I worked in a water testing lab many years ago. This lead is almost certainly coming from lead pipes and solder because the pH of the water is too low. Raising the pH to 7.5-8.5 would minimise plumbosolvency and combining that with phosphate dosing would practically eliminate it.
I'm only a private pilot but you also need to take into account temperature, air pressure (QNH), headwind component, the amount of runway you have to work with as well as weight to calculate takeoff performance.
Even if they didn't shut down GPS in a conflict it's ridiculously easy to jam by the enemy and highly susceptible to EM disturbance if nukes are involved.
I recall that Japan has a >99% conviction rate, which is pretty unhealthy for a democracy and is comparable to many totalitarian regimes. This probably means that for Karpeles his conviction will be a formality and it's just a question of how many years he's going to get.
> 2) fuel consumption: at supersonic speeds, they suck gas like it's going out of style.
Not as much as you'd think, the Concorde supercruised at Mach 2 without the burners, and in the cruise the Olympus engines were astonishingly efficient even by modern standards.
Take off, climb out, sub-sonic and transonic flight was the real fuel slurper with the Concorde.
I disagree. The problem is that there is there is no LCD monitor that does everything competently. $1500+ professional color-accurate monitors may be good for photoshop but are lousy for anything with moving images.
Want a good LCD for gaming? There are TN panels that will refresh at 144Hz with fast response times. The tradeoff is very poor color reproduction and narrow viewing angles.
An IPS panel will give better colors and viewing angles at the expense of low refresh (few go over 60Hz), and 'IPS glow' is a real problem with them.
Then there is the panel lottery you have to play when you buy them. Many vendors and manufacturers have a threshold for the number of dead/stuck pixels that are deemed acceptable. Backlight bleed and uniformity can vary widely between different monitors of the same make and model.
CRTs had issues with their bulk, limited size and power consumption but LCD have introduced a whole world of new problems.
Perhaps our only hope is more affordable and reliable OLED displays.
I'm using a CRT monitor right now, a 21" IBM P275 with a Trinitron tube. Right now I'm enjoying near perfect color reproduction, blacks that are actually black, zero input lag, no ghosting, nothing that resembles backlight bleed and no stuck/dead pixels. Haven't noticed flyback whine for years but that's probably down to my age. LCD is still inferior to CRT in many ways and you have to wonder what CRTs we would have today if development had continued. LCD has also taken a step backwards recently with the introduction of LED backlights, they make for thinner panels and lower power consumption but uniformity of many recent panels is really poor.
Having said that, my CRT will probably have to go this year, most probably late in the spring when the heat the thing generates is no longer welcome. My desk is also sagging from the weight of it sitting there for nine years.
If Ofcom really want to help ham radio operators they could do more to ban or restrict power network adapters and the multitude of other gadgets that leak QRM all over the airwaves.
Bring back the Radiocommunications Agency. Ofcom is a behemoth that has its fingers in too many pies to be an effective regulator.
In the UK pilots often receive NOTAMs stating that the military are conducting GPS jamming trials in certain areas. From personal experience and reports from other pilots the jamming is very effective.
I was thinking the same, and I'm no expert in cryptography. After all distributed.net have spent 12 years trying to brute-force a 72-bit key and have only managed to test 3% of the total keys. 2^1024 is such a mind-bogglingly large number the entire world's computers couldn't crack it in a billion lifetimes.
Anyway, wiki to the rescue:
As of 2003 RSA Security claims that 1024-bit RSA keys are equivalent in strength to 80-bit symmetric keys, 2048-bit RSA keys to 112-bit symmetric keys and 3072-bit RSA keys to 128-bit symmetric keys. RSA claims that 1024-bit keys are likely to become crackable some time between 2006 and 2010 and that 2048-bit keys are sufficient until 2030. An RSA key length of 3072 bits should be used if security is required beyond 2030.[6] NIST key management guidelines further suggest that 15360-bit RSA keys are equivalent in strength to 256-bit symmetric keys.
It was amazing to see a nearly 80 year old man bouncing around. He is the same age as my Grandmother, yet he had more energy and was more with it than she was at 60.
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I worked in a water testing lab many years ago. This lead is almost certainly coming from lead pipes and solder because the pH of the water is too low. Raising the pH to 7.5-8.5 would minimise plumbosolvency and combining that with phosphate dosing would practically eliminate it.
Oculus Rift requires high end single cards to get adequate performance but for smooth, stutter free VR SLI is a must.
I'm only a private pilot but you also need to take into account temperature, air pressure (QNH), headwind component, the amount of runway you have to work with as well as weight to calculate takeoff performance.
Everyone in space can hear a Disaster Area concert.
Even if they didn't shut down GPS in a conflict it's ridiculously easy to jam by the enemy and highly susceptible to EM disturbance if nukes are involved.
I recall that Japan has a >99% conviction rate, which is pretty unhealthy for a democracy and is comparable to many totalitarian regimes. This probably means that for Karpeles his conviction will be a formality and it's just a question of how many years he's going to get.
Mirrored surfaces on the drone?
> 2) fuel consumption: at supersonic speeds, they suck gas like it's going out of style.
Not as much as you'd think, the Concorde supercruised at Mach 2 without the burners, and in the cruise the Olympus engines were astonishingly efficient even by modern standards.
Take off, climb out, sub-sonic and transonic flight was the real fuel slurper with the Concorde.
Know Your Meme
A few dozen?
2015 and still burning ISOs to DVD? There's no real reason not to boot from a USB stick nowadays.
Glider pilots have been using these for many years, though I'm not sure how they'd hold up against a 500 knot airspeed vs 50kn.
He was the father of Willy Wonka. Everything else he did pales into insignificance.
Do not stare at Ebola patient with remaining eye.
They should designate an island, say Manhatten, build a wall around it and put all the criminals in there. Hey, I've just had an idea for a movie.
For about 10 minutes, yes.
Plastic gears are a bad idea whatever the application but I can't see any surviving 200+ lbft of torque being put through them.
I think these days the big security risk is layer 7.
Nope, that would be layer 8.
I don't think Goatse man would agree.
I disagree. The problem is that there is there is no LCD monitor that does everything competently. $1500+ professional color-accurate monitors may be good for photoshop but are lousy for anything with moving images.
Want a good LCD for gaming? There are TN panels that will refresh at 144Hz with fast response times. The tradeoff is very poor color reproduction and narrow viewing angles.
An IPS panel will give better colors and viewing angles at the expense of low refresh (few go over 60Hz), and 'IPS glow' is a real problem with them.
Then there is the panel lottery you have to play when you buy them. Many vendors and manufacturers have a threshold for the number of dead/stuck pixels that are deemed acceptable. Backlight bleed and uniformity can vary widely between different monitors of the same make and model.
CRTs had issues with their bulk, limited size and power consumption but LCD have introduced a whole world of new problems.
Perhaps our only hope is more affordable and reliable OLED displays.
I'm using a CRT monitor right now, a 21" IBM P275 with a Trinitron tube. Right now I'm enjoying near perfect color reproduction, blacks that are actually black, zero input lag, no ghosting, nothing that resembles backlight bleed and no stuck/dead pixels. Haven't noticed flyback whine for years but that's probably down to my age. LCD is still inferior to CRT in many ways and you have to wonder what CRTs we would have today if development had continued. LCD has also taken a step backwards recently with the introduction of LED backlights, they make for thinner panels and lower power consumption but uniformity of many recent panels is really poor.
Having said that, my CRT will probably have to go this year, most probably late in the spring when the heat the thing generates is no longer welcome. My desk is also sagging from the weight of it sitting there for nine years.
Only if you explain how Hershey's somehow make millions of dollars every year selling products that taste like, to use your colonial vernacular, ass.
If Ofcom really want to help ham radio operators they could do more to ban or restrict power network adapters and the multitude of other gadgets that leak QRM all over the airwaves.
Bring back the Radiocommunications Agency. Ofcom is a behemoth that has its fingers in too many pies to be an effective regulator.
In the UK pilots often receive NOTAMs stating that the military are conducting GPS jamming trials in certain areas. From personal experience and reports from other pilots the jamming is very effective.
I was thinking the same, and I'm no expert in cryptography. After all distributed.net have spent 12 years trying to brute-force a 72-bit key and have only managed to test 3% of the total keys. 2^1024 is such a mind-bogglingly large number the entire world's computers couldn't crack it in a billion lifetimes.
Anyway, wiki to the rescue:
As of 2003 RSA Security claims that 1024-bit RSA keys are equivalent in strength to 80-bit symmetric keys, 2048-bit RSA keys to 112-bit symmetric keys and 3072-bit RSA keys to 128-bit symmetric keys. RSA claims that 1024-bit keys are likely to become crackable some time between 2006 and 2010 and that 2048-bit keys are sufficient until 2030. An RSA key length of 3072 bits should be used if security is required beyond 2030.[6] NIST key management guidelines further suggest that 15360-bit RSA keys are equivalent in strength to 256-bit symmetric keys.
It was amazing to see a nearly 80 year old man bouncing around. He is the same age as my Grandmother, yet he had more energy and was more with it than she was at 60.
I'd love to know his secret.