Don't rule out the Grand-Duchy of Transylvania, either. Duke Vlad the Impaler has no citizens left to do any spying for him. Although wait - his castle is full of bats. Now what with their echolocation capabilities when they fly over neighbouring Romania....
European online editions of newspapers have it all over their title pages. Scores of EU politicians and servants indignated. I suddenly wonder if, ironically, this could be one of the many little pushes the EU needs to attain more internal unity. Sad it should be brought along by the discovery of a new intimate foe... But then again, the sun has been going down over the US for some time already now.
I was in a NATO Navy for some years, and have seen more than one scenario like this one unfold. Although there definitely may be some individuals clinging on to a lifeboat for dear life, I would consider the Nina lost. Not implausible for such racing yacht in the roughness of the Tasman Sea in ( local ) winter. Reports mentioned rough seas of up to 8 meters. I guess in the front(s) the Nina has had to endure, gusts could have easily gone over 80 knots. Under such conditions, a racing yacht as low on the water as the Nina can go down in a matter of minutes... The Aussies and especially the Kiwi CG are doing all they can, but the Tasman Sea measures about 2,380,000 square miles... At this point, anything less than a miracle is to be ruled out, and any miracle highly unlikely. Rest to their souls.
I just watched the video ( too bad I can't understand the Japanese ). Utterly cool. I already find myself thinking about how the next generation could look like, and what capabilities it would have the current generation has not ( yet ). One thing, though, puzzles me: what about using a material different than plastic ? If these robots are to ever go on a space walk or do work in hard vacuum, their plastic parts are going to be broken down quite rapidly by cosmic radiation, most of all, however, by UV radiation from the Sun. Titanium an option ?
Regarding your last question: I recently went to quite a lot of interviews ( and just landed a great new job, so it was worth all the hassle and bullshit ). I was formerly in a ( non-US ) Navy, and I can tell you from recent experience: be low-key about it . Don't rub it away, but... your military background is not, most probably, what a company is going to hire you for. Insisting upon it is the worst option, as you will be looked ( and frowned ) upon as one who lives in the past. As soon as you are hired and start working, you'll see: the importance of military background fades to near-nothingness, as you and your new colleagues will have enough problems to deal with on a day-to-day basis. Godspeed !
Agreed. You, however, would need to post differently than as "coward" and "anonymous" for me to be willing to engage into any close-to-serious discussion, Sir.
SSB radio already allows this: encrypted telex over short-wave is an originally military means of communication, which - for a few thousand dollars - is also with an amateur's and civilian's reach. With a 1 kW-antenna, your range is more than half the globe, under good conditions ( which last for about 6 hrs / day ).
It seems the paper can be understood with undergraduate mathematics. The 3 authors' argumentation seems quite clear, and their proof rather convincing. One wonders, now and at this point, whether a lab experiment could be set up to falsify the whole thing... If not, Heisenberg stands proven true. Of the impact upon quantum cryptography I am not so sure, however, supposing that it takes "some quite advanced mathematics" ( as Wolfram once said about cyclotomic fields ) to tackle that issue.
So, we’ve constructed the patent system: people have a 17 year exclusive right to such public goods. That is, we’ve made them excludable by law
I am not necessarily of the "school that believes that patent protection is always bad". I am of the school that believes that patent protection is, sometimes, a necessary evil, and bad at all other times.
You, Sir, posted one of the finest and most readable comments on Slashdot since the time I signed up, which is quite a while. Congrats. May I turn into an older geek much in the same way as you did.
Tabarrok seems to tacitly assume that innovation can be regulated via legislation. It seems to me that this non-proven, basic assumption has been proven wrong more than once, e.g. during the few years preceding the internet bubble of the '90s. The tip of the curve, then and there, lay completely to the left. ( Where IMHO it should be, but I am trying to separate facts from discussion from personal opinion here. )
1) Submitter is the one who wrote the blog post
2) No cross-reference, no references, no differing opinions at all
3) "severely limiting the whole point of running free software" is more than a bit of an exaggeration
In case you are a developer, you could help me with an idea I recently had for exactly this kind of app(lication). Based on Apache ZooKeeper. Drop me a line ( you, or anyone else ) if you're interested. I don't care to give the idea away for free; the important thing is that such an app(lication) actually comes to life.
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Don't rule out the Grand-Duchy of Transylvania, either. Duke Vlad the Impaler has no citizens left to do any spying for him. Although wait - his castle is full of bats. Now what with their echolocation capabilities when they fly over neighbouring Romania....
European online editions of newspapers have it all over their title pages. Scores of EU politicians and servants indignated. I suddenly wonder if, ironically, this could be one of the many little pushes the EU needs to attain more internal unity. Sad it should be brought along by the discovery of a new intimate foe... But then again, the sun has been going down over the US for some time already now.
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I was in a NATO Navy for some years, and have seen more than one scenario like this one unfold. Although there definitely may be some individuals clinging on to a lifeboat for dear life, I would consider the Nina lost. Not implausible for such racing yacht in the roughness of the Tasman Sea in ( local ) winter. Reports mentioned rough seas of up to 8 meters. I guess in the front(s) the Nina has had to endure, gusts could have easily gone over 80 knots. Under such conditions, a racing yacht as low on the water as the Nina can go down in a matter of minutes... The Aussies and especially the Kiwi CG are doing all they can, but the Tasman Sea measures about 2,380,000 square miles... At this point, anything less than a miracle is to be ruled out, and any miracle highly unlikely. Rest to their souls.
I do not "fear" the cloud. I do hate, however, the hype, with stratospheric hate.
I just watched the video ( too bad I can't understand the Japanese ). Utterly cool. I already find myself thinking about how the next generation could look like, and what capabilities it would have the current generation has not ( yet ). One thing, though, puzzles me: what about using a material different than plastic ? If these robots are to ever go on a space walk or do work in hard vacuum, their plastic parts are going to be broken down quite rapidly by cosmic radiation, most of all, however, by UV radiation from the Sun. Titanium an option ?
Regarding your last question: I recently went to quite a lot of interviews ( and just landed a great new job, so it was worth all the hassle and bullshit ). I was formerly in a ( non-US ) Navy, and I can tell you from recent experience: be low-key about it . Don't rub it away, but ... your military background is not, most probably, what a company is going to hire you for. Insisting upon it is the worst option, as you will be looked ( and frowned ) upon as one who lives in the past. As soon as you are hired and start working, you'll see: the importance of military background fades to near-nothingness, as you and your new colleagues will have enough problems to deal with on a day-to-day basis. Godspeed !
Stallman is right, in sofar that any sensible engineer should never have had his works, artefacts, algorithms and data "in" the cloud. Period.
That is what we, in Dutch, call the summer time when cucumbers are everywhere in the supermarkets, and news is scant....
Result: my account is worth a staggering $ 0.60 to potential thieves ;-)
This is obviously true in the US. Any idea how this is regulated, if at all, in countries of the European Union ?
Agreed. You, however, would need to post differently than as "coward" and "anonymous" for me to be willing to engage into any close-to-serious discussion, Sir.
SSB radio already allows this: encrypted telex over short-wave is an originally military means of communication, which - for a few thousand dollars - is also with an amateur's and civilian's reach. With a 1 kW-antenna, your range is more than half the globe, under good conditions ( which last for about 6 hrs / day ).
It seems the paper can be understood with undergraduate mathematics. The 3 authors' argumentation seems quite clear, and their proof rather convincing. One wonders, now and at this point, whether a lab experiment could be set up to falsify the whole thing... If not, Heisenberg stands proven true. Of the impact upon quantum cryptography I am not so sure, however, supposing that it takes "some quite advanced mathematics" ( as Wolfram once said about cyclotomic fields ) to tackle that issue.
Edward Snowden has a scientific education, and ( still ) did what he did. 'Nuff said.
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Where in the world do you get that idea from?
From TFA, as in these lines:
So, we’ve constructed the patent system: people have a 17 year exclusive right to such public goods. That is, we’ve made them excludable by law
I am not necessarily of the "school that believes that patent protection is always bad". I am of the school that believes that patent protection is, sometimes, a necessary evil, and bad at all other times.
You, Sir, posted one of the finest and most readable comments on Slashdot since the time I signed up, which is quite a while. Congrats. May I turn into an older geek much in the same way as you did.
Tabarrok seems to tacitly assume that innovation can be regulated via legislation. It seems to me that this non-proven, basic assumption has been proven wrong more than once, e.g. during the few years preceding the internet bubble of the '90s. The tip of the curve, then and there, lay completely to the left. ( Where IMHO it should be, but I am trying to separate facts from discussion from personal opinion here. )
Get a life, drama queen.
1) Submitter is the one who wrote the blog post 2) No cross-reference, no references, no differing opinions at all 3) "severely limiting the whole point of running free software" is more than a bit of an exaggeration
What is the difference between a sysadmin and a terrorist ? With terrorists one can negotiate...
the judge classifies you !
It is not the lack of morality in the powerful that should concern us, but rather the fact that lack of morality so often leads to power.
In case you are a developer, you could help me with an idea I recently had for exactly this kind of app(lication). Based on Apache ZooKeeper. Drop me a line ( you, or anyone else ) if you're interested. I don't care to give the idea away for free; the important thing is that such an app(lication) actually comes to life.