> Despite what the article says, it's not a magical drive. It just gives you an > unexpected boost in the specific impulse, which means you can carry less > fuel because you get more bang for your kilogram.
Exactly. It means that a rocket that exhausts subatomic particles at near light speed will have more thrust than classically predicted. No conservation laws are broken (what is the effect when the exhaust is photons, though?)
> The effect must be awfully small though, because the Tevatron hasn't > decided to lift off.
The mass of the particles circulating in the Tevatron is miniscule and the mass of the magnets is enourmous. Even if the reaction force was increased by orders of magnitude no one would have noticed.
> Inertial dampening. To accelerate to near c is either going to take a very > long time, or it's going to give someone a pretty severe case of whiplash...
No. Do the math. 1G gets you pretty close to the speed of light (in the only reference frame that matters: yours) in a year or so.
> Looks like NASA has launched a large white glass plate and placed it in near > earth orbit. It is sitting exactly in the line of sight from Earth to moon.
"Earth orbit"? No, no. That's all a fake too. Nothing has ever been more than a few miles above the surface of the Earth.
> The fact that it's a free email account shouldn't mean you're allowed to set > your password to *anything* you want.
And one of the things you should not be able to set it to is anything anyone else has already used. In other words, on these systems passwords should be unique.
> How many banks (and other online services) reset their account passwords by > sending a link to your primary email account?
Only a fool relies on free webmail for important things such as communicating with banks, and only a fool does business over the Net with banks so incompetent as to email such links.
> 0wn the email, 0wn the person (all too often).
Which is why free webmail is not suitable for anything important.
The articles make it pretty clear that the sources are phishing attacks. In any case, though, the victim has to have used the same password for a Webmail account and a valuable one such as a bank account in order to be at risk of significant loss. In other words, be a fool.
And what does the asymmetric cryptography buy you over simply using the
appropriate soname?
How could a "solution" that uses both encryption and XML not be superior to one that relies on a mere text string? Complexity is good, and XML is so withit.
Besides, there may be some way to hook DRM in there. How could you not want that?
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> And how long before some dumbass makes an antimatter bomb...
A hundred years or so, I would guess.
> Despite what the article says, it's not a magical drive. It just gives you an
> unexpected boost in the specific impulse, which means you can carry less
> fuel because you get more bang for your kilogram.
Exactly. It means that a rocket that exhausts subatomic particles at near light speed will have more thrust than classically predicted. No conservation laws are broken (what is the effect when the exhaust is photons, though?)
> The effect must be awfully small though, because the Tevatron hasn't
> decided to lift off.
The mass of the particles circulating in the Tevatron is miniscule and the mass of the magnets is enourmous. Even if the reaction force was increased by orders of magnitude no one would have noticed.
> Inertial dampening. To accelerate to near c is either going to take a very
> long time, or it's going to give someone a pretty severe case of whiplash...
No. Do the math. 1G gets you pretty close to the speed of light (in the only reference frame that matters: yours) in a year or so.
> Considering that the article is about accelerating a mass by flinging
> relativistic objects at (near) it...
Flinging objects away works equally well.
> the energy source would likely be stationary...
"Stationary" is devoid of meaning in relativity.
> Looks like NASA has launched a large white glass plate and placed it in near
> earth orbit. It is sitting exactly in the line of sight from Earth to moon.
"Earth orbit"? No, no. That's all a fake too. Nothing has ever been more than a few miles above the surface of the Earth.
> Is it really so hard to set up an excavation robot on the moon that we have
> to keep dropping things on it?!?
Yes, it is. It is particularly hard to soft land things on the moon, especially in awkward places such as polar craters that we cannot see into.
No. TCB.
> The fact that it's a free email account shouldn't mean you're allowed to set
> your password to *anything* you want.
And one of the things you should not be able to set it to is anything anyone else has already used. In other words, on these systems passwords should be unique.
> How many banks (and other online services) reset their account passwords by
> sending a link to your primary email account?
Only a fool relies on free webmail for important things such as communicating with banks, and only a fool does business over the Net with banks so incompetent as to email such links.
> 0wn the email, 0wn the person (all too often).
Which is why free webmail is not suitable for anything important.
The articles make it pretty clear that the sources are phishing attacks. In any case, though, the victim has to have used the same password for a Webmail account and a valuable one such as a bank account in order to be at risk of significant loss. In other words, be a fool.
> ...how do I know if I've been affected?
Are you a fool? If not you are ok.
> beta would be believable though (as opposed to alpha).
Beta particles (electrons) are slightly more penetrating than alphas but they still would never make it from the coal pile to the computers.
It's a Slashdot title. The editor put all the thought he had into it.
Black holes have mass too, but that doesn't mean that mass comes out of them. It is a characteristic of the hole not something the hole emits.
...they would first have to start one. Since Thawte is part of Verisign and Verisign is not worthy of trust...
Read the article. They didn't gain control of the botnet.
Or even just keeping a copy of your own data on your own system.
> They very conveniently lost the original order...
But you have a copy, right?
How could a "solution" that uses both encryption and XML not be superior to one that relies on a mere text string? Complexity is good, and XML is so withit.
Besides, there may be some way to hook DRM in there. How could you not want that?
> It appears that unfiltered reviews are a quality criterion for retailers.
And thus a clever retailer will provide a plausible-looking collection of "unfiltered" reviews.
..."There aren't one thousand civilian cybersecurity experts in the entire friggin' world!!!!,"
And he would certainly know, wouldn't he? World-reknowned expert that he is. On everything.
...as long as they can't hire Bruce.
> In Canada, it can be rather difficult to obtain the season influenza
> vaccination, since there tends to be a shortage every year.
Fortunately, you can just drive across the border and buy it in the USA for $25 or so.
> If I'm right...
If you are right these researchers are completely incompetent and failed to allow for such obvious "biases". Not likely.
So it's ok to make other people sick because you need the money?