You can get read-only devices for HDDs - they sit in between the drive and SATA controller. It blocks all ATA commands that would alter the contents of the drive.
Called a write-blocker, and mostly used in digital forensics so that an investigator can safely hook up a suspect's drive and take an image without any risk of accidentally writing to it and so possibly compromising the evidence.
But satellite phones do, and cell companies have options available for pop-up cell towers that use microwave beam, mesh radio or satellite backhaul and can be quickly deployed.
The call for ham operators in Puerto Rico is an exception - that's why it's newsworthy. Twenty years ago this would have been done for everywhere the hurricane hit.
They could take the higher ground still and get into a 'tech battle.' Make the protocol harder to block, set up dynamic servers on public clouds. It'd be pretty much burning every bridge to doing business in China, but those bridges are not looking very dependable right now anyway. China does have a strongly protectionist attitude - even if WhatsApp complied, the government would still penalize them in favor of any Chinese-owned competitor.
Nail polish removes is diluted acetone. Raw acetone certainly gets the nail polish off, but it'll take part of the skin with it. Plus dilution reduces the flammability.
A lot of those chemicals are surprisingly useful. The bomb that started this panic was an acetone peroxide explosive - probably improperly prepared, as it didn't make much of a bang. You need only two reagents to make that. Hydrogen peroxide, and acetone. I purchased a bit bottle of acetone online because I use it to perform vapor smooths of 3D printed objects - exposure to acetone vapor makes them smoother and stronger. It's also pretty good at getting ink stains from clothing.
Have some sympathy for those of us who work in education. We have a legal requirement to filter and monitor for child protection reasons - if we couldn't MITM, we'd have no choice but to block SSL entirely except for whitelisted sites. Filtering on domain name alone isn't good enough when so many sites feature user-generated content and comments.
The problem there is that it creates a 'battle of the minds' between the company engineers trying to make more tamper-resistant products and the hackers trying to tamper with them. You can easily end up with a legal right which is impossible to exercise in practice because either the engineers won or because the hacking procedure requires a higher level or skill or access to tools than you possess.
Apple could be regarded as an extreme mark up on upgrade components. The price difference between a 32GB and a 64GB iPhone is a *lot* more than the cost of a higher-end memory chip.
The more cynical people (me) would also point to the lack of an SD card slot and point out that if you could just stick an SD card in, no-one would pay that much for the higher-end iPhone. They'd just buy the cheap one and upgrade it.
It's called segmentation, and it's a very common business practice. But it still makes people feel cheated when they realise that the product they buy is deliberately limited - they are buying something which has been deliberately designed to be less useful than it could be.
It's common for hardware raid cards to be shipped without a single vital component: The battery that's needed to enable write-through cache. You can't safely do write-through without one, because it prevents data loss in the event of unexpected power loss.
The battery is a little li-ion that clips onto the controller. It costs $400, and includes a crypto-auth chip to stop you from just soldering your own to the board or buying an unbranded compatible.
Does keeping attribution information in that level of detail really important? It's not as if the performers actually get paid, unless they reach superstar level.
We have precise trajectory data, so a future craft should be able to catch up. That's not the problem. It's turning around again: The delta-V needs would be huge.
Because any intelligent species getting the record would immediately stick it under a microscope to see what the grooves were for, notice the grooves are wriggly, and conclude they probably store information. A little more study and they would determine that it's actually one very long, continuous groove, and the instructions take it from there.
The record is supplied with instructions on the correct rotational speed and means of playing. Any civilisation capable of intercepting it should have no trouble decoding it.
At which point they will probably classify Earth as 'no intelligent life.'
China disagrees. The issue is rather contentious in Taiwan - though nominally semi-independent, China routinely attempts to exercise influence and stifle dissent. The Chinese government puts a great deal of value in national unity, and are not pleased about tolerating what they regard as a breakaway province.
America became a victim of its own success, in a way. Cost of living has been driving very high by economic success, until it reached a point where they were no longer competitive in a global manufacturing market - it's just cheaper to build things in China, where not only is labor cheap but environmental laws are also very lax.
China is going the same way now - their manufacturing industry is booming, but growth is not what it was, and their serious pollution issues mean environmental protection is becoming an issue. Labor is not as cheap as it was either. Many industries are already eyeing Vietnam, the next manufacturing paradise - labor there is as cheap as China once was, cost of living is in the US dollars per day, and the government is so desperate for economic growth they don't need to pay any care to environmental protection.
Current American politics works thus: "I have here a detailed economic analy - " "LOOK! CROSS DRESSING MEN WANT TO RAPE YOUR CHILD IN THE SCHOOL RESTROOM! Probably immigrants, too." "I really think that we need to consider -" "WHAT, DO YOU WANT TO SEE OUR DAUGHTERS RAPED? DO YOU NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR PRIVACY?"
well, then, I guess all those people with disabilities or of very niche ethnicity can just go screw themselves then? They don't have the numbers to deserve rights.
I don't think Trump actually cares about gay or transgender issues at all. It's just not a concern of his, so he does whatever the party leaders urge him to do.
Exactly how does demonstrating some tolerance for transgender individuals go against the 'needs' of the rest of Americans? It does not affect them at all.
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You can get read-only devices for HDDs - they sit in between the drive and SATA controller. It blocks all ATA commands that would alter the contents of the drive.
Called a write-blocker, and mostly used in digital forensics so that an investigator can safely hook up a suspect's drive and take an image without any risk of accidentally writing to it and so possibly compromising the evidence.
But satellite phones do, and cell companies have options available for pop-up cell towers that use microwave beam, mesh radio or satellite backhaul and can be quickly deployed.
The call for ham operators in Puerto Rico is an exception - that's why it's newsworthy. Twenty years ago this would have been done for everywhere the hurricane hit.
Given how close the election was, even small things might have changed the outcome.
They could take the higher ground still and get into a 'tech battle.' Make the protocol harder to block, set up dynamic servers on public clouds. It'd be pretty much burning every bridge to doing business in China, but those bridges are not looking very dependable right now anyway. China does have a strongly protectionist attitude - even if WhatsApp complied, the government would still penalize them in favor of any Chinese-owned competitor.
Nail polish removes is diluted acetone. Raw acetone certainly gets the nail polish off, but it'll take part of the skin with it. Plus dilution reduces the flammability.
Probably because they'd just spent the last hour searching for 'bomb' 'explosive' and 'gunpowder' before Amazon's algorithms did their thing.
A lot of those chemicals are surprisingly useful. The bomb that started this panic was an acetone peroxide explosive - probably improperly prepared, as it didn't make much of a bang. You need only two reagents to make that. Hydrogen peroxide, and acetone. I purchased a bit bottle of acetone online because I use it to perform vapor smooths of 3D printed objects - exposure to acetone vapor makes them smoother and stronger. It's also pretty good at getting ink stains from clothing.
They are actually quite easy to detect, providing one end has a public key signed by a mutually trusted party. That's what SSL certificates are for.
Have some sympathy for those of us who work in education. We have a legal requirement to filter and monitor for child protection reasons - if we couldn't MITM, we'd have no choice but to block SSL entirely except for whitelisted sites. Filtering on domain name alone isn't good enough when so many sites feature user-generated content and comments.
The problem there is that it creates a 'battle of the minds' between the company engineers trying to make more tamper-resistant products and the hackers trying to tamper with them. You can easily end up with a legal right which is impossible to exercise in practice because either the engineers won or because the hacking procedure requires a higher level or skill or access to tools than you possess.
Apple could be regarded as an extreme mark up on upgrade components. The price difference between a 32GB and a 64GB iPhone is a *lot* more than the cost of a higher-end memory chip.
The more cynical people (me) would also point to the lack of an SD card slot and point out that if you could just stick an SD card in, no-one would pay that much for the higher-end iPhone. They'd just buy the cheap one and upgrade it.
It's called segmentation, and it's a very common business practice. But it still makes people feel cheated when they realise that the product they buy is deliberately limited - they are buying something which has been deliberately designed to be less useful than it could be.
It's common for hardware raid cards to be shipped without a single vital component: The battery that's needed to enable write-through cache. You can't safely do write-through without one, because it prevents data loss in the event of unexpected power loss.
The battery is a little li-ion that clips onto the controller. It costs $400, and includes a crypto-auth chip to stop you from just soldering your own to the board or buying an unbranded compatible.
Does keeping attribution information in that level of detail really important? It's not as if the performers actually get paid, unless they reach superstar level.
Wouldn't work.
91% accuracy? That's enough for plausible denyability.
It's harder than you'd think.
We have precise trajectory data, so a future craft should be able to catch up. That's not the problem. It's turning around again: The delta-V needs would be huge.
Because any intelligent species getting the record would immediately stick it under a microscope to see what the grooves were for, notice the grooves are wriggly, and conclude they probably store information. A little more study and they would determine that it's actually one very long, continuous groove, and the instructions take it from there.
The record is supplied with instructions on the correct rotational speed and means of playing. Any civilisation capable of intercepting it should have no trouble decoding it.
At which point they will probably classify Earth as 'no intelligent life.'
China disagrees. The issue is rather contentious in Taiwan - though nominally semi-independent, China routinely attempts to exercise influence and stifle dissent. The Chinese government puts a great deal of value in national unity, and are not pleased about tolerating what they regard as a breakaway province.
America became a victim of its own success, in a way. Cost of living has been driving very high by economic success, until it reached a point where they were no longer competitive in a global manufacturing market - it's just cheaper to build things in China, where not only is labor cheap but environmental laws are also very lax.
China is going the same way now - their manufacturing industry is booming, but growth is not what it was, and their serious pollution issues mean environmental protection is becoming an issue. Labor is not as cheap as it was either. Many industries are already eyeing Vietnam, the next manufacturing paradise - labor there is as cheap as China once was, cost of living is in the US dollars per day, and the government is so desperate for economic growth they don't need to pay any care to environmental protection.
They've also mastered the art of distraction.
Current American politics works thus:
"I have here a detailed economic analy - "
"LOOK! CROSS DRESSING MEN WANT TO RAPE YOUR CHILD IN THE SCHOOL RESTROOM! Probably immigrants, too."
"I really think that we need to consider -"
"WHAT, DO YOU WANT TO SEE OUR DAUGHTERS RAPED? DO YOU NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR PRIVACY?"
That must be some dedicated pranking.
well, then, I guess all those people with disabilities or of very niche ethnicity can just go screw themselves then? They don't have the numbers to deserve rights.
I don't think Trump actually cares about gay or transgender issues at all. It's just not a concern of his, so he does whatever the party leaders urge him to do.
Exactly how does demonstrating some tolerance for transgender individuals go against the 'needs' of the rest of Americans? It does not affect them at all.