Verizon is only deploying it to Verizon phone areas, and even that is slowing down with some talk of changing to FTTC instead of FTTH in order to cut costs. Whenever I'm looking for a new place to move, I first look at available Internet connectivity. Among the top things that I look for is FiOS. I've not yet had a chance to move to such a place, but I hope to be able to do so in the near future.
Patience. Let the change come naturally. It's when companies feel forced that they react so strongly. Let Netflix, Hulu, and their like continue to grow. Viewership will fall off from cable companies, unwatched channels will start to die off, and the cable companies will be weakened, especially if the majority of people are getting their entertainment from streaming services.
The ultimate death of cable will come about when sports becomes widely available in a legal streaming format. Right now, ESPN is the major factor for most people I know who still have cable and satellite TV. If ESPN were to make available a pure subscription streaming format, people would pay good money for it. I've asked some friends what they would pay for it, and most of them answer at least $10, and some are willing to pay $20 to $25 a month for it. Once the network realizes this, it can cut a huge support out from under the traditional paid delivery services.
You're looking for Fiber to the Home, or FTTH. There's a company in the suburbs of Kansas City, KS, that also provides this. There's also Fiber to the Curb (FTTC), which is similar in that the fiber terminates very close to the end-user equipment, but the last few meters are copper and the fiber endpoint is shared by several neighbors.
The Foleo long-preceded (relative to tech development) the buyout by HP. Palm's future looked a little better almost two years later with the Pre, but that failed to live up to expectations, and Palm stumbled badly until the buyout a year after the Pre's launch.
Whether HP will be able to do something with it remains to be seen (we'll get an idea of how well it can do this summer), but I expect that it will do better than the Playbook in the long run. I've seen few truly positive reviews and many outright negative reviews, and even Blackberry fans are often giving it no more than mediocre ratings. The most damning review I've seen was at InfoWorld, where it was described as "unfinished, unusable."
There are at least 20 states that have mandatory meal breaks: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.
Furthermore, 33 states have laws covering mandatory meal breaks for minors: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
California, Colorado, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington have mandatory rest period laws as well.
Where I worked, until we were switched to salary status recently, we were regularly warned that failure to take a lunch break could result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination. I don't know if it was ever enforced, but the company made very sure that we understood.
The FBI would then be doing what the botnet authors did: making changes to the user's system without the user's authorization. Removing the system from the Internet by requiring the ISP to place a block on the connection until such time as it could be verified as clean would be much more ethical. If the malware removal function has a horrible bug and leaves the system in an unusable state, the FBI is then on the hook for damages, which could make it reluctant to undertake such actions in the future. The same happens if there is no removal function but the FBI writes one and forces an update and then a removal but it goes sour on some systems.
I'm not sure if you're trying to argue semantics here, but nowhere in the article does it say that it was deleted, soft or otherwise. The e-mail sent to him said that DropBox had "removed or disabled access to the material" and that "public sharing on your account has been disabled." Arash Ferdowski restored the access to the public files and requested that the author delete the file in question. No one deleted the file. Permissions were changed. That's not even remotely the same thing as deletion.
It wasn't deleted in any case. Access to it was blocked, and the CTO reversed the block after conversing with the post's author. The CTO requested that he remove it, but did not demand that he do so.
A lot of the nation's richest people should be looking to Andrew Carnegie for some inspiration. While he certainly had some dark spots during his life, the fact that he ultimately gave away virtually his entire fortune (and believed that any rich person who actually dies rich is a failure) provides a very honorable path to follow, which most of them are not. (For that matter, a lot of steel and oil barons of the time also did not, but that doesn't reduce the value of the idea.)
The debit cards were introduced to reduce fraud, not to make people feel better, though it probably does have that side-effect. It doesn't eliminate fraud, but it does a decent job knocking it down. Conventional food stamps are easily sold (and sometimes reported as stolen so freely replaced if it doesn't happen too often), whereas most recipients aren't going to give up their debit cards (and stolen cards are deactivated). This doesn't mean that they can't buy stuff for other people off of them and sell them for cash at other-than-parity rates, but it's a lot more effort.
I work for a contractor to a government entity functioning essentially as government staff. I have to adhere to both ethics policies, relying on the stricter of the two if there is overlap or conflict. This means that vendors can take me to lunch and can pay for it, but to a maximum of $5. One can barely get a fast food meal for $5. Since I work for a contractor, I am myself technically a vendor representative, and I cannot pay more than $5 for government employees' lunches. They, however, can buy me lunch.
However, they can pay for lunch if we are already a customer, there is no sales pitch going on, and the meeting is primarily about business. This allows a vendor to cater a lunch if they're providing training, reviewing roadmaps, or holding user group meetings, though they are encouraged to keep the cost relatively low, and so we often end up with $3 Subway sandwiches and generic chips.
There are a number of other requirements just around lunch, let alone all the other possible times when a gift could be exchanged or perceived to be exchanged. I avoid it just by paying my own way all the time and letting everyone else do the same.
Considering the ability of most students to use a keyboard, I would not be surprised if someone familiar with a TI-83+ can input the necessary information into the calculator faster than the students can enter it into Mathematica, negating the raw speed advantage that the notebook would have.
Just because the NSA gets it does not mean that Customs has access to it. To do so would open the possibility of the collection being challenged. Even if it were successfully kept under the overused State Secrets provision, it becomes a tacit admission of such collection. The NSA jealously guards its means and methods, and is highly reluctant to share it with other non-defense agencies.
It's not always that easy. The Brazilian authorities enlisted the aid of the FBI in cracking the encryption on the hard drive of banker Daniel Dantas, who was suspected of money laundering and attempting to bribe law enforcement. Despite five months of work by Brazil and about twelve months by the FBI, they couldn't get into his drives protected by TrueCrypt using AES-256 and good, long passwords. He was eventually sentenced to ten years in prison, but only on the bribery charges. The money laundering case couldn't proceed without the data on the drives.
I think there were a few occasions where he tried multiple times. An attempt at launching himself with a giant rubber band, for example, was repeated until he got things right (after being crushed and caught up in the rubber band on different occasions) and actually caught up to the Road Runner. However, he hadn't the foresight to take into account... something. I forget what happened, but it of course did not go well for him.
You clearly don't know what you're talking about. The origins of Interpol are pre-WW2, and the idea behind it even predates WW1. Germany took hold of it only because it conquered Austria, and then placed people like Reinhard Heydrich in charge. It was known at the time as the International Criminal Police Commission, but was renamed in 1956 with the adoption of its constitution. That direct link is in the opening words of that constitution: "The Organization called the 'INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE COMMISSION' shall henceforth be entitled: 'THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATION - INTERPOL'." Interpol was granted observer status in the UN General Assembly in 2000.
On the contrary--the Falcon XX has appeared a number of times, and does have specs. The very same presentation that I mentioned earlier has a Falcon XX for comparison to the F9, F9H, FX, and FXH, and specifies engine configuration, thrust, and mass to LEO. It is in roughly the same class as the Saturn V in terms of size, mass, thrust, and payload.
Armadillo is in the same place we found SpaceX a few years ago leading into the first Falcon 1 launch: a hopeful curiosity. Once they get a few launches under their belts with some level of success (getting off the pad is a basic level of success, and reaching orbit is a major success), then they can be seriously discussed in the same breath. Any rocket manufacturer should be treated thus because it is a tremendously difficult thing to get right.
It is not a private company. Interpol is an international organization that fosters coordination and mutual assistance between law enforcement organizations. Its TLD is.int, and that is only provided to international organizations after a strict vetting process proving that it was formed by way of international treaty.
Probably not, based on what I've read. But the engine and the lift vehicles are being designed such that swapping out a cluster of nine Merlin 1 engines with a single Merlin 2 will be possible. A SpaceX presentation from last year showed that they expect a roughly 10% improvement in maximum mass to LEO with the Falcon 9 (from 10.5 tons to 11.5 tons). Falcon 9 Heavy will use 27 Merlin 1 engines at first and transition to (or perhaps have the option for) three Merlin 2 engines with an increase in maximum mass to LEO of around 3-5%. The Falcon X/XX family will use just Merlin 2 engines, as they start clustering them per core at that point with three engines per cluster in the Falcon X series and six per core for Falcon XX. (I want to see a Falcon XX Heavy with three Falcon XX cores purely to see 30 million pounds of thrust light up at once, but I can't think of anything that masses in at 400+ tons that I'd want to risk in one launch.)
It doesn't require it, no, but it will reduce the complexity of the system at the cost of some redundancy. Losing a Merlin 1 is annoying but survivable. Losing a Merlin 2 could mean mission failure. But if the odds of an engine loss are about the same in terms of numbers of firings, there could be significant savings with the larger engine.
SpaceX is working on other engines. The Merlin 2 would be capable of around 1.7 million pounds of thrust (the Saturn V F-1 was capable of 1.5 million pounds of thrust), reducing the number of engines used per vehicle, especially for the Falcon 9 Heavy and the Falcon X/XX series of SHLLVs.
That historian doesn't know his history, then. The "space pen" was independently developed by a private firm and was later sold to NASA at around what you'd pay picking up one at an office supply store. The Russians did reportedly use pencils for a while, but found that graphite dust caused potential electrical problems, and switched to the space pen.
Standard bruteforce has always been generally valid, though there are cases where it doesn't work as well such as account lockout and those places where logs are watched carefully.
If the password database can be retrieved, it generally works better, though a bit of salting helps to address that. Distributed computing solutions for rainbow tables help cut down the time needed to break these, and I imagine that places like the NSA devote both dedicated and spare cycles to building up their own rainbow tables (or more elegant but less well-known mechanisms).
Not necessarily. There could be some discoveries that alter geologic timetable presumptions, and thus move dates forward. It doesn't happen as often as it used to, and certainly not as drastically as before, but there are still occasional changes.
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Verizon is only deploying it to Verizon phone areas, and even that is slowing down with some talk of changing to FTTC instead of FTTH in order to cut costs. Whenever I'm looking for a new place to move, I first look at available Internet connectivity. Among the top things that I look for is FiOS. I've not yet had a chance to move to such a place, but I hope to be able to do so in the near future.
Patience. Let the change come naturally. It's when companies feel forced that they react so strongly. Let Netflix, Hulu, and their like continue to grow. Viewership will fall off from cable companies, unwatched channels will start to die off, and the cable companies will be weakened, especially if the majority of people are getting their entertainment from streaming services.
The ultimate death of cable will come about when sports becomes widely available in a legal streaming format. Right now, ESPN is the major factor for most people I know who still have cable and satellite TV. If ESPN were to make available a pure subscription streaming format, people would pay good money for it. I've asked some friends what they would pay for it, and most of them answer at least $10, and some are willing to pay $20 to $25 a month for it. Once the network realizes this, it can cut a huge support out from under the traditional paid delivery services.
You're looking for Fiber to the Home, or FTTH. There's a company in the suburbs of Kansas City, KS, that also provides this. There's also Fiber to the Curb (FTTC), which is similar in that the fiber terminates very close to the end-user equipment, but the last few meters are copper and the fiber endpoint is shared by several neighbors.
The Foleo long-preceded (relative to tech development) the buyout by HP. Palm's future looked a little better almost two years later with the Pre, but that failed to live up to expectations, and Palm stumbled badly until the buyout a year after the Pre's launch.
Whether HP will be able to do something with it remains to be seen (we'll get an idea of how well it can do this summer), but I expect that it will do better than the Playbook in the long run. I've seen few truly positive reviews and many outright negative reviews, and even Blackberry fans are often giving it no more than mediocre ratings. The most damning review I've seen was at InfoWorld, where it was described as "unfinished, unusable."
There are at least 20 states that have mandatory meal breaks: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.
Furthermore, 33 states have laws covering mandatory meal breaks for minors: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
California, Colorado, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington have mandatory rest period laws as well.
Source: United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division
Where I worked, until we were switched to salary status recently, we were regularly warned that failure to take a lunch break could result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination. I don't know if it was ever enforced, but the company made very sure that we understood.
The FBI would then be doing what the botnet authors did: making changes to the user's system without the user's authorization. Removing the system from the Internet by requiring the ISP to place a block on the connection until such time as it could be verified as clean would be much more ethical. If the malware removal function has a horrible bug and leaves the system in an unusable state, the FBI is then on the hook for damages, which could make it reluctant to undertake such actions in the future. The same happens if there is no removal function but the FBI writes one and forces an update and then a removal but it goes sour on some systems.
I'm not sure if you're trying to argue semantics here, but nowhere in the article does it say that it was deleted, soft or otherwise. The e-mail sent to him said that DropBox had "removed or disabled access to the material" and that "public sharing on your account has been disabled." Arash Ferdowski restored the access to the public files and requested that the author delete the file in question. No one deleted the file. Permissions were changed. That's not even remotely the same thing as deletion.
It wasn't deleted in any case. Access to it was blocked, and the CTO reversed the block after conversing with the post's author. The CTO requested that he remove it, but did not demand that he do so.
A lot of the nation's richest people should be looking to Andrew Carnegie for some inspiration. While he certainly had some dark spots during his life, the fact that he ultimately gave away virtually his entire fortune (and believed that any rich person who actually dies rich is a failure) provides a very honorable path to follow, which most of them are not. (For that matter, a lot of steel and oil barons of the time also did not, but that doesn't reduce the value of the idea.)
The debit cards were introduced to reduce fraud, not to make people feel better, though it probably does have that side-effect. It doesn't eliminate fraud, but it does a decent job knocking it down. Conventional food stamps are easily sold (and sometimes reported as stolen so freely replaced if it doesn't happen too often), whereas most recipients aren't going to give up their debit cards (and stolen cards are deactivated). This doesn't mean that they can't buy stuff for other people off of them and sell them for cash at other-than-parity rates, but it's a lot more effort.
I work for a contractor to a government entity functioning essentially as government staff. I have to adhere to both ethics policies, relying on the stricter of the two if there is overlap or conflict. This means that vendors can take me to lunch and can pay for it, but to a maximum of $5. One can barely get a fast food meal for $5. Since I work for a contractor, I am myself technically a vendor representative, and I cannot pay more than $5 for government employees' lunches. They, however, can buy me lunch.
However, they can pay for lunch if we are already a customer, there is no sales pitch going on, and the meeting is primarily about business. This allows a vendor to cater a lunch if they're providing training, reviewing roadmaps, or holding user group meetings, though they are encouraged to keep the cost relatively low, and so we often end up with $3 Subway sandwiches and generic chips.
There are a number of other requirements just around lunch, let alone all the other possible times when a gift could be exchanged or perceived to be exchanged. I avoid it just by paying my own way all the time and letting everyone else do the same.
Considering the ability of most students to use a keyboard, I would not be surprised if someone familiar with a TI-83+ can input the necessary information into the calculator faster than the students can enter it into Mathematica, negating the raw speed advantage that the notebook would have.
Just because the NSA gets it does not mean that Customs has access to it. To do so would open the possibility of the collection being challenged. Even if it were successfully kept under the overused State Secrets provision, it becomes a tacit admission of such collection. The NSA jealously guards its means and methods, and is highly reluctant to share it with other non-defense agencies.
It's not always that easy. The Brazilian authorities enlisted the aid of the FBI in cracking the encryption on the hard drive of banker Daniel Dantas, who was suspected of money laundering and attempting to bribe law enforcement. Despite five months of work by Brazil and about twelve months by the FBI, they couldn't get into his drives protected by TrueCrypt using AES-256 and good, long passwords. He was eventually sentenced to ten years in prison, but only on the bribery charges. The money laundering case couldn't proceed without the data on the drives.
I think there were a few occasions where he tried multiple times. An attempt at launching himself with a giant rubber band, for example, was repeated until he got things right (after being crushed and caught up in the rubber band on different occasions) and actually caught up to the Road Runner. However, he hadn't the foresight to take into account... something. I forget what happened, but it of course did not go well for him.
You clearly don't know what you're talking about. The origins of Interpol are pre-WW2, and the idea behind it even predates WW1. Germany took hold of it only because it conquered Austria, and then placed people like Reinhard Heydrich in charge. It was known at the time as the International Criminal Police Commission, but was renamed in 1956 with the adoption of its constitution. That direct link is in the opening words of that constitution: "The Organization called the 'INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE COMMISSION' shall henceforth be entitled: 'THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL POLICE ORGANIZATION - INTERPOL'." Interpol was granted observer status in the UN General Assembly in 2000.
On the contrary--the Falcon XX has appeared a number of times, and does have specs. The very same presentation that I mentioned earlier has a Falcon XX for comparison to the F9, F9H, FX, and FXH, and specifies engine configuration, thrust, and mass to LEO. It is in roughly the same class as the Saturn V in terms of size, mass, thrust, and payload.
Armadillo is in the same place we found SpaceX a few years ago leading into the first Falcon 1 launch: a hopeful curiosity. Once they get a few launches under their belts with some level of success (getting off the pad is a basic level of success, and reaching orbit is a major success), then they can be seriously discussed in the same breath. Any rocket manufacturer should be treated thus because it is a tremendously difficult thing to get right.
It is not a private company. Interpol is an international organization that fosters coordination and mutual assistance between law enforcement organizations. Its TLD is .int, and that is only provided to international organizations after a strict vetting process proving that it was formed by way of international treaty.
The Falcon XX will be able to lift 140 tons into LEO. There are no (public) plans for a Falcon XX Heavy.
Probably not, based on what I've read. But the engine and the lift vehicles are being designed such that swapping out a cluster of nine Merlin 1 engines with a single Merlin 2 will be possible. A SpaceX presentation from last year showed that they expect a roughly 10% improvement in maximum mass to LEO with the Falcon 9 (from 10.5 tons to 11.5 tons). Falcon 9 Heavy will use 27 Merlin 1 engines at first and transition to (or perhaps have the option for) three Merlin 2 engines with an increase in maximum mass to LEO of around 3-5%. The Falcon X/XX family will use just Merlin 2 engines, as they start clustering them per core at that point with three engines per cluster in the Falcon X series and six per core for Falcon XX. (I want to see a Falcon XX Heavy with three Falcon XX cores purely to see 30 million pounds of thrust light up at once, but I can't think of anything that masses in at 400+ tons that I'd want to risk in one launch.)
It doesn't require it, no, but it will reduce the complexity of the system at the cost of some redundancy. Losing a Merlin 1 is annoying but survivable. Losing a Merlin 2 could mean mission failure. But if the odds of an engine loss are about the same in terms of numbers of firings, there could be significant savings with the larger engine.
SpaceX is working on other engines. The Merlin 2 would be capable of around 1.7 million pounds of thrust (the Saturn V F-1 was capable of 1.5 million pounds of thrust), reducing the number of engines used per vehicle, especially for the Falcon 9 Heavy and the Falcon X/XX series of SHLLVs.
That historian doesn't know his history, then. The "space pen" was independently developed by a private firm and was later sold to NASA at around what you'd pay picking up one at an office supply store. The Russians did reportedly use pencils for a while, but found that graphite dust caused potential electrical problems, and switched to the space pen.
Standard bruteforce has always been generally valid, though there are cases where it doesn't work as well such as account lockout and those places where logs are watched carefully.
If the password database can be retrieved, it generally works better, though a bit of salting helps to address that. Distributed computing solutions for rainbow tables help cut down the time needed to break these, and I imagine that places like the NSA devote both dedicated and spare cycles to building up their own rainbow tables (or more elegant but less well-known mechanisms).
Not necessarily. There could be some discoveries that alter geologic timetable presumptions, and thus move dates forward. It doesn't happen as often as it used to, and certainly not as drastically as before, but there are still occasional changes.