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- asdefghykProbably influenced by the Microsoft history of sneaky things over last 45 years
- How does this fit in with that renewable energy ( wind and or sun is unreliable - can be non of both types or one type for days at a time AND solar is only available for a 4-6 hours a day ) ) ? It seems massive storage is needed.
- The global battle to keep the money flowying from children
- Abby Stylianou built an app that asks its users to upload photos of hotel rooms they stay in when they travel. It may seem like a simple act, but the resulting database of hotel room images helps Stylianou and her colleagues assist victims of human trafficking.
- Hamas justifies Bondi massacre, draws inspiration from murders
Hamas has seized on the Bondi massacre, portraying it as an act of solidarity with its terrorist cause and a justification for its efforts to murder Jews worldwide.
Media articale https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/hamas-justifies-bond...
- I was just being cautious - as in previous events there has been some conflicting statements about categorization of events ...
- I just clicked on link ..... and got ... Story was removed by a moderator.
(Logged-out visitors only see "Story was removed" because we don't want to give trolls a convenient public monument to content that was so bad or bizarre we removed it.)
- Said to be terrorist event.
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- Some what (vaguely) related to this topic About surveillance.
I recall a local political and business figure making statements you and/or I are being surveilled by the government. Everyone thought that's not likely , its not possible, he is a bit imbalanced..
After the dumping of documents' from Snowden and Assange it was shown to be possible Things like, if its even possible , it could plausibly be happening. The government has somewhat infinite resources.
The altered software for hard drive hacking for example. Wow. Intercepting packages in mail and altering the software ...
- Having tried skydiving thie makes me shiver. Scary Others in plane quickly jump out , maybe to avoid being in plane if it crashes ?
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released heart-stopping footage of the moment a skydiver’s reserve parachute snagged on the aircraft from which he was jumping, leaving him dangling 15,000ft above ground.
Paywalled link?
BBC links has video https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cx2ey15l4zro
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- Hamas hid tons of baby formula to damage Israel with starvation claims, Palestinian activist says
Hamas hid tons of baby formula and nutritional shakes meant for kids inside a warehouse to allow Gazans to starve and further its claims of widespread famine to undermine Israel, a US-based Palestinian activist claimed. Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, an anti-Hamas activist, accused the terror group of hoarding food meant for infants and young children to purposefully increase starvation in Gaza and damage the public perception of Israel.
Obviously needs to be verified ..... as there has been lots propaganda in this war ( my belief) from both sides I suspect ....
- I got offered a initial O'Reilly subscription of $200 / year - just last week ....
- Went looking for the material , but could not find it on the website
- Seems US military is set up to be judge and jury .
....the shipwrecked men still posed a threat ... In my opinion ...rubbish..
- A interesting related technical explanation from Reddit
"...NukeRocketScientist • 1d ago There's really only two ways to physically lower the likelihood of bit flips from cosmic rays, one, redundancy, and two, increasing the distance between transistors. One of the downsides of making transistors as small as they are nowadays, they are much more prone to bit flips. This is due to when a cosmic ray proton at high energy interacts with materials, you can get essentially a "splashing" effect of electrons around where the proton went through the material. By having transistors as close as possible this splashing or shockwave of electrons has a higher likelihood of electrons flowing into the transistors imparting a charge and causing a 0 to flip to a 1. Redundancy is important as a cosmic ray interacting with one computer chip wouldn't have any effects on another one nearby and like you said for error checking as well.
You could of course try to physically shield the computer, but trying to stop a cosmic ray proton is far easier said than done as they can travel at more than 50% the speed of light depending on energy. It can also be even worse if you don't stop the proton fully as cosmic rays stop both kinetically and electromagnetically causing the cosmic ray to impart more of its energy into the material than if it was at much higher energy. This is called the Bragg peak and is important in proton beam therapy for treating cancer.
Source: I worked in cosmic ray interactions with materials and semiconductors for my undergrad school's CubeSat program ...." https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1p9upno/a320_pilo...
- The captain of a Qantas flight that suffered two computer-generated pitch down events, injuring more than 100 passengers in 2008, has questioned Airbus’s explanation for a similar incident on an A320 that led to the grounding of 6000 aircraft for a software fix. ...... Kevin Sullivan who captained flight QF72 on an A330 in October 2008, said there were many questions to be answered with respect to the A320 issue. ... ..... He said the uncommanded drop in altitude he experienced on flight QF72 was never fully explained with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau ruling out solar radiation after exhaustive tests. Paywalled article
So EXACTLY how was it determined that recent A320 event was caused by cosmic rays. I seems tha tit is not possible to make such a absolute determination.
It is possible to say however , that cosmic rays could cause such an event.
But how is it known that cosmic rays caused the recent A320 event and not some other error hidden in the software.???