Yes, we traded real stuff a promise to give them money later. When they can do nothing if we say "just kidding!" There's an old banking proverb that goes something like this "If you owe a bank thousands, you have a problem; owe a bank millions, the bank has a problem."
This has nothing to do with the contractor. The reason they want magnetic catapults is they have finer control over the launch. With steam they dial in the pressure and push the button, which is a problem because the amount of steam you need depends on the weight of the aircraft. See here.
They also say they ought to be able to get better reliability. Maybe, but who can say.
The military signal is just an error correction to the civilian signal. It's not a totally separate signal. Normally if you can't get the error correction you'd still use the uncorrected signal. For this kind of trick you could probably jam the encrypted signal and spoof the unencrypted signal. Or, as a commenter further up pointed out, you don't really need to jam the correction signal - the entire scheme is well documented, and you could probably just delay the correction signals by an appropriate amount without breaking the encryption.
There are ways you can prevent people from doing this. I'm not really sure why this particular drone didn't include them. Weight and/or cost, I guess.
Or it may just be the speed at which these things are being deployed. There was a minor hubub awhile back when it was discovered drone video feeds weren't encrypted. Sometimes during a war you cut corners because having it there with vulnerabilities is better than not having it there at all.
And even on that topic, you cant buy brand new books used, and you can get all the classics for free on your Kindle.
Depends on how "classic" you classic is. 70 years from the author's death covers a lot of ground - I'm guessing at least a hundred years on average. The other day I wanted to pick up The Diamond Age for my kindle. That's a sixteen year old book. The Amazon price for a new paperback is $10.20, whereas the Kindle price is $11.99. You can get it used through the same Amazon page for $2.78.
I don't mind compensating the author and publisher for their efforts. But I don't like being ripped off. They're saving quite a bit of money by not printing and storing a physical copy of the book in question.
In fact not only did they loose an e-book sale but I was so annoyed I didn't even buy the print edition.
Awhile back I wanted to pick up an electronic copy of one of my all-time favorite books, The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson. But Amazon wants $11.99 for the ebook and $10.20 for the paperback. I'm not buying a sixteen year old book for twelve bucks. So like you I didn't buy anything.
I'm not sure that "$5-$10 cheaper" statement is accurate. There's been a lot of consternation among we Kindle users that often the ebook is only 5 or ten *percent* cheaper than the printed book.
Amazon offers a used copy of almost every book I'm interested in for less than the ebook, shipping included. And I can give a physical book to my siblings when I'm done with it. I love my kindle for the ability to buy a book and get it delivered instantly at 3:00 AM. But it's not saving me any money - far from it.
Heh. I never worked for Arerospace Corp, but when I was doing military projects I had the same surreal experience. My boss didn't have a "need to know", so he just went by whatever the program office said. Since it was R&D type work the program office didn't really know how long things should take. And I worked in a vault, so it wasn't like someone could have stumbled in and caught me sleeping. I could probably have gotten away with working one day out of three.
But I didn't abuse it either. If you're on the right project your work amounts to a really cool hobby for which someone else is picking up the enormous tab.
'The demands are so great that H&M, among the poor photo models, cannot find someone with both body and face that can sell their bikinis.'"
Or... instead of scheduling shoots, dealing with flaky models and temperamental photographers they can have an unpaid intern use Photoshop to slap the marketing stuff together in a few hours. Even when they use real models they change the model's body shape, so this isn't about not being able to find the perfect shape.
Electric cars are NOT shit now and would be less shitty than ICE vehicles given a decade or two of development. I'm not sure we'll ever see that now.
The problem is the battery, and batteries have been in development continuously since the first electric car in the 19th century. Of course there is some exciting battery tech on the horizon. We may have it tomorrow or it may be a mirage and stay on the horizon.
Electric cars will not be mainstream until they have the performance characteristics people are used to from ICE cars. Batteries simply do not have the same energy per unit weight you find in a tank of diesel or gasoline, and the best car makers can do now is a car that's severely limited. They're fine as a commuter second car, but as an only car they just don't work for most people.
If the Three Gorges dam had a catastrophic failure it would kill far more than 171K people. The real difference is, I guess, once the water recedes you can rebuild everything and go on. What bothers people about the potential of a nuclear accident is the amount of time the site could be unfit for human habitation.
On my system it takes a good 10-15 seconds for the Acrobat Reader to display the document. There's some kind of module collection that juat takes forever to load.
I doin't have a particularly slow system either - Word documents come up in a second or two.
It's a freakin' document reader. How did Adobe end up here? Not only is it such a bloated piece of crap it takes forever to open a document, but they seem to have one vulnerability after another. The functionality that they added for 0.0000001% of their customers isn't really worth the price they're paying.
"Carbon fibre is made by a high-temperature treatment. Our fibres are made just by spinning a water-based solution â" it is quite green and quite easy,"
We should make kink-springs out of this stuff, since gene-hacked algae can be dangerous if the tanks are contaminated.
This is the twenty first century. Get with the program. DVRs are just the start. Really, DVRs are a stop gap between what we have now and full video on demand service.
This. The day I got my Roku is the day I decided there would never be any reason for me to get a DVR. Why should I have to store a copy of a show in my living room? I'll let the provider know when I want to see it, and he can send over the bits at that time.
Yea cause you know there's a surplus of those around right now *rolls eyes*
Yes, cause I want drug dealers and scam artists to keep doing what they're doing too, since it would be too hard to find another job *rolls eyes*
Again it has been proven junk mail works, that's why they send it so it drives business (many times to local businesses).
But it only works because people like me aren't being compensated for getting rid of all the crap they're dumping on me. I have to spend time dealing with it, I occasionally lose an important letter because (presumably) it gets nestled discretely inside some advertising circular, and I pay extra for the landfill or recycler to take stuff I never even open. If they're willing to compensate me for all that then I'll have less objection.
And just because junk mail works doesn't mean businesses don't have other ways to get their message out. They can use electronic media or web advertising. Also, I don't mind if they send mail to people who've expressed an interest in getting it.
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Yes, we traded real stuff a promise to give them money later. When they can do nothing if we say "just kidding!" There's an old banking proverb that goes something like this "If you owe a bank thousands, you have a problem; owe a bank millions, the bank has a problem."
This has nothing to do with the contractor. The reason they want magnetic catapults is they have finer control over the launch. With steam they dial in the pressure and push the button, which is a problem because the amount of steam you need depends on the weight of the aircraft. See here.
They also say they ought to be able to get better reliability. Maybe, but who can say.
The military signal is just an error correction to the civilian signal. It's not a totally separate signal. Normally if you can't get the error correction you'd still use the uncorrected signal. For this kind of trick you could probably jam the encrypted signal and spoof the unencrypted signal. Or, as a commenter further up pointed out, you don't really need to jam the correction signal - the entire scheme is well documented, and you could probably just delay the correction signals by an appropriate amount without breaking the encryption.
There are ways you can prevent people from doing this. I'm not really sure why this particular drone didn't include them. Weight and/or cost, I guess.
Or it may just be the speed at which these things are being deployed. There was a minor hubub awhile back when it was discovered drone video feeds weren't encrypted. Sometimes during a war you cut corners because having it there with vulnerabilities is better than not having it there at all.
Printing and distribution usually account for 20% of the cost of a book. Why aren't ebooks 20% cheaper than physical books?
Depends on how "classic" you classic is. 70 years from the author's death covers a lot of ground - I'm guessing at least a hundred years on average. The other day I wanted to pick up The Diamond Age for my kindle. That's a sixteen year old book. The Amazon price for a new paperback is $10.20, whereas the Kindle price is $11.99. You can get it used through the same Amazon page for $2.78.
I don't mind compensating the author and publisher for their efforts. But I don't like being ripped off. They're saving quite a bit of money by not printing and storing a physical copy of the book in question.
Awhile back I wanted to pick up an electronic copy of one of my all-time favorite books, The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson. But Amazon wants $11.99 for the ebook and $10.20 for the paperback. I'm not buying a sixteen year old book for twelve bucks. So like you I didn't buy anything.
Amazon offers a used copy of almost every book I'm interested in for less than the ebook, shipping included. And I can give a physical book to my siblings when I'm done with it. I love my kindle for the ability to buy a book and get it delivered instantly at 3:00 AM. But it's not saving me any money - far from it.
I don't see a problem. He's welcome to spend his own money in any manner he pleases as long as it's legal.
Heh. I never worked for Arerospace Corp, but when I was doing military projects I had the same surreal experience. My boss didn't have a "need to know", so he just went by whatever the program office said. Since it was R&D type work the program office didn't really know how long things should take. And I worked in a vault, so it wasn't like someone could have stumbled in and caught me sleeping. I could probably have gotten away with working one day out of three.
But I didn't abuse it either. If you're on the right project your work amounts to a really cool hobby for which someone else is picking up the enormous tab.
'The demands are so great that H&M, among the poor photo models, cannot find someone with both body and face that can sell their bikinis.'"
Or... instead of scheduling shoots, dealing with flaky models and temperamental photographers they can have an unpaid intern use Photoshop to slap the marketing stuff together in a few hours. Even when they use real models they change the model's body shape, so this isn't about not being able to find the perfect shape.
After the collapse of the New Orleans dam?
The problem is the battery, and batteries have been in development continuously since the first electric car in the 19th century. Of course there is some exciting battery tech on the horizon. We may have it tomorrow or it may be a mirage and stay on the horizon.
Electric cars will not be mainstream until they have the performance characteristics people are used to from ICE cars. Batteries simply do not have the same energy per unit weight you find in a tank of diesel or gasoline, and the best car makers can do now is a car that's severely limited. They're fine as a commuter second car, but as an only car they just don't work for most people.
If the Three Gorges dam had a catastrophic failure it would kill far more than 171K people. The real difference is, I guess, once the water recedes you can rebuild everything and go on. What bothers people about the potential of a nuclear accident is the amount of time the site could be unfit for human habitation.
On my system it takes a good 10-15 seconds for the Acrobat Reader to display the document. There's some kind of module collection that juat takes forever to load.
I doin't have a particularly slow system either - Word documents come up in a second or two.
It's a freakin' document reader. How did Adobe end up here? Not only is it such a bloated piece of crap it takes forever to open a document, but they seem to have one vulnerability after another. The functionality that they added for 0.0000001% of their customers isn't really worth the price they're paying.
"Carbon fibre is made by a high-temperature treatment. Our fibres are made just by spinning a water-based solution â" it is quite green and quite easy,"
We should make kink-springs out of this stuff, since gene-hacked algae can be dangerous if the tanks are contaminated.
Bank of America offers something they're calling a "Safepass Card", which looks suspiciously like SecurID to me.
They decided to upgrade - instead of a memory stick it's a Memory Stick-It-To-Ya.
This. The day I got my Roku is the day I decided there would never be any reason for me to get a DVR. Why should I have to store a copy of a show in my living room? I'll let the provider know when I want to see it, and he can send over the bits at that time.
Maybe TV will eventually end up like classical music - sure, they're still making it, but there's enough of the old stuff for one lifetime.
Sadly, in and of itself that means nothing. Patents vary widely in quality.
Yes, cause I want drug dealers and scam artists to keep doing what they're doing too, since it would be too hard to find another job *rolls eyes*
But it only works because people like me aren't being compensated for getting rid of all the crap they're dumping on me. I have to spend time dealing with it, I occasionally lose an important letter because (presumably) it gets nestled discretely inside some advertising circular, and I pay extra for the landfill or recycler to take stuff I never even open. If they're willing to compensate me for all that then I'll have less objection.
And just because junk mail works doesn't mean businesses don't have other ways to get their message out. They can use electronic media or web advertising. Also, I don't mind if they send mail to people who've expressed an interest in getting it.
People involved in sending me junk mail should find other jobs.
Fair would be for rural people to pay what the service costs.