The issue of enforcing standards is a serious one.
It's also easily corrected. Pass a law that states the following: 1. Food inspectors may arrive without notice, in plain clothes. 2. Upon arrival, inspectors may compel mobile business owners to remain stationary for a period of up to fifteen minutes to permit inspection (How long can inspecting a one-room business take?) 3. Inspectors may pose as customers to purchase sample product.
I've been predicting this for a long time. A lot of armchair economists are. Yet curiously, no professional economists ever mention the scenario.
I'm not much inclined to trust the economist profession. Their recent track record has been terrible, and there seems to be nothing even approaching concensus on some very fundamental policy issues.
The obvious way it could be averted naturally would be for reduced cost to lead to increased consumption - that's how we avoided that outcome from the industrial revolution: Simply by rising standards of living to the point where luxuries became taken for granted. Hot and cold running water, exotic foods, daily bathing, an endless parade of toys and appliances, and the rise of disposeable goods. But still, there must be some limit to how far this policy can go - we're already at the point where people throw out clothes for a tiny hole because buying new is cheaper than the time needed to sew it up. Plus the environmental impact would be terrible.
Kids are horrible to one another. They always have been, they always will be. They have been horrible to each other since before they could even qualify as homo, let alone sapian. They'll continue to be horrible until humans go extinct. There is absolutely nothing you can do to stop this.
President "Hello, Blizzard? We've got a pandemic coming up, so need to keep people from personal contact for a while. Would you mind putting some limited-time-only lucrative dungeons up in World of Warcraft?"
Because now it's gone from being an open secret to properly documented, which allows a lot more discussion over the exact methods of spying being used.
Those checks are equally traceable. They are nothing more than an instruction to initiate a bank transfer. The only way to pay anonymously is via hard cash. But this presents logistical and security problems - the same problems that make companies use electronic billing in the first place. Most utilities now won't even accept cash.
Depends upon device/manufacturer. Some use fixed-resistance, but there's no agreement upon which resistance indicates which current. Others use a true computerized negotiation, but again there is no common protocol - and some manufacturers use that negotiation as a means to lock-out third party chargers by deliberately not disclosing the protocol, or even using cryptographic authentication.
I tried to look up the size of the UK music, movie and software industries for comparison. Music wasn't too hard, but I'm getting wildly conflicting results for the movie industry in my googling. It's hard to work out - most of their income comes from overseas distribution, and as with any movie production the official net income is worthless due to dodgy accounting. That's before considering the government subsidies and tax breaks the industry gets to 'promote british culture.'
I think there should be a general rule: Anyone who uses the word 'cyber' in a non-sarcastic manner should be ignored.
The article looks like it wasn't written by a tech journalist too, as it contains such obvious errors as 'The device, if operational, would have allowed data and contents of the desktop to be downloaded over the network.' News organizations so often make mistakes in their rush to be the first to break a story - even the BBC.
Actually, I can answer that question. It just happens that some friends and I like to dabble in high-voltage fun. We don't have a 3GJ test, but I do have a video showing what just 800J does to a tomato: http://birds-are-nice.me/explodium/MK8a_fruit.webm
Often on TV, killing is actually easier than dealing with the bodies. The network censors really hate bloody corpses, but have less objection to the process of making them. A common solution is to introduce either mooks that conveniently diappear when dead (See Buffy, Charmed - the prefered fantasy solution) or weapons which leave no body (See half the weapons in Doctor Who or STs phasors - the prefered sci-fi solution).
The vaporisation option usually ignores the difficulty of where approximately eighty kilograms of water vapor is going to end up - boiling a human in such a short time would result in a blast of high-pressure superheated steam and organic soup.
On SIV. We don't know yet if it even even work on HIV, and if it can how well the virus can evolve to counter it. HIV is exceptionally adaptive, even by viral standards.
Most of these potential vaccines turn out to be unworkable - but try long enough and hard enough, eventually scientists will hit upon a really good one.
The number of civilians killed in the 9/11 attack was approximately equal to a little over a month of fatal traffic accidents in the US for 2001. If the government had spent even a fraction of the money spent on security and military action after 9/11 on road safety and public transport instead, they could have prevented several 9/11s each year.
Can we take drives out yet? ZFS makes it nice and easy to just add a new drive to a storage pool, but taking one out (ie, freeing up port for a larger drive, or turning your 16x1TB drives into 8x2TB drives to reduce the frequency of failures) is a different matter.
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The issue of enforcing standards is a serious one.
It's also easily corrected. Pass a law that states the following:
1. Food inspectors may arrive without notice, in plain clothes.
2. Upon arrival, inspectors may compel mobile business owners to remain stationary for a period of up to fifteen minutes to permit inspection (How long can inspecting a one-room business take?)
3. Inspectors may pose as customers to purchase sample product.
I've been predicting this for a long time. A lot of armchair economists are. Yet curiously, no professional economists ever mention the scenario.
I'm not much inclined to trust the economist profession. Their recent track record has been terrible, and there seems to be nothing even approaching concensus on some very fundamental policy issues.
The obvious way it could be averted naturally would be for reduced cost to lead to increased consumption - that's how we avoided that outcome from the industrial revolution: Simply by rising standards of living to the point where luxuries became taken for granted. Hot and cold running water, exotic foods, daily bathing, an endless parade of toys and appliances, and the rise of disposeable goods. But still, there must be some limit to how far this policy can go - we're already at the point where people throw out clothes for a tiny hole because buying new is cheaper than the time needed to sew it up. Plus the environmental impact would be terrible.
The Cynic school, which teaches that inefficiency, overhead and waste are vital economic elements in creating demand for labor.
Kids are horrible to one another. They always have been, they always will be. They have been horrible to each other since before they could even qualify as homo, let alone sapian. They'll continue to be horrible until humans go extinct. There is absolutely nothing you can do to stop this.
President "Hello, Blizzard? We've got a pandemic coming up, so need to keep people from personal contact for a while. Would you mind putting some limited-time-only lucrative dungeons up in World of Warcraft?"
Because now it's gone from being an open secret to properly documented, which allows a lot more discussion over the exact methods of spying being used.
Those checks are equally traceable. They are nothing more than an instruction to initiate a bank transfer. The only way to pay anonymously is via hard cash. But this presents logistical and security problems - the same problems that make companies use electronic billing in the first place. Most utilities now won't even accept cash.
Ordinary crimes against non-wealthy victims.
Depends upon device/manufacturer. Some use fixed-resistance, but there's no agreement upon which resistance indicates which current. Others use a true computerized negotiation, but again there is no common protocol - and some manufacturers use that negotiation as a means to lock-out third party chargers by deliberately not disclosing the protocol, or even using cryptographic authentication.
I tried to look up the size of the UK music, movie and software industries for comparison. Music wasn't too hard, but I'm getting wildly conflicting results for the movie industry in my googling. It's hard to work out - most of their income comes from overseas distribution, and as with any movie production the official net income is worthless due to dodgy accounting. That's before considering the government subsidies and tax breaks the industry gets to 'promote british culture.'
My own reference was apparently too obscure.
Even the people who participate in cyber-sex consider the term vulgar. We usually refer to it as adult roleplay or just 'RP.'
Like my mistake in capitalizing 'MET' when I know full well it should be 'Met.'
'The Metropolitan Police said its "time-critical, dynamic response" had thwarted a "very significant and audacious cyber-enabled offence". '
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24077094
I think there should be a general rule: Anyone who uses the word 'cyber' in a non-sarcastic manner should be ignored.
The article looks like it wasn't written by a tech journalist too, as it contains such obvious errors as 'The device, if operational, would have allowed data and contents of the desktop to be downloaded over the network.' News organizations so often make mistakes in their rush to be the first to break a story - even the BBC.
Slo-mo cameras cost a fortune. I could only find one remotely affordable, but it can only do 240FPS at very low resolution.
No, you're thinking of the Positronic Ray.
Actually, I can answer that question. It just happens that some friends and I like to dabble in high-voltage fun. We don't have a 3GJ test, but I do have a video showing what just 800J does to a tomato:
http://birds-are-nice.me/explodium/MK8a_fruit.webm
Up-one to see more things go pop.
Often on TV, killing is actually easier than dealing with the bodies. The network censors really hate bloody corpses, but have less objection to the process of making them. A common solution is to introduce either mooks that conveniently diappear when dead (See Buffy, Charmed - the prefered fantasy solution) or weapons which leave no body (See half the weapons in Doctor Who or STs phasors - the prefered sci-fi solution).
The vaporisation option usually ignores the difficulty of where approximately eighty kilograms of water vapor is going to end up - boiling a human in such a short time would result in a blast of high-pressure superheated steam and organic soup.
The world is full of stupid and reckless people. We can't fix this, but at least a vaccine can contain the damage.
On SIV. We don't know yet if it even even work on HIV, and if it can how well the virus can evolve to counter it. HIV is exceptionally adaptive, even by viral standards.
Most of these potential vaccines turn out to be unworkable - but try long enough and hard enough, eventually scientists will hit upon a really good one.
The number of civilians killed in the 9/11 attack was approximately equal to a little over a month of fatal traffic accidents in the US for 2001. If the government had spent even a fraction of the money spent on security and military action after 9/11 on road safety and public transport instead, they could have prevented several 9/11s each year.
Politics and public reaction are not rational.
Sometimes the law needs to be broken.
Wasn't the US founded by a bunch of rebels who violently rose up against the lawful authority of the time?
Obama won the prize for the achievement of not being Bush.
Can we take drives out yet? ZFS makes it nice and easy to just add a new drive to a storage pool, but taking one out (ie, freeing up port for a larger drive, or turning your 16x1TB drives into 8x2TB drives to reduce the frequency of failures) is a different matter.