ti na sou pw re megale
eimai entelws sta xamena na poume
oi dynatothtes pampolles
to pedio eury
o dromos anoixtos kai ta skylia demena
ola einai zhthma 8elhshs
Eisbär, eisbär
Kaltes eis, kaltes eis
Ich möchte ein eisbär sein
I'm kalten polar
Dann müßte ich nicht mehr schreien
Alles wär so klar
Ich möchte ein eisbär sein
I'm kalten polar
Dann müßte ich nicht mehr schreien
Alles wär so klar
Eisbären müssen nie weinen
Eisbären müssen nie weinen
ζήτημα θέλησης και καλά...
ζήτημα χρόνου είναι μαλάκα. δλδ όσο προλαβαίνεις πριν σου έρθει μοιραία (νομοτελειακά ή τυχαία) ο ουρανός σφοντύλι και δεις τον χριστό φαντάρο και την παναγιά με αρβύλες.
ΥΓ1 προς κάθε θεότητα κατασκευασμένη ή/και υπαρκτή: ΓΑΜΙΕΣΑΙ.
ΥΓ2 κι αν δεν ΓΑΜΙΕΣΑΙ τότε ΝΑ ΠΑΣ ΝΑ ΓΑΜΗΘΕΙΣ.
ΥΓ3 προφανώς και δεν υπάρχει τίποτα, είμαι εδώ ένας πίθηκος με ψυχολογικά κολλήματα να βρίζω ανύπαρκτες οντότητες για να αισθανθώ καλύτερα. Γιατί να έχει αποτέλεσμα?
READ THE FULL ARTICLE @https://www.universetoday.com/143528/lockheed-wins-the-contract-to-build-six-more-orion-capsules/
When NASA sends astronauts back to the Moon and to Mars, the Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) will be what takes them there. To build these next-generation spacecraft, NASA contracted aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin. Combined with the massive Space Launch System (SLS), the Orion spacecraft will allow for long-duration missions beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the first time in over 50 years.
On Monday, Sept. 23rd, NASA and Lockheed Martin announced that they had finalized a contract for the production and operations of six missions using the Orion spacecraft, with the possibility of up to twelve being manufactured in total. This fulfills the requirements for NASA’s Project Artemis and opens the possibility for further missions to destinations like Mars and other locations in deep-space.
The Orion concept was unveiled on January 14th, 2004, shortly after the accident with the Space Shuttle Columbia. At the time, the Orion was known as the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). It was intended to replace the aging Space Shuttle fleet and serve as a successor to the Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) that took astronauts to the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
At present, NASA plans to use the Orion capsule to send the first woman and the next man to the Moon by 2024 (Artemis III). With the contract finalized for the delivery of the next six vehicles, this vision is one step closer to becoming a reality. Rick Ambrose, the executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space, spoke glowingly about the contract and the partnership it represents in a recent company press release:
“This contract clearly shows NASA’s commitment not only to Orion, but also to Artemis and its bold goal of sending humans to the Moon in the next five years. We are equally committed to Orion and Artemis and producing these vehicles with a focus on cost, schedule and mission success.”
The contract NASA signed with Lockheed – the Orion Production and Operations Contract (OPOC) – is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract specifying the delivery of 6 to 12 Orion spacecraft through to Sept. 30th, 2030. Initially, NASA ordered three Orion spacecraft to conduct Artemis missions III through V – crewed missions to the lunar surface occurring between 2024 and 2026 – for $2.7 billion.
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Further cost-reduction measures include advanced manufacturing technologies, material and component bulk buys, an accelerated mission cadence, and the fact that the Orion crew modules and systems are reusable. As Mike Hawes, Orion program manager for Lockheed Martin Space, attested:
“We have learned a lot about how to design and manufacture a better Orion – such as designing for reusability, using augmented reality and additive manufacturing – and we’re applying this to this next series of vehicles. Driving down cost and manufacturing them more efficiently and faster will be key to making the Artemis program a success. One must also appreciate how unique Orion is. It’s a spaceship like none other. We’ve designed it to do things no other spacecraft can do, go to places no astronaut has been and take us into a new era of human deep space exploration.”
Cosmicism is the literary philosophy developed and used by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft in his weird fiction.[1][2] Lovecraft was a writer of philosophically intense horror stories that involve occult phenomena like astral possession and alien miscegenation, and the themes of his fiction over time contributed to the development of this philosophy.[3]
Contents
1. Principles
2. Cosmic indifferentism
3. See also
1. Principles
The philosophy of cosmicism states "that there is no recognizable divine presence, such as a god, in the universe, and that humans are particularly insignificant in the larger scheme of intergalactic existence."[4] The most prominent theme is humanity's fear of their insignificance in the face of an incomprehensibly large universe[5][6][7]: a fear of the cosmic void.[8]
Cosmicism and humanism are incompatible.[2][9] Cosmicism shares many characteristics with nihilism, though one important difference is that cosmicism tends to emphasize the insignificance of humanity and its doings, rather than summarily rejecting the possible existence of some higher purpose (or purposes); e.g., in Lovecraft's Cthulhu stories, it is not the absence of meaning that causes terror for the protagonists, as it is their discovery that they have absolutely no power to change anything in the vast, indifferent universe that surrounds them.[citation needed] In Lovecraft's stories, whatever meaning or purpose may be invested in the actions of the cosmic beings is completely inaccessible to the human characters.[10]
Lovecraft's cosmicism was a result of his complete disdain for all things religious[citation needed], his feeling of humanity's existential helplessness in the face of what he called the "infinite spaces" opened up by scientific thought, and his belief that humanity was fundamentally at the mercy of the vastness and emptiness of the cosmos.[11] In his fictional works, these ideas are often explored humorously ("Herbert West–Reanimator," 1922), through fantastic dream-like narratives ("The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath," 1927), or through his well-known Cthulhu Mythos ("The Call of Cthulhu," 1928, and others). Common themes related to cosmicism in Lovecraft's fiction are the insignificance of humanity in the universe[12] and the search for knowledge ending in disaster.[13]
Lovecraftian characters notably become insane from the elimination of recognizable geometry.[14] Lovecraft's work also tended to impress fear of the other onto the reader, such as in The Dunwich Horror and Dagon, often portraying that which is unknown as a terrible threat to the rest of humanity. This is possibly a reflection of his own personal views, which were often insular and paranoid.
2. Cosmic indifferentism
Though cosmicism appears deeply pessimistic, H.P. Lovecraft thought of himself as neither a pessimist nor an optimist but rather a "scientific" or "cosmic" indifferentist,[15] a theme expressed in his fiction. In Lovecraft's work, human beings are often subject to powerful beings and other cosmic forces, but these forces are not so much malevolent as they are indifferent toward humanity.[16] This indifference is an important theme in cosmicism. The noted Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi asserts that "Lovecraft constantly engaged in (more or less) genial debates on religion with several colleagues, notably the pious writer and teacher Maurice W. Moe. Lovecraft was a strong and antireligious atheist; he considered religion not merely false but dangerous to social and political progress."[17] As such, Lovecraft's cosmicism is not religious at all, but rather a version of his mechanistic materialism. Lovecraft thus embraced a philosophy of cosmic indifferentism. He believed in a meaningless, mechanical, and uncaring universe that human beings, with their naturally limited faculties, could never fully understand. His viewpoint made no allowance for religious beliefs which could not be supported scientifically. The incomprehensible, cosmic forces of his tales have as little regard for humanity as humans have for insects.[18]
Though personally irreligious, Lovecraft used various "gods" in his stories, particularly the Cthulhu-related tales, to expound cosmicism. However, Lovecraft never conceived of them as supernatural, but extraterrestrials who understand and obey a set of natural laws which to human understanding seem magical. These beings (the Great Old Ones, Outer Gods and others) — though dangerous to humankind — are portrayed as neither good nor evil, and human notions of morality have no significance for these beings. Indeed, they exist in cosmic realms beyond human understanding. As a symbol, this is representative of the kind of universe that Lovecraft believed in.[19] Though some of these beings have - and in some cases create - cults to honor them, to the vast majority of these beings the human race is so insignificant that they aren't given any consideration whatsoever.
Chatbots, which use artificial intelligence to simulate human conversation through voice commands or text chats, incur almost zero marginal costs and can outsell some human employees by four times, so why aren't they used more often? According to new research, the main contributor is customer pushback.
Service industry outlets like American Eagle Outfitters and Domino's Pizza use chatbots, as well as online services like Amazon and eBay. The machines don't have "bad days" and never get frustrated or tired like humans, and they can save money for consumers, but new research in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science says if customers know about the chatbot before purchasing, sales rates decline by more than 79.7%.
The study authors, Xueming Luo and Siliang Tong (both of Temple University), Zheng Fang of Sichuan University, and Zhe Qu of Fudan University, targeted 6,000 customers from a financial services company. They were randomly assigned to either humans or chatbots, and disclosure of the bots varied from not telling the consumer at all, to telling them at the beginning of the conversation or after the conversation, or telling them after they'd purchased something.
"Our findings show when people don't know about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots they are four times more effective at selling products than inexperienced workers, but when customers know the conversational partner is not a human, they are curt and purchase less because they think the bot is less knowledgeable and less empathetic," said Luo, a professor and Charles Gilliland Distinguished Chair at Temple University.
"Chatbots offer enhanced technological benefits, reduced customer hassle costs and increased consumer welfare (offering the product at lower cost because bots save money on labor)," added Luo. "This data empowers marketers to target certain customer segments to cultivate customer trust in chatbots."
AS SEEN @https://phys.org/news/2019-09-artificial-intelligence-sales-human-employees.html
AS SEEN @ https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonlack/2018/08/23/guess-whos-most-effective-at-combating-global-warming/#131c4ea05cdb
When it comes to limiting CO2 emissions, the results are not always what you’d expect.
Debates about climate change often draw zealots on both sides. The common accusatory opener, “Do you believe in global warming?” betrays the binary, almost religious argument between those who think we’re wrecking the planet and those who don’t. Pragmatism is rare on either side.
The science of climate change is complex, and we won’t attempt to assess man’s contribution to global warming. For a thought-provoking view of the issue, read Alex Epstein’s “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels”. In one section, Epstein comments on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2014 plea for Indonesia to cut carbon emissions to fight global warming. From 2006-16 Indonesia’s CO2 emissions grew by 3.1% annually, the Asian average. It’s no coincidence that in 2016 Indonesian life expectancy reached 69, up by 17 years over the previous half century.
As in much of the developing world, Indonesians are living longer. This is because increased energy use supports cleaner water and food, improved hygiene and better medical care, staples of developed country life. Because fossil-free energy is not yet price-competitive, its adoption implies using less energy. This in turn means shorter life expectancy for Indonesians and citizens of other developing countries. If the science around man-made climate change was unequivocal, it would imply acceptance of briefer lives today so that subsequent generations may live longer. But the science isn’t clear, and a warmer planet may be manageable. Moreover, climate prediction models have consistently overestimated actual warming. Epstein’s book offers a rare, stimulating perspective and seizes the moral high ground assumed by the anti-fossil fuel crowd. He defines improving human life as the standard against which to test climate change policies. By this measure, greater energy use has been a success.
The BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2018 reports on emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. It has some surprising facts.
Global CO2 emissions continue to rise, reaching 33.4 Billion tons last year. Yet, many will be startled to learn that America easily leads the world in reducing CO2 output. Our reduction of 794 million tons over the past decade is a 1.4% annual rate of decrease. The Shale Revolution has certainly helped, although U.S. CO2 emissions peaked in 2005, long before Shale started to have its positive impact. Improved energy efficiency is one reason. More recently, cheap natural gas, combined with regulatory constraints on coal-burning utilities, have favorably altered the mix of hydrocarbons burned to produce electricity. Regrettably, the Trump Administration’s weakening of Obama-era coal constraints will moderate this positive trend.
Another surprise is that the UK managed the second biggest ten-year drop in CO2 emissions, at 170 million tons. This represents a 3.5% annual reduction rate, easily the best for any big country. Lower coal use is similarly the cause here, caused by exhaustion of commercially accessible coal reserves.
The 2015 Paris climate accord represents the world’s desire to combat climate change through reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. withdrew from it last year. The Climate Action Network, an EU-sponsored NGO, finds that only five EU members are even halfway on track to meeting their obligations under the Paris accord. Some of the most vocal Paris supporters have been the biggest laggards.
For example, Germany has famously managed to be a leader in renewables while failing to lead in emission reductions. Heavy dependence on solar and wind requires baseload electricity generation for when it’s not sunny or windy. In Germany, that’s primarily coal (see It’s Not Easy Being Green). As an unfortunate consequence, Germany plans to increase its reliance on Russian natural gas via the Nord Stream 2 project.
Spain, Italy and Greece have all managed very credible 2-3% annual reductions in CO2 emissions. However, this is due to chronically weak economies: over the past decade, Spain has managed only one quarter of GDP growth above 1% and Italy none, while Greece has been in economic purgatory. By constraining growth in southern Europe, the Euro has been environmentalists’ most effective tool.
China produces 28% of the world’s CO2 emissions, spewing out 9.2 Billion tons which is 50% more than second placed America. This is almost four times India’s emissions level, even though they have similar sized populations. However, India is catching up, with a CO2 growth rate twice China’s.
Over the past decade, China’s increased CO2 output of 2.02 Billion tons was 60% of the global increase. Clearly, lowering CO2 won’t happen without China’s help. That will require reconciling conflicting objectives: developing countries are striving to achieve developed country living standards and longevity, which requires more energy use. Developed country advocates of reduced emissions are, in effect, seeking to slow this progress.
Thoughtful advocacy of renewables recognizes the symbiosis with natural gas in providing reliable electricity generation. The purity of thought required of renewables advocates has them rejecting even those fossil fuels that can help achieve lower overall emissions. Few would enjoy a world in which the Sierra Club had achieved all its goals.
Fossil fuels aren’t equally bad. Electricity generated by burning natural gas results in around half the CO2 output as does coal, and far less damaging particulates. Some may be surprised to learn that investing in fossil fuel infrastructure can be consistent with desiring a cleaner planet. But that’s where your blogging team sits, occupying the lonely, pragmatic middle ground and advocating natural gas as an environmental solution.
The next-generation combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Akinci will be one of the first projects of the joint venture created by the Ukrainian state-owned company Ukrspecexport, and the Turkish Baykar Defense company, reports the press-service of the Ukrainian national defense concern Ukroboronprom.
"The project is executed through the cooperation of the largest defense companies of Ukraine and Turkey", - said the General Director of the concern Pavlo Bukin.
According to Ukroboronprom, the next-generation combat UAV is being developed taking into account the conflicts in the 21 century. One of its main advantages, as concern specified, will be the ability to carry out high-precision strikes with ammunition that is used on conventional aircraft.
Akinci is a heavy heavy drone, equipped with two Ukrainian-made engines, which allow it to fly at an altitude of more than 12 km. The drone can carry more than a ton of payload, and its flight time could reach up to 24 hours. Also, it will receive a thermal vision system and a radar with an active large-phased array.
Earlier, Turkey announced, that the shipping of the drone will begin in 2021. It is expected that the Akinci program will work on technologies that will be used for further development of unmanned aircraft in Turkey.
On August 8, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visited the production of Baykar unmanned aerial systems during his visit to Turkey.
AS SEEN @https://www.uawire.org/ukraine-and-turkey-intend-to-create-next-generation-combat-drone
AS SEEN @https://www.kathimerini.gr/1043879/article/epikairothta/kosmos/new-scientist-ta-mikra-fonika-drones-poy-8a-xrhsimopoihsei-h-toyrkia-sth-syria-video
Η Τουρκία πρόκειται σύντομα να γίνει η πρώτη χώρα στον κόσμο που θα χρησιμοποιήσει πλήρως αυτόνομα drones (UAV), ικανά να εντοπίζουν και να σκοτώνουν ανθρώπους χωρίς την παραμικρή ανθρώπινη παρέμβαση.
Η γειτονική χώρα άρχισε πρόσφατα την παραγωγή εξοπλισμένων drones που ελέγχονται από άνθρωπο χειριστή και, σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες, τα έχει ήδη χρησιμοποιήσει εκατοντάδες φορές στη βορειοδυτική Συρία.
Τώρα, προχωρά στο επόμενο βήμα, τη χρήση αυτόνομων drones, σύμφωνα με δημοσίευμα του «New Scientist». Η τουρκική αμυντική εταιρεία STM (που ιδρύθηκε το 1991) ανακοίνωσε ότι ο στρατός τής χώρας θα αρχίσει να χρησιμοποιεί τα νέα αυτόνομα drones Kargu στις αρχές του 2020. Πρόκειται για εναέρια οχήματα βάρους επτά κιλών, με τέσσερις έλικες (quadcopters), που δρουν επίσης ως μέρος ενός ευρύτερου σμήνους, οι μονάδες του οποίου μπορούν να συνεργάζονται.
Τα Kargu διαφημίζονται από τη STM ως χρήσιμα για επιχειρήσεις αντιτρομοκρατικές και ασύμμετρου πολέμου, τόσο εναντίον στατικών όσο και κινούμενων στόχων (ανθρώπων, οχημάτων κ.ά.). Διαθέτουν ενσωματωμένες δυνατότητες επεξεργασίας εικόνων σε πραγματικό χρόνο, καθώς και αλγόριθμους βαθιάς μάθησης. Μπορούν να λειτουργήσουν τόσο τη μέρα όσο και τη νύχτα, να κάνουν πλήγματα ακριβείας, να χρησιμοποιήσουν διάφορα οπλικά συστήματα και αυτοκαταστρέφονται αν χρειαστεί.
Η τουρκική αμυντική βιομηχανία εργάζεται πυρετωδώς για την εγχώρια ανάπτυξη ολοένα πιο εξελιγμένων και φονικών drones, καθώς και πυραύλων «Κρουζ», με στόχο να μειώσει την εξάρτησή της από ξένες χώρες, σύμφωνα με δημοσίευμα του ειδησεογραφικού ιστότοπου με έδρα τις ΗΠΑ Al-Monitor, που παρακολουθεί στενά με ειδησεογραφία και αναλύσεις τις εξελίξεις στην ευρύτερη Μέση Ανατολή. Το δημοσίευμα υπογράφει ο Τούρκος πρώην στρατιωτικός Μετίν Γκουρσάν, ο οποίος μετά την παραίτησή του από τον τουρκικό στρατό, έγινε ανεξάρτητος αναλυτής για στρατιωτικά θέματα.
Σύμφωνα με το δημοσίευμα, η Τουρκία δοκίμασε προ ημερών με επιτυχία τον πρώτο της πύραυλο τύπου «Κρουζ» (SOM-B2) με εκρηκτική κεφαλή, ικανή να διαπερνά τσιμεντένια υπόγεια καταφύγια.
Παράλληλα, η τουρκική εταιρεία κατασκευής drones Baykar Makina (ανήκει στην οικογένεια του γαμπρού του Ερντογάν, του Σελτζούκ Μπαϊρακτάρ, ο οποίος είναι και επικεφαλής της εταιρείας στον τεχνολογικό τομέα) συνεργάζεται από τις αρχές Αυγούστου με την κρατική ουκρανική εταιρεία Ukrspecexport για την ανάπτυξη ενός μεγάλου τουρκικού drone, του Akinci («Επιδρομέας»), με δύο μηχανές, δυνατότητα πτήσης σε μεγάλο ύψος και για πολλή ώρα.
Η Baykar Makina έχει ήδη κατασκευάσει τα drones ΤΒ2, που χρησιμοποιεί η Τουρκία εδώ και περίπου τρία χρόνια στο εσωτερικό της, στο Ιράκ, στο Αιγαίο, στην ανατολική Μεσόγειο και τη βόρεια Συρία. Το ΤΒ2, που εξάγεται στο Κατάρ και την Ουκρανία, είναι ένα μέσου υψομέτρου και μεγάλης πτητικής ικανότητας drone, αλλά το υπό ανάπτυξη Akinci θα είναι πολύ πιο εξελιγμένο. Η ουκρανική Ukrspecexport θα παρέχει τους «τούρμπο» κινητήρες του drone.
Το Akinci θα έχει άνοιγμα φτερών 20 μέτρα, βάρος έως 4.500 κιλά, θα μπορεί να μένει στον αέρα έως 24 ώρες και θα φθάνει σε επιχειρησιακό ύψος έως 12.200 μέτρα, επιδόσεις που είναι σχεδόν διπλάσιες σε σχέση με εκείνες του τωρινού drone TB2. Το Akinci θα διαθέτει, επίσης, ηλεκτρονικό ραντάρ (AESA), συστήματα ηλεκτρονικού πολέμου και δορυφορικών επικοινωνιών και θα είναι σε θέση να λειτουργεί ανεξάρτητα από τον σταθμό εδάφους. Θα μπορεί να εφοδιαστεί με διάφορα οπλικά συστήματα, όπως καθοδηγούμενες βόμβες ακριβείας (Roketsan MAM-L), πυραύλους Cirit και ΜΑΜ-C, κυρίως όμως τον νέο πύραυλο «Κρουζ» αέρος-εδάφους Roketsan SOM-B2 με ακτίνα δράσης 250 χιλιομέτρων.
Η πρώτη δοκιμή του πυραύλου «Κρουζ» SOM-B2 ήταν επιτυχής στις 6 Σεπτεμβρίου, οπότε αναμένεται να αποτελέσει το σημαντικότερο οπλικό σύστημα του drone Akinci, το οποίο αναμένεται να αρχίσει να χρησιμοποιείται από τον τουρκικό στρατό εντός του 2021.
Η τουρκική κυβέρνηση στηρίζει την εταιρεία Baykar Makina και, παρά την οικονομική κρίση, αυτόν τον μήνα τής χορήγησε επιδότηση περίπου 120 εκατομμυρίων δολαρίων, καθώς και φορολογικές απαλλαγές, προκειμένου να κατασκευάσει ένα μεγάλο εργοστάσιο κοντά στην Κωνσταντινούπολη για τη μαζική παραγωγή του drone Akinci (του πρώτου μεγάλης ακτίνας δράσης οπλισμένου drone της Τουρκίας), καθώς επίσης για να διπλασιάσει τη σημερινή παραγωγή του μικρότερου drone TB2.
Το νέο εργοστάσιο θα δημιουργήσει 1.000 νέες θέσεις εργασίας και προγραμματίζεται να παράγει μέσα στην επόμενη διετία 46 drones TB2 και 36 drones Akinci (τα 24 για τον τουρκικό στρατό, ενώ τα 13 θα εξαχθούν στην Ουκρανία), καθώς και τα αντίστοιχα συστήματα επικοινωνιών και εδάφους. Ενδιαφέρον για την αγορά του μελλοντικού Akinci έχουν εκδηλώσει το Κατάρ, το Αζερμπαϊτζάν και η Μαλαισία.
Το ερώτημα, σύμφωνα με το δημοσίευμα του Al-Monitor, είναι ποιές είναι οι στρατηγικές επιδιώξεις της Τουρκίας και πού σκοπεύει να χρησιμοποιήσει αυτά τα εξελιγμένα drones «Επιδρομείς», τα οποία θα έχουν τόσο βαρύ και ακριβείας εξοπλισμό. Η Άγκυρα θεωρεί το Akinci ως «μη επανδρωμένο μαχητικό αεροπλάνο αέρος-εδάφους» παρά ως drone. Ο συνδυασμός Akinci και πυραύλου «Κρουζ» SOM-B2 θα δώσει στην Τουρκία δυνατότητα για «χειρουργικά» πλήγματα σε απόσταση έως 600 χιλιομέτρων από το έδαφός της. Αυτό σημαίνει ότι π.χ. το Akinci μπορεί να αντικαταστήσει τα μαχητικά F-16 που σήμερα δρουν κατά των Κούρδων στο βόρειο Ιράκ και στη βόρεια Συρία.
Επίσης, σύμφωνα με τον Γκουρσάν, όταν το Akinci τεθεί σε λειτουργία, θα δώσει στην Τουρκία δυνατότητα για 24ωρη χαμηλού κόστους και χαμηλού κινδύνου εναέρια επιτήρηση πάνω από όλο το Αιγαίο και την ανατολική Μεσόγειο.
Ένα από τα πιθανά μελλοντικά προβλήματα για τα drones Akinci είναι ότι εξαρτώνται για τη λειτουργία τους όχι μόνο από τις εισαγωγές ουκρανικών κινητήρων αλλά και από το σύστημα GPS των ΗΠΑ. Μένει να φανεί αν η Τουρκία θα προτιμήσει την εναλλακτική λύση του ρωσικού συστήματος δορυφορικής πλοήγησης GLONASS, ιδίως αν επιδεινωθούν περαιτέρω οι τουρκο-αμερικανικές σχέσεις λόγω της κρίσης με την τουρκική αγορά των ρωσικών πυραύλων S-400
Ten months ago we assembled a team from IBM Research in Switzerland and IBM tape developers based in Tucson, Arizona, to try to build something which has never been built before to address a risk that may not materialize for another decade or more. As you can tell, we love a good challenge.
The risk comes from quantum advantage, the point when a quantum computer can perform some particular computation significantly faster than a classical computer. The challenge we faced, develop a quantum computing safe tape drive, because at the current rate of progress in quantum computing, it is expected that data protected by the asymmetric encryption methods used today may become insecure.
Preparing Cybersecurity for a Quantum World
Quantum computing is an emerging form of computing that takes advantage of quantum mechanical phenomena to solve certain types of problem that are effectively impossible to solve on classical computers. Quantum Advantage will occur when quantum computers surpass today’s classical computers at which point they are expected to enable dramatic advances in areas such as chemistry, bioinformatics and artificial intelligence, but at the same time they will impact information security.
State of the art storage technologies, such as magnetic tape drives, use a combination of symmetric and asymmetric encryption to ensure that the data they store remains secure. However, in the future, the security of today’s asymmetric encryption techniques will very likely be broken by advances in quantum computing.
At the current rate of progress in quantum computing, it is expected that asymmetric encryption may become insecure within the next 10-30 years. While this seems rather far in the future, tape systems are often used to archive data for many years which is why it’s important to begin implementing quantum computing-safe solutions now to provide clients sufficient time to migrate to this new technology before their data becomes vulnerable.
Making Tape Quantum Computing Safe
In order to prepare for the impact that quantum computers are expected to have on data security, IBM Research has been developing cryptographic algorithms that are resistant to potential security concerns posed by quantum computers.
These algorithms are based on Lattice Cryptography, which is in turn related to a set of mathematical problems that have been studied since the 1980’s and have not succumbed to any algorithmic attacks, either classical or quantum.
In collaboration with several academic and commercial partners including: ENS Lyon, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and Radboud University, IBM researchers have developed two quantum resistant cryptographic primitives based this work: Kyber, a secure key encapsulation mechanism and Dilithium, a secure digital signature algorithm. These two algorithms make up the “Cryptographic Suite for Algebraic Lattices” we call “CRYSTALS”.
Both of these algorithms are candidates in the second round of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Post Quantum Cryptography standardization process and will be presented today at the Second PQC Standardization Conference at the University of Santa Barbara, Aug 22-24, 2019.
The new IBM quantum computing-safe tape drive prototype is based on a state-of-the-art IBM TS1160 tape drive and uses both Kyber and Dilithium in combination with symmetric AES-256 encryption to enable the world’s first quantum computing-safe tape drive. The new algorithms are implemented as part of the tape drive’s firmware and could be provided to customers as a firmware upgrade for existing tape drives and/or included in the firmware of future generations of tape drives.
Magnetic tape has a long history of leadership in storage security and is an essential technology for protecting and preserving data. For example, IBM tape drives were the first storage technology to provide built-in encryption starting with the TS1120 Enterprise Tape Drive.
In addition, tape provides an additional layer of security via an airgap between the data stored on a cartridge and the outside world, i.e. data stored on a cartridge cannot be read or modified unless it is mounted in a tape drive. The security and reliability provided by tape systems combined with their low total cost of ownership have resulted in tape becoming the technology of choice for archiving data in the cloud as well as in commercial and scientific data centers
With the development of quantum computing-safe tape encryption technology, IBM Tape continues the legacy of tape leadership in security and encryption and reaffirms its long term commitment to this critical part of modern storage infrastructure.
AS SEEN @https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/08/crystals/
Who shot JFK?
Lee Harvey Oswald? What happens when you die?
You will be incinerated or get eaten by worms, vultures and other corpse eating creatures.
Who am I?
Whoever you want to be. Is masturbation a sin?
It depends on what you masturbate to.
As a rule of thumb if you masturbate to situations where you are having sexual intercourse with something that is or was alive and does not or is not able to give his/her/its consent then yes it is a sin. You disgusting piece of shit.
How to forgive
By not forgetting.
Will I ever be thin?
Sure, if there is no pathological condition just stop eating shit.
What is scientology?
A religion that wants your money. Sounds familiar? Did the moon landings actually happen?
Yes.
How to read palms
By taking a marker and writing something on them.
Where in the bible does it say that homosexuality is a sin?
Ask those who preach it.
Most of them will cringe at first but then will take you behind the altar to purify your soul and..
What religion is Donald and Melania Trump?
Capitalism.
What do Muslims believe?
That there is a supreme being that has created the world and that your afterlife will be judged according to your present day actions. Sounds familiar?
How to hypnotize someone
By using rape pills. You worthless piece of shit, scum of the earth.
Reincarnation
Remasturbation
What is heaven like?
It's like her warm wet dripping pussy.
What is hell?
Being taken behind the altar. See above
Relationship between religion and science
Not related. This does not mean that they can reproduce.
What is beauty?
Beauty is like heaven. See above
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me
What is my life purpose?
To be in heaven. See above
What is evil?
Anything that keeps you outside of heaven. See above
Is god real?
Yes I am.
Does god exist?
Yes I do.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Because they are naïve and don't have contingency plans due to their belief that they are not evil. Spoiler: bad things happen also to bad people but they are not whining about it.
When will the world end?
It has already ended on December 21st 2012 AD. You are living in a matrix like simulation and your body fluids are used as ingredients for your overlord's beverages.
As if I had to apologize to the cows and the sheep of this reality for my cappuccinos and my yoghurts.
Is there life after death?
Is there life before death?
Is there death before life?
Is there death after life?
Why does god hate me?
I don't. Rest assured.
What is truth?
Any argument that does not rely on false premises and is well structured.
How to live forever?
Ask Jesus or Ray Kurzweil.
How to suicide
Pick you shit: Wrist cutting, Dehydration, Disease, Drowning, Electrocution, Firearm, Hanging, Hypothermia, Immolation, Volcano, Indirect suicide, Animal attacks, Jumping from height, Poison, Pesticide, Drug overdose, Carbon monoxide, Ritual suicide, Seppuku, Autosacrifice, Self-strangulation, Starvation, Suffocation, Suicide attack, Vehicular impact, Rail, Metro systems, Car Aircraft.
Who is your soulmate?
Mary. The virgin one.
What are the winning lottery numbers?
6 32 55 12 87 64
Do aliens exist?
Yeap.
Is time travel possible?
Only to the future. That's where the arrow of time points to.
Will I ever be rich?
I charge 100$/hour to anyone who asks me this question. Alternatively I can sell some lottery tickets.
What is the meaning of life?
42. Duh
Do ghosts exist?
How many times did you need to drink, how many sluts did you have to fuck in order to forget your soulmate?
Is there a parallel universe?
Not only one. Plenty of them.
How do we end poverty?
By mining asteroids, using solar and wind energy and fusion reactors. Be patient.
Is there a God?
Not only one. Plenty of them.
Is the Loch Ness Monster alive?
Yeah sure.
Am I a good person?
I charge 100$/hour to anyone who asks this question. Alternatively you can go ask the bible preachers the same shit.
Did Donald Trump rig the election?
The Russians surely wanted Hillary not to get elected.
When will I die?
Sometime in the foreseeable future. Be patient.
How am I going to die?
In angst, in pain or peacefully in your sleep.
Do people like me?
When you don't ask silly questions, they don't hate you.
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
The chicken.
"The scientific and philosophical mystery was purportedly unraveled by researchers at Sheffield and Warwick universities, according to the Daily Mail newspaper. The scientists found that a protein found only in a chicken's ovaries is necessary for the formation of the egg, according to the paper Wednesday. The egg can therefore only exist if it has been created inside a chicken."
Am I good looking?
People are having sex with horses and the exhaust pipes of cars. I am sure somebody finds you good looking.
Does my cat really like me?
HELL NO!
Am I good in bed?
Does her/your pussy drip?
Is my partner cheating on me?
It depends.
I want to die
Pick you shit (x2): Wrist cutting, Dehydration, Disease, Drowning, Electrocution, Firearm, Hanging, Hypothermia, Immolation, Volcano, Indirect suicide, Animal attacks, Jumping from height, Poison, Pesticide, Drug overdose, Carbon monoxide, Ritual suicide, Seppuku, Autosacrifice, Self-strangulation, Starvation, Suffocation, Suicide attack, Vehicular impact, Rail, Metro systems, Car Aircraft.
What is Time?
The fourth dimension of timespace. (x,y,z,t)
What happens after death?
Nothing.
Are human beings just machines?
Yeap.
Destiny? Free Will?
Mayo? Mustard?
What is Philosophy?
The love of wisdom. Learn greek otherwise you will stay in this barbaric state of mind, asking silly questions.
The tech giant has vowed to go carbon neutral by 2040, beating the Paris Agreement by 10 years. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has encouraged other companies to follow suit. The move comes a day ahead of global climate protests.
Online retail giant Amazon on Thursday pledged to go completely carbon neutral by 2040. To this end, Amazon announced plans to purchase 100,000 electric delivery vehicles from Rivian, a start-up in which it has also invested.
Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos — the richest man in modern history — encouraged other firms to follow suit and help meet the carbon neutrality goals of the Paris climate accord 10 years early. The US announced in 2017 that it would withdraw from the historic agreement, but many states and entitities have vowed to follow the commitments.
Amazon delivers 10 billion items a year and has a massive carbon footprint.
"We want to use our scope and our scale to lead the way," Bezos told a news conference in Washington, announcing its "Climate Pledge."
"We're done being in the middle of the herd on this issue.
"If a company with as much physical infrastructure as Amazon ... can meet the Paris agreement 10 years early, then any company can."
He said other CEOs of global companies had seemed receptive to the idea when he spoke to them.
READ THE FULL STORY @https://www.dw.com/en/amazon-vows-to-go-carbon-neutral-10-years-ahead-of-paris-deadline/a-50505302?maca
Η καταστροφή του κόσμου μπορεί να περιμένει.
Όπως και ο παράδεισος.
Το άσπρο και το μαύρο που είναι τα αγαπημένα μου χρώματα δεν μπορούν να περιγράψουν μια πραγματικότητα ζωγραφισμένη σε όλους τους ενδιάμεσους τόνους.
Άσπρο - Ουδείς εκών κακός. (έτσι είχε πει ένας τύπος πριν 2500 χρόνια.)
Μαύρο - Ουδείς εκών καλός. (θα προσθέσει ένας κάγκουρας σήμερα)
Η Greta Thunberg, αυτή η κοπέλα που διέσχισε τον Ατλαντικό για να ευαισθητοποιήσει την κοινή γνώμη για την κλιματική αλλαγή και πήγε στο αμερικάνικο κογκρέσσο και πέτυχε ακρόαση είπε απλά: "σας παρακαλώ, ακούστε τι λένε οι επιστήμονες....."
Το αυτονόητο δηλαδή.
Εκείνο που η συντριπτική πλειονότητα των ανθρώπων επιλέγει να αγνοεί για την πρόσκαιρη βόλεψή της.
Επειδή η Greta πράττει το αυτονόητο, επιστρατεύει δηλαδή τη λογική για να αυξήσει τις πιθανότητες της επιβίωσής της στο μέλλον, δεν είναι αυτόματα καλή.
Στο Hong Kong αυτοί που εξεγείρονται και ζητούν δικαιοσύνη και παλεύουν για δημοκρατία είναι ως επί το πλείστον άτομα ηλικίας +-20 ετών. Εκείνοι που, βάσει της δρομολογημένης ένωσης του κρατιδίου με την υπόλοιπη αυταρχική Κίνα το 2047, έχουν να χάσουν τα περισσότερα.
Το ανθρώπινο γένος, αυτά τα γαλουχημένα από τον τραγελαφικό Επιμηθέα παιδιά του Ιαπετού, αποτελείται από απερίσκεπτους μαλάκες που ζούνε στο σήμερα σαν να μην υπάρχει αύριο, κάτι εγωιστικά αυτάρεσκα θνητά παράσιτα, μιαν αδιάφορη υποσημείωση στο βιβλίο του κοσμικού γίγνεσθαι.
Το μόνο ξεχωριστό γνώρισμα του homo sapiens, η ικανότητα να προβάλλει τον εαυτό του στο μέλλον, έχει δύο όψεις κι αποτελεί ευλογημένη ευχή αλλά και χυδαία κατάρα.
Σε κάθε ομιλούντα πίθηκο θα μπορούσαν να αναλυθούν οι ακόλουθες δύο περιπτώσεις:
- αν αντιλαμβάνεσαι τον εαυτό σου ως προϊόν και ταυτόχρονα διαμορφωτή των πραγμάτων και των περιβαλλουσών καταστάσεων, λειτουργικό μέλος του Όλου κι όχι απλό μέρος του, τότε η πράξη του αυτονόητου καθίσταται ζωτική ανάγκη
- αν ωστόσο νιώθεις πως το μόνο που αξίζει είναι να διασκεδάζεις, ό,τι φας ό,τι πιείς κι ό,τι αρπάξει ο κώλος σου διότι μια ζωή την έχεις κι αν δεν την γλεντήσεις τί θα καταλάβεις τί θα καταντήσεις τότε θα σού προτείναμε, προκειμένου να πάψεις να είσαι αποκομμένος/η από το σύνολο και για να μην κρίνεται (by whom?) η ύπαρξη σου επιζήμια για την επιβίωση του είδους, να αποτινάξεις όσο το δυνατόν νωρίτερα την ιουδαιοχριστιανική ηθική και νοοτροπία από πάνω σου. Ναι αυτήν που σε θέλει να έχεις στόχο την εξομοίωση με έναν θεό εκτός του παρόντος υπαρκτού Κόσμου.
Έτσι ίσως να την οσμιστείς αλλιώς τη φάση και να έχεις μια μικρή πιθανότητα την προσφορά σου στην καθημερινότητα να μην την αντικαταστήσουμε με κάποια καλοσυντηρημένη και πιο χρήσιμη από εσένα μηχανή.
Ποιοι είμαστε όμως εμείς? Όσοι σιχαινόμαστε τα χριστούγεννα, τις γιορτές και τα πανηγύρια.
Ποια είναι η αδυναμία σου?
Ή μάλλον ποιες είναι αυτές?
Εντόπισέ τες, αποδέξου τες και βγάλε γούστα ως ένας κοινός άνθρωπος του πλανήτη Γη · αλλιώς καταπολέμησέ τες και απόκτησε στην πορεία την υπερδύναμη της εφαρμογής του αυτονόητου.
Έτσι θα καταφέρεις να χαρίσεις στο σύμπαν του Λόγου ένα ακόμα αστέρι, η φωτεινότητα του οποίου μικρή σημασία έχει.
