Very true. Waves have both constructive and destructive interference, and the sources would have to be perfectly aligned to really negate the energy. That of course means your cloak would need to be deep inside the earth exactly where the seismic energy is coming from. And good luck at injecting enough energy to affect trillions of tons of rock exactly in phase with a seismic wave that you didn't know was coming exactly at that instant. This kind of nonsense could only happen on April 1st.

They both have a common goal, to get a network to the masses. Just make nice, join forces, and get the job done. Enough with the story headlines and get on with it.

This decision is for the laymen that don't know enough to see the solution for what little benefit it provides. To them carbon is bad. Think Coal (flammable) and C02 (poisoning our atmosphere, and why we buy a Tesla in the first place). Never mind that graphite is non-flamable and diamond is the hardest structure known, as they don't get in the news.

Maybe spider silk? Spiderman is cool. Yup, make it out of spider silk and that would sell a lot of cars.

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Back in the early 80's, in my undergrad days, I was designing my dream car, which had a 300 lb epoxy kevlar flywheel (didn't have carbon fibre back then) which at maximum rpm would punch out a theoretical and instantaneous 32,000 horse power (for a very very short time), with all wheel drive, if the mechanical components could even handle that kind of load. The design challenge was to see how much power you could design the system to handle without twisting the frame.

What Volvo doesn't mention though is that if you extract that kind of energy from a single flywheel system the car will spin violently if the tires break traction. The only way to handle that much torque is to have a dual flywheel system using counter rotation to negate that rotational torque. Step on the gas a little too hard when on ice and you are out for quite a surprise.

Your storage infinite device: 1) create a radio receiver that transcribes the incoming signal into a laser beam. 2) Drop it into a black hole. The data in the beam now becomes infinitely compressed as it tries to get to the event horizion. 3) Send it all your data. 4) pr0fet! Just make sure the EULA states that it is to be used only for perminant storage (as nothing ever comes back out of a black hole.)

Economics is key, but not necessarily from the consumers perspective. If you buy a coal burning plant what you have created is one very rich and powerful investor who knows little more than how to manage a Coal burning plant. The question then is how you then entice that same person to invest his money in a different technology that is better for the planet. Taking someone from 'running the worlds dirtiest power producing technology' to suddenly 'caring about the planet' may be harder than it sounds unless its actually written into the contract or something else is made to look like a lot better investment. The filthy rich have a tendency to love money unfortunately.

Except raise the prices of electricity. The Coal plants will just import form overseas and the proce to consumers will be higher as a result. Not that raising the price won't change the economics, but it won't kill the industry like they seem to assume here. It would be better to pour their money into some R&D to find a better substitute with a lower cost green alternative. After all $50 Billion with a 'B' would certainly help find better technology if in the right hands.

Quote: will continue to “pursue online infringing use as we’ve done traditionally.”

You just described our 'indirect internet access' and yes I once used ssh proxies to loop back and test our own security perimiter. Currently I use Qubes-OS to partition my personal desktop security domains. one vm to do "work", another for email that can only access the smtp/imap servers, attachments open in one time use disposable vm's, so no custom attachment payloads can exfiltrate anything. Lastly one Internet only vm browser domain for sites requiring persistance or special certs. Network wise they do not overlap, as you are inside or out and cant see any data from the other vm domains. Hardware, priv drivers, and even DMA are confined to a networking vm while all traffic through it is encrypted. Its better than the indirect method, but at some point I will be forced to give it up.

They can mitm using any cert installed in any browser that anyone is running so long as they own the network routers out to the Internet. They have no control over my desktop nor my cellphone that I accessed /. from, via wifi, to submit my prior post. From where I am now they do not.

For the most part I agree, only trusted signing athorities do nothing for you when the protocol itself lends itself to MITM attacks. Where I work all SSL traffic is monitored in this way, for security reasons. Including this post.

What is the one thing worse than having a Bot on your desktop machine? Having a stealth Bot controlling your network, having access to all your hosts, playing man-in-the-middle for all your "secure" SSL/TLS banking and credit-card connections. Andy you have no clue that it is even there. At least when you get a Bot on your local desktop machine you will have clues that something is spinning CPU and taking up disk space, if you are smart enough to notice those things. When a bot controls and sees everything, while giving no indication, and you have no AV or utilities on embedded hardware to diagnose the problem, then you have a REAL problem.

Yes, having a router is better than having no router, but only if YOU still own it. Once the bad guys p0wn it then it is no longer your friend.

... that Snowden didn't have good enough tools available.

This article appears to me to be an advertisement placement article. The technology is not new, and hence not 'start up companies', except the one they are pushing. The technology is built into Windows but has no useable interface. stupid of Microsoft to leave that to the user and say nothing while maleware and hacking goes rampid. It is however good however to see the best solution get more attention. The AV track is a loosing proposition right out of the gate if you are the target of a hacker. My company has been using Bit9 for years. It does the job fairly well. The downside to this technology is process injection and overflow attacks do not run binaries, so 'running process checksums' are likely necessary. Fixing the overflow problem with an OS level secure library, and its enforcement, is necessary.

Keep in mind that the same organizations that invented the Missile Defence System also invented the hypersonic missile. What makes anybody so sure that hypersonic interceptors are not already in the works?

Also, hypersonic technology is hard. Do the math. Its a lot harder than either politicians or reporters might think. Just because somebody can test a vehicle for a short distance (ie tens of seconds) does not mean it is a viable solution to anything. Making one that actually flies for any duration and can maneuver and evade is not yet a reality. At those speeds you don't need much to go wrong, to get going really really wrong. Its very unforgiving above Mach 7.

There are very few countries that can pull it off right now and they are not even the ones we particularly need to worry about. Those that we do need to worry about are still trying to figure out simple ICBM's, which is a full magnitude easier than even the simplest short duration hypersonic flight, and a whole lot cheaper to make.