I read that it had been treated with cosmoline. That's a rust preventative that's often used to preserve military firearms that are being kept in long-term storage.
The reason that you can't do that on your DVD player is patents. You can't license the patents necessary to manufacture a DVD player without agreeing to a big package of rules and requirements. That isn't an issue for a DVR.
Usually, the passenger has the sense to shut up when the driver needs to concentrate on his current situation. Someone on the other end of a cell phone doesn't know what's going on. That said, I find it very distracting to converse with passengers. I prefer that they limit their conversation to essential items. Just shut up and look out the pretty windows.
If the FCC wants to reallocate spectrum, they can do it. They are under no obligation to compensate the existing licensees or to provide them with new spectrum. The same is true if new regulations make your current equipment obsolete. I've been on the receiving end of this sort of thing in the past. If the FCC properly follows their own procedures for rule-making, there isn't anything that you can do about it.
The bank of memory that I was experimenting with had its own refresh controller. The address decoding logic prevented it from being refreshed by memory accesses to other banks of memory. The board's keyboard monitor software was running in a different bank of memory.
You might be surprised at how long data can survive in DRAM. Years ago, I experimented with disabling refresh on the memory of a single-board microcomputer. I was surprised to see that the data in DRAM didn't instantly disappear. Most of it was still there, many seconds after refresh had been disabled.
If you read the fine print, they don't promise diddly-squat. They will be more than happy to take your money. As far as delivering a service, you'll take what your given and like it.
Current technology and practice is what makes censorship possible. In an ideal world, the only thing a network snoop, be it ISP or government, should see is generic packets full of encrypted bits. They should not be able to examine TCP headers or the contents of packets.
No sane judge would issue such a sentence, though. Not true. Many judges are bound by sentencing guidelines that severely limit their discretion in sentencing. Then there is the life-long stigma, and the legal/economic problems associated with being a "convicted sex offender".
It is also no longer a crime in most countries to have religious beliefs that oppose that of the government. "Most countries" doesn't include countries under Islamic rule or influence. You can forget about freedom of religion or conscience, it's their way or a bullet in the head.
It's the modern politician's way of saying "we take this seriously". If the trend continues, we might end up with the death penalty for spitting on the sidewalk. New York has a history of passing draconian laws, such as the Rockefeller drug laws of the 1970s.
I was watching a documentary on the colonization of Australia, and it said that 18th century English law mandated the death penalty for a broad spectrum of offenses, many minor by today's standards. It seemed to have little effect on the crime rate.
This sort of thing does remind me of Germany in the 1930s. Jews were demonized, fired from their jobs, expelled from schools, isolated from society, subjected to boycotts and violence, much of it done by private individuals and institutions. Who needs the power of the government when you can accomplish the same thing with groups of "concerned citizens" who are on a crusade to purify society of its undesirable elements. The fact that the government isn't persecuting you is slight comfort when you are being pursued by a well-organized and fanatical gang of zealots who will not tolerate your presence in their society. How would you like it, if every time you got a new job or apartment, the employer/landlord was told to get rid of you or suffer the consequences. For a modern example, look at the situation with the radical animal rights groups and Huntingdon Life Sciences in the UK and USA.
The Germans and Americans had very similar problems with their torpedoes. Bad magnetic fuses, bad contact fuses, and bad depth regulation. Many ships only survived the early part of the war because of poor torpedo quality. The Germans solved their problems and court-martialled the officers responsible for torpedo production. On the American side, it took far too long to recognize and fix the problems, mostly due to inadequate testing
and internal navy politics that bordered on the pathological.
For the German side of things, read Adm. Doenitz's autobiography.
One area where the Brits and Americans had to relearn the lessons of World War I was anti-submarine warfare. Only after many ships were sunk, and lives lost, did they reinstitute the convoy system that had proved so successful in the previous war. It was if the allied navies had suffered a collective attack of memory loss and were determined to repeat all of their previous mistakes. In contrast, the Germans had developed and practiced new tactics to make more effective use of their modernized submarine fleet. The damage to the allies was only limited by the relatively small size of the German submarine fleet and design deficiencies in their torpedoes.
I doubt any cell-phone company is going to willingly give up their position as the middle-man in every network transaction. How else will they be able to control their customers?
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I read that it had been treated with cosmoline. That's a rust preventative that's often used to preserve military firearms that are being kept in long-term storage.
You might want to file an informal complaint with the FCC. They take that sort of thing seriously.
The reason that you can't do that on your DVD player is patents. You can't license the patents necessary to manufacture a DVD player without agreeing to a big package of rules and requirements. That isn't an issue for a DVR.
Usually, the passenger has the sense to shut up when the driver needs to concentrate on his current situation. Someone on the other end of a cell phone doesn't know what's going on. That said, I find it very distracting to converse with passengers. I prefer that they limit their conversation to essential items. Just shut up and look out the pretty windows.
Yes, in Utopia. Back in the real world, scientists are human beings, and are vulnerable to fads, group-think, and politics.
If the FCC wants to reallocate spectrum, they can do it. They are under no obligation to compensate the existing licensees or to provide them with new spectrum. The same is true if new regulations make your current equipment obsolete. I've been on the receiving end of this sort of thing in the past. If the FCC properly follows their own procedures for rule-making, there isn't anything that you can do about it.
The bank of memory that I was experimenting with had its own refresh controller. The address decoding logic prevented it from being refreshed by memory accesses to other banks of memory. The board's keyboard monitor software was running in a different bank of memory.
You might be surprised at how long data can survive in DRAM. Years ago, I experimented with disabling refresh on the memory of a single-board microcomputer. I was surprised to see that the data in DRAM didn't instantly disappear. Most of it was still there, many seconds after refresh had been disabled.
Maybe NASA didn't pay for Soyuz Ultimate Edition, with support for additional solar panels.
They're just learning from the past tactics of the Church of $cientology. Don't fuck with Xenu or his copyrights.
Most ISPs are not common carriers.
I'm just waiting for the jerks to declare any use of IPSEC as a violation of their TOS.
If you read the fine print, they don't promise diddly-squat. They will be more than happy to take your money. As far as delivering a service, you'll take what your given and like it.
Current technology and practice is what makes censorship possible. In an ideal world, the only thing a network snoop, be it ISP or government, should see is generic packets full of encrypted bits. They should not be able to examine TCP headers or the contents of packets.
I was watching a documentary on the colonization of Australia, and it said that 18th century English law mandated the death penalty for a broad spectrum of offenses, many minor by today's standards. It seemed to have little effect on the crime rate.
This sort of thing does remind me of Germany in the 1930s. Jews were demonized, fired from their jobs, expelled from schools, isolated from society, subjected to boycotts and violence, much of it done by private individuals and institutions. Who needs the power of the government when you can accomplish the same thing with groups of "concerned citizens" who are on a crusade to purify society of its undesirable elements. The fact that the government isn't persecuting you is slight comfort when you are being pursued by a well-organized and fanatical gang of zealots who will not tolerate your presence in their society. How would you like it, if every time you got a new job or apartment, the employer/landlord was told to get rid of you or suffer the consequences. For a modern example, look at the situation with the radical animal rights groups and Huntingdon Life Sciences in the UK and USA.
You might want to take a closer look at how they calculate the unemployment rate before you use it as evidence of full employment.
For the German side of things, read Adm. Doenitz's autobiography.
One area where the Brits and Americans had to relearn the lessons of World War I was anti-submarine warfare. Only after many ships were sunk, and lives lost, did they reinstitute the convoy system that had proved so successful in the previous war. It was if the allied navies had suffered a collective attack of memory loss and were determined to repeat all of their previous mistakes. In contrast, the Germans had developed and practiced new tactics to make more effective use of their modernized submarine fleet. The damage to the allies was only limited by the relatively small size of the German submarine fleet and design deficiencies in their torpedoes.
You, yourself, are a source of EM radiation. Lookup "black-body radiation". What are you going to do? Freeze yourself in liquid helium?
I doubt any cell-phone company is going to willingly give up their position as the middle-man in every network transaction. How else will they be able to control their customers?
Class A blocks were one of the benefits of being a Internet pioneer. Why should they give them up?
It does get used by IBM terminal emulators, which are still being used in many places.