Ok, I call you. What car are you speaking of that weighs only 1625 lbs, and runs a shitty ass 15 sec 1/4 mile yet can go 150 mph? About the only cars I know of that can hit 150+ (American anyhow) are F-bodies and Corvettes (Vipers, but they sure as hell do better than a 15 sec 1/4 mile). Those F-bodies weigh 3000 flat (manual transmission), and are gonna run a 13 sec 1/4 mile stock. Corvettes, well, even better my friend. Prove me wrong.
When will everyone stop getting a stiffy just because there is a one-in-a-million chance that water exists under a hundred miles of (ice|dirt|deadly acidic gases) trillions of miles away from us on a rock with a few trace elements that sustain the life that exists on Earth. I for one do belive their is life (other than on/around Earth) in this Universe; even intelligent life. But frankly I could live without all the false hopes of finding a microbe on a distant rock. Hell, I'd look at "inhospitable" environments with as much hope as ones that look like Earth. Nobody seriously belives carbon based, air breathing, polluting, pig-fucking, backwater humans are the only way life can exist do they? I'd bet most any element could be the basis of a lifeform.
Quite frankly, I do not trust any entity to be my single point of entry. I despise the thought of a universal single sign-on. Sure, in a few instances with related sites and unimportant info I could stomach the trade off of levels of security with ease of use. But for the vast majority of my daily sign-ins, I like having different passwords kept by different companies/computers. Passport, Plan9, whatever, you can leave me out.
Last I checked, I wasn't slashdot. Mayhaps others are just drones on here, but I have my own opionons on subjects, thank you kindly.
That said, I knew it was probably mostly hardware, but hey, thats a shitload of patents anyhow:) As stated in the article, they have submitted the most patents in the US the last 9 years running (up to 2001 at least). Now don't tell me thay have more R&D than any other US company. All the same, I like IBM for the most part, and I'd like them better with less patents.
The lawyers went on to say: "By reading this notice you have looked upon copyrighted fonts. Take this rusty spoon, and with it gouge out your eyes, as they are a circumvention device. They have made unauthorized copies of our fonts in order to embed the font with other information to be sent to the brain."
Sometimes!? In this capitalist society you don't get rich by being concerned for the little guy, or the big guy who wants to charge you anus loads of money for his OS, for that matter.
The Los Alamos team is one of at least a dozen groups worldwide that are harnessing quantum physics to develop perfect encryption: coded messages impervious to the efforts of hackers.
Once again a media outlet is misusing the term "hacker." It is the "crackers" that this would thwart, since they could not crack your encrypted messages. I doubt however, that this or any other technology would be hacker-proof, in the sense that a hacker would just want to figure out how it worked and perhaps tweak it a bit. And who is going to stop a hacker from finding out an implementation of quantum cryptography works?
However, that attitude might explain why your nation is held in the regard that it is...
Oh? Then explain to me why I saw this on NBC the other night. Tom interviewed some graduates at a University in Bhagdad, Iraq, with most of them saying they would be suicide bombers and wanted to fight the United States because we are seen by them as being a bully and a threat to their country. You know what they asked Tom after the interview, even though they supposedly hate America? They wanted to know if he had any new movies or other goods from the US, because they just can't get enough of Hollywood and all our glamerous stuffs. If that isn't envy of the US I suppose I don't know what is.
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For instance, if we follow through with heavy DEWAD use (Directed Energy Weapon Air Defense), yes we can knock down missiles and rule the skies- for a while. Then our enemies will eventually duplicate the technology, and knock down our cruise missiles, UAVs and bombers. Then all the satellites in the world won't help our inability to affect events on the ground with airpower.
Right, that is why we saw Iraq using badass tanks in the gulf and the Taliban were sitting behind such badass SAM batteries that we had to go in on the ground... oh wait. Thats right, Iraq had old run down T-80's that couldn't even make a blind lob at our tanks while we blasted them to oblivion, and the Taliban sat in caves with no defense other than nobody knew where they were. Seems most other countries don't have the money to put up with the millitary hardware we can come up with.
From the article: "Much of the targeting information that the pilot sees is displayed on the right side of the visor as small green-tinted circles, squares and numbers. When a target is in the display's bull's-eye, the pilot pushes a button to launch the missile."
I wouldn't worry about blowing up your own guys any more often than already happens. You still have to pull the trigger.
And just because you are using a different targeting mechanism doesn't mean all the sensors/protocols used to make sure you don't hit a friendly target suddenly get thrown out the window. Seems like this tech can only help our Air Force, not hurt.
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Ok, I call you. What car are you speaking of that weighs only 1625 lbs, and runs a shitty ass 15 sec 1/4 mile yet can go 150 mph? About the only cars I know of that can hit 150+ (American anyhow) are F-bodies and Corvettes (Vipers, but they sure as hell do better than a 15 sec 1/4 mile). Those F-bodies weigh 3000 flat (manual transmission), and are gonna run a 13 sec 1/4 mile stock. Corvettes, well, even better my friend. Prove me wrong.
When will everyone stop getting a stiffy just because there is a one-in-a-million chance that water exists under a hundred miles of (ice|dirt|deadly acidic gases) trillions of miles away from us on a rock with a few trace elements that sustain the life that exists on Earth. I for one do belive their is life (other than on/around Earth) in this Universe; even intelligent life. But frankly I could live without all the false hopes of finding a microbe on a distant rock. Hell, I'd look at "inhospitable" environments with as much hope as ones that look like Earth. Nobody seriously belives carbon based, air breathing, polluting, pig-fucking, backwater humans are the only way life can exist do they? I'd bet most any element could be the basis of a lifeform.
Quite frankly, I do not trust any entity to be my single point of entry. I despise the thought of a universal single sign-on. Sure, in a few instances with related sites and unimportant info I could stomach the trade off of levels of security with ease of use. But for the vast majority of my daily sign-ins, I like having different passwords kept by different companies/computers. Passport, Plan9, whatever, you can leave me out.
The top of the list is something like this:
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1. Software Piracy
2. Stealing from the Church
3. Stealing God's pants
4. Stealing someone's immortal soul
As you can see, the heirarchy starts at digital concerns, and gets to the lesser matters a bit later. Real forward thinking I must say.
Last I checked, I wasn't slashdot. Mayhaps others are just drones on here, but I have my own opionons on subjects, thank you kindly.
:) As stated in the article, they have submitted the most patents in the US the last 9 years running (up to 2001 at least). Now don't tell me thay have more R&D than any other US company. All the same, I like IBM for the most part, and I'd like them better with less patents.
That said, I knew it was probably mostly hardware, but hey, thats a shitload of patents anyhow
From the article: In 2001, IBM filed a record 3,411 patent applications, making it the country's top patent filer for the ninth year in a row.
Gad-frigging-zooks! It's gonna take a lot of free software advocacy to make up for 3000+ patents being filed per year.
The lawyers went on to say: "By reading this notice you have looked upon copyrighted fonts. Take this rusty spoon, and with it gouge out your eyes, as they are a circumvention device. They have made unauthorized copies of our fonts in order to embed the font with other information to be sent to the brain."
But really, sometimes people are just greedy.
Sometimes!? In this capitalist society you don't get rich by being concerned for the little guy, or the big guy who wants to charge you anus loads of money for his OS, for that matter.
The Los Alamos team is one of at least a dozen groups worldwide that are harnessing quantum physics to develop perfect encryption: coded messages impervious to the efforts of hackers.
Once again a media outlet is misusing the term "hacker." It is the "crackers" that this would thwart, since they could not crack your encrypted messages. I doubt however, that this or any other technology would be hacker-proof, in the sense that a hacker would just want to figure out how it worked and perhaps tweak it a bit. And who is going to stop a hacker from finding out an implementation of quantum cryptography works?
We are the envy of the world
Sorry to burst your bubble - but you are not.
However, that attitude might explain why your nation is held in the regard that it is...
Oh? Then explain to me why I saw this on NBC the other night. Tom interviewed some graduates at a University in Bhagdad, Iraq, with most of them saying they would be suicide bombers and wanted to fight the United States because we are seen by them as being a bully and a threat to their country. You know what they asked Tom after the interview, even though they supposedly hate America? They wanted to know if he had any new movies or other goods from the US, because they just can't get enough of Hollywood and all our glamerous stuffs. If that isn't envy of the US I suppose I don't know what is.
For instance, if we follow through with heavy DEWAD use (Directed Energy Weapon Air Defense), yes we can knock down missiles and rule the skies- for a while. Then our enemies will eventually duplicate the technology, and knock down our cruise missiles, UAVs and bombers. Then all the satellites in the world won't help our inability to affect events on the ground with airpower.
Right, that is why we saw Iraq using badass tanks in the gulf and the Taliban were sitting behind such badass SAM batteries that we had to go in on the ground... oh wait. Thats right, Iraq had old run down T-80's that couldn't even make a blind lob at our tanks while we blasted them to oblivion, and the Taliban sat in caves with no defense other than nobody knew where they were. Seems most other countries don't have the money to put up with the millitary hardware we can come up with.
From the article: "Much of the targeting information that the pilot sees is displayed on the right side of the visor as small green-tinted circles, squares and numbers. When a target is in the display's bull's-eye, the pilot pushes a button to launch the missile."
I wouldn't worry about blowing up your own guys any more often than already happens. You still have to pull the trigger. And just because you are using a different targeting mechanism doesn't mean all the sensors/protocols used to make sure you don't hit a friendly target suddenly get thrown out the window. Seems like this tech can only help our Air Force, not hurt.