The thing is, it's much easier to target an ICBM during the boost phase than during the re-entry phase.
Because it might carry separating payload, meaning that you'll have to intercept multiple targets instead of one
Because during boost you can target the super-hot and thus easily detectable exhaust instead of having to detect and lock relatively small warheads
Because the velocity of the ascending missile is lower by an order of magnitude than the velocity of warheads at the re-entry
Because if you hit the missile, it will literally fall back on the launch site, obviously making life for the launch crews difficult in case of fuel detonation, and if you hit a warhead, one of many results can occur, including premature detonation or mere deviation from the trajectory.
Sure, North Korea could come up with some primitive missiles in a few years... that's why the US must deploy interceptors in Europe, instead of Japan, Taiwan, or South Korea. Same goes about Iran: the US has huge military presence in Turkey, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates, why not use those bases?
Besides, something tells me that if Russia attempted to deploy similar ICBM countermeasures at Cuban or Venezuelan territory, all hell would break loose. Just because somebody is at peace with you now, doesn't mean that he won't be at war with you some time later, especially if you're dealing with the world's mightiest and most aggressive superpower.
I don't want to sound offensive, but when Google makes a decision in favor of business, everybody says "So you're evil after all; no love for Google!", and now that they've done something in favor of morality, people start ranting about that, too? I guess one cannot please all geeks simultaneously.
I think that what happens now in the UK and might soon become normal among other Western nations could be predicted quite a while ago. Look, now that the most powerful enemy of the West is no more, and the Western countries control pretty much of the rest of the world [think colonies], what would be the next logical step for a Western power such as Britain? Right, establish control on its own population.
The summary doesn't mention that the attacks started after Estonia began excavating graves of Soviet troops killed during the World War II and vandalized the memorial devoted to them. Estonia is seen as a neo-fascist regime by Russia, and in my opinion, rightly so: you can't deny over 30% of your population [estimate of Russian population in Estonia] the most basic rights, including citizenship and education for children, based on their nationality, and be seen otherwise. Of course, Europe and the United States ignore this issue.
You're forgetting about one humble factor: spam sites. What's in it to stop a spammer from getting a hundred of high-end servers [or better yet, from using his arsenal of infested Windows PCs], and throw their resources on building an index to match his own agenda?
From the TFA:
However, the dual-core duel became, and remains a performance battle. AMD was widely perceived to have taken an initial lead. Intel was seen as recovering the advantage when its introduced its Core 2 Duo family in mid 1996. Looks like it happened in a parallel universe.
Actually, Adobe released Flash Player 9 for Linux last October... I'm not sure what more you want. I want x86_64 Flash player binaries, and maybe PowerPC. Linux runs on so much more than i386 you know.
As far as I have understood, Adobe is releasing the source for all tools necessary to create fully capable Flash objects; that includes some sort of a compiler, too. Isn't it possible to document the Flash format itself by examining the code of the mentioned compiler?
Falun Gong. The Chinese government considers it harmful and tries to block it. Regarding the media coverage: last time I cared, in 2001, Newsweek had a pretty decent coverage of the matter.
Probably the most important thing about censorship [both at Myspace and internet search engines] is to make it voluntary by making rules as vague as possible. People already know what they shouldn't discuss if they don't want to land in a jail: questionable religions, rumors involving military, other sensitive things that matter for the government. So the whole message is "Here's a new cool site; the rules are as usual".
It is connected if you engage your brain a little, little troll. The piracy-fighting hype [among which was the physics faculty wide order to remove all the pirated software from faculty computers before March, 31th] was one of the reasons the migration was started in the first place. So I brought this in to show that yes, the piracy rate is decreasing, but not quite the way Microsoft and BSA would like it to.
I am system administrator in a large nuclear physics institute in Moscow, which is by no mere coincidence a vital part of the Russian internet backbone. Since my day one I've been advocating Linux and free software, and here's the fruit: already about 10% of the institute's workers, including the director himself, use various distributions of Linux [mostly Ubuntu/Debian, Mandriva and Red Hat]. Besides, I'm currently engaged in talks with Sun regarding our migration to Sun Ray, which will run on a customized Debian system.
I believe that if the result will look as I expect it to, the university [it's the largest university in Russia and AFAIK Europe] which we are a significant part of might break off Microsoft crap in toto, although this statement can be considered a pure speculation at this moment.
If Shell prevails on that count, sites like Google will have to get online publishers to 'opt in' before they can be crawled, radically changing the nature of Web search. I don't mind if garbage like her site disappears from Google and Archive.org. Not saying that I want this 'opt-in' situation, but I believe that stupid webmasters and perhaps some spammers would be eradicated from the Web if it ever goes that way. Hey, it's a miracle that large search engines don't require us to pay for being crawled!
Then please define evil. Since our species began, males have been gathering into bands to fight for resources. As our population boosted, more successful bands started controlling production, research, and propaganda, and became called 'governments', and less fortunate ones became mafia, criminals, and other such characters. Moral is a set of rules developed in a given area, usually having simplistic roots, and carved into stone. You cannot expect inhabitants of different regions to have the same set of rules affirmed in their minds.
It is obvious that you have an extremely pessimistic point of view. Your pessimism feeds your defeatism. It is really quite sad that you would accept defeat and not strive for something better.
Since you've gone personal, I'll do the same: you're sinking in words - "evil", "immoral", "bad". You cannot look past them, you cannot defeat the thinking of a commoner and take things simple. You're not a scientist type, and probably will never be. Poor you, blah blah blah.
Most people would refuse to participate in evil Maybe, in case they think that something is evil. And in case they believe that by doing something they'll be heroes to their motherland, they wouldn't. That's why billions are spent on propaganda, flags, PR, history schoolbooks, anthems, oaths and other rituals.
So, should they stop their UK operations as well, since UK is a 'surveillance society'? Should they close their French and German departments, because these countries censor pro-Nazi and revisionist websites, among other things? Should they abandon Russia because Putin is building his 'vertical of power' with sometimes questionable methods? Should they say goodbye to the United States as well because the US is the world's largest aggressor, and has killed millions of foreign civilians in the past 50 years? FACE IT. All governments are evil. That's not good, and that's not bad: it's a fact of life. A government cannot behave like a Barbie-playing girl. Governments are there because they have might, and as soon as they lose their might, they are displaced by a revolt or an invasion.
Do you think that use of proprietary software, and especially an operating system is any more secure? That damned Windows XP computer may be uploading all your documents through your Windows 2k/2k3 server to Microsoft HQ, and you'll never know.
According to the FTC, the software also exposed consumers to significant security risks and was unreasonably difficult to uninstall. Hmm. Perhaps they would fine Microsoft too, based on this exact reason?;)
The Intel announcement is new evidence that the chip maker is maintaining the pace of Moore's Law, the technology axiom
I thought it's an empiric law; the definition of axiom is quite different from that.
Intel said it had already manufactured prototype microprocessor chips in the new 45-nanometer process that run on three major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Again, I thought it's the operating systems who run on microprocessors, not vice-versa. And I [not being a kernel developer, though] can't see any reason for an OS to stop functioning on a new processor model if the architecture is intact and no serious hardware-level bugs are introduced.
Particles in solar corona are accelerated by the magnetic field, and the process is more or less well modeled by now; gas giants do not possess that strong magnetic fields. One should note that it's the particles that originate in the core in fusion reactions and are emitted away; however, there are no fusion reactions in the cores of gas giants AFAIK, so we're talking about quasi stationary processes in the atmosphere. This difference is fundamental, and the analogy seems broken to me.
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Sure, North Korea could come up with some primitive missiles in a few years... that's why the US must deploy interceptors in Europe, instead of Japan, Taiwan, or South Korea. Same goes about Iran: the US has huge military presence in Turkey, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates, why not use those bases?
Besides, something tells me that if Russia attempted to deploy similar ICBM countermeasures at Cuban or Venezuelan territory, all hell would break loose. Just because somebody is at peace with you now, doesn't mean that he won't be at war with you some time later, especially if you're dealing with the world's mightiest and most aggressive superpower.
I, for one, welcome our new preciousss classsmate overlordsss.
I guess there are people who cannot afford a more expensive notebook, as well as people who do NOT need a more expensive notebook.
Especially now that Vista decorates the BSOD with lighting effects.
I don't want to sound offensive, but when Google makes a decision in favor of business, everybody says "So you're evil after all; no love for Google!", and now that they've done something in favor of morality, people start ranting about that, too? I guess one cannot please all geeks simultaneously.
I think that what happens now in the UK and might soon become normal among other Western nations could be predicted quite a while ago. Look, now that the most powerful enemy of the West is no more, and the Western countries control pretty much of the rest of the world [think colonies], what would be the next logical step for a Western power such as Britain? Right, establish control on its own population.
The summary doesn't mention that the attacks started after Estonia began excavating graves of Soviet troops killed during the World War II and vandalized the memorial devoted to them. Estonia is seen as a neo-fascist regime by Russia, and in my opinion, rightly so: you can't deny over 30% of your population [estimate of Russian population in Estonia] the most basic rights, including citizenship and education for children, based on their nationality, and be seen otherwise. Of course, Europe and the United States ignore this issue.
You're forgetting about one humble factor: spam sites. What's in it to stop a spammer from getting a hundred of high-end servers [or better yet, from using his arsenal of infested Windows PCs], and throw their resources on building an index to match his own agenda?
Yes I did, and not only it's quantum, it also runs Linux.
As far as I have understood, Adobe is releasing the source for all tools necessary to create fully capable Flash objects; that includes some sort of a compiler, too. Isn't it possible to document the Flash format itself by examining the code of the mentioned compiler?
Falun Gong. The Chinese government considers it harmful and tries to block it. Regarding the media coverage: last time I cared, in 2001, Newsweek had a pretty decent coverage of the matter.
Probably the most important thing about censorship [both at Myspace and internet search engines] is to make it voluntary by making rules as vague as possible. People already know what they shouldn't discuss if they don't want to land in a jail: questionable religions, rumors involving military, other sensitive things that matter for the government. So the whole message is "Here's a new cool site; the rules are as usual".
It is connected if you engage your brain a little, little troll. The piracy-fighting hype [among which was the physics faculty wide order to remove all the pirated software from faculty computers before March, 31th] was one of the reasons the migration was started in the first place. So I brought this in to show that yes, the piracy rate is decreasing, but not quite the way Microsoft and BSA would like it to.
I am system administrator in a large nuclear physics institute in Moscow, which is by no mere coincidence a vital part of the Russian internet backbone. Since my day one I've been advocating Linux and free software, and here's the fruit: already about 10% of the institute's workers, including the director himself, use various distributions of Linux [mostly Ubuntu/Debian, Mandriva and Red Hat]. Besides, I'm currently engaged in talks with Sun regarding our migration to Sun Ray, which will run on a customized Debian system.
I believe that if the result will look as I expect it to, the university [it's the largest university in Russia and AFAIK Europe] which we are a significant part of might break off Microsoft crap in toto, although this statement can be considered a pure speculation at this moment.
Then please define evil. Since our species began, males have been gathering into bands to fight for resources. As our population boosted, more successful bands started controlling production, research, and propaganda, and became called 'governments', and less fortunate ones became mafia, criminals, and other such characters. Moral is a set of rules developed in a given area, usually having simplistic roots, and carved into stone. You cannot expect inhabitants of different regions to have the same set of rules affirmed in their minds.
It is obvious that you have an extremely pessimistic point of view. Your pessimism feeds your defeatism. It is really quite sad that you would accept defeat and not strive for something better.Since you've gone personal, I'll do the same: you're sinking in words - "evil", "immoral", "bad". You cannot look past them, you cannot defeat the thinking of a commoner and take things simple. You're not a scientist type, and probably will never be. Poor you, blah blah blah.
So, should they stop their UK operations as well, since UK is a 'surveillance society'? Should they close their French and German departments, because these countries censor pro-Nazi and revisionist websites, among other things? Should they abandon Russia because Putin is building his 'vertical of power' with sometimes questionable methods? Should they say goodbye to the United States as well because the US is the world's largest aggressor, and has killed millions of foreign civilians in the past 50 years? FACE IT. All governments are evil. That's not good, and that's not bad: it's a fact of life. A government cannot behave like a Barbie-playing girl. Governments are there because they have might, and as soon as they lose their might, they are displaced by a revolt or an invasion.
Do you think that use of proprietary software, and especially an operating system is any more secure? That damned Windows XP computer may be uploading all your documents through your Windows 2k/2k3 server to Microsoft HQ, and you'll never know.
I thought it's an empiric law; the definition of axiom is quite different from that.
Intel said it had already manufactured prototype microprocessor chips in the new 45-nanometer process that run on three major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.Again, I thought it's the operating systems who run on microprocessors, not vice-versa. And I [not being a kernel developer, though] can't see any reason for an OS to stop functioning on a new processor model if the architecture is intact and no serious hardware-level bugs are introduced.
Particles in solar corona are accelerated by the magnetic field, and the process is more or less well modeled by now; gas giants do not possess that strong magnetic fields. One should note that it's the particles that originate in the core in fusion reactions and are emitted away; however, there are no fusion reactions in the cores of gas giants AFAIK, so we're talking about quasi stationary processes in the atmosphere. This difference is fundamental, and the analogy seems broken to me.