I didn't say archival hard drives aren't a market, I said it's fairly limited. By that, I mean the volume is an order of magnitude less than the market for hard drives in general right now. Also, it's not hard to find external hard drive boxes or cables with PATA even now. (How I got modded "Troll" is beyond me. I haven't said anything I don't believe to be true, or in a manner designed to irritate people.)
To the poster below: I'd rather archive to a hard drive, moving parts and all, and put it on a shelf than trust the data to a device whose shelf life can sometimes be measured in days. Or better yet, both. They could both fail, but they're going to have to do it in fundamentally different ways.
The whole thing hard drives are counting on right now is cramming more data into a device, and at a lower cost, than SSDs. SSDs have yet to stop their progress up the Moore's Law ladder, and hard drives have never been on it. At some point in the not too distant future, cost might be the hard drive's only advantage. Not long after that, all they will have to count on is "SSDs fade if you put them on the shelf too long". The market for archival hard drives is fairly limited. HAMR was supposed to postpone the inevitable just a bit longer, but if they can't get it out the door on time, it may not be worth bothering at all. Those who need massive archives aren't all that concerned about them taking up space, by and large. The current technology is good enough for that.
I chose argon because it is the one noble gas that is fairly plentiful, 23 times the abundance of carbon dioxide. If argon is too big, that's good reason not to use it, but it's certainly not hard to find. Every time I've bought wine directly from a winery and they bottled it on the spot, they first filled the bottle with argon to clear any oxygen out. Nitrogen would obviously be safe, but it would be a big ask to detect excess nitrogen when the air is itself 80% nitrogen. I was just trying to think of a gas that is both reasonably cheap and completely safe while remaining straightforward to detect. I wasn't thinking about permeability.
We do. I live in suburban Los Angeles county, and our heating and cooking is all done by natural gas (methane). That's why the Southern California Gas Company exists.
500 metric tons is almost exactly right for 110,000 pounds. Sorry for not having much sympathy, I have to do these conversions in my head all over the place (in the reverse direction, I don't natively "think metric" but I also don't expect anyone else to translate for me) and pounds-to-kilograms is one of the easiest, along with yards-to-meters and miles-to-kilometers. This is not because I am an engineer, the only thing I engineer is audio and our decibels are the same as yours.
I hope this event leads to a change of the default assumption that a natural underground reservoir that held liquid hydrocarbons is automatically qualified to hold gaseous hydrocarbons. It should be necessary to test such reservoirs before pumping gas into them -- say, with air tagged with extra argon or something. If it escapes, no harm is done. It is just being done to see if the damn thing leaks.
It's weird, but you take a 5 solar mass star, collapse it into a black hole, and it will be much less than 5 solar masses...
First, a 5 solar mass star will likely shed more than enough of it to survive as a neutron star, or possibly even a white dwarf like our Sun will end up. If it were to somehow collapse without blowing off any of its mass, it would just meet the mass of the smallest known stellar mass black hole, and in reality they typically shed the vast majority.
Second, it's not strange at all that the object that remains has much less mass than the progenitor. Add the mass flung away in the explosion, and the kinetic energy it carries (which is equivalent to mass), and the radiation, and the equation balances. Supernovas are very, very messy -- and this is a very good thing if you like a universe with elements heavier than lithium, which we carbon-based lifeforms generally do.
One problem with malicious damage to a drone will be proving that there is malicious damage. A BB gun shot may cause a crash, but will it be obvious that the crash didn't cause a particular small hole?
I would hope the drone will have multiple cameras pointing in all (downward at least) directions and be constantly transmitting back to the truck that dispatched it for all sorts of good reasons. It doesn't even require a failure of the drone itself, it could just fail to locate the house specified (say someone is using a dead drop to collect items ordered with stolen credit card info, and there isn't even a house on that lot any longer – but it's still a mail-deliverable address), or maybe there's a party going on in the yard and it can't get close enough because it senses the moving lifeforms. Rather than relying on error reports to explain why it came back with the package, it would be easier to look at the footage. If it doesn't come back at all and completely stops communicating, for any reason, that footage may be the only hope of locating it. Also, if there is a screw-up (either on the part of the drone, the operator, or the address on the package) and they need to figure out where they dropped something and shouldn't have, they'll want that footage.
4) Teenager is in a field trying a BB gun, shoots at drone. Drone crashes. What then?
Same as when a teenager drops a rock from an overpass onto someone's windshield, causing them to crash when they can no longer see. The one doing the malicious damage is to blame.
5) Someone is testing a Tesla coil in his garage. The huge sparks emit electromagnetic interference, making communication with the drone impossible. Drone cannot be controlled, destroys property. Who pays?
The drone should head back toward some pre-defined point, and at a certain distance from the interference it will re-establish communications. I'd be more worried about it colliding with birds than crashing because of welders.
6) Drone noise and danger reduces the value of houses in a neighborhood. An adjoining county has restrictions against drones; the value of the property there goes up.
At least in the U.S., it's not within their power to do that. Aviation is a Federal matter, and there is little doubt a cargo-carrying drone is more akin to a conventional aircraft than to a toy, regardless of how the registration issue pans out for non-commercial craft.
7) RFI, Radio Frequency Interference: Someone is outside on the street welding something using an electric welder. Electric welding generates interference on ALL frequencies. The drone might receive nothing except noise.
First, this wasn't the Supreme Court, it was a District Court. If appealed, SCOTUS could hear it, send it back for reconsideration with comments, or let it stand.
Second, I'm surprised it has taken this long. Does this mean Los Chingaderos (the band) can now get some airplay? Will LMFAO ever be announced using their full name?
I don't recall the exact details but I remember a study that concluded that if you bought a new vehicle and the new vehicle got twice as many miles per gallon than the old one that the energy used to produce the new vehicle, combined with the increase efficiency, would take something like 35 years to pay off.
This neglects two important things: (1) Maintaining an old vehicle is not itself without energy costs to manufacture parts. (2) Chances are, if the old vehicle was still roadworthy, someone else will keep driving it, and it may be an upgrade for them as well. (At least outside of programs designed to destroy said older vehicles.)
Also, there are times when the correct fuel for a vehicle becomes increasingly hard to obtain. It happened with Leaded Regular, it's probably going to happen with Diesel (oh sure it'll be out there at truck stops, but not at normal city gas stations), and it will happen somewhere down the line with gasoline.
I never said Reddit was obliged to respect freedom of speech. I was merely stating that refusal to do so now is highly indicative of their inclination to refuse to do so when it actually matters.
Having checked Voat, spoilers are flying but they're clearly marked -- probably because people aren't getting banned for breaking some unwritten site-wide rule.
This is an interesting situation (and one without any immense consequences) where the principles of free speech and playing nice obviously run squarely into each other, and how a forum handles the conflict will be informative as to how they might handle more significant incidents. To me, it seems that if a subreddit wants to ban spoilers, they can, but it shouldn't be site-wide. In fact, those wishing to talk openly about a movie most people haven't seen should be encouraged to do it in a subreddit where everyone knows going in that spoilers are not just allowed but welcomed.
Don't think for a moment that this will be something happening in Brazil alone. Now authorities in France are pointing the finger at both WhatsApp and Telegram as providing a means for the attackers there to communicate.
[sarcasm]If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.[/sarcasm]
This was already proposed, but the person in charge of implementing it misunderstood the specification and released cougars of another type into the financial district. Many of them did in fact qualify as man-eating as well, but the experiment was still deemed to be a failure.
We already have the problem of parrots outliving their owners, and having to be either taken in by someone else as a pre-existing arrangement (which doesn't always work out well), or end up in shelters for decades. Also, one part of the draw for having a pet (other than the above-mentioned parrots) is knowing that if you get a particularly stupid one, or one that isn't very nice to people, or has other major problems that can't be worked out, you're not stuck with it for the rest of your life -- unless you're old, and then the "what if it out lives you?" question arises again.
Now highly trained service animals -- that's another matter entirely. It would be enormously helpful if disabled people with service dogs didn't need a new one every decade or so. But this should be reserved for such edge cases, and that can be done pretty straightforwardly by making it remain expensive. (It will start expensive, whether we want it to be or not.)
I have personally watched a dog (noticeably gray from even the considerable distance between us) watch traffic from the side of the road and wait until a large delivery truck came over a hill before stepping out in front of it. It was as clear-cut a suicide as it could possibly be.
At least Anonymous has the advantage of being difficult for ISIS to target, unlike military or police forces, or even intelligence services operated by nation-states. How much they can actually accomplish remains to be seen.
I've been using Pale Moon for some time now because of the native 64-bit builds, but once the refusal to adopt Mozilla's "UI of the week" model set in, I switched my 32-bit systems over as well. When my mother started asking me "where did such and such option go?" and I was unable to find it myself, I switched her to Pale Moon as well. At this point I don't even care if it's technically better, although it probably is. It's simply more useful than mainline Firefox.
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I didn't say archival hard drives aren't a market, I said it's fairly limited. By that, I mean the volume is an order of magnitude less than the market for hard drives in general right now. Also, it's not hard to find external hard drive boxes or cables with PATA even now. (How I got modded "Troll" is beyond me. I haven't said anything I don't believe to be true, or in a manner designed to irritate people.)
To the poster below: I'd rather archive to a hard drive, moving parts and all, and put it on a shelf than trust the data to a device whose shelf life can sometimes be measured in days. Or better yet, both. They could both fail, but they're going to have to do it in fundamentally different ways.
The whole thing hard drives are counting on right now is cramming more data into a device, and at a lower cost, than SSDs. SSDs have yet to stop their progress up the Moore's Law ladder, and hard drives have never been on it. At some point in the not too distant future, cost might be the hard drive's only advantage. Not long after that, all they will have to count on is "SSDs fade if you put them on the shelf too long". The market for archival hard drives is fairly limited. HAMR was supposed to postpone the inevitable just a bit longer, but if they can't get it out the door on time, it may not be worth bothering at all. Those who need massive archives aren't all that concerned about them taking up space, by and large. The current technology is good enough for that.
Not to mention all the dry brush from four-plus years of drought just waiting to burn.
I chose argon because it is the one noble gas that is fairly plentiful, 23 times the abundance of carbon dioxide. If argon is too big, that's good reason not to use it, but it's certainly not hard to find. Every time I've bought wine directly from a winery and they bottled it on the spot, they first filled the bottle with argon to clear any oxygen out. Nitrogen would obviously be safe, but it would be a big ask to detect excess nitrogen when the air is itself 80% nitrogen. I was just trying to think of a gas that is both reasonably cheap and completely safe while remaining straightforward to detect. I wasn't thinking about permeability.
We do. I live in suburban Los Angeles county, and our heating and cooking is all done by natural gas (methane). That's why the Southern California Gas Company exists.
500 metric tons is almost exactly right for 110,000 pounds. Sorry for not having much sympathy, I have to do these conversions in my head all over the place (in the reverse direction, I don't natively "think metric" but I also don't expect anyone else to translate for me) and pounds-to-kilograms is one of the easiest, along with yards-to-meters and miles-to-kilometers. This is not because I am an engineer, the only thing I engineer is audio and our decibels are the same as yours.
I hope this event leads to a change of the default assumption that a natural underground reservoir that held liquid hydrocarbons is automatically qualified to hold gaseous hydrocarbons. It should be necessary to test such reservoirs before pumping gas into them -- say, with air tagged with extra argon or something. If it escapes, no harm is done. It is just being done to see if the damn thing leaks.
I certainly don't want to install anything with "badger" in the name.
Privacy Badger doesn't care. Privacy Badger doesn't give a shit.
It's weird, but you take a 5 solar mass star, collapse it into a black hole, and it will be much less than 5 solar masses...
First, a 5 solar mass star will likely shed more than enough of it to survive as a neutron star, or possibly even a white dwarf like our Sun will end up. If it were to somehow collapse without blowing off any of its mass, it would just meet the mass of the smallest known stellar mass black hole, and in reality they typically shed the vast majority.
Second, it's not strange at all that the object that remains has much less mass than the progenitor. Add the mass flung away in the explosion, and the kinetic energy it carries (which is equivalent to mass), and the radiation, and the equation balances. Supernovas are very, very messy -- and this is a very good thing if you like a universe with elements heavier than lithium, which we carbon-based lifeforms generally do.
One problem with malicious damage to a drone will be proving that there is malicious damage. A BB gun shot may cause a crash, but will it be obvious that the crash didn't cause a particular small hole?
I would hope the drone will have multiple cameras pointing in all (downward at least) directions and be constantly transmitting back to the truck that dispatched it for all sorts of good reasons. It doesn't even require a failure of the drone itself, it could just fail to locate the house specified (say someone is using a dead drop to collect items ordered with stolen credit card info, and there isn't even a house on that lot any longer – but it's still a mail-deliverable address), or maybe there's a party going on in the yard and it can't get close enough because it senses the moving lifeforms. Rather than relying on error reports to explain why it came back with the package, it would be easier to look at the footage. If it doesn't come back at all and completely stops communicating, for any reason, that footage may be the only hope of locating it. Also, if there is a screw-up (either on the part of the drone, the operator, or the address on the package) and they need to figure out where they dropped something and shouldn't have, they'll want that footage.
4) Teenager is in a field trying a BB gun, shoots at drone. Drone crashes. What then?
Same as when a teenager drops a rock from an overpass onto someone's windshield, causing them to crash when they can no longer see. The one doing the malicious damage is to blame.
5) Someone is testing a Tesla coil in his garage. The huge sparks emit electromagnetic interference, making communication with the drone impossible. Drone cannot be controlled, destroys property. Who pays?
The drone should head back toward some pre-defined point, and at a certain distance from the interference it will re-establish communications. I'd be more worried about it colliding with birds than crashing because of welders.
6) Drone noise and danger reduces the value of houses in a neighborhood. An adjoining county has restrictions against drones; the value of the property there goes up.
At least in the U.S., it's not within their power to do that. Aviation is a Federal matter, and there is little doubt a cargo-carrying drone is more akin to a conventional aircraft than to a toy, regardless of how the registration issue pans out for non-commercial craft.
7) RFI, Radio Frequency Interference: Someone is outside on the street welding something using an electric welder. Electric welding generates interference on ALL frequencies. The drone might receive nothing except noise.
See (5).
8) Drone is stolen.
Cars get stolen too, and we blame the thief.
First, this wasn't the Supreme Court, it was a District Court. If appealed, SCOTUS could hear it, send it back for reconsideration with comments, or let it stand.
Second, I'm surprised it has taken this long. Does this mean Los Chingaderos (the band) can now get some airplay? Will LMFAO ever be announced using their full name?
I don't recall the exact details but I remember a study that concluded that if you bought a new vehicle and the new vehicle got twice as many miles per gallon than the old one that the energy used to produce the new vehicle, combined with the increase efficiency, would take something like 35 years to pay off.
This neglects two important things:
(1) Maintaining an old vehicle is not itself without energy costs to manufacture parts.
(2) Chances are, if the old vehicle was still roadworthy, someone else will keep driving it, and it may be an upgrade for them as well. (At least outside of programs designed to destroy said older vehicles.)
Also, there are times when the correct fuel for a vehicle becomes increasingly hard to obtain. It happened with Leaded Regular, it's probably going to happen with Diesel (oh sure it'll be out there at truck stops, but not at normal city gas stations), and it will happen somewhere down the line with gasoline.
In other news, watching cooking shows makes you hungry. What a scandal!
It wasn't even homemade, it was a commercial product with a phone charger in it.
Should the lesson be "doing anything remotely suspicious while brown is punishable, and suspicious is what officials want it to be"?
I never said Reddit was obliged to respect freedom of speech. I was merely stating that refusal to do so now is highly indicative of their inclination to refuse to do so when it actually matters.
Having checked Voat, spoilers are flying but they're clearly marked -- probably because people aren't getting banned for breaking some unwritten site-wide rule.
This is an interesting situation (and one without any immense consequences) where the principles of free speech and playing nice obviously run squarely into each other, and how a forum handles the conflict will be informative as to how they might handle more significant incidents. To me, it seems that if a subreddit wants to ban spoilers, they can, but it shouldn't be site-wide. In fact, those wishing to talk openly about a movie most people haven't seen should be encouraged to do it in a subreddit where everyone knows going in that spoilers are not just allowed but welcomed.
Don't think for a moment that this will be something happening in Brazil alone. Now authorities in France are pointing the finger at both WhatsApp and Telegram as providing a means for the attackers there to communicate.
[sarcasm]If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.[/sarcasm]
Slartibartfast must be proud.
I'd think this terrain appeals more to cold fjord.
This was already proposed, but the person in charge of implementing it misunderstood the specification and released cougars of another type into the financial district. Many of them did in fact qualify as man-eating as well, but the experiment was still deemed to be a failure.
We already have the problem of parrots outliving their owners, and having to be either taken in by someone else as a pre-existing arrangement (which doesn't always work out well), or end up in shelters for decades. Also, one part of the draw for having a pet (other than the above-mentioned parrots) is knowing that if you get a particularly stupid one, or one that isn't very nice to people, or has other major problems that can't be worked out, you're not stuck with it for the rest of your life -- unless you're old, and then the "what if it out lives you?" question arises again.
Now highly trained service animals -- that's another matter entirely. It would be enormously helpful if disabled people with service dogs didn't need a new one every decade or so. But this should be reserved for such edge cases, and that can be done pretty straightforwardly by making it remain expensive. (It will start expensive, whether we want it to be or not.)
I have personally watched a dog (noticeably gray from even the considerable distance between us) watch traffic from the side of the road and wait until a large delivery truck came over a hill before stepping out in front of it. It was as clear-cut a suicide as it could possibly be.
Are you sure it's so much better to be pwnied?
At least Anonymous has the advantage of being difficult for ISIS to target, unlike military or police forces, or even intelligence services operated by nation-states. How much they can actually accomplish remains to be seen.
I've been using Pale Moon for some time now because of the native 64-bit builds, but once the refusal to adopt Mozilla's "UI of the week" model set in, I switched my 32-bit systems over as well. When my mother started asking me "where did such and such option go?" and I was unable to find it myself, I switched her to Pale Moon as well. At this point I don't even care if it's technically better, although it probably is. It's simply more useful than mainline Firefox.