Anyone ever considered the fact that military uses an encrypted GPS shot to prevent jamming?
Anyone seriously considering that "fact" would only prove to have not the slightest idea what jamming means.
Imagine you speak with someone else, and someone doesn't want you to do that. Therefore he makes so much noise that you can't understand the other one any more. That's jamming. It won't help you to speak in codes, you'll not understand the codes either.
In other news, somewhere a military car had to stop because of a red traffic light. If such a simple devices as a red traffic light can stop a military car, then it's really, really fragile.
Was this comment meant as a reply to another comment? Because I can't find anything about tidal energy in either the summary, the linked article, or even the linked old Slashdot summary. Also, the wind map of the U.S. is completely irrelevant for German energy production.
It is a technology we should pursue with tremendous effort, and which should one day pay off in one form or another,
I disagree. Not everything is possible, and one can waste huge amounts of resources in things that will never happen. As it stands, there is no reason to believe fusion will ever happen in a halfway reasonable fashion within the next 500 years. Just like space elevators, warp drive, and so on.
Space elevators, OK. But warp drives are in a completely different league. Unlike fusion and space elevators, which we already know to be possible in principle (i.e there's no fundamental law of physics which they would break; indeed, fusion happens right now inside the sun), a warp drive would clearly need to go beyond the known laws of physics.
Actually uv has it's own colour on the spectrum, it is similar to blue/violet but not.
There are no colours on the spectrum. There are frequencies/wavelengths. Colours are produced by our visual system. UV doesn't get detected by our visual system, and therefore appears black.
"In other words, releases are bad for bad developers. Because a developer who doesn't want to fix bugs for an existing release is a bad developer."
What you mean is that releases are bad for bad development managers. The developer will fix the bugs they are tasked to do. The manager makes the decision as to whether to fix bugs in existing releases.
But, you are missing the point. It may be completely sensible to wait until the next release for a bugfix. Unless the problem is urgent, you don't want to risk the possibility of regressions in an existing release just to fix a small problem. This all depends on whether you have to support old versions or not.
Canonical does not have the resources to support EVERY release beyond their 6-month cycle. They support the LTS releases and if you use the 6-monthly ones, you are expected to upgrade if you want non-essential fixes. Seems sensible enough to me.
It would be sensible if at the same time they'd refrain from making large, incompatible changes in any non-LTS release.
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They do. If it weren't for the car accident statistics taken seriously, our cars would be much more dangerous today.
Out of all the things, I surely expected a guy on Slashdot to link to "The Origins of Linux" in times of national crisis.
On a much serious note: remembering all the innocent lives lost.
What was the time of that story?
At what time did the attack start?
In the second. The first Gulf War was between Iran and Iraq.
Anyone seriously considering that "fact" would only prove to have not the slightest idea what jamming means.
Imagine you speak with someone else, and someone doesn't want you to do that. Therefore he makes so much noise that you can't understand the other one any more. That's jamming. It won't help you to speak in codes, you'll not understand the codes either.
In other news, somewhere a military car had to stop because of a red traffic light. If such a simple devices as a red traffic light can stop a military car, then it's really, really fragile.
I would have thought that any wireless communication device can be easily DoSed by a normal jammer. No specific knowledge of the protocol needed.
Hmmm ... laziness doesn't kill you. Does it make you stronger?
Was this comment meant as a reply to another comment? Because I can't find anything about tidal energy in either the summary, the linked article, or even the linked old Slashdot summary. Also, the wind map of the U.S. is completely irrelevant for German energy production.
I disagree. Not everything is possible, and one can waste huge amounts of resources in things that will never happen. As it stands, there is no reason to believe fusion will ever happen in a halfway reasonable fashion within the next 500 years. Just like space elevators, warp drive, and so on.
Space elevators, OK. But warp drives are in a completely different league. Unlike fusion and space elevators, which we already know to be possible in principle (i.e there's no fundamental law of physics which they would break; indeed, fusion happens right now inside the sun), a warp drive would clearly need to go beyond the known laws of physics.
Fusion is now no longer 50 years away. It is only 49 years away. We expect this distance to be reduced by another year in another 50 years.
In related news, a couple programmers from the Dart team have begun work on a functional version of Dart, called "Fart".
That's nothing compared to the logic programming version of it: Lart.
Pretty much. What's there to say? Until there are details, all we know is that Google has a language called Dart.
Well, it comes with a whole new model of software development. Basically, you throw darts on a dartboard with keywords and punctuation printed on it.
"My brain made me do it" cannot be a valid defence because I am my brain. There's no independent "I" from which I could separate my brain.
Well, there's a reason they call it moral compass after all. :-)
Note that not being able to lie does not imply not being able to tell anything but the truth. Many people telling wrong things actually believe them.
There are no colours on the spectrum. There are frequencies/wavelengths. Colours are produced by our visual system. UV doesn't get detected by our visual system, and therefore appears black.
Or you could get out in the sun for a few minutes each day?
But in the sun, there are temperatures of about 15 million Kelvin! You won't survive that! :-)
"In other words, releases are bad for bad developers. Because a developer who doesn't want to fix bugs for an existing release is a bad developer."
What you mean is that releases are bad for bad development managers. The developer will fix the bugs they are tasked to do. The manager makes the decision as to whether to fix bugs in existing releases.
But, you are missing the point. It may be completely sensible to wait until the next release for a bugfix. Unless the problem is urgent, you don't want to risk the possibility of regressions in an existing release just to fix a small problem. This all depends on whether you have to support old versions or not.
Canonical does not have the resources to support EVERY release beyond their 6-month cycle. They support the LTS releases and if you use the 6-monthly ones, you are expected to upgrade if you want non-essential fixes. Seems sensible enough to me.
It would be sensible if at the same time they'd refrain from making large, incompatible changes in any non-LTS release.
In other words, releases are bad for bad developers. Because a developer who doesn't want to fix bugs for an existing release is a bad developer.
He explicitly said:
OK, granted, an unbootable operating system doesn't crash often. :-)
It's better to be warned by the name up front than learning it the hard way as with Ubuntu.
Shouldn't they use the Mandarin alphabet to start naming their releases, if they're going to do it so frequently? Or will they simply use MMYYYY?
After reaching Z, they will have alienated enough users that it won't make sense to have another release.
So devs have a longer time to develop their apps and get rid of bugs. And that is a bad thing?
OK, so legal tender protected bad money drives out unprotected good money.
Also, legal tender protected good money drives out unprotected bad money (the good money wouldn't need the protection, but it doesn't hurt either).
In other words, legal tender protected money drives out unprotected money, no matter which one is better.