Don't do any work for someone you don't trust without money up front. If you went to a lawyer for a consult on this very subject, despite what he may or may not advise you, what HE is going to do is tell you up front that he needs a check for $350. Once he's taken that check he'll advise your ear off for an hour or 2. Then he will tell you to send another check, this time $1,500 to be placed in an ACTF. Attorney Client Trust Fund. No reason you can't make a DCTF (developer....) The lawyer will then bill against that $1,500 and as it gets close to 0 will expect the client to pay in more before continuing work.
The big difference is in the final payouts. Lawyers usually don't worry about collecting the final pay out as much, because it's usually fairly small by that point (remember, regular billings against the ACTF), and the client is usually happy. Good lawyers ALWAYS win. Or at least convince their client they did.
In first generation UEFI systems, you can log into the bios, and add any "key" you want to the signing authority. So if you own the HARDWARE, they let you pretend like you still control the software. Practically what this means is that you can install any OS you want, no problem.
Oh wait, SECOND GENERATION: you can't change the keys at all anymore, and you can't even go into the bios anymore. Have fun.
Terribly interesting that you seem to believe that your children's peers are likely to be a better influence than an adult teacher. Terribly sad if it's actually true, but it's almost certainly not. Even given the rather notable exceptions of teachers sleeping with high school aged kids, sex is hardly the worst you have to worry about. The other children are offering drugs, illegal activity (trespassing, and street racing were favorites in my day), and sex. Not to mention that peers are far more likely to reject adult supervision, and adult ideals of behavior.
That's all ok though, because we all know your kids haven't listened to you in 5 years, and they aren't going to start now. Your kids get their culture from TV, movies, games, and other kids, you as a parent have only a minimal influence over this, especially if like most people, your kid has been raised on multi-media with little or no oversight.
I've often laughed about this privately. You see, many years ago, in 8th grade I was in an advanced class called project science. Among many other things, we created contact explosives, a heat seeking missile, laser holography (including forging an existing hologram sticker), a rocket powered RC car capable of ground effect flight at over 150mph, and a dozen different chemical concoctions with various properties.
What makes all this funny is that it was an 8th grade class of school kids and a good teacher. Nothing more. So when people talk about airline security, I always chuckle a little bit. Off the top of my head, and for less than $1k, I could think of a couple ways to down a commercial aircraft. Most of which would not require a suicide bombing at all.
Fortunately, people with the kind of geeky knowledge to do it aren't motivated to do it. And the kind of people with the motivation rarely have the exposure to the tech needed. Which is actually kind of an interesting dynamic.
I think the game you are looking for is called StarFarer. http://fractalsoftworks.com/
It's still in alpha, but it's progressing well so far, and the alpha is playable and modable today.
That's quite the word salad to dodge a simple point: that the Bible lays out Pi in a clear cut (but false) fashion that presents a bit of a problem for those who insist that the book is the Literal Gospel Truth.
This is what you choose to take issue with against biblical literalists? That's a tiny bit myopic, isn't it? Perhaps we could get a bit of a bigger picture.
I'm pretty sure that is originally from Hicks. It's worth noting that Hicks was never ever on stage without a smoke, and a drink. Not once ever as far as I know.
That depends on what you mean by legally. The civil aviation authorities in Stockholm might have something to say about you flying a drone over their city. But they don't get much say once you beyond the economic boundary lines.
Come to think of it, you might want to check where the international air routes are first, because if you knock down an airliner with your drone, international water or not, you are going to have a BAD day.
No, that is horribly incorrect. If the entire point is loiter time (uptime in your parlance), then a helium inflatable HALL (high altitude Long loiter) drone with solar panels could easily achieve 2-3week flight times. EASILY. I could build this from local hobby shops, and have it flying by months end. Granted it's not on par with standard server uptimes, but then, I don't have a few million to invest in the project. I think I could achieve 100% uptime with an ongoing program releasing X number of drones to keep N in flight at all times, thereby providing at least 1 layer of redundancy. That even using only off the shelf solutions and doing no actual development on a HALL drone body and electronics package, or just buying one from Boeing/Raytheon/whoever.
When you can get yourself elected while simultaneously proclaiming to be Wiccan, Muslim, or Buddhist, we might have something to talk about.
The US isn't a theocracy, it's just run entirely by Christians. I'm not sure how that would make my point more salient. It's not like the US goes around trying to force our values on the rest of the world... oh yeah hmmm. Well it's not like we evangelize Christian morality or belief structures... Ok OK, but we don't go around killing people that don't agree with our values/way of life... Oh right.
So while we are busy not being a theocracy, we just walk like one, talk like one and act like one. But we aren't one, so it's not an issue, right?
Funny, if you were better educated (or just smarter) you'd probably know that your 5 year old self had considerably more brain power available to him than you do in adulthood. Particularly in regard to memory.
So... using a bank account should be done with the consideration that the usage I put it to might come under scrutiny from a corporate entity that has paid my bank for the privileged, meanwhile failing to ascertain my disposition on the matter? Kindly go fuck yourself. Take your corporate spy lords with you.
Not a theocracy? Please see the US Congress and House, now list all members, and now put a check box next to the ones that claim to be Christian or offshoots there of.
Now, I'll give you a minute to collate that data. Done? So, Theocracy? If not, then how would you define it?
Don't kid yourself, you life in a theocracy, run by people that believe ultimate judgement will be at the hands of their fairy god father or his evil counterpart. You can believe whatever you want, the facts are clear.
You mean like huge digital repositories of educational material freely available to anyone with an internet connection? That would be really cool if we have something like that...http://www.intel.com/about/corporateresponsibility/education/index.htm
How can you be so foolish as to think that students are the consumers? Let me introduce you to the concepts at work here. The CONSUMER is the one paying money for a service. Which means that the ultimate consumer are the taxpayers (not even the parents alone, arguably not them at all). The money flow is simple and straight forward. From my pocket, to your corrupt bureaucracy, to shady text book suppliers. If the text book suppliers can make more money by rewriting the books every couple of years, they will. If they could make more money having a really good book, they would. Can you guess which of those two options is reality?
Did you just liken not owning a TV to suspicion of criminal activity? I don't own a TV. Am I to be investigated for nothing more than that? How absurd.
So you're argument is that a production which costs hundreds of millions to make, you are saying that production will have appeal to less than 1/3 the US population, and exactly NO appeal to anyone outside the US? That is your assertion? My counter is, then it wasn't worth making.
You are joking right? That's not even comparable, for starters I use my computer for a lot more than facebook. For continuance, MANY people I know use "facebook mobile" almost exclusively. And because you annoyed me, don't forget that the typical power draw of a modern desktop/laptop computer is around 600watts. Do you have any idea what the draw is for a 48u rack with storage? I've give you a hint, it's a lot closer to 1000watts PER U. Someone that actually builds out those machines can probably give us better details, but I think the point is salient already.
In other news, the gas it takes to put produce in the grocery store is nothing compared to all the gas used by the customers who bought that produce.:stare:
It's not all that often you can accuse someone of being MORE short sighted than a C level executive. Is "the spectrum" full? Oh hell no. Do you really want to see that day? I assure you, no. But more to the point, ATT is aware, as anyone with a brain and a few minutes would be, that in large cities the spectrum may not be full, but the land to build a cell site... that is. At the very lowest level, the problem with adding bandwidth to crowded cities is a matter of real estate. In several senses, actually. First, you have to find some. Then you have to plan around the neighbors. Oh, that 43 story building next door is made mostly out of glass, steel and carbon. It sucks up and refracts your signals all to hell and back.
In short, it's not quite so simple as you pretend it is. On the other hand, screw ATT and verizon too. Bunch of money grubbing assholes, and they have been for about 60 years now. I say that as a long time ATT customer. Unfortunately there are no better options. Sprint's coverage is a joke, Verizon has dollar signs where their brains should be, and T-mo is desperately trying to sell itself off, which doesn't make signing a contract all that appealing. I pray that google takes Motoral's handset department, and combines it with a big fat fuck you to the telcos and starts offering GoogleMobile (combined Wifi, Wimax(whatever), cellular).
If google gave you some free services, or a bit of money to turn your wifi router into a public backhaul, would you? Presuming of course you had some level of QOS control.
This seems to be the point everyone is missing in all this. The carrier doesn't need spyware to spy on you, THEY ALREADY SEE ALL YOUR STUFF IN PLAIN TEXT. It's not like ATT needs a warrant to open up their own network and take a look around. Nor does verizon need federal permission to log, through their data proxy, every address you ever visit, for how long and using what protocols. In point of fact, current federal law requires these companies to store this information, for a very long time.
What exactly do people think CIQ can tell the carrier that they don't already know? The pathetic answer is, real world network performance diagnostic data. Which is just about the ONLY thing the carrier doesn't already know about your handset.
Pardon me, but if you feel that way, why are you a customer of facebook? Why the hell would you post something on a website whose sole purpose is to SHARE what you post, if you don't want to share it? Seriously, I think it's a perfectly reasonable question.
And when I said 'customer' before, I meant product. Because you aren't the consumer of facebook, and you aren't the customer either. You are the product being sold. Are there people that don't know that?
I'm curious if you ever actually owned and used a console for multiple years. I've replaced 3 PS2's in the time span I've had the computer I'm typing this on, and the computer still plays every game I've tried (no, not crysis). The damn things are built to fall apart. I've had an original PS2, a slim and a second gen slim. All three failed at some point (right outside warranty). The way I hear it, xbox's aren't much better (or possibly worse). The wii is pretty solid, but then Nintendo doesn't lose money on each unit either.
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Don't do any work for someone you don't trust without money up front. If you went to a lawyer for a consult on this very subject, despite what he may or may not advise you, what HE is going to do is tell you up front that he needs a check for $350. Once he's taken that check he'll advise your ear off for an hour or 2. Then he will tell you to send another check, this time $1,500 to be placed in an ACTF. Attorney Client Trust Fund. No reason you can't make a DCTF (developer....) The lawyer will then bill against that $1,500 and as it gets close to 0 will expect the client to pay in more before continuing work.
The big difference is in the final payouts. Lawyers usually don't worry about collecting the final pay out as much, because it's usually fairly small by that point (remember, regular billings against the ACTF), and the client is usually happy. Good lawyers ALWAYS win. Or at least convince their client they did.
In first generation UEFI systems, you can log into the bios, and add any "key" you want to the signing authority. So if you own the HARDWARE, they let you pretend like you still control the software. Practically what this means is that you can install any OS you want, no problem.
Oh wait, SECOND GENERATION: you can't change the keys at all anymore, and you can't even go into the bios anymore. Have fun.
Terribly interesting that you seem to believe that your children's peers are likely to be a better influence than an adult teacher. Terribly sad if it's actually true, but it's almost certainly not. Even given the rather notable exceptions of teachers sleeping with high school aged kids, sex is hardly the worst you have to worry about. The other children are offering drugs, illegal activity (trespassing, and street racing were favorites in my day), and sex. Not to mention that peers are far more likely to reject adult supervision, and adult ideals of behavior.
That's all ok though, because we all know your kids haven't listened to you in 5 years, and they aren't going to start now. Your kids get their culture from TV, movies, games, and other kids, you as a parent have only a minimal influence over this, especially if like most people, your kid has been raised on multi-media with little or no oversight.
I've often laughed about this privately. You see, many years ago, in 8th grade I was in an advanced class called project science. Among many other things, we created contact explosives, a heat seeking missile, laser holography (including forging an existing hologram sticker), a rocket powered RC car capable of ground effect flight at over 150mph, and a dozen different chemical concoctions with various properties.
What makes all this funny is that it was an 8th grade class of school kids and a good teacher. Nothing more. So when people talk about airline security, I always chuckle a little bit. Off the top of my head, and for less than $1k, I could think of a couple ways to down a commercial aircraft. Most of which would not require a suicide bombing at all.
Fortunately, people with the kind of geeky knowledge to do it aren't motivated to do it. And the kind of people with the motivation rarely have the exposure to the tech needed. Which is actually kind of an interesting dynamic.
I think the game you are looking for is called StarFarer. http://fractalsoftworks.com/ It's still in alpha, but it's progressing well so far, and the alpha is playable and modable today.
That's quite the word salad to dodge a simple point: that the Bible lays out Pi in a clear cut (but false) fashion that presents a bit of a problem for those who insist that the book is the Literal Gospel Truth.
This is what you choose to take issue with against biblical literalists? That's a tiny bit myopic, isn't it? Perhaps we could get a bit of a bigger picture.
I'm pretty sure that is originally from Hicks. It's worth noting that Hicks was never ever on stage without a smoke, and a drink. Not once ever as far as I know.
That depends on what you mean by legally. The civil aviation authorities in Stockholm might have something to say about you flying a drone over their city. But they don't get much say once you beyond the economic boundary lines.
Come to think of it, you might want to check where the international air routes are first, because if you knock down an airliner with your drone, international water or not, you are going to have a BAD day.
No, that is horribly incorrect. If the entire point is loiter time (uptime in your parlance), then a helium inflatable HALL (high altitude Long loiter) drone with solar panels could easily achieve 2-3week flight times. EASILY. I could build this from local hobby shops, and have it flying by months end. Granted it's not on par with standard server uptimes, but then, I don't have a few million to invest in the project. I think I could achieve 100% uptime with an ongoing program releasing X number of drones to keep N in flight at all times, thereby providing at least 1 layer of redundancy. That even using only off the shelf solutions and doing no actual development on a HALL drone body and electronics package, or just buying one from Boeing/Raytheon/whoever.
It's amusing that you seem to be too young to have any idea what "true hacker fashion" means.
When you can get yourself elected while simultaneously proclaiming to be Wiccan, Muslim, or Buddhist, we might have something to talk about.
The US isn't a theocracy, it's just run entirely by Christians. I'm not sure how that would make my point more salient. It's not like the US goes around trying to force our values on the rest of the world... oh yeah hmmm. Well it's not like we evangelize Christian morality or belief structures... Ok OK, but we don't go around killing people that don't agree with our values/way of life... Oh right.
So while we are busy not being a theocracy, we just walk like one, talk like one and act like one. But we aren't one, so it's not an issue, right?
Funny, if you were better educated (or just smarter) you'd probably know that your 5 year old self had considerably more brain power available to him than you do in adulthood. Particularly in regard to memory.
So... using a bank account should be done with the consideration that the usage I put it to might come under scrutiny from a corporate entity that has paid my bank for the privileged, meanwhile failing to ascertain my disposition on the matter? Kindly go fuck yourself. Take your corporate spy lords with you.
Not a theocracy? Please see the US Congress and House, now list all members, and now put a check box next to the ones that claim to be Christian or offshoots there of.
Now, I'll give you a minute to collate that data. Done? So, Theocracy? If not, then how would you define it?
Don't kid yourself, you life in a theocracy, run by people that believe ultimate judgement will be at the hands of their fairy god father or his evil counterpart. You can believe whatever you want, the facts are clear.
You mean like huge digital repositories of educational material freely available to anyone with an internet connection? That would be really cool if we have something like that...http://www.intel.com/about/corporateresponsibility/education/index.htm
How can you be so foolish as to think that students are the consumers? Let me introduce you to the concepts at work here. The CONSUMER is the one paying money for a service. Which means that the ultimate consumer are the taxpayers (not even the parents alone, arguably not them at all). The money flow is simple and straight forward. From my pocket, to your corrupt bureaucracy, to shady text book suppliers. If the text book suppliers can make more money by rewriting the books every couple of years, they will. If they could make more money having a really good book, they would. Can you guess which of those two options is reality?
Oh good, invent bezerkers. This is NOT the kind of thinking we need.
Did you just liken not owning a TV to suspicion of criminal activity? I don't own a TV. Am I to be investigated for nothing more than that? How absurd.
So you're argument is that a production which costs hundreds of millions to make, you are saying that production will have appeal to less than 1/3 the US population, and exactly NO appeal to anyone outside the US? That is your assertion? My counter is, then it wasn't worth making.
A husband and wife pair working out of a garage created Myst, which for a long time was the best selling game ever.
You are joking right? That's not even comparable, for starters I use my computer for a lot more than facebook. For continuance, MANY people I know use "facebook mobile" almost exclusively. And because you annoyed me, don't forget that the typical power draw of a modern desktop/laptop computer is around 600watts. Do you have any idea what the draw is for a 48u rack with storage? I've give you a hint, it's a lot closer to 1000watts PER U. Someone that actually builds out those machines can probably give us better details, but I think the point is salient already.
:stare:
In other news, the gas it takes to put produce in the grocery store is nothing compared to all the gas used by the customers who bought that produce.
It's not all that often you can accuse someone of being MORE short sighted than a C level executive. Is "the spectrum" full? Oh hell no. Do you really want to see that day? I assure you, no. But more to the point, ATT is aware, as anyone with a brain and a few minutes would be, that in large cities the spectrum may not be full, but the land to build a cell site... that is. At the very lowest level, the problem with adding bandwidth to crowded cities is a matter of real estate. In several senses, actually. First, you have to find some. Then you have to plan around the neighbors. Oh, that 43 story building next door is made mostly out of glass, steel and carbon. It sucks up and refracts your signals all to hell and back.
In short, it's not quite so simple as you pretend it is. On the other hand, screw ATT and verizon too. Bunch of money grubbing assholes, and they have been for about 60 years now. I say that as a long time ATT customer. Unfortunately there are no better options. Sprint's coverage is a joke, Verizon has dollar signs where their brains should be, and T-mo is desperately trying to sell itself off, which doesn't make signing a contract all that appealing. I pray that google takes Motoral's handset department, and combines it with a big fat fuck you to the telcos and starts offering GoogleMobile (combined Wifi, Wimax(whatever), cellular).
If google gave you some free services, or a bit of money to turn your wifi router into a public backhaul, would you? Presuming of course you had some level of QOS control.
This seems to be the point everyone is missing in all this. The carrier doesn't need spyware to spy on you, THEY ALREADY SEE ALL YOUR STUFF IN PLAIN TEXT. It's not like ATT needs a warrant to open up their own network and take a look around. Nor does verizon need federal permission to log, through their data proxy, every address you ever visit, for how long and using what protocols. In point of fact, current federal law requires these companies to store this information, for a very long time.
What exactly do people think CIQ can tell the carrier that they don't already know? The pathetic answer is, real world network performance diagnostic data. Which is just about the ONLY thing the carrier doesn't already know about your handset.
Pardon me, but if you feel that way, why are you a customer of facebook? Why the hell would you post something on a website whose sole purpose is to SHARE what you post, if you don't want to share it? Seriously, I think it's a perfectly reasonable question.
And when I said 'customer' before, I meant product. Because you aren't the consumer of facebook, and you aren't the customer either. You are the product being sold. Are there people that don't know that?
I'm curious if you ever actually owned and used a console for multiple years. I've replaced 3 PS2's in the time span I've had the computer I'm typing this on, and the computer still plays every game I've tried (no, not crysis). The damn things are built to fall apart. I've had an original PS2, a slim and a second gen slim. All three failed at some point (right outside warranty). The way I hear it, xbox's aren't much better (or possibly worse). The wii is pretty solid, but then Nintendo doesn't lose money on each unit either.