Alternately, they've finally realized that they can't win on technological grounds. Apple undoubtedly has some incredibly smart people working on plugging these holes as fast as they can, but at the end of the day it's a handful of folks vs. the rest of the world.
If you can no longer innovate, then it's time to litigate.
Well, if you're in the market for a gorilla-based vermin solution, it's probably good to know that they can freeze to death. That way you can make an informed purchasing decision if you live in a cold-weather climate, and go for the less expensive annual gorillas instead of paying extra for the perennial versions.
Well, you could always introduce some sort of lizards to eat the rats. And then, after the lizard population explodes you could...uh, well, I'm not sure of the exact steps, but I think it all ends up with gorillas freezing to death in the winter. Or something like that.
A good doctor should welcome a parent who has done this research and isn't rejecting immunizations out of hand, but just the traditional schedule of how they are admitted, which many doctors have just taken a schedule from somebody else without doing any work to develop one on their own.
Doctors don't usually come up with their own schedules; unless you're actually an immunologist, it makes far more sense to trust a published schedule, like ACIP or NACI. These are reviewed every year, and cover all the interesting rules and interactions between various agents. Vaccination scheduling is far more complex than you might realize - there are specific rules covering live and non-live agents, which agents can be given at the same time, minimum/maximum intervals between series doses, and more.
Disclaimer: I've worked in the industry, specifically with regard to writing schedulers. I know firsthand how hard it is.
What you do is store sensitive material on secure servers and have people check out copies of material that they have access to. I'm sure keeping sensitive data off local hard drives would be easier than actually protecting all those hard drives.
I'm not so sure about that. The deal with whole disk encryption is that it's fail-safe; it doesn't matter if something bad happens, the data is stored in a secure state by default. A check-out model doesn't give you that.
Also, speaking from experience, it's incredibly difficult to get end users to even understand what sensitive data is, much less train them how to work with it in a secure manner. Any security model that relies upon educated (and diligent) users is probably going to fail sooner rather than later.
How is a black hole supposed to form from these experiments? Either I'm entirely mistaken about the nature of black "holes", or the scientists commenting on the probability of one are little more than code monkeys banging the keyboard to try to get results.
Doesn't a black hole require an incredible mass? Do they think they're going to be creating matter, or creating artificial gravity? Outside of those two possibilities, how could a black "hole" ever form?
Because from a relativistic perspective, mass is a function of acceleration. And the particles in question will be moving very, very fast. IANA physicist, but that's my understanding of it.
I think there have been other movies based on this novel--what of Spielberg's AI? Was that not a butchered version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? also?
AI was based on a Brian Aldiss story - Super-Toys Last All Summer Long
Looks very similar. And, like Peltier devices, the same fundamental problem remains - you've moved the heat from one spot to another, but it doesn't just disappear. You're still going to have to get it out of the general vicinity of other temperature-sensitive components, and that probably means fans.
Think about it in ecological terms. Northern NJ contains large populations of both the Common Guido and Greater Crested Guido. If you disturb their natural habitat, they'll be forced to spread out in search of the hair care products and pastel shirts they require to thrive as a species.
8. Reduces instances of cat-on-keyboard syndrome. They'll either weigh too little to depress the keys, or the sound of the spacebar going off like a gunshot will probably traumatize them enough that they won't try it again.
Sure, the act of bludgeoning another person with a Model M will probably be quieter than actually typing on the damn thing, but such is the price of home security.
Although I have no real data to back it up, I sincerely doubt that presence of these tiles would result in a significant increase in fuel consumption. See the reply to hansamurai above.
The point here is that the increase in fuel consumption is, at best, exactly equal to the amount of energy generated by the tiles. This is basic thermodynamics. Considering that this isn't an ideal system (energy loss due to heat), it's never going to generate close to what it consumes.
Personally, if these devices were economical enough to justify their installation in human-powered applications, I'd be fine with it. Most of the people in my neck of the woods could stand to burn the extra calories. If, however, you're talking about fueling them with something other than human muscle it's just a losing proposition all around.
Odds are pretty good your computers have never made a conscious decision either, and simply do as their programming dictates. It's a whole lot easier to corrupt a single piece of software than it is to a) figure out what motivates a group of disparate individuals, and b) exploit those motivations.
[R]easonably attempt to prevent the infringement of copyrighted works over the institution's computer and network resources.
First off, it's not clear who gets to define what "reasonably" means in this context. Secondly, student equipment would be your problem under the wording above, as it appears to cover anything using your network, not just devices you directly manage.
And finally, it's government. I'd be willing to bet that most of the network admins who would be affected by this law already approach their jobs like you do - see something fishy, nuke it, move on. However, once you need to prove that you're making a reasonable attempt at stopping infringement, things get a lot more complicated. Now there are audit trails and reporting databases and forms to fill out and all sorts of crap that turn what used to be a 10 second process into a tedious slog through red tape.
On the other hand, can you think of any other book series so perfectly suited to the MMO genre? At least the developers can claim that the endless grinding through repetitive content, thousands of minor characters nobody cares about, and people constantly coming back after being killed is true to the source material.
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Alternately, they've finally realized that they can't win on technological grounds. Apple undoubtedly has some incredibly smart people working on plugging these holes as fast as they can, but at the end of the day it's a handful of folks vs. the rest of the world.
If you can no longer innovate, then it's time to litigate.
Well, if you're in the market for a gorilla-based vermin solution, it's probably good to know that they can freeze to death. That way you can make an informed purchasing decision if you live in a cold-weather climate, and go for the less expensive annual gorillas instead of paying extra for the perennial versions.
Well, you could always introduce some sort of lizards to eat the rats. And then, after the lizard population explodes you could...uh, well, I'm not sure of the exact steps, but I think it all ends up with gorillas freezing to death in the winter. Or something like that.
Doctors don't usually come up with their own schedules; unless you're actually an immunologist, it makes far more sense to trust a published schedule, like ACIP or NACI. These are reviewed every year, and cover all the interesting rules and interactions between various agents. Vaccination scheduling is far more complex than you might realize - there are specific rules covering live and non-live agents, which agents can be given at the same time, minimum/maximum intervals between series doses, and more.
Disclaimer: I've worked in the industry, specifically with regard to writing schedulers. I know firsthand how hard it is.
I'm not so sure about that. The deal with whole disk encryption is that it's fail-safe; it doesn't matter if something bad happens, the data is stored in a secure state by default. A check-out model doesn't give you that.
Also, speaking from experience, it's incredibly difficult to get end users to even understand what sensitive data is, much less train them how to work with it in a secure manner. Any security model that relies upon educated (and diligent) users is probably going to fail sooner rather than later.
Link in summary takes me to an XP Service Pack 3 page, not a DVD library support thingy.
Because from a relativistic perspective, mass is a function of acceleration. And the particles in question will be moving very, very fast. IANA physicist, but that's my understanding of it.
AI was based on a Brian Aldiss story - Super-Toys Last All Summer Long
Looks very similar. And, like Peltier devices, the same fundamental problem remains - you've moved the heat from one spot to another, but it doesn't just disappear. You're still going to have to get it out of the general vicinity of other temperature-sensitive components, and that probably means fans.
Why wouldn't it? I would imagine it falls under the same general FDA guidelines as other biological agents, like deactivated virus vaccines.
Nice try, but everyone knows you're dead. Nietzschecraft confirmed it.
Or maybe he's attempting to combat the idea that something should have greatly increased value just because nobody ever bothered to use it before.
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Think about it in ecological terms. Northern NJ contains large populations of both the Common Guido and Greater Crested Guido. If you disturb their natural habitat, they'll be forced to spread out in search of the hair care products and pastel shirts they require to thrive as a species.
And really, nobody wants that.
Be careful with that - if you've capped all your skills, once you gain a level you won't be able to get past the skill point distribution screen.
Charles Stross, not Michael.
Oh, and almost forgot:
8. Reduces instances of cat-on-keyboard syndrome. They'll either weigh too little to depress the keys, or the sound of the spacebar going off like a gunshot will probably traumatize them enough that they won't try it again.
7. Can be used to club burglars into submission.
Sure, the act of bludgeoning another person with a Model M will probably be quieter than actually typing on the damn thing, but such is the price of home security.
They should look into that advertising thing, I hear there's a market.
The point here is that the increase in fuel consumption is, at best, exactly equal to the amount of energy generated by the tiles. This is basic thermodynamics. Considering that this isn't an ideal system (energy loss due to heat), it's never going to generate close to what it consumes.
Personally, if these devices were economical enough to justify their installation in human-powered applications, I'd be fine with it. Most of the people in my neck of the woods could stand to burn the extra calories. If, however, you're talking about fueling them with something other than human muscle it's just a losing proposition all around.
MIME types can be spoofed just as easily as file extensions, it's trivial to modify Content-type headers.
Odds are pretty good your computers have never made a conscious decision either, and simply do as their programming dictates. It's a whole lot easier to corrupt a single piece of software than it is to a) figure out what motivates a group of disparate individuals, and b) exploit those motivations.
The problem is the wording of the law:
[R]easonably attempt to prevent the infringement of copyrighted works over the institution's computer and network resources.
First off, it's not clear who gets to define what "reasonably" means in this context. Secondly, student equipment would be your problem under the wording above, as it appears to cover anything using your network, not just devices you directly manage.
And finally, it's government. I'd be willing to bet that most of the network admins who would be affected by this law already approach their jobs like you do - see something fishy, nuke it, move on. However, once you need to prove that you're making a reasonable attempt at stopping infringement, things get a lot more complicated. Now there are audit trails and reporting databases and forms to fill out and all sorts of crap that turn what used to be a 10 second process into a tedious slog through red tape.
On the other hand, can you think of any other book series so perfectly suited to the MMO genre? At least the developers can claim that the endless grinding through repetitive content, thousands of minor characters nobody cares about, and people constantly coming back after being killed is true to the source material.
We know. By the way, do you think you could talk your ISP into increasing your download bandwidth?