Any foot soldiers trying to walk across the border would be destroyed by air support. When it comes to stopping advances and toppling a government, foot soldiers aren't really relevant.
That being said, NK doesn't even need nukes to threaten South Korea. The thousands of artillery emplacements in range of Seoul are all that are needed to destroy the city.
NK wants the nukes to fend off the US, not South Korea.
There are already science programs for the US public and they tend to have a lot of depth. In fact, many are repackaged with different narrators and presented to foreign audiences - even the UK.
Of course, it works the other way around as well - David Attenborough's nature documentaries repackaged with an American narrator and are very popular in the US.
Editing too loose will lose even more viewers as it comes across as slow and self-indulgent e.g. any Judd Apatow movie.
I like Brian Cox but he has the tendency to do the same thing. Many times by the time he gets to the point, the viewer has been lost trying to wade through metaphors.
The system that is being requested would not be reliant on the SIM card for bricking.
From what I've read, the market for stolen phones is an organized black market - thief drops the stolen off at a fence and gets paid. If the phones are able to be bricked by IMEI regardless of the SIM card then value that the fence is going to offer is going to drop to essentially nothing.
The government doesn't need this law to do that so there is no conspiracy here.
The only thing that is going on is that cities are seeing a spike in muggings due to smartphones and they're trying to find a way to make a stolen phone worthless.
The US is pushing for a more permanent bricking that cannot be gotten around by simply replacing the SIM card or sending the phone overseas. This is the only method that will actually discourage robberies and theft.
While the Australian method is good intentioned, it doesn't discourage theft.
Consumer protection advocates have asked for the same thing - this is not some sort of big brother initiative. You really think that a better idea is to let victims shoot into a crowd in the hopes that the he hits the thief?
The carriers and manufacturers have drug their feet on implementing a customer activated kill switch because thefts of smartphones don't hurt them and could even help their bottom line.
Could you elaborate on this? IIRC, if a player buzzes in and gets the question wrong, he loses points and the other contestants still get another chance to answer.
Don't think this is very good advice at all. Why take on such a huge risk when the chance for reward is so small?
This guy can easily do long term damage to his career. Some projects just aren't fixable unless without total rewrites. The company obviously feels that the application is just fine and just needs a few minor enhancements here and there, so they would expect a rewrite on the OP's own time.
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Sheer numbers wouldn't even get past the DMZ.
Million man armies are useless for conquering anything that has air superiority.
Any foot soldiers trying to walk across the border would be destroyed by air support. When it comes to stopping advances and toppling a government, foot soldiers aren't really relevant.
That being said, NK doesn't even need nukes to threaten South Korea. The thousands of artillery emplacements in range of Seoul are all that are needed to destroy the city.
NK wants the nukes to fend off the US, not South Korea.
Why are you assuming they died? Those populations may have just moved to a more habitable area.
Why shouldn't prisoners be allowed to vote? Unless a person's citizenship is stripped, they should always retain the right to vote.
To be clear, I'm aware that the US has the same laws, but I've always felt them antithetical to a free and democratic society.
This is especially true in a world where no citizen can be aware of all of the laws and in many cases the laws actually conflict.
There are already science programs for the US public and they tend to have a lot of depth. In fact, many are repackaged with different narrators and presented to foreign audiences - even the UK.
Of course, it works the other way around as well - David Attenborough's nature documentaries repackaged with an American narrator and are very popular in the US.
Editing too loose will lose even more viewers as it comes across as slow and self-indulgent e.g. any Judd Apatow movie.
I like Brian Cox but he has the tendency to do the same thing. Many times by the time he gets to the point, the viewer has been lost trying to wade through metaphors.
I like Brian Cox, but he comes across as melodramatic. A point that could be made in an interesting manner in 20 seconds takes Cox at least 5 minutes.
Even worse is "do you believe that evolution is just a theory".
The system that is being requested would not be reliant on the SIM card for bricking.
From what I've read, the market for stolen phones is an organized black market - thief drops the stolen off at a fence and gets paid. If the phones are able to be bricked by IMEI regardless of the SIM card then value that the fence is going to offer is going to drop to essentially nothing.
The government doesn't need this law to do that so there is no conspiracy here.
The only thing that is going on is that cities are seeing a spike in muggings due to smartphones and they're trying to find a way to make a stolen phone worthless.
That system doesn't work because there are too many carriers around the world that don't honor the IMEI blacklist.
Both the Interstate Commerce clause and the General Welfare clause could be used.
I don't want to argue about whether it would be the right thing to do, I'm just saying that those are the clauses that could be invoked.
Even if the phone is tracked and located, law enforcement doesn't care unless it involves a hot girl or someone politically connected.
The US is pushing for a more permanent bricking that cannot be gotten around by simply replacing the SIM card or sending the phone overseas. This is the only method that will actually discourage robberies and theft.
While the Australian method is good intentioned, it doesn't discourage theft.
Consumer protection advocates have asked for the same thing - this is not some sort of big brother initiative. You really think that a better idea is to let victims shoot into a crowd in the hopes that the he hits the thief?
The carriers and manufacturers have drug their feet on implementing a customer activated kill switch because thefts of smartphones don't hurt them and could even help their bottom line.
But there is no public safety or public health argument here. It is strictly a matter of convenience.
Sure there is. Smartphone robberies are spiking crime rates. If thieves were aware that a stolen phone was useless then the crimes should go down.
Isn't the Russian government responsible for athlete accommodations?
Who made that list though?
The everyday need to divide something into fifths is less common than into thirds or fourths.
Could you elaborate on this? IIRC, if a player buzzes in and gets the question wrong, he loses points and the other contestants still get another chance to answer.
He's a contractor, why does he care if the original designer gets the credit?
Because the company could consider the contractor liable for any issues found in the application.
If something goes wrong, the company would likely expect the OP to fix the issues on his dime - whether he was responsible or not.
The overriding lesson is that a contractor should never touch the code of a project like this.
This project could easily damage the OPs career. Why take such a risk on a fool's errand?
Being "professional" doesn't mean that a person should take on fool's errands.
Don't think this is very good advice at all. Why take on such a huge risk when the chance for reward is so small?
This guy can easily do long term damage to his career. Some projects just aren't fixable unless without total rewrites. The company obviously feels that the application is just fine and just needs a few minor enhancements here and there, so they would expect a rewrite on the OP's own time.