It is THE most powerful database of public records and sometimes not-so public records in the entire world. You can start with a name and city and match a person and get social, dob, city of birth, all their criminal and civil cases, any citations including speeding tickets, any mention of them in other criminal or civil cases, news articles, legal findings etc. etc. etc.
Needless to say it is very dangerous in the wrong hands.
... and yet, the vast majority of people who know anything about it are lawyers.
There was a time, I believe, where the fuel gauge was connected to a float in the tank that would hit the top at around three quarters full and thus be pinned there, semi-submerged, from full to a little over half a tank. From half down it would be relatively accurate though. Perhaps this time hasn't quite ended?
It does seem a little dishonest though, don't you think? In the past when I had five bars I thought that meant that I'd a decent margin of error between a conversation and *NO CARRIER*. It just sort of made sense.
I always wanted to make an iPhone call from 1000 feet deep. Of course, that big air thingy sticking in my mouth is kind of a hinderance, but go technology!
But it won't protect the iPhone from the pressure at that depth...
You shouldn't worry too much about the bends, just make sure you take a nice slow 9-12 hour ascent and you should be fine.
...take five minutes to learn enough about the system to notice when something's going wrong? Anybody who has access to a big, important system like this has power. The problems arise when only one person knows enough about what he's doing to actually use it.
I'd hope you know better, though. Just because abuse isn't physical doesn't mean it's innocuous. Perhaps a better punishment would have been five-ten years of probation with proscriptions against using a computer, but the fact is he did more than just inconvenience people: his organization was responsible for hijacking people's machines to make botnets, he avoided taxes, etc. etc.
There are plenty of people out there, mainly the elderly, who really want to believe things. These people could have lost a good deal of money on spammed stocks and other things, possibly ruined themselves financially. Someone could have bought v!4gr4 and poisoned himself. This guy wasn't stupid. He had to have inured himself against the possibility that he was going to hurt someone just like the guys who sweet-talk little old ladies out of their life savings.
Couldn't we just put the shield between the antenna and the cell-phone user? Heck, we could make it parabolic so it could enhance your reception when pointed in the right direction!
Also, IIRC, the concern is cancer caused by ionizing radiation, not thermal damage cause by exciting harmonics in water.
Cell phone radiation isn't ionizing at all, though. (assuming yours doesn't have plutonium batteries or something like that) So, if the issue is ionizing radiation cell phones should be completely safe. TFA hints that cell phone usage stimulates the secretion of stress hormones and messes with the blood brain barrier by some as-yet-unknown mechanism.
I would much rather he get out and start cooking crank, making shivs, and bodybuilding than getting back into white collar crime that effects all of us directly. I suppose it would set a nasty precedent to start sending spammers to federal prison, but, as a maximum penalty, is it really so bad?
The usual band-aide fix for brute-force password attacks is to limit the amount of logins per time period. If you do it right it would theoretically take too long to guess a password for it to be practical.
They have questions like, "What was your high-school sweetheart's middle name?", " What is the first color shirt did you wear when you signed up for this account?", or, "What was the address of the house you grew up in?" . Most people haven't committed all that stuff to memory, don't have the time/patience to look it up, and haven't formulated a list of default responses to these questions so they don't have to remember how they decided to write, "416 east walnut circle drive". Your hypothetical identity thief has all the time and motivation in the world to look these things up and/or has a bot that will try multiple accounts and doesn't get frustrated or have to call tech support after the third failure.
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Well, it's quantum cancer: Observing it forces it out of its metastable state and destroys it.
It is THE most powerful database of public records and sometimes not-so public records in the entire world. You can start with a name and city and match a person and get social, dob, city of birth, all their criminal and civil cases, any citations including speeding tickets, any mention of them in other criminal or civil cases, news articles, legal findings etc. etc. etc. Needless to say it is very dangerous in the wrong hands.
... and yet, the vast majority of people who know anything about it are lawyers.
A gallon of gasoline has something like, ten times as much hydrogen in it as a gallon of liquid hydrogen. Just throwing that out there.
There was a time, I believe, where the fuel gauge was connected to a float in the tank that would hit the top at around three quarters full and thus be pinned there, semi-submerged, from full to a little over half a tank. From half down it would be relatively accurate though. Perhaps this time hasn't quite ended?
It does seem a little dishonest though, don't you think? In the past when I had five bars I thought that meant that I'd a decent margin of error between a conversation and *NO CARRIER*. It just sort of made sense.
I always wanted to make an iPhone call from 1000 feet deep. Of course, that big air thingy sticking in my mouth is kind of a hinderance, but go technology!
But it won't protect the iPhone from the pressure at that depth...
You shouldn't worry too much about the bends, just make sure you take a nice slow 9-12 hour ascent and you should be fine.
Cell processors?
Myst? Monkey Island? Those games were never fun. TFA's author's just a masochist.
The Aussies have 99% of the world's oil?!? Why does every American over the age of two not know this?
Hmmm, What were the 80s and 90s like?
I'd hope you know better, though. Just because abuse isn't physical doesn't mean it's innocuous. Perhaps a better punishment would have been five-ten years of probation with proscriptions against using a computer, but the fact is he did more than just inconvenience people: his organization was responsible for hijacking people's machines to make botnets, he avoided taxes, etc. etc.
There are plenty of people out there, mainly the elderly, who really want to believe things. These people could have lost a good deal of money on spammed stocks and other things, possibly ruined themselves financially. Someone could have bought v!4gr4 and poisoned himself. This guy wasn't stupid. He had to have inured himself against the possibility that he was going to hurt someone just like the guys who sweet-talk little old ladies out of their life savings.
You must be new here. Judging is what we do.
Couldn't we just put the shield between the antenna and the cell-phone user? Heck, we could make it parabolic so it could enhance your reception when pointed in the right direction!
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Also, IIRC, the concern is cancer caused by ionizing radiation, not thermal damage cause by exciting harmonics in water.
Cell phone radiation isn't ionizing at all, though. (assuming yours doesn't have plutonium batteries or something like that) So, if the issue is ionizing radiation cell phones should be completely safe. TFA hints that cell phone usage stimulates the secretion of stress hormones and messes with the blood brain barrier by some as-yet-unknown mechanism.
I think it's because he's a Scott.
I would much rather he get out and start cooking crank, making shivs, and bodybuilding than getting back into white collar crime that effects all of us directly. I suppose it would set a nasty precedent to start sending spammers to federal prison, but, as a maximum penalty, is it really so bad?
You assume the Feds will catch him. Is he even a priority?
The fear of your own paper trail.
The usual band-aide fix for brute-force password attacks is to limit the amount of logins per time period. If you do it right it would theoretically take too long to guess a password for it to be practical.
They have questions like, "What was your high-school sweetheart's middle name?", " What is the first color shirt did you wear when you signed up for this account?", or, "What was the address of the house you grew up in?" . Most people haven't committed all that stuff to memory, don't have the time/patience to look it up, and haven't formulated a list of default responses to these questions so they don't have to remember how they decided to write, "416 east walnut circle drive". Your hypothetical identity thief has all the time and motivation in the world to look these things up and/or has a bot that will try multiple accounts and doesn't get frustrated or have to call tech support after the third failure.
Y'know, in some sort of crazy sort of way that makes sense. I still think it's far from the best system, though.
Podcast at 11.