It'd be nice if the image could just be brightened, but the projectors already have to run at their limits. Ever seen the bulb for a modern movie projector? They need a water-cooling system to keep the electrodes from melting, and the envelope is made from quartz because glass would melt.
It's silly to the technical population. It still sounds serious to the layperson. There's a bit of a language disconnect. I'm sure you've seen the regular debates around here regarding the definition of 'hacker,' fought between those who wish to stay true to the old meaning and those who wish to accept the corrupt but more-popular meaning to avoid confusion.
She is a figurehead with a great deal of power on paper - but if she ever tried to exercise it, you can be sure that power would be taken away in short order.
I propose we rename the disputed water as 'Sea of Dugongs.' It's descriptive, politically neutral, and can be translated into any language quite easily so every country can use their own alphabet.
Propaganda. A very good way for any political leader or party to gain power is to unify the people behind a common enemy, even if one must be invented. That works regardless of political structure - democracy or dictatorship, it works just the same. To take advantage of this, the government of Iran continually tells the people that their country is under political attack by the corrupt western world, lead by the US. Google is American, and do this case can be spun to support the under-political-war story by portraying the missing label as the lastest example of the US government ordering one of its proxy corporations to insult the nation of Iran and deny them their rightful recognition.
This legal case isn't supposed to be *won*. It's a big publicity stunt to stir up anti-American sentiment in Iran by trying to give the impression that the US is attacking a much-cherished aspect of cultural identity. It'll probably work, too. We'll all laugh at them here on Slashdot when some US court throws the case out, but over in Iran people will see this as just another case of the US government manipulating the courts to spit in the faces of the Iranian people.
Higher capital costs, and the equipment isn't entirely maintainance-free. Photovoltaics only have a thirty-year designed lifetime, wind turbines need monitoring and occasional repair. Renewables are generally cheaper to run, as there are no fuel costs, but not enough to offset the much higher capital costs. Remember, if renewables were cheap, we wouldn't be using coal anyway.
Mapping fixed terms to IP addresses is easy enough, the problem is meaningfulness to humans.
- If the terms are meaningful, then they will have value. Companies of similar name will dispute who gets one. There will be issues relating to names used for satire or protest. Some will be worth millions, which means lots of legal action. This is the situation with DNS. It works, it also leads to the plague of the cyber-squatters and the type of hugely expensive legal action that only lawyers benefit from.
- If the terms are not meaningful, then there will be great impracticality. Apple wants to be found at 'apple.com' not '819329e4916977570ed5e9617f3049b41c1ec8fa87459a1eb8690bd7a80aa3d2'. How can you put that on a TV advert, or a radio ad? You could put it on a poster, but only in the form of a QR code.
"do what geeks have always done, and create the Darknet version of BitTorrent. That is, a darknet that is easy to use, cryptographically strong, and damn near impossible to detect."
Sounds like Freenet. I've used it. It does work, but the anti-tracking measures impose a nasty performance overhead, so it's painfully slow and there are no real-time communications abilities. I've read that TOR and.onion site are the darknet of choice for when you want realtime comms, but never had need for either.
The idea reminds me of Treehouse from the Otherland novels. Unfortunatly fictional, but a similar origin story to what is happening now: The internet becomes increasingly regulated in the future. Most people are happy with this - it means no more dodgy scammers, and no more pranksters joining forums just to flood it with pornography and leave. Those people who disagree with the new regulation made Freenet, a darknet overlay with obvious simularities to the darknets of the real world, where anything was permitted.
The OSI model is the basis for most *teaching* networking. When it comes to actual practicality, seven layers turned out to too awkward. TCP/IP uses four. Some applications add a bit more on top, but from the networking perspective they aren't too important to worry about.
Someone has to run at least the DNS system. It's the only internet resource people will fight over. One IP or AS number is just like another, so all you need is a simple administrative body to make sure two people don't try to use the same one. But DNS? That's a source of endless disputes, and so long as those domains remain a source of substantial income that will be the case. So a body is needed to resolve them. Right now, that is ICANN and their resolution procedure can be summed up as 'the side with the best-known trademark wins.'
The US created the internet by accident. The technology was designed for a military communications network that could continue to function in the event of severe infrastructure damage from nuclear war. Then it became available to universities, and eventually some companies started offering connectivity to anyone. If you gave a few high-up officials a time machine and a chance to do it all over again, they'd probably engineer it from the beginning to include a government-controlled censorship system, a means of easily determining the identity of every user and an appointed authority in charge of using the censorship system to block anything considered illegal or obscene under US law.
Then someone would set up an abstracted darknet on top purely for the porn.
I do have to wonder what would be the use of Octave or Gnuplot on a mobile phone. None at all, that I can imagine. A tablet, maybe, as a teaching aid... but then, why not a netbook?
It's true of any OS made to run on mobile phones and touchscreen-only devices with dynamically reorientating screens. The interface requires it. Android, iOS... er, other. Blackberry, winphone? All face the same issue.
There is another possibility: Lasers have potential military applications themselves. Point defence. Maybe Iran wants to try reviving the US Star Wars laser counter-missile idea.
This seems to be a common situation in law. Goal A can be accomplished by methods B and C, which are functionally identically and have exactly the same end result, yet B is legal while C is not. Such untidyness is unavoidable at time.
Considered. But no use for weapons (Equipment a few orders of magnitude too big), and much better-funded efforts than Iran can hope for have yet to make it work net-positive.
Laser physicist. Not a lot of use in making nuclear weapons. If they'd arrested an actual nuclear physicist, I'd consider it plausible they have a secret lab where enslaved scientists are forced to work on weapons research. But I imagine the TSA is already watching for any American nuclear physicists who might wish to go to Iran and is ready to have them turned back at the airport.
The landlords also have to foot the cleanup bill. Landlords' insurance doesn't cover deliberate damage caused in the running of a pot farm, and the growers tend to trash the place in order to maximise production in an enclosed space. Bypassing the power meter, knocking holes through walls and floors for ventilation ducts, water damage from improvised irrigation systems.
Fix it. Throw enough billions at the project, and get a semi-sustainable base up there. It'll be handy for astronomy, national pride and construction of spacecraft for going further.
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It'd be nice if the image could just be brightened, but the projectors already have to run at their limits. Ever seen the bulb for a modern movie projector? They need a water-cooling system to keep the electrodes from melting, and the envelope is made from quartz because glass would melt.
It's silly to the technical population. It still sounds serious to the layperson. There's a bit of a language disconnect. I'm sure you've seen the regular debates around here regarding the definition of 'hacker,' fought between those who wish to stay true to the old meaning and those who wish to accept the corrupt but more-popular meaning to avoid confusion.
She is a figurehead with a great deal of power on paper - but if she ever tried to exercise it, you can be sure that power would be taken away in short order.
I've seen greater ignorance. When the government's plans to increase surveilance capability were announced, a lot of people blamed the Queen.
I propose we rename the disputed water as 'Sea of Dugongs.' It's descriptive, politically neutral, and can be translated into any language quite easily so every country can use their own alphabet.
Propaganda. A very good way for any political leader or party to gain power is to unify the people behind a common enemy, even if one must be invented. That works regardless of political structure - democracy or dictatorship, it works just the same. To take advantage of this, the government of Iran continually tells the people that their country is under political attack by the corrupt western world, lead by the US. Google is American, and do this case can be spun to support the under-political-war story by portraying the missing label as the lastest example of the US government ordering one of its proxy corporations to insult the nation of Iran and deny them their rightful recognition.
This legal case isn't supposed to be *won*. It's a big publicity stunt to stir up anti-American sentiment in Iran by trying to give the impression that the US is attacking a much-cherished aspect of cultural identity. It'll probably work, too. We'll all laugh at them here on Slashdot when some US court throws the case out, but over in Iran people will see this as just another case of the US government manipulating the courts to spit in the faces of the Iranian people.
Higher capital costs, and the equipment isn't entirely maintainance-free. Photovoltaics only have a thirty-year designed lifetime, wind turbines need monitoring and occasional repair. Renewables are generally cheaper to run, as there are no fuel costs, but not enough to offset the much higher capital costs. Remember, if renewables were cheap, we wouldn't be using coal anyway.
Mapping fixed terms to IP addresses is easy enough, the problem is meaningfulness to humans.
- If the terms are meaningful, then they will have value. Companies of similar name will dispute who gets one. There will be issues relating to names used for satire or protest. Some will be worth millions, which means lots of legal action. This is the situation with DNS. It works, it also leads to the plague of the cyber-squatters and the type of hugely expensive legal action that only lawyers benefit from.
- If the terms are not meaningful, then there will be great impracticality. Apple wants to be found at 'apple.com' not '819329e4916977570ed5e9617f3049b41c1ec8fa87459a1eb8690bd7a80aa3d2'. How can you put that on a TV advert, or a radio ad? You could put it on a poster, but only in the form of a QR code.
But why on your phone? Do you really have that much need to run physics calculations while traveling?
"do what geeks have always done, and create the Darknet version of BitTorrent. That is, a darknet that is easy to use, cryptographically strong, and damn near impossible to detect."
.onion site are the darknet of choice for when you want realtime comms, but never had need for either.
Sounds like Freenet. I've used it. It does work, but the anti-tracking measures impose a nasty performance overhead, so it's painfully slow and there are no real-time communications abilities. I've read that TOR and
The idea reminds me of Treehouse from the Otherland novels. Unfortunatly fictional, but a similar origin story to what is happening now: The internet becomes increasingly regulated in the future. Most people are happy with this - it means no more dodgy scammers, and no more pranksters joining forums just to flood it with pornography and leave. Those people who disagree with the new regulation made Freenet, a darknet overlay with obvious simularities to the darknets of the real world, where anything was permitted.
The OSI model is the basis for most *teaching* networking. When it comes to actual practicality, seven layers turned out to too awkward. TCP/IP uses four. Some applications add a bit more on top, but from the networking perspective they aren't too important to worry about.
Someone has to run at least the DNS system. It's the only internet resource people will fight over. One IP or AS number is just like another, so all you need is a simple administrative body to make sure two people don't try to use the same one. But DNS? That's a source of endless disputes, and so long as those domains remain a source of substantial income that will be the case. So a body is needed to resolve them. Right now, that is ICANN and their resolution procedure can be summed up as 'the side with the best-known trademark wins.'
The US created the internet by accident. The technology was designed for a military communications network that could continue to function in the event of severe infrastructure damage from nuclear war. Then it became available to universities, and eventually some companies started offering connectivity to anyone. If you gave a few high-up officials a time machine and a chance to do it all over again, they'd probably engineer it from the beginning to include a government-controlled censorship system, a means of easily determining the identity of every user and an appointed authority in charge of using the censorship system to block anything considered illegal or obscene under US law.
Then someone would set up an abstracted darknet on top purely for the porn.
I do have to wonder what would be the use of Octave or Gnuplot on a mobile phone. None at all, that I can imagine. A tablet, maybe, as a teaching aid... but then, why not a netbook?
It's true of any OS made to run on mobile phones and touchscreen-only devices with dynamically reorientating screens. The interface requires it. Android, iOS... er, other. Blackberry, winphone? All face the same issue.
Maybe the animal cruelty people should volunteer themselves as test subjects instead.
There is another possibility: Lasers have potential military applications themselves. Point defence. Maybe Iran wants to try reviving the US Star Wars laser counter-missile idea.
This seems to be a common situation in law. Goal A can be accomplished by methods B and C, which are functionally identically and have exactly the same end result, yet B is legal while C is not. Such untidyness is unavoidable at time.
Considered. But no use for weapons (Equipment a few orders of magnitude too big), and much better-funded efforts than Iran can hope for have yet to make it work net-positive.
Laser physicist. Not a lot of use in making nuclear weapons. If they'd arrested an actual nuclear physicist, I'd consider it plausible they have a secret lab where enslaved scientists are forced to work on weapons research. But I imagine the TSA is already watching for any American nuclear physicists who might wish to go to Iran and is ready to have them turned back at the airport.
The landlords also have to foot the cleanup bill. Landlords' insurance doesn't cover deliberate damage caused in the running of a pot farm, and the growers tend to trash the place in order to maximise production in an enclosed space. Bypassing the power meter, knocking holes through walls and floors for ventilation ducts, water damage from improvised irrigation systems.
The ad-skipping is already being countered by an increase in product placement.
Plenty of people with a Nintendo DS continue to run WEP because it doesn't support WPA.
"The Moon is a deserted wasteland."
Indeed.
Fix it. Throw enough billions at the project, and get a semi-sustainable base up there. It'll be handy for astronomy, national pride and construction of spacecraft for going further.
How about 250 megagrams?