Russia probably could shut down all trade and be self-sufficient
They tried that. They couldn't feed themselves reliably.
After 70 years of misery and decline they stopped and embarked on a new era of misery and decline, eased substantially by limited trade with the West.
They have the resources to be self sufficient. They even have the knowledge. Unfortunately, that's not enough.
To close the loop you need a functioning market of industry and ideas where property rights are respected and investors and entrepreneurs can flourish. Russians don't do that. Their culture is rotten right to the core with corruption. It's been that way since the czars, it was that way right through the commie era and it remains that way today, and any honest Russian will tell you exactly that.
So no, they can't be self sufficient. They'd be starving again inside 10 years. The grain haulers would be corralled in the switch yard of some apparatchik gang while Russians boil grass in the dark.
The best thing we can do for ourselves and the rest of the species is keep our foot firmly on their neck until they stop using force in Europe. Or until they end up under China's thumb. Which ever comes first.
Mr. Clinton and Mrs. Clinton, the former Walmart exec., gave China MFN status which started the huge growth of Chinese industry in the late 90's. The common "Walmart America" upper middle class Clintonista is all about shelves full of Chinese stuff to fill their mcmansions, and with the possible exception of Obama you can't find a bigger proponent of TPP than Clinton.
It was Obama Democrats that tripped up this trade deal. Blacks, labor and others have been made surplus people through competition with disposable foreign workers and they've finally — after half a century — figured it out.
Saying that responding will require "drastic measures that will destroy the Western world's economy" is hyperbolic alarmism.
The fuck it is. You mother fuckers are the real "austerity."
Japan had to stop indulging you hairshirt statists when they shut down their nukes. "Renewables" aren't making up the difference. Gas and oil does that. Australia had to kick you fucks to the curb after they got a good taste of what you wanted to inflict; they took your "carbon tax" and stuffed it up your tail pipe before you could ruin their country.
1 or 2%
Your bullshit impact figures are just as bogus as your downplayed costs, your exaggerated benefits and your climate fear mongering.
She must be bringing something home, because she has been there for a very long time.
She does; she says mean things about the "rich", coporations and the rest of the libtard boogey men. CA knuckleheads lap that shit up even as they're pounding on Zillow to find someplace they can afford to live after fucking up their own state.
k.... I tried to follow the thinking here and failed.
It's as though someone took the terrified mind of a Sierra Club propagandized millennial and blended it with the mind of a slashdot basement dweller; out pops a strange being that blathers endlessly about 3D printing, climate change and saving the world.
I replaced a fixed code system about 10 years ago. I'm sure there are plenty of old ones still in use, but this claim that "most openers in commercially available garage door openers" are still using these ancient techniques is bogus.
Neat hack, but it isn't the revelation this misleading story claims.
Meanwhile the top modded and most visible post in this story is an anti-LEO spiel that would be groupthink approved on any libtard site you care to name.
The Navy isn't hiding its entire fleet of war planes behind shell corps and surveilling US cities with them. There is a big difference between the sovereign armed forces of a nation and a creepy, clandestine, unaccountable government operation to surveil its citizens, and I make exactly that distinction, so this supposed "hypocrisy" is nothing more than your fevered imagination.
I'm no conspiracy nutter; this whole kerfuffle is nothing more than what happens when you employ way too many government employees and fund them with way too much money; attributing some dark conspiracy to it is probably giving it way more credit than it deserves.
But there certainly is no better way to fuel the black helicopter crowd then actually finding a fucking fleet of black helicopters. And yeah, I know they are fixed wing. Fuck off.
You mean someone uses Windows built-in DVD playback?
Yes. The codec in Windows 7 (ultimate) and its integration with Media Player produces smoother playback with less system load than VLC. The difference grows (up to a point) when other activity competes for resources while playing DVD or Blu-ray video.
You may not realize that, and it may not even occur for your particular collection of hardware. I didn't pick up on it for a long time, but at some point I noticed the difference and since then I've used Media Player. And I'm not some crazy 'phile that obsesses over imaginary minutia; I spend less than average on media gear and I'm not particularly sensitive to minor phenomena. But I can tell the difference between VLC and Media Player, and I can measure the difference in system load.
So yeah, it kinda sucks that the DVD codec Microsoft provides is going away. Will I care enough to not just use VLC? We'll see. I also use VLC frequently; it's better when coping with with random media and does a lot of tricks WMP won't. I have no problem with VLC at all. But if I can get better results with something else then I just might do that instead.
A government with the power to take one right can take the other. The strong preferences of groupthink assholes like you and Tim Cook will see both taken.
my information is clearly more complete than what is in the AP story
They're doing what they always do; drip drip drip out the bad news, a little worse each time. Fifty?!! Wow. 97?? Well, that's only 47 more than 50 so; "no new information," as their spokes-fucks will say.
It's going on right now with the anthrax news. Yesterday the DOD revealed they sent live anthrax into Canada, in addition to the 12 US states they had already admitted to.
The Clintons have been pulling this crap since the 90's. They're dripping out Foundation donor information one foreign turd at a time; timed to run out long before the election. They've got the State Department dripping out their copies of her emails on a published schedule now.
They know there are far more than 50 aircraft. So does the AP. They'll admit to a few more in a couple news cycles. They'll probably fess up to the whole number just before Rand Paul or whomever seats the first hearing on it.
That's a big fleet of planes. Just think, one "not secret" program inside one bureau of one branch of our Federal Government controls 50 aircraft, and we're not even allow to know what this operation is called, as they smother the whole thing under shell companies.
Isn't having a giant government great? Lets give them more money and see what they do with it.
Pretty much do exactly the opposite of anything advocated on art blogs and you're going the right direction.
Google... started
The latest Android has icons are so abstract they are effectively meaningless. The clock looks like a pie chart; they can't even suffer the hour tick marks that might assist in conveying "clock." The "text" app is a huge left double quote — so out-of-context that it has no association with the concept of "communication." The Google Drive icon is a three color triangle that bears zero resemblance to any sort of storage concept. Basically you must read the label of every icon and slowly try to associate these pictorial abstractions to their actual purpose. In reality users are just memorizing the locations of these meaningless icons, and if you were to rearrange their locations they'd be totally lost.
It sucks. It's stupid. And I'm 100% certain there is a cabal of "art" fucks behind it.
Think of Stop signs
No. Don't think of Stop signs. Stop signs aren't trying to convey an association to anything. You can't buy and eat a box of "stops." Many, many road signs use useful pictographs to convey things; a vehicle skidding due to ice; immigrants hand-in-hand running across a road, the silhouette of a bounding buck.... GUI icons need to convey association; storage, trash, communication, people, news, dates and times, etc.
Trying to boil all these things down to abstract vector art is idiot.
I don't think concentrating on the detection problem is the best approach
Yeah, well word #2 in this story's subject is "Detecting," so I went with that. Silly me.
not only the drone but the pilot's location
Detecting the "pilot" is actually the hardest part. $200 buys a programmable autopilot that will drop a UAV on any GPS coordinate the batteries can reach — sans pilot. Signals can come from any radio system, including ubiquitous ones like cell towers, so good luck finding that needle in the urban haystack.
Not that a 2 lbs craft is harmless, but 2 lbs is light. According to the FAA the upper limit for "recreational" UAVs is 55 lbs. It is easy to get into the 10's of lbs with big, extended range batteries, a high res camera, multi-axis gimbal, etc. Really easy. Whipping along at modest 60 mph you can cover 10-15 miles on today's batteries.
Anyone that can't see the potential of that is a fool.
The typical multirotor "drone" is necessarily built very lightweight; the electronics and motors are not typically shielded much at all. The brushless motors emit stupid amounts of RF energy due to unshielded motors, multiple banks of ESC's covered by nothing but heatshrink, etc. It shouldn't be particularly hard to spot a fast moving, localized source of RF noise at frequencies typical of multirotor motors.
Then there is heat. The ESCs and motors are HOT. Again, mass must be minimized so there is no easy way to hide that heat. A bright infrared spot zipping along at 50' altitude shouldn't be hard to detect.
For things that are piloted with FPV cameras there is a big video return signal coming off the craft. Due to antenna size this is usually some UHF frequency and fairly loud. The range of possible frequencies is vast, but in the real world there are a limited number of cost effective miniature transmitters available, so it isn't difficult to anticipate the likely frequencies.
Seems like there are a number of tell-tails that shouldn't be hard to exploit if you are serious about it have the means...
Clinton giving MFN status to China did more damage to the US than anything else. We have created more surplus working class than we have Fergusons to warehouse them.
No, they are not. They export some commodities, but beyond that they add no value to anything. Their factories are shut because their labor laws and practices make them non-viable. No significant intellectual property is created there, despite their vaunted "free" education. Rampant, endemic corruption keeps investors out.
Do you understand that the Euro is zero sum?
I understand that people invent strange concepts such as that to rationalize their world view when reality fails to cooperate. Worse, I understand the people of Greece are prone to indulge such falsehoods, which doesn't bode well for their post-Euro future.
Covering your weapons in mirrors is stupid and impractical. The "just put mirrors on everything LOLZ" trope your kind always trots out doesn't become more feasible just because you're naive enough to keep repeating it.
For a much cheaper price than such a lser system itself.
Defense is always more expensive that offence. It's easier to break things. That's why being wealthy is important to self preservation.
Hillary et al tell us we deserve more bennies and the "rich" need to pay their "fair share"... and the rest is so much noise from the `vast right wing conspiracy' that goes in one ear and out the other. As long you can stand there and tell people they deserve things they know they don't you can do anything you want. All else is forgiven.
Go ahead obummer, veto it. Your low information constituency is oblivious in any case, but at least you can have your spokesfuck tell us how you protected us from the evil capitalist pigdogs.
Slashdot Mirror
Russia probably could shut down all trade and be self-sufficient
They tried that. They couldn't feed themselves reliably.
After 70 years of misery and decline they stopped and embarked on a new era of misery and decline, eased substantially by limited trade with the West.
They have the resources to be self sufficient. They even have the knowledge. Unfortunately, that's not enough.
To close the loop you need a functioning market of industry and ideas where property rights are respected and investors and entrepreneurs can flourish. Russians don't do that. Their culture is rotten right to the core with corruption. It's been that way since the czars, it was that way right through the commie era and it remains that way today, and any honest Russian will tell you exactly that.
So no, they can't be self sufficient. They'd be starving again inside 10 years. The grain haulers would be corralled in the switch yard of some apparatchik gang while Russians boil grass in the dark.
The best thing we can do for ourselves and the rest of the species is keep our foot firmly on their neck until they stop using force in Europe. Or until they end up under China's thumb. Which ever comes first.
Mr. Clinton and Mrs. Clinton, the former Walmart exec., gave China MFN status which started the huge growth of Chinese industry in the late 90's. The common "Walmart America" upper middle class Clintonista is all about shelves full of Chinese stuff to fill their mcmansions, and with the possible exception of Obama you can't find a bigger proponent of TPP than Clinton.
It was Obama Democrats that tripped up this trade deal. Blacks, labor and others have been made surplus people through competition with disposable foreign workers and they've finally — after half a century — figured it out.
Saying that responding will require "drastic measures that will destroy the Western world's economy" is hyperbolic alarmism.
The fuck it is. You mother fuckers are the real "austerity."
Japan had to stop indulging you hairshirt statists when they shut down their nukes. "Renewables" aren't making up the difference. Gas and oil does that. Australia had to kick you fucks to the curb after they got a good taste of what you wanted to inflict; they took your "carbon tax" and stuffed it up your tail pipe before you could ruin their country.
1 or 2%
Your bullshit impact figures are just as bogus as your downplayed costs, your exaggerated benefits and your climate fear mongering.
You've missed the distinction between "says" and `does'. Reading comprehension issues.
She must be bringing something home, because she has been there for a very long time.
She does; she says mean things about the "rich", coporations and the rest of the libtard boogey men. CA knuckleheads lap that shit up even as they're pounding on Zillow to find someplace they can afford to live after fucking up their own state.
k.... I tried to follow the thinking here and failed.
It's as though someone took the terrified mind of a Sierra Club propagandized millennial and blended it with the mind of a slashdot basement dweller; out pops a strange being that blathers endlessly about 3D printing, climate change and saving the world.
I replaced a fixed code system about 10 years ago. I'm sure there are plenty of old ones still in use, but this claim that "most openers in commercially available garage door openers" are still using these ancient techniques is bogus.
Neat hack, but it isn't the revelation this misleading story claims.
Greedy cocksuckers like you
Yeah. You tell 'em. As you sit there barefoot in your yurt posting on Slashdot using telepathy; no electricity, polymers or climate control involved.
hidden by the new CONservative rulers here
Meanwhile the top modded and most visible post in this story is an anti-LEO spiel that would be groupthink approved on any libtard site you care to name.
Dude, your moniker is a reference to the Navy.
The Navy isn't hiding its entire fleet of war planes behind shell corps and surveilling US cities with them. There is a big difference between the sovereign armed forces of a nation and a creepy, clandestine, unaccountable government operation to surveil its citizens, and I make exactly that distinction, so this supposed "hypocrisy" is nothing more than your fevered imagination.
I'm no conspiracy nutter; this whole kerfuffle is nothing more than what happens when you employ way too many government employees and fund them with way too much money; attributing some dark conspiracy to it is probably giving it way more credit than it deserves.
But there certainly is no better way to fuel the black helicopter crowd then actually finding a fucking fleet of black helicopters. And yeah, I know they are fixed wing. Fuck off.
You mean someone uses Windows built-in DVD playback?
Yes. The codec in Windows 7 (ultimate) and its integration with Media Player produces smoother playback with less system load than VLC. The difference grows (up to a point) when other activity competes for resources while playing DVD or Blu-ray video.
You may not realize that, and it may not even occur for your particular collection of hardware. I didn't pick up on it for a long time, but at some point I noticed the difference and since then I've used Media Player. And I'm not some crazy 'phile that obsesses over imaginary minutia; I spend less than average on media gear and I'm not particularly sensitive to minor phenomena. But I can tell the difference between VLC and Media Player, and I can measure the difference in system load.
So yeah, it kinda sucks that the DVD codec Microsoft provides is going away. Will I care enough to not just use VLC? We'll see. I also use VLC frequently; it's better when coping with with random media and does a lot of tricks WMP won't. I have no problem with VLC at all. But if I can get better results with something else then I just might do that instead.
strongly prefer
A government with the power to take one right can take the other. The strong preferences of groupthink assholes like you and Tim Cook will see both taken.
my information is clearly more complete than what is in the AP story
They're doing what they always do; drip drip drip out the bad news, a little worse each time. Fifty?!! Wow. 97?? Well, that's only 47 more than 50 so; "no new information," as their spokes-fucks will say.
It's going on right now with the anthrax news. Yesterday the DOD revealed they sent live anthrax into Canada, in addition to the 12 US states they had already admitted to.
The Clintons have been pulling this crap since the 90's. They're dripping out Foundation donor information one foreign turd at a time; timed to run out long before the election. They've got the State Department dripping out their copies of her emails on a published schedule now.
They know there are far more than 50 aircraft. So does the AP. They'll admit to a few more in a couple news cycles. They'll probably fess up to the whole number just before Rand Paul or whomever seats the first hearing on it.
That's a big fleet of planes. Just think, one "not secret" program inside one bureau of one branch of our Federal Government controls 50 aircraft, and we're not even allow to know what this operation is called, as they smother the whole thing under shell companies.
Isn't having a giant government great? Lets give them more money and see what they do with it.
art blogs
Uh huh.
Art blogs.
Pretty much do exactly the opposite of anything advocated on art blogs and you're going the right direction.
Google ... started
The latest Android has icons are so abstract they are effectively meaningless. The clock looks like a pie chart; they can't even suffer the hour tick marks that might assist in conveying "clock." The "text" app is a huge left double quote — so out-of-context that it has no association with the concept of "communication." The Google Drive icon is a three color triangle that bears zero resemblance to any sort of storage concept. Basically you must read the label of every icon and slowly try to associate these pictorial abstractions to their actual purpose. In reality users are just memorizing the locations of these meaningless icons, and if you were to rearrange their locations they'd be totally lost.
It sucks. It's stupid. And I'm 100% certain there is a cabal of "art" fucks behind it.
Think of Stop signs
No. Don't think of Stop signs. Stop signs aren't trying to convey an association to anything. You can't buy and eat a box of "stops." Many, many road signs use useful pictographs to convey things; a vehicle skidding due to ice; immigrants hand-in-hand running across a road, the silhouette of a bounding buck.... GUI icons need to convey association; storage, trash, communication, people, news, dates and times, etc.
Trying to boil all these things down to abstract vector art is idiot.
Good luck jamming inertia
Somebody with enough resources
...and right there you've just narrowed the pool of potential threats. Defense isn't about guarantees. Raising the bar is all you can ever achieve.
Give them "enough resources" and they'll nuke you from orbit.
I don't think concentrating on the detection problem is the best approach
Yeah, well word #2 in this story's subject is "Detecting," so I went with that. Silly me.
not only the drone but the pilot's location
Detecting the "pilot" is actually the hardest part. $200 buys a programmable autopilot that will drop a UAV on any GPS coordinate the batteries can reach — sans pilot. Signals can come from any radio system, including ubiquitous ones like cell towers, so good luck finding that needle in the urban haystack.
2 pound
You just pull that figure out of your butt?
Not that a 2 lbs craft is harmless, but 2 lbs is light. According to the FAA the upper limit for "recreational" UAVs is 55 lbs. It is easy to get into the 10's of lbs with big, extended range batteries, a high res camera, multi-axis gimbal, etc. Really easy. Whipping along at modest 60 mph you can cover 10-15 miles on today's batteries.
Anyone that can't see the potential of that is a fool.
The typical multirotor "drone" is necessarily built very lightweight; the electronics and motors are not typically shielded much at all. The brushless motors emit stupid amounts of RF energy due to unshielded motors, multiple banks of ESC's covered by nothing but heatshrink, etc. It shouldn't be particularly hard to spot a fast moving, localized source of RF noise at frequencies typical of multirotor motors.
Then there is heat. The ESCs and motors are HOT. Again, mass must be minimized so there is no easy way to hide that heat. A bright infrared spot zipping along at 50' altitude shouldn't be hard to detect.
For things that are piloted with FPV cameras there is a big video return signal coming off the craft. Due to antenna size this is usually some UHF frequency and fairly loud. The range of possible frequencies is vast, but in the real world there are a limited number of cost effective miniature transmitters available, so it isn't difficult to anticipate the likely frequencies.
Seems like there are a number of tell-tails that shouldn't be hard to exploit if you are serious about it have the means...
Clinton giving MFN status to China did more damage to the US than anything else. We have created more surplus working class than we have Fergusons to warehouse them.
They *are* productive.
No, they are not. They export some commodities, but beyond that they add no value to anything. Their factories are shut because their labor laws and practices make them non-viable. No significant intellectual property is created there, despite their vaunted "free" education. Rampant, endemic corruption keeps investors out.
Do you understand that the Euro is zero sum?
I understand that people invent strange concepts such as that to rationalize their world view when reality fails to cooperate. Worse, I understand the people of Greece are prone to indulge such falsehoods, which doesn't bode well for their post-Euro future.
I am jsut stating that it should help.
Covering your weapons in mirrors is stupid and impractical. The "just put mirrors on everything LOLZ" trope your kind always trots out doesn't become more feasible just because you're naive enough to keep repeating it.
For a much cheaper price than such a lser system itself.
Defense is always more expensive that offence. It's easier to break things. That's why being wealthy is important to self preservation.
WTF is wrong with you Americans, anyhow?
Hillary et al tell us we deserve more bennies and the "rich" need to pay their "fair share"... and the rest is so much noise from the `vast right wing conspiracy' that goes in one ear and out the other. As long you can stand there and tell people they deserve things they know they don't you can do anything you want. All else is forgiven.
Go ahead obummer, veto it. Your low information constituency is oblivious in any case, but at least you can have your spokesfuck tell us how you protected us from the evil capitalist pigdogs.