Is the knee-jerk response to control iNet content.
Actually, I think its just a mechanism for the NYT to sell more newspapers. Sensationalism sells. Now...eventually, some hand wringing mothers group may lobby a politician somewhere ("Protect my child, because I'm too busy!"), but often it never goes that far.
Yes, I've seen their videos and stills. And not a one shows the thing actually 'flying'. Basic stuff, like lift off, transition from VTOL to forward flight, make a couple of turns, land (either vertical or conventional). Given 10's of millions of dollars, and decades of development, you'd think he could get an actual 'flight' out of it.
How does it handle in full forward flight? Stable? Tendancy to roll/yaw? How does it handle the transition from forward to hover? What control systems are in place to prevent a full roll while in forward flight? Can that be prevented? What happens if one engine goes out? Can it compensate and still remain stable? Does his design automatically compensate for different C/G (more passengers/luggage)?
No one knows, cause the thing hasn't actually flown.
Can his concept work? In a general sense, yes, it already has, in the Harrier. But Moller has not really shown that HIS idea is workable. Many are the aircraft that looked good on paper, but utterly failed whan actually built.
There's the hard part. Landing on a looong, wiiiide runway is doable. Autopilot VTOL into the parking lot at work is something else altogether. 1' clearances, with a 20mph variable crosswind.
Moller has been shilling this thing for years. Have you actually seen one fly yet? Nope. Didn't think so. (unmanned & tethered hover doesn't count as 'flying')
I say we make the flying cars just like the Landspeeders. It's still flying, and in the worst case scenario we only fall 2 feet!
We have a primitive version of that now. Hovercraft. All of the disadvantages of light airplanes (poor fuel mileage, wide turn radius, no reverse) combined with all the disadvantages of regular cars (constrained to 2D)
But this has the potential to find you retroactively. Unless the phone company deletes the logs, they will have the ability to find out where you were and who you were with, last month, or last year.
They arrest one of your 'friends': "Ok...cross reference his movements with all other phones between the hours of 7 and midnight for the last month." Bingo...there you are, hanging out with this guy 3 nights out of 5.
The Democratic party hasn't been very vocal, but it's almost certain that, at very least, they would not be a zelous to perform raids such as this.
The same Democratic party that is supported by a large percentage of the main figures in the entertaiment realm? (Baldwin/Streisand/Goldberg/Moore...)
On this issue, the Dems are between a rock and a hard place. Pander to a large segment of their voter base, the media people, who decidedly do NOT want random, anonymous, free transfer of their product, or pander to a different large segment of their voter base, younger people who DO want it exactly like that.
So your network bandwidth and CPU resources would be 100% yours when you needed them but when your device was partially or fully idle the resources of your device would be made availlable to other users and devices.
So potentially it could be running at 100% all the time. Local processes (me) have priority, but if I'm not using it, someone else is.
Unfortunately, this would be a cool resource for spammers and other nefarious persons.
Ads, especially billboards, in an urban driving game or FPS, are kind of OK. For realism, the billboards have to be there anyway. Make 'em realistic, and if the publisher can get a kickback from Pepsi (theoretically lowering the price of the game - - HA!, but I digress), well and good.
But reading what I'm going past, and phoning that info home? Gimme a break.
Pretty soon, your next upgrade patch will include not fixes for the actual game, but new ads. "Our new sponsor is now Coca-Cola. Your gaming experience has been enhanced to reflect this exciting new addition to our corporate team!"
They are balanced. Just as on a car tire, they spin balance them. The heavy side (tire valve or sensor in this case) is counterbalanced with whatever is necessary. It used to be wire or solder wrapped around one or more spokes.
Today, and for carbon fiber wheels, they probably use adhesive weights.
there is no right way to draw that particular line.
That is 'disputed territory'. Pakistan and India both claim it. If they had colored that space in to be part of India, this same article would have appeared, almost verbatim, in www.paknews.com/. So, maybe you have to choose...literally not being able to please both, who do you piss off?
or, you could piss off both, and use a 3rd color for that area.
Of course, SOME kind of security is needed in airports and whatnot, but whether we have gone to far is up for argument.
Whatever the administration[1] does is wrong. If there is another attack, whatever they were doing wasn't enough. If there isn't another attack, whatever they were doing was too harsh.
[1] administration = whoever is in power, dem/reb/lib/tory/labour/socialist/whoever...
The real security flaw that the 9/11 hijackers exploited was our social condition to "comply and everything will be alright."
Airline passengers (all, not just Americans) had been conditioned to do exactly that. 'Sit down, be quiet, and eventually the plane will land somewhere. Make a scene, and you get shot.' Almost all previous hijackings followed that formula.
"security theater".
The administration[1] must be seen to be 'doing something'. Unfortunately, attacks on western assets have happened. Performing the possibly ineffectual 'nail clipper check' at the airport does not mean that they aren't doing other stuff behind the scenes. Things that might actually have an effect.
Fortunately terrorism isn't a threat in the US...We shouldn't worry about it.
If the WTC were still standing, I might agree with you. If the USS Cole didn't have a big hole in the side, I might agree with you. If the embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were still in one piece, I might agree with you. They're not.
The chances of dying of terrorism here are less than the chances of being killed by lightening or many other things.
Do you go stand under a tree when there is a threat of lightning? No, you don't. Are you saying that we should just accept the fact of a group of people blowing up random buildings from time to time? "No big deal...it probably won't happen to me".
[1] Administration = Not just Bush & Co., but any and all ruling parties. The populace would scream bloody murder if they didn't.
And of those that did end up in the military, only about 25% of the active duty force, throughout the war, actually ended up in Vietnam and surrounding countries.
You mean the ones based upon ancient and/or falsified information,
Ancient, like that years old surveillance found on a laptop? If the FBI or CIA had obtained a similar laptop in summer 2001, showing detailed recon of the WTC from 1996, should that have been blown off as 'ancient'?
Falsified? Like explosives found on a rail line in France? Like a train station in Spain being blown up? Like capturing a Filipino national, and threatening to behead him if their government does not accede to their demands? Like explosives found in London? Like two bars in Bali being blown up?
I don't agree with many of the methods being used, but unfortunately, not all this is 'falsified'.
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Is the knee-jerk response to control iNet content.
Actually, I think its just a mechanism for the NYT to sell more newspapers. Sensationalism sells. Now...eventually, some hand wringing mothers group may lobby a politician somewhere ("Protect my child, because I'm too busy!"), but often it never goes that far.
Yes, I've seen their videos and stills. And not a one shows the thing actually 'flying'. Basic stuff, like lift off, transition from VTOL to forward flight, make a couple of turns, land (either vertical or conventional). Given 10's of millions of dollars, and decades of development, you'd think he could get an actual 'flight' out of it.
How does it handle in full forward flight? Stable? Tendancy to roll/yaw?
How does it handle the transition from forward to hover?
What control systems are in place to prevent a full roll while in forward flight? Can that be prevented?
What happens if one engine goes out? Can it compensate and still remain stable?
Does his design automatically compensate for different C/G (more passengers/luggage)?
No one knows, cause the thing hasn't actually flown.
Can his concept work? In a general sense, yes, it already has, in the Harrier. But Moller has not really shown that HIS idea is workable.
Many are the aircraft that looked good on paper, but utterly failed whan actually built.
Yes, he's been at it for a long time. And it's always RealSoonNow(tm).
Anybody ever seen one of his things actually fly? Unmanned tethered hover doesn't count.
except when landing
There's the hard part. Landing on a looong, wiiiide runway is doable. Autopilot VTOL into the parking lot at work is something else altogether. 1' clearances, with a 20mph variable crosswind.
Moller has been shilling this thing for years. Have you actually seen one fly yet? Nope. Didn't think so. (unmanned & tethered hover doesn't count as 'flying')
I say we make the flying cars just like the Landspeeders. It's still flying, and in the worst case scenario we only fall 2 feet!
We have a primitive version of that now. Hovercraft. All of the disadvantages of light airplanes (poor fuel mileage, wide turn radius, no reverse) combined with all the disadvantages of regular cars (constrained to 2D)
But this has the potential to find you retroactively. Unless the phone company deletes the logs, they will have the ability to find out where you were and who you were with, last month, or last year.
They arrest one of your 'friends':
"Ok...cross reference his movements with all other phones between the hours of 7 and midnight for the last month."
Bingo...there you are, hanging out with this guy 3 nights out of 5.
The Democratic party hasn't been very vocal, but it's almost certain that, at very least, they would not be a zelous to perform raids such as this.
The same Democratic party that is supported by a large percentage of the main figures in the entertaiment realm? (Baldwin/Streisand/Goldberg/Moore...)
On this issue, the Dems are between a rock and a hard place. Pander to a large segment of their voter base, the media people, who decidedly do NOT want random, anonymous, free transfer of their product, or pander to a different large segment of their voter base, younger people who DO want it exactly like that.
Nouse
Nose as Mouse
All you need is a webcam and your face. Tracks your nose for mouse movement.
So your network bandwidth and CPU resources would be 100% yours when you needed them but when your device was partially or fully idle the resources of your device would be made availlable to other users and devices.
So potentially it could be running at 100% all the time. Local processes (me) have priority, but if I'm not using it, someone else is.
Unfortunately, this would be a cool resource for spammers and other nefarious persons.
Keep your dickbeaters out of my bitstream.
Ads, especially billboards, in an urban driving game or FPS, are kind of OK. For realism, the billboards have to be there anyway. Make 'em realistic, and if the publisher can get a kickback from Pepsi (theoretically lowering the price of the game - - HA!, but I digress), well and good.
But reading what I'm going past, and phoning that info home? Gimme a break.
Pretty soon, your next upgrade patch will include not fixes for the actual game, but new ads. "Our new sponsor is now Coca-Cola. Your gaming experience has been enhanced to reflect this exciting new addition to our corporate team!"
If it's bulkier and more expensive what incentive do people have for purchasing a drink stored in such a can?
With the right marketing, people will buy anything.
It seems to be a partial fake, anyway.5 /fraud-exposed-and-true-thing.asp
http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2004/0
it seems she did go there, but not the 'lone woman on a motorcycle' thing. She was evidently escorted around in an official car.
Ghost Ride
hey, I dont know much about how licensing keys and DRM stuff work
This should have been your first line, and you should have stopped there.
Speculation is useless.
They are balanced. Just as on a car tire, they spin balance them. The heavy side (tire valve or sensor in this case) is counterbalanced with whatever is necessary. It used to be wire or solder wrapped around one or more spokes.
Today, and for carbon fiber wheels, they probably use adhesive weights.
If the transponder is down near the hub, the difference is only about 3". And I expect they would put it there, to reduce effects on wheel balance.
And if the finish is that close, reviewing the photo would be in order.
So you won't mind if I come over and share your car for a couple of months?
there is no right way to draw that particular line.
That is 'disputed territory'. Pakistan and India both claim it. If they had colored that space in to be part of India, this same article would have appeared, almost verbatim, in www.paknews.com/. So, maybe you have to choose...literally not being able to please both, who do you piss off?
or, you could piss off both, and use a 3rd color for that area.
No. A design/contruction/test/sales error.
Of course, SOME kind of security is needed in airports and whatnot, but whether we have gone to far is up for argument.
Whatever the administration[1] does is wrong. If there is another attack, whatever they were doing wasn't enough. If there isn't another attack, whatever they were doing was too harsh.
[1] administration = whoever is in power, dem/reb/lib/tory/labour/socialist/whoever...
The real security flaw that the 9/11 hijackers exploited was our social condition to "comply and everything will be alright."
Airline passengers (all, not just Americans) had been conditioned to do exactly that. 'Sit down, be quiet, and eventually the plane will land somewhere. Make a scene, and you get shot.' Almost all previous hijackings followed that formula.
"security theater".
The administration[1] must be seen to be 'doing something'. Unfortunately, attacks on western assets have happened. Performing the possibly ineffectual 'nail clipper check' at the airport does not mean that they aren't doing other stuff behind the scenes. Things that might actually have an effect.
Fortunately terrorism isn't a threat in the US...We shouldn't worry about it.
If the WTC were still standing, I might agree with you. If the USS Cole didn't have a big hole in the side, I might agree with you. If the embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were still in one piece, I might agree with you.
They're not.
The chances of dying of terrorism here are less than the chances of being killed by lightening or many other things.
Do you go stand under a tree when there is a threat of lightning? No, you don't. Are you saying that we should just accept the fact of a group of people blowing up random buildings from time to time?
"No big deal...it probably won't happen to me".
[1] Administration = Not just Bush & Co., but any and all ruling parties. The populace would scream bloody murder if they didn't.
Right. But I'd rather that guy be stopped before he gets on the plane.
And of those that did end up in the military, only about 25% of the active duty force, throughout the war, actually ended up in Vietnam and surrounding countries.
You mean the ones based upon ancient and/or falsified information,
Ancient, like that years old surveillance found on a laptop? If the FBI or CIA had obtained a similar laptop in summer 2001, showing detailed recon of the WTC from 1996, should that have been blown off as 'ancient'?
Falsified? Like explosives found on a rail line in France? Like a train station in Spain being blown up? Like capturing a Filipino national, and threatening to behead him if their government does not accede to their demands? Like explosives found in London? Like two bars in Bali being blown up?
I don't agree with many of the methods being used, but unfortunately, not all this is 'falsified'.