I do not want that kind of invasion of privacy at all.
Given your concerns about privacy, I bet you would love a portable GPS game based on the GTA:CTW subtask of blowing up public CCTV cameras.
Download a periodically updated list of real world public CCTV camera locations in your city. Then in the real world you drive/walk/whatever to "close enough" to the CCTV (10 feet? 200 feet?) and click the button on the NDS / iPhone / some other portable which stores and/or uploads your virtual hit. The 1st of the month all the cameras respawn. Or maybe exactly one month after the most recent click, that individual cam respawns woudl be a better idea. Or, somehow, both, like usually all cams respawn after a month, but once a year they all respawn on July 4th (to celebrate our "freedom" that we once had). First player this month to click on a given camera gets the credit on some online leader board. Also credit for reporting new public CCTV cams, and credit for being one of the guys whom meta-mods by verifying yes indeed there is a cam. Similar credit for reporting removed CCTVs, although since this is Big Brother's 1984, I don't think CCTVs are ever removed. I suppose it would be irresponsible (but deliciously fun) for the game to give credit to people whom in real life re-enact the GTA:CTW solution to CCTV removal...
The atmosphere is a lovely IR absorber. So, if you're gonna launch a telescope into space, why not look at a band of frequencies you can't see thru the atmosphere? Whatever you see, it'll be something you can't see from the ground (more or less).
So that works pretty well, if the criteria is to see whats never been seen before, discover new things, etc.
Why do you exactly think you can't steer a car while wheels are locked?
I grew up on gravel roads and I currently drive a lot on snow covered roads. In both scenarios locked up tires act like skis and handle pretty well. Usually not quite as good as rotating on clean dry asphalt, but in some situations, you get better traction locked up on gravel.
Above a certain speed on gravel roads you sort of skip across when locked up. Below a certain speed you actually dig into the road and carve ruts. I think the highest G-force braking I've ever experienced was locked up on a lightly packed gravel driveway... 15 to zero in something like 1 foot. It was rather like the feeling you get when you hit a speed bump when going fast except forward rather than upward.
I intentionally purchased a non-anti-lock car because I'm most likely to need the brakes in a rural area full of deer, or in low visibility snow storms, rather than cruisin the interstate at noon...
A better question is why is it so expensive to hire a handful of guys to run a road grater and asphalt laying machine over an existing road.
I will make a gross generalization about dozens of climates and 5.7 million miles of roads, etc, but generally roads that need rebuilding have failed from bottom the up.
Just replacing the top surface has an outcome similar to nailing new shingles on a roof that failed and rotted out.. Literally won't even survive the next rain storm. Or like painting over the rust on a car, vs scraping the rust off and then repriming, then repainting.
There are complications w/ freeze thaw cycles, etc. But generally they crumble from lack of support below, not simple wear and tear above.
It's not uncommon to see signs saying "works for 16 weeks" or more, when in other countries they do it overnight or in just a few days.
On this side of the pond, at least where I live, the local police (translation: bobbies?) get twice the revenue from traffic tickets written in a "construction zone". It is not unusual at all to see an entire county-length of road orange-coned for construction for the entire summer, despite only a few thousand feet being worked on, or no work at all being done. Some repaving projects intentionally take years to maximize revenue.
If we ever found a way to accelerate neutrons, that might work.
Attach them to some protons and fling the combined nuclei. How bout a 1:1 ratio, good ole deuterium.
Shouldn't it be possible to see this effect in n-n collisions, much as quark effects were discovered?
If colliding deuterium ions into bulk deuterium doesn't work, fling the accelerated ions at a target just right to break off the proton and let the neutron fling onwards into a "bucket of neutrons" from a source or a reactor. Reaction rate will be pretty slow, but if you got all day to let it run, thats OK?
The biggest problem with this is that if mono is installed by default on systems that makes it more acceptable for ISVs to write their software for Mono/.NET which will hurt the (Debian or any other) platform if Microsoft suddenly decides to sue and Mono has to be removed.
That would not hurt Debian very much, because Debian is really big and doing.NET stuff isn't a significant activity for Debian users... For example, currently the sum of.net use is a 50 meg "notepad" application, I think Debian will survive if that has to be removed.
If it were removed, the ISVs that relied on it would be toast. From their perspective, not much has really changed, other than, possibly, temporarily, future Debian machines might have some version of mono/.net installed.
[Can't wait to] watch those 1080p movies on my smart phone screen.
There are already phones which can play 780p (and record too). Why the sarcasm? Would you rather watch a lower quality movie?
I don't have a brick sized smartphone, I have a tiny flip-phone. The screen is the size of a postage stamp, and the speakerphone sounds like a broken cb radio, which is plenty good enough for phone use. I will never be able to tell the difference between 320x240 and mono sound vs 1080p and 5.1 surround. Even on a slightly larger brick sized smartphone, I don't think it would be a noticeable difference, other than the dramatic decrease in battery life and maybe waves of heat wafting off the CPU.
At this time, can the average smartphone battery survive a low res feature length movie, and how much does it cost at five cents per kilobyte? Then extrapolate to ten times the data transfered (equals ten times the profit) plus ten times the processing equals roughly a tenth the battery life?
The other problem is the past decade has been spent trying to convince mindless consumers that nirvana is buying the largest big screen TV with the most surround speakers, then even the stupidest most formulaic movie is great. They have had some success with this sales pitch. Now all the marketers have to do is convince them they were just kidding, and nirvana is using the worlds highest resolution tiny phone, then even the stupidest most formulaic movie is great. Good luck! They'll need it!
A donated, prepaid satphone is pretty hard to trace. Especially if there is no record it is in Iran. Of course the borders are probably sealed so its a bit too late.
Anyone who follows your advice is risking death if the iran goverment is really doing what people here are claiming it is doing
Anyone living in a country that follows the rule of men or rule of religion (pretty much the same thing) instead of following the rule of law, is risking death all the time anyway. There is no rational risk reward calculus under a bloodthirsty dictatorship, so your statement has little meaning under those conditions. For example, they could die tomorrow because a business competitor wants to get ahead by denouncing them, etc, so random death is merely a constant part of life. I'm surprised they have a functioning economy at all, under those conditions.
and the US is not going to at all be interested in forcing change at this point.
Why would you say that? Can you think of any US ally in the region whom would would benefit from a strong arab country shifting from focusing on foreign relations issues like abombs, to focus on a civil war? You know, like that air craft carrier shaped country on the coast, the one that pretty much says "jump" and the US says "how high?" The one that wants to bomb the Iranian abomb facilities, again?
If they had a revolution, I don't think "the US" or our little buddy would feel too bad. In fact it might be an excellent distraction for a hit on the abomb facilities. The Iranians are too busy shooting at their own civilians to shoot at our planes, etc.
Was completely and totally outlawed after the 79 revolution.
The original poster does not realize that they started licensing again, and mere decade ago went from a whopping 3 licensees to 15 licensees in the entire country. I have no more recent figures. Perhaps the slashdot understatement of the week to say they are not quite up to Japanese levels of licensing (licenses as a percentage of the general population)
If the overwhelming majority of Iranians (like the overwhelming majority of Poles) truly support democracy, human rights, and peace with Israel, then a liberal Western democracy will arise -- without any violence.
The purpose of all governments, is to fool or force the majority into helping the leaders, to the detriment of the majority. No different here or there or anywhere, ever. Sometimes the government does something that unintentionally makes something nice happens to the majority, but thats just a pleasant side effect or accident. We've been lucky that way. Them, not so much.
That fact of life does not seem to fit in with your worldview. Therefore your worldview is suspect.
We in the West are morally justified in destroying the nuclear-weapons facilities.
Don't keep me on the edge of my seat... why? You're confusing rationalization with morality. Some subset of the radical neocon west would love more war in the middle east, after all we clearly don't have enough war in the middle east, and war is good, so more war is more good, being moral is good, unsurprisingly by our own definition we are good, therefore war is good, QED. But that logic somehow seems faulty.
I don't argue that there are strong national interests in blowing up their buildings and killing their people, I'm just intellectually honest enough to declare it as a lesser of two evils, and militarily convenient to do it sooner rather than later, not using some tarted up "moral justification" that merely doublespeaks what "morally justified" actually means.
Now if we needed a plane full of RIAA lawyers dealt with he's the man to send in
Close, very close. The plan is to fly a plane full of lawyers in formation in front of civilian passengers to take out the birds. I'd almost say, like a human shield, however, the lead plane is full of lawyers...
Where are these shopping mall bombings in the US today?
You're not supposed to think those thoughts, citizen... its forbidden to think how a country with legendarily wide open borders has had only one real terror attack by foreigners (as opposed to our own home grown turrists). That kind of thinking leads to "911 truthers" type of thinking about false flag events... Will get you ostracized.
Our job, as patriotic consumers, is to follow the governments orders to kill the people whom don't attack us, best not forget that.
I worry about the possibility of the wrong person gaining control of a military network containing killer robots.
The first possibility based on way to many stereotyped sci-fi movies and trek episodes, is the bad guys will turn the robots against us, or merely burn out all the drive motors.
The much more interesting possibility, is they will figure out a vulnerability, and completely shut off the entire military. The joys of a software monoculture. I wonder if the military will be smart enough to field multiple similar devices using totally separate technology. Almost certainly, not.
I wonder how remote controlled robots handle EMP? Both big theater wide N-EMP and the short range superconductor based techs? Tesla coils issued as personal protective devices? Just plain ole aircraft jammer pods?
Then the economic effects... I bet I can make a 12 volt / solar powered jammer pod staggeringly cheaper than they can make a robot...
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I will not build something that.... will be used against civilian targets
How did you build that into your UAV? Even in theory, I can't imagine how that could be designed. Magic?
I'd say relying on robots rather than having our troops shot at and bombed is a GOOD thing.
I think you are assuming they'd be on the aggressors side, and only they could have robots, rather than being on the victims side? Not so good to be on the human victims side if the aggressor side has absolutely no chance of injury or death.
I would also recommend easynews.com, I'm very happy with their service.
The web interface and download manager are pretty convenient. I have no idea if their customer service is any good... never needed to contact them. It always just works. Always.
she was able to identify the Big Dipper and find Polaris,
That's cool for your kid, but what about the kids in the southern hemisphere whom will never see Polaris? I think we need congressional hearing about this inequality.
(note to astronomy impaired, you generally don't get to see stars more than 90 degrees from your lattitude (yer local zenith, eh?), polaris is about 90 deg N (hence "north star"), so no one below the equator will ever see it (more or less). And no, I don't know what that is in the metric system)
Why is it not an option? It isn't the best option, which is to announce that an exploit exists, but not release the details.
Pointless, as anyone whom's ever done creative coding knows. 90% of the job is figuring out something is possible. 9% is figuring out someone else did it, so obviously anyone else can.
I know a sekret exploit for GW Basic that causes an endless loop in a program. I'm not releasing code because I'm all high and mighty above you all, but lets just say, to prove I really invented this sploit, that a program line that contains a goto statement that "goes to" itself, will, like, loop forever. I'm sure the skript kiddies will never figure out how to actually write an exploit to make an endless loop. Yea me, I'm leet! Note my lack of released sploit code.
You appear to speak English. They only hire illegals around here. Better learn Spanish and temporarily "lose" your proof of citizenship. The preceding is a cold statement of fact, nothing more.
My opinion is suggesting someone work at McDonalds, which is virtually impossible for an american citizen, is about as cold hearted as suggesting someone work at a call center, which is virtually impossible for an american citizen, more or less for the same business reasons.
I definitely won't be putting any business VAserv's way in the future...
Well, normally, this results in a high level of focus on the problem... So, in the future, they probably won't have problems like this. On the other hand, their competitors will be too busy signing up accounts to patch their systems and any public display of patching (like special extended maint time or a new way of using their product) will make them look just as bad so of course their competitors won't focus on security, leaving them more vulnerable than VAserv...
Except their dude, whom would have focused on security in the near future, is dead now. So maybe that doesn't work too well in this case. Hmm.
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I do not want that kind of invasion of privacy at all.
Given your concerns about privacy, I bet you would love a portable GPS game based on the GTA:CTW subtask of blowing up public CCTV cameras.
Download a periodically updated list of real world public CCTV camera locations in your city. Then in the real world you drive/walk/whatever to "close enough" to the CCTV (10 feet? 200 feet?) and click the button on the NDS / iPhone / some other portable which stores and/or uploads your virtual hit. The 1st of the month all the cameras respawn. Or maybe exactly one month after the most recent click, that individual cam respawns woudl be a better idea. Or, somehow, both, like usually all cams respawn after a month, but once a year they all respawn on July 4th (to celebrate our "freedom" that we once had). First player this month to click on a given camera gets the credit on some online leader board. Also credit for reporting new public CCTV cams, and credit for being one of the guys whom meta-mods by verifying yes indeed there is a cam. Similar credit for reporting removed CCTVs, although since this is Big Brother's 1984, I don't think CCTVs are ever removed. I suppose it would be irresponsible (but deliciously fun) for the game to give credit to people whom in real life re-enact the GTA:CTW solution to CCTV removal...
The atmosphere is a lovely IR absorber. So, if you're gonna launch a telescope into space, why not look at a band of frequencies you can't see thru the atmosphere? Whatever you see, it'll be something you can't see from the ground (more or less).
So that works pretty well, if the criteria is to see whats never been seen before, discover new things, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_astronomy
For that part of the country, though, probably not, when you factor in pot hole repairs (or not) in pavement, which is a big deal in Michigan.
No, I don't think doing pothole repairs is a big deal in Michigan, rephrased, they don't do pothole repairs...
Why do you exactly think you can't steer a car while wheels are locked?
I grew up on gravel roads and I currently drive a lot on snow covered roads. In both scenarios locked up tires act like skis and handle pretty well. Usually not quite as good as rotating on clean dry asphalt, but in some situations, you get better traction locked up on gravel.
Above a certain speed on gravel roads you sort of skip across when locked up. Below a certain speed you actually dig into the road and carve ruts. I think the highest G-force braking I've ever experienced was locked up on a lightly packed gravel driveway... 15 to zero in something like 1 foot. It was rather like the feeling you get when you hit a speed bump when going fast except forward rather than upward.
I intentionally purchased a non-anti-lock car because I'm most likely to need the brakes in a rural area full of deer, or in low visibility snow storms, rather than cruisin the interstate at noon...
A better question is why is it so expensive to hire a handful of guys to run a road grater and asphalt laying machine over an existing road.
I will make a gross generalization about dozens of climates and 5.7 million miles of roads, etc, but generally roads that need rebuilding have failed from bottom the up.
Just replacing the top surface has an outcome similar to nailing new shingles on a roof that failed and rotted out.. Literally won't even survive the next rain storm. Or like painting over the rust on a car, vs scraping the rust off and then repriming, then repainting.
There are complications w/ freeze thaw cycles, etc. But generally they crumble from lack of support below, not simple wear and tear above.
It's not uncommon to see signs saying "works for 16 weeks" or more, when in other countries they do it overnight or in just a few days.
On this side of the pond, at least where I live, the local police (translation: bobbies?) get twice the revenue from traffic tickets written in a "construction zone". It is not unusual at all to see an entire county-length of road orange-coned for construction for the entire summer, despite only a few thousand feet being worked on, or no work at all being done. Some repaving projects intentionally take years to maximize revenue.
If we ever found a way to accelerate neutrons, that might work.
Attach them to some protons and fling the combined nuclei. How bout a 1:1 ratio, good ole deuterium.
Shouldn't it be possible to see this effect in n-n collisions, much as quark effects were discovered?
If colliding deuterium ions into bulk deuterium doesn't work, fling the accelerated ions at a target just right to break off the proton and let the neutron fling onwards into a "bucket of neutrons" from a source or a reactor. Reaction rate will be pretty slow, but if you got all day to let it run, thats OK?
The biggest problem with this is that if mono is installed by default on systems that makes it more acceptable for ISVs to write their software for Mono/.NET which will hurt the (Debian or any other) platform if Microsoft suddenly decides to sue and Mono has to be removed.
That would not hurt Debian very much, because Debian is really big and doing .NET stuff isn't a significant activity for Debian users... For example, currently the sum of .net use is a 50 meg "notepad" application, I think Debian will survive if that has to be removed.
If it were removed, the ISVs that relied on it would be toast. From their perspective, not much has really changed, other than, possibly, temporarily, future Debian machines might have some version of mono/.net installed.
[Can't wait to] watch those 1080p movies on my smart phone screen.
There are already phones which can play 780p (and record too). Why the sarcasm? Would you rather watch a lower quality movie?
I don't have a brick sized smartphone, I have a tiny flip-phone. The screen is the size of a postage stamp, and the speakerphone sounds like a broken cb radio, which is plenty good enough for phone use. I will never be able to tell the difference between 320x240 and mono sound vs 1080p and 5.1 surround. Even on a slightly larger brick sized smartphone, I don't think it would be a noticeable difference, other than the dramatic decrease in battery life and maybe waves of heat wafting off the CPU.
At this time, can the average smartphone battery survive a low res feature length movie, and how much does it cost at five cents per kilobyte? Then extrapolate to ten times the data transfered (equals ten times the profit) plus ten times the processing equals roughly a tenth the battery life?
The other problem is the past decade has been spent trying to convince mindless consumers that nirvana is buying the largest big screen TV with the most surround speakers, then even the stupidest most formulaic movie is great. They have had some success with this sales pitch. Now all the marketers have to do is convince them they were just kidding, and nirvana is using the worlds highest resolution tiny phone, then even the stupidest most formulaic movie is great. Good luck! They'll need it!
A donated, prepaid satphone is pretty hard to trace. Especially if there is no record it is in Iran. Of course the borders are probably sealed so its a bit too late.
Anyone who follows your advice is risking death if the iran goverment is really doing what people here are claiming it is doing
Anyone living in a country that follows the rule of men or rule of religion (pretty much the same thing) instead of following the rule of law, is risking death all the time anyway. There is no rational risk reward calculus under a bloodthirsty dictatorship, so your statement has little meaning under those conditions. For example, they could die tomorrow because a business competitor wants to get ahead by denouncing them, etc, so random death is merely a constant part of life. I'm surprised they have a functioning economy at all, under those conditions.
and the US is not going to at all be interested in forcing change at this point.
Why would you say that? Can you think of any US ally in the region whom would would benefit from a strong arab country shifting from focusing on foreign relations issues like abombs, to focus on a civil war? You know, like that air craft carrier shaped country on the coast, the one that pretty much says "jump" and the US says "how high?" The one that wants to bomb the Iranian abomb facilities, again?
If they had a revolution, I don't think "the US" or our little buddy would feel too bad. In fact it might be an excellent distraction for a hit on the abomb facilities. The Iranians are too busy shooting at their own civilians to shoot at our planes, etc.
WTF is "after the age of HAM"?
Was completely and totally outlawed after the 79 revolution.
The original poster does not realize that they started licensing again, and mere decade ago went from a whopping 3 licensees to 15 licensees in the entire country. I have no more recent figures. Perhaps the slashdot understatement of the week to say they are not quite up to Japanese levels of licensing (licenses as a percentage of the general population)
http://www.qsl.net/oh2mcn/ep.htm
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First rule of cheating.. don't let people know you're cheating.
If they were smart, they would have used e-voting, then no one would know they cheated.
Of course if they used e-voting, we can hack too. How do you say, "The winner is Cowboy Neal" in Farsi?
If the overwhelming majority of Iranians (like the overwhelming majority of Poles) truly support democracy, human rights, and peace with Israel, then a liberal Western democracy will arise -- without any violence.
The purpose of all governments, is to fool or force the majority into helping the leaders, to the detriment of the majority. No different here or there or anywhere, ever. Sometimes the government does something that unintentionally makes something nice happens to the majority, but thats just a pleasant side effect or accident. We've been lucky that way. Them, not so much.
That fact of life does not seem to fit in with your worldview. Therefore your worldview is suspect.
We in the West are morally justified in destroying the nuclear-weapons facilities.
Don't keep me on the edge of my seat... why? You're confusing rationalization with morality. Some subset of the radical neocon west would love more war in the middle east, after all we clearly don't have enough war in the middle east, and war is good, so more war is more good, being moral is good, unsurprisingly by our own definition we are good, therefore war is good, QED. But that logic somehow seems faulty.
I don't argue that there are strong national interests in blowing up their buildings and killing their people, I'm just intellectually honest enough to declare it as a lesser of two evils, and militarily convenient to do it sooner rather than later, not using some tarted up "moral justification" that merely doublespeaks what "morally justified" actually means.
Now if we needed a plane full of RIAA lawyers dealt with he's the man to send in
Close, very close. The plan is to fly a plane full of lawyers in formation in front of civilian passengers to take out the birds. I'd almost say, like a human shield, however, the lead plane is full of lawyers...
Where are these shopping mall bombings in the US today?
You're not supposed to think those thoughts, citizen... its forbidden to think how a country with legendarily wide open borders has had only one real terror attack by foreigners (as opposed to our own home grown turrists). That kind of thinking leads to "911 truthers" type of thinking about false flag events... Will get you ostracized.
Our job, as patriotic consumers, is to follow the governments orders to kill the people whom don't attack us, best not forget that.
I worry about the possibility of the wrong person gaining control of a military network containing killer robots.
The first possibility based on way to many stereotyped sci-fi movies and trek episodes, is the bad guys will turn the robots against us, or merely burn out all the drive motors.
The much more interesting possibility, is they will figure out a vulnerability, and completely shut off the entire military. The joys of a software monoculture. I wonder if the military will be smart enough to field multiple similar devices using totally separate technology. Almost certainly, not.
I wonder how remote controlled robots handle EMP? Both big theater wide N-EMP and the short range superconductor based techs? Tesla coils issued as personal protective devices? Just plain ole aircraft jammer pods?
Then the economic effects... I bet I can make a 12 volt / solar powered jammer pod staggeringly cheaper than they can make a robot...
I will not build something that .... will be used against civilian targets
How did you build that into your UAV? Even in theory, I can't imagine how that could be designed. Magic?
I'd say relying on robots rather than having our troops shot at and bombed is a GOOD thing.
I think you are assuming they'd be on the aggressors side, and only they could have robots, rather than being on the victims side? Not so good to be on the human victims side if the aggressor side has absolutely no chance of injury or death.
Maybe you mean a circle has an infinite number of points?
Getting closer ... infinite number of tangents at a constant radius from one central point.
Infinite number of points is just any ole line or squiggle.
I would also recommend easynews.com, I'm very happy with their service.
The web interface and download manager are pretty convenient. I have no idea if their customer service is any good... never needed to contact them. It always just works. Always.
she was able to identify the Big Dipper and find Polaris,
That's cool for your kid, but what about the kids in the southern hemisphere whom will never see Polaris? I think we need congressional hearing about this inequality.
(note to astronomy impaired, you generally don't get to see stars more than 90 degrees from your lattitude (yer local zenith, eh?), polaris is about 90 deg N (hence "north star"), so no one below the equator will ever see it (more or less). And no, I don't know what that is in the metric system)
Why is it not an option? It isn't the best option, which is to announce that an exploit exists, but not release the details.
Pointless, as anyone whom's ever done creative coding knows. 90% of the job is figuring out something is possible. 9% is figuring out someone else did it, so obviously anyone else can.
I know a sekret exploit for GW Basic that causes an endless loop in a program. I'm not releasing code because I'm all high and mighty above you all, but lets just say, to prove I really invented this sploit, that a program line that contains a goto statement that "goes to" itself, will, like, loop forever. I'm sure the skript kiddies will never figure out how to actually write an exploit to make an endless loop. Yea me, I'm leet! Note my lack of released sploit code.
I would be glad to take a job at McDonalds
You appear to speak English. They only hire illegals around here. Better learn Spanish and temporarily "lose" your proof of citizenship. The preceding is a cold statement of fact, nothing more.
My opinion is suggesting someone work at McDonalds, which is virtually impossible for an american citizen, is about as cold hearted as suggesting someone work at a call center, which is virtually impossible for an american citizen, more or less for the same business reasons.
I definitely won't be putting any business VAserv's way in the future...
Well, normally, this results in a high level of focus on the problem... So, in the future, they probably won't have problems like this. On the other hand, their competitors will be too busy signing up accounts to patch their systems and any public display of patching (like special extended maint time or a new way of using their product) will make them look just as bad so of course their competitors won't focus on security, leaving them more vulnerable than VAserv...
Except their dude, whom would have focused on security in the near future, is dead now. So maybe that doesn't work too well in this case. Hmm.