I eagerly await the time when this tech is down to less than a dollar a page including controls and a week of battery. Because when that happens, you'll start seeing them used as magazine advertisments. Which hackers should be able to disassemble with some effort. Thus giving hobbiests access to vast areas of color e-paper subsidised by advertisers and so cheap that people can (and will) use it as wallpaper.
I gave further thought to determining the word which most perfectly combines childlike innocence with an inevitable onslaught of porn. I eventually decided that the most dangerous word is 'milking.' Even this though is easily sanitised by safesearch. Try an image search with safesearch off and you'll get plenty of porn and of a most unsettling type.
Depends how you define minor. For a typical individual, their biggest contributions are in transport and goods manufacture. That means they'll need to dump the SUV and buy a tiny little car. Maybe a hybrid or electric, or maybe just a much smaller and more efficient petrol car. For most people though, buying a smaller car would be considered a major change.
I'm hopeing a future version will incorporate eye tracking and wink-controls. Nasty for typing, but very good for picking options in a menu or wink-clicking on icons.
Scientists: A global disaster may be looming. We can stop it, but it'll need sacrifices. Higher fuel prices. Higher cost of manufactured goods, and fewer cheap imports. You'll need to travel less, buy a smaller car. A lot of you'll be laid off because industry thrives on cheap energy. You'll have to stop eating so much meat. But it's the only way to prevent disaster.
Exxon: Er... Lets just do nothing and chance it.
The People: We're going to go with the second guy.
Easy: All they need to do is accept that they'll get a billion-dollar fine in ten years for their anticompetative actions, but that the multi-billion-dollar profits easily justify the cost of the fine.
Official reason: Secureboot was an Intel technology designed to defend against low-level rootkits which load before the OS and are thus able to very evade detection.
Suspected reason: Secureboot imposes a significent hurdle to OS vendors that would be but a minor inconvenince for a company the size of Microsoft, but a crippling disadvantage for anyone else. Microsoft saw this aspect of SecureBoot, and decided to mandate the technology.
For now. Microsoft has a history of dirty business tactics, so it's quite possible they'll remove that option at some future date. They already have on ARM: Part of the OEM terms for WinRT, the ARM version, requires it only be installed on locked-down hardware incapable of booting any other OS.
Linux has taken years of hard work to get to the point where you can just put a disk in and install it, without having to screw around with the BIOS or other low level stuff. It seems a step backwards to require users go into the firmware config (A scarey place for the newbie!) and change things. Also, there is no assurance that Microsoft will grant users that luxury indefinatly - it's quite possible that they'll change their policy in Windows 10 or 11 to remove that option altogether, as soon as they feel they can get away without another antitrust case.
The claims were investigated, and the case closed. No charged filed. Then years later, right after the big leak, the case was mysteriously reopened. I don't usually go for the concpiracy theories, but something like that is a bit much to attribute to coincidence - it does look like something was going on out of the public eye to make it happen.
My history of such things is complicated. I am highly atypical. I was rather messed up due to complicated mental health stuff I won't go into. But porn - or more precisely, sexual roleplay online - is the best thing that could have happened to me. It turned me from a hopelessly maladjusted prude into... well, a more helpfully maladjusted non-prude. But I can post this - when I was fourteen, the very mention of sex would have me paralysed. I couldn't stand to have my eyes open during some scenes of The Human Body in case I glimpsed something. It'd have been a serious disability to be like that, as an off-color joke could have left me stunned for ten minutes. Now, thanks entirely to porn, I am no longer repressed to the point of inability to function when sex is mentioned. True, I spend rather a lot of evenings in fantasies online involving owls - but almost every good friend I have I met through an adult roleplay community.
There are also a lot of rather shady sites - things existing on the edge of social approval tend to breed such shadyness - that survive through aggressive promotion. Used to be spam, now largely search engine manipulation.
I see delicious food, but nothing else. And that's with safesearch off. I'm sure you can find a word that is both innocent to children and produces a lot of porn, but that isn't one.
Same thing works in other situations. A man lives alone, and occasionally looks at porn. Then his parents, or girlfriend come to visit, and (People being curious) can't resist a quick check to see if they can access sex.com. And finds that he has unblocked the porn. There follows either a very awkward conversation or an instant dumping. Some people can be very sensitive about this sort of thing.
Cleanfeed occasionally breaks things, like the infamous wikipedia incident. It's a minor annoyance when that happens - but remember that it doesn't have an opt-out so all traffic can be treated equally, and it only actually applies the filtering to a handful of IP addresses, and the size of the filter blacklist is quite tiny. If you try to apply that to porn with an opt out, then you'll need to use a blacklist several orders of magnitude larger, plus content analysis (Which is hard!), and the ISP will need routers that can keep opt-out traffic going around the filter. You can also forget about manual review of blocked sites like Cleanfeed uses: There is simply too much porn on the internet for that. So it'll be like Cleanfeed, except many times slower, less reliable, more expensive and more error-prone.
This is the UK, remember. They'll want to block 'hate speech' too, even though the term is legally barely-defined. Also, one of the MPs involved has specifically said that the filter isn't for pornography alone but any content harmful to children, specifically citeing as examples pro-anorexia sites and sites that promote suicide.
While it may be big, it can't be big concurrently. You don't get a continuous world with tens of thousands of players. You get little instanced pockets with maybe five friends, but no chance of running into anyone else unexpectedly. At most you might get a little arena level with people on for an agreed upon fight - but where's the real run of the MM in MMORPG? The part where you can get ambushed while traveling by a player you didn't even realise was there, or lay in ambush yourself for some unsuspecting victim? There is no player-on-player interaction anywhere in GW1 except via mutual consent, so you just don't get the same big-community social dynamic.
GW1 keeps getting mislabeled as an MMORPG. I think it deserves the G, but none of the other letters. It isn't massive, multiplayer is optional, online is barely noticed, the RP doesn't really exist... but it is, if nothing else, at least a game.
Destruction of evidence is a big issue. There's also the disruption of neighbours if the half the street is sealed off for a week or more. If the suspect is indeed armed and dangerous, then it makes sense to send in the big guns and make them trigger-happy so they'll shoot before they get shot. The problem comes when these SWAT teams are used in situations where such force isn't warranted.
Re-reading, I see my recollection was wrong on one count: It wasn't a teenager living with parents, it was actually the father who was the suspect, not the son.
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I eagerly await the time when this tech is down to less than a dollar a page including controls and a week of battery. Because when that happens, you'll start seeing them used as magazine advertisments. Which hackers should be able to disassemble with some effort. Thus giving hobbiests access to vast areas of color e-paper subsidised by advertisers and so cheap that people can (and will) use it as wallpaper.
I gave further thought to determining the word which most perfectly combines childlike innocence with an inevitable onslaught of porn. I eventually decided that the most dangerous word is 'milking.' Even this though is easily sanitised by safesearch. Try an image search with safesearch off and you'll get plenty of porn and of a most unsettling type.
But manufacturers don't pay those costs. That's the whole point. It's called 'externalising the costs.'
Depends how you define minor. For a typical individual, their biggest contributions are in transport and goods manufacture. That means they'll need to dump the SUV and buy a tiny little car. Maybe a hybrid or electric, or maybe just a much smaller and more efficient petrol car. For most people though, buying a smaller car would be considered a major change.
I'm hopeing a future version will incorporate eye tracking and wink-controls. Nasty for typing, but very good for picking options in a menu or wink-clicking on icons.
Scientists: A global disaster may be looming. We can stop it, but it'll need sacrifices. Higher fuel prices. Higher cost of manufactured goods, and fewer cheap imports. You'll need to travel less, buy a smaller car. A lot of you'll be laid off because industry thrives on cheap energy. You'll have to stop eating so much meat. But it's the only way to prevent disaster.
Exxon: Er... Lets just do nothing and chance it.
The People: We're going to go with the second guy.
Easy: All they need to do is accept that they'll get a billion-dollar fine in ten years for their anticompetative actions, but that the multi-billion-dollar profits easily justify the cost of the fine.
Official reason: Secureboot was an Intel technology designed to defend against low-level rootkits which load before the OS and are thus able to very evade detection.
Suspected reason: Secureboot imposes a significent hurdle to OS vendors that would be but a minor inconvenince for a company the size of Microsoft, but a crippling disadvantage for anyone else. Microsoft saw this aspect of SecureBoot, and decided to mandate the technology.
For now. Microsoft has a history of dirty business tactics, so it's quite possible they'll remove that option at some future date. They already have on ARM: Part of the OEM terms for WinRT, the ARM version, requires it only be installed on locked-down hardware incapable of booting any other OS.
Linux has taken years of hard work to get to the point where you can just put a disk in and install it, without having to screw around with the BIOS or other low level stuff. It seems a step backwards to require users go into the firmware config (A scarey place for the newbie!) and change things. Also, there is no assurance that Microsoft will grant users that luxury indefinatly - it's quite possible that they'll change their policy in Windows 10 or 11 to remove that option altogether, as soon as they feel they can get away without another antitrust case.
The claims were investigated, and the case closed. No charged filed. Then years later, right after the big leak, the case was mysteriously reopened. I don't usually go for the concpiracy theories, but something like that is a bit much to attribute to coincidence - it does look like something was going on out of the public eye to make it happen.
My history of such things is complicated. I am highly atypical. I was rather messed up due to complicated mental health stuff I won't go into. But porn - or more precisely, sexual roleplay online - is the best thing that could have happened to me. It turned me from a hopelessly maladjusted prude into... well, a more helpfully maladjusted non-prude. But I can post this - when I was fourteen, the very mention of sex would have me paralysed. I couldn't stand to have my eyes open during some scenes of The Human Body in case I glimpsed something. It'd have been a serious disability to be like that, as an off-color joke could have left me stunned for ten minutes. Now, thanks entirely to porn, I am no longer repressed to the point of inability to function when sex is mentioned. True, I spend rather a lot of evenings in fantasies online involving owls - but almost every good friend I have I met through an adult roleplay community.
It'd surely raise their grades in art and english class a bit.
There are also a lot of rather shady sites - things existing on the edge of social approval tend to breed such shadyness - that survive through aggressive promotion. Used to be spam, now largely search engine manipulation.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=brownies&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=fsjsT5faGKqj0QXZ7KT6DA&biw=1618&bih=986&sei=gMjsT__pLeOm0QWrh-j5DA
I see delicious food, but nothing else. And that's with safesearch off. I'm sure you can find a word that is both innocent to children and produces a lot of porn, but that isn't one.
Same thing works in other situations. A man lives alone, and occasionally looks at porn. Then his parents, or girlfriend come to visit, and (People being curious) can't resist a quick check to see if they can access sex.com. And finds that he has unblocked the porn. There follows either a very awkward conversation or an instant dumping. Some people can be very sensitive about this sort of thing.
Cleanfeed occasionally breaks things, like the infamous wikipedia incident. It's a minor annoyance when that happens - but remember that it doesn't have an opt-out so all traffic can be treated equally, and it only actually applies the filtering to a handful of IP addresses, and the size of the filter blacklist is quite tiny. If you try to apply that to porn with an opt out, then you'll need to use a blacklist several orders of magnitude larger, plus content analysis (Which is hard!), and the ISP will need routers that can keep opt-out traffic going around the filter. You can also forget about manual review of blocked sites like Cleanfeed uses: There is simply too much porn on the internet for that. So it'll be like Cleanfeed, except many times slower, less reliable, more expensive and more error-prone.
This is the UK, remember. They'll want to block 'hate speech' too, even though the term is legally barely-defined. Also, one of the MPs involved has specifically said that the filter isn't for pornography alone but any content harmful to children, specifically citeing as examples pro-anorexia sites and sites that promote suicide.
Good. A well-coordinated team should be rewarded.
While it may be big, it can't be big concurrently. You don't get a continuous world with tens of thousands of players. You get little instanced pockets with maybe five friends, but no chance of running into anyone else unexpectedly. At most you might get a little arena level with people on for an agreed upon fight - but where's the real run of the MM in MMORPG? The part where you can get ambushed while traveling by a player you didn't even realise was there, or lay in ambush yourself for some unsuspecting victim? There is no player-on-player interaction anywhere in GW1 except via mutual consent, so you just don't get the same big-community social dynamic.
Amateur means not knowing what a criocothingie ligament is. The non-expert approach is to just feel for the trachea and slice deeply with a knife.
GW1 keeps getting mislabeled as an MMORPG. I think it deserves the G, but none of the other letters. It isn't massive, multiplayer is optional, online is barely noticed, the RP doesn't really exist... but it is, if nothing else, at least a game.
It also renders fireball-spam a less viable strategy, forcing players to really think strategically about their spell choices and combinations.
Destruction of evidence is a big issue. There's also the disruption of neighbours if the half the street is sealed off for a week or more. If the suspect is indeed armed and dangerous, then it makes sense to send in the big guns and make them trigger-happy so they'll shoot before they get shot. The problem comes when these SWAT teams are used in situations where such force isn't warranted.
Re-reading, I see my recollection was wrong on one count: It wasn't a teenager living with parents, it was actually the father who was the suspect, not the son.