Knowing 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Proper Use Of Units' like the back of your hand will help you in any career.
While I take your point, I just drove back from a chicken plant today and I dealt there with a number of people much older and more experienced than me and making a hell of a lot more money, and I seriously doubt that any of them would have had their careers enhanced by knowing more about those things you mention. In the few instances where those things become important they just hire people like me to sort it all out, and even that doesn't happen very often. (Of course these same people have a "seat of the pants" knowledge of their industry that would blow away most engineers trying to learn what they do from scratch, but they can't quantify or justify a lot of their knowledge in the sense that a scientist or engineer can.)
One thing people might be missing is that one of the reasons the Apple TV is so cheap is that they aren't paying any of the licensing fees that manufacturers have to in order to support other formats. Much of the cost of your DVD player, for example, goes not into the hardware but to the folks who license the formats it supports -- JPG, MP3, CD audio, and of course DVD (and some of those license also include stupid requirements like Macrovision on the output, which is ANOTHER license).
Here, Apple is only supporting formats THEY own, so they can spend the money on the hardware. Hacking it only drives up their market share, and to the complaint that people are watching all these unlicensed formats on it Apple can say "Hey, we didn't do it." But you still bought a box from them.
That's what the retroactive blacklist is about. It's even worse than the posters above thought; you can be a good user who does nothing untoward and your TV will stop talking to your DVR because some other person halfway around the world compromised their DVR of the same model as yours, and the decryption key (which is particular to your model) is cancelled. At that point only a firmware "upgrade" to change the key (and presumably disable the hack) will restore you to operation.
Back when the Feds were twisting everyone's arms to raise the drinking age to 21 Lousiana refused. We had a damn good reason; our state constitution forbids it, very directly saying that at 18 a person has "all the rights and privileges" of adulthood. (It's from the Napoleonic Code, and survived the big overhaul of 1974). So the lege started by floating a constitutional amendment, which fell flat with the voters. So then they passed the law anyway, and the state supreme court struck it down. So then, with weeks left on the deadline they passed the exact same law again and this time the state supreme court did a back flip and a twist and said that the constitution doesn't really say what it says and upheld the law. And that is how Louisiana became the very last state where an 18 year old can't buy a beer.
It will go down the same way with Real ID, just watch. It might be the Mormons or some blue state that stands up but they'll be told fine, pay for your own highways (though we'll still take your tax money) and good luck to any of your citizens who want to fly. And conversations will be had behind closed doors about the way things have to be and it will be done.
As others have pointed out the disappearance of river delta island that was abandoned over 20 years ago is not all that unprecedented, but the near total destruction of a first-world city of over 1,000,000 followed by total failure to deal with the situation is.
Congratulations! You appear to have gotten your wish. How's that working out for you? PS in the future please to be wishing disasters upon the residents of your own city instead of mine kthx.
This is mostly true. Wartime needs for cryptography, ballistics table calculations, and early hydrogen bomb design drove the earliest computers. The space program did have a lot to do with early miniaturization attempts though; the Apollo program sucked much of the world's supply of integrated circuits in its early years.
Actually, in the opening scene of Wargames a psychological experiment reveals that many silo crews would not launch their ICBM's, there not being much point to pounding the rubble when the world is ending anyway. In order to plug this leak in our defense control of the missiles is handed directly to the WOPR supercomputer which already has the most trusted advisory role in case of an attack. And it's WOPR that Broderick hacks. And it's WOPR that doesn't realize the "game" is real, its missile control outputs having been directed to the control of real missiles. And the humans, having been removed from the decision loop, aren't in a position to stop it.
The problem is that they (reasonably, considering what they are trying to prove) don't just want your files; they want your file system so they can examine it for evidence that you once had files and deleted them. This requires examining the HD at the sector level.
Seriously, the typical order asks for all the PC's at the residence. Of course if you're like me that would be about ten, including a couple of half-disassembled old Win3.1 and DOS boxes, and it would be very hard for them to prove that you didn't hold a particular one back. Especially if the particular drive where you put all your downloads is a USB external. Also, the ruling at hand would seem to cause them a problem because if they ask for all your PC's you could legitimately claim that the definite inconvenience to you is out of proportion to their alleged claim.
Above, Ray Beckerman reveals that the MPAA rootkitted his machine when they were granted access and proceeded to use their backdoor to sniff around all kinds of unrelated stuff. This agreement prevents such shenanegans by denying the RIAA access to the defendant's physical hard drive or to any of the defendant's data that the neutral third party does not agree is pertinent to their case. RIAA are also on the hook for paying the neutral party for their services.
Obviously this doesn't help much if the defendant really is guilty and has a fresh copy of LimeWire and a ton of downloaded mp3's on the disk, but it's quite an improvement for those of us who are innocent, or who thought to put all that stuff on the external USB drive that's hidden in grandma's attic for the duration.
...I think you'd have trouble getting a prosecution under that act for a small violation like republishing one letter. You can bet your socks that was passed for the RIAA, MPAA, and associated jackals. However, the case of Mr. Fortuny and his numerous victims might be an exception to that.
If you receive a letter all you own is the physical letter itself. You do not have the right to republish the contents; this has been established copyright law for more than 100 years. The fact that so many people do it and believe it is OK does not in fact make it so.
Bingo! You are exactly 100% right. Although a lot of people seem to be highly resistant to believing it, the content of your mail does not belong to the person you send it to, it remains yours. However, copyright violation is a civil not criminal complaint, and there's really no standard for compensation other than the income derived, e.g. if Mr. Fortuny had made a shitload of money from the traffic generated to his site then the claimants could easily sue him for that and very easily win.
However, I'm quite sure the violated parties would rather Mr. Fortuny spend some time in the PMITA hotel, and for that they'll have to look to the privacy violation aspect, which is also highly illegal and has criminal as well as civil implications.
Been to New Orleans since Katrina? The place will have that effect on you. Even now, almost a year after the storm, it still does. Everyone who comes here and visits Lakeview or Chalmette says the same thing -- the scale of what happened here can't be conveyed by photography or video or even writing. You come thinking you know what to expect because you've seen the pictures and the TV reports and it still just knocks you down.
This is just one more person who tried to convey what it was like, and ultimately as we all do failed.
It's successful when it lands and the astronauts step back onto terra firma. Especially, as other comenters have already mentioned, given how swimmingly the last Columbia mission was going until the last few minutes.
Fortunately TFA doesn't say they have banned the production and export of devices that allow us to bypass DRM. Your supply of Chinese DVD players that can be hacked to skip the unskippable bits and disable Macrovision will not be affected.
Brainstorm is one of the best science movies ever to come out of Hollywood, despite the groaner last few minutes as Walken plays the snuff tape and sees angels.
I have always liked that Christopher Walken used his oddness to play a good guy who is odd because he's a genius, and he actually gets it right. The scene etched on my memory is where Walken is talking about what he's learned about the government black mirror program and says "They've taken my work... and made it into something bad!" That could have been a Plan 9 groaner for sure, but Walken delivers it with the crestfallen betrayed earnestness that we know is the end result when you spend twenty years in a lab.
The technology is painfully dated, but they tried hard and it's educational to see how badly they missed some of the marks when you compare reality with what they projected. Kinda makes you wonder where our future will really lead.
Brainstorm also had to fight for its life after Natalie Wood died just to get finished and released (the studio wanted the no-completion insurance money baaaaad) and its director never worked again (which in turn killed John Varley's Millennium as it was originally conceived, directly resulting in the craptacular flick it eventually became with Cheryl Ladd).
If you can't boot from a USB stick (assuming your computer doesn't have an optical drive), go complain to whoever writes your OS.
Your OS isn't on the machine until it's booted. Booting from a USB stick is a BIOS function, and the reason it's screwed up to expect that is that the USB interface is 10 times more complicated than the basic low-level functions your PC is supposed to be able to perform before the OS loads. The fact that onboard motherboard code can boot from USB probably gives people in Redmond sleepless nights.
Battle Beyond the Stars was in turn a Star Wars-inspired thinly disguised remake of The Magnificent Seven. And it was actually pretty good, unlike the five bland ripoffs of Star Wars made by George Lucas.
My wife visited Kenya last year on an eco-tour. She sent me an email from the only internet cafe they passed on the whole 2-week trip, which had eight terminals sharing a single 28.8K connection that dropped every few minutes and had to be redialed.
It's not clear from your writeup whether you are making the boards yourself or farming them out once you have the design. I've had to do a couple of boards recently and I use the ExpressPCB online service; there is no board size limit, and while it doesn't autoroute the free CAD tools they provide are clean and easy to learn. They have an extremely cheap miniboard service for small projects and can also do 4-layer boards with silkscreening for a pretty reasonable price even in low quantities. There are a couple of other companies offering a similar service. The software tends to be Windows but you should be able to run it under Wine, and the price is right because they are making their money on the board fabrication.
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How many of those helicopters that are still flying were flown a wall at any point during their service life?
While I take your point, I just drove back from a chicken plant today and I dealt there with a number of people much older and more experienced than me and making a hell of a lot more money, and I seriously doubt that any of them would have had their careers enhanced by knowing more about those things you mention. In the few instances where those things become important they just hire people like me to sort it all out, and even that doesn't happen very often. (Of course these same people have a "seat of the pants" knowledge of their industry that would blow away most engineers trying to learn what they do from scratch, but they can't quantify or justify a lot of their knowledge in the sense that a scientist or engineer can.)
Here, Apple is only supporting formats THEY own, so they can spend the money on the hardware. Hacking it only drives up their market share, and to the complaint that people are watching all these unlicensed formats on it Apple can say "Hey, we didn't do it." But you still bought a box from them.
In my day, we made do Elton John and DEVO. And we LIKED it.
That's what the retroactive blacklist is about. It's even worse than the posters above thought; you can be a good user who does nothing untoward and your TV will stop talking to your DVR because some other person halfway around the world compromised their DVR of the same model as yours, and the decryption key (which is particular to your model) is cancelled. At that point only a firmware "upgrade" to change the key (and presumably disable the hack) will restore you to operation.
It will go down the same way with Real ID, just watch. It might be the Mormons or some blue state that stands up but they'll be told fine, pay for your own highways (though we'll still take your tax money) and good luck to any of your citizens who want to fly. And conversations will be had behind closed doors about the way things have to be and it will be done.
As others have pointed out the disappearance of river delta island that was abandoned over 20 years ago is not all that unprecedented, but the near total destruction of a first-world city of over 1,000,000 followed by total failure to deal with the situation is.
Congratulations! You appear to have gotten your wish. How's that working out for you? PS in the future please to be wishing disasters upon the residents of your own city instead of mine kthx.
This is mostly true. Wartime needs for cryptography, ballistics table calculations, and early hydrogen bomb design drove the earliest computers. The space program did have a lot to do with early miniaturization attempts though; the Apollo program sucked much of the world's supply of integrated circuits in its early years.
Actually, in the opening scene of Wargames a psychological experiment reveals that many silo crews would not launch their ICBM's, there not being much point to pounding the rubble when the world is ending anyway. In order to plug this leak in our defense control of the missiles is handed directly to the WOPR supercomputer which already has the most trusted advisory role in case of an attack. And it's WOPR that Broderick hacks. And it's WOPR that doesn't realize the "game" is real, its missile control outputs having been directed to the control of real missiles. And the humans, having been removed from the decision loop, aren't in a position to stop it.
The problem is that they (reasonably, considering what they are trying to prove) don't just want your files; they want your file system so they can examine it for evidence that you once had files and deleted them. This requires examining the HD at the sector level.
Seriously, the typical order asks for all the PC's at the residence. Of course if you're like me that would be about ten, including a couple of half-disassembled old Win3.1 and DOS boxes, and it would be very hard for them to prove that you didn't hold a particular one back. Especially if the particular drive where you put all your downloads is a USB external. Also, the ruling at hand would seem to cause them a problem because if they ask for all your PC's you could legitimately claim that the definite inconvenience to you is out of proportion to their alleged claim.
Obviously this doesn't help much if the defendant really is guilty and has a fresh copy of LimeWire and a ton of downloaded mp3's on the disk, but it's quite an improvement for those of us who are innocent, or who thought to put all that stuff on the external USB drive that's hidden in grandma's attic for the duration.
...I think you'd have trouble getting a prosecution under that act for a small violation like republishing one letter. You can bet your socks that was passed for the RIAA, MPAA, and associated jackals. However, the case of Mr. Fortuny and his numerous victims might be an exception to that.
If you receive a letter all you own is the physical letter itself. You do not have the right to republish the contents; this has been established copyright law for more than 100 years. The fact that so many people do it and believe it is OK does not in fact make it so.
However, I'm quite sure the violated parties would rather Mr. Fortuny spend some time in the PMITA hotel, and for that they'll have to look to the privacy violation aspect, which is also highly illegal and has criminal as well as civil implications.
Been to New Orleans since Katrina? The place will have that effect on you. Even now, almost a year after the storm, it still does. Everyone who comes here and visits Lakeview or Chalmette says the same thing -- the scale of what happened here can't be conveyed by photography or video or even writing. You come thinking you know what to expect because you've seen the pictures and the TV reports and it still just knocks you down.
This is just one more person who tried to convey what it was like, and ultimately as we all do failed.
It's successful when it lands and the astronauts step back onto terra firma. Especially, as other comenters have already mentioned, given how swimmingly the last Columbia mission was going until the last few minutes.
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Fortunately TFA doesn't say they have banned the production and export of devices that allow us to bypass DRM. Your supply of Chinese DVD players that can be hacked to skip the unskippable bits and disable Macrovision will not be affected.
I have always liked that Christopher Walken used his oddness to play a good guy who is odd because he's a genius, and he actually gets it right. The scene etched on my memory is where Walken is talking about what he's learned about the government black mirror program and says "They've taken my work ... and made it into something bad!" That could have been a Plan 9 groaner for sure, but Walken delivers it with the crestfallen betrayed earnestness that we know is the end result when you spend twenty years in a lab.
The technology is painfully dated, but they tried hard and it's educational to see how badly they missed some of the marks when you compare reality with what they projected. Kinda makes you wonder where our future will really lead.
Brainstorm also had to fight for its life after Natalie Wood died just to get finished and released (the studio wanted the no-completion insurance money baaaaad) and its director never worked again (which in turn killed John Varley's Millennium as it was originally conceived, directly resulting in the craptacular flick it eventually became with Cheryl Ladd).
Your OS isn't on the machine until it's booted. Booting from a USB stick is a BIOS function, and the reason it's screwed up to expect that is that the USB interface is 10 times more complicated than the basic low-level functions your PC is supposed to be able to perform before the OS loads. The fact that onboard motherboard code can boot from USB probably gives people in Redmond sleepless nights.
Battle Beyond the Stars was in turn a Star Wars-inspired thinly disguised remake of The Magnificent Seven. And it was actually pretty good, unlike the five bland ripoffs of Star Wars made by George Lucas.
My wife visited Kenya last year on an eco-tour. She sent me an email from the only internet cafe they passed on the whole 2-week trip, which had eight terminals sharing a single 28.8K connection that dropped every few minutes and had to be redialed.
It's not clear from your writeup whether you are making the boards yourself or farming them out once you have the design. I've had to do a couple of boards recently and I use the ExpressPCB online service; there is no board size limit, and while it doesn't autoroute the free CAD tools they provide are clean and easy to learn. They have an extremely cheap miniboard service for small projects and can also do 4-layer boards with silkscreening for a pretty reasonable price even in low quantities. There are a couple of other companies offering a similar service. The software tends to be Windows but you should be able to run it under Wine, and the price is right because they are making their money on the board fabrication.