Word: crudely
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Distinguishing between warheads and decoys requires a wealth of information the Pentagon wouldn't have in a real attack and wouldn't be likely to get. But Pentagon officials insist their relatively crude discrimination technologies will keep improving. They say measuring subtle differences in projectiles' mass, motion, reflection and rotation will enable the Pentagon to pluck the real warhead from among the decoys. But the officials decline to detail the technical wizardry behind their assertion, saying that divulging their techniques would only aid potential foes...
Hallelujah! Crude oil futures were sliding fast Wednesday in the wake of Saudi Arabia's near-unilateral promise to pump an extra 500,000 barrels a day into the world market. By midday Wednesday, the benchmark London Brent blend had dipped below $30 a barrel and seemed well on its way to the long-term $25 target that the Saudis say they're aiming for - a price that could shave 20 cents a gallon off nationwide prices at U.S. pumps...
Still, many researchers considered shotgunning crude and inaccurate. By this time, Venter's relationship with Human Genome Sciences had soured over quarrels about patenting and publication of data, and he and TIGR split with HGS. Other labs were now in the shotgunning game--though of the 30 or so organisms decoded to date, two-thirds were decoded by TIGR, with results that are generally acknowledged to be of high quality...
Civilized as he was, and ostentatiously well- read, Montaigne could be crude and hilarious (about sex and other bodily functions, for example) in a way that would make the 21st-century reader feel right at home. I like to think our furious, entertaining moral arguments are doing something like Montaigne's work. I hope so. Otherwise, they are just brutal, stupid, dogmatic noise...
This technology will enable us to have virtual-reality experiences with other people--or simulated people--without requiring any equipment not already in our heads. Further, this virtual reality will not be the crude experience one can sample in today's arcade games. It will be as realistic and detailed as real reality. Instead of phoning a friend, you can meet in a virtual cafe in Paris or take a walk on a virtual Mediterranean beach, and it will seem very real. People will be able to have any type of experience with anyone--business, social, romantic, sexual--without having...