Perhaps Gizmodo is just parroting some party line he was fed by his puppet
masters.
Fact is, the evidence show that people will
buy $100 paper copies of books that they can get for free.
Such a crude and careless error on a fundamental
point makes me suspect the other information.
Possibly the article
was written to order to push the sales of e-books and readers.
Having a link to it show up on/. smells like a paid advertisement.
I'll leave the other e-book problems, like the inability to resell a used book,
and the fact you will lose all your books if the reader breaks, to others to pick apart.
You know, it's pretty sad state of affairs when exploit stories get written with such a matter of fact attitude.
Now, I don't use any Windows machine which is allowed to connect to an outside network, so I've never been personally subject to all these problems.
But it seems that these exploits are so common that no one even gets excited about it anymore, it seems to be taken for granted. Sort of like a weather forcast: Rain Tomorrow.
Where is the outrage? The anger at time and money wasted on dealing with these seemingly constant problems?
Or do the IT people who deal with Windows boxes view the frequent patching, virus upgrading, cleanup, rebuilding, and whatever else, as a benefit which provides job security?
To make one of those feeble car analogies, would you be outraged if the car you drove broke down every time an insect smacked into the windshield?
I am just amazed at what people are putting up with.
"To Serve Man" (March 2, 1962) adapted by Serling from Damon Knight's short story, is one of the most famous Zone episodes with its "Soylent Green" ending. A 9-foot tall Kanamit (Richard Kiel) has come to earth to create a golden age with the advanced technology of his race. However, Michael Chambers (Lloyd Bochner), a government decoding expert, learns to learn the true meaning of the title of the book left by the Kanamit. Not as much fun the second time around when the ending seems so obvious, "To Serve Man" teaches the old lesson that appearances can be deceiving, especially when dealing with strange visitors from another planet.
Fortunately, Democrats have been listening to their base, and while network security may be a problem at the convetion, Some Democrats have been moving secret information the old-fashioned way:
I hate to break it to PC Mag, but people were going from CAD to parts with no prints in 1985.
Maybe back in 1970 people were designing board etch (scaled up 10 times or so) layouts by placing self-adhesive red transparent tape (like pinstriping tape) onto clear plastic sheets, and then projecting this master onto sensitized copper-clad boards.
Old boards that have curved lines for the traces are layed out this way. CAD boards have straight lines and 90 or 45 degree angles in the traces.
As far as mechanical parts go, back in 1985 you could take a 3d wireframe of your mechanical part, send the IGES file to the vendor, and they would use
SMP - 81
, which dates back to 1979
(for sheetmetal)
This article is just blatant fluff advertising for the products reviewed, as well as another example of "journalists" having no idea about the timeline or of similar products which have existed for years.
It's really amazing that "journalists" get paid: I am probably wrong just as often, but
I post for free.
An assistant professor at New York University bemoans the decline and fall of his Favorite Party Organ (tm).
Quelle surprise, mon capitaine!
The NYT lack of presence in google results reflects perfectly its lack of relevance in the "Real World"
The dear assistant prof cannot even write an article without bringing up that favorite bit of trivia, Abu Ghraib.
From the FA:
"But the Times still ranked low, even after it plastered an Abu Ghraib story on its front page for 32 straight days between May and June."
As anyone who was paying attention to REAL news sources knows, those responsible for the abuses
were already under arrest. Yet the NYT propaganda mill spewed out 32 days worth of output on this one issue.
The other "BIG MEDIA" outlets are no better:
Check out theAllahpundit comparison of Time magazine covers. The only thing missing from the black-and-white Bush pic is the brown shirt and the armband.
Hell, if a person was going to waste time reading or watching propaganda, they would be wise to choose something with real artistic merit, perhaps one of Leni's bits of snuff fluff.
The NYT, Time, and
The Walrus
are far too crude and obvious, as well as lacking artistic merit, to be worth bothering with.
It's unfortunate that your comment is marked "funny".
For those who don't know, the Wall was built to stop the huge number of people who realized that
the Communist Utopia was a load of (deadly) crap, and wanted out.
There was originally a water cooled version, but by using heatsinks that look like a bed of nails, and ducting the cooling air from a blower in the bottom of the unit to impinge individually on each heatsink ( the ducting is removed in the pic ) it was possible to ditch all the water cooling hardware.
These systems were meant for raised floor installations where chilled air was blown up thru missing floor panels, right into the fan intake.
And that is not a real service guy... he does not have a static strap!
It's kind of strange that the article makes no mention of HP Remarketing, which still provides parts and support.
Your problem is probably due to not having enough
inlet and outlet area on your case.
Unfortunately, a lot of cases have decorative plastic front bezels that don't let air thru, even though they seem to have a grill in the front.
On all my cases, I use a 7" diameter AC fan on the front. I cut a hole thru the plastic bezel, thru the sheetmetal, and mount a 240 volt AC
7" (6.75") diameter fan on the front, blowing in so as not to fight with the power supply fan.
Using a 240 volt fan on a 120 volt system makes it run slow so it is not noisy. You could also use a 120 volt fan and a speed control suitable for inductive loads ( a light dimmer usually isn't). The ideal is to use a 200 volt fan made for the Japanese market (where the voltage is 100 or 200 volts, vs the 120/240 in the USA) but these are a little hard to find.
You absolutely need to have outlet area to dump the hot air, and I try to put
my cards in every other pci slot, and leave out the blanks covering the slots in between. In this way you make a card cage like in the mainframes, where air used to flow between every board.
The fans are cheap on the surplus market, if you check the ads in Nuts and Volts magazine, you will find lots of surplus places listed. If you get a used fan and it has noisy bearings, you can pull them, read the part numbers, and order replacements for them from a bearing place like E. B. Atmus.
Once you make the proper holes in your case and put in a big fan, you should get lower temps than you do
with the cover off.
If you want to be less extreme you can use smaller 12 volt fans, just make sure you cut the holes to let air in and out.
Here are some cheap fans at marlin p jones. The 24 volt fans may not run at all on 12 volts, unfortunately, but the 12 volt ones should run on the 7 volts you get between +12V and +5V on your power supply.
Could you please share with us what "training" you did at
the RMV
(a chair? horsewhip? cattle-prod? Brain-implant?)
to get them to input the number correctly?
I went thru that once a looong time ago, with a 6 digit vin on a motorcycle, and I was never able to get those @$$#0!&$ to budge off their asses. Finally had the local police department make
up a vin#, with the 6 digets in the middle of it,
and they took that.
Can you tell my blood pressure still Chernobyls at the memory of that whole farce?
Commodore International B.V. is a daughter company of Tulip Computers. The CommodoreWorld concept is developed in cooperation with a number licensee-partners amongst others Yeahronimo N.V. and Ironstone Partners Ltd. Through this joint effort Tulip Computers and its partners will strengthen their power to act and will limit the financial risks connected to the development and production of new products considerably. In addition the introduction of new products and/or services will be much quicker.
About Ironstone
Ironstone Partners Ltd is a commercial vehicle created and funded by a number of individuals with a combined experience of over 100 years in the global games and media industries. Ironstone has offices in both the United Kingdom and Canada. Ironstone focus itself on projects in the worldwide games- and multimedia industry.
...
Ironstone owns the intellectual property rights of a broad portfolio of games- and multimedia products....
Commodore is a very strong brand with worldwide recognition introducing a solution what will bridge the consumer's eGap. An eGap is the entertainment Gap in the life of a consumer...
Seems possible that some new people bought the rights to use the commodore name.
And why is this corporate info written in Engrish?
Diesel engines always have a much higher
efficiency
than gasoline engines, because of the MUCH higher compression ratio. That is just basic thermodynamics.
Unfortunately, this higher ratio also results in higher Nox (
nitrogen oxides
) emissions.
A diesel engine also has no throttle plate to regulate air intake, so the losses from pumping air into the engine are less.
While a gasoline engine needs to keep the air/fuel
ratio at about 14.7 to 1 (so it is ignitable with a spark), a diesel can run at very lean ratios, becaues the ignition is due to the
high temperature and pressure of the compression,
not a spark.
(what would be spark timing on a gasoline engine is fuel injector timing directly thru the cylinder head on a diesel engine)
Glow plugs in some engines help heat
the contents of the cylinder during a cold start.
Finally, every ignition in a diesel engine
is due to self-detonation of the diesel fuel, (which would be knock or ping in a gasoline engine), and this is why the disel has a harsh or
knocking sound when it runs, and why diesel fuel
has a very low octane rating (thus a high cetane rating) , allowing this self-detonation to occur.
In summary, gasoline and diesel engines are
very different animals, with different benefits and disadvantages.
It's simply a glorified virtual hard disk service, paid for by the government.
Allow me to correct a serious flaw in your thinking.
This boondoggle is paid for by money taken from TAX PAYERS.
It is another example of state government
growing to consume all current funding, so that later they can justify taking more money by saying that they need it for firemen or school teachers.
This is where MegaCorp$ are less evil: you can at least choose NOT to buy (i.e., pay for) MegaCorp$ products.
... becomes apparent that you actually do warrant them to install such an application. I'd imagine it would be part of the liner notes...
Well that seems fair.
When you read this reply to your post, you have agreed to put all your money in a paper bag, put your underwear on your head if it is not already there, slather yourself with Marmite,
and run naked down the center of the street throwing your money to passers-by.
I was under the impression that a 400W power supply was capable of outputing 400W of power, not that it took as input 400W of power.
Well, Yes.
But to produce that full output of 400 watts at 60% (0.60) per cent efficiency it will consume 666.666 watts,
dumping 266.666 watts as waste heat.
More important, *Please note also* that the power supply reaches maximum efficiency at rated output, I.E. at outputs less than rated, the efficiency can be a LOT LOWER than
you think.
Those independent wall warts provide DC isolation
between all the different devices.
The power inside the device is not isolated from the internal circuitry.
This could cause problems with loop currents flowing thru signal lines between different pieces of equipment.
In summary, seperate transformer ISOLATED supplies are good, if
inefficient, unless all devices use inputs/outputs
isolated (by a signal transformer?) from the rest of the product.
The AC that comes into your power supply
is first rectified into 300 volt DC.
Note the diode bridge and big capacitors inside. (for those of you looking, DO NOT TOUCH anything because the capacitors may still be charged even after the supply is off and unplugged)
The most efficient UPS would be 300 Volts
of batteries connected to the DC bus in the power supply itself.
Using 12 volt (nominal) car batteries you would need 300/12 = 25 batteries in series to provide 300 Volts.
Upside: at $35 per battery, you would have a reeeeeeaaallllyyyy long
backup time for $875.
Downside:
You probably need to make
chargers that charge each battery individually to avoid imbalance in the cells.
At a weight of about 40 lbs per battery, (total = 1000 lb) you probably want to keep the batteries in the cellar.(although battries will last a lot longer
at lower ambient temperatures.)
Avert your eyes, Citizen!!!
on
Meet Joe Blog
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
In other news, huge corporations that control most print and all television
media hate and fear competition, and are trying to ram home the message
that only BigMedia (TM) is worthy of the eyeballs and dollars of CONSUMERS.
Is anyone here surprised?
This article is from exactly the same mindset that Microsoft displays when
they tell us that Windows is cheaper and better than Linux.
Fact is, many in the media realize they have a serious trust problem,
but things will get much worse before they get better.
Blogs are a huge potential threat to the media establishment, and the best ones provide information which BigMedia wishes to see suppressed, such as the UN Oil for Dictators program known as
UNSCAM
There will be lots of loud and shrill posts in this thread reminding YOU, Citizen, that blogs are bad for you, boring, and will make your palms hairy.
Certainly, if you agree that your betters at BigMedia are best qualified to tell you what to think about, carry on as you are.
I mean, BigMedia has YOUR best interests in mind right? Right? It's not as if they are trying to sell you something.
The liner material has to be very ductile so it will flow from its initial hollow cone
shape to form the slug and penetrating jet. The wavefront of explosives detonating behind the cone
(explosive is on the pointy side of the cone)
forms the slug and jet.
You can demo this for yourself by putting shaving cream between your
palms, holding your wrists together, and then claping your hands. The foam will shoot out at a velocity
much higher than the speed you push your hands together.
Most very ductile materials are metals,
so a non-conductive liner is unlikely.
Some other posts have mentioned discharging the
system with the first hit, but this may not be
a problem because the the full charge is not
necessarily used up, since the current flow will
cease when the jet is burned away.. In fact the
system might work with two paralell screens,
without the need for solid sheets.
The older anti-shaped-charge
system is called reactive armor, which means the
tank is covered with many explosive sheets, whichever one is hit detonates, thus disrupting the jet when it explodes.
The problem there is that the sheet must
be replaced manually after a hit. This electrical
system should keep on working.
Slashdot Mirror
You must be kidding!!!
On the off chance you are serious, I say:
Stop your bitching already, sheesh!
Ok, go to your Mozilla edit > preferences > appearance > colours.
Click the Use my Chosen Colors box
Make the colors with text black, background white.
That was easy, Huh?
FREE DOWNLOADS AND COMPETITION: Okay, the InstaWife's book was selling on Amazon for $100 used, which led her to make it available for free download on her website. The used price is now $95.24, after being available for download for over a month, even though there's a comment on the Amazon page telling people where they can get it for free. I'll grant that this isn't scientific , but it certainly suggests that the availability of free downloads doesn't destroy the market for a product, even at a very high price differential
Perhaps Gizmodo is just parroting some party line he was fed by his puppet masters.
Fact is, the evidence show that people will buy $100 paper copies of books that they can get for free.
Such a crude and careless error on a fundamental point makes me suspect the other information.
Possibly the article was written to order to push the sales of e-books and readers. Having a link to it show up on /. smells like a paid advertisement.
I'll leave the other e-book problems, like the inability to resell a used book, and the fact you will lose all your books if the reader breaks, to others to pick apart.
Now, I don't use any Windows machine which is allowed to connect to an outside network, so I've never been personally subject to all these problems.
But it seems that these exploits are so common that no one even gets excited about it anymore, it seems to be taken for granted. Sort of like a weather forcast: Rain Tomorrow.
Where is the outrage? The anger at time and money wasted on dealing with these seemingly constant problems?
Or do the IT people who deal with Windows boxes view the frequent patching, virus upgrading, cleanup, rebuilding, and whatever else, as a benefit which provides job security?
To make one of those feeble car analogies, would you be outraged if the car you drove broke down every time an insect smacked into the windshield?
I am just amazed at what people are putting up with.
Ok, that sounds fair.
Tell me where you work, and I will come by and tap you on the head with a pencil at irregular intervals throughout the day.
When you get annoyed, I will smugly tell you it is your fault because you "don't understand".
Or, perhaps, annoyance is the fault of the person who is too superior or condescending to bother to help or explain properly.
HTH. HAND.
To Serve Man
Spoiler: The Joy of Cooking , with only one main ingredient.
From the link:
"To Serve Man" (March 2, 1962) adapted by Serling from Damon Knight's short story, is one of the most famous Zone episodes with its "Soylent Green" ending. A 9-foot tall Kanamit (Richard Kiel) has come to earth to create a golden age with the advanced technology of his race. However, Michael Chambers (Lloyd Bochner), a government decoding expert, learns to learn the true meaning of the title of the book left by the Kanamit. Not as much fun the second time around when the ending seems so obvious, "To Serve Man" teaches the old lesson that appearances can be deceiving, especially when dealing with strange visitors from another planet.
Indeed.
Fortunately, Democrats have been listening to their base, and while network security may be a problem at the convetion, Some Democrats have been moving secret information the old-fashioned way:
In their pants.
Happily, they still have time to make sure that those who disagree with them will have to sit at the back of the bus:
Cement barriers, 8-foot-tall chain-link fencing, and heavy black netting have been installed around the protest zone outside the FleetCenter, angering protesters who say they will be penned in and closed off from Democratic National Convention delegates. Much of the area is located under abandoned elevated Green Line tracks that slope downward. The setup, which one netting installer called ''an internment camp," will force tall protesters at the southern end of the zone to lower their heads to avoid banging them on green metal girders.
Maybe back in 1970 people were designing board etch (scaled up 10 times or so) layouts by placing self-adhesive red transparent tape (like pinstriping tape) onto clear plastic sheets, and then projecting this master onto sensitized copper-clad boards.
Old boards that have curved lines for the traces are layed out this way. CAD boards have straight lines and 90 or 45 degree angles in the traces.
As far as mechanical parts go, back in 1985 you could take a 3d wireframe of your mechanical part, send the IGES file to the vendor, and they would use
SMP - 81 , which dates back to 1979 (for sheetmetal)
or
Mastercam (for machined parts)
This article is just blatant fluff advertising for the products reviewed, as well as another example of "journalists" having no idea about the timeline or of similar products which have existed for years.
It's really amazing that "journalists" get paid: I am probably wrong just as often, but I post for free.
Hey, maybe I could get a side job at the NYT...
Note the 48,500 links for this search!
Seems like the Olympics has become like the UN: A good idea, which has been defiled by some of the people involved.
Pity, really.
I don't think i've watched since the Israeli 1972 Olympic Team was murdered in Munich
Quelle surprise, mon capitaine!
The NYT lack of presence in google results reflects perfectly its lack of relevance in the "Real World"
The dear assistant prof cannot even write an article without bringing up that favorite bit of trivia, Abu Ghraib.
From the FA:
"But the Times still ranked low, even after it plastered an Abu Ghraib story on its front page for 32 straight days between May and June."
As anyone who was paying attention to REAL news sources knows, those responsible for the abuses were already under arrest. Yet the NYT propaganda mill spewed out 32 days worth of output on this one issue.
The other "BIG MEDIA" outlets are no better:
Check out theAllahpundit comparison of Time magazine covers. The only thing missing from the black-and-white Bush pic is the brown shirt and the armband.
Hell, if a person was going to waste time reading or watching propaganda, they would be wise to choose something with real artistic merit, perhaps one of Leni's bits of snuff fluff.
The NYT, Time, and The Walrus are far too crude and obvious, as well as lacking artistic merit, to be worth bothering with.
For those who don't know, the Wall was built to stop the huge number of people who realized that the Communist Utopia was a load of (deadly) crap, and wanted out.
Persons killed on the Berlin Wall = 192. Persons injured by shooting: ca. 200
(Note that Lenin himself defined communism as "Socialism plus Electricity"
I find a good definition of a "free country" is one that you can freely leave if you want to.
Fortunately for me, I found an "easier" way out.
There was originally a water cooled version, but by using heatsinks that look like a bed of nails, and ducting the cooling air from a blower in the bottom of the unit to impinge individually on each heatsink ( the ducting is removed in the pic ) it was possible to ditch all the water cooling hardware.
These systems were meant for raised floor installations where chilled air was blown up thru missing floor panels, right into the fan intake.
And that is not a real service guy... he does not have a static strap!
It's kind of strange that the article makes no mention of HP Remarketing, which still provides parts and support.
Unfortunately, a lot of cases have decorative plastic front bezels that don't let air thru, even though they seem to have a grill in the front.
On all my cases, I use a 7" diameter AC fan on the front. I cut a hole thru the plastic bezel, thru the sheetmetal, and mount a 240 volt AC 7" (6.75") diameter fan on the front, blowing in so as not to fight with the power supply fan.
Using a 240 volt fan on a 120 volt system makes it run slow so it is not noisy. You could also use a 120 volt fan and a speed control suitable for inductive loads ( a light dimmer usually isn't). The ideal is to use a 200 volt fan made for the Japanese market (where the voltage is 100 or 200 volts, vs the 120/240 in the USA) but these are a little hard to find.
You absolutely need to have outlet area to dump the hot air, and I try to put my cards in every other pci slot, and leave out the blanks covering the slots in between. In this way you make a card cage like in the mainframes, where air used to flow between every board.
The fans are cheap on the surplus market, if you check the ads in Nuts and Volts magazine, you will find lots of surplus places listed. If you get a used fan and it has noisy bearings, you can pull them, read the part numbers, and order replacements for them from a bearing place like E. B. Atmus.
Once you make the proper holes in your case and put in a big fan, you should get lower temps than you do with the cover off.
If you want to be less extreme you can use smaller 12 volt fans, just make sure you cut the holes to let air in and out.
Here are some cheap fans at marlin p jones. The 24 volt fans may not run at all on 12 volts, unfortunately, but the 12 volt ones should run on the 7 volts you get between +12V and +5V on your power supply.
Good luck!
(a chair? horsewhip? cattle-prod? Brain-implant?)
to get them to input the number correctly?
I went thru that once a looong time ago, with a 6 digit vin on a motorcycle, and I was never able to get those @$$#0!&$ to budge off their asses. Finally had the local police department make up a vin#, with the 6 digets in the middle of it, and they took that.
Can you tell my blood pressure still Chernobyls at the memory of that whole farce?
About Commodore International B.V.
Commodore International B.V. is a daughter company of Tulip Computers. The CommodoreWorld concept is developed in cooperation with a number licensee-partners amongst others Yeahronimo N.V. and Ironstone Partners Ltd. Through this joint effort Tulip Computers and its partners will strengthen their power to act and will limit the financial risks connected to the development and production of new products considerably. In addition the introduction of new products and /or services will be much quicker.
About Ironstone
Ironstone Partners Ltd is a commercial vehicle created and funded by a number of individuals with a combined experience of over 100 years in the global games and media industries. Ironstone has offices in both the United Kingdom and Canada. Ironstone focus itself on projects in the worldwide games- and multimedia industry.
Commodore is a very strong brand with worldwide recognition introducing a solution what will bridge the consumer's eGap. An eGap is the entertainment Gap in the life of a consumer...
Seems possible that some new people bought the rights to use the commodore name.
And why is this corporate info written in Engrish?
Unfortunately, this higher ratio also results in higher Nox ( nitrogen oxides ) emissions.
A diesel engine also has no throttle plate to regulate air intake, so the losses from pumping air into the engine are less. While a gasoline engine needs to keep the air/fuel ratio at about 14.7 to 1 (so it is ignitable with a spark), a diesel can run at very lean ratios, becaues the ignition is due to the high temperature and pressure of the compression, not a spark.
(what would be spark timing on a gasoline engine is fuel injector timing directly thru the cylinder head on a diesel engine)
Glow plugs in some engines help heat the contents of the cylinder during a cold start.
Finally, every ignition in a diesel engine is due to self-detonation of the diesel fuel, (which would be knock or ping in a gasoline engine), and this is why the disel has a harsh or knocking sound when it runs, and why diesel fuel has a very low octane rating (thus a high cetane rating) , allowing this self-detonation to occur.
In summary, gasoline and diesel engines are very different animals, with different benefits and disadvantages.
Allow me to correct a serious flaw in your thinking.
This boondoggle is paid for by money taken from TAX PAYERS.
It is another example of state government growing to consume all current funding, so that later they can justify taking more money by saying that they need it for firemen or school teachers.
This is where MegaCorp$ are less evil: you can at least choose NOT to buy (i.e., pay for) MegaCorp$ products.
Bleh.
Your customers are more likely to have a clue
Not much local retail competition
Make extra profit with classes/support
Lower software costs
Most important: no worries about software audits.
Well that seems fair.
When you read this reply to your post, you have agreed to put all your money in a paper bag, put your underwear on your head if it is not already there, slather yourself with Marmite, and run naked down the center of the street throwing your money to passers-by.
That is all.
Well, Yes.
But to produce that full output of 400 watts at 60% (0.60) per cent efficiency it will consume 666.666 watts, dumping 266.666 watts as waste heat.
More important, *Please note also* that the power supply reaches maximum efficiency at rated output, I.E. at outputs less than rated, the efficiency can be a LOT LOWER than you think.
The power inside the device is not isolated from the internal circuitry.
This could cause problems with loop currents flowing thru signal lines between different pieces of equipment.
In summary, seperate transformer ISOLATED supplies are good, if inefficient, unless all devices use inputs/outputs isolated (by a signal transformer?) from the rest of the product.
The AC that comes into your power supply is first rectified into 300 volt DC.
Note the diode bridge and big capacitors inside. (for those of you looking, DO NOT TOUCH anything because the capacitors may still be charged even after the supply is off and unplugged)
The most efficient UPS would be 300 Volts of batteries connected to the DC bus in the power supply itself.
Using 12 volt (nominal) car batteries you would need 300/12 = 25 batteries in series to provide 300 Volts.
Upside: at $35 per battery, you would have a reeeeeeaaallllyyyy long backup time for $875.
Downside:
You probably need to make chargers that charge each battery individually to avoid imbalance in the cells.
At a weight of about 40 lbs per battery, (total = 1000 lb) you probably want to keep the batteries in the cellar.(although battries will last a lot longer at lower ambient temperatures.)
Oh, and just to bring you up to date, lethal force has been available to civilians since this was written:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed
Note the comma after the word State.
HTH. HAND.
You do not need to be aware of any information sources not sanctioned by Big Media
Is anyone here surprised?
This article is from exactly the same mindset that Microsoft displays when they tell us that Windows is cheaper and better than Linux.
Fact is, many in the media realize they have a serious trust problem, but things will get much worse before they get better.
Blogs are a huge potential threat to the media establishment, and the best ones provide information which BigMedia wishes to see suppressed, such as the UN Oil for Dictators program known as UNSCAM
There will be lots of loud and shrill posts in this thread reminding YOU, Citizen, that blogs are bad for you, boring, and will make your palms hairy.
Certainly, if you agree that your betters at BigMedia are best qualified to tell you what to think about, carry on as you are.
I mean, BigMedia has YOUR best interests in mind right? Right? It's not as if they are trying to sell you something.
The liner material has to be very ductile so it will flow from its initial hollow cone shape to form the slug and penetrating jet. The wavefront of explosives detonating behind the cone (explosive is on the pointy side of the cone) forms the slug and jet.
You can demo this for yourself by putting shaving cream between your palms, holding your wrists together, and then claping your hands. The foam will shoot out at a velocity much higher than the speed you push your hands together.
Most very ductile materials are metals, so a non-conductive liner is unlikely.
Some other posts have mentioned discharging the system with the first hit, but this may not be a problem because the the full charge is not necessarily used up, since the current flow will cease when the jet is burned away.. In fact the system might work with two paralell screens, without the need for solid sheets.
The older anti-shaped-charge system is called reactive armor, which means the tank is covered with many explosive sheets, whichever one is hit detonates, thus disrupting the jet when it explodes.
The problem there is that the sheet must be replaced manually after a hit. This electrical system should keep on working.