[citation needed]. Almost every major website does A/B_testing. Is there a law againt this? (That's not a rethorical question. I actually would like to know.)
the only reduction in CO2 comes from the centralization of production
...where you can do CO2 sequestration and, theoretically, bring emissions down to zero.
(Other than that, I agree with everything you wrote. I worked in R&D on automotive fuel cells for seven years and quit because I believe there's no future in it. They might have been a good idea when the competition was lead-acid batteries, but not any longer.)
I can certainly believe that tanning would be addictive. I know some people who just don't seem to be able to stay off the tanning beds. At age 30 they have the skin of 60-year-olds. (Although this is in Sweden, where you only get a couple of hours of natural sunlight per day in the winter, and lack-of-sun depression is probably more common than tanning addiction by orders of magnitude.)
This is especially true, since the security measures suggested by TFA are only designed to stop the lone rouge sysadmin. Even with all those measures in place, it would still be possible for two sysadmins working together to extract top secret documents.
They were targeting the individual who ripped their shows from a cable TV broadcast. It probably seemed logical to them that someone who has cable TV signed a contract in order to get it.
As they found out, people who make a career out of torrenting tend to live in their parents basement (and thus use their parents' cable subscription) so the "fraud" and "breach of contract" will likely be dropped.
If you want to see it on a small scale, well ask yourself why the US has been unable to secure Afghanistan or Iraq. They had considerably more forces than your silly "1 aircraft carrier" scenario, it was hardly the whole population fighting, yet after years and years, they have been unable to secure the countries.
Afghanistan and Iraq actually prove my point. A fraction of the US armed forces was able to install a new government in each country in very short time. Since then, the fact that the insurgents have weapons leads to a lot of suffering on both sides, but it does not threaten the power of the US-backed government.
There are quite a few examples of unarmed civilian uprisings that have lead to a change in government, but I can't think of a single armed civilian uprising that has overturned a government with an air force.
The whole point is for the citizens to be able to form a militia in order to defend themselves from their own government.
That might have been the case in 1791, when the strenght of an armed force was roughly proportional to the number of men with guns it had.
Today, if you would pit every civilian gun-owner in the US, with all their weapons, against the forces of a single aircraft carrier (one thenth of the aircraft carriers that the US government controls), the civilians would lose. Hellfire missiles beat automatic rifles every time.
If you want the second amendment to imply that the people can defeat the government by force, then you either have to massively reduce of the government-controlled armed forces, or allow civilians to own cruise missiles.
The point here is that you cannot test a single password. You must test, say three, at a time. (So you'd have to try all combinations of 18 characters in this case.)
The downside of the method is that after a server reboot you will have to wait for three trusted people to log in before you can authenticate any of them (unless you also have a weaker system to use for the first few logins.)
With a second camera aimed at your face, the display could be made to work exactly like a mirror, i.e. the view changes when your head moves. The driver-facing camera will be in place anyway to detect if the driver falls asleep.
Though more likely, the display will simply show a wide enough field that you don't need to change the angle.
That would be true, if oil and gas companies were capable of "taking care". Given that they don't give a shit if thousands of people get sick or die as a result of their drilling, there's not much hope of that.
It is difficult for me to imagine ways in which this would be a good thing.
Well, according to eterni.me, it could provide a hook for traumatized loved ones to avoid dealing with the grief and get increasingly bottled up in a fantasy world.
25 out of 1000 relays were detectably suspicious. These are the script kiddies who set up an exit node in order to harvest credentials that can be used for fraud etc. Such nodes are easy to detect by verifying https certificates and/or transmitting false credentials over tor and checking if they are used later.
The really sinister exit nodes are not as easy to detect. Transmit false dissident names and check if the named people are imprisoned and tortured?
A) It is automatically updated without the owners consent. (Your fridge starts displaying ads 24/7, after the manufacturer is bought by a media company.)
B) It is only updated if the owner actively chooses to do so. (99 % of users will never do any updates.)
Even if the fridge-makers did test for all known vulnerabilities on the day the fridge was sold, that fridge is likely not ever getting a software update after that, and new exploits are discovered all the time...
It is not the artist (nor the guy who commissions the piece) who gets to decide what a piece of art is about. They may give their opinion, but in the end it is the public who decides, and in this case they clearly saw it as a memorial.
Percentage of what people pay to watch... sure 20% of zero
As I said, this is a tax on paid channels, which, as you could have guessed from the name, are not free.
99 % of those commenting here seem to think that TFA talks about a tax on something that is free (which wouldn't make sense).
Rule 35 of the Internet: When something doesn't make sense. Your first reaction should be to read it again more carefully, not to point out how stupid it is.
The sculpture was meant to commemorate the dead astronauts and cosmonauts, not to promote the guy who made it. Van Hoeydonck failed to understand this, and that was his undoing.
I'm wondering whether this is actually legal, under WTO treaties. Can the US put a tax on imported German cars, to subsidize the US car industry? How about the Germans taxing French wines, to subsidize the German wine industry?
They can, and they do. Of course they can't tax cars by country of origin, so they tax according to properties of the car instead. The U.S. levies a tax on the sales price of the car, to punish high-quality imports, while the Germans subsidize high-quality cars and instead tax the gasoline heavily to punish American cars with crappy gas mileage.
The French law doesn't apply to YouTube specifically. It applies to anyone who sells video-on-demand, as TFA clearly states.
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[citation needed]. Almost every major website does A/B_testing. Is there a law againt this? (That's not a rethorical question. I actually would like to know.)
the only reduction in CO2 comes from the centralization of production
...where you can do CO2 sequestration and, theoretically, bring emissions down to zero.
(Other than that, I agree with everything you wrote. I worked in R&D on automotive fuel cells for seven years and quit because I believe there's no future in it. They might have been a good idea when the competition was lead-acid batteries, but not any longer.)
I can certainly believe that tanning would be addictive. I know some people who just don't seem to be able to stay off the tanning beds. At age 30 they have the skin of 60-year-olds. (Although this is in Sweden, where you only get a couple of hours of natural sunlight per day in the winter, and lack-of-sun depression is probably more common than tanning addiction by orders of magnitude.)
Clicking through to the actual study, I found this quote: "Boise was 150%-252% safer (2.05-2.52 times safer)." Looks 150% correct to me.
This is especially true, since the security measures suggested by TFA are only designed to stop the lone rouge sysadmin. Even with all those measures in place, it would still be possible for two sysadmins working together to extract top secret documents.
They were targeting the individual who ripped their shows from a cable TV broadcast. It probably seemed logical to them that someone who has cable TV signed a contract in order to get it.
As they found out, people who make a career out of torrenting tend to live in their parents basement (and thus use their parents' cable subscription) so the "fraud" and "breach of contract" will likely be dropped.
Why is there no link to the f* article in the summary?
Just like the moon is going to crash into the Earth unless we pump an incredible amount of energy into it to keep it at a distance?
(Read the Wikipedia article I linked to, if you want to know the details.)
This is called a gravity tractor, and researchers do consider it seriously.
0.000000001 m/s^2 is approximately 0.15 earth radii per year squared.
If you want to see it on a small scale, well ask yourself why the US has been unable to secure Afghanistan or Iraq. They had considerably more forces than your silly "1 aircraft carrier" scenario, it was hardly the whole population fighting, yet after years and years, they have been unable to secure the countries.
Afghanistan and Iraq actually prove my point. A fraction of the US armed forces was able to install a new government in each country in very short time. Since then, the fact that the insurgents have weapons leads to a lot of suffering on both sides, but it does not threaten the power of the US-backed government.
There are quite a few examples of unarmed civilian uprisings that have lead to a change in government, but I can't think of a single armed civilian uprising that has overturned a government with an air force.
The whole point is for the citizens to be able to form a militia in order to defend themselves from their own government.
That might have been the case in 1791, when the strenght of an armed force was roughly proportional to the number of men with guns it had.
Today, if you would pit every civilian gun-owner in the US, with all their weapons, against the forces of a single aircraft carrier (one thenth of the aircraft carriers that the US government controls), the civilians would lose. Hellfire missiles beat automatic rifles every time.
If you want the second amendment to imply that the people can defeat the government by force, then you either have to massively reduce of the government-controlled armed forces, or allow civilians to own cruise missiles.
The point here is that you cannot test a single password. You must test, say three, at a time. (So you'd have to try all combinations of 18 characters in this case.)
The downside of the method is that after a server reboot you will have to wait for three trusted people to log in before you can authenticate any of them (unless you also have a weaker system to use for the first few logins.)
With a second camera aimed at your face, the display could be made to work exactly like a mirror, i.e. the view changes when your head moves. The driver-facing camera will be in place anyway to detect if the driver falls asleep.
Though more likely, the display will simply show a wide enough field that you don't need to change the angle.
That would be true, if oil and gas companies were capable of "taking care". Given that they don't give a shit if thousands of people get sick or die as a result of their drilling, there's not much hope of that.
It is difficult for me to imagine ways in which this would be a good thing.
Well, according to eterni.me, it could provide a hook for traumatized loved ones to avoid dealing with the grief and get increasingly bottled up in a fantasy world.
25 out of 1000 relays were detectably suspicious. These are the script kiddies who set up an exit node in order to harvest credentials that can be used for fraud etc. Such nodes are easy to detect by verifying https certificates and/or transmitting false credentials over tor and checking if they are used later.
The really sinister exit nodes are not as easy to detect. Transmit false dissident names and check if the named people are imprisoned and tortured?
Two options:
A) It is automatically updated without the owners consent. (Your fridge starts displaying ads 24/7, after the manufacturer is bought by a media company.)
B) It is only updated if the owner actively chooses to do so. (99 % of users will never do any updates.)
Even if the fridge-makers did test for all known vulnerabilities on the day the fridge was sold, that fridge is likely not ever getting a software update after that, and new exploits are discovered all the time...
England has a right to silence that is very similar to the U.S. fifth amendment.
Paid channels... does the channel pay or does the common carrier pay?
You pay, if you want to watch.
It is not the artist (nor the guy who commissions the piece) who gets to decide what a piece of art is about. They may give their opinion, but in the end it is the public who decides, and in this case they clearly saw it as a memorial.
Percentage of what people pay to watch ... sure 20% of zero
As I said, this is a tax on paid channels, which, as you could have guessed from the name, are not free.
99 % of those commenting here seem to think that TFA talks about a tax on something that is free (which wouldn't make sense).
Rule 35 of the Internet: When something doesn't make sense. Your first reaction should be to read it again more carefully, not to point out how stupid it is.
The sculpture was meant to commemorate the dead astronauts and cosmonauts, not to promote the guy who made it. Van Hoeydonck failed to understand this, and that was his undoing.
When I click a link and watch a Youtube video, there is also: no sale taking place.
You obviously didn't read my original post before replying to it. What we are talking about here are the paid channels,
I'm wondering whether this is actually legal, under WTO treaties. Can the US put a tax on imported German cars, to subsidize the US car industry? How about the Germans taxing French wines, to subsidize the German wine industry?
They can, and they do. Of course they can't tax cars by country of origin, so they tax according to properties of the car instead. The U.S. levies a tax on the sales price of the car, to punish high-quality imports, while the Germans subsidize high-quality cars and instead tax the gasoline heavily to punish American cars with crappy gas mileage.
The French law doesn't apply to YouTube specifically. It applies to anyone who sells video-on-demand, as TFA clearly states.