Tech helps SOME of those exposed to it, not all. It's not a binary choice between computers and the other items on your list.
The elephant in the room is still local culture. The Third World is the way it is because of choices its humans make. Culture is what keeps people "backward", and technology can't cure all of that.
The best gradual remedy for backward culture is INFORMATION.
Computers are "subversive" because they help spread information. Don't give up on that if you really want change.
Usually, when such things happen it's due to an engine component coming apart then taking other components with it. Fans, compressors, and turbines spin at high rpm, and if a blade or worse the "wheel" it's mounted to fails the fragments can go sideways, downstream, or both.
The reported "pops" would be "compressor stalls" (backfires) caused by the damaged engines inability to "suck, squeeze, bang, and blow".
I'm a retired engine troop and F-16 crew chief. These things happen now and then. The Safety gurus even predict the yearly Mishap rates in advance, and they are quite good at it.
The people who consider it ineffective tend to consider it unethical and react emotionally. They IMO tend not to be interested in effective use of torture.
There are obviously cases where torture HAS been effective, for example when the Soviets captured "tongues" (Germans) to interrogate for battlefield intelligence. There of course was zero ethical or moral obligation whatsoever to Nazis who were literally trying to exterminate them, and the intelligence was often worthwhile.
If you simply consider torture "applied stress" and remove any emotional involvement, it is but a tool in the tool kit.
If you enemy is too valuable to torture, perhaps he is not your enemy. If your goal is so worthless that you cannot hurt your enemies to attain it, the calls the goal itself into question. Burning an enemy in combat with an incendiary or sending bullets and shrapnel through his body is somehow better than torture? Let's not kid ourselves...
It's near effortless to run Windows VMs, and I keep several Snapshots so I can revert if I wish.
The best way to run Windows apps on Linux is run Windows in a VM.
It's free, it's simple, it's more convenient in many ways than a conventional Windows install (just keep the install.isos and apps and updates in a folder on your PC).
Pull the drives, hand to government as possible evidence, done.
The predominant purpose of such services is hosting warez and pron. Anyone using them to store that which they haven't backed up is a fool and should have known better. There may be a technical protection under law but that doesn't negate stupidity.
EULAs should be changed to remove any obligation to do more than host. Storage is cheap. Those who refuse to back up their data deserve to get screwed.
There was once a company which sold tear gas projectors for home use. I've not been able to locate them, but an alternative would be as good.
Orange smoke grenades are freely available (though not the sort with pull rings and spoons, because their initiator is now Federally regulated!) and if fitted with an electric match (Google the term) could fill your house with orange smoke and chase off burglars.
I suggest orange because no normal fire produces orange smoke.
If it's not a government job (they own the law) I have no problem lying, cheating or deceiving anyone who would dare fuck with me.
They just erased any moral obligation to them by initiating unethical conduct, so all is fair in war.
Don't be a sheep. You don't owe any thing to any one who wants to invade your privacy except utter malice. They just freed you to fuck them, so do what amuses you for revenge.
Note that making two powertrain modules also requires "more energy", and if the thing is to meet crash standards in the US it will require a heavier and/or more expensive structure ("more energy").
There is no "free lunch". Now go remedy your technical ignorance instead of calling people names.
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If a fan or turbine wheel comes apart in one engine it can send fragments through the side of the engine and damage all sort of important bits nearby.
There are different kinds of engine failure, and some give no chance to shut the failed engine down before Bad Shit happens.
Tech helps SOME of those exposed to it, not all. It's not a binary choice between computers and the other items on your list.
The elephant in the room is still local culture. The Third World is the way it is because of choices its humans make. Culture is what keeps people "backward", and technology can't cure all of that.
The best gradual remedy for backward culture is INFORMATION.
Computers are "subversive" because they help spread information. Don't give up on that if you really want change.
That IS Funny.
Usually, when such things happen it's due to an engine component coming apart then taking other components with it. Fans, compressors, and turbines spin at high rpm, and if a blade or worse the "wheel" it's mounted to fails the fragments can go sideways, downstream, or both.
The reported "pops" would be "compressor stalls" (backfires) caused by the damaged engines inability to "suck, squeeze, bang, and blow".
I'm a retired engine troop and F-16 crew chief. These things happen now and then. The Safety gurus even predict the yearly Mishap rates in advance, and they are quite good at it.
Interesting.
Would disconnecting then spoofing a different MAC address work around that problem?
"You're right. We need to go back to the classic way of dealing with them. Capture them, convene Captain's Mast, try them, then execute them. "
Capture isn't a deterrent. If means are used which lawfully destroy their vessels which kill them on the spot, that precludes useless trials.
The Obama/Panetta method used to plink enemy troops such as Al-Awlaki is an efficient and economic way to interdict hostile operatives.
"What is the use of this until a far greater problem with the Somali pirates is solved?"
Great practice for engaging small boat flotillas, which are as old as naval history and can be quite dangerous.
It's no accident that many early researchers were gentlemen of means and leisure.
Find a way to wealth, then do what amuses you.
"IMHO, it is unethical and ineffective."
The people who consider it ineffective tend to consider it unethical and react emotionally. They IMO tend not to be interested in effective use of torture.
There are obviously cases where torture HAS been effective, for example when the Soviets captured "tongues" (Germans) to interrogate for battlefield intelligence. There of course was zero ethical or moral obligation whatsoever to Nazis who were literally trying to exterminate them, and the intelligence was often worthwhile.
If you simply consider torture "applied stress" and remove any emotional involvement, it is but a tool in the tool kit.
If you enemy is too valuable to torture, perhaps he is not your enemy.
If your goal is so worthless that you cannot hurt your enemies to attain it, the calls the goal itself into question. Burning an enemy in combat with an incendiary or sending bullets and shrapnel through his body is somehow better than torture? Let's not kid ourselves...
"As a basic standard any news reporter should clarify at a minimum the more eldritch terms."
Nowadays, "eldritch" IS eldritch.
"its often been said that most women are only 1 strawberry daquiri away from kissing another chick."
http://strawberrydaiquirirecipe.us/
It's near effortless to run Windows VMs, and I keep several Snapshots so I can revert if I wish.
The best way to run Windows apps on Linux is run Windows in a VM.
It's free, it's simple, it's more convenient in many ways than a conventional Windows install (just keep the install .isos and apps and updates in a folder on your PC).
"Having been married for plenty of years, I've concluded that pornography can actually quite harmful to some marriages if not most marriages."
In what specific ways and under what specific circumstances? How do you get "most marriages" without scientific sampling?
Pull the drives, hand to government as possible evidence, done.
The predominant purpose of such services is hosting warez and pron. Anyone using them to store that which they haven't backed up is a fool and should have known better. There may be a technical protection under law but that doesn't negate stupidity.
EULAs should be changed to remove any obligation to do more than host. Storage is cheap. Those who refuse to back up their data deserve to get screwed.
They might know something or have utilities for doing such things...
Oh....wait...
"What a bunch of morons. Every decision now seems to be driven by a philosophy of "Let's make Firefox worse!!"
They are making it for what they want. They give not a partial fuck about what you or I want.
There was once a company which sold tear gas projectors for home use.
I've not been able to locate them, but an alternative would be as good.
Orange smoke grenades are freely available (though not the sort with pull rings and spoons, because their initiator is now Federally regulated!) and if fitted with an electric match (Google the term) could fill your house with orange smoke and chase off burglars.
I suggest orange because no normal fire produces orange smoke.
If it's not a government job (they own the law) I have no problem lying, cheating or deceiving anyone who would dare fuck with me.
They just erased any moral obligation to them by initiating unethical conduct, so all is fair in war.
Don't be a sheep. You don't owe any thing to any one who wants to invade your privacy except utter malice. They just freed you to fuck them, so do what amuses you for revenge.
For example, can you say "BSA audit?".
"Mandatory car anology, Ferrari would be the biggest car maker, if they sold small cheap cars."
Mandatory relative analogy. If my Aunt had a penis, she'd be my Uncle.
Everything gets fatter, hairier, and closer to the ground....
"Two tigers, one cup?"
Note that making two powertrain modules also requires "more energy", and if the thing is to meet crash standards in the US it will require a heavier and/or more expensive structure ("more energy").
There is no "free lunch". Now go remedy your technical ignorance instead of calling people names.
That Pugeot is brilliant because it separates systems for ease of upgrade during production and ease of maintenance in the field.
Swapping would still be less convenient than carrying a generator, and without the generator range would be severely limited.
This is an overly complex solution to a simple problem. Until batteries improve, drive a PHEV.
How is that a Troll?
The backup advice was appropriate too.