Those ones were. The Childline survey has been quite throughly discredited: They hired a survey company that actually brags on their website about being able to generate whatever conclusion their customer requires, and the methodology was flawed in several serious ways.
I think that is the plan. 1. Demand self-regulation and age verification, knowing this is an impossible demand. 2. When very few sites adopt age verification, use this lack of action to justify intrusive government regulation. 3. National firewall to censor all the porn sites hosted overseas, along with anything else the governments wants gone.
The Daily Mail is one of the main driving forces behind this anti-porn campaign.
They don't like the competition.
Non-brit explanations: The 'Daily Wail' is a newspaper known for stiring up moral outrage, usually against 'benefit cheats' or immigrants. They have been running a campaign urging action be taken against internet pornography for some time. Their front page is usually filled with the latest gossip columns showing pictures of celebrities in bikinis that cover very little skin, and promises more more 'exclusive photos' at the article.
Bandwidth is going to be tight on a large-scale wireless network. I hope Google have some plans for a distributed caching system too, because they are going to need it if they want video distribution to work.
Go back further. Windows 95 had good reason for OSR2, and Windows 3.0 was pretty much unusable until 3.1.
Operating systems are major projects - usually the largest and most complicated piece of software on any computer. The first major version is always deeply flawed. The are just too big to get everything right first time.
Not quite, but it's close enough to provide the illusion that it does. The discrepancy is easily seen by holding a picture of the blue sky up to the actual blue sky. In a side-by-side comparison you can see that the color is only approximate.
I considered the academic path, but rejected it as too high-risk. Instead I went into IT support, where I knew I could be confident of always finding employment - albeit at low pay.
The plan worked: I'm now employed as an underpaid helpdesk-monkey, have had the same job for the best part of a decade, and could have it a decade still.
Humans are squishy and flexible. Computers are not good with this - the only way to even simulate soft-body physics is sheer computational brute force. It's nightmarishly complicated just trying to predict which shame a blob of liver is going to assume if you poke it in a certain place.
On Excel, scroll lock toggles the action of the arrow keys. With lock off, they move the selected cell one step at a time. With lock on, they move the view one page at a time. The second mode is useful if you work with truly huge spreadsheets.
There are a few such combinations. Win-P switches dual display mode. Win-D (Aka 'boss key' or 'teacher key') minimises all windows. A second use restores them.
This is more a preemptive measure. We used it on a larger scale to keep Nazi bombers away. It worked reasonably well - forced them to fly high, or risk hitting a cable and destroying their plane.
It would be easy enough to introduce anti-drone defenses. Nothing too fancy is needed: A simple net, thin as thread, strung from fencetop to poles or nearby buildings. Small drones bounce off, large ones get their blades entangled. Free drone!
This thing isn't going to get 1G. No known power source could provide enough power-to-weight ratio sustained, and even if one could the engine would melt in seconds. Forget even 0.1m/s/s, and think thrusts measured in milinewtons.
Bad example. Light does exert radiation pressure, yes - but it is far, far too weak to drive a radiometer. The spinning radiometer isn't due to radiation pressure. It's a more mundane effect: Imperfect vacuum. The black side is warmed more than the white, which heats up adjacent air, which exerts higher pressure, causing the spin. It's just a plain old heat engine.
That works. It just means that your software is sub-optimal - a competitor that pays the license fee can use more up-to-date techniques. It also requires constant legal vigilance - someone has to monitor any submitted code to make sure some programmer hasn't made use of a modern method without thought to the legal implications.
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And yet the situation is still better than in the US.
Those ones were. The Childline survey has been quite throughly discredited: They hired a survey company that actually brags on their website about being able to generate whatever conclusion their customer requires, and the methodology was flawed in several serious ways.
I think that is the plan.
1. Demand self-regulation and age verification, knowing this is an impossible demand.
2. When very few sites adopt age verification, use this lack of action to justify intrusive government regulation.
3. National firewall to censor all the porn sites hosted overseas, along with anything else the governments wants gone.
The Daily Mail is one of the main driving forces behind this anti-porn campaign.
They don't like the competition.
Non-brit explanations: The 'Daily Wail' is a newspaper known for stiring up moral outrage, usually against 'benefit cheats' or immigrants. They have been running a campaign urging action be taken against internet pornography for some time. Their front page is usually filled with the latest gossip columns showing pictures of celebrities in bikinis that cover very little skin, and promises more more 'exclusive photos' at the article.
Bandwidth is going to be tight on a large-scale wireless network. I hope Google have some plans for a distributed caching system too, because they are going to need it if they want video distribution to work.
Go back further. Windows 95 had good reason for OSR2, and Windows 3.0 was pretty much unusable until 3.1.
Operating systems are major projects - usually the largest and most complicated piece of software on any computer. The first major version is always deeply flawed. The are just too big to get everything right first time.
I have noticed the speckly too, but could not work out the mechanism behind it.
Not quite, but it's close enough to provide the illusion that it does. The discrepancy is easily seen by holding a picture of the blue sky up to the actual blue sky. In a side-by-side comparison you can see that the color is only approximate.
I considered the academic path, but rejected it as too high-risk. Instead I went into IT support, where I knew I could be confident of always finding employment - albeit at low pay.
The plan worked: I'm now employed as an underpaid helpdesk-monkey, have had the same job for the best part of a decade, and could have it a decade still.
Humans are squishy and flexible. Computers are not good with this - the only way to even simulate soft-body physics is sheer computational brute force. It's nightmarishly complicated just trying to predict which shame a blob of liver is going to assume if you poke it in a certain place.
Even worse were the keyboards that appeared for a brief time with 'sleep' and 'power off' keys.
I don't use Excel much, my memory was off.
No, the right-angle line.
But what if the user needs to type the weird bent line on the key beneath escape?
Slashdot won't accept it, as it has no ASCII character any more and some sites still don't get the UTF-8 thing.
With SSDs you can't even hear the drive going - that activity light is more important than ever!
On Excel, scroll lock toggles the action of the arrow keys. With lock off, they move the selected cell one step at a time. With lock on, they move the view one page at a time. The second mode is useful if you work with truly huge spreadsheets.
There are a few such combinations.
Win-P switches dual display mode.
Win-D (Aka 'boss key' or 'teacher key') minimises all windows. A second use restores them.
It's also known as the 'agh-bring-me-back-my-game-I-just-grabbed-the-flag!' key.
This is more a preemptive measure. We used it on a larger scale to keep Nazi bombers away. It worked reasonably well - forced them to fly high, or risk hitting a cable and destroying their plane.
"What we need is a net gun that will disable drones without endangering people."
What you need is some string and a bunch of balloons.
- A British Person.
"Do people have a right to shoot a home invader? Of course."
That actually varies by state. Not all consider trespass a crime worthy of execution
It would be easy enough to introduce anti-drone defenses. Nothing too fancy is needed: A simple net, thin as thread, strung from fencetop to poles or nearby buildings. Small drones bounce off, large ones get their blades entangled. Free drone!
This thing isn't going to get 1G. No known power source could provide enough power-to-weight ratio sustained, and even if one could the engine would melt in seconds. Forget even 0.1m/s/s, and think thrusts measured in milinewtons.
Bad example. Light does exert radiation pressure, yes - but it is far, far too weak to drive a radiometer. The spinning radiometer isn't due to radiation pressure. It's a more mundane effect: Imperfect vacuum. The black side is warmed more than the white, which heats up adjacent air, which exerts higher pressure, causing the spin. It's just a plain old heat engine.
That works. It just means that your software is sub-optimal - a competitor that pays the license fee can use more up-to-date techniques. It also requires constant legal vigilance - someone has to monitor any submitted code to make sure some programmer hasn't made use of a modern method without thought to the legal implications.