Well, the 300 million years is just an estimate and it could go either forward or backward. I guess they could build a yet more accurate clock to use as a reference...:P
This may seem redundant to you. But you'll change your tune in 100 million years when the old clock is already a second out of sync while the new one is still within 0.33s.
1.) It can be circumvented with sufficient effort and hardware access. Then it is useless as a theft deterrent. 2.) It cannot be circumvented. Then it renders the handset vulnerable to the malice or incompetence of whoever controls the killswitch, and thus useless.
Edit: Maybe if the school, or some of the administrators directly involved, have a Facebook account, and the ToS also forbid users asking other users for their account information...
Fortunately, the author included a perfectly sensible and falsifiable prediction along with that theory:
What I think happened is the flight crew was overcome by smoke and the plane continued on the heading, probably on George (autopilot), until it ran out of fuel or the fire destroyed the control surfaces and it crashed. You will find it along that route–looking elsewhere is pointless.
Unfortunately, that prediction got falsified almost immediately. The plane changed course at least twice according to radar (the second time an hour later), and this latest development implies at least a third course change southward. It's nowhere near the route that Mr. Goodfellow predicted.
That story might have explained the first course change to the west, but it doesn't explain the plane turning south over than an hour later. This theory is basically dead.
Here's a map of the possible flight paths (which they've now narrowed down to the southern one).
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Well, the 300 million years is just an estimate and it could go either forward or backward. I guess they could build a yet more accurate clock to use as a reference... :P
This may seem redundant to you. But you'll change your tune in 100 million years when the old clock is already a second out of sync while the new one is still within 0.33s.
... that the US has a functioning rocket program and doesn't depend on Russia for launches.
Oh right.
-_-
There are two ways such a kill-switch could go:
1.) It can be circumvented with sufficient effort and hardware access. Then it is useless as a theft deterrent.
2.) It cannot be circumvented. Then it renders the handset vulnerable to the malice or incompetence of whoever controls the killswitch, and thus useless.
How... how many of them?
Maybe next someone should sue Wikipedia for declaring their article non-notable. That's censorship.
Private companies have no obligation toward any kind of "freedom of speech".
"... but you're just in time to see us re-terraforming it for the third time."
what
Resumes?
That's six molecule per 18 grams of water.
~ We can plug ANY security hole, no matter how gaping. ~
Edit: Maybe if the school, or some of the administrators directly involved, have a Facebook account, and the ToS also forbid users asking other users for their account information...
The school has no relationship with Facebook and isn't bound by any terms of service - it's the student who was coerced to violate them.
Fortunately, the author included a perfectly sensible and falsifiable prediction along with that theory:
Unfortunately, that prediction got falsified almost immediately. The plane changed course at least twice according to radar (the second time an hour later), and this latest development implies at least a third course change southward. It's nowhere near the route that Mr. Goodfellow predicted.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
That story might have explained the first course change to the west, but it doesn't explain the plane turning south over than an hour later. This theory is basically dead.
Here's a map of the possible flight paths (which they've now narrowed down to the southern one).
Paying to evade political censorship is every corporation's favorite thing to do.
Presumably, now they have narrowed down the crash site, they can start looking for the black box and the wreck to figure out the cause.
If you make an algorithm that writes original literature based on music... well *then* we'd basically be looking at the AI singularity.
(...)
NO REALLY?
Disregard, wrong story.
NO REALLY?
I'd have thought the horrible global function namespace would have been a top priority.
Seriously, what is this, C?
More on this unexpected development later.
Sure, countries LOVE getting spied on.