Uh huh. And then the merchant can make a little extra on the side selling behavioral data derived from such tracking cookies. Which is why many people block them.
> I'm not saying the effect doesn't exist, just that the "OMG, warp drive!" > is a little premature.
Oh, come on. This is Slashdot.
> In order to turn the thing into a warp drive you'd have to basically make a > particle accelerator and turn it into a spacecraft...
Well, "warp" is just StarTrek gobbledygook, of course, but what you describe is pretty much what would be needed for an interstellar rocket. This effect means that it will have a bit more thrust than we thought it would.
> True, but that's not the idea behind the hyperdrive; which is about not > needing to carry fuel with you.
The idea is that due to the Hilbert effect a rocket with a relativistic exhaust velocity will have more thrust than "classically" predicted. Thus less reaction mass will be needed, but not none.
> And, out of interest, the chips used to implement those features were made > in which Chinese factory?
None. Like most advanced "high-tech" cpus they were made in the US, Japan, Western Europe, or possibly Korea or Taiwan. All the Chinese do is stuff boards (and not even that for US military equipment).
> I'm a little rusty on my Dune (novel) lore but isn't the reason they don't > have wide-spread use of robots because there was a man vs machine war in the > history behind the lore of Dune?
No. It's because the silly feudal society would have made even less sense with robots.
>...it has always been the case with computers (and robots are just computers > with moving appendages) that if a hacker has physical access to the device, > you're basically screwed anyways.
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> ...the only hope I have of reducing the memory and CPU usage footprint of my
> AV software.
There are ways to reduce it to zero without violence...
Uh huh. And then the merchant can make a little extra on the side selling behavioral data derived from such tracking cookies. Which is why many people block them.
> The salesmen I encountered were never interested in clicks, but were
> interested in "ad provision".
But they still need a metric. What do you suggest?
I believe that they have since been convinced that the study was flawed and are reconsidering.
> Does this make sense?
No. You are mad to agree to take an important exam under such conditions.
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So you are going to have to reboot more than thirty times to install this?
> What is zero velocity? With respect to what?
With respect to you. Your frame of reference is as good as anyone else's.
> I'm not saying the effect doesn't exist, just that the "OMG, warp drive!"
> is a little premature.
Oh, come on. This is Slashdot.
> In order to turn the thing into a warp drive you'd have to basically make a
> particle accelerator and turn it into a spacecraft...
Well, "warp" is just StarTrek gobbledygook, of course, but what you describe is pretty much what would be needed for an interstellar rocket. This effect means that it will have a bit more thrust than we thought it would.
> True, but that's not the idea behind the hyperdrive; which is about not
> needing to carry fuel with you.
The idea is that due to the Hilbert effect a rocket with a relativistic exhaust velocity will have more thrust than "classically" predicted. Thus less reaction mass will be needed, but not none.
> AM and FM radio. Who listens to the radio anymore?
I do, among about 230 million others in the US. Americans spend more time listening to FM radio than to Internet radio, MP3 players, or CDs.
> Shortwave?
For "mobile devices"? There are a few problems with that...
> I turned on a shortwave...
One you bought at Best Buy for $9.95? With a loop antenna? A real performer, no doubt.
As long as you don't ask for too much accuracy, linearity, or stability it is quite easy to do. I just can't think of any good reason to do it.
> What happens when we quadruple the number of subscribers with mobile
> broadband on their laptops or netbooks?
You finally admit that it isn't 1920 anymore and give up on centralized static global allocation?
Here's a nickle. Buy yourself a sense of humor.
Every keyboard I've ever used did something when I pressed on it. Except the broken ones.
> Comcast is launching a trial of a service that will warn customers via a
> browser pop-up...
And just how are they going to arrange for this pop-up to pop-up?
> Because having egress filtering on by default would piss off most users, so
> consumer NATs don't do that.
And stateful firewalling is evidently beyond the comprehension of the manufacturers?
> ...BestBuy Geek Squad ad right next to it and take their machine in.
After which there will be no doubt about it being infected.
I'll give you 2:1 odds that that is exactly what Comcast will do.
Mod parent up.
> Be scared.
Of that? And not the fact that about 36,000 Americans die of seasonal flu in a typical year? Why? What's wrong with having a sense of proportion?
Then it isn't a robot. It's just a Waldo.
> And, out of interest, the chips used to implement those features were made
> in which Chinese factory?
None. Like most advanced "high-tech" cpus they were made in the US, Japan, Western Europe, or possibly Korea or Taiwan. All the Chinese do is stuff boards (and not even that for US military equipment).
> I'm a little rusty on my Dune (novel) lore but isn't the reason they don't
> have wide-spread use of robots because there was a man vs machine war in the
> history behind the lore of Dune?
No. It's because the silly feudal society would have made even less sense with robots.
> ...it has always been the case with computers (and robots are just computers
> with moving appendages) that if a hacker has physical access to the device,
> you're basically screwed anyways.
Not if the robot is well enough armed.