Before 911 and massive official paranoia, Heathrow worked like this: while your baggage is in the scanner, you go through the detector, get a pat-down if it beeps, and keep going without one if it doesn't.
That was before everyone went crazy. On one flight I was on, everyone went through the detector, and everyone got a pat down. Whether the machine beeped or not made no difference to anything. I still wonder why the machines were powered on.
My dv9000-series laptop with a 8600m GS (that's a G84M core) failed a few months ago, with the screen regularly not showing anything on boot up, or either loosing the screen or getting kernel panics in the nvidia driver after a few minutes running. Clearly a failed GPU. HP UK was very good about it, picking up and returning it by courier (with a new motherboard) within a week of me phoning them. I've heard nothing about extending the warranty, however, which comes to an end in a few days.
Which country are you in, and how did you get the warranty extended?
You assume an asteroid has to hit the surface to do serious damage. .
I might also point that a very large blast is not much of a threat if it is too far above the surface of the earth.
I presume you refer to the blast of a disintegrating asteroid (the nuclear stuff would all happen thousands of kilometres away).
The atmosphere is thin. There is no "far above the surface". Imagine the Tunguska Event occurring over a populated area. The most popular theory has a 15Mt explosion (approximately Hiroshima) happening 5-10 kilometres up, caused by something as small as 50 metres across.
The object responsible for the Cretaceous-Tertiary event, which is everyone's favourite worst-case mass-extinction nasty, was most likely about 10 kilometres across, so (plenty of) city-flattening 50-metre fragments seem pretty believable.
You do not really want to blow the asteroid to bits if you can possibly avoid doing so. I should also point out that many asteroids are not hard enough to embed a missile in, and many will need to be pushed really quite gently if they are not to break up.
So the control column moves the control surfaces by pulling on strings just like a 1920s aircraft?
All large modern aircraft, including civilian airliners, are under a varying amount of computer control. For example, no modern airliner would require that the pilot on a transatlantic flight continually manually adjusts the heading for several hours to compensate for the wind. May aircraft can be landed automatically, and indeed some cannot be landed by the pilots in extremely low-visibility conditions. In many Airbus aircraft, it is not possible to control some aspects of the aircraft manually; for example, in certain aircraft the autothrottle is always on.
The current level of computer control is made safe by very careful testing and by much redundancy. There are usually at least two fallback systems for each component, and these are often designed by different groups to reduce the probability of all failing for the same reason. Wikipedia's article on Fly-by-wire systems is rather interesting.
From the Wiki page:
In 1984, the Airbus A320 was the first airliner with digital fly-by-wire controls.
You're out of date by almost a quarter of a century. Please don't call people "idiot".
We still don't have computers that don't crash frequently, or have various other software problems. ATMs with blue screens are a common occurrence. One computer glitch in a robocar could cause many fatalities.
No, you mean you don't see computers that don't crash frequently, because people prefer cutting-edge to stable, for the machines they actually have to deal with. How the hell do you think air travel works without thousands of fatalities a day?
I built and installed everything from source. Windows apps use an executable installer which works pretty much all the time. Plus, Windows users can uninstall many if not most apps effectively. --- Disclaimer: I don't use Windows.
Since you also apparently stopped using Linux in 2001, what are you running now?
Are you using the fancy desktop effects with closed graphics drivers?
Turn off some or all of the effects and it should be fine. Binary graphics drivers are pretty much all buggy. I know your games are stable, but desktop acceleration is something very different.
The radiation does not penetrate the skin. It would have to be a big, obvious cancer which sticks out of your body, which you'd probably notice every time you shower.
Another student of physics here. You can make pretty much any frequency of radiation you like by moving electrons at that frequency. The difficult part tends to be how to move them about that fast.:-)
Efficient emission and detection of Submillimeter radiation has not been practical for very long, which may be why you haven't heard of it. It's most often refered to as Terahertz Radiation.
If you want stories of people being purposefully mislead, they outright lie about these things in Heathrow airport, London. The signs tell people that the machine uses a "very low dose of x-ray radiation". I was picked for a random security check, and given the choice of the scanner or a manual search. The manual thing sounded kind of scary, so I went for the scanner, in the full knowledge that it involves someone looking at my naked body.
Now, because it sounds a bit frightening and was very new then, they were obviously instructed to reassure people about it, so when I insisted on seeing the images, they let me (they showed me the shot from behind, presumably in the hope i wouldn't realise they'd obviously looked at my cock). It was very obviously a Terrahertz-band scanner, but the staff and all the signs stated it was an x-ray machine, because everyone is used to those.
Guess not everyone is a physics student who knows that X-rays are more dangerous than T-rays! I wouldn't have gone in the machine if I hadn't been totally sure that the ionising radiation was a lie.
And what would you do if you'd never seen a helicopter before? They probably couldn't even see the people inside, but it was huge and making a terrible noise and moving towards their homes. Wouldn't anyone unaccustomed to people moving around in machines assume it was a large, dangerous creature and act to protect their families?
Uh, that's not ethnocentrism. It's just that there are over six billion of "us" (the group who are all in contact with each other), and considerably fewer than six billion of them.
I believe part of the reason for keeping them isolated is that many tribes in similar situations have been effectively wiped out by diseases they lacked exposure and therefore immunity to, such as chicken pox and even common cold.
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"The Good Doctor" more often refers to Hunter S. Thompson (a self-proclaimed Doctor of Journalism).
The star of the long-running TV show is generally known simply as "The Doctor".
Before 911 and massive official paranoia, Heathrow worked like this: while your baggage is in the scanner, you go through the detector, get a pat-down if it beeps, and keep going without one if it doesn't.
That was before everyone went crazy. On one flight I was on, everyone went through the detector, and everyone got a pat down. Whether the machine beeped or not made no difference to anything. I still wonder why the machines were powered on.
You hook yourself up to a coffee drip in the morning?
That is hardcore, dude.
My dv9000-series laptop with a 8600m GS (that's a G84M core) failed a few months ago, with the screen regularly not showing anything on boot up, or either loosing the screen or getting kernel panics in the nvidia driver after a few minutes running. Clearly a failed GPU. HP UK was very good about it, picking up and returning it by courier (with a new motherboard) within a week of me phoning them. I've heard nothing about extending the warranty, however, which comes to an end in a few days.
Which country are you in, and how did you get the warranty extended?
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I presume you refer to the blast of a disintegrating asteroid (the nuclear stuff would all happen thousands of kilometres away).
The atmosphere is thin. There is no "far above the surface". Imagine the Tunguska Event occurring over a populated area. The most popular theory has a 15Mt explosion (approximately Hiroshima) happening 5-10 kilometres up, caused by something as small as 50 metres across.
The object responsible for the Cretaceous-Tertiary event, which is everyone's favourite worst-case mass-extinction nasty, was most likely about 10 kilometres across, so (plenty of) city-flattening 50-metre fragments seem pretty believable.
You do not really want to blow the asteroid to bits if you can possibly avoid doing so. I should also point out that many asteroids are not hard enough to embed a missile in, and many will need to be pushed really quite gently if they are not to break up.
All large modern aircraft, including civilian airliners, are under a varying amount of computer control. For example, no modern airliner would require that the pilot on a transatlantic flight continually manually adjusts the heading for several hours to compensate for the wind. May aircraft can be landed automatically, and indeed some cannot be landed by the pilots in extremely low-visibility conditions. In many Airbus aircraft, it is not possible to control some aspects of the aircraft manually; for example, in certain aircraft the autothrottle is always on.
The current level of computer control is made safe by very careful testing and by much redundancy. There are usually at least two fallback systems for each component, and these are often designed by different groups to reduce the probability of all failing for the same reason. Wikipedia's article on Fly-by-wire systems is rather interesting.
From the Wiki page:
You're out of date by almost a quarter of a century. Please don't call people "idiot".
The on-board computers that actually coordinate the movement of the control surfaces are staffed by tiny air traffic controllers? That is SO AWESOME!
No, you mean you don't see computers that don't crash frequently, because people prefer cutting-edge to stable, for the machines they actually have to deal with. How the hell do you think air travel works without thousands of fatalities a day?
A bit like this pipe cannon then?
Splashtop is based on Linux. Linux is open source.
You DO know what open-source is, right?
Since you also apparently stopped using Linux in 2001, what are you running now?
Are you using the fancy desktop effects with closed graphics drivers?
Turn off some or all of the effects and it should be fine. Binary graphics drivers are pretty much all buggy. I know your games are stable, but desktop acceleration is something very different.
No, the extensions will support Firefox 3. You realise they're written by people who aren't necessarily Mozilla devs, right?
The radiation does not penetrate the skin. It would have to be a big, obvious cancer which sticks out of your body, which you'd probably notice every time you shower.
Another student of physics here. You can make pretty much any frequency of radiation you like by moving electrons at that frequency. The difficult part tends to be how to move them about that fast. :-)
Efficient emission and detection of Submillimeter radiation has not been practical for very long, which may be why you haven't heard of it. It's most often refered to as Terahertz Radiation.
If you want stories of people being purposefully mislead, they outright lie about these things in Heathrow airport, London.
The signs tell people that the machine uses a "very low dose of x-ray radiation". I was picked for a random security check, and given the choice of the scanner or a manual search. The manual thing sounded kind of scary, so I went for the scanner, in the full knowledge that it involves someone looking at my naked body.
Now, because it sounds a bit frightening and was very new then, they were obviously instructed to reassure people about it, so when I insisted on seeing the images, they let me (they showed me the shot from behind, presumably in the hope i wouldn't realise they'd obviously looked at my cock). It was very obviously a Terrahertz-band scanner, but the staff and all the signs stated it was an x-ray machine, because everyone is used to those.
Guess not everyone is a physics student who knows that X-rays are more dangerous than T-rays! I wouldn't have gone in the machine if I hadn't been totally sure that the ionising radiation was a lie.
Once they're in mass production, you'll have to make sure you can trust the security of a whole lot of Taiwanese chip fab firms.
How many hours?
And I am assuming that, since it's a jungle, the tank gets stuck fast.
The BBC/a> has an anthropolgist who has studied similar cultures which have been contacted. The red paint went on sometime between the first and second flights, presumable as a reaction to the copter, and is presumed to be how warriors dress for battle.
What UAV? It was a helicopter.
And what would you do if you'd never seen a helicopter before? They probably couldn't even see the people inside, but it was huge and making a terrible noise and moving towards their homes. Wouldn't anyone unaccustomed to people moving around in machines assume it was a large, dangerous creature and act to protect their families?
Woah... Give them some Internets, and no other contact. See what sort of religion they develop.
Long Cat is long!
Note that in a jungle the spearmen probably actually could win. Tanks are rather large...
Uh, that's not ethnocentrism. It's just that there are over six billion of "us" (the group who are all in contact with each other), and considerably fewer than six billion of them.
I believe part of the reason for keeping them isolated is that many tribes in similar situations have been effectively wiped out by diseases they lacked exposure and therefore immunity to, such as chicken pox and even common cold.
It sounds as if you would only need to compromise and reverse-engineer one TPM, then emulate that one.
Also, monitoring shared objects and so on isn't going to tell you whether your entire system is being virtualised.