On the contrary, the technology that the ordinary troops use is dated, heavy and expensive.
And meets the very specific requirements of the military.
The army wont be taking this stuff around suburbia in big aircon'd SUV's. They'll be taking it to the worst places on earth, 45 C heat, minus 20 C cold, mud, torrential rain, sandstorms and that's on a good day. The equipment will need to survive being dropped, thrown, sat on, fell on and manhandled by an organisation who doesn't have the word subtlety in it's vocabulary.
Above this, it needs to work, first time, every time after being dropped in the mud, blasted by sand, trod on and thrown. This is why a simple GPS unit weights 3 KG. Also it needs to be deadly accurate, the Garmin units just aren't that accurate, They rely on a lot of guesswork to plot your position and their sample rate is crap compared to a professional Trimble GPS unit. An expensive Magellan unit off the shelf costs $500 and has an inaccuracy of 3-5 metres, a Trimble GeoXH or GeoXT has an inaccuracy of 10-50 CM but they start at $3000 each (start at, they go past $7500). Trimble's are what we use for professional field work, where we need to record it down to the nearest metre or more.
Consumer units are neither rugged enough, nor accurate enough for military, hell, most wont survive a day with a geologist, let alone a marine.
Hah, must supress this news story from Australian government; after all, we wouldn't want he taxpayers to think the 38 Billion dollar roll out of the National Broadband Scheme is a waste of money!
First off, it's 36 Bn only 27 Bn of which is coming from the govt.
Secondly, it's being paid for by government bonds, not tax revenue.
Thridly, only Newscorp and people who rely on newscorp to think for them, think the NBN is a waste of money.
Finally, unlike Britain's "market" solution, it's not any more expensive then the current ADSL services and unlike current ADSL services, it will reach more then all Australian homes, not just half of them.
I think you've just managed to point out that Australia is Doing It Right(TM) as the "Market" solution has proven to be an utter failure in Britain.
Apple profiting means there will be iPads next year. If everybody making Android tablets is losing money, that means step 2 for tablet manufacturers and tablet developers is officially ???.
Not only are fanboys proud of being ripped off, they actually think they can justify it.
The consumer computer industry has survived for years on razor thin margins, in return we consumers got cheaper computers and rapid advancements. I can still buy new Macbooks with Core 2 Duo's and they cost more much as my Acer Sandy Bridge i5.
Valve gets hacked, account details likely stolen, account information hashed and salted, Gabe still praised.
Sony gets hacked, accounts details stolen, account information hashed and salted, Sony ran through the ringer.
Valve = Valuable contributor to healthy, competitive market. Cares about customers.
Sony = Anticompetitive lockdown ensures that a great many games are unplayable as they take a month to sort out the problem. Doesn't give a shit about customers.
Why is the concept that people will treat companies in the same way that those companies treat them such a strange and unusual concept to some people?
It's the classic chicken or the egg problem. It will be at least another 2 years before IPv6 is fully deployed and a total of 15 years (I pulled reasonable rough estimate out of my ass) before it completely replaces IPv4. Get used to the dual stack for a very very long time my friend.
It'll be like the transition from dial-up to broadband. Sure in 10 years there'll still be some grandma's on IPv4, but everyone else will have moved onto IPv6. The IPv4 stack will be depreciated over years but realistically a transition for all but the worst of laggards will only take a 5 odd years. Long enough for the average Joe to buy a new modem/router. Eventually, forward thinking ISP's will simply terminate the IPv4 stack as the number of customers remaining on IPv4 wont be worth maintaining the stack in as short a time as 5 or 6 years.
Kudos for Comcast for finally getting the ball rolling on IPv6. A/128 address gets their foot in the door, and as their post says, they can expand it later.
My ISP has been running dual IPv4 and IPv6 stacks for a year now... I just need to update my router to an IPv6 capable model.
Will the people in those countries be paying for Pr0n?
Even if they could afford it, when the government controls the banks (had to resist making an ISR joke here) how could they? I can think of three nations off the top of my head who will block a $30 P/m pr0n site, yet you can get a shag from a live girl for less then that (in one of them, you could probably get two depending on your negotiating skills).
What kind of person pays for Pr0n these days. Would.XXX be blocked in those countries. Not a problem for paysites, the free sites might not be so quick to join up.
every school will have some in the student population
What do you mean by "will have".
When was the last time you stepped inside a school, 1978?
This has been going on for years, When I left school in 2000, the few kids with a CD writer were copying CD's for fun and profit. Before that, cassette tapes. My first copy of Nirvana's Nevermind was on double sided tape. Dirty movies weren't hard to get at all, despite the fastest internet being 33K where I lived.
Today in the work place it's not unusual to hear something like this shouted across the cube farm, Joe: Hey Bob, have you got the latest episode of $GENERIC_COP_DRAMA. Bob: Yeah, their on NAS2. Frank: Cheers Bob.
When I was in charge of the internal network I quickly adopted a Sergeant Shultz policy of "I Know Nutzing, NUT-Zing" to avoid becoming the most hated man in the building. I generally drew the line at porn, that simply disappeared without a trace for some unknown reason which "I know Nutzing" about.
An ARM platform fast enough to run Windows Mobile!
Dont worry,
MS is keeping up by making Windows 8 on ARM tablets. To bring back that classic WinMo feel of sluggish, buggy OS's with poorly designed interfaces.
When I do pick up the iPad, it's for things like Angry Birds, Pocket Frogs, etc. It _can_ browse the web, but not as well as the notebook.
This is what I see Ipads being used for, games, general distractions, idling away the time. For the most part, keeping kids occupied.
I recently went on holidays, I took my 13" Asus laptop and my 10" Acer tablet. The Laptop got used more because it has a keyboard, most of my games installed, more media storage space (640 GB vs 48 GB), a network port and is generally faster (Sandy Bridge i5 v ARM, no competition really). The tablet was only used when I didn't feel like turning on the laptop although it did have the gmail integration going for it.
I'm not at all displeased with my Iconia Tab, but it's no laptop replacement, not by a long shot and I can do more on my Iconia then I could on an Ipad such as use USB storage or plug in a USB keyboard. However It cannot replace a laptop, a tablet sits in between a phone and a laptop and cant really do the job of either.
Well, TFA says 12 hours without dock, and 18 with the keyboard attached. Since they also claimed 9.5 hours without and 16 with dock for the first model, and mine actually does manage that level of battery life on a regular basis, there's a good chance that it's accurate.
Whilst we all know there are lies, damn lies and manufacturer specifications, Asus is fairly accurate with it's battery life. I have an Asus U30SD and running on the GF 520 I get 6-7 out of the 9 hours promised by the marketing material. If I switch to the Intel IGM I'd get 8. This is real world, if I did it under Asus' laboratory conditions I'd bet I'd get the full 9. I was able to game on the GF520 for 5 hours before having to plug it in (playing World of Tanks).
Whilst I dont beleive any manufacturers specification (especially the cult of the fruit) as they're all done in lab conditions using specially rigged scripts, I would expect to get 9-10 hours of real world use of the promised 12 (or 7-8 out of a promised 9.5 which has also been bandied about on this thread).
Guy Fawkes was not in charge of the gunpowder plot. That was Robert Catesby. Fawkes was the guy guarding the gunpowder, not really a ring leader. He was captured when British troops stormed the tunnel the revolutionaries were using to hide the gunpowder underneath the Palace of Westminster.
But yes, the revolutionaries were all Catholic (Jesuits) with the express intent of changing England into a catholic state, hence why the gunpowder plot is also called the Jesuit Rebellion. Their goal was to blow up the English Parliament and place King James' 9 yr old daughter Elizabeth on the throne as Catholic head of state. Fawkes was recruited because he had experience putting down the Dutch rebellion.
So Fawkes was neither a great revolutionary against the establishment or even in charge, he was just a guard who got caught. Few people know about Catesby even still, the popular myths around Fawkes do not make sense, but then again when does pop culture ever make sense.
We apologize for not getting you a magazine quality glossy of an essentially black object moving at 11 miles per second through the vastness of space nearly a million miles away. We are in a bit of a budget crunch.
Sorry,
NASA
P.S. Due to further budget cuts, the James Web Space Telescope will be switched off. Further pictures will be taken when it comes into range of a Canon Powershot.
Yep, I immediately figured it was another one of his publicity stunts. The last one was charging differently for fat passengers IIRC.
Air Asia (Malaysia based budget airline) tried this in 2009, it backfired horribly and they spent more on PR to fix the negative publicity.
Then again, Air Asia has a reputation as a decent budget airline (probably the best budget airline I've flown on, but it's still a budget airline), from what I've heard RyanAir seems to pride itself on being shit.
You wrote all that based on a manufactures claim that has never been proven.
Of course the manufacturer is going to lie. They want to sell something.
I suggest you actually get down to the airport, look at some real planes. See what they are made of and how small a target the vulerable parts are. Better yet, Boeing put their test video's up on the internet for all to see. Engines being vulnerable, LOL, these things are designed to withstand debris strikes directly to the fanblades at 900 KM\h further more, are designed to survive the loss of a fan blade. For decades, passenger aircraft are designed to have tolerances 50-100% greater then the forces they are expected to encounter in the worst real world conditions.
Get out into the real world Bubba. A.50 rifle is no threat against an aircraft, especially since they vulnerable time is between decision speed and take off is about 5 seconds. At decision speed your aircraft will be moving in excess of 150 KP/h.
You also ignored the fact that it would be incredibly difficult to hit that target. Missiles have been fired at aircraft and failed, hell this one was hit and landed safely. If it were remotely possible to bring down a plane with a.50 rifle it would have been done by now, there are enough Browning M2's and 12mm Soviet rifles in the real world that someone has no doubt tried and no doubt failed.
Again under 30 and part of that waste of space generation, seriously one person commented that "myth buster" told him it wasn't so, your generation and the media...*sigh* do you ever think for yourself?
This rant makes no sense and ha no bearing on the argument. Apart from ad hominem, after all if you cant defeat the point, going after the poster is just as good right.
Second thing, I used science and common sense. You responded with marketing material. Talk about not thinking for yourself.
Science vs media, I'm going with science on this one.
Seriously folks how hard would it be to get SAM's in the country when cartels brings tons of coke and dope over the border? How hard would it be to sit at the end of a runway and use a.50 incendiary round through the fuel tank of a plane about to lift off?
Hard shot? These anti-material rifles can shoot humans from 1.5 miles away.
Human != Plane. remember the weakest parts of a plane are designed to survive hitting a bird at 900 KM/h without anyone inside noticing.
Effective range of a Barrett M82 = 1,800 metres.
Maximum Take Off Weight (MTOW) of a B777 = 250,000 KG.
Take off distance at MTOW for a B777 = 2,500 metres.
Take off speed at MTOW for a B777 = 250 KM/h.
Length of runway = 2,700 - 5,000 metres.
So if you put a B777 at the end of a 3000 M runway, Bubba would be behind the security fence in your truck which would be 500 m at least behind the end of the runway. The plane would need to be accelerating for 1700 metres before it would be at the maximum effective range. It would not be unusual for a B777 to be approaching 200 KM\h at MTOW (maximum take off weight). You'd need to make a shot at an armoured target that has a width about half a metre that is flexing, yawing and moving laterally. Your window of opportunity would literally be 3 or 4 seconds Not taking into account wind, drag or the coriolis effect that shot would be considered difficult for the best trained sniper. Bubba in his truck has no chance.
Finally if you do manage to strike, you still have to penetrate the armour that is designed to handle the rigours of flight, if you penetrate, the aluminium skin, you've got the stuff that insulates the fuel tanks which is normally quite ablative (foam IIRC), then you've got to penetrate the tank itself which will be metal also. Beyond this you still need to create a spark capable of igniting the fuel as JP8 has a higher ignition point then 92 RON gasoline (the stuff Bubba puts in his truck).
A SAM would have an effect, but not a.50 bullet. Then again, an Igla or Stinger is designed to damage small combat aircraft, they've been fired at Israeli airliners before, They dont do as much damage as people think due to the larger mass of an airliner and they have a tendency to miss in part due to the ineptitude of the operators. Then you have to hide your SAM and nefarious plans from the authorities and it's a one shot weapon, once you're done with one SAM, you wont get a chance to try again.
I always thought the "Ministry of Truth" had a nice uber-authoritarian ring to it.
Minitstry of Truth was first used in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. JMS openly admitted borrowing the concept because he wanted people to instantly understand that the ministry was a farce.
It's not more secure (Charlie Miller keeps demonstrating that), but for the typical user (who doesn't know enough about security to judge an app), having a vetting/approval process such Apple's is still offers a safer environment than running completely unvetted apps (such as on the Android stores).
Actually it's less safe.
Users in the "walled garden" have a false sense of security, the security is breached and the users still unquestioningly trust everything from a now untrustworthy source.
Apple has a vetting process that doesn't work. How is that different to an unvetted source?
So essentially, with Android you have unvetted applications, with Apple you have unvetted applications and a user base which is actively ignorant of security issues. Despite the rumours to the contrary, there has been no great Android outbreak precisely because Android users are aware of their own security.
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Expats?
Isn't that Brit speak for job stealing foreign immigrants. :)
Yes, those British cannot speak proper Hindi, I find them impossible to understand.
And meets the very specific requirements of the military.
The army wont be taking this stuff around suburbia in big aircon'd SUV's. They'll be taking it to the worst places on earth, 45 C heat, minus 20 C cold, mud, torrential rain, sandstorms and that's on a good day. The equipment will need to survive being dropped, thrown, sat on, fell on and manhandled by an organisation who doesn't have the word subtlety in it's vocabulary.
Above this, it needs to work, first time, every time after being dropped in the mud, blasted by sand, trod on and thrown. This is why a simple GPS unit weights 3 KG. Also it needs to be deadly accurate, the Garmin units just aren't that accurate, They rely on a lot of guesswork to plot your position and their sample rate is crap compared to a professional Trimble GPS unit. An expensive Magellan unit off the shelf costs $500 and has an inaccuracy of 3-5 metres, a Trimble GeoXH or GeoXT has an inaccuracy of 10-50 CM but they start at $3000 each (start at, they go past $7500). Trimble's are what we use for professional field work, where we need to record it down to the nearest metre or more.
Consumer units are neither rugged enough, nor accurate enough for military, hell, most wont survive a day with a geologist, let alone a marine.
Hah, must supress this news story from Australian government; after all, we wouldn't want he taxpayers to think the 38 Billion dollar roll out of the National Broadband Scheme is a waste of money!
First off, it's 36 Bn only 27 Bn of which is coming from the govt.
Secondly, it's being paid for by government bonds, not tax revenue.
Thridly, only Newscorp and people who rely on newscorp to think for them, think the NBN is a waste of money.
Finally, unlike Britain's "market" solution, it's not any more expensive then the current ADSL services and unlike current ADSL services, it will reach more then all Australian homes, not just half of them.
I think you've just managed to point out that Australia is Doing It Right(TM) as the "Market" solution has proven to be an utter failure in Britain.
This is true of all laptops. There are lies, damned lies and manufacturer specification.
I can still buy new Macbooks with Core 2 Duo's and they cost more much as my Acer Sandy Bridge i5.
Sorry, that's an ASUS Sandy Bridge i5,
More specifically an Asus U30SD. Lighter then a 13" Macbook, better battery life, faster, switchable graphics and A$600 cheaper.
Apple profiting means there will be iPads next year. If everybody making Android tablets is losing money, that means step 2 for tablet manufacturers and tablet developers is officially ???.
Not only are fanboys proud of being ripped off, they actually think they can justify it.
The consumer computer industry has survived for years on razor thin margins, in return we consumers got cheaper computers and rapid advancements. I can still buy new Macbooks with Core 2 Duo's and they cost more much as my Acer Sandy Bridge i5.
It is also interesting to note that the daily deal on Steam today is "Day of Defeat." Coincidence or message?
It's also Remembrance day. A vast conspiracy indeed.
Valve gets hacked, account details likely stolen, account information hashed and salted, Gabe still praised.
Sony gets hacked, accounts details stolen, account information hashed and salted, Sony ran through the ringer.
Valve = Valuable contributor to healthy, competitive market. Cares about customers.
Sony = Anticompetitive lockdown ensures that a great many games are unplayable as they take a month to sort out the problem. Doesn't give a shit about customers.
Why is the concept that people will treat companies in the same way that those companies treat them such a strange and unusual concept to some people?
It's the classic chicken or the egg problem. It will be at least another 2 years before IPv6 is fully deployed and a total of 15 years (I pulled reasonable rough estimate out of my ass) before it completely replaces IPv4. Get used to the dual stack for a very very long time my friend.
It'll be like the transition from dial-up to broadband. Sure in 10 years there'll still be some grandma's on IPv4, but everyone else will have moved onto IPv6. The IPv4 stack will be depreciated over years but realistically a transition for all but the worst of laggards will only take a 5 odd years. Long enough for the average Joe to buy a new modem/router. Eventually, forward thinking ISP's will simply terminate the IPv4 stack as the number of customers remaining on IPv4 wont be worth maintaining the stack in as short a time as 5 or 6 years.
Kudos for Comcast for finally getting the ball rolling on IPv6. A /128 address gets their foot in the door, and as their post says, they can expand it later.
My ISP has been running dual IPv4 and IPv6 stacks for a year now... I just need to update my router to an IPv6 capable model.
Internode FTW.
I saw the collapse of the Nigelnet when I was in school - everyone got broadband, and thus rendered it obsolete. They'll return if the need arises.
Nigelnet is alive and well where I work :)
But I 100% agree,
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a school bag full of hard drives.
While reciting the pledge of allegiance? That's just going too far.
I think he means he's reciting the pledge of allegiance.
But now I think about it, there's Nazi fetish pr0n, why not US patriotism fetish pr0n.
Rule 34, I'll assume this one to be fulfilled, I have a high tolerance for freaky things but this would be beyond my ability to bear.
So who exactly will be blocking this?
Entire countries?
Will the people in those countries be paying for Pr0n?
.XXX be blocked in those countries. Not a problem for paysites, the free sites might not be so quick to join up.
Even if they could afford it, when the government controls the banks (had to resist making an ISR joke here) how could they? I can think of three nations off the top of my head who will block a $30 P/m pr0n site, yet you can get a shag from a live girl for less then that (in one of them, you could probably get two depending on your negotiating skills).
What kind of person pays for Pr0n these days. Would
What do you mean by "will have".
When was the last time you stepped inside a school, 1978?
This has been going on for years, When I left school in 2000, the few kids with a CD writer were copying CD's for fun and profit. Before that, cassette tapes. My first copy of Nirvana's Nevermind was on double sided tape. Dirty movies weren't hard to get at all, despite the fastest internet being 33K where I lived.
Today in the work place it's not unusual to hear something like this shouted across the cube farm,
Joe: Hey Bob, have you got the latest episode of $GENERIC_COP_DRAMA.
Bob: Yeah, their on NAS2.
Frank: Cheers Bob.
When I was in charge of the internal network I quickly adopted a Sergeant Shultz policy of "I Know Nutzing, NUT-Zing" to avoid becoming the most hated man in the building. I generally drew the line at porn, that simply disappeared without a trace for some unknown reason which "I know Nutzing" about.
An ARM platform fast enough to run Windows Mobile!
Dont worry, MS is keeping up by making Windows 8 on ARM tablets. To bring back that classic WinMo feel of sluggish, buggy OS's with poorly designed interfaces.
This is what I see Ipads being used for, games, general distractions, idling away the time. For the most part, keeping kids occupied.
I recently went on holidays, I took my 13" Asus laptop and my 10" Acer tablet. The Laptop got used more because it has a keyboard, most of my games installed, more media storage space (640 GB vs 48 GB), a network port and is generally faster (Sandy Bridge i5 v ARM, no competition really). The tablet was only used when I didn't feel like turning on the laptop although it did have the gmail integration going for it.
I'm not at all displeased with my Iconia Tab, but it's no laptop replacement, not by a long shot and I can do more on my Iconia then I could on an Ipad such as use USB storage or plug in a USB keyboard. However It cannot replace a laptop, a tablet sits in between a phone and a laptop and cant really do the job of either.
Well, TFA says 12 hours without dock, and 18 with the keyboard attached. Since they also claimed 9.5 hours without and 16 with dock for the first model, and mine actually does manage that level of battery life on a regular basis, there's a good chance that it's accurate.
Whilst we all know there are lies, damn lies and manufacturer specifications, Asus is fairly accurate with it's battery life. I have an Asus U30SD and running on the GF 520 I get 6-7 out of the 9 hours promised by the marketing material. If I switch to the Intel IGM I'd get 8. This is real world, if I did it under Asus' laboratory conditions I'd bet I'd get the full 9. I was able to game on the GF520 for 5 hours before having to plug it in (playing World of Tanks).
Whilst I dont beleive any manufacturers specification (especially the cult of the fruit) as they're all done in lab conditions using specially rigged scripts, I would expect to get 9-10 hours of real world use of the promised 12 (or 7-8 out of a promised 9.5 which has also been bandied about on this thread).
Thank you for pointing that out. In a related note: Guy Fawkes was a religious fascist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_fawkes
Sacrificing a mod point for this but...
Guy Fawkes was not in charge of the gunpowder plot. That was Robert Catesby. Fawkes was the guy guarding the gunpowder, not really a ring leader. He was captured when British troops stormed the tunnel the revolutionaries were using to hide the gunpowder underneath the Palace of Westminster.
But yes, the revolutionaries were all Catholic (Jesuits) with the express intent of changing England into a catholic state, hence why the gunpowder plot is also called the Jesuit Rebellion. Their goal was to blow up the English Parliament and place King James' 9 yr old daughter Elizabeth on the throne as Catholic head of state. Fawkes was recruited because he had experience putting down the Dutch rebellion.
So Fawkes was neither a great revolutionary against the establishment or even in charge, he was just a guard who got caught. Few people know about Catesby even still, the popular myths around Fawkes do not make sense, but then again when does pop culture ever make sense.
We apologize for not getting you a magazine quality glossy of an essentially black object moving at 11 miles per second through the vastness of space nearly a million miles away. We are in a bit of a budget crunch.
Sorry,
NASA
P.S. Due to further budget cuts, the James Web Space Telescope will be switched off. Further pictures will be taken when it comes into range of a Canon Powershot.
Yep, I immediately figured it was another one of his publicity stunts. The last one was charging differently for fat passengers IIRC.
Air Asia (Malaysia based budget airline) tried this in 2009, it backfired horribly and they spent more on PR to fix the negative publicity.
Then again, Air Asia has a reputation as a decent budget airline (probably the best budget airline I've flown on, but it's still a budget airline), from what I've heard RyanAir seems to pride itself on being shit.
You wrote all that based on a manufactures claim that has never been proven. Of course the manufacturer is going to lie. They want to sell something. I suggest you actually get down to the airport, look at some real planes. See what they are made of and how small a target the vulerable parts are. Better yet, Boeing put their test video's up on the internet for all to see. Engines being vulnerable, LOL, these things are designed to withstand debris strikes directly to the fanblades at 900 KM\h further more, are designed to survive the loss of a fan blade. For decades, passenger aircraft are designed to have tolerances 50-100% greater then the forces they are expected to encounter in the worst real world conditions.
.50 rifle is no threat against an aircraft, especially since they vulnerable time is between decision speed and take off is about 5 seconds. At decision speed your aircraft will be moving in excess of 150 KP/h.
.50 rifle it would have been done by now, there are enough Browning M2's and 12mm Soviet rifles in the real world that someone has no doubt tried and no doubt failed.
Get out into the real world Bubba. A
You also ignored the fact that it would be incredibly difficult to hit that target. Missiles have been fired at aircraft and failed, hell this one was hit and landed safely. If it were remotely possible to bring down a plane with a
This rant makes no sense and ha no bearing on the argument. Apart from ad hominem, after all if you cant defeat the point, going after the poster is just as good right. Second thing, I used science and common sense. You responded with marketing material. Talk about not thinking for yourself. Science vs media, I'm going with science on this one.
JMS borrowed the Ministry of Truth from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was published in 1948. A bit of a nitpick but still.
Seriously folks how hard would it be to get SAM's in the country when cartels brings tons of coke and dope over the border? How hard would it be to sit at the end of a runway and use a .50 incendiary round through the fuel tank of a plane about to lift off?
Hard shot? These anti-material rifles can shoot humans from 1.5 miles away.
Human != Plane. remember the weakest parts of a plane are designed to survive hitting a bird at 900 KM/h without anyone inside noticing.
.50 bullet. Then again, an Igla or Stinger is designed to damage small combat aircraft, they've been fired at Israeli airliners before, They dont do as much damage as people think due to the larger mass of an airliner and they have a tendency to miss in part due to the ineptitude of the operators. Then you have to hide your SAM and nefarious plans from the authorities and it's a one shot weapon, once you're done with one SAM, you wont get a chance to try again.
Effective range of a Barrett M82 = 1,800 metres.
Maximum Take Off Weight (MTOW) of a B777 = 250,000 KG.
Take off distance at MTOW for a B777 = 2,500 metres.
Take off speed at MTOW for a B777 = 250 KM/h.
Length of runway = 2,700 - 5,000 metres.
So if you put a B777 at the end of a 3000 M runway, Bubba would be behind the security fence in your truck which would be 500 m at least behind the end of the runway. The plane would need to be accelerating for 1700 metres before it would be at the maximum effective range. It would not be unusual for a B777 to be approaching 200 KM\h at MTOW (maximum take off weight). You'd need to make a shot at an armoured target that has a width about half a metre that is flexing, yawing and moving laterally. Your window of opportunity would literally be 3 or 4 seconds Not taking into account wind, drag or the coriolis effect that shot would be considered difficult for the best trained sniper. Bubba in his truck has no chance.
Finally if you do manage to strike, you still have to penetrate the armour that is designed to handle the rigours of flight, if you penetrate, the aluminium skin, you've got the stuff that insulates the fuel tanks which is normally quite ablative (foam IIRC), then you've got to penetrate the tank itself which will be metal also. Beyond this you still need to create a spark capable of igniting the fuel as JP8 has a higher ignition point then 92 RON gasoline (the stuff Bubba puts in his truck).
A SAM would have an effect, but not a
I always thought the "Ministry of Truth" had a nice uber-authoritarian ring to it.
Minitstry of Truth was first used in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. JMS openly admitted borrowing the concept because he wanted people to instantly understand that the ministry was a farce.
It's not more secure (Charlie Miller keeps demonstrating that), but for the typical user (who doesn't know enough about security to judge an app), having a vetting/approval process such Apple's is still offers a safer environment than running completely unvetted apps (such as on the Android stores).
Actually it's less safe.
Users in the "walled garden" have a false sense of security, the security is breached and the users still unquestioningly trust everything from a now untrustworthy source.
Apple has a vetting process that doesn't work. How is that different to an unvetted source?
So essentially, with Android you have unvetted applications, with Apple you have unvetted applications and a user base which is actively ignorant of security issues. Despite the rumours to the contrary, there has been no great Android outbreak precisely because Android users are aware of their own security.