I think the problem is that you care too much about the risk of interruption.
I think the problem is that you don't understand that some people's brains are not wired in such a way that they can shut that sort of thing off.
These are the same people who make sure your product actually *works*, instead of just building a prototype or saying "Oh well; we'll fix it in the next release". People who are detail oriented can't simply shut that crap off.
It's the same with being on-call in an IT-support gig. Some people are happy to carry a pager and responded to it now and then, others for some reason that I don't understand get really stressed by it and feel on edge the whole time the pager is on their belt.
The problem is that there is an expectation of interruption, if there is a possibility of interruption.
It's the same reason that approximately 50% of us can't work in an "open plan" office as effectively as if we had offices, and why approximately 15% of us can't think as deeply or profoundly about a problem when there is the risk of an interruption. It doesn't matter if it's the kids, or it's the wife, or it's a phone call, or it the "bong" from an incoming email or text message, or it's the vibration of your cell phone.
Being constantly "on guard" for an interruption means you have to divide your attention between monitoring the sources of potential interrupt for the interruption happening, and the thing you actually want to be or should be doing.
Almost all advertising in fact *relies* on the concept of attention economics, and interruptively stealing attention away from other pursuits in order to engage the target with the advertiser.
If you have local access to the machine, or the machine hosts remote shell accounts, then you care about credentials changes, including privilege escalation.
Most people have at most a few local users who aren't attacking the systems. So you really don't give a crap about local privilege escalation, since the same can be pretty much accomplished using a screwdriver or a boot into "safe mode", or whatever the OS equivalent happens to be.
If you are a server hosting company running VMs, you also don't care, because it's one user/customer per VM, and it's still not a problem, except in cases of self-sabatoge. If you are a server hosting company not running VMs, *and* you don't limit yourself to one customer per machine, then you start to care.
The problem with most reporting -- including the reporting in this article -- are that they don't make the distinction.
For example, unless it's a remote exploit, and the exploit is in the kernel, you aren't going to see a Mac OS X kernel shipped with a Mac OS X security update. If it's important enough to fix immediately, then Apple will ship a point release for Mac OS X, which is the only way it can perform a kernel update: it can't perform a kernel update without an OS update.
So a lot of reporting is about things that don't matter, or it's about third party software vulnerabilities, or it's about providing a warning for click-monkeys who onboard malware onto their systems because they are stupid.
Thinks like shellshock are pretty rare.
Unless and until reporting is changed to conform to at least a crude categorization of "remote exploits", "local exploits", and "PEBKAC exploits", these types of reports are all about comparing condom size, and trying to pretend that your dick is as big as the condom you are showing everyone.
Fan boys like to compare condom size, but for almost everyone else, it just represents a bunch of comments by clueless people we can laugh at on slow news days when there was nothing else to report.
How about, to start, that all sexual abuse and harassment will be considered strictly unacceptable?
Newsflash: it's considered unacceptable by most people. However, *considering* something unacceptable, and it actually *being* unacceptable are two very different things. It's not like when Wile E. Coyote runs off the end of a cliff, looks down, and the law of gravity "considers it unacceptable that he's standing in the middle of the air", and takes action to prohibit it. Social conventions are not the same things as the laws of physics.
For example, the kinds of things that Linus Torvalds has said on mailing lists is stuff that would get any employee of a company instantly fired. Yet in his arrogance he thinks that because he's some super-duper-important OSS guru guy that the same code of conduct doesn't apply to him, which is a pretty disgusting way to think.
Except... it demonstrably does not, in fact, apply to him. When he is making pronouncements from the throne, he isn't an employee, he's a king, and short of armed insurrection, it's almost impossible to involuntarily remove a king from power.
So yeah, for the foundation, how about stopping harassment and abuse?
"Patches welcome".
You can engineer social systems, and you can even engineer emergent properties into social systems, if you have a deep understanding of what you are doing. But the problem with feedback mechanisms in social constructs is that the feedback designed to correct the aberrant behaviour from the normative baseline within any design, is that the feedback has to be non-ignorable. It has to take away something that the person or persons receiving the feedback value, as a punitive measure, and (as studies on gambling addition and slot machine design have shown), it has to have intermittent positive reinforcement that is valued by the recipient as well.
So at this point, you might as well be saying "how about stopping terrorism?", since we've been just as ineffective at that.
As for Autisim Spectrum stuff, I believe that it is very common among all people in this world, male, female, black, white, yellow, green.
This is, at best, a speculative statement, since study after study has shown autism to be more prevalent in males than females:
I don't think that necessarily has any bearing upon whether a person would treat others badly.
No, but it certainly increases the perception by non-autistic persons that they are being treated badly by autistic persons. It doesn't matter whether or not they are actually being treated badly, if it's their perception that they are. Objective facts will not change subjective perceptions.
I notice a lot of Japanese dramas have characters who often are in the autistic spectrum and those characters actually make the dramas more interesting and are almost always depicted as being exceptional in more than one way, often with incredible gifts and ability to influence people positively.
Autistic savants comprise only about 10% of those with autism. They tend to make for interesting stories for those without autism, since savants occur in the non-autist population a less than 10 times that rate -- less than 1%. Thus, it's no surprise that they appear more in fiction than they do in reality.
While they may be interesting, realize that 9 out of 10 people with autism will therefore not be savants, and if that's not your expectation, the expectation needs to be adjusted, since the myth "all people with autism have savant abilities in some area" is harmful, and is based primarily in an expectation that the universe has a built-in inherent fairness.
I like C++, and consider it my preferred language for most work, but it clearly has more landmines than any other major language. It's not hard to avoid them, but you do have to know where they are.
My understanding is it depends on the carrier; every time you wake the thing up, for example, to make a call, it goes out and checks for updates. Depending on your carrier, you may not be able to simultaneously have a phone conversation and access data at the same time, and then if you add to this poor carrier coverage in the area you are trying to use the phone, you can get what seem to be lock-ups, but are in realty head of line blocking.
In previous versions of the OS, you could turn off this automatic update behaviour, but this no longer appears to be an option in iOS 9.
It's not "starters" vs. "maintainers", it's "Mr. Right Now" vs. "Mr. Right" (or Ms.).
Your "Right Now" person gets you a prototype, and gets you to funding. Your "Right" person gets you to a million customers, because when you ship in volume, that shit can't break.
It's all about "the reason you get the big bucks is because you do the un-fun stuff that means you own the 'It Works' bit". Someone has to own the "It Works" bit, and set that bit before you ship a steaming pile to a bunch of customers, and brick their devices, or crash their life's work.
Ironically, there are a lot of advertising companies that never get to the point of someone getting to the point of owning, or setting, that bit, and they start a bunch of products, but they never get them past 90% complete, because it's uninteresting once you can see the goal line, and if you don't have to do it to remain employed, and there's no boss who can act as the 800 pound gorilla, because you can just walk to another group or project within the company with no consequences -- then it doesn't get done. Unless someone steps up, and then they are usually called out for kvetching, and no one likes to be around someone who expects you to step up, and own that bit.
You can call the person who walks a "starter", but what you are really saying is that they can deliver prototypes, but they can't deliver products. Which is great, if the company can afford to employ those people because they are getting money from sources other than actually shipping new product. But it gets awfully tiring being in that environment, since you never really have an impact on the lives of a large number of people, if you work in groups that operate that way.
Nobody wants the not-so-cool job of actually maintaining it over the long-term, writing documentation for it, supporting it, etc.
This right here! You want to learn a new bit of software and get the attention of the dev team? While learning, write new user documentation. You will have the dev team's full and undivided attention! I know a lot of project leads that started by writing documentation for another project.
My personal take on this is that if you need to read documentation in order to be able to use a piece of software, something is wrong with that piece of software, and it's not a lack of documentation. One of the reasons there are no "themes" in Mac OS X is that it means that the answer to the question of "how do I throw something away" is always the same. And if the application follows the style guidelines, then you can transfer your knowledge easily between applications.
I blame Bob Wallace, and PC-Write.
I remember listening to him speak at a UniForum conference, where he explained "shareware" as "I don't sell software; software is all 'up here'..." at which point he waved his hands on either side of his head; "No," he said, "I sell manuals".
This explanation has always stuck with me as to the reason that PC-Write, if you wanted to be able to get the most out of it, you needed a printed manual. So you could either print your own -- but the printing costs at the time were high enough that you could buy a printed and bound copy from Bob for a lot cheaper, and without "using up" your printer.
The software was difficult to use because being difficult to use sold manuals.
A lot of software never outgrew that phase of its life, and is still, to this day, rather terrible to use.
If your software needs a manual, or an online help system, or a wiki to make it useful: you're doing it wrong.
However, you should note that a lot of those provisions sunset on 1 Jan 2016. They also have up to 30 days from the lease termination date to refund security deposits, if that's going to happen at all (i.e. there's no claim of damages which would result in a hold-back).
It's also the law that a sale of the property is a qualifying event for terminating the lease in 72 hours, if they chose to do that.
Whether Oracle is on the hook for the security deposit depends on who technically owns the property at the time the lease is terminated, but in general, I can see Oracle's lawyers missing that trick, and if they did, I can see Larry Ellison making the property management company's life truly miserable.
The part that confused me... is the story has a lady who paid about $720/month in rent at Lakeview Apartments, and Trulia is show a bunch of apartments for rent at or below that price point in Austin, some where there would not even be a change in school district.
I'd definitely say that the property management company (Cypress Real Estate Advisors) is being asses, but that's not Oracle's fault, and neither is it Oracle's fault that the people are incapable of doing a web search. What it's really about is the fact that Oracle is seen to have deep pockets.
"The phrase "tyranny of the majority" (or "tyranny of the masses") is used in discussing systems of democracy and majority rule. It involves a scenario in which decisions made by a majority place its interests above those of an individual or minority group, constituting active oppression comparable to that of a tyrant or despot. In many cases a disliked ethnic, religious or racial group is deliberately penalized by the majority element acting through the democratic process."
I think that kind of says it all.
In a representative democracy, which is what the U.S. has, in theory you elect people based on their judgement, rather than their position on a specific issue, and that avoids this scenario.
The cost is in the rocket motor, the nozzle that holds the combustion products in plasma state, its cooling mechanism, pumps and controls. I am not sure how much of it can be inspected and re validated without extensive disassembly.
I keep waiting for them to replace the nozzle with an experimental version that uses a linear aerospike. The April 10, 2001 patent will be expiring in just about 5 1/2 years now...
Out of interest, did they have to pay for those pumps?
Medtronic replaced the 5 cases with which I am directly familiar; I do not know about the other 4.
My thinking is that the politics is such that the replacements are both free positive publicity, and a reminder not to take the things through devices which emit X-rays (even if it's a side effect, rather than an intended primary effect, of the AIT's). Also not certain whether there's an anti-AIT agenda at the company, or not, but replacing devices has got to be something they do not typically look forward to doing, despite the publicity, so it would not surprise me.
No. He is asking users for features and characteristics that said users would find advantageous for a web engine that accumulates and organizes web data.
Users... aren't they those things that bitch about how Open Source happens to work, and then don't contribute patches back to address those complaints?
(NB: Not precisely my view, but it's going to be the typical view of most people).
Unless it's physical system (and the RFP makes it pretty clear that's not what they are asking for here), all you have to do is optically couple EMP shielded brains with an external radio system, and you can pretty much have it go after the source, lock on coordinates, and even if it's a momentary attack, the firing position goes "boom!".
I guess the military spends so much on their drones that they really can't conceive of using them in a Kamikaze attack; but if you are going to lose the drone anyway, might as well take out a target that would prevent the next one from taking out the programmed target.
They've "only" destroyed 9 Medtronic insulin pumps... what's 9 dead people compared to a technology proven to stop terrorists at airports, as evidenced by our large number of public trials, and the terrorists subsequently jailed, thanks to AIT scanners.
What do you mean, we've not caught a single terrorist with an AIT scanner? Are you sure?!? Try Googling it... you *must* be wrong! AIT scanners are good for you!
Funny; the link labelled that specifically states that the language that will be used is Java.
So they are not going to learn about explicit memory management, layout of data in memory, pointers, and a bunch of other things, as they would potentially have done with another computer language.
There also appears to be more of an emphasis on social impact than, say, binary math, boolean logic, algorithms, and data structures. Guess those things are less useful in an AP Computer Science course...
I dont think you can land anywhere else, JFK is the only international airport in the USA, I believe there are buses from that airport to the surrounding states but you are lucky to get a space on the roof of those.
There are over 160 international airports in the United States, and two each in Puerto Rico and in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
There are 10 non-stop flights from San Francisco to Heathrow on 12 Jan 2016 alone. That's a Tuesday; there are more on other days.
The Japanese try to turn them into sat launchers with little success so far. I guess it is because solid fuel cannot be nicely controlled like the V2-style engines. And that means imperfect satellite orbit.
Incorrect.
The Japanese M-V solid fuel rocket system had 6 of 7 launches succeed. The follow on Epsilon solid fuel launcher has 1 out of 1 launch successes.
The Indian ASLV launch vehicle, also all solid fuel, had the first 3 launches fail, which is not unheard of for a new vehicle. The 4th launch succeeded.
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Use a leased line.
Problem solved.
Your max is 100 miles anyway.
I think the problem is that you care too much about the risk of interruption.
I think the problem is that you don't understand that some people's brains are not wired in such a way that they can shut that sort of thing off.
These are the same people who make sure your product actually *works*, instead of just building a prototype or saying "Oh well; we'll fix it in the next release". People who are detail oriented can't simply shut that crap off.
It's the same with being on-call in an IT-support gig. Some people are happy to carry a pager and responded to it now and then, others for some reason that I don't understand get really stressed by it and feel on edge the whole time the pager is on their belt.
The problem is that there is an expectation of interruption, if there is a possibility of interruption.
It's the same reason that approximately 50% of us can't work in an "open plan" office as effectively as if we had offices, and why approximately 15% of us can't think as deeply or profoundly about a problem when there is the risk of an interruption. It doesn't matter if it's the kids, or it's the wife, or it's a phone call, or it the "bong" from an incoming email or text message, or it's the vibration of your cell phone.
Being constantly "on guard" for an interruption means you have to divide your attention between monitoring the sources of potential interrupt for the interruption happening, and the thing you actually want to be or should be doing.
Almost all advertising in fact *relies* on the concept of attention economics, and interruptively stealing attention away from other pursuits in order to engage the target with the advertiser.
See also: Continous Partial Attention
Wicat System has prior art. Massive, government military contracted, prior art.
Mostly, only remote exploits are interesting.
If you have local access to the machine, or the machine hosts remote shell accounts, then you care about credentials changes, including privilege escalation.
Most people have at most a few local users who aren't attacking the systems. So you really don't give a crap about local privilege escalation, since the same can be pretty much accomplished using a screwdriver or a boot into "safe mode", or whatever the OS equivalent happens to be.
If you are a server hosting company running VMs, you also don't care, because it's one user/customer per VM, and it's still not a problem, except in cases of self-sabatoge. If you are a server hosting company not running VMs, *and* you don't limit yourself to one customer per machine, then you start to care.
The problem with most reporting -- including the reporting in this article -- are that they don't make the distinction.
For example, unless it's a remote exploit, and the exploit is in the kernel, you aren't going to see a Mac OS X kernel shipped with a Mac OS X security update. If it's important enough to fix immediately, then Apple will ship a point release for Mac OS X, which is the only way it can perform a kernel update: it can't perform a kernel update without an OS update.
So a lot of reporting is about things that don't matter, or it's about third party software vulnerabilities, or it's about providing a warning for click-monkeys who onboard malware onto their systems because they are stupid.
Thinks like shellshock are pretty rare.
Unless and until reporting is changed to conform to at least a crude categorization of "remote exploits", "local exploits", and "PEBKAC exploits", these types of reports are all about comparing condom size, and trying to pretend that your dick is as big as the condom you are showing everyone.
Fan boys like to compare condom size, but for almost everyone else, it just represents a bunch of comments by clueless people we can laugh at on slow news days when there was nothing else to report.
A couple of points...
How about, to start, that all sexual abuse and harassment will be considered strictly unacceptable?
Newsflash: it's considered unacceptable by most people. However, *considering* something unacceptable, and it actually *being* unacceptable are two very different things. It's not like when Wile E. Coyote runs off the end of a cliff, looks down, and the law of gravity "considers it unacceptable that he's standing in the middle of the air", and takes action to prohibit it. Social conventions are not the same things as the laws of physics.
For example, the kinds of things that Linus Torvalds has said on mailing lists is stuff that would get any employee of a company instantly fired. Yet in his arrogance he thinks that because he's some super-duper-important OSS guru guy that the same code of conduct doesn't apply to him, which is a pretty disgusting way to think.
Except... it demonstrably does not, in fact, apply to him. When he is making pronouncements from the throne, he isn't an employee, he's a king, and short of armed insurrection, it's almost impossible to involuntarily remove a king from power.
So yeah, for the foundation, how about stopping harassment and abuse?
"Patches welcome".
You can engineer social systems, and you can even engineer emergent properties into social systems, if you have a deep understanding of what you are doing. But the problem with feedback mechanisms in social constructs is that the feedback designed to correct the aberrant behaviour from the normative baseline within any design, is that the feedback has to be non-ignorable. It has to take away something that the person or persons receiving the feedback value, as a punitive measure, and (as studies on gambling addition and slot machine design have shown), it has to have intermittent positive reinforcement that is valued by the recipient as well.
So at this point, you might as well be saying "how about stopping terrorism?", since we've been just as ineffective at that.
As for Autisim Spectrum stuff, I believe that it is very common among all people in this world, male, female, black, white, yellow, green.
This is, at best, a speculative statement, since study after study has shown autism to be more prevalent in males than females:
http://www.autism.org.uk/about...
I don't think that necessarily has any bearing upon whether a person would treat others badly.
No, but it certainly increases the perception by non-autistic persons that they are being treated badly by autistic persons. It doesn't matter whether or not they are actually being treated badly, if it's their perception that they are. Objective facts will not change subjective perceptions.
I notice a lot of Japanese dramas have characters who often are in the autistic spectrum and those characters actually make the dramas more interesting and are almost always depicted as being exceptional in more than one way, often with incredible gifts and ability to influence people positively.
Autistic savants comprise only about 10% of those with autism. They tend to make for interesting stories for those without autism, since savants occur in the non-autist population a less than 10 times that rate -- less than 1%. Thus, it's no surprise that they appear more in fiction than they do in reality.
While they may be interesting, realize that 9 out of 10 people with autism will therefore not be savants, and if that's not your expectation, the expectation needs to be adjusted, since the myth "all people with autism have savant abilities in some area" is harmful, and is based primarily in an expectation that the universe has a built-in inherent fairness.
https://www.autism.com/underst...
I like C++, and consider it my preferred language for most work, but it clearly has more landmines than any other major language. It's not hard to avoid them, but you do have to know where they are.
>*CLICK*<
There's one now!
LOL!
My understanding is it depends on the carrier; every time you wake the thing up, for example, to make a call, it goes out and checks for updates. Depending on your carrier, you may not be able to simultaneously have a phone conversation and access data at the same time, and then if you add to this poor carrier coverage in the area you are trying to use the phone, you can get what seem to be lock-ups, but are in realty head of line blocking.
In previous versions of the OS, you could turn off this automatic update behaviour, but this no longer appears to be an option in iOS 9.
It's not divided that way.
It's not "starters" vs. "maintainers", it's "Mr. Right Now" vs. "Mr. Right" (or Ms.).
Your "Right Now" person gets you a prototype, and gets you to funding.
Your "Right" person gets you to a million customers, because when you ship in volume, that shit can't break.
It's all about "the reason you get the big bucks is because you do the un-fun stuff that means you own the 'It Works' bit". Someone has to own the "It Works" bit, and set that bit before you ship a steaming pile to a bunch of customers, and brick their devices, or crash their life's work.
Ironically, there are a lot of advertising companies that never get to the point of someone getting to the point of owning, or setting, that bit, and they start a bunch of products, but they never get them past 90% complete, because it's uninteresting once you can see the goal line, and if you don't have to do it to remain employed, and there's no boss who can act as the 800 pound gorilla, because you can just walk to another group or project within the company with no consequences -- then it doesn't get done. Unless someone steps up, and then they are usually called out for kvetching, and no one likes to be around someone who expects you to step up, and own that bit.
You can call the person who walks a "starter", but what you are really saying is that they can deliver prototypes, but they can't deliver products. Which is great, if the company can afford to employ those people because they are getting money from sources other than actually shipping new product. But it gets awfully tiring being in that environment, since you never really have an impact on the lives of a large number of people, if you work in groups that operate that way.
Nobody wants the not-so-cool job of actually maintaining it over the long-term, writing documentation for it, supporting it, etc.
This right here! You want to learn a new bit of software and get the attention of the dev team? While learning, write new user documentation. You will have the dev team's full and undivided attention! I know a lot of project leads that started by writing documentation for another project.
My personal take on this is that if you need to read documentation in order to be able to use a piece of software, something is wrong with that piece of software, and it's not a lack of documentation. One of the reasons there are no "themes" in Mac OS X is that it means that the answer to the question of "how do I throw something away" is always the same. And if the application follows the style guidelines, then you can transfer your knowledge easily between applications.
I blame Bob Wallace, and PC-Write.
I remember listening to him speak at a UniForum conference, where he explained "shareware" as "I don't sell software; software is all 'up here'..." at which point he waved his hands on either side of his head; "No," he said, "I sell manuals".
This explanation has always stuck with me as to the reason that PC-Write, if you wanted to be able to get the most out of it, you needed a printed manual. So you could either print your own -- but the printing costs at the time were high enough that you could buy a printed and bound copy from Bob for a lot cheaper, and without "using up" your printer.
The software was difficult to use because being difficult to use sold manuals.
A lot of software never outgrew that phase of its life, and is still, to this day, rather terrible to use.
If your software needs a manual, or an online help system, or a wiki to make it useful: you're doing it wrong.
In Texas, this is the specific code which applies:
http://www.statutes.legis.stat...
However, you should note that a lot of those provisions sunset on 1 Jan 2016. They also have up to 30 days from the lease termination date to refund security deposits, if that's going to happen at all (i.e. there's no claim of damages which would result in a hold-back).
It's also the law that a sale of the property is a qualifying event for terminating the lease in 72 hours, if they chose to do that.
Whether Oracle is on the hook for the security deposit depends on who technically owns the property at the time the lease is terminated, but in general, I can see Oracle's lawyers missing that trick, and if they did, I can see Larry Ellison making the property management company's life truly miserable.
Which part of low-income is confusing you?
The part that confused me... is the story has a lady who paid about $720/month in rent at Lakeview Apartments, and Trulia is show a bunch of apartments for rent at or below that price point in Austin, some where there would not even be a change in school district.
I'd definitely say that the property management company (Cypress Real Estate Advisors) is being asses, but that's not Oracle's fault, and neither is it Oracle's fault that the people are incapable of doing a web search. What it's really about is the fact that Oracle is seen to have deep pockets.
[...] or before you know it they'll be finding a way to put DRM on dishwashers.
The fiends!
Dish Rinse Management! How diabolical!
"The phrase "tyranny of the majority" (or "tyranny of the masses") is used in discussing systems of democracy and majority rule. It involves a scenario in which decisions made by a majority place its interests above those of an individual or minority group, constituting active oppression comparable to that of a tyrant or despot. In many cases a disliked ethnic, religious or racial group is deliberately penalized by the majority element acting through the democratic process."
I think that kind of says it all.
In a representative democracy, which is what the U.S. has, in theory you elect people based on their judgement, rather than their position on a specific issue, and that avoids this scenario.
The cost is in the rocket motor, the nozzle that holds the combustion products in plasma state, its cooling mechanism, pumps and controls. I am not sure how much of it can be inspected and re validated without extensive disassembly.
I keep waiting for them to replace the nozzle with an experimental version that uses a linear aerospike. The April 10, 2001 patent will be expiring in just about 5 1/2 years now...
Out of interest, did they have to pay for those pumps?
Medtronic replaced the 5 cases with which I am directly familiar; I do not know about the other 4.
My thinking is that the politics is such that the replacements are both free positive publicity, and a reminder not to take the things through devices which emit X-rays (even if it's a side effect, rather than an intended primary effect, of the AIT's). Also not certain whether there's an anti-AIT agenda at the company, or not, but replacing devices has got to be something they do not typically look forward to doing, despite the publicity, so it would not surprise me.
Seeing the conceptional models... given their coloring and font, it's pretty clear that Mozilla is aiming to be acquired by Tonka.
No. He is asking users for features and characteristics that said users would find advantageous for a web engine that accumulates and organizes web data.
Users... aren't they those things that bitch about how Open Source happens to work, and then don't contribute patches back to address those complaints?
(NB: Not precisely my view, but it's going to be the typical view of most people).
"Don't shoot it, you'll only piss it off"
Unless it's physical system (and the RFP makes it pretty clear that's not what they are asking for here), all you have to do is optically couple EMP shielded brains with an external radio system, and you can pretty much have it go after the source, lock on coordinates, and even if it's a momentary attack, the firing position goes "boom!".
I guess the military spends so much on their drones that they really can't conceive of using them in a Kamikaze attack; but if you are going to lose the drone anyway, might as well take out a target that would prevent the next one from taking out the programmed target.
That would be a shotgun based 'Portable Anti Drone Defense' system
On a computer!
I'll take my patent now, please...
They've "only" destroyed 9 Medtronic insulin pumps ... what's 9 dead people compared to a technology proven to stop terrorists at airports, as evidenced by our large number of public trials, and the terrorists subsequently jailed, thanks to AIT scanners.
What do you mean, we've not caught a single terrorist with an AIT scanner? Are you sure?!? Try Googling it... you *must* be wrong! AIT scanners are good for you!
"A language of their choice"
Funny; the link labelled that specifically states that the language that will be used is Java.
So they are not going to learn about explicit memory management, layout of data in memory, pointers, and a bunch of other things, as they would potentially have done with another computer language.
There also appears to be more of an emphasis on social impact than, say, binary math, boolean logic, algorithms, and data structures. Guess those things are less useful in an AP Computer Science course...
It's not as big.
Plus... Paris.
I dont think you can land anywhere else, JFK is the only international airport in the USA, I believe there are buses from that airport to the surrounding states but you are lucky to get a space on the roof of those.
There are over 160 international airports in the United States, and two each in Puerto Rico and in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
There are 10 non-stop flights from San Francisco to Heathrow on 12 Jan 2016 alone. That's a Tuesday; there are more on other days.
The Japanese try to turn them into sat launchers with little success so far. I guess it is because solid fuel cannot be nicely controlled like the V2-style engines. And that means imperfect satellite orbit.
Incorrect.
The Japanese M-V solid fuel rocket system had 6 of 7 launches succeed. The follow on Epsilon solid fuel launcher has 1 out of 1 launch successes.
The Indian ASLV launch vehicle, also all solid fuel, had the first 3 launches fail, which is not unheard of for a new vehicle. The 4th launch succeeded.