Argument for open standards, yes. Open source, no. You don't need open source for open standards. And open source does not necessarily mean open standards.
I am thinking he may be using flight cases, like musicians use for their instruments and equipment. They are custom made, including the foam. Usually made of wood with aluminium framework, very sturdy, relative light weight.
And you just hit the big issue of portability: it's not resolution as much as overall size of the screen that's the most important factor.
So what the original poster is looking for is a huge screen that is somehow still portable... and until we have foldable/rollable screens, that's always going to be a trade-off.
Despite the fact that hospitals are increasingly a cesspool of MRSA and other diseases, we continue to cling to the idea that we should treat people with transmissible diseases in close proximity to others, instead of having doctors travel to the sick patients, treat them, disinfect, and move on to the next patient. Gee, what could possibly go wrong with concentrating sick and weak people in one area? >
This one makes sense for many reasons. A doctor in a hospital can see many more patients than a travelling doctor, so you need far less doctors. That is not just a money issue, it's also a manpower/education issue: you can't hire more doctors if there are no more doctors.
Also bringing patients to a hospital means bringing patients close to a complete array of equipment, medication, and various other specialists that can quickly check on a patient when needed. Some diseases have symptoms that overlap, but require very different methods to treat, some may require urgent surgery. In a hospital all those things are available.
These hospital borne diseases of course are a major issue, but I don't think it's a reason to just close the hospitals or scale them down seriously and start treating many more patients at home. Already there is a strong incentive for hospitals to send patients home as soon as possible: cost. Staying in hospital is expensive.
Fecal transplants make sense. I'm actually still wondering how babies manage to obtain a healthy internal ecosystem. When born those intestines are still pretty empty. Now of course a newborn starts off with milk so has time to develop their bowels, they still have to get it from somewhere.
Prosecution: "This is an encrypted drive, give us the password."
Suspect: "That drive doesn't belong to me, can't help you."
I don't see how suspect could plead the 5th in this situation, as doing so implies this encrypted drive is his, and that he knows the password and contents (as otherwise there is no ground to plead the 5th). To get to that point, the prosecution would first have to prove the drives are indeed his.
So you can't argue that they cops are learning anything new regarding putting this guy in prison. "Oooh, your passphrase is 'i hid the body under the old oak tree out back', we're going diggin..."
You don't know whether they will learn anything new until they decrypt those drives. And that's of course why they are so eager to get the passwords: to see if there is anything new there.
The only instance I know of where that's the norm is with talent agents in the media...a journalist I know at a New York radio station pays n% of his salary to his talent agent,
Which is sensible, assuming it is this journalist who asked the agent to get him work. So the talent agent provides their service to the journalist - and the journalist pays. This in contrast to when a company asks a recruiter to recruit someone for them, in that case the recruiter provides the service to the company, and the company pays.
In case of your friend the recruiters fee is definitely included in the salary he asks, if he wants to make say $1,000 and the fee is 20%, he'd ask $1,250. So that after the fee, he still has the salary he wants.
30 years ago - make that 1983. I don't recall computers back then being able to play video at all. And hard disks were optional, for those who could afford it.
Plus the Internet was still in it's infancy; even in 1993 barely anyone had Internet at home, and those that had it, were on slow dial-up links.
Work is usually defined as "to take up employment". It is perfectly legal pretty much all over the world to enter a country as tourist/visitor and go visit customers or trade shows. You are doing your job, for your foreign employer, while in that country as visitor. Often setting up your own company is allowed, too. After all you're not taking away jobs from locals that way, as that's what those restrictions are about.
Time limits are another matter, indeed. But doing some programming work on freelance basis (or as employer of a US company) while as tourist in Europe should be no problem.
Europe with all its small countries and numerous languages is certainly much more diverse than the US, partly because the US is more of a melting pot of immigrants that started off just a couple hundred years ago. Just those languages make for very different countries already.
I used to live in Netherlands near the German border. Many German visitors to our town on Saturdays. A typical game was to guess where people were from, Dutch or German, by looking at them. Dress, way of walk, looks, that kind of things. >80%, possibly >90% accuracy we got. Can you do the same in US, telling if people are from across the state border, living maybe 20 km away?
A major difference is that thanks to Facebook the whole world can learn about the alleged misbehaviour of people. Not just a select group of peers. And Facebook nor the Internet forget - so five, ten years from now such information can still be found.
Whatever stupid things I did when I was young were known by my friends/peers, most of whom I have no contact with any more, and pretty much all of it has been forgotten. And certainly can not be dug up by random third parties.
At least in NK all alleged criminals go through court before being thrown in some prison camp. Can't say that about the US, they do it without even a sham trial.
Against my principles to reply to an AC but this one actually has a constructive comment. So here we go.
The problem is not so much the value of the products (it has a positive value), but the collection. That's too expensive, as products have to be collected from households. A computer here, a TV there, and before you know it you drive all over town to get a full truck. That's just very expensive, and makes the process uneconomical (because the dumping is free, and cleaning up of the pollution after the act is never added in the cost - the dumper doesn't have to pay that, after all).
The moment it is collected, it's got good value. No huge sums, a couple thousand US dollars for a 40' container load. More than enough to make it interesting as merchandise. And of course if you buy a load of old computers, you expect a certain percentage of broken or otherwise useless stuff. However even that has value, thanks to the gold and other valuable materials that are used in electronics.
If you keep on losing the design drawings, then no wonder they're running into delays! They really should be keeping copies of them, so in case someone steals the originals, they don't have to draw them all over again.
Recycling trade is huge. I'm involved in plastic recycling trade myself. Wastes are collected all over the world for recycling, and often sent overseas where recycling is cheaper (like in China) or where they have the better equipment (TFA mentions a factory in Belgium that's particularly good at extracting precious materials - and as such can pay the best price for the scrap).
And besides trading scrap materials for recycling, there is a big trade in used equipment. Many products are being resold and reused: the most obvious ones are cars and houses. When someone is done using it, they sell it to someone who can use it again. Same for computers, printers, copyers, TVs, radios, etc. Many computers we throw out for being "too old" are still working perfectly. May need some cleaning up (dusty fans) and a fresh software install, but after that they're normally good to go for a few more years.
A lot of this electronic scrap is indeed SOLD to overseas customers. Otherwise there is not much incentive, unless dumping on a US landfill costs more than shipping it overseas, dealing with import on the other side, and having it dumped there. If shipping lines would have to auction off every single container of scrap they get, they'd very quickly stop accepting such cargo.
However the situation is indeed that overseas companies pay for the scrap. And often much more than the shipping cost. That's why there are so many commercial businesses collecting old equipment: it's got value. And at the destination country it will be refurbished and sold as product if anyhow possible, with valuable material recovery (mostly metals, including precious metals) the second option, and dumping when there is really no value left the final option.
In that situation, the car would have to be running Windows on its internal computers (I think it's safe to assume that they only target Windows), and if so you'd be having a much bigger issue than just the root kit.
It seems to me more that they do want to sell ads on Tumblr but then indeed highly targeted ads. Not targeting the person, but the content of the page they're reading.
Why try to profile users, and guess what their interests may be, when you can also have the user themselves select what they indeed find intersting, and target those intersts? A user may be interested in one thing now, and in another thing later. They may be interested in something now that they were not before - and very likely to want to buy stuff related to the new, fresh interest - which is something the user profiling likely misses.
E.g. user is not much of a driver. Doesn't care about cars. But gets a job that has him drive around a lot, and now he's looking for a tomtom. He visits web sites writing about satnav, looking for info about how it works, how much it costs, where the good deals are. That's a great reader for tomtom to advertise to - but if the user's profiling says "it's a headbanger" and all he gets is advertisments for heavy metal bands based on his profile, the ads are useless. In that way user profiling may very well work against the advertiser, as the wrong ad is show to the wrong user. Now if this user would be shown a tomtom ad (even if it's totally against the personal profile), there is a much better chance he'd click on it.
Keeping ads relevant is the key to the game. Google is the only site I have adblock disabled, because their ads are relevant. Not targeting some "personal profile" Google has of me, but targeting what I am searchng for there and then. And relevant advertising can be quite useful at times.
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Argument for open standards, yes. Open source, no. You don't need open source for open standards. And open source does not necessarily mean open standards.
I am thinking he may be using flight cases, like musicians use for their instruments and equipment. They are custom made, including the foam. Usually made of wood with aluminium framework, very sturdy, relative light weight.
And you just hit the big issue of portability: it's not resolution as much as overall size of the screen that's the most important factor.
So what the original poster is looking for is a huge screen that is somehow still portable... and until we have foldable/rollable screens, that's always going to be a trade-off.
Why couldn't he simply say "those drives are not mine" (assuming that is the case) and be done with it?
Despite the fact that hospitals are increasingly a cesspool of MRSA and other diseases, we continue to cling to the idea that we should treat people with transmissible diseases in close proximity to others, instead of having doctors travel to the sick patients, treat them, disinfect, and move on to the next patient. Gee, what could possibly go wrong with concentrating sick and weak people in one area?
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This one makes sense for many reasons. A doctor in a hospital can see many more patients than a travelling doctor, so you need far less doctors. That is not just a money issue, it's also a manpower/education issue: you can't hire more doctors if there are no more doctors.
Also bringing patients to a hospital means bringing patients close to a complete array of equipment, medication, and various other specialists that can quickly check on a patient when needed. Some diseases have symptoms that overlap, but require very different methods to treat, some may require urgent surgery. In a hospital all those things are available.
These hospital borne diseases of course are a major issue, but I don't think it's a reason to just close the hospitals or scale them down seriously and start treating many more patients at home. Already there is a strong incentive for hospitals to send patients home as soon as possible: cost. Staying in hospital is expensive.
You mean, someone will actually watch those CCTV feeds in real time? That's odd.
Fecal transplants make sense. I'm actually still wondering how babies manage to obtain a healthy internal ecosystem. When born those intestines are still pretty empty. Now of course a newborn starts off with milk so has time to develop their bowels, they still have to get it from somewhere.
It seems the current situation is:
Prosecution: "This is an encrypted drive, give us the password."
Suspect: "That drive doesn't belong to me, can't help you."
I don't see how suspect could plead the 5th in this situation, as doing so implies this encrypted drive is his, and that he knows the password and contents (as otherwise there is no ground to plead the 5th). To get to that point, the prosecution would first have to prove the drives are indeed his.
So you can't argue that they cops are learning anything new regarding putting this guy in prison. "Oooh, your passphrase is 'i hid the body under the old oak tree out back', we're going diggin..."
You don't know whether they will learn anything new until they decrypt those drives. And that's of course why they are so eager to get the passwords: to see if there is anything new there.
The only instance I know of where that's the norm is with talent agents in the media...a journalist I know at a New York radio station pays n% of his salary to his talent agent,
Which is sensible, assuming it is this journalist who asked the agent to get him work. So the talent agent provides their service to the journalist - and the journalist pays. This in contrast to when a company asks a recruiter to recruit someone for them, in that case the recruiter provides the service to the company, and the company pays.
In case of your friend the recruiters fee is definitely included in the salary he asks, if he wants to make say $1,000 and the fee is 20%, he'd ask $1,250. So that after the fee, he still has the salary he wants.
That all just goes to show how fast such technology has developed.
If they are not POWs, and not criminals, why're those people still held captive?
And what law makes it legal to kill anyone who's not a POW (which effectively means "almost anyone")?
30 years ago - make that 1983. I don't recall computers back then being able to play video at all. And hard disks were optional, for those who could afford it.
Plus the Internet was still in it's infancy; even in 1993 barely anyone had Internet at home, and those that had it, were on slow dial-up links.
Work is usually defined as "to take up employment". It is perfectly legal pretty much all over the world to enter a country as tourist/visitor and go visit customers or trade shows. You are doing your job, for your foreign employer, while in that country as visitor. Often setting up your own company is allowed, too. After all you're not taking away jobs from locals that way, as that's what those restrictions are about.
Time limits are another matter, indeed. But doing some programming work on freelance basis (or as employer of a US company) while as tourist in Europe should be no problem.
Europe with all its small countries and numerous languages is certainly much more diverse than the US, partly because the US is more of a melting pot of immigrants that started off just a couple hundred years ago. Just those languages make for very different countries already.
I used to live in Netherlands near the German border. Many German visitors to our town on Saturdays. A typical game was to guess where people were from, Dutch or German, by looking at them. Dress, way of walk, looks, that kind of things. >80%, possibly >90% accuracy we got. Can you do the same in US, telling if people are from across the state border, living maybe 20 km away?
A major difference is that thanks to Facebook the whole world can learn about the alleged misbehaviour of people. Not just a select group of peers. And Facebook nor the Internet forget - so five, ten years from now such information can still be found.
Whatever stupid things I did when I was young were known by my friends/peers, most of whom I have no contact with any more, and pretty much all of it has been forgotten. And certainly can not be dug up by random third parties.
At least in NK all alleged criminals go through court before being thrown in some prison camp. Can't say that about the US, they do it without even a sham trial.
Against my principles to reply to an AC but this one actually has a constructive comment. So here we go.
The problem is not so much the value of the products (it has a positive value), but the collection. That's too expensive, as products have to be collected from households. A computer here, a TV there, and before you know it you drive all over town to get a full truck. That's just very expensive, and makes the process uneconomical (because the dumping is free, and cleaning up of the pollution after the act is never added in the cost - the dumper doesn't have to pay that, after all).
The moment it is collected, it's got good value. No huge sums, a couple thousand US dollars for a 40' container load. More than enough to make it interesting as merchandise. And of course if you buy a load of old computers, you expect a certain percentage of broken or otherwise useless stuff. However even that has value, thanks to the gold and other valuable materials that are used in electronics.
If you keep on losing the design drawings, then no wonder they're running into delays! They really should be keeping copies of them, so in case someone steals the originals, they don't have to draw them all over again.
Recycling trade is huge. I'm involved in plastic recycling trade myself. Wastes are collected all over the world for recycling, and often sent overseas where recycling is cheaper (like in China) or where they have the better equipment (TFA mentions a factory in Belgium that's particularly good at extracting precious materials - and as such can pay the best price for the scrap).
And besides trading scrap materials for recycling, there is a big trade in used equipment. Many products are being resold and reused: the most obvious ones are cars and houses. When someone is done using it, they sell it to someone who can use it again. Same for computers, printers, copyers, TVs, radios, etc. Many computers we throw out for being "too old" are still working perfectly. May need some cleaning up (dusty fans) and a fresh software install, but after that they're normally good to go for a few more years.
A lot of this electronic scrap is indeed SOLD to overseas customers. Otherwise there is not much incentive, unless dumping on a US landfill costs more than shipping it overseas, dealing with import on the other side, and having it dumped there. If shipping lines would have to auction off every single container of scrap they get, they'd very quickly stop accepting such cargo.
However the situation is indeed that overseas companies pay for the scrap. And often much more than the shipping cost. That's why there are so many commercial businesses collecting old equipment: it's got value. And at the destination country it will be refurbished and sold as product if anyhow possible, with valuable material recovery (mostly metals, including precious metals) the second option, and dumping when there is really no value left the final option.
In case of military stuff, if it prevents weaponry from working, it may just as well SAVE lives.
In that situation, the car would have to be running Windows on its internal computers (I think it's safe to assume that they only target Windows), and if so you'd be having a much bigger issue than just the root kit.
The moment they use some kind of encryption it will be illegal under the DMCA already.
It seems to me more that they do want to sell ads on Tumblr but then indeed highly targeted ads. Not targeting the person, but the content of the page they're reading.
Why try to profile users, and guess what their interests may be, when you can also have the user themselves select what they indeed find intersting, and target those intersts? A user may be interested in one thing now, and in another thing later. They may be interested in something now that they were not before - and very likely to want to buy stuff related to the new, fresh interest - which is something the user profiling likely misses.
E.g. user is not much of a driver. Doesn't care about cars. But gets a job that has him drive around a lot, and now he's looking for a tomtom. He visits web sites writing about satnav, looking for info about how it works, how much it costs, where the good deals are. That's a great reader for tomtom to advertise to - but if the user's profiling says "it's a headbanger" and all he gets is advertisments for heavy metal bands based on his profile, the ads are useless. In that way user profiling may very well work against the advertiser, as the wrong ad is show to the wrong user. Now if this user would be shown a tomtom ad (even if it's totally against the personal profile), there is a much better chance he'd click on it.
Keeping ads relevant is the key to the game. Google is the only site I have adblock disabled, because their ads are relevant. Not targeting some "personal profile" Google has of me, but targeting what I am searchng for there and then. And relevant advertising can be quite useful at times.