End-to-end encryption is awkward, though. It's doable, yes, but it takes some level of skill to impliment still - and most people, having nothing to hide, just don't care about privacy that much. Just look at how many people use Facebook.
Originally, just sexual abuse of children was illegal. Then it became child pornography, on the grounds that demand for it created an incentive to abuse children. After that though, it just got sillier and sillier. It's a ratchett effect - any politician can gain by tightening or extending the law in this area, but to so much as suggest weakening it would open one up to accusations of not careing about protecting children. So the laws can only ever get broader, never narrower.
We had a recent incident in the UK where a full armed assault team were sent in to raid a guina-pig hut. The high-powered heaters used to keep the pets warm in the winter made the hut glow in infrared, and a building that hot usually means a small pot farm. So in go the SWAT team, only to find out with great embarassment that there were no drugs to be found. Just comfortably warm guina-pigs. It ended up with the department head having to go to visit the family and give his personal apology for the mistake.
Old ink, of the type used in some historical documents, can show up on an xray. That's one way of recovering data from such documents when they are too old to read by conventional means. It wouldn't work on modern biro ink though.
It'll help catch the stupid criminals, at least. Why go after the smart ones when the convictions-per-dollar rate is so much better catching the dumb ones?
An M rating is basically the commercial death sentence for games. Walmart refuses to carry them, as do most other major retailers, online and off. It doesn't matter how good your game is if you can't actually get it in stores.
Latinum's value comes from it's non-replicatablity and rarity. It's the only substance that is both scarce and storeable (There are other nonreplicatables, but they are perishables like high-quality food). As there are far too many civilisations around to allow the use of fiat currencies in exchanges, that makes it the only option for a standard currency. Even then, most interstellar trade is done on barter (How many times did Voyager have to trade for supplies) due to the lack of a standard galactic currency.
It helps if you've got some political connections. If you are someone like, for example, Sarah Palin then it's easy to make sure any wannabe-hacker who guesses your password gets to spend a few years in jail. It's just as with any other crime, really: How much the police care about catching the criminal is directly related to the wealth and influence of the victim.
"Excuse me, but when the astronauts sleep, they see flashes in their eyes caused by energetic particles colliding with the fluid in their eyes and emitting Cerenkov light cones. Forgive me, but that's pretty damn extreme."
Citation needed. Actually I've heard this myself, but the version I heard said it occured only in the van allen belts. I don't know if either claim is remotely true, though.
The UK's space industry is actually booming right now. The country handles the design, administration and construction of all sorts of space hardware. What we don't do is launch. Simple geometry says that the closer to the equator you are, the more practical launching becomes - that's why the US launch facilities are in Florida, about as far south as you can get on US territory. When the UK needs something launched, we just do it from France.
My sentence was ambiguous. I intended to say that perpetual motion is a theoretical impossibility, while cold fusion is merely something that has yet to be achieved but one day may be.
They could replicate alcohol, if they wanted. Federation ships just didn't - they instead replicated synthol. An intoxicant with similar taste and effect, but which could be broken down in very short time with the appropriate medication. Federation ships are relaxed, but still must be ready for combat - you can't be ready if some of the crew are drunk.
There are some materials which cannot be replicated - latinum being one, and that is the only reason for it's use as a currency. Some forms of complex organic molecule, which is why replicated food tastes inferior to grown food. And trilithium or other fuels - which could be replicated, but not without a prohibitive energy cost.
It does with the quote marks. The term skeptic has been to some extent co-opted now by people who are most unskeptical by the conventional definition, in order to try to appear more credible. An example would be 9/11 skeptics, or climate change skeptics. Their existence annoys the older skeptical movement who fear that their brand is being cheapened and confusion created - when everyone is proclaiming their skepticism, it's difficult to tell who is really studying evidence and weighing arguments and who is merely searching for an excuse to dismiss something they do not wish to be true.
Correct. Cold fusion isn't a theoretical impossibility, like perpetual motion - it can, in princible, be done. So far though, no scientist or engineer has worked out how to do it. The field is plagued with both deliberate frauds and overeager misinterpretations of results, and so far very little in the way of success.
It's not always about funding and political ties. It's also about the audience. All media tries to say thing that the audience wants to see - it keeps the viewers watching, and the ratings high. Being Arabic language, and with an audience primarily opposing the state of Israel and almost entirely Muslim, that's what Al Jazeera must try to appeal to.
Do not trust? They hate each other. I don't see how a real peace can be achieved, because both sides desire exactly the same thing (The same patch of land) for unshakeable cultural reasons ("This is the land of my ancestors!" "No, it's the land of MY ancestors!" "God gave it to MY people!" "But then he gave it to MY people!"). The best that might be achieved is some form of division as exists now, but that isn't really peace - it's just delaying war, and allowing a small conflict to simmer with border clashes and rocket attacks.
The Federation, at least, is post-scarcity. The conflicts are all over three things: Either some extremally rare natural resource, or control of habitable planets (And the power they bring), or culture and politics. Sometimes one race just hates another, and wants to fight over it. The Vulcans and Romulans are in conflict due to their historic dispute, the Klingon culture is heavily militaristic and demands war as the only route to honor.
The largest phoneline ISP in the UK (by number of customers) is BT, also our largest by far supplier of conventional phone service. The largest cable ISP in the UK (again, by number of customers) is Virgin, who also provide cable TV, and a landline phone service.
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And what about :> ? And /:> ? How are us avian furs supposed to be properly expressive without a beak?
"In reality, what will happen is that the dumb crooks will get smarter and start using VPN services"
Possible. But, hypothetically, if I were an internet pedophile, I'd look at Freenet first. Possibly Freenet via a VPN if espicially paranoid.
End-to-end encryption is awkward, though. It's doable, yes, but it takes some level of skill to impliment still - and most people, having nothing to hide, just don't care about privacy that much. Just look at how many people use Facebook.
Originally, just sexual abuse of children was illegal. Then it became child pornography, on the grounds that demand for it created an incentive to abuse children. After that though, it just got sillier and sillier. It's a ratchett effect - any politician can gain by tightening or extending the law in this area, but to so much as suggest weakening it would open one up to accusations of not careing about protecting children. So the laws can only ever get broader, never narrower.
We had a recent incident in the UK where a full armed assault team were sent in to raid a guina-pig hut. The high-powered heaters used to keep the pets warm in the winter made the hut glow in infrared, and a building that hot usually means a small pot farm. So in go the SWAT team, only to find out with great embarassment that there were no drugs to be found. Just comfortably warm guina-pigs. It ended up with the department head having to go to visit the family and give his personal apology for the mistake.
Old ink, of the type used in some historical documents, can show up on an xray. That's one way of recovering data from such documents when they are too old to read by conventional means. It wouldn't work on modern biro ink though.
It'll help catch the stupid criminals, at least. Why go after the smart ones when the convictions-per-dollar rate is so much better catching the dumb ones?
I correct: I meant AO rating, not M.
An M rating is basically the commercial death sentence for games. Walmart refuses to carry them, as do most other major retailers, online and off. It doesn't matter how good your game is if you can't actually get it in stores.
Latinum's value comes from it's non-replicatablity and rarity. It's the only substance that is both scarce and storeable (There are other nonreplicatables, but they are perishables like high-quality food). As there are far too many civilisations around to allow the use of fiat currencies in exchanges, that makes it the only option for a standard currency. Even then, most interstellar trade is done on barter (How many times did Voyager have to trade for supplies) due to the lack of a standard galactic currency.
It helps if you've got some political connections. If you are someone like, for example, Sarah Palin then it's easy to make sure any wannabe-hacker who guesses your password gets to spend a few years in jail. It's just as with any other crime, really: How much the police care about catching the criminal is directly related to the wealth and influence of the victim.
"Excuse me, but when the astronauts sleep, they see flashes in their eyes caused by energetic particles colliding with the fluid in their eyes and emitting Cerenkov light cones. Forgive me, but that's pretty damn extreme."
Citation needed. Actually I've heard this myself, but the version I heard said it occured only in the van allen belts. I don't know if either claim is remotely true, though.
The UK's space industry is actually booming right now. The country handles the design, administration and construction of all sorts of space hardware. What we don't do is launch. Simple geometry says that the closer to the equator you are, the more practical launching becomes - that's why the US launch facilities are in Florida, about as far south as you can get on US territory. When the UK needs something launched, we just do it from France.
My sentence was ambiguous. I intended to say that perpetual motion is a theoretical impossibility, while cold fusion is merely something that has yet to be achieved but one day may be.
They could replicate alcohol, if they wanted. Federation ships just didn't - they instead replicated synthol. An intoxicant with similar taste and effect, but which could be broken down in very short time with the appropriate medication. Federation ships are relaxed, but still must be ready for combat - you can't be ready if some of the crew are drunk.
There are some materials which cannot be replicated - latinum being one, and that is the only reason for it's use as a currency. Some forms of complex organic molecule, which is why replicated food tastes inferior to grown food. And trilithium or other fuels - which could be replicated, but not without a prohibitive energy cost.
It's had release dates before. They came, they went. Maybe this one will be it, but, given the game's history I wouldn't put money on it.
3. Alien teenagers think it's fun to drop in on a pre-FTL civilisation and scare the locals.
It does with the quote marks. The term skeptic has been to some extent co-opted now by people who are most unskeptical by the conventional definition, in order to try to appear more credible. An example would be 9/11 skeptics, or climate change skeptics. Their existence annoys the older skeptical movement who fear that their brand is being cheapened and confusion created - when everyone is proclaiming their skepticism, it's difficult to tell who is really studying evidence and weighing arguments and who is merely searching for an excuse to dismiss something they do not wish to be true.
After attempting to send a laboratory mouse into the box, the engineers agreed never to speak of that test again.
Correct. Cold fusion isn't a theoretical impossibility, like perpetual motion - it can, in princible, be done. So far though, no scientist or engineer has worked out how to do it. The field is plagued with both deliberate frauds and overeager misinterpretations of results, and so far very little in the way of success.
It's not always about funding and political ties. It's also about the audience. All media tries to say thing that the audience wants to see - it keeps the viewers watching, and the ratings high. Being Arabic language, and with an audience primarily opposing the state of Israel and almost entirely Muslim, that's what Al Jazeera must try to appeal to.
Do not trust? They hate each other. I don't see how a real peace can be achieved, because both sides desire exactly the same thing (The same patch of land) for unshakeable cultural reasons ("This is the land of my ancestors!" "No, it's the land of MY ancestors!" "God gave it to MY people!" "But then he gave it to MY people!"). The best that might be achieved is some form of division as exists now, but that isn't really peace - it's just delaying war, and allowing a small conflict to simmer with border clashes and rocket attacks.
The peace process is basically a joke. It isn't a process towards peace - it's a process of perpetually postponing a major conflict for another year.
The Federation, at least, is post-scarcity. The conflicts are all over three things: Either some extremally rare natural resource, or control of habitable planets (And the power they bring), or culture and politics. Sometimes one race just hates another, and wants to fight over it. The Vulcans and Romulans are in conflict due to their historic dispute, the Klingon culture is heavily militaristic and demands war as the only route to honor.
The largest phoneline ISP in the UK (by number of customers) is BT, also our largest by far supplier of conventional phone service. The largest cable ISP in the UK (again, by number of customers) is Virgin, who also provide cable TV, and a landline phone service.