I watched a Delta launch from a bar in Orlando once, but that had SRBs. In day launches, the shuttle would disappear pretty quickly after SRB separation--at night you could often see it until it was pretty close to the horizon--but I'm not sure how much smoke, if any, the Falcon engines may produce to give you a trail to follow.
I set one of these up a while ago with an old Atom server I had lying around. A couple of hours' work, about $15 for the USB receiver, and the antenna is just taped to my bedroom windowsill. Works OK out to around 100 miles, though reception gets patchy beyond 50.
I'd often wondered where all the vapour trails over our heads were going, and now I know. Of course, I could have saved time and just looked it up on the Internet:).
> I thought the mantra of the Democrat party was equality through mediocrity?
Some Democrats do this, yes. Some Republicans believe in ~~equality~~ fuck you, I got mine. I'm not sure which is worse.
You can't suddenly make mediocre people good at what they do, so the only way for the left to enforce equality is to make the good people mediocre.
I read an autobiography some years ago by a woman who was in the Chinese Army in the 70s or 80s, and one thing that particularly stood out was the part where she wrote about how she had to deliberately shoot badly on the shooting range, because anyone who could shoot well would be punished for making the others look bad.
The BBC had a news article a while back about an African country that officially had a 30% (I think) tax rate, but no-one paid it, so they offered people the option of registering for a 3% tax rate, which increased their income because the average they actually managed to collect with their 30% rate was only 2%.
But, hey, it's all the fault of the EVIL BASTARDS who won't pay their FAIR SHARE!
Mis-reporting income and expenses is fraud last time I looked. This goes for businesses where one division over-charges another to shift profits from one country to another. These practices are coming under increasing scrutiny globally.
Then these companies will soon be in court on fraud charges, won't they?
Want to straighten the ad problem out fast? Sales tax in the country/state/county of purchase.
Yeah, let's put all those mom-and-pop Internet businesses out of business because they don't want the hassle of complying with the tax laws of three hundred pissant little countries. Right on! That'll stick it to the Man!
And who else can walk up and simply kick the door in? Is the risk of a break-in significantly changed by using the phone app? Why wouldn't anyone who wanted in simply kick in the door or just break a window?
Let's see.
1. Joe Burglar walks up to your front door, unlocks it, walks in. Neighbours assume he's just a friend as he walks out again with a bag full of your stuff and locks the door behind him. 2. Joe Burglar walks up to your front door, kicks it in. Neighbours call 911.
See the tiny little difference?
I honestly can't understand why anyone would even think this 'Internet Of Things' crap is a good idea unless they make money from selling it.
But surely anyone able to perform an MITM attack on the key can also perform a MITM attack on DNS, since it's not authenticated? I presume you'd at least need DNSSEC to prevent that?
I was mostly talking about the fallout. You notice Pripyat hasn't been rebuilt.
Bomb fallout decays rapidly because it's mostly short-lived isotopes from the explosion. Reactor fallout takes much longer, because it's mostly due to isotopes with much longer half-lives. On the plus side, because of that, the initial radiation level would typically be much lower.
If we dropped, say, a 50 megaton bomb on them, they wouldn't be.
To be fair, both cities were flattened for a large distance around ground zero, and mostly rebuilt since. They were airbursts, so the fallout mostly blew away when it wasn't brought down by rain storms, but probably small enough that many people were killed by the immediate radiation; with a 50MT bomb, anyone close enough to be killed by that radiation would already have been vapourized.
Uh, dude. This was, like, a war. Thousands of people were dying every day. So, no, they didn't worry that a few people might die as a result of developing a bomb that could end the war months earlier than it otherwise might have done, saving hundreds of thousands of lives as a result.
I laughed out loud. Only on/. could you read such out-of-touch drivel. You're going to 3D print your apples and milk?
That's why I said 'pretty much obsolete'. Obviously some things will still need to be transported, but nothing like the amount that's currently rolling along our highways. People keep talking about how their driverless car will make their commute so much easier, while ignoring the fact that their job probably won't exist in twenty years, and almost certainly won't require them to commute if it does.
But, hey, keep believing the world will be just the same as it is today only with shinier cars, if you like. Doesn't bother me.
The guy with his nose in the mud is often not the best guy to ask what is coming over the horizon.
True. The real story is that by the time a real, mass-market driverless car with no manual controls is possible, teleprescence and 3D printers will have made trucks and cars pretty much obsolete.
Because, as we all know, a computer-controlled car will never have an accident. Even if someone steps out in the road right in front of it, the magic unicorns will save them.
Indeed. The last 1% is likely to be 99% of the work.
Many of the cars we test-drove last year already had systems to detect when the car was leaving the lane on the highway, and some had cruise control that would automatically slow down if the car in front did. Adapting that tech to drive on the highway by itself for a few thousand miles in good conditions shouldn't be particularly hard. It's dealing with the unexpected that's difficult, and that's where most human screwups happen, too.
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MH370 was perfectly capable of sending ADS messages by satellite... but didn't. That system was either disabled, or turned off.
It's just the free antenna that came with the USB receiver. A proper, tuned antenna should do much better, if you want to spend the time making one.
Maybe.
I watched a Delta launch from a bar in Orlando once, but that had SRBs. In day launches, the shuttle would disappear pretty quickly after SRB separation--at night you could often see it until it was pretty close to the horizon--but I'm not sure how much smoke, if any, the Falcon engines may produce to give you a trail to follow.
I set one of these up a while ago with an old Atom server I had lying around. A couple of hours' work, about $15 for the USB receiver, and the antenna is just taped to my bedroom windowsill. Works OK out to around 100 miles, though reception gets patchy beyond 50.
I'd often wondered where all the vapour trails over our heads were going, and now I know. Of course, I could have saved time and just looked it up on the Internet :).
> I thought the mantra of the Democrat party was equality through mediocrity?
Some Democrats do this, yes. Some Republicans believe in ~~equality~~ fuck you, I got mine. I'm not sure which is worse.
You can't suddenly make mediocre people good at what they do, so the only way for the left to enforce equality is to make the good people mediocre.
I read an autobiography some years ago by a woman who was in the Chinese Army in the 70s or 80s, and one thing that particularly stood out was the part where she wrote about how she had to deliberately shoot badly on the shooting range, because anyone who could shoot well would be punished for making the others look bad.
That's 'equality' red in tooth and claw.
...was last week.
Here's an idea. Governments could cut corporate taxes to 0%. Then it would be a level playing field.
But the left will never allow that, because EVIL CORPORATIONS.
The BBC had a news article a while back about an African country that officially had a 30% (I think) tax rate, but no-one paid it, so they offered people the option of registering for a 3% tax rate, which increased their income because the average they actually managed to collect with their 30% rate was only 2%.
But, hey, it's all the fault of the EVIL BASTARDS who won't pay their FAIR SHARE!
Mis-reporting income and expenses is fraud last time I looked. This goes for businesses where one division over-charges another to shift profits from one country to another. These practices are coming under increasing scrutiny globally.
Then these companies will soon be in court on fraud charges, won't they?
Want to straighten the ad problem out fast? Sales tax in the country/state/county of purchase.
Yeah, let's put all those mom-and-pop Internet businesses out of business because they don't want the hassle of complying with the tax laws of three hundred pissant little countries. Right on! That'll stick it to the Man!
No, the fact that it's legal makes it OK. If governments don't like that, they can change the law.
Though why anyone thinks the world will be a better place if governments have yet more billions of dollars to waste is beyond me.
Oh, you think that if big corporations pay their 'fair share', the government will cut your taxes, right? Ha-ha-ha-ha.
What's the point of being a cop if you can't break the law?
And who else can walk up and simply kick the door in? Is the risk of a break-in significantly changed by using the phone app? Why wouldn't anyone who wanted in simply kick in the door or just break a window?
Let's see.
1. Joe Burglar walks up to your front door, unlocks it, walks in. Neighbours assume he's just a friend as he walks out again with a bag full of your stuff and locks the door behind him.
2. Joe Burglar walks up to your front door, kicks it in. Neighbours call 911.
See the tiny little difference?
I honestly can't understand why anyone would even think this 'Internet Of Things' crap is a good idea unless they make money from selling it.
But surely anyone able to perform an MITM attack on the key can also perform a MITM attack on DNS, since it's not authenticated? I presume you'd at least need DNSSEC to prevent that?
I was mostly talking about the fallout. You notice Pripyat hasn't been rebuilt.
Bomb fallout decays rapidly because it's mostly short-lived isotopes from the explosion. Reactor fallout takes much longer, because it's mostly due to isotopes with much longer half-lives. On the plus side, because of that, the initial radiation level would typically be much lower.
If we dropped, say, a 50 megaton bomb on them, they wouldn't be.
To be fair, both cities were flattened for a large distance around ground zero, and mostly rebuilt since. They were airbursts, so the fallout mostly blew away when it wasn't brought down by rain storms, but probably small enough that many people were killed by the immediate radiation; with a 50MT bomb, anyone close enough to be killed by that radiation would already have been vapourized.
Uh, dude. This was, like, a war. Thousands of people were dying every day. So, no, they didn't worry that a few people might die as a result of developing a bomb that could end the war months earlier than it otherwise might have done, saving hundreds of thousands of lives as a result.
Hard to SWAT someone from a prison cell.
There was a news story in the UK recently about a prisoner who escaped by emailing fake release instructions to the prison from his cell phone.
Just because people are in prison doesn't mean they can't communicate with the outside world.
A better compromise would be for cops to not go in guns blazing, as would be the case in most of the developed world.
I laughed out loud. Only on /. could you read such out-of-touch drivel. You're going to 3D print your apples and milk?
That's why I said 'pretty much obsolete'. Obviously some things will still need to be transported, but nothing like the amount that's currently rolling along our highways. People keep talking about how their driverless car will make their commute so much easier, while ignoring the fact that their job probably won't exist in twenty years, and almost certainly won't require them to commute if it does.
But, hey, keep believing the world will be just the same as it is today only with shinier cars, if you like. Doesn't bother me.
The guy with his nose in the mud is often not the best guy to ask what is coming over the horizon.
True. The real story is that by the time a real, mass-market driverless car with no manual controls is possible, teleprescence and 3D printers will have made trucks and cars pretty much obsolete.
The problem with Lanes could be solved with road imbedded sensors. Passive RFID technology would be up to the task.
Until kids^H^H^H^Hterrorists move them so all the self-driving cars go driving into a ditch.
Most humans drive fine in 'conditions they're already prepared for'. It's the other fraction of one percent where most of the accidents happen.
That's 98% fewer accidents.
Because, as we all know, a computer-controlled car will never have an accident. Even if someone steps out in the road right in front of it, the magic unicorns will save them.
Indeed. The last 1% is likely to be 99% of the work.
Many of the cars we test-drove last year already had systems to detect when the car was leaving the lane on the highway, and some had cruise control that would automatically slow down if the car in front did. Adapting that tech to drive on the highway by itself for a few thousand miles in good conditions shouldn't be particularly hard. It's dealing with the unexpected that's difficult, and that's where most human screwups happen, too.
Authoritarian scumbags usually claim they're only taking over the country for the good of the people.
Guess what? They're lying.