"“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, "
Cite please?
If true that alone would be a pretty good reason for not having her in the top spot.
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Exactly.
That's why lawyers won't be going away any time soon.
Nor will judges.
UK and US judges make "case law" every time they interpret a law or decide one precedent is more applicable than another.
"I am the law" is not just a line in a comic book. It remains a literal statement of fact.
1)Cloud is good for fast starting an application.
2)Some applications (mostly with high IO counts) scale really badly. They should be run on their own servers.
So cloud --> good early development environment. May be OK operating environment. Or not.
The DevOps equivalent of "Premature optimization is the root of nearly all evil"?
Good to know. But aren't most databases quite heavy on both I/P and O/P ?
263 ARM based?
Actually the SPARC architecture has been licensed in Europe for rad hard and space apps.
In truth the smart thing to do is go clockless but that means you can't sell premium high clock speed chips.
Tough elements will be identify power hungry instructions (in existing ISA) and a low power interconnect for them at both board and rack level. What makes some instructions power hungry, and then either make the less power hungry or scrap them.
It's ironic that GNU and Linux, developed essentially in an instruction set monoculture, allow nearly any possible instruction set to leverage a large development environment, once you've hacked a code generator.
IIRC DARPA was doing something like this. Something about 1 PetaFLOPS for 5Kw?
Nice.
It looks like Autonomy's "defense" is "If you were too stupid to realize we were crooks that's your tough luck."
Sorry but IRL if you're a crook that's actually the crime, not your victims stupidity.
Although HP were very stupid.
Actually AFAIK they did them on any concentration camp inmates, including Russian PoWs.
The key ones are to do with aircrew survival in the Atlantic IE effects of Hypothermia and the design of ejector seats and high altitude exposure. High altitude and hypothermia were done at Dachau.
This data was seized by the Allies at the end of the war. The question is what is worse. Killing these people or killing these people and ignoring the information so they died for nothing?
Read "Flash Boys."
The US exchanges have cooperated in defining a slew of bizarre order types that basically allow HFT companies to probe the market without actually having to buy any shares.
They are not really orders as such
They are a probe language allowing the HFT to buy up the big orders ahead of the actual customer and then sell them on at mark up. This is how HFT's can be in the astonishing position of "trading" on stock exchanges and never making a loss.
The simplest answer. Stick a 20Km FO cable on the front of the Exchange servers and don't allow HFT or other big players to co lo at your server facility.
Indeed
When HFT companies where paying huge funds to be in Exchange server rooms to cut times by nanoseconds (to let them implement their legalized man-in-the middle attacks) and the Atlantic is 19 000 ns wide this is simply BS.
I think the asymmetrical extradition law, with different standards of proof for US --> UK and UK <--US was a little gift of Tony Blair's to his pal GW Bush.
Since both are long gone it's well past time it was reviewed, and by that I mean with a view to being scrapped.
Which is what a US toy company came up with in the 80s IIRC (Pop. Sci article?)
But this is audible. And SS data rate with a sound carrier is about 2-3 bits per second.
That said the clever part is probably a)Code selection for maximum detection in high ambient noise environments and b)Filter algorithms to detect that code efficiently .
The idea is pretty obvious.
I suspect the implementation less so.
Here's the problem with that idea.
They are saying this thing generates 2x the thrust of a solar sail yet if it is photons they are only being output at a single frequency (that of the magnetron), whereas the sail reflects the whole of the solar spectrum.
Something does not seem to be adding (or multiplying) up.
Well a bit more than that.
It was to stop the Conservative party shattering and large parts (as he thought) of it going to UKIP. Risking the shattering of the UK and the EU was a small price to pay. A real upper class hero.
CMD thought making it first past the post rather than some minimal threshold level on turnout and majority would keep it nice and simple for British citizens and it worked so well on Scottish independence, nicely skewering the Salmond.
I guess he reckoned a no was such a foregone conclusion planning in the Act for a yes was not needed, although it seems it took 67 pages to say so.
Except that is exactly what they are arguing.
Just because the people who voted for Brexit did not realize leaving the EEA could be part of it (they say) is basically tough s**t. After all they did want to "Take back control" didn't they, right?
Can't have border controls and free trade as well.
2 options.
MP's respect the result and vote to let the Minister invoke almost unanimously
MP's don't respect the (advisory) referendum and vote their PoV, which suggests the UK is going nowhere.
Looks like CMD's little plan to ensure unity in the Tory party for a generation hasn't worked out too well, does it not?
Just another day in Faragistan to me.
Spray solution on area of plants.
Scan with IR camera.
Check for fluoresce
Map fluoresce data to model explosive concentrations.
Caveats.
What the range in concentration sensitivity between plants. Are some in the same species 10x as sensitive as others or more or less the same?
What's the range between plant species?
If they are land mines how do you defuse/detonate them safely?
At present one of those, clever in the lab, not so clever in the field ideas.
But could get better
No they won't.
Fixed geometry is only good for about 3 Mach numbers. You'd be better off staying with a subsonic combustion ramjet and saving the oxidizer load but it's debatable if it's worth it. You can't treat the engine as separate you have to treat the vehicle, tanks and engines as a complete system for getting to orbit and optimize appropriately.
When fully funded Reaction Engines Limited have made more progress than any SCramjet project has.
"And for re-usable spacecraft."
Claimed by SCramjet advocates for the last 60 years.
First off you need something else to get them to that velocity. So no you need a rocket anyway.
Second off fixed geometry ramjets usually have a Mach range of 3. Widening this requires making the whole structure variable geometry, mostly of parts operating at re-entry temperatures.
Despite billions of dollars spent on SCramjet research (NASP was $1Bn+) since 1960. they took till 2005 to demonstrate positive thrust IE thrust from engine exceeded drag it produces when operating.
Ramjet missiles have been operational from the 1950's. No SCramjet has ever been fielded.
The only thing SCramjet research has been good for is producing hypersonic PhD's, which it has in abundance.
I think you're thinking of the Genie, the only nuclear armed AAM the US ever fielded.
It's pretty obvious that delivering it's capabilities today would have a much lighter electronics package (all that TTL replaced by PowerPC and a couple of ASICs) but of course then they'd want to "upgrade" it in various ways.
BTW While the only listed live shoots by the US missed the Iranians claimed their F14's were quite active in the Iran Iraq war and hit quite a lot. Obviously quite tough to verify.
Let's see if they can make it work this time.
People have noted 2 things about these concepts.
1) A regular ramjet is good enough already (and has been for the last 30-40 years) to do M5 cruise
2) M5 in the atmosphere is like continual reentry. All the options for dealing with this are limited and either heavy (ablatives, thick heat sink skins) or complex (active cooling).
It'll be fascinating to see what the come up with and wheather $175m gets DARPA some actual hardware or just another bunch of power points.
The US system is dysfunctional and has been for decades. Nominal party memberships of both houses barely pay lip service to their sides stated goals.
It's time the American people capped this huge portion of fail with a leader worthy of such people.
5 years of him should give the survivors of his presidency a little more respect for the consequences of their actions.
Holy s**t that summary seems pretty blunt.
2 missiles and 2 bombs per aircraft in 2015 and the US Lab to generate the flight data loads is behind the foreign sales equivalent (why?)
I recall the development of the space Shuttle software was split up into many increments as they gradually added new features as more of the flight envelope was tested and more capabilities were added.
It looks like here they have a few "fat" loads and they are not working out.
You need someone (and they'd better be pretty senior) to realize something needs changing.
Then they need to work out what needs changing and how.
IT is a tool for that, not a reason to change.
When people talk of Billion £ changes you're talking about whole departments changing what they do and how they do it.
Root and branch.
IT is the 0.1% of that process.