If it were a human in the path of a 32kW laser, no sitting still would be required. It would be flash/VAPORIZE.
I just got to test a 1W solid state class IV laser. Coupled with a good collimation/focusing system, your eyeballs are gone from 200 meters away with just the briefest flash across the retina.
"Unless you have some super computer that perfectly track a moving target the whole this is total BS."
Well shit, son, we've had fucking laser guidance and tracking for ytears. It doesn't take even a Cray X-1. Supercomputer? Shit son we got to the moon on shit less powerful than my current watch!
"You also ignore the obvious, projectile weapons are going to be easier to maintain."
Yep, lemme tell ya, lasers just foul up with gunpowder all the time, jam up in the receiver, and the moving part wear and tear is a bitch!
99% reflectivity means only 320 watts of power is hitting the craft.
Unless you've maintained all of that power within a very, VERY narrow beam (we're talking less than 2mm) you're not going much further out than a mile before that beam is useless.
maybe by power consumption and feature support, that's about it. Until the Fermi releases, everything from the 9800GTX+ to the 300 series was the same core, just a different revision.
Which is why my 9800GTX+ still plays most everything at 1920x1080 without a hitch.
"No. Blood must be drawn directly from the venous system (or arterial system, depending on the goal). At that depth, there aren't even that many capillaries.'
Let me apply that patch to your cheek. Watch how fast you bleed.
I was a labrat for those when they first introduced these types of patches for nicotine polacrilex delivery. They will make you bleed depending upon where they are placed. Top of the feet, tops of the hands, cheeks, neck, the thinner skin near your genital area, inside your elbow, the locations you can successfully bleed from from nanometers-thick cuts are numerous, and usually thin-skinned.
"Unfortunately I'm told the results would be pretty useless due to the female plants only really producing when there are no males around to fertilise them."
Which is total nonsense.
I grow and breed the stuff for the Dutch genetics preservation programs. Yield is dependent upon genetics.
THC content, on the other hand, is not close to being gene-dependent. That is almost wholly dependent upon the amount of blue-UV irradiation the plant receives and is maybe 10% genetics (which determines which cannabinoids will be found in the plant. For example, Asian landraces are loaded with THCV, not THCA.)
"For instance, it's the LAW to equip all wells with a remote controllable shutoff valve if you want to drill in the north sea. A device which could easily have prevented the BP spill, but wasn't used, because it wasn't a requirement."
The shutoff valve wouldn't have helped when the thing BLEW UP, especially as deep as it was. Many things, valve included, have difficulty turning when stuff blows up and cuts off power and/or communication to the controls.
What was stated was actually stated improperly. It's not a duty to maximize profits, the legal obligation is to MAKE MONEY for the shareholders. Failure to do so can result in a lawsuit against the operating officers by the board of directors (who are comprised of the controlling-vote shareholders.) It is a legal obligation, usually tied to the obligation of the shareholder to share the liability of debts.
I wonder how many times I could screw your computer before you'd change your mind. When I take your information and screw your financial history? How about I stalk your wife using the stolen info I have, and rape her, would you reconsider that threshold of security? No? How about I kidnap your children, they're pretty easy targets now that I've been able to glean so much information from your hijacked systems that you're willing to put up with.
"the driver will have to tell the OS whether or not the hardware says the driver is legit. "
Just give it something similar to a POST. Make it OS agnostic. If the signed code comes from a video card, run the code to see if it's capable of handling what would be required to run a video card.
This doesn't break a goddamned thing, to those that think it does. If you write your video driver PROPERLY, it will check with the video card fine. a tiny rootkit with hardly any functionality will most likely not, and thus fail miserably.
Did you read my idea? Run verification key PLUS CODE through the hardware itself. If the key matches the hardware but the code produces BS results in the hardware (such as a nonsensical static when it should get several test tones,) then it gets denied.
There is a small difference to note, however; One is addressing an entire hardware set (motorola) the other is using code from a piece of hardware (is it a sound card/network driver certificate that got jacked?)
Actually, bad example. let me see what my medicated brain can re-think.
It's more like this, Motorola is stopping you from using hardware you purchased in a manner you wish with a hardware security check, where on the other hand, someone usurped a certificate from Realtek and used that to bypass security checks in a software-based system.
To prevent such an attack, I'd force those certificates to authenticate with the particular hardware. If the certificate came from the sound card drivers, the ENTIRE code should be authenticated by the sound card. Not sound card code behind that certificate? Denied.
Couldn't they just start making driver signatures verify with the hardware they support instead of the OS? Screw the OS saying whether or not it's legit, does the actual hardware it's meant for say it's legit code?
It would likely take me 5 minutes with proper voltage disruptions to bypass everything. Same way "Geohot" took my board trace voltage trick to bypass the PS3 hypervisor.
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It's called liquid helium cooling. Not new.
If it were a human in the path of a 32kW laser, no sitting still would be required. It would be flash/VAPORIZE.
I just got to test a 1W solid state class IV laser. Coupled with a good collimation/focusing system, your eyeballs are gone from 200 meters away with just the briefest flash across the retina.
32kW from 200m would be TOASTY.
"Unless you have some super computer that perfectly track a moving target the whole this is total BS."
Well shit, son, we've had fucking laser guidance and tracking for ytears. It doesn't take even a Cray X-1. Supercomputer? Shit son we got to the moon on shit less powerful than my current watch!
"You also ignore the obvious, projectile weapons are going to be easier to maintain."
Yep, lemme tell ya, lasers just foul up with gunpowder all the time, jam up in the receiver, and the moving part wear and tear is a bitch!
NOT.
You know nothing about mirrors, apparently.
Not all mirrors are solid.
99% reflectivity means only 320 watts of power is hitting the craft.
Unless you've maintained all of that power within a very, VERY narrow beam (we're talking less than 2mm) you're not going much further out than a mile before that beam is useless.
"Perfect mirrors, with not a single imperfection that will melt them in a microsecond, which are completely dust free in spite of being outdoors."
Spinning mercury mirror. Come on, quit thinking solid, we've had liquid reflectors for a long time, now.
"Is a 330m better than a 220m?"
maybe by power consumption and feature support, that's about it. Until the Fermi releases, everything from the 9800GTX+ to the 300 series was the same core, just a different revision.
Which is why my 9800GTX+ still plays most everything at 1920x1080 without a hitch.
Four two-inch penises would be entertaining.
"Man, that joke was so clever and insightful, did you RTFA to come up with it?"
No, it was plainly and clearly tattooed across your mother's wide-load ass.
Crowded oceans make for poor motion. Just sayin'.
"Seriously though, if you like to game on your computer there is no such thing as too much power."
Someone hasn't seen the EVGA SR-2 mobo, yet.
"So your complete and total paranoia bullshit actually proves the GP's point"
It's not paranoia bullshit when it's happened to my mother.
So FUCK YOU.
"No needles involved."
Depends on the lancet manufacturer. The ones I had for capillary puncture were actual needles, not knives. Round, tapered, pointy. No edges.
"No. Blood must be drawn directly from the venous system (or arterial system, depending on the goal). At that depth, there aren't even that many capillaries.'
Let me apply that patch to your cheek. Watch how fast you bleed.
I was a labrat for those when they first introduced these types of patches for nicotine polacrilex delivery. They will make you bleed depending upon where they are placed. Top of the feet, tops of the hands, cheeks, neck, the thinner skin near your genital area, inside your elbow, the locations you can successfully bleed from from nanometers-thick cuts are numerous, and usually thin-skinned.
"Unfortunately I'm told the results would be pretty useless due to the female plants only really producing when there are no males around to fertilise them."
Which is total nonsense.
I grow and breed the stuff for the Dutch genetics preservation programs. Yield is dependent upon genetics.
THC content, on the other hand, is not close to being gene-dependent. That is almost wholly dependent upon the amount of blue-UV irradiation the plant receives and is maybe 10% genetics (which determines which cannabinoids will be found in the plant. For example, Asian landraces are loaded with THCV, not THCA.)
"For instance, it's the LAW to equip all wells with a remote controllable shutoff valve if you want to drill in the north sea. A device which could easily have prevented the BP spill, but wasn't used, because it wasn't a requirement."
The shutoff valve wouldn't have helped when the thing BLEW UP, especially as deep as it was. Many things, valve included, have difficulty turning when stuff blows up and cuts off power and/or communication to the controls.
"I'll need a reference for the former."
What was stated was actually stated improperly. It's not a duty to maximize profits, the legal obligation is to MAKE MONEY for the shareholders. Failure to do so can result in a lawsuit against the operating officers by the board of directors (who are comprised of the controlling-vote shareholders.) It is a legal obligation, usually tied to the obligation of the shareholder to share the liability of debts.
I wonder how many times I could screw your computer before you'd change your mind. When I take your information and screw your financial history? How about I stalk your wife using the stolen info I have, and rape her, would you reconsider that threshold of security? No? How about I kidnap your children, they're pretty easy targets now that I've been able to glean so much information from your hijacked systems that you're willing to put up with.
Bad idea, pal.
"the driver will have to tell the OS whether or not the hardware says the driver is legit. "
Just give it something similar to a POST. Make it OS agnostic. If the signed code comes from a video card, run the code to see if it's capable of handling what would be required to run a video card.
This doesn't break a goddamned thing, to those that think it does. If you write your video driver PROPERLY, it will check with the video card fine. a tiny rootkit with hardly any functionality will most likely not, and thus fail miserably.
Indeed, I should patent it quickly, so that it may not come to pass without my blessing!
Did you read my idea? Run verification key PLUS CODE through the hardware itself. If the key matches the hardware but the code produces BS results in the hardware (such as a nonsensical static when it should get several test tones,) then it gets denied.
No need to patch it if they're aware and can just incorporate the fix into WSE.
There is a small difference to note, however; One is addressing an entire hardware set (motorola) the other is using code from a piece of hardware (is it a sound card/network driver certificate that got jacked?)
Actually, bad example. let me see what my medicated brain can re-think.
It's more like this, Motorola is stopping you from using hardware you purchased in a manner you wish with a hardware security check, where on the other hand, someone usurped a certificate from Realtek and used that to bypass security checks in a software-based system.
To prevent such an attack, I'd force those certificates to authenticate with the particular hardware. If the certificate came from the sound card drivers, the ENTIRE code should be authenticated by the sound card. Not sound card code behind that certificate? Denied.
Couldn't they just start making driver signatures verify with the hardware they support instead of the OS? Screw the OS saying whether or not it's legit, does the actual hardware it's meant for say it's legit code?
It would likely take me 5 minutes with proper voltage disruptions to bypass everything. Same way "Geohot" took my board trace voltage trick to bypass the PS3 hypervisor.
Man can make it, man can break it. Period.