Current AND wind, all going in the same direction as your preferred direction of travel is still unlikely to achieve 95 or even 70 mph.
Something that small with a displacement hull form isn't going to be much above 4 knots max, and ocean currents seldom exceed 6 knots. So unless you had hurricane winds that lifted the entire craft out of the water you aren't going to get anywhere near 20mph, let alone 95.
They only way you could intercept something like that is to accidentally hit it.
Yes, brilliant.
To bad we have never invented something that could bounce sound waves off of objects in or under the water so that we could find them even when we can't see them.
When an otherwise popular device foists yet another cable requirement on the market, that, in most cases will over-ride users resistance to having a new cable. All you have to do is LOOK at all the Apple fanbois tossing out their 30pin connector, (which we were assured by Apple was the best thing ever) and substituting the new Lightning cable, which is also now the best thing ever).
In the mean time, the rational for doing ANYTHING thru the cable besides charging is virtually non-existent.
A world standard almost exists for phone charging. There is really only ONE holdout. Wired charging will eventually be supplanted by wireless charging, and you will need standards there as well.
Standardization is ALWAYS something that needs legislation. Always.
Apple already got an exemption last time this issue came up in the EU.
This isn't the first time this was addressed by the EU. The last law only affected the part that plugged into the wall, so Apple got an exemption there.
Now they are specifying BOTH ends of the connectors must meet the standard. Its about time. Also, selling phones without a charger, for 10 bucks less would make sense as well.
The other big difference is that cellphones don't provide that data to your insurance company.
Driving 80mph is going to affect your rates, even when you drive in states where 80 is both legal and the prevailing speed of traffic.
But stopping at restaurants with liquor licenses could also affect your rates if insurance companies gain a method to track you. These types of devices allow insurance companies the ability to prejudge you, without relying on your driving record. They also provide a basis for claims denial based on trivial violations of traffic laws that had nothing to do with the accident. Even If the other person was at fault.
But it's not. Drug users want something cheap and accessible. The market will always be there, even if only a few partake. If heroine were legal, nobody would die. But so long as we think they deserve it, it's ok to enforce policies that kill millions.
Kill millions?
Have you looked at the pictures? People stupid enough to do that will not be missed. They will never produce anything of value to society, should not procreate, and simply raise health care costs for everyone else.
Kill millions? They are the best deterrence you could possibly find.
Did you happen to see coverage of the Mall attack in Kenya? Looks just about like malls near me. Howbout Tesco, the chain featured in this story? Maybe Brazil? Or South America in general?
I'm at a loss to find many countries, with the possible exception of Cuba and North Korea that is unfamiliar with the concept of supermarkets, malls, and shopping centers.
The systems they're installing on these F-16s are simple systems that allow them to program a predetermined route, or perhaps fly via a data link.
You are totally wrong here. It has TWO pilots manning consoles, just like a Creech Airforce Base:
Each Reaper drone is operated remotely by a team of two: a pilot and a sensor operator. The pilot's primary function is flying the plane, while the sensor operator monitors the performance of the many different sensor systems (like infrared and night-vision cameras) utilized by the Reaper.
Its exactly the same system, right down to the quoted two pilots. With a Reaper, they can tell it to fly to X/Y coordinates while they have coffee, but they can also can take control of the drone, follow some terrorist on a motor bike to a meeting and launch a missile.
With an F16, they can pull 9g turns, (why in gods name would you program that in a pre-programmed flight path?). Those are maneuvers used in air combat, or missile avoidance.
Look, you can believe what you want, but the state of Missile testing and pilot training no longer requires actual drones to shoot down. That's so 1965.
Actually, no, the rest of the world does not think it is odd to find Walmart, Kmart, Fred Meyer, or similar types of stores. Or shoppers centers, or malls.
They have them too. Sometimes the same brands, sometimes homegrown brands.
You should have listened to Putin when he bitch slapped Obama : the US is not an exceptional country.
Someone printed meat, I believe. But then they started with meat cells to begin with. So basically this would not solve the production problems of meat, but would allow you slurry the whole cow in the slaughter house and pipe it to the grocery store. Whole new meaning for the term "meat pipe."
Yes, but what about the things actually purchased at a supermarket?
Can you print me up a dozen eggs, quart of milk, breakfast sausages, toast and hash-browns? Bottle of wine? Chicken?
Admittedly some kitchen items, cups, saucers, various utensils, might be printable, but what's the point of that.?
Seems to me this technology would be more appropriate in a hardware store, so you could get a replacement left handed widget framis for you obsolete spoze-a-tron in-sink disposal on a Saturday afternoon.
I didn't say nobody was making photo-voltaic solar. Reading comprehension 101.
I'm saying that in the past three years there have been a dumb beat of announcements of exceeding 40% efficiency, yet not a single commercially available system uses any of this technology today, and the entire industry is mired at 15 to 21% efficiency. If the object is to develop efficiency levels that are not commercially viable, then the researchers have succeeded in spades. On the other hand, simply because a hand full of prototype flying cars have existed since the 50s doesn't mean we are any closer to using flying cars.
Why spend the money? Because its dirt fricken cheap, sunk costs. If you can afford it just to shoot it down )target drones), you can afford it to shoot something else down, or deliver heavy munitions loads, while dodging missiles at 9Gs. And if you lose one or two, you aren't giving up any real secrets to the Iranians or whoever.
The control system is off the shelf stuff (at least off the shelf for military). And it all fits in the f16 cockpit, because it was already a fly by wire plane.
Simply shutting of was a step up from the early technology. I don't remember the details but I think it had something to do with burning out some capacitor used in conjunction with the fly back transformer. A three cent part that took 100 bucks to get to and repair.
Not an urban legend I assure you. And the guys getting bit most often were Linux guys trying to figure out X config setting.
Back in the day I was selling a lot of hardware and had to process many warranty returns through our shop.
Back in the day, I heard of malware that would cause your video card to send a signal that would cause your CRT to fail.
Back int the days of CRTs that didn't take malware. You could kill them easy enough just by setting the video cards to improper refresh rates. There were a whole series of Tatung monitors that were particularly prone to this.
Yawn... Another day another solar cell breakthrough that wont see the light of day (see what I did there) for 10 years if ever.
Why is it none of these ever make it to manufacture. Typical solar panels have an average efficiency of 15%, with the best commercially available panels at 21%. Yet we get a new announcement weekly.
You do realize you are talking about a plane that really doesn't exist in anybodies inventory yet, don't you?
Exactly ONE was Ordered, but STILL not delivered. In December 2011, the Air Force announced that it had ordered an Avenger (meaning exactly ONE was ordered for testing) and that it was being deployed to Afghanistan.
To date only 4 have been built an only 3 have flown. A third and fourth model are being produced, with Tail 3 expected to fly by late summer 2012 and Tail 4 by early 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_Avenger
A competition for a final airframe design for the Sea going version isn't even expected until after January 2014.
But more to the point, none of these can be flown in aggressive manner such as a combat aircraft, none has successfully avoided a missile, none has been in air to air combat.
Did you know that the F16 has never been shot down in air to air combat? It has never lost a dog-fight. A small number have been lost to ground fire. (Including Scott O'Grady.)
Perhaps you think like the mod army, and they mod you up quickly, and later the crowd mods you down. Mod armies mod in both directions, although they are primarily concerned that not a discouraging word ever appears regarding their favorite subject.
If you turn on reply notification, you will notice people posting replies as late as a week after your post, with most replies coming in AFTER one or two hours. By that time, the army has you bracketed in their cross-hairs. Sometimes those replies will sway later reviewers.
They Probably chose precisely 2pm. It took their system those two milliseconds to react. I bet they never thought at all about the 7 milliseconds of communication delay.
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Current AND wind, all going in the same direction as your preferred direction of travel is still unlikely to achieve 95 or even 70 mph.
Something that small with a displacement hull form isn't going to be much above 4 knots max, and ocean currents seldom exceed 6 knots. So unless you had hurricane winds that lifted the entire craft out of the water you aren't going to get anywhere near 20mph, let alone 95.
They only way you could intercept something like that is to accidentally hit it.
Yes, brilliant.
To bad we have never invented something that could bounce sound waves off of objects in or under the water so that we could find them even when we can't see them.
No need to legislate this.
Wrong.
You need only look at power outlets across europe to see what happens when you don't legislate standards.
When an otherwise popular device foists yet another cable requirement on the market, that, in most cases will over-ride users
resistance to having a new cable. All you have to do is LOOK at all the Apple fanbois tossing out their 30pin connector,
(which we were assured by Apple was the best thing ever) and substituting the new Lightning cable, which is also now the best thing ever).
In the mean time, the rational for doing ANYTHING thru the cable besides charging is virtually non-existent.
A world standard almost exists for phone charging. There is really only ONE holdout.
Wired charging will eventually be supplanted by wireless charging, and you will need standards there as well.
Standardization is ALWAYS something that needs legislation. Always.
Apple already got an exemption last time this issue came up in the EU.
This isn't the first time this was addressed by the EU.
The last law only affected the part that plugged into the wall, so Apple got an exemption there.
Now they are specifying BOTH ends of the connectors must meet the standard. Its about time.
Also, selling phones without a charger, for 10 bucks less would make sense as well.
The other big difference is that cellphones don't provide that data to your insurance company.
Driving 80mph is going to affect your rates, even when you drive in states where 80 is both legal and the prevailing speed of traffic.
But stopping at restaurants with liquor licenses could also affect your rates if insurance companies gain a method to track you.
These types of devices allow insurance companies the ability to prejudge you, without relying on your driving record. They also provide a basis for claims denial based on trivial violations of traffic laws that had nothing to do with the accident. Even If the other person was at fault.
Insurance is supposed to be an actuarial science.
But it's not. Drug users want something cheap and accessible. The market will always be there, even if only a few partake. If heroine were legal, nobody would die. But so long as we think they deserve it, it's ok to enforce policies that kill millions.
Kill millions?
Have you looked at the pictures?
People stupid enough to do that will not be missed. They will never produce anything of value to society, should not procreate, and simply raise health care costs for everyone else.
Kill millions? They are the best deterrence you could possibly find.
Still, I'm not sure there was ever a 10 year gap between Linux releases.
People in Germany think it's weird to buy a shotgun and bread in the same store.
You speak for all of them do you?
Which Much were you referring to?
Antarctica?
Did you happen to see coverage of the Mall attack in Kenya? Looks just about like malls near me.
Howbout Tesco, the chain featured in this story?
Maybe Brazil? Or South America in general?
I'm at a loss to find many countries, with the possible exception of Cuba and North Korea that is unfamiliar with the concept
of supermarkets, malls, and shopping centers.
You're missing the point...
The systems they're installing on these F-16s are simple systems that allow them to program a predetermined route, or perhaps fly via a data link.
You are totally wrong here.
It has TWO pilots manning consoles, just like a Creech Airforce Base:
Each Reaper drone is operated remotely by a team of two: a pilot and a sensor operator. The pilot's primary function is flying the plane, while the sensor operator monitors the performance of the many different sensor systems (like infrared and night-vision cameras) utilized by the Reaper.
Its exactly the same system, right down to the quoted two pilots. With a Reaper, they can tell it to fly to X/Y coordinates while they have coffee, but they can also can take control of the drone, follow some terrorist on a motor bike to a meeting and launch a missile.
With an F16, they can pull 9g turns, (why in gods name would you program that in a pre-programmed flight path?). Those are maneuvers used in air combat, or missile avoidance.
Look, you can believe what you want, but the state of Missile testing and pilot training no longer requires actual drones to shoot down. That's so 1965.
Drop off?
How very quaint.
Actually, no, the rest of the world does not think it is odd to find Walmart, Kmart, Fred Meyer, or similar types of stores. Or shoppers centers, or malls.
They have them too. Sometimes the same brands, sometimes homegrown brands.
You should have listened to Putin when he bitch slapped Obama : the US is not an exceptional country.
Someone printed meat, I believe. But then they started with meat cells to begin with. So basically this would not solve the production problems of meat, but would allow you slurry the whole cow in the slaughter house and pipe it to the grocery store. Whole new meaning for the term "meat pipe."
Yes, but what about the things actually purchased at a supermarket?
Can you print me up a dozen eggs, quart of milk, breakfast sausages, toast and hash-browns? Bottle of wine? Chicken?
Admittedly some kitchen items, cups, saucers, various utensils, might be printable, but what's the point of that.?
Seems to me this technology would be more appropriate in a hardware store, so you could get a replacement left handed widget framis for you obsolete spoze-a-tron in-sink disposal on a Saturday afternoon.
I didn't say nobody was making photo-voltaic solar. Reading comprehension 101.
I'm saying that in the past three years there have been a dumb beat of announcements of exceeding 40% efficiency, yet not a single commercially available system uses any of this technology today, and the entire industry is mired at 15 to 21% efficiency. If the object is to develop efficiency levels that are not commercially viable, then the researchers have succeeded in spades. On the other hand, simply because a hand full of prototype flying cars have existed since the 50s doesn't mean we are any closer to using flying cars.
Why spend the money?
Because its dirt fricken cheap, sunk costs.
If you can afford it just to shoot it down )target drones), you can afford it to shoot something else down, or deliver heavy munitions loads, while dodging missiles at 9Gs.
And if you lose one or two, you aren't giving up any real secrets to the Iranians or whoever.
The control system is off the shelf stuff (at least off the shelf for military). And it all fits in the f16 cockpit, because it was already a fly by wire plane.
Pulled them out of wiki, and Forbes agrees, as do various review sites.
No consumer PV installations advertise 32% efficiency.
Simply shutting of was a step up from the early technology. I don't remember the details but I think it had something to do with burning out some capacitor used in conjunction with the fly back transformer. A three cent part that took 100 bucks to get to and repair.
Not an urban legend I assure you. And the guys getting bit most often were Linux guys trying to figure out X config setting.
Back in the day I was selling a lot of hardware and had to process many warranty returns through our shop.
Back in the day, I heard of malware that would cause your video card to send a signal that would cause your CRT to fail.
Back int the days of CRTs that didn't take malware. You could kill them easy enough just by setting the video cards to improper refresh rates.
There were a whole series of Tatung monitors that were particularly prone to this.
Yawn...
Another day another solar cell breakthrough that wont see the light of day (see what I did there) for 10 years if ever.
Why is it none of these ever make it to manufacture. Typical solar panels have an average efficiency of 15%, with the best commercially available panels at 21%.
Yet we get a new announcement weekly.
You do realize you are talking about a plane that really doesn't exist in anybodies inventory yet, don't you?
Exactly ONE was Ordered, but STILL not delivered.
In December 2011, the Air Force announced that it had ordered an Avenger (meaning exactly ONE was ordered for testing) and that it was being deployed to Afghanistan.
To date only 4 have been built an only 3 have flown.
A third and fourth model are being produced, with Tail 3 expected to fly by late summer 2012 and Tail 4 by early 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_Avenger
A competition for a final airframe design for the Sea going version isn't even expected until after January 2014.
The latest Predator in actual military inventories is The B Block MQ-1B Predator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator
But more to the point, none of these can be flown in aggressive manner such as a combat aircraft, none has
successfully avoided a missile, none has been in air to air combat.
Did you know that the F16 has never been shot down in air to air combat? It has never lost a dog-fight.
A small number have been lost to ground fire. (Including Scott O'Grady.)
By the way, since you mention Schneider, why don't you go read his blog.
He says he's encrypting everything, these days, changing his passwords, and taking all sorts of precautions.
He claims to be working with with some of Snowdens documents. He doesn't trust vpns. He thinks RC4 has been cracked.
He is no where near as complacent as you are.
That's right, keep your head in the sand and argue details out of your ass.
Why do you insist someone provide you with proof. There's a guy sitting in Moscow for a reason.
You sound like an NSA troll, looking for someone else to do your research for you.
Perhaps you think like the mod army, and they mod you up quickly, and later the crowd mods you down.
Mod armies mod in both directions, although they are primarily concerned that not a discouraging word ever appears regarding their favorite subject.
If you turn on reply notification, you will notice people posting replies as late as a week after your post, with most replies coming in AFTER one or two hours.
By that time, the army has you bracketed in their cross-hairs.
Sometimes those replies will sway later reviewers.
They Probably chose precisely 2pm. It took their system those two milliseconds to react.
I bet they never thought at all about the 7 milliseconds of communication delay.
The chose the first strictly legal time.