Prisoners in most countries fall into the 'acceptable target' group - those people who are so loathed that the public actively wants them to suffer, and will celebrate everything inflicted upon them.
There was a fair amount of outrage in Wisconsin a few years back about prisons buying air conditioning - a few politicians spoke in anger that government money was being used to make prisoners feel comfortable and had enough influence to outright forbid it, even though temperatures inside some prisons were reaching the point that they could be potentially lethal. Eventually the ACLU got involved and got a court to rule that requiring prisoners to swelter in temperatures that could kill them was cruel and unusual punishment.
Views of prisoners in the UK are not dissimilar: The general perception is that they broke the law and they must be made to suffer as much as is legally possible, and then a bit more. There is never any sympathy for them. So the suggestion that they be allowed to vote is met with strong opposition from all levels of government. It's also become a rallying point for those calling for the UK to exit the EU.
Not that uncommon a situation if the link is to an image and the server admin grows annoyed.
I've used that once - I posted a link to a humorous cartoon on Digg, back before the great exodus. A while later I found some Gaia Online profile that looked like a relic of the nineties had hotlinked to it. So I replaced the image with another image of a moderately offensive nature - nothing illegal, but enough to rather embarrass the profile owner.
If I'd been feeling *really* evil, I'd have gone to the trouble of making a script that would return the original image only to the IP address I saw referring to it from the profile editing page. Then all his friends would have teased him about it and he wouldn't be able to see why.
Individuals do have those rights in the EU. The European Convention on Human Rights is just as legally binding as the American Bill of Rights.
It's just as annoying for the governments too - here in the UK the government has spent over a decade dragging their feet over giving voting rights to prisoners, something required under European law but strongly opposed by most in the UK. The EU doesn't actually have much in the way of enforcement powers, so the UK has been able to defy the court ruling simply by agreeing they will change the law eventually but not committing to a timeframe.
The pi=3 in the bible thing is half-true. There is a circular vessel described in those ratios, but this was a vessel made with ancient techniques, not precision manufacturing. It was just a little misshapen, or the measurements not performed with perfect accuracy.
Election of such officials can also result in the position becoming very over-politicised - you end up with public prosecutors being elected because they promise they will turn a blind eye to certain crimes, or pledge to do whatever it takes to bring down a certain organisation regardless of guilt. Low-level officials end up trying to make policy* rather than simply enforce it.
America is a good example of how this can end, because their government has more layers than most. It's quite common to see the government actively fighting the government - federal, state and local officials all trying to advance contradictory agendas, and all trying to weasel their way around the courts. It can make for some very strange laws.
*I propose that a local official trying to overrule a larger-scale law without proper authority be referred to as 'Kim Davising.'
I think he may have been confusing it with the macbook non-pro, which has been criticized for a severe lack of ports - a consequence of Apple's quest to make it as thin and light as possible.
It could, but that means additional components, and thus additional cost. The margins in consumer electronics are usually razor-thin, except for Apple.
Demands to ISP: 1. Log every website any of your customers visits and store it for a year. 2. We're not going to tell you how. That's your problem, but if you can't figure out a way we'll probably fine you. No, we're not excluding SSL. 3. You are paying for it too. Just pass the costs on to your customers or something.
I can see only one possible niche: 2, but unobtrusive. Chargers are exposed and thus subject to vandalism, weathering and accidential damage. It might be cheaper to install an inductive charge system that sits under the road for ten years with an annual service than several conventional charging stations that need a call-out every couple of months because someone backed into one and smashed it. It also eliminates the issue of forgetting to hook up the charger.
Fun point: Every parking space in a lot could be fitted with a coil, but the charger is unlikely to be able to charge them all at once because doing so would melt the local power grid. Does the building administrator get to set rules for priority? 'Management cars take priority, charge underlings only when all managers are at full charge.'
It still runs into an engineering problem though, one that can't be escaped easily. EVs need a lot of power. If you can't maintain continuous connection (if the vehicle was stationary, you'd use a cable), that means you need to send several times that power. A posted above did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and came up with half a megawatt. At that sort of power level you'd need a sizable substation for your charger, some really expensive electrical gear, cables as thick as your arm to power the monstrosity... and that's for just one car at a time. There'd also be safety issues with the sort of high-frequency field you'd need - no matter what tricks you do with resonant coils, it's going to leak, and a field strong enough to transmit half a megawatt is going to pose a danger to anything electrical nearby. ECUs, the laptop on the back seat, pacemakers.
It's just too much power to transmit wirelessly. It's hard enough to charge your phone - the losses are quite bad even for that.
Backup gas plants. You can't put coal in standby - it can take days to turn them on or off. Coal is for baseload. Gas can change power output in seconds though, which is exactly what it's used for. Except in the UK, where we've been NIMBYing power stations for years until things got so bad we had to resort to using gas for baseload, which is expensive.
Most smoke detectors now are optical, and even the ones that did use americium always had it screened - not difficult to do for an alpha source. No radiation gets out.
What magic power box do you have in mind? Coal pollutes nastily, gas pollutes less but costs more, nuclear has PR issues and some scary worst-case scenarios, renewables are very expensive.
Brit here, and very few of our houses have a mechanical room. The washer is almost invariably placed in the kitchen, simply because this is the room where water and drainage are.
Maybe the *good* drones. Most of the consumer kit runs at 2.4GHz for a very simple reason: It means the controller can be an app on a mobile phone or tablet. The drone acts like an access point. Cheaper than having to ship a dedicated control device!
SJWs and social conservatives are political opposites. They are both idiots, because they both adopt extreme positions without proper justification. But they are very different sorts of idiots, and neither of them has had anything much to say about drones at all.
You could fit additional transmitters - but how many drones have that sort of capability? There's no reason for civilian drones to be hardened against electronic warfare to that degree.
2.4GHz isn't hard to aim. I'm guessing the bit on the front houses a yagi array - it's about as directional as any any antenna other than a parabolic can be.
The higher the frequency, the more 'light-like' radio gets. Easier to aim, harder to penetrate.
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Prisoners in most countries fall into the 'acceptable target' group - those people who are so loathed that the public actively wants them to suffer, and will celebrate everything inflicted upon them.
There was a fair amount of outrage in Wisconsin a few years back about prisons buying air conditioning - a few politicians spoke in anger that government money was being used to make prisoners feel comfortable and had enough influence to outright forbid it, even though temperatures inside some prisons were reaching the point that they could be potentially lethal. Eventually the ACLU got involved and got a court to rule that requiring prisoners to swelter in temperatures that could kill them was cruel and unusual punishment.
Views of prisoners in the UK are not dissimilar: The general perception is that they broke the law and they must be made to suffer as much as is legally possible, and then a bit more. There is never any sympathy for them. So the suggestion that they be allowed to vote is met with strong opposition from all levels of government. It's also become a rallying point for those calling for the UK to exit the EU.
Not that uncommon a situation if the link is to an image and the server admin grows annoyed.
I've used that once - I posted a link to a humorous cartoon on Digg, back before the great exodus. A while later I found some Gaia Online profile that looked like a relic of the nineties had hotlinked to it. So I replaced the image with another image of a moderately offensive nature - nothing illegal, but enough to rather embarrass the profile owner.
If I'd been feeling *really* evil, I'd have gone to the trouble of making a script that would return the original image only to the IP address I saw referring to it from the profile editing page. Then all his friends would have teased him about it and he wouldn't be able to see why.
Individuals do have those rights in the EU. The European Convention on Human Rights is just as legally binding as the American Bill of Rights.
It's just as annoying for the governments too - here in the UK the government has spent over a decade dragging their feet over giving voting rights to prisoners, something required under European law but strongly opposed by most in the UK. The EU doesn't actually have much in the way of enforcement powers, so the UK has been able to defy the court ruling simply by agreeing they will change the law eventually but not committing to a timeframe.
No religious angle in this one.
The pi=3 in the bible thing is half-true. There is a circular vessel described in those ratios, but this was a vessel made with ancient techniques, not precision manufacturing. It was just a little misshapen, or the measurements not performed with perfect accuracy.
Election of such officials can also result in the position becoming very over-politicised - you end up with public prosecutors being elected because they promise they will turn a blind eye to certain crimes, or pledge to do whatever it takes to bring down a certain organisation regardless of guilt. Low-level officials end up trying to make policy* rather than simply enforce it.
America is a good example of how this can end, because their government has more layers than most. It's quite common to see the government actively fighting the government - federal, state and local officials all trying to advance contradictory agendas, and all trying to weasel their way around the courts. It can make for some very strange laws.
*I propose that a local official trying to overrule a larger-scale law without proper authority be referred to as 'Kim Davising.'
The university press release is also lacking it.
I think he may have been confusing it with the macbook non-pro, which has been criticized for a severe lack of ports - a consequence of Apple's quest to make it as thin and light as possible.
It could, but that means additional components, and thus additional cost. The margins in consumer electronics are usually razor-thin, except for Apple.
It's enough to know that you visit squidporn.jp every week or so, which is quite enough to be useful if you threaten the powers that be.
The bill explicitly excludes them from monitoring by making it clear that the Wilson Doctrine also applies to internet traffic.
The commoners get to be monitored by the government, but MPs still value their own privacy.
Technical issues like that are for the ISPs to figure out. The government only demands they do so somehow.
Demands to ISP:
1. Log every website any of your customers visits and store it for a year.
2. We're not going to tell you how. That's your problem, but if you can't figure out a way we'll probably fine you. No, we're not excluding SSL.
3. You are paying for it too. Just pass the costs on to your customers or something.
I'm with the dicks.
I can see only one possible niche: 2, but unobtrusive. Chargers are exposed and thus subject to vandalism, weathering and accidential damage. It might be cheaper to install an inductive charge system that sits under the road for ten years with an annual service than several conventional charging stations that need a call-out every couple of months because someone backed into one and smashed it. It also eliminates the issue of forgetting to hook up the charger.
Fun point: Every parking space in a lot could be fitted with a coil, but the charger is unlikely to be able to charge them all at once because doing so would melt the local power grid. Does the building administrator get to set rules for priority? 'Management cars take priority, charge underlings only when all managers are at full charge.'
It still runs into an engineering problem though, one that can't be escaped easily. EVs need a lot of power. If you can't maintain continuous connection (if the vehicle was stationary, you'd use a cable), that means you need to send several times that power. A posted above did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and came up with half a megawatt. At that sort of power level you'd need a sizable substation for your charger, some really expensive electrical gear, cables as thick as your arm to power the monstrosity... and that's for just one car at a time. There'd also be safety issues with the sort of high-frequency field you'd need - no matter what tricks you do with resonant coils, it's going to leak, and a field strong enough to transmit half a megawatt is going to pose a danger to anything electrical nearby. ECUs, the laptop on the back seat, pacemakers.
It's just too much power to transmit wirelessly. It's hard enough to charge your phone - the losses are quite bad even for that.
Backup gas plants. You can't put coal in standby - it can take days to turn them on or off. Coal is for baseload. Gas can change power output in seconds though, which is exactly what it's used for. Except in the UK, where we've been NIMBYing power stations for years until things got so bad we had to resort to using gas for baseload, which is expensive.
In good news, solar technology continues to improve - but coal burning is about as efficient as it can be made.
Most smoke detectors now are optical, and even the ones that did use americium always had it screened - not difficult to do for an alpha source. No radiation gets out.
What magic power box do you have in mind? Coal pollutes nastily, gas pollutes less but costs more, nuclear has PR issues and some scary worst-case scenarios, renewables are very expensive.
So what you need is some means of sending large amounts of email to outlook.com addresses to build reputation.
Brit here, and very few of our houses have a mechanical room. The washer is almost invariably placed in the kitchen, simply because this is the room where water and drainage are.
Maybe the *good* drones. Most of the consumer kit runs at 2.4GHz for a very simple reason: It means the controller can be an app on a mobile phone or tablet. The drone acts like an access point. Cheaper than having to ship a dedicated control device!
SJWs and social conservatives are political opposites. They are both idiots, because they both adopt extreme positions without proper justification. But they are very different sorts of idiots, and neither of them has had anything much to say about drones at all.
You could fit additional transmitters - but how many drones have that sort of capability? There's no reason for civilian drones to be hardened against electronic warfare to that degree.
2.4GHz isn't hard to aim. I'm guessing the bit on the front houses a yagi array - it's about as directional as any any antenna other than a parabolic can be.
The higher the frequency, the more 'light-like' radio gets. Easier to aim, harder to penetrate.