They're probably thinking of things like near-field synthetic aperture sonar. You can get images as clear as this, which gives the impression that water is no obstacle. Distance, however, changes what one can do, and there's quite a difference between passive monitoring and active monitoring as well.
I'm aware. I write signal processing software for the signals that drive spectrum / waterfalls. Some people would be quite surprised as to what can be done with only a hint of data.
Again, no details can be laid out here, but some tracking is definitely possible. My point was that losing track is also possible, so yes, we agree.
Well, it's not quite that cut and dry; subs move, make noise, wakes, create magnetic anomalies in motion (and image subtraction can trivially find one of those consequent to continuous MA observation of any area where the sub is, assuming the monitoring capability is available), and while no one tries to track each jetliner using sufficient resources to never lose sight of it, there's good reason to think that we would be keeping track, as best we can with the resources we have available, any NK asset that presented a potential nuclear threat.
That said, even if we're on them at any one point, it doesn't mean we can't lose track of them, either. Even a hardware failure of a tracking resource could put this kind of thing into play where one might ordinarily assume it wasn't. This stuff is devilishly complex. Lots of ways for tracking to fail.
Or a dollhouse was added to their shopping cart and was not noticed in their next order
And again, this would be the parents fault. Not Amazon's. You press "order" without knowing WTF in is in your shopping cart -- it's right there in front of your face -- you're an idiot.
I'm sure our boomer and attack sub commanders would be appalled to know they are so easily found. You should let them know ASAP./s
Or to put it another way, you have no idea what you're talking about, and should probably stop talking in order to prevent further illumination of this fact.
Your (completely uncalled for) optimism about NK's 70 or so subs is noted.
Brown water... I would only point out that in WWII, the Japanese managed to build subs that could reach the US coast. Assuming some NK hardware is not at least as capable is absurd.
Assuming a sub can't get out from under surveillance may also be uncalled for. Hard to say without going into classified details. In any case, the fact that they have the hardware that can deliver the weapons means that they present a credible threat, whether we can stop them from doing so or not.
And Trump... well, I am not filled with confidence that Trump is a "thoughtful" person either.
North Korea is a credible threat because they have SLBM's (Submarine-Launched-Ballistic-Missiles.) They can get very close - they don't need the kind of range an ICMB design provides.
That, and their glorious leader regularly displays both extreme aggression and extremely small-minded decision-making.
Ultraviolet is at the opposite end of the spectrum from infrared, a low frequency as opposed to a higher frequency.
Sunglasses block UV at typically encountered energy levels because it is much more dangerous to your eyes; IR at typically encountered energies is not, and so they typically do not block IR, as there's been no need.
That is not to say that some enterprising operation could make them block IR as well. At that point, the car would probably refuse to self-drive at all, though. Of course, you could paint on "eyes" using IR-visible, non-vision blocking paint...
Anyway... a self-drive feature that won't self drive if you are doing anything but going through the exact motions of driving strikes me as almost completely useless. It is probably only a stopgap stage on the way to a more competent driving system.
Somebody's full of crap. In order to complete an order this way, after getting the Echo to understand what you want and confirming it verbally, you still need the 4-digit confirmation PIN number. That's a 1-in-10000 chance of getting right. If the parents let the kid hear the PIN number, that's on them. Not Amazon.
It's just the news media trolling you, hyperventilating about a non-problem. Again. Still. As they will continue to do tomorrow, because you let them.
You're missing the point. If Burger King legitimizes triggering digital assistants, then everybody can do it.
No, this is a good thing. The security hole is, and has always been, that the devices only recognize selected trigger words. This hole is due to poor design choices of the manufacturers, and they must step up to the plate to fix it or become liable for any and all consequences.
My GPS in my car has a 100% programmable verbal trigger (I have used "yo, bitch" in the past... so as you can see, quite programmable) and it is almost a decade old. So there's zero question it can be done.
The message is flat on the table now: Amazon, Google, Mycroft... everyone has to set up user-programmable trigger words as part of the install of the device / app. Otherwise this kind of thing, including truly hostile events, will be a regular consumer experience, and the manufacturers will be complicit.
No manufacturer can argue they were ignorant of the risk now. Entirely a good thing. I look forward to them repairing this obvious malfeature.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s DJs would talk over the instrumental intro anyway, do what was the point of having the intro?
More to the point, what's the point of having a DJ?
They rarely tell you what you were listening to, and certainly at this point in time, they play from such a restricted and pre-selected shortlist that there's no point in listening unless you want to be drowned in endlessly repetitive inflictions of carefully selected pop stars, and yes, they talk right over the music. You did that in my house, you'd find yourself outside the door, coat in hand.
Streaming killed music radio in my home. Or to look at it another way, corporate erosion of radio stations killed it. Or both, I suppose.
I remember the WNEW/FM (NYC) glory days very well, when progrock was the general theme and the DJs actually knew what they were doing, and kept you informed about it. Those days are gone and WNEW is now a typical repetitive shithole. But now my car stereo connects to my phone, which contains many gigabytes of actual quality music, and I can cruise from one coast to another without a repeat or having rap / etc. inflicted on me. Or driving out of range.
So music radio... it's dead, but so what. At this point, it's like mourning tape cassettes.
[whitespace] is nowhere near as much of a problem as [Python's] ducktyping.
Of course this requires effort from the programmer, but if you think someone (including you, of course) may at some point call your code with a type you can't handle, you can check for the type and react accordingly.
Personally, I don't find it to be a problem. But that's just me.
This. The moment you involve investors / angels, you lose control. And if it's software you're actually interested in, rather than shifting money around, you don't want to lose control.
OTOH, if it is money you're interested in, then the mechanism is get a lot of money rolling, shuffle some off in your direction, and hand over control ASAP.
I don't see it that way. Look at the hits GIMP takes. Look at the hits Python and Perl take. I'm not talking about technical objections; I'm talking about just general hits.
There is some basis for some of the technical hits - for instance, Perl legitimately takes some flack for opposed opinions on its typical readability, and Python legitimately takes some flack for opposed opinions on whitespace. But both take hits as if using them would be the freaking end of the world, and it tends to be way over the top. GIMP is an awesome bit of software. The anti-GIMP diatribes are amazing to read. Etc.
I really do think that people just like to find something they think they have an adequate excuse to kick, and then spend lots and lots of time kicking. It's some kind of perverse instance of self-validation or something.
f the facts presented in the story are true, I do not need someone else to tell me if the conclusions the author reaches are true or not.
You may not. Others clearly do. The evidence is incontrovertible: Tens of millions of votes for an idiot because the voters were unable to draw the correct conclusions from the available facts. Well, that, and playing hermit in echo chambers of idiocy such as Fox "News", Drudge and so forth so they didn't have facts in the first place.
Politifact is trying to do a right thing in an environment where both the liberal and conservative "sides" spend more time spinning than they do trying to actually understand and/or explain the issues at hand.
You know what a "pants on fire" rating from Politifact does for me? Makes me realize that the conclusions being drawn are clearly polar opposites, and that it will likely be worth my time to look carefully at the issue. I find that useful, without being an immediate deciding vote on "true" or "false."
Both sides engage in crazy spin. Sometimes what sounds crazy is still true, though. Digging is required.
Remember how Hitlery had the election in the bag! Trump had no way of winning.
She did; he didn't. She won the vote. Handily. The majority voted for Clinton. Even after Comey got in there and spewed his bullshit all over the news. Even after it got out that she had the questions to be asked in one of the debates. Even after all the absurd agitprop from Fox "News." She still beat Trump by millions of votes.
Furthermore, Trump only achieved the presidency on a technical basis which was created by a bunch of red-state electors acting well outside their intended charter, which was explicitly to protect the country from an unqualified person reaching the seat of the presidency.
If it makes you happy to pretend that Trump "won" in any sense that is meaningful, by all means, carry on. But the majority knows differently. Because we didn't vote for your narcissistic, misogynist, xenophobic, sexist, rude, compulsive, racist, poorly spoken, selfish, scientifically illiterate, and frankly, not too bright pussy-grabber.
They do. Money. They've turned this stuff into regular and substantial paychecks. Largest military budget in the world, larger than the next several countries combined. So what's on the agenda? Increasing military spending, that's what.
What a waste.
The military-industrial complex completely disagrees with you. And they run the show, because we keep re-electing those willing to be their puppets.
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I do. Every time. If you don't, that's on you. Not on Amazon.
They're probably thinking of things like near-field synthetic aperture sonar. You can get images as clear as this, which gives the impression that water is no obstacle. Distance, however, changes what one can do, and there's quite a difference between passive monitoring and active monitoring as well.
I'm aware. I write signal processing software for the signals that drive spectrum / waterfalls. Some people would be quite surprised as to what can be done with only a hint of data.
Again, no details can be laid out here, but some tracking is definitely possible. My point was that losing track is also possible, so yes, we agree.
Well, it's not quite that cut and dry; subs move, make noise, wakes, create magnetic anomalies in motion (and image subtraction can trivially find one of those consequent to continuous MA observation of any area where the sub is, assuming the monitoring capability is available), and while no one tries to track each jetliner using sufficient resources to never lose sight of it, there's good reason to think that we would be keeping track, as best we can with the resources we have available, any NK asset that presented a potential nuclear threat.
That said, even if we're on them at any one point, it doesn't mean we can't lose track of them, either. Even a hardware failure of a tracking resource could put this kind of thing into play where one might ordinarily assume it wasn't. This stuff is devilishly complex. Lots of ways for tracking to fail.
And again, this would be the parents fault. Not Amazon's. You press "order" without knowing WTF in is in your shopping cart -- it's right there in front of your face -- you're an idiot.
Even is this is precisely accurate, all it does is confirm that they are a factor that needs to be neutralized, given Kim Jong Un's threats.
And if it is not accurate... same.
I'm sure our boomer and attack sub commanders would be appalled to know they are so easily found. You should let them know ASAP. /s
Or to put it another way, you have no idea what you're talking about, and should probably stop talking in order to prevent further illumination of this fact.
Your (completely uncalled for) optimism about NK's 70 or so subs is noted.
Brown water... I would only point out that in WWII, the Japanese managed to build subs that could reach the US coast. Assuming some NK hardware is not at least as capable is absurd.
Assuming a sub can't get out from under surveillance may also be uncalled for. Hard to say without going into classified details. In any case, the fact that they have the hardware that can deliver the weapons means that they present a credible threat, whether we can stop them from doing so or not.
And Trump... well, I am not filled with confidence that Trump is a "thoughtful" person either.
Yes, the irony hasn't escaped me, sigh.
North Korea is a credible threat because they have SLBM's (Submarine-Launched-Ballistic-Missiles.) They can get very close - they don't need the kind of range an ICMB design provides.
That, and their glorious leader regularly displays both extreme aggression and extremely small-minded decision-making.
Ultraviolet is at the opposite end of the spectrum from infrared, a low frequency as opposed to a higher frequency.
Sunglasses block UV at typically encountered energy levels because it is much more dangerous to your eyes; IR at typically encountered energies is not, and so they typically do not block IR, as there's been no need.
That is not to say that some enterprising operation could make them block IR as well. At that point, the car would probably refuse to self-drive at all, though. Of course, you could paint on "eyes" using IR-visible, non-vision blocking paint...
Anyway... a self-drive feature that won't self drive if you are doing anything but going through the exact motions of driving strikes me as almost completely useless. It is probably only a stopgap stage on the way to a more competent driving system.
Somebody's full of crap. In order to complete an order this way, after getting the Echo to understand what you want and confirming it verbally, you still need the 4-digit confirmation PIN number. That's a 1-in-10000 chance of getting right. If the parents let the kid hear the PIN number, that's on them. Not Amazon.
It's just the news media trolling you, hyperventilating about a non-problem. Again. Still. As they will continue to do tomorrow, because you let them.
No, this is a good thing. The security hole is, and has always been, that the devices only recognize selected trigger words. This hole is due to poor design choices of the manufacturers, and they must step up to the plate to fix it or become liable for any and all consequences.
My GPS in my car has a 100% programmable verbal trigger (I have used "yo, bitch" in the past... so as you can see, quite programmable) and it is almost a decade old. So there's zero question it can be done.
The message is flat on the table now: Amazon, Google, Mycroft... everyone has to set up user-programmable trigger words as part of the install of the device / app. Otherwise this kind of thing, including truly hostile events, will be a regular consumer experience, and the manufacturers will be complicit.
No manufacturer can argue they were ignorant of the risk now. Entirely a good thing. I look forward to them repairing this obvious malfeature.
More to the point, what's the point of having a DJ?
They rarely tell you what you were listening to, and certainly at this point in time, they play from such a restricted and pre-selected shortlist that there's no point in listening unless you want to be drowned in endlessly repetitive inflictions of carefully selected pop stars, and yes, they talk right over the music. You did that in my house, you'd find yourself outside the door, coat in hand.
Streaming killed music radio in my home. Or to look at it another way, corporate erosion of radio stations killed it. Or both, I suppose.
I remember the WNEW/FM (NYC) glory days very well, when progrock was the general theme and the DJs actually knew what they were doing, and kept you informed about it. Those days are gone and WNEW is now a typical repetitive shithole. But now my car stereo connects to my phone, which contains many gigabytes of actual quality music, and I can cruise from one coast to another without a repeat or having rap / etc. inflicted on me. Or driving out of range.
So music radio... it's dead, but so what. At this point, it's like mourning tape cassettes.
Then you're doing it wrong -- rote programming is not a good thing.
Of course this requires effort from the programmer, but if you think someone (including you, of course) may at some point call your code with a type you can't handle, you can check for the type and react accordingly.
Personally, I don't find it to be a problem. But that's just me.
This. The moment you involve investors / angels, you lose control. And if it's software you're actually interested in, rather than shifting money around, you don't want to lose control.
OTOH, if it is money you're interested in, then the mechanism is get a lot of money rolling, shuffle some off in your direction, and hand over control ASAP.
I don't see it that way. Look at the hits GIMP takes. Look at the hits Python and Perl take. I'm not talking about technical objections; I'm talking about just general hits.
There is some basis for some of the technical hits - for instance, Perl legitimately takes some flack for opposed opinions on its typical readability, and Python legitimately takes some flack for opposed opinions on whitespace. But both take hits as if using them would be the freaking end of the world, and it tends to be way over the top. GIMP is an awesome bit of software. The anti-GIMP diatribes are amazing to read. Etc.
I really do think that people just like to find something they think they have an adequate excuse to kick, and then spend lots and lots of time kicking. It's some kind of perverse instance of self-validation or something.
I see the mods are as dull as ever... that was quite funny. :)
Interesting it took him this long to figure out that its common human nature to find a scapegoat and kick it endlessly.
Clinton received more votes than Trump. About 3 million or so. The obvious, relevant point I was making.
So, you suffer a severe deficit in reading comprehension. Interesting.
You may not. Others clearly do. The evidence is incontrovertible: Tens of millions of votes for an idiot because the voters were unable to draw the correct conclusions from the available facts. Well, that, and playing hermit in echo chambers of idiocy such as Fox "News", Drudge and so forth so they didn't have facts in the first place.
Politifact is trying to do a right thing in an environment where both the liberal and conservative "sides" spend more time spinning than they do trying to actually understand and/or explain the issues at hand.
You know what a "pants on fire" rating from Politifact does for me? Makes me realize that the conclusions being drawn are clearly polar opposites, and that it will likely be worth my time to look carefully at the issue. I find that useful, without being an immediate deciding vote on "true" or "false."
Both sides engage in crazy spin. Sometimes what sounds crazy is still true, though. Digging is required.
She did; he didn't. She won the vote. Handily. The majority voted for Clinton. Even after Comey got in there and spewed his bullshit all over the news. Even after it got out that she had the questions to be asked in one of the debates. Even after all the absurd agitprop from Fox "News." She still beat Trump by millions of votes.
Furthermore, Trump only achieved the presidency on a technical basis which was created by a bunch of red-state electors acting well outside their intended charter, which was explicitly to protect the country from an unqualified person reaching the seat of the presidency.
If it makes you happy to pretend that Trump "won" in any sense that is meaningful, by all means, carry on. But the majority knows differently. Because we didn't vote for your narcissistic, misogynist, xenophobic, sexist, rude, compulsive, racist, poorly spoken, selfish, scientifically illiterate, and frankly, not too bright pussy-grabber.
Money is the point. You are not the point.
They do. Money. They've turned this stuff into regular and substantial paychecks. Largest military budget in the world, larger than the next several countries combined. So what's on the agenda? Increasing military spending, that's what.
The military-industrial complex completely disagrees with you. And they run the show, because we keep re-electing those willing to be their puppets.
Welcome to the machine. What are you going to do about it? What do you think you can do about it?