Its not a violation of the laws of conventional physics.
Some of the microwave radiation escapes, thats where your thrust comes from. Matter propellant isn't used, energy is the propellant. What I don't get is why people keep calling it controversial or defying the laws of physics. To defy the laws of physics, it would have to accelerate with no energy supplied to the system at all, but it has a supply of energy it is expending.
Remember kids, in our universe Matter and Energy are more or less one and the same and completely interchangeable IF you have sufficient spare energy:)
Photons of light (which are EM just like microwaves, just a different frequency) impart energy on things the impact, this is well known... where do they think a solar sail comes from?
Like you said, they may not understand how the microwave radiation is moving the device, but saying its breaking the laws of physics just makes it clear to anyone listening that you have made no attempt to understand what it does.
This is the drive output portion of the Impulse drive from startrek, once refined of course... the input portion would be fusion generators to power it all to some useful energy level.
Technically, the only thing Jeff Bezos is doing is lending his name and some money to the project, its not like either he or Elon Musk are ACTUALLY involved in the work done in any way. They are mouth pieces.
Its their money, they can do whatever they want with it, but lets not pretend either one of these guys are actually doing anything impressive. They got lucky in a boom/bust situation, nothing more.
Hell, has Elon Musk EVER ran a profitable company? Just because he got rich selling stock doesn't mean the company was worth a shit, it just means there are people dumber than him.
No it doesn't, it just changes where you have to do the attack vector. If you think switching to HTTPS is going to fix this you're an idiot. So you can't mess with the encrypted stream... except... you can, because the country installs its own root cert on your machine, don't like that? No problem, good luck getting anywhere on the Internet because the GREAT FIREWALL ISN'T GOING TO LET YOU DO SHIT if you don't do it there way.
Of course, you're one of those tools that still thinks this is China attacking random tiny companies so this post is surely wasted on you.
I'd think by your UID you'd have been around long enough to recognize this pattern.
This is just how Netscape manages itself into... well not being in business. Just because they changed their name to Mozilla after Sun realized how shitty they were doesn't mean its a different company really.
Netscape has never had a grasp on what their customers wanted or needed. They have always coded themselves right out of existence by doing stupid shit JUST like this. No one at Netscape that makes decisions should be allowed to make decisions, they repeatedly show no clue who their target market is or what that market wants and then tell that market both things regardless of the fact that people WHY more qualified than them are part of their target.
You know why we have Google Chrome? Because Netscape (the company) is fucking stupid and Google knows it. They like to make decisions based on principals... and they're stupid principles that no one gives a fuck about outside of their tiny little over funded for no reason world.
I call them netscape because its the same people making the same stupid decisions that put them out of business the first time around, and some of those people went on to Sun... and helped put them out of business as well. They make decisions for their own personal purposes. They don't deserve to have a business, but a bunch of techies fanboy'd up on firefox because 'its not Internet Explorer'... not because its a good browser, its about the shittiest browser used on the web today in every way. That legacy still keeps random fanboys ranting and raving about how theres nothing wrong with firefox and random UI and code changes weekly are the way everything should be done.
God, I can not explain in enough detail how horrible Netscape/Mozilla is at software development. Without their anti-Microsoft fanboys, they wouldn't exist, and even thats going away.
When Adobe's PDF reader is less of a resource hog than your browser, you probably fucked up... A LOT.
There is pretty much nothing done in psychology that is actually good science. You can almost universally pick the results of any study before it starts, just ask the people doing the study what they expect and thats the result your going to get. Even in 'double blind' studies, most of which aren't even blind studies when you look at them closely are always clearly biased by the test design, which was done in a way that to show someone the results they wanted to see.
Theres a reason psychologists are called quacks, like most stereotypes it doesn't apply to all, but it damn sure applies to most, which is why it came to being in the first place.
Most psychologists doing studies are trying to push their own personal agendas and the effect its had on the profession in general is obvious. Example: Guy has psychological condition as defined by DSM... guy's a psychologist... he becomes leader of psychology association... suddenly his psychological condition... is no longer a condition, its normal. Rinse, repeat. The history here alone will tell you why you should be ignoring most of the profession outright.
Its not science, is people manipulating people because they can.
Very true, it is worth nothing though that efficiency in the air is far more important financially than it is on the ground so while taking a bus is going to be WAY more efficient over all than flying or being the one person in the car you're driving... Airplanes are typically more efficient than any land vehicle and we should actually try to be better at incorporating things the commercial airlines do into other mass transportation options
With that said, fi that means we start using airlines for a guide to how the seats should be sized, I promise you the entire nation will just drive their own cars, in which case, it would be less efficient.
The summary (didn't bother to read the article) doesn't understand the point of not letting jurors talk about the trial to others. Its not so they don't give out trial details to the public, its so the public doesn't give them things from outside the court.
The judge ISN'T BOUND by that and is in fact REQUIRED BY LAW to hear things first (when requested by attorneys) to verify if its even okay for the jury to hear it. The judge posting on Facebook is not a problem for the trial itself, its just unprofessional, trials are public you know, unless deemed otherwise by the judge.
Telling the jurors not to talk to others about the case doesn't make it a private case, its just normal to not have the jurors getting data from other places.
The mistrial was for entirely different reasons if anyone bothered to know anything about the actual trial.
Dunno... I've seen where a well-built common UI framework (Qt specifically) can make cross-platform not only easier, but improves the UI beyond the OS it rides o
Than you don't really know much about UI development.
Qt is about as horrible as you can get in every aspect. Its not native, which sucks in every way. Its not UI native, its not UX native, its not native to devs of a particular platform, its pretty much different in everyway, none of which are particularly better other than being cross platform. If you think Qt has abstracted everything away from your for cross platform dev then you really aren't doing all that much with your apps. That doesn't mean you don't make great apps, but it does mean their guis are pretty simplistic (which is also a good thing).
What you think is so great about Qt is exactly why it sucks. Its mind numbing the number of people that look at all those things as good traits. Its like you utterly failed to grasp the idea that users of a system expect applications of that system to behave in a certain way and you're proud of the fact that you do everything possible to be counter-intuitive. Not just to the users, but other devs well since Qt pretty much lives in its own little obnoxious world.
NO IT DOESN'T. I REALLY wish people would stop saying these things.
Using traditional methods of propulsion to accelerate in normal space-time causes time dilation.
The formula entirely falls apart when you hit the speed of light which according to the formulas in question require infinite energy.
FULL STOP.
Leaving one location and arriving at another faster than light traveling through normal space does not require that you do exactly as specified above.
If you can avoid the acceleration portion, its a whole new ball game.
If you can avoid traveling in normal space-time, then you've just potentially solved the problem entirely.
Neither of these two things have been proven impossible, although very improbably for the former.
A blackhole is already not normal-space time, the formula in fact breaks down inside a black hole. A wormhole (which can mean any number of things) connecting two black holes? Thats pretty far from normal-space time and certainly, in theory, allows for things such as leaving point A and arriving at point B before the light traveling between the two does.
Light does not travel in time at all from its perspective.
You can't fly a 747 by shooting a jet of water from the top of it up into the sky, you can make it fly using all the other normal aerodynamic principles that keep us as happy fliers. Just because you know it won't work one way doesn't mean their isn't a way we haven't discovered yet to accomplish the same thing from a practical perspect, and you really should stop implying that FTL == Time Travel. The equations that produce that 'theory' break down at the speed of light, so you can't use them to make assumptions about what happens after that.
This guy seems to think the fact that his computer is usable is an exploit. He doesn't mention anything that isn't just documented and known as the 'way it works'.
Pretty much everything he talks about makes it clear he doesn't actually understand the features and how they actually work. Every comment he makes... makes almost no practical sense. Its not technically incorrect, its just pointless and doesn't actually mean anything from a security perspective. Its like saying These makes are insecure; the sky is blue; and magically the second is supposed to backup the first.
It doesn't work on an iPhone, third party apps aren't allowed to steal information from you typically on iOS where as that is on by default on Android and its completely acceptable to steal your data.
iPhone owners typically purchase the phone AS a product. Android users typically ARE the product.
No one cares about the remaining 3 blackberry users or the 10 Windows Phones in the MS test lab.
Awe, cute, you're trying to show us how smart you are... but you did just the opposite.
Let me help you:
It had never occurred to me to consider that life might cause erosion. That's usually what wind, rain, and gravity are famous for, isn't it? Plant life is pretty famous, surely, for countering erosion by stopping soil getting washed away (a lack of which leading to occasionally disastrous consequences in flash floods, for example).
I went to school in central Florida, widely accepted as a pretty shitty school system in relation to America, which in turn is considered to have a pretty shitty school system in relation to the rest of the civilized world... yet, you some how managed to attend a school system that didn't bother to teach basic Earth Science in elementary school where everyone learned exactly this. Roots help break rocks into dirt by enlarging any crack they can find, ever so slightly, which allows more water in to do things like freeze and expand to break rock or wash dissolvable bits out.
Milk-dunked cookies don't carry liquid water in their pores. They carry milk. So the sediments are more like water-dunked cookies, moreso because they both taste yucky.
Awe, now you're trying to be ultra-literal. This just makes you look like a douche, for reference. You know what they were saying or you're a complete and total moron without enough reading comprehension skills to qualify to participate in a slashdot discussion.
That's very confusingly written. The first sentence say "if life never evolved on Earth...continents there would then shrink." But then how did those continents get so big in the first place? Surely shrinking continents is only the case when life did evolve, but then theoretically all dies off.
Are you really that stupid? It wasn't confusing, it was perfectly simple to understand, if you aren't trying to make it more complex than it is. Again, if this was difficult for you, you're reading the wrong web site, and so is anyone who modded you up.
he guy from Philadelphia lost to a Floridian who not only did the full North-South route, but the East-West route. Over 1000 miles totally within Florida.
Then he deserved the prize for shittiest route planner. I can track 5,000 miles in Florida if I drive the costline a couple times before actually heading to my destination. Just because the guy picked a horrible route doesn't make the state that large. Basically what you're saying is the guy drive A1A and I-95 from key west to the Georgia -Florida line... THEN decided to cut west on A1A back to I-10 and took I-10 to someplace like Pensacola.
Yea, its possible, but its stupid. Its like driving from Atlanta to Boston... via Chicago.
To drive over 1000 miles in florida, you have to intentionally take the long route, you can't do it by taking ANY optimal or near optimal route between ANY 2 points in the state.
The UI definition is held in a Plist format (like, but not, XML
uhm, actually plist files are xml, with a schema definition and everything. They certainly aren't very compact as far as formats go, even on the watch.
Compaq et al were able to create clones because the IBM PC was an open platform.
Wow, you know nothing about what happened, do you? Are we really already to the point where people don't have any idea how 'locked down' the PC was when it first came out? We've already forgot? Oh, you misread a Wikipedia article...
IBM fought tooth and nail to prevent Compaq from being able to sell generic 'PC's and they had to go to great lengths to emulate the IBM BIOS without actually using any code to avoid lawsuits.
IBM saying its 'open' does not mean what you think it means. It doesn't mean you can get the specs and information for free, or even for the same price as the last guy. IBM means 'open' as in they are 'open' to charge you whatever the fuck they want to allow you into their system. It was about as open as any game console now days.
The story linked (now linked in the summary) is to a guy making silly ignorant statements about how the GAO is wrong but in such a vague way that I can safely say the guy making these silly comments is wrong. He's arrogantly implying that no aircraft can be hacked because they never make any mistakes and use separate systems and a special software device (thats not a firewall!) that acts as a firewall and doesn't let the two connected networks communicate with each other...
Also he seems to think that engines 'breath' air, and that the air inside the cabin of an airliner is not at all isolated from the air that goes into the engines.
In short, the summary refers to an article written by someone that claims to be a security expert AND pilot while at the same time making incredibly stupidly inaccurate blanket statements that any useful security officer and certainly any pilot know are too broad and vague to be true or just flat out wrong.
There most certainly IS a firewall between the passengers and the engines on commercial jet aircraft, otherwise the people would die at 30k feet. The fact that he claims to be a pilot and then claims there is no separation between the cabin and exterior is just scary.
And claiming that this other special box... that acts as a firewall... but since they gave it another name, its not actually a firewall, so therefor its not possible to be hacked and bypassed.
The reality of it is, what the GAO said IS TRUE. IT IS possible that 'hackers' MIGHT be able to cross the network boundaries if they are physically connected, anyone who claims this is not true knows absolutely nothing about IT security or security on complex systems in general. You work really hard to prevent it, and make certain design decisions to make it hard to cross that gap, but the instant they are connected, you've created the possibility. You can't honestly claim that your network is 100% secure and impeneratble which is what this guy is trying to claim... about aircraft that he's never had anything to do with, never seen, knows nothing about the internal operation of... just because he's a pilot doesn't make him suddenly privy to private information internal to Airbus or Boeing.
Once again, I repeat, this is nothing but a shitty slashvertisement. They probably paid timothy to post it to the front page, which explains why it was done in such a hurry the first time and didn't even have a fucking link in it.
Fossil fuels are far more important as fertilizer and medicine than they are as energy products. We can, fairly easily, replace them as energy sources with alternatives that may be more expensive but are viable.
We don't have shit for a way to replace the fertilizer supply, which means we'd probably have a great dying due to starvation if we completely abandon fossil fuels.
Then of course theres all the medicines we make from oil. If the starvation dying doesn't get you, the lack of medical supplies is going to curb another large portion of our population.
If you consider that the C compiler itself uses assembly to make the basic operations work in the libraries, and that all C code is built on assembly libraries, then it makes the whole argument kind of silly, doesn't it?
ALL the kernel code is assembly on Linux and BSD, some of it is just raw assembly, and other bits of it are assembly encoded in "C".
The couple in that most languages and VMs are written in C... as well as all the libraries that these things depend on to actually get something else done... well then pretty much everything is reduced to assembly...
Or not, since we can wait 5 years, see how other countries have done it, pick the best methods to manage it and move on.
Amazon will be happy to return its test program to the US at that point.
You do realize some of the reason countries are making it easier than the US is specifically to have the initial research done on their soil, not because they intend to stay the way they are, which will end when various things go wrong, like the Amazon team coming back drunk from a Friday lunch and flying into a school bus on its way home.
No you won't. Any decent "drone". Will just land or return to base if primary or secondary radio links are lost. If GPS lock is also lost, it will just land where it's at.
You aren't even a little bit clever and you clearly don't know enough about the state of drones to start making bullshit claims about making it crash. Even the basic OSS flight controllers are well beyond your abilities based on how easy you seem to think it is.
Just because you saw something on the Internet about Syria or Iran redirecting US MIlitary drones doesn't mean that's what actually happened.
All of my fully autonomous drones are not going to come down due to RFI, since RFI is so common place that they are designed to deal with it naturally, even without the threat of haxors. My radio links are digitally signed packet networks, you aren't pretending to be my radio transmitter though not encrypted so you could watch the data flow, it's pretty useless to you. If you confuse it with bad packets, it will just ignore you and stay on its preprogrammed flight plan or potential it's "radio signal lost" plan, which personall I just set to RTB.
No gps lock has the option to hold position and wait or just land immediately.
Really, we thought of people as clever as you probably well before you were born.
Other than you saw some other moron on the Internet say 'China Did It'... can you provide some actual proof to back up your claims.
It is simply stunningly illogical for China to behave this way against such petty targets. It makes absolutely NO sense for them to flaunt their ability and willingness to do so as the simple course of action the entire reset of the world would take is a simple matter of NULL routing China and going on about their daily business, your 'war' would be over before anyone really cared.
And... a DDoS does pretty much nothing to gain you access to government servers or trade secrets.
WTF is it with you nut jobs who seem to think the entire world is out to get you regardless of cost to themselves?
Slashdot is pretty much the only place on the planet that thinks this is an actual attack by the Chinese, perhaps you should ask yourself why? And no, before you get the idea, its not because slashdot is so smart and so far ahead of the general public, that ended 10 years ago.
So the problem here is that Stanford wants to enroll more students without spending more on the resources required to actually support those students.
They want to charge for two students, but pay for the faculty and staff of one.
In other words, much like the cable companies and Internet access to Netflix, they want to double dip.
I.E. This is bullshit and a good example of why if you think a stanford education makes you special, you're right. Special as in retarded to the point that you don't realize you're being ripped off.
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Its not a violation of the laws of conventional physics.
Some of the microwave radiation escapes, thats where your thrust comes from. Matter propellant isn't used, energy is the propellant. What I don't get is why people keep calling it controversial or defying the laws of physics. To defy the laws of physics, it would have to accelerate with no energy supplied to the system at all, but it has a supply of energy it is expending.
Remember kids, in our universe Matter and Energy are more or less one and the same and completely interchangeable IF you have sufficient spare energy :)
Photons of light (which are EM just like microwaves, just a different frequency) impart energy on things the impact, this is well known ... where do they think a solar sail comes from?
Like you said, they may not understand how the microwave radiation is moving the device, but saying its breaking the laws of physics just makes it clear to anyone listening that you have made no attempt to understand what it does.
This is the drive output portion of the Impulse drive from startrek, once refined of course ... the input portion would be fusion generators to power it all to some useful energy level.
Technically, the only thing Jeff Bezos is doing is lending his name and some money to the project, its not like either he or Elon Musk are ACTUALLY involved in the work done in any way. They are mouth pieces.
Its their money, they can do whatever they want with it, but lets not pretend either one of these guys are actually doing anything impressive. They got lucky in a boom/bust situation, nothing more.
Hell, has Elon Musk EVER ran a profitable company? Just because he got rich selling stock doesn't mean the company was worth a shit, it just means there are people dumber than him.
No it doesn't, it just changes where you have to do the attack vector. If you think switching to HTTPS is going to fix this you're an idiot. So you can't mess with the encrypted stream ... except ... you can, because the country installs its own root cert on your machine, don't like that? No problem, good luck getting anywhere on the Internet because the GREAT FIREWALL ISN'T GOING TO LET YOU DO SHIT if you don't do it there way.
Of course, you're one of those tools that still thinks this is China attacking random tiny companies so this post is surely wasted on you.
I'd think by your UID you'd have been around long enough to recognize this pattern.
This is just how Netscape manages itself into ... well not being in business. Just because they changed their name to Mozilla after Sun realized how shitty they were doesn't mean its a different company really.
Netscape has never had a grasp on what their customers wanted or needed. They have always coded themselves right out of existence by doing stupid shit JUST like this. No one at Netscape that makes decisions should be allowed to make decisions, they repeatedly show no clue who their target market is or what that market wants and then tell that market both things regardless of the fact that people WHY more qualified than them are part of their target.
You know why we have Google Chrome? Because Netscape (the company) is fucking stupid and Google knows it. They like to make decisions based on principals ... and they're stupid principles that no one gives a fuck about outside of their tiny little over funded for no reason world.
I call them netscape because its the same people making the same stupid decisions that put them out of business the first time around, and some of those people went on to Sun ... and helped put them out of business as well. They make decisions for their own personal purposes. They don't deserve to have a business, but a bunch of techies fanboy'd up on firefox because 'its not Internet Explorer' ... not because its a good browser, its about the shittiest browser used on the web today in every way. That legacy still keeps random fanboys ranting and raving about how theres nothing wrong with firefox and random UI and code changes weekly are the way everything should be done.
God, I can not explain in enough detail how horrible Netscape/Mozilla is at software development. Without their anti-Microsoft fanboys, they wouldn't exist, and even thats going away.
When Adobe's PDF reader is less of a resource hog than your browser, you probably fucked up ... A LOT.
science.
There is pretty much nothing done in psychology that is actually good science. You can almost universally pick the results of any study before it starts, just ask the people doing the study what they expect and thats the result your going to get. Even in 'double blind' studies, most of which aren't even blind studies when you look at them closely are always clearly biased by the test design, which was done in a way that to show someone the results they wanted to see.
Theres a reason psychologists are called quacks, like most stereotypes it doesn't apply to all, but it damn sure applies to most, which is why it came to being in the first place.
Most psychologists doing studies are trying to push their own personal agendas and the effect its had on the profession in general is obvious. Example: Guy has psychological condition as defined by DSM ... guy's a psychologist ... he becomes leader of psychology association ... suddenly his psychological condition ... is no longer a condition, its normal. Rinse, repeat. The history here alone will tell you why you should be ignoring most of the profession outright.
Its not science, is people manipulating people because they can.
Very true, it is worth nothing though that efficiency in the air is far more important financially than it is on the ground so while taking a bus is going to be WAY more efficient over all than flying or being the one person in the car you're driving ... Airplanes are typically more efficient than any land vehicle and we should actually try to be better at incorporating things the commercial airlines do into other mass transportation options
With that said, fi that means we start using airlines for a guide to how the seats should be sized, I promise you the entire nation will just drive their own cars, in which case, it would be less efficient.
The summary (didn't bother to read the article) doesn't understand the point of not letting jurors talk about the trial to others. Its not so they don't give out trial details to the public, its so the public doesn't give them things from outside the court.
The judge ISN'T BOUND by that and is in fact REQUIRED BY LAW to hear things first (when requested by attorneys) to verify if its even okay for the jury to hear it. The judge posting on Facebook is not a problem for the trial itself, its just unprofessional, trials are public you know, unless deemed otherwise by the judge.
Telling the jurors not to talk to others about the case doesn't make it a private case, its just normal to not have the jurors getting data from other places.
The mistrial was for entirely different reasons if anyone bothered to know anything about the actual trial.
Dunno... I've seen where a well-built common UI framework (Qt specifically) can make cross-platform not only easier, but improves the UI beyond the OS it rides o
Than you don't really know much about UI development.
Qt is about as horrible as you can get in every aspect. Its not native, which sucks in every way. Its not UI native, its not UX native, its not native to devs of a particular platform, its pretty much different in everyway, none of which are particularly better other than being cross platform. If you think Qt has abstracted everything away from your for cross platform dev then you really aren't doing all that much with your apps. That doesn't mean you don't make great apps, but it does mean their guis are pretty simplistic (which is also a good thing).
What you think is so great about Qt is exactly why it sucks. Its mind numbing the number of people that look at all those things as good traits. Its like you utterly failed to grasp the idea that users of a system expect applications of that system to behave in a certain way and you're proud of the fact that you do everything possible to be counter-intuitive. Not just to the users, but other devs well since Qt pretty much lives in its own little obnoxious world.
Wow, you are so clever and original. No one has ever made such a witty remark as yours before.
but that means time travel,
NO IT DOESN'T. I REALLY wish people would stop saying these things.
Using traditional methods of propulsion to accelerate in normal space-time causes time dilation.
The formula entirely falls apart when you hit the speed of light which according to the formulas in question require infinite energy.
FULL STOP.
Leaving one location and arriving at another faster than light traveling through normal space does not require that you do exactly as specified above.
If you can avoid the acceleration portion, its a whole new ball game.
If you can avoid traveling in normal space-time, then you've just potentially solved the problem entirely.
Neither of these two things have been proven impossible, although very improbably for the former.
A blackhole is already not normal-space time, the formula in fact breaks down inside a black hole. A wormhole (which can mean any number of things) connecting two black holes? Thats pretty far from normal-space time and certainly, in theory, allows for things such as leaving point A and arriving at point B before the light traveling between the two does.
Light does not travel in time at all from its perspective.
You can't fly a 747 by shooting a jet of water from the top of it up into the sky, you can make it fly using all the other normal aerodynamic principles that keep us as happy fliers. Just because you know it won't work one way doesn't mean their isn't a way we haven't discovered yet to accomplish the same thing from a practical perspect, and you really should stop implying that FTL == Time Travel. The equations that produce that 'theory' break down at the speed of light, so you can't use them to make assumptions about what happens after that.
This guy seems to think the fact that his computer is usable is an exploit. He doesn't mention anything that isn't just documented and known as the 'way it works'.
Pretty much everything he talks about makes it clear he doesn't actually understand the features and how they actually work. Every comment he makes ... makes almost no practical sense. Its not technically incorrect, its just pointless and doesn't actually mean anything from a security perspective. Its like saying These makes are insecure; the sky is blue; and magically the second is supposed to backup the first.
A couple things to note:
It doesn't work on an iPhone, third party apps aren't allowed to steal information from you typically on iOS where as that is on by default on Android and its completely acceptable to steal your data.
iPhone owners typically purchase the phone AS a product. Android users typically ARE the product.
No one cares about the remaining 3 blackberry users or the 10 Windows Phones in the MS test lab.
Awe, cute, you're trying to show us how smart you are ... but you did just the opposite.
Let me help you:
It had never occurred to me to consider that life might cause erosion. That's usually what wind, rain, and gravity are famous for, isn't it? Plant life is pretty famous, surely, for countering erosion by stopping soil getting washed away (a lack of which leading to occasionally disastrous consequences in flash floods, for example).
I went to school in central Florida, widely accepted as a pretty shitty school system in relation to America, which in turn is considered to have a pretty shitty school system in relation to the rest of the civilized world ... yet, you some how managed to attend a school system that didn't bother to teach basic Earth Science in elementary school where everyone learned exactly this. Roots help break rocks into dirt by enlarging any crack they can find, ever so slightly, which allows more water in to do things like freeze and expand to break rock or wash dissolvable bits out.
Milk-dunked cookies don't carry liquid water in their pores. They carry milk. So the sediments are more like water-dunked cookies, moreso because they both taste yucky.
Awe, now you're trying to be ultra-literal. This just makes you look like a douche, for reference. You know what they were saying or you're a complete and total moron without enough reading comprehension skills to qualify to participate in a slashdot discussion.
That's very confusingly written. The first sentence say "if life never evolved on Earth...continents there would then shrink." But then how did those continents get so big in the first place? Surely shrinking continents is only the case when life did evolve, but then theoretically all dies off.
Are you really that stupid? It wasn't confusing, it was perfectly simple to understand, if you aren't trying to make it more complex than it is. Again, if this was difficult for you, you're reading the wrong web site, and so is anyone who modded you up.
he guy from Philadelphia lost to a Floridian who not only did the full North-South route, but the East-West route. Over 1000 miles totally within Florida.
Then he deserved the prize for shittiest route planner. I can track 5,000 miles in Florida if I drive the costline a couple times before actually heading to my destination. Just because the guy picked a horrible route doesn't make the state that large. Basically what you're saying is the guy drive A1A and I-95 from key west to the Georgia -Florida line ... THEN decided to cut west on A1A back to I-10 and took I-10 to someplace like Pensacola.
Yea, its possible, but its stupid. Its like driving from Atlanta to Boston ... via Chicago.
To drive over 1000 miles in florida, you have to intentionally take the long route, you can't do it by taking ANY optimal or near optimal route between ANY 2 points in the state.
Florida != Texas or Alaska
The UI definition is held in a Plist format (like, but not, XML
uhm, actually plist files are xml, with a schema definition and everything. They certainly aren't very compact as far as formats go, even on the watch.
Of course not. It'll just cease to exist in a few months, replaced by something that does.
Compaq et al were able to create clones because the IBM PC was an open platform.
Wow, you know nothing about what happened, do you? Are we really already to the point where people don't have any idea how 'locked down' the PC was when it first came out? We've already forgot? Oh, you misread a Wikipedia article ...
IBM fought tooth and nail to prevent Compaq from being able to sell generic 'PC's and they had to go to great lengths to emulate the IBM BIOS without actually using any code to avoid lawsuits.
IBM saying its 'open' does not mean what you think it means. It doesn't mean you can get the specs and information for free, or even for the same price as the last guy. IBM means 'open' as in they are 'open' to charge you whatever the fuck they want to allow you into their system. It was about as open as any game console now days.
This story is just a slashvertisement.
The story linked (now linked in the summary) is to a guy making silly ignorant statements about how the GAO is wrong but in such a vague way that I can safely say the guy making these silly comments is wrong. He's arrogantly implying that no aircraft can be hacked because they never make any mistakes and use separate systems and a special software device (thats not a firewall!) that acts as a firewall and doesn't let the two connected networks communicate with each other ...
Also he seems to think that engines 'breath' air, and that the air inside the cabin of an airliner is not at all isolated from the air that goes into the engines.
In short, the summary refers to an article written by someone that claims to be a security expert AND pilot while at the same time making incredibly stupidly inaccurate blanket statements that any useful security officer and certainly any pilot know are too broad and vague to be true or just flat out wrong.
There most certainly IS a firewall between the passengers and the engines on commercial jet aircraft, otherwise the people would die at 30k feet. The fact that he claims to be a pilot and then claims there is no separation between the cabin and exterior is just scary.
And claiming that this other special box ... that acts as a firewall ... but since they gave it another name, its not actually a firewall, so therefor its not possible to be hacked and bypassed.
The reality of it is, what the GAO said IS TRUE. IT IS possible that 'hackers' MIGHT be able to cross the network boundaries if they are physically connected, anyone who claims this is not true knows absolutely nothing about IT security or security on complex systems in general. You work really hard to prevent it, and make certain design decisions to make it hard to cross that gap, but the instant they are connected, you've created the possibility. You can't honestly claim that your network is 100% secure and impeneratble which is what this guy is trying to claim ... about aircraft that he's never had anything to do with, never seen, knows nothing about the internal operation of ... just because he's a pilot doesn't make him suddenly privy to private information internal to Airbus or Boeing.
Once again, I repeat, this is nothing but a shitty slashvertisement. They probably paid timothy to post it to the front page, which explains why it was done in such a hurry the first time and didn't even have a fucking link in it.
Without them for energy? Yes.
Fossil fuels are far more important as fertilizer and medicine than they are as energy products. We can, fairly easily, replace them as energy sources with alternatives that may be more expensive but are viable.
We don't have shit for a way to replace the fertilizer supply, which means we'd probably have a great dying due to starvation if we completely abandon fossil fuels.
Then of course theres all the medicines we make from oil. If the starvation dying doesn't get you, the lack of medical supplies is going to curb another large portion of our population.
If you consider that the C compiler itself uses assembly to make the basic operations work in the libraries, and that all C code is built on assembly libraries, then it makes the whole argument kind of silly, doesn't it?
ALL the kernel code is assembly on Linux and BSD, some of it is just raw assembly, and other bits of it are assembly encoded in "C".
The couple in that most languages and VMs are written in C ... as well as all the libraries that these things depend on to actually get something else done ... well then pretty much everything is reduced to assembly ...
Or not, since we can wait 5 years, see how other countries have done it, pick the best methods to manage it and move on.
Amazon will be happy to return its test program to the US at that point.
You do realize some of the reason countries are making it easier than the US is specifically to have the initial research done on their soil, not because they intend to stay the way they are, which will end when various things go wrong, like the Amazon team coming back drunk from a Friday lunch and flying into a school bus on its way home.
No you won't. Any decent "drone". Will just land or return to base if primary or secondary radio links are lost. If GPS lock is also lost, it will just land where it's at.
You aren't even a little bit clever and you clearly don't know enough about the state of drones to start making bullshit claims about making it crash. Even the basic OSS flight controllers are well beyond your abilities based on how easy you seem to think it is.
Just because you saw something on the Internet about Syria or Iran redirecting US MIlitary drones doesn't mean that's what actually happened.
All of my fully autonomous drones are not going to come down due to RFI, since RFI is so common place that they are designed to deal with it naturally, even without the threat of haxors. My radio links are digitally signed packet networks, you aren't pretending to be my radio transmitter though not encrypted so you could watch the data flow, it's pretty useless to you. If you confuse it with bad packets, it will just ignore you and stay on its preprogrammed flight plan or potential it's "radio signal lost" plan, which personall I just set to RTB.
No gps lock has the option to hold position and wait or just land immediately.
Really, we thought of people as clever as you probably well before you were born.
Other than you saw some other moron on the Internet say 'China Did It' ... can you provide some actual proof to back up your claims.
It is simply stunningly illogical for China to behave this way against such petty targets. It makes absolutely NO sense for them to flaunt their ability and willingness to do so as the simple course of action the entire reset of the world would take is a simple matter of NULL routing China and going on about their daily business, your 'war' would be over before anyone really cared.
And ... a DDoS does pretty much nothing to gain you access to government servers or trade secrets.
WTF is it with you nut jobs who seem to think the entire world is out to get you regardless of cost to themselves?
Slashdot is pretty much the only place on the planet that thinks this is an actual attack by the Chinese, perhaps you should ask yourself why? And no, before you get the idea, its not because slashdot is so smart and so far ahead of the general public, that ended 10 years ago.
So the problem here is that Stanford wants to enroll more students without spending more on the resources required to actually support those students.
They want to charge for two students, but pay for the faculty and staff of one.
In other words, much like the cable companies and Internet access to Netflix, they want to double dip.
I.E. This is bullshit and a good example of why if you think a stanford education makes you special, you're right. Special as in retarded to the point that you don't realize you're being ripped off.
No, they said its open sourced, not infected by the Stallman virus.