It might be regarded as a unit of convenience. Much like KWh - it's not a metric quantity, it's horribly awkward in physics, but it's used because it simplifies billing calculations.
Many PC power supplies can run off of DC of suitable voltage. But not all - it depends on the design of certain elements, particularly in 110/230 dual voltage supplies. Putting DC into the wrong one will either do nothing, or cause the magic smoke to escape.
Your total collapse scenario is highly unlikely. Regional natural disasters happen all the time, sometimes leading to temporary anarchy, but the outside world always come back in before long. The type of long-running collapse you envision would require something on the scale of a global nuclear war.
The intent of universal income is not to give people money to burn. It's to give them enough to meet the essentials: Roof, food, safety, education, healthcare. Just enough to live in your comfortable hovel. If you want luxuries, go get a job.
Li-ion batteries can explode - if the battery is sealed, failure can lead to a pressure buildup that will eventually rupture leading to a sudden release of boiling electrolyte and vapor. This is a worst case scenario though, and can only happen if the battery is poorly designed or mistreated.
I can imagine one way it might be an issue - a major charging station may well not have the grid connection capacity to run all their charging points at one time. Simple oversubscription model - as there will hardly ever be a time when the entire parking lot is full with cars all in the fast-charge state, why pay out for a substation that can handle that much drain? It means that on very rare occasions when the place is very busy, you might find your charging station refuses to go into fast charge mode until it reaches the front of the queue.
The multi-port approach might allow some flexibility in handling different traffic types. Rather than having 'truck bays' and 'car bays' for different vehicles, you'd only need one type of bay. A truck parks in two adjacent bays, and takes a cable from each.
Probably not. It would just reduce utility to the customer too much - there would be the type of public outcry that even the mighty telecoms lobbyists would struggle to counteract.
More likely you'll still be able to connect to unapproved sites, but only at what the ISP may call 'high speed' - actually consisting of an old gigabit ethernet cable serving each thousand-customer node, where you get to enjoy constant buffering any time you want video, failed downloads and general unpleasantness. While those sites which the ISP has approved of (for a fee) get to use the much better connectivity.
Most importantly, this will be somewhat hidden from the customer. The ISP does not want to incur their wrath: It wants to direct them elsewhere: "Damnit, why is NewIndyTube so crap? I just want to watch a video, but it can't go ten seconds without pausing. I know it's not my connection YouTube and Netflix both work fine."
it might be more accurate to say there is very little overt racism. The racism is still there, but much diminished and driven underground. It doesn't manifest as 'I won't accept a black president,' but rather as 'are we sure he is a real American?'
Do you think that the birther conspiracy theory could ever have thrived for a white president?
There's also statistical evidence that even unconscious racism is very much alive. You can see it in fields like criminal sentencing - when comparing convictions for the same crime across race, some races get noticeably higher average sentences than others.
America may have embarked towards a post-racist society, and it's gone a long way down that road, but it hasn't reached the destination yet.
It's inevitable, really. I can see the chain of events right now: 1. Pass this well-intentioned law. 2. Many major pornography sites comply. 3. Consumers say 'screw that.' They don't want their porn viewing on record - and besides, pornography is a impulsive thing. When you want it, you don't want to mess around with proof of identity first. 4. Consumers each spend about ten seconds on google and find plenty of porn sites outside of the UK. 5. After a couple of years, MPs notice that the law has achieved nothing. 6. And so the order is given to ban all the porn on the internet. 7. Battle ensues between government and ISP engineers building filters, and porn enthusiasts building new ways to subvert them. We all know who wins that one.
I've looked into this myself, and there are none. The problem is control: There's no way to get a solid conclusion without a control, and there's no way any ethics board is going to approve a study that involves deliberately showing pornography to minors to see what happens.
There are studies to be found, it's just that they all suck. Purely correlative, often contradictory. Conclusions are all over the place.
Brave New World's approach to sex was the polar opposite of that in 1984. BNW's society embraced sex - and took that to an extreme, with the intent of removing all consequence and meaning. In BNW, sex is something that even casual acquaintances do together because they both enjoy it, and so why not? Monogamy is viewed as selfish to the point of perversion, because it asserts a level of ownership over a partner. Pornography is not just permitted, but encouraged.
A modern audience probably finds this rather less dystopian than at the time of publication.
It's interesting to note that the Blizzard updater never mentions bittorrent, anywhere - even though it is a bittorrent client. I think they don't want to be too openly associated with a technology of somewhat sordid reputation.
If it's analog, the signal will be simple UHF with a frequency shift, because that's easy for the transmitter to then shift down again for broadcast. Generating the UHF source is trivial, especially in the 80s - every VCR and home computer had a UHF modulator. Probably used a camcorder to film himself. The microwave side is harder, though. Any experienced radio amateur would be able to build the mixer and filters for a converter. That just leaves the power amplifier. How he got hold of one of those, I do not know. Built it, possibly - though it may have taken some inventive design to cobble together from a lot of low-power transistors.
If I had to speculate, I'd say you are looking for a ham, or a friend of a ham. They'd have the skills to construct and use the equipment.
That may explain why they voted, but it's not going to help them. There are solid economic reasons for the decline in American manufacturing, and there's not much that Trump can do about them. Even if he does, it won't bring back the glory days - modern industry is far more automated. Coal mines don't need hundreds of men swinging picks at the coal face any more - they need a few men operating excavators. Even the trucks have grown to a massive size, requiring a fraction of the drivers per ton-hour haulage capacity. The rust belt is stuck trying to recreate a dead past.
Look at it as a patient. Two options are presented: Doctor: Yeah, you have cancer. We can treat it. It's going to cost all your life savings and then some, and take a year at least. During which you are going to wish you are dead, because these chemo drugs are pretty nasty - expect to spend most of your time in bed or vomiting. Forget about work. But, if you go through all that, I think you've a fifty-fifty chance of not dying. Quack: Just take these pills and you'll be fine. Don't believe the medical establishment, they are just trying to take your money.
Some of those - Freenet and IPFS at least, I don't know enough about the others to say - are capable of operating in an almost fully distributed manner using only short-range wifi mesh. But that won't work right now because there isn't enough user density. The chances of you having another person living within a hundred-meter range of your home who also runs Freenet or IPFS are rather remote.
First thing, forget Freenet. Nice idea, great at what it does, but not what we want - that extreme level of counter-monitoring has a serious performance hit. Also it's storage architecture is seriously inelegant, and that's not fixable - it makes block management unweildy. I suggest IPFS instead. If you want to do what you propose, IPFS may be the key to viability.
AP + captive portal with instructions + IPFS node with generous cache tied across the internet. That'll get you everything except real-time communications, and certainly enough to be useful. Providing you give people an index, of course. IPFS doesn't do content discovery.
In the UK we deal with it by having an enforced split between the physical infrastructure of telecoms and the customer end - the company operating the cables only makes their capacity available to the ISPs, and the ISPs then hook their equipment up at the ends. This only applies to telephone cabling though, not cable internet.
The technology available to ordinary people is not long-range. You get a hundred meters with regular APs, and a few kilometers line-of-sight wireless with directional antennas - but you can't go around stringing fiber up all over a city, or burying it alongside roads.
I'd love to try what you are doing. Seriously, I would. It sounds like a fun challenge and a satisfying project. But for that to be viable I'd need a very high density of local nerds with the inclination and ability to join me. Very few places meet these criteria.
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It might be regarded as a unit of convenience. Much like KWh - it's not a metric quantity, it's horribly awkward in physics, but it's used because it simplifies billing calculations.
Many PC power supplies can run off of DC of suitable voltage. But not all - it depends on the design of certain elements, particularly in 110/230 dual voltage supplies. Putting DC into the wrong one will either do nothing, or cause the magic smoke to escape.
Your total collapse scenario is highly unlikely. Regional natural disasters happen all the time, sometimes leading to temporary anarchy, but the outside world always come back in before long. The type of long-running collapse you envision would require something on the scale of a global nuclear war.
The intent of universal income is not to give people money to burn. It's to give them enough to meet the essentials: Roof, food, safety, education, healthcare. Just enough to live in your comfortable hovel. If you want luxuries, go get a job.
How about next time you put a bit of redundancy in the vital organs. And leave out the stupid appendix.
Li-ion batteries can explode - if the battery is sealed, failure can lead to a pressure buildup that will eventually rupture leading to a sudden release of boiling electrolyte and vapor. This is a worst case scenario though, and can only happen if the battery is poorly designed or mistreated.
I can imagine one way it might be an issue - a major charging station may well not have the grid connection capacity to run all their charging points at one time. Simple oversubscription model - as there will hardly ever be a time when the entire parking lot is full with cars all in the fast-charge state, why pay out for a substation that can handle that much drain? It means that on very rare occasions when the place is very busy, you might find your charging station refuses to go into fast charge mode until it reaches the front of the queue.
The multi-port approach might allow some flexibility in handling different traffic types. Rather than having 'truck bays' and 'car bays' for different vehicles, you'd only need one type of bay. A truck parks in two adjacent bays, and takes a cable from each.
I think you meant 'more people per capita.'
Probably not. It would just reduce utility to the customer too much - there would be the type of public outcry that even the mighty telecoms lobbyists would struggle to counteract.
More likely you'll still be able to connect to unapproved sites, but only at what the ISP may call 'high speed' - actually consisting of an old gigabit ethernet cable serving each thousand-customer node, where you get to enjoy constant buffering any time you want video, failed downloads and general unpleasantness. While those sites which the ISP has approved of (for a fee) get to use the much better connectivity.
Most importantly, this will be somewhat hidden from the customer. The ISP does not want to incur their wrath: It wants to direct them elsewhere: "Damnit, why is NewIndyTube so crap? I just want to watch a video, but it can't go ten seconds without pausing. I know it's not my connection YouTube and Netflix both work fine."
it might be more accurate to say there is very little overt racism. The racism is still there, but much diminished and driven underground. It doesn't manifest as 'I won't accept a black president,' but rather as 'are we sure he is a real American?'
Do you think that the birther conspiracy theory could ever have thrived for a white president?
There's also statistical evidence that even unconscious racism is very much alive. You can see it in fields like criminal sentencing - when comparing convictions for the same crime across race, some races get noticeably higher average sentences than others.
America may have embarked towards a post-racist society, and it's gone a long way down that road, but it hasn't reached the destination yet.
It's inevitable, really. I can see the chain of events right now:
1. Pass this well-intentioned law.
2. Many major pornography sites comply.
3. Consumers say 'screw that.' They don't want their porn viewing on record - and besides, pornography is a impulsive thing. When you want it, you don't want to mess around with proof of identity first.
4. Consumers each spend about ten seconds on google and find plenty of porn sites outside of the UK.
5. After a couple of years, MPs notice that the law has achieved nothing.
6. And so the order is given to ban all the porn on the internet.
7. Battle ensues between government and ISP engineers building filters, and porn enthusiasts building new ways to subvert them. We all know who wins that one.
I've looked into this myself, and there are none. The problem is control: There's no way to get a solid conclusion without a control, and there's no way any ethics board is going to approve a study that involves deliberately showing pornography to minors to see what happens.
There are studies to be found, it's just that they all suck. Purely correlative, often contradictory. Conclusions are all over the place.
Brave New World's approach to sex was the polar opposite of that in 1984. BNW's society embraced sex - and took that to an extreme, with the intent of removing all consequence and meaning. In BNW, sex is something that even casual acquaintances do together because they both enjoy it, and so why not? Monogamy is viewed as selfish to the point of perversion, because it asserts a level of ownership over a partner. Pornography is not just permitted, but encouraged.
A modern audience probably finds this rather less dystopian than at the time of publication.
It'll be automated, of course. This is google, so I'd expect something a bit more sophisticated than a bad-word-list, but similar in concept.
It's interesting to note that the Blizzard updater never mentions bittorrent, anywhere - even though it is a bittorrent client. I think they don't want to be too openly associated with a technology of somewhat sordid reputation.
They'd pass a law. It'd just be full of deliberate loopholes.
"That's funny, because all of mine had VHF. You got a choice of channel 3 or channel 4"
Oh, right. American. We don't do VHF TV over here in the UK - it's all UHF.
If it's analog, the signal will be simple UHF with a frequency shift, because that's easy for the transmitter to then shift down again for broadcast. Generating the UHF source is trivial, especially in the 80s - every VCR and home computer had a UHF modulator. Probably used a camcorder to film himself. The microwave side is harder, though. Any experienced radio amateur would be able to build the mixer and filters for a converter. That just leaves the power amplifier. How he got hold of one of those, I do not know. Built it, possibly - though it may have taken some inventive design to cobble together from a lot of low-power transistors.
If I had to speculate, I'd say you are looking for a ham, or a friend of a ham. They'd have the skills to construct and use the equipment.
That may explain why they voted, but it's not going to help them. There are solid economic reasons for the decline in American manufacturing, and there's not much that Trump can do about them. Even if he does, it won't bring back the glory days - modern industry is far more automated. Coal mines don't need hundreds of men swinging picks at the coal face any more - they need a few men operating excavators. Even the trucks have grown to a massive size, requiring a fraction of the drivers per ton-hour haulage capacity. The rust belt is stuck trying to recreate a dead past.
Look at it as a patient. Two options are presented:
Doctor: Yeah, you have cancer. We can treat it. It's going to cost all your life savings and then some, and take a year at least. During which you are going to wish you are dead, because these chemo drugs are pretty nasty - expect to spend most of your time in bed or vomiting. Forget about work. But, if you go through all that, I think you've a fifty-fifty chance of not dying.
Quack: Just take these pills and you'll be fine. Don't believe the medical establishment, they are just trying to take your money.
Some of those - Freenet and IPFS at least, I don't know enough about the others to say - are capable of operating in an almost fully distributed manner using only short-range wifi mesh. But that won't work right now because there isn't enough user density. The chances of you having another person living within a hundred-meter range of your home who also runs Freenet or IPFS are rather remote.
First thing, forget Freenet. Nice idea, great at what it does, but not what we want - that extreme level of counter-monitoring has a serious performance hit. Also it's storage architecture is seriously inelegant, and that's not fixable - it makes block management unweildy. I suggest IPFS instead. If you want to do what you propose, IPFS may be the key to viability.
AP + captive portal with instructions + IPFS node with generous cache tied across the internet. That'll get you everything except real-time communications, and certainly enough to be useful. Providing you give people an index, of course. IPFS doesn't do content discovery.
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In the UK we deal with it by having an enforced split between the physical infrastructure of telecoms and the customer end - the company operating the cables only makes their capacity available to the ISPs, and the ISPs then hook their equipment up at the ends. This only applies to telephone cabling though, not cable internet.
The technology available to ordinary people is not long-range. You get a hundred meters with regular APs, and a few kilometers line-of-sight wireless with directional antennas - but you can't go around stringing fiber up all over a city, or burying it alongside roads.
I'd love to try what you are doing. Seriously, I would. It sounds like a fun challenge and a satisfying project. But for that to be viable I'd need a very high density of local nerds with the inclination and ability to join me. Very few places meet these criteria.