The law is based on the same idea as old-fashioned mining claims: Whoever discovers and get their first gets to claim it as their own. It doesn't claim anything in space for the US - it says that under US law objects in space may be claimed as private property. It's an approach that worked in the past, as it creates a profit motive for exploration and expansion - advocates point to the manner in which private ownership of claims lead to investment in the expansion westwards during European colonisation of the new world and exploitation of the resources found there. The gold rush may have lead to some lawlessness, but it certainly found the gold.
2. Doesn't work any more. Due to changes in how parallel ports are implimented now, you can't do line monitoring or bit-bang the output on all ports. It's one reason a lot of factories with CNC machines keep a few ancient PCs around to operate them.
Don't forget internet feuds - there are many stories of flamewars getting seriously out of hand and leading to one site SWATting the other, or submitting anonymous tip-offs to police about a claimed serious crime, or contacting an opponent's employer to spread malicious rumors in an attempt to have them fired.
Open and honest can be a problem. For example, I used to work as tech support in a Catholic school. Not super-devout catholic, but we had a chapel and occasionally a bishop would visit for a guest sermon. I happen to think the church is composed of sex-hating prudes who'll shelter child molesters to protect their claim to moral perfection and happily watch people die of preventable disease rather than permit the use of condoms. But at the time, I couldn't have said that under my real name - because if my employer had found out, I may well have lost the job.
Speaking under your real name is not always good for one's career, or relations with one's family.
Different applications. Of course the pcduino is more capable - it's more than ten times the price. There's a wide spectrum of tiny computing devices available. There are the absolutely tiny PICs, the slightly more powerful and much more developer-friendly arduinos, then the Pis, then higher-power devices like the pcduino, and beyond that mini-ITX PC boards with Atom processors. With a variety of interfaces and capabilities. You just pick whichever one fits your application. If you need a 'proper OS' to run something like image processing or interface to USB peripherals, then Pi Zero is about the tiniest and lowest-power controller you'll find for the task. It's certainly the cheapest.
He also isn't making the PSA - he's appearing in it, but he's really just an actor playing himself. He isn't writing it, or directing it.
It's a stunt, but a harmless one. The use of a real person as a case study heightens emotional connection to the audience, and the 'view or sue' novelty ensures plenty of media coverage (like this) that will ensure the video is widely seen. There are a lot of things competing for people's attention on the internet, it takes something unusual to be noticed.
This isn't aimed at those applications. It's aimed firmly at embedded - situations where you need a bit more processing power than an arduino can provide, or a real operating system. It has the essentials for that: GPIO, UART and USB. You might hook up a monitor and keyboard for development or configuration, but they won't be connected in general use.
The ethernet on other Pis *is* an ethernet dongle.
Look at the board. The processor has an onboard USB interface, one port. On the A, that interface goes to the USB port - that's why it only has one. On the B, it goes to the extra chip that the A doesn't have. That chip is a combined USB hub and USB-ethernet interface. The ethernet and two USB ports connect up to that, and it in turn connects to the processor's one USB interface.
You can go smaller still. The PIC chips are even smaller than an arduino. They are even smaller than a bare atmega, because an atmega needs a regulated power supply, and a PIC has a much wider input voltage tolerance.
It does have USB. Also, this mini-model doesn't have ethernet. There's no reason you can't use a USB-ethernet adaptor. That's how the Pi B works. The second chip on the circuit board is a combined ethernet interface a USB hub. It's a nice chip, aside from being a real power hog and the reason the B draws almost twice the power of the A.
That's largely because they have a hugely profitable mining industry which effectively subsidises the entire country. It's much the same situation as several states in the middle east that have huge oil reserves.
Their reasons vary, and the effectiveness of their prepping certainly can be questioned, but it's all for something a bit worse than a power outage. Superplague, nuclear war, UN takeover, natural disaster.
But it's a dirty war. False-flag attacks are entirely plausable. Consider what Putin's plan might be:
1. He has occupied new territory. It's not too hard to hold - the former power has other concerns, most of the population speaks Russian and a lot of them are loyal to Russia. But not all. There's a resistance, and it's getting in his way. So how to deal with them? He can't just start violently oppressing them, people would notice and there would be political fallout. 2. Ah, but what if the local people all hated the resistance movement? Then fighting them becomes much easier! 3. Ideally the resistance would do something to turn public opinion harshly against them. But if they don't, how about making it look like they did? 4. Blow up pylons, place flags. Blackouts, chaos, collapse, people losing their jobs - and all of it blamed on the resistance! 5. Added bonus: By attacking in Ukraine proper, not the disputed territory of Crimea, it makes the government of Ukraine appear weak and inept. 6. Added added bonus: Russia shall soon get their own lines up. Russia comes to the rescue and saves the day.
I'm expecting the stock pile of metal coins with the double-lined B symbol and some circuit-graphics you find illustrating every story on bitcoin. The one that completely misses the point.
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The law is based on the same idea as old-fashioned mining claims: Whoever discovers and get their first gets to claim it as their own. It doesn't claim anything in space for the US - it says that under US law objects in space may be claimed as private property. It's an approach that worked in the past, as it creates a profit motive for exploration and expansion - advocates point to the manner in which private ownership of claims lead to investment in the expansion westwards during European colonisation of the new world and exploitation of the resources found there. The gold rush may have lead to some lawlessness, but it certainly found the gold.
RS232 is worse than that: It specifies +-12V. It's the reason the power connector on your mainboard has a -12V rail.
It depends on the keyboard, but full rollover is really only of use to gamers, so few give it any thought.
2. Doesn't work any more. Due to changes in how parallel ports are implimented now, you can't do line monitoring or bit-bang the output on all ports. It's one reason a lot of factories with CNC machines keep a few ancient PCs around to operate them.
Don't forget internet feuds - there are many stories of flamewars getting seriously out of hand and leading to one site SWATting the other, or submitting anonymous tip-offs to police about a claimed serious crime, or contacting an opponent's employer to spread malicious rumors in an attempt to have them fired.
Until someone works out that you can balance out your forgery by sticking a lump of iron in the middle, of properly calculated mass.
Open and honest can be a problem. For example, I used to work as tech support in a Catholic school. Not super-devout catholic, but we had a chapel and occasionally a bishop would visit for a guest sermon. I happen to think the church is composed of sex-hating prudes who'll shelter child molesters to protect their claim to moral perfection and happily watch people die of preventable disease rather than permit the use of condoms. But at the time, I couldn't have said that under my real name - because if my employer had found out, I may well have lost the job.
Speaking under your real name is not always good for one's career, or relations with one's family.
I too use OpenSUSE, because it was the first to support btrfs, and btrfs is really nice. Even if it still has a lot of bugs in.
I just looked up the standard retail, before any discount or sales offer.
Different applications. Of course the pcduino is more capable - it's more than ten times the price. There's a wide spectrum of tiny computing devices available. There are the absolutely tiny PICs, the slightly more powerful and much more developer-friendly arduinos, then the Pis, then higher-power devices like the pcduino, and beyond that mini-ITX PC boards with Atom processors. With a variety of interfaces and capabilities. You just pick whichever one fits your application. If you need a 'proper OS' to run something like image processing or interface to USB peripherals, then Pi Zero is about the tiniest and lowest-power controller you'll find for the task. It's certainly the cheapest.
He also isn't making the PSA - he's appearing in it, but he's really just an actor playing himself. He isn't writing it, or directing it.
It's a stunt, but a harmless one. The use of a real person as a case study heightens emotional connection to the audience, and the 'view or sue' novelty ensures plenty of media coverage (like this) that will ensure the video is widely seen. There are a lot of things competing for people's attention on the internet, it takes something unusual to be noticed.
Pray for God to miraculously switch the advertising disks.
This isn't aimed at those applications. It's aimed firmly at embedded - situations where you need a bit more processing power than an arduino can provide, or a real operating system. It has the essentials for that: GPIO, UART and USB. You might hook up a monitor and keyboard for development or configuration, but they won't be connected in general use.
The ethernet on other Pis *is* an ethernet dongle.
Look at the board. The processor has an onboard USB interface, one port. On the A, that interface goes to the USB port - that's why it only has one. On the B, it goes to the extra chip that the A doesn't have. That chip is a combined USB hub and USB-ethernet interface. The ethernet and two USB ports connect up to that, and it in turn connects to the processor's one USB interface.
You can go smaller still. The PIC chips are even smaller than an arduino. They are even smaller than a bare atmega, because an atmega needs a regulated power supply, and a PIC has a much wider input voltage tolerance.
It does have USB. Also, this mini-model doesn't have ethernet. There's no reason you can't use a USB-ethernet adaptor. That's how the Pi B works. The second chip on the circuit board is a combined ethernet interface a USB hub. It's a nice chip, aside from being a real power hog and the reason the B draws almost twice the power of the A.
That's largely because they have a hugely profitable mining industry which effectively subsidises the entire country. It's much the same situation as several states in the middle east that have huge oil reserves.
The Republican situation is hard to call - the lead has changed hands a few times now.
Their reasons vary, and the effectiveness of their prepping certainly can be questioned, but it's all for something a bit worse than a power outage. Superplague, nuclear war, UN takeover, natural disaster.
Economy of scale, though. One huge power station has a lower cost per watt of generating capacity than ten thousand tiny ones.
Maybe that's the idea - the 'activists' could really be Russian agents staging a fake attack.
But it's a dirty war. False-flag attacks are entirely plausable. Consider what Putin's plan might be:
1. He has occupied new territory. It's not too hard to hold - the former power has other concerns, most of the population speaks Russian and a lot of them are loyal to Russia. But not all. There's a resistance, and it's getting in his way. So how to deal with them? He can't just start violently oppressing them, people would notice and there would be political fallout.
2. Ah, but what if the local people all hated the resistance movement? Then fighting them becomes much easier!
3. Ideally the resistance would do something to turn public opinion harshly against them. But if they don't, how about making it look like they did?
4. Blow up pylons, place flags. Blackouts, chaos, collapse, people losing their jobs - and all of it blamed on the resistance!
5. Added bonus: By attacking in Ukraine proper, not the disputed territory of Crimea, it makes the government of Ukraine appear weak and inept.
6. Added added bonus: Russia shall soon get their own lines up. Russia comes to the rescue and saves the day.
The Preppers are planning for something worse than a power outage. They are prepping for the time it doesn't come back on.
Or at least indirect - at most a warrant away, on those occasions intelligence agencies actually bother with such hindrances as the legal system.
I'm expecting the stock pile of metal coins with the double-lined B symbol and some circuit-graphics you find illustrating every story on bitcoin. The one that completely misses the point.