I'd start with a language that has a clear one-to-one sound mapping between the spoken and written forms of the language. Shallow phonemic orthography is the technical term, it seems.
That is, not English.
Spanish, Italian, Finnish, and Turkish are what Wikipedia mentions as examples. Japanese would count, but some words have far too many homonyms.
Thats not why Japanese is hard to lip read. Its hard because of the way people move their mouths while speaking.
Wasn't there election day reports from Pennsylvania of straight Republican votes magically changing to Democratic votes? With cell phone video of it happening?
What's the time of flight? A large conventional explosive warhead is going to have to hit or very near-miss a carrier to have much effect. This requires knowing the carrier's position, course, and speed very accurately, and knowing the carrier group will not vary from it.
I doubt it'd be a single large conventional explosive warhead, more like a cluster of them. You don't need to sink a carrier to put it out of commission.
So they would make $300+ per iphone rather than $500+ per iphone. It's still over a 100% markup, so I fail to see much of a problem.
Of course Apple will just cut back their profit margins and keep them the same price (and still make an outrageous profit). They wouldn't shaft the fanbois no way!
" 80 mile / 130 m range", someone forgot a kilo in there..
This is why it fail, because they'll do the spec in imperial and miscalculate the conversions when they hand it over to a contractor whose equipment works in metric.
Then they go to fire one of these things at a target 70 miles away and wonder why the missile falls into the sea 130 meters away.
It's an open question really. So far they have been only attacking third world countries that can't strike back. But is it a good weapon against.. say China. The Chinese have guided ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads specially targeting aircraft carrier groups for example.
The Chinese made those guided ballistic missiles accurate enough that they don't need nukes.
Brexit prevents most EU military cooperation so this supply failure seriously weakens British power.
Come on, now. Brexit does nothing to UK military power unless the UK decides to leave NATO as well.
Other than the money, no. Look at the currency charts. The pound dropped down a cliff and its still falling. And a strong currency kind of helps military operations as you often need to buy stuff from other countries. And being out of the EU, access to European arms markets is likely to be much more costly.
So yeah I think Brexit fucks up the UK in so many ways, military is just one of them.
Brexit prevents most EU military cooperation so this supply failure seriously weakens British power.
Spot on for the rest of the comment, but I think NATO is still alive and well (OK, maybe Trump something, for now I haven't the foggiest what he'll do with NATO and I'm betting he doesn't either) and is the primary conduit for military cooperation amongst the European states.
In any event, Brexit,Natexit or otherwise, EADS isn't going to be split apart.
NATO didn't help in the Falklands. I think Maggie refused help. IIRC the EU does provide some non-NATO military help. And then theres the economic boost of being in the EU (UK dropped from 5th largest economy to 7th since Brexit and still falling) so paying for those new missiles might be a problem.
And not all EU nations are in NATO. France is not.
the great firewall got an upgrade. now bricks devices of 'problem' citizens. this is your first warning. and don't think about switching to samsung, because when the government turns those off, it might hurt.
Or possibly, Chinese intelligence service has been distributing some defective malware which bricks target iphones.
Information sharing between agencies was made completely legal by the Homeland Security Act. As long as the initial agency obtains the information legally, it can be shared with ANY other government agency, law enforcement or not, with no legal restrictions whatsoever.
Then theres Five Eyes. So basically anything the CIA or FBI have access to, the NZSIS, ASIS, CSIS, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ all have access to. And anyone else who has hacked them, like the Russians and Chinese or IBM.
> So my feeling is that we need to 'clean up our act' very generally [...]
This.
> But we need car-free cities as well.
Very *much* this. Moving from internal combustion engines to electrical is (potentially, depends what you charge the batteries with) a good step, but the elephant in the room is having to move a ton (with an installed power envelope of well above 50kW) to haul around about 80kg of flesh (plus a smartphone). Something is highly inefficient in this way of transportation.
Problem is, people have become highly attached to it and react *very* irrationally whenever they feel this "life style" somewhat threatened.
How to convince them?
Disclaimer: I own no car. Heck, I never posessed a driving license, and I'm very happy about that.
I really sympathise with your position and thats the position I've taken myself. But I ask you this; do you have kids? Because I feel that now basically have to get a driving license and car because kids have come into the picture. I see no way around this. Public transport and taxis do not cut it.
Almost everyone turned to oauth as the bastion of mobile security. You want a list of almost every mobile app that connects to a server?
This is not a protocol bug, but a common implementation bug in mobile apps relying on OAuth for authentication. So no, not "almost every mobile app that connects to a server" will be vulnerable... only all the poorly coded ones.
Have you seen the California budget lately? No, CA does not give more than it receives. The state is in massive debt, has massive regulations, and businesses can't seem to leave the state fast enough. Just wait, massive approvals for hundreds of billions more in debt just got approved.
I thought quite a bit about this because I heard it this morning. Let CA secede, but they need to pay out all of the money they currently owe. They also need to come up with their own currency, infrastructure system and funding, and of course defense forces. Perhaps try to pay the rest of the US to do so for them, but good luck with that. A broke California with no defense will quickly become someone else' territory.
I wonder how California would feel after it's secession when we cut their fucking water off. That State drains water from all their neighbors. Good luck growing almonds.
You're aware that California grows 2/3 of the US crops? California water needs would drastically shrink if we didn't have to feed the rest of the world.
And I think the liberals were blindsided because the rampant social intimidation scewed the poll results making the Clinton campain blind to the truth.
You mean "But you have to vote for her, shes a *WOMAN* how can you not vote for the WOMAN"?
The demographics keep moving towards the Democrats. There have never been more offended Latinos, women and immigrants from the Middle East. Heck, even the Mormons were having misgivings.
I don't know where the extra Republican votes came from.
This is Slashdot -- anyone here think that hacking voting machines is a strange thought with Russia's help?
I think its pretty clear that poor, uneducated white people are still the majority by far in the USA.
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I'd start with a language that has a clear one-to-one sound mapping between the spoken and written forms of the language. Shallow phonemic orthography is the technical term, it seems.
That is, not English.
Spanish, Italian, Finnish, and Turkish are what Wikipedia mentions as examples. Japanese would count, but some words have far too many homonyms.
Thats not why Japanese is hard to lip read. Its hard because of the way people move their mouths while speaking.
English is relatively easy to lip read.
I'll be impressed when the AI can do this with Japanese, which is practically impossible for humans to lip read.
Wasn't there election day reports from Pennsylvania of straight Republican votes magically changing to Democratic votes? With cell phone video of it happening?
Magically changing to gay Democrat votes too!
What if condoms cost $1000 apiece though? Would that change your calculation at all?
Depends, what are the health insurance costs?
What's the time of flight? A large conventional explosive warhead is going to have to hit or very near-miss a carrier to have much effect. This requires knowing the carrier's position, course, and speed very accurately, and knowing the carrier group will not vary from it.
I doubt it'd be a single large conventional explosive warhead, more like a cluster of them. You don't need to sink a carrier to put it out of commission.
So they would make $300+ per iphone rather than $500+ per iphone. It's still over a 100% markup, so I fail to see much of a problem.
Of course Apple will just cut back their profit margins and keep them the same price (and still make an outrageous profit). They wouldn't shaft the fanbois no way!
And not all EU nations are in NATO. France is not.
France has rejoined NATO in 2009.
I'm out of date! Are there any EU countries not in NATO now? Not including EEA
The rest applies though.
" 80 mile / 130 m range", someone forgot a kilo in there..
This is why it fail, because they'll do the spec in imperial and miscalculate the conversions when they hand it over to a contractor whose equipment works in metric.
Then they go to fire one of these things at a target 70 miles away and wonder why the missile falls into the sea 130 meters away.
The UK has been doing "creative accounting" to lie about the amounts they are putting into defense.
Wow, well its in the Daily Mail so it must be true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
its all true!
But do her toilets work?
You haven't lived at sea have you? Just don't poop on the windward side and you'll be fine.
It's an open question really. So far they have been only attacking third world countries that can't strike back. But is it a good weapon against.. say China. The Chinese have guided ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads specially targeting aircraft carrier groups for example.
The Chinese made those guided ballistic missiles accurate enough that they don't need nukes.
Fortunately Russia is bankrupt and in a severe depression that is tanking its economy, so those fantasy systems will never exist.
So much like the UK then.
A military is sort of like an insurance policy. It's a huge waste of money until you actually need it.
Like a condom. Better to have one and not need it than need one and not have it.
Come on, now. Brexit does nothing to UK military power unless the UK decides to leave NATO as well.
Other than the money, no. Look at the currency charts. The pound dropped down a cliff and its still falling. And a strong currency kind of helps military operations as you often need to buy stuff from other countries. And being out of the EU, access to European arms markets is likely to be much more costly.
So yeah I think Brexit fucks up the UK in so many ways, military is just one of them.
Brexit prevents most EU military cooperation so this supply failure seriously weakens British power.
Spot on for the rest of the comment, but I think NATO is still alive and well (OK, maybe Trump something, for now I haven't the foggiest what he'll do with NATO and I'm betting he doesn't either) and is the primary conduit for military cooperation amongst the European states.
In any event, Brexit,Natexit or otherwise, EADS isn't going to be split apart.
NATO didn't help in the Falklands. I think Maggie refused help. IIRC the EU does provide some non-NATO military help. And then theres the economic boost of being in the EU (UK dropped from 5th largest economy to 7th since Brexit and still falling) so paying for those new missiles might be a problem.
And not all EU nations are in NATO. France is not.
the great firewall got an upgrade. now bricks devices of 'problem' citizens. this is your first warning. and don't think about switching to samsung, because when the government turns those off, it might hurt.
Or possibly, Chinese intelligence service has been distributing some defective malware which bricks target iphones.
Information sharing between agencies was made completely legal by the Homeland Security Act. As long as the initial agency obtains the information legally, it can be shared with ANY other government agency, law enforcement or not, with no legal restrictions whatsoever.
Then theres Five Eyes. So basically anything the CIA or FBI have access to, the NZSIS, ASIS, CSIS, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ all have access to. And anyone else who has hacked them, like the Russians and Chinese or IBM.
> So my feeling is that we need to 'clean up our act' very generally [...]
This.
> But we need car-free cities as well.
Very *much* this. Moving from internal combustion engines to electrical is (potentially, depends what you charge the batteries with) a good step, but the elephant in the room is having to move a ton (with an installed power envelope of well above 50kW) to haul around about 80kg of flesh (plus a smartphone). Something is highly inefficient in this way of transportation.
Problem is, people have become highly attached to it and react *very* irrationally whenever they feel this "life style" somewhat threatened.
How to convince them?
Disclaimer: I own no car. Heck, I never posessed a driving license, and I'm very happy about that.
I really sympathise with your position and thats the position I've taken myself. But I ask you this; do you have kids? Because I feel that now basically have to get a driving license and car because kids have come into the picture. I see no way around this. Public transport and taxis do not cut it.
Thanks but no.
The question should be; is systemd still optional? Because Debian 8 works fine without it.
Almost everyone turned to oauth as the bastion of mobile security. You want a list of almost every mobile app that connects to a server?
This is not a protocol bug, but a common implementation bug in mobile apps relying on OAuth for authentication. So no, not "almost every mobile app that connects to a server" will be vulnerable... only all the poorly coded ones.
Right, so pretty much all of them then.
Just how often do you get pulled over?
They may be African-American and it could be a daily occurrence.
Have you seen the California budget lately? No, CA does not give more than it receives. The state is in massive debt, has massive regulations, and businesses can't seem to leave the state fast enough. Just wait, massive approvals for hundreds of billions more in debt just got approved.
I thought quite a bit about this because I heard it this morning. Let CA secede, but they need to pay out all of the money they currently owe. They also need to come up with their own currency, infrastructure system and funding, and of course defense forces. Perhaps try to pay the rest of the US to do so for them, but good luck with that. A broke California with no defense will quickly become someone else' territory.
I'm sure China would bail them out. For a price.
I wonder how California would feel after it's secession when we cut their fucking water off. That State drains water from all their neighbors. Good luck growing almonds.
You're aware that California grows 2/3 of the US crops? California water needs would drastically shrink if we didn't have to feed the rest of the world.
'The rest of the world'?
That would be 'world' as in 'world series'.
american's are incredibly gullible and stupid
And I think the liberals were blindsided because the rampant social intimidation scewed the poll results making the Clinton campain blind to the truth.
You mean "But you have to vote for her, shes a *WOMAN* how can you not vote for the WOMAN"?
The demographics keep moving towards the Democrats. There have never been more offended Latinos, women and immigrants from the Middle East. Heck, even the Mormons were having misgivings.
I don't know where the extra Republican votes came from.
This is Slashdot -- anyone here think that hacking voting machines is a strange thought with Russia's help?
I think its pretty clear that poor, uneducated white people are still the majority by far in the USA.