Given the abuse and buzz power that that word has seen in the last couple of years, I tend to treat anything that comes with 'terroris.+' in the subject with a grain of salt. Well, actually more than a grain: I start giving credit starting at the absolute bottom of the scale when that regex matches, and it usually doesn't get very far.
There is just too many people out there trying to make a living, if not easy money, out of scaring people and leveraging the politicians with that fear. Take a look at "The power of nightmares", a BBC documentary readily available on YouTube, about the latter.
Why isn't anybody commenting on the Intel side of this story? After all, they were the ones paying the bribes, or whatever you want to call that.
Having suffered from Intel's legal belligerence in the past, I know that they are pretty good at getting their will done. But, are not two parts required for this, er, illicit transaction to take place? What about the other? Doesn't Intel hold a position much more akin to a de facto monopoly in the PC and server markets than Dell? Isn't paying to keep the competition under sea level a pre-requisite for someone accepting to be paid for the same?
Intel is no longer the disruptingly innovative company it once (4004) was. It is a large evil behemoth for whom laws don't apply, they get their way every time and crush whoever they don't like. Nothing against large and going after you don't like; it's the evilness of their ways what I have a problem with. I'd be more than happy if the Governments looked at them more carefully, after they seem to have humbled Microsoft enough. Aren't those guys the largest part in the word "wintel"?
Why is it that whenever DNA analysis turns up in something other than a homicide case, it seems that most people automatically thinks privacy? Of course there can be privacy implications and of course these implications are important, but are those implications so negative to counter the benefits that could be obtained?
I, for one, would love to hear what they say about my saliva. Who knows, perhaps they would come up with something funny like I should have studied marketing or something.
Perhaps you will want to integrate lights and sensors for scenes (manual or automatic) and alarm system.
You need to find out which standard to use, as there are several out there.
Unless you are going for a wireless protocol like Zigbee, and even if you do, you can't have too many tubes going to windows (for opening sensors), radiators (if you use them, you want to control the hot water feed to them), the outside (temperature, light, humidity sensors at least), the middle of a wall on each room (or coach!) (temperature and movement sensors).
Finally, if you are going to integrate the alarm system with your home automation system, you will need to find a provider that will interface to your house.
Well, they are a part of the economy, but in the not-so-high times we are living now, even politicians can think of many better places to send the hard-earned cash of the average taxpayer. How many people does the gaming industry employ, and what is the status of the health of the average company? Compare that to the rest of the economy and you may well find the reason why they did that.
Sorry, I should have known better than to fall victim to the French propaganda machine in the region. I hasten to add that I say that with due respect for their work, not to start a flame.
I completely agree. Spain is investing quite a bit in Morocco lately, for it is very close geographically and the costs are quite low. Not as low as in China but again, it's easier to work with people who at least uses the same alphabet as you do. In Morocco they speak French but many people speak Spanish too. It seems that we will finally have the kind of mutually beneficial relationship with them as other countries have managed to have with their former colonies. We are only a century behind or so.
The driving cost in those kinds of activities, which is probably labor for the most part plus and a bit of machinery leasing, is way more inelastic (is that even a word?) than the cost of a software license. As everyone here knows, the cost of a software license is anything you want to put in the tag. Perhaps if GSA is useful for the things you quote, it'd also be fine for software development, but never for licensing.
The mentioned phone is a DECT unit. Very reliable at DC distances, sound is clear. It can talk to Bluetooth or 2.5 mm jack headsets. Whichever is used works fine as long as it is of good quality, which implies a good deal of background noise rejection among other things.
That provides you not only with a reasonable quality of speech in both directions, but also, just as important, with two free hands AND freedom to move around.
Talking from experience on a well-known (and as noisy as any) DC.
Not that previous posters don't have a point, but transparency in governments has to start somewhere. Far from perfect, late, and everything else, but at least it's a start.
Maybe it's time for all them rowdy pirates to move to Spain
I find it kind of a flamebait. In Spain we have a bad enough situation with everyone paying the "media tax" to a guild that is supposed but demonstrably not sharing it among musicians (more about that on previous posts). We don't deserve to be called pirate-friendlies like that.
We did have one succesful prosecution. The perpetrator was of legal age, but had no money. However, the damages caused (accepted by the Court) do not pay taxes, which in the end amounts to some serious money.
I should add that this case was one of emotional rage by the perpetrator against (largely imagined) previous offence by certain operators on his favorite IRC network. In this kind of cases, the perpetrator wants to be known. It's a whole different story is if the motivation is extortion.
Usually that would mean sending someone to have a look and see and perhaps sample the data. It's how they go about our IRS equivalent, social services, workplace safety, and about any situation where the Gov't needs to inspect something. TFA says originally Hamburg wanted about that - access to a hard drive and to a Street View car; note the singular. However, now they are talking about giving "the data", not about letting the authorities inspect it. Too fuzzy for my liking.
Funny, by the way, how Google wondered about the legality of having its data inspected by the data protection authority. "We screwed up" is the only adequate and honest thing for them to say after that. It's not without merit, because what other big company would?
What will those govt's (mine among them) do with that? Call me anything, but I'd prefer the data to be in Google's hands, where it will give something back, than in the hands of the Government. Especially if those misnamed "intelligency agencies" are to set their hands on them.
Sometimes they are not set with their radar but a driver is going way too fast for the situation and the fact is obvious to any observer. Cops in motorbikes without radar come to mind, for example. They should have a way to ticket that driver. The problem, obviously, is the gray area. How fast is too fast? Is too fast if they estimate the driver is 50% faster than the limit?
Perhaps a common sense solution to that kind of situation would be just to stop the driver. The mere fact of stopping someone is usually deterrent enough; I know I don't want to be stopped by the cops even if they don't give me a ticket. I wonder if that would work for the general case?
Where I live, the cops can ticket a driver for driving negligently. That should be enough to cover the "too fast but no hard evidence" case.
But even today's most powerful cellphones don't come with an integrated bench.
There is a Cray X-MP in Barcelona which was originally ordered, and still has, the colors of the local football team (red and blue). There is a photo in this presentation(pdf)
Saying that a magnitude which increases as technology evolves is ridiculous is bound to the era in which it is said. It is also bound to be quoted years for now, like the phrase famously (and, it seems, erroneously) attributed to Thomas J Watson, "I think there is a world market for about five computers".
I also found it hard to believe this one, too, but at least the Chicago system has a well-documented history. Here there is just a couple photos which clearly indicate very different tunnels, neither of which seems adequate for trains larger than G scale or so; also look at the comments in TFA.
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Given the abuse and buzz power that that word has seen in the last couple of years, I tend to treat anything that comes with 'terroris.+' in the subject with a grain of salt. Well, actually more than a grain: I start giving credit starting at the absolute bottom of the scale when that regex matches, and it usually doesn't get very far. There is just too many people out there trying to make a living, if not easy money, out of scaring people and leveraging the politicians with that fear. Take a look at "The power of nightmares", a BBC documentary readily available on YouTube, about the latter.
Why isn't anybody commenting on the Intel side of this story? After all, they were the ones paying the bribes, or whatever you want to call that.
Having suffered from Intel's legal belligerence in the past, I know that they are pretty good at getting their will done. But, are not two parts required for this, er, illicit transaction to take place? What about the other? Doesn't Intel hold a position much more akin to a de facto monopoly in the PC and server markets than Dell? Isn't paying to keep the competition under sea level a pre-requisite for someone accepting to be paid for the same?
Intel is no longer the disruptingly innovative company it once (4004) was. It is a large evil behemoth for whom laws don't apply, they get their way every time and crush whoever they don't like. Nothing against large and going after you don't like; it's the evilness of their ways what I have a problem with. I'd be more than happy if the Governments looked at them more carefully, after they seem to have humbled Microsoft enough. Aren't those guys the largest part in the word "wintel"?
Why is it that whenever DNA analysis turns up in something other than a homicide case, it seems that most people automatically thinks privacy? Of course there can be privacy implications and of course these implications are important, but are those implications so negative to counter the benefits that could be obtained?
I, for one, would love to hear what they say about my saliva. Who knows, perhaps they would come up with something funny like I should have studied marketing or something.
You need to find out which standard to use, as there are several out there.
Unless you are going for a wireless protocol like Zigbee, and even if you do, you can't have too many tubes going to windows (for opening sensors), radiators (if you use them, you want to control the hot water feed to them), the outside (temperature, light, humidity sensors at least), the middle of a wall on each room (or coach!) (temperature and movement sensors).
Finally, if you are going to integrate the alarm system with your home automation system, you will need to find a provider that will interface to your house.
...Has to use multiples of the currency unit to represent the price of the first units.
Well, they are a part of the economy, but in the not-so-high times we are living now, even politicians can think of many better places to send the hard-earned cash of the average taxpayer. How many people does the gaming industry employ, and what is the status of the health of the average company? Compare that to the rest of the economy and you may well find the reason why they did that.
Sorry, I should have known better than to fall victim to the French propaganda machine in the region. I hasten to add that I say that with due respect for their work, not to start a flame.
I completely agree. Spain is investing quite a bit in Morocco lately, for it is very close geographically and the costs are quite low. Not as low as in China but again, it's easier to work with people who at least uses the same alphabet as you do. In Morocco they speak French but many people speak Spanish too. It seems that we will finally have the kind of mutually beneficial relationship with them as other countries have managed to have with their former colonies. We are only a century behind or so.
The driving cost in those kinds of activities, which is probably labor for the most part plus and a bit of machinery leasing, is way more inelastic (is that even a word?) than the cost of a software license. As everyone here knows, the cost of a software license is anything you want to put in the tag. Perhaps if GSA is useful for the things you quote, it'd also be fine for software development, but never for licensing.
The mentioned phone is a DECT unit. Very reliable at DC distances, sound is clear. It can talk to Bluetooth or 2.5 mm jack headsets. Whichever is used works fine as long as it is of good quality, which implies a good deal of background noise rejection among other things.
That provides you not only with a reasonable quality of speech in both directions, but also, just as important, with two free hands AND freedom to move around.
Talking from experience on a well-known (and as noisy as any) DC.
Not that previous posters don't have a point, but transparency in governments has to start somewhere. Far from perfect, late, and everything else, but at least it's a start.
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Wonder what will happen to that poor server in just a couple of minutes? Will it beg for mercy? Resign and open a beach bar in the Caribbean?
Maybe it's time for all them rowdy pirates to move to Spain
I find it kind of a flamebait. In Spain we have a bad enough situation with everyone paying the "media tax" to a guild that is supposed but demonstrably not sharing it among musicians (more about that on previous posts). We don't deserve to be called pirate-friendlies like that.
...Unfortunately there will be a next time.
We did have one succesful prosecution. The perpetrator was of legal age, but had no money. However, the damages caused (accepted by the Court) do not pay taxes, which in the end amounts to some serious money.
I should add that this case was one of emotional rage by the perpetrator against (largely imagined) previous offence by certain operators on his favorite IRC network. In this kind of cases, the perpetrator wants to be known. It's a whole different story is if the motivation is extortion.
Which inductive sensors suck hard for cyclists.
Your bike sounds like a candydate for a neodymium magnet and a drop of cyanoacrylate
Usually that would mean sending someone to have a look and see and perhaps sample the data. It's how they go about our IRS equivalent, social services, workplace safety, and about any situation where the Gov't needs to inspect something. TFA says originally Hamburg wanted about that - access to a hard drive and to a Street View car; note the singular. However, now they are talking about giving "the data", not about letting the authorities inspect it. Too fuzzy for my liking.
Funny, by the way, how Google wondered about the legality of having its data inspected by the data protection authority. "We screwed up" is the only adequate and honest thing for them to say after that. It's not without merit, because what other big company would?
What will those govt's (mine among them) do with that? Call me anything, but I'd prefer the data to be in Google's hands, where it will give something back, than in the hands of the Government. Especially if those misnamed "intelligency agencies" are to set their hands on them.
Sometimes they are not set with their radar but a driver is going way too fast for the situation and the fact is obvious to any observer. Cops in motorbikes without radar come to mind, for example. They should have a way to ticket that driver. The problem, obviously, is the gray area. How fast is too fast? Is too fast if they estimate the driver is 50% faster than the limit?
Perhaps a common sense solution to that kind of situation would be just to stop the driver. The mere fact of stopping someone is usually deterrent enough; I know I don't want to be stopped by the cops even if they don't give me a ticket. I wonder if that would work for the general case?
Where I live, the cops can ticket a driver for driving negligently. That should be enough to cover the "too fast but no hard evidence" case.
Well, I just posted a story about Ballmer saying bad things about the iPad. Does that count?
But even today's most powerful cellphones don't come with an integrated bench.
There is a Cray X-MP in Barcelona which was originally ordered, and still has, the colors of the local football team (red and blue). There is a photo in this presentation(pdf)
parents in many other countries are way more interested in driving their kids or excel in social activities or in sports than in intellectual pursuits
Don't forget that spelling is very language-bound. In Spanish, for example, it is both way less useful and very easy to learn compared to English.
Saying that a magnitude which increases as technology evolves is ridiculous is bound to the era in which it is said. It is also bound to be quoted years for now, like the phrase famously (and, it seems, erroneously) attributed to Thomas J Watson, "I think there is a world market for about five computers".
I also found it hard to believe this one, too, but at least the Chicago system has a well-documented history. Here there is just a couple photos which clearly indicate very different tunnels, neither of which seems adequate for trains larger than G scale or so; also look at the comments in TFA.
My thought exactly!