Sorry, I don't own a crotch rocket. I consider high-end race bikes on the street to be just a useless as a poser Harley. My last ride was a restored 1978 KZ650, and my next will likely be a dual-sport.
Let me guess, you own a Harley and it took you this long to actually read the comments?
The interesting thing to note is that the US ans UK were ready to immediate launch those cruise missles. Apparently we already had full intelligence and a list of targets just waiting. I suspect we have a list of target for most countries and it's just a matter of giving the word for the subs/ship to get in position and fire away.
the radiation level is 3usv (sic!) above normal background.
I know I'm nitpicking here, but saying that the "level is 3 uSv above normal background" does not make sense. 3 uSv is a dose (a tiny one) and background is measured in dose/time. So 3 uSv above background/second would be very significant, whereas 3 uSv above background/year would be totally negligible.
The better reports actually state the levels as microseiverts/hour, which is indeed an insignificant level even if maintained for a few months.
I'll be removing the training wheels off my Harley this afternoon... thanks to this article I can be badass and efficient
Harley and efficient are two words that just don't go together. Bad and Harley might, but badass and Harley certainly don't either. Harleys only seem to appeal to mid-life wannabe posers that can afford them and like riding loud, leaking, unreliable motorcycles. The smart riders buy Japanese for the reliability and don't worry about trying to impress (but actually annoy) their neighbors with a sputtering Harley.
Whatever the advantages of good supervision in the home are, they are outweighed by the lack of day long interaction with others.
Public school for very bright kids often prevents them from excelling. Public schools in the US (particularly after the no-child-left-behind nonsense) teach to the lowest common denominator and classes only progress at the pace of the slowest kid in the room. Whereas homeschooling and Charter type schools are far more flexible in focusing on a particular child's needs and abilities. Besides, there is nothing saying a homeschooled kid can't have an active social life and develop good social skills.
My kid homeschools for 3 hours a day. She is testing several grades ahead her public schools friends, some of whom are barely literate.
The people who are so obsessed with twitter and facebook that they bring the laptops to bed, can't get to sleep as well as normal well adjusted people who just watch a little TV before bed. Guess which group also has a better relationship with their spouses?
You fail at statistics. Wow. I would dare say, Epic Fail.
What? You can't understand that OSX has had more TOTAL vulnerabilities than Windows7, a higher percentage of which were serious vulnerabilities? Sure you can interpret the other way and look at the rate at which they were found, but that's a different argument.
So neither you, the cop, nor the judge were aware of the actual Nevada laws on broken traffic lights, eh? Basically, you treat it as a stop sign. Most states have similar laws, and often require waiting through a certain number of cycles or minutes. http://www.ehow.com/list_6847632_traffic-laws-nevada.html
The article said it can burn thru 20 feet of steel per second, not 200 per the slashdot version.
Even the 20 feet is likely misleading since I doubt it can sustain that power output for more than a fraction of a second, and anyways if you really were borign thru multiple feet of steel then all your vaporized steel in the borehole you were creating would get in the way of the laser.
Still very impressive though. I'd love to see the face of the first crackpot dictator whose ICBMs are shot down by one of these.
True. The duty cycle is probably very short indeed. However a single 1-millisecond shot is sufficent to burn through a 1/4" shell on an inbound missle. Higher power in a short duration is actually what you want when shooting something down as it makes stable aiming (especially on something rotating) far less critical. The Navy is very interesting in laser weapons as nuclear power is cheap and you don't have to carry or create a supply line for munitions.
gas pumps currently use the zip to verify it's your card...
No they don't. The zipcode is never sent to the credit card company. It's collect for demographics. Try putting in a bogus zip if you don't believe me.
While that makes sense in theory, merchants do have the right to verify the identity of a customer attempting to use a credit card. Won't they just request to see a driver's license instead? Then they would have access to much more personal information than just a zip code. I don't really see how this law ends up protecting anyone.
For instance, one can request a customer's driver's license to verify his or her identity.
They can ask, but not require it for most credit cards. Some Credit Card agreements actually prohibit the merchant from asking to see ID. http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/Alert-FS15.htm
If it was American drivers faults, why then did we not see a rash of similar accidents with other manufacturers vehicles?
If you bothered to read the article, you might have noticed this:
""Unintended acceleration is not exclusive to Toyotas," Medford said, pointing out that two-thirds of the unintended acceleration reports the agency has received in recent years involved vehicles by other automakers."
The govt will likely be the LAST organization to full adopt IPv6. DOD has done a few test pilots, but at best you'll only see this on the wan links. Internally you'll see them moving to RFC private addresses. NMCI is now the largest private network and it's running on 10.x.x.x numbers internally. Everything is filtered through proxies and all the important services they'd ever want to access will have IPv4 addresses for years to come.
I hate talking to myself, but I thought I'd post the ACTUAL SPECS from http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html. Unfortunately exposing the iphone to conditions within these specs can result in the LDIs turning red.
Environmental requirements
* Operating temperature: 32 to 95 F (0 to 35 C)
* Nonoperating temperature: -4 to 113 F (-20 to 45 C)
* Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
* Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
No the point is that using the phone in temperature and humidity ranges conditions that Apple themselves state are acceptable may trigger the LDI dots. If being near a sweaty body is a problem, then they should stop advertising the ipod to people who run. Otherwise that's false advertising and the product is not suitable for the purpose for which it's being sold.
I would love to see Google try to reign some of the uncontrolled nature of Android back in.
That's the downside of the free open source nature of Android though, anyone can use it, anyone can build a device that runs it and anyone can lock it down on the device they sell.
And unfortunately, anyone can and does sell crap hardware with Android on it which severely tarnishes the reputation of Android. China is flooding the market with low-end, very slow hardware. People are getting frustrated and getting the perception that Android is garbage and not user friendly. It doesn't help when the high-end tablet makers can't seem to sell anything that doesn't cost $2-300 more than an iPad.
I would love to see Google try to reign some of the uncontrolled nature of Android back in. Establishing a central software repository of all of the forks of Android would be a create start. All of the manufacturers that have tweaked Android for their specific devices could provide copies of their loads, ideally including the source and details of their changes. This would give users one central place to look for updated 'firmware' (yeah I know, but that's what the vendors keep calling it). As it stands now, each vendor may or may not provide updates. There are a large number of individuals building custom loads for various orphaned devices with no coordinated means of distributing those loads.
A centralized repository would go along way towards security and sharing feature updates. Before you yell at me, yes I realize this is a vulnerable app and not Android itself. My arguments still apply.
Assuming the phone even has access to the Market. Many don't have access to the standard Android Marketplace and can only get to the one the telco restricted the phone to. For the slew of Tablets out there, many can't get to the Android marketplace either. Also note that many of those are running dead-ended or proprietary/custom builds that are no longer supported and might not see any future updates at all.
The "fragmentation" of Android is perhaps it's biggest shortcoming. There is not such thing as a standard Android install as most installs are tweaked for the hardware and the features the vendors wants to implement. It's certainly not like Apple's iOS which has maybe a dozen unique hardware configurations to maintain. I think Android is close to a few hundred "distros" (if that's an appropriate term, maybe unofficial forks would be better) that will need to get updated.
I guess diesels are seen as less "fun". Also, i think the regulations, or lack of such, in USA makes them less clean then elsewhere.
Actually for a while it was the poor quality of US diesel that kept some of the European diesels out of the US market. The low sulfur mandates in the US have brought the quality up to Euro standards now. Subaru for example has a really nice diesel option in the Foresters that came out in Euro almost 2-years ago. It gets up to 50mpg, yet they don't believe there is a market for it in the US.
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Sorry, I don't own a crotch rocket. I consider high-end race bikes on the street to be just a useless as a poser Harley. My last ride was a restored 1978 KZ650, and my next will likely be a dual-sport.
Let me guess, you own a Harley and it took you this long to actually read the comments?
The interesting thing to note is that the US ans UK were ready to immediate launch those cruise missles. Apparently we already had full intelligence and a list of targets just waiting. I suspect we have a list of target for most countries and it's just a matter of giving the word for the subs/ship to get in position and fire away.
the radiation level is 3usv (sic!) above normal background.
I know I'm nitpicking here, but saying that the "level is 3 uSv above normal background" does not make sense. 3 uSv is a dose (a tiny one) and background is measured in dose/time. So 3 uSv above background/second would be very significant, whereas 3 uSv above background/year would be totally negligible.
The better reports actually state the levels as microseiverts/hour, which is indeed an insignificant level even if maintained for a few months.
I'll be removing the training wheels off my Harley this afternoon... thanks to this article I can be badass and efficient
Harley and efficient are two words that just don't go together. Bad and Harley might, but badass and Harley certainly don't either. Harleys only seem to appeal to mid-life wannabe posers that can afford them and like riding loud, leaking, unreliable motorcycles. The smart riders buy Japanese for the reliability and don't worry about trying to impress (but actually annoy) their neighbors with a sputtering Harley.
Sorry but what are these 'friends'?
The poor guy is homeschooled!
Whatever the advantages of good supervision in the home are, they are outweighed by the lack of day long interaction with others.
Public school for very bright kids often prevents them from excelling. Public schools in the US (particularly after the no-child-left-behind nonsense) teach to the lowest common denominator and classes only progress at the pace of the slowest kid in the room. Whereas homeschooling and Charter type schools are far more flexible in focusing on a particular child's needs and abilities. Besides, there is nothing saying a homeschooled kid can't have an active social life and develop good social skills.
My kid homeschools for 3 hours a day. She is testing several grades ahead her public schools friends, some of whom are barely literate.
There are a lot of sub $300 Android 10" tablets out there. Some even have much better specs than iPads. The Hero C9 for example.
The people who are so obsessed with twitter and facebook that they bring the laptops to bed, can't get to sleep as well as normal well adjusted people who just watch a little TV before bed. Guess which group also has a better relationship with their spouses?
You fail at statistics. Wow. I would dare say, Epic Fail.
What? You can't understand that OSX has had more TOTAL vulnerabilities than Windows7, a higher percentage of which were serious vulnerabilities? Sure you can interpret the other way and look at the rate at which they were found, but that's a different argument.
Thats a news site, in other words a newspaper. ... stupid, isn't it?
Citating a newspaper is kinda
angel'o'sphere
Thats a news site, in other words a newspaper. ... stupid, isn't it?
Citating a newspaper is kinda
angel'o'sphere
Did you bother to read the article and the quotations from Security experts. Just because it's in a newspaper doesn't mean its wrong.
Have any quotes or links to back that up, Mr. Submitter?
Is it just me, or do a lot of the Mac fan-boys not know how to use Google before they open their moth and insert their foot?
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/pc-windows-apple-mac-osx,9557.html (second google hit, btw)
The statistics bear this out. 2003-2011, Mac OSX had 2.6x as many vulnerabilites at Windows 7. Plus a higher percentage were serious vulnerabilities.
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/27467/?task=statistics
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/96/?task=statistics
So neither you, the cop, nor the judge were aware of the actual Nevada laws on broken traffic lights, eh? Basically, you treat it as a stop sign. Most states have similar laws, and often require waiting through a certain number of cycles or minutes. http://www.ehow.com/list_6847632_traffic-laws-nevada.html
The article said it can burn thru 20 feet of steel per second, not 200 per the slashdot version.
Even the 20 feet is likely misleading since I doubt it can sustain that power output for more than a fraction of a second, and anyways if you really were borign thru multiple feet of steel then all your vaporized steel in the borehole you were creating would get in the way of the laser.
Still very impressive though. I'd love to see the face of the first crackpot dictator whose ICBMs are shot down by one of these.
True. The duty cycle is probably very short indeed. However a single 1-millisecond shot is sufficent to burn through a 1/4" shell on an inbound missle. Higher power in a short duration is actually what you want when shooting something down as it makes stable aiming (especially on something rotating) far less critical. The Navy is very interesting in laser weapons as nuclear power is cheap and you don't have to carry or create a supply line for munitions.
gas pumps currently use the zip to verify it's your card...
No they don't. The zipcode is never sent to the credit card company. It's collect for demographics. Try putting in a bogus zip if you don't believe me.
While that makes sense in theory, merchants do have the right to verify the identity of a customer attempting to use a credit card. Won't they just request to see a driver's license instead? Then they would have access to much more personal information than just a zip code. I don't really see how this law ends up protecting anyone.
No they don't have the right, and in fact is usually goes against the credit card merchant agreement. http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/Alert-FS15.htm
For instance, one can request a customer's driver's license to verify his or her identity.
They can ask, but not require it for most credit cards. Some Credit Card agreements actually prohibit the merchant from asking to see ID.
http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/Alert-FS15.htm
Thats 20um, not mil. 20mil is about 4/5ths of an inch.
Obviously you're not an engineer and failed math. 1 mil = 0.001" so 20 mil = 0.02"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=UVS&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&defl=en&q=define:mil+thickness&sa=X&ei=4dRUTfyXFoH78Aa01IXPBw&ved=0CBMQkAE
If it was American drivers faults, why then did we not see a rash of similar accidents with other manufacturers vehicles?
If you bothered to read the article, you might have noticed this:
""Unintended acceleration is not exclusive to Toyotas," Medford said, pointing out that two-thirds of the unintended acceleration reports the agency has received in recent years involved vehicles by other automakers."
This requires government action:
The govt will likely be the LAST organization to full adopt IPv6. DOD has done a few test pilots, but at best you'll only see this on the wan links. Internally you'll see them moving to RFC private addresses. NMCI is now the largest private network and it's running on 10.x.x.x numbers internally. Everything is filtered through proxies and all the important services they'd ever want to access will have IPv4 addresses for years to come.
I hate talking to myself, but I thought I'd post the ACTUAL SPECS from http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html. Unfortunately exposing the iphone to conditions within these specs can result in the LDIs turning red.
Environmental requirements
* Operating temperature: 32 to 95 F (0 to 35 C)
* Nonoperating temperature: -4 to 113 F (-20 to 45 C)
* Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
* Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
No the point is that using the phone in temperature and humidity ranges conditions that Apple themselves state are acceptable may trigger the LDI dots. If being near a sweaty body is a problem, then they should stop advertising the ipod to people who run. Otherwise that's false advertising and the product is not suitable for the purpose for which it's being sold.
I would love to see Google try to reign some of the uncontrolled nature of Android back in.
That's the downside of the free open source nature of Android though, anyone can use it, anyone can build a device that runs it and anyone can lock it down on the device they sell.
And unfortunately, anyone can and does sell crap hardware with Android on it which severely tarnishes the reputation of Android. China is flooding the market with low-end, very slow hardware. People are getting frustrated and getting the perception that Android is garbage and not user friendly. It doesn't help when the high-end tablet makers can't seem to sell anything that doesn't cost $2-300 more than an iPad.
I would love to see Google try to reign some of the uncontrolled nature of Android back in. Establishing a central software repository of all of the forks of Android would be a create start. All of the manufacturers that have tweaked Android for their specific devices could provide copies of their loads, ideally including the source and details of their changes. This would give users one central place to look for updated 'firmware' (yeah I know, but that's what the vendors keep calling it). As it stands now, each vendor may or may not provide updates. There are a large number of individuals building custom loads for various orphaned devices with no coordinated means of distributing those loads.
A centralized repository would go along way towards security and sharing feature updates. Before you yell at me, yes I realize this is a vulnerable app and not Android itself. My arguments still apply.
Assuming the phone even has access to the Market. Many don't have access to the standard Android Marketplace and can only get to the one the telco restricted the phone to. For the slew of Tablets out there, many can't get to the Android marketplace either. Also note that many of those are running dead-ended or proprietary/custom builds that are no longer supported and might not see any future updates at all.
The "fragmentation" of Android is perhaps it's biggest shortcoming. There is not such thing as a standard Android install as most installs are tweaked for the hardware and the features the vendors wants to implement. It's certainly not like Apple's iOS which has maybe a dozen unique hardware configurations to maintain. I think Android is close to a few hundred "distros" (if that's an appropriate term, maybe unofficial forks would be better) that will need to get updated.
I guess diesels are seen as less "fun". Also, i think the regulations, or lack of such, in USA makes them less clean then elsewhere.
Actually for a while it was the poor quality of US diesel that kept some of the European diesels out of the US market. The low sulfur mandates in the US have brought the quality up to Euro standards now. Subaru for example has a really nice diesel option in the Foresters that came out in Euro almost 2-years ago. It gets up to 50mpg, yet they don't believe there is a market for it in the US.