...but can you be sure they're not a nuclear scientist, who up until now was at a loss as to how to boost their thermo-nukes and now we've gone and pointed them in a new exciting direction! (I'm sure there is even something you could add about lithium and the mood of a previously depressed AC nuclear scientist but I'd need more coffee;))
You touched briefly (or made me think of at least) the idea of the consequences of 'cheap easy power', irrespective of how it is made. Ever since we jumped on a new energy bandwagon - coal (industrial revolution), oil (motor vehicles, plastics), electricity (however it has been historically and currently generated) and more, it has led to a fairly large jump forward in technology, way of life and so on. Limitless power has always been a holy grail of sorts, IOW what we might do if we get even closer.... quite an open ended 'hand-wavey' sort of statement, but we already live in quite interesting times... questions of ownership and collaboration, sharing of information just regarding the actual technology itself are themselves pretty huge, but then what!
Indeed RPM is going to be what makes or breaks fuel efficiency. We can't forget torque as well - the m3 has a nice big v8, getting that power at low RPM (well all through the range, but in the above instance) which in turn allows it to be running at 1.5k-2k RPM. IOW how much difference the extra top gear or higher ratio would work if you have to build up that smaller car through 4 or 5 higher rpm gears to get to the speed it can run at a lower rpm. Might work ok in country drives....
I was diagnosed a few years back (I'm in my early 30's now, so around 29ish) with ADHD-Innatentive and to be honest I was very sceptical (not to mention my family or other people I told). I had been battling with depression since my teens, and after going through a great deal of different medications I saw another PDoc.
He explained to me about research (sorry I don't have the citations needed) which talked about the inatentive form of ADHD being linked with some kinds of anxiety and depression. In my case past medical help had been treating only part of the whole, and suggested we try treating the ADHD as well.
The diagnosis (well the treatment) really changed my life - it gave it back to me and you really can't put a price on that. I will have to take medication for the rest of my life unless some major breakthrough happens, which isn't beyond the realms, but should that breakthrough not happen so be it - I have finally found something which works for me, and I'm happy.
First up, I'm not an American or a Russian and this is pure speculation.....:) The image of a person on the inside who becomes outraged with 'the system' and enlightens the rest of the affected populous (kinda sounds like - "it's people... you're eating people!") is one that conjures a romantic image of a 'good' person. To most the idea of being spied on without your knowledge or even a good cause is abhorrent, but irrespective of what it was that was leaked/whistleblown/shut down it does make a good story, almost worthy of or even similar to movies made of super spies and jaded heroes of the people. I have no reason to suspect that Mr Snowden is anything but a good man who felt he had to act, and I'm certainly not trying to suggest otherwise.
Now, I was just pondering your post and it made me think of the contrast to the Cold War days - "CIA vs KGB" and the whole espionage/intelligence gathering and how information can be used. Propaganda is certainly nothing new, but let's say a government did have a spy/agent/whateveryacallit inside the government gathering intelligence. Of course locations of Armies and military operations, movements of VIPs etc are always going to be intelligence gold, but what if you wanted to not just gather information but wage an information war. I'm sure in conjunction with cyber attacks and strategic stock or other economic trading a government sized entity could do a country a serious amount of damage without firing a shot. I'm sure it's not a new idea by any stretch, just an observation of the way information and the media age we live in can be used as a weapon.
I agree with you on the outset, (assuming I understand correctly...) that for example slowing traffic at already busy intersections, at busy times etc does have the effect of getting more people to see a message at the cost of inconveniencing people who perhaps are already on the side of the protesters or as you say have nothing to do with whatever the protest is about...
I don't think that cyber attacks are a great deal different. Let's make up a company, say Sarny, they make um... sarnies. For some reason many people who are savvy online don't care for the actions of Sarny and use a denial of service or something to make their online presence go slow which is their form of protest. In comes another consumer who doesn't know/care about Sarny's online activities, but they need to connect to the same website to get some kind of update or information, firmware, whatever.
In an ideal world (IDK is it the ideal outcome?) - people who would not know about the reasons behind the protest, become informed, and then join the protest, at which point above company realises the error of it's ways and consults with the community at large to make sure they can make everyone happy. (I know I know, not the usual outcome, but we can still dream). The upsides being that both the consumer is informed of an issue they may not have known about before, and the company realises that either intentionally or not, they need to do something to keep their customers.
Now, there are many many other outcomes we could invent, imagine or point to previous examples of, but one that springs to my mind (one I can't answer but would be interested to hear what people think), let's say that DDoS became a valid form of protest. How much of the population at large would be able to really understand what it means and what the ramifications are? What if the online protest seriously damaged the company to the point of causing great loss or even bankruptcy? How does the law deal with extended in person protests that might damage a company still trading?
I know there have been times my primitive brain would have said 'yay 'x' company went down to people power', but I do wonder what happens to workers, communities, and.... shareholders (*shudder*;)
I agree, they have to treat every threat as a possible real danger.
I'll admit that the likelyhood of there being more than one person sending in the threats is at least moderate - copycats who thought it was a laugh at the beginning, but I'd say now after 70+ there is also most likely a large percentage of those threats that came from one individual.
Now to go a bit 'criminal minds'-ish on you, but if you'll indulge, many cases of criminal behaviour which lead to rather random events (bombings, spree shootings, serial killings) and others that are more common will have an individual who will send bizarre and often non-sensical warnings beforehand:
Just a few examples. So perhaps it's possible we have an individual here who has a grudge or some twisted mission. They begin to send letters, hoping for action, attention. Suddenly things are happening, people are being evacuated, the media is listening, even another man (ex-professor) was arrested for sending threatening emails. What if there is a next stage in their plan?
I honestly hope there isn't and it's just some fool who has let a prank get way out of hand, but I don't think they should ignore any threats because the results could be devastating.
Terminus is what I tend to use now, but I really liked Neep and Neep Alt(I think). I think it was in the jmk-bitmap packages or the like. Google would probably find them:)
Desperate people resort to desperate measures. To say they should be sued for this is fighting for the side of spam rather than against. Why is a box that has been compromised and is spewing emails to the world considered not fair game? Simply becaused the owner was unlucky or complacent enough not to secure it? Do no harm? How about pleading self-defence... Kill or be killed.
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...but can you be sure they're not a nuclear scientist, who up until now was at a loss as to how to boost their thermo-nukes and now we've gone and pointed them in a new exciting direction! (I'm sure there is even something you could add about lithium and the mood of a previously depressed AC nuclear scientist but I'd need more coffee ;))
You touched briefly (or made me think of at least) the idea of the consequences of 'cheap easy power', irrespective of how it is made. Ever since we jumped on a new energy bandwagon - coal (industrial revolution), oil (motor vehicles, plastics), electricity (however it has been historically and currently generated) and more, it has led to a fairly large jump forward in technology, way of life and so on.
Limitless power has always been a holy grail of sorts, IOW what we might do if we get even closer.... quite an open ended 'hand-wavey' sort of statement, but we already live in quite interesting times... questions of ownership and collaboration, sharing of information just regarding the actual technology itself are themselves pretty huge, but then what!
The mind boggles eh
I'd like to hate you but I can't - I'll admit it's pure jealousy.
- drinking at 11am on a Thursday
- beautiful (from your description) microbrew
- IPA
*sigh*
Raise one for me if you'd be kind enough sir
Indeed RPM is going to be what makes or breaks fuel efficiency. We can't forget torque as well - the m3 has a nice big v8, getting that power at low RPM (well all through the range, but in the above instance) which in turn allows it to be running at 1.5k-2k RPM. IOW how much difference the extra top gear or higher ratio would work if you have to build up that smaller car through 4 or 5 higher rpm gears to get to the speed it can run at a lower rpm. Might work ok in country drives....
I was diagnosed a few years back (I'm in my early 30's now, so around 29ish) with ADHD-Innatentive and to be honest I was very sceptical (not to mention my family or other people I told). I had been battling with depression since my teens, and after going through a great deal of different medications I saw another PDoc.
He explained to me about research (sorry I don't have the citations needed) which talked about the inatentive form of ADHD being linked with some kinds of anxiety and depression. In my case past medical help had been treating only part of the whole, and suggested we try treating the ADHD as well.
The diagnosis (well the treatment) really changed my life - it gave it back to me and you really can't put a price on that. I will have to take medication for the rest of my life unless some major breakthrough happens, which isn't beyond the realms, but should that breakthrough not happen so be it - I have finally found something which works for me, and I'm happy.
First up, I'm not an American or a Russian and this is pure speculation..... :) The image of a person on the inside who becomes outraged with 'the system' and enlightens the rest of the affected populous (kinda sounds like - "it's people... you're eating people!") is one that conjures a romantic image of a 'good' person. To most the idea of being spied on without your knowledge or even a good cause is abhorrent, but irrespective of what it was that was leaked/whistleblown/shut down it does make a good story, almost worthy of or even similar to movies made of super spies and jaded heroes of the people. I have no reason to suspect that Mr Snowden is anything but a good man who felt he had to act, and I'm certainly not trying to suggest otherwise.
Now, I was just pondering your post and it made me think of the contrast to the Cold War days - "CIA vs KGB" and the whole espionage/intelligence gathering and how information can be used. Propaganda is certainly nothing new, but let's say a government did have a spy/agent/whateveryacallit inside the government gathering intelligence. Of course locations of Armies and military operations, movements of VIPs etc are always going to be intelligence gold, but what if you wanted to not just gather information but wage an information war. I'm sure in conjunction with cyber attacks and strategic stock or other economic trading a government sized entity could do a country a serious amount of damage without firing a shot.
I'm sure it's not a new idea by any stretch, just an observation of the way information and the media age we live in can be used as a weapon.
Weird conflicted feeling..... :)
I agree with you on the outset, (assuming I understand correctly...) that for example slowing traffic at already busy intersections, at busy times etc does have the effect of getting more people to see a message at the cost of inconveniencing people who perhaps are already on the side of the protesters or as you say have nothing to do with whatever the protest is about...
I don't think that cyber attacks are a great deal different. Let's make up a company, say Sarny, they make um... sarnies. For some reason many people who are savvy online don't care for the actions of Sarny and use a denial of service or something to make their online presence go slow which is their form of protest. In comes another consumer who doesn't know/care about Sarny's online activities, but they need to connect to the same website to get some kind of update or information, firmware, whatever.
In an ideal world (IDK is it the ideal outcome?) - people who would not know about the reasons behind the protest, become informed, and then join the protest, at which point above company realises the error of it's ways and consults with the community at large to make sure they can make everyone happy. (I know I know, not the usual outcome, but we can still dream). The upsides being that both the consumer is informed of an issue they may not have known about before, and the company realises that either intentionally or not, they need to do something to keep their customers.
Now, there are many many other outcomes we could invent, imagine or point to previous examples of, but one that springs to my mind (one I can't answer but would be interested to hear what people think), let's say that DDoS became a valid form of protest. How much of the population at large would be able to really understand what it means and what the ramifications are? What if the online protest seriously damaged the company to the point of causing great loss or even bankruptcy? How does the law deal with extended in person protests that might damage a company still trading?
I know there have been times my primitive brain would have said 'yay 'x' company went down to people power', but I do wonder what happens to workers, communities, and .... shareholders (*shudder* ;)
Anyway just some ramblings
I agree, they have to treat every threat as a possible real danger.
I'll admit that the likelyhood of there being more than one person sending in the threats is at least moderate - copycats who thought it was a laugh at the beginning, but I'd say now after 70+ there is also most likely a large percentage of those threats that came from one individual.
Now to go a bit 'criminal minds'-ish on you, but if you'll indulge, many cases of criminal behaviour which lead to rather random events (bombings, spree shootings, serial killings) and others that are more common will have an individual who will send bizarre and often non-sensical warnings beforehand:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Plan_against_federal_building_or_individuals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber#Manifesto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_sam#Letters_and_profiling
Just a few examples. So perhaps it's possible we have an individual here who has a grudge or some twisted mission. They begin to send letters, hoping for action, attention. Suddenly things are happening, people are being evacuated, the media is listening, even another man (ex-professor) was arrested for sending threatening emails. What if there is a next stage in their plan?
I honestly hope there isn't and it's just some fool who has let a prank get way out of hand, but I don't think they should ignore any threats because the results could be devastating.
Terminus is what I tend to use now, but I really liked Neep and Neep Alt(I think). I think it was in the jmk-bitmap packages or the like. Google would probably find them :)
Who said that? Someone turn on a light or something.....
I just hope he brought enough cure for everyone :)
Desperate people resort to desperate measures. To say they should be sued for this is fighting for the side of spam rather than against. Why is a box that has been compromised and is spewing emails to the world considered not fair game? Simply becaused the owner was unlucky or complacent enough not to secure it?
Do no harm? How about pleading self-defence... Kill or be killed.
The following windows users have won motorboats.....
Hi, It seems your trying to buy groceries, I can assist you by.....
hmm from the link I'm guessing he was sure
I want to know how this post becomes insightful?
I mean blizzard had hardly put out Warcraft 2 by the time 486s were popular.