Much of the technobabble in ST:TNG included either "neutrinos" or "Tachyons" in some form. The vast majority of the cases had nothing to do with the scientific understanding of neutrinos or tachyons, and was thus technobabble. It's perfectly possible to understand the current theories about neutrinos and still consider Star Trek's use of the word to be nonsense.
No, we want to keep the earth livable for humans, and in such a state that it allows further growth of society. WHY climate change happens is irrelevant to the goal of preserving the status quo. The cause is only important in that if it's caused by humans it may be cheaper or easier to stop the change. Even if climate change was primarily caused by the sun alone we'd still want to either stop it or find a way to mitigate its negative effects.
I think a large part of that is because albums are mostly just big collections of single tracks. These are not the days of "Dark Side of the Moon" where the tracks all run together, the tracks are self-contained wholes. There's no benefit to buying an entire album if you only like one track.
It could be useful for storing large media files that are played back sequentially, such as movies. I have an SGS 4, and it can do HDMI out via a dock, but lacks anywhere near the storage to keep a full movie uncompressed. With a tablet and a media dock such a drive reserved for media storage could be quite handy.
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=dev.ukanth.ufirewall may be something you'd like. It's an open-source frontend for iptables. Or you could just use a terminal emulator (or Android's USB Debugging and the SDK) and the command line iptables...
Higher sample rates allow higher frequencies, lower stuff should come through just fine.
There ARE some issues with the simple "double the max frequency = sample rate you need" rule-of-thumb though. That's only for a specific type of reconstruction (part of the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem) that isn't actually done. So there IS some interpolation error, and how much of it depends on the quality of the filtering in the output stage. In general this is very, very small, but it is present and can be detectable on some (crappy) systems.
The big issue with feeling the low-frequency rumble is that most speakers simply don't move enough air. There are setups to do so, but they're stupidly expensive. There has to be a LOT of sound energy to feel it in this way.
No, obesity wasn't considered attractive. Having some fat, not being a scarecrow, etc, were considered attractive, but obesity to the point where one couldn't even move without mechanical assistance has never been the standard for attractiveness. Michelangelo's "Venus de Milo", Botticelli's "Birth of Venus", and most other artwork of Venus and other ideal figures of beauty are quite far from obese. Even many of the "Mother Goddess" figures from the Upper Paleolithic aren't obese, merely very obvious in their fertility attributes (very large hips, obviously pregnant, large breasts) or exhibiting signs of nutritional stress causing the large buttocks (steatopygia.) EG the Venus of Dolni Vestonice.
The difference is not "more efficient than normal mouse gut bacteria" but "more efficient than obese human gut bacteria." If the mouse gut bacteria and the non-obese human gut bacteria have equal efficiency then you wouldn't expect a change in the mouse weight.
Acid reflux is the stomach acid coming back up and harming the esophagus. Some foods can stimulate that reaction, but it's not actually the food acid causing the damage.
There's a third, easier choice: betting. The probability that the NSA has compromised something from Intel is probably rather high. Especially something to recognize common Windows encryption systems. I think it's high because that would be a good target, the Intel CPUs are complex enough to hide malicious blocks in,. and the NSA has the technical ability and money to do so. The probability that the NSA has compromised Creative and some of the other major sound-card makers to have their cards give reduced-entropy output is rather high, for the same reasons as above. They have the money and expertise, sound card noise is a common way to seed RNGs, they'd be silly not to damage that entropy pool if they could (unless they actually cared about the security of US citizens. Tip your server, I'll be here all night.) The probability that the NSA has compromised every input system of most computers is much lower. The types of inputs that can be safely meddled with without the user noticing are quite low. If they were messing with data input over USB people would have noticed by now. So it's probably safe to trust such things. The probability that the NSA has compromised Atmel's AtMegaxx8 series of chips is rather low. There's less there to compromise, and they're not used as much for anything the NSA cares about. The same goes for most other microcontroller and FPGA manufacturers. So it should be possible to make a USB-based system, preferably as a kit, that can do various encryption operations with a low probability of having been compromised in hardware by the NSA. Similar things apply to many other systems. And if using FPGAs one could potentially even accelerate crypto on some systems.
The sound card could be compromised. The CPU could be compromised. All software needs some hardware to run on, and the trust in that hardware has just been degraded.
You also can't guarantee that your CPU is actually executing the instructions you send it, and only the instructions you send it. The NSA could easily have plants in the design teams at Intel/AMD/ARM working backdoors into the hardware.
.Note that I said "higher probability of reducing fitness" not "always reduces fitness." The energy argument is correct, but probabilistic. The effects of the proteins are likely to be poor if the proteins are chosen randomly out of the set of all possible proteins (similar to the case with natural mutation) but not as likely to be poor if the proteins are chosen deliberately for a purpose.
The NSA uses automated scanners to read every e-mail that passes through one of their scanning points (that they have points at all connections outside the US is confirmed) and save the ones that match certain criteria. An agent isn't reading them, but the NSA is scanning the contents. Further, the NSA defines what the filter criteria are, and can change them at any time without oversight. The NSA claims to typically save only metadata (sender, recipient, time sent, size, etc,) but with their history of lying one would be foolish to trust these claims.
No, the point is that adding extra proteins for a cell to make costs energy, and that has a much higher probability of reducing fitness than increasing it. It says nothing about evolution having "peaked."
Many current home routers assign DHCP as follows: Router is 192.168.0.1 DHCP devices are.2,.3, etc, assigned sequentially. Some start at 100.
So you can scan the first few addresses, and if you don't get a hit you move on to the next/64. It's simpler to code your DHCP server to assign addresses sequentially than randomly, so it will get done that way to save money.
Gravity and the Higgs are actually unrelated. http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/the-higgs-particle/the-higgs-faq-2-0/ is worth reading, and some of the other articles on there go into quite a bit more detail.
Essentially, the bit you don't get is the whole point of public-key cryptography. RSA happens to be rather easy to understand, so it should be helpful to study it.
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Much of the technobabble in ST:TNG included either "neutrinos" or "Tachyons" in some form. The vast majority of the cases had nothing to do with the scientific understanding of neutrinos or tachyons, and was thus technobabble. It's perfectly possible to understand the current theories about neutrinos and still consider Star Trek's use of the word to be nonsense.
Posting as AC silently undoes moderations to the same discussion made from the same IP.
No, we want to keep the earth livable for humans, and in such a state that it allows further growth of society. WHY climate change happens is irrelevant to the goal of preserving the status quo. The cause is only important in that if it's caused by humans it may be cheaper or easier to stop the change. Even if climate change was primarily caused by the sun alone we'd still want to either stop it or find a way to mitigate its negative effects.
Wait, they have nutritional value?!
I think a large part of that is because albums are mostly just big collections of single tracks. These are not the days of "Dark Side of the Moon" where the tracks all run together, the tracks are self-contained wholes. There's no benefit to buying an entire album if you only like one track.
No, Popular is one of the colors you can get Superior in, if you feel like tossing a lot of celebrities in a big lake.
BGA (ball grid array) chips are the issue, they don't tolerate having the board they're attached to flex as much as most other package types.
It could be useful for storing large media files that are played back sequentially, such as movies. I have an SGS 4, and it can do HDMI out via a dock, but lacks anywhere near the storage to keep a full movie uncompressed. With a tablet and a media dock such a drive reserved for media storage could be quite handy.
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=dev.ukanth.ufirewall may be something you'd like. It's an open-source frontend for iptables. Or you could just use a terminal emulator (or Android's USB Debugging and the SDK) and the command line iptables...
Higher sample rates allow higher frequencies, lower stuff should come through just fine.
There ARE some issues with the simple "double the max frequency = sample rate you need" rule-of-thumb though. That's only for a specific type of reconstruction (part of the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem) that isn't actually done. So there IS some interpolation error, and how much of it depends on the quality of the filtering in the output stage. In general this is very, very small, but it is present and can be detectable on some (crappy) systems.
The big issue with feeling the low-frequency rumble is that most speakers simply don't move enough air. There are setups to do so, but they're stupidly expensive. There has to be a LOT of sound energy to feel it in this way.
Or perhaps the "tongue-boring-through-cheek dept." might give someone a hint that it's satire...
Nope, apparently not around here.
Well, for me, I can at least feel I didn't help contribute to this mess.
Falcons would be more effective than hawks for catching pigeons.
No, obesity wasn't considered attractive. Having some fat, not being a scarecrow, etc, were considered attractive, but obesity to the point where one couldn't even move without mechanical assistance has never been the standard for attractiveness. Michelangelo's "Venus de Milo", Botticelli's "Birth of Venus", and most other artwork of Venus and other ideal figures of beauty are quite far from obese. Even many of the "Mother Goddess" figures from the Upper Paleolithic aren't obese, merely very obvious in their fertility attributes (very large hips, obviously pregnant, large breasts) or exhibiting signs of nutritional stress causing the large buttocks (steatopygia.) EG the Venus of Dolni Vestonice.
The difference is not "more efficient than normal mouse gut bacteria" but "more efficient than obese human gut bacteria." If the mouse gut bacteria and the non-obese human gut bacteria have equal efficiency then you wouldn't expect a change in the mouse weight.
Acid reflux is the stomach acid coming back up and harming the esophagus. Some foods can stimulate that reaction, but it's not actually the food acid causing the damage.
There's a third, easier choice: betting.
The probability that the NSA has compromised something from Intel is probably rather high. Especially something to recognize common Windows encryption systems. I think it's high because that would be a good target, the Intel CPUs are complex enough to hide malicious blocks in,. and the NSA has the technical ability and money to do so.
The probability that the NSA has compromised Creative and some of the other major sound-card makers to have their cards give reduced-entropy output is rather high, for the same reasons as above. They have the money and expertise, sound card noise is a common way to seed RNGs, they'd be silly not to damage that entropy pool if they could (unless they actually cared about the security of US citizens. Tip your server, I'll be here all night.)
The probability that the NSA has compromised every input system of most computers is much lower. The types of inputs that can be safely meddled with without the user noticing are quite low. If they were messing with data input over USB people would have noticed by now. So it's probably safe to trust such things.
The probability that the NSA has compromised Atmel's AtMegaxx8 series of chips is rather low. There's less there to compromise, and they're not used as much for anything the NSA cares about. The same goes for most other microcontroller and FPGA manufacturers.
So it should be possible to make a USB-based system, preferably as a kit, that can do various encryption operations with a low probability of having been compromised in hardware by the NSA. Similar things apply to many other systems. And if using FPGAs one could potentially even accelerate crypto on some systems.
The sound card could be compromised. The CPU could be compromised. All software needs some hardware to run on, and the trust in that hardware has just been degraded.
You also can't guarantee that your CPU is actually executing the instructions you send it, and only the instructions you send it. The NSA could easily have plants in the design teams at Intel/AMD/ARM working backdoors into the hardware.
.Note that I said "higher probability of reducing fitness" not "always reduces fitness." The energy argument is correct, but probabilistic. The effects of the proteins are likely to be poor if the proteins are chosen randomly out of the set of all possible proteins (similar to the case with natural mutation) but not as likely to be poor if the proteins are chosen deliberately for a purpose.
The NSA uses automated scanners to read every e-mail that passes through one of their scanning points (that they have points at all connections outside the US is confirmed) and save the ones that match certain criteria. An agent isn't reading them, but the NSA is scanning the contents. Further, the NSA defines what the filter criteria are, and can change them at any time without oversight. The NSA claims to typically save only metadata (sender, recipient, time sent, size, etc,) but with their history of lying one would be foolish to trust these claims.
No, the point is that adding extra proteins for a cell to make costs energy, and that has a much higher probability of reducing fitness than increasing it. It says nothing about evolution having "peaked."
Many current home routers assign DHCP as follows: .2, .3, etc, assigned sequentially. Some start at 100.
/64. It's simpler to code your DHCP server to assign addresses sequentially than randomly, so it will get done that way to save money.
Router is 192.168.0.1
DHCP devices are
So you can scan the first few addresses, and if you don't get a hit you move on to the next
Gravity and the Higgs are actually unrelated. http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/the-higgs-particle/the-higgs-faq-2-0/ is worth reading, and some of the other articles on there go into quite a bit more detail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28algorithm%29#Operation
Essentially, the bit you don't get is the whole point of public-key cryptography. RSA happens to be rather easy to understand, so it should be helpful to study it.