Trade and donations into the region provide money for the production of weapons on both sides. As you say they could always throw rocks.
Maybe the problem would go away if countries in the region separated church and state, while guaranteeing freedom of religion. That way it wouldn't really matter where the borders are drawn.
Well its in the politics section and the subject is the leaking of information.
Though personally I am more interested in who leaked the leak and why. Who benefits from this? It doesn't sound like the Palestinians would have done it. They don't benefit.
Better answer is to nuke Jerusalem so that no one can go there for 2 or 300 hundred years. To be equal opportunity atheist take out Vatican city, and Mecca too.
Salt Lake City, Tel Aviv, Riyad, cripes, where do you stop?
No I am an Australian. I reckon isolating the region so no foreign military aid can get in would help cool things off. If you don't subsidise extremists the moderates may get more mind share.
Not that this is going to happen in our universe. Foreigners will continue to use the region as a battleground.
But the tricky part of the machine vision problem seems to be the sensor design. Doing this with straightforward machine vision doesn't seem hard either. The background is static and the stick is moving. Plenty of industrial systems use vision to work out which direction a stick is pointing.
I don't think this capability is new. There is a fairly old video of a robotic pogo stick bouncing around a lab somewhere. That must be more difficult to build. The descent engine of the Apollo LM used vectored thrust to damp out power used by the attitude control thrusters. I doubt there was much computing power behind it but it balanced the entire LM on top of one engine all the way to the surface. That was using mid-1960s technology.
Sydney airport is pretty much right in the middle of the city. Thats great for access into the city but not so good for livability. Melbourne airport BTW was built with the problem you describe in mind. It has large exclusion zones beyond the end of each runway where houses can't be built.
Say we had a way of sending people to Betelgeuse at the speed of light. Those people would experience no time during transit. If they departed in the year 2100 they would arrive at Betelgeuse in the year 2100. There is a different frame of reference which says they arrive in 2700, but that frame of reference is useless for anything other than discussion.
I once read a popularization if relativity which was written by Albert Einstein. He gave a similar example but I will cast in into my example:
When the vehicle reaches Betelgeuse it will still be the year 2100 because 2700 hasn't arrived there yet
So because the speed of light is an absolute limit even time must travel at that speed.
Yeah a counter attack only makes sense if you can stop future attacks. A legal attack may put the guy in jail. But DOSing his home PC isn't going to accomplish anything for you so its a waste of effort.
The questions you raise are valid. We don't know how long it takes a photon to get here from Betelgeuse down to the nearest second. For stars which are fairly close astronomers can use parallax to get a precise distance. They do that by measuring the position of the star in the sky six months apart with the orbit of the Earth around the run providing a baseline. I don't know if they can do that for Betelgeuse. It might be a bit too far away. Beyond that they rely on measuring the brightness and spectrum of a star to estimate distance.
So its not going to be 600.00000000000000 light years away but by one POV that really isn't important. Relativity says that the photon coming from Betelgeuse experiences no time when it travels those 600 light years. So the travel time is zero. If we see the star explode in 2020 then it would have exploded in 2020.
'If you are reading this, our web team would like to say that your talents are formidable. We would like to offer you a job — were it not for the fact that your morals are clearly not compatible with ours or our customers.'
Oh for fucks sake. Security isn't a battle against good or evil. The genius attackers are most likely using a simple exploit. An open mysql port or a conveniently informative log file. Fix your shopping cart you morons.
Saw this in a science museum once. The setup you describe powering a CRT television. The TV needed 500 watts and I could just barely get it running. Electric bicycles in my state are limited to 200W by the way but they don't have to drag banks of photovoltaic cells around with them.
On desktop machines users demand windows. Probably a lot of the time hardware compatibility is the reason. If you buy a device you get a driver and utility disk with it. That software won't help the average user with Linux.
I wish someone could explain to me why they don't just skip the grifting of the Microsoft products, if what Balmer said is true, and use one of the Linux distributions along with the available software.
They use windows because it is free (as in beer) and there are plenty of people who understand how to use it.
My mother can get 3G broadband for 12 AUD per month. Thats the same as USD at the moment and its in a country with low load factors and expensive infrastructure.
True story: my wife and I spent a night in a cheap hotel in Canberra some years ago because she had to get her passport renewed. The reception desk had a sign which said:
Due to problems with recent groups we do not accept bookings from residents of Canberra.
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I'm guessing you are a fellow American.
No I am an Australian.
Meaning you come from one of two Anglophone nations with a shorter history than ours. What was your point again?
Depending on how you read it our history could be the longest in the world.
Sydney airport was on the outskirts of the city when it opened in the 1920s. Sydney is *much* larger these days (around 10 times the population).
The way it is going Sydney should expand Canberra airport and build a really fast rail line to the ACT.
I didn't claim that my idea was practical...
Trade and donations into the region provide money for the production of weapons on both sides. As you say they could always throw rocks.
Maybe the problem would go away if countries in the region separated church and state, while guaranteeing freedom of religion. That way it wouldn't really matter where the borders are drawn.
Not that I expect that to happen either.
Well its in the politics section and the subject is the leaking of information.
Though personally I am more interested in who leaked the leak and why. Who benefits from this? It doesn't sound like the Palestinians would have done it. They don't benefit.
Better answer is to nuke Jerusalem so that no one can go there for 2 or 300 hundred years. To be equal opportunity atheist take out Vatican city, and Mecca too.
Salt Lake City, Tel Aviv, Riyad, cripes, where do you stop?
I'm guessing you are a fellow American.
No I am an Australian. I reckon isolating the region so no foreign military aid can get in would help cool things off. If you don't subsidise extremists the moderates may get more mind share.
Not that this is going to happen in our universe. Foreigners will continue to use the region as a battleground.
I thought maybe isolate both sides for 100 years or so. Give them time to cool off. Of course that is never going to happen.
But the tricky part of the machine vision problem seems to be the sensor design. Doing this with straightforward machine vision doesn't seem hard either. The background is static and the stick is moving. Plenty of industrial systems use vision to work out which direction a stick is pointing.
I don't think this capability is new. There is a fairly old video of a robotic pogo stick bouncing around a lab somewhere. That must be more difficult to build. The descent engine of the Apollo LM used vectored thrust to damp out power used by the attitude control thrusters. I doubt there was much computing power behind it but it balanced the entire LM on top of one engine all the way to the surface. That was using mid-1960s technology.
It never seems to be able to damp down the movement. It should be able to reduce amplitude to less then a centimetre or so.
Sydney airport is pretty much right in the middle of the city. Thats great for access into the city but not so good for livability. Melbourne airport BTW was built with the problem you describe in mind. It has large exclusion zones beyond the end of each runway where houses can't be built.
Say we had a way of sending people to Betelgeuse at the speed of light. Those people would experience no time during transit. If they departed in the year 2100 they would arrive at Betelgeuse in the year 2100. There is a different frame of reference which says they arrive in 2700, but that frame of reference is useless for anything other than discussion.
I once read a popularization if relativity which was written by Albert Einstein. He gave a similar example but I will cast in into my example:
When the vehicle reaches Betelgeuse it will still be the year 2100 because 2700 hasn't arrived there yet
So because the speed of light is an absolute limit even time must travel at that speed.
I will buy the entire population a round of drinks at the only pub in Greenland, called, you guess it, The Icicle Melts.
I thought it was called Eskimoes.
Yeah a counter attack only makes sense if you can stop future attacks. A legal attack may put the guy in jail. But DOSing his home PC isn't going to accomplish anything for you so its a waste of effort.
The questions you raise are valid. We don't know how long it takes a photon to get here from Betelgeuse down to the nearest second. For stars which are fairly close astronomers can use parallax to get a precise distance. They do that by measuring the position of the star in the sky six months apart with the orbit of the Earth around the run providing a baseline. I don't know if they can do that for Betelgeuse. It might be a bit too far away. Beyond that they rely on measuring the brightness and spectrum of a star to estimate distance.
So its not going to be 600.00000000000000 light years away but by one POV that really isn't important. Relativity says that the photon coming from Betelgeuse experiences no time when it travels those 600 light years. So the travel time is zero. If we see the star explode in 2020 then it would have exploded in 2020.
'If you are reading this, our web team would like to say that your talents are formidable. We would like to offer you a job — were it not for the fact that your morals are clearly not compatible with ours or our customers.'
Oh for fucks sake. Security isn't a battle against good or evil. The genius attackers are most likely using a simple exploit. An open mysql port or a conveniently informative log file. Fix your shopping cart you morons.
Saw this in a science museum once. The setup you describe powering a CRT television. The TV needed 500 watts and I could just barely get it running. Electric bicycles in my state are limited to 200W by the way but they don't have to drag banks of photovoltaic cells around with them.
They must have done one run going north and another going south. The real trick is sticking to the underside of the planet while in motion.
Thats not open source. They have the code so they can verify its behaviour. They can't pass it on to normal users or put it on the internet.
On desktop machines users demand windows. Probably a lot of the time hardware compatibility is the reason. If you buy a device you get a driver and utility disk with it. That software won't help the average user with Linux.
I wish someone could explain to me why they don't just skip the grifting of the Microsoft products, if what Balmer said is true, and use one of the Linux distributions along with the available software.
They use windows because it is free (as in beer) and there are plenty of people who understand how to use it.
My mother can get 3G broadband for 12 AUD per month. Thats the same as USD at the moment and its in a country with low load factors and expensive infrastructure.
True story: my wife and I spent a night in a cheap hotel in Canberra some years ago because she had to get her passport renewed. The reception desk had a sign which said:
Due to problems with recent groups we do not accept bookings from residents of Canberra.
It must be the boredom.
Reddit drew the line under that meme.