A LiPo can take out a jet engine, but not by blowing it up. The energy release of an exploding LiPo is a fart in a windstorm compared to what normally goes on in the engine. Functionally, the LiPo is a rock.
...and letting ex-presidents retain the honorific doesn't bother me nearly so much as incumbent presidents (or anyone else) using the term "commander in chief" when they're not referring to military affairs.
That's why a mechanical switch is required or else it's a completely useless exercise. You can verify that the circuit is interrupted
Only if you open the case and use a multimeter.
and there's nothing software can do to circumvent this.
Yes there is, if the hardware designer is motivated to snoop on you. A trivial example would be a double-pole switch, with the "off" pole selecting firmware-accessible circuitry. What you can verify, without disassembling the BIOS, is an opaque object.
Do you have the slightest inkling of the amount of hard radiation the Sun pukes into our solar system? Are you familiar with the metaphor "fart in a hurricane"?
First there are international laws and treaties preventing ANY nuclear devices I space.
No, there aren't. The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 bans nuclear detonations in space, which killed the Orion project (not that it would likely have gone anywhere anyway).
We launch nuclear devices into space all the time; that's how deep-space probes get their electric power. The recent proposal is to use nuclear heat generation to power a rocket, and the treaty is just peachy with that.
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We kinda have one: a dollar bill is six inches long, within about 1%.
And you will always be butthurt.
German money, pre-Euro, used to have Carl Gauss (and his curve), Paul Ehrlich and the Brothers Grimm among others.
Why were they working there?
A LiPo can take out a jet engine, but not by blowing it up. The energy release of an exploding LiPo is a fart in a windstorm compared to what normally goes on in the engine. Functionally, the LiPo is a rock.
...and letting ex-presidents retain the honorific doesn't bother me nearly so much as incumbent presidents (or anyone else) using the term "commander in chief" when they're not referring to military affairs.
In aerospace, a catastrophic failure is one that destroys the test article. Perhaps you're confusing it with "calamitous" or "apocalyptic".
https://xkcd.com/1235/
http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...
A rising tide lifts all boats
Which is great if you can afford a boat.
100% of cartographers used to believe that the Earth was flat
See, this is how we identify someone whose science education ended with the eighth grade...
Do you seriously imagine that they're going to add a hardware kill switch, but then secretly add a method for software to bypass it?
Sure: if it has a switch, it may con the customer out of going the tape route.
That's why a mechanical switch is required or else it's a completely useless exercise. You can verify that the circuit is interrupted
Only if you open the case and use a multimeter.
and there's nothing software can do to circumvent this.
Yes there is, if the hardware designer is motivated to snoop on you. A trivial example would be a double-pole switch, with the "off" pole selecting firmware-accessible circuitry. What you can verify, without disassembling the BIOS, is an opaque object.
At this point why not make all restrooms communal or unisex?
OMG!!! That would be just like being on an airplane!
Internet connections between us were down for two hundred years. Shit happens.
Yeah, the gubmint writes "marihuana", too. Nobody pays any attention.
I'd say you too have a very unique definition of violence, except that there's no such thing as "very unique".
Just curious, where does that second 'i' come from in enunciating Aluminum
From its discoverer. He called it alumium, aluminum and aluminium in that historical order, and the different versions basically spread by diffusion.
OTOH, "solder" has only one spelling, but two pronunciations: in Britain they pronounce the L.
If I were wealthy and one of my heirs bought me this thing, I'd cut the fucker off...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrodinger were driving in a car, when they were pulled over by a cop.
Cop: Do you know how fast you were going?
Heisenberg: No, but I know exactly where I am.
Cop got suspicious and searched the car.
Cop: Do you know you have a dead cat in your trunk?
Schrodinger: We do now, you jerk!
Dang, I missed that presentation. I had an aunt in Connecticut who was an amateur DeVere supporter.
The mark of a true leftist, is that they always view themselves as the political center.
Does the expression "Fair and Balanced" strike a familiar note?
Do you have the slightest inkling of the amount of hard radiation the Sun pukes into our solar system? Are you familiar with the metaphor "fart in a hurricane"?
First there are international laws and treaties preventing ANY nuclear devices I space.
No, there aren't. The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 bans nuclear detonations in space, which killed the Orion project (not that it would likely have gone anywhere anyway).
We launch nuclear devices into space all the time; that's how deep-space probes get their electric power. The recent proposal is to use nuclear heat generation to power a rocket, and the treaty is just peachy with that.