Granted, but the phrase "Deep in the Utah desert" makes it sound like they are building this miles away from anything. That would be like saying "deep in the bayou" when it's in a suburb of New Orleans. Groom Lake is deep in the desert. North Las Vegas is not. Neither is Bluffdale Utah. It's a suburb of the state capital.
Yup. It is located about 2 miles from the Army's main translation headquarters and it sits on Camp Williams Army base as well. Everyone here knows exactly what it is, though maybe not what is going into it exactly. No secret that it is the NSA's facility though. They had a big ground breaking for it with the Governor, Senator Hatch was there. News interviews. Yeah, that is it.
I love that the magazine cover says "Deep in the Utah desert." It isn't. It is literally in the middle of the city growth centers. I've been watching them build this since they broke ground. It is a mere 15 minute drive from my house and I live in suburbia. The center sits less than 1 mile off I-15 between Salt Lake City and Utah County. BYU is 30 minutes away from it. There is a water park 10 minutes up the road. They aren't hiding this thing at all. It is in plain sight. It sits up on the side of the hill across the Jordan river valley. And yes, it is freaking massive.
Why has no one given us "waist high walls" until now? This is definitely not a hoax. How long have we waited for walls high enough to protect us from small children while affording us an easy view?
The simplest method is to register a ticket to a name. Show your ID and the name must match that on the ticket. If you're buying 10 tickets for the group you are taking, enter all 10 names.
But that's not what the article really says is the cause. The cause is the environment in the plane. Specifically the incredibly low humidity and the method of reheating the food further drying it.
Food on the ISS and on the Shuttle before retirement, was dehydrated and then rehydrated and heated remedying this problem. The atmosphere is also kept humid at a very specific level for comfort and safety. The environment and cooking methods are both far better on the ISS than in a commercial plane. And that sort of makes sense as they live there for 6 months as opposed to half a day travelling.
Just as a point, you can breath just fine at 14,000 feet. Born and raised in Colorado and it's a state past-time to hike the 54 mountains that are over 14,000 ft tall. I've personally stood atop a number of them in shorts and a tshirt and breathed without problem. In fact people have summited Everest without oxygen assistance (29,029 ft).
So, would they be able to monitor the traffic and watch for new commands spreading and track the route those are coming from to find the computer that the new C&C stuff is flowing from? Seems like it would be hella difficult and time consuming, but possible.
I have to agree. With the quality of engineers that Google claims to have, this is a no-brainer. Especially in light of all the "oopsies" Google has had in the last year. This on top of the Safari incident after everything else adds up to bad news for Google.
With SOPA and PIPA, they were all the internet talked about for days leading up to the blackout... the word was effectively gotten out. With ACTA, no one is talking about it or what it means. We need that same level of dialogue. We need front page announcements on reddit, wikipedia, etc. PCIP is also a new one working through the House and Senate that involves creating a database of ip->customer mappings and tracking web history for 18 months to look for illegal activity. Not getting talked about either.
We really need to keep up on what's going through Congress and other governmental agencies and kill them long before they are days from a vote. They shouldn't make it out of committees, or even into committees.
They still haven't owned up to the problem though. And when asked about it directly by gdgt, they changed the subject.
gdgt: "You showed people almost covering the entire phone in their hand, but on the iPhone 4 it can happen with just a touch. Can you explain that difference?
Bob (Apple): "When you touch the phone, you put yourself between the signal and your phone, so when you touch that spot you can attenuate the signal, and if you grip ti with your whole hand, you can attenuate it even more."
That was a total non-answer. In fact, he answered it in reverse. In my office here we have 2 droids, an LG Voyager and some little trac-phone. We all tried holding them in a variety of ways, including how they showed phones behind held. None of our phones dropped bars. Yet the iPhone drops bars with the mere touch of a single finger tip.
Not to mention the severe spin he put on his data at the start of the thing. It doesn't matter how many people are calling in with the problem, or what percentage change there is in dropped calls. The problem is the REASON for the dropped calls. Barely a touch to a spot that is guaranteed to be touched when on a call, is enough to drop signal strength to a point where calls are dropped. So how often it happens isn't the point. The point is there is a serious hardware/design flaw. One that definitely should have been noticed in testing.
He even said on multiple occasions throughout the conference that he doesn't think there is a problem at all and that this whole thing is just blown way out of proportion. I'm sorry, but when Consumer Reports does their testing and can't recommend your product, that's not blown out of proportion.
I say we all flood them with FOIA requests for the ACTA treaty. If enough people are sending in these requests, they'll have to cave in. Either that or it will tie their office up to the point where congress realizes that the people want to know and will haul Ambassador Kirk in and force the treaty into the open.
If they do this, I would LOVE to see it required that any and all discoveries/benefits/breakthroughs be public domain if they were funded with public (money the Government got through taxes) funds. Can you imagine the explosion of new tech that would happen if someone discovers something and then turns it over to the 10s of millions of brilliant garage engineers and basement techies out there? That would be so amazing.
Oh so true! I hate it when people blame violence on video games or movies or tv. Yeah, the show violence. But if parents would teach their kids the difference between reality and games/movies, it would solve a lot of issues. Heck, if parents were actually around to raise their kids it would go a long way. Disgusts me that parents aren't allowed to discipline their kids in ANY way whatsoever without Maury and Oprah getting involved, but we can blame their mistakes on video games. Please. Pathetic. The world really has gone to hell in a handbasket.
The premise you base your argument on is "is this universe the only logical possible universe that can exist?" Right there is your flaw. This is not the only universe than can exist. There are many millions of possibilities. Alter the spin on electrons, the charge on a proton or the strength of the weak force by the slightest amount and you change the entire history and configuration of everything. Mankind would not exist as we know and understand it, but that does not mean that life would not exist. Supposing your infinite time is this universe the only logical possible universe that can exist? Using your infinite time supposition, in such another universe, the change of life springing up somewhere and achieving the same intelligence as us is essentially 1. Therefore, this is not the only universe that can logically exist. This is the only one that can exist with the physical properties that we know. Quite a different statement. This, you see, does not relegate the "gods" to unpayed janatorial work, but infact places all the decisions firmly back in their hands. "Do I make the electron + or - 1/2 spin?"
And why do you state that time is infinite? Staunch believers in the Big Bang do not believe that time is infinite. They believe that time began with the big bang. This is gathered from Einsteins' melding of space and time. Not only would the big bang have spewed matter into the universe, but it also spewed the universe itself. Space-time, the actual fabric, the stage on which everything unfolds, did not exist until the big bang.
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Indeed. All parties like big government. They differ only on which parts of government should be big.
Granted, but the phrase "Deep in the Utah desert" makes it sound like they are building this miles away from anything. That would be like saying "deep in the bayou" when it's in a suburb of New Orleans. Groom Lake is deep in the desert. North Las Vegas is not. Neither is Bluffdale Utah. It's a suburb of the state capital.
For those interested, here is a google map of the location they are building this. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.430485,-111.934547&num=1&t=h&z=14
Yup. It is located about 2 miles from the Army's main translation headquarters and it sits on Camp Williams Army base as well. Everyone here knows exactly what it is, though maybe not what is going into it exactly. No secret that it is the NSA's facility though. They had a big ground breaking for it with the Governor, Senator Hatch was there. News interviews. Yeah, that is it.
I love that the magazine cover says "Deep in the Utah desert." It isn't. It is literally in the middle of the city growth centers. I've been watching them build this since they broke ground. It is a mere 15 minute drive from my house and I live in suburbia. The center sits less than 1 mile off I-15 between Salt Lake City and Utah County. BYU is 30 minutes away from it. There is a water park 10 minutes up the road. They aren't hiding this thing at all. It is in plain sight. It sits up on the side of the hill across the Jordan river valley. And yes, it is freaking massive.
Why has no one given us "waist high walls" until now? This is definitely not a hoax. How long have we waited for walls high enough to protect us from small children while affording us an easy view?
The simplest method is to register a ticket to a name. Show your ID and the name must match that on the ticket. If you're buying 10 tickets for the group you are taking, enter all 10 names.
But that's not what the article really says is the cause. The cause is the environment in the plane. Specifically the incredibly low humidity and the method of reheating the food further drying it. Food on the ISS and on the Shuttle before retirement, was dehydrated and then rehydrated and heated remedying this problem. The atmosphere is also kept humid at a very specific level for comfort and safety. The environment and cooking methods are both far better on the ISS than in a commercial plane. And that sort of makes sense as they live there for 6 months as opposed to half a day travelling.
Just as a point, you can breath just fine at 14,000 feet. Born and raised in Colorado and it's a state past-time to hike the 54 mountains that are over 14,000 ft tall. I've personally stood atop a number of them in shorts and a tshirt and breathed without problem. In fact people have summited Everest without oxygen assistance (29,029 ft).
So, would they be able to monitor the traffic and watch for new commands spreading and track the route those are coming from to find the computer that the new C&C stuff is flowing from? Seems like it would be hella difficult and time consuming, but possible.
I have to agree. With the quality of engineers that Google claims to have, this is a no-brainer. Especially in light of all the "oopsies" Google has had in the last year. This on top of the Safari incident after everything else adds up to bad news for Google.
With SOPA and PIPA, they were all the internet talked about for days leading up to the blackout... the word was effectively gotten out. With ACTA, no one is talking about it or what it means. We need that same level of dialogue. We need front page announcements on reddit, wikipedia, etc. PCIP is also a new one working through the House and Senate that involves creating a database of ip->customer mappings and tracking web history for 18 months to look for illegal activity. Not getting talked about either. We really need to keep up on what's going through Congress and other governmental agencies and kill them long before they are days from a vote. They shouldn't make it out of committees, or even into committees.
They still haven't owned up to the problem though. And when asked about it directly by gdgt, they changed the subject. gdgt: "You showed people almost covering the entire phone in their hand, but on the iPhone 4 it can happen with just a touch. Can you explain that difference? Bob (Apple): "When you touch the phone, you put yourself between the signal and your phone, so when you touch that spot you can attenuate the signal, and if you grip ti with your whole hand, you can attenuate it even more." That was a total non-answer. In fact, he answered it in reverse. In my office here we have 2 droids, an LG Voyager and some little trac-phone. We all tried holding them in a variety of ways, including how they showed phones behind held. None of our phones dropped bars. Yet the iPhone drops bars with the mere touch of a single finger tip. Not to mention the severe spin he put on his data at the start of the thing. It doesn't matter how many people are calling in with the problem, or what percentage change there is in dropped calls. The problem is the REASON for the dropped calls. Barely a touch to a spot that is guaranteed to be touched when on a call, is enough to drop signal strength to a point where calls are dropped. So how often it happens isn't the point. The point is there is a serious hardware/design flaw. One that definitely should have been noticed in testing. He even said on multiple occasions throughout the conference that he doesn't think there is a problem at all and that this whole thing is just blown way out of proportion. I'm sorry, but when Consumer Reports does their testing and can't recommend your product, that's not blown out of proportion.
I say we all flood them with FOIA requests for the ACTA treaty. If enough people are sending in these requests, they'll have to cave in. Either that or it will tie their office up to the point where congress realizes that the people want to know and will haul Ambassador Kirk in and force the treaty into the open.
If they do this, I would LOVE to see it required that any and all discoveries/benefits/breakthroughs be public domain if they were funded with public (money the Government got through taxes) funds. Can you imagine the explosion of new tech that would happen if someone discovers something and then turns it over to the 10s of millions of brilliant garage engineers and basement techies out there? That would be so amazing.
The scientist rarely sees much of anything, it's the company/executives he works for that get wildly wealthy.
Oh so true! I hate it when people blame violence on video games or movies or tv. Yeah, the show violence. But if parents would teach their kids the difference between reality and games/movies, it would solve a lot of issues. Heck, if parents were actually around to raise their kids it would go a long way. Disgusts me that parents aren't allowed to discipline their kids in ANY way whatsoever without Maury and Oprah getting involved, but we can blame their mistakes on video games. Please. Pathetic. The world really has gone to hell in a handbasket.
The premise you base your argument on is "is this universe the only logical possible universe that can exist?" Right there is your flaw. This is not the only universe than can exist. There are many millions of possibilities. Alter the spin on electrons, the charge on a proton or the strength of the weak force by the slightest amount and you change the entire history and configuration of everything. Mankind would not exist as we know and understand it, but that does not mean that life would not exist. Supposing your infinite time is this universe the only logical possible universe that can exist? Using your infinite time supposition, in such another universe, the change of life springing up somewhere and achieving the same intelligence as us is essentially 1. Therefore, this is not the only universe that can logically exist. This is the only one that can exist with the physical properties that we know. Quite a different statement. This, you see, does not relegate the "gods" to unpayed janatorial work, but infact places all the decisions firmly back in their hands. "Do I make the electron + or - 1/2 spin?" And why do you state that time is infinite? Staunch believers in the Big Bang do not believe that time is infinite. They believe that time began with the big bang. This is gathered from Einsteins' melding of space and time. Not only would the big bang have spewed matter into the universe, but it also spewed the universe itself. Space-time, the actual fabric, the stage on which everything unfolds, did not exist until the big bang.