GPS may be jammable, but the JDAM and other GPS guided weapons have means for dealing with this. First, the GPS on the JDAM has an antenna that is designed to reject signals coming from the ground, as well as extensive anti-jamming electronics. Even if all of this fails though, the JDAM has an INS which will get it to a CEP of 30m. It's not the 18m or so with the GPS, but even that is the worst case scenario where you don't have GPS for the entire flight of the bomb. The more realistic case is that the jamming only affects the bomb after it gets low. In that case, with the INS only operating on its own for a few seconds, so the errors shouldn't accumulate too badly.
It's hardly that simple. Microsoft agreed to purchase $150m worth of Apple stock. Furthermore, apple had over a billion in cash at the time, so that didn't really save the company. The key thing for Apple was the commitment to continue to develop Office for the Mac. Without that, the Mac would cease to be a really viable platform.
Yes, but what happens when he quits or gets fired? The other sysadmins would disable his account on the machine, but presumably he still has the backdoor password to a possibly web accessable app. This is like making a copy of your office key and keeping it when you leave.
They plug the analog hole. They watermark the image on your screen, and when you try to download the pictures into your palladium enabled computer, it refuses to display the image.
The telcos agreed to the telcom deregulation act. The trade was that they got to provide long-distance service, which would be in violation of the consent decree. A huge part of the value in the phone networks is the rights of way that the wires run on which no other company has the right to use. In exchange for this huge property grant, they agree to be regulated. Then they agreed to trade the regulations on competition for regulations on long distance. Now they want to back out of their end of the deal.
Anyone considering this book should really pick a copy of "Getting Past OK: A straightforward guide to a fantastic life" by Richard Brodie. I have found it to be by far the best book of the genre.
Hussein has stated in the past that it is his intention to use nuclear weapons to eliminate Israel. If you're concerned with Israel's nuclear weapons, perhaps the French should not have built the Diomona reactor for Israel which supplied them with Plutonium for their nuclear weapons. Furthermore, last I checked, the French had a pretty good supply of nuclear weapons themselves.
I don't support everything Israel does by any means, but you can't expect Israel to sit back and accept the destruction of their country. The Iraqi news agency stated after Iran unsuccessfully attacked the reactor in '80 "The Iranian people should not fear the Iraqi nuclear reactor, which is not intended to be used against Iran, but against the Zionist entity." Nine months later, the zionist entity decided it didn't want to get nuked.
The shuttle hasn't deployed a military payload since the mid-90s. The Air Force uses the Delta, Titan, and Atlas for that. No one gets too worked up when an unmanned rocket explodes, be it U.S. or French.
The Osirak reactor could have been used to produce Plutonium for weapons. Not that it would have been very efficient, but of the research reactors available for purchase by Iraq, the Osirak type was the best. Iraq in the mid eighties has attempted to purchase another research reactor from several countries, but turned down a proliferation-resistant version on two occasions. Oh, and it was the French who built it for them
The Osirak reactor was bombed in the early eighties, not during the gulf war. The reactor was a research reactor, not a power reactor. Also, the fuel rods had not been delivered to the Iraqi reactor when it was bombed, so there was no significant radioactive contamination. By bombing the reactor, the Israelis prevented the fuel rods from being delivered.
The problem is that at least for MP3, and I believe for vorbis, you discard phase information because you can't hear the phase. This means that just taking the difference of the outputs is going to yield a file that is just as big as the lossless file itself.
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A pretty big issue is that they are both free for non-commercial use, with no runtime fees, unlike kx.
Well, it's a bit difficult to even imagine this given that the quantized nature of the atom is intimately connected with the quantized nature of light. Given this, suppose I had a very intense but long wavelength source, and pointed it at some atoms. We would expect that the due to the ammount of power, it would impart energy to the electrons in the atoms, as it does with short wavelengths. However, this doesn't happen. So the question is why, and QM explains this by saying that the electrons have discrete energy levels, and that to kick them up an energy level, you need to hit them with a photon with at least as much energy as the difference. This essentally says that kicking up an energy level is a discrete event, and either you have enough energy or you don't. If we use the pure wave formulation, with enough power, you should be able to impart enough energy on the atom to cause this to happen, but it doesn't work.
Perhaps you already knew all of this. I am not a physicist, but hopefully this helps.
Light can be treated as a wave under many many circumstances. Lots of everyday devices rely on this. Yet, we have the photoelectric effect, also used in many everyday devices. In the single photon emitter case, how does the emitter know that there are two slits, or the geometry of the slits, etc? You might want to do a bit more reading, as something as simple as chaos just doesn't account for this type of effect.
www.paperdisk.com claims that they can get either 660K or 1MB depending on resolution on a sheet of paper. How long a piece of paper will last when encoded with this density is unknown, but with good paper I'd bet it's a hell of a lot longer than any disk. Furthermore, even at that density, there's a huge ammount of physical redundancy in the data storage. If the paper gets to be fifty years old or so, I would imagine that the technology would be available to cheaply scan at ultra-high resolution to compensate for any degradation.
No, he's probably refering to AIPAC, the Israeli lobby in the United States. Not only do they officially advocate for a foreign country with campaign contributions, they have dozens of other PACS which are officially separate but in reality take orders from AIPAC. This allows them to give a couple hundred thousand dollars in HARD money to any candidate. There are a number of instances in the past where this was done or threatened when a congressman or senator opposed Israel. McCain-Feingold helps by reducing the PAC limit to $1000, but AIPAC should have been sued a long time ago for its herd of PACs tactics.
It's hard to fault them for doing what's in their own interests, but we should not allow Israel to engage in legalized bribery against our public officials.
There's a perfectly good way of quantifying this. The key issue here is that we perceive a pattern in the data. The question is how we define a pattern. A very good way is measuring the Kolmogorov entropy of the sequence.
So, find an upper bound on the Kolmogorov entropy of the sequence. In the case of the digit sequence producing a 500x500 image of a circle and a square, I would guess the entropy is less than a couple of hundred digits. This is based on the fact that the program to produce this would be a few lines long in almost any programming language. Now, programming languages are heavily based on our bias towards math, so a turing machine or another more value-free language would probably be a bit bigger. Let's say it's 100,000 base-11 digits to be conservative.
If we make the conservative assumptions that all machines halt and produce unique output, thus providing a bijection between machines and sequences, then the probability of a sequence of length n bits having a machine representation = m bits is 2^m/2^n. 11^100000/11^250000=1/11^150000. Thus in a random sequence, we would expect 1/11^150000 to have such a distinct pattern.
Hence, if we see this pattern significantly before the 11^150000th digit, we should be very surprised. 11^150000 is a huge number, so probably if we find it at all, we should be surprised.
When people are worried about nanotech, they are worried about self-replicating nanotech. The cell shows that it is possible to make a self-replicating device with limited intelligence at that length scale. The fact that we are now building other things at that length scale isn't really the issue here. Until we figure out how to make something self-replicate and can fabricate it, we don't have to worry. The first things that self-replicate probably won't self-replicate in a natural environment because they need some resource not available in nature. These would still be useful for manufacturing, you would just need something analgous to a growth medium. The problem comes in when these things start evolving at the interface between the medium and the outside environment. There might be ways of designing evolution-resistant assemblers, but a terrorist might deliberately evolve them to survive in nature.
Once these things get into nature, it's anyone's guess what would happen. Since bacteria haven't evolved to compete with this form of life, it could seriously disrupt bacteria in the biosphere. Without the proper balance of bacteria and other microorganisms in the soil, the massive disruption moves up the food chain and we have big problems.
I believe that the DOD missions are over now, but they hardly ended with Challenger. STS-53, STS-39, STS-38, STS-36, STS-33, STS-28 and STS-27 were all DOD classified payloads after Challenger. The last one of these was in December '92, over 4 years after the shuttle returned to flight.
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GPS may be jammable, but the JDAM and other GPS guided weapons have means for dealing with this. First, the GPS on the JDAM has an antenna that is designed to reject signals coming from the ground, as well as extensive anti-jamming electronics. Even if all of this fails though, the JDAM has an INS which will get it to a CEP of 30m. It's not the 18m or so with the GPS, but even that is the worst case scenario where you don't have GPS for the entire flight of the bomb. The more realistic case is that the jamming only affects the bomb after it gets low. In that case, with the INS only operating on its own for a few seconds, so the errors shouldn't accumulate too badly.
It's hardly that simple. Microsoft agreed to purchase $150m worth of Apple stock. Furthermore, apple had over a billion in cash at the time, so that didn't really save the company. The key thing for Apple was the commitment to continue to develop Office for the Mac. Without that, the Mac would cease to be a really viable platform.
Yes, but what happens when he quits or gets fired? The other sysadmins would disable his account on the machine, but presumably he still has the backdoor password to a possibly web accessable app. This is like making a copy of your office key and keeping it when you leave.
Which is exactly why the cartriges included with new inkjets are "starter" cartriges which are not full of ink.
When you fuck up the DNS server, and I try to use someone else's server, I'm sure you'll come up with some dumb excuse about why it isn't your fault.
They plug the analog hole. They watermark the image on your screen, and when you try to download the pictures into your palladium enabled computer, it refuses to display the image.
No, it means asymetric.
The telcos agreed to the telcom deregulation act. The trade was that they got to provide long-distance service, which would be in violation of the consent decree. A huge part of the value in the phone networks is the rights of way that the wires run on which no other company has the right to use. In exchange for this huge property grant, they agree to be regulated. Then they agreed to trade the regulations on competition for regulations on long distance. Now they want to back out of their end of the deal.
Anyone considering this book should really pick a copy of "Getting Past OK: A straightforward guide to a fantastic life" by Richard Brodie. I have found it to be by far the best book of the genre.
Hussein has stated in the past that it is his intention to use nuclear weapons to eliminate Israel. If you're concerned with Israel's nuclear weapons, perhaps the French should not have built the Diomona reactor for Israel which supplied them with Plutonium for their nuclear weapons. Furthermore, last I checked, the French had a pretty good supply of nuclear weapons themselves.
I don't support everything Israel does by any means, but you can't expect Israel to sit back and accept the destruction of their country. The Iraqi news agency stated after Iran unsuccessfully attacked the reactor in '80 "The Iranian people should not fear the Iraqi nuclear reactor, which is not intended to be used against Iran, but against the Zionist entity." Nine months later, the zionist entity decided it didn't want to get nuked.
The shuttle hasn't deployed a military payload since the mid-90s. The Air Force uses the Delta, Titan, and Atlas for that. No one gets too worked up when an unmanned rocket explodes, be it U.S. or French.
The Osirak reactor could have been used to produce Plutonium for weapons. Not that it would have been very efficient, but of the research reactors available for purchase by Iraq, the Osirak type was the best. Iraq in the mid eighties has attempted to purchase another research reactor from several countries, but turned down a proliferation-resistant version on two occasions. Oh, and it was the French who built it for them
The Osirak reactor was bombed in the early eighties, not during the gulf war. The reactor was a research reactor, not a power reactor. Also, the fuel rods had not been delivered to the Iraqi reactor when it was bombed, so there was no significant radioactive contamination. By bombing the reactor, the Israelis prevented the fuel rods from being delivered.
The problem is that at least for MP3, and I believe for vorbis, you discard phase information because you can't hear the phase. This means that just taking the difference of the outputs is going to yield a file that is just as big as the lossless file itself.
A pretty big issue is that they are both free for non-commercial use, with no runtime fees, unlike kx.
Relax, it's illegal for you to have a TV that is visible to the driver.
Well, it's a bit difficult to even imagine this given that the quantized nature of the atom is intimately connected with the quantized nature of light. Given this, suppose I had a very intense but long wavelength source, and pointed it at some atoms. We would expect that the due to the ammount of power, it would impart energy to the electrons in the atoms, as it does with short wavelengths. However, this doesn't happen. So the question is why, and QM explains this by saying that the electrons have discrete energy levels, and that to kick them up an energy level, you need to hit them with a photon with at least as much energy as the difference. This essentally says that kicking up an energy level is a discrete event, and either you have enough energy or you don't. If we use the pure wave formulation, with enough power, you should be able to impart enough energy on the atom to cause this to happen, but it doesn't work.
Perhaps you already knew all of this. I am not a physicist, but hopefully this helps.
You use SAR, and the best guess of the civillian world is that the current satellites get 1m SAR resolution.
Light can be treated as a wave under many many circumstances. Lots of everyday devices rely on this. Yet, we have the photoelectric effect, also used in many everyday devices. In the single photon emitter case, how does the emitter know that there are two slits, or the geometry of the slits, etc? You might want to do a bit more reading, as something as simple as chaos just doesn't account for this type of effect.
Without starting a war here, the high end includes Sennheisers and Grados. The Sennheiser 600s are fantastic, but they will set you back about $300.
www.paperdisk.com claims that they can get either 660K or 1MB depending on resolution on a sheet of paper. How long a piece of paper will last when encoded with this density is unknown, but with good paper I'd bet it's a hell of a lot longer than any disk. Furthermore, even at that density, there's a huge ammount of physical redundancy in the data storage. If the paper gets to be fifty years old or so, I would imagine that the technology would be available to cheaply scan at ultra-high resolution to compensate for any degradation.
No, he's probably refering to AIPAC, the Israeli lobby in the United States. Not only do they officially advocate for a foreign country with campaign contributions, they have dozens of other PACS which are officially separate but in reality take orders from AIPAC. This allows them to give a couple hundred thousand dollars in HARD money to any candidate. There are a number of instances in the past where this was done or threatened when a congressman or senator opposed Israel. McCain-Feingold helps by reducing the PAC limit to $1000, but AIPAC should have been sued a long time ago for its herd of PACs tactics.
It's hard to fault them for doing what's in their own interests, but we should not allow Israel to engage in legalized bribery against our public officials.
There's a perfectly good way of quantifying this. The key issue here is that we perceive a pattern in the data. The question is how we define a pattern. A very good way is measuring the Kolmogorov entropy of the sequence.
So, find an upper bound on the Kolmogorov entropy of the sequence. In the case of the digit sequence producing a 500x500 image of a circle and a square, I would guess the entropy is less than a couple of hundred digits. This is based on the fact that the program to produce this would be a few lines long in almost any programming language. Now, programming languages are heavily based on our bias towards math, so a turing machine or another more value-free language would probably be a bit bigger. Let's say it's 100,000 base-11 digits to be conservative.
If we make the conservative assumptions that all machines halt and produce unique output, thus providing a bijection between machines and sequences, then the probability of a sequence of length n bits having a machine representation = m bits is 2^m/2^n. 11^100000/11^250000=1/11^150000. Thus in a random sequence, we would expect 1/11^150000 to have such a distinct pattern.
Hence, if we see this pattern significantly before the 11^150000th digit, we should be very surprised. 11^150000 is a huge number, so probably if we find it at all, we should be surprised.
Perhaps he sees a distinction between the carribeian and the gulf of mexico.
When people are worried about nanotech, they are worried about self-replicating nanotech. The cell shows that it is possible to make a self-replicating device with limited intelligence at that length scale. The fact that we are now building other things at that length scale isn't really the issue here. Until we figure out how to make something self-replicate and can fabricate it, we don't have to worry. The first things that self-replicate probably won't self-replicate in a natural environment because they need some resource not available in nature. These would still be useful for manufacturing, you would just need something analgous to a growth medium. The problem comes in when these things start evolving at the interface between the medium and the outside environment. There might be ways of designing evolution-resistant assemblers, but a terrorist might deliberately evolve them to survive in nature.
Once these things get into nature, it's anyone's guess what would happen. Since bacteria haven't evolved to compete with this form of life, it could seriously disrupt bacteria in the biosphere. Without the proper balance of bacteria and other microorganisms in the soil, the massive disruption moves up the food chain and we have big problems.
I believe that the DOD missions are over now, but they hardly ended with Challenger. STS-53, STS-39, STS-38, STS-36, STS-33, STS-28 and STS-27 were all DOD classified payloads after Challenger. The last one of these was in December '92, over 4 years after the shuttle returned to flight.