ok. how do you unload it in the remote location? This is a game of buoyancy. It can't just rock up somewhere remote and unload a cargo. it would shoot up into the air, unless it takes on a new cargo at the same time. This can only be unloaded in dedicated docking stations with anchor tethers to hold the airship to earth when positively buoyant.
Would you let someone stick you in a tube of metal and then blast you into the air at 500+ mph?
Well, that's basically what flying is. If you're dumb enough to do that, you deserve to crash in a pile of smouldering flames.
That's not really what flying is at all. Sounds more like rocketry. Aircraft accelerate to 500+ mph in a really quite smooth and comfortable way, at least in commercial aviation. And as intelligence might well be defined by an ability to make good choices based on available information the fact that aviation is, currently, both safer than ever and really really safe means choosing to fly, on the basis of piles of "smouldering flames" is really not a dumb decision.
You are right, although it's a lot less likely then this current type of very nasty yet very passive crime. Your scenario requires the perp to commit another crime and it's a crime of a very different nature - visceral, physical and in this context likely very personal as the cockpit victim will also be a colleague.
However, with so many flights, pilots and aircrew operating in budget air space and pilots increasingly looking like interns paying for their own training, it's impossible to discount your scenario. Given time, it will happen, basically. If it can, it will.
All this of course takes place in a context of a massive reduction in risk to passengers in commercial flight. These events are, every time, examples of "availability bias" in human decision making.
The most intriguing part of this, for me, is to what extent this event will foster debate on fully autonomous computer flight systems and remote cockpits. I think we will soon see pilots at the front of the plane removed of final authority to command the aircraft controls. The fact that this is technologically available now, practically off the shelf in a hardware store, makes this, for me, an absolute certainty.
This. They want a semantic web and so far we haven't even got a reliable DatePublished. Technical search is slowly going to shit at the moment on account of this issue. And each lost forum post by bewildered users unable to parse search results for relevance adds further to the problem. Google has date search filters - they should be much more prominent.
Very true, I remember those days too. ASP was always seen as welded to VBScript but it could be coded in JScript too, and the code looked a lot more readable and proper too. I can't remember any round-tripping of code, it wasn't really on the cards. We are talking about the dawn of the DOM at this point here. getElementById() was just below the horizon and IE4 was the only game in town. One feature of ASP/IIS I liked was the Application object, allowing data sharing on an application level. PHP has never had that really. IIS was replaced by apache in 2002 in my career and became irrelevant in web development. It's been at least 5 years since I last met a dev with an IIS/ASP gig.
You will need an almanac as well, really. I think only Polaris or (possibly) the Southern Cross can be used for fairly approximate latitude without further data or measurement. Sun: noon altitude varies throughout the year. Basically any other body you need to know time and ephemeris. I am only learning astronavigation now but that's how I understand it.
I see a lot of objections to the word "infinite" being bandied about.
Bugs are fixed by software developers. And software developers introduced the bugs, unwittingly, into the original code in the first place. Some of the bug-fixes will introduce further unforeseen vulnerabilities. So it's quite probable that the true number of vulnerabilities in a system fluctuates, increases at times, and may only reach zero after an infinite amount of time. The assumption that there is a set of vulnerabilities in a system and this set can be reduced to zero by systematically finding and fixing them all one-by-one is clearly overly simplistic. Add software upgrades into the mix, and I think it's safe to assume that all software is buggy all the time.
Awesome post, chapeau sir. I fear there is much correctness in your predictions, there is a feral and ferocious future awaiting us potentially, or is it almost certainly? But I don't know if there will be an energy solution available to power this strip mining and these underwater cities. Possibly, but also very possibly humans will end up back burning firewood and staring up at the night sky in impotent maudlin despair.
Speed limit is 70mph on motorways. I read somewhere, a few years ago mind, that the _average_ non-HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle) speed was around 80mph. It's not a rule that is particularly vigorously enforced. Over 100mph may get more attention and generally results in loss of licence for a period if prosecuted.
Or one day, amazon will be all that's left. You want that? I agree that many small businesses are badly run, and often can't or don't get the service right, but if you end up with only one or two massive impersonal players, you will regret it. That means, noiw, today even, making a choice to stop that happening by buying from the small guys even if that means paying a couple of dollars more.
(the same stand may push me to stop buying from Amazon some time soon).
Good. Don't know why, really, but I think that's a good plan. Otherwise, we'll wake up one day going wtf just happened.
Plus, the price differences are so negligible it hardly matters. Support the good guys, whomsoever you perceive them to be. Don't be a slave to tiny dollar differences.
Honest post I feel. I salute that. But 2 km walking isn't enough really, you need more calorie burn and less calorie intake. If you are going to rely on the 2k walk, walk hard! And just don't eat, if possible. Then eat meagrely when you have to. Don't accept your current physique. Just don't.
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and travelling through clouds too. This isn't a high altitude machine. Bad weather kills it.
hot air is a much better basic principle for this anyway
ok. how do you unload it in the remote location? This is a game of buoyancy. It can't just rock up somewhere remote and unload a cargo. it would shoot up into the air, unless it takes on a new cargo at the same time. This can only be unloaded in dedicated docking stations with anchor tethers to hold the airship to earth when positively buoyant.
Would you let someone stick you in a tube of metal and then blast you into the air at 500+ mph?
Well, that's basically what flying is. If you're dumb enough to do that, you deserve to crash in a pile of smouldering flames.
That's not really what flying is at all. Sounds more like rocketry. Aircraft accelerate to 500+ mph in a really quite smooth and comfortable way, at least in commercial aviation. And as intelligence might well be defined by an ability to make good choices based on available information the fact that aviation is, currently, both safer than ever and really really safe means choosing to fly, on the basis of piles of "smouldering flames" is really not a dumb decision.
You are right, although it's a lot less likely then this current type of very nasty yet very passive crime. Your scenario requires the perp to commit another crime and it's a crime of a very different nature - visceral, physical and in this context likely very personal as the cockpit victim will also be a colleague.
However, with so many flights, pilots and aircrew operating in budget air space and pilots increasingly looking like interns paying for their own training, it's impossible to discount your scenario. Given time, it will happen, basically. If it can, it will.
All this of course takes place in a context of a massive reduction in risk to passengers in commercial flight. These events are, every time, examples of "availability bias" in human decision making.
The most intriguing part of this, for me, is to what extent this event will foster debate on fully autonomous computer flight systems and remote cockpits. I think we will soon see pilots at the front of the plane removed of final authority to command the aircraft controls. The fact that this is technologically available now, practically off the shelf in a hardware store, makes this, for me, an absolute certainty.
This. They want a semantic web and so far we haven't even got a reliable DatePublished. Technical search is slowly going to shit at the moment on account of this issue. And each lost forum post by bewildered users unable to parse search results for relevance adds further to the problem. Google has date search filters - they should be much more prominent.
Very true, I remember those days too. ASP was always seen as welded to VBScript but it could be coded in JScript too, and the code looked a lot more readable and proper too. I can't remember any round-tripping of code, it wasn't really on the cards. We are talking about the dawn of the DOM at this point here. getElementById() was just below the horizon and IE4 was the only game in town. One feature of ASP/IIS I liked was the Application object, allowing data sharing on an application level. PHP has never had that really. IIS was replaced by apache in 2002 in my career and became irrelevant in web development. It's been at least 5 years since I last met a dev with an IIS/ASP gig.
No bash in the stack vs git graph. We not using that anymore? I didn't get the memo.
What would happen is that you will ignore the toaster, on account of the number of false positives it has already spewed out in the past.
...and most of the efor was in learning the software configuration (PPP and SLIP)
You missed HTCPCP/1.0
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc23...
Abstract
This document describes HTCPCP, a protocol for controlling,
monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots.
at the end of the year, surely? More morons may come.
You will need an almanac as well, really. I think only Polaris or (possibly) the Southern Cross can be used for fairly approximate latitude without further data or measurement. Sun: noon altitude varies throughout the year. Basically any other body you need to know time and ephemeris. I am only learning astronavigation now but that's how I understand it.
or for more earthiness, an oblate spheroidal man
/usr/bin/vim
love this:
"These catapults would have allowed us to use cheap F-18s"
They aren't cheap, really, are they? Cheaper, yeah, but not cheap.
coffee -> keyboard!
Taxonomically speaking, bacteria are classified as an entire separate kingdom or domain. Just sayin.
I see a lot of objections to the word "infinite" being bandied about.
Bugs are fixed by software developers. And software developers introduced the bugs, unwittingly, into the original code in the first place. Some of the bug-fixes will introduce further unforeseen vulnerabilities. So it's quite probable that the true number of vulnerabilities in a system fluctuates, increases at times, and may only reach zero after an infinite amount of time. The assumption that there is a set of vulnerabilities in a system and this set can be reduced to zero by systematically finding and fixing them all one-by-one is clearly overly simplistic. Add software upgrades into the mix, and I think it's safe to assume that all software is buggy all the time.
maybe?
Filthy thief, Overbiting Mongoose, Moneycharging Oranguatan...Usurous Eunoch, Gouging George, etc.
Awesome post, chapeau sir. I fear there is much correctness in your predictions, there is a feral and ferocious future awaiting us potentially, or is it almost certainly? But I don't know if there will be an energy solution available to power this strip mining and these underwater cities. Possibly, but also very possibly humans will end up back burning firewood and staring up at the night sky in impotent maudlin despair.
What is this? Keyword loading? This some kind of sick SEO move?
Speed limit is 70mph on motorways. I read somewhere, a few years ago mind, that the _average_ non-HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle) speed was around 80mph. It's not a rule that is particularly vigorously enforced. Over 100mph may get more attention and generally results in loss of licence for a period if prosecuted.
Or one day, amazon will be all that's left. You want that? I agree that many small businesses are badly run, and often can't or don't get the service right, but if you end up with only one or two massive impersonal players, you will regret it. That means, noiw, today even, making a choice to stop that happening by buying from the small guys even if that means paying a couple of dollars more.
(the same stand may push me to stop buying from Amazon some time soon).
Good. Don't know why, really, but I think that's a good plan. Otherwise, we'll wake up one day going wtf just happened.
Plus, the price differences are so negligible it hardly matters. Support the good guys, whomsoever you perceive them to be. Don't be a slave to tiny dollar differences.
Honest post I feel. I salute that. But 2 km walking isn't enough really, you need more calorie burn and less calorie intake. If you are going to rely on the 2k walk, walk hard! And just don't eat, if possible. Then eat meagrely when you have to. Don't accept your current physique. Just don't.