Over here in the UK, and I believe some other parts of Europe, we already banned lighters that are easy to operate. There is some elaborate legal definition of 'easy.' We also banned novelty lighters, as they could be seen as appealing to children.
We are less terrified of pornography than the US though.
It's all very well talking about rebellion, but sooner or later it has to come down to shooting back at the cop who just came to arrest you for violating whatever law you consider unjust. Revolution doesn't happen that easily, and the people of the US are well-fed, well-entertained and not generally in fear for their lives.
Of course it wasn't about child porn. If it was, the ISPs could very easily just drop specific groups - besides, you don't see them cutting off the web, or email, or sftp, and I'm sure all those can be and have been used for child porn too. The real reason isn't hard to guess at: A good usenet service costs a significent amount to run, very nearly all the data it moves is piracy, and only a very tiny percentage of customers ever use it. Why spend so much for a feature used by a tiny niche, espicially when most of those are just using it for illegal activity anyway and copyright holders keep pestering about it? The child porn thing was nothing but an excuse. A flimsy excuse, but also a very effective one, because when a decision is justified as 'fighting child porn' it is not just difficult but even dangerous to speak against it in a public forum.
The number of infringers is simply too vast to do anything to a significent number while still respecting due process and assumption of innocence. The only way to make it practical is to lower the burden of proof to the point that the process can be almost entirely automated.
IP doesn't, but many higher-level protocols depend upon IP being able to provide a broadcast/multicast interface. DHCP comes immediately to mind. RIP too.
But if prices went down for everything, that means the cost of living would also go down, which means that employees would be willing to work for less, so wages would fall, so the real value of goods remains constant.
Markets are really very complex things - everything interconnects in intricate and not-always-obvious ways.
Why this relentless drive for thinness at Apple? They switched to displayport because VGA/DVI ports were too thick, and now they dropped ethernet from their new retina laptops because the RJ45 connector is too thick. Every time Apple bring out a new iThing, I see the fanboys celebrate how this is the slimmest iThing yet - another 0.25mm shaved from the thickness! Really, once a phone reaches the 'fits in pocket' size, what advantage could be gained for the user in making it slimmer? It's just became some sort of Apple dogma that thinner is better and thinnest is best.
Either that, or he was writing under orders. It might just be that his boss instructed him to write an article claiming that the internet was an example of the power of a free market and private property, regardless of the actual history.
Ethernet for LAN, serial for WAN. So it was for a decade. Shared medium had a huge cost and convenience advantage, but no range.
Modern ethernet very nearly is serial. Bits go in to the cable all lined up, and come out the other end. Collisions don't happen - every segment contains exactly two nodes, and runs full duplex. Collision avoidance is still supportedm but only for backwards compatibility in case someone places an ancient hub on your network.
I find it amusing that the empire collapsed almost immediately after Theodosius converted the empire to Christianity. He declared Rome to be a Christian empire - and the empire was all but collapsed within a century.
It was just coincidence, really - there is no evidence that the religious switch was in any way a cause of the subsequent fall (Post hoc ergo propter hoc, as the Romans would say) - but it's a good way to annoy all those people who warn that the United States will fall if the government can't put up ten commandments displays and giant crucifixes. Just ask them how well it worked for Rome.
Ethernet didn't even link computer networks. It linked computers *into* a network, but with a common collision domain you'd never be able to get more than a hundred computers connected. A few times that with bridges. Ethernet provides the nets which internetworking inters.
Including carrier pigeon. Almost. You need to make a few minor adjustments to allow for the lack of broadcast/multicast frames, but nothing that wasn't already solved for IP over X25.
I also understand that you need the scaffold to be somewhat flexible - those cells beat, and the movement is actually one of the signals determining differentiation. Not a huge problem for growing somewhat-misshapen rat hearts, but a serious issue for trying to replicate something as large as a human heart.
Same thing though - that biology evolved to grow a tiny embryonic heart and slowly make it bigger. Forcing cells to grow into a new adult heart using a scaffold isn't going to get even those specialised muscle cells aren't going to end up in the right places.
There has been some research already that offers a potential there: Growing cells onto a temporary scaffold. It's still many years away from being able to grow a heart in a lab from a patient's own cells, but the possibility is there. Simpler organs are already in use that way - trachea, bladder, some others - but hearts are much more difficult. You'd still need a pacemaker though, an artificially grown heart isn't going to contain the required nerves to keep everything contracting in sync without one.
That must have been one desperate dalek. They are helpless outside of their travel machines, and no sane dalek would never leave one willingly except for medical attention or machine repair - which, to a dalek, are the same thing.
I only heard of one real occurance of the y2k bug, on a coastguard radio network. The radios still worked fine, they just started displaying the wrong date.
Cost. If you already have cabling, it's cheaper to use that than to run a whole new cable. If you've got a control office and a plant office, it's cheaper to give them a VPN link than to dig up the countryside for cable or build microwave masts. More so if you've got dispersed infrastructure, like thousands of substations or water distribution control valves - that'd be a lot of cable to lay! Or you could give them all more affordable internet connections, or (very common) modules that connect to the cellphone network.
Are we sure it really did that much damage? Because if it did, Iran certainly wouldn't say, and any intelligence made public by opponents of the Iranian nuclear program can't really be depended upon as they would wish to exaggerate the capabilities of their cyber-warfare programs.
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Over here in the UK, and I believe some other parts of Europe, we already banned lighters that are easy to operate. There is some elaborate legal definition of 'easy.' We also banned novelty lighters, as they could be seen as appealing to children.
We are less terrified of pornography than the US though.
Children under perhaps two years put everything in their mouths. These are not the target age of magnet toys.
It's all very well talking about rebellion, but sooner or later it has to come down to shooting back at the cop who just came to arrest you for violating whatever law you consider unjust. Revolution doesn't happen that easily, and the people of the US are well-fed, well-entertained and not generally in fear for their lives.
Of course it wasn't about child porn. If it was, the ISPs could very easily just drop specific groups - besides, you don't see them cutting off the web, or email, or sftp, and I'm sure all those can be and have been used for child porn too. The real reason isn't hard to guess at: A good usenet service costs a significent amount to run, very nearly all the data it moves is piracy, and only a very tiny percentage of customers ever use it. Why spend so much for a feature used by a tiny niche, espicially when most of those are just using it for illegal activity anyway and copyright holders keep pestering about it? The child porn thing was nothing but an excuse. A flimsy excuse, but also a very effective one, because when a decision is justified as 'fighting child porn' it is not just difficult but even dangerous to speak against it in a public forum.
The number of infringers is simply too vast to do anything to a significent number while still respecting due process and assumption of innocence. The only way to make it practical is to lower the burden of proof to the point that the process can be almost entirely automated.
IP doesn't, but many higher-level protocols depend upon IP being able to provide a broadcast/multicast interface. DHCP comes immediately to mind. RIP too.
Can anyone provide a link? Or do I have to wait until it starts appearing on pirate sites?
The geneva convention is a luxury those with overwhelming force can enjoy.
You're the second to quote that, but the first to misquote it.
But if prices went down for everything, that means the cost of living would also go down, which means that employees would be willing to work for less, so wages would fall, so the real value of goods remains constant.
Markets are really very complex things - everything interconnects in intricate and not-always-obvious ways.
Why this relentless drive for thinness at Apple? They switched to displayport because VGA/DVI ports were too thick, and now they dropped ethernet from their new retina laptops because the RJ45 connector is too thick. Every time Apple bring out a new iThing, I see the fanboys celebrate how this is the slimmest iThing yet - another 0.25mm shaved from the thickness! Really, once a phone reaches the 'fits in pocket' size, what advantage could be gained for the user in making it slimmer? It's just became some sort of Apple dogma that thinner is better and thinnest is best.
It's moved on to meta-humor now. It's considered funny to mock the idea that the Al Gore claim was ever seen as funny.
Either that, or he was writing under orders. It might just be that his boss instructed him to write an article claiming that the internet was an example of the power of a free market and private property, regardless of the actual history.
Ethernet for LAN, serial for WAN. So it was for a decade. Shared medium had a huge cost and convenience advantage, but no range.
Modern ethernet very nearly is serial. Bits go in to the cable all lined up, and come out the other end. Collisions don't happen - every segment contains exactly two nodes, and runs full duplex. Collision avoidance is still supportedm but only for backwards compatibility in case someone places an ancient hub on your network.
I find it amusing that the empire collapsed almost immediately after Theodosius converted the empire to Christianity. He declared Rome to be a Christian empire - and the empire was all but collapsed within a century.
It was just coincidence, really - there is no evidence that the religious switch was in any way a cause of the subsequent fall (Post hoc ergo propter hoc, as the Romans would say) - but it's a good way to annoy all those people who warn that the United States will fall if the government can't put up ten commandments displays and giant crucifixes. Just ask them how well it worked for Rome.
Ethernet didn't even link computer networks. It linked computers *into* a network, but with a common collision domain you'd never be able to get more than a hundred computers connected. A few times that with bridges. Ethernet provides the nets which internetworking inters.
Including carrier pigeon. Almost. You need to make a few minor adjustments to allow for the lack of broadcast/multicast frames, but nothing that wasn't already solved for IP over X25.
Poe's Law is once again demonstrated. Not just for religion!
I also understand that you need the scaffold to be somewhat flexible - those cells beat, and the movement is actually one of the signals determining differentiation. Not a huge problem for growing somewhat-misshapen rat hearts, but a serious issue for trying to replicate something as large as a human heart.
Same thing though - that biology evolved to grow a tiny embryonic heart and slowly make it bigger. Forcing cells to grow into a new adult heart using a scaffold isn't going to get even those specialised muscle cells aren't going to end up in the right places.
There has been some research already that offers a potential there: Growing cells onto a temporary scaffold. It's still many years away from being able to grow a heart in a lab from a patient's own cells, but the possibility is there. Simpler organs are already in use that way - trachea, bladder, some others - but hearts are much more difficult. You'd still need a pacemaker though, an artificially grown heart isn't going to contain the required nerves to keep everything contracting in sync without one.
That must have been one desperate dalek. They are helpless outside of their travel machines, and no sane dalek would never leave one willingly except for medical attention or machine repair - which, to a dalek, are the same thing.
I only heard of one real occurance of the y2k bug, on a coastguard radio network. The radios still worked fine, they just started displaying the wrong date.
Cost. If you already have cabling, it's cheaper to use that than to run a whole new cable. If you've got a control office and a plant office, it's cheaper to give them a VPN link than to dig up the countryside for cable or build microwave masts. More so if you've got dispersed infrastructure, like thousands of substations or water distribution control valves - that'd be a lot of cable to lay! Or you could give them all more affordable internet connections, or (very common) modules that connect to the cellphone network.
Are we sure it really did that much damage? Because if it did, Iran certainly wouldn't say, and any intelligence made public by opponents of the Iranian nuclear program can't really be depended upon as they would wish to exaggerate the capabilities of their cyber-warfare programs.