Good that this applies to from: and not the body of the e-mail.
That's not at all good and filtering the body exactly what I want. Spammers already spoof the from: domain and then link you out to exactly the type of domain that Gmail is now filtering.
There's no reason Gmail can't flag [body] links to domains that use mixed character sets.
It would be like saying that the F15E is state of the art.
The military has been slowly outfitting the entire F-15 C/D/E fleet with new radar and electronic warfare systems. So yes, the F-15 will have state of the art systems in it.
With avionics upgrades, most of America's older jets are more than capable of meeting today's threats. With engine upgrades (very unlikely) the F-15 would be competitive with 4.5 and 5th gen airplanes.
My fear is that what steps would be taken would force the car into the shop for any minor issue. Already, one automaker, if you change the battery out, the vehicle will refuse to start until the vehicle goes into the dealership and the battery is "registered" into the ECM.
Last week, two trade groups representing automakers -- the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers -- announced an agreement with independent garages and retailers to make Massachusetts' law a national standard.
[...]
Under the deal, all auto companies would make their diagnostic codes and repair data available in a common format by the 2018 model year, as the Massachusetts law requires. In return, lobbying groups for repair shops and parts retailers would refrain from pursuing state-by-state legislation.
The Massachusetts law requires that anything an auto manufacturer would sell to a dealer/authorized facility, the manufacturer must also sell to an independent mechanic. So all those ridiculous automotive DRM systems will no longer automatically require a trip to the dealer.
Im not seeing where you're getting your info; everything Ive ever heard indicates that the only issues reported with the M4 are reliability, due to its tighter tolerances, but that its also more accurate.
In a confidential report to Congress last year, active Marine commanders complained that: "5.56 was the most worthless round," "we were shooting them five times or so," and "torso shots were not lethal."
That's just the first article google kicked up. Complaints about stopping power started showing up once the Iraqi insurgency picked up.
The M4/M16 is very accurate, it just doesn't have the same stopping power past 300 meters as larger rounds. This is intentional, because the military did research and concluded that most engagements take place inside 300 meters. This is also a problem, because in Iraq/Afghanistan, soldiers were being engaged from 400 and 500 meters, well past the effective stopping range of the 5.56 round.
The Taliban are meanwhile using heavier bullets that allow them to fire at U.S. and NATO troops from distances that are out of range of the M4.
To counter these tactics, the U.S. military is designating nine soldiers in each infantry company to serve as sharpshooters, according to Maj. Thomas Ehrhart, who wrote the Army study. The sharpshooters are equipped with the new M110 sniper rifle, which fires a larger 7.62mm round and is accurate to at least 2,500 feet.
Then again, the military is in the midst of a "pivot to Asia" so who knows what that means for the next war.
It's an aimbot for real rifles. Now, any rifleman can be a sniper.
The majority of sniper training is about field craft, not shooting.
And 100% accuracy at 250 yards is not as useful as you'd think. The engagement ranges in Iraq/Afghanistan were mostly 300 to 500 meters (328 to 546 yards) .
Unfortunately, the M4 + 5.56 is intended for ranges less than 300 yards. This leaves a big gaping hole in the infantry's ability to effectively kill past 300 yards. The Iraqis and Afghans have no such range problems with their AK-47s and 7.62 ammo.
TLDR: The military needs to reclaim 300-500 yards with a suitable infantry weapon. FYI - A trained sniper is expected to have 90% accuracy at 600 yards.
There is absolutely no reason to put the integrity of the development into question simply because the NSA gave funding.
Uh yes, there is.
As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.
How much longer are you willing to be a battered spouse, making excuses for your abuser?
But I can see this article isn't about rationality, but about [...] "I want it available under my terms".
You don't actually explain why this is a bad thing. Merely asserting that it is irrational does not make it so.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
Earth to astronauts: Go to sleep By Emily Underwood 7 August 2014 6:30 pm
It's hard to sleep in outer space. On the International Space Station (ISS), the sun rises every 90 minutes when the station circles Earth. Space suits can be uncomfortable, too: After landing on the moon in 1969, Buzz Aldrin reported getting only âoea couple of hours of mentally fitful drowsingâ due to the noise and the cold.
Now, a new study published online today in The Lancet Neurology shows the extent of sleep deprivation among astronauts. Researchers tracked the sleep patterns of 85 crew members aboard the ISS and space shuttle and found that despite an official flight schedule mandating 8.5 hours of sleep per night, they rarely got more than five.
In fact, getting a full night's rest was so difficult that three-quarters of shuttle mission crew members used sleep medication, and sometimes entire teams were sedated on the same night. Although, unlike astronauts from Aldrin's day, crew members now sleep in quiet, dark chambers, lack of gravity itself may contribute to the problem.
Given that sleep deprivation contributes to up to 80% of aviation accidents, it's important to better understand why sleep is so difficult in space, the authors say.
To " Why Bhutan Might Get Drone Delivery Copters Before Seattle Does" is that Seattle has basic infrastructure like roads that aren't impassible after every storm.
Point to point drone corridors can be marked off on maps and given to pilots. The kind of delivery that people would want in Seattle involves a burrito delivered to their front door. These are not the same types of delivery patterns or reasons.
Guess they'll be needing another bunch of pencil whipped wavers to dredge out the ports even deeper for the EquadorMax ships, because what China wants China gets.
The New Panamax standard is a 15.2 meter draft and 49m beam. Chinamax (what you call EquadorMax) has a 24 meter draft and 65m beam.
Even if you dug the Panama Canal another 9 meters deeper, Chinamax ships would still be ~25% too wide.
There is little need for super-tankers to transit the canal. The price of oil is about the same on either coast, and oil production in Alaska and California pretty well balance out the demand.
Oil? Who said this was about oil?
South America has massive mineral reserves. The Chinese have also been buying up huge chunks of land for farming grains that can be shipped back to China.
China wants this canal so it can cheaply move enormous volumes of resources (especially from Brazil) to its ports. $49 billion is a drop in the bucket for China's long term economic needs.
âoeSuch a predictive capability would allow organizations to determine in advance who is most likely to be able to learn and master complex skills and accomplish tasks in real-world environments that are important for the organizationâ(TM)s mission and success, thereby increasing return on investment for training activities and optimizing matching of personnel to tasks/environments.
This sounds a lot like Gattaca, but with brain scans instead of genetic scans.
You'd think these cars would have a sensor in the seat to detect if there's a driver or not. I mean, newish cars already have them in the passenger seat to enable/disable the passenger side air bags.
If the person dies, can Google re-enable the search result? Or have these pages gone into a permanent black hole as far as search engines are concerned?
When he revealed the war-related documents he did without sanitizing them, he put the lives of many Iraqi and Afgani citizens who worked with our forces at risk,
No U.S. intelligence sources or practices were compromised by the posting of secret Afghan war logs by the WikiLeaks website, the Pentagon has concluded, but the military thinks the leaks could still cause significant damage to U.S. security interests.
The assessment, outlined in a letter [written by Defense Secretary Robert Gates] obtained Friday by The Associated Press, suggests that some of the Obama administration's worst fears about the July disclosure of almost 77,000 secret U.S. war reports have so far failed to materialize.
The White House led with the notion that Wikileaks War Logs might put people at risk, but that talking point has long since been abandoned.
If you keep in mind that the Government (via the NY Times) already knew what was going to be published, it's hard to imagine that they didn't mitigate the potential fallout and that's why there's no harm that can be shown.
Not to mention that the Feds have been doing everything to keep Manning's lawyers from seeing the damage assessments from the leaks.
What's worse, in the newest cars as of next year... devices will be registered by mac address to the cars computer. As a result you'll need to log in with a $6k+ software package you can only buy from Ford, GM, etc... and register the mac addresses of new devices you install. You will not be able to remove or replace anything on your own at home anymore. In fact, I bet the dealer will be the only place you can get repairs done within 20yrs.
Last week, two trade groups representing automakers -- the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers -- announced an agreement with independent garages and retailers to make Massachusetts' law a national standard.
[...]
Under the deal, all auto companies would make their diagnostic codes and repair data available in a common format by the 2018 model year, as the Massachusetts law requires. In return, lobbying groups for repair shops and parts retailers would refrain from pursuing state-by-state legislation.
Perhaps an "incentive" for Pharmaceutical companies who are making money hand over fist with other drugs would be to make a drug that would cure or vaccinate against a horrible disease because, i don't know...it's the right thing to do?
Read about compulsory licensing. Abbot pharmaceuticals fought like hell with the government of Thailand over compulsory licenses. So did Merck in Brazil. And Bayer in India.
And... pretty much everyone sued South Africa in the late 90s. They're lobbying against SA again, because the country is trying to pass laws to ease the importation of generics.
There are scientists for whom "the right thing" is all the motivation they need, but they work for corporations who care more about profits than about people.
Hughes spokeswoman Judy Blake said hardcoded credentials were "a necessary" feature for customer service. The worst a hacker could do is to disable the communication link, she said.
1. Are hardcoded credentials ever "necessary?" How about credentials that are generated on first boot and then requested by support?
2. Disabling the communications link for a piece of hardware whose sole purpose is communications... kind of a big deal.
Japan's prime minister announced a reinterpretation of the country's pacifist Constitution on Tuesday, freeing its military for the first time in over 60 years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense region.
The antiwar Constitution remains enough of a touchstone for many in Japan that the reinterpretation has spurred rare street protests, and even the self-immolation of a lone protester in Tokyo this week.
The Obama administration said Tuesday that it welcomed Japan's action, adding that it would aid the country's armed forces to "do more within the framework of our alliance."
Three different kinds of tunnels existed beneath Gaza, said Eado Hecht, an Israeli defence analyst specialising in underground warfare: smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt; defensive tunnels inside Gaza, used for command centres and weapons storage; and --connected to the defensive tunnels --offensive tunnels used for cross-border attacks on Israel. The military says it has located about 32 to 35 offensive tunnels, of which more than half have been destroyed, and it believes that there are around 40 in total.
The offensive tunnels have been dug by hand, as the use of machinery would risk detection. Military analysts estimate that each tunnel takes two to three years to complete, and costs millions of dollars.
Destroying the tunnels is also a painstaking operation. "This is very dangerous work," said Hecht. "Firstly, locating the tunnel entrances is very difficult; they are needles in a haystack." Remote technology does not yet exist to locate and map tunnels deep underground, he said, hence the need for troops.
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Good that this applies to from: and not the body of the e-mail.
That's not at all good and filtering the body exactly what I want.
Spammers already spoof the from: domain and then link you out to exactly the type of domain that Gmail is now filtering.
There's no reason Gmail can't flag [body] links to domains that use mixed character sets.
It would be like saying that the F15E is state of the art.
The military has been slowly outfitting the entire F-15 C/D/E fleet with new radar and electronic warfare systems.
So yes, the F-15 will have state of the art systems in it.
With avionics upgrades, most of America's older jets are more than capable of meeting today's threats.
With engine upgrades (very unlikely) the F-15 would be competitive with 4.5 and 5th gen airplanes.
Old != bad
My fear is that what steps would be taken would force the car into the shop for any minor issue. Already, one automaker, if you change the battery out, the vehicle will refuse to start until the vehicle goes into the dealership and the battery is "registered" into the ECM.
That crap is finally coming to an end.
Automakers agree to 'right to repair' deal
http://www.autonews.com/article/20140125/RETAIL05/301279936/automakers-agree-to-right-to-repair-deal
January 25, 2014
Last week, two trade groups representing automakers -- the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers -- announced an agreement with independent garages and retailers to make Massachusetts' law a national standard.
[...]
Under the deal, all auto companies would make their diagnostic codes and repair data available in a common format by the 2018 model year, as the Massachusetts law requires. In return, lobbying groups for repair shops and parts retailers would refrain from pursuing state-by-state legislation.
The Massachusetts law requires that anything an auto manufacturer would sell to a dealer/authorized facility, the manufacturer must also sell to an independent mechanic.
So all those ridiculous automotive DRM systems will no longer automatically require a trip to the dealer.
Im not seeing where you're getting your info; everything Ive ever heard indicates that the only issues reported with the M4 are reliability, due to its tighter tolerances, but that its also more accurate.
I guess people have short memories
2006: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-faulty-ammo-failing-troops/
In a confidential report to Congress last year, active Marine commanders complained that: "5.56 was the most worthless round," "we were shooting them five times or so," and "torso shots were not lethal."
That's just the first article google kicked up.
Complaints about stopping power started showing up once the Iraqi insurgency picked up.
The M4/M16 is very accurate, it just doesn't have the same stopping power past 300 meters as larger rounds.
This is intentional, because the military did research and concluded that most engagements take place inside 300 meters.
This is also a problem, because in Iraq/Afghanistan, soldiers were being engaged from 400 and 500 meters, well past the effective stopping range of the 5.56 round.
2010: U.S. Military Reconsiders Army's Use of M4 Rifles in Afghanistan
The Taliban are meanwhile using heavier bullets that allow them to fire at U.S. and NATO troops from distances that are out of range of the M4.
To counter these tactics, the U.S. military is designating nine soldiers in each infantry company to serve as sharpshooters, according to Maj. Thomas Ehrhart, who wrote the Army study. The sharpshooters are equipped with the new M110 sniper rifle, which fires a larger 7.62mm round and is accurate to at least 2,500 feet.
Then again, the military is in the midst of a "pivot to Asia" so who knows what that means for the next war.
It's an aimbot for real rifles. Now, any rifleman can be a sniper.
The majority of sniper training is about field craft, not shooting.
And 100% accuracy at 250 yards is not as useful as you'd think.
The engagement ranges in Iraq/Afghanistan were mostly 300 to 500 meters (328 to 546 yards) .
Unfortunately, the M4 + 5.56 is intended for ranges less than 300 yards.
This leaves a big gaping hole in the infantry's ability to effectively kill past 300 yards.
The Iraqis and Afghans have no such range problems with their AK-47s and 7.62 ammo.
TLDR: The military needs to reclaim 300-500 yards with a suitable infantry weapon.
FYI - A trained sniper is expected to have 90% accuracy at 600 yards.
There is absolutely no reason to put the integrity of the development into question simply because the NSA gave funding.
Uh yes, there is.
As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.
How much longer are you willing to be a battered spouse, making excuses for your abuser?
But I can see this article isn't about rationality, but about [...] "I want it available under my terms".
You don't actually explain why this is a bad thing.
Merely asserting that it is irrational does not make it so.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
Life-Line by Robert A. Heinlein, 1939
Earth to astronauts: Go to sleep
By Emily Underwood
7 August 2014 6:30 pm
It's hard to sleep in outer space. On the International Space Station (ISS), the sun rises every 90 minutes when the station circles Earth. Space suits can be uncomfortable, too: After landing on the moon in 1969, Buzz Aldrin reported getting only âoea couple of hours of mentally fitful drowsingâ due to the noise and the cold.
Now, a new study published online today in The Lancet Neurology shows the extent of sleep deprivation among astronauts. Researchers tracked the sleep patterns of 85 crew members aboard the ISS and space shuttle and found that despite an official flight schedule mandating 8.5 hours of sleep per night, they rarely got more than five.
In fact, getting a full night's rest was so difficult that three-quarters of shuttle mission crew members used sleep medication, and sometimes entire teams were sedated on the same night. Although, unlike astronauts from Aldrin's day, crew members now sleep in quiet, dark chambers, lack of gravity itself may contribute to the problem.
Given that sleep deprivation contributes to up to 80% of aviation accidents, it's important to better understand why sleep is so difficult in space, the authors say.
I used this: http://www.viewcached.com/http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2014/08/earth-astronauts-go-sleep
Yahoo is the only site that had it cached.
To " Why Bhutan Might Get Drone Delivery Copters Before Seattle Does" is that Seattle has basic infrastructure like roads that aren't impassible after every storm.
Point to point drone corridors can be marked off on maps and given to pilots.
The kind of delivery that people would want in Seattle involves a burrito delivered to their front door.
These are not the same types of delivery patterns or reasons.
Guess they'll be needing another bunch of pencil whipped wavers to dredge out the ports even deeper for the EquadorMax ships, because what China wants China gets.
The New Panamax standard is a 15.2 meter draft and 49m beam.
Chinamax (what you call EquadorMax) has a 24 meter draft and 65m beam.
Even if you dug the Panama Canal another 9 meters deeper, Chinamax ships would still be ~25% too wide.
There is little need for super-tankers to transit the canal. The price of oil is about the same on either coast, and oil production in Alaska and California pretty well balance out the demand.
Oil? Who said this was about oil?
South America has massive mineral reserves.
The Chinese have also been buying up huge chunks of land for farming grains that can be shipped back to China.
China wants this canal so it can cheaply move enormous volumes of resources (especially from Brazil) to its ports.
$49 billion is a drop in the bucket for China's long term economic needs.
âoeSuch a predictive capability would allow organizations to determine in advance who is most likely to be able to learn and master complex skills and accomplish tasks in real-world environments that are important for the organizationâ(TM)s mission and success, thereby increasing return on investment for training activities and optimizing matching of personnel to tasks/environments.
This sounds a lot like Gattaca, but with brain scans instead of genetic scans.
The only way to get the driver back in the seat would be to stop, but that would be extremely dangerous in the middle of a freeway.
At the bare minimum the car could turn on its hazards, honk the horn, and set off the car alarm (if separate from the horn).
And maybe the default behavior should be a full stop on the roadway.
If there's no driver in the seat, that's extremely dangerous too.
You'd think these cars would have a sensor in the seat to detect if there's a driver or not.
I mean, newish cars already have them in the passenger seat to enable/disable the passenger side air bags.
If the person dies, can Google re-enable the search result?
Or have these pages gone into a permanent black hole as far as search engines are concerned?
When he revealed the war-related documents he did without sanitizing them, he put the lives of many Iraqi and Afgani citizens who worked with our forces at risk,
[Citation Needed]
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2010/1015/Wikileaks-US-says-limited-damage-from-leak-of-Afghan-war-logs
No U.S. intelligence sources or practices were compromised by the posting of secret Afghan war logs by the WikiLeaks website, the Pentagon has concluded, but the military thinks the leaks could still cause significant damage to U.S. security interests.
The assessment, outlined in a letter [written by Defense Secretary Robert Gates] obtained Friday by The Associated Press, suggests that some of the Obama administration's worst fears about the July disclosure of almost 77,000 secret U.S. war reports have so far failed to materialize.
The White House led with the notion that Wikileaks War Logs might put people at risk, but that talking point has long since been abandoned.
If you keep in mind that the Government (via the NY Times) already knew what was going to be published,
it's hard to imagine that they didn't mitigate the potential fallout and that's why there's no harm that can be shown.
Not to mention that the Feds have been doing everything to keep Manning's lawyers from seeing the damage assessments from the leaks.
If they're talking about launching this commercially, it means the Alphabet Agencies have been doing it for years now.
What's worse, in the newest cars as of next year... devices will be registered by mac address to the cars computer. As a result you'll need to log in with a $6k+ software package you can only buy from Ford, GM, etc... and register the mac addresses of new devices you install. You will not be able to remove or replace anything on your own at home anymore. In fact, I bet the dealer will be the only place you can get repairs done within 20yrs.
Automakers agree to 'right to repair' deal
http://www.autonews.com/article/20140125/RETAIL05/301279936/automakers-agree-to-right-to-repair-deal
January 25, 2014
Last week, two trade groups representing automakers -- the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of Global Automakers -- announced an agreement with independent garages and retailers to make Massachusetts' law a national standard.
[...]
Under the deal, all auto companies would make their diagnostic codes and repair data available in a common format by the 2018 model year, as the Massachusetts law requires. In return, lobbying groups for repair shops and parts retailers would refrain from pursuing state-by-state legislation.
You couldn't be more wrong.
Perhaps an "incentive" for Pharmaceutical companies who are making money hand over fist with other drugs would be to make a drug that would cure or vaccinate against a horrible disease because, i don't know...it's the right thing to do?
Read about compulsory licensing.
Abbot pharmaceuticals fought like hell with the government of Thailand over compulsory licenses.
So did Merck in Brazil.
And Bayer in India.
And... pretty much everyone sued South Africa in the late 90s.
They're lobbying against SA again, because the country is trying to pass laws to ease the importation of generics.
There are scientists for whom "the right thing" is all the motivation they need,
but they work for corporations who care more about profits than about people.
It's only "secret" in the sense that almost all pharmaceutical research is completely ignored by the media.
If you dig around you'll find some articles about ZMAPP in no-name low-impact journals like PNAS and Science.
"Secret"
Hughes spokeswoman Judy Blake said hardcoded credentials were "a necessary" feature for customer service. The worst a hacker could do is to disable the communication link, she said.
1. Are hardcoded credentials ever "necessary?" How about credentials that are generated on first boot and then requested by support?
2. Disabling the communications link for a piece of hardware whose sole purpose is communications... kind of a big deal.
Japan Announces a Military Shift to Thwart China
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/02/world/asia/japan-moves-to-permit-greater-use-of-its-military.html
Japan's prime minister announced a reinterpretation of the country's pacifist Constitution on Tuesday, freeing its military for the first time in over 60 years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense region.
The antiwar Constitution remains enough of a touchstone for many in Japan that the reinterpretation has spurred rare street protests, and even the self-immolation of a lone protester in Tokyo this week.
The Obama administration said Tuesday that it welcomed Japan's action, adding that it would aid the country's armed forces to "do more within the framework of our alliance."
This is all about China.
Even the source article brings up China.
Knowing how these things work, Apple will probably use it as a tax write down.
If Hamas were funded with billions, they wouldn't need "terror tunnels" to smuggle food across the border with Egypt.
Here's a good article about the tunnels:
Inside the tunnels Hamas built: Israel's struggle against new tactic in Gaza war
Three different kinds of tunnels existed beneath Gaza, said Eado Hecht, an Israeli defence analyst specialising in underground warfare: smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt; defensive tunnels inside Gaza, used for command centres and weapons storage; and --connected to the defensive tunnels --offensive tunnels used for cross-border attacks on Israel. The military says it has located about 32 to 35 offensive tunnels, of which more than half have been destroyed, and it believes that there are around 40 in total.
The offensive tunnels have been dug by hand, as the use of machinery would risk detection. Military analysts estimate that each tunnel takes two to three years to complete, and costs millions of dollars.
Destroying the tunnels is also a painstaking operation. "This is very dangerous work," said Hecht. "Firstly, locating the tunnel entrances is very difficult; they are needles in a haystack." Remote technology does not yet exist to locate and map tunnels deep underground, he said, hence the need for troops.
Google isn't the one publishing or storing (for public consumption) this data... so they're a wrong target for this regulation.
The way we find information has changed.
Why shouldn't laws change to reflect how we want to interact with the new reality?