I have a hard time believing an editor would let slide:
as well as Internet access (which still isn't ubiquitous in the U.S.)
I really hope the "editor" just managed to drop a couple of "as" (one before and one after "ubiquitous"), otherwise I'd have to assume he's got the IQ of a clam....
I would like them to explain why a recording function is needed in the first place.
Probably for the voice recognition.
Presumably also to help train the voice recognition software to the peculiarities of the owners' voice.
I don't think that their intentions are nefarious, but I do expect that logging everything you say near your TV to a remote server will be abused by someone, sooner or later.
I mean, shades of 1984 - your TV watches you as much as you watch it....
A torp passing rather farther away will still detonate (we haven't used contact torpedoes since WW2) and break the sub's hull. How far away? well, that depends on the torpedo and the sub, but it's probably still classified.
Suffice it to say that unless that hydrodynamic system scales linearly from octopus to SSN688-sized, it won't be far enough away when the torpedo booms to make a difference....
How is a teacher grading that differently based on the kids' names?
***sighs***
You're missing that the exams scored by strangers was NOT the exam scored by the teachers.
From TFA:
BLOCKQUOTE>The students were given two exams, one graded by outsiders who did not know their identities and another by teachers who knew their names.
No, girls didn't do better on an exam scored by strangers than the same exam scored by teachers. They did better on a different exam.
Two "special" exams in the school year. One of them scored by strangers with name of students elided. The other scored by their teachers with known students.
I'd really like to see the two exams before I offer any opinion as to the validity of this study, but off the top of my head, I'd think a more rigorous study would be to have both the teachers and the strangers grade the same exam....
They're being asked to not run up any more debt. They're required by the terms of the bailout (the part where a bunch of other governments a pile of money to keep them out of bankruptcy) to not borrow any more money till they pay the bailout back.
Now, what the Greeks want is for the other European governments to give them more money while at the same time not paying back the last pile of money they were handed.
So, he doesn't want any more bailout money, but he DOES want them to give him money to "bridge" things over?
I take it that what he really means is that he doesn't want any more money with strings attached (like an obligation to pay it back), but he's happy to accept money with no strings....
NASA has no real interest in quick, cheap satellite launches. They've got plenty of time to plan ahead for satellite launches.
The military, on the other hand, occasionally finds itself in a position where they could really use a recon/spy sat Right Now! With no real requirement that the sat last 20 years, or even one.
When I have no more good days left, and every waking moment is agony or drug-induced, drooling stupor, I would like the option to give these borrowed molecules back to the universe when I am ready...not after my suffering has been prolonged by pointless medical procedure(s).
Note that you've pretty much always had that option. Or are you required to be in a hospital against your wishes wherever you live?
Note that "assisted suicide" isn't about you killing yourself, it's about your doctor helping you to do so. Which meets the legal definitions of murder in most places.
This type of illiteracy is relatively new (to me). I've seen it a lot in the last few months, never before that. Is this something they're teaching in schools now?
And then there's the other explanation that makes even more sense:
The tax code is so complicated that not even the IRS actually understands it. And if THEY made mistakes on their tax software, they'd be held accountable. If a third party makes mistakes, well, not the IRS' fault you owe extra money this year....
At the ranges of naval combat, even a railgun's shot is going to be substantially parabolic (no, you won't be able to point it straight at the target and hit, unless the target is within a mile or so, which WAY THE FUCK too close for naval warfare), so it'll be no easier to hit with a railgun than with a conventional gun. different ballistic tables, but otherwise, the math is the same.
Conventional ships guns...and they have about as much range now as they are ever going to get, everyone is agreed there.
Note the Paris Gun. Used in WW1, effective range 130km (80+ miles), muzzle velocity 1640 m/s (comparable to modern DS rounds).
In other words, everyone doesn't agree. Yes, railguns are better for the purpose, for a lot of reasons. But it's not impossible to build conventional cannon that outrange anything currently in use - it can be done with WW1 technology, after all....
By the by, do you know what the primary advantage of a railgun is? No, it's not super-high muzzle velocity. it's elimination of the powder charge. Since the powder charge for a modern (defined as post-WW1) artillery piece is larger than the projectile, that more than doubles (more than triples for most artillery) your ammo capacity. And that's not even counting the space taken up by the fire-suppression system and armor protecting the powder magazines.
The world hasn't consented to be spied on by the NSA
The world isn't supposed to consent to being spied upon by the NSA. If the world did consent, there'd be no point in having an NSA.
No, this article isn't a question of whether the NSA can spy on the UK (if we have the "national technical means", we can spy, if not, not), it's whether GCHQ can USE the take from NSA spying to get around BRITISH espionage laws. Answer: it CANNOT.
Note that this decision by the Brits will NOT stop the NSA from spying on the Brits. Anymore that it'll stop GCHQ from spying on the USA (what, you don't think the Brits spy on us??? I haven't seen that sort of naivete from anyone older than twelve in a long time)....
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So, what exactly leads you to believe that Cubans are about to get "oppressive government removed from their backs"?
No, Obama opening up relations with Cuba isn't going to accomplish that.
I have a hard time believing an editor would let slide:
I really hope the "editor" just managed to drop a couple of "as" (one before and one after "ubiquitous"), otherwise I'd have to assume he's got the IQ of a clam....
Right now, nuclear is being hobbled by a myriad of lawsuits trying to prevent any nuclear power plant from being built anywhere.
Hard to do the financing when you have 10-15 years of lawsuits to settle before you can pour the first yard of concrete....
I'd have no problem at all with that. Nearest one is about 40 miles away now....
Note that I'm biased, of course. Having worked in the field back in the day, I know a lot more about the subject than most /.'ers....
Presumably also to help train the voice recognition software to the peculiarities of the owners' voice.
I don't think that their intentions are nefarious, but I do expect that logging everything you say near your TV to a remote server will be abused by someone, sooner or later.
I mean, shades of 1984 - your TV watches you as much as you watch it....
It should be noted that the study referred to in TFA wasn't an Elementary School study. It was Middle/High School.
Hmm, 15 radius means the torp will still hit.
A torp passing rather farther away will still detonate (we haven't used contact torpedoes since WW2) and break the sub's hull. How far away? well, that depends on the torpedo and the sub, but it's probably still classified.
Suffice it to say that unless that hydrodynamic system scales linearly from octopus to SSN688-sized, it won't be far enough away when the torpedo booms to make a difference....
***sighs***
You're missing that the exams scored by strangers was NOT the exam scored by the teachers.
From TFA:
BLOCKQUOTE>The students were given two exams, one graded by outsiders who did not know their identities and another by teachers who knew their names.
No, girls didn't do better on an exam scored by strangers than the same exam scored by teachers. They did better on a different exam.
Two "special" exams in the school year. One of them scored by strangers with name of students elided. The other scored by their teachers with known students.
I'd really like to see the two exams before I offer any opinion as to the validity of this study, but off the top of my head, I'd think a more rigorous study would be to have both the teachers and the strangers grade the same exam....
Well, it might be flawless, if submarines weren't 30+ feet in diameter....
To prove that we're still awesome at la savate (kickboxing, for those of you who don't do French)?
There is no "right to privacy" protecting things which happen in the town square (for which you should read: "in public").
They're not being asked to pay back their debt.
They're being asked to not run up any more debt. They're required by the terms of the bailout (the part where a bunch of other governments a pile of money to keep them out of bankruptcy) to not borrow any more money till they pay the bailout back.
Now, what the Greeks want is for the other European governments to give them more money while at the same time not paying back the last pile of money they were handed.
So, he doesn't want any more bailout money, but he DOES want them to give him money to "bridge" things over?
I take it that what he really means is that he doesn't want any more money with strings attached (like an obligation to pay it back), but he's happy to accept money with no strings....
We don't know how it works TODAY. That may change.
NASA has no real interest in quick, cheap satellite launches. They've got plenty of time to plan ahead for satellite launches.
The military, on the other hand, occasionally finds itself in a position where they could really use a recon/spy sat Right Now! With no real requirement that the sat last 20 years, or even one.
Besides, they have the F-18's....
Note that you've pretty much always had that option. Or are you required to be in a hospital against your wishes wherever you live?
Note that "assisted suicide" isn't about you killing yourself, it's about your doctor helping you to do so. Which meets the legal definitions of murder in most places.
"We've". Or "we have". NOT "we of".
This type of illiteracy is relatively new (to me). I've seen it a lot in the last few months, never before that. Is this something they're teaching in schools now?
300 million a day...that's 350,000 per second or so. So an attack on a State computer every three microseconds on average....
Hope they have a lot of computers....
And then there's the other explanation that makes even more sense:
The tax code is so complicated that not even the IRS actually understands it. And if THEY made mistakes on their tax software, they'd be held accountable. If a third party makes mistakes, well, not the IRS' fault you owe extra money this year....
As of about two hours ago, Turbo-Tax is again processing State Tax Returns....
And here I was thinking of "Or All the Seas with Oysters" (1958). But upon checking, that one did pins to hangers to bicycles....
Didn't I see a news article today about Obama asking Congress for permission for military action against ISIS?
And since we're already bombing them, I don't think he'd bother asking for permission to just bomb them?
At the ranges of naval combat, even a railgun's shot is going to be substantially parabolic (no, you won't be able to point it straight at the target and hit, unless the target is within a mile or so, which WAY THE FUCK too close for naval warfare), so it'll be no easier to hit with a railgun than with a conventional gun. different ballistic tables, but otherwise, the math is the same.
Note the Paris Gun. Used in WW1, effective range 130km (80+ miles), muzzle velocity 1640 m/s (comparable to modern DS rounds).
In other words, everyone doesn't agree. Yes, railguns are better for the purpose, for a lot of reasons. But it's not impossible to build conventional cannon that outrange anything currently in use - it can be done with WW1 technology, after all....
By the by, do you know what the primary advantage of a railgun is? No, it's not super-high muzzle velocity. it's elimination of the powder charge. Since the powder charge for a modern (defined as post-WW1) artillery piece is larger than the projectile, that more than doubles (more than triples for most artillery) your ammo capacity. And that's not even counting the space taken up by the fire-suppression system and armor protecting the powder magazines.
The world isn't supposed to consent to being spied upon by the NSA. If the world did consent, there'd be no point in having an NSA.
No, this article isn't a question of whether the NSA can spy on the UK (if we have the "national technical means", we can spy, if not, not), it's whether GCHQ can USE the take from NSA spying to get around BRITISH espionage laws. Answer: it CANNOT.
Note that this decision by the Brits will NOT stop the NSA from spying on the Brits. Anymore that it'll stop GCHQ from spying on the USA (what, you don't think the Brits spy on us??? I haven't seen that sort of naivete from anyone older than twelve in a long time)....