The good news there is that the developing world, while experiencing a population boom, is also experiencing declining fertility as a consequence of cultural change. It's difficult to estimate, but depending which statistician you ask it's probably going to stabilise at a peak of 10-20 billion globally.
Nothing destroys fertility quite like gender equality combined with access to contraception. Getting women into education and the workplace takes them out of the breeding game for a few years and reduces average family size.
Non-peaceful protest would have been no more effective. The US has settled into a state where the people are given an effective illusion of influence, and some real power over minor issues, but kept away from interfering with those who actually run the country. The tea party movement was no more effective, and for the same reason.
Smaller organisations have not enough servers or users to justify separate staff, so it's not uncommon to see a sysadmin who also does support, or support staff who also admin the couple of servers the office needs.
To be effective it really needs to be deployed in advance. Packet radio is good, but it still needs some semi-trained operators. By the time rescuers get in with the equipment, it's already too late. The IoT proposal is to use existing devices to form the network. If you're already going to install solar-powered mesh nodes in every bus stop to track arrival times, it doesn't take a great deal of modification for that network to also handle disaster communications. The hardware is much the same. Any phone with a bluetooth interface could serve as a point of access into the network. It wouldn't replace old-fashioned handheld radios, but rather supplement them - allowing coordinators to track in real time the positions of rescuers, and to transmit instructions to survivors via their own phones.
It's a simple translation table, and in the unlikely event every copy of the table is somehow destroyed anyone who knows the language can recreate it through frequency analysis.
I thought north america is 110/220. A little googling clears up the confusion: It's 120V now. It used to be 110V, long ago, and although it has now been raised to 120V many people continued to use 110V labels. It doesn't help that with such a low voltage, resistance loss is a serious issue even for the short runs within a building - so you may still see 110V at the socket, even if it's supposed to be 120V.
Future-proofing. It means that if the digital archaeologists of the year 3000 dig up the old british archives from underneath the remains of old London, they have a decent chance of figuring out how to read it. ODF uses a zip container, but within that the actual text is in a format that can be figured our from scratch even if the spec is lost.
You get ish-voltages anyway. The grid doesn't always run exactly on spec, so you need equipment that can handle a considerable variation in input voltage.
Low-power inverters used to be common in laptops to drive the backlight. You still see them sometimes, but most new laptops use LED backlights now. No need for inverters on those. That's a good part of the appeal.
It could work if you're only going from bottom of rack UPS to rack equipment. It's already done in some datacenters, though usually at 24 or 48V rather than 12V.
The usual approach of the anti-porn brigade is selection bias. They just have to pick out a couple of people who really did get messed up by porn (Easily done: If you've got a billion people looking at it, of course someone is going to get carried away). Then make these the examples, and show off how terrible porn is. Of course, I could show church to be equally damaging by the same approach.
My issue is more with those who claim that fairly common-sense rules going back to prehistory are somehow 'Christian values' - taking credit for ideas that predate their religion by millenia in order to appear morally superior.
If I was in the position of a copyright-dependent industry body right now, I'd be looking into ways to apply ISPs into doing some of the enforcing. There should be some common ground to work on: Pirates suck up a ridiculous amount of bandwidth.
It means it's still illegal, but the government has no interest in enforcing that law. It's going back to just a civil matter, between the copyright holders and the copyright infringers.
Run this through some biased right-wing news sites or blogs. You know how it'll turn out. I give it two days before we start seeing "Scientists show liberals more prone to lying" or "Science shows a free market makes people honest." Give it a week and someone will find a way to tie it into 'judeo-christian values' too.
It doesn't matter what the study says - give it two days to pass through the blogosphere and some right-wing news sites, and you'll see this presented as the proof that all liberals are lying scum.
Or an equally good brag: "I wrote a program that's illegal in China."
All I've written are two programs illegal in the US - but that's because one infringes on a software patent, and the other is a circumvention device under the DMCA. It's also a trivial program consisting of about five lines of C, but that doesn't really matter.
Slashdot Mirror
The good news there is that the developing world, while experiencing a population boom, is also experiencing declining fertility as a consequence of cultural change. It's difficult to estimate, but depending which statistician you ask it's probably going to stabilise at a peak of 10-20 billion globally.
Nothing destroys fertility quite like gender equality combined with access to contraception. Getting women into education and the workplace takes them out of the breeding game for a few years and reduces average family size.
They'll only block sites that don't have the money to put up a fight.
Non-peaceful protest would have been no more effective. The US has settled into a state where the people are given an effective illusion of influence, and some real power over minor issues, but kept away from interfering with those who actually run the country. The tea party movement was no more effective, and for the same reason.
Correct, incorrect... language changes. Better to reclaim the word as a symbol of pride, as The Pirate Bay does.
I've given up most hope of ever reclaiming 'hacker' now, though.
I read a lot of right-wing websites, and yet I still can't figure out what he means. Some sort of criticism of social security, I would guess.
Smaller organisations have not enough servers or users to justify separate staff, so it's not uncommon to see a sysadmin who also does support, or support staff who also admin the couple of servers the office needs.
To be effective it really needs to be deployed in advance. Packet radio is good, but it still needs some semi-trained operators. By the time rescuers get in with the equipment, it's already too late. The IoT proposal is to use existing devices to form the network. If you're already going to install solar-powered mesh nodes in every bus stop to track arrival times, it doesn't take a great deal of modification for that network to also handle disaster communications. The hardware is much the same. Any phone with a bluetooth interface could serve as a point of access into the network. It wouldn't replace old-fashioned handheld radios, but rather supplement them - allowing coordinators to track in real time the positions of rescuers, and to transmit instructions to survivors via their own phones.
So the voltage drop is so rubbish, the utilities have to overcompensate...
The country really should have just gone for 220-240 when they had the chance. It's too late now.
It's a simple translation table, and in the unlikely event every copy of the table is somehow destroyed anyone who knows the language can recreate it through frequency analysis.
I thought north america is 110/220. A little googling clears up the confusion: It's 120V now. It used to be 110V, long ago, and although it has now been raised to 120V many people continued to use 110V labels. It doesn't help that with such a low voltage, resistance loss is a serious issue even for the short runs within a building - so you may still see 110V at the socket, even if it's supposed to be 120V.
Future-proofing. It means that if the digital archaeologists of the year 3000 dig up the old british archives from underneath the remains of old London, they have a decent chance of figuring out how to read it. ODF uses a zip container, but within that the actual text is in a format that can be figured our from scratch even if the spec is lost.
No-one uses 240V.
The UK used to use 240V. We dropped down to 230 when the EU standardized voltage across member states.
You get ish-voltages anyway. The grid doesn't always run exactly on spec, so you need equipment that can handle a considerable variation in input voltage.
Low-power inverters used to be common in laptops to drive the backlight. You still see them sometimes, but most new laptops use LED backlights now. No need for inverters on those. That's a good part of the appeal.
It could work if you're only going from bottom of rack UPS to rack equipment. It's already done in some datacenters, though usually at 24 or 48V rather than 12V.
The US does run 220(ish)V 60Hz for heavy loads. Really big appliances and light industrial.
Not if you can demonstrate that some of those pirates consume so much bandwidth they actually cost more than their subscription fee.
The usual approach of the anti-porn brigade is selection bias. They just have to pick out a couple of people who really did get messed up by porn (Easily done: If you've got a billion people looking at it, of course someone is going to get carried away). Then make these the examples, and show off how terrible porn is. Of course, I could show church to be equally damaging by the same approach.
My issue is more with those who claim that fairly common-sense rules going back to prehistory are somehow 'Christian values' - taking credit for ideas that predate their religion by millenia in order to appear morally superior.
If I was in the position of a copyright-dependent industry body right now, I'd be looking into ways to apply ISPs into doing some of the enforcing. There should be some common ground to work on: Pirates suck up a ridiculous amount of bandwidth.
It means it's still illegal, but the government has no interest in enforcing that law. It's going back to just a civil matter, between the copyright holders and the copyright infringers.
Lost was stupider, though.
Run this through some biased right-wing news sites or blogs. You know how it'll turn out. I give it two days before we start seeing "Scientists show liberals more prone to lying" or "Science shows a free market makes people honest." Give it a week and someone will find a way to tie it into 'judeo-christian values' too.
It doesn't matter what the study says - give it two days to pass through the blogosphere and some right-wing news sites, and you'll see this presented as the proof that all liberals are lying scum.
Or an equally good brag: "I wrote a program that's illegal in China."
All I've written are two programs illegal in the US - but that's because one infringes on a software patent, and the other is a circumvention device under the DMCA. It's also a trivial program consisting of about five lines of C, but that doesn't really matter.