I remember reading that with our level of technology, if we went to somewhere like Tau Ceti (I mention this because of the detection of 4 rocky planets within the suspected habitable zone) and pointed our best radio receivers back at Earth, we wouldn't be able to detect the Earth as having intelligent life. We simply don't have a receiver sensitive enough to pick up any transmissions from Earth at that distance.
The thousands of nuclear detonations were mostly underground, and only two atmospheric nuclear explosions were actually done on live cities. The effects of nuclear testing are not even remotely reflective of the catastrophe that would befall us from thousands of burning cities all at once.
No, nuclear winter has not been disproved. The "disproving" of a nuclear winter was done by someone with no climate science expertise, selling survival manuals, who had a vested interest in people believing a nuclear winter wouldn't happen and therefore it would be worth buying the survival manual.
The nuclear winter scenario was run again in the 2000s and it was found that the original work done in the 80s by both American and Soviet climate scientists was actually far too optimistic - and even a regional war (say between India and Pakistan) would result in the "decade without a summer" with shortened growing seasons and a notable climate impact. A full exchange between the former Soviet Union and the west would result in a six-month long night with mid-day illumination only being as light as a moonlit night in the northern hemisphere.
Well - no -/imperative/ languages and methods are designed around a single threaded world and have been graunched to fit the multithreaded world.
However, there are languages and methods that work very well in a parallel world. Erlang to give one example - the only problem is no one's going to be writing games in Erlang any time soon, even though it's quite easy to write a highly reliable Erlang application that spawns tens of thousands of threads.
Running old CentOS isn't for people who want the newest features, it's for those who need the stability. If you're a business and have numerous servers running your internal applications, it's expensive to upgrade due to the amount of testing required, the upgrade processes put in place, then finally the upgrade itself. You want to upgrade fairly infrequently if you can - you're not interested in running with the latest features, you're more interested in your business back end systems continuing to run without interruption.
Not made to last? My Dad has my old iPhone 4 which is now 7 years old. The battery is replaceable (and the first battery lasted 6 years). The phone still pretty much looks as good as it did when it came out of the box 7 years ago.
I don't think that's necessarily true. I don't go driving for the fun of it, and although my current car is about 40% cheaper to run than my last car, my car use has not changed.
Something is going to need to be developed for quick charging (either battery pack swaps - which doesn't yet exist and there's no standard battery form for it to exist with any electric car that currently exist or is on the drawing board) or charging in pretty much every car park - and currently, there are no plans to add this.
At the moment most BEV owners charge overnight at home, but where I live, less than 50% of the housing stock has off street parking. Currently, although my driving habits are otherwise perfect for owning a BEV, the fact I don't have off street parking is a complete show stopper. There's nowhere I could charge the vehicle.
Many already do, many airports say "go to security at least 1 hour before your flight, or if your flight is to the US, at least 2 hours before your flight" or something similar to allow time for the second screening.
XP might not be targeted by generic botnet/ransomware/etc type of attacks, but targeted attacks (e.g. an attacker who specifically wants to steal data from a British police force) will find it much easier to develop an exploit to do so from a static target that's full of security weaknesses and is not being patched.
Given kiosks have a 50c/hr TCO at most, increases in minimum wage aren't the things that are bringing automation here, it's inevitable. Unless you think people should work for under 50c/hr, I guess.
If you think this is a consequence of an increased minimum wage, you're dead wrong.
The kiosks will at most have a TCO of about 50 cents an hour. Unless you advocate reducing minimum wage to under 50 cents an hour, the minimum wage has absolutely no bearing on whether these kiosks go in or not: they are inevitable.
Further more, at least the one McDonald's store we have here, headcount *has not been reduced*. The kiosks have gone in but they still employ the same number of staff except now they use those staff to give better customer service: there is now waiter service - order from the kiosk, indicate where you are, and you get table service. There are no longer long queues snaking out of the door since the staff can be completely occupied with making up the orders and delivering them and not having to take the orders as well, so service is not only better but faster.
And as far as I can tell, headcount hasn't reduced and there are no longer queues snaking out the door. It's an example of where automation has been a win for everyone: customer service improved (table service, long queues are a thing of the past), no staff got laid off, and efficiency went up.
Why would they need to? Radio direction finding is well understood, and the transmitter will be located in short order. Ofcom continuously monitors and triangulates transmissions and will undoubtedly be sharing this data with GCHQ.
It's not hard to figure out why email isn't dying and won't die:
* It's not tied to a single provider. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, iMessage and all the others are. * It's an open, federated system. Companies in particular can take charge of their own email servers if they wish. * Installed base. * It is available on all devices from phones to tablets to PCs without the need to install additional software.
If you apply for a visa waiver, you will be asked for your social media accounts right now but it is listed as OPTIONAL. There is a list on the visa waiver sites they want you to give details on accounts on, the list has about 30 sites on it as well as an "Other" where you can disclose information about anything else.
It is currently optional, but the question is already there even for visa-waiver countries.
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I remember reading that with our level of technology, if we went to somewhere like Tau Ceti (I mention this because of the detection of 4 rocky planets within the suspected habitable zone) and pointed our best radio receivers back at Earth, we wouldn't be able to detect the Earth as having intelligent life. We simply don't have a receiver sensitive enough to pick up any transmissions from Earth at that distance.
The thousands of nuclear detonations were mostly underground, and only two atmospheric nuclear explosions were actually done on live cities. The effects of nuclear testing are not even remotely reflective of the catastrophe that would befall us from thousands of burning cities all at once.
No, nuclear winter has not been disproved. The "disproving" of a nuclear winter was done by someone with no climate science expertise, selling survival manuals, who had a vested interest in people believing a nuclear winter wouldn't happen and therefore it would be worth buying the survival manual.
The nuclear winter scenario was run again in the 2000s and it was found that the original work done in the 80s by both American and Soviet climate scientists was actually far too optimistic - and even a regional war (say between India and Pakistan) would result in the "decade without a summer" with shortened growing seasons and a notable climate impact. A full exchange between the former Soviet Union and the west would result in a six-month long night with mid-day illumination only being as light as a moonlit night in the northern hemisphere.
Well - no - /imperative/ languages and methods are designed around a single threaded world and have been graunched to fit the multithreaded world.
However, there are languages and methods that work very well in a parallel world. Erlang to give one example - the only problem is no one's going to be writing games in Erlang any time soon, even though it's quite easy to write a highly reliable Erlang application that spawns tens of thousands of threads.
He's using it as an antenna (probably just the shield as a random wire antenna), not as a transmission line.
Running old CentOS isn't for people who want the newest features, it's for those who need the stability. If you're a business and have numerous servers running your internal applications, it's expensive to upgrade due to the amount of testing required, the upgrade processes put in place, then finally the upgrade itself. You want to upgrade fairly infrequently if you can - you're not interested in running with the latest features, you're more interested in your business back end systems continuing to run without interruption.
"Ofcom said maliciously causing radio interference was a criminal offence carrying a potential sentence of two years in prison and an unlimited fine."
I wouldn't call it "frightening". Calling this "frightening" is hyperbole.
It's quite possible that the link isn't even digital, it may be FM analogue.
Not made to last? My Dad has my old iPhone 4 which is now 7 years old. The battery is replaceable (and the first battery lasted 6 years). The phone still pretty much looks as good as it did when it came out of the box 7 years ago.
I don't think that's necessarily true. I don't go driving for the fun of it, and although my current car is about 40% cheaper to run than my last car, my car use has not changed.
Something is going to need to be developed for quick charging (either battery pack swaps - which doesn't yet exist and there's no standard battery form for it to exist with any electric car that currently exist or is on the drawing board) or charging in pretty much every car park - and currently, there are no plans to add this.
At the moment most BEV owners charge overnight at home, but where I live, less than 50% of the housing stock has off street parking. Currently, although my driving habits are otherwise perfect for owning a BEV, the fact I don't have off street parking is a complete show stopper. There's nowhere I could charge the vehicle.
As I understand it from previous articles, it's not the internet but Facebook plus a handful of Facebook-approved sites.
Many already do, many airports say "go to security at least 1 hour before your flight, or if your flight is to the US, at least 2 hours before your flight" or something similar to allow time for the second screening.
XP might not be targeted by generic botnet/ransomware/etc type of attacks, but targeted attacks (e.g. an attacker who specifically wants to steal data from a British police force) will find it much easier to develop an exploit to do so from a static target that's full of security weaknesses and is not being patched.
Which is ironic since it's being installed in Scottish waters.
Given kiosks have a 50c/hr TCO at most, increases in minimum wage aren't the things that are bringing automation here, it's inevitable. Unless you think people should work for under 50c/hr, I guess.
If you think this is a consequence of an increased minimum wage, you're dead wrong.
The kiosks will at most have a TCO of about 50 cents an hour. Unless you advocate reducing minimum wage to under 50 cents an hour, the minimum wage has absolutely no bearing on whether these kiosks go in or not: they are inevitable.
Further more, at least the one McDonald's store we have here, headcount *has not been reduced*. The kiosks have gone in but they still employ the same number of staff except now they use those staff to give better customer service: there is now waiter service - order from the kiosk, indicate where you are, and you get table service. There are no longer long queues snaking out of the door since the staff can be completely occupied with making up the orders and delivering them and not having to take the orders as well, so service is not only better but faster.
And as far as I can tell, headcount hasn't reduced and there are no longer queues snaking out the door. It's an example of where automation has been a win for everyone: customer service improved (table service, long queues are a thing of the past), no staff got laid off, and efficiency went up.
In that case, surely it follows we need at least one additional bathroom to prevent sexual assaults, so we get bathrooms labelled:
* Straight male
* Straight female
* Gay male + gay female
Of course bisexuals have to just hold on till they get home.
This is why I don't take the defaults or front page, and my front page is only subs I'm subscribed to. The spammers don't get past that.
Why would they need to? Radio direction finding is well understood, and the transmitter will be located in short order. Ofcom continuously monitors and triangulates transmissions and will undoubtedly be sharing this data with GCHQ.
Actually we did have the terrorism problem. The IRA has killed orders of magnitude more people in Britain than all the muslims put together.
It's not hard to figure out why email isn't dying and won't die:
* It's not tied to a single provider. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, iMessage and all the others are.
* It's an open, federated system. Companies in particular can take charge of their own email servers if they wish.
* Installed base.
* It is available on all devices from phones to tablets to PCs without the need to install additional software.
There is a list.
If you apply for a visa waiver, you will be asked for your social media accounts right now but it is listed as OPTIONAL. There is a list on the visa waiver sites they want you to give details on accounts on, the list has about 30 sites on it as well as an "Other" where you can disclose information about anything else.
It is currently optional, but the question is already there even for visa-waiver countries.