DNS is centralised by nature. It has to be. Someone has to be in charge to decide who owns what domain. That is why it should go. The concept of domain names is wonderfully useful, but also far too controllable. There are other ways to run a network. Copy-paste is a useful thing.
Quantum isn't the end of encryption. It's the end of a lot of existing encryption, but there are other mathematics that can be used. Symmetric key is less vulnerable than assymetric, so if you have a way of establishing initial trust it becomes almost easy.
I'm guessing the CID card's purpose isn't just to specify ID, but to prove it cryptographically. Either a government thing ('To protect the children and fight terrorism!') or the end result of the slow expansion of social networking services into other fields in their quest for more marketing data. Just as many forums and blogs today require a Facebook account to post, in fifteen years your landlord might require you have a Facebook ID card un unlock your apartment door. That way he benefits from a secure, revokable (Can't do that on mechanical locks!) authentication system backed up and subsidised by one of the mega-corps, and Facebook benefits by finding out exactly what times you arrive and leave your home.
The move from password to card is obvious. Passwords are terribly insecure - easily guessed, easily forgotten, and most people use the same password for a wide array of different purposes.
South-east UK. The UK has historically been mostly on unmetered water, but right now we're in the middle of installing meters as fast as the company can get them plumbed in. It's not exactly a free market though, as we don't have an 'unbundling' regulation as with internet and electricity supply: Whichever company owns the pipe into your house, that's who you'll be buying water from.
Total water doesn't matter. Accessible water does. Saltwater isn't much use - it needs desalination, which is prohibatively expensive. So if you use water faster than the rain falls, eventually it's going to run out.
Why not? Many areas are already under heavy water stress. There are but three ways I can see the future deal with this:
1. Revolutionary new technology. Perhaps a big increase in the use of nuclear energy for desalination.
2. Free-market control of demand: You can use all the water you want, but you pay by the litre. Your usage is limited by what you can afford. May work, may just result in the low-income going unwashed because they can't afford more than drinking water. Depends how the market sets the price.
3. Regulatory control of demand. The water quota.
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The pokemon movies are commonly cited as examples of heavy editing in the US release - not just cutting scenes, but rewriting lines and replacing music. Being targeted at a very young audience, the dubbing company usually considers it best to remove anything that could scare or confuse the kiddies. That means not just excising scarey scenes (#1's intro), but also any reference to non-American culture. In #2, for example, traditional Japanese folk music at a ceremony is replaced by caribbean pop music. #2 also has the interesting distinction of removing a passing reference to life emerging from naturally occuring complex organic molecules, presumably in order to avoid contradicting the bible. The dub for #2 was by Fox.
You might have seen the later edition, in which the cut opening was replaced. Did the version you saw involve the death of a child near the beginning? If no, then you saw it cut.
Only in the Japanese version. In the US release Mewtwo is just a generic monster, as the dubbing company judged his full story too scarey for the little kiddies and cut a lot out.
I understand PETA as a big flock of well-meaning animal lovers lead by a core of extremists. Even the majority of their own members are unaware of just how extreme the leadership is.
A much weaker argument now. The Lightning connector has fewer pins, which means that many of those additional capabilities are gone.Including HDMI output. Another feature sacrificed in Apple's quest for thinness. Like corporate annorexia.
Everyone here is talking about licence fees, but I don't think that's it. I think they want to maintain segregation of the accessories market. The iPhone is a very expensive phone, even for it's (quite impressive) specifications - success depends upon being seen not just as 'another phone' to compete with all those much cheaper models by other manufacturers, but as a whole class in itsself. A distinction much easier to maintain if the iPhone can't even plug into accessories made for 'common' brands, and vice versa. The last thing Apple wants is for their customers to realise that a high-end android phone can do very nearly everything an iPhone can, but at less than half the price.
Cars in the US are stupidly large because that's the type of car people will buy. The manufacturers know the market, and produce that which they calculate will sell.
Recreational flying means a handful of people at the most, and a small aircraft. The consequences of crash are quite small, compared with a passanger jet.
There has been a rapid succession of compression technologies, and for good reason: Because each one was better than the one before, providing smaller files or some other benefit. Often by utilising more capable hardware. The big data-user now is video, for which h264 is the state-of-the-art codec. But just as h264 replaced divx replaced mpeg2 replaced mpeg1... something is going to one day replace h264. Probably with a handy reencoder at the recieving end, for compatibility with all the h264-accelerated hardware people have now.
In the case of photos, JPEG remains top. Not because it's better, but because it's good enough that there is no justification for switching. Benefits would be small. Not true for video. Same thing with audio: MP3 absolutly sucks compared to just about anything more recent, but it's supported in so much hardware and provides good enough performance for most people. But bring in caps, and that may change.
"There is no rational reason why a civil society should have to put up with this kind of shit."
Because most of these attackers are just dumb, immature teenagers, and if given a modest punishment will probably grow up to be productive and law-abiding (as much as most people can be). A prison sentence, on the other hand, disrupts their education and renders them almost unemployable, strongly pressuring them towards a life of crime upon their eventual release.
I'm sure you did stupid things when you were a teenager. We all did.
You want to see some bureaucratic counter-terrorism, try to find a bin on the London underground. You won't. The management removed every bin at the stations following the 7-7 bombings, out of fear that someone would hide a bomb in one. The 7-7 attackers didn't even use the bins - they just kept their bombs in luggage they were carrying.
I think they took the bins away in order to inconvenience people, because being inconvenienced by anti-terror measures is reassuring to some.
As a general rule, if you're guilty of *one* crime, the jury will consider you a piece of vile criminal scum and find you guilty of anything they possibly can just to increase the sentence.
That's how the Australian prosecution managed to get someone convicted for possession of child porn for a few comedic Rule 34s of Lisa Simpson. The individual in question had prior convictions for possession of actual child porn, so the jury loathed him. I suspect if he had been charged with regicide and theft of the lost Mars rover he'd still have been found guilty somehow.
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DNS is centralised by nature. It has to be. Someone has to be in charge to decide who owns what domain. That is why it should go. The concept of domain names is wonderfully useful, but also far too controllable. There are other ways to run a network. Copy-paste is a useful thing.
Quantum isn't the end of encryption. It's the end of a lot of existing encryption, but there are other mathematics that can be used. Symmetric key is less vulnerable than assymetric, so if you have a way of establishing initial trust it becomes almost easy.
I'm guessing the CID card's purpose isn't just to specify ID, but to prove it cryptographically. Either a government thing ('To protect the children and fight terrorism!') or the end result of the slow expansion of social networking services into other fields in their quest for more marketing data. Just as many forums and blogs today require a Facebook account to post, in fifteen years your landlord might require you have a Facebook ID card un unlock your apartment door. That way he benefits from a secure, revokable (Can't do that on mechanical locks!) authentication system backed up and subsidised by one of the mega-corps, and Facebook benefits by finding out exactly what times you arrive and leave your home.
The move from password to card is obvious. Passwords are terribly insecure - easily guessed, easily forgotten, and most people use the same password for a wide array of different purposes.
South-east UK. The UK has historically been mostly on unmetered water, but right now we're in the middle of installing meters as fast as the company can get them plumbed in. It's not exactly a free market though, as we don't have an 'unbundling' regulation as with internet and electricity supply: Whichever company owns the pipe into your house, that's who you'll be buying water from.
Total water doesn't matter. Accessible water does. Saltwater isn't much use - it needs desalination, which is prohibatively expensive. So if you use water faster than the rain falls, eventually it's going to run out.
Why not? Many areas are already under heavy water stress. There are but three ways I can see the future deal with this:
1. Revolutionary new technology. Perhaps a big increase in the use of nuclear energy for desalination.
2. Free-market control of demand: You can use all the water you want, but you pay by the litre. Your usage is limited by what you can afford. May work, may just result in the low-income going unwashed because they can't afford more than drinking water. Depends how the market sets the price.
3. Regulatory control of demand. The water quota.
The Somali pirates already re-invented venture capitalism.
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The pokemon movies are commonly cited as examples of heavy editing in the US release - not just cutting scenes, but rewriting lines and replacing music. Being targeted at a very young audience, the dubbing company usually considers it best to remove anything that could scare or confuse the kiddies. That means not just excising scarey scenes (#1's intro), but also any reference to non-American culture. In #2, for example, traditional Japanese folk music at a ceremony is replaced by caribbean pop music. #2 also has the interesting distinction of removing a passing reference to life emerging from naturally occuring complex organic molecules, presumably in order to avoid contradicting the bible. The dub for #2 was by Fox.
You might have seen the later edition, in which the cut opening was replaced. Did the version you saw involve the death of a child near the beginning? If no, then you saw it cut.
Here's the original:
http://www.torrentroom.com/torrent/3237847-Pokemon-The-First-Movie-MetP-Dual-Audio-and-Subs-mkv.html
Only in the Japanese version. In the US release Mewtwo is just a generic monster, as the dubbing company judged his full story too scarey for the little kiddies and cut a lot out.
To be somewhat fair, when the number of pets exceeds the number of available spaces at homes then there really isn't much choice.
I understand PETA as a big flock of well-meaning animal lovers lead by a core of extremists. Even the majority of their own members are unaware of just how extreme the leadership is.
A much weaker argument now. The Lightning connector has fewer pins, which means that many of those additional capabilities are gone.Including HDMI output. Another feature sacrificed in Apple's quest for thinness. Like corporate annorexia.
Everyone here is talking about licence fees, but I don't think that's it. I think they want to maintain segregation of the accessories market. The iPhone is a very expensive phone, even for it's (quite impressive) specifications - success depends upon being seen not just as 'another phone' to compete with all those much cheaper models by other manufacturers, but as a whole class in itsself. A distinction much easier to maintain if the iPhone can't even plug into accessories made for 'common' brands, and vice versa. The last thing Apple wants is for their customers to realise that a high-end android phone can do very nearly everything an iPhone can, but at less than half the price.
Cars in the US are stupidly large because that's the type of car people will buy. The manufacturers know the market, and produce that which they calculate will sell.
It has chicks on it now? I always assumed they were all guys.
Today, USB sticks from home are the plague-bearers.
Recreational flying means a handful of people at the most, and a small aircraft. The consequences of crash are quite small, compared with a passanger jet.
There has been a rapid succession of compression technologies, and for good reason: Because each one was better than the one before, providing smaller files or some other benefit. Often by utilising more capable hardware. The big data-user now is video, for which h264 is the state-of-the-art codec. But just as h264 replaced divx replaced mpeg2 replaced mpeg1... something is going to one day replace h264. Probably with a handy reencoder at the recieving end, for compatibility with all the h264-accelerated hardware people have now.
In the case of photos, JPEG remains top. Not because it's better, but because it's good enough that there is no justification for switching. Benefits would be small. Not true for video. Same thing with audio: MP3 absolutly sucks compared to just about anything more recent, but it's supported in so much hardware and provides good enough performance for most people. But bring in caps, and that may change.
I recall seeing one of those in London - St Panc international, near the gates for the tube. But only the one.
Practicality aside, it'd be much easier to get the FCC to certify a piece of protective eyewear than a modification to the aircraft.
"There is no rational reason why a civil society should have to put up with this kind of shit."
Because most of these attackers are just dumb, immature teenagers, and if given a modest punishment will probably grow up to be productive and law-abiding (as much as most people can be). A prison sentence, on the other hand, disrupts their education and renders them almost unemployable, strongly pressuring them towards a life of crime upon their eventual release.
I'm sure you did stupid things when you were a teenager. We all did.
You want to see some bureaucratic counter-terrorism, try to find a bin on the London underground. You won't. The management removed every bin at the stations following the 7-7 bombings, out of fear that someone would hide a bomb in one. The 7-7 attackers didn't even use the bins - they just kept their bombs in luggage they were carrying.
I think they took the bins away in order to inconvenience people, because being inconvenienced by anti-terror measures is reassuring to some.
As a general rule, if you're guilty of *one* crime, the jury will consider you a piece of vile criminal scum and find you guilty of anything they possibly can just to increase the sentence.
That's how the Australian prosecution managed to get someone convicted for possession of child porn for a few comedic Rule 34s of Lisa Simpson. The individual in question had prior convictions for possession of actual child porn, so the jury loathed him. I suspect if he had been charged with regicide and theft of the lost Mars rover he'd still have been found guilty somehow.
I think you replied to the wrong post.