Yes, the one in the pic is not so big, I have seen larger. However, aircraft carriers are not much different in size from a cruise ship, and they are much less tall (less wind caught -> less push on the ship -> less pull on the chains), so they won't have a larger anchor. But a tanker plowing along at 12 knots dragging one of these is plenty for sinking a submarine... No problem with a cable.
Predictions helped find a nuke, and a missing sub
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Google's Prediction Market
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I find prediction markets very fascinating and a powerful prediction system, when manned by experts of the field. Indeed, such a system was used to find a H-bomb that had been lost at see back in the 60s, as well as the missing submarine Scorpion. Read "The Blind Man's Bluff" for details, but there are excerpts online. Also see Bayes subjective probability.
I see. But if you are caught doing some minor wrong, wouldn't you prefer to be ID'ed and go your way, rather than being forced to spend some time in a Police station? The same goes for tickets, I'd rather be ID'ed and then go pay at the Post Office (there are lots), rather than go to a Police station (just a few). But, I was born in this mind state, so I understand that while this doesn't look important to me, it's certainly relevant for you. Thanks!
As an European, actually Italian, I don't really get this. I have been carrying my ID card (which is just a piece of stamped paper, by the way, and very cheap) since I was 15 or so, and it allows me to travel the whole EU (which is some 26 countries, by the way) without passport or visa. It certainly has no "police state" connotations in our culture. I can understand why a RFID-card would be dangerous to privacy, but our cards have nothing like it. I, for one, would welcome a chipped card (not readable at a distance, of course) that would reduce the clutter in my wallet by integrating, for example, driver license, ID card, medical assistance etc. Seriously, I don't understand what's the big deal about identifying yourself if necessary. It's not like you have police in the street stopping you at random while you walk around and asking for "papers". Yes, there are checks in sensitive places, like at the soccer stadium, etc. but so what?
Actually, Google offers a tool that does bookmarks syncing, among other things. Not perfect, but it mostly works. Has potential dangers to privacy, but is very convenient.
Well, when you consider that having an aircraft as a launch platform extends those 100 miles by 200 or so more miles, it's pretty obvious what the advantage of having aircrafts in the air as a protection is. Also, while Aegis is a great ship, it usually can't get at the attackers before they launch, if they have anti-ship missiles with range worth a damn. The system was always design to be triple-layered: one, F14 to intercept the attackers as far away as possible; two, Aegis to stop the leakers (usually A/S missiles); three, point defense to destroy those threats which passed the first two layers.
There are ways to shield equipment from EMP, you know... Most military commo lines are built to that purpose. And fiber optics lines are immune to EMP anyway.
...The article says: Bell was not the first to invent the telephone (that's why in Italy we honor Meucci for that, even though the idea was probably even earlier) but he was the first to patent it, because he was richer and had better lawyer. It seems that nothing has changed in the past 150 years after all.
The US Navy actually has a close-to-launch-point ABM system, it's called SM-3, or Standard 3. It's called by specifically selected and refurbished AEGIS cruisers / destroyers, and it's designed to be "parked" close to the launching nation, in order to perform interception in the boost phase. It has already had six successful tests, out of seven (which is a very good success rate in this business).
I'd lean more toward A myself. If you are injured to the head and/or in severe pain, instinctive reaction is to drop everything and clutch your hands to the head. Maybe a trained pro can overcome this, but that's not what the guys this weapon is meant to stop are.
La libertà e la segretezza della corrispondenza e di ogni altra forma di comunicazione sono inviolabili. La loro limitazione può avvenire soltanto per atto motivato dell'autorità giudiziaria con le garanzie stabilite dalla legge.
Which roughly means:
"Freedom and security of mail and every other communication form are protected. They can be limitated only with a motivated act of a judge, according to the guarantees fixed by law.
Basically this means that there must be a court order to let somebody see your mail. Our "Garante per la Privacy", sort of a supervisor over privacy matters, has clarified, and there are judgements backing this, that email (and IM, and faxes, and phone calls, etc.) enjoys the same guarantees as snail mail.
Hence, such a company policy or contract would be illegal in Italy.
...Does anybody (and I mean in the large market of "normal" users) really want a Windows without Media Player? Does anybody care? Of course, what might matter is that the judgements of the Court creates a precedent, but here in Europe, laws are different, and precedents don't carry as much weight as in the US.
I had a Radeon VE, and acceleration wasn't working as well; by following these steps it worked:
searched for mesa libraries in mandrake cd and installed everything; edited files as follows:/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Section "Device" Option "AGPMode" "4"/etc/modules agpgart/etc/modules.conf alias char-major-10-175 agpgart options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
I think the last step is the most important. Anyway, when I later upgraded to a Rad 9000, it still worked fine without any further ado.
Actually, crazy as it sounds, this idea is based on a scientifical approach, called method of subjective probability. A similar method was used in the past to find the wreck of the Scorpion, and also a nuclear bomb which had been lost at sea by a crashed airplane. In that case, the experts bet bottles of whiskey, but it works with money too.
Why didn't they take the Microsoft deal? Maybe the fact that SUSE is German rather than American has something to do with that?:-) Govs spend much more happily if they can state that they are creating jobs, after all.
Stealing what? I already have the codecs because I have the appropriate programs. What I use to play a media should be my own business, as long as I own the media (I buy my own DVDs).
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Video of the intercept and relevant Pentagon briefing at:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=71c_1203596547
Like hitting a bullet with a bullet. Neat engineering feat.
Yes, the one in the pic is not so big, I have seen larger. However, aircraft carriers are not much different in size from a cruise ship, and they are much less tall (less wind caught -> less push on the ship -> less pull on the chains), so they won't have a larger anchor. But a tanker plowing along at 12 knots dragging one of these is plenty for sinking a submarine... No problem with a cable.
What's the difference between 2 or 3 or 4 months?
I find prediction markets very fascinating and a powerful prediction system, when manned by experts of the field. Indeed, such a system was used to find a H-bomb that had been lost at see back in the 60s, as well as the missing submarine Scorpion. Read "The Blind Man's Bluff" for details, but there are excerpts online. Also see Bayes subjective probability.
I see. But if you are caught doing some minor wrong, wouldn't you prefer to be ID'ed and go your way, rather than being forced to spend some time in a Police station? The same goes for tickets, I'd rather be ID'ed and then go pay at the Post Office (there are lots), rather than go to a Police station (just a few).
But, I was born in this mind state, so I understand that while this doesn't look important to me, it's certainly relevant for you. Thanks!
As an European, actually Italian, I don't really get this. I have been carrying my ID card (which is just a piece of stamped paper, by the way, and very cheap) since I was 15 or so, and it allows me to travel the whole EU (which is some 26 countries, by the way) without passport or visa. It certainly has no "police state" connotations in our culture.
I can understand why a RFID-card would be dangerous to privacy, but our cards have nothing like it. I, for one, would welcome a chipped card (not readable at a distance, of course) that would reduce the clutter in my wallet by integrating, for example, driver license, ID card, medical assistance etc.
Seriously, I don't understand what's the big deal about identifying yourself if necessary. It's not like you have police in the street stopping you at random while you walk around and asking for "papers". Yes, there are checks in sensitive places, like at the soccer stadium, etc. but so what?
Actually, Google offers a tool that does bookmarks syncing, among other things. Not perfect, but it mostly works. Has potential dangers to privacy, but is very convenient.
Well, when you consider that having an aircraft as a launch platform extends those 100 miles by 200 or so more miles, it's pretty obvious what the advantage of having aircrafts in the air as a protection is. Also, while Aegis is a great ship, it usually can't get at the attackers before they launch, if they have anti-ship missiles with range worth a damn.
The system was always design to be triple-layered: one, F14 to intercept the attackers as far away as possible; two, Aegis to stop the leakers (usually A/S missiles); three, point defense to destroy those threats which passed the first two layers.
There are ways to shield equipment from EMP, you know... Most military commo lines are built to that purpose. And fiber optics lines are immune to EMP anyway.
...The article says: Bell was not the first to invent the telephone (that's why in Italy we honor Meucci for that, even though the idea was probably even earlier) but he was the first to patent it, because he was richer and had better lawyer. It seems that nothing has changed in the past 150 years after all.
Well, it was on Rob Galbraith dot com.
They considered the latest Lexar cards, but not the Sandisk Extreme III, which has a quite higher performance than the Ultra II.
The US Navy actually has a close-to-launch-point ABM system, it's called SM-3, or Standard 3. It's called by specifically selected and refurbished AEGIS cruisers / destroyers, and it's designed to be "parked" close to the launching nation, in order to perform interception in the boost phase. It has already had six successful tests, out of seven (which is a very good success rate in this business).
I'd lean more toward A myself. If you are injured to the head and/or in severe pain, instinctive reaction is to drop everything and clutch your hands to the head. Maybe a trained pro can overcome this, but that's not what the guys this weapon is meant to stop are.
La libertà e la segretezza della corrispondenza e di ogni altra forma di comunicazione sono inviolabili.
La loro limitazione può avvenire soltanto per atto motivato dell'autorità giudiziaria con le garanzie stabilite dalla legge.
Which roughly means:
"Freedom and security of mail and every other communication form are protected.
They can be limitated only with a motivated act of a judge, according to the guarantees fixed by law.
Basically this means that there must be a court order to let somebody see your mail.
Our "Garante per la Privacy", sort of a supervisor over privacy matters, has clarified, and there are judgements backing this, that email (and IM, and faxes, and phone calls, etc.) enjoys the same guarantees as snail mail.
Hence, such a company policy or contract would be illegal in Italy.
...Does anybody (and I mean in the large market of "normal" users) really want a Windows without Media Player? Does anybody care?
Of course, what might matter is that the judgements of the Court creates a precedent, but here in Europe, laws are different, and precedents don't carry as much weight as in the US.
I had a Radeon VE, and acceleration wasn't working as well; by following these steps it worked:
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/modules /etc/modules.conf
searched for mesa libraries in mandrake cd and installed everything;
edited files as follows:
Section "Device"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
agpgart
alias char-major-10-175 agpgart
options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
I think the last step is the most important. Anyway, when I later upgraded to a Rad 9000, it still worked fine without any further ado.
Regards,
Andrea
Also read:. asp?src =/archives/200102/BookExcerpt.asp
http://www.contextmag.com/setFrameRedirect
for more info on what I was talking about.
Actually, crazy as it sounds, this idea is based on a scientifical approach, called method of subjective probability. A similar method was used in the past to find the wreck of the Scorpion, and also a nuclear bomb which had been lost at sea by a crashed airplane. In that case, the experts bet bottles of whiskey, but it works with money too.
Look at the end of the article:
Spammers have ways to get around anti-spam filters, he said, but it's possible to collect patterns from their e-mails and block certain logarithms.
Logarithms instead of algorithms... Makes you wonder if the author knows what he is talking about!
Why didn't they take the Microsoft deal? :-)
Maybe the fact that SUSE is German rather than American has something to do with that?
Govs spend much more happily if they can state that they are creating jobs, after all.
>This would be similar to Microsoft putting
:-)
>the axe in X-Windows for trademark violation
Hey, don't give 'em any ideas!
KDE3 is not ready? I think it *is* much better than the WinXP GUI. The only reason I still dual boot is I want to play my games.
With a GUI or from the CL?
Stealing what? I already have the codecs because I have the appropriate programs. What I use to play a media should be my own business, as long as I own the media (I buy my own DVDs).