Now, silverware scratching on a plate? Gives me the shudders.
Exactly the same for me! "Fingernails on a chalkboard" kinds of sounds never bothered me in the slightest. But if I'm the one scraping silverware on a plate, it makes me shudder exactly like other people do when hearing fingernails on a chalkboard! It's weird, maybe my sense of whatever causes the shuddering is slightly "shifted" compared to a normal person.
Just wanted to say thanks for the story submission. I've been loosely following this for the past few months, and I think you worded it in the best way possible.
Unless you're in dense fog, the beam itself is invisible. You'd only see anything once the beam actually hits the aircraft (and then it's too far away to see the reflection with the naked eye).
However, it only takes a fraction of a second to dazzle and disorient the pilots, so even a momentary random intersection caused by a sweeping laser beam is dangerous.
Are you serious? I have a 5mW green laser, you can see the beam CLEARLY at night or in a drkened room. You can even see it in a well-lit room if you look hard.
And I should have said, this technology will likely see the most use in collection of intelligence against foreign nations. Every country (including even the smallest like Vanuatu) is doing it to every other country and international organization, in order to try to get the upper hand. We might as well keep doing it better.
I love all the cool technical challenges DARPA comes out with, but is recovering shredded doccuments really something we should be helping the government with?
The U.S. is still one of the top nations in the world on many fronts--including democracy and freedom, despite what loud first-world activists say. I am more than happy to have the U.S. continue to hold its place in global leadership, and I hope it stays this way for a long time.
That is a pretty funny list. The US has not _won_ a single war, at least not with the actual goal that they said they had by going to war in the first place.
If you change the cover-up goal of establishing democracy to getting more oil, then of course the picture changes.
No true Scotsman is an informal logical fallacy, being an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. (link)
A random example follows: "An example of a political application of the fallacy could be in asserting that 'no democracy starts a war', then after having been proven wrong distinguishing between mature or 'true' democracies, which never start wars, and 'emerging democracies', which may start them." Also, OP is a moron.
Also you may have missed the news for the past 10 year or something but the US did defeat 2 countries.
Which two countries? Oh you mean the ISAF destroyed the Afghan military. Yeah ok that's true. Way to forget your allies there, which include France by the way. And yes, the US destroyed Iraq's puny army - the one that was previously destroyed in 1991 and he was not permitted to rebuild but managed to scrape together with ancient equipment?
ISAF and NATO had nothing to do with the take-over of Afghanistan. Within 30 days of 9/11, a small handful of CIA paramilitary operatives with JTAC operators were dispatched to Afghanistan, with the ability to call in precision air strikes. These handful of operatives had already been meeting with anti-Taliban warlords for the better part of ten years, stretching back over Clinton's administration. With the help of U.S. airstrikes, the modest forces of each of the separate warlords were able to completely shock and overwhelm personnel and materiel of the Taliban forces. There was very, very little in the way of gunfights that win on, but rather airstrikes would be enough to send the surviving Taliban running from their positions, and anti-Taliban warlords would order their forces on foot and horseback to storm the deserted positions to great celebration. Within a few weeks of the arrival of CIA personnel, Special Forces ODAs began showing up in-country (numbering in the dozens or low hundreds), providing much the same assistance as the CIA personnel were capable of providing. After more time, conventional troops were able to show up in large numbers to provide an actual U.S. security presence on the ground.
NATO didn't have any forces in-country until late December 2001, and NATO was not operating anywhere outside of Kabul until October 2003.
Launch plenty of decoys on other big ass rockets. And a few low Earth orbit bursts from large nukes will clear out most of the space-based assets for spotting rocket launched nukes.
This. State-of-the-art decoys and anti-ICBM countermeasures are one of the most highly classified aspects of strategic nuclear weapons.
Note that the flow of money to Wikileaks was not inhibited until they decided to leak things about banks. That's when they started to choke Wikileaks' money flow.
Sorry, can you show me what Wikileaks decided to leak about the banks? I'm pretty sure Wikileaks has not released anything like you think. You are probably getting caught up in the five-month-long claims from Julian Assange that there was going to be a bombshell Wikileaks release about Bank of America, and then......... nothing. If I'm wrong, then mod me down... but otherwise, don't let that guy sit at Score:4, Insightful for a silly conspiracy post.
Use a VGA/DVI interception hardware device to save to external storage. People will be stuck thinking in the box so you'll have no problems whatsoever as long as you don't save or move any data "in-system".
Please don't forget to mention how SureView is awsome and ensures 100% data security while at it to keep the blinders on.
Then you want to read The Economist. Look around for a few minutes and be impressed that such a high-level newspaper exists. Despite its name, it does not deal with mostly economics. It's more for international politics and major world events.
The other scenario is that the US can shut down GPS if it believes it is being used by terrorists. The EU might not agree with that assessment, and want to keep it open. Having Galileo gives them that option.
The US can shut down the Galileo system in a non-destructive manner, as well, if it wishes. This will happen in a real-life situation sooner rather than later.
There have been many cases where, as one defense attorney put it, the "plots" were 'written, directed and produced by the FBI'. As in FBI undercover agents or paid informants will actively encourage people to Do Shit who would otherwise be no more troublesome than your average online malcontent. The agent/informant will, of course, try to get the "perps" to say to hidden microphones that they are acting of their own free will, or even make statements on video, so the defendants can't use entrapment as a defense.
Nope. The Canada landfall story turned out to be a hoax. It landed in the Pacific between Hawaii and the west coast of the US, according to STRATCOM. See here.
It takes 90 minutes to orbit the earth at the ISS' altitude. The earth only rotates 22.5 degrees out of 360 degrees. That's 6.5% of one full rotation. The earth is basically standing still as far as the space station is concerned over one orbit.
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Egypt might not be so friendly to Israel in the coming years now that Mubarak is out.
I never found it to be that annoying.
Now, silverware scratching on a plate? Gives me the shudders.
Exactly the same for me! "Fingernails on a chalkboard" kinds of sounds never bothered me in the slightest. But if I'm the one scraping silverware on a plate, it makes me shudder exactly like other people do when hearing fingernails on a chalkboard! It's weird, maybe my sense of whatever causes the shuddering is slightly "shifted" compared to a normal person.
Just wanted to say thanks for the story submission. I've been loosely following this for the past few months, and I think you worded it in the best way possible.
Unless you're in dense fog, the beam itself is invisible. You'd only see anything once the beam actually hits the aircraft (and then it's too far away to see the reflection with the naked eye).
However, it only takes a fraction of a second to dazzle and disorient the pilots, so even a momentary random intersection caused by a sweeping laser beam is dangerous.
Are you serious? I have a 5mW green laser, you can see the beam CLEARLY at night or in a drkened room. You can even see it in a well-lit room if you look hard.
And I should have said, this technology will likely see the most use in collection of intelligence against foreign nations. Every country (including even the smallest like Vanuatu) is doing it to every other country and international organization, in order to try to get the upper hand. We might as well keep doing it better.
I love all the cool technical challenges DARPA comes out with, but is recovering shredded doccuments really something we should be helping the government with?
The U.S. is still one of the top nations in the world on many fronts--including democracy and freedom, despite what loud first-world activists say. I am more than happy to have the U.S. continue to hold its place in global leadership, and I hope it stays this way for a long time.
That is a pretty funny list. The US has not _won_ a single war, at least not with the actual goal that they said they had by going to war in the first place. If you change the cover-up goal of establishing democracy to getting more oil, then of course the picture changes.
No true Scotsman is an informal logical fallacy, being an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion. (link)
A random example follows: "An example of a political application of the fallacy could be in asserting that 'no democracy starts a war', then after having been proven wrong distinguishing between mature or 'true' democracies, which never start wars, and 'emerging democracies', which may start them." Also, OP is a moron.
Also you may have missed the news for the past 10 year or something but the US did defeat 2 countries.
Which two countries? Oh you mean the ISAF destroyed the Afghan military. Yeah ok that's true. Way to forget your allies there, which include France by the way. And yes, the US destroyed Iraq's puny army - the one that was previously destroyed in 1991 and he was not permitted to rebuild but managed to scrape together with ancient equipment?
ISAF and NATO had nothing to do with the take-over of Afghanistan. Within 30 days of 9/11, a small handful of CIA paramilitary operatives with JTAC operators were dispatched to Afghanistan, with the ability to call in precision air strikes. These handful of operatives had already been meeting with anti-Taliban warlords for the better part of ten years, stretching back over Clinton's administration. With the help of U.S. airstrikes, the modest forces of each of the separate warlords were able to completely shock and overwhelm personnel and materiel of the Taliban forces. There was very, very little in the way of gunfights that win on, but rather airstrikes would be enough to send the surviving Taliban running from their positions, and anti-Taliban warlords would order their forces on foot and horseback to storm the deserted positions to great celebration. Within a few weeks of the arrival of CIA personnel, Special Forces ODAs began showing up in-country (numbering in the dozens or low hundreds), providing much the same assistance as the CIA personnel were capable of providing. After more time, conventional troops were able to show up in large numbers to provide an actual U.S. security presence on the ground.
NATO didn't have any forces in-country until late December 2001, and NATO was not operating anywhere outside of Kabul until October 2003.
Launch plenty of decoys on other big ass rockets. And a few low Earth orbit bursts from large nukes will clear out most of the space-based assets for spotting rocket launched nukes.
This. State-of-the-art decoys and anti-ICBM countermeasures are one of the most highly classified aspects of strategic nuclear weapons.
Note that the flow of money to Wikileaks was not inhibited until they decided to leak things about banks. That's when they started to choke Wikileaks' money flow.
Sorry, can you show me what Wikileaks decided to leak about the banks? I'm pretty sure Wikileaks has not released anything like you think. You are probably getting caught up in the five-month-long claims from Julian Assange that there was going to be a bombshell Wikileaks release about Bank of America, and then......... nothing. If I'm wrong, then mod me down... but otherwise, don't let that guy sit at Score:4, Insightful for a silly conspiracy post.
So what's lighter than helium and hydrogen? Vacuum! We need more advancements in vacuum balloon technology.
Use a VGA/DVI interception hardware device to save to external storage. People will be stuck thinking in the box so you'll have no problems whatsoever as long as you don't save or move any data "in-system". Please don't forget to mention how SureView is awsome and ensures 100% data security while at it to keep the blinders on.
Wow. Pretty clever.
Ask Slashdot anything you want! No need for prior research or common sense.
Then you want to read The Economist. Look around for a few minutes and be impressed that such a high-level newspaper exists. Despite its name, it does not deal with mostly economics. It's more for international politics and major world events.
The other scenario is that the US can shut down GPS if it believes it is being used by terrorists. The EU might not agree with that assessment, and want to keep it open. Having Galileo gives them that option.
The US can shut down the Galileo system in a non-destructive manner, as well, if it wishes. This will happen in a real-life situation sooner rather than later.
Thank you for your posts, this one included. :)
Why is this guy sitting at less than +5 insightful?
Wait, did they remove ship-spinning and make CQ mandatory?
In the Russian warehouse, you can only buy red vases.
In the American warehouse, you have the free choice.
But what is it good for if all vases have holes in them?
How are you going to put flower in those vases if they don't have holes?
His final will stated that he be buried in a glossy white coffin with no visible hinges or latches.
RIP Steve.
...surveillance complex.
There have been many cases where, as one defense attorney put it, the "plots" were 'written, directed and produced by the FBI'. As in FBI undercover agents or paid informants will actively encourage people to Do Shit who would otherwise be no more troublesome than your average online malcontent. The agent/informant will, of course, try to get the "perps" to say to hidden microphones that they are acting of their own free will, or even make statements on video, so the defendants can't use entrapment as a defense.
A defense attorney said that?? You don't say?
60ns and 900km are both precise to only one significant figure.
They're not. You're making assumptions.
The common rule of thumb for neutrinos is that it take a sheet of lead one light-year thick in order to stop 50% of the neutrinos directed at it. Wow!
Nope. The Canada landfall story turned out to be a hoax. It landed in the Pacific between Hawaii and the west coast of the US, according to STRATCOM. See here.
It takes 90 minutes to orbit the earth at the ISS' altitude. The earth only rotates 22.5 degrees out of 360 degrees. That's 6.5% of one full rotation. The earth is basically standing still as far as the space station is concerned over one orbit.