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130 dB is a lot but it shouldn't be so much as to cause that kind of vibrations, it's an average gunshot.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: it's an average gunshot.
Well, if you fire the gun at the disks...
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I was waiting for a response like that  still a single bullet? Even a .50 BMG HE would have problems damaging materiel on such a scale!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Perhaps it was one of those special Hollywood bullets that they used to use in Westerns - one bullet killing a dozen Indians...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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They still use them, the insta-kill bullets exist only in hollywood and (rarely) in videogames. As the 1986 FBI Miami shootout can attest, and the astonishing number of people that survives multiple shots. Even headshots aren't so lethal, at least in the immediate time.
Incapacitating an individual with a gunshot is very very hard... at least with non expansive bullets.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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The article said it was louder than 130 dB, but that's all their instruments could measure.
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I read this[^] because the other site is off-limits to me and it said:Quote: A source also told the publication that the noise produced by the testing was louder than expected -- being about as high as the bank's equipment was able to monitor at over 130dB.
which I interpretate as "the noise was near the maximum the equipment can monitor", so slightly less than 130 dB.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Sounds like a great reason to replace all their spinning rust with SSDs that are immune to vibrations. 
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--Zachris Topelius
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That's what I was thinking.
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An imaging system that can read closed books is currently being developed. In a new article, researchers describe a prototype of the system, which they tested on a stack of papers, each with one letter printed on it. The system was able to correctly identify the letters on the top nine sheets. Cliff's Notes have been helping high school students do that for decades
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I don't know exactly why... but I can only think on illegal or "national security" usages for something like that.
M.D.V. 
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Not quite. Some (very) old books might fall to dust if you open them, so reading them in this manner might be the only possible way to salvage their contents.
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Yes of course, but still think that it will be very fast missused to take "private" profit instead of human profit.
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: but I can only think on illegal or "national security" usages for something like that.
Just read the article:
Quote: "The Metropolitan Museum in New York showed a lot of interest in this, because they want to, for example, look into some antique books that they don't even want to touch"
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Ok, there is one or two usages out of that scope. I have to recognize it.
But... Nulear fision was thought as a cool energy source and then came the military...
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... And ended WWII with that.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I think you have history the wrong way round there.
The German's and the U.S. worked on Nuclear bombs way before Nuclear Reactors. The first Fission-powered power plant went on live in 1954.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The first fission reactor was built in 1942 under the University of Chicago's squash court, as part of the Manhattan Project. This was about three years before the explosion of the first fission bomb.
While the target of the Manhattan Project was development of nuclear weapons, they got there via nuclear piles. The hydrogen bomb, OTOH, was developed directly. We still don't know how to make fusion reactors.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hmm... Most of the books I have have more than nine pages. I already have a good system for reading closed books. Step 1: open the book...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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To misquote Charles H. Duell: Everything that can be read has been read.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: To misquote Charles H. Duell: Everything that can be read has been read.
Except EULA's. Who reads that nonsense?
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Not sure if this is actually anything new or not...
We can already read the interior of scorched (or otherwise damaged) scrolls that are so fragile they disintegrate if you attempt to unroll them; since these can be blackened to the point that there's not any naked eye difference between the parts that have pigment and those that don't this sounds like a more difficult problem to solve.
... or does this approach have a better scaling potential to actually being able to image an entire book in a single pass.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This question was put to me by Motherboard Editor-in-Chief Derek Mead and I can't stop thinking about it: What is the smallest code? We're not getting into that kLoC discussion again, are we?
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