Electric meters in some parts of the world have two outputs. One output is typically connected to a water heater, which can be shut off remotely in case of excessive load on the grid. It's not a consumer device though, so it doesn't get the hipster awe like the dumb IoT things.
This is sort of wrong. It's about networking devices, but not necessarily about putting them on "the internet". But the marketing of IoT these days seems to be more about consumer devices, sometimes things that are not even networked but just have a bluetooth connection to a phone. It's a buzzword. But for every ten stupid consumer IoT devices there's one good one out there that people don't see because it's not consumer oriented.
It is marketing. But many of these internet of things devices existed before the term existed. These are making good return on value in most cases. Smart meters for example. The Smart Cities thing, although it's also marketing, is about taking proven ideas that have been used by utilities and use them for municipalities also. Many cities really are rather backward in how they deal with their infrastructure; they don't know that a stoplight has burned out for example without waiting for people to phone in, or streetlights are on a timer that requires having a service visit before it can be changed.
It is NOT odd that Swedish authorities don't come to interview him, they are following precisely the rules that are in place before the Assange issue came up. They do not change their laws to convenience the accused.
I'm not saying the US is perfect, I disagree with a lot of what it's doing. I know it's imperfect enough that the public would have an outcry over capturing a white guy in Englad and making him disappear - there would be senate inquiries. The people calling for "blood" want a trial.
Look at what happened with Bradley Manning. Not disappeared even though what he did was much more serious than Assange who took the credit.
It has only ever done that to combatants or those it thought were combatants in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lots of mistakes though (only abou5 5% captures by US forces, 80% by people wanting a bounty reward). This is what citizens were told, and even if it was a lie it's not the sort of lie politicians would want to be caught in as it would result in being voted out or jailed, plus international scandals of course. Guantanamo is a military base, not a place for random criminals.
I don't think there is any way they could take someone who is clearly known around the world as someone who has not been captured on the field of battle or engaged in terrorism and lock him up in a military base. To think that they can do this is irrational, unless there was some coup in the government I did not see and we're under martial law now. If they grabbed Assange, he'd be in a civilian prison or even in the worst possible breach of US law he'd be in a hidden CIA jail overseas and not in a military base, and everyone in the world would still know he was taken. The politicians would have to keep it secret and they know they could not do this for Assange. The fallout would be immense to get someone so petty.
He's a journalist how? The only persecution he is facing is prosecution based upon a detailed legal framework in place before Assange ever entered Sweden. Assange's demands that Sweden change its laws on his behalf is the height of arrogance.
That's only his own theory. The best possible thing for the US is to have Sweden try him, find him guilty, put him on some sort of civic duty as punishment, then let the world laugh then forget about him. It's absurdly paranoid to think that the US would jail him given the amount of hoopla Assange has generated. The US gains nothing by arresting him, and loses quite lot of it sends him to gitmo.
But that's just it, gitmo is the ultimate of the conspiracy fantasies. We've got small handful of terrorists still in gitmo but the conspiracies theories, if you added them up, would insist there are thousands of people there that no one knows about.
They can't refuse not to extradite. There's a treaty in place and breaking it is not more important than the fantasies of Assange. Don't buy into his delusions of grandeur.
If Lennart Poeterring is complaining about something being broken, then maybe he should start with systemd instead of assuming he is smarter than the decades of unix people who came before?
All the people claiming to have been abducted by aliens, they all independently came up with that concept on their own? No, the ideas spread and someone can latch on to them and think "that explains all my symptoms!"
Hmm, C, if you count me writing the parts of the library I needed. Especially C/C++/Assembler if you count statically linking and building all libraries from full source code, which is actually very common. But using a third party proprietary object-only library, that's really really rare for me.
It's on Amazon, which means I'll never see it. Maybe if I could pay $8 for one month like you can with Netflix or Hulu, but $99 for a year with no shorter period is just dumb. They're trying to hard to catch up without actually having an affordable streaming service with a wide selection of titles that you don't have to pay extra for.
Why not just allow for Skype and Ok Google, but disallowed for any other generic website unless a request is popped up and accepted? Then you can swap to Skype all you want without it bugging you each time and without having to globally allow the microphone for every site on the internet.
"Roof over their heads" is spurious. Most of these content creators are part time hobbyists with blogs. They have day jobs. If they don't, then they should get one because relying on the fickle whims of viewers on the internet is a sure fire path to failure.
Paywall is not the only alternative. I'd be willing to pay extra to my ISP if it was shared equally with all sites I visit and never to any site I don't visit, as long as any ads I view will never count towards any bandwidth cap or charges I may have. I donate to some sites and services as well - NPR and PBS survive by getting most of their money from donations, and people who *could* get them for free still voluntarily give them money.
None of this problem would be here if the content owners had been diligent about pushing back against obnoxious ads, ads with malware, tracking technologies, ads that slow down computers, ads that suck up excessive bandwidth in relation to the actual "content", etc. Instead the content owners simply do not care, they have abdicated their responsibliities because it is easier than vetting the advertisements like old-economy companies do.
No, she's a part of a growing group of people who think that science is stupid and that common sense can overrule all of it, and her common sense told her that EMF was hurting her. Common sense though is wrong. Common sense says that the world is flat. EMF does not cause the symptoms that are being described by these people, they are self deluded and deluding each other. If they actually have some physical problem then they are hurting themselves by masking it behind a pseudo-science explanation rather than seeking out medical help, or they may be shopping around for doctors who also believe in the pseudo-science. If they are lucky it is just psychosomatic though, and if they're really lucky a major first world nation will give them money for it.
The problem is that this encourages the spread of the psychosomatic illness. If no one ever talked about Electromagnetic Sensitivity then no one would complain that they have it. By treating it as something real this causes some people to think about it and whether or not they have it ("finally this explains why I can't sleep well at night!"). It also encourages people to shop around for doctors who will back up their crazy theories, because now in France it's become much harder for a doctor to tell a patient that there's no such thing.
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Electric meters in some parts of the world have two outputs. One output is typically connected to a water heater, which can be shut off remotely in case of excessive load on the grid. It's not a consumer device though, so it doesn't get the hipster awe like the dumb IoT things.
This is sort of wrong. It's about networking devices, but not necessarily about putting them on "the internet". But the marketing of IoT these days seems to be more about consumer devices, sometimes things that are not even networked but just have a bluetooth connection to a phone. It's a buzzword. But for every ten stupid consumer IoT devices there's one good one out there that people don't see because it's not consumer oriented.
It is marketing. But many of these internet of things devices existed before the term existed. These are making good return on value in most cases. Smart meters for example. The Smart Cities thing, although it's also marketing, is about taking proven ideas that have been used by utilities and use them for municipalities also. Many cities really are rather backward in how they deal with their infrastructure; they don't know that a stoplight has burned out for example without waiting for people to phone in, or streetlights are on a timer that requires having a service visit before it can be changed.
It is NOT odd that Swedish authorities don't come to interview him, they are following precisely the rules that are in place before the Assange issue came up. They do not change their laws to convenience the accused.
I'm not saying the US is perfect, I disagree with a lot of what it's doing. I know it's imperfect enough that the public would have an outcry over capturing a white guy in Englad and making him disappear - there would be senate inquiries. The people calling for "blood" want a trial.
Look at what happened with Bradley Manning. Not disappeared even though what he did was much more serious than Assange who took the credit.
It has only ever done that to combatants or those it thought were combatants in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lots of mistakes though (only abou5 5% captures by US forces, 80% by people wanting a bounty reward). This is what citizens were told, and even if it was a lie it's not the sort of lie politicians would want to be caught in as it would result in being voted out or jailed, plus international scandals of course. Guantanamo is a military base, not a place for random criminals.
I don't think there is any way they could take someone who is clearly known around the world as someone who has not been captured on the field of battle or engaged in terrorism and lock him up in a military base. To think that they can do this is irrational, unless there was some coup in the government I did not see and we're under martial law now. If they grabbed Assange, he'd be in a civilian prison or even in the worst possible breach of US law he'd be in a hidden CIA jail overseas and not in a military base, and everyone in the world would still know he was taken. The politicians would have to keep it secret and they know they could not do this for Assange. The fallout would be immense to get someone so petty.
He's a journalist how? The only persecution he is facing is prosecution based upon a detailed legal framework in place before Assange ever entered Sweden. Assange's demands that Sweden change its laws on his behalf is the height of arrogance.
That's only his own theory. The best possible thing for the US is to have Sweden try him, find him guilty, put him on some sort of civic duty as punishment, then let the world laugh then forget about him. It's absurdly paranoid to think that the US would jail him given the amount of hoopla Assange has generated. The US gains nothing by arresting him, and loses quite lot of it sends him to gitmo.
But that's just it, gitmo is the ultimate of the conspiracy fantasies. We've got small handful of terrorists still in gitmo but the conspiracies theories, if you added them up, would insist there are thousands of people there that no one knows about.
They can't refuse not to extradite. There's a treaty in place and breaking it is not more important than the fantasies of Assange. Don't buy into his delusions of grandeur.
That's what he wants you to believe.
And yet many of the distributions moving to systemd are being used in large enterprise contexts.
If Lennart Poeterring is complaining about something being broken, then maybe he should start with systemd instead of assuming he is smarter than the decades of unix people who came before?
All the people claiming to have been abducted by aliens, they all independently came up with that concept on their own? No, the ideas spread and someone can latch on to them and think "that explains all my symptoms!"
Hmm, C, if you count me writing the parts of the library I needed. Especially C/C++/Assembler if you count statically linking and building all libraries from full source code, which is actually very common. But using a third party proprietary object-only library, that's really really rare for me.
It's on Amazon, which means I'll never see it. Maybe if I could pay $8 for one month like you can with Netflix or Hulu, but $99 for a year with no shorter period is just dumb. They're trying to hard to catch up without actually having an affordable streaming service with a wide selection of titles that you don't have to pay extra for.
And how do you know this? Or are you another of those who think that guys never lie but girls always do?
Why not just allow for Skype and Ok Google, but disallowed for any other generic website unless a request is popped up and accepted? Then you can swap to Skype all you want without it bugging you each time and without having to globally allow the microphone for every site on the internet.
"Roof over their heads" is spurious. Most of these content creators are part time hobbyists with blogs. They have day jobs. If they don't, then they should get one because relying on the fickle whims of viewers on the internet is a sure fire path to failure.
Paywall is not the only alternative. I'd be willing to pay extra to my ISP if it was shared equally with all sites I visit and never to any site I don't visit, as long as any ads I view will never count towards any bandwidth cap or charges I may have. I donate to some sites and services as well - NPR and PBS survive by getting most of their money from donations, and people who *could* get them for free still voluntarily give them money.
None of this problem would be here if the content owners had been diligent about pushing back against obnoxious ads, ads with malware, tracking technologies, ads that slow down computers, ads that suck up excessive bandwidth in relation to the actual "content", etc. Instead the content owners simply do not care, they have abdicated their responsibliities because it is easier than vetting the advertisements like old-economy companies do.
So I have to stay inside all day, which makes this a disability. If only I lived in France I could be paid by the government over this.
You seem to be assuming that language works.
What cell phones transmit RF energy in a cell phone shaped cross section?
But, it was on TV!
No, she's a part of a growing group of people who think that science is stupid and that common sense can overrule all of it, and her common sense told her that EMF was hurting her. Common sense though is wrong. Common sense says that the world is flat. EMF does not cause the symptoms that are being described by these people, they are self deluded and deluding each other. If they actually have some physical problem then they are hurting themselves by masking it behind a pseudo-science explanation rather than seeking out medical help, or they may be shopping around for doctors who also believe in the pseudo-science. If they are lucky it is just psychosomatic though, and if they're really lucky a major first world nation will give them money for it.
The problem is that this encourages the spread of the psychosomatic illness. If no one ever talked about Electromagnetic Sensitivity then no one would complain that they have it. By treating it as something real this causes some people to think about it and whether or not they have it ("finally this explains why I can't sleep well at night!"). It also encourages people to shop around for doctors who will back up their crazy theories, because now in France it's become much harder for a doctor to tell a patient that there's no such thing.
So, Runny Eyes Syndrome, Upset Stomach Syndrome, Sniffly Nose Syndrome, Acronymal Disease Syndrome...