it pretty much guarantees that all your Internet traffic, at the very least, gets more scrutiny.
To avoid that problem, check-out 'steganography'. You hide your messages inside a binary such as a JPEG file. The changes are minute, and the JPEG not only looks normal, but unless the interceptors know the keys and software used, there isn't really any way to detect whether there is hidden content or not. No extra scrutiny.
Note: if you use kiddie-porn as your JPEG, the encrypted content will be the least of your worries.
The number of failed space ventures is a complete list of all space ventures outside of big companies doing massive government contracts.
The profits from space exploration that I am talking about, are not about successful space ventures. When I say 'long-term investment', the returns that I am talking about are: velcro, semiconductors, advanced ceramics, advanced plastics, aerogel, etc. I am not suggesting that any space venture is going to give a positive ROI directly.
First, you don't need to monopolize space.
You are thinking short-term again. I was not talking about monopolizing space. I was talking about monopolizing the profits from the advancements that come from space projects. IBM isn't going to fund a space project, when it is 3M that is going to reap the profits from velcro. Microsoft isn't going to fund a space project, when many of the advances will benefit Google and Amazon.com.
In the 1960's Fairchild gave birth to the industry.... The government played almost no role in the size reduction of computers.
Check out link:
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was built by Raytheon and used approximately 4000 discrete integrated circuits from Fairchild Semiconductor. Spanning nearly a decade of project development, the AGC began as a research project at the MIT Instrumentation Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.... However, until Apollo, all computations for the equations of motion in these systems were performed by analog computers. In April 1961, NASA contracted with MIT to study the feasibility of a digital control system for the Apollo program.... The speed, power, and size requirements for the AGC drove an entire industry that was just taking its first steps along the breathtaking curve of Moore's Law.
Where do you people dredge-up this insistence that industry rather than government drove these advances?
Our industry has experienced a profound transformation. In the 1960's, when the semiconductor industry first emerged from anonymity, the key driver of the industry was the government and aerospace sector. Major applications were the Apollo space program and weapons systems such as the Minute Man intercontinental ballistic missile.
With the end of the Apollo program and the cuts in the defense budget after the Vietnam War, the key driver of the industry shifted in the early 1970's to the corporate Information Technology (IT) sector. The introduction of the IBM 360 (the first use of integrated circuits in a computer) and the mini-computer initiated the first IT boom in the late 1960's and early 1970's.
But there's no return on doing anything more ambitious than communications satellite.
Sort of true. The real issue is that the return on investment is: A) long-term and B) not easy to monopolize. Without the Apollo program, our computers might still be room-sized behemoths. Unfortunately, corporate America is not interested in any return on investment that is going to take more than a few quarters to be realized. And if the benefits of basic research also accrue to a companies' competitors, the company is unlikely to fund the research.
If they wanted it to dock gently with the satellite, then they should have named it DOCKER instead of DART. That name had to flavor the entire development process.
No problem, just install long copper waveguides down the fuselage. You could get some design tips from those dinosaur aerospace engineers who used to install long runs of copper wire in the bad-old-days.
Peer to Peer financing has been around for decades. It is called a Credit Union.
Peer-to-peer financing has been around longer than that; it's called a 'loan shark'. Your kneecaps are collateral. (adds new meaning to the term 'collateral damage')
But if being able to store part of the broadcast is a bad thing, as said... why didn't the RIAA sue decades ago?... It was ruled legal decades ago to timeshift, after all, and being able to record broadcasts for later playback is nothing more than that.
IIRC, the legal rationale behind the right to record off-the-air broadcasts was a Fair Use because the broadcasts were made over the public airwaves. Since XM is sent encrypted, and they can/do control the delivery of the content, that Fair Use provision may not apply. (which doesn't mean that the RIAA aren't a bunch of asshats)
air pollution, melting artic ice, playing with nuclear power
using fire
We are doing things to change our environment. We have caused the extinction of dozens (hundreds?) of species, and our changes will likely cause the extinction of many more. But the ecosystems will more likely adapt than get 'destroyed'. These changes are probably not good for most species, and probably not good for humans, but that's as far as I'm willing to go.
Creating something that didn't exist before doesn't make you an artist. Builders create something new every day.
Builders don't design what they are building. Most developers are like architects (the kind that design buildings). Sure "they create what you ask them to create", but so do architects. You give them specs and a budget, and they design your solution. The difference is that software developers ignore the 'budget' part.
Note that the 'Most developers' statement excludes code monkeys who are given a spec with the function names, parameters, algorithms and return types. But I have never seen a shop like that. I've developed software working for the US military (as a civilian) and four private companies, we usually get a paper-napkin high-level-design. The rest is up to us.
The problem is that hurricanes aren't only affected by sea-surface temperatures.
Yes. In fact, global warming is going to reduce or eliminate the hurricane problem. The higher temperatures will cause population decimation, or even extinction, among butterflies. And since the root cause of hurricanes is butterflies flapping their wings in China, there will be few-to-zero hurricanes in the near future.
but the correctly-spelt word was one letter longer, which caused the line to wrap -- thus making an utter arse of the formatting.
Just break out a thesaurus, and start replacing words with shorter or longer synonyms until the formatting stops being an utter arse. You might lose your job, but many documents like that and you might want to lose your job.
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To avoid that problem, check-out 'steganography'. You hide your messages inside a binary such as a JPEG file. The changes are minute, and the JPEG not only looks normal, but unless the interceptors know the keys and software used, there isn't really any way to detect whether there is hidden content or not. No extra scrutiny.
Note: if you use kiddie-porn as your JPEG, the encrypted content will be the least of your worries.
The reason that you didn't get modded 'Funny', is because that is the definition of marriage.
Would you kindly please stop referring to RFC1149 as a "bizarre system"? The NO CARRIER jokes are bad enough, without this kind of FUD. Thank you.
The profits from space exploration that I am talking about, are not about successful space ventures. When I say 'long-term investment', the returns that I am talking about are: velcro, semiconductors, advanced ceramics, advanced plastics, aerogel, etc. I am not suggesting that any space venture is going to give a positive ROI directly.
First, you don't need to monopolize space.
You are thinking short-term again. I was not talking about monopolizing space. I was talking about monopolizing the profits from the advancements that come from space projects. IBM isn't going to fund a space project, when it is 3M that is going to reap the profits from velcro. Microsoft isn't going to fund a space project, when many of the advances will benefit Google and Amazon.com.
In the 1960's Fairchild gave birth to the industry. ... The government played almost no role in the size reduction of computers.
Check out link: The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was built by Raytheon and used approximately 4000 discrete integrated circuits from Fairchild Semiconductor. Spanning nearly a decade of project development, the AGC began as a research project at the MIT Instrumentation Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... However, until Apollo, all computations for the equations of motion in these systems were performed by analog computers. In April 1961, NASA contracted with MIT to study the feasibility of a digital control system for the Apollo program. ... The speed, power, and size requirements for the AGC drove an entire industry that was just taking its first steps along the breathtaking curve of Moore's Law.
Where do you people dredge-up this insistence that industry rather than government drove these advances?
Our industry has experienced a profound transformation. In the 1960's, when the semiconductor industry first emerged from anonymity, the key driver of the industry was the government and aerospace sector. Major applications were the Apollo space program and weapons systems such as the Minute Man intercontinental ballistic missile.
With the end of the Apollo program and the cuts in the defense budget after the Vietnam War, the key driver of the industry shifted in the early 1970's to the corporate Information Technology (IT) sector. The introduction of the IBM 360 (the first use of integrated circuits in a computer) and the mini-computer initiated the first IT boom in the late 1960's and early 1970's.
For some more spinoffs: link
Feel free to hurl insults at yourself; it's not my specialty.
The satellite was actually shot by a CIA agent standing on a grassy knoll.
Sort of true. The real issue is that the return on investment is: A) long-term and B) not easy to monopolize. Without the Apollo program, our computers might still be room-sized behemoths. Unfortunately, corporate America is not interested in any return on investment that is going to take more than a few quarters to be realized. And if the benefits of basic research also accrue to a companies' competitors, the company is unlikely to fund the research.
If the article gets duped, then it'll be a 50-point double-bull.
If they wanted it to dock gently with the satellite, then they should have named it DOCKER instead of DART. That name had to flavor the entire development process.
No problem, just install long copper waveguides down the fuselage. You could get some design tips from those dinosaur aerospace engineers who used to install long runs of copper wire in the bad-old-days.
Peer-to-peer financing has been around longer than that; it's called a 'loan shark'. Your kneecaps are collateral. (adds new meaning to the term 'collateral damage')
IIRC, the legal rationale behind the right to record off-the-air broadcasts was a Fair Use because the broadcasts were made over the public airwaves. Since XM is sent encrypted, and they can/do control the delivery of the content, that Fair Use provision may not apply. (which doesn't mean that the RIAA aren't a bunch of asshats)
selective breeding, cross-pollination, hybridization
air pollution, melting artic ice, playing with nuclear power
using fire
We are doing things to change our environment. We have caused the extinction of dozens (hundreds?) of species, and our changes will likely cause the extinction of many more. But the ecosystems will more likely adapt than get 'destroyed'. These changes are probably not good for most species, and probably not good for humans, but that's as far as I'm willing to go.
Builders don't design what they are building. Most developers are like architects (the kind that design buildings). Sure "they create what you ask them to create", but so do architects. You give them specs and a budget, and they design your solution. The difference is that software developers ignore the 'budget' part. Note that the 'Most developers' statement excludes code monkeys who are given a spec with the function names, parameters, algorithms and return types. But I have never seen a shop like that. I've developed software working for the US military (as a civilian) and four private companies, we usually get a paper-napkin high-level-design. The rest is up to us.
Yes. In fact, global warming is going to reduce or eliminate the hurricane problem. The higher temperatures will cause population decimation, or even extinction, among butterflies. And since the root cause of hurricanes is butterflies flapping their wings in China, there will be few-to-zero hurricanes in the near future.
Sorry, that idea has already been done by South Park.
Are you talking about the cetaceans, or the Miami Dolphins?
You wouldn't be the first to do so.
Some damned fool went and invented a better mousetrap, so our scientists had to invent a better mouse.
The damn thing has spinners and velvet upholstry. It has definitely been pimped.
The biggest complaints (including mine) seem to be about garbage collection.
It's no dumber than a cigarette warning label.
It's a new platform for Java. Though it does sound like they were too aggressive with the overclocking.
Just break out a thesaurus, and start replacing words with shorter or longer synonyms until the formatting stops being an utter arse. You might lose your job, but many documents like that and you might want to lose your job.
You really can't find one tiny sliver of difference between those parties that would make you prefer one bastard over the other? Ralph, is that you?