No need to google it... here you go: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950

You can navigate in a perfect circle, but when you reach the end of the perfect circle there will be a little left over because the number you were using for pi to calculate the circumference was off.

However, don't let me interrupt what must be a satisfying eye roll for you. I'm glad to see cowards on Slashdot have remained as polite as ever.

If you memorize up to the first zero in pi, you can navigate the circumference of the universe in a perfect circle and when you get to the end of the circle (based on the digits of pi you memorized) you'll be off by less than the width of a human hair.

Anyone know if it's possible to do this for Slashdot? Every single post read, every login, every IP address, perhaps supposedly anonymous posts, every moderation, etc. And with Slashdot, there isn't the ability to even delete anything. The only saving grace is that most people don't attach their real names to their accounts.

Thanks for the info.

You may be right... I'm making up my own definitions of active and passive as I don't know how these are legally defined in terms of rules of engagement, etc. and whether or not North Korea gives a rat's ass about what other countries think the definitions are.

Sure. I install a faraday cage around my home. You come over and your cell phone doesn't work. I did this knowing that your cell phone wouldn't work, but I haven't actively done anything to your phone. I've passively interfered with its operation by actively targeting something else -- its dependency on being able to transmit and receive EM signals beyond the confines of my home which are currently blocked by my faraday cage.

Now not knowing the specifics of what North Korea did, I'm only speculating. If they sent a high-intensity EM beam aimed directly at the drone that disrupted the drone's systems then that would be an active measure. On the other hand, if they flooded their airspace such that GPS signals coming from a North-bound direction did not arrive at the drone's location then that would be a passive measure. It's the difference between overloading the drone's GPS receiver (active) and producing a signal inverse to the GPS signal, thereby canceling it out and little to no signal arrives to the drone (passive).

And North Korea is a signatory to these agreements?

Except for the green Matrix code-style walls, I thought it was much more like Tron (the original movie).

In the end, we haven't seen the contract, the bids, nor the RFP so there's no point continuing to argue based on assumptions.

"I was born on July of the fourth!"

They probably asked for genuine Cisco equipment and awarded the contract to the lowest bidder who, unbeknownst to them, used counterfeit products.

Jamming GPS is active against GPS. It's passive against a device that uses GPS.

By that measure, installing a faraday cage around my home would sabotage your cell phone.

My question was whether it is legally considered sabotage. As in: what law or treaty would such an action violate?

Thank you for making an assumption about what I do or do not understand.