If we really want to try to install any kind of access security, at the very least the access code should not be on the card but at a (gosh) salted hashed dbase.
I'd suggest going to chipped ATM cards as well, but from what I hear those are not particularly foolproof either.
Pretty much any host computer is subject to a MITM attack vector here (the computer IS in the middle of the transaction)
First of all, most of the people who are posting here don't know squat about laser types, and I'd guess that most of the people reading here that do know about laser types and the JSF plans for same aren't talking.
I'll just state for the record that there are lots of laser types other than chemical or diode. I'll also point out what should be obvious: controlling the beam's phase as well as pointing accuracy is critical to achieving high power density on target.
There's this bright shining lie (with apologies to Sheehan) in America that one can only achieve salvation -or something- via long, hard work. It's a lie.
There is no reason anyone should work long hours, or even any hours at all (see The Diamond Age) once robotics proliferate. There are plenty of ways to be happy while not having a "job," and it's foolish to think that we should have to pay for goods and services that are produced at little to no cost.
Part of the transition to a truly money-free society is the guaranteed minimum income, or similarly named government distributions to all citizens. It sure would be nice if the next step were to make the "standard' work week 30 or 25 hours. It's certainly doable.
There are actual ethical considerations with this sort of thing that have nothing to do with religion or souls or Baby Jesus.
Human rights is easily subverted when you can just redefine who is actually human.
But "ethics" is just a societal construct, and varies widely from person to person. As to redefining who is human, you may recall there are activists who want the Great Apes and chimps to be defined as human -- and other groups who want reasonably advanced robots to be defined as human.
Whether you choose to define an embryo as being human at 9 months, 6 months, or 13.75 days is completely arbitrary.
First, and most likely -- the writers and designers just plain lacked vision of what advanced tech could be. Compare, for example, 50's SciFi where FTL spaceships still had engineers using slide rules. In Starman Jones, they depend on a dead-tree book for coordinates, and read them aloud to the keypunch entry guy. In Feeling of Power, there is a handl-held calculator, but its readout consists of pinball-machine-like cylinders with 0:9 printed on them.
THe other factor is that you can't make the movie too far disconnected from what the audience will recognize, or they'll give up on it entirely.
Sounds like it to me. And at least back in those days, you could return anything you didn't want for free. But the LP/CD clubs didn't charge a monthly fee for belonging, which I think is the new twist here.
Personally, I'd send a return-receipt registered letter telling them you ain't a member any more, and use that when it gets to lawsuit or debt-collection time.
A chunk of thousands of years ago, a particularly nasty invasive species escaped from its natural habitat in Africa. Everywhere it went, it took over, causing the extinction of many animal species. To date, no workable approach to containing this species, either via mechanical methods or via evolution of a predator species, has come into being. However, as with every known population explosion known to anthropologists, biologists, and paleontologists, sooner or later there will be some sort of mass societal collapse and the species will either go extinct or withdraw into a few small, isolated colonies.
Sorry, but, direct from Boeing Corp's own pages: http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2004/february/i_history.html "People who lean toward math and engineering are certain that 707 was chosen because it is the sine of the angle of wing sweep on a 707. It's not, since the wing sweep is 35 degrees and not 45. However, more people lean toward superstition and feel that the positive connotation of the number seven was the reason it was selected.
The truth is a bit more mundane. Boeing has assigned sequential model numbers to its designs for decades, as have most aircraft manufacturers. Boeing commercial aircraft use their model number as their popular name: Model 40, Model 80, Model 247, Model 307 Stratoliner and Model 377 Stratocruiser."
They produce a brown liquid that is a vague approximation of coffee.
I believe the official slashdotically approved phrasing is "..a brown liquid that tasted almost, but not entirely, nothing like coffee." (apologies to the obvious paraphrasee)
As I've said before, You CANNOT replace mirrors with cameras. The reason is that the image you see in the side, or the rearview, mirror, is at full distance, same focal range as the road you're viewing ahead. Camera displays force you to focus on the monitor screen, i.e. a couple feet or less from your face. It's difficult and tiring to continually refocus (and rather expensive to stick a collimating lens in front of each camera monitor to move the image to infinity).
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If we really want to try to install any kind of access security, at the very least the access code should not be on the card but at a (gosh) salted hashed dbase.
I'd suggest going to chipped ATM cards as well, but from what I hear those are not particularly foolproof either.
Pretty much any host computer is subject to a MITM attack vector here (the computer IS in the middle of the transaction)
Got it, the all knowing Google apparently isn't so hip to this.
Most Wonderful He-Got-Whooshed message of the decade!
What's a "time fly"?
My guess is it's what happens when you cross Dr. Who with The Fly.
And Blumenthal confirmed today that there is no "Clinton bombshell."
Meanwhile, Trump confirmed that his daughter is a "bombshell."
There does seem to be an infinite supply of folks who can't wait to get Whooshed.
And I'm not talking Hyperloop here.
First of all, most of the people who are posting here don't know squat about laser types, and I'd guess that most of the people reading here that do know about laser types and the JSF plans for same aren't talking.
I'll just state for the record that there are lots of laser types other than chemical or diode.
I'll also point out what should be obvious: controlling the beam's phase as well as pointing accuracy is critical to achieving high power density on target.
The "I am easily Whooshed" factor is very strong in this one, Obi-Wan.
There's this bright shining lie (with apologies to Sheehan) in America that one can only achieve salvation -or something- via long, hard work. It's a lie.
There is no reason anyone should work long hours, or even any hours at all (see The Diamond Age) once robotics proliferate. There are plenty of ways to be happy while not having a "job," and it's foolish to think that we should have to pay for goods and services that are produced at little to no cost.
Part of the transition to a truly money-free society is the guaranteed minimum income, or similarly named government distributions to all citizens. It sure would be nice if the next step were to make the "standard' work week 30 or 25 hours. It's certainly doable.
There are actual ethical considerations with this sort of thing that have nothing to do with religion or souls or Baby Jesus.
Human rights is easily subverted when you can just redefine who is actually human.
But "ethics" is just a societal construct, and varies widely from person to person.
As to redefining who is human, you may recall there are activists who want the Great Apes and chimps to be defined as human -- and other groups who want reasonably advanced robots to be defined as human.
Whether you choose to define an embryo as being human at 9 months, 6 months, or 13.75 days is completely arbitrary.
First, and most likely -- the writers and designers just plain lacked vision of what advanced tech could be. Compare, for example, 50's SciFi where FTL spaceships still had engineers using slide rules. In Starman Jones, they depend on a dead-tree book for coordinates, and read them aloud to the keypunch entry guy.
In Feeling of Power, there is a handl-held calculator, but its readout consists of pinball-machine-like cylinders with 0:9 printed on them.
THe other factor is that you can't make the movie too far disconnected from what the audience will recognize, or they'll give up on it entirely.
The sky is falling,
Boy who cried wolf.
We have lots of cautionary tales from our youth that nobody seems to listen to. Because OH MY GAWD WE ALL GONNA DIE! makes great headlines.
What point are you trying to make here? The sky was absolutely not falling. The boy ended up being eaten by wolves. Pick one or the other.
... and we'll make the fish pay for it! Make America's oceans great again!
So, how do you say "Streisand Effect" in Klingon?
Sounds like it to me. And at least back in those days, you could return anything you didn't want for free. But the LP/CD clubs didn't charge a monthly fee for belonging, which I think is the new twist here.
Personally, I'd send a return-receipt registered letter telling them you ain't a member any more, and use that when it gets to lawsuit or debt-collection time.
That would've made the story far more interesting, if a guy's head was attached to a woman's body.
It's been done. Heinlein "I will fear no evil" .
As long as we're already descending into aburdities, here's how to beat the laser wall:
Each vehicle crosses in less than 1/2 of each signal pulse width, so the receiver never misses a bit.
Pakistan can reward me with bitcoins or local produce for that hint.
You've probably heard it before, but...
A chunk of thousands of years ago, a particularly nasty invasive species escaped from its natural habitat in Africa. Everywhere it went, it took over, causing the extinction of many animal species. To date, no workable approach to containing this species, either via mechanical methods or via evolution of a predator species, has come into being. However, as with every known population explosion known to anthropologists, biologists, and paleontologists, sooner or later there will be some sort of mass societal collapse and the species will either go extinct or withdraw into a few small, isolated colonies.
And yeah, I do mean us.
Sorry, but, direct from Boeing Corp's own pages:
http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2004/february/i_history.html
"People who lean toward math and engineering are certain that 707 was chosen because it is the sine of the angle of wing sweep on a 707. It's not, since the wing sweep is 35 degrees and not 45. However, more people lean toward superstition and feel that the positive connotation of the number seven was the reason it was selected.
The truth is a bit more mundane. Boeing has assigned sequential model numbers to its designs for decades, as have most aircraft manufacturers. Boeing commercial aircraft use their model number as their popular name: Model 40, Model 80, Model 247, Model 307 Stratoliner and Model 377 Stratocruiser."
You're a debate team member. That means you want to win despite the underlying validity or lack thereof in your position.
That makes your entire post pointless, unless you like trolling.
As NdGT says, "Lawyers argue. Scientists discuss and test."
evolved into Mackie's knife, eh?
They produce a brown liquid that is a vague approximation of coffee.
I believe the official slashdotically approved phrasing is "..a brown liquid that tasted almost, but not entirely, nothing like coffee."
(apologies to the obvious paraphrasee)
As long as we're abusing inductive proofs, might as well point out that all prime numbers are odd.
Step One: all prime numbers except "2" are odd numbers.
Step Two: that makes "2" a pretty odd prime number...
What is the truth?
Paul Pierce, of course.
And another person wrote:
Since they have changed their "post-hack" story at least once,
So, you're saying they made a post-hac change to the post-hack story? //rimshot
As I've said before, You CANNOT replace mirrors with cameras. The reason is that the image you see in the side, or the rearview, mirror, is at full distance, same focal range as the road you're viewing ahead. Camera displays force you to focus on the monitor screen, i.e. a couple feet or less from your face. It's difficult and tiring to continually refocus (and rather expensive to stick a collimating lens in front of each camera monitor to move the image to infinity).
When if get's to smart will it try to kill the people who it's feels are trying to trun it off.
No, but it will certainly take out people who use apostrophes like so much table salt.