Yes, the modern "network centric" war-fighting model will be blown away by even a moderate EMP. Modern fighters can't even fly without electronics, and building a Faraday cage into their skin is neither practical or guaranteed to protect them from a nuclear caused EMP.
Go learn about RF. At the frequencies used by Wi-Fi a resonant antenna is only a few CMs long, ie about the length of common circuit traces on the PCB's. Even if you completely shield the control units RF can still leak inside through cabling. There is no magic way to design electronics that are RF immune*, it requires real world testing to discover such faults, as happened here.
The only way to make extremely RF tolerant electronics is to use analog vacuum tube based designs (the Russians continued using tube designs into the 90's).
* Making bug free software is significantly easier.
Jewish males of the times were generally expected to be able to read, at least small extracts of, the Torah. And given that the Jesus quoted in the Bible is seen to quote the Torah and use rather sophisticated rhetorical methods it is more likely he was fairly educated.
A craftsman like a carpenter had a far higher socio-economic status in that period than your are implying.
Modern people have a fascinating need to denigrate the abilities and accomplishments of those that preceded them.
I see it abused so often that I didn't even check the articles (*shock*). Also some places don't have any physical currency like a single cent any more. Australia went to 5 cent coins as the lowest denomination a long time ago. The micro-transaction idea originally was about alternative payment systems for purchases so small that it wouldn't be worth it to pull a credit card out. Sub-cent prices are possible but the guys interested in it generally were thinking higher.
$19, let alone $99, is not a bloody "micro-transaction". The original micro-transaction idea was talking about sub-dollar amounts (eg 5 cents to view a web page). Now days idiot games/web journalists apply the term to mean "online trading of money for in game goods and services".
This study involved computer based analysis using PET scan data*. Similar studies have often been shown to have overstated or no real statistical significance**. With only 47 participants this study has, in my eyes, about the same validity as the average undergrad study.
Unfortunately tomorrow it will be in all the newspapers to prove that cell phones cause cancer (ironically this study was done with ionising radiation, whose cancer causing effects are well known).
* I am a pysch student and these studies are the ban of my existence. They mostly have the same validity for studying human behaviour as the old method of making shit up based on observation. However they seem much more "sciency" to funding committees.
If you look back a bit you will see many industrialists didn't want an over educated working force (as they would become disillusioned with their lot in life).
Considering the US education system is one of the worst performing in the industrial world I think those running the system know who butters their bread.
Anonymous are the bored teenagers, twenty-somethings, and misanthropes of the Internet. They aren't "responsible protesters", individuals just do whatever they like because they feel like it. The core ideal of the "movement" is "do it for the lulz".
Which is why most events associated with "Anonymous" is full of racism, homophobia, child porn, etc. "Anonymous" will do pretty much anything to get a laugh. Telling them to act responsible will just cause some of them to go and act even more irresponsibly to annoy you.
Nuts can just get a knife* or a brick and still kill lots of people. In most mass shootings the availability of a gun doesn't increase the mortality rate because the killer is either incompetent with the weapon or not thinking clearly enough to kill efficiently. eg the Arizona shooter who didn't even kill his primary target.
The guy pissed off at his ex-girlfriend can still kill her with a knife. But if the woman had a gun she would have a far higher chance of winning the fight. And no the police won't protect someone in that situation. Here in Australia where you aren't allowed to have weapons for self-defence women in that situation have to hide in shelters because the police will do zero to actively protect them.
Epidemic violence is due to social conditions and a lack of social welfare, not the availability of weapons. Magic all the firearms out of America and the gang-bangers would just resort to stabbing each other.
* We semi-regularly get incidents of lone killers successfully murdering or severely injuring most of a family in a home invasion with no firearms involved.
Don't worry about bandwidth overlap (guaranteed to happen with some poorly designed transmitters and antennas) worry about all the other electronic devices which aren't meant to transmit RF but blast it out all over the bands.
I have recently got into amateur radio and some bands are locally unusable due to something as simple as a transformer power supply blasting out many watts of RFI.
The slow death of radio bands to RFI is like the "death" of stargazing due to light pollution.
You can do that now with touch screens (and have been able to for several decades). Adding a camera and projector into the mix really doesn't change anything except, maybe, make it cheaper.
This would be interesting if it was portable/wearable and allowed you to project an interface and screen on any convenient surface. Using it "Minority Report" style is pure Hollywood BS.
All this "next generation user interface" crap is just the new Virtual Reality. Until we get direct neural interfacing the mouse and keyboard will be the dominant interface system.
I was speaking in generalities as the submitted story doesn't provide enough information to determine whether any actual copyright infringement is occurring (but I have seen actual copyright infringement in previous "re-makes", not mere re-implementing the same game design).
And yes if you make a Windows clone and call it MrS WindDoze expect to get C&D'd.
Slashdot in general is fairly sympathetic towards individual copyright infringement for personal use. However that does not mean any significant portion of readers is sympathetic to wilful copyright infringement for commercial purposes, especially if you are dumb enough to drag trademark infringement into it as well.
Releasing an open source clone of an old game will get a completely different response then making a commercial clone of an old game.
Ham's by international agreement are all licensed by the state. Even if they don't use their call signs it would be trivial for the security apparatus of a state like Egypt to start rounding them and their families up as they have addresses on file.
They already have an Internet kill switch. It is called the US Army.
At worst they can take the major hubs and fracture the internal US internet and cut foreign links. In reality US Army National Guard units would quickly be in control of every minor ISP within days.
The "internet kill switch" proposal was just security theater. You are kidding yourself if you think Governments haven't had these kinds of communication seizure plans for many decades (they rounded up Ham equipment in WWI and WWII in most places).
I played around with alternatively enabling and disabling the various scripts and it is the fsdn.com one that is responsible for the 50% CPU usage crap. Unfortunately this is the one which gives us the nice dynamic post viewing system.
Without it you get sent to a new page when you try and expand a post.
Complete crap performance wise because that feature has been around for years.
That is insane. It spikes up to 50% CPU usage on my dual core machine when I am scrolling it. That is the kind of CPU use I normally see bad facebook apps use, for a text based site it is unacceptable. And if you open up a bunch of tabs it is even worse. I have six/. tabs open and Firefox is fully using one of my cores! I opened Minecraft and it uses less CPU (30-40%) then my normal/, usage.
At least the main page seems to be optimised and doesn't put Firefox on the top of the CPU use chart.
Are the site designers being paid by Intel/AMD or something?
I love idiots like you that can't parse a post. I never blamed Yahoo for my inability to remember what I was thinking 10+ years ago, but I do blame them for offering no user support in the likely event of this situation occurring. Especially as they locked me out in the first place which made me need to use the secret question system to "recover" my password ("recover" is wrong as I hadn't lost it, they had reset it).
Also why the hell would I think to write down the answers to secret questions when the entire point of them is supposed to be to allow you to recover your password in the event it is forgotten (they are also used to recover hacked accounts, but it is likely the account was hacked via the secret question in the first place)? All my passwords are backed up and nearly every other account I have allows easy recovery by emailing a reset option to the account email. But that doesn't work when you lose access to the email.
I have had the secret question/answer dilemma with a number of other services (including Government ones) but at least those allowed you to contact support and prove your identity to get the account unlocked.
10+ years ago you didn't get to write your own secret questions and at best got a list of stupid obvious shit. The one Yahoo gives me is "what is your favourite sport?" but I don't have one as I am not at all a sports person. And I am not the same person I was 10+ years ago so I apparently can't replicate the thinking which generated the original answer to that question.
Using better secret questions is something I have learned to do but as I don't have a time travel machine I can't fix past mistakes.
About two years ago Yahoo changed some back end stuff to rid of the country based email system (I was.au) they had and to centralise everything. In the change many peoples accounts got wiped or they got locked out of their accounts. I got locked out of my account and couldn't remember what smart ass answer I had put in to the secret questions over a decade ago. Yahoo refuse to do anything if you can't get past the secret question and so now I have nothing to do with them.
P.S. Secret questions are the worst "security" feature ever. Either they are far too obvious and easy for casual acquaintances and Internet detectives to break (ala Sarah Palin) or you never remember the stupid shit you put in them many years in the past.
How do people think that all these "web 2.0" social media sites make money? They do it by selling tracking data about you to research companies and the like.
It is like super market "loyalty" cards. They aren't primarily handing those out to keep customers loyal they are doing it to gather information about buying habits.
TANSTAAFL: If you can't figure out the cost of something you are probably being played.
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Only if the lasers primary energy is in the optical range.
They are more tolerant because they run at high voltage. A few mV can easily cause an IC gate to flip but is drowned out in the noise in a tube.
Yes, the modern "network centric" war-fighting model will be blown away by even a moderate EMP. Modern fighters can't even fly without electronics, and building a Faraday cage into their skin is neither practical or guaranteed to protect them from a nuclear caused EMP.
Go learn about RF. At the frequencies used by Wi-Fi a resonant antenna is only a few CMs long, ie about the length of common circuit traces on the PCB's. Even if you completely shield the control units RF can still leak inside through cabling. There is no magic way to design electronics that are RF immune*, it requires real world testing to discover such faults, as happened here.
The only way to make extremely RF tolerant electronics is to use analog vacuum tube based designs (the Russians continued using tube designs into the 90's).
* Making bug free software is significantly easier.
Jewish males of the times were generally expected to be able to read, at least small extracts of, the Torah. And given that the Jesus quoted in the Bible is seen to quote the Torah and use rather sophisticated rhetorical methods it is more likely he was fairly educated.
A craftsman like a carpenter had a far higher socio-economic status in that period than your are implying.
Modern people have a fascinating need to denigrate the abilities and accomplishments of those that preceded them.
I see it abused so often that I didn't even check the articles (*shock*). Also some places don't have any physical currency like a single cent any more. Australia went to 5 cent coins as the lowest denomination a long time ago. The micro-transaction idea originally was about alternative payment systems for purchases so small that it wouldn't be worth it to pull a credit card out. Sub-cent prices are possible but the guys interested in it generally were thinking higher.
$19, let alone $99, is not a bloody "micro-transaction". The original micro-transaction idea was talking about sub-dollar amounts (eg 5 cents to view a web page). Now days idiot games/web journalists apply the term to mean "online trading of money for in game goods and services".
This study involved computer based analysis using PET scan data*. Similar studies have often been shown to have overstated or no real statistical significance**. With only 47 participants this study has, in my eyes, about the same validity as the average undergrad study.
Unfortunately tomorrow it will be in all the newspapers to prove that cell phones cause cancer (ironically this study was done with ionising radiation, whose cancer causing effects are well known).
* I am a pysch student and these studies are the ban of my existence. They mostly have the same validity for studying human behaviour as the old method of making shit up based on observation. However they seem much more "sciency" to funding committees.
** http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_Are,_Its_Wrong
If you look back a bit you will see many industrialists didn't want an over educated working force (as they would become disillusioned with their lot in life).
Considering the US education system is one of the worst performing in the industrial world I think those running the system know who butters their bread.
Anonymous are the bored teenagers, twenty-somethings, and misanthropes of the Internet. They aren't "responsible protesters", individuals just do whatever they like because they feel like it. The core ideal of the "movement" is "do it for the lulz".
Which is why most events associated with "Anonymous" is full of racism, homophobia, child porn, etc. "Anonymous" will do pretty much anything to get a laugh. Telling them to act responsible will just cause some of them to go and act even more irresponsibly to annoy you.
Nuts can just get a knife* or a brick and still kill lots of people. In most mass shootings the availability of a gun doesn't increase the mortality rate because the killer is either incompetent with the weapon or not thinking clearly enough to kill efficiently. eg the Arizona shooter who didn't even kill his primary target.
The guy pissed off at his ex-girlfriend can still kill her with a knife. But if the woman had a gun she would have a far higher chance of winning the fight. And no the police won't protect someone in that situation. Here in Australia where you aren't allowed to have weapons for self-defence women in that situation have to hide in shelters because the police will do zero to actively protect them.
Epidemic violence is due to social conditions and a lack of social welfare, not the availability of weapons. Magic all the firearms out of America and the gang-bangers would just resort to stabbing each other.
* We semi-regularly get incidents of lone killers successfully murdering or severely injuring most of a family in a home invasion with no firearms involved.
Don't worry about bandwidth overlap (guaranteed to happen with some poorly designed transmitters and antennas) worry about all the other electronic devices which aren't meant to transmit RF but blast it out all over the bands.
I have recently got into amateur radio and some bands are locally unusable due to something as simple as a transformer power supply blasting out many watts of RFI.
The slow death of radio bands to RFI is like the "death" of stargazing due to light pollution.
You can do that now with touch screens (and have been able to for several decades). Adding a camera and projector into the mix really doesn't change anything except, maybe, make it cheaper.
This would be interesting if it was portable/wearable and allowed you to project an interface and screen on any convenient surface. Using it "Minority Report" style is pure Hollywood BS.
All this "next generation user interface" crap is just the new Virtual Reality. Until we get direct neural interfacing the mouse and keyboard will be the dominant interface system.
I was speaking in generalities as the submitted story doesn't provide enough information to determine whether any actual copyright infringement is occurring (but I have seen actual copyright infringement in previous "re-makes", not mere re-implementing the same game design).
And yes if you make a Windows clone and call it MrS WindDoze expect to get C&D'd.
Re-making, innovating, art != selling clones of old games.
Slashdot in general is fairly sympathetic towards individual copyright infringement for personal use. However that does not mean any significant portion of readers is sympathetic to wilful copyright infringement for commercial purposes, especially if you are dumb enough to drag trademark infringement into it as well.
Releasing an open source clone of an old game will get a completely different response then making a commercial clone of an old game.
Ham's by international agreement are all licensed by the state. Even if they don't use their call signs it would be trivial for the security apparatus of a state like Egypt to start rounding them and their families up as they have addresses on file.
They already have an Internet kill switch. It is called the US Army.
At worst they can take the major hubs and fracture the internal US internet and cut foreign links. In reality US Army National Guard units would quickly be in control of every minor ISP within days.
The "internet kill switch" proposal was just security theater. You are kidding yourself if you think Governments haven't had these kinds of communication seizure plans for many decades (they rounded up Ham equipment in WWI and WWII in most places).
I played around with alternatively enabling and disabling the various scripts and it is the fsdn.com one that is responsible for the 50% CPU usage crap. Unfortunately this is the one which gives us the nice dynamic post viewing system.
Without it you get sent to a new page when you try and expand a post.
Complete crap performance wise because that feature has been around for years.
It takes more CPU to have a few /, tabs open then it does to play Minecraft.
And let's just say that Minecraft isn't the most highly optimised JAVA game that was ever written.
This is an obvious case of "web site designer" != "coder".
That is insane. It spikes up to 50% CPU usage on my dual core machine when I am scrolling it. That is the kind of CPU use I normally see bad facebook apps use, for a text based site it is unacceptable. And if you open up a bunch of tabs it is even worse. I have six /. tabs open and Firefox is fully using one of my cores! I opened Minecraft and it uses less CPU (30-40%) then my normal /, usage.
At least the main page seems to be optimised and doesn't put Firefox on the top of the CPU use chart.
Are the site designers being paid by Intel/AMD or something?
I love idiots like you that can't parse a post. I never blamed Yahoo for my inability to remember what I was thinking 10+ years ago, but I do blame them for offering no user support in the likely event of this situation occurring. Especially as they locked me out in the first place which made me need to use the secret question system to "recover" my password ("recover" is wrong as I hadn't lost it, they had reset it).
Also why the hell would I think to write down the answers to secret questions when the entire point of them is supposed to be to allow you to recover your password in the event it is forgotten (they are also used to recover hacked accounts, but it is likely the account was hacked via the secret question in the first place)? All my passwords are backed up and nearly every other account I have allows easy recovery by emailing a reset option to the account email. But that doesn't work when you lose access to the email.
I have had the secret question/answer dilemma with a number of other services (including Government ones) but at least those allowed you to contact support and prove your identity to get the account unlocked.
10+ years ago you didn't get to write your own secret questions and at best got a list of stupid obvious shit. The one Yahoo gives me is "what is your favourite sport?" but I don't have one as I am not at all a sports person. And I am not the same person I was 10+ years ago so I apparently can't replicate the thinking which generated the original answer to that question.
Using better secret questions is something I have learned to do but as I don't have a time travel machine I can't fix past mistakes.
About two years ago Yahoo changed some back end stuff to rid of the country based email system (I was .au) they had and to centralise everything. In the change many peoples accounts got wiped or they got locked out of their accounts. I got locked out of my account and couldn't remember what smart ass answer I had put in to the secret questions over a decade ago. Yahoo refuse to do anything if you can't get past the secret question and so now I have nothing to do with them.
P.S. Secret questions are the worst "security" feature ever. Either they are far too obvious and easy for casual acquaintances and Internet detectives to break (ala Sarah Palin) or you never remember the stupid shit you put in them many years in the past.
How do people think that all these "web 2.0" social media sites make money? They do it by selling tracking data about you to research companies and the like.
It is like super market "loyalty" cards. They aren't primarily handing those out to keep customers loyal they are doing it to gather information about buying habits.
TANSTAAFL: If you can't figure out the cost of something you are probably being played.