Of course he answered the question, the only way that matters: "Yes, non-nuclear EMP weapon technology does exists. And is utterly impractical. So it may as well not exist."
As pointed out earlier, if $BADGUY has enough chemical explosive to build a functional NNEMP, they're not going to waste it on a limit-range pulse generator; they're going to build truck bombs, time bombs, and other far-more efficient (and far easier to deploy) forms of destruction.
Sheesh. Clueless pedantry seems to be the vogue today.
Correction: the spatial resolution of the NPP Suomi (VIIRS instrument) imagery is about 500 meters per pixel, not 1km. 1km is the approximate resolution of the MODIS instrument for the previous-generation Blue Marble pictures (Terra and Aqua spacecraft).
That begs the question that "balance sheets are the best scorecards".
I understand that is the conventional wisdom; anyone who questions that is generally viewed as some kind of heretic, hippy, or anarchist.
Question the premise and you allow points of view like Woz's, or Stallman's, or anyone who argues for more social responsibility and ecological awareness. But demand that every answer results in "MAKE MOAR MONEYS" and we wind up with shiny traps, tragically-abused commons, and proprietary ownership of almost anything that was once public domain.
So, yeah, society definitely needs to outgrow the "Wealth is proof of correctness" mindset.
The "Blue Marble" image you're pointing at is based on EOS (Terra/Aqua) imagery. The most recent NASA Blue Marble (Blue Marble 2012) is a composite based on the new NPP Suomi spacecraft, with approximately a 1-km pixel resolution.
As to "accurate"... I think the Blue Marble images (based on the visible-light band sensors of their respective spacecraft) are closer to what a naked eye in orbit would perceive than the Russian imagery, which seems to include false-color infrared. But "naked eye in orbit" is scientifically less useful than the multi-spectral IR and visible all of these spacecraft can sense.
That's it?!? No apology for having no sense of humour?
I think it's evidence of a well-balanced personality. His absolute lack of humor is very well offset by his complete lack of shame. That's a winning combination for a wanna-be politician, too. Now, if only he could scrape up some charm from someplace...
Um... if you don't have that expectation of any repair facility, you're doing it wrong.
If I drive my car away from the local garage, I do not feel or express surprise it didn't explode when I started the engine. It's a repair shop. I expect it it repair things.
If a repair facility breaks something, it doesn't matter if the facility was at the dealership or Joe's Garage... and frankly, the worst service I've ever had on most anything was with "authorized" repair providers, so the implicit "An Apple-authorized repair facility wouldn't have done this" is wrong on its face. (Unless you're still subject to the RDF and hold the faith-based position that an Apple anything is infallible and sacrosanct.)
As for people who didn't have permission, that would constitute unauthorized computer access, and is also a criminal offense.
True. But it would never come to that, since the law is a lazy evaluation system and bails out after finding the first perpetrator and the the first offense: the subscriber, and whatever heinous thing the subscriber is accused of. In that case, "someone else did it" becomes just an ineffective defense, and the prosecution gets what it wants anyway: a conviction.
Justice? That's not the point, amiright? Sure, I'm right.
One would be remiss to not file a police report upon discovery, and cooperate with the police to discover the perpetrator. To not do this, in fact, would be indication of implied consent of the activity, and therefore you'd be held responsible again.
Exactly.
Let me guess. You sell network security tools or intrusion detection systems, right? "The only way you're gonna avoid getting busted for whatever happens from your IP address is if you watch your network obsessively... and my $PRODUCT will do that for you."
And of course, no one has ever been accused of and publicly pilloried for a crime they didn't commit, but reported to proper authority. Reporting a criminal event on your own property, committed with your own resources, is tantamount to turning yourself in and confessing to the crime. Thanks for playing.
I dunno, posting speculative internal noodlings of the dev team of a popular and mildly controversial product has wonderful potential for NERRRRDRRRRAGE-powered page views and updates. From that perspective, it's absolutely the opposite of pointless. ("Pointy"? "Pointful"? "Poignant"? "On-point"?)
Hey! We need you! Your students will hate you, your administration will suspect you, you'll be paid a pittance for long hours and much work, you'll be subject to every lawsuit a disgruntled punk can talk his drunken mother into starting, you'll pay for your supplies out of pocket, we may have to lay you off with almost no warning, and we'll be spying on you on-line. But other than that, it's a dream job!
OK, does civilization need to extend admiralty law to space? Legally, how do hulk ownership and "marine" salvage work? How about the Law of the Sea; for instance, orbit territory, laws of innocent passage, etc.
If we don't have something, we just have anarchy. And even at sea, where long-standing laws and treaties hold, we already have enough of that.
Dammit. I think the Chinese just refurbished our operating commsats and used the parts in one of their early warning satellites.
Seriously. If you can do this with abandoned satellites, can you do it with not-quite abandoned ones? The only difference between junking a car at the junkyard and stripping a car on the street (besides location) is the fact that someone still owns the car on the street.
We're gonna wind up with satellites with no radio, no trim, and up on cinderblocks.
They're not sending the films out with patrols. They're showing them at base theaters
Well, that's great, then. Any of those troops out there at some God-forsaken FOB can just catch a ride back to the main base for their movie nights out. They don't need entertainment in their little tent camps. They have the Taliban for that.
BTW, I'm not picking on you. It's not your idea, and I'm sure you're right about how it really works. I'm a retired Air Force guy, and if I understand correctly, most of us in-country are still pretty much base-bound. If so, this cartoon characterizes the inequities of campaign life: The REMFs get all the good stuff, the guys at the pointy end pretty much get the shaft. And the guy who was the subject of TFA did what it takes to fix this one little inequity. I hope he doesn't catch the shaft himself, since 300,000 counts of willful copyright infringement probably exposes him to something like 300 death sentences.
Primm Slim has been elected your local sheriff. The good news is that he'll never become violent with you, since he has no combat AI. The bad news is that he'll never become violent with criminals, since he has no combat AI.
the glass is more fragile than a nerd's dreams of world dominance and scoring hawt supermodels, so you'll have to layer it under mere mortal Gorilla glass, losing all of those amazing Super surface texturing effects. But at least it'll appear in the BoM, and on the marketing, and in the price. Particularly in the price.
You probably don't have any doubts about CISPA, either. There's no way anyone will run afoul of that, since the powers behind that can be counted on to never turn evil.
This is why, in a word-association game, the sane response in to "trusting" is "fool".
One man's traitor is another's patriot. One's whistleblower is another's spy. One's heretic is another's saint.
History is the consensus choice of alternate terms based on outcome (i.e., which side won the conflict).
In the immediate here-and-now, the choice is entirely based on the speaker's alignment with the parties in the conflict. The behavior of the organs of power is irrelevant to this. Only, perhaps, to the practical fate of the traitor/patriot/whistleblower/spy/heretic/saint. Hence, the availability of another term: "martyr".
At least the comparisons are between Minecraft and Bitcoins. If the comparisons were between Bitcoins and Dwarf Fortress, you'd have to worry that someone will tunnel through an adamantine tube and unleash the hordes of Hell somewhere around BC 20,999,998.
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Of course he answered the question, the only way that matters: "Yes, non-nuclear EMP weapon technology does exists. And is utterly impractical. So it may as well not exist."
As pointed out earlier, if $BADGUY has enough chemical explosive to build a functional NNEMP, they're not going to waste it on a limit-range pulse generator; they're going to build truck bombs, time bombs, and other far-more efficient (and far easier to deploy) forms of destruction.
Sheesh. Clueless pedantry seems to be the vogue today.
Correction: the spatial resolution of the NPP Suomi (VIIRS instrument) imagery is about 500 meters per pixel, not 1km. 1km is the approximate resolution of the MODIS instrument for the previous-generation Blue Marble pictures (Terra and Aqua spacecraft).
That begs the question that "balance sheets are the best scorecards".
I understand that is the conventional wisdom; anyone who questions that is generally viewed as some kind of heretic, hippy, or anarchist.
Question the premise and you allow points of view like Woz's, or Stallman's, or anyone who argues for more social responsibility and ecological awareness. But demand that every answer results in "MAKE MOAR MONEYS" and we wind up with shiny traps, tragically-abused commons, and proprietary ownership of almost anything that was once public domain.
So, yeah, society definitely needs to outgrow the "Wealth is proof of correctness" mindset.
The "Blue Marble" image you're pointing at is based on EOS (Terra/Aqua) imagery. The most recent NASA Blue Marble (Blue Marble 2012) is a composite based on the new NPP Suomi spacecraft, with approximately a 1-km pixel resolution.
As to "accurate"... I think the Blue Marble images (based on the visible-light band sensors of their respective spacecraft) are closer to what a naked eye in orbit would perceive than the Russian imagery, which seems to include false-color infrared. But "naked eye in orbit" is scientifically less useful than the multi-spectral IR and visible all of these spacecraft can sense.
I think Dr. Schrödinger's cat Günter may use umlauts. Maybe not. No one's seen it in a while.
Yeah. I don't so much call it "googling" as "having it remembered for me wholesale".
Hey, wait... now apparently Google thinks I vacationed on Mars at some point...
That's it?!? No apology for having no sense of humour?
I think it's evidence of a well-balanced personality. His absolute lack of humor is very well offset by his complete lack of shame. That's a winning combination for a wanna-be politician, too. Now, if only he could scrape up some charm from someplace...
Irony: holding a faith-based belief that another's faith-based beliefs are evidence of intellectual inferiority because they're faith-based.
Um... if you don't have that expectation of any repair facility, you're doing it wrong.
If I drive my car away from the local garage, I do not feel or express surprise it didn't explode when I started the engine. It's a repair shop. I expect it it repair things.
If a repair facility breaks something, it doesn't matter if the facility was at the dealership or Joe's Garage... and frankly, the worst service I've ever had on most anything was with "authorized" repair providers, so the implicit "An Apple-authorized repair facility wouldn't have done this" is wrong on its face. (Unless you're still subject to the RDF and hold the faith-based position that an Apple anything is infallible and sacrosanct.)
As for people who didn't have permission, that would constitute unauthorized computer access, and is also a criminal offense.
True. But it would never come to that, since the law is a lazy evaluation system and bails out after finding the first perpetrator and the the first offense: the subscriber, and whatever heinous thing the subscriber is accused of. In that case, "someone else did it" becomes just an ineffective defense, and the prosecution gets what it wants anyway: a conviction.
Justice? That's not the point, amiright? Sure, I'm right.
One would be remiss to not file a police report upon discovery, and cooperate with the police to discover the perpetrator. To not do this, in fact, would be indication of implied consent of the activity, and therefore you'd be held responsible again.
Exactly.
Let me guess. You sell network security tools or intrusion detection systems, right? "The only way you're gonna avoid getting busted for whatever happens from your IP address is if you watch your network obsessively... and my $PRODUCT will do that for you."
And of course, no one has ever been accused of and publicly pilloried for a crime they didn't commit, but reported to proper authority. Reporting a criminal event on your own property, committed with your own resources, is tantamount to turning yourself in and confessing to the crime. Thanks for playing.
I dunno, posting speculative internal noodlings of the dev team of a popular and mildly controversial product has wonderful potential for NERRRRDRRRRAGE-powered page views and updates. From that perspective, it's absolutely the opposite of pointless. ("Pointy"? "Pointful"? "Poignant"? "On-point"?)
I thought it was a golfing tutorial. That's why I passed it by.
It does seem like a pretty poor recruiting pitch.
Hey! We need you! Your students will hate you, your administration will suspect you, you'll be paid a pittance for long hours and much work, you'll be subject to every lawsuit a disgruntled punk can talk his drunken mother into starting, you'll pay for your supplies out of pocket, we may have to lay you off with almost no warning, and we'll be spying on you on-line. But other than that, it's a dream job!
Please. Go ahead and implement those in pure hardware. I'll wait.
(This should be good. I've never seen schematics that big.)
OK, does civilization need to extend admiralty law to space? Legally, how do hulk ownership and "marine" salvage work? How about the Law of the Sea; for instance, orbit territory, laws of innocent passage, etc.
If we don't have something, we just have anarchy. And even at sea, where long-standing laws and treaties hold, we already have enough of that.
on a bright spring day in 2020:
Dammit. I think the Chinese just refurbished our operating commsats and used the parts in one of their early warning satellites.
Seriously. If you can do this with abandoned satellites, can you do it with not-quite abandoned ones? The only difference between junking a car at the junkyard and stripping a car on the street (besides location) is the fact that someone still owns the car on the street.
We're gonna wind up with satellites with no radio, no trim, and up on cinderblocks.
They're not sending the films out with patrols. They're showing them at base theaters
Well, that's great, then. Any of those troops out there at some God-forsaken FOB can just catch a ride back to the main base for their movie nights out. They don't need entertainment in their little tent camps. They have the Taliban for that.
BTW, I'm not picking on you. It's not your idea, and I'm sure you're right about how it really works. I'm a retired Air Force guy, and if I understand correctly, most of us in-country are still pretty much base-bound. If so, this cartoon characterizes the inequities of campaign life: The REMFs get all the good stuff, the guys at the pointy end pretty much get the shaft. And the guy who was the subject of TFA did what it takes to fix this one little inequity. I hope he doesn't catch the shaft himself, since 300,000 counts of willful copyright infringement probably exposes him to something like 300 death sentences.
Primm Slim has been elected your local sheriff. The good news is that he'll never become violent with you, since he has no combat AI. The bad news is that he'll never become violent with criminals, since he has no combat AI.
Great for practical jokes, not so great for beer drinking.
WTF are you talking about? This might be the greatest advancement in human history in hybridizing "beer bong" and "drinking from the fire hose". EVAR.
the glass is more fragile than a nerd's dreams of world dominance and scoring hawt supermodels, so you'll have to layer it under mere mortal Gorilla glass, losing all of those amazing Super surface texturing effects. But at least it'll appear in the BoM, and on the marketing, and in the price. Particularly in the price.
That is cold comfort to those who want to publish video in WebM format.
Alas, the avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
You probably don't have any doubts about CISPA, either. There's no way anyone will run afoul of that, since the powers behind that can be counted on to never turn evil.
This is why, in a word-association game, the sane response in to "trusting" is "fool".
One man's traitor is another's patriot. One's whistleblower is another's spy. One's heretic is another's saint.
History is the consensus choice of alternate terms based on outcome (i.e., which side won the conflict).
In the immediate here-and-now, the choice is entirely based on the speaker's alignment with the parties in the conflict. The behavior of the organs of power is irrelevant to this. Only, perhaps, to the practical fate of the traitor/patriot/whistleblower/spy/heretic/saint. Hence, the availability of another term: "martyr".
Poe's Law
At least the comparisons are between Minecraft and Bitcoins. If the comparisons were between Bitcoins and Dwarf Fortress, you'd have to worry that someone will tunnel through an adamantine tube and unleash the hordes of Hell somewhere around BC 20,999,998.