Here is another possible idea: LCD screen on windows. Track driver eye position. Create opaque circles exactly positioned on the lines between eyes and sun. Far better than those flip-down sunshields. Added bonus, someone will be able to hack it to obscure billboards too.
The GPS module only receieves, but this system also needs the ability to call for help in the event of an accident, which means it needs a mobile phone network interface as well. Same thing with onstar: GPS says where, but the cellphone net provides communication both ways.
The big cities do. The biggest cities in the US are still only a couple of centuries old - they were planned carefully, and during most of their growth designed to accomodate cars. European cities, though, can be millenia old and inhereted road layouts optimised for walking. So while the cities of the US are usually built to a grid plan, the cities of Europe resemble a bowl of spagetti.
The company would notice the discrepency: The substation meter wouldn't match the total of connected consumers. Power companies watch that closely, because it indicates someone is stealing power and may be running a secret urban pot farm.
To pull it off you'd need to underreport your own power and overreport the power of your neighbours on the same phase.
Because US politics gives them only two real options: The government-rules-your-life Democrats, or the praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-ammo Republicans. It's really a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils. And they both sell out to any special interest that waves some campaign money in their direction.
I don't claim to know all the answers. I'm just sure that 'a magic guy with a beard popped into existance and ordered the universe to happen' is not one of them.
Not only is there no evidence that these meters are harmful, but the effect of radio frequency exposure upon living tissue (approximatly none) is well-studied and understood. These radiophobes have about as much scientific respectability as the anti-vaxers, homeopaths and creationists. They are a parody of science.
And when the power goes down, people find their basement-generators have siezed up from years of disuse. Equipment requires maintainance. Large batteries and flywheels are also inherently dangerous. The electric car idea isn't too bad though.
I believe in none of those except the second to last, at which I admit my utter ignorance of the matter and cede all judgement to more informed experts.
While the modern conservatives believe that a central government should be given enough power to carry out only the bare functions of a national government... except for where drugs are concerned. And banning gay marriage. And regulation of pornography. And broadcast indecency. And funding of abstinance-only programs. And endorsing Christian religion through large taxpayer-funded displays and monuments. And restricting abortion. And about a thousand other things. The social conservatives started drowning out the political conservatives a long time ago.
A lot of the patents are also so trivial or obvious as to be ridiculous now, too. As the article states, "The patent covers a system to detect telephone numbers in e-mails so, when the number on the screen is tapped, they can be stored in directories or called without dialing."
Servers, obviously. But OEM desktops, which make up the vast majority of computers and all the ones affordable? If Microsoft can get things to the point where the only (legal) way to run linux is to buy a server-class computer that costs three times as much as a PC of equivilent specification, that's a major victory for them and a major defeat for linux. You can't attract new users to try something if there is a $2000 up-front cost for the hardware.
Doable, I am sure. But it'd have to be done for every motherboard and every revision, and meddling in the EFI at that level is how you brick things. It's not the type of dangerous, difficult operator you want to require linux newbies do before they can even install it.
Microsoft's key is the only one that you can be sure all computers will have, and so the one all vendors will have to sign with. Making it pointless for them to even have their own keys. By design, I am quite sure: The limit is one-key-only because it was always intended that only one vendor would survive. Microsoft.
You can now, yes. But remember the big push for Secure Boot is from Microsoft. A company with a long history of using every dirty and underhanded trick in the book, including a few of their own invention. I do not trust them: Today they only make it enabled by default, but in a few more years they may take away the capability to disable it entirely.
It is marketing lingo. The only important factor I can see distinguishing the cloud is that it abstracts away the physical infrastructure a bit more. Your code still has to execute on a physical processor somewhere, but as a customer you don't need to worry about exactly where this might be. It's much more dynamic, allowing the cloud operator to perform better optimisation and load-balancing. They might decide to relocate a bunch of their client's data from one continent to another, and the client wouldn't notice. On the downside of this, regulatory compliance can be a nightmare, and the constant state of flux of the physical side can make things behave erratically. And if your resource needs are constant, you probably get screwed on price. It can be good though for bursty loads though - if you're running an internet flourist, it must be nice to be able to contact the cloud operator when february nears and be able to just rent a few more servers for a week.
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Here is another possible idea: LCD screen on windows. Track driver eye position. Create opaque circles exactly positioned on the lines between eyes and sun. Far better than those flip-down sunshields. Added bonus, someone will be able to hack it to obscure billboards too.
The GPS module only receieves, but this system also needs the ability to call for help in the event of an accident, which means it needs a mobile phone network interface as well. Same thing with onstar: GPS says where, but the cellphone net provides communication both ways.
The big cities do. The biggest cities in the US are still only a couple of centuries old - they were planned carefully, and during most of their growth designed to accomodate cars. European cities, though, can be millenia old and inhereted road layouts optimised for walking. So while the cities of the US are usually built to a grid plan, the cities of Europe resemble a bowl of spagetti.
I see no reason you couldn't buy one with OnStar. A few simple cut wires should disable it.
The company would notice the discrepency: The substation meter wouldn't match the total of connected consumers. Power companies watch that closely, because it indicates someone is stealing power and may be running a secret urban pot farm.
To pull it off you'd need to underreport your own power and overreport the power of your neighbours on the same phase.
Because US politics gives them only two real options: The government-rules-your-life Democrats, or the praise-the-lord-and-pass-the-ammo Republicans. It's really a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils. And they both sell out to any special interest that waves some campaign money in their direction.
I don't claim to know all the answers. I'm just sure that 'a magic guy with a beard popped into existance and ordered the universe to happen' is not one of them.
Not only is there no evidence that these meters are harmful, but the effect of radio frequency exposure upon living tissue (approximatly none) is well-studied and understood. These radiophobes have about as much scientific respectability as the anti-vaxers, homeopaths and creationists. They are a parody of science.
And when the power goes down, people find their basement-generators have siezed up from years of disuse. Equipment requires maintainance. Large batteries and flywheels are also inherently dangerous. The electric car idea isn't too bad though.
I believe in none of those except the second to last, at which I admit my utter ignorance of the matter and cede all judgement to more informed experts.
That 'IF' is so big, I'd need to consult the list of Yo Mamma jokes to express just how big it is.
EVE Online is not a game. It is Serious Business. EVE is for those who think WoW isn't hardcore enough.
Besides, almost all of those Win7 licenses will be OEM. Non-transferable.
And there's always the classic trick, too: Charge him with some form of fraud or tax evasion. It's often easier to get a conviction that way.
While the modern conservatives believe that a central government should be given enough power to carry out only the bare functions of a national government... except for where drugs are concerned. And banning gay marriage. And regulation of pornography. And broadcast indecency. And funding of abstinance-only programs. And endorsing Christian religion through large taxpayer-funded displays and monuments. And restricting abortion. And about a thousand other things. The social conservatives started drowning out the political conservatives a long time ago.
A lot of the patents are also so trivial or obvious as to be ridiculous now, too. As the article states, "The patent covers a system to detect telephone numbers in e-mails so, when the number on the screen is tapped, they can be stored in directories or called without dialing."
Other patents Apple has used in litigation include the use of a slide gesture to unlock a phone and a patent on curved corners.
Don't forget the Pixar/Dreamworks rivalry.
The national anthem of the US is actually a reworded English drinking song.
Servers, obviously. But OEM desktops, which make up the vast majority of computers and all the ones affordable? If Microsoft can get things to the point where the only (legal) way to run linux is to buy a server-class computer that costs three times as much as a PC of equivilent specification, that's a major victory for them and a major defeat for linux. You can't attract new users to try something if there is a $2000 up-front cost for the hardware.
Doable, I am sure. But it'd have to be done for every motherboard and every revision, and meddling in the EFI at that level is how you brick things. It's not the type of dangerous, difficult operator you want to require linux newbies do before they can even install it.
Microsoft's key is the only one that you can be sure all computers will have, and so the one all vendors will have to sign with. Making it pointless for them to even have their own keys. By design, I am quite sure: The limit is one-key-only because it was always intended that only one vendor would survive. Microsoft.
You can now, yes. But remember the big push for Secure Boot is from Microsoft. A company with a long history of using every dirty and underhanded trick in the book, including a few of their own invention. I do not trust them: Today they only make it enabled by default, but in a few more years they may take away the capability to disable it entirely.
Well spotted.
It is marketing lingo. The only important factor I can see distinguishing the cloud is that it abstracts away the physical infrastructure a bit more. Your code still has to execute on a physical processor somewhere, but as a customer you don't need to worry about exactly where this might be. It's much more dynamic, allowing the cloud operator to perform better optimisation and load-balancing. They might decide to relocate a bunch of their client's data from one continent to another, and the client wouldn't notice. On the downside of this, regulatory compliance can be a nightmare, and the constant state of flux of the physical side can make things behave erratically. And if your resource needs are constant, you probably get screwed on price. It can be good though for bursty loads though - if you're running an internet flourist, it must be nice to be able to contact the cloud operator when february nears and be able to just rent a few more servers for a week.