's admission prospects — despite knowing that the student didn't play the sport competitively.Once the student was accepted to Yale, her relatives paid Singer approximately $1.2 million, including a $900,000 to one of KWF's charitable accounts, according to court documents."
Can you find any Republicans in the group arrested today? Nope. All card-carrying Leftists.
Since the summary didn't list any names except the photogenic actresses, I'm not sure how you know if they were Republicans or Democrats. The actual article names names (scroll down to the bottom for the list), and they're mostly athletic coaches and rich businessmen. I don't know their politics, but in my experience, athletic coaches and rich businessmen both tend toward the right.
What's the news thing here? I thought it was well known that connected people got their children in to "elite" educational institutions by donating a new library or something.
It's news when somebody does something about it.
It's news because they weren't doing that; they were literally cheating: forging fake documents, fake test scores, fake athletic achievements.
it's about preserving security on the networks that carry the terabytes of secret information passing between the countries.
By preserve security you of course mean maintain the US ability to slurp it all up.
Um, you do have to realize that the Chinese government are not the good guys. Saying "well, what about NSA spying??" is a whataboutism argument. Yes, the NSA is a spy agency, but that doesn't mean that Chinese spying is something we shouldn't worry about.
The objective was to do heat-flow measurements. You don't do those with a trench.
Trenching has been done with Viking and Phoenix. (And wheel-trenching with the MER rovers) It's interesting, but doesn't get you very deep below surface.
And no, I doubt you can move a one-ton lander by reaching out and pulling on dirt. The best you might do, if you have a really strong arm, and can grab onto the surface very very strongly, would be to tip it over.
Slashdot Mirror
US exports weapons to Saudi Arabia. What could be worse, a few routers?
Wow, the very first post is whataboutism. Way to go, /.
On the other hand - unlike municipal and other laws that prevent you from stringing your own cable on telephone poles or under roads: absolutely nothing is stopping you from putting up your own satellites.
Actually, no, there are laws saying that you can't put up your own satellites without permission from your government. Even if you don't launch them from your own country. https://www.technologyreview.c...
In the US, you need FCC permission to operate, and FAA permission to launch.
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/regulations/
We should probably consider ANY hardware manufactured in a country with an uber-authoritarian, paranoid government to be suspect.
If you credit Wired, the problem isn't that Huwei is compromised by the Chinese government (although it probably is. Their government holds very tight control over everything.).
The problem is that their software QC is slipshod.
From https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-threat-isnt-backdoors-its-bugs/:
"Though the geopolitical discourse has gotten heated, the report concluded that the flaws in Huawei's code are related to "basic engineering competence and cyber security hygiene" and could be exploited by anyone."
It's amusing to see all the whataboutism on /., but, really, although the U.S. has problems, it's nothing compared to mainland China.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/disappearances-forced-confessions-china-targets-dissent-n505046
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17684226/uighur-china-camps-united-nations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China
https://freedomhouse.org/blog/china-s-quiet-drive-normalize-repression
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/17/chinas-growing-intolerance-for-dissent-will-come-at-a-high-price
If you read the summary you'd realize that the experts said that they have no idea who put the backdoor in.
Interesting, but how do you prove the proof?
This seems to be in the nature of promotional material for Google than news.
They obviously are better educated than you also.
You thought wrong.
India has a middle class, and the middle class is larger than the population of the United States.
What we need is for having more than 2 kids to be as socially unacceptable as thievery.
This article is about Britain. In Britain, the total fertility rate was 1.76 children per woman (per 2017 data). Since replacement rate is 2.1, this means that the intrinsic population growth is negative.
...As is, having more than 2 kids is actually celebrated by most people. "Wow, you have 5 kids! Good on you! Must be a lot of effort!"
I can't think of anybody in my social circle who would say that. Where do you live?
Oh, and, no place in Britain is more than 70 miles from the coast line- so if desalination was used as a last resort for fresh water at least it wouldn't have far to travel...
From the summary: "Domestic and industrial consumption is a relatively small part of the picture, he explained, with the water needed for agriculture perhaps being of greater concern."
It's reasonably plausible to desalinate a small amount of water for drinking, or even the slightly larger amount for washing, cooking, and bathing. But domestic water is trivial compared to the large amounts of water used in agriculture.
...said no scientist.
Asshole anonymous cowards keep posting these purported "predictions" which are in fact made up completely.
First rule of /.: if an anonymous coward posts something, more than likely it's bullshit.
... If you're playing sports at the collegiate level, it's because you're actually fucking good at it. The world knows this. Exactly how long did stupid celebrities think they were going to get away with pimping their fake elite athletes?
The coaches were in on it. The kids weren't actually getting recruited by the team, but the coach said the were to get them preferential admission.
Exactly. They weren't getting athletic scholarships, they were just getting an endorsement from the head coach that they were "prospects" for the team. That bumps them up the admission scale.
Once they're admitted, they don't have to join the team. Nobody will even know that they were labelled a prospect; that's all in the confidential admissions paperwork.
What ever happened to getting your kid into college the good old fashioned way? Donating enough money to get a building named after you and guaranteed admission to any descendants.
According to TFA, most of these parents paid the consultant $250k to $450k.
...
Read the actual article. The people accepting the bribes got maybe 350 K to 450K. The people arranging the bribes got a lot more.
Exempli gratia:
"In another example, Lelling said former Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith took $400,000 to designate a potential student as a recruit for the team — boosting the student's admission prospects — despite knowing that the student didn't play the sport competitively.Once the student was accepted to Yale, her relatives paid Singer approximately $1.2 million, including a $900,000 to one of KWF's charitable accounts, according to court documents."
No, they weren't "all democrats".
Can you find any Republicans in the group arrested today? Nope. All card-carrying Leftists.
Since the summary didn't list any names except the photogenic actresses, I'm not sure how you know if they were Republicans or Democrats. The actual article names names (scroll down to the bottom for the list), and they're mostly athletic coaches and rich businessmen. I don't know their politics, but in my experience, athletic coaches and rich businessmen both tend toward the right.
What's the news thing here? I thought it was well known that connected people got their children in to "elite" educational institutions by donating a new library or something.
It's news when somebody does something about it.
It's news because they weren't doing that; they were literally cheating: forging fake documents, fake test scores, fake athletic achievements.
You know who is spying on the German government ? US spy agencies, that's right. So much for being "partners".
WHATABOUTISM
No secret information is transferred over any network without adding additional layers of encryption.
Which Huawai is pleased to provide, using Chinese developed and manufactured encryption chips.
it's about preserving security on the networks that carry the terabytes of secret information passing between the countries.
By preserve security you of course mean maintain the US ability to slurp it all up.
Um, you do have to realize that the Chinese government are not the good guys. Saying "well, what about NSA spying??" is a whataboutism argument. Yes, the NSA is a spy agency, but that doesn't mean that Chinese spying is something we shouldn't worry about.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whataboutism-origin-meaning
Americans moaning about immigration like their country isn't based off the fucking concept.
The world moaning about ancient history as if it's fucking relevant anymore. Those that migrated to the US hundreds of years ago weren't.....
BZZT.
Immigration peak was actually in 1930. That's not 'hundreds of years ago'.
This is a fascinating use of big data, but I'd really like to see this work peer-reviewed for publication
So, basically, this is google translate, but for software!
Trenching has been done with Viking and Phoenix. (And wheel-trenching with the MER rovers) It's interesting, but doesn't get you very deep below surface.
And no, I doubt you can move a one-ton lander by reaching out and pulling on dirt. The best you might do, if you have a really strong arm, and can grab onto the surface very very strongly, would be to tip it over.
The InSight rover is less than 1000 pounds....
Lander. It doesn't rove.
How efficient do you think people would be when the temperature is -100 F? Because that's summer on Mars.
Actually, summer daytime temperatures on Mars get into the double-digit numbers C in the mid latitudes. (That's "above 50 F" for you Farenheiters).
Nights get pretty cold, though.
https://www.space.com/16907-what-is-the-temperature-of-mars.html