It is rather inefficient to lug big, heavy combustion engines around. What electric cars need to be efficient are the same features that are needed to make a really efficient petrol car: A small vehicle, very lightweight in construction. Basically a European car - but that is something that just won't work in the US market, where customer expectations are quite different.
Not true. They took countermeasures to protect against such an event occuring again. Specifically, they updated the PSN licence agreement to forbid users from bringing class-action lawsuits.
If you want a good historical Jobs, try Edison. He was a decent-but-not-great inventor, like Jobs. He was also a business genius, like Jobs. And, like Jobs, he realised the power of personality in marketing - building his empire largely by taking the ideas of his anonymous underlings and branding them as his own, creating the image of himself as an uber-inventor of superhuman intellect in order to better sell the inventions.
That describes toilets in some Greek islands I've visited. The second thing the holiday company rep said was not to flush your toilet paper, because the sewer system isn't able to take them and tends to clog very easily.
The first thing the rep said was not to drink the tapwater.
I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a deliberate parody of religion, or genuine crazy. Impossible to tell sometimes. It's also very common in US poltics for the term 'socialism' to be thrown around to scare people without any obvious relation to its correct meaning - the cultural relics of the Red Menace never entirely left the country.
I think it's more a matter of not growing. They have a slight problem. Their main cash cows are desktop operating systems and office software, and when you have nearly 100% of the market, the only way to grow is to grow the market. That takes a long time. Microsoft is thriving, but they can't give the massive year-on-year growth of their earlier success any more. Their efforts to enter new markets have been less than successful... the xbox is a respectable console, but the Zune was a joke, and Windows Mobile is barely even seen.
That's just powering the processor. You've got all the support chips, radio and such to. The single biggest power draw in most phones and tablets is the screen, when it's on - a good deal of power management goes into just trying to keep it turned off as much as possible.
Only the spent fuel. A lot of the waste is intermediate level junk. Contaminated suits, used coolant water, pipe, linings from decommissioned buildings, broken machine parts. Things that have become radioactive enough to be dangerous, but not so radioactive as to become weaponiseable. Standard procedure is to throw it in a warehouse, post guards and try not to worry.
> No risk of an accident at sea; storms never happen. Aiming is trivial, as well.
No more of a problem than in any other ship - various navy ships have been using nuclear reactors onboard for years. Just a matter of putting the waste in very durable containers, which it already is. As for aiming... yes, it is trivial. The Mariana Trench is very big, and GPS quite precise.
> Correct. No one ever went down there. Especially not robots.
Three times in total - it is difficult, it is expensive, and that is just to get there. Aiming to get the waste down is trivial, but searching for a few small containers in the vast expanse of sea floor would be an exercise in futility.
> And no contamination of whatever is down there, either.
Not much down there. Just lots and lots of water, and very little life. Water that takes a very long time to circulate to the surface.
It's a perfect disposal site. Deposit-only, no withdrawals. Cheap. The only place that might get contaminated is a vast expanse of uninhabited nothing.
Micro-missiles would be politically difficult - can't just let civilians play around with those without a lot of regulation. Some sort of ECM system would be doable. Find the downlink frequency, directional antenna and tracking system locked on to the uplink. Disrupt the control connection. Drones aren't so dumb they'll crash, but the autopilot will kick in, turning the drone around and sending it back from whence it came.
There are plenty of nuclear waste disposal options that are cheap, reliable and safe. They are just politically problematic.
The easiest would be to just put it in boxes and throw it down the Mariana Trench. There is no possibility of anyone getting it back, and if it ever comes back up naturally it'll be long after safe decay. The problem is political: Throwing nuclear waste in the ocean violates international law, and for some reason no politician wants to start the process of changing that.
Anonymous did quite well against the Church of Scientology. Their direct attacks didn't do anything - a week without websites and intermittent email inconvenienced the CoS, no more - but the publicity around it left what reputation the church had in ruin. No longer are they just an obscure cult most people have barely heard of - after the Anonymous-ran campaign on social media, everyone knows to avoid them, and they even got the criticisms mentioned on TV news. Thanks to the PR campaign, the CoS has a harder time recruiting people now.
Most Anonymous operations are a bit of a letdown, but every now and then they can pull it off.
The same business model has been used to great infamy by many knock-off emule clients. You just missed out a key part: Don't tell the customer they can get it free elsewhere! If you have to mention gpl, do so in point-two font on a page no-one visits. If your page is a top rank on google (May have to hire a spammer for that) then you should be able to get a few suckers to pay up without even realising that your page is not the official one.
Under just about all national law, actually - it's one of the terms of the Berne Convention. It requires all contracting companies make copyright grants automatic, even if the author didn't explicitly put a notice on.
There was a valid reason though. It was to prevent incomplete works from leaking and being legally redistributed, before the creator(s) put the copyright notice on.
IIRC, most color photocopiers (and some printers) detect efforts to copy US currency and refuse. I don't think it's a government mandate, just all copier manufacturers realising that if they didn't do it voluntarily, it'd be mandated sooner or later. Given that very few people have a legitimate reason for copying money (The only one I can think of would be as props in photos or performances), it mostly goes unnoticed.
Because SOPA addresses all manner of copyright-related crimes, not merely downloading media. Clothing manufacturers want it so they can block sites selling counterfeit goods with their branding on. It's a lot easier and cheaper for them to block the sites and prevent any form of payment to them than it would be to intercept every shipment at customs.
A little following the Wiki links turns up a variety of related cases, even if just looking in the US. The Miller test is still in place, but it is a rather fuzzy standard at best. Because of the vagueness it invites any judge or jury to just vote on their emotional reaction alone. Not everyone agrees on the meaning of 'artistic value.' I've been to the Tate Modern, and I wouldn't call a lot of the pieces there art.
In this case, the penalty for breach is low enough that it isn't worth the expense of high security. The worst that can happen would be someone stealing a few sample-sized puddings.
Australia, the US and UK all go one better than that: They consider it to be CP if any of the subjects appears to be under eighteen even if there are no actual subjects, merely artistic depictions. Australia jailed one person for Rule 34 art of Lisa Simpson*, and the US jailed one person for possession of hentai comics.
*He had prior convictions for actual child porn, so the jury was eager to throw the book at him..
That's easy to solve. Facial recognition. Just store all faces to which a pudding has been dispensed for an hour or so, and refuse to give to anyone on that list.
In theory someone could just bring a book of faces to hold in front of the camera, but who would go to that much trouble for pudding?
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It is rather inefficient to lug big, heavy combustion engines around. What electric cars need to be efficient are the same features that are needed to make a really efficient petrol car: A small vehicle, very lightweight in construction. Basically a European car - but that is something that just won't work in the US market, where customer expectations are quite different.
"They got hacked and basically gave no fucks."
Not true. They took countermeasures to protect against such an event occuring again. Specifically, they updated the PSN licence agreement to forbid users from bringing class-action lawsuits.
Good point. I wonder how many fundamentalists fought against the Apollo program?
If you want a good historical Jobs, try Edison. He was a decent-but-not-great inventor, like Jobs. He was also a business genius, like Jobs. And, like Jobs, he realised the power of personality in marketing - building his empire largely by taking the ideas of his anonymous underlings and branding them as his own, creating the image of himself as an uber-inventor of superhuman intellect in order to better sell the inventions.
The system could be broken with an obvious form of hacking: Simply hack bits of the messanger off until he tells you how the message is hidden.
That describes toilets in some Greek islands I've visited. The second thing the holiday company rep said was not to flush your toilet paper, because the sewer system isn't able to take them and tends to clog very easily.
The first thing the rep said was not to drink the tapwater.
You forgot one of the most popular of all: Not every boat-shaped feature on a mountain is the ruin of Noah's Ark.
I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a deliberate parody of religion, or genuine crazy. Impossible to tell sometimes. It's also very common in US poltics for the term 'socialism' to be thrown around to scare people without any obvious relation to its correct meaning - the cultural relics of the Red Menace never entirely left the country.
I think it's more a matter of not growing. They have a slight problem. Their main cash cows are desktop operating systems and office software, and when you have nearly 100% of the market, the only way to grow is to grow the market. That takes a long time. Microsoft is thriving, but they can't give the massive year-on-year growth of their earlier success any more. Their efforts to enter new markets have been less than successful... the xbox is a respectable console, but the Zune was a joke, and Windows Mobile is barely even seen.
That's just powering the processor. You've got all the support chips, radio and such to. The single biggest power draw in most phones and tablets is the screen, when it's on - a good deal of power management goes into just trying to keep it turned off as much as possible.
Only the spent fuel. A lot of the waste is intermediate level junk. Contaminated suits, used coolant water, pipe, linings from decommissioned buildings, broken machine parts. Things that have become radioactive enough to be dangerous, but not so radioactive as to become weaponiseable. Standard procedure is to throw it in a warehouse, post guards and try not to worry.
> No risk of an accident at sea; storms never happen. Aiming is trivial, as well.
No more of a problem than in any other ship - various navy ships have been using nuclear reactors onboard for years. Just a matter of putting the waste in very durable containers, which it already is. As for aiming... yes, it is trivial. The Mariana Trench is very big, and GPS quite precise.
> Correct. No one ever went down there. Especially not robots.
Three times in total - it is difficult, it is expensive, and that is just to get there. Aiming to get the waste down is trivial, but searching for a few small containers in the vast expanse of sea floor would be an exercise in futility.
> And no contamination of whatever is down there, either.
Not much down there. Just lots and lots of water, and very little life. Water that takes a very long time to circulate to the surface.
It's a perfect disposal site. Deposit-only, no withdrawals. Cheap. The only place that might get contaminated is a vast expanse of uninhabited nothing.
Micro-missiles would be politically difficult - can't just let civilians play around with those without a lot of regulation. Some sort of ECM system would be doable. Find the downlink frequency, directional antenna and tracking system locked on to the uplink. Disrupt the control connection. Drones aren't so dumb they'll crash, but the autopilot will kick in, turning the drone around and sending it back from whence it came.
People only care about cute species. Even Sea Kittens are not that cute.
There are plenty of nuclear waste disposal options that are cheap, reliable and safe. They are just politically problematic.
The easiest would be to just put it in boxes and throw it down the Mariana Trench. There is no possibility of anyone getting it back, and if it ever comes back up naturally it'll be long after safe decay. The problem is political: Throwing nuclear waste in the ocean violates international law, and for some reason no politician wants to start the process of changing that.
An evil employer starts to look a lot less evil when you've a family to feed and children to get through college.
Anonymous did quite well against the Church of Scientology. Their direct attacks didn't do anything - a week without websites and intermittent email inconvenienced the CoS, no more - but the publicity around it left what reputation the church had in ruin. No longer are they just an obscure cult most people have barely heard of - after the Anonymous-ran campaign on social media, everyone knows to avoid them, and they even got the criticisms mentioned on TV news. Thanks to the PR campaign, the CoS has a harder time recruiting people now.
Most Anonymous operations are a bit of a letdown, but every now and then they can pull it off.
The same business model has been used to great infamy by many knock-off emule clients. You just missed out a key part: Don't tell the customer they can get it free elsewhere! If you have to mention gpl, do so in point-two font on a page no-one visits. If your page is a top rank on google (May have to hire a spammer for that) then you should be able to get a few suckers to pay up without even realising that your page is not the official one.
Under just about all national law, actually - it's one of the terms of the Berne Convention. It requires all contracting companies make copyright grants automatic, even if the author didn't explicitly put a notice on.
There was a valid reason though. It was to prevent incomplete works from leaking and being legally redistributed, before the creator(s) put the copyright notice on.
IIRC, most color photocopiers (and some printers) detect efforts to copy US currency and refuse. I don't think it's a government mandate, just all copier manufacturers realising that if they didn't do it voluntarily, it'd be mandated sooner or later. Given that very few people have a legitimate reason for copying money (The only one I can think of would be as props in photos or performances), it mostly goes unnoticed.
Because SOPA addresses all manner of copyright-related crimes, not merely downloading media. Clothing manufacturers want it so they can block sites selling counterfeit goods with their branding on. It's a lot easier and cheaper for them to block the sites and prevent any form of payment to them than it would be to intercept every shipment at customs.
A little following the Wiki links turns up a variety of related cases, even if just looking in the US. The Miller test is still in place, but it is a rather fuzzy standard at best. Because of the vagueness it invites any judge or jury to just vote on their emotional reaction alone. Not everyone agrees on the meaning of 'artistic value.' I've been to the Tate Modern, and I wouldn't call a lot of the pieces there art.
In this case, the penalty for breach is low enough that it isn't worth the expense of high security. The worst that can happen would be someone stealing a few sample-sized puddings.
Australia, the US and UK all go one better than that: They consider it to be CP if any of the subjects appears to be under eighteen even if there are no actual subjects, merely artistic depictions. Australia jailed one person for Rule 34 art of Lisa Simpson*, and the US jailed one person for possession of hentai comics.
*He had prior convictions for actual child porn, so the jury was eager to throw the book at him..
That's easy to solve. Facial recognition. Just store all faces to which a pudding has been dispensed for an hour or so, and refuse to give to anyone on that list.
In theory someone could just bring a book of faces to hold in front of the camera, but who would go to that much trouble for pudding?