LORAN stations are ground stations. If the Chinese (or other enemy. The Chinese are the ones who have actually demonstrated the capability) execute a satellite intercept strike on a sufficient number of satellites, there goes GPS availability for a region.
At high enough power levels you most certainly could detect it: by tissue heating. And there are devices that can detect much lower levels than that.
There is real energy being transferred. Claiming to be sensitive to wifi is not in the same class of ridiculousness as claiming to be sensitive to the color of an upturned card in a room across campus.
I don't think Randi would be interested in expanding his bet to include the unlikely as well as the unbelievable. Imagine if someone actually was sensitive to wifi: he'd have to pay out the prize and it'd be used as "proof" that he was wrong about ghosts, too.
I know, huh. In the first film he covers half of Manhattan with twice his own weight in wrist-splooge but not only is never seen eating anything, he's shown specifically refusing food whenever the opportunity presents itself.
The issue is this: most movies are dry crackers (average budget dramas). A few are cotton candy (big-budget blockbuster). It's sweet, but it doesn't last and isn't ultimately very satisfying. What we want is steak. Kobe steak. A movie that is both visually pleasing and literary satisfying. Good dialogue. Multi-faceted plot. If there is a moral, then a good one, not a broken aesop. Loose ends tied up. Chekhov's gun smoking by the end. etc. etc.
The frustrating thing is that you can't get steak. You can't get it anywhere, *at any price.* The best you can do is get some cotton candy with dry crackers crumbled into it (high-budget remake of hamlet) and occasionally accidental veal (Empire Strikes Back).
What they should do is to meter out the information.
First day: notify the software company and enter info in the database. -- info should include specifics, name of the program, an estimate of severity, and any info which can be released without actually revealing enough of the nature of the bug to continue. -- The web site should handle allowing access to the specifics after the specified time. -- The software vendor should be able to enter comments -- The software vendor should be able to request extensions to the "full disclosure" date.*
*there should be a fee for each extension, and there definitely should be a public explanation for the need for extension, but somehow this feels like extortion.
Let the web site software handle out the metering out automatically, though, so you don't have to waste time butting heads against the software vendors.
I pay $24.95 a month in antivirus updates for my $449.98 netbook. I do a deep scan one day a month just to be on the safe side and I manage to keep infections down in the double digits. But what else can I do? Macs are too expensive and Linux just requires too much time.
The articles so far have been pretty light on details, but I suspect it's possible that they shipped a development version that a manager saw "working" on the programmer's desk.
Supposing it actually does encrypt the data, then it seems really weird to me that it would a) encrypt the data in hardware while b) storing the key in the hardware which is c) activated by a "ok to decrypt" code. which is d) sent by software on the computer comparing hashes to a e) hash of the key furnished for the software by the hardware
It would be much cheaper to just not bother with the encryption at all, and it would be slightly cheaper to not bother with the "okdecrypt" business and just not bother checking the validity of the key. The story could have given us enough information to make some speculation about causes, but unfortunately, it didn't.
For what they save in hiring a few smart American experts they will now lose many times over in PR spin to reinvent their failed brands.
The problem is.. they won't. This kind of thing should be a good for competitors who did things correctly, but in the end, no lessons will be learned, and any competitors that actually do have good products will not gain significant market share.
They might get a fine, and a junior executive might have to go work somewhere else (for more money, though...). The will see very little downside. Nothing compared to the unlimited liability for complications due to loosing of users' data that they should have to deal with.
Suppose further that there is at least one other person who shares a DNA match with those three guys. (4) the actual murderer who is not in the database because his DNA was never collected (as DNA atm is only collected under certain conditions.)
The real estate agent will get the jail time, though.
The DNA database can be used to generate a list of persons of interest, but once used in that way, it becomes less useful as convicting evidence.
The image is already polarized. That's how LCD works. It's a sandwich of polarizing filters, applying voltage can cause them to align or align perpendicular. The naive way to do things would be to power the rear filter (and invert the pixel signal every other frame).
But without copyright, those unnamed artists of millennia past might not have the motive or means to produce anything. I know if I'm an ancient artist, the first thing on my mind is how I'm going to feed the civilization that murders and conquers my own civilization hundreds of years after my death.
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People with jobs managing those things need them to be difficult...
Why is bitlocker still only on the most expensive version? Does anyone know?
LORAN stations are ground stations. If the Chinese (or other enemy. The Chinese are the ones who have actually demonstrated the capability) execute a satellite intercept strike on a sufficient number of satellites, there goes GPS availability for a region.
LORAN also works when it's cloudy, and it gets the same accuracy during the day as it does at night.
At high enough power levels you most certainly could detect it: by tissue heating. And there are devices that can detect much lower levels than that.
There is real energy being transferred. Claiming to be sensitive to wifi is not in the same class of ridiculousness as claiming to be sensitive to the color of an upturned card in a room across campus.
I don't think Randi would be interested in expanding his bet to include the unlikely as well as the unbelievable. Imagine if someone actually was sensitive to wifi: he'd have to pay out the prize and it'd be used as "proof" that he was wrong about ghosts, too.
Superman was super-creepy though. Using his powers to stalk and peep on his ex for half the film and all.
I know, huh. In the first film he covers half of Manhattan with twice his own weight in wrist-splooge but not only is never seen eating anything, he's shown specifically refusing food whenever the opportunity presents itself.
The issue is this: most movies are dry crackers (average budget dramas). A few are cotton candy (big-budget blockbuster). It's sweet, but it doesn't last and isn't ultimately very satisfying. What we want is steak. Kobe steak. A movie that is both visually pleasing and literary satisfying. Good dialogue. Multi-faceted plot. If there is a moral, then a good one, not a broken aesop. Loose ends tied up. Chekhov's gun smoking by the end. etc. etc.
The frustrating thing is that you can't get steak. You can't get it anywhere, *at any price.* The best you can do is get some cotton candy with dry crackers crumbled into it (high-budget remake of hamlet) and occasionally accidental veal (Empire Strikes Back).
You know, this seems to happen so often..
I'm starting to wonder if it's not deliberate.
Interesting. I heard Michael Moore already directed and starred in it.
So, it removes stuff that would've just evaporated off pretty quickly anyway? yipee.
What they should do is to meter out the information.
First day: notify the software company and enter info in the database.
-- info should include specifics, name of the program, an estimate of severity, and any info which can be released without actually revealing enough of the nature of the bug to continue.
-- The web site should handle allowing access to the specifics after the specified time.
-- The software vendor should be able to enter comments
-- The software vendor should be able to request extensions to the "full disclosure" date.*
*there should be a fee for each extension, and there definitely should be a public explanation for the need for extension, but somehow this feels like extortion.
Let the web site software handle out the metering out automatically, though, so you don't have to waste time butting heads against the software vendors.
Why does it need a screen?
I pay $24.95 a month in antivirus updates for my $449.98 netbook. I do a deep scan one day a month just to be on the safe side and I manage to keep infections down in the double digits. But what else can I do? Macs are too expensive and Linux just requires too much time.
Yes, but going slower... makes you go faster. From a certain point of view.
Morbo: Orbital mechanics do not work that way.
The articles so far have been pretty light on details, but I suspect it's possible that they shipped a development version that a manager saw "working" on the programmer's desk.
Supposing it actually does encrypt the data, then it seems really weird to me that it would
a) encrypt the data in hardware
while
b) storing the key in the hardware
which is
c) activated by a "ok to decrypt" code.
which is
d) sent by software on the computer comparing hashes
to a
e) hash of the key furnished for the software by the hardware
It would be much cheaper to just not bother with the encryption at all, and it would be slightly cheaper to not bother with the "okdecrypt" business and just not bother checking the validity of the key. The story could have given us enough information to make some speculation about causes, but unfortunately, it didn't.
For what they save in hiring a few smart American experts they will now lose many times over in PR spin to reinvent their failed brands.
The problem is.. they won't. This kind of thing should be a good for competitors who did things correctly, but in the end, no lessons will be learned, and any competitors that actually do have good products will not gain significant market share.
They might get a fine, and a junior executive might have to go work somewhere else (for more money, though...). The will see very little downside. Nothing compared to the unlimited liability for complications due to loosing of users' data that they should have to deal with.
. I am thinking such secrecy is intended for things like agreements over nuclear weapons and wars.
Maybe, but the fact is that secret agreements over weapons and wars is exactly what got everyone embroiled in WW1....
Suppose further that there is at least one other person who shares a DNA match with those three guys. (4) the actual murderer who is not in the database because his DNA was never collected (as DNA atm is only collected under certain conditions.)
The real estate agent will get the jail time, though.
The DNA database can be used to generate a list of persons of interest, but once used in that way, it becomes less useful as convicting evidence.
I mean, seriously, how hard is it to come up with a standard for this?
I'll take a stab:
5 Ghz, keep power below the FCC limit for uncontrolled emission at at (1 meter or less).
Was that so hard, really?
The image is already polarized. That's how LCD works. It's a sandwich of polarizing filters, applying voltage can cause them to align or align perpendicular. The naive way to do things would be to power the rear filter (and invert the pixel signal every other frame).
It's LCD. The polarization comes free. There shouldn't be any reason for active glasses, just power the back polarizer.
Sure it's not circular polarization, but frankly, I haven't actually seen circularly polarized films either. Linear is perfectly adequate.
But if you kill everyone in a culture, you can claim it?
But without copyright, those unnamed artists of millennia past might not have the motive or means to produce anything. I know if I'm an ancient artist, the first thing on my mind is how I'm going to feed the civilization that murders and conquers my own civilization hundreds of years after my death.