Your argument can be put in much more simple terms: "God is the definition of what is good. Therefore anything that God does is good - even genocide, slaughter of children, smiting people for the pettiest of reasons, or inflicting ten terrible plagues upon an entire country for no good reason. These things are good because God made them good."
Windows 8 will support full disk encryption. It's possible the FDE companies will simply cease to exist, or be reduced in scale to insignificence, similar to how fat-defragmentation software vanished after Windows 95 (I think) included such functionality built into the OS.
Though the term isn't technically accurate, I imagine people will be refering to any low-level pre-OS setup screen as 'The BIOS' for many years to come. It's a popular name. It will stick.
Because:
1. It takes a vast amount of training. An encyclopedic knowledge of all common illnesses and most of the rare ones too. That's why the education process is so demanding.
2. Because when they make mistakes, people die. That makes medicine a legal minefield, and drives very high standards.
Given the current level of pedophile-paranoia, I'm surprised no fringe politician has yet suggested manditory castration for all male teachers just as a precaution. We're already at the point where teachers are afraid to talk to the pupils about anything other than the lesson for fear of the contact being seen as inappropriate.
You're quite right, which means that on your typical home broadband changing the MAC is pointless. On a public access point, however, it can be used to help track someone. Once the investigaters (be they police enforcing uncontriversial law, private investigators or agents of some oppressive regime) track the IP address down to the physical location, the first thing they'll do is grab the DHCP logs and get a list of MAC addresses in use at that location at the right time. Then they can use that to either trawl databases (OEM sales, ISP mac/modem associations, public hotspot customer lists) or to use to prove a suspect was at that location at the appropriate time. Either way, if you want to be paranoid, fake the MAC.
I don't like that bit about the means justifying the end. Sometimes it does. A famous example would be Typhoid Mary. Even after she was found to be a asymptomatic carrier, she reacted with complete denial - continuing to work as a cook, leaving a trail of death in her wake, yet never accepting that she was the cause. After all attempts to convince her of the danger she posed failed, forced quarantine was just the only option left - if she had been allowed to keep her freedom, she would have without doubt have unintentionally killed many more people.
Quarentine wouldn't have worked on HIV anyway. The disease was first identified in the US, but had it's origin in Africa. By the time it was identified, it was already too late to contain.
This only works if:
1. You can actually stick to it, including those hormone-addled teenage years.
2. Your spouse (spouses, if you divorce and remarry) managed it as well.
3. You manage to avoid other means of infection. Rape, accidential exposure to blood.
It's also rather untidy, having to alter your life in order to avoid disease. Much tidier to simply remove the disease through science.
There is a third: Have friends in very high places. This option isn't available to most people, but it's an open secret that there is some amount of international espionage going on with countries trying to blame their hacking efforts on independant hackers who happen to live within their borders.
In most cases, changing your MAC is pointless. It doesn't go beyond your segment anyway, and your ISP will be tracking you based on either modem identifier or physical line your connection comes in via.
The only exception is if you are using a public(/hacked) wireless hotspot, in which case they may be able to use the MAC to track you down (Some OEMs, like Apple, keep the MAC on record and associated with purchaser) or else use it as proof if they already have enough suspicion to sieze your laptop.
Depends who you want to communicate with. There are a few foilhatters on Freenet who believe various conspiracies are after them - and, in the unlikely event they are actually right, freenet is going to be all but impossible to track someone on. Easier to try to bait your target into a trap by, for example, giving him a unique link to a conventional website and then looking through their logs to see where the request came from.
There are a few low-ranking pirate releasers there too, but as they tend not to do the latest blockbuster stuff I doubt anyone is trying to hunt them down either.
The cost to the user of most advertising is negligable. A few k of traffic, a moment to glance at the ad. The cost of suboptimal routes is more significent, in time and fuel.
If these are actually implimented, do you expect the companies to admit it? I imagine it's be strictly need-to-know. Just a handful of executives, a lawyer or two and the programmer who has to actually impliment it. Such business practices are too potentially embarassing to announce to the world.
Though the math is beyond me, I imagine it would take an impractical number of weather balloons to achieve anything. The actual amount of free-radical chlorine in the atmosphere is tiny per unit volume of air - but that little bit goes a long way.
The server room at my workplace has a temperature alert program written in perl. I've also made an IRC bot in perl. It does character descriptions and die rolls for a roleplay channel.
So you can run anything you want, so long as you're willing to forgo access to the distribution system that is needed to get your software easily accessible to all, pay extra, and own a Mac. That hardly seems fair.
Depends how much interconnect you need. Some tasks need hardly any, while others can saturate multi-gigabit links with ease. As this is a general-purpose supercomputer, it'll have to be speced to handle the worst of loads... so high-capacity interconnect of some form.
An extreme case would be brute-force crypto, in which the inter-node traffic is so low the entire supercomputer could be quite easily built on 10base2.
As opposed to the educational value of getting out their phones? Do you actually imagine they are doing to use them for education? No, it'll be listening to the pop star of the moment.
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Your argument can be put in much more simple terms: "God is the definition of what is good. Therefore anything that God does is good - even genocide, slaughter of children, smiting people for the pettiest of reasons, or inflicting ten terrible plagues upon an entire country for no good reason. These things are good because God made them good."
Windows 8 will support full disk encryption. It's possible the FDE companies will simply cease to exist, or be reduced in scale to insignificence, similar to how fat-defragmentation software vanished after Windows 95 (I think) included such functionality built into the OS.
Though the term isn't technically accurate, I imagine people will be refering to any low-level pre-OS setup screen as 'The BIOS' for many years to come. It's a popular name. It will stick.
The laptop is indeed an Asus. One of those Eee netbooks.
Because:
1. It takes a vast amount of training. An encyclopedic knowledge of all common illnesses and most of the rare ones too. That's why the education process is so demanding.
2. Because when they make mistakes, people die. That makes medicine a legal minefield, and drives very high standards.
The paranoia though focuses almost entirely on males. The discriminatory result merely reflects a discriminatory cause.
Of course they are all alone. If they weren't alone, whoever was with them would put the flames out before the fire takes hold.
Given the current level of pedophile-paranoia, I'm surprised no fringe politician has yet suggested manditory castration for all male teachers just as a precaution. We're already at the point where teachers are afraid to talk to the pupils about anything other than the lesson for fear of the contact being seen as inappropriate.
You're quite right, which means that on your typical home broadband changing the MAC is pointless. On a public access point, however, it can be used to help track someone. Once the investigaters (be they police enforcing uncontriversial law, private investigators or agents of some oppressive regime) track the IP address down to the physical location, the first thing they'll do is grab the DHCP logs and get a list of MAC addresses in use at that location at the right time. Then they can use that to either trawl databases (OEM sales, ISP mac/modem associations, public hotspot customer lists) or to use to prove a suspect was at that location at the appropriate time. Either way, if you want to be paranoid, fake the MAC.
I don't like that bit about the means justifying the end. Sometimes it does. A famous example would be Typhoid Mary. Even after she was found to be a asymptomatic carrier, she reacted with complete denial - continuing to work as a cook, leaving a trail of death in her wake, yet never accepting that she was the cause. After all attempts to convince her of the danger she posed failed, forced quarantine was just the only option left - if she had been allowed to keep her freedom, she would have without doubt have unintentionally killed many more people.
Quarentine wouldn't have worked on HIV anyway. The disease was first identified in the US, but had it's origin in Africa. By the time it was identified, it was already too late to contain.
This only works if:
1. You can actually stick to it, including those hormone-addled teenage years.
2. Your spouse (spouses, if you divorce and remarry) managed it as well.
3. You manage to avoid other means of infection. Rape, accidential exposure to blood.
It's also rather untidy, having to alter your life in order to avoid disease. Much tidier to simply remove the disease through science.
Might want to change your MAC too.
There is a third: Have friends in very high places. This option isn't available to most people, but it's an open secret that there is some amount of international espionage going on with countries trying to blame their hacking efforts on independant hackers who happen to live within their borders.
In most cases, changing your MAC is pointless. It doesn't go beyond your segment anyway, and your ISP will be tracking you based on either modem identifier or physical line your connection comes in via.
The only exception is if you are using a public(/hacked) wireless hotspot, in which case they may be able to use the MAC to track you down (Some OEMs, like Apple, keep the MAC on record and associated with purchaser) or else use it as proof if they already have enough suspicion to sieze your laptop.
Depends who you want to communicate with. There are a few foilhatters on Freenet who believe various conspiracies are after them - and, in the unlikely event they are actually right, freenet is going to be all but impossible to track someone on. Easier to try to bait your target into a trap by, for example, giving him a unique link to a conventional website and then looking through their logs to see where the request came from.
There are a few low-ranking pirate releasers there too, but as they tend not to do the latest blockbuster stuff I doubt anyone is trying to hunt them down either.
The cost to the user of most advertising is negligable. A few k of traffic, a moment to glance at the ad. The cost of suboptimal routes is more significent, in time and fuel.
If these are actually implimented, do you expect the companies to admit it? I imagine it's be strictly need-to-know. Just a handful of executives, a lawyer or two and the programmer who has to actually impliment it. Such business practices are too potentially embarassing to announce to the world.
Though the math is beyond me, I imagine it would take an impractical number of weather balloons to achieve anything. The actual amount of free-radical chlorine in the atmosphere is tiny per unit volume of air - but that little bit goes a long way.
The server room at my workplace has a temperature alert program written in perl. I've also made an IRC bot in perl. It does character descriptions and die rolls for a roleplay channel.
So you can run anything you want, so long as you're willing to forgo access to the distribution system that is needed to get your software easily accessible to all, pay extra, and own a Mac. That hardly seems fair.
CFCs function as photocatalysts. More precisely, their breakdown product of free radical chlorine does.
Ozone + Cl ---UV Light---> Oxygen + Cl
So a little CFC can break down thousands of times it's own mass of ozone before the Cl radicals eventually find something else to react with.
CFCs also make very potent greenhouse gas.
Depends how much interconnect you need. Some tasks need hardly any, while others can saturate multi-gigabit links with ease. As this is a general-purpose supercomputer, it'll have to be speced to handle the worst of loads... so high-capacity interconnect of some form.
An extreme case would be brute-force crypto, in which the inter-node traffic is so low the entire supercomputer could be quite easily built on 10base2.
On the upside, much easier on power and cooling. x86 can win on performance-per-cycle, but ARM still wins on performance-per-watt.
Twenty minutes? That's no way to run a class. The get-everyone-out time shouldn't be more than a few minutes, and that's if the class is being unruly.
As opposed to the educational value of getting out their phones? Do you actually imagine they are doing to use them for education? No, it'll be listening to the pop star of the moment.