The main thing that would dethrone netbooks would be an external bluetooth keyboard for a smartphone, and it's interesting to note that even the popular iPhone doesn't officially support one, though it can be done with a hack.
You cannot imagine how much of an obstacle to that theory the simple fact is that you'd have to pack two devices, of which one is larger and does not fit into the same pocket. Bluetooth (vs the long existing cabled variant) also adds the inconvenience of having to exchange batteries, even if that may only happen once in two months.
No, you need something you always have with you, Perhaps using an iPhone's camera to record finger movements would work, provided you can make it hover in arbitrary heights in air on the press of a button. (We are too lazy to unfold a stand or something like that...)
Not really. For diseases with an purported global scale, ways of transmission that could not realistically be averted by most people, and visible symptoms, we surely can tell if a vaccination was successful. There always will be people that were not vaccinated and people where the vaccination statistically should not have worked (we know no vaccination would ever work 100%), and if they show symptoms, many of them will be recorded for sure.
What is hard to tell is really not whether a vaccination was useful in retrospective, but predicting in advance how deadly a disease is, and how much / how fast it will spread and how it will mutate.
Now, Y2K was was the same - it might have been a severe problem that was fixed in advance, or something that happened in some cases but was never observed on the outside. Sure, most programs were actually not affected in the first place, but as for the ones that actually were affected, we can expect companies to have been able to find and fix them. Usually, testing it would only require setting some clocks to a few seconds before 2000, after all. Add to this that companies would not be interested in announcing minor problems to the public, and international or even national news could care less about minor problems, and it should be obvious why this might be some problem you never heard about even when it existed or happened.
First realize this: It is still possible to make a copy of the whole thing that was encrypted. So, you could have a hundred copies of that OS running when you crack the password. It wouldn't matter much even if after four attempts the OS deleted the files that are relevant to getting access- there would still be copies.
However things are simpler, the OS itself isn't even required. An attacker usually can just copy the figurative lock on the box a lot of times and then let his horde of minions (PS3, in this case, since their cell cpu are better at this than other cpu) try to break that.
So if they used more PS3s they'd very likely be able to try as many more passwords.
Unlike in 1900, there's nuclear power, filters for fine dust coal particles, the possibility to more efficiently use wood and wind power, and more - even the fertilizers can be effectively replaced, including the inorganic ones, as there's no direct dependency on oil (neither on its byproduct natural gas, which is actually what's used - even inorganic fertilizer can and has been produced without it).
If there's a transition period rather than an immediate cut-off (and loosing Iraq does not equal a total loss of all oil sources), we can survive this change with only some years lost in economic growth. And that's only if the immense investments in "new" areas don't come with important break-throughs that actually boost the economy (thinking of fusion and fission here, and be it just the giant ball of fire in the sky).
I also like this design the most, but the improved standard here seems even better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1. The sleeve in particular will eliminate pretty much the only way to mishandle the plug (not that it was easy before - there's no live contact until the plug's already pretty deep in the socket anyhow).
The main problem is that for some reason plugs often fail to easily go into sockets. I don't know why. This is a problem I had exactly never in the UK but I frequently have to wiggle the plug around to make it go in.
This sounds like you most likely felt a design feature very frequently found in swiss sockets, a child-safety shutter. These protect against kids closing a circuit by inserting wire or such into the plug holes. They may be harder to operate than the UK ones - I don't know.
No ESRB rating is needed.
Do a test on the kids, rate the parents. If they're not able to calmly deal with the sort of interaction you might have online (people's bad side shows at times, but no real physical harm can be done) by the time they're about ten to twelve years old, consider putting them in a special social education class, or even a different home.
I suggest DVD-RAM as archival DVD media. Even the caseless variant tends to be sturdy. There's also plenty of drives out there that can read / write them.
Other than that, a set of DVD (original + copy), or USB sticks should work, too. You could also add some parity files, to help ensure small errors can be recovered from (generate additiional par2 format files, for example).
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The main thing that would dethrone netbooks would be an external bluetooth keyboard for a smartphone, and it's interesting to note that even the popular iPhone doesn't officially support one, though it can be done with a hack.
You cannot imagine how much of an obstacle to that theory the simple fact is that you'd have to pack two devices, of which one is larger and does not fit into the same pocket. Bluetooth (vs the long existing cabled variant) also adds the inconvenience of having to exchange batteries, even if that may only happen once in two months.
No, you need something you always have with you, Perhaps using an iPhone's camera to record finger movements would work, provided you can make it hover in arbitrary heights in air on the press of a button. (We are too lazy to unfold a stand or something like that...)
Not really. For diseases with an purported global scale, ways of transmission that could not realistically be averted by most people, and visible symptoms, we surely can tell if a vaccination was successful. There always will be people that were not vaccinated and people where the vaccination statistically should not have worked (we know no vaccination would ever work 100%), and if they show symptoms, many of them will be recorded for sure.
What is hard to tell is really not whether a vaccination was useful in retrospective, but predicting in advance how deadly a disease is, and how much / how fast it will spread and how it will mutate.
Now, Y2K was was the same - it might have been a severe problem that was fixed in advance, or something that happened in some cases but was never observed on the outside. Sure, most programs were actually not affected in the first place, but as for the ones that actually were affected, we can expect companies to have been able to find and fix them. Usually, testing it would only require setting some clocks to a few seconds before 2000, after all. Add to this that companies would not be interested in announcing minor problems to the public, and international or even national news could care less about minor problems, and it should be obvious why this might be some problem you never heard about even when it existed or happened.
First realize this: It is still possible to make a copy of the whole thing that was encrypted. So, you could have a hundred copies of that OS running when you crack the password. It wouldn't matter much even if after four attempts the OS deleted the files that are relevant to getting access- there would still be copies.
However things are simpler, the OS itself isn't even required. An attacker usually can just copy the figurative lock on the box a lot of times and then let his horde of minions (PS3, in this case, since their cell cpu are better at this than other cpu) try to break that.
So if they used more PS3s they'd very likely be able to try as many more passwords.
Unlike in 1900, there's nuclear power, filters for fine dust coal particles, the possibility to more efficiently use wood and wind power, and more - even the fertilizers can be effectively replaced, including the inorganic ones, as there's no direct dependency on oil (neither on its byproduct natural gas, which is actually what's used - even inorganic fertilizer can and has been produced without it).
If there's a transition period rather than an immediate cut-off (and loosing Iraq does not equal a total loss of all oil sources), we can survive this change with only some years lost in economic growth. And that's only if the immense investments in "new" areas don't come with important break-throughs that actually boost the economy (thinking of fusion and fission here, and be it just the giant ball of fire in the sky).
The main problem is that for some reason plugs often fail to easily go into sockets. I don't know why. This is a problem I had exactly never in the UK but I frequently have to wiggle the plug around to make it go in.
This sounds like you most likely felt a design feature very frequently found in swiss sockets, a child-safety shutter. These protect against kids closing a circuit by inserting wire or such into the plug holes. They may be harder to operate than the UK ones - I don't know.
It is really the list of "the top influential Executives of the 2009", as is stated further down in the article.
No ESRB rating is needed. Do a test on the kids, rate the parents. If they're not able to calmly deal with the sort of interaction you might have online (people's bad side shows at times, but no real physical harm can be done) by the time they're about ten to twelve years old, consider putting them in a special social education class, or even a different home.
I suggest DVD-RAM as archival DVD media. Even the caseless variant tends to be sturdy. There's also plenty of drives out there that can read / write them. Other than that, a set of DVD (original + copy), or USB sticks should work, too. You could also add some parity files, to help ensure small errors can be recovered from (generate additiional par2 format files, for example).