Comment Re: Canada (Score 1) 253
...already to the point that it's being considered for anti-ICBM systems...
The ABL Project was killed years ago, and that was the main anti-ICBM laser system.
...already to the point that it's being considered for anti-ICBM systems...
The ABL Project was killed years ago, and that was the main anti-ICBM laser system.
I don't see why inmates need access to it at all. They can find plenty of other ways to not be productive.
It's not a question of Facebook or whatever being a "right", it is about the punishment for using Facebook is out of proportion to the violation.
private networks aren't exactly the same thing as dark nets as such.. or is ibm running a "dark net"? by most definitions no.
Granted, the 'dark' specifier implies a certain degree of secrecy and exclusivity.
Dark Web has always been the 'secret' side of the 'net. It just used to be more interesting,
Not really; we just used to be younger and more impressionable.
Well "back in the day" as it were, a Dark Net used to require you to basically set up a whole separate network infrastructure inside the World Wide Web, which I think is kinda cooler than the "everybody join in"-way of TOR.
Those old school darknets also used to be *way* more exclusive.
I rather enjoyed kongbucks and simoleans (actually the fictional stories that they were featured in), the real life embodiment in bitcoins... not so much
Kongbucks were actual money, the official currency of Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.
No, you are thinking of the 'deep web'.
Dark Web has always been the 'secret' side of the 'net. It just used to be more interesting,
If there's no beginning, and the universe has been here infinitely long, why aren't we already at this steady-state condition?
I'm not sure the equations imply that there is no beginning, just that there is no end.
Otherwise...I don't have a good answer for you.
And as far as a universe with no beginning or end is concerned, what's the problem?
In a word: entropy.
As I understand it, this new equitation only deals with the nature of the universe, not any of the stuff in the universe. So, yeah entropy will always increase inside the universe and the universe will eventually become uniform and the same temperature and density in all directions.
But, the universe itself is infinite and will stay so.
You know, what I've often asked myself is, "What was there before the Big Bang?"
The question does not make any sense, I mean from a purely linguistic point of view it does, but the question itself does not make sense to ask.
Anything we know, have known and are able to know takes place after the big bang, thus asking what came before it is a question we cannot really answer.
Laser are line of sight only, they can't do indirect fire. A ship would also need rail guns to launch projectiles. Its an improvement, but there will still be ammunition limits.
Lasers probably wont be used for Ship-to-ship or even ship-to-shore engagements, they're much more suited as CIWS or Anti-air roles.
And how do you propose to launch this EMP attack? EMP isn't a magical thing you can just conjure up and cast at someone like a wizard. Pretty much anything you could do to a hit a ship with an EMP would be no less difficult than just blowing up the ship with something explosive. EMP is only preferable if you then intend to send soldiers on bored the ship to seize it and retrieve if for yourself, but good fucking luck with that. I imagine the crew would scuttle it before you had chance.
I suppose you could hit them with a nuclear bomb. Those things produce pretty powerful EMP.
Erm? Care to explain how a railgun would cause an EMP?
Because there is a huge electromagnetic discharge?
It's kinda how railguns work.
No LAN support means "local multiplayer available without the matchmaking service"
I was in a place where we had no internet access but we wanted to play Company of Heroes. Old Version allowed this, new Steam version does not,.
The only New Steam Version game I own is Company of Heroes... which repairs the multiplayer services that were lost due to server shutdowns. In other words, they're restoring the engine of my car, for free, that the original supporting company allowed to die.
Also took out lan support.
Which games specifically become terrible after they change to "New Steam Version"?
Company of Heroes took out LAN game support.
Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.