It seems the OTRAG failed only because it wasn't tested enough. All new rocket technologies fail at some pont and often spectacularly. There's nothing to indicate that the OTRAG is a particularly deficient design.
For those too lazy to Google or read the link, you can picture the OTRAG as a bundle of pencils or crayons tied together, a rocket that looks almost entirely made up of strap-on boosters.
Since commercial drone technology isn't supposed to be top secret, the drones could also be used to deliver food and medicine to people caught in a war zone. Of course, there's the flip side that such technology can also be used for military drops.
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
I think you're thinking of something different, people going from one job to another. The article is about people holding multiple jobs at the same time:
Being a member of BlaBlaCar, or being an Airbnb provider, or doing a few hours as a cabbie on Uber, or selling knick-knacks on Etsy, or sharing some skill on YouTube is not a full-time job. But these activities are increasingly part of the working profile of large numbers of people. All of them exploit spare capacity in assets or under-utilised skills and use the reach of technology to find an audience or a market. At a time when full-time jobs in traditional industries are being lost, these multiple micro-businesses, or “gigs”, are a seductive idea.
Call it multitasking or employment polygamy, but the "gig" economy doesn't necessarily mean people resigning from their jobs to apply for another. You could be jobless in the formal sense, or you could still have a "regular" job, but your "gigs" aren't meant to be stand-alone employment. You could use your gig to supplement your regular income, or chain together several gigs to earn what you would get from a nine-to-five job.
And The Foundations of Paradise, Arthur. C. Clarke.
I think you meant Fountains of Paradise. Another sci-fi great, famous for his three laws of robotics, did write something called the Foundation trilogy. A space fountain appears to be different from a space elevator, but I'm no expert on the distinctions between these and other combustion-free space launch concepts like the skyhook or orbital ring.
I wished I had been a little more calm when I wrote it. I concentrated too much on the lack of IR "glowing" observed and while its still not entirely accurate to say cometary dust doesn't put off infrared the main reason to be skeptical of the comet swarm hypothesis is that we just have no other examples of either such a large "swarm" of comets OR of any naturally occurring celectial body that blocks 22% of starlight. The largest gas giant planet would maybe obscure 2%.
So the only thing really ruled out is diffuse dust. Why not a chain of gas giants in orbital resonance that periodically brings the planet in staggered alignment when viewed from Earth? If such a star system were closer, the gas giants would collectively then appear as a thick band on the stellar equator rather than as a single black dot. I'm not an astrophysicist, so I have no idea how much planetary mass a star can pull.
The Germans apparently ate sawdust during WW1: The foul black bread that was served was known as kriegsbrot, which translates to war bread. The recipe is quoted from the records of the German food providing ministry published in Berlin in 1941 was "50% bruised rye grain, 20% sliced sugar beets, 20% tree flour (sawdust), 10% minced leaves and straw" - https://books.google.ca/books?...
What about cinnamon? Woodn't that qualify as wood food too? Definitely more natural than eating shoes or drinking socks tea.
Not just trade issues. Japan and Germany were both held back from developing independent launch capabilities as punishment for being the World War 2 aggressors. US and Russian space development were bootstrapped on top of German hardware or know-how.
This is common knowledge by the way. Way back in the 60s, Philip K Dick speculated on what might have happened if Japan and Germany had won in The Man in the High Castle, now showing, for those too lazy to read, on the nearest Amazon cinema. In the novel, the Germans were flying regular trips to Mars and hypersonic planes from Berlin to Nazi York.
Now imagine a timeline where Japan didn't ally itself with Germany, but just like in World War 1 made a few land grabs here and there, perhaps as Soviet Russia collapsed. With its nose relatively clean, Japan could ally itself with Britain and the US in defeating the German Reich. After the war, Japan could then become the third nation in space, after the US and the British Empire.
IF I were a billionaire IT exec, I'd invite two African Americans, Neil de Grasse Tyson and Elon Musk and have them debate the future of the human presence in space. I'd make it like a fund-raising political dinner. Whoever won the debate would get a fresh infusion of funds for their pet space venture, whether of the radio-optical or propulsive variety.
The Pi actually stands for Python, the main programming language used for the Raspberry Pi, effectively making it a mathematically sweet triple pun: Pi, Pie, Py-thon. Sheer genius in naming. The first name is inspired by the old tradition of naming personal computer makers after fruit: Apple, Acorn.
So, I remember when a fairly sizable tower was considered a "mini computer"... hell, I think it was a friggin' VAX.
And the desktop PC was considered a "micro-computer".
Now we have this mini-micro computer called a mini-computer.
This is all very complicated.:-P
The Chinese OEMs produce what they called a mini-PC, basically the ARM version or original of the Intel Compute Stick. So that's your mini-microcomputer.
It could be said that at least they're trying. I doubt any system that has to make such judgement calls will ever be perfect.
When such a system becomes perfect, then it's time to get rid of our judges and leaders. We can also resign as human beings and just live out our lives plugged into the Matrix.
The news is about the downloadable partly declassified document that pertains to the event. So the difference is like watching a CNN news report about a government scandal and then reading for yourself the Wikileaks source. Of course in this case it's not a leak but an official release:
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 533
Edited by Nate Jones, Tom Blanton, and Lauren Harper
Posted - October 24, 2015
What is there to ransom in a smart TV? Is it like a PC where a cyber-criminal can scramble your spreadsheets until you pay up? A more feasible threat would be the installation of password sniffers and the like, malware types which don't fall under the category of ransomware anymore since the information is in itself valuable to the cyber-criminals. On the other hand, simply getting locked out of your smart TV doesn't seem that catastrophic to me.
There have been sex scandals involving famous televangelists, so I won't be surprised to see Islamic equivalents of preachers who don't practice what they preach. The loose lifestyle could also be a mere cover, similar to what a secret agent might do to hide in plain sight.
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Phage therapy's main advantage is its problem. It can't be mass-produced by the pharmaceutical industry for sale to doctors with the diagnostic ability of a search engine. You have to target the pathogen and not just group it with the likely suspects and hope that it's susceptible to the broad-spectrum antibiotic.
It's called shoes. Only problem is I can't stay up long enough to go flying like Superman. Which probably makes my anti-gravity research as advanced as today's fusion reactors.
The article appears conflicted as to who is attacking whom. Read the PDF report the article is based on. In the table of contents on page 2, we see the following item:
Likely Intended Targets: Government Officials and Executives in the U.S. and Europe
Now compare this to the executive summary at the start of the article:
In-brief: FireEye is warning about a sophisticated campaign of online surveillance that combines web “super cookies” and common analytics software to target individuals with links to international diplomacy, the Russian government and the energy sector.
Does this mean non-Russian entities who do business with Russian entities are the targets?
Actually this is one of the few times I broke with tradition and read TFA. All it has to say is they're going "to propose measures to strengthen the controls of non-banking payment methods." Whatever the hell that means.
It means the bureaucrats are still thinking about what to do, but the reporters need a quote for the morning edition. Slow news day. The real news is probably still under surveillance, under interrogation or under attack.
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One can of course take the concept too far (OTRAG, I'm looking in your general direction...), but mass production is indeed a key aspect.
It seems the OTRAG failed only because it wasn't tested enough. All new rocket technologies fail at some pont and often spectacularly. There's nothing to indicate that the OTRAG is a particularly deficient design.
For those too lazy to Google or read the link, you can picture the OTRAG as a bundle of pencils or crayons tied together, a rocket that looks almost entirely made up of strap-on boosters.
Since commercial drone technology isn't supposed to be top secret, the drones could also be used to deliver food and medicine to people caught in a war zone. Of course, there's the flip side that such technology can also be used for military drops.
Yes, space elevators could become the Foundation of a space utopia, if we can only get them off the ground.
What if you targeted specific vocal cord patterns?
You mean shibboleth?
Call it multitasking or employment polygamy, but the "gig" economy doesn't necessarily mean people resigning from their jobs to apply for another. You could be jobless in the formal sense, or you could still have a "regular" job, but your "gigs" aren't meant to be stand-alone employment. You could use your gig to supplement your regular income, or chain together several gigs to earn what you would get from a nine-to-five job.
And The Foundations of Paradise, Arthur. C. Clarke.
I think you meant Fountains of Paradise. Another sci-fi great, famous for his three laws of robotics, did write something called the Foundation trilogy. A space fountain appears to be different from a space elevator, but I'm no expert on the distinctions between these and other combustion-free space launch concepts like the skyhook or orbital ring.
I wished I had been a little more calm when I wrote it. I concentrated too much on the lack of IR "glowing" observed and while its still not entirely accurate to say cometary dust doesn't put off infrared the main reason to be skeptical of the comet swarm hypothesis is that we just have no other examples of either such a large "swarm" of comets OR of any naturally occurring celectial body that blocks 22% of starlight. The largest gas giant planet would maybe obscure 2%.
So the only thing really ruled out is diffuse dust. Why not a chain of gas giants in orbital resonance that periodically brings the planet in staggered alignment when viewed from Earth? If such a star system were closer, the gas giants would collectively then appear as a thick band on the stellar equator rather than as a single black dot. I'm not an astrophysicist, so I have no idea how much planetary mass a star can pull.
So this is like homeopathic drugs where you get all the effects of getting high minus the hangover?
The Germans apparently ate sawdust during WW1: The foul black bread that was served was known as kriegsbrot, which translates to war bread. The recipe is quoted from the records of the German food providing ministry published in Berlin in 1941 was "50% bruised rye grain, 20% sliced sugar beets, 20% tree flour (sawdust), 10% minced leaves and straw" - https://books.google.ca/books?...
What about cinnamon? Woodn't that qualify as wood food too? Definitely more natural than eating shoes or drinking socks tea.
Not just trade issues. Japan and Germany were both held back from developing independent launch capabilities as punishment for being the World War 2 aggressors. US and Russian space development were bootstrapped on top of German hardware or know-how.
This is common knowledge by the way. Way back in the 60s, Philip K Dick speculated on what might have happened if Japan and Germany had won in The Man in the High Castle, now showing, for those too lazy to read, on the nearest Amazon cinema. In the novel, the Germans were flying regular trips to Mars and hypersonic planes from Berlin to Nazi York.
Now imagine a timeline where Japan didn't ally itself with Germany, but just like in World War 1 made a few land grabs here and there, perhaps as Soviet Russia collapsed. With its nose relatively clean, Japan could ally itself with Britain and the US in defeating the German Reich. After the war, Japan could then become the third nation in space, after the US and the British Empire.
IF I were a billionaire IT exec, I'd invite two African Americans, Neil de Grasse Tyson and Elon Musk and have them debate the future of the human presence in space. I'd make it like a fund-raising political dinner. Whoever won the debate would get a fresh infusion of funds for their pet space venture, whether of the radio-optical or propulsive variety.
The Pi actually stands for Python, the main programming language used for the Raspberry Pi, effectively making it a mathematically sweet triple pun: Pi, Pie, Py-thon. Sheer genius in naming. The first name is inspired by the old tradition of naming personal computer makers after fruit: Apple, Acorn.
So, I remember when a fairly sizable tower was considered a "mini computer" ... hell, I think it was a friggin' VAX.
And the desktop PC was considered a "micro-computer".
Now we have this mini-micro computer called a mini-computer.
This is all very complicated. :-P
The Chinese OEMs produce what they called a mini-PC, basically the ARM version or original of the Intel Compute Stick. So that's your mini-microcomputer.
It could be said that at least they're trying. I doubt any system that has to make such judgement calls will ever be perfect.
When such a system becomes perfect, then it's time to get rid of our judges and leaders. We can also resign as human beings and just live out our lives plugged into the Matrix.
What is there to ransom in a smart TV? Is it like a PC where a cyber-criminal can scramble your spreadsheets until you pay up? A more feasible threat would be the installation of password sniffers and the like, malware types which don't fall under the category of ransomware anymore since the information is in itself valuable to the cyber-criminals. On the other hand, simply getting locked out of your smart TV doesn't seem that catastrophic to me.
There have been sex scandals involving famous televangelists, so I won't be surprised to see Islamic equivalents of preachers who don't practice what they preach. The loose lifestyle could also be a mere cover, similar to what a secret agent might do to hide in plain sight.
Scientists love surprises. Engineers hate surprises.
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I'm not a Javascript expert but it appears that OS-level hosts file ad-blocking is already detected by the more sophisticated adblock detectors.
Sure Russia won't deliberately shoot down a Turkish jet and risk war with NATO. But an "accident" just might happen.
Phage therapy's main advantage is its problem. It can't be mass-produced by the pharmaceutical industry for sale to doctors with the diagnostic ability of a search engine. You have to target the pathogen and not just group it with the likely suspects and hope that it's susceptible to the broad-spectrum antibiotic.
It's called shoes. Only problem is I can't stay up long enough to go flying like Superman. Which probably makes my anti-gravity research as advanced as today's fusion reactors.
Now compare this to the executive summary at the start of the article:
Does this mean non-Russian entities who do business with Russian entities are the targets?
Actually this is one of the few times I broke with tradition and read TFA. All it has to say is they're going "to propose measures to strengthen the controls of non-banking payment methods." Whatever the hell that means.
It means the bureaucrats are still thinking about what to do, but the reporters need a quote for the morning edition. Slow news day. The real news is probably still under surveillance, under interrogation or under attack.