we're getting thousands of them (680 Navy and Marines, and 1,763 for the Air Force).
No we aren't. In a couple years Hillary (or maybe Mike Pence) will face a choice of slashing this order, or painful cuts to Medicare. The first choice will lead to fewer aircraft that are increasingly seen as a white elephants, while the second choice means giving up any chance of reelection. Guess which will happen?
You got a visual sensor that can tell a 10m by 16m triangle-shaped thing at 441 km from a seagull's tail at 350 km?
From a single static image? Unlikely. From a series of images at 60 FPS? Very likely. If I was building such a system, my first attempt would be a recurrent convolutional NN, 6 or 8 layers. I would need a server farm (rentable by the hour from AWS) to train it, but then it could deployed on a cheap commodity GPU or maybe even an on-die GPU for extra reliability during high-G turns.
Keep in mind that the SAM/drone/whatever that first sees the F35 would not be the only one in the sky. They could communicate to triangulate and confirm visual results, and attack using swarm tactics.
It should be noted that turning, climbing, and running aren't terribly important if the other guy can't find you, target you, or shoot at you.
Exactly. The F35 will be fine as long as we assume that our adversaries are completely incapable of innovation. The Chinese would certainly never think to stick a $5 optical camera and an ANN in the nose of a SAM and track using visible light.
It is only "stealthy" if the radar transmitter and receiver are co-located. The Russians and the Chinese are well aware of this limitation, and are already building offset radar. So it is only stealthy if we assume that our adversaries are idiots. This is a good assumption if we want the funding to continue, but a bad assumption if we actually expect it to be effective. The F35 has way too much inertia and sunk costs to be cancelled at this point... and please don't say that "sunk costs don't matter". That may be true in business, but is not true in politics.
TFA doesn't present any evidence that millennials are better or worse than oldsters at adapting to tech. It is just that they self-report having more problems. So an obvious alternative hypothesis is that millennials just complain about things more.
Don't know what will happen to animals that eat mosquitoes. I guess we'll collapse that food chain when we come to it...
They are not trying to wipe out all mosquitoes, just the varieties that spread disease. There are plenty of species of mosquitoes that are not vectors for any human diseases, and they can fill the same niche.
If you leave your kid in the car, you are drug-addled as far as I can tell.
Nonsense. Plenty of people (including me) are just naturally absent minded. I never left my kid in the car, but I could have easily done so. To ensure that didn't happen, I took counter measures. When I buckled my kid into her carseat, I would put my cellphone, wallet, notebook, etc. on the floor in the backseat. When I reached my destination, I would get out of the car, walk a few meters, and reach for my phone to check the time, and suddenly be reminded that my daughter was asleep in her carseat. You may think that I am a terrible person, but that is what worked for me.
The problem is that it is too late. You can't come in long after the fact, when you should have been protecting your patents from the beginning.
This is incorrect. You are confusing patents with trademarks. A trademark must be defended or it may be considered abandoned. There is no such obligation with patents. A patent holder can wait until an infringer is successful, and then spring a lawsuit and injunction on them. There is no penalty for waiting.
Do people really use emoji's instead of words and expect to be clearly understood?
Yes, many people do that. But we still need to keep them out of the hands of terrorists. There is no need for Emoji's containing assault weapons or IEDs. Emoji's should be declared "critical infrastructure" and placed under the jurisdiction of the DHS.
Why even try to secure information anymore - just make it all public.
Bingo. This is the solution. It is idiotic to have numbers, including SSNs and CC numbers, that need to be both secret and widely known. Everyone I have ever done business with (as an employee, contractor, contractee, patient, client, etc.) knows my SSN. Every waiter in most local restaurants has had access to my CC numbers along with the super secret 3-digit code that is printed directly on the card in plain view. It is absurd that someone can establish and use credit in my name with mere knowledge of these numbers. These numbers should be public so there can be no presumption that they are secret, and there should be a separate system of authentication that is not based on knowing semi-public information.
the only thing that will stop this is a couple of high-profile companies getting successfully sued or fined out of existence.
That would likely have the opposite effect: It would encourage companies to cover up breaches, and notify no one. Most experts already believe that only a small fraction of breaches are publicly reported. Draconian punishment of those trying to be responsible would not be helpful.
With all those monitoring do you feel safer that nobody can do harm with your personal information?
Yes. I received free monitoring from Home Depot, and my wife got it from Target. So now we get an email alert anytime anyone makes a credit inquiry or applies for credit in our name. That is helpful, but it would make WAY more sense for that to be the default, rather than a special service. These monitoring services are due to expire soon, but I am hoping I will be the victim of yet another breach so I can get another year for free.
Yeah, dems need to check their history and I hope all of the minorities check their history too.
History is irrelevant. All that matters is what the parties stand for today. That fact that the Democrats were the party of segregation a century ago doesn't matter one iota.
Regular donors should go to the front of the queue when they need blood. It should work the same for organ donors. If you need a new liver, and you never checked the donor box on your driver's license, they you should have to wait.
Why don't you sell it to this guy? Baby blood? He'll fucking love it and probably pay a lot more than some crummy t-shirt!
I have received a lot more than the t-shirt. That was just for passing the 10 gallon mark. Several times per year, they have a "pint-for-pint" coupon that is good for a free pint of Ben & Jerrys ice cream (any flavor).
CMV is spread by exchange of bodily fluids. Most people have been exposed, but If you are a nerd, you are probably fine. The infection is usually asymptomatic, but can be a problem for people with compromised immune systems: AIDS patients, people on chemo, and... newborn babies.
Do I just ask my GP, or directly at the blood bank ?
My local blood bank told me. I am a regular donor, and one time the nurse said "Oh, you have baby blood", and put a special sticker on my blood bag.
It is not that simple. Getting the ID is only part of the problem. Losing it, and forgetting it on election day, are also problems. But Dems and Reps are equally likely to lose/forget, so that is a wash, right? WRONG. Democrats are significantly more likely to be dysfunctional people. This was clear in Florida in 2000 when Dems were more likely to fill out ballots incorrectly, thus invalidating their votes. Democrats are significantly more likely to lose/forget critical items, and voter ID cards systematically discriminate against them. You make be okay with that, and you may feel that we would be better off with fewer incompetent, dysfunctional people voting. But the bottom line is that voter ID laws skew elections toward Republicans and against the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
Here is a question what if you submit a mainly blank census? you have submitted it and it contains no false information.
I know nothing about the Australian census, but in America you are required to give your address and the number of people living there. All other information on the census form is not legally required, and although they may pressure you to provide it, you can refuse. Do not believe any promises that information will not be abused, because that has ALREADY HAPPENED: During WW2, the census bureau provided information that was used to round up citizens of Japanese ethnicity, and place them in internment camps.
he wouldn't be the first guy to get obsessed with the fact that they're going to die like the rest of us.
People getting obsessed with solving a problem is what drives science and technology forward. Would you rather that Peter spent his time playing golf?
Disclaimer: I have "baby blood", meaning I am CMV negative, so instead of receiving blood from the young, I donate to babies. A pint every 8 weeks, totalling to 10 gallons so far, and I have a t-shirt from the Red Cross to prove it.
What that a debit card or a credit card? Had you given the card number to Travelocity?
It was a credit card. Yes, I had been a previous customer of Travelocity, and they had my CC info. They did NOT have my permission to sign me up to any paid marketing subscription for $19/month (which is what they did).
Sometimes you are. I was fraudulently charged $19/month for several months by Travelocity. I disputed the charges through Bank of America, and BOA told me that Travelocity was their "marketing partner" so the fraudulent transactions could not be reversed. I cancelled the credit card, closed all my BOA accounts, and switched to Wells Fargo (the only other bank within bicycle distance of my house). I also never again used Travelocity for anything. I periodically go into the local BOA branch and steal their ink pens.
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we're getting thousands of them (680 Navy and Marines, and 1,763 for the Air Force).
No we aren't. In a couple years Hillary (or maybe Mike Pence) will face a choice of slashing this order, or painful cuts to Medicare. The first choice will lead to fewer aircraft that are increasingly seen as a white elephants, while the second choice means giving up any chance of reelection. Guess which will happen?
You got a visual sensor that can tell a 10m by 16m triangle-shaped thing at 441 km from a seagull's tail at 350 km?
From a single static image? Unlikely. From a series of images at 60 FPS? Very likely. If I was building such a system, my first attempt would be a recurrent convolutional NN, 6 or 8 layers. I would need a server farm (rentable by the hour from AWS) to train it, but then it could deployed on a cheap commodity GPU or maybe even an on-die GPU for extra reliability during high-G turns.
Keep in mind that the SAM/drone/whatever that first sees the F35 would not be the only one in the sky. They could communicate to triangulate and confirm visual results, and attack using swarm tactics.
It should be noted that turning, climbing, and running aren't terribly important if the other guy can't find you, target you, or shoot at you.
Exactly. The F35 will be fine as long as we assume that our adversaries are completely incapable of innovation. The Chinese would certainly never think to stick a $5 optical camera and an ANN in the nose of a SAM and track using visible light.
It is only "stealthy" if the radar transmitter and receiver are co-located. The Russians and the Chinese are well aware of this limitation, and are already building offset radar. So it is only stealthy if we assume that our adversaries are idiots. This is a good assumption if we want the funding to continue, but a bad assumption if we actually expect it to be effective. The F35 has way too much inertia and sunk costs to be cancelled at this point ... and please don't say that "sunk costs don't matter". That may be true in business, but is not true in politics.
Well, yes, but today's UIs are harder to use than the GUIs of the 90s
Most of the oldsters in my office use the Unix CLI to get stuff done. Very few younglings know how to write a perl one-liner.
TFA doesn't present any evidence that millennials are better or worse than oldsters at adapting to tech. It is just that they self-report having more problems. So an obvious alternative hypothesis is that millennials just complain about things more.
Don't know what will happen to animals that eat mosquitoes. I guess we'll collapse that food chain when we come to it...
They are not trying to wipe out all mosquitoes, just the varieties that spread disease. There are plenty of species of mosquitoes that are not vectors for any human diseases, and they can fill the same niche.
If you leave your kid in the car, you are drug-addled as far as I can tell.
Nonsense. Plenty of people (including me) are just naturally absent minded. I never left my kid in the car, but I could have easily done so. To ensure that didn't happen, I took counter measures. When I buckled my kid into her carseat, I would put my cellphone, wallet, notebook, etc. on the floor in the backseat. When I reached my destination, I would get out of the car, walk a few meters, and reach for my phone to check the time, and suddenly be reminded that my daughter was asleep in her carseat. You may think that I am a terrible person, but that is what worked for me.
Ever notice how hard it is to get your one free credit report?
No. I go to freecreditreport.com, answer a few security questions to prove I am me, and get my report. Takes about 30 seconds.
You normally have to send them a letter by snail mail with a bunch of information on it.
Baloney. I have never had to do that.
The problem is that it is too late. You can't come in long after the fact, when you should have been protecting your patents from the beginning.
This is incorrect. You are confusing patents with trademarks. A trademark must be defended or it may be considered abandoned. There is no such obligation with patents. A patent holder can wait until an infringer is successful, and then spring a lawsuit and injunction on them. There is no penalty for waiting.
Do people really use emoji's instead of words and expect to be clearly understood?
Yes, many people do that. But we still need to keep them out of the hands of terrorists. There is no need for Emoji's containing assault weapons or IEDs. Emoji's should be declared "critical infrastructure" and placed under the jurisdiction of the DHS.
Why even try to secure information anymore - just make it all public.
Bingo. This is the solution. It is idiotic to have numbers, including SSNs and CC numbers, that need to be both secret and widely known. Everyone I have ever done business with (as an employee, contractor, contractee, patient, client, etc.) knows my SSN. Every waiter in most local restaurants has had access to my CC numbers along with the super secret 3-digit code that is printed directly on the card in plain view. It is absurd that someone can establish and use credit in my name with mere knowledge of these numbers. These numbers should be public so there can be no presumption that they are secret, and there should be a separate system of authentication that is not based on knowing semi-public information.
the only thing that will stop this is a couple of high-profile companies getting successfully sued or fined out of existence.
That would likely have the opposite effect: It would encourage companies to cover up breaches, and notify no one. Most experts already believe that only a small fraction of breaches are publicly reported. Draconian punishment of those trying to be responsible would not be helpful.
With all those monitoring do you feel safer that nobody can do harm with your personal information?
Yes. I received free monitoring from Home Depot, and my wife got it from Target. So now we get an email alert anytime anyone makes a credit inquiry or applies for credit in our name. That is helpful, but it would make WAY more sense for that to be the default, rather than a special service. These monitoring services are due to expire soon, but I am hoping I will be the victim of yet another breach so I can get another year for free.
Yeah, dems need to check their history and I hope all of the minorities check their history too.
History is irrelevant. All that matters is what the parties stand for today. That fact that the Democrats were the party of segregation a century ago doesn't matter one iota.
if I need blood I might be screwed.
Regular donors should go to the front of the queue when they need blood. It should work the same for organ donors. If you need a new liver, and you never checked the donor box on your driver's license, they you should have to wait.
Why don't you sell it to this guy? Baby blood? He'll fucking love it and probably pay a lot more than some crummy t-shirt!
I have received a lot more than the t-shirt. That was just for passing the 10 gallon mark. Several times per year, they have a "pint-for-pint" coupon that is good for a free pint of Ben & Jerrys ice cream (any flavor).
How does one go get tested for CMV ?
CMV is spread by exchange of bodily fluids. Most people have been exposed, but If you are a nerd, you are probably fine. The infection is usually asymptomatic, but can be a problem for people with compromised immune systems: AIDS patients, people on chemo, and ... newborn babies.
Do I just ask my GP, or directly at the blood bank ?
My local blood bank told me. I am a regular donor, and one time the nurse said "Oh, you have baby blood", and put a special sticker on my blood bag.
then fix the difficulty in getting the ID,
It is not that simple. Getting the ID is only part of the problem. Losing it, and forgetting it on election day, are also problems. But Dems and Reps are equally likely to lose/forget, so that is a wash, right? WRONG. Democrats are significantly more likely to be dysfunctional people. This was clear in Florida in 2000 when Dems were more likely to fill out ballots incorrectly, thus invalidating their votes. Democrats are significantly more likely to lose/forget critical items, and voter ID cards systematically discriminate against them. You make be okay with that, and you may feel that we would be better off with fewer incompetent, dysfunctional people voting. But the bottom line is that voter ID laws skew elections toward Republicans and against the people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
Here is a question what if you submit a mainly blank census? you have submitted it and it contains no false information.
I know nothing about the Australian census, but in America you are required to give your address and the number of people living there. All other information on the census form is not legally required, and although they may pressure you to provide it, you can refuse. Do not believe any promises that information will not be abused, because that has ALREADY HAPPENED: During WW2, the census bureau provided information that was used to round up citizens of Japanese ethnicity, and place them in internment camps.
he wouldn't be the first guy to get obsessed with the fact that they're going to die like the rest of us.
People getting obsessed with solving a problem is what drives science and technology forward. Would you rather that Peter spent his time playing golf?
Disclaimer: I have "baby blood", meaning I am CMV negative, so instead of receiving blood from the young, I donate to babies. A pint every 8 weeks, totalling to 10 gallons so far, and I have a t-shirt from the Red Cross to prove it.
What that a debit card or a credit card? Had you given the card number to Travelocity?
It was a credit card. Yes, I had been a previous customer of Travelocity, and they had my CC info. They did NOT have my permission to sign me up to any paid marketing subscription for $19/month (which is what they did).
Don't they kick you out when the transaction is denied?
If you are paying $2000 in Mexico, you are going to the wrong strip clubs. Try walking more than 1 block from the border.
Honestly, the best you can do is to use a system (like Apple Pay) that uses a device specific PAN for your transactions.
Or you could use a PIN, with is how chip+pin was designed to be used, and how it is used in other countries that have far less CC fraud than America.
I am not liable for fraudulent charges.
Sometimes you are. I was fraudulently charged $19/month for several months by Travelocity. I disputed the charges through Bank of America, and BOA told me that Travelocity was their "marketing partner" so the fraudulent transactions could not be reversed. I cancelled the credit card, closed all my BOA accounts, and switched to Wells Fargo (the only other bank within bicycle distance of my house). I also never again used Travelocity for anything. I periodically go into the local BOA branch and steal their ink pens.