Electric meters are not the only meters being read by wireless. More and more gas meters are remotely read, and there isn't a wired option.
Utility companies like reading meters from a distance because of the hassle customers give the meter readers. Biting dogs, locked gates, high fences, holly bushes, flower beds, all kinds of crap on the meter, etc., etc. are a PITA for meter readers.
I'm not a meter reader. I check your gas service and meter for leaks. If I can't get to it because of a locked gate or a vicious dog, then you're on your own. I just write down why I can't check it and go on my merry way. See you in five years . . . . if you haven't blown up.
Ultrasound in water pipes, maybe the same in gas pipes. Then just have one collection point for 4-5 houses. Still no reason to have wireless.
The top tax bracket is 35% for those too stupid to have found any loopholes, so I don't think most rich are paying 45%. It was 70% in 1980 so they are getting a bargain, but still crying for more. That said, the top 10% of taxpayers actually carry the other 90%; they pay more than 2/3 of the total tax since the bottom 50% are mostly too poor to pay anything.
I think you are referring to these reports from Afghanistan. Those have not been connected to Manning, AFAIK, although if he was the source, you would be correct.
"Mr Manning has also been charged with "aiding the enemy", a charge that could carry the death penalty."
Would you want a speedy trial in that case? I would like to see the government's definition of "the enemy" that was aided by this. The chief beneficiaries seem to have been news organizations.
Obviously this information is only used to prevent car theft because the car thieves will never think to switch plates. It couldn't have any other use.
If the encryption should be absolutely safe, there has to be open source software, to be 100% sure that there is no back door. Or is every encryption technology reverse engineered to be able to say that no government idiot can type some cheat and decrypt all the data?
No amount of reverse engineering can prove that software does not have a backdoor. You can never be sure unless you write all of your tools yourself.
And how much of a vacuum can you really get in this universe? With all the virtual particles popping in and out all the time. It seems you'd need to be as weakly interactive as a neutrino to avoid being slowed down just by spacetime and all it's particles kicking up all the time. Considering vacuum space is going to have something in it, I wouldn't be that amazed if neutrinos just travel at closer to actual C than light does.
Might not be due to vacuum. Maybe photons in Earth's gravity are slowed more than neutrinos. This would explain why the Supernova neutrinos also arrived slightly before the light, but not months before. Once gravity has dropped off enough they are moving at the same speed.
On a recent project there were two developerss fixing bugs. "A" would fix a bug in 4 hours rewriting 50 lines of code. "B" would fix the a bug in 9 hours rewriting 1 line of code. They let B go because A was more productive. Funny thing is they never ran out of bugs.
You do have to accept it. The license is not optional on GPL software. The GPL is offering you the full source code to a program. It says you can do whatever you want with the program yourself, but if you want to redistribute it you must be bound by the license restrictions. How hard is that?
" By entering this Agreement, you consent to our data collection, use and sharing practices described in our Privacy Policy available at verizon.com/privacy." -- from Verizon Customer Agreement
You don't need 3D chip fabrication to do 3D interconnects. The Connection Machine processors were interconnected in 8 dimensions, IIRC. Each node had 8 connections to its neighbors in a hypercube.
So far from my observation if a private individual hacks, the private individual risks going to prison.
Whereas if a corporation does it there's no prison time involved for any of the people involved.
I think prison time would discourage both private individuals and individuals acting on behalf of corporations.
Under US law, corporations shield the owners from financial loss, not criminal behavior. A person commits a crime and goes to jail regardless of whether they acted on behalf of a corporation. The executives at Enron were all charged with fraud, for example. This case is under French law, tho.
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Electric meters are not the only meters being read by wireless. More and more gas meters are remotely read, and there isn't a wired option.
Utility companies like reading meters from a distance because of the hassle customers give the meter readers. Biting dogs, locked gates, high fences, holly bushes, flower beds, all kinds of crap on the meter, etc., etc. are a PITA for meter readers.
I'm not a meter reader. I check your gas service and meter for leaks. If I can't get to it because of a locked gate or a vicious dog, then you're on your own. I just write down why I can't check it and go on my merry way. See you in five years . . . . if you haven't blown up.
Ultrasound in water pipes, maybe the same in gas pipes. Then just have one collection point for 4-5 houses. Still no reason to have wireless.
Actually a tinfoil hat for your power meter doesn't sound that crazy.
Just choose one at random.
In fact, this statement is a lie.
The top tax bracket is 35% for those too stupid to have found any loopholes, so I don't think most rich are paying 45%. It was 70% in 1980 so they are getting a bargain, but still crying for more. That said, the top 10% of taxpayers actually carry the other 90%; they pay more than 2/3 of the total tax since the bottom 50% are mostly too poor to pay anything.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/taliban-study-wikileaks-to-hunt-informants/
I think you are referring to these reports from Afghanistan. Those have not been connected to Manning, AFAIK, although if he was the source, you would be correct.
"Mr Manning has also been charged with "aiding the enemy", a charge that could carry the death penalty."
Would you want a speedy trial in that case? I would like to see the government's definition of "the enemy" that was aided by this. The chief beneficiaries seem to have been news organizations.
CS isn't supposed to teach programming just as EE is not supposed to teach wiring.
I named my last kid Kevin8992 so he could get his actual name on his email.
Obviously this information is only used to prevent car theft because the car thieves will never think to switch plates. It couldn't have any other use.
If the encryption should be absolutely safe, there has to be open source software, to be 100% sure that there is no back door. Or is every encryption technology reverse engineered to be able to say that no government idiot can type some cheat and decrypt all the data?
No amount of reverse engineering can prove that software does not have a backdoor. You can never be sure unless you write all of your tools yourself.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
if you are 'innocent' why do you encrypt your data in the first place?
If you are innocent, why do you post as AC?
And how much of a vacuum can you really get in this universe? With all the virtual particles popping in and out all the time. It seems you'd need to be as weakly interactive as a neutrino to avoid being slowed down just by spacetime and all it's particles kicking up all the time. Considering vacuum space is going to have something in it, I wouldn't be that amazed if neutrinos just travel at closer to actual C than light does.
Might not be due to vacuum. Maybe photons in Earth's gravity are slowed more than neutrinos. This would explain why the Supernova neutrinos also arrived slightly before the light, but not months before. Once gravity has dropped off enough they are moving at the same speed.
Haven't you ever seen that desk toy where the swinging metal ball hits one end of a row and the ball at the other end instantly takes off?
On a recent project there were two developerss fixing bugs. "A" would fix a bug in 4 hours rewriting 50 lines of code. "B" would fix the a bug in 9 hours rewriting 1 line of code. They let B go because A was more productive. Funny thing is they never ran out of bugs.
The ad I see at the top of the page is for Fossil watches. ;-)
Mother******* Adsense spots, how do they work?
Actually, they use a complicated system of 84 gears ...
You do have to accept it. The license is not optional on GPL software. The GPL is offering you the full source code to a program. It says you can do whatever you want with the program yourself, but if you want to redistribute it you must be bound by the license restrictions. How hard is that?
You still need a physical interconnect. Infiniband seems to be popular these days.
" By entering this Agreement, you consent to our data collection, use and sharing practices described in our Privacy Policy available at verizon.com/privacy." -- from Verizon Customer Agreement
That's why.
You don't need 3D chip fabrication to do 3D interconnects. The Connection Machine processors were interconnected in 8 dimensions, IIRC. Each node had 8 connections to its neighbors in a hypercube.
The Mirasol display technology is pretty cool.
http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/mobile-display-imod-technology
Looking at Monster today I see someone is looking for a Fortran programmer.
"And we do need more and better astronomy app, so maybe you chose the right career after all."
So what do we need?
So far from my observation if a private individual hacks, the private individual risks going to prison.
Whereas if a corporation does it there's no prison time involved for any of the people involved.
I think prison time would discourage both private individuals and individuals acting on behalf of corporations.
Under US law, corporations shield the owners from financial loss, not criminal behavior. A person commits a crime and goes to jail regardless of whether they acted on behalf of a corporation. The executives at Enron were all charged with fraud, for example. This case is under French law, tho.
My Nokia N900 does not have this capability. If it is locked, all you can do is try entering codes or turn off the device.
Let's test that. Try dialing 911 five times ...