Posts by Nexox Enigma 852 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Apr 2007
Well I don't have flash, and I don't know the song titles by name, but if that's the opening theme from 2001, I'd say it makes a good alarm clock tone for any occasion. As long as you plan to have an epic day, every day, which is probably a reasonably good bet when you're orbiting something.
"""Wow, I thought I was the only one who realized that FB users are a bunch of trusting "dumb fucks""""
Yeah once FB became a past time, instead of a place to find someone's phone number, which just about coincided with when the started allowing more than one picture, it became powerfully worthless to me. So I closed (or whatever they let me do, I check back every couple years to see if they'll let me delete it, no luck so far) my account.
Now I just worry that potential employers / etc will find one of the people with my same name and credit their albums full of binge drinking pictures to me.
"""....or in a few years time we would all switch to SSDs, rendering any type of HDD obsolete."""
Not sure what kind of SSDs you've got your hands on, but nothing available today, or on any roadmap I've seen indicates that we'll be seeing the end of rotating magnetic storage in the next decade or so. SSDs seem nice on paper, but they've got some serious problems to overcome before I'd, say, make a large raid5 array of them for reliable storage. And they'll never beat spinning drives on a cost / TB scale.
""""It has previously been specified that the F6 swarmsat cluster must be contactable even when out of line-of sight from US ground stations or other military comms platforms."
Erm, that's impossible. If you don't have line-of-sight, you cannot contact without going through another ground station or military comms platform."""
I don't actually know anything about how they plan to do it, but that picture in the article pretty clearly shows some higher-altitude comms sats, which they probably don't count as a 'platform.' Anyway, if I already had a comm sat network, I'd sure as hell use them.
I need to be able to see thread history in complicated threads (which means all of the history won't be attached to each email, since there are branches,) so I basically need to keep all my email in my Inbox in case a new mail comes in on an old thread.
And yeah, I have basically everything important to me in various piles on my desk.
I switched to Claws after reading the original message, because Thunderbird 3.0 on my work desktop was taking ~60 seconds to display each message after I'd selected it.
Claws took about that long to pull all 8k messages worth of headers and thread them. I do have a reasonably fast connection to my mail server, but that didn't help Thunderbird at all.
I'd honestly go back to Thunderbird 2.0, except that I can't get it to sort threads by the newest message in the thread, so new emails on old threads require a large amount of scrolling around. Claws does it quite neatly. Plus it has all sorts of options, instead of making assumptions about how I want to use my email, and it uses screen realestate efficiently. The only slowness I get is when X battles with my ancient video card, but I've learned to deal with that.
Lack of an integrated calendar (the vcalendar plugin refuses to connect to our calendar server) set me back for a minute, but then I realized that I just ignore calendar events anyway, and Lightning w/ Thunderbird was just a giant bag full of bugs, crashes, and un-closeable warning messages.
And I've tried TB 3.1 (on Windows) and it does fix lots of problems. But it's still in Beta for Linux, and there's really just no need to try something that even Mozilla considers to be beta code.
Why didn't they just give him a ticket for /each time/ he exceeded the posted limit, that would have been way more fun and profitable.
It just occurs to me that most GPS isn't all that well secured - if someone were to lob a smallish sat into LEO (high-ish inclination, but there's probably no need for a polar orbit,) you could spoof a whole load of gps broadcasts, across the whole band. You don't need enough signal power to jam the existing GPS sats, just enough to add some extra broadcasts that look authentic in a region a couple of hundred of square miles. Then as your sat orbits, you confuse the hell out of random devices for a couple minutes (if you could stretch your power to get half an hour, that'd work nicely) every day or two.
The only response would be the tricky (politically) destruction of your sat, or just dealing without GPS for a while.
My mechanical engineering class was something like 15:110 to start, then the hottest 3 dropped because they didn't like hard work, and we finished around 10:90, with about 3 that could safely be considered 'hot.' And I had a whole campus full of humanities majors to compare to, so the availability didn't introduce any bias to the measurements.
Days like these, stuck in an office, I really miss walking to class past bikini-clad sunbathing women strewn across campus. Honestly if it wasn't for them, I'd have skipped quite a few more classes... But I digress.
As far as I could tell, the attractive girls got more help than they needed / asked for, because everyone seemed to expect them to be slower than an average male student.
"""Any reason why it isn't? We're not the hottest place in the world, but we're not too badly off for sunshine"""
It's not the hours of sun per day that's the issue, it's the intensity of the shining. As the UK is at a rather high latitude, you get rather weak sunlight at the best of times, add in the clouds and the extremely short winter days (when you need /more/ electricity,) and you're better off spending your money on other renewable energy sources.
Just keep in mind that your annual solar energy per unit area is around 1/10th what you'd get in the Nevada desert, so when solar is cost effective for your country, it would have probably already been cheaper to generate a bit extra in a handy equatorial desert and install some big cables. That may sound impracticle, but it's more economically viable than UK solar. And you still get no power at night.
"""we've not got the biggest mountains either, but hydro still works out for us."""
Could be more to do with the quantity of rain you get - you don't need a mountain any higher than the height of the largest damn you're willing to build, where dam height dictates how much peak energy you can pull out of the water. But rainfall is where that energy comes from, untimately, not mountains.
"""Surely you own the BTS and the keys on it, so can decrypt the calls anyway?"""
The only way to pass the 3G mutual authentication measures are to pass the crypto data between the legit BTS and the phone, which would normally set up an encrypted channel that you'd simply be forwarding, but which you could not listen in on. Silently disabling encryption would make it rather easy though.
I've gone through a few of those Pico USB items linked... and they're just too small, I can't manage to keep them. I'm not the sort of person who loses things frequently, but I've given up on tiny usb sticks, even though those Picos are actually pretty fast (for a USB flash device.)
Oh well, haven't lost this massive Kingston pivoting deal in months, yet.
"""but only 32gb of ram?"""
Exactly - if it can do 6 core Xeons, then it should be running triple channel memory, which doesn't even allow for 32gb. I guess dual channel is still good enough for Apple? Seems like just about any 2 socket Xeon 56xx series box should support up to 96GB at least.
The touch pad is the one bit I actually like about my (work supplied) macbook pro - it almost makes up for how much the rest of the GUI intentionally slows me down at every opportunity.
Now if they were really thinking, they'd have slapped an optical tracker on the bottom of this baby, so you can slide it around and use the touch pad. No idea how that'd work really, but remember, if they make it, it was my idea first.
"""Advertised as "it goes where you go""""
But did they promise it'd work?
But yeah, this time of year, most of this country (The big one w/ all the guns) is well over 95 degrees F for most of the day (and in many (miserable) places, all night too.) I guess that's why aircon is so popular around there - to keep the iPads from shutting down.
"""The surround sound goes out via the HDMI socket, and plays back on your television."""
If you look at the sketches on Nokia's page, you can see that each of the three designs has an arrow pointing to a speaker grill which clearly states "Dolby Stereo Speakers."
I agree with the OP - fantastically useless.
They just need to break down and make the nPhone, which would be an iPhone, but with a Nokia logo on it, and a fully working antenna. Which seems to be what the #3 sketch is.
""""The (in)famous Edsel was created by polling people as to what they wanted in a car."""
The Pontiaz Aztec was supposedly designed in much the same way. It's widely regarded as the ugliest thing on four wheels. And it sold miserably.
But it had a pop out rear-hatch tent option/attachment, because some portion of a committe realized that everyone that owns a lumpy SUV must use it for actual sport utility purposes, not just buying groceries.
"""Would be interesting too to see the 3DTV sales figures in relation to normal sets."""
Too bad so many regular sets are now '3D Ready' - it'd throw the stats off and make it look like everyone is buying into the 3D thing. I suppose if you just included sets that come ready for 3D out of the box, that may be another story.
Personally, I wear prescription glasses, can't be bothered with contacts, and don't feel like this 3D thing is worh the trouble of dealing with the specs. Plus my significant other gets motion sick in regular 2D theater films, no need to poke the bear on that one, so to speak.
Random Googling suggests that 12x would require about 10,000 RPM, which is pretty high for a plastic disc. That would come out to around 400mbit, or approximately the speed you can hope to get out of a really good USB 2.0 drive (with a decent usb controller.)
I doubt 64x / 2gbit is ever going to happen for this particular media.
But that's ok, since we all know that optical media is pretty worthless these days. I used to only burn CDs to put in my car stereo (Sand + originals don't mix, plus if I burn mp3s on disk I get way more music,) but my new stereo has an SD slot, so I've officially got no reason for writing optical disks any more. Don't even need them for OS installs any more now that Win7 is perfectly happy w/ a 4GB USB stick (and Linux has been capable of a network install pretty much forever.)
""""30 pixel tab width" WTF? You want ... tabs that give no clue to their contents due to miniscule sizing??"""
I regularly run ~80 tabs on a 1280 pixel wide laptop screen, all Opera shows me is scaled down versions of the fav icon. And guess what, I still know which tabs to click. On a desktop, my web browser is currently 1925x1214 pixels, and I have about 100 tabs open, and I can easily find them because of 2 of Opera's features: Open new tab next to current - keeps my various tasks clustered in regions of the task bar, and the right click + scroll menu that pops up with tab titles (and optionally thumbnails, but I don't need that.)
I haven't seen the text on my tabs in months, and that spatial memory they talk about in the video lets me go right back to where I was. And if a tab or two get separated from their mates, I can drag and drop them into place, have been able to for years, no extensions.
Firefox's 12 tab limit is fully self-imposed, not some law of screen real estate, and this feature seems to be to be a bizarre and over-complicated approach to fixing it. Firefox's default tab behavior has been for years poor enough for me to choose IE7 over FF 2/3 on other people's machines, where I don't have time to install and configure all the extensions required to make FF mimic Opera's sane tab handling. I don't think this feature will change that, especially since IE8 is about the same speed as firefox these days.
"""Supporting what amounts to dozens of Linux platforms clearly isn't high on Adobe's agenda and doesn't seem to have hurt uptake todate."""
Those dozens of platforms are all rather similar - the differences between distros, besides the general attitude of the system, comes down to slight differences in shared library versions and different package systems. On any of the myriad of standards-following distros, a decently written app will compile just fine, regardless of whether it's AMD64, PPC, X86 underneath. Then all you have to do it package it up, and there are easy ways to do this as well - a single tar file with a shell script to install can support nearly every distro that's got somewhat up to date shared libs.
And of course if they open sourced it, the distro maintainers and / or enthusiasts would take care of all the packing, for people that can't figure out how to compile on their own.
The issue is that Adobe doesn't care, and their code is probably all sorts of hacked and unportable. Blaming Linux for Adobe's lazyness isn't going to get anyone anywhere. But that's alright for you, because it's apparent you haven't really used Linux enough to know what's going on.
"""an A-10 would do quite nicely."""
I was thinking that same thing not long ago. Damned fine cannon, and they managed to wrap some pretty durable aircraft bits around it. I imagine that an A-10 would be pretty much unharmed by most of the weapons likely to thrown about in that area, and it could probably reply with adequate (read excessive) violence.
Strap on a few of those high-end sensor pods they're putting in UAVs these days, plus a sat uplink, and they'd probably become rather useful loitering randomly around the desert. Someone back at base can look at the photos / radar / etc and pick out some targets that are badly in need of a few extra-large holes. Man I wonder how many Hellfires an A-10 could carry on all of those hard points : -)
Everyone is apparently OK with letting ads get even that close to their browsers?
I block them at my transparent proxy, using the adblock filter lists, so I don't need to make browser choices based on adblock capabilities. And Privoxy elimiates a fair amount of other web garbage along with the ads.
This is especially nice for my mobile devices, where I don't need to be wasting cycles in the browser.
"""Will somebody please elaborate on the term "drinking-straw sensor"."""
That means you get a high-zoom, narrow field of view sensor.
Imagine watching your neighbor's house w/ a good sized telescope - you can get a nice crisp view of what's happening through one window, but if you've picked the wrong one you might just stare at nothing for a couple hours, while an all-girl topless pillow fight breaks out in full view of another window.
So you get a wide angle sensor to tell you where to aim the drinking straw sensors, so that they don't require as much luck to be useful.
Yeah I was going to suggest that Slackware probably won't find it's way to any tablets straight from the manufacturer any time soon. Not that I won't be tempted to install it if the hardware presents itself.
For all the 'features' that it may lack, Slackware is viciously fast, which is handy on those light-weight devices with tiny processors.
That said, I'm personally rooting for Meego, as I've been a Maemo user for years, and it just feels like it could work right.
"""Jobs does not care about shareholders much and Apple don't make products to please shareholders either"""
You'll find that Jobs probably cares about one share holder: himself. I think I found something that said Jobs owns 0.63% of AAPL shares, no idea how accurate that info is. In any case that comes out to something like $1.4B, so a tiny drop (1.73% today, for instance) comes out to a lot ($24M today - more than I expect to make in my life.)
If a couple bad articles lost you tens of millions, I think you'd care quite a lot.
Lovely structure you've got there - almost as if an engineer was involved : -)
The only issue I see is that you've smashed the cross braces together, right at the center, where they'd be subject to the highest bending moment in compressional failure. Since you've got an X shape, you're assured that under any sort of stress, one of them will be in compression, and if it decides to go non-linear, it could take the tension side with it... though the tension piece would actually brace it somewhat... It would have been a lot more work, but for more strength, 1 straight brace with 2 shorter braces glued on to form the X, appropriately gusseted with more paper, would have been far stronger. And technically, a Y brace, or even just a plain diagonal, is probably plenty strong.
Good thing I'm not in charge of this thing, as right about now I'd probably be attempting to laser-cut some home-made all-paper sandwhich structures (and setting them on fire by accident, natch.)
"""Now perhaps I is just being fick but, would it not be even easier further north where there is more daylight each day (less time flying on batteries)?"""
The closer to the equator you get, the more head-on the sunlight hits. Sun power per area goes something like sin(latitude), which gives you near 0 power in full daylight at the poles, and a good amount at the equator. This is how the poles stay frozen even with months of sunlight.
"""He's lucky no open carriers were in the bank at the time."""
In Southern California, nobody that but cops, renta-cops, and mall security carry in the open. It's not exactly Texas.
I wouldn't be terribly surprised if a few people carried concealed, but so far as I can tell, it's pretty uncommon for non-criminal types in that area.
"""Start with a billet of stainless steel and you might have something."""
Agreed. From first glance this Zamac alloy seems to have more incommon with the standard mk1 beer can than anything I'd choose for a good strength to weight ratio.
Honstly a standard aircraft grade 6061 aluminum tube with some nicely machined end caps would probably work just fine. Plop your choice of usb stick in there, add rubber, aerosol foam, etc, attach a coilable usb cable, screw on the lid. 2mm of 6061 in a ~15mm ID tube would stand up to quite a bit of running over, especially with solid end caps fitted.
And if that isn't enough, just go with similarly dimensioned Chromoly.
I'd really rather they just made a stick with a decent write speed is all. I tend not to have my pockets run over by trucks too often.
...will it ever run out of whackos?
This is one of those cases (Like the time cube) where I wonder whether the writer believes what they're writing, or they're just having a bit of fun.
As for the abnormally high natrual gas (methane) presence in the well fluid: All oil wells contain some gas, it's normally sealed off in the cementing phase. If it isn't sealed off, it tends to overwhelm the oil production, since the gas is much lower viscosity and density, it produces preferentially. Given that there's a good chance that the cementing in the well didn't go as planned (If it had, nothing would be leaking,) there's a good possibility that the gas zone wasn't sealed off.
Now how a 20 mile bubble results from a well that was only 5 miles deep... That's a true mystery to me. And how exactly does escaping fluid cause the sea bed to rise? The pressure driving the fluid out has been there for millenia, and now that it's got an outlet, it'll be lowering (slightly.)
I personally will skip the bunker.
All of that SAR and W/kg stuff sounds familiar - from when I trained on and worked with actual (gamma ray, neutron) chemical radioactive sources.
Measuring the effects of (ionizing, who cares about the other sort?) radiation is complex, because different types of radiation transfer different amounts of energy to different types of matter, and it's a volumetric effect, which adds a hint of geometry to the complication. Measuring the source strength is only semi-useful if 90% of the emmitted energy goes through the target/subject - W/kg is a reasonable way to compare energy absorbtion rate (W = joules/second) per density-adjusted volume (that simplifies to mass.) That way you can sort of compare alpha radiation (really shallow penetration, 100% energy transfer to target) to gamma rays (most of them go right through you.)
Of course then you've got to correct for the fact that different types of radiation has more or less effect, given the same SAR, so you get correction factors, which for non-ionizing radiation is probably something like 0. For the real man's variety of high-energy particles, you end up with units that factor in these correction factors, like Sieverts or Milli Grays or something. It's been a while since I cared for anything other than Rads, as that's what's on the dial of your average Geiger counter (which coincidentially only measure gamma radiation - the only way to detect something like neutron radiation is by the gamma rays that are given off in neutron + atom collisions.)
"""f I was doing something I didn't want the UK government to know about, if it had got to the point where they were curious enough about me to need to know when I was out (to break in and bug me, or clone my computers?) I think they would manage fairly well without access to power company records."""
Except that if they're already monitoring everyone, they wouldn't have to know ahead of time whether you were doing something bad, they could check to see if you were (probably) at home 3 weeks ago at 2pm, and they could probably run a nice little query to find /everyone/ that was at home 3 weeks ago at 2pm.
No idea what they'd do with that sort of information, but I'm pretty sure that's another of those entirely unnecessary databases.
And of course evidence that you're obfuscating your power consumption will be taken as evidence that you're a terrorist.
Also they could probably chase down people that grow decent amounts of marijuana indoors, as I hear that takes something like 3x the power of a regular household.
And then where would we be!?!
Your choices for glue are basically A) Cyanoacrylate (Super Glue) or B) Some sort of epoxy.
A) will get you quick dry time, high strength (much higher than the paper it's binding together, anyway,) good low temp performance, and light weight. CA will also work nicely to attach paper to your tube trusses, which will make them quite a bit stronger.
B) will have to be carefully selected from the large array of epoxies out there, will take a while to try, and may require curing at an elevated temperature. The upshot is that there is such a selection out there that you can get basically any performance characteristics you want - high temp, low temp, perfect shear modulus, etc.
The key is to keep the glue as thin as possible, and don't fool yourself about how long that inner piece of the butt joint needs to be - at some point (rule of thumb is about 2x tube radius, one radius inserted into either side) the straws will fail before the joint does, so making that inner piece longer is just going to get you more weight. If 2x radius isn't long enough, put one segment inside the tubes and another outside, that'll balance in-plane torques due to tension and prevent delamination.
Tip: For construction, get yourself a nice ceiling tile and a bunch of large T-pins, print your layout at 100%, put that, covered with plastic wrap on the tile, then use the T-pins to hold pieces in place on top of your print out. That lets you make sure everything fits before gluing, and that it stays put during gluing.
"""Surgical is the wrong term for a bomb."""
I believe the term was used to describe a rather small (relatively, 20lb of explosives) missile, the Hellfire. And yes, compared to a 500lb laser guided bomb, the missile sure would be considered surgical. You could probably knock out a SUV full of rebels/terrorists/used car salesmen without killing too many people around the vehecle. Anything that the B1 has to offer would probably leave you with a smoking crater and quite a bit of collateral damage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire
In the n900 version of maemo there's never a 'cancel' button, you just click outside of the menu for that. Sure it takes some getting used to, but if you've had the n900 for more than a couple hours it should be fairly easy to understand. That's how I dealt with this uselessness.
In addition to spoofing MAC addresses, the ad-hoc network was a mistake, because it established a connection between those two addresses. If they had both joined the same public hotspot and then hid their messages in the noise that most personal computers spray all over their local networks (often to broadcast address - no traceable recipient there) they could have at least obscured the two parties.
And if they didn't show up like it was a meeting - if they just both happened to frequent two nearby establishments, and occasionally they were both there at the same time, then surveillance of one party wouldn't lead directly to the other party.
As for wifi, it's pretty well made for untraceable communications, since it's everywhere, it's generally broadcasting frames even when it isn't connected to anything, works through at least a couple walls, etc. Go to coffee shop / book store, turn on laptop, don't connect to wifi, spout off a few probe requests a second, turn off the caps-lock light to indicate that someone else out there is spewing beacons back at you, then wait for your transfer to complete, all while reading through some really really interesting PDFs you downloaded from somewhere beforehand. Wifi beacons and probes leave pretty much no record anywhere, except Kismet, where they're often ignored because they're so filled with garbage. And you can spoof different MAC addresses on each frame, so you can make it look like they're coming from a handful of different machines.
Of course all that would take a bit of coding and planning... So some combination of VPN and TOR, and just swap encrypted files around on a secure server in a safe place, just make sure it doesn't make you look like a kiddie porn ring instead of a spy ring.
Ad-hoc wifi? That's almost as bad as using signal flags - no regular humans use it, so it would stand out pretty obviously.
And not using something along the lines of macchanger? Even in Windows you can generally change your MAC address trivially.
And then there are about 9000 more covert ways to communicate with wifi - how about you get some Apple laptops, and craft custom MDNS/Bonjour packets to encode your data over a standard public hotspot. Any given Apple device spews those packets continually to the local broadcast address - nobody knows the intended destination!
Or how about you get Windows machines and encode information in wifi probe request packets, which the average Windows laptop also spews constantly when not connected to a network.
And yes, I hope that the feds were using Kismet... but I wouldn't be surprised if they were trying to pull this sort of thing off using Windows.
"""My prediction is that 32 and 64 bit linux will support the drive just fine."""
Yeah as long as you have large volume support (or whatever it's actually called) compiled into your kernel, 32 bit Linux has no problem with 3TB drives. I've been running a ~7TB raid5 array in a 32bit system for a while, no problems at all.
"""Anyone fancy a gas turbine motor? -- we could fill up with JP1."""
First off, thermodynamically speaking, the turbine cycle (can't remember what it's called) is limited to a lower efficiency than even the Otto cycle (petrol engine,) which is, in turn, lower than the Diesel cycle. Turbines are good for power to weight (since they're mostly made of empty space,) but since the engines are really tiny anyway, they probably won't be able to save enough weight to make up for their lack of efficiency.
Second, a turbine could be easily made to run on diesel, or whatever else you wanted to feed into it - I've seen some that run on pulverized coal dust, though they tend to have soot and / clogging issues. In any case, diesel fuel isn't all that different from various turbine avgas formulations.
A turbine would be nice and quiet though, plus you could get a nice "Danger: Jet Exhaust" sticker on that hybrid to make it look fast.
"""The Fiesta 'only' has a 1.25 litre engine, but it can top 100MPH, which this one apparently can't, so why the hell does this thing need a 1.4?"""
The top speed is probably based on gearing more than power, and since it's a hybrid, and nobody is supposed to drive them quickly, it probably didn't make much sense to engineer it to do that sort of speed.
The extra power from the 1.4, assuming it actually makes more than your reference 1.25, since displacement and power output aren't strictly related, probably goes to charge the battery so the engine can shut down
Also, chances are, this hybrid, loaded with laptop batteries, weighs a bit more than your Focus, and something's got to be able get it up those hills.
...someone pointed it out before I did.
I'm just not sure what the point of a glass back is, if you aren't taking advantage of the superior radio-transparency, by, you know, putting antennas behind it.
I personally think that metal bits on phones are overrated, since they make the phone heavier, and seem to damage more easily than plastic. And I don't care much what my phone looks like...
Midway through this I hit my limit for 'how much can you laugh out loud in the office before your coworkers think you've lost it,' so I'll have to continue reading at home. I think I'm going to print it out and keep it with my tools...
I'm damned lucky that this full cup of coffee was nowhere near my lips at the time - a lesson I learned long ago when reading El Reg comments.
Http headers are especially ugly for ajax (which Google tends to do quite a lot) - I've seen a 12 byte stock quote update get wrapped in 600 bytes of http headers. Not to mention that you get to choose either HTTP/1.0, where you can do one request/response per tcp connection (reseting which gets you back to Google's noted TCP initial receive window deal) or HTTP/1.1, in which you can have multiple requests and responses, but they have to come in order, so a single slow request can block subsequent requests that might just be waiting at the server.
So yes, we need a HTTP/2.0, and we need it in 1999. If it takes a coporation so ethically murkey and tasteless as Google to get us off of some seriously ancient protocols, I guess that makes them a necessary evil.
"""Re: Richard Cartledge (oh dear): there've been a few planes with some sort of dual-fueselage concept, Rutan's WK2 as James Hughes 1 points out, Boomerang (also Rutan), North American F-82 off the top of my head."""
Again, this Richard Cartledge never said anything about dual-fuselage, he just said """the stresses and strains would be colossal, I doubt it could even stay in one piece sat on the ground.""" which is a valid observation, given two massive props rotating in the same direction. As soon as you started powering that thing up on the ground, it would start spinning, which is sort of a catastrophic failure.
Also the Osprey, the only really similar aircraft, has some seriously reinforced wings to be able to take the vertical force from the props, and this design doesn't seem to have large enough (in cross-section) wings for that. Plus the Osprey has just the one fuselage, and shorter wings. The stresses from load in the twin fuselage combined with the rotors, not to mention potential odd torques from waves at 45 degree angles really insist on, at minimum, more structure between the hulls, if not some beefier outboard wings as well.
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