Of course, a lot of this was just hysteria, was exaggerated or misunderstood from Cold War anti-Communist propaganda of the time.
This is what you Western guys don't understand and it is also why you are doomed to repeat our experience.
It was all real. All of it. There was no "hysteria". The Gulag, the spying on everyone by everyone else, the hunger, the poverty, the mass fear and the mass (self)hatred, the fact that Soviets fully intended to rule the world, by hook or crook, the spies and sleeper agents and secret caches of backpack nukes on NATO states' territory, for use in the final war. All of it, and worse. There is stuff that is still classified, or just plain hidden, atrocities that no-one except the perpetrators and the few survivors know about.
What sort of retarded package manager does not know to retain older versions of a library, as required by installed apps? If you are not using package management, why have you not sandboxed the troublesome apps yet?
Interestingly enough, the price of gold is decoupled from the price of all commodities. Better to look at oil price expressed in, oh, say, copper or tin.
I'll try to have as many kids as possible, if I ever start believing in collapse, on the theory that the more I have, the better the chances one or a few will survive whatever the (grim) future may hold.
You are free to step out of my way at any time, by the way. Having already taken the needed steps to avoid inconveniencing my descendants, it would be only a small additional effort to ensure their world will be a tad less poor.
The clueless twats who took over/. are destroying the site and the community with your hare-brained ideas. I'd like to see videos of them choking on wiffle-bats.
Yeah. Nah. You can't re-purpose 50-year-old heat exchangers that have been bathing in hard gamma and neutrons for the duration.
You can't use the same core for 1000 years unless you expect to extract almost no power out of it.
You can design reactor cores that function for 20-30 years then need dismantling, but they're going to be expensive, relatively inefficient (wrt burnup) and dangerous as all fuck to dismantle.
The russkies just dumped theirs into the sea, rather than deal with the headache.
Come amount of hydrogen could be generated via neutron capture from Lithium-6, which produces tritium which in turn makes hydrofluoric acid and wrecks your day.
Finland did not collaborate with the Nazis. Finnish troops never crossed the Finn border to advance upon Leningrad no matter how much the OKH (and Hitler himself) begged and pleaded and whined and cajoled. Finns did not round up their Jews, or their Communists (in fact, even communist Finns who had actively participated in the Russian invasion were pardoned).
Even the Finnish volunteer SS battalion (Finland's only semi-official contribution to the Nazi war effort) was not accused of any war-crimes. It was established in 1941, fought until 1943 and was disbanded, having fought with honour for the agreed-upon two years. Compare and contrast with Norwegian, Italian, Romanian or Hungarian contributions.
Germany, in return, never actually put its full might behind Finland.
Imagine how expensive it would (will?) be for other nuclear nations to track these launches and determine if they should start nuclear Armageddon or not.
I can only see this being used in a shooting war with China or Russia.
Laser light is coherent (which has to do with waveform). That's its fundamental property. The fact that it comes out of most lasers already collimated to a great extent is just a bonus side-effect of the way those lasers are built.
On the contrary. The time to provoke over-reaction (a crack-down as you call it) is now, when information still travels relatively unimpeded. Generally speaking, time is not on your side.
It's actually because by and large you're cowards (being the richest people in the world did that to you) and you're not angry enough yet. People got shot in Syria today for protesting. Doubtlessly, more people will be shot tomorrow. In the meantime, you are thinking up ways to cover your ass when you next go "protest" in a "free speech zone" with an "Anonymous" mask on your face and a lawyer on speed-dial.
The Vatican is a highly unfriendly operational environment for this sort of attack. It's still very low-tech, for one. Many of the higher-ranking officials don't even have e-mail. It's harder to gather intel online or compromise a weak point and then to progress from that to social-engineering access.
All-aspects stealth is impossible, and not just in space, anywhere. It may be possible to throw a shadow, though, and/or use meta-materials to make like you're transparent - when viewed from certain angles in certain portions of the spectrum, that is.
What I'm saying is against an unsophisticated adversary you may just get away with just a chilled blanket held in front of you on coat-hanger wire and a slightly more sophisticated one MIGHT be fooled by adding some fresnels or even something to _simulate_ the starfield behind you.
"oh but this is useless unless you're coming at me head-on". Yes, it is, but space is so god damn big that if I come from even moderately far away (Europa to Earth, say?) I'll be a very small spot in your detectors FOV for a very very long time (months? years?).
This is all shit, of course, if you pepper space with networked sensors. Of course, I can (try to) do the same, relativity plays a role, you need to get them there in the first place, if I can find them I can shoot them, which in itself is an indication that a game is on etc etc.
This is also shit for avoiding active sensors, but if I get radiation from an active sensor I can shoot at it way before it sees me (space is big, I have seconds to act, at least, before the return arrives back home) much like with subs and active sonar. Bi- and multi-static radar systems etc etc etc.
Turtles all the way down, much more like current air defense grid vs bomber force dynamics than air to air combat.
How far can you extend your passive sensor net? How stealthy/survivable is it?
It gets worse. OpenSSL also retrieves uptime and mixes it with what it gets from/dev/urandom, iirc. Of course, uptime is not as random as all that, especially on embedded devices. Let's say you write a script that generates a key on first boot. That boot is going to take the exact same amount of time on all identical devices and there is precious little entropy to work with. Oops.
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The fusor does work. It "just" doesn't work well enough. If another set of kooks had won the funding battle, it would be the preferred money sink.
Interestingly enough, the work of the guys who did this Q&A here is being defunded.
Any radars? SOSUS?
Of course, a lot of this was just hysteria, was exaggerated or misunderstood from Cold War anti-Communist propaganda of the time.
This is what you Western guys don't understand and it is also why you are doomed to repeat our experience.
It was all real. All of it. There was no "hysteria". The Gulag, the spying on everyone by everyone else, the hunger, the poverty, the mass fear and the mass (self)hatred, the fact that Soviets fully intended to rule the world, by hook or crook, the spies and sleeper agents and secret caches of backpack nukes on NATO states' territory, for use in the final war. All of it, and worse. There is stuff that is still classified, or just plain hidden, atrocities that no-one except the perpetrators and the few survivors know about.
It sounds funny now, but it won't be funny when you find yourself in the Gulag for refusing to hand over the encryption keys.
What sort of retarded package manager does not know to retain older versions of a library, as required by installed apps? If you are not using package management, why have you not sandboxed the troublesome apps yet?
You're being trolled softly, for fun and profit. Truly a class act.
Interestingly enough, the price of gold is decoupled from the price of all commodities. Better to look at oil price expressed in, oh, say, copper or tin.
I'll try to have as many kids as possible, if I ever start believing in collapse, on the theory that the more I have, the better the chances one or a few will survive whatever the (grim) future may hold.
You are free to step out of my way at any time, by the way. Having already taken the needed steps to avoid inconveniencing my descendants, it would be only a small additional effort to ensure their world will be a tad less poor.
The clueless twats who took over /. are destroying the site and the community with your hare-brained ideas. I'd like to see videos of them choking on wiffle-bats.
Yeah. Nah. You can't re-purpose 50-year-old heat exchangers that have been bathing in hard gamma and neutrons for the duration.
You can't use the same core for 1000 years unless you expect to extract almost no power out of it.
You can design reactor cores that function for 20-30 years then need dismantling, but they're going to be expensive, relatively inefficient (wrt burnup) and dangerous as all fuck to dismantle.
The russkies just dumped theirs into the sea, rather than deal with the headache.
TANSTAAFL, generally speaking.
Come amount of hydrogen could be generated via neutron capture from Lithium-6, which produces tritium which in turn makes hydrofluoric acid and wrecks your day.
Isotopic separation of Li-7, woo!
Finland did not collaborate with the Nazis. Finnish troops never crossed the Finn border to advance upon Leningrad no matter how much the OKH (and Hitler himself) begged and pleaded and whined and cajoled.
Finns did not round up their Jews, or their Communists (in fact, even communist Finns who had actively participated in the Russian invasion were pardoned).
Even the Finnish volunteer SS battalion (Finland's only semi-official contribution to the Nazi war effort) was not accused of any war-crimes. It was established in 1941, fought until 1943 and was disbanded, having fought with honour for the agreed-upon two years. Compare and contrast with Norwegian, Italian, Romanian or Hungarian contributions.
Germany, in return, never actually put its full might behind Finland.
You could build the ultimate Crysis bot with it.
You are thinking of scramjets. The flow is supersonic here.
Wanna talk costs? This is a re-purposed FOBS.
Imagine how expensive it would (will?) be for other nuclear nations to track these launches and determine if they should start nuclear Armageddon or not.
I can only see this being used in a shooting war with China or Russia.
Laser light is coherent (which has to do with waveform). That's its fundamental property. The fact that it comes out of most lasers already collimated to a great extent is just a bonus side-effect of the way those lasers are built.
True on first approximation, but that leads to the question of who goes first and takes one for the team, so to speak?
Manning, among others.
On the contrary. The time to provoke over-reaction (a crack-down as you call it) is now, when information still travels relatively unimpeded. Generally speaking, time is not on your side.
It's actually because by and large you're cowards (being the richest people in the world did that to you) and you're not angry enough yet. People got shot in Syria today for protesting. Doubtlessly, more people will be shot tomorrow. In the meantime, you are thinking up ways to cover your ass when you next go "protest" in a "free speech zone" with an "Anonymous" mask on your face and a lawyer on speed-dial.
The Vatican is a highly unfriendly operational environment for this sort of attack. It's still very low-tech, for one. Many of the higher-ranking officials don't even have e-mail. It's harder to gather intel online or compromise a weak point and then to progress from that to social-engineering access.
But I thought the Usenet Cabal is a hoax?
Full on cargo cult, yeah. The holy CORPORATION shall provide.
I'm on my way there, just have to buy a big, space capable sunshade.
All-aspects stealth is impossible, and not just in space, anywhere. It may be possible to throw a shadow, though, and/or use meta-materials to make like you're transparent - when viewed from certain angles in certain portions of the spectrum, that is.
What I'm saying is against an unsophisticated adversary you may just get away with just a chilled blanket held in front of you on coat-hanger wire and a slightly more sophisticated one MIGHT be fooled by adding some fresnels or even something to _simulate_ the starfield behind you.
"oh but this is useless unless you're coming at me head-on". Yes, it is, but space is so god damn big that if I come from even moderately far away (Europa to Earth, say?) I'll be a very small spot in your detectors FOV for a very very long time (months? years?).
This is all shit, of course, if you pepper space with networked sensors. Of course, I can (try to) do the same, relativity plays a role, you need to get them there in the first place, if I can find them I can shoot them, which in itself is an indication that a game is on etc etc.
This is also shit for avoiding active sensors, but if I get radiation from an active sensor I can shoot at it way before it sees me (space is big, I have seconds to act, at least, before the return arrives back home) much like with subs and active sonar. Bi- and multi-static radar systems etc etc etc.
Turtles all the way down, much more like current air defense grid vs bomber force dynamics than air to air combat.
How far can you extend your passive sensor net? How stealthy/survivable is it?
It gets worse. OpenSSL also retrieves uptime and mixes it with what it gets from /dev/urandom, iirc. Of course, uptime is not as random as all that, especially on embedded devices. Let's say you write a script that generates a key on first boot. That boot is going to take the exact same amount of time on all identical devices and there is precious little entropy to work with. Oops.