There's another common: Only the successful are visible. The pop stars and major sports pros are international heroes, but no-one notices all the also-rans who didn't have the talent or the lucky breaks to make it to the top. This gives people a false perception of their chances, leading to lots of people choosing a career in which the chances of even financial independance are very low. It's a high-risk option.
This is a discussion about schools. Not universities. That means no programming, no graphing - those things aren't on the curriculum.
In fact, the TI-83 would be *forbidden* in examinations here, because that programming capability could be used to store notes or formulas for use in cheating. There are strict standards for what is permitted in a calculator in examinations, and any type of storage is off-limits. Programmable calculators are permitted in lessons, but teachers would strongly discourage them on the grounds that students would learn to use a tool they cannot take into exams, and thus be presented with an unfamiliar interface at the time their skills are tested.
Graphing is also not permitted in a calculator. Part of the examinations involves roughly plotting functions by hand - nothing precise, just getting the crossings on the right axis for a quadratic. A graphing calculator would be a powerful way to cheat.
Things might be different in the US though. I work at a UK school, and it's a secondary school* - once you get into higher education you can use whatever calculator you want.
*Well, an Academy. They are all Academies now. The government likes Academies.
Apple used to forbid emulators in the App store. They have since revised that policy: Emulators are permitted, so long as they can't run any externally sourced code. They have to be limited only to ROMs included in the app itsself. This means you can get '99 classic NES games' bundles and things like that.
Officially, Apply claims this is because emulated code has performance costs. Really, the reason is widely assumed to be concerns over competing with their own App store (emulator+pirateroms, never buy a game again!) or appearing to endorse piracy by supporting software that is primarily used for playing games copied without permission.
The PM wouldn't. This isn't his area. The request would come from someone in the police, most likely - someone expendable enough that if there was too much of an outcry, they could be shunted to another office.
Perhaps they have managed to crack the encryption*, but do not wish to reveal their have the capability to do so? In that case, claiming he had the password on him provides a plausible excuse as to how they managed to get access, while at the same time scoring the bonus of making the newspaper staff look like idiots.
*I'm not proposing any sort of magic maths, just a practical attack like looking through the swap file on the laptop or having previously bugged the office at one end or the other.
There was an issue a couple of years ago - I can't remember the details, but it involved printers ceasing to work suddenly without cause in some businesses. Offices where they just ceased to function.
Turned out that the printers had been running a check for firmware updates on boot - they tried to reach their manufacturer server each time, but only got a NXDOMAIN, as the model was no longer supported an the update server no longer maintained. Until the day one of the major ISPs decided to spoof non-existant domains to instead point to their own advert-laden 'helpful' search page. The printers thus tried to fetch their firmware update from that page and, getting a 400 response, tried to install it - but instead it just failed checksum, causing the printers to lock up in objection.
I can't recall the details any more, but you can probably look them up with enough googling. Easily fixed once you know the problem, but it shows just how delicate name lookup can be.
How many businesses have a server somewhere called 'search?' If a 'search' TLD were registered, queries would become ambiguous and traffic ends up going to the wrong place.
First, this ruling isn't against that. This ruling only rejects dotless TLDs - things like just 'city' on it's own.
Secondly, there are always contention issues. For example, 'London.city.' I'm near London. But there's also a London, Ontario. And several Londons in the US. We've already had a dispute about the 'Amazon' TLD, because Amazon the company wants the rights but Brazil also want it as a TLD associated with the river and its basin. You gave 'app' as an example - but 'app store' is a trademark of Apple, and they might object to anyone else running the TLD.app.
Thirdly, there are political concerns. ICANN is, officially, a multinational entity independant of any government - though it's largely an open secret that they are under the de factor control of the US government. Many countries though have their own internal concerns about how they wish to regulate domain names - many conservative countries wouldn't wish to see domain names relating to pornography granted at all, for example. Some have specific words that are reserved for government use, and many countries have their own quirks - just think how Germany would react if someone wanted.nazi. So long as ICANN stays only on the safe, boring domains that isn't a problem - they just hand out a governmental TLD to each country, and stay apolitical on their own. But the more they create, the more dispute there will be - remember the fiasco of.xxx? Dragged on for years, including multible court actions and some semi-open government meddling.
The theoretical maximum is 56k down, 33.6k up - something that the modem manufacturers don't like to boast on the '56k' label is that the connection is assymetric.
In practice though, you'll very rarely achieve the full 56k down - that's the speed under an ideal line quality. The modems run quality tests on the line during handshaking (That series of sounds increasing tone in steps you can hear) to determine how high they can safely go. Somewhere around 40-45k is about typical.
Minecraft, and most online games, don't use a lot of bandwidth. They are very sensitive to latency though - once the RTT goes over about 100ms players start to notice. Most FPSs become effectively unplayable at around 700, and even below this lower-latency connections give some players a considerable advantage. Dialup is also higher-latency, as even a few packets queued up can take considerable time to clear.
It says 'part of.' Maybe that data is just a decoy.
It wouldn't matter though. In the UK, police have authority to demand a password - refusal is a criminal offense under the RIP act. So even if the password were not on a convenient piece of paper, the police would simply ask for it - then start jailing Guardian staff until they get it.
The Domesday book is not a book of law. It's an inventory. A very comprehensive inventory.
William the Conqueror, having just earned that title, was left with a bit of a problem: He was now the new ruler of England, but didn't know exactly how much he ruled. The records were a mess, and he needed to put his own loyal men in positions of land ownership and power, which required knowing which land was the most valuable. To make it even worse for him, the existing landowners recognised that their possessions were about to be appropriated and handed out to the lackeys of the new ruler - and they weren't above bickering, lying and outright forgery to try to keep as much as they could, so ownership disputes were common. Landowners squabbled over claimed ownership both to increase their holdings and, when the tax man came to visit, to claim the land and tax burden really belonged to their rivals. With such poor formal records, it often came down to one man's word against another's. To solve this William commissioned a massive survey of his entire country - every last peasant, field and pig - and upon completion, declared that the ownership records of this book were authorative and uncontestable. It has been proving an invaluable resource for historians ever since.
The book is more accurately spelt 'domesday' but pronounced 'doomsday.' Domesday was just the spelling of the time.
It'll bring a greater standard of those who still have jobs. We're looking at a very serious economic transition here, possibly a key point in history. How it is managed is the difference between a utopia free of work and want, or a dystopia where the poverty-stricken masses scavenge for scraps thrown out from the farms owned by the wealthy.
The hard part is not getting caught. Snowden has the advantage that he never intended to stay undetected for long - just enough time to be outside the country when the news of the leak broke.
You think they'd be dumb enough to keep records? One thing this PRISM business and the older diplomatic cables should have taught is that the conspiracy-filled, back-room-deal world of the spy novel is actually a lot less fantasy and more reality than people thought. There really are shadowy departments spying on people, there really are blanket wiretaps and secret submarines splicing undersea cables. And diplomats really do make agreements in meeting, verbally and off-the-record, on matters that both sides know the people of their respective countries would not approve of.
The Quran states that women are required to dress in a manner that could be translated as 'modestly.' Different versions of Islam have very different ideas of what 'modestly' actually means.
Normal person: "Religion? Yes, I'm a Christian. No, I havn't read the bible. No, I havn't been to church in the last five years. No, I don't know what 'substitutional atonement' is. I just know that God is up there, and he'll send all the good people to Heaven when we die. How do I know? Well, that's what everyone says... I don't think about it, really."
I said an informal agreement. Formal agreements are bound by consistant law. An informal agreement consists of a few off-the-record statements behind closed doors where a suitably high-up politician says to his US counterpart 'Yes, this is illegal, but I'll tell my underlings not to bring any prosecutions so long as you tell your people to do the same.'
If the problem is that serious, there will just be an informal agreement formed between governments: The US agrees to pretend they aren't monitoring everything, and the EU agrees not to take action against companies exposing confidential non-military information to monitoring. The alternative would be trade isolation costing both economies billions.
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I'm in the rare position of owning equipment that actually can suffer a resonance cascade. Co-own, anyway - friend and I build it.
The real effects of one happening are rather less dramatic though. Worst-case, it just blows up a very expensive high-voltage capacitor.
There's another common: Only the successful are visible. The pop stars and major sports pros are international heroes, but no-one notices all the also-rans who didn't have the talent or the lucky breaks to make it to the top. This gives people a false perception of their chances, leading to lots of people choosing a career in which the chances of even financial independance are very low. It's a high-risk option.
This is a discussion about schools. Not universities. That means no programming, no graphing - those things aren't on the curriculum.
In fact, the TI-83 would be *forbidden* in examinations here, because that programming capability could be used to store notes or formulas for use in cheating. There are strict standards for what is permitted in a calculator in examinations, and any type of storage is off-limits. Programmable calculators are permitted in lessons, but teachers would strongly discourage them on the grounds that students would learn to use a tool they cannot take into exams, and thus be presented with an unfamiliar interface at the time their skills are tested.
Graphing is also not permitted in a calculator. Part of the examinations involves roughly plotting functions by hand - nothing precise, just getting the crossings on the right axis for a quadratic. A graphing calculator would be a powerful way to cheat.
Things might be different in the US though. I work at a UK school, and it's a secondary school* - once you get into higher education you can use whatever calculator you want.
*Well, an Academy. They are all Academies now. The government likes Academies.
Part true.
Apple used to forbid emulators in the App store. They have since revised that policy: Emulators are permitted, so long as they can't run any externally sourced code. They have to be limited only to ROMs included in the app itsself. This means you can get '99 classic NES games' bundles and things like that.
Officially, Apply claims this is because emulated code has performance costs. Really, the reason is widely assumed to be concerns over competing with their own App store (emulator+pirateroms, never buy a game again!) or appearing to endorse piracy by supporting software that is primarily used for playing games copied without permission.
The PM wouldn't. This isn't his area. The request would come from someone in the police, most likely - someone expendable enough that if there was too much of an outcry, they could be shunted to another office.
Perhaps they have managed to crack the encryption*, but do not wish to reveal their have the capability to do so? In that case, claiming he had the password on him provides a plausible excuse as to how they managed to get access, while at the same time scoring the bonus of making the newspaper staff look like idiots.
*I'm not proposing any sort of magic maths, just a practical attack like looking through the swap file on the laptop or having previously bugged the office at one end or the other.
DNS is delicate.
There was an issue a couple of years ago - I can't remember the details, but it involved printers ceasing to work suddenly without cause in some businesses. Offices where they just ceased to function.
Turned out that the printers had been running a check for firmware updates on boot - they tried to reach their manufacturer server each time, but only got a NXDOMAIN, as the model was no longer supported an the update server no longer maintained. Until the day one of the major ISPs decided to spoof non-existant domains to instead point to their own advert-laden 'helpful' search page. The printers thus tried to fetch their firmware update from that page and, getting a 400 response, tried to install it - but instead it just failed checksum, causing the printers to lock up in objection.
I can't recall the details any more, but you can probably look them up with enough googling. Easily fixed once you know the problem, but it shows just how delicate name lookup can be.
How many businesses have a server somewhere called 'search?' If a 'search' TLD were registered, queries would become ambiguous and traffic ends up going to the wrong place.
First, this ruling isn't against that. This ruling only rejects dotless TLDs - things like just 'city' on it's own.
Secondly, there are always contention issues. For example, 'London.city.' I'm near London. But there's also a London, Ontario. And several Londons in the US. We've already had a dispute about the 'Amazon' TLD, because Amazon the company wants the rights but Brazil also want it as a TLD associated with the river and its basin. You gave 'app' as an example - but 'app store' is a trademark of Apple, and they might object to anyone else running the TLD .app.
Thirdly, there are political concerns. ICANN is, officially, a multinational entity independant of any government - though it's largely an open secret that they are under the de factor control of the US government. Many countries though have their own internal concerns about how they wish to regulate domain names - many conservative countries wouldn't wish to see domain names relating to pornography granted at all, for example. Some have specific words that are reserved for government use, and many countries have their own quirks - just think how Germany would react if someone wanted .nazi. So long as ICANN stays only on the safe, boring domains that isn't a problem - they just hand out a governmental TLD to each country, and stay apolitical on their own. But the more they create, the more dispute there will be - remember the fiasco of .xxx? Dragged on for years, including multible court actions and some semi-open government meddling.
The theoretical maximum is 56k down, 33.6k up - something that the modem manufacturers don't like to boast on the '56k' label is that the connection is assymetric.
In practice though, you'll very rarely achieve the full 56k down - that's the speed under an ideal line quality. The modems run quality tests on the line during handshaking (That series of sounds increasing tone in steps you can hear) to determine how high they can safely go. Somewhere around 40-45k is about typical.
Minecraft, and most online games, don't use a lot of bandwidth. They are very sensitive to latency though - once the RTT goes over about 100ms players start to notice. Most FPSs become effectively unplayable at around 700, and even below this lower-latency connections give some players a considerable advantage. Dialup is also higher-latency, as even a few packets queued up can take considerable time to clear.
It says 'part of.' Maybe that data is just a decoy.
It wouldn't matter though. In the UK, police have authority to demand a password - refusal is a criminal offense under the RIP act. So even if the password were not on a convenient piece of paper, the police would simply ask for it - then start jailing Guardian staff until they get it.
And the data will be classified, of course, so we'll just have to take the prosecution's word that it is really as dangerous as they claim.
The Domesday book is not a book of law. It's an inventory. A very comprehensive inventory.
William the Conqueror, having just earned that title, was left with a bit of a problem: He was now the new ruler of England, but didn't know exactly how much he ruled. The records were a mess, and he needed to put his own loyal men in positions of land ownership and power, which required knowing which land was the most valuable. To make it even worse for him, the existing landowners recognised that their possessions were about to be appropriated and handed out to the lackeys of the new ruler - and they weren't above bickering, lying and outright forgery to try to keep as much as they could, so ownership disputes were common. Landowners squabbled over claimed ownership both to increase their holdings and, when the tax man came to visit, to claim the land and tax burden really belonged to their rivals. With such poor formal records, it often came down to one man's word against another's. To solve this William commissioned a massive survey of his entire country - every last peasant, field and pig - and upon completion, declared that the ownership records of this book were authorative and uncontestable. It has been proving an invaluable resource for historians ever since.
The book is more accurately spelt 'domesday' but pronounced 'doomsday.' Domesday was just the spelling of the time.
The ideal solution to me would be to treat it like tobacco: Keep it legal, but at the same time take measures to very strongly discourage use.
It'll bring a greater standard of those who still have jobs. We're looking at a very serious economic transition here, possibly a key point in history. How it is managed is the difference between a utopia free of work and want, or a dystopia where the poverty-stricken masses scavenge for scraps thrown out from the farms owned by the wealthy.
Generic = affordable.
They have proof.
They just can't say what the proof is, because it's classified. You have to take their word for it.
The hard part is not getting caught. Snowden has the advantage that he never intended to stay undetected for long - just enough time to be outside the country when the news of the leak broke.
You think they'd be dumb enough to keep records? One thing this PRISM business and the older diplomatic cables should have taught is that the conspiracy-filled, back-room-deal world of the spy novel is actually a lot less fantasy and more reality than people thought. There really are shadowy departments spying on people, there really are blanket wiretaps and secret submarines splicing undersea cables. And diplomats really do make agreements in meeting, verbally and off-the-record, on matters that both sides know the people of their respective countries would not approve of.
The Quran states that women are required to dress in a manner that could be translated as 'modestly.' Different versions of Islam have very different ideas of what 'modestly' actually means.
Normal person: "Religion? Yes, I'm a Christian. No, I havn't read the bible. No, I havn't been to church in the last five years. No, I don't know what 'substitutional atonement' is. I just know that God is up there, and he'll send all the good people to Heaven when we die. How do I know? Well, that's what everyone says... I don't think about it, really."
The devil who is imprisoned in Hell, yet spends his time on earth tempting humans.
The character has been retconned so many times, even the believers can't keep his many versions straight any more.
You've not actually dealt with children in a while, then?
They'll stop paying attention after about a minute, and spend the rest of the session pulling the keys off the keyboards.
I said an informal agreement. Formal agreements are bound by consistant law. An informal agreement consists of a few off-the-record statements behind closed doors where a suitably high-up politician says to his US counterpart 'Yes, this is illegal, but I'll tell my underlings not to bring any prosecutions so long as you tell your people to do the same.'
If the problem is that serious, there will just be an informal agreement formed between governments: The US agrees to pretend they aren't monitoring everything, and the EU agrees not to take action against companies exposing confidential non-military information to monitoring. The alternative would be trade isolation costing both economies billions.