You don't need to attack 2500 or 4600 cities, but the premise behind the number of warheads is that you WOULD want to attack all of the enemies warheads, and vice-versa. You don't want to leave your enemy with the ability to strike back.
The goal might be to hit America's 20 largest cities, or Russia's 20 largest cities, but the fact of doing so means that the attacked country is going to be unhappy, and will fire back in anger at your 200 largest cities. So, the intiator fires weapons at their 20 largest cities, all of their strategic bomber bases, any large warships (missile subs, carriers, etc), and as many missile silos as they can to reduce the reprisal factor.
To prevent all of their offensive weapons from being wiped out, each side has at least a portion of their arsenal on a hair-trigger, capable of being launched in the 30 minute window from enemy launch to impact, to maximize the reprisal they could take. .
Obviously need to measure power to the CPU, not wall power.
That'll be quite difficult on the older, non-microprocessor based machines (say, the 1980 vintage minicomputers) where the "CPU" was a 6u or 7u drawer in a rack./frank
Well, they're only 375 light-years away, so I'd say that if they had managed to exist for 13 000 000 000 years, they likelihood of them disappearing in the last 375 is pretty low. My bet is on "are".
So all it costs a terrorist organization is $100 apiece to determine if their suicide bombers are going to be able to carry a bomb on the plane or not?
No mod points today, but this is spot on - Legally, there isn't a problem here. However, it seems like a poor strategy to follow if you want to keep Google as a client...
The scientific method falls flat on its face on several subjects - a good one would be "I have terminal cancer - do I have a right to die at a time, place, and method of my choosing?" How about climate change? "Assuming the worst scenarios of AGW, should we try to do anything about it?
Values and ethics are not subjects that are amenable to the scientific method.
I live in Arizona with our lovely Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and I assure you that (brown) people are "getting thrown on the ground on the side of the road for not producing "papers" fast enough". And with the anti-illegal alien sentiment that seems to pervade the country (for no obvious reason), I don't think the rest of you are far away from it.
The CVV used here, I believe, isn't the one printed on the back of the card. I believe that it's a one-time use CVV that changes for the next transaction (think rolling-code garage door opener or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_time_password)
So, someone who steals one can do a single transaction.
Differential GPS, as BitterOak said, as well as some exotic techniques of receiving the GPS signal, as well as certain signal processing approaches - you're measuring distances over a year; there's a lot of processing gain if you simply take a million readings and average them!
On our products, our latest ASIC spin involved bringing three external resistors on board to reduce BOM costs. Three resistors, at generously $0.01 apiece (once procurement, PC board space, and assembly costs are tallied up). And someone wants an LCD?
Having just come back from a business trip to Tokyo, where as far as I could tell the concept of "public wi-fi" was non-existent, the ability to drop 100 yen into a public vending machine and hit the net would have been great.
Beg to differ. Tmobile (http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go-plans) provides a $10, 30 min prepaid plan where the minutes are good for 3 months - that's $3.33 / mo. They used to offer a $100, 1000 minute prepaid plan where the minutes never expired - perhaps the parent is still on that plan?
lost consciousness until seconds before impact,...
is the alternate interpretation that places less blame on the pilot. After reading the report (and, yes, I did) there is nothing in there that suggests that this wasn't the case.
The 48 MHz, ARM-7-like processor in our ASIC can do an RSA-2048 operation in 3-4 seconds. The 3000 MHz, 64-bit, OOE, multi-issue, TLA-up-the-Wazoo processor in the average $400 laptop should be able to do it in 3-4 milliseconds (http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html).
There is no reason not to be using RSA-2048 on the desktop. On a Webserver getting hit by millions, the 6-8x increase in CPU times is going to start getting noticeable./frank
And if I had a time machine, I'd go back to Google's IPO, when I convinced our investment club that it was a fad stock with no business model that was soon to be the next pets.com.
Sigh. I guess I'm not a good long-term investment choice either.
The thing is, with hindsight you can always find "great long-term investment choices". The trick, of course, is doing it in the present and not in the past./frank
Except I submit that if your paying for the product, then you're still the product (and now a bit poorer).
Do you believe that your cable company isn't selling your viewing history? Last time I looked, I was paying them... Do you believe that your ISP isn't selling your browsing history (if they aren't actively injecting ads into your browsing experience)? Last time I looked, I was paying them... Do you believe that your grocery store isn't selling your purchase history (unless you're willing to pay 10% more to opt-out of their "we won't screw you if you carry this" card, AND decide not to pay with a trackable (credit/debit card, etc) form of currency)? Last time I looked, I was paying them... How about Visa/Mastercard/Discover/Amex? Do you believe that they're not data mining as fast as they can? Fortunately, I'm not paying them directly, but many do (and they still have their hands in every transaction).
Deciding to pay for things so that you're not the product is a fools quest.../frank
The arguments about speed limits being set too low, etc, are completely different than whether or not the measuring device is accurate. Current traffic radar is crap at being able to say with accuracy "THAT vehicle was doing 72 mph", and yet the courts treat the device as more-or-less infallible. Putting a high-resolution camera on it and reticles pointed at the license plate is simply lipstick on a pig - it promises even more accuracy than exists.
I don't have the same argument with laser radar systems - if someone built one with a high-resolution camera that showed the car's license plate with a little laser dot on it and an overlayed speed, I'd have no problem with it.
Of course, the Redflex photo radar systems installed in Phoenix freeways a couple years ago didn't use radar (they used timing loops in the ground), and I opposed them - but for different reasons./frank
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And teaching about transubstantiation in Physics class.
You don't need to attack 2500 or 4600 cities, but the premise behind the number of warheads is that you WOULD want to attack all of the enemies warheads, and vice-versa. You don't want to leave your enemy with the ability to strike back.
The goal might be to hit America's 20 largest cities, or Russia's 20 largest cities, but the fact of doing so means that the attacked country is going to be unhappy, and will fire back in anger at your 200 largest cities. So, the intiator fires weapons at their 20 largest cities, all of their strategic bomber bases, any large warships (missile subs, carriers, etc), and as many missile silos as they can to reduce the reprisal factor.
To prevent all of their offensive weapons from being wiped out, each side has at least a portion of their arsenal on a hair-trigger, capable of being launched in the 30 minute window from enemy launch to impact, to maximize the reprisal they could take. .
Obviously need to measure power to the CPU, not wall power.
That'll be quite difficult on the older, non-microprocessor based machines (say, the 1980 vintage minicomputers) where the "CPU" was a 6u or 7u drawer in a rack. /frank
Well, they're only 375 light-years away, so I'd say that if they had managed to exist for 13 000 000 000 years, they likelihood of them disappearing in the last 375 is pretty low. My bet is on "are".
So all it costs a terrorist organization is $100 apiece to determine if their suicide bombers are going to be able to carry a bomb on the plane or not?
Inconceivable!
Mod this one up - +1 I agree.
8 MB then, 8 GB now
1 GB then, 1 TB now
33 MHz then, 3 GHz quad-core now
0.0288 mbps internet then, 1-10 mbps now (only two orders)
600 MB CD-ROM then, 45 GB BluRay now (only two orders)
1.4 MB floppy then, 16 GB Flash drive now (four)
Price: (not in TFA): Probably $2500 then, around $750 today.
And yet, I'm betting that the 1995 machine boots faster than the 2012 machine...
It is...but history shows that they weren't very good at it.
No mod points today, but this is spot on - Legally, there isn't a problem here. However, it seems like a poor strategy to follow if you want to keep Google as a client...
The scientific method falls flat on its face on several subjects - a good one would be "I have terminal cancer - do I have a right to die at a time, place, and method of my choosing?"
How about climate change? "Assuming the worst scenarios of AGW, should we try to do anything about it?
Values and ethics are not subjects that are amenable to the scientific method.
I live in Arizona with our lovely Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and I assure you that (brown) people are "getting thrown on the ground on the side of the road for not producing "papers" fast enough". And with the anti-illegal alien sentiment that seems to pervade the country (for no obvious reason), I don't think the rest of you are far away from it.
The CVV used here, I believe, isn't the one printed on the back of the card. I believe that it's a one-time use CVV that changes for the next transaction (think rolling-code garage door opener or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_time_password)
So, someone who steals one can do a single transaction.
Having experienced this once..
Who, exactly, do you think Universal would send to court to represent them in your small-claims court action?
Hint: A lawyer.
Differential GPS, as BitterOak said, as well as some exotic techniques of receiving the GPS signal, as well as certain signal processing approaches - you're measuring distances over a year; there's a lot of processing gain if you simply take a million readings and average them!
There's a good chart here http://www.geoplane.com/gpsneeds.html showing the cost curve as accuracy goes up.
On our products, our latest ASIC spin involved bringing three external resistors on board to reduce BOM costs. Three resistors, at generously $0.01 apiece (once procurement, PC board space, and assembly costs are tallied up). And someone wants an LCD?
Having just come back from a business trip to Tokyo, where as far as I could tell the concept of "public wi-fi" was non-existent, the ability to drop 100 yen into a public vending machine and hit the net would have been great.
Beg to differ.
Tmobile (http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/pay-as-you-go-plans) provides a $10, 30 min prepaid plan where the minutes are good for 3 months - that's $3.33 / mo. They used to offer a $100, 1000 minute prepaid plan where the minutes never expired - perhaps the parent is still on that plan?
While struggling with activation of the EOS, he
lost consciousness until seconds before impact,...
is the alternate interpretation that places less blame on the pilot. After reading the report (and, yes, I did) there is nothing in there that suggests that this wasn't the case.
I did, but I don't see an ICS package for my Nexus S anywhere. Seen one?
Not in an expanding universe you can't.
I agree with you, Kjella.
The 48 MHz, ARM-7-like processor in our ASIC can do an RSA-2048 operation in 3-4 seconds. The 3000 MHz, 64-bit, OOE, multi-issue, TLA-up-the-Wazoo processor in the average $400 laptop should be able to do it in 3-4 milliseconds (http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html).
There is no reason not to be using RSA-2048 on the desktop. On a Webserver getting hit by millions, the 6-8x increase in CPU times is going to start getting noticeable. /frank
And if I had a time machine, I'd go back to Google's IPO, when I convinced our investment club that it was a fad stock with no business model that was soon to be the next pets.com.
Sigh. I guess I'm not a good long-term investment choice either.
The thing is, with hindsight you can always find "great long-term investment choices". The trick, of course, is doing it in the present and not in the past. /frank
Except I submit that if your paying for the product, then you're still the product (and now a bit poorer).
Do you believe that your cable company isn't selling your viewing history? Last time I looked, I was paying them...
Do you believe that your ISP isn't selling your browsing history (if they aren't actively injecting ads into your browsing experience)? Last time I looked, I was paying them...
Do you believe that your grocery store isn't selling your purchase history (unless you're willing to pay 10% more to opt-out of their "we won't screw you if you carry this" card, AND decide not to pay with a trackable (credit/debit card, etc) form of currency)? Last time I looked, I was paying them...
How about Visa/Mastercard/Discover/Amex? Do you believe that they're not data mining as fast as they can? Fortunately, I'm not paying them directly, but many do (and they still have their hands in every transaction).
Deciding to pay for things so that you're not the product is a fools quest... /frank
Because all of his links go to ads?
Frankly, yes.
The arguments about speed limits being set too low, etc, are completely different than whether or not the measuring device is accurate. Current traffic radar is crap at being able to say with accuracy "THAT vehicle was doing 72 mph", and yet the courts treat the device as more-or-less infallible. Putting a high-resolution camera on it and reticles pointed at the license plate is simply lipstick on a pig - it promises even more accuracy than exists.
I don't have the same argument with laser radar systems - if someone built one with a high-resolution camera that showed the car's license plate with a little laser dot on it and an overlayed speed, I'd have no problem with it.
Of course, the Redflex photo radar systems installed in Phoenix freeways a couple years ago didn't use radar (they used timing loops in the ground), and I opposed them - but for different reasons. /frank