Personally, the 1ms number sounds like it was pulled out of somebody's nether regions.
If I play a single 100us pulse through a speaker, you hear it as a click. If I play two pulses, you hear two clicks - until they are about 2ms apart - at less than 2ms the clicks begin to merge and by 1.5ms they are basically indistinguishable from a single click.
Joe Supertwitch the surgeon says he can't frag that lesion perfectly unless he's got less than 1ms lag time, Joe Supertwitch needs to suck it up and learn to deal with the lag, unless he'd rather spend an hour in traffic getting to the surgery center.
I applied for a job at a med device company, while I was in the lobby filling the application a call came over the PA "Tech support, line 2, patient on the table."
Kinda glad I moved further up the chain to design where I don't get those kind of calls.
airplane tickets are cheaper than telerobotic equipment.
Um, no, they're actually not. Airplane tickets _today_ are selling you non-sustainable joyrides on non-renewable fossil fuel. Each trans-oceanic flight burns more fuel than the weight of the passengers and their baggage. Telerobotic equipment is reusable and operated by the transfer of information, not the transfer of bags of meat - information moves much much more cheaply than people do.
Well done, sir - round trip time of 1ms happens at 93.14 miles, or less in slower medium (~60 miles in glass). For example, for visible light the refractive index of glass is typically around 1.5, meaning that light in glass travels at c / 1.5 200000 km/s; the refractive index of air for visible light is about 1.0003, so the speed of light in air is about 299700 km/s (about 90 km/s slower than c). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The first thing these rogue ships do is turn off AIS, so while the technology exists, there's zero ability to enforce the use of AIS.
That's a whole lot simpler than you might think - you don't even need satellite or aerial surveillance (though they would help) - if you get a big ass radar ping with no AIS in that location, it's time for the patrol to go pay a visit and fire a shot across the bow. When they give some BS explanation about equipment malfunction, you confiscate the cargo and escort them from the exclusion zone with a warning the first time, and full fines/penalties for any repeat performances. Big ships without AIS are not welcome in sovereign waters, period. Big fishing vessels that go missing from AIS reporting for long enough to reach exclusion zones are immediately suspect and reason to send a patrol.
So now you have a bunch of ships running around and you have no idea where they are. Maybe the military has some kind of magic satellite technology capable of tracking every surface vessel on the ocean, but I doubt they do and if they did, they're unlikely interested in using their space technology for fishing enforcement.
Even if you can track them via AIS, it still doesn't do much good.
The ships fly flags of convenience -- Liberia, Marshall Islands and Panama account for 40% of the world's fleet by deadweight tonnage, even though almost never are there actually companies based in those countries. The ships are owned by someone else in some other country and often leased out to shipping companies who may in turn lease them out again. And we still haven't gotten to the question of who's actually on board running the damn things, a motley crew of foreign nationals unrelated to the flag the ship flies, its owner or necessarily even its operator.
Which is why jailing the captain and confiscating the vessel are two very attractive options for dealing with non-compliance.
So its entirely possible the *crew* may be up to no good, unbeknownst to the owner, operator or lessee of the ship and certainly unknown to the country the ship is registered to.
By the time you get done doing the forensics, the damn thing is being broken for scrap off the coast of India or just scuttled outright.
Obfuscation of title won't stop the true owner from being truly pissed when his ship stops producing income and loses 100% of its resale value, and a long chain of holding companies just means a long chain of people who are getting hurt when operations cease. Most insurers don't cover losses due to illegal activity. Smaller ships might stay "off the radar" and fish just inside the borders (those areas are basically low-yield and unattractive to small ships anyway), but stopping the big factory ships is about 100x more important than all the little trawlers that might get away with a little poaching.
I totally realize that no one cares enough to actually do something about it.
My point is, the tech is available to accurately track the fishing vessels and do something about it _if the government cared enough to do it_. For the big ships, they wouldn't even have to intercept at sea, they could present evidence and fine the crap out of the offending nation, who could in-turn:
a) pay up (and take the money out of the fishing company that violated the sanctuary)
or
b) tell the "enforcers" to bugger off, in which case the enforcers have a myriad of options, not limited to only:
1) economic sanctions (trade embargo, etc.)
2) direct action against the offending vessel, or vessels owned by the same company, the next time it happens within intercept range of a navy ship, such direct action could include seizure of the vessel, arrest and detention of the captain, crew, etc.
Having declared the sanctuary zone is the first step toward being able to take stronger action - whether or not the current administration has the balls to follow through with effective enforcement is likely: not.
I'm sorry, you are a British opposed-piston valveless, supercharged uniflow scavenged, two-stroke Diesel engine used in marine and locomotive applications? The pressure must be terrible to live with. (deltic)
Basically, you get jurisdiction over whatever you've got the political and military power to back up. 12 miles, 200 miles, whatever - there are plenty of disputed waters around the world. If you've got the guns, and the political will to use them, you can control the water. This includes pirates.
really pisses off the treasure hunters, but if a large fishing vessel were tracked into a reserve, or had its transponder go silent long enough for it to be in a reserve area, that could merit further investigation, fines, imprisonment of the captain, flogging of the crew (in Singapore), etc.
Asshollery has a strong positive correlation to the Y chromosome and testosterone. Not a 1:1 guarantee kind of thing, but statistically significant.
Same thing goes for spatial, mathematical (i.e. STEM) thinking - you don't have to be male to do it easily, but given a random cross section of the world population, more males will show aptitude - and this isn't 100% nurture, nature also factors in.
Doom, gloom, and lack of vision. Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen organic molecules aren't the only way to reverse entropy (aka life). We're close to demonstrating an alternative with silicon, lithium and conductive metals, and there are others - maybe not in this galaxy, but more than likely, yes, somewhere within just a few light years is something living, far stranger than ocean vent communities or other extremophiles that incubated on the same planet as us.
So, 2015 is still not the year of Ubuntu on the desktop.
I'm pretty sure that Shuttleworth didn't intend 200 million users to mean one server at Wal-Mart which somehow supports their cash register and inventory control systems data aggregation.
So, can you package the Raspbian Desktop (sorry, too lazy to look it up) instead of Gnome and actually get decent desktop performance in Ubuntu, or is that a cluster- of an experience?
What I think TSA could do, instead of disappearing entirely, is setup a wide / fast baggage scanning operation that doesn't back up a queue. The ID check is a joke, they could just scan the boarding pass and run facial recognition to get as good or better screening for "known bad guys". The strip down before scanning is theater, degrading, time consuming theater - the only thing that people should need to do is divest themselves of conductive objects (along with their baggage) and walk through.
As for the mall security comparison, the only reason you think that is because you haven't been on the bad side of mall security. Mostly they're told to stay out of the way and avoid annoying people, but once they get their off-duty righteous cop bust vibe working, they're much worse than any TSA I've ever encountered.
At 316K that's roughly 1/1000 population - if you think about what EEs do, you wouldn't expect 25 EEs per 1000 people. One engineer designs something that is replicated at least dozens, if not thousands or millions of times. There's quite a bit of prototype / research work which supports later mass production, but all in all, the EEs make the hardware, and you don't want too much diversity of hardware design, otherwise the software gets to be a mess. And, over the last 20 years, software has been creeping into just about every new EE design out there.
TSA absolutely profiles, they just claim it's not the primary basis for their security. I don't think TSA has much basis for their security.
Still, if you stand up over the TSA queue at a major airport and count the flying public meatbags processed per hour, divided by the TSA worker head count, they're moving quite a few people through per hour per worker, even though the occasional traveler gets detained unreasonably, most are just detained by the queue.
El Al really does take the time to interview every traveler, and they are looking at you, engaging you in actual thoughtful conversation - it's a hell of lot more effective profiling than the tired, bored, yes I looked at your face and the photo on your ID TSA routine. If TSA in the US tried this, people would call it an invasion of privacy, which it is, but I'd really rather suffer that kind of invasion of privacy than the cattle processing we go through.
I'm not sure if I feel better or worse that you have to have a color of law enforcement employment to access the database... I think I'd actually rather have everything that law enforcement knows about us publically accessible, so people can get outraged about it like this and reign some of it in.
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You're right about the realities of latency.
Personally, the 1ms number sounds like it was pulled out of somebody's nether regions.
If I play a single 100us pulse through a speaker, you hear it as a click. If I play two pulses, you hear two clicks - until they are about 2ms apart - at less than 2ms the clicks begin to merge and by 1.5ms they are basically indistinguishable from a single click.
Joe Supertwitch the surgeon says he can't frag that lesion perfectly unless he's got less than 1ms lag time, Joe Supertwitch needs to suck it up and learn to deal with the lag, unless he'd rather spend an hour in traffic getting to the surgery center.
I applied for a job at a med device company, while I was in the lobby filling the application a call came over the PA "Tech support, line 2, patient on the table."
Kinda glad I moved further up the chain to design where I don't get those kind of calls.
airplane tickets are cheaper than telerobotic equipment.
Um, no, they're actually not. Airplane tickets _today_ are selling you non-sustainable joyrides on non-renewable fossil fuel. Each trans-oceanic flight burns more fuel than the weight of the passengers and their baggage. Telerobotic equipment is reusable and operated by the transfer of information, not the transfer of bags of meat - information moves much much more cheaply than people do.
I'd like to live in a world where anyone competent to be a surgeon is allowed to study and become one.
A big part of the cluster---- that is medical care in the U.S.A. starts with the A.M.A. and their restrictions on entry to medical school.
the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s
Or, 299.792458 km / ms
Well done, sir - round trip time of 1ms happens at 93.14 miles, or less in slower medium (~60 miles in glass). For example, for visible light the refractive index of glass is typically around 1.5, meaning that light in glass travels at c / 1.5 200000 km/s; the refractive index of air for visible light is about 1.0003, so the speed of light in air is about 299700 km/s (about 90 km/s slower than c). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Telemedicine is for people who would otherwise lack access to care.
Such as: in the ISS, Antartica, on Mars...
Should lawyers be eliminated? Hell yes, by any means necessary.
Can we do it by simplification, increased transparency and uniformity (from jurisdiction to jurisdiction) of the justice system? Partly.
Can we do it with advanced AI? Partly.
Can we do it with guns? Don't know about the US, but it has worked in other countries.
The first thing these rogue ships do is turn off AIS, so while the technology exists, there's zero ability to enforce the use of AIS.
That's a whole lot simpler than you might think - you don't even need satellite or aerial surveillance (though they would help) - if you get a big ass radar ping with no AIS in that location, it's time for the patrol to go pay a visit and fire a shot across the bow. When they give some BS explanation about equipment malfunction, you confiscate the cargo and escort them from the exclusion zone with a warning the first time, and full fines/penalties for any repeat performances. Big ships without AIS are not welcome in sovereign waters, period. Big fishing vessels that go missing from AIS reporting for long enough to reach exclusion zones are immediately suspect and reason to send a patrol.
So now you have a bunch of ships running around and you have no idea where they are. Maybe the military has some kind of magic satellite technology capable of tracking every surface vessel on the ocean, but I doubt they do and if they did, they're unlikely interested in using their space technology for fishing enforcement.
Even if you can track them via AIS, it still doesn't do much good.
The ships fly flags of convenience -- Liberia, Marshall Islands and Panama account for 40% of the world's fleet by deadweight tonnage, even though almost never are there actually companies based in those countries. The ships are owned by someone else in some other country and often leased out to shipping companies who may in turn lease them out again. And we still haven't gotten to the question of who's actually on board running the damn things, a motley crew of foreign nationals unrelated to the flag the ship flies, its owner or necessarily even its operator.
Which is why jailing the captain and confiscating the vessel are two very attractive options for dealing with non-compliance.
So its entirely possible the *crew* may be up to no good, unbeknownst to the owner, operator or lessee of the ship and certainly unknown to the country the ship is registered to.
By the time you get done doing the forensics, the damn thing is being broken for scrap off the coast of India or just scuttled outright.
Obfuscation of title won't stop the true owner from being truly pissed when his ship stops producing income and loses 100% of its resale value, and a long chain of holding companies just means a long chain of people who are getting hurt when operations cease. Most insurers don't cover losses due to illegal activity. Smaller ships might stay "off the radar" and fish just inside the borders (those areas are basically low-yield and unattractive to small ships anyway), but stopping the big factory ships is about 100x more important than all the little trawlers that might get away with a little poaching.
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I totally realize that no one cares enough to actually do something about it.
My point is, the tech is available to accurately track the fishing vessels and do something about it _if the government cared enough to do it_. For the big ships, they wouldn't even have to intercept at sea, they could present evidence and fine the crap out of the offending nation, who could in-turn:
a) pay up (and take the money out of the fishing company that violated the sanctuary)
or
b) tell the "enforcers" to bugger off, in which case the enforcers have a myriad of options, not limited to only:
1) economic sanctions (trade embargo, etc.)
2) direct action against the offending vessel, or vessels owned by the same company, the next time it happens within intercept range of a navy ship, such direct action could include seizure of the vessel, arrest and detention of the captain, crew, etc.
Having declared the sanctuary zone is the first step toward being able to take stronger action - whether or not the current administration has the balls to follow through with effective enforcement is likely: not.
I'm sorry, you are a British opposed-piston valveless, supercharged uniflow scavenged, two-stroke Diesel engine used in marine and locomotive applications? The pressure must be terrible to live with. (deltic)
Basically, you get jurisdiction over whatever you've got the political and military power to back up. 12 miles, 200 miles, whatever - there are plenty of disputed waters around the world. If you've got the guns, and the political will to use them, you can control the water. This includes pirates.
Large ships also are required to carry transponders which report to a public real-time database:
http://www.marinetraffic.com/e...
really pisses off the treasure hunters, but if a large fishing vessel were tracked into a reserve, or had its transponder go silent long enough for it to be in a reserve area, that could merit further investigation, fines, imprisonment of the captain, flogging of the crew (in Singapore), etc.
Repeat it often enough and people will start to remember it as fact.
Asshollery has a strong positive correlation to the Y chromosome and testosterone. Not a 1:1 guarantee kind of thing, but statistically significant.
Same thing goes for spatial, mathematical (i.e. STEM) thinking - you don't have to be male to do it easily, but given a random cross section of the world population, more males will show aptitude - and this isn't 100% nurture, nature also factors in.
Life does not reverse overall entropy. Just locally, by using energy from an outside source whose entropy is increasing (think sun vs. plants).
True enough, but the whole tendency toward increasing complexity thing is a lot harder to explain...
Doom, gloom, and lack of vision. Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen organic molecules aren't the only way to reverse entropy (aka life). We're close to demonstrating an alternative with silicon, lithium and conductive metals, and there are others - maybe not in this galaxy, but more than likely, yes, somewhere within just a few light years is something living, far stranger than ocean vent communities or other extremophiles that incubated on the same planet as us.
So, 2015 is still not the year of Ubuntu on the desktop.
I'm pretty sure that Shuttleworth didn't intend 200 million users to mean one server at Wal-Mart which somehow supports their cash register and inventory control systems data aggregation.
Far more interesting to me than the soil would be the atmosphere, temperature, and greater distance from the sun.
I'd be fine with hydroponics, if we can get them to work without having to run nuclear power plants to insolate them.
So, can you package the Raspbian Desktop (sorry, too lazy to look it up) instead of Gnome and actually get decent desktop performance in Ubuntu, or is that a cluster- of an experience?
What I think TSA could do, instead of disappearing entirely, is setup a wide / fast baggage scanning operation that doesn't back up a queue. The ID check is a joke, they could just scan the boarding pass and run facial recognition to get as good or better screening for "known bad guys". The strip down before scanning is theater, degrading, time consuming theater - the only thing that people should need to do is divest themselves of conductive objects (along with their baggage) and walk through.
As for the mall security comparison, the only reason you think that is because you haven't been on the bad side of mall security. Mostly they're told to stay out of the way and avoid annoying people, but once they get their off-duty righteous cop bust vibe working, they're much worse than any TSA I've ever encountered.
At 316K that's roughly 1/1000 population - if you think about what EEs do, you wouldn't expect 25 EEs per 1000 people. One engineer designs something that is replicated at least dozens, if not thousands or millions of times. There's quite a bit of prototype / research work which supports later mass production, but all in all, the EEs make the hardware, and you don't want too much diversity of hardware design, otherwise the software gets to be a mess. And, over the last 20 years, software has been creeping into just about every new EE design out there.
TSA absolutely profiles, they just claim it's not the primary basis for their security. I don't think TSA has much basis for their security.
Still, if you stand up over the TSA queue at a major airport and count the flying public meatbags processed per hour, divided by the TSA worker head count, they're moving quite a few people through per hour per worker, even though the occasional traveler gets detained unreasonably, most are just detained by the queue.
El Al really does take the time to interview every traveler, and they are looking at you, engaging you in actual thoughtful conversation - it's a hell of lot more effective profiling than the tired, bored, yes I looked at your face and the photo on your ID TSA routine. If TSA in the US tried this, people would call it an invasion of privacy, which it is, but I'd really rather suffer that kind of invasion of privacy than the cattle processing we go through.
I'm not sure if I feel better or worse that you have to have a color of law enforcement employment to access the database... I think I'd actually rather have everything that law enforcement knows about us publically accessible, so people can get outraged about it like this and reign some of it in.
Ummm... maybe because ElAl doesn't serve that many passengers and they engage in racial profiling?
Those two took over a half hour to screen the three of us... TSA drones process much more meat per minute.
One could say that they are serving their target market quite well. What "feeds" an open source project? Users? No, developer-users.