Utter BS, because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America has no credibility in nuclear weapons, especially now that US (and tis minions UK and France) failed to uphold the Budapest Memorandum of Understanding, in which they promised inviolable territorial integrity for the Ukraine, in exchange for Kiev giving up her 2,500 strong (!) stockpile of USSR-inherited nukes.
Have you read the Budapest Memorandum? It is not long:
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.
The US has not invaded Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
The US has not threatened Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
The US has not used economic coercion on Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.
The US brought the invasion of Ukraine up with the UNSC:
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm, in the case of the Ukraine, their commitment not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.
The US has not used nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will consult in the event a situation arises which raises a question concerning these commitments.
I am sure the US has consulted with the other nations listed.
When I was involved in election monitoring in SoCal, they tallied neither the write in candidates nor the third party candidates on the ballot which had the beneficial effect as far as the two major parties are concerned of making sure the Libertarians and Greens and other third parties would have to requalify for the ballot for every election.
As far as write in candidates, as far as I know they have to qualify for the ballot ahead of time just like any other candidate in order to be counted.
And as someone else pointed out, the electors can choose whoever they want.
Part of the change at least for BIOSes stored in Flash EEPROM was that later Flash EEPROM memories implemented internal charge pumps so they could generate their own high voltage source for erasing and programming. Earlier ones required an external high voltage supply and it was that supply which a jumper could control.
I assume you meant "companies", not "countries", but even this seems really strange to me, at least as an American - under our antitrust laws, they'd have to be insane to put something like that into writing.
That sure stopped Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and eBay from discussing and agreeing to do this in a tangible medium. All they had to put up with is a civil lawsuit.
Most people that work on Laptops spend a lot more then 1K on a system. For a work laptop 1.8-2.5K isn't unreasonable. And they usually last a long time ( >5years ) before they quit working.
Having had an expensive Futitsu Lifebook fail three times during the warranty period and then immediately after as well as all of the design defects in laptops since like inadequate cooling, all I can say is never again. I could have built 3 small form factor desktops with removable storage for the price of that laptop and I would still have them.
If I did have to buy a laptop, I would either go with a refurbished Toughbook or similar or pick up something used from a computer swap meet.
Solar is displacing fossil energy, so the remaining fossil plants run fewer hours and at lighter load, so there is less opportunity to recoup capital and finance costs.
This goes double for nuclear power plants since they have no incremental fuel costs. One of the reasons utilities are forced to buy from renewable energy sources is to deliberately force nuclear power plants to operate at lower load capacity making them uneconomical.
5 seconds later, he'd be arrested for revealing classified information. Then the American people would vilify him as a traitor for letting the terrorists know how they're being watched, and he'd be put on trial for treason. In the end, it would make no difference. Nothing will until the majority of the people actually care and desire to not be spied on.
But an arrest record seems to be a big deal in the US and is tracked? Unlike in many other common law countries where an arrest, even with a charge, means *nothing* whatsoever if you are not convicted or charges are dropped, and it cannot be used against you in any way.
Yes, arrest records are tracked and a job application may specifically ask about arrests.
Or, hell, transfer over my wifi network. Since my phone supports USB3 (Note 3) I actually use that, but my girlfriend's phone doesn't, and transferring over a low-interference 5ghz wireless N network seems roughly as fast as USB2, without having to mess with plugs that wear out.
I will be looking for wireless data transfer in the next camera I purchase just for this reason. Right now I can either wear out the mini-USB connector or wear out the SD card slot. It is too bad that optical like IRDA never become commonly available.
True, but SSD manufacturers say the drive should hold its data for at least 10 years after the drive has reached its recommended lifetime (these drives were well past that).
That sounds like a specification they got from a high density Flash datasheet which I saw recently; it was 10 years typical with no guarantied minimum. My own tests show that high density Flash has a retention of months. I assume SSDs can get away with that because they can perform background scrubbing while powered but the USB Flash drives that I have tested do not and they forget their contents before a year is up whether powered or not if they are not actively used.
Based on old datasheets involving floating gate memory which did list minimum retention times of 20+ years, I have the feeling that the manufacturers do not specify minimum retention because a low duration of months would look bad.
And things like Solar, Wind, and Wave wave aren't usable as baseline "brown" power. Because their generation sources are not stable and dependable. BUT, they can be used, alongside existing hydro and geothermal to offset demand spikes.
Since utilities are usually required by law to buy solar or renewable production before other sources including nuclear, the renewable sources which cannot be used for base-load also make the sources which can be used for base-load less economical because they have to operate at less than full capacity. This especially helps make nuclear power uneconomical. Continue with this trend and no baseline production will be economical.
Flash memory has a retention of months to years with higher density Flash memory degrading faster. Unfortunately guaranteed specifications are hard to come by which by itself says something.
If you replaced the boot flash and SD flash with mask-programmed devices, it'd certainly boot a 100 years from now. No doubt about it.
Lots of mask ROMs produced in the 70s started failing 30 years later. Maybe this was just a problem with Mostek but I would not bet on it over a longer period of time.
Tantalum capacitors are not exactly everlasting either when unpowered for long periods of time. Maybe newer ones are better but older ones seem to suffer from defect growth over time. The defects are cleared harmlessly while the capacitor is used but if allowed to grow too large cause failure when power is applied. The solution I have used to combat this is voltage derating.
Some people say that SD cards degrade after a few years, even without writing to them.
High density Flash memory degrades within months to years depending on the density unless scrubbed or refreshed. My own tests revealed that the 4GB USB Flash drives I have been using lost their contents within about a year whether powered or not. I assume SSDs scrub themselves when powered but USB drives and SD cards appear not to.
Naturally retention time of high density Flash is not generally specified.
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I see what you did there.
Have you read the Budapest Memorandum? It is not long:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/...
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.
The US has not invaded Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
The US has not threatened Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
The US has not used economic coercion on Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.
The US brought the invasion of Ukraine up with the UNSC:
http://www.rferl.org/content/u...
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm, in the case of the Ukraine, their commitment not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.
The US has not used nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will consult in the event a situation arises which raises a question concerning these commitments.
I am sure the US has consulted with the other nations listed.
Immunity protects law enforcement from liability in the event that they shoot and/or kill anybody so they have no reason to limit aggression.
When I was involved in election monitoring in SoCal, they tallied neither the write in candidates nor the third party candidates on the ballot which had the beneficial effect as far as the two major parties are concerned of making sure the Libertarians and Greens and other third parties would have to requalify for the ballot for every election.
As far as write in candidates, as far as I know they have to qualify for the ballot ahead of time just like any other candidate in order to be counted.
And as someone else pointed out, the electors can choose whoever they want.
Part of the change at least for BIOSes stored in Flash EEPROM was that later Flash EEPROM memories implemented internal charge pumps so they could generate their own high voltage source for erasing and programming. Earlier ones required an external high voltage supply and it was that supply which a jumper could control.
Early PCs with programmable Flash BIOSes often supported this via a jumper which was needed to enable the high voltage programming supply.
As described you can't rootkit early PCs which still supported a rewritable Flash BIOS and had a jumper to enable the high voltage programming supply.
That sure stopped Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and eBay from discussing and agreeing to do this in a tangible medium. All they had to put up with is a civil lawsuit.
Having had an expensive Futitsu Lifebook fail three times during the warranty period and then immediately after as well as all of the design defects in laptops since like inadequate cooling, all I can say is never again. I could have built 3 small form factor desktops with removable storage for the price of that laptop and I would still have them.
If I did have to buy a laptop, I would either go with a refurbished Toughbook or similar or pick up something used from a computer swap meet.
Oh, good. Now we can have new and improved negative connotations.
Having AT&T U-Verse and no better options in a major metropolitan area, streaming almost anything is useless. NNTP and Bittorrent work great though.
So we can just build more dams in all of the available locations and they will not get tied up in litigation like nuclear power. Oh, wait . . .
This goes double for nuclear power plants since they have no incremental fuel costs. One of the reasons utilities are forced to buy from renewable energy sources is to deliberately force nuclear power plants to operate at lower load capacity making them uneconomical.
That would be quite a trick:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Yes, arrest records are tracked and a job application may specifically ask about arrests.
I will be looking for wireless data transfer in the next camera I purchase just for this reason. Right now I can either wear out the mini-USB connector or wear out the SD card slot. It is too bad that optical like IRDA never become commonly available.
This also nullifies the Origination Clause in the Constitution. Why was in included if it has no meaning?
More like challenge accepted - how long do they retain their data while unpowered?
That sounds like a specification they got from a high density Flash datasheet which I saw recently; it was 10 years typical with no guarantied minimum. My own tests show that high density Flash has a retention of months. I assume SSDs can get away with that because they can perform background scrubbing while powered but the USB Flash drives that I have tested do not and they forget their contents before a year is up whether powered or not if they are not actively used.
Based on old datasheets involving floating gate memory which did list minimum retention times of 20+ years, I have the feeling that the manufacturers do not specify minimum retention because a low duration of months would look bad.
Since utilities are usually required by law to buy solar or renewable production before other sources including nuclear, the renewable sources which cannot be used for base-load also make the sources which can be used for base-load less economical because they have to operate at less than full capacity. This especially helps make nuclear power uneconomical. Continue with this trend and no baseline production will be economical.
They might make an exception for GMO-free humans. They could raise them as livestock.
Flash memory has a retention of months to years with higher density Flash memory degrading faster. Unfortunately guaranteed specifications are hard to come by which by itself says something.
Lots of mask ROMs produced in the 70s started failing 30 years later. Maybe this was just a problem with Mostek but I would not bet on it over a longer period of time.
Tantalum capacitors are not exactly everlasting either when unpowered for long periods of time. Maybe newer ones are better but older ones seem to suffer from defect growth over time. The defects are cleared harmlessly while the capacitor is used but if allowed to grow too large cause failure when power is applied. The solution I have used to combat this is voltage derating.
High density Flash memory degrades within months to years depending on the density unless scrubbed or refreshed. My own tests revealed that the 4GB USB Flash drives I have been using lost their contents within about a year whether powered or not. I assume SSDs scrub themselves when powered but USB drives and SD cards appear not to.
Naturally retention time of high density Flash is not generally specified.