Theres a difference here... those reports were about being practically impossible, not theoretically impossible, on the going below the atomic scale you're hitting the theoretically impossible(given current understandings) point along with the practically impossible. We've had the theory for atomic size transistors for quite a while, its the practical that really needs to catch up.
Personally theres always at least an extra 400 lbs of something in the back of my truck. I didn't buy a big gas guzzler but I did buy it to do work, however the rear end is as light as a feather even though its rear wheel drive and it slides out all the damned time, so I leave a few buckets of sand in the back right over the axle all the time. Its just as bad on dirt roads as on snow and over half the roads I use regularly are dirt roads so tis needed.
No, I really haven't. I tend not to pay much attention to things that are released more than 2 years after their original announced release date.
Though, I have to point out I didn't advocate terminating a project after 5 years of zero results(a la Itanium) just looking in additional directions and not keeping all the eggs in the questionable basket.
They're going to hit atomic scale transistors fairly soon from what I can see as well, the manufacturing process for those is probably prohibitively expensive but that is as small as they can go(according to our current knowledge of the universe at least).
I can't imagine Intel has all of its eggs in one basket on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography though. Something thats been in development for even 5 years and doesn't show any concrete signs of success should at least have alternatives developed for it. After 5 years if you still can't say for certain if its ever going to work, you definitely need to start looking in different directions.
I wish more people would realize how much of an idiot he is and just vote for **any** other choice. Right now we'd be better off with a figurehead Liberal or even *shudder* NDP leader.
Myself and a friend used to have a shitload of fun in this exact scenario. We did our own version of Co-Op mode, I was good with the shotgun, he was good with the MG, we'd swap back and forth as we ran out of bullets for our weapon of choice. Throwing the controller across the room in the middle of trying not to die added an awesomely fun level of excitement to the gameplay.
It reminds me of a story about a Canadian who refused to cooperate with the FBI and had the FBI officer argue with him until he was blue in the face that the man had to cooperate with them and it was illegal to do otherwise.
To be fair though the FBI can just put a request through proper channels and the RCMP can go get whatever they needed. It is illegal to be uncooperative with the RCMP in Canada. Its funny how often the FBI thinks they can just do whatever they want and bypass all of the regs though.
I like this idea, and it sounds like something I would do, but I would suggest a dead man switch... 6 months of no one logging in and the account gets deleted.
I can see obvious problems with that, as it would likely drastically reduce the facebook user numbers(I haven't logged into the facebook account I deleted(except since its facebook, its not actually deleted) for over a year) but I think something of the sort would be the only way to really deal with it, that or have the ability to approve other users to delete the account in case of death or some such.
Equally as dangerous I imagine is agreeing with you.
It may not be necessary to go through with a full governmental overthrow, but its damn well past time that those in power be reminded that it has happened in the past and can happen again.
The flaunting of purchased politicians with zero consequence to any involved party and very, very obvious overturning(as soon as its found out about) of anything that someone is trying to do that would be good for the people but bad for big corps is unacceptable. Change is needed, and if the system thats in place can't affect that change, then the system itself must change.
I should hope that a million or so people standing up in protest - repeatedly if necessary - would be able to change the system, if not then maybe we need more altruistic people, but someone thats not a neo-conservative loon needs to stand up and take action soon, for the multitude of/very good/ reasons for doing so, rather than the over publicized trumped up reasons.
The fact that people accused you of death threats and being a terrorist for just asking the question is a strong sign that the corruption has spread too far already. They should be dragging a good portion of their elected representatives off to the jail house, not you.
I believe the above suggestion, however immature and redundant it may seem, could actually lead to the "Year of Linux on the Desktop" finally happening.
Wrong, as someone else has mentioned, the charger will either take MORE space or require an available source of new electricity. IE a generator or a vehicle, or another battery and then comes the problem of actually having to leave the stupid thing plugged in. Soldiers on maneuver would not have those luxuries and being able to swap the battery becomes invaluable.
Also I have heard the opposite on the battery management... as I haven't done any testing myself, I withhold judgment on that front.
Huh, so the free market is the best and most self correcting, yet the economies that bear the most regulation are the ones that suffered the least damage and are recovering the fastest... (canada, china for just two examples, there are more) Either I'm missing something very important here or the Free Market ideology is mostly FUD.
I thought about it for a second after hitting the submit button and remembered that if they do decrypt it afterwards and find criminal material they can still prosecute as long as its for a new crime. At least in Canada. Don't know about anywhere else. The Civil suit would be history however.
As the other respondent said though, you'd likely be too dead to care by then.
The beauty of the situation is that it seems to me that the drive can be set up so that even if you wanted to you can't possibly retrieve the data, thus the statute would still apply.
As long as it can guaranteed stay encrypted out past the statute of limitations I think that it will be fine for legal/illegal purposes. AKA: Sure they're going to come up with better decryption methods and better supercomputer/cloud compute power but if in its current state it'll take big blue 1000 years to decrypt it, I think its safe to say its not going to be decrypt-able in any sort of time frame that would be relevant to anyone living today. 100 years of estimated big blue time to brute force it would even be sufficient for most things. I think statute for civil courts, though it varies from place to place, ranges anywhere from 5 years to 25 years.
I am also very interested in this. I've been using Opera as my browser of choice for over 6 months now and can't see myself switching back to anything else. I don't really use private browsing mode, but it would be nice to know how well it functions if I did need it.
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Yes, but those policies are not from the banks, whatever you may think. Those policies come from strict government oversight committees.
The advantage that Japan had on that score was that they weren't umpteen trillion in debt though...
14k is well below the poverty line? Someone should have told that to me when I was making 10k/year...
Theres a difference here... those reports were about being practically impossible, not theoretically impossible, on the going below the atomic scale you're hitting the theoretically impossible(given current understandings) point along with the practically impossible. We've had the theory for atomic size transistors for quite a while, its the practical that really needs to catch up.
Personally theres always at least an extra 400 lbs of something in the back of my truck. I didn't buy a big gas guzzler but I did buy it to do work, however the rear end is as light as a feather even though its rear wheel drive and it slides out all the damned time, so I leave a few buckets of sand in the back right over the axle all the time. Its just as bad on dirt roads as on snow and over half the roads I use regularly are dirt roads so tis needed.
No, I really haven't. I tend not to pay much attention to things that are released more than 2 years after their original announced release date.
Though, I have to point out I didn't advocate terminating a project after 5 years of zero results(a la Itanium) just looking in additional directions and not keeping all the eggs in the questionable basket.
A lot of people have asked for and received said trouble.
They're going to hit atomic scale transistors fairly soon from what I can see as well, the manufacturing process for those is probably prohibitively expensive but that is as small as they can go(according to our current knowledge of the universe at least).
I can't imagine Intel has all of its eggs in one basket on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography though. Something thats been in development for even 5 years and doesn't show any concrete signs of success should at least have alternatives developed for it. After 5 years if you still can't say for certain if its ever going to work, you definitely need to start looking in different directions.
Spongebob goes best with LSD silly!
Uhg, I know what you mean.
I wish more people would realize how much of an idiot he is and just vote for **any** other choice. Right now we'd be better off with a figurehead Liberal or even *shudder* NDP leader.
Myself and a friend used to have a shitload of fun in this exact scenario. We did our own version of Co-Op mode, I was good with the shotgun, he was good with the MG, we'd swap back and forth as we ran out of bullets for our weapon of choice. Throwing the controller across the room in the middle of trying not to die added an awesomely fun level of excitement to the gameplay.
I see a funny mod and wish I could mod you +10 insightful.
Its like no one talks about the glaring problems in the UIs from apple.
Its almost like someone was...
Hey, who are-
[Connection Lost]
or the guy that complains that he was so horny he had to take her home and get her another bucket of chicken on the way...
I believe the metaphor would fit more in the line of:
The looks matter less if the person is damned good at sex.
(I was going to say something else but my politically correct reflex kicked in :( it really ruins things sometimes)
I just wish this guy had another ISP opened. I would like to get my Internet connection from him, AKA someone with scruples.
Ah, I wish I still had mod points.
It reminds me of a story about a Canadian who refused to cooperate with the FBI and had the FBI officer argue with him until he was blue in the face that the man had to cooperate with them and it was illegal to do otherwise.
To be fair though the FBI can just put a request through proper channels and the RCMP can go get whatever they needed. It is illegal to be uncooperative with the RCMP in Canada. Its funny how often the FBI thinks they can just do whatever they want and bypass all of the regs though.
I like this idea, and it sounds like something I would do, but I would suggest a dead man switch... 6 months of no one logging in and the account gets deleted.
I can see obvious problems with that, as it would likely drastically reduce the facebook user numbers(I haven't logged into the facebook account I deleted(except since its facebook, its not actually deleted) for over a year) but I think something of the sort would be the only way to really deal with it, that or have the ability to approve other users to delete the account in case of death or some such.
Equally as dangerous I imagine is agreeing with you.
It may not be necessary to go through with a full governmental overthrow, but its damn well past time that those in power be reminded that it has happened in the past and can happen again.
The flaunting of purchased politicians with zero consequence to any involved party and very, very obvious overturning(as soon as its found out about) of anything that someone is trying to do that would be good for the people but bad for big corps is unacceptable. Change is needed, and if the system thats in place can't affect that change, then the system itself must change.
I should hope that a million or so people standing up in protest - repeatedly if necessary - would be able to change the system, if not then maybe we need more altruistic people, but someone thats not a neo-conservative loon needs to stand up and take action soon, for the multitude of /very good/ reasons for doing so, rather than the over publicized trumped up reasons.
The fact that people accused you of death threats and being a terrorist for just asking the question is a strong sign that the corruption has spread too far already. They should be dragging a good portion of their elected representatives off to the jail house, not you.
I believe the above suggestion, however immature and redundant it may seem, could actually lead to the "Year of Linux on the Desktop" finally happening.
Wrong, as someone else has mentioned, the charger will either take MORE space or require an available source of new electricity. IE a generator or a vehicle, or another battery and then comes the problem of actually having to leave the stupid thing plugged in. Soldiers on maneuver would not have those luxuries and being able to swap the battery becomes invaluable.
Also I have heard the opposite on the battery management... as I haven't done any testing myself, I withhold judgment on that front.
Huh, so the free market is the best and most self correcting, yet the economies that bear the most regulation are the ones that suffered the least damage and are recovering the fastest... (canada, china for just two examples, there are more) Either I'm missing something very important here or the Free Market ideology is mostly FUD.
I thought about it for a second after hitting the submit button and remembered that if they do decrypt it afterwards and find criminal material they can still prosecute as long as its for a new crime. At least in Canada. Don't know about anywhere else. The Civil suit would be history however.
As the other respondent said though, you'd likely be too dead to care by then.
The beauty of the situation is that it seems to me that the drive can be set up so that even if you wanted to you can't possibly retrieve the data, thus the statute would still apply.
As long as it can guaranteed stay encrypted out past the statute of limitations I think that it will be fine for legal/illegal purposes. AKA: Sure they're going to come up with better decryption methods and better supercomputer/cloud compute power but if in its current state it'll take big blue 1000 years to decrypt it, I think its safe to say its not going to be decrypt-able in any sort of time frame that would be relevant to anyone living today. 100 years of estimated big blue time to brute force it would even be sufficient for most things. I think statute for civil courts, though it varies from place to place, ranges anywhere from 5 years to 25 years.
Raid 1+0 here. When you gotta have it, you gotta have it. Access delays not allowed.
I am also very interested in this. I've been using Opera as my browser of choice for over 6 months now and can't see myself switching back to anything else. I don't really use private browsing mode, but it would be nice to know how well it functions if I did need it.