So close on the color! Blue is the color worn by police in London... except for the CoLP, the ones responsible for this action. That's because the City (Not London, but a tiny district within it) is, for historical reasons, actually a semi-independant mini-state and as such get to have their own police force that is seperate from the rest of the UK police. Their color scheme is red, not blue.
As the City is the financial district, the CoLP have a strong focus on the type of crime that happens in a financial district. Fraud, insider trading, things like that. They also devote a lot of effort to copyright and trademark enforcement, which had lead to some accusing them of being too closely tied to the corporations that effectively own the City.
They don't need to re-engineer it out, but it serves no purpose any more. What's the point of having DRM to prevent piracy of something you're giving away for free? Given that Securerom is often a source of technical problems, and that removing it should be trivial for the company that developed the game and still has access to the source and pre-DRM build, there is no good reason for them not to do so - simply as a gesture of goodwill and convenience to their customers.
I didn't say everyone goes to Mars. Just enough to get a sustainable population of people to sit around looking smug. The vast majority of humans on earth will still die off - a few in the impact event, a lot more in the collapse of agriculture that follows. It'll take centuries to rebuild.
Or do you want the real reason? Because it's there. There's a whole universe out there begging to be explored, and here we are sitting on our rock, stubbornly refusing to move. A forgotten little dot in the middle of nowhere. Pathetic. Look at what has come about in previous ages of exploration - social experiments, new models of society. There's no land left on this planet worth settling.
You don't have many options. You can try to divert it, but it would need a fairly exotic means of propulsion to shift something with so much mass - if it's a comet you might be able to use a nuclear engine with the comet material itsself as reaction mass, but such a thing would be too complicated to operate reliably. Robotic ice-carving and ice-moving robots? Or you could try to blow it up with nukes, Michael Bay style, reducing the big rock into lots of little rocks that will burn up on reentry or get pushed onto another course - but that requires either a ridiculous number of nukes, or somehow getting one deep inside. Basically, we're screwed. Better to go colonise Mars while we can, or else set up some long-term bunkers deep underground with enough food supplies and nuclear-powered grow-lights to last until the atmosphere clears.
Some of those rocks are bloody big rocks. Kilometers across. They'd shrug off a nuclear bomb, and it's hard to come up with an engine that can even exert enough delta-m to shift their path significantly.
Enforcement would be very difficult. A forensic accountant could pierce the trail together given enough time, yes - but the cost of paying someone to spend days going through the blockchain and trying to prove each of these addresses belongs to a certain individual would be far greater than the cost of subpoenaing a suspect's bank account and getting instant proof of illicit income. The higher the cost of enforcement, the fewer cases the government can bring, and the less risky the crime becomes - potentially reaching the level of copyright infringement, where tens of millions completly ignore the law because they know their chance of getting caught is miniscule.
It's a currency designed to be difficult to regulate. Of course the first adoptors are going to be those to whome conventional finance is unavailable. Those on the fringes of the law, or in outright violation of it. Not just drugs and violence though - The Pirate Bay accepts bitcoin donations, and there are a number of internet gambling sites accepting payment in it to draw the business of those living in states where internet gambling is prohibited.
People don't just adopt a new techology, much less a new finance paradigm, without a good reason. The big hope of the bitcoin community is that the paranoids and outcasts may be the first to adopt, but they will then form the core around which a new legitimate economy can cluster. That does seem to be happening, as an increasing number of legitimate companies start accepting bitcoin as a promotional measure. It gets them press coverage.
Money has been virtual a lot longer than that. Even cash is virtual: The physical tokens are just representative of something more abstract. The last time money was physical was when it was on the gold standard - and even then very few people actually took up the promise backing it and swapped their notes for gold.
Isn't linux running more servers on the internet than any other OS? Webservers, certainly. And databases, a lot of application servers.
The only place where Windows server rules is for the corporate LAN, because it's built to run active directory and uses the same permission structure. If you've got Windows desktops, you want Windows server to control and coordinate them all.
Linux's failure on the desktop isn't really a technical issue, it's a business issue. It's near-impossible to push aside an entrenched player in any field where compatibility is an issue. The staff training costs alone are a nightmare. Microsoft got in at a critical time (Just as the desktop was going huge) and managed to win by a combination of being 'good enough' and some excellent (If ruthless, given how they sabotaged OS/2) business skills - and once in, they stuck.
It's not strictly speaking a need, but it has a psychological effect. No-sex often makes for unhappy people. Even those without a partner tend to masturbate.
I don't see why erection wouldn't be possible - it works perfectly well when lying down under one gravity. You'd just need to hold on, or put one of those sleeping bags to another use to avoid drifting apart and have something to thrust against.
His manner is coarse, but you must admit that he's gotten the job done. Linux advances on schedule, patches get incorporated, code gets tested, and all proceeds smoothly.
It's an issue. It's routine practice when investigating internet crimes to execute search warrants via raids in order to prevent destruction of evidence. If they knock nicely, the suspect can have time to overwrite files or destroy media. Storming the home and forcing everyone to the ground at gunpoint may seem a bit heavy-handed (And occasionally there is a misunderstanding resulting in a shooting) but it's the only way to ensure evidence isn't destroyed.
The concern with Tor exit nodes is that if someone does get up to something illegal via your node, it'll be traced back to you. There have been a couple of well-documented incidents, usually involving distribution of child pornography. Nothing that would stick in court, but even for the innocent getting caught up in such an investigation is a disaster. Reputation tainted, a permanent mark on the record that makes getting a job harder even if no charges are filed, and the loss of everything you own with a hard drive or flash memory - at least until the police forensics finish with it in about five years.
TOR exit nodes are in very short supply, and as a company you already have the protection of incorporation that prevents the biggest fear of exit operators (and the reason there are so few), being caught up in an investigation by police who kick down doors first and ask questions later.
Legally safe, if you've enough storage, Freenet could use more massive-storage cache nodes. Freenet has no exit to the non-freenet web, so you're not risking getting caught up in any investigation. But neither of these options involve making a profit, so you're dependent upon having someone in management who buys the ideological argument.
Really, the best options I can imagine for them profit-wise are to either flog the gear on eBay or to repurpose it into some new useful role. Perhaps a local backup server, in case of cloud or connectivity failure.
You can't even get one coin using ASICs alone, unless you buy some three-thousand-dollar monster box packed with row upon row of them. And even then it would take weeks.
Power consumption is proportional to usage, plus a constant. It takes up a little power every time the file is streamed - and it also uses up precious network capacity, which on a larger scale means the network provider has to install more cells and more equipment.
But you need to account for getting the data there and back too. Radio power, network equipment power consumption. I don't know how much energy it takes to build, ship and operate an SD card - but it doesn't sound implausible that it could save as much or more over the course of a three-year usage life. People listen to a lot of music on their phones - how much power is taken to stream some music for a hour's commuting five days a week/
Rules of Data: 1. If you don't have it twice, you don't have it. 2. If you can't find it, you don't have it. 3. If you can't read it, you don't have it.
Many environmental activists now regard nuclear as a suitable solution for baseload power, on the grounds that it may still have some pollution and safely issues but it's far superior in those aspects to fossil fuels. You are correct though: Greenpeace still remains in opposition.
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So close on the color! Blue is the color worn by police in London... except for the CoLP, the ones responsible for this action. That's because the City (Not London, but a tiny district within it) is, for historical reasons, actually a semi-independant mini-state and as such get to have their own police force that is seperate from the rest of the UK police. Their color scheme is red, not blue.
As the City is the financial district, the CoLP have a strong focus on the type of crime that happens in a financial district. Fraud, insider trading, things like that. They also devote a lot of effort to copyright and trademark enforcement, which had lead to some accusing them of being too closely tied to the corporations that effectively own the City.
That makes more sense.
It's still pointless though, because you can probably get it on every major torrent site.
Close. It's a voluntary agreement with the ad wholesaler, with a veiled threat of finding a way to hold them liable if they don't cooperate.
No, they are doing it with the cooperation of the ad-providers.
It's more the 'put these ads up for us or we'll charge you for aiding criminal activity' type of cooperation.
They don't need to re-engineer it out, but it serves no purpose any more. What's the point of having DRM to prevent piracy of something you're giving away for free? Given that Securerom is often a source of technical problems, and that removing it should be trivial for the company that developed the game and still has access to the source and pre-DRM build, there is no good reason for them not to do so - simply as a gesture of goodwill and convenience to their customers.
I didn't say everyone goes to Mars. Just enough to get a sustainable population of people to sit around looking smug. The vast majority of humans on earth will still die off - a few in the impact event, a lot more in the collapse of agriculture that follows. It'll take centuries to rebuild.
Or do you want the real reason? Because it's there. There's a whole universe out there begging to be explored, and here we are sitting on our rock, stubbornly refusing to move. A forgotten little dot in the middle of nowhere. Pathetic. Look at what has come about in previous ages of exploration - social experiments, new models of society. There's no land left on this planet worth settling.
You don't have many options. You can try to divert it, but it would need a fairly exotic means of propulsion to shift something with so much mass - if it's a comet you might be able to use a nuclear engine with the comet material itsself as reaction mass, but such a thing would be too complicated to operate reliably. Robotic ice-carving and ice-moving robots? Or you could try to blow it up with nukes, Michael Bay style, reducing the big rock into lots of little rocks that will burn up on reentry or get pushed onto another course - but that requires either a ridiculous number of nukes, or somehow getting one deep inside. Basically, we're screwed. Better to go colonise Mars while we can, or else set up some long-term bunkers deep underground with enough food supplies and nuclear-powered grow-lights to last until the atmosphere clears.
And the politically undesireable - Wikileaks had trouble with payment processors too.
Some of those rocks are bloody big rocks. Kilometers across. They'd shrug off a nuclear bomb, and it's hard to come up with an engine that can even exert enough delta-m to shift their path significantly.
Enforcement would be very difficult. A forensic accountant could pierce the trail together given enough time, yes - but the cost of paying someone to spend days going through the blockchain and trying to prove each of these addresses belongs to a certain individual would be far greater than the cost of subpoenaing a suspect's bank account and getting instant proof of illicit income. The higher the cost of enforcement, the fewer cases the government can bring, and the less risky the crime becomes - potentially reaching the level of copyright infringement, where tens of millions completly ignore the law because they know their chance of getting caught is miniscule.
It's a currency designed to be difficult to regulate. Of course the first adoptors are going to be those to whome conventional finance is unavailable. Those on the fringes of the law, or in outright violation of it. Not just drugs and violence though - The Pirate Bay accepts bitcoin donations, and there are a number of internet gambling sites accepting payment in it to draw the business of those living in states where internet gambling is prohibited.
People don't just adopt a new techology, much less a new finance paradigm, without a good reason. The big hope of the bitcoin community is that the paranoids and outcasts may be the first to adopt, but they will then form the core around which a new legitimate economy can cluster. That does seem to be happening, as an increasing number of legitimate companies start accepting bitcoin as a promotional measure. It gets them press coverage.
Money has been virtual a lot longer than that. Even cash is virtual: The physical tokens are just representative of something more abstract. The last time money was physical was when it was on the gold standard - and even then very few people actually took up the promise backing it and swapped their notes for gold.
Isn't linux running more servers on the internet than any other OS? Webservers, certainly. And databases, a lot of application servers.
The only place where Windows server rules is for the corporate LAN, because it's built to run active directory and uses the same permission structure. If you've got Windows desktops, you want Windows server to control and coordinate them all.
Linux's failure on the desktop isn't really a technical issue, it's a business issue. It's near-impossible to push aside an entrenched player in any field where compatibility is an issue. The staff training costs alone are a nightmare. Microsoft got in at a critical time (Just as the desktop was going huge) and managed to win by a combination of being 'good enough' and some excellent (If ruthless, given how they sabotaged OS/2) business skills - and once in, they stuck.
It's not strictly speaking a need, but it has a psychological effect. No-sex often makes for unhappy people. Even those without a partner tend to masturbate.
I don't see why erection wouldn't be possible - it works perfectly well when lying down under one gravity. You'd just need to hold on, or put one of those sleeping bags to another use to avoid drifting apart and have something to thrust against.
There are many big rocks out there. One of them is on a collision course. When it is discovered, there will follow a final chorus of 'I told you so.'
His manner is coarse, but you must admit that he's gotten the job done. Linux advances on schedule, patches get incorporated, code gets tested, and all proceeds smoothly.
It's an issue. It's routine practice when investigating internet crimes to execute search warrants via raids in order to prevent destruction of evidence. If they knock nicely, the suspect can have time to overwrite files or destroy media. Storming the home and forcing everyone to the ground at gunpoint may seem a bit heavy-handed (And occasionally there is a misunderstanding resulting in a shooting) but it's the only way to ensure evidence isn't destroyed.
The concern with Tor exit nodes is that if someone does get up to something illegal via your node, it'll be traced back to you. There have been a couple of well-documented incidents, usually involving distribution of child pornography. Nothing that would stick in court, but even for the innocent getting caught up in such an investigation is a disaster. Reputation tainted, a permanent mark on the record that makes getting a job harder even if no charges are filed, and the loss of everything you own with a hard drive or flash memory - at least until the police forensics finish with it in about five years.
TOR exit nodes are in very short supply, and as a company you already have the protection of incorporation that prevents the biggest fear of exit operators (and the reason there are so few), being caught up in an investigation by police who kick down doors first and ask questions later.
Legally safe, if you've enough storage, Freenet could use more massive-storage cache nodes. Freenet has no exit to the non-freenet web, so you're not risking getting caught up in any investigation. But neither of these options involve making a profit, so you're dependent upon having someone in management who buys the ideological argument.
Really, the best options I can imagine for them profit-wise are to either flog the gear on eBay or to repurpose it into some new useful role. Perhaps a local backup server, in case of cloud or connectivity failure.
You can't even get one coin using ASICs alone, unless you buy some three-thousand-dollar monster box packed with row upon row of them. And even then it would take weeks.
Bitcoin mining now is done using pools.
Power consumption is proportional to usage, plus a constant. It takes up a little power every time the file is streamed - and it also uses up precious network capacity, which on a larger scale means the network provider has to install more cells and more equipment.
But you need to account for getting the data there and back too. Radio power, network equipment power consumption. I don't know how much energy it takes to build, ship and operate an SD card - but it doesn't sound implausible that it could save as much or more over the course of a three-year usage life. People listen to a lot of music on their phones - how much power is taken to stream some music for a hour's commuting five days a week/
Rules of Data:
1. If you don't have it twice, you don't have it.
2. If you can't find it, you don't have it.
3. If you can't read it, you don't have it.
Business reasons. You can sell a card or a download, but a cloud service is a recurring payment.
Many environmental activists now regard nuclear as a suitable solution for baseload power, on the grounds that it may still have some pollution and safely issues but it's far superior in those aspects to fossil fuels. You are correct though: Greenpeace still remains in opposition.