I wonder if theses 'algos' have some built in A.I. which parses the days headlines to see if sufficient vacuous hype has been generated to make an investment worthwhile . ..
The trick is to have ties with someone at the news service. Then you can parse tomorrows newspaper headlines....
...with 10^38 neutrons per cm^2 per second buzzing thru them.
10^38 * 1.67e-27= 167 billion kg of neutrons per second of mass flux. Assuming an energy of 2MeV for the neutrons the mass density of neutrons is 85 kg per cc. More than 7 times the density of lead.
Make stuff up much do we?
And by failed do you mean worked? Like the ones in France etc? After all where do they get U233 or Plutonium if they don't work? Also they don't have any more problems with materials than anything else. The hard bit is that they are little more difficult to control.
The US doesn't run breeders, but that's political not technological.
In the UK they are free. In France the Louvre was something like 5EU and others were at similar prices. Here in Vienna many places are free while most are cheaper than a movie ticket. And no digital copy's will not affect museum patronage any more that photos of mountains stop people climbing them.
The Mona Lisa is available online, yet guess what the busiest room in the Louvre is?
Museums do not and should not need to turn a profit. Hell in the UK they are all free (at least last time i was there). There purpose is preservation of important cultural and historic items. They get money from tax payers to do this... Digitization is part of their job. Not some new way to create a new revenue stream.
The ISS provides nothing useful at all. It should have been debited before it was launched. Its a money sink and nothing more.
If you don't believe me then please point to all the publication of first class peer reviewed research that they have done there? I will then point you to the dozens more publication from other missions that have cost a fraction of the money (hubble, mars rovers and many others).
You think for one second that a bored hacker even thinks that far ahead?
And lets get some perceptive here. A few website went down for less than a day. Hardly an attack that anyone should care about. And not national security or military level either.
Really a DDOS attack like this, *is* a small thing.
An individual would have to be VERY motivated to attack two countries at once.
The point of a botnet is they don't have to be very motivated at all. Just bored. Having a list of IP numbers or URLs that includes 2 countries is *not* difficult.
Its a known fact that most criminals that are caught are stupid. If that's because criminals are stupid or that cops can only catch stupid criminals is an interesting question. Even more interesting is that if cops can only catch stupid criminals, does that make cops stupid...
Why does it have to be a country. What about some dirty hacker somewhere with nothing more than an axe to grind. Or perhaps he/she just doesn't like getting teased at school.
Its not fricken national emergency. Its just a botnet attack. Seriously what are the effects? Some website wasn't available all day? Sounds like just another day on the internet...
In fact they can and do maneuver. USSR had some that could get pretty good cross range if it hit the atmosphere right, back in the day and some still have such systems. Providing some small maneuvering motors is pretty easy to do. Coming in at 20km/s makes any realistic anti ICBM system an exercise in futility. It will always have huge asymmetric costs involved. That is is costs *far* more to defend than to attack. Thats why we ended up with MAD as the primary defense.
No anti ICBM system has demonstrated anything remotely useful as of yet. The sprint missile system was more an exercise of desperation and feel good rather than a realistic defense. Even with nuclear tip, it is still far cheaper to attack than defend. Hence about equal production between sides and you have no choice but to avoid wasting money on intercept.
Current systems can't tell the difference between decoys and the warheads until its too late. Any maneuvering system that an intercept system can have, can be put on the warhead too. And is simpler since it only needs to be "random" rather than hit a target moving at 20km/s.
Because when you test, you have good equipment rather than crappy home DSL modem rubbish. Really some of these routers are so bad I can't see how they work at all. Basically if its not tcp web browsing and perhaps a DNS UDP packet, they don't work at all.
Well some of these guys (my brother for example) just does not rent them. He likes to have them for 2-3 weeks and says buying then selling is cheaper.
But then again he keeps buying a xbox then selling to get a ps3 and trading that in for a wii which he then sells on ebay.... Perhaps he is not the best example to use.
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I wonder if theses 'algos' have some built in A.I. which parses the days headlines to see if sufficient vacuous hype has been generated to make an investment worthwhile . . .
The trick is to have ties with someone at the news service. Then you can parse tomorrows newspaper headlines....
This configuration is unstable. It would need active station keeping in addition to magic materials.
Or just have a large number of inter meshing satellites with there own station keeping *in* orbit...
...with 10^38 neutrons per cm^2 per second buzzing thru them.
10^38 * 1.67e-27= 167 billion kg of neutrons per second of mass flux. Assuming an energy of 2MeV for the neutrons the mass density of neutrons is 85 kg per cc. More than 7 times the density of lead.
Make stuff up much do we?
And by failed do you mean worked? Like the ones in France etc? After all where do they get U233 or Plutonium if they don't work? Also they don't have any more problems with materials than anything else. The hard bit is that they are little more difficult to control.
The US doesn't run breeders, but that's political not technological.
Whales just taste better!
In the UK they are free. In France the Louvre was something like 5EU and others were at similar prices. Here in Vienna many places are free while most are cheaper than a movie ticket. And no digital copy's will not affect museum patronage any more that photos of mountains stop people climbing them.
The Mona Lisa is available online, yet guess what the busiest room in the Louvre is?
Museums do not and should not need to turn a profit. Hell in the UK they are all free (at least last time i was there). There purpose is preservation of important cultural and historic items. They get money from tax payers to do this... Digitization is part of their job. Not some new way to create a new revenue stream.
But how many of you actually paid for the game?
The US is a big financial contributor to the LHC. The LHC should really be view as a bit of a combined effort.
The ISS provides nothing useful at all. It should have been debited before it was launched. Its a money sink and nothing more.
If you don't believe me then please point to all the publication of first class peer reviewed research that they have done there? I will then point you to the dozens more publication from other missions that have cost a fraction of the money (hubble, mars rovers and many others).
So no one else can even try it?
You think for one second that a bored hacker even thinks that far ahead?
And lets get some perceptive here. A few website went down for less than a day. Hardly an attack that anyone should care about. And not national security or military level either.
Really a DDOS attack like this, *is* a small thing.
An individual would have to be VERY motivated to attack two countries at once.
The point of a botnet is they don't have to be very motivated at all. Just bored. Having a list of IP numbers or URLs that includes 2 countries is *not* difficult.
However you need a warrant to access the data....
Its a known fact that most criminals that are caught are stupid. If that's because criminals are stupid or that cops can only catch stupid criminals is an interesting question. Even more interesting is that if cops can only catch stupid criminals, does that make cops stupid...
Why does it have to be a country. What about some dirty hacker somewhere with nothing more than an axe to grind. Or perhaps he/she just doesn't like getting teased at school.
Its not fricken national emergency. Its just a botnet attack. Seriously what are the effects? Some website wasn't available all day? Sounds like just another day on the internet...
this is /.
What where you expecting? Field expert reviewed news stories?
I like doing it, because is seems to offend a lot more of you ****ards than using the full word. *****!
they don't maneuver.
In fact they can and do maneuver. USSR had some that could get pretty good cross range if it hit the atmosphere right, back in the day and some still have such systems. Providing some small maneuvering motors is pretty easy to do. Coming in at 20km/s makes any realistic anti ICBM system an exercise in futility. It will always have huge asymmetric costs involved. That is is costs *far* more to defend than to attack. Thats why we ended up with MAD as the primary defense.
No anti ICBM system has demonstrated anything remotely useful as of yet. The sprint missile system was more an exercise of desperation and feel good rather than a realistic defense. Even with nuclear tip, it is still far cheaper to attack than defend. Hence about equal production between sides and you have no choice but to avoid wasting money on intercept.
Current systems can't tell the difference between decoys and the warheads until its too late. Any maneuvering system that an intercept system can have, can be put on the warhead too. And is simpler since it only needs to be "random" rather than hit a target moving at 20km/s.
German scientists were some of the best in the world..
Yep, and were a little to Jewish or otherwise and left Germany and then ended up in the Manhattan project. Define Irony.
In construction we call then cranes. Very useful.
Maybe they use h.264 because Apple are one of the patent holders of h264.
Where do you dig up this tripe.
Apple doesn't want to touch Theora, FLAC, Ogg or any other open codec/container because of the patent lawsuit magnet issue.
What a pile of Rubbish. They want you to use h.264 because they have patents for h.264 and some of those license fees goes to apple.
Because when you test, you have good equipment rather than crappy home DSL modem rubbish. Really some of these routers are so bad I can't see how they work at all. Basically if its not tcp web browsing and perhaps a DNS UDP packet, they don't work at all.
Don't you mean A revolution without tanks.
Seriously the idea of the general public having enough arms and training to overthrow someone in charge of an army is pretty laughable.
Modern revolutions need a bona fide General.
Well some of these guys (my brother for example) just does not rent them. He likes to have them for 2-3 weeks and says buying then selling is cheaper.
But then again he keeps buying a xbox then selling to get a ps3 and trading that in for a wii which he then sells on ebay.... Perhaps he is not the best example to use.