Teleporters would be game-changing for sure, but there is no known way to even head toward them, let alone build them. I think the question wanted something that could at least conceivably be implemented.
A ship that lists is usually indicative of engines not being placed quite right, as they are easily the heaviest thing below the waterline. The fix for a cruise ship with this condition is usually to fill a compartment with ballast, often concrete. Generally there are some small compartments left unassigned for exactly this purpose. Fill one partly or completely to balance the ship and compensate for inevitable measurement errors in placing the engines. The rest are then available for storage, because it doesn't matter all that much exactly which three tanks (out of four) are available, only that you have three.
I don't know if a Navy would be accepting of such ad hoc fixes, but the engines being misaligned slightly is so common that the fix is engineered right into passenger ships.
Not if the question isn't asked properly. The firs thing an attorney will tell you is that you do not volunteer information. Just answer the questions.
I would be willing to guess that the men also consume more fuel per mile, because they drive faster. Since traffic is the same whether you drive aggressively or not, this probably means they accelerate faster and weave through traffic more. The extra fuel use should show up in their expenses although it does not show up in their gross pay.
You should care. I have a sneaking suspicion Zuck is going to try his hand at politics at some point. Knowing how to electioneer is a valuable skill that normally cannot be gained without trying (and generally failing) on the real stage.
I'm still seeing them in the live feed. They float up in the frame like carbonation bubbles in a (clear) beverage, but are tiny like the bubbles in Guinness.
Lavabit will always be the exception that proves the rule (along with penet.fi). If Cloudflare shut down, they'd be replaced by someone who is willing to play ball, because their services are much more integral to the way the Web works today. Standing up to National Security Letters is one thing, but expecting a company -- ANY company -- to refuse court orders from countries that actually have jurisdiction is simply not a reasonable stance unless they have positioned themselves in advance to be unable to comply. Even then, they have to be the size of Apple or Microsoft, and be willing to spend a fuckton of money, in order not to be seized outright.
When you stare at a cup of coffee, it's generally the case you're thinking about getting more coffee, and whether or not that is a good idea. No technology required.
And if you don't store it on someone else's hardware, then instead you're vulnerable to having your facilities seized, or your upstream provider pressured into cutting you off. The only hope is to do both, which apparently SciHub was.
How exactly is Cloudflare supposed to respond to a court order other than by obeying it? Precedent is irrelevant, this is PMITA prison time we're talking about if they don't comply. Expecting them to do otherwise would be exceptionally foolish.
Note the use of scare quotes. I was saying that if the term "police action" can be applied to a war, then it can be applied to shooting an unarmed civilian.
There should be a second voice repeating "exercise exercise exercise" during the entire drill, so that someone who comes in in the middle won't be fooled. You'd think we would have learned something from the War of the Worlds panic.
It doesn't help that in a set piece such as a corner, it's not one player going up for the ball, it's four or five, and all of them are tracking the ball, not each other. Head-to-head collisions are the result.
This is why California issues IDs through the Department of Motor Vehicles which are equivalent to a driver's license in all ways other than licensing you to drive.
As soon as you see "anagram" mentioned as part of the process to decode a cipher, you can stop reading, it's not a solution. If you allow for an arbitrary arrangement of letters or symbols as part of the solution, you can arrive at pretty much *any* text as the result, with no real connection to the cipher you started with.
Unfortunately, if that's what the author of the manuscript actually did, then it's a necessary step in making heads or tails of the text. There will be words and phrases that will be ambiguous because there is more than one possible unscrambling of the letters, but just because the encoding is lossy, that doesn't mean it's completely meaningless. I would have to imagine the author was aware of the potential for confusion and chose words that would not induce collisions that could not be resolved by context, assuming of course that it really is an alphabetically ordered anagram. It could be that it deviates from alphabetically ordered, say by placing the actual first letter of the word at the beginning, when necessary to resolve such ambiguity -- but they probably haven't gotten that far yet.
If they can get coherent results using only machine translation, not understanding the base language themselves, this gives an even stronger claim in some ways that they have really cracked the code. We will know they aren't hand-tweaking the results to get what they want, because they don't actually know what they want. They only know what comes out the other end of the process.
The time bit isn't the story though. It's my deus ex machina to get the people to where the story happens and not a lot more. Thus, I don't mind if the idea is not new. It's nice to see it's somewhat credible-sounding, and I don't have any entropy violations because there is no backward time travel -- it will be implied more than stated that it is still considered impossible since the tech level will only be 20 years from now. The story is more "Gilligan's Island, in space, with monsters".
That's why one stray photon would screw up time travel -- any difference whatsoever would cause the weather to be different in about a month and soon different sperm are meeting different eggs, and the entire next generation is different.
This is why I'm positing complex, hyperbolic time when I invoke "time travel" (which it only sort of is since it still doesn't involve going backward, just altering the angle at which you proceed forward). Even if you could figure out how to swim upstream, you still could never return to a previous point because the hyperbolic nature of the complex time plane magnifies the inevitable error on the complex axis. You could go back to 1933 and kill Hitler, but it would be in someone else's timeline, thus no grandfather paradox.
Why is the time plane hyperbolic? To make room for all the points of divergence from quantum collapse. Many Worlds is correct, and to handle every possible path becoming real, the time plane is hyperbolic to give them somewhere (or rather, somewhen) to call their own.
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Teleporters would be game-changing for sure, but there is no known way to even head toward them, let alone build them. I think the question wanted something that could at least conceivably be implemented.
A ship that lists is usually indicative of engines not being placed quite right, as they are easily the heaviest thing below the waterline. The fix for a cruise ship with this condition is usually to fill a compartment with ballast, often concrete. Generally there are some small compartments left unassigned for exactly this purpose. Fill one partly or completely to balance the ship and compensate for inevitable measurement errors in placing the engines. The rest are then available for storage, because it doesn't matter all that much exactly which three tanks (out of four) are available, only that you have three.
I don't know if a Navy would be accepting of such ad hoc fixes, but the engines being misaligned slightly is so common that the fix is engineered right into passenger ships.
Not if the question isn't asked properly. The firs thing an attorney will tell you is that you do not volunteer information. Just answer the questions.
I would be willing to guess that the men also consume more fuel per mile, because they drive faster. Since traffic is the same whether you drive aggressively or not, this probably means they accelerate faster and weave through traffic more. The extra fuel use should show up in their expenses although it does not show up in their gross pay.
You should care. I have a sneaking suspicion Zuck is going to try his hand at politics at some point. Knowing how to electioneer is a valuable skill that normally cannot be gained without trying (and generally failing) on the real stage.
What happens to the whales is tragic, but what happens to the bowl of petunias is a crime against Agrajag.
I'm still seeing them in the live feed. They float up in the frame like carbonation bubbles in a (clear) beverage, but are tiny like the bubbles in Guinness.
Hopefully, the late Iain Banks will get some love too, for having come up with such wonderful names as "Of Course I Still Love You".
Lavabit will always be the exception that proves the rule (along with penet.fi). If Cloudflare shut down, they'd be replaced by someone who is willing to play ball, because their services are much more integral to the way the Web works today. Standing up to National Security Letters is one thing, but expecting a company -- ANY company -- to refuse court orders from countries that actually have jurisdiction is simply not a reasonable stance unless they have positioned themselves in advance to be unable to comply. Even then, they have to be the size of Apple or Microsoft, and be willing to spend a fuckton of money, in order not to be seized outright.
Or all of these things. But what do they have to do with how Cloudflare is supposed to respond right now?
When you stare at a cup of coffee, it's generally the case you're thinking about getting more coffee, and whether or not that is a good idea. No technology required.
And if you don't store it on someone else's hardware, then instead you're vulnerable to having your facilities seized, or your upstream provider pressured into cutting you off. The only hope is to do both, which apparently SciHub was.
How exactly is Cloudflare supposed to respond to a court order other than by obeying it? Precedent is irrelevant, this is PMITA prison time we're talking about if they don't comply. Expecting them to do otherwise would be exceptionally foolish.
Note the use of scare quotes. I was saying that if the term "police action" can be applied to a war, then it can be applied to shooting an unarmed civilian.
I thought Jack the Ripper had been positively identified as the Loch Ness Monster.
Vietnam was a "police action". The term fits.
There should be a second voice repeating "exercise exercise exercise" during the entire drill, so that someone who comes in in the middle won't be fooled. You'd think we would have learned something from the War of the Worlds panic.
It doesn't help that in a set piece such as a corner, it's not one player going up for the ball, it's four or five, and all of them are tracking the ball, not each other. Head-to-head collisions are the result.
This is why California issues IDs through the Department of Motor Vehicles which are equivalent to a driver's license in all ways other than licensing you to drive.
As soon as you see "anagram" mentioned as part of the process to decode a cipher, you can stop reading, it's not a solution. If you allow for an arbitrary arrangement of letters or symbols as part of the solution, you can arrive at pretty much *any* text as the result, with no real connection to the cipher you started with.
Unfortunately, if that's what the author of the manuscript actually did, then it's a necessary step in making heads or tails of the text. There will be words and phrases that will be ambiguous because there is more than one possible unscrambling of the letters, but just because the encoding is lossy, that doesn't mean it's completely meaningless. I would have to imagine the author was aware of the potential for confusion and chose words that would not induce collisions that could not be resolved by context, assuming of course that it really is an alphabetically ordered anagram. It could be that it deviates from alphabetically ordered, say by placing the actual first letter of the word at the beginning, when necessary to resolve such ambiguity -- but they probably haven't gotten that far yet.
But I am le tired.
If they can get coherent results using only machine translation, not understanding the base language themselves, this gives an even stronger claim in some ways that they have really cracked the code. We will know they aren't hand-tweaking the results to get what they want, because they don't actually know what they want. They only know what comes out the other end of the process.
Her sister on the other hand.
I think her name is Debra.
The time bit isn't the story though. It's my deus ex machina to get the people to where the story happens and not a lot more. Thus, I don't mind if the idea is not new. It's nice to see it's somewhat credible-sounding, and I don't have any entropy violations because there is no backward time travel -- it will be implied more than stated that it is still considered impossible since the tech level will only be 20 years from now. The story is more "Gilligan's Island, in space, with monsters".
That's why one stray photon would screw up time travel -- any difference whatsoever would cause the weather to be different in about a month and soon different sperm are meeting different eggs, and the entire next generation is different.
This is why I'm positing complex, hyperbolic time when I invoke "time travel" (which it only sort of is since it still doesn't involve going backward, just altering the angle at which you proceed forward). Even if you could figure out how to swim upstream, you still could never return to a previous point because the hyperbolic nature of the complex time plane magnifies the inevitable error on the complex axis. You could go back to 1933 and kill Hitler, but it would be in someone else's timeline, thus no grandfather paradox.
Why is the time plane hyperbolic? To make room for all the points of divergence from quantum collapse. Many Worlds is correct, and to handle every possible path becoming real, the time plane is hyperbolic to give them somewhere (or rather, somewhen) to call their own.