They're also constantly running for long periods of time, which means that you need a ton of battery capacity or you need to invent super-rapid charging. (Although I suppose a taxi base could have a battery charging station with a pool of batteries and just swap them out.) Something like a Leaf is really more designed for commuters who might do 50-60 miles in a day and spend no more than 3 hours driving -- lots of downtime that can be spent charging.
Not necessarily. The phone's Market app periodically polls the Android Market server for update information. If "delete immediately" is a possible update status in Market, they don't even need to know which users installed the app to remove it, much less have access to their phones. This seems like the more efficient approach, since trying to overtly contact and send "remove this app" commands to everyone who's installed the app individually would be a pain.
Interesting question. It's probably part of Market's periodic update.
Android is sort of open-source. You might have a difficult time removing the feature -- it's more complicated than edit-and-recompile, at least. I'm sure it's doable.
Alternately, you can disable or not use Market for downloading and installing apps, in which case Google can't modify them. (Technically, that depends on how their software kill is implemented, but I believe it's the Market terms of service that let them remove apps installed with Market.)
That's the wrong way to do it. Even if you inform users (and in this case, probably their parents) that that's what you're doing, you're potentially exposing yourself to substantial legal risk.
It's not transparent, it's just not obvious. If they have that capability, exposing it by MitM-ing SSL connections at one of their own facilities (one low-security enough to have a wireless network) would be stupid, since the likelihood of it being discovered and disclosed is high.
For certain definitions of "this", perhaps. The research this particular article is talking about, though, was released today, according to the university's website: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mediacentre/2010/1662.html
Different people doing further research on a topic that you've heard of before in the past is fairly common and is hardly the same as a duplicate or posting a months-old story.
There are a limited number of these control packets in which to put the data. The bandwidth available to SMS messages is much smaller than the bandwidth available for data. They'd almost be better served moving SMS over to data -- which is what Google Voice does.
No. Facts by definition can be determined to be true or false. Facts are not require to be true -- nor do you have to know if it's true or not to call it a fact. (This is in contract to an opinion, which cannot be determined to be true or false.)
On the other hand, common colloquial usage is that labeling something a "fact" means that it is a fact that is also thought to be true.
Since it was a kernel update, all he had to do is select the previous kernel from the boot menu. Ubuntu doesn't uninstall the previous kernels when it upgrades them.
I can see the rest, but city planning? Everyone knows that's done at the local level, and nobody votes for those guys. You just select by party if they happen to be up for election while you're in the booth voting for the President.
You are aware that, especially in Japanese cuisine, there are plenty of dishes that never used gluten, dairy, sugar, or eggs in the first place, right?
The fact is, most of us can't afford to live in an america where everything is made by people who are paid $46,000 a year
That America doesn't exist. The median income for individuals 25 and older in the U.S. is $32k (or $39k among only full-time workers) -- a bout 70% of the U.S. population earns less than the figure you quoted. Minimum wage is about $12k/year.
No, you're missing the point. Radio spectrum is just like internet bandwidth: the absolute amount is infinite, it's only the rate that is limited. Haven't you ever taken a calculus class?
If I transmit some information over a radio, it only uses up that spectrum during that time.
Don't criticize people about calculus when you screw up dimensional analysis. Both the radio spectrum and Internet bandwidth measure rates. The total amount of data transmitted is unlimited (essentially). (It's silly to say it's infinite, since that's only over infinite time scales, but it's true that, essentially, no finite resource is consumed by the transit of data.) However, they don't measure the total amount of data transferred, they measure rates. The term "bandwidth", even, comes directly from terms used for the radio spectrum. So when someone says there's a finite amount of radio spectrum available, they're right, there is. Since they're limiting you to X gigabytes per month, they're not limiting transit, but rather rate -- using a very, very rough measure (averaged over a month). If they have enough users, that coarse of an average might even be reasonable.
That really depends on the area illuminated by the X-rays -- usually somewhere between a square millimeter and a square centimeter. XRF only samples the surface, though, somewhere between a micron and a millimeter, so if your sample varies significantly from the surface down, you need to address that.
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Fortunately, the FCC doesn't use cheap, consumer-grade equipment.
Enter the clever technology of triangulation.
They're also constantly running for long periods of time, which means that you need a ton of battery capacity or you need to invent super-rapid charging. (Although I suppose a taxi base could have a battery charging station with a pool of batteries and just swap them out.) Something like a Leaf is really more designed for commuters who might do 50-60 miles in a day and spend no more than 3 hours driving -- lots of downtime that can be spent charging.
Not necessarily. The phone's Market app periodically polls the Android Market server for update information. If "delete immediately" is a possible update status in Market, they don't even need to know which users installed the app to remove it, much less have access to their phones. This seems like the more efficient approach, since trying to overtly contact and send "remove this app" commands to everyone who's installed the app individually would be a pain.
Interesting question. It's probably part of Market's periodic update.
Android is sort of open-source. You might have a difficult time removing the feature -- it's more complicated than edit-and-recompile, at least. I'm sure it's doable.
Alternately, you can disable or not use Market for downloading and installing apps, in which case Google can't modify them. (Technically, that depends on how their software kill is implemented, but I believe it's the Market terms of service that let them remove apps installed with Market.)
That's the wrong way to do it. Even if you inform users (and in this case, probably their parents) that that's what you're doing, you're potentially exposing yourself to substantial legal risk.
It's not transparent, it's just not obvious. If they have that capability, exposing it by MitM-ing SSL connections at one of their own facilities (one low-security enough to have a wireless network) would be stupid, since the likelihood of it being discovered and disclosed is high.
For certain definitions of "this", perhaps. The research this particular article is talking about, though, was released today, according to the university's website:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mediacentre/2010/1662.html
Different people doing further research on a topic that you've heard of before in the past is fairly common and is hardly the same as a duplicate or posting a months-old story.
I'd venture a guess that none of our current federal deficit is from future spending.
That's fraction of GDP, not federal debt.
There are a limited number of these control packets in which to put the data. The bandwidth available to SMS messages is much smaller than the bandwidth available for data. They'd almost be better served moving SMS over to data -- which is what Google Voice does.
No. Facts by definition can be determined to be true or false. Facts are not require to be true -- nor do you have to know if it's true or not to call it a fact. (This is in contract to an opinion, which cannot be determined to be true or false.)
On the other hand, common colloquial usage is that labeling something a "fact" means that it is a fact that is also thought to be true.
Lithobraking is an ingenious term for "fuck it, we'll just crash into the planet".
Or when they insist on using a non-inertial reference frame.
There certainly is a theoretical limit, but it's not really a factor here.
No, the first song is the Zelda theme. The second is "Those Who Fight Further" or "Fight On!" from Final Fantasy 7.
Since it was a kernel update, all he had to do is select the previous kernel from the boot menu. Ubuntu doesn't uninstall the previous kernels when it upgrades them.
Nuclear plants don't fail like Chernobyl any more, but it's still unpleasant if all the safety mechanisms malfunction.
I can see the rest, but city planning? Everyone knows that's done at the local level, and nobody votes for those guys. You just select by party if they happen to be up for election while you're in the booth voting for the President.
You are aware that, especially in Japanese cuisine, there are plenty of dishes that never used gluten, dairy, sugar, or eggs in the first place, right?
The fact is, most of us can't afford to live in an america where everything is made by people who are paid $46,000 a year
That America doesn't exist. The median income for individuals 25 and older in the U.S. is $32k (or $39k among only full-time workers) -- a bout 70% of the U.S. population earns less than the figure you quoted. Minimum wage is about $12k/year.
According to my bill, the "bandwidth" (infrastructure) is about half of the electricity cost.
No, you're missing the point. Radio spectrum is just like internet bandwidth: the absolute amount is infinite, it's only the rate that is limited. Haven't you ever taken a calculus class?
If I transmit some information over a radio, it only uses up that spectrum during that time.
Don't criticize people about calculus when you screw up dimensional analysis. Both the radio spectrum and Internet bandwidth measure rates. The total amount of data transmitted is unlimited (essentially). (It's silly to say it's infinite, since that's only over infinite time scales, but it's true that, essentially, no finite resource is consumed by the transit of data.) However, they don't measure the total amount of data transferred, they measure rates. The term "bandwidth", even, comes directly from terms used for the radio spectrum. So when someone says there's a finite amount of radio spectrum available, they're right, there is. Since they're limiting you to X gigabytes per month, they're not limiting transit, but rather rate -- using a very, very rough measure (averaged over a month). If they have enough users, that coarse of an average might even be reasonable.
That really depends on the area illuminated by the X-rays -- usually somewhere between a square millimeter and a square centimeter. XRF only samples the surface, though, somewhere between a micron and a millimeter, so if your sample varies significantly from the surface down, you need to address that.
You can tell because they're talking.