Three years later, the state of Massachusetts still can't figure out how to repair the damage she wrought almost single-handedly.
I would suggest that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts pay more attention on how to repair the damage their drug laws have wrought (alas, not single handledly); by comparison, Ms Dookhan's damages are a drop in the ocean. I have no doubt that three decades from now the Commonwealth will be arguing over this. As a starter, how about freeing everyone convicted of a marijuana offense, overturning their convictions, and returning (or recompensing) any seized property?
> The GPS system (which requires a knowledge of general relativity to design)
Not so far as I can tell.
Your powers of discernment are inadequate. General Relativity is built into the design - the time kept by the spacecraft is deliberately retarded (slowed) from their clock's proper time sufficiently to make the time sent from GPS match the proper time kept here on the Earth's surface. The very first GPS test spacecraft did not do that (I have heard from the instigation of a consultant who didn't believe in GR) and so wasn't usable (as a GPS test, as opposed to a GR test) here on the ground.
Engineers with a hammer treating everything as a nail, and marketeers seeking to mine information from everyone's daily actions are evidently a very bad combination.
A grain of sand might be 1 mm^3, so 10^12 is 1000 m^3, or maybe 3 x 10^6 kg or 3000 tons worth. I would like to see that idiot judge move that amount, say from one end of his courtroom to another. Ideally, he would do that every working day for the rest of his time on the bench; that might teach him the value of a trillion grains of sand.
Incidentally, 10^12 grains of sand would cover a 10 m x 1 km beach 10 cm deep - sounds like a pretty nice beach to me,
The Sinatra estate had Frank Sinatra on stage starting in 2006, using archival footage rescued by Keith Robinson (Frank was a pack-rat, and saved all of his movie and TV rushes, so there is lots of material). They are bringing the Frank Sinatra stage show back to London, so you can see it too if you want. (This has a live orchestra to give it some interactivity.)
We don't have the post WWII impetus and properly taxed corporations of the 1960s anymore. We have a fractured populace entertained to death, and any increased productivity or technological gains are immediately funneled up towards the rich.
Funny how a society with single income families and no cell phones was able to put people on the Moon, hm?
And this is generally treated (even by people concerned about it) as a fact of nature, something like the drought in California or dust storms on Mars.
NASA policy as laid forth in the institution's founding charter, the Space Act, is to avoid competing with private institutions using public money (their baby, JPL).
No, I don't think so. Amy Mainzer's NEOCAM proposal has been in play for several years now, NASA has very broad authority about space act agreements, and the particular SAA with B612 was a no-exchange of funds trade of DSN support for a first cut on asteroid data. If B612 had flown, it might have made the JPL proposal overtaken by events, but that would have made the Discovery program officers happy (by freeing up time and money for the other candidates). I don't thin that the SAA was canceled as JPL protectionism.
B612 lost their Space Act Agreement because they were missing their deadlines and because they weren't talking to NASA about it. I had several people at NASA tell me that they were frustrated about the lack of communication from B612 about their problems. It was only a matter of time before the SAA agreement was canceled.
My personal feeling is that parallel construction should be prosecuted as a felony. It's perjury, abuse of the juridicial process and contempt of court, and in a fundamental way (not some playing loose along the edges). Send someone to trial over this, and watch the abuse stop.
I think he is confusing encryption and steganography. Encrypted signals will still require framing, will still be likely to be bandwidth limited, and so will not appear truly natural, even if we can never break the code. As the Brits found through traffic analysis in World War II, you can learn a lot from observing alien communications, even if you never decode a single word.
Yes, but this might even have been sold as a compliance issue - we must by law make sure that the full emissions package is in place for any emissions test, even if the service tech turned it off for reason XYZ. What engineer would blink at that? Meanwhile, over in another department, the engineers are being told, these emissions packages must by default be off, as not all jurisdictions require them, and we are using an opt-in type system to turn them on when required. Again, who would blink at that? But by such stratagems, they could set up to that one person or a few people could flip a virtual switch, and the hack would be in place.
Somebody knew, somebody high up knew, but I rather doubt that everyone on the engineering bench knew, and that means that they had to be fed plausible stories along the way.
I haven't found out if the normal driving emissions are actually"bad" or just fall foul of U.S. automaker protectionist lobbying.
I heard on the radio (NPR) the cars were up to 60 times worse than the actual US emission standards. I imagine that is a worst worse case scenario, but it does suggest that, yes, they were actually bad.
Yeah. I would not be too surprised if at some level in the organization this was sold as a debugging or trouble shooting measure, or some other benign reason was given for branching on detection of emissions tests.
In other words, the engineers who actually did the code may not have known the real purpose of what they were doing. Somebody knew, of course, but they may be harder to track down.
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I would suggest that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts pay more attention on how to repair the damage their drug laws have wrought (alas, not single handledly); by comparison, Ms Dookhan's damages are a drop in the ocean. I have no doubt that three decades from now the Commonwealth will be arguing over this. As a starter, how about freeing everyone convicted of a marijuana offense, overturning their convictions, and returning (or recompensing) any seized property?
Military-Connected US Tech Giants Increasingly Partner With Military-Connected Chinese Companies
There, fixed that headline for you.
> The GPS system (which requires a knowledge of general relativity to design)
Not so far as I can tell.
Your powers of discernment are inadequate. General Relativity is built into the design - the time kept by the spacecraft is deliberately retarded (slowed) from their clock's proper time sufficiently to make the time sent from GPS match the proper time kept here on the Earth's surface. The very first GPS test spacecraft did not do that (I have heard from the instigation of a consultant who didn't believe in GR) and so wasn't usable (as a GPS test, as opposed to a GR test) here on the ground.
It is always a shame when such obviously insane people are allowed to wander the streets and speculate in the press.
Fixed that headline for you.
Engineers with a hammer treating everything as a nail, and marketeers seeking to mine information from everyone's daily actions are evidently a very bad combination.
A grain of sand might be 1 mm^3, so 10^12 is 1000 m^3, or maybe 3 x 10^6 kg or 3000 tons worth. I would like to see that idiot judge move that amount, say from one end of his courtroom to another. Ideally, he would do that every working day for the rest of his time on the bench; that might teach him the value of a trillion grains of sand.
Incidentally, 10^12 grains of sand would cover a 10 m x 1 km beach 10 cm deep - sounds like a pretty nice beach to me,
nobody cares, seriously. they will be forever known as holograms.
You obviously don't hang out with physicists much.
The Sinatra estate had Frank Sinatra on stage starting in 2006, using archival footage rescued by Keith Robinson (Frank was a pack-rat, and saved all of his movie and TV rushes, so there is lots of material). They are bringing the Frank Sinatra stage show back to London, so you can see it too if you want. (This has a live orchestra to give it some interactivity.)
The chances of these "holograms" being actual holograms is down there with the House Benghazi Committee actually accomplishing anything.
These will be Pepper's Ghost illusions, not holograms. Pepper's Ghost done well can be very effective, but the physics is rather different.
We don't have the post WWII impetus and properly taxed corporations of the 1960s anymore. We have a fractured populace entertained to death, and any increased productivity or technological gains are immediately funneled up towards the rich.
Funny how a society with single income families and no cell phones was able to put people on the Moon, hm?
And this is generally treated (even by people concerned about it) as a fact of nature, something like the drought in California or dust storms on Mars.
Hate on asteroid detection all you want, call it a waste of time and money if you must, but the partnership drop is actually due to a recent asteroid detection proposal accepted by NASA for consideration called NEOcam.
NASA policy as laid forth in the institution's founding charter, the Space Act, is to avoid competing with private institutions using public money (their baby, JPL).
No, I don't think so. Amy Mainzer's NEOCAM proposal has been in play for several years now, NASA has very broad authority about space act agreements, and the particular SAA with B612 was a no-exchange of funds trade of DSN support for a first cut on asteroid data. If B612 had flown, it might have made the JPL proposal overtaken by events, but that would have made the Discovery program officers happy (by freeing up time and money for the other candidates). I don't thin that the SAA was canceled as JPL protectionism.
B612 lost their Space Act Agreement because they were missing their deadlines and because they weren't talking to NASA about it. I had several people at NASA tell me that they were frustrated about the lack of communication from B612 about their problems. It was only a matter of time before the SAA agreement was canceled.
This is Slashdot news why?
No, I just thought it was interesting. Now, the Nazi's anti-smoking campaigns...
Not trying to go all Godwin here, but the Nazis also banned superlatives in advertising (although, of course, not in propaganda).
My personal feeling is that parallel construction should be prosecuted as a felony. It's perjury, abuse of the juridicial process and contempt of court, and in a fundamental way (not some playing loose along the edges). Send someone to trial over this, and watch the abuse stop.
I think he is confusing encryption and steganography. Encrypted signals will still require framing, will still be likely to be bandwidth limited, and so will not appear truly natural, even if we can never break the code. As the Brits found through traffic analysis in World War II, you can learn a lot from observing alien communications, even if you never decode a single word.
There is a plan to go to Mars, it is a fairly sensible one, and not landing on the Moon is a feature, not a bug.
That does not imply that I don't think we should go back to the Moon. I think we should, but I think we should do it commercially.
Tourism was certainly discussed at the meeting, and Bigelow (for example) is counting big on it, but it didn't seem to make the summary.
In business, if you have to ask "why?", the answer is "money."
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Yes, but this might even have been sold as a compliance issue - we must by law make sure that the full emissions package is in place for any emissions test, even if the service tech turned it off for reason XYZ. What engineer would blink at that? Meanwhile, over in another department, the engineers are being told, these emissions packages must by default be off, as not all jurisdictions require them, and we are using an opt-in type system to turn them on when required. Again, who would blink at that? But by such stratagems, they could set up to that one person or a few people could flip a virtual switch, and the hack would be in place.
Somebody knew, somebody high up knew, but I rather doubt that everyone on the engineering bench knew, and that means that they had to be fed plausible stories along the way.
I haven't found out if the normal driving emissions are actually"bad" or just fall foul of U.S. automaker protectionist lobbying.
I heard on the radio (NPR) the cars were up to 60 times worse than the actual US emission standards. I imagine that is a worst worse case scenario, but it does suggest that, yes, they were actually bad.
Yeah. I would not be too surprised if at some level in the organization this was sold as a debugging or trouble shooting measure, or some other benign reason was given for branching on detection of emissions tests.
In other words, the engineers who actually did the code may not have known the real purpose of what they were doing. Somebody knew, of course, but they may be harder to track down.
It's Mark Whittington. A nice guy, but a serious believer in the Church of Ronnie.