"The whole reason that there is an outcry against this is because it isn't targeted at criminals but at young people."
Not young people in general, but rather young people who are being criminals! An unruly group of teens and subteens, hanging around in front of a store. Harassing legitimate customers, sometimes breaking the windows, sometimes actually being physical with passersby. The police have done nothing, the town council has done nothing, the parents obviously haven't. Shopkeeper Joe can't simply go out there and tell them to leave. At best he will be laughed at. At worst, beaten/robbed/killed. He can't fix the deeper societal problems that leads these miscreants to do what they're doing. He just wants to run a respectable store. What should he do? Accept it?
It doesn't seem as if "shooting down" the satellite is really going to cause much more damage than re-entry and impact will...for this reason, my money's on either target practice for our benefit, or, more likely, a not-so-subtle demonstration of our space superiority.
And, we can (sorta) choose where the pieces come down, instead of relying on mere chance. My guess is they'll bring it down over the ocean.
While it would be a nice demonstration of ASAT capability, I would think that if the US really has the capability that it would be better to keep it secret.
All the simulations in the world aren't worth 1 actual shot. And it's quite hard to keep a shot like this secret.
If you were starting a 'business' that had no need to be near any natural resources, other manufacturers, or a financial hub, where would YOU put it? Buffalo/Cleveland/Toledo/Detroit, or somewhere warm? Additionally, bribes are quite a bit cheaper and easier 'down south'.
One of my friends who works for Comcast tells me Comcast at large is terrified of FIOS because they are rapidly losing their local television monopolies and FIOS is simply a better product when it comes to bandwidth delivery.
A couple of months ago I helped my ex switch from Cox cable to FIOS. When I went and turned the box in, there were 20 other people in line doing the same thing.
Is this a company, college, or just a random collection of boxes in your mom's basement? What function does your organization want to do that it can't because of a lack of a few terabytes? What does the actual owner of these boxes have to say about your little enterprise?
but all U.S. cars have a bar code visible through the windshield (windscreen) that represents the VIN (vehicle identification number) that is easily machine readable.
[TinFoil] What a wonderful tracking tool. Whether you pay cash or not, we know that VIN XXYY123 left gas station Z at 2:42 PM. [/TinFoil]
weet. Now that they've got communication, lets get some health infrastructure and good food/water going over there. The United States of America is the richest country on the god-damned planet, there's gotta be more we can do to positively contribute to the third world.
You seem to imply that the US (and the rest of the 'west') isn't contributing a whole lot. Bull.
I suggest that we immediately stop toppling governments.
Ok, great. And lets get them to start electing leaders who won't steal the money and foodstuffs we do send them.
not everything needs to be touch screen, but with a phone it makes complete sense. It would also work extremely well for a universal remote,
Not necessarily. I can manipulate my remote without looking at it. Feel of the buttons. If it were a flat plate touch screen, could I do the same? Maybe, but it would take a long, long time to train my fingers/hand to find that exact 3/4" x 1/4" space for the volume up and down. Same with the phone. I don't play with my phone enough, but I can't imagine a touch screen being more user friendly, unless you are actually looking at it.
Of course, you could have the remote go into basic mode after a few minutes, where the whole left side is vol up and down, and the whole right side is chan up and down. That sort of on the fly reprogramming is impossible with solid buttons.
panel in the car could also be a touch screen
There is a reason the buttons in your car (and aircraft) are different places/shapes/movements. So you don't have to look at it to manipulate it. Wipers? Turn this knob that way. Lights? Turn a completely different shaped knob in a whole other direction. If it were all on one flat plate, you'd have to take your eyes off the road to make sure you're not turning off the lights when you meant to turn on the wipers.
Yes, many of those are pre-paid (one statistic I found said about 30% of US cell phone users have pay-as-you-go phones)
I do, and I love it (not really..hate the phone, like the bill). My pay as you go cellphone is averaging $17/month total, for about 120 minutes usage. Why pay for minutes I will never use?
The problem is why other countries were able to continue to move forward to outdo the US, while US growth stopped.
Stopped? Then why was the Verizon truck laying fiber past my apartment complex last month, and through my ex wifes backyard last year?
Stopped? No. Just not growing as fast. How many houses does 1 mile of fiber service in the US? How many houses does that same 1 mile of fiber service elsewhere?
Is it really 'that' broken? Last weekend, we visited some relatives in rural North Carolina. Foothills of the blue ridge mts. Hardcore trailerpark Appalacia. Redneck central. (They aren't rednecks, they just live there)
Everything worked. Sat TV? Check. Cell phone? Check. DSL line for his MacBook/AirPort? Check.
By all rights, that should be one of the least connected areas around. But they were just as connected as anywhere else.
We can quibble about 5MBps vs 20 (or 50), or the price. But for 'beyond dialup'...I'm not so sure how 'broken' it is in the US.
I certainly do believe that certain CMM/CMMI stuff is very valuable and would greatly contribute to making software better; however, the documentation overhead it brings is a nightmare to manage and keep up to date. Honestly, I think we really need to do better with coming to a compromise to the overbearing documentation that CMM/CMMI systems bring and the chaos that typically at the other end.
In the mid 90's, I was in an organization that got CMM level 2 & 3 cert. I was on the team for both. What it really does is make people think differently. Not necessarily following all the incredible doc overhead to the letter, but it does actually help. For a while. I left there, and came back 9 years later. They had completely forgotten what we had done. Completely and utterly forgotten. I'm slowly trying to bring those concepts back.
These things have a read distance of 3 FREAKING CENTIMETERS!
For the metric impaired 3 centimeters = 1.18110236 inches
The only way "they" will be able to track you with RFID is to
PHYSICALLY FOLLOW YOU AROUND HOLDING A READER AN INCH FROM YOUR ASS!!!!
You will LIKELY notice this behavior.
Thank you for that calm, concise description. Next, please tell us how the sensors in the doorways of retail stores work.
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I will.
Not young people in general, but rather young people who are being criminals!
An unruly group of teens and subteens, hanging around in front of a store. Harassing legitimate customers, sometimes breaking the windows, sometimes actually being physical with passersby.
The police have done nothing, the town council has done nothing, the parents obviously haven't. Shopkeeper Joe can't simply go out there and tell them to leave. At best he will be laughed at. At worst, beaten/robbed/killed. He can't fix the deeper societal problems that leads these miscreants to do what they're doing. He just wants to run a respectable store.
What should he do? Accept it?
What would YOU do?
So far as I've been led to understand, all manned aeroborne US military craft have self-destruct capability, but it is local-detonation only.
Someone led you down the wrong road. Have you never seen pictures of a crashed military aircraft?
It doesn't seem as if "shooting down" the satellite is really going to cause much more damage than re-entry and impact will...for this reason, my money's on either target practice for our benefit, or, more likely, a not-so-subtle demonstration of our space superiority.
And, we can (sorta) choose where the pieces come down, instead of relying on mere chance. My guess is they'll bring it down over the ocean.
While it would be a nice demonstration of ASAT capability, I would think that if the US really has the capability that it would be better to keep it secret.
All the simulations in the world aren't worth 1 actual shot. And it's quite hard to keep a shot like this secret.
do we even have these weapons?
Apparently, we do. And it's from a cruiser, not a carrier.
I know an ASAT weapon was launched from an f16 (i think)
F-15, firing an ASM-135
What is it about spammers and tropical areas?
If you were starting a 'business' that had no need to be near any natural resources, other manufacturers, or a financial hub, where would YOU put it? Buffalo/Cleveland/Toledo/Detroit, or somewhere warm?
Additionally, bribes are quite a bit cheaper and easier 'down south'.
One of my friends who works for Comcast tells me Comcast at large is terrified of FIOS because they are rapidly losing their local television monopolies and FIOS is simply a better product when it comes to bandwidth delivery.
A couple of months ago I helped my ex switch from Cox cable to FIOS. When I went and turned the box in, there were 20 other people in line doing the same thing.
SLR cameras in general does not have a preview of the picture on the LCD screen before you take the picture.
They're starting to.
Olympus E-330, -410, -510
Canon EOS-1D MkIII
Sony A200, A300, A350
A finger still needs to press the shutter button, though.
You've never heard of a remote shutter release? Or the camera controlled by a PC?
Is this a company, college, or just a random collection of boxes in your mom's basement? What function does your organization want to do that it can't because of a lack of a few terabytes? What does the actual owner of these boxes have to say about your little enterprise?
Does anybody know where the USS Jimmy Carter is operating at present?
Yes.
Will they tell you? No.
but all U.S. cars have a bar code visible through the windshield (windscreen) that represents the VIN (vehicle identification number) that is easily machine readable.
[TinFoil]
What a wonderful tracking tool. Whether you pay cash or not, we know that VIN XXYY123 left gas station Z at 2:42 PM.
[/TinFoil]
When you walk, what is the interface to your legs?
Your nervous system. Are you suggesting brain control for all these devices?
Now "that's" what an interface should do.
Sure. Just wait a couple million years for it to develop and fine tune.
weet. Now that they've got communication, lets get some health infrastructure and good food/water going over there. The United States of America is the richest country on the god-damned planet, there's gotta be more we can do to positively contribute to the third world.
You seem to imply that the US (and the rest of the 'west') isn't contributing a whole lot.
Bull.
I suggest that we immediately stop toppling governments.
Ok, great. And lets get them to start electing leaders who won't steal the money and foodstuffs we do send them.
Once again - MS Surface has nothing to do with touching. There are 7 cameras below the glass that track and feed movement.
To the user, the difference is irrelevant. As long as it works, I don't care whether the surface recognizes my finger motion, or a camera array does.
not everything needs to be touch screen, but with a phone it makes complete sense. It would also work extremely well for a universal remote,
Not necessarily. I can manipulate my remote without looking at it. Feel of the buttons. If it were a flat plate touch screen, could I do the same? Maybe, but it would take a long, long time to train my fingers/hand to find that exact 3/4" x 1/4" space for the volume up and down. Same with the phone. I don't play with my phone enough, but I can't imagine a touch screen being more user friendly, unless you are actually looking at it.
Of course, you could have the remote go into basic mode after a few minutes, where the whole left side is vol up and down, and the whole right side is chan up and down. That sort of on the fly reprogramming is impossible with solid buttons.
panel in the car could also be a touch screen
There is a reason the buttons in your car (and aircraft) are different places/shapes/movements. So you don't have to look at it to manipulate it. Wipers? Turn this knob that way. Lights? Turn a completely different shaped knob in a whole other direction. If it were all on one flat plate, you'd have to take your eyes off the road to make sure you're not turning off the lights when you meant to turn on the wipers.
Sometimes tactile is good.
Yes, many of those are pre-paid (one statistic I found said about 30% of US cell phone users have pay-as-you-go phones)
I do, and I love it (not really..hate the phone, like the bill). My pay as you go cellphone is averaging $17/month total, for about 120 minutes usage. Why pay for minutes I will never use?
The problem is why other countries were able to continue to move forward to outdo the US, while US growth stopped.
Stopped? Then why was the Verizon truck laying fiber past my apartment complex last month, and through my ex wifes backyard last year?
Stopped? No. Just not growing as fast.
How many houses does 1 mile of fiber service in the US? How many houses does that same 1 mile of fiber service elsewhere?
No, just not advancing as fast as other, smaller countries.
Unless you are operating under the mistaken impression that the telcos and cable companies are tearing out wires and fiber.
The newer ejection seats, Russian/US/European, are all zero/zero. Zero airspeed, zero altitude. Or at weird angles.
Is it really 'that' broken? Last weekend, we visited some relatives in rural North Carolina. Foothills of the blue ridge mts. Hardcore trailerpark Appalacia. Redneck central. (They aren't rednecks, they just live there)
Everything worked. Sat TV? Check. Cell phone? Check. DSL line for his MacBook/AirPort? Check.
By all rights, that should be one of the least connected areas around. But they were just as connected as anywhere else.
We can quibble about 5MBps vs 20 (or 50), or the price. But for 'beyond dialup'...I'm not so sure how 'broken' it is in the US.
I certainly do believe that certain CMM/CMMI stuff is very valuable and would greatly contribute to making software better; however, the documentation overhead it brings is a nightmare to manage and keep up to date. Honestly, I think we really need to do better with coming to a compromise to the overbearing documentation that CMM/CMMI systems bring and the chaos that typically at the other end.
In the mid 90's, I was in an organization that got CMM level 2 & 3 cert. I was on the team for both. What it really does is make people think differently. Not necessarily following all the incredible doc overhead to the letter, but it does actually help. For a while.
I left there, and came back 9 years later. They had completely forgotten what we had done. Completely and utterly forgotten. I'm slowly trying to bring those concepts back.
These things have a read distance of 3 FREAKING CENTIMETERS! For the metric impaired 3 centimeters = 1.18110236 inches
The only way "they" will be able to track you with RFID is to PHYSICALLY FOLLOW YOU AROUND HOLDING A READER AN INCH FROM YOUR ASS!!!! You will LIKELY notice this behavior.
Thank you for that calm, concise description. Next, please tell us how the sensors in the doorways of retail stores work.
Yeah, sticking RFID encrusted stuff in the microwave is so very hard.
Doing that to disable the RFID chip in something like an iPod or a cellphone would tend to disable more then just the RFID chip.
One word: Context
Trusting a judge/jury to determine the right context is another matter, though.