The 1U lead block. Place at top of rack to protect the servers below.
Does it work? Who cares. If people will pay £150 for a wooden volume knob on their audio system, someone is going to pay whatever you ask for a lump-o-lead that may or may not improve the reliability of equipment below.
£2.75 for two, so 1.37 each. But that's retail - McDonalds are buying wholesale, and in bulk, so they'll be paying a much lower price. Just to give a very rough estimate, let's call it half - that sounds about right as an upper limit, but it may well be less than that. So that's 68p for the meat in a quarter-pounder.
So even if the price doubled, that's an increase of 68p per burger sold. Or, rounding off, about $1.
So the price of your meal, if the price of meat doubled, would go from $5.39 to $6.39. That's more than $0.20, but still not huge - and I really doubt McDonalds pay even half retail price, given the sheer quantity of meat they get through.
Because there's a difference between jamming and encryption. The US uses GPS - that guides their own planes and tells their own soldiers where they are. Are they going to want to jam it? No, that would hurt them more than the enemy. But they may opt to cut the unencrypted transmissions for sats overhead, so only their own military equipment can continue to function, while the enemy - who may well be using off-the-shelf GPS modules - will find their own navigation impacted.
The downside is that cutting the signal in that manner would also mean cutting it in nearby countries and offshore too, which could be very annoying for civilians. There are also civilians who live in war zones, and people there on humanitarian roles or reporters, all of whom use GPS.
Cattle are fed corn because the US government spends billions of dollars each year subsidizing corn to keep the price down - both direct subsidies for production, and subsidized crop insurance.
The cattle generally escape the worst consequences of a corn diet by simply not living long enough - they reach slaughter-age before reaching that point.
It doesn't bother the creationists, really. They just call it 'microevolution' and say it isn't really evolution at all because the bacteria are still bacteria.
So you build receivers that work on the US, EU, Russian *and* Chinese systems. If one or two decide to cut the signal, you can still navigate. Plus you can use them for verification: If three of the four put you in a 50m radius of a location, and the other says you are 2KM to the south, you can disregard the outlyer as malfunction/jamming/subversion.
You wouldn't need to. It's a simple matter of disconnecting it entirely - drive, but don't rank up the miles. Might mean driving without a speedometer too, depending how it's built.
I imagine on a modern car the engine control computer also keeps track though, so there'd be a discrepancy if anyone were suspicious enough to check.
No water (a little ice at the poles), ridiculous temperature extremes, terrible soil, no atmosphere... must be quite a plant. That's the type of environment that would make extremophile bacteria want to head home again. The only place plants are growing on the moon is in a controlled environmental container.
There was a story I read a very long time ago, I forget the title (And probably misremember half of it, too), describing an automated house. A spotlessly clean house. The robots mowed the lawn. Each day they prepared food for the family, and took out the leftovers. The dogs were fed from an automated food dispenser. Robots swept the floors, and cleaned the windows. It's only towards the end of the description of this wonder-home that it becomes apparent there are no human occupants: They died many years ago, victims of the radiation from an atomic bomb. The house just continued in their absence.
"Happy Birthday, Son!" "Dad? You came back! I thought we'd lost you forever. Where are you now?" "Any good presents?" "Be serious. Six months since you left us, and now you ask about presents?"
I've seen that before - USB to 5V direct. Someone vandalized a mouse, tearing the cable apart. It was smoldering and melting a hole in the keyboard when I found it.
The DMCA doesn't mandate a service provider take anything down on request. It mandates they take anything down on request, or else assume some liability for the infringement.
That means that when you are paying $50 a month for web hosting, you are not a sufficiently valued customer for the provider to risk liability. But when you are paying $tons-o-cash, or run your own servers, then any DMCA takedowns will be shrugged off.
A body count that, most years, kills fewer Americans domestically than lightning strikes.
Lightning averages 51 deaths a year, so a big attack can push it over. For comparison, the most recent 'major' attack at the Boston marathon achieved three deaths.
There was a report a while ago - either CEOP or NSPCC, not sure which - that said pedophiles were using secret codewords to communicate. But they wouldn't actually state what these codewords are.
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The 1U lead block. Place at top of rack to protect the servers below.
Does it work? Who cares. If people will pay £150 for a wooden volume knob on their audio system, someone is going to pay whatever you ask for a lump-o-lead that may or may not improve the reliability of equipment below.
First, let's find the cost of a cheap burger. Just the meat part:
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=268666515
£2.75 for two, so 1.37 each. But that's retail - McDonalds are buying wholesale, and in bulk, so they'll be paying a much lower price. Just to give a very rough estimate, let's call it half - that sounds about right as an upper limit, but it may well be less than that. So that's 68p for the meat in a quarter-pounder.
So even if the price doubled, that's an increase of 68p per burger sold. Or, rounding off, about $1.
The quarter-pounder with cheese sells for $3.69. But no-one buys a burger on it's own: You buy the meal, to get the drink and fries too. That's $5.39.
http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/mcdonalds-prices/
So the price of your meal, if the price of meat doubled, would go from $5.39 to $6.39. That's more than $0.20, but still not huge - and I really doubt McDonalds pay even half retail price, given the sheer quantity of meat they get through.
Because there's a difference between jamming and encryption. The US uses GPS - that guides their own planes and tells their own soldiers where they are. Are they going to want to jam it? No, that would hurt them more than the enemy. But they may opt to cut the unencrypted transmissions for sats overhead, so only their own military equipment can continue to function, while the enemy - who may well be using off-the-shelf GPS modules - will find their own navigation impacted.
The downside is that cutting the signal in that manner would also mean cutting it in nearby countries and offshore too, which could be very annoying for civilians. There are also civilians who live in war zones, and people there on humanitarian roles or reporters, all of whom use GPS.
By breeding faster than we could die.
And any day now, I'm expecting to see an 'Obama plans to take away antibiotics and let your children die' column.
Cattle are fed corn because the US government spends billions of dollars each year subsidizing corn to keep the price down - both direct subsidies for production, and subsidized crop insurance.
The cattle generally escape the worst consequences of a corn diet by simply not living long enough - they reach slaughter-age before reaching that point.
It doesn't bother the creationists, really. They just call it 'microevolution' and say it isn't really evolution at all because the bacteria are still bacteria.
You mean McDonald's would have to raise the price of a burger by $0.20?
All is lost.
Plus the meat industry would donate heavily to their opponent.
People would respond with meat-packed Tuesday.
Don't admit to the Saudi connection. They are well-connected, are rich and control oil. We're supposed to pretend they were all from Afganistan.
So you build receivers that work on the US, EU, Russian *and* Chinese systems. If one or two decide to cut the signal, you can still navigate. Plus you can use them for verification: If three of the four put you in a 50m radius of a location, and the other says you are 2KM to the south, you can disregard the outlyer as malfunction/jamming/subversion.
You wouldn't need to. It's a simple matter of disconnecting it entirely - drive, but don't rank up the miles. Might mean driving without a speedometer too, depending how it's built.
I imagine on a modern car the engine control computer also keeps track though, so there'd be a discrepancy if anyone were suspicious enough to check.
It was good advice at the time. The chances of it being so successful were rather slim.
Because the fly on the wall is still too noticeable. We need the flea on the wall.
No water (a little ice at the poles), ridiculous temperature extremes, terrible soil, no atmosphere... must be quite a plant. That's the type of environment that would make extremophile bacteria want to head home again. The only place plants are growing on the moon is in a controlled environmental container.
They did.
The dispenser just kept going.
There was a story I read a very long time ago, I forget the title (And probably misremember half of it, too), describing an automated house. A spotlessly clean house. The robots mowed the lawn. Each day they prepared food for the family, and took out the leftovers. The dogs were fed from an automated food dispenser. Robots swept the floors, and cleaned the windows. It's only towards the end of the description of this wonder-home that it becomes apparent there are no human occupants: They died many years ago, victims of the radiation from an atomic bomb. The house just continued in their absence.
"Happy Birthday, Son!"
"Dad? You came back! I thought we'd lost you forever. Where are you now?"
"Any good presents?"
"Be serious. Six months since you left us, and now you ask about presents?"
I've seen that before - USB to 5V direct. Someone vandalized a mouse, tearing the cable apart. It was smoldering and melting a hole in the keyboard when I found it.
Lots of capilaries just beneath the surface, rapid healing, no scar.
The DMCA doesn't mandate a service provider take anything down on request. It mandates they take anything down on request, or else assume some liability for the infringement.
That means that when you are paying $50 a month for web hosting, you are not a sufficiently valued customer for the provider to risk liability. But when you are paying $tons-o-cash, or run your own servers, then any DMCA takedowns will be shrugged off.
A body count that, most years, kills fewer Americans domestically than lightning strikes.
Lightning averages 51 deaths a year, so a big attack can push it over. For comparison, the most recent 'major' attack at the Boston marathon achieved three deaths.
That is why the talks are being conducted in secret. What the people don't know about, they can't protest over. Until it's too late.
There was a report a while ago - either CEOP or NSPCC, not sure which - that said pedophiles were using secret codewords to communicate. But they wouldn't actually state what these codewords are.