I thought the Chemtrails were supposed to be a mystery additive to jet fuel that does whatever the government feels like that day. So you wouldn't have tanks and plumbing and stuff in the aircraft, it would be a shadowy something or the other at the refinery. Or maybe added in transport or something. Maybe I made that up because the real conspiracy makes no sense at all. Even then you're talking about something that has to survive being burnt up in a jet engine and quite a bit of time up in the stratosphere (in sunlight) before finally filtering down to the ground. People near airports would also receive a massively higher dose, so it couldn't be too obvious or people would notice. It's hard to make this conspiracy work even theoretically, and that's before you even start talking about the properties of the mysterious fluid and what it is supposed to do.
These trains can't be shut down trivially. They have no means to get themselves back up to speed after they stop, only small electric motors that can limp a capsule along at a snails pace. It's not like people will be able to get out and walk either, there's no air for them outside the car.
I do have to wonder about the door latches on the capsules. They have to cycle completely in 30 seconds, yet have to be strong enough to hold 1ATM of pressure and make an airtight seal. I don't want to be the passenger wearing a long coat that gets it stuck in the door and slowly asphyxiates on the way to LA. Or maybe worse, the passenger who bangs his briefcase against the latch while they're rushing into their seat, causing it to fail halfway through the trip and explosively decompress into the tube, potentially damaging it and sending a shockwave of air in both directions down the tube, hammering every other car in the tube.
NPR is commie radio though, no true American would listen to it. Did you know that the majority of their funding doesn't come from commercial sources? How Unamerican is that? You practically have to have an act of congress to get them to put the correct spin on the news, unlike those patriots over in the commercial news world that bravely and heroically parrot whatever the party puts out in talking points.
I thought RT was just supposed to be the Fox News of Russia? Basically an arm of the political party willing to repeat whatever they're told. You can't blame either of them, it's a very profitable thing to do.
If we switch to grasses for our biofuel how are we going to artificially prop up the price of corn? ADM has not lobbied congress for years to suddenly have us switch to some other crop.
There's nothing technically impossible about building a gigantic space station, but it would be unbelievably expensive. Like every single person on Earth needs to contribute a few million bucks just to cover the launch costs of all of the material. Even if you were making it out of stuff you mined (from an asteroid) and refined in orbit the costs will be astronomical.
The only scenario where it seems even halfway possible is some wartime economy scenario where the entire world puts aside ideas about equal distribution or efficient use of resources and instead focuses on one big huge project. About the only scenario I can think of that would warrant such an effort is discovery of a planet ending asteroid heading straight for Earth, but a few decades away. Something big enough where the impact will result in a global firestorm and cataclysmic earthquakes that would make the more sensible option of building underground or domed cities untenable.
One thing you didn't touch on: A lot of Wifi chips are really really bad. Like they'll crash randomly and repeatedly when connected to certain kinds of access points. Sometimes it is the access point that crashes. For the most part the chips reset themselves and continue on, so it's just a momentary interruption, but when it happens over and over you'll really start to notice.
Rage suffered because it was clear that the developers were split between making a FPS and making a Carmageddon style driving game, so they tried to do both but ended up not having enough time to actually finish either. I think both parts of the game worked pretty well, but there wasn't enough meat to sustain it.
Nobody is asking their routers to do DPI, at least not anybody who has to forward the volume of traffic that Comcast does. Comcast went out and bought a special DPI box. The thing is, they bought the box(es) a long time ago when they started looking for BitTorrent traffic and the like.
You are talking about something different than the parent post. The parent is talking about shotguns with deershot, while you're talking about a conventional rifle. If your deershot is passing all the way through the deer, there probably won't be much of the animal left afterward.
I've not tried Heart of the Swarm, but I did get Wings of Liberty. Ultimately, WoL was a disappointment for me because there wasn't enough change from Brood War in the end. Also, it's not available on Steam which is annoying.
It's hard to know because they're so secretive about their security--note that this is a huge red flag for computer security, but pretty common in physical security.
I'm utterly unsurprised at this attack however. Hardware guys usually write bad software, and security is hard for even software guys to get right. I would be more surprised if there is a manufacturer that is consistently good at preventing these attacks.
I have to admit, I'm not exactly jumping out of my seat to send $600+ to the company that's been fucking up Ubuntu pretty badly for the past couple of years.
Well, a blu-ray disc weighs about 16g and hold 50GB of data, so 500kg would be 1,562,500GB worth of storage. Your station wagon doing 50kph will need exactly 6 days to travel that for, or 518,400 seconds. In that much time, this optical link would have transferred 2,057,011,200GB.
Your station wagon's bandwidth isn't even in the ballpark. Even if you use those super experimental blu-rays that hold 1TB each you aren't even getting close to the bandwidth of this link.
It does a bit. The higher the speed of your link the lower the clocking delay in getting out all of the bits for a transaction. Will a couple of nanoseconds matter? With HFT it just might.
Yeah, when you've reserved the function for only the most dire of emergencies then it's a good an useful system. It's hard to imagine someone getting online and complaining "I was woken up at 2AM and it was only nuclear war!!! Don't they know that I need good uninterrupted sleep to be productive at my job?!?"
An alert sent personally from the President of the US had better be something like "US under space alien attack, everybody hide!"
If he starts sending out campaign crap or something, then I'll get up in arms, but thus far it seems like a useful thing to be able to alert the entire country when some major major major shit goes down.
But it is still transferring hypertext? HTML is HyperText Markup Language. Just because the headers are binary encoded doesn't change what it is transferring. Granted, these days it might be more accurate to call it the JavaScript Transfer Protocol, because there is generally more JS than HTML on your typical page.
Heck, I'm surprised there isn't a javascript virutal machine already in browsers that sites could pre-compile scripts for, especially with the advent of the webpage as an application. We're doing GL calls with a scripted language for gods sake.
While I'm sure modern browsers JIT compile javascript, it's amazing that we have to do that in the first place.
Right, assuming Nintendo didn't enforce any useful password requirements, there are probably tens of thousands of accounts with 12345, god, and password as their passwords.
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I thought the Chemtrails were supposed to be a mystery additive to jet fuel that does whatever the government feels like that day. So you wouldn't have tanks and plumbing and stuff in the aircraft, it would be a shadowy something or the other at the refinery. Or maybe added in transport or something. Maybe I made that up because the real conspiracy makes no sense at all. Even then you're talking about something that has to survive being burnt up in a jet engine and quite a bit of time up in the stratosphere (in sunlight) before finally filtering down to the ground. People near airports would also receive a massively higher dose, so it couldn't be too obvious or people would notice. It's hard to make this conspiracy work even theoretically, and that's before you even start talking about the properties of the mysterious fluid and what it is supposed to do.
These trains can't be shut down trivially. They have no means to get themselves back up to speed after they stop, only small electric motors that can limp a capsule along at a snails pace. It's not like people will be able to get out and walk either, there's no air for them outside the car.
I do have to wonder about the door latches on the capsules. They have to cycle completely in 30 seconds, yet have to be strong enough to hold 1ATM of pressure and make an airtight seal. I don't want to be the passenger wearing a long coat that gets it stuck in the door and slowly asphyxiates on the way to LA. Or maybe worse, the passenger who bangs his briefcase against the latch while they're rushing into their seat, causing it to fail halfway through the trip and explosively decompress into the tube, potentially damaging it and sending a shockwave of air in both directions down the tube, hammering every other car in the tube.
NPR is commie radio though, no true American would listen to it. Did you know that the majority of their funding doesn't come from commercial sources? How Unamerican is that? You practically have to have an act of congress to get them to put the correct spin on the news, unlike those patriots over in the commercial news world that bravely and heroically parrot whatever the party puts out in talking points.
Yeah, cancer is pretty bad, but it's no worse than SARS.
I thought RT was just supposed to be the Fox News of Russia? Basically an arm of the political party willing to repeat whatever they're told. You can't blame either of them, it's a very profitable thing to do.
If we switch to grasses for our biofuel how are we going to artificially prop up the price of corn? ADM has not lobbied congress for years to suddenly have us switch to some other crop.
There's nothing technically impossible about building a gigantic space station, but it would be unbelievably expensive. Like every single person on Earth needs to contribute a few million bucks just to cover the launch costs of all of the material. Even if you were making it out of stuff you mined (from an asteroid) and refined in orbit the costs will be astronomical.
The only scenario where it seems even halfway possible is some wartime economy scenario where the entire world puts aside ideas about equal distribution or efficient use of resources and instead focuses on one big huge project. About the only scenario I can think of that would warrant such an effort is discovery of a planet ending asteroid heading straight for Earth, but a few decades away. Something big enough where the impact will result in a global firestorm and cataclysmic earthquakes that would make the more sensible option of building underground or domed cities untenable.
One thing you didn't touch on: A lot of Wifi chips are really really bad. Like they'll crash randomly and repeatedly when connected to certain kinds of access points. Sometimes it is the access point that crashes. For the most part the chips reset themselves and continue on, so it's just a momentary interruption, but when it happens over and over you'll really start to notice.
This was clearly a case of "I'll say something that sounds reassuring, while waiting for this to blow over so we don't have to change anything."
Having Congress look at it was a very funny joke, since they're in recess and useless anyway.
Rage suffered because it was clear that the developers were split between making a FPS and making a Carmageddon style driving game, so they tried to do both but ended up not having enough time to actually finish either. I think both parts of the game worked pretty well, but there wasn't enough meat to sustain it.
Nobody is asking their routers to do DPI, at least not anybody who has to forward the volume of traffic that Comcast does. Comcast went out and bought a special DPI box. The thing is, they bought the box(es) a long time ago when they started looking for BitTorrent traffic and the like.
You are talking about something different than the parent post. The parent is talking about shotguns with deershot, while you're talking about a conventional rifle. If your deershot is passing all the way through the deer, there probably won't be much of the animal left afterward.
I've not tried Heart of the Swarm, but I did get Wings of Liberty. Ultimately, WoL was a disappointment for me because there wasn't enough change from Brood War in the end. Also, it's not available on Steam which is annoying.
It's hard to know because they're so secretive about their security--note that this is a huge red flag for computer security, but pretty common in physical security.
I'm utterly unsurprised at this attack however. Hardware guys usually write bad software, and security is hard for even software guys to get right. I would be more surprised if there is a manufacturer that is consistently good at preventing these attacks.
I have to admit, I'm not exactly jumping out of my seat to send $600+ to the company that's been fucking up Ubuntu pretty badly for the past couple of years.
Maybe if they could make a F-35 that absolutely positively won't asphyxiate you they would get more interest from pilots?
They should have just printed a $200 Billion Dollar bill and mailed it to him.
Well, a blu-ray disc weighs about 16g and hold 50GB of data, so 500kg would be 1,562,500GB worth of storage. Your station wagon doing 50kph will need exactly 6 days to travel that for, or 518,400 seconds. In that much time, this optical link would have transferred 2,057,011,200GB.
Your station wagon's bandwidth isn't even in the ballpark. Even if you use those super experimental blu-rays that hold 1TB each you aren't even getting close to the bandwidth of this link.
It does a bit. The higher the speed of your link the lower the clocking delay in getting out all of the bits for a transaction. Will a couple of nanoseconds matter? With HFT it just might.
Yeah, when you've reserved the function for only the most dire of emergencies then it's a good an useful system. It's hard to imagine someone getting online and complaining "I was woken up at 2AM and it was only nuclear war!!! Don't they know that I need good uninterrupted sleep to be productive at my job?!?"
An alert sent personally from the President of the US had better be something like "US under space alien attack, everybody hide!"
If he starts sending out campaign crap or something, then I'll get up in arms, but thus far it seems like a useful thing to be able to alert the entire country when some major major major shit goes down.
Eh, before blaming society for enabling this guy's lack of personal responsibility, lets wait and see if his case gets laughed out of court.
But it is still transferring hypertext? HTML is HyperText Markup Language. Just because the headers are binary encoded doesn't change what it is transferring. Granted, these days it might be more accurate to call it the JavaScript Transfer Protocol, because there is generally more JS than HTML on your typical page.
Heck, I'm surprised there isn't a javascript virutal machine already in browsers that sites could pre-compile scripts for, especially with the advent of the webpage as an application. We're doing GL calls with a scripted language for gods sake.
While I'm sure modern browsers JIT compile javascript, it's amazing that we have to do that in the first place.
Right, assuming Nintendo didn't enforce any useful password requirements, there are probably tens of thousands of accounts with 12345, god, and password as their passwords.