I believe it's relative temperature, not absolute, that matters for target acquisition and it's pretty damn cold at 60,000 ft (18km). Depending on the operating temperature of the engine, it might stick out like a sore thumb.
Five years is nothing.. the Vanguard 1 has 44 years under its belt, and an orbital decay of 240 years. Then there's the Voyager 1, which has been flying for 33+ years, and, in all likelihood, will never land! On earth anyway...
Depending on the specs of the contract, they should have just given the government a satellite.
most commercial airliners aren't rated for even 40K
Depends on your definition of "most", I guess.. I'd say 45k is a better ceiling.
707 max altitude is 42,000 ft. 720 max altitude is 42,000 ft. 727 max altitude is 42,000 ft. 737-100, -200 max altitude is 35,000 or 37,000 ft. 737-300, -400, -500 max altitude is 37,000 ft. 737-600, -700, -800, -900 max altitude is 41,000 ft. 747 max altitude is 45,100 ft. 757 max altitude is 42,000 ft. 767 max altitude is 43,100 ft. 777 max altitude is 43,100 ft.
FWIW, every transoceanic flight in recent memory (all 747-400s) has been at or just over 40k.
Au contraire: the time life you have left, the more valuable it becomes. That's 0 more birthdays, holidays, or weekends spent with the grandkids, and they with you. You didn't just gamble with your own future, but everyone who cares about you as well.
The thing that surprises me (though I guess it shouldn't, given the number of incidents) is that while I might expect someone working at McDonalds to be both stupid and desperate enough to try to do something like that, I would have hoped that someone working at a nuclear research facility with access to TS information would be neither stupid nor desperate.
And the irony is that knowing *how* to make a nuclear weapon isn't even a well kept secret.. AT ALL. Someone offering to pay lots of money for that information should have been a huge red flag, even absent any other moral, ethical, or practical concerns.
I don't understand why people (continue to) try to sell government secrets. The risk of getting caught far outweighs the potential reward; especially if you can't spend any of it without drawing attention.
If you want to sell "secrets", join a bank.. nobody gives a shit about leaked customer information.
You seem to have completely misread the OP's sentence, but fortunately that didn't stop you from creating a rambling diatribe against his imagined implication.
What if the movie, the song or the game were so awfully bad that the pirate wasn't even able (or willing) to consume the material? Why should he buy it?
He shouldn't. Buying things sight unseen is gambling. The alternative to gambling is *not gambling*, not rigging the game so you win.
If the law is so out of sync with reality that everybody find adherence to be too difficult to do, or too invasive to want to abide by, then isn't that an indication that the law is out of sync with reality?
Yes, the fact that the law is out of sync with reality is, in fact, an indication that the law is out of sync with reality, and perhaps one of the best and most reliable indications that there is.
No, it's primarily a tool. How you use it is up to the user.
Much like a gun is a tool. You can use it for target practice, hunting, home defense - and murder. The tool doesn't get to decide how it is used. The user does. The tool is blameless.
Much like a fully automatic weapon. Much like an atomic bomb. Much like lockpicks.
Tools can be and are regulated based on their *primary* function, regardless of whether there are other, legitimate uses. This holds true for both physical objects and intangibles like software.
Now, you could go on to argue that the primary use of a firearm is to kill, which is true, but it's also the only tool that's specifically addressed by the U.S. Constitution, which makes it a unique case, and is probably the sole reason it's still legal to own one.
You're right of course, but I suspect it's a silly idea anyway. I can't see any judge upholding the idea that a key is anything other than a key -- a fact. Either the party that *created* the key would be guilty of infringement (if it was unlicensed), or else the party who licensed the song for use as a key would have effectively put their work in the public domain.
Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is electrically neutral (without a net charge).
Sounds like what we need is a giant table of all possible byte values up to 2^n length, then we can just provide the index to this master table instead of the data itself. I call this proposal the storage-storage tradeoff where, in exchange for requiring large amounts of storage, we require even more storage. I'll even throw in the extra time requirements for free.
And what better way to get to know kids than by dressing up in a cute bear costume? That is, in fact, the gist of the joke -- that kids would trust a cute and furry bear even if his very name describes his intentions. The fact that it's true, and perhaps that the naivety and stupidity of children is amusing at times -- Louis CK's standup is a hilarious case-in-point (though not his shows) -- does not mean that an actual sexual predator won't now attempt to use the joke to laugh his way into children's pants.
From what I can tell, the cops are basically saying "Yes, it started as a joke, but keep an eye out for people who may be *pretending* that their intentions are a joke." Pretending that one's true intentions are or were a joke is a pretty damn common occurrence -- especially by those with poor social skills -- and what are pedophiles if not the ultimate in social misfits? IMO, it's a plausible scenario. The line between legitimate concerns and paranoia is often crossed not by the person who raises the concern (as in this case) but in the frenzy of attention it receives.
Now *I'm* not particularly concerned about this potential attack vector, but I would probably care more if it was my job and responsibility to protect people. I would never live it down if a man dressed in a Pedobear costume actually molested a kid right in front of me. WTF would I say? "I thought it was just a joke!"? It's the same reason jokes about assassinating the President or prank bomb threats are treated the same as actual threats. To do otherwise would only provide easy cover for anyone with actual intent to do harm.
RTFP. I am NOT using a Mac, I am using commodity hardware, commonly referred to as a PC. Yes, I might have been referring to a Mac as a PC (unlikely as it might be for a Mac user to do that), but if that were the case, there would be nothing extraordinary whatsoever about OSX running better than Ubuntu.
I am speaking for those who still remember kernel compiling because of unsupported binary drivers
Yes, I remember compiling tulip.o into the kernel too. No, you don't speak for me.
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Bah, CNN is so much more than that!!
They have 5 minutes of ads for every 90 seconds of retweeting.
I believe it's relative temperature, not absolute, that matters for target acquisition and it's pretty damn cold at 60,000 ft (18km). Depending on the operating temperature of the engine, it might stick out like a sore thumb.
If I'm following you properly, and I think I am, you're saying that you couldn't possibly be more dead than you already are?
If that's so, I applaud you sir, for posting from beyond the grave. A more unique spectacle I have never seen.
Five years is nothing.. the Vanguard 1 has 44 years under its belt, and an orbital decay of 240 years. Then there's the Voyager 1, which has been flying for 33+ years, and, in all likelihood, will never land! On earth anyway...
Depending on the specs of the contract, they should have just given the government a satellite.
most commercial airliners aren't rated for even 40K
Depends on your definition of "most", I guess.. I'd say 45k is a better ceiling.
707 max altitude is 42,000 ft.
720 max altitude is 42,000 ft.
727 max altitude is 42,000 ft.
737-100, -200 max altitude is 35,000 or 37,000 ft.
737-300, -400, -500 max altitude is 37,000 ft.
737-600, -700, -800, -900 max altitude is 41,000 ft.
747 max altitude is 45,100 ft.
757 max altitude is 42,000 ft.
767 max altitude is 43,100 ft.
777 max altitude is 43,100 ft.
FWIW, every transoceanic flight in recent memory (all 747-400s) has been at or just over 40k.
Still a valid point that 60k is quite high.
Au contraire: the time life you have left, the more valuable it becomes. That's 0 more birthdays, holidays, or weekends spent with the grandkids, and they with you. You didn't just gamble with your own future, but everyone who cares about you as well.
The thing that surprises me (though I guess it shouldn't, given the number of incidents) is that while I might expect someone working at McDonalds to be both stupid and desperate enough to try to do something like that, I would have hoped that someone working at a nuclear research facility with access to TS information would be neither stupid nor desperate.
And the irony is that knowing *how* to make a nuclear weapon isn't even a well kept secret.. AT ALL. Someone offering to pay lots of money for that information should have been a huge red flag, even absent any other moral, ethical, or practical concerns.
I don't understand why people (continue to) try to sell government secrets. The risk of getting caught far outweighs the potential reward; especially if you can't spend any of it without drawing attention.
If you want to sell "secrets", join a bank.. nobody gives a shit about leaked customer information.
Which, while substantially more accurate than a broken clock, is still not quite as accurate as a D- student.
Two photons go down in a sub; one entangled pair comes up.
Windows QED?
I'm not buying it...
You seem to have completely misread the OP's sentence, but fortunately that didn't stop you from creating a rambling diatribe against his imagined implication.
What if the movie, the song or the game were so awfully bad that the pirate wasn't even able (or willing) to consume the material? Why should he buy it?
He shouldn't. Buying things sight unseen is gambling. The alternative to gambling is *not gambling*, not rigging the game so you win.
If the law is so out of sync with reality that everybody find adherence to be too difficult to do, or too invasive to want to abide by, then isn't that an indication that the law is out of sync with reality?
Yes, the fact that the law is out of sync with reality is, in fact, an indication that the law is out of sync with reality, and perhaps one of the best and most reliable indications that there is.
No, it's primarily a tool. How you use it is up to the user.
Much like a gun is a tool. You can use it for target practice, hunting, home defense - and murder. The tool doesn't get to decide how it is used. The user does. The tool is blameless.
Much like a fully automatic weapon. Much like an atomic bomb. Much like lockpicks.
Tools can be and are regulated based on their *primary* function, regardless of whether there are other, legitimate uses. This holds true for both physical objects and intangibles like software.
Now, you could go on to argue that the primary use of a firearm is to kill, which is true, but it's also the only tool that's specifically addressed by the U.S. Constitution, which makes it a unique case, and is probably the sole reason it's still legal to own one.
You're right of course, but I suspect it's a silly idea anyway. I can't see any judge upholding the idea that a key is anything other than a key -- a fact. Either the party that *created* the key would be guilty of infringement (if it was unlicensed), or else the party who licensed the song for use as a key would have effectively put their work in the public domain.
I should mention, since you seem to be incredibly confused, that the fact that I picked a salt with sodium in it was merely a coincidence.
As for sugar, read your own Wikipedia quote:
"In food, sugar almost exclusively refers to sucrose, which primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet."
Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is electrically neutral (without a net charge).
Look, I can make links too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(chemistry)
Sounds like what we need is a giant table of all possible byte values up to 2^n length, then we can just provide the index to this master table instead of the data itself. I call this proposal the storage-storage tradeoff where, in exchange for requiring large amounts of storage, we require even more storage. I'll even throw in the extra time requirements for free.
As to fraud and false advertising, it would be a stretch to call changing "corn syrup" to "corn sugar" fraud, because HFCS is sugar.
Sure, the same way sodium chromate IS salt, but you probably don't want to sprinkle any on your popcorn. With regards to food, sugar means sucrose.
Now if they can make a colored E Ink screen that is as comfortable to read as the gray-scale one, then I might consider it.
They prefer to be called "Polychromatic Microcapsule Displays" you insensitive clod.
"Oooh! A talking moose wants my credit card number. That seems fair!"
The most dangerous tool is the one sitting in the chair.
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So, just like Chrome then.
Note, I love Chrome -- it's my browser of choice -- but tab management is not one of its redeeming qualities.
And what better way to get to know kids than by dressing up in a cute bear costume? That is, in fact, the gist of the joke -- that kids would trust a cute and furry bear even if his very name describes his intentions. The fact that it's true, and perhaps that the naivety and stupidity of children is amusing at times -- Louis CK's standup is a hilarious case-in-point (though not his shows) -- does not mean that an actual sexual predator won't now attempt to use the joke to laugh his way into children's pants.
From what I can tell, the cops are basically saying "Yes, it started as a joke, but keep an eye out for people who may be *pretending* that their intentions are a joke." Pretending that one's true intentions are or were a joke is a pretty damn common occurrence -- especially by those with poor social skills -- and what are pedophiles if not the ultimate in social misfits? IMO, it's a plausible scenario. The line between legitimate concerns and paranoia is often crossed not by the person who raises the concern (as in this case) but in the frenzy of attention it receives.
Now *I'm* not particularly concerned about this potential attack vector, but I would probably care more if it was my job and responsibility to protect people. I would never live it down if a man dressed in a Pedobear costume actually molested a kid right in front of me. WTF would I say? "I thought it was just a joke!"? It's the same reason jokes about assassinating the President or prank bomb threats are treated the same as actual threats. To do otherwise would only provide easy cover for anyone with actual intent to do harm.
RTFP. I am NOT using a Mac, I am using commodity hardware, commonly referred to as a PC. Yes, I might have been referring to a Mac as a PC (unlikely as it might be for a Mac user to do that), but if that were the case, there would be nothing extraordinary whatsoever about OSX running better than Ubuntu.
I am speaking for those who still remember kernel compiling because of unsupported binary drivers
Yes, I remember compiling tulip.o into the kernel too. No, you don't speak for me.
PC != Mac.
Yes, Macs are PCs too, but I said PC to provide explicit differentiation. Apparently not explicit enough...