The point is no records are kept. It does not matter how much the Secret Service jump up and down and shout, there is no record for them to find. The best they can hope for is that a CCTV camera is pointed at the library entrance and a member of staff can give a reliable description of who used a particular computer at a particular time. They might be able to track you down from that but it would be a tall order. They might also be able to employ DNA and fingerprint evidence to narrow it down a bit as well, but with such a contaminated "scene of crime" and a bit of a disguise you can throw them off the track.
You are making the assumption that the only cost is the direct cost of the extra energy, and missing all the indirect costs that we currently don't pay for, namely the polution.
There is no need for a TV when in standby mode to draw more than a few milliwatts of power. It would be trivial to change the design so that they did and the extra component cost would be no more than a dollar. Yet typically a TV draws 100 times this in standby mode.
All that said personally I would go after the SMPS in computers, and mandate that they where say 80% efficient. Would save far more power if you ask me.
Not hard, try any machine out the Dell Optiplex range for example. Admittedly designed for business use where a site license for anti-virus software is likely to exist, but easy enough to do.
However even when they do ship with anti-virus sofware say like a Toshiba Tecra laptop that arrived today. Plugged into my firewalled and NAT private lan, run Windows update only for a whole pile of critical updates some of which have exploits in the wild needed installing.
What is missed in this discussion is that it is perfectly legal to violate the patent. Under WTO rules any goverment has the the right to issue a "compuslory license" permitting it's own companies to make any drug that is need to safeguard public health.
The basic problem is that Roche cannot make enough Tamiflu. They will not be able to forfill the orders placed by rich countries till 2007. While Roche resisted it has been forced by even these rich western goverments to license the drug to other manufactures to make.
With a bird flu pandemic threating to kill anywhere between 50,000 and 750,000 in the UK alone depending on how deadly any human to human transmitable version is have adequate stockpiles of drugs that can lower the death toll is a matter of safeguarding public health
Welcome to the new world where effective perpetual copyright exists for all popular works through the instrument of Trademarks. I realized this a couple of years ago myself.
I also suggest going to Google Print and doing a search on the term "Elizabeth Bennet". Now Jane Austin died in 1817, so this book has been out of copyright for well over 100 years. However the first version of the novel that Google Print throws up published by Penguin no less requires one to sign on to see the text. I can accept this for the commentry at the start of the book, but for the text of the novel itself!!!
Except, it is much more complicated as there is no legal "UK" jurisdiction. There is "England & Wales" and "Scotland". Where Northern Ireland fits in is another question, and some laws in Wales are now different as well, just to futher complicate matters.
So as this case has almost certainly been filed in an English court, it probably does not apply in Scotland. Happens all the time that some one gets an injunction against newspapers in England from printing some story, only to find one of the Scotish papers prints it anyway.
Well you could always back it up with a 1km course world wide digital terrain model and tie it into the GPS readout. You could make the DTM finer but I doubt it would be much use for this sort of emergency system. That is to avoid smashing the plane into the ground during a computer controlled emergency descent triggered by depressurization.
You could also tie it into the collision avoidance/warning system (the one that the pilot of that Russian plane ignored and hit a cargo plane over Switzerland a couple years back), so that you could halt the descent temporarily if another plane came in range.
At a guess the companies have signed legally binding contracts with Apple agreeing all the terms by which Apple can sell music through iTMS. I somehow doubt Apple would sell songs without such a contract in place. Thing is now iTMS is a sucess the music companies would appear to be trying to renegociate these contracts to take a bigger slice of the cake. Problem is you cannot just demand the otherside renegociate an existing contract.
What's all this about going to a store to buy a CD? There is this thing called internet shopping you know. A few clicks of the mouse, enter your credit card details, and the CD arrives in the post shortly there afterwards.
And which bit of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1998, and the numerious amending Acts and Statutory Instruments gives you this idea? As far as I can tell it all counts as unauthorised copies of a copyright work, and is illegal.
Except proper grammer is rarely taught in schools these days. Then there is the issue of people with specific learning difficulties for whome this is not just a simple case of learning it.
A *good* grammer checker is a useful tool, that with application will not only improved the quality of a particular piece of text, but over time will improve the standard of your grammer.
The problem is that the grammer checker that most people are exposed to (the one in Microsoft Word) is rubbish. The one in WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows ten years ago was miles better than the one in Word 2003 to the point where it was a useful product.
Wrong XFS beat JFS out the door by a couple of months. However JFS beat XFS into the kernel. I know I spent several years patching my kernels to use XFS. Of all the Linux filesystems only XFS supports filesystem freezes, so it is the one that I continue to use. You cannot beat 1 second backup windows:)
Depends on how you build your houses. If you build them out of match wood they will blow down when a strong wind comes. The teach this a nursery level (hint The Three Little Pigs). If on the otherhand you design them to withstand 200mph winds use materials like reinforced concrete in the construction, have roofs without gable ends, put your power and other cables under ground etc. then the impact of any storm is going to be largely mitigated.
Not only that the high tax insulates us from changes in price due to crude oil price changes. This is a *very* good thing. The problem with fuel prices is not the absolute level as economies structually adjust to these, but rapid increases.
The effect of high taxes means that while crude oil prices might double, prices at the pump have only gone up by about 10%. In the U.S. with low taxes the prices have skyrocketed which will have a much bigger economic impact.
Even better the goverment also has the option of lowering fuel taxes to reduce the impact of the prices rises if it becomes a problem.
Except it is not high fuel prices that cause recesions. For example U.K. fuel prices are much higher than those in the U.S. yet in terms of growth over the last five years the U.K. economy has easily outstripped the U.S. The reality is that economies structually adjust to high fuel prices. The problem is rapid hikes in the price.
That said I have no sympathy whatsoever for Americans and the cost of fuel. If the cars that Americans drove had the same average fuel consumption as those in Europe they would more than meet their Kyoto target tomorrow.
Why on earth should lots of machines be able to send email from inside a corporation? Surely some smarthosts and block port 25 at the border routers is the way to go. Then a check of the logs can give you clues as to which machines are compromised.
The MDI is a hack that dates back to the days before Windows 3.0 Back in those dark days there was a technical limitation in Windows that allowed each application to have only one top level window. So if you wanted to open more than one Word document for example, you would have needed to open several copies of Word. The result was that Microsoft invented the MDI to get around the technical limitation and sold it as a feature.
Then a mear ten years after the limitation in Windows was lifted, even Microsoft abandoned the MDI in Office 2000.
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The point is no records are kept. It does not matter how much the Secret Service jump up and down and shout, there is no record for them to find. The best they can hope for is that a CCTV camera is pointed at the library entrance and a member of staff can give a reliable description of who used a particular computer at a particular time. They might be able to track you down from that but it would be a tall order. They might also be able to employ DNA and fingerprint evidence to narrow it down a bit as well, but with such a contaminated "scene of crime" and a bit of a disguise you can throw them off the track.
Fuuny I thought the definition of rape was that one of the parties was not consenting.
You are making the assumption that the only cost is the direct cost of the extra energy, and missing all the indirect costs that we currently don't pay for, namely the polution.
There is no need for a TV when in standby mode to draw more than a few milliwatts of power. It would be trivial to change the design so that they did and the extra component cost would be no more than a dollar. Yet typically a TV draws 100 times this in standby mode.
All that said personally I would go after the SMPS in computers, and mandate that they where say 80% efficient. Would save far more power if you ask me.
Not hard, try any machine out the Dell Optiplex range for example. Admittedly designed for business use where a site license for anti-virus software is likely to exist, but easy enough to do.
However even when they do ship with anti-virus sofware say like a Toshiba Tecra laptop that arrived today. Plugged into my firewalled and NAT private lan, run Windows update only for a whole pile of critical updates some of which have exploits in the wild needed installing.
There are such things a 10GbE cards and switches you know. As you are using ATA drives I would go with AoE and save a shead load of CPU power to boot.
What is missed in this discussion is that it is perfectly legal to violate the patent. Under WTO rules any goverment has the the right to issue a "compuslory license" permitting it's own companies to make any drug that is need to safeguard public health.
The basic problem is that Roche cannot make enough Tamiflu. They will not be able to forfill the orders placed by rich countries till 2007. While Roche resisted it has been forced by even these rich western goverments to license the drug to other manufactures to make.
With a bird flu pandemic threating to kill anywhere between 50,000 and 750,000 in the UK alone depending on how deadly any human to human transmitable version is have adequate stockpiles of drugs that can lower the death toll is a matter of safeguarding public health
Welcome to the new world where effective perpetual copyright exists for all popular works through the instrument of Trademarks. I realized this a couple of years ago myself.
I also suggest going to Google Print and doing a search on the term "Elizabeth Bennet". Now Jane Austin died in 1817, so this book has been out of copyright for well over 100 years. However the first version of the novel that Google Print throws up published by Penguin no less requires one to sign on to see the text. I can accept this for the commentry at the start of the book, but for the text of the novel itself!!!
Except, it is much more complicated as there is no legal "UK" jurisdiction. There is "England & Wales" and "Scotland". Where Northern Ireland fits in is another question, and some laws in Wales are now different as well, just to futher complicate matters.
So as this case has almost certainly been filed in an English court, it probably does not apply in Scotland. Happens all the time that some one gets an injunction against newspapers in England from printing some story, only to find one of the Scotish papers prints it anyway.
Sound just what Apple need to make some scratch resistant screens for the iPod Nano :)
Scientific papers are not exactly simple documents are they.
Perhaps, but snapshots work best when you can do filesystem freezes, such as XFS supports.
As CRT's are weak generators of soft X-Rays...
Well you could always back it up with a 1km course world wide digital terrain model and tie it into the GPS readout. You could make the DTM finer but I doubt it would be much use for this sort of emergency system. That is to avoid smashing the plane into the ground during a computer controlled emergency descent triggered by depressurization.
You could also tie it into the collision avoidance/warning system (the one that the pilot of that Russian plane ignored and hit a cargo plane over Switzerland a couple years back), so that you could halt the descent temporarily if another plane came in range.
At a guess the companies have signed legally binding contracts with Apple agreeing all the terms by which Apple can sell music through iTMS. I somehow doubt Apple would sell songs without such a contract in place. Thing is now iTMS is a sucess the music companies would appear to be trying to renegociate these contracts to take a bigger slice of the cake. Problem is you cannot just demand the otherside renegociate an existing contract.
That depends, there are many types of profit :) The simplest being gross profit which does not take into account all these overheads you suggest.
What's all this about going to a store to buy a CD? There is this thing called internet shopping you know. A few clicks of the mouse, enter your credit card details, and the CD arrives in the post shortly there afterwards.
And which bit of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1998, and the numerious amending Acts and Statutory Instruments gives you this idea? As far as I can tell it all counts as unauthorised copies of a copyright work, and is illegal.
Except proper grammer is rarely taught in schools these days. Then there is the issue of people with specific learning difficulties for whome this is not just a simple case of learning it.
A *good* grammer checker is a useful tool, that with application will not only improved the quality of a particular piece of text, but over time will improve the standard of your grammer.
The problem is that the grammer checker that most people are exposed to (the one in Microsoft Word) is rubbish. The one in WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows ten years ago was miles better than the one in Word 2003 to the point where it was a useful product.
Wrong XFS beat JFS out the door by a couple of months. However JFS beat XFS into the kernel. I know I spent several years patching my kernels to use XFS. Of all the Linux filesystems only XFS supports filesystem freezes, so it is the one that I continue to use. You cannot beat 1 second backup windows :)
Depends on how you build your houses. If you build them out of match wood they will blow down when a strong wind comes. The teach this a nursery level (hint The Three Little Pigs). If on the otherhand you design them to withstand 200mph winds use materials like reinforced concrete in the construction, have roofs without gable ends, put your power and other cables under ground etc. then the impact of any storm is going to be largely mitigated.
Rubbish anyone using it to listen to an audiobook or other spoken word stuff wants gapless playback.
Not only that the high tax insulates us from changes in price due to crude oil price changes. This is a *very* good thing. The problem with fuel prices is not the absolute level as economies structually adjust to these, but rapid increases.
The effect of high taxes means that while crude oil prices might double, prices at the pump have only gone up by about 10%. In the U.S. with low taxes the prices have skyrocketed which will have a much bigger economic impact.
Even better the goverment also has the option of lowering fuel taxes to reduce the impact of the prices rises if it becomes a problem.
Except it is not high fuel prices that cause recesions. For example U.K. fuel prices are much higher than those in the U.S. yet in terms of growth over the last five years the U.K. economy has easily outstripped the U.S. The reality is that economies structually adjust to high fuel prices. The problem is rapid hikes in the price.
That said I have no sympathy whatsoever for Americans and the cost of fuel. If the cars that Americans drove had the same average fuel consumption as those in Europe they would more than meet their Kyoto target tomorrow.
Why on earth should lots of machines be able to send email from inside a corporation? Surely some smarthosts and block port 25 at the border routers is the way to go. Then a check of the logs can give you clues as to which machines are compromised.
The MDI is a hack that dates back to the days before Windows 3.0 Back in those dark days there was a technical limitation in Windows that allowed each application to have only one top level window. So if you wanted to open more than one Word document for example, you would have needed to open several copies of Word. The result was that Microsoft invented the MDI to get around the technical limitation and sold it as a feature.
Then a mear ten years after the limitation in Windows was lifted, even Microsoft abandoned the MDI in Office 2000.