Not just a stunt: It also let him find out how much the US wanted him by testing their willingness to take extreme action. If they are going to risk a major diplomatic incident, then it means he has very good reason to be paranoid and should start assuming every stranger he sees is potentially a CIA deniable assassin.
"If I had intended to defraud the lottery, do you think I could have been so idiotic as to buy the ticket myself? If I were guilty, I wouldn't have been caught."
Skipping the pre processing may give horrible vision quality, but if the retina has lost all light sensitivity than horrible vision is still a step up from no vision at all.
The big difference is manufacturer support. You can guarantee Windows is supported by every manufacturer - you don't even have to check, it's a given. Linux has a smaller presence, especially on the desktop. Small enough that manufacturers may or may not support it, and even if they do support it their drivers may be less refined.
I keep my backups offsite - at the house of a relative. I don't worry about security because I keep it encrypted, and I know enough about how to apply cryptography to be sure no-one is decrypting this without the passphrase - of which only one copy exists, memorised.
They fell for a number of reasons - any one of which they could have shrugged off, but they all came at once. Rebellions from inside, invasions from the east, loyalty to the empire strained by imposed religious reformation to some strange new monotheistic cult and economic struggles as an empire built on constant expansion ran out of new land to invade for tribute - and then all that during a succession crisis which left the empire fragmented and unable to muster up a unified response. There's no one factor that lead to the collapse, and the collapse itsself was a slow process - you can't find a single year and declare the empire ceased to exist here.
"Advanced web crawling and scraping technologies, with a dose of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, with the goal of being able to retrieve virtually any content on the Internet in an automated way."
Congratulations: You have invented the search engine. While there is certainly much room for improving search engine technology, the ideas described in the article do not impress me. Perhaps all the really good stuff is classified.
At this point, the only real option is to assume that all traffic on the public internet is being monitored by at least one government, if not more. Good reason to use encryption - and don't store anything confidential unencrypted on a computer you have not got physical control over.
I use the UK to annoy the US. We had a shorter copyright term for music here (Recently extended, so nothing more expiring for twenty years) than in the US, so I put up a big collection of public-domain-in-the-UK music. Hosted in the UK, by a UK company, serving a UK citizen. I've not recieved any legal threats yet.
I put up some adverts just to see what sort of money it would make. Not a lot: In the year or so it's been up, I made about three quid.
The acre-foot may seem an odd unit, but it makes calculations much simpler when you have to work with either catchment or agriculture. It's much like the use of kilowatt-hours in the electrical industry: A unit of convenience.
It'd be more convenient still if they went to hectare-meters, then the engineering and policy sides wouldn't have to convert units every time they spoke.
We've got the hubble expansion and cosmic background. Both of which point strongly towards an expanding universe with a point-like origin. Cosmologists hotly debate a lot of the details, but their agreement on the fundamentals is near-unanimous.
That's not far from the situation in UK politics: The big three parties are all pledging to increase public spending in some highly popular areas, and all openly admit that this means higher taxes. They all propose to handle this by restructuring tax in order to make it more progressive: Rich-bashing is very popular here right now, and everyone is eager to vote for any politician who promises an end to tax-dodging millionaires and megacorps. The numbers don't really support this approach - there just aren't enough super-rich people in the country - but numbers rarely feature in politics.
Used to, years ago. But not since the transition to SATA. All SATA drives are hot-pluggable, though most consumer controllers don't support it easily. In a modern system, the drives are basically dumb stores: All the intelligence is in the controller or software.
The difference between regular drives and 'enterprise' drives is a lot less than it used to be. Enterprise drives have a higher claimed MTBF, a better warranty cover (So you'll believe the MTBF) and usually come in smaller capacities (The cost of reliability). They may also use SAS rather than SATA as the interface, which has a few advantages - like being able to connect a huge number of drives (2^16 - 2, IIRC) up to a single controller channel, very nice when you want a 48-drive rackmount unit that you can interface without having twelve data cables plugged into the back. Single drive reliability really mattered back in the day when RAID5 was considered sophisticated, but modern storage management is a lot better able to deal with single- and multi-drive failures - which means you can easily achieve the same end result at a considerably lower cost by using plain consumer drives. They are very nearly as reliable as enterpise drives, and the difference is too small to justify the extra cost.
Remember that the directional arrow needs to point towards the storage controller for most applications. You only point it towards the drive for a predominantly write-only application, like a backup store.
Even enterprises are using a lot of SATA drives now. The super-fast-and-reliable niche that used to belong to enterprise drives has gone to flash. It's usually cheaper to use consumer drives and some better software to manage the inevitable failure than to use enterprise drives.
That leads to escalation. They attack us, we attack them, they attack us - and ordinary internet users get caught in the middle, unable to access their precious porn and lolcats because half the internet is swamped.
It's hard to say with NK. They don't have the military capacity to take on the world, and they know it - but they do need an effective deterrant, and you can only have an effective deterrant if the world believes you are crazy enough to use it.
I could make a similar criticism of the libertarians: Whenever some minimal level of regulation proves ineffective, they don't ask what can be done to fix the regulation: They just declare that this shows no regulation can be justified and call for repeal.
That's how DSL service works in the UK. BT runs all the phone lines, but they don't run the internet service on top: You can choose from many ISPs, including another division of BT.
Our cable service works much like the US though: Following a series of mergers, there's only one cable service left in the entire coutry, Virgin Media. They do offer a pretty good service though, at least for now.
Small startups are already facing a near-insurmountable barrier: Internet access is a natural monopoly. There's a huge build-out fee to enter an area - digging up roads and laying cables. There's no way to economically do so when competing against an incumbant too.
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Not just a stunt: It also let him find out how much the US wanted him by testing their willingness to take extreme action. If they are going to risk a major diplomatic incident, then it means he has very good reason to be paranoid and should start assuming every stranger he sees is potentially a CIA deniable assassin.
"If I had intended to defraud the lottery, do you think I could have been so idiotic as to buy the ticket myself? If I were guilty, I wouldn't have been caught."
Skipping the pre processing may give horrible vision quality, but if the retina has lost all light sensitivity than horrible vision is still a step up from no vision at all.
The big difference is manufacturer support. You can guarantee Windows is supported by every manufacturer - you don't even have to check, it's a given. Linux has a smaller presence, especially on the desktop. Small enough that manufacturers may or may not support it, and even if they do support it their drivers may be less refined.
I keep my backups offsite - at the house of a relative. I don't worry about security because I keep it encrypted, and I know enough about how to apply cryptography to be sure no-one is decrypting this without the passphrase - of which only one copy exists, memorised.
Many birds have four color receptors. Some have five.
Mammal eyes suck. Primates have about the best color perception of all mammals, and even the best is still pretty poor by bird standards.
Or maybe they already have ways into just about everything, and this doomed request is just to create the false impression they need it?
Open source projects are very geographically mobile. New forks would rapidly appear, managed outside of the US.
They fell for a number of reasons - any one of which they could have shrugged off, but they all came at once. Rebellions from inside, invasions from the east, loyalty to the empire strained by imposed religious reformation to some strange new monotheistic cult and economic struggles as an empire built on constant expansion ran out of new land to invade for tribute - and then all that during a succession crisis which left the empire fragmented and unable to muster up a unified response. There's no one factor that lead to the collapse, and the collapse itsself was a slow process - you can't find a single year and declare the empire ceased to exist here.
"Advanced web crawling and scraping technologies, with a dose of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, with the goal of being able to retrieve virtually any content on the Internet in an automated way."
Congratulations: You have invented the search engine. While there is certainly much room for improving search engine technology, the ideas described in the article do not impress me. Perhaps all the really good stuff is classified.
At this point, the only real option is to assume that all traffic on the public internet is being monitored by at least one government, if not more. Good reason to use encryption - and don't store anything confidential unencrypted on a computer you have not got physical control over.
I use the UK to annoy the US. We had a shorter copyright term for music here (Recently extended, so nothing more expiring for twenty years) than in the US, so I put up a big collection of public-domain-in-the-UK music. Hosted in the UK, by a UK company, serving a UK citizen. I've not recieved any legal threats yet.
I put up some adverts just to see what sort of money it would make. Not a lot: In the year or so it's been up, I made about three quid.
The acre-foot may seem an odd unit, but it makes calculations much simpler when you have to work with either catchment or agriculture. It's much like the use of kilowatt-hours in the electrical industry: A unit of convenience.
It'd be more convenient still if they went to hectare-meters, then the engineering and policy sides wouldn't have to convert units every time they spoke.
We've got the hubble expansion and cosmic background. Both of which point strongly towards an expanding universe with a point-like origin. Cosmologists hotly debate a lot of the details, but their agreement on the fundamentals is near-unanimous.
See Russia right now, along with the desperate efforts of some Gulf states to diversify before the oil runs out.
That's not far from the situation in UK politics: The big three parties are all pledging to increase public spending in some highly popular areas, and all openly admit that this means higher taxes. They all propose to handle this by restructuring tax in order to make it more progressive: Rich-bashing is very popular here right now, and everyone is eager to vote for any politician who promises an end to tax-dodging millionaires and megacorps. The numbers don't really support this approach - there just aren't enough super-rich people in the country - but numbers rarely feature in politics.
Used to, years ago. But not since the transition to SATA. All SATA drives are hot-pluggable, though most consumer controllers don't support it easily. In a modern system, the drives are basically dumb stores: All the intelligence is in the controller or software.
The difference between regular drives and 'enterprise' drives is a lot less than it used to be. Enterprise drives have a higher claimed MTBF, a better warranty cover (So you'll believe the MTBF) and usually come in smaller capacities (The cost of reliability). They may also use SAS rather than SATA as the interface, which has a few advantages - like being able to connect a huge number of drives (2^16 - 2, IIRC) up to a single controller channel, very nice when you want a 48-drive rackmount unit that you can interface without having twelve data cables plugged into the back. Single drive reliability really mattered back in the day when RAID5 was considered sophisticated, but modern storage management is a lot better able to deal with single- and multi-drive failures - which means you can easily achieve the same end result at a considerably lower cost by using plain consumer drives. They are very nearly as reliable as enterpise drives, and the difference is too small to justify the extra cost.
Remember that the directional arrow needs to point towards the storage controller for most applications. You only point it towards the drive for a predominantly write-only application, like a backup store.
Even enterprises are using a lot of SATA drives now. The super-fast-and-reliable niche that used to belong to enterprise drives has gone to flash. It's usually cheaper to use consumer drives and some better software to manage the inevitable failure than to use enterprise drives.
It did. They haven't been invaded. Even if they don't have their own nukes, they have allies who do - which is enough.
That leads to escalation. They attack us, we attack them, they attack us - and ordinary internet users get caught in the middle, unable to access their precious porn and lolcats because half the internet is swamped.
It's hard to say with NK. They don't have the military capacity to take on the world, and they know it - but they do need an effective deterrant, and you can only have an effective deterrant if the world believes you are crazy enough to use it.
I could make a similar criticism of the libertarians: Whenever some minimal level of regulation proves ineffective, they don't ask what can be done to fix the regulation: They just declare that this shows no regulation can be justified and call for repeal.
That's how DSL service works in the UK. BT runs all the phone lines, but they don't run the internet service on top: You can choose from many ISPs, including another division of BT.
Our cable service works much like the US though: Following a series of mergers, there's only one cable service left in the entire coutry, Virgin Media. They do offer a pretty good service though, at least for now.
Small startups are already facing a near-insurmountable barrier: Internet access is a natural monopoly. There's a huge build-out fee to enter an area - digging up roads and laying cables. There's no way to economically do so when competing against an incumbant too.