Sorry, I didn't have that knowledge, only a demonstration that did not used synchronisation, but a knot used to tune from one screen to another (just like a FM radio receiver) and the explanation "our targets usualy shield their monitor, but it's hard to efficiently shield the cable, and 1)it's easy to read, 2)you can read it from any direction".
If you have offspring yourself (or any family), you'd find how easily the people with enough power could forbid you to do anything while not doing anything technically illegal (as long as you don't act stupidly, of course). Try to fight this kind of opponent and you'll be lucky going back to entry level research.
You can easily send SMS for free through a web interface and provide whatever name and phone number in the sender fields, so yes, even for a lot of targets. Now, tricking a GSM cell to send a SMS broadcast to all the phones it serves might be a little more complex.
Normal SMS could flood the network (I heard of new year messages that needed more that a week to be delivered), but SMS boradcast simply use the common signalisation channel (the one the phones monitor every couple of s to be warned of incoming calls), but instead of "call for phone #xxx, please report on slot n", it reads "good news everyone!" so everyphone monitoring that stations gets the message very efficiently.
Absolutely, MIPS are fine for executive summary, but the real thing is how efficiently a chip will deal with some kind of problems, and for what cost. My DSP is very good on only one thing: repetitive fixed point polynomial data crunching. Basically, each ns, it can perform: -2 arthmetic operations -2 logic operations (or tests) -2 multiplications -2 mem read/write If the code it runs isn't tuned to stay close to those ratios, real performances drop.
BTW, I didn't investigate, but since that chip is already a couple of years old, there now must be stronger beasts around.
I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny, so I decide to keep my answer serious. The real question would be "what is preventing them TO STOP rewinding 5 minutes EVERY 5 MIN?" and the answer would be "nothing". I knew a family member who would decide to perform something (whatever, it was usually stupid, useless and intended to please a long dead person) and do it over and over until shel felt of exhaustion. Any attempt to make her stop that or do something else like eating or putting a minimum of clothes was welcomed extremely agressively.
For years, she needed 24*7 attention from persons who were never very far from total nervous breakdown. That's the kind of things you're happy not knowing.
Moreover, if Albert Einstein had spent a large proportion of his life indexing and reviewing mundane parts of his life, how could he find the time to achieve anything worth remembering?
To me it's exactly the same as all those teens who spend hours writing how miserable their life are on their blogs instead of doing anything. Come on kids, spending 10min a day keeping a diary is totally fine, but if you want your life to go anywhere, you need to spend most of your time looking forward (plus, everytime you record something about yourself, you shoud wonder wether you could be ashamed of it when you will be 5 years older and reconsider putting it on public display).
"Who is this for? Those with Alzheimer's or amnesia?"
No, only narcissics. People who suffer from Alzheimer's usualy keep vivid memories of important past events long after they forgot how to manage the moment. Odds are that they will remember what they see in the archive but forgot that they already saw that archive 5 min ago. For people whith amnesia, it theorically could be used to remind the victim of the nature of the bounds he/she has with his/her relatives, but from that point, it is more important for him/her to rebuild those links by interacting with those people instead of watching videos of what seems to be someone else's life.
Seriously, I wouldn't want any of these whackos near me if I was to be cured even for a simple cold.
-Steps 1->250: remove skin -Steps 251->278: drain blood -Steps 279->1423: separate various tissues from the bones -Step 1424: dump infected tissues. -Steps 1425->2897: put back everything -Steps 2898->3527: try to revive it -Step 3528: incinerate the evidences
The situation and the cause will probably be different for each of these countries. As a french, I'd say that my country could ba good target for botnets because we have cheap and widely available fast broadband (half of the population has over 5Mb/s, the current edge being fiber 100Mb/s down, 50 up for 29E99/month, taxes included). As a consequence, we have millions of semi-literate computer users that have far more bandwich that they need and wouldn't notice if a few of their Mb/s were stolen. For a botnet manager, they are a far better prey than the average 1-2Mb/s american line.
Embarassement? No, discovering what initially looked like a normal star system that looked quite similar to our was a large specter mirror billions of km wide with an efficient orientation mechanism would be worth a lifetime of Nobel Prices,...all of them.
Because two is by far the least likely number in cosmology. In such a huge (we still don't know if it is finite) but apparently space-invariant universe, a kind of object is far more likely to be either totally unique or present in a certain percentage of stars or galaxies, but the thing is that, however low that percentage will be, the result will still be a good approximation of infinite.
"So, I think my observation is that one set of words, introvert/extrovert doesn't convey a lot of the variation in people's social interaction habits and preferences."
That's why I use the normal/annoying set of words, it works great for introverts like me.
In real life, I'm really keen, but as my father (and probably other more famous) says, "If you don't play to win, you're just ruining the game for everyone", so I'll do whatever the rules allow to win (even temporarily ally with other players), but will respect those who beat me (and stop nagging the other ones after a couple of minutes).
I don't see how it rules out the article theory. When reading the headline, I was thinking "WTF, how can radiation selectively chose one of two identical molecules", but if they are not exactly as stable, then maybe the radiations had destroyed a larger proportion of the less stable one and drastically tipped the balance.
I know I'd confess the murder of Lincoln and JFK (or whoever, for that matters) for a 5s pause of the treatment, and yet I've never been within 4000km of the USA.
Of course, if you don't need truth but a scrapegoat, torture is a wonderfull investigation tool.
"the "at a distance" option is much less important."
I'd even say it is a severe drawback. The only practical interest of a lie detector is not to measure stress, it is to induce it in order to increase the chances that the interrogated person will make a mistake.
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Sorry, I didn't have that knowledge, only a demonstration that did not used synchronisation, but a knot used to tune from one screen to another (just like a FM radio receiver) and the explanation "our targets usualy shield their monitor, but it's hard to efficiently shield the cable, and 1)it's easy to read, 2)you can read it from any direction".
LCD doesn't make a difference, as the actual target is usualy the VGA cable, not the screen itself.
If you have offspring yourself (or any family), you'd find how easily the people with enough power could forbid you to do anything while not doing anything technically illegal (as long as you don't act stupidly, of course).
Try to fight this kind of opponent and you'll be lucky going back to entry level research.
Except that (unfortunately), no one has ever commited suicide as a direct consequence of buying a Britney Spears CD.
You can easily send SMS for free through a web interface and provide whatever name and phone number in the sender fields, so yes, even for a lot of targets. Now, tricking a GSM cell to send a SMS broadcast to all the phones it serves might be a little more complex.
Normal SMS could flood the network (I heard of new year messages that needed more that a week to be delivered), but SMS boradcast simply use the common signalisation channel (the one the phones monitor every couple of s to be warned of incoming calls), but instead of "call for phone #xxx, please report on slot n", it reads "good news everyone!" so everyphone monitoring that stations gets the message very efficiently.
Absolutely, MIPS are fine for executive summary, but the real thing is how efficiently a chip will deal with some kind of problems, and for what cost.
My DSP is very good on only one thing: repetitive fixed point polynomial data crunching. Basically, each ns, it can perform:
-2 arthmetic operations
-2 logic operations (or tests)
-2 multiplications
-2 mem read/write
If the code it runs isn't tuned to stay close to those ratios, real performances drop.
BTW, I didn't investigate, but since that chip is already a couple of years old, there now must be stronger beasts around.
As Terry Pratchett wrote: "Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny, so I decide to keep my answer serious.
The real question would be "what is preventing them TO STOP rewinding 5 minutes EVERY 5 MIN?" and the answer would be "nothing". I knew a family member who would decide to perform something (whatever, it was usually stupid, useless and intended to please a long dead person) and do it over and over until shel felt of exhaustion. Any attempt to make her stop that or do something else like eating or putting a minimum of clothes was welcomed extremely agressively.
For years, she needed 24*7 attention from persons who were never very far from total nervous breakdown. That's the kind of things you're happy not knowing.
5 billion THEORICAL instructions per second just mean nothing.
Anyway, the DSP I'm working on, the TI C6416 (1GHz), claims up to 8 billion instructions/s (5 to 6 can be realistically obtained).
Moreover, if Albert Einstein had spent a large proportion of his life indexing and reviewing mundane parts of his life, how could he find the time to achieve anything worth remembering?
To me it's exactly the same as all those teens who spend hours writing how miserable their life are on their blogs instead of doing anything. Come on kids, spending 10min a day keeping a diary is totally fine, but if you want your life to go anywhere, you need to spend most of your time looking forward (plus, everytime you record something about yourself, you shoud wonder wether you could be ashamed of it when you will be 5 years older and reconsider putting it on public display).
"Who is this for? Those with Alzheimer's or amnesia?"
No, only narcissics.
People who suffer from Alzheimer's usualy keep vivid memories of important past events long after they forgot how to manage the moment. Odds are that they will remember what they see in the archive but forgot that they already saw that archive 5 min ago.
For people whith amnesia, it theorically could be used to remind the victim of the nature of the bounds he/she has with his/her relatives, but from that point, it is more important for him/her to rebuild those links by interacting with those people instead of watching videos of what seems to be someone else's life.
I already do that for everything I think is important, and a cheap 1MB USB drive is all I need for that.
Seriously, I wouldn't want any of these whackos near me if I was to be cured even for a simple cold.
-Steps 1->250: remove skin
-Steps 251->278: drain blood
-Steps 279->1423: separate various tissues from the bones
-Step 1424: dump infected tissues.
-Steps 1425->2897: put back everything
-Steps 2898->3527: try to revive it
-Step 3528: incinerate the evidences
The situation and the cause will probably be different for each of these countries. As a french, I'd say that my country could ba good target for botnets because we have cheap and widely available fast broadband (half of the population has over 5Mb/s, the current edge being fiber 100Mb/s down, 50 up for 29E99/month, taxes included). As a consequence, we have millions of semi-literate computer users that have far more bandwich that they need and wouldn't notice if a few of their Mb/s were stolen. For a botnet manager, they are a far better prey than the average 1-2Mb/s american line.
Embarassement? No, discovering what initially looked like a normal star system that looked quite similar to our was a large specter mirror billions of km wide with an efficient orientation mechanism would be worth a lifetime of Nobel Prices, ...all of them.
If they were intelligently designed, probably not.
Because two is by far the least likely number in cosmology. In such a huge (we still don't know if it is finite) but apparently space-invariant universe, a kind of object is far more likely to be either totally unique or present in a certain percentage of stars or galaxies, but the thing is that, however low that percentage will be, the result will still be a good approximation of infinite.
Unfortunately, the Torchwood spinoff has a few not clearly alien supernatural creatures (the fearies and the demon in season 1).
"So, I think my observation is that one set of words, introvert/extrovert doesn't convey a lot of the variation in people's social interaction habits and preferences."
That's why I use the normal/annoying set of words, it works great for introverts like me.
In real life, I'm really keen, but as my father (and probably other more famous) says, "If you don't play to win, you're just ruining the game for everyone", so I'll do whatever the rules allow to win (even temporarily ally with other players), but will respect those who beat me (and stop nagging the other ones after a couple of minutes).
I don't see how it rules out the article theory. When reading the headline, I was thinking "WTF, how can radiation selectively chose one of two identical molecules", but if they are not exactly as stable, then maybe the radiations had destroyed a larger proportion of the less stable one and drastically tipped the balance.
Or would he tell you more instead?
I know I'd confess the murder of Lincoln and JFK (or whoever, for that matters) for a 5s pause of the treatment, and yet I've never been within 4000km of the USA.
Of course, if you don't need truth but a scrapegoat, torture is a wonderfull investigation tool.
"especially in situations where it is hard to measure BP"
You mean, like hidden in the front door of insurance compagnies?
"the "at a distance" option is much less important."
I'd even say it is a severe drawback. The only practical interest of a lie detector is not to measure stress, it is to induce it in order to increase the chances that the interrogated person will make a mistake.