You'd also need to use some sort of content addressed distributed store to make bulk traffic manageable. I see some potential in IPFS. If you take the distributed store from that, and combine it with mesh networking, then... well, it's still not entirely workable. But it's an avenue to explore.
The second would be confused for a few minutes, then realise that the entire set has been built as a giant vacuum chamber to trick them - it's probably inside a huge cave underground, with spotlights on the ceiling. He'll tell the others, and no more venture outside.
Conspiracy theories will adapt to counter any evidence presented.
I did some calculations a while ago. As of last year (or was it the year before?), the ten-year average annual deaths for terrorist attack in the US is less than that for lightning strikes, but greater than that for sharks.
In Australia, the sharks scored more kills than the terrorists.
The point here is that people are absolutely awful at estimating risk. They are highly biased to ignore the common, and consider only the exceptional.
While the audio issues are a hardware problem, the translation engine is in Google's cloud. In the last few years I've seen their translations into english go from an incomprehensible joke into something that's usually intelligible, if oddly worded. Hungarian is probably not their highest priority language.
Maybe not enough for a simple bomb, but 150g is enough for a long needle laced with something suitably toxic. A bit beyond the means of a lone wolf attacker, but well within the capabilities of even the smallest nation. All the drone need do is identify the target and ram. Ricin would be ideal. Or abrin - that stuff is so toxic you'd only need to fly the drone around your target's head while dispersing it into the air.
I've seen this idea before many years ago. It was an episode of Bugs. Their drones looked like insects rather than quadcopters, but the idea was the same: They are just smart enough to identify a target, home in and stab.
The 'populists' are useful idiots. All that is required to win their support is to wave the flag a lot, talk about how great America is and blame every problem upon immigrants and foreigners.
Moore did not win because he was standing up for the people: He won because he isn't ashamed to tell the people that Christians are the best, nonbelievers are all America-hating commie filth, and that homosexuals are plotting to rape their children. It's Alabama, that sort of thing goes down well there.
There's a reason the low/middle income personal tax breaks in the bill expire in eight years: When it happens and taxes shoot up, there's a 50/50 chance it'll be a Democrat in the white house who gets the blame.
For a very long time now - ever since the end of company scrip payment. The practice was banned because it could be used for tax avoision: Pay your workers a taxable pittance, but then give them a massive discount at the store and company-provided housing.
Average ocean depth = 3.7Km. 3.7Km times volumetric thermal expansion coefficient of water (@20c), 0.000207 = 0.0007659Km, or 0.77m/degC.
Just a very rough back-of-the-envelope calculation - it doesn't account for ice sheet/permafrost melt and the warming of the ocean wouldn't be uniform, it ignores that the ocean is not a pit of constant depth, and even with circulation it takes decades for the deep ocean to change temperature. But it should be in the ballpark, and shows that the effect on sea level of even a small bulk temperature change is potentially large enough to be damaging to coastal settlements.
Rewrite or replace the hardware. Many USB memory sticks have plenty of free space inside - you could easily stick a little CPLD chip in there to sit between the USB port and the flash memory. It'd even still work as a memory stick. You'd need one skilled hacker to design the CPLD, but once it's designed the actual construction is only a low-skill soldering job. Anyone who can buy a PCB and solder an SMD could do it, and you can buy custom-made PCBs on eBay. And CPLDs too.
It does have some useful niches. It's good for tax evasion, stashing the gains of criminal enterprises in such a way that the authorities cannot find or seize them, or transferring money across borders when countries have regulations on large cash transfers. Hardly surprising that it has something of a sordid reputation.
In this particular instance, it was politics rather than reproduction. Mohammed had secured a very wealthy and powerful man into his new religion, Abu Bakr. Marrying Abu Bakr's daughter was a way to show unity and establish an unbreakable bond between them and their families. This was especially important to Abu, as his standing in the community had plummeted when he joined what was, at the time, a tiny and bizarre cult.
From the perspective of an economist, they are really the same thing. Giving someone $X, or not taking $X that would otherwise have been taken, they both have the same result.
Conservatives may be in favor, but Republicans are not. Republicans know that they have a political game to play, and this means sometimes ideals must take a back seat to securing victory. Campaigns are very expensive things to run, and they must be careful to remain of benefit to certain key donor industries so the funding continues.
If Texas did want out, it is plausible that they could get Congress and the President to go along - if only because the alternative would be millions of people dead. It's not going to happen in the immediate future, but things can change a lot in ten years.
Be fair: One child. Very much a child when they married, but it was a political thing to tie families together. In accordance with custom he didn't consummate the marriage until she was menstruating, and thus considered an adult by the standards of the time. Today, he would be considered guilty of statutory rape - but those were very different times, and what he did was not really out of the ordinary for a man of some wealth and political importance.
That's not how copyright works. Only the version from twenty years ago would be in the public domain. That's why you often see software with a copyright notice listing a range of years - it means that not all parts were written at the same time.
No, because copyright is governed by international agreements. The shortest they can go is fifty years, under the Berne convention - any less than that would result in the government being sued in international court, and failure to abide by the treaty would result in expulsion from the WTO with devastating economic consequences. For countries in Europe, it's seventy years under the Copyright Duration Directive, or seventy years after the death of the author for works which have an individual individual author
We've had a similar mess in the UK. FIFA, one of the agencies that organises football (not handegg) tournaments, has a long-standing policy that prohibits players displaying any form of political symbol on the field. Simple enough. Until a match is to be played on Remembrance Sunday.
Remembrance Sunday is an event similar to Memorial Day in the US, except with fewer overt displays of patriotism and a lot more regret*. It's also an event for which wearing the poppy symbol is socially obligatory. Every adult in the country has one, and most of the children. If any politician neglected to wear theirs, it would be a major scandal. Tabloid papers run stories about how some immigrants are not wearing their poppy, which proves how much they hate the country.
In short, very close to every single person in the UK was utterly horrified when FIFA declared that the poppy was a political symbol and could not be worn on pitch. In the face of such outcry, FIFA had to revise their policy with a poppy exception.
So far, it's been quiet since. But how long before other countries start expecting their own exception for their versions of memorial day? It's going to happen, and some countries have memorial day counterparts that are a lot more nationalistic then wearing a poppy. How long before the Russian team starts wanting to wear badges commemorating those who died in the Russo-Georgian War?
* We tend to regard our war dead not as great heroes who served their country, but as a reminder that war should never be entered lightly.
Anonyminity is only one function of Tor. It has a second function too: Censorship evasion. Plenty of people around the world really don't mind Facebook knowing who they are - they just want to hide from their government, to make sure they are not arrested for sedition or blasphemy, or access news and material their government has deemed too dangerous to permit the people to see. In that event, Tor does the job very well.
Slashdot Mirror
Would you rather government control, or corporate control? Because I don't see any 'no control' option.
You'd also need to use some sort of content addressed distributed store to make bulk traffic manageable. I see some potential in IPFS. If you take the distributed store from that, and combine it with mesh networking, then... well, it's still not entirely workable. But it's an avenue to explore.
That's why he is launching over an abandoned town.
One person would walk out and die.
The second would be confused for a few minutes, then realise that the entire set has been built as a giant vacuum chamber to trick them - it's probably inside a huge cave underground, with spotlights on the ceiling. He'll tell the others, and no more venture outside.
Conspiracy theories will adapt to counter any evidence presented.
I did some calculations a while ago. As of last year (or was it the year before?), the ten-year average annual deaths for terrorist attack in the US is less than that for lightning strikes, but greater than that for sharks.
In Australia, the sharks scored more kills than the terrorists.
The point here is that people are absolutely awful at estimating risk. They are highly biased to ignore the common, and consider only the exceptional.
While the audio issues are a hardware problem, the translation engine is in Google's cloud. In the last few years I've seen their translations into english go from an incomprehensible joke into something that's usually intelligible, if oddly worded. Hungarian is probably not their highest priority language.
Black Mirror did it. But Bugs did it first
Maybe not enough for a simple bomb, but 150g is enough for a long needle laced with something suitably toxic. A bit beyond the means of a lone wolf attacker, but well within the capabilities of even the smallest nation. All the drone need do is identify the target and ram. Ricin would be ideal. Or abrin - that stuff is so toxic you'd only need to fly the drone around your target's head while dispersing it into the air.
I've seen this idea before many years ago. It was an episode of Bugs. Their drones looked like insects rather than quadcopters, but the idea was the same: They are just smart enough to identify a target, home in and stab.
The 'populists' are useful idiots. All that is required to win their support is to wave the flag a lot, talk about how great America is and blame every problem upon immigrants and foreigners.
Moore did not win because he was standing up for the people: He won because he isn't ashamed to tell the people that Christians are the best, nonbelievers are all America-hating commie filth, and that homosexuals are plotting to rape their children. It's Alabama, that sort of thing goes down well there.
There's a reason the low/middle income personal tax breaks in the bill expire in eight years: When it happens and taxes shoot up, there's a 50/50 chance it'll be a Democrat in the white house who gets the blame.
For a very long time now - ever since the end of company scrip payment. The practice was banned because it could be used for tax avoision: Pay your workers a taxable pittance, but then give them a massive discount at the store and company-provided housing.
Average ocean depth = 3.7Km.
3.7Km times volumetric thermal expansion coefficient of water (@20c), 0.000207 = 0.0007659Km, or 0.77m/degC.
Just a very rough back-of-the-envelope calculation - it doesn't account for ice sheet/permafrost melt and the warming of the ocean wouldn't be uniform, it ignores that the ocean is not a pit of constant depth, and even with circulation it takes decades for the deep ocean to change temperature. But it should be in the ballpark, and shows that the effect on sea level of even a small bulk temperature change is potentially large enough to be damaging to coastal settlements.
Rewrite or replace the hardware. Many USB memory sticks have plenty of free space inside - you could easily stick a little CPLD chip in there to sit between the USB port and the flash memory. It'd even still work as a memory stick. You'd need one skilled hacker to design the CPLD, but once it's designed the actual construction is only a low-skill soldering job. Anyone who can buy a PCB and solder an SMD could do it, and you can buy custom-made PCBs on eBay. And CPLDs too.
We already have that. It's called a debit card. Those things are easy to do if you are willing to trust in a central authority.
It does have some useful niches. It's good for tax evasion, stashing the gains of criminal enterprises in such a way that the authorities cannot find or seize them, or transferring money across borders when countries have regulations on large cash transfers. Hardly surprising that it has something of a sordid reputation.
It's a trade. Security vs performance. Always is.
In this particular instance, it was politics rather than reproduction. Mohammed had secured a very wealthy and powerful man into his new religion, Abu Bakr. Marrying Abu Bakr's daughter was a way to show unity and establish an unbreakable bond between them and their families. This was especially important to Abu, as his standing in the community had plummeted when he joined what was, at the time, a tiny and bizarre cult.
From the perspective of an economist, they are really the same thing. Giving someone $X, or not taking $X that would otherwise have been taken, they both have the same result.
Conservatives may be in favor, but Republicans are not. Republicans know that they have a political game to play, and this means sometimes ideals must take a back seat to securing victory. Campaigns are very expensive things to run, and they must be careful to remain of benefit to certain key donor industries so the funding continues.
If Texas did want out, it is plausible that they could get Congress and the President to go along - if only because the alternative would be millions of people dead. It's not going to happen in the immediate future, but things can change a lot in ten years.
Be fair: One child. Very much a child when they married, but it was a political thing to tie families together. In accordance with custom he didn't consummate the marriage until she was menstruating, and thus considered an adult by the standards of the time. Today, he would be considered guilty of statutory rape - but those were very different times, and what he did was not really out of the ordinary for a man of some wealth and political importance.
That's not how copyright works. Only the version from twenty years ago would be in the public domain. That's why you often see software with a copyright notice listing a range of years - it means that not all parts were written at the same time.
No, because copyright is governed by international agreements. The shortest they can go is fifty years, under the Berne convention - any less than that would result in the government being sued in international court, and failure to abide by the treaty would result in expulsion from the WTO with devastating economic consequences. For countries in Europe, it's seventy years under the Copyright Duration Directive, or seventy years after the death of the author for works which have an individual individual author
We've had a similar mess in the UK. FIFA, one of the agencies that organises football (not handegg) tournaments, has a long-standing policy that prohibits players displaying any form of political symbol on the field. Simple enough. Until a match is to be played on Remembrance Sunday.
Remembrance Sunday is an event similar to Memorial Day in the US, except with fewer overt displays of patriotism and a lot more regret*. It's also an event for which wearing the poppy symbol is socially obligatory. Every adult in the country has one, and most of the children. If any politician neglected to wear theirs, it would be a major scandal. Tabloid papers run stories about how some immigrants are not wearing their poppy, which proves how much they hate the country.
In short, very close to every single person in the UK was utterly horrified when FIFA declared that the poppy was a political symbol and could not be worn on pitch. In the face of such outcry, FIFA had to revise their policy with a poppy exception.
So far, it's been quiet since. But how long before other countries start expecting their own exception for their versions of memorial day? It's going to happen, and some countries have memorial day counterparts that are a lot more nationalistic then wearing a poppy. How long before the Russian team starts wanting to wear badges commemorating those who died in the Russo-Georgian War?
* We tend to regard our war dead not as great heroes who served their country, but as a reminder that war should never be entered lightly.
Anonyminity is only one function of Tor. It has a second function too: Censorship evasion. Plenty of people around the world really don't mind Facebook knowing who they are - they just want to hide from their government, to make sure they are not arrested for sedition or blasphemy, or access news and material their government has deemed too dangerous to permit the people to see. In that event, Tor does the job very well.