As a proof of concept, it works better than I thought it would for such a small number of projectors (probably why everyone who's already had the exact same idea has dismissed it without trying it). Using many more, dimmer, projectors (a bunch of those always-in-focus pocket laser projectors would be perfect) would minimise the brightness of the ghost beams and spread them over a wider area.
And radiation maps made by independent organizations showed contamination much worse than the official publications.
I've seen some of these 'commuity maps'. Created using uncalibrated meters purchased from ebay or made DIY. I would not trust them as fas as I could throw them for measuring such low levels (yes, a handful of microsieverts is low level).
plenty of people were saying that the evidence showed meltdown and uncontrolled fission right from the start
Hindsight is 20-20 after all.
and the officials denied it until the end of may.
They didn't confirm it, which is something altogether different.
Source? There was plenty of speculation as things were ongoing as to the temperature inside the cores for the first couple of days while there was no instrument power, but after that the IAEA & NISA published figures updated every day, sometimes more than once a day. Where did those come from other than via TEPCO?
They denied the leaks of radioactive material
Again, do you have a source for this other than in the first couple of days, when there weren't any leaks? After the first hydrogen explosion, that started to scatter aerosolised material and contaminate areas outside the core buildings, and radiation maps (and the raw data) from NISA was published regularly.
Either TEPCO were passing this data to NISA and the IAEA who collated it with their own, or there were NISA and IAEA personnel embedded at the Fukishima complex reporting correct figures while TEPCO was simultaneously both reporting incorrect figures, and failing to keep the correct figures from being published internationally. I think the former is far more likely than the latter, no?
I keep hearing of complaints about TEPCO misinformation etc. Reading the IAEA and NISA reports has seemed fine to me, where is all this disinformation coming from? None of it seems to be filtering though to anywhere reputable. Of course, newspapers reporting headlines like "Japan secretly enlarges evacuation zone" after the government invites international media to a press conference on expanding the evacuation zone probably doesn't help.
Next time you watch a BBC report on Fracking, watch the reporters face closely at the end of the segment. I've yet to see anyone not look like they're about to break into a fit of giggles once the cameras turn off.
To me, it sounds like they've looked at ZFS and thought "hey, that sounds like a good idea". Abstracted storage (bits of your files could end up split up and spread multiple times redundantly across physical volumes, but files will still respond to all the usual operators), lots of metadata (including a history of changes to files), built in error-checking, etc.
The future is here, and unfortunately is currently owned by Oracle.
What use is a phone in flight mode though? It might still be a mini-computer
There's your answer. My current phone is more powerful than all but one of the laptops that I've ever owned.
From the description of the system (spoofs cellphone masts by being more powerful and thus preferred), you can simply set your phone not to roam outside your chosen network for voice calls as well as data.
Yes, you can fiddle with the position of rackmount holes and the like to your hearts content. You just won't be able to fit it into a standard rack, which is sort of the point.
Denying them access to communication and organisation via the internet would be effective in it's own right. Unfortunately, Anonymous gets bored easily, ruling out any persistent denial of service.
I've got a smartphone in my pocket that can do anything either of those watches could do (and more) except sit comfortable on my wrist. These seem hugely overpowered for what should be a simple RTC, display and bluetooth/PAN radio. It shouldn't need to process ANYTHING onboard other than to decode a low-res video stream. Cheaper, better battery life, more versatile.
Worse, what this shows is that AMD's idea that you only need one FPU for every two integer units (how Bulldozer is laid out) results in a 20% performance drop.
I'd be perfectly happy with a tiny government raining down wrath on big companies. It's the Equal Opportunities Wrath I'm interested in, not the size of the government dispensing it.
Not really. Psychohistory (and actual group psychology) rely on LARGE groups of people to allow reasonable modelling. Very large, so the effect of individuals on the group is minimised. Small groups are much more affected by the actions of individuals which makes modelling much harder if not impossible. Unfortunately, large amounts of the global economy is controlled by a few very small groups, so one person doing something blithering stupid will, instead of being an unnoticeable blip in an average instead cause an enormous company to go under.
That Duqu is a framework makes it seem to me more likely that it's a for-profit (i.e. criminal in origin) attack rather than a government-produced attack. 1) because it seems to be a rather popular way to monetise your virus-writing with little effort put into actually conducting attacks, and; 2) because it would require the hypothetical government program to be doing something in an efficient manner (and not tailor-making a virus to each target)
Yep, the type of robot in general is known as a 'passive dynamic walker', as it is dynamically stable (moves without falling over, falls over when not moving), and does not require active stabilisation. There are 3/4 legged versions, like the one in the video, 2-legged versions that 'waddle', and 2-legged versions with counterweighted arms that minimise (but not eliminate) the waddle.
But efficiently automated processes are NOT general. A well-programmed robot can do one specifically delineated task (and a series of robots can perform a complex but repeated automated task, like microchip manufacture) much better than a human ever could. But a human can do many different tasks reasonably well. As it stands, there is no robot that can do the same thing. In the future, there may be, but we're pretty damn far from that stage right now.
Last I heard, CCD was linked pretty strongly to a combination of a fungus and a virus, occurring in every colony affected in the study (but individually not accounting for the effect).
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And only in one plane. Move up and down, and the image will distort rather than allow you to look down onto it or up under it. Not volumetric.
As a proof of concept, it works better than I thought it would for such a small number of projectors (probably why everyone who's already had the exact same idea has dismissed it without trying it). Using many more, dimmer, projectors (a bunch of those always-in-focus pocket laser projectors would be perfect) would minimise the brightness of the ghost beams and spread them over a wider area.
And radiation maps made by independent organizations showed contamination much worse than the official publications.
I've seen some of these 'commuity maps'. Created using uncalibrated meters purchased from ebay or made DIY. I would not trust them as fas as I could throw them for measuring such low levels (yes, a handful of microsieverts is low level).
plenty of people were saying that the evidence showed meltdown and uncontrolled fission right from the start
Hindsight is 20-20 after all.
and the officials denied it until the end of may.
They didn't confirm it, which is something altogether different.
Yes sir, we tore the universe a new space hole, alright. But it's clenching shut fast!
They denied the meltdown for months
Source? There was plenty of speculation as things were ongoing as to the temperature inside the cores for the first couple of days while there was no instrument power, but after that the IAEA & NISA published figures updated every day, sometimes more than once a day. Where did those come from other than via TEPCO?
They denied the leaks of radioactive material
Again, do you have a source for this other than in the first couple of days, when there weren't any leaks? After the first hydrogen explosion, that started to scatter aerosolised material and contaminate areas outside the core buildings, and radiation maps (and the raw data) from NISA was published regularly.
Either TEPCO were passing this data to NISA and the IAEA who collated it with their own, or there were NISA and IAEA personnel embedded at the Fukishima complex reporting correct figures while TEPCO was simultaneously both reporting incorrect figures, and failing to keep the correct figures from being published internationally. I think the former is far more likely than the latter, no?
I keep hearing of complaints about TEPCO misinformation etc. Reading the IAEA and NISA reports has seemed fine to me, where is all this disinformation coming from? None of it seems to be filtering though to anywhere reputable.
Of course, newspapers reporting headlines like "Japan secretly enlarges evacuation zone" after the government invites international media to a press conference on expanding the evacuation zone probably doesn't help.
Fast? They're already nearly a year late! The Leonov would beat them by miles even without a refueling stop at Europa.
Next time you watch a BBC report on Fracking, watch the reporters face closely at the end of the segment. I've yet to see anyone not look like they're about to break into a fit of giggles once the cameras turn off.
It also predicates that people will actually want to talk at their phone after the 5 minutes of novelty immediately after buying it.
To me, it sounds like they've looked at ZFS and thought "hey, that sounds like a good idea". Abstracted storage (bits of your files could end up split up and spread multiple times redundantly across physical volumes, but files will still respond to all the usual operators), lots of metadata (including a history of changes to files), built in error-checking, etc.
The future is here, and unfortunately is currently owned by Oracle.
What use is a phone in flight mode though? It might still be a mini-computer
There's your answer. My current phone is more powerful than all but one of the laptops that I've ever owned.
From the description of the system (spoofs cellphone masts by being more powerful and thus preferred), you can simply set your phone not to roam outside your chosen network for voice calls as well as data.
Yes, you can fiddle with the position of rackmount holes and the like to your hearts content. You just won't be able to fit it into a standard rack, which is sort of the point.
Well except that it doesn't have enough power to play back 1080p videos
Nope, it really can. High Profile Level 4.1 h.264, which is very impressive for a SOC.
Denying them access to communication and organisation via the internet would be effective in it's own right. Unfortunately, Anonymous gets bored easily, ruling out any persistent denial of service.
No, that also needlessly runs android. Your watch needs an OS about as much as your monitor needs an OS.
I've got a smartphone in my pocket that can do anything either of those watches could do (and more) except sit comfortable on my wrist. These seem hugely overpowered for what should be a simple RTC, display and bluetooth/PAN radio. It shouldn't need to process ANYTHING onboard other than to decode a low-res video stream. Cheaper, better battery life, more versatile.
The ZMP gait looks just like the Sidewinder.
Worse, what this shows is that AMD's idea that you only need one FPU for every two integer units (how Bulldozer is laid out) results in a 20% performance drop.
One moment, I need to pay for my Spaghetti.
I'd be perfectly happy with a tiny government raining down wrath on big companies. It's the Equal Opportunities Wrath I'm interested in, not the size of the government dispensing it.
Not really. Psychohistory (and actual group psychology) rely on LARGE groups of people to allow reasonable modelling. Very large, so the effect of individuals on the group is minimised. Small groups are much more affected by the actions of individuals which makes modelling much harder if not impossible. Unfortunately, large amounts of the global economy is controlled by a few very small groups, so one person doing something blithering stupid will, instead of being an unnoticeable blip in an average instead cause an enormous company to go under.
That Duqu is a framework makes it seem to me more likely that it's a for-profit (i.e. criminal in origin) attack rather than a government-produced attack.
1) because it seems to be a rather popular way to monetise your virus-writing with little effort put into actually conducting attacks, and;
2) because it would require the hypothetical government program to be doing something in an efficient manner (and not tailor-making a virus to each target)
Yep, the type of robot in general is known as a 'passive dynamic walker', as it is dynamically stable (moves without falling over, falls over when not moving), and does not require active stabilisation. There are 3/4 legged versions, like the one in the video, 2-legged versions that 'waddle', and 2-legged versions with counterweighted arms that minimise (but not eliminate) the waddle.
Robots are generalized machines
But efficiently automated processes are NOT general. A well-programmed robot can do one specifically delineated task (and a series of robots can perform a complex but repeated automated task, like microchip manufacture) much better than a human ever could. But a human can do many different tasks reasonably well. As it stands, there is no robot that can do the same thing. In the future, there may be, but we're pretty damn far from that stage right now.
Last I heard, CCD was linked pretty strongly to a combination of a fungus and a virus, occurring in every colony affected in the study (but individually not accounting for the effect).