There's also the sneaky option:
1. Order troops out there to fight.
2. Accuse anyone who questions this of 'abandoning the troops.'
3. Watch congress give approval retroactively.
Could be either. They both have the motive and the capability. So does the UK. And France, Germany, Japan, China... actually, almost the entire developed world. Iran isn't exactly popular on the world stage.
Your average user doesn't care if they can run unrestricted code, so long as the device will let them 1. Do the tasks they commonly need to do and 2. Access facebook.
No-one controls the entire internet. It is divided into a great many kingdoms, each governed by a different authority. Many of them eager to expand the size and influence of their holding. Sometimes working as allies, some in opposition. Much like the real world. But there is no part of the internet that isn't controlled by *someone*, simple because the hardware has to exist in some physical space.
But *which* OEMs would be enthusiastic? There are lots of them? Are we going to end up in a situation where, say, you can run linux on HP servers but not their desktops? Or you can run it on Acer laptops, but not Dell laptops or Acer netbooks? It'll be back to the point where you need to search through compatibilitity lists before knowing if you can buy a PC.
It'd also need to be resigned and reissued - a massive undertaking, requiring every user by a new motherboard - for every single kernel version. You couldn't just sign GRUB - that would render the system pointless, as GRUB can then go on to launch something else. No, you'd have to sign a specially modified build of GRUB that only boots a single kernel.
"The requirements for x86 hardware are that the system must ship with restrictions enabled, but the user must be allowed to disable the restrictions or add their own keys."
Except on ARM, where MS has made it quite explicit they will not allow OEMs to even give users that option. I have a very strong suspicion that some time around Windows Ten they'll be making a similar change on x64 as well. In the name of 'security,' of course.
I don't need to do math to know that you're not going that far on active thrusters. I was thinking of a slower but more efficient assist, but it'd need a few charts to know if that is doable. Sink when the tide is going the wrong way and wait on the bottom, refloat when the tide turns. Use any convenient current. Dare's idea sounds like a good solution too: Rely on boats of planes to get most of the way there, as with smuggling practices already used, but then have the robo-sub handle the final delivery rather than having to risk a boat from the recieving side.
Is that 0.188o/m for one conductor? This is cat5: You can use two conductors in parallel for positive and two for 0V, and the remaining two pairs for 100baseT. You can even send a bit more power over those with PoE. Even if not enough to run the RoV, the extra power could greatly extend battery life.
Scale it up a little so you can add a few kilos of payload. Add a compass and big battery pack, cellphone interface and GPS. Launch your sub from Mexico, and it should be able to navigate (Surfacing every now and again to check GPS) it's way to a beach somewhere north of the border. Then just sends a text message with the location for retrieval. Someone familiar with the region should be able to plot a route that uses tides and current advantagiously so even a modest battery will be up to the task. So an automated drug micro-sub, though ambitious, sounds within the realm of possibility. All it needs is one engineer to build it and one drug-runner to provide funding and underworld connections for the business side.
one or two guys working for a little above minimum wage. If there is no need to actually diagnose and repair anything, the training time is reduced to a one-day orientation course.
Having really dumb terminals does simplify end support though. Computer not working? Pull it out, put in a new one. Send the old one back to the manufacturer. It means one IT worker can support many more computers, and needs less training thus lower pay. This is very good from a business perspective, but very bad for job satisfaction. Telecoms went through something like that when the old click-and-bang mechanical switches were replaced with solid state boards that were just swapped out, thus reducing highly skilled engineers to the role of 'pull anything with the fault light lit and stick in a new one.' A lot of them retired early.
I looked into that when I had a video pulled. But if they did sue, it'd be a Japanese studio suing a British citizen over activities on an American server. I think I'd have exausted my savings before we even decided where to hold the hearing.
Or use Apple's approach. Do the design in the US, where you have a ready supply of the highest skilled workers in the world, but do the manufacturing somewhere like China to take advantage of much lower costs for unskilled and low-skill workers.
Anyone who intended to blow up the airport wouldn't announce it on a public twitter account days before the bang. If they did announce it, they would do so ten minutes before. Just long enough to make sure they get the credit. They'd also probably link to a manifesto, because there is no point in terrorism if people don't know why you did it.
Because it makes the prosecution look bad if they ever arrest someone and don't get a conviction. Works in the UK or the US, situation is the same. Once they have the arrest, they'll do whatever it takes to get a conviction. Even if the person is clearly innocent of whatever they were first arrested for, it just means a search of their life to find something else illegal to use instead.
Given his impression that there are no significent fundamentalists around together with the posting of a Telegraph link, I would guess that paradise is the UK. Evolution really is a non-issue here - we do have fundamentalists, but their numbers are tiny. Unlike in the US where they are many and politically-active.
He explained that: Once someone has learned on a particular product, it is a non-trivial task to learn to use an equivilent alternative. Why do you think so many companies offer dirt-cheap student licences and heavily promote their software in education?
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There's also the sneaky option:
1. Order troops out there to fight.
2. Accuse anyone who questions this of 'abandoning the troops.'
3. Watch congress give approval retroactively.
They probably regard the UK as another US state.
Could be either. They both have the motive and the capability. So does the UK. And France, Germany, Japan, China... actually, almost the entire developed world. Iran isn't exactly popular on the world stage.
Your average user doesn't care if they can run unrestricted code, so long as the device will let them 1. Do the tasks they commonly need to do and 2. Access facebook.
No-one controls the entire internet. It is divided into a great many kingdoms, each governed by a different authority. Many of them eager to expand the size and influence of their holding. Sometimes working as allies, some in opposition. Much like the real world. But there is no part of the internet that isn't controlled by *someone*, simple because the hardware has to exist in some physical space.
But *which* OEMs would be enthusiastic? There are lots of them? Are we going to end up in a situation where, say, you can run linux on HP servers but not their desktops? Or you can run it on Acer laptops, but not Dell laptops or Acer netbooks? It'll be back to the point where you need to search through compatibilitity lists before knowing if you can buy a PC.
It'd also need to be resigned and reissued - a massive undertaking, requiring every user by a new motherboard - for every single kernel version. You couldn't just sign GRUB - that would render the system pointless, as GRUB can then go on to launch something else. No, you'd have to sign a specially modified build of GRUB that only boots a single kernel.
"The requirements for x86 hardware are that the system must ship with restrictions enabled, but the user must be allowed to disable the restrictions or add their own keys."
Except on ARM, where MS has made it quite explicit they will not allow OEMs to even give users that option. I have a very strong suspicion that some time around Windows Ten they'll be making a similar change on x64 as well. In the name of 'security,' of course.
I don't need to do math to know that you're not going that far on active thrusters. I was thinking of a slower but more efficient assist, but it'd need a few charts to know if that is doable. Sink when the tide is going the wrong way and wait on the bottom, refloat when the tide turns. Use any convenient current. Dare's idea sounds like a good solution too: Rely on boats of planes to get most of the way there, as with smuggling practices already used, but then have the robo-sub handle the final delivery rather than having to risk a boat from the recieving side.
Is that 0.188o/m for one conductor? This is cat5: You can use two conductors in parallel for positive and two for 0V, and the remaining two pairs for 100baseT. You can even send a bit more power over those with PoE. Even if not enough to run the RoV, the extra power could greatly extend battery life.
Scale it up a little so you can add a few kilos of payload. Add a compass and big battery pack, cellphone interface and GPS. Launch your sub from Mexico, and it should be able to navigate (Surfacing every now and again to check GPS) it's way to a beach somewhere north of the border. Then just sends a text message with the location for retrieval. Someone familiar with the region should be able to plot a route that uses tides and current advantagiously so even a modest battery will be up to the task. So an automated drug micro-sub, though ambitious, sounds within the realm of possibility. All it needs is one engineer to build it and one drug-runner to provide funding and underworld connections for the business side.
one or two guys working for a little above minimum wage. If there is no need to actually diagnose and repair anything, the training time is reduced to a one-day orientation course.
Having really dumb terminals does simplify end support though. Computer not working? Pull it out, put in a new one. Send the old one back to the manufacturer. It means one IT worker can support many more computers, and needs less training thus lower pay. This is very good from a business perspective, but very bad for job satisfaction. Telecoms went through something like that when the old click-and-bang mechanical switches were replaced with solid state boards that were just swapped out, thus reducing highly skilled engineers to the role of 'pull anything with the fault light lit and stick in a new one.' A lot of them retired early.
Don't forget times where the copyright holder authorised the upload of the video and neglected to inform Youtube of this.
I looked into that when I had a video pulled. But if they did sue, it'd be a Japanese studio suing a British citizen over activities on an American server. I think I'd have exausted my savings before we even decided where to hold the hearing.
Thou Shalt Not Censor Anything With A Rabid Fanbase.
I have a suspicion this might not be the only nasty thing to lurk in the small print.
Or use Apple's approach. Do the design in the US, where you have a ready supply of the highest skilled workers in the world, but do the manufacturing somewhere like China to take advantage of much lower costs for unskilled and low-skill workers.
Anyone who intended to blow up the airport wouldn't announce it on a public twitter account days before the bang. If they did announce it, they would do so ten minutes before. Just long enough to make sure they get the credit. They'd also probably link to a manifesto, because there is no point in terrorism if people don't know why you did it.
Or he lost his job because his employer has a 'no convicts, no exceptions' policy.
Because it makes the prosecution look bad if they ever arrest someone and don't get a conviction. Works in the UK or the US, situation is the same. Once they have the arrest, they'll do whatever it takes to get a conviction. Even if the person is clearly innocent of whatever they were first arrested for, it just means a search of their life to find something else illegal to use instead.
Well, Luke would say that... the ravens disagree.
Given his impression that there are no significent fundamentalists around together with the posting of a Telegraph link, I would guess that paradise is the UK. Evolution really is a non-issue here - we do have fundamentalists, but their numbers are tiny. Unlike in the US where they are many and politically-active.
He explained that: Once someone has learned on a particular product, it is a non-trivial task to learn to use an equivilent alternative. Why do you think so many companies offer dirt-cheap student licences and heavily promote their software in education?
Added bonus: It makes the catholic church very angry.
Well, I consider it a bonus. Even most of the rest of the pro-life movement doesn't object to PGD in relation to serious conditions any more.