mmm, it isn't quite that bad, the CPS have to make it clear that it is encrypted data in the first place, e.g. ascii armoured GPG headers and footers etc. But yeah, it could all be very silly depending on how stupid the police and lawyers are.
Could be swap, could be unformatted forgotten junk etc. The government would have to prove it was real data in an encrypted format. That's easy if it's a file on a filesystem, not easy if it's "forgotten" space on an apparently unformatted part of a disk. That's why this kind of legislation is so bloody stupid. What can I say, we're talking about politicians here, always trying to treat the symptoms rather than the cause.
Have you looked at the design of a motorcycle recently?
Fuel tank wedged between your legs, 20 litres of highly explosive fuel less than an inch from your bollocks.
Directly beneath said 20 litre tank of highly explosive fuel we have the engine, on a modern 600cc sportsbike we're talking about somewhere around 100bhp or around 75kW and that's at the crank. Say the engine is a not unreasonable 25% efficient, the "waste heat" output of the engine is 225kW. Yeah that's clever... placing a 225kW heater directly under the fuel tank. Way to go.
Actually the biggest problem is t-boning a muppet who hasn't seen you, that is the biggest risk of riding a bike and most of the heat's piped down the exhaust. It's amazing how risk averse some people are, they have no idea what the biggest risks are.
Ok, not so much, actually about $4.50 in a bar but you get the point. Eventually the exchange rates will even it all out as the money flows round the world.
Seems like the equatorial regions suddenly have an advantage in terms of future energy production. Wouldn't it be ironic if in the future Americans may find themselves fighting over shit farms in the Sahara.
People have to walk or otherwise travel to a station, that takes time. They have to wait for a vehicle, that takes time. the vehicle has to slow down and stop at every station, that takes time. They have to travel from the station to their destination, that takes time.
The closer the stations are together the more often the vehicle has to stop. This reduces performance. The further apart they are the faster the vehicle can go but the longer it takes to travel to and from the station.
In short, group based public transport systems are severely limited in terms of performance for all but the small percentage of the population (10-15%) who live in close proximity to the station and who work in close proximity to a destination station and therefore don't have to change routes or travel far to a station.
This is true until someone comes up with a public transport system which transports individuals rather than groups of people.
Public transport sucks... Oh so very badly...
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Public transport is *useless* for around 85%-90% of the population. The conventional kind which tries to move groups of people around anyway.
Why? Well, because it doesn't go where you want to go, when you want to go as fast as you want to go. It does this because it has to follow a route, a schedule and stop to drop people off at stations. It has to follow a route because it's transporting a group of people. It has to follow a schedule because it's transporting a group of people and it's too slow because it has to stop to drop people off at stations because it's transporting a group of people...
Because public transport attempts to transport groups of people around, it'll never ever ever replace the automobile, which transports individuals around...
My parent's african grey whistles the first few notes when it hears me in the vicinity. I obviously reply with the next few. It also shouts the dogs names when it can see they're outside. The eclectus parrots on the other hand screech, growl and attempt to rip off your fingers at the slightest opportunity.
It really isn't specific to operating system kernel design. It applies to all orgnisational structures which are assembled to perform actions, from computers to businesses and biology.
Speed and efficiency vs distributed modularity and security. Which is most appropriate depends on the environment, there's no one true right or wrong answer.
There's a few companies growing gem quality diamonds. Gemesis, Chatham Created Gems and Apollo. Gradually as production increases for industrial and jewelery purposes the market value of diamonds as gems will decrease.
Not that diamonds really have much value as gems anyway, have you ever tried to sell a second hand diamond ring?
You can get an add-on trailer for the ACP which generates electricity to drive/charge it. Fill up at any gas station.
Because it's fully electric you can use anything which can produce electricity. Hell, you could have a wood powered steam engine powering the generator on the trailer and cut down trees as you go. Run electric and piss off the environmentalists at the same time.
It's actually quite an elegant idea, modular power generation and it means the car itself should be serviceable for the forseeable future. 99% of journeys would be well within the 300 mile range. Hire a power/trailer for the 1 journey a year which goes further.
"You typically don't see packs of monkeys chasing down a water buffalo and tearing out its throat."
Actually I've seen packs of chimpanzees chase down monkeys, tear them apart and eat them damned near still alive. Chimps like us are omnivores, they eat meat if they can get it. That isn't to say that meat with every meal is healthy.
Feel free to continue limiting yourself to the minimum possible of two choices. Others are quite capable of making decisions involving more than two choices.
Not the one you seem to think, funnily enough. Go research the efficiencies of power generation, electricity transmission, battery storage and electric motors.
In the larger interests of mankind perhaps the government should fund sex therapy sessions for all potential mad scientists.
The Economist... only 20 years behind the times
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You see, one thing economists (and many, many others) get wrong time and time again, is self organisation... They just don't get it for some reason. The "bazaar" encourages, promotes lots of projects, lots of errors, lots of iterations, lots of dead projects and we get emergent behaviour out of that environment. These are projects which are strong, robust and evolutionary in that they will fill all of the niches in which they are needed. These projects are... pulled... in that there is a need for them... Traditional software is... pushed... in that there's a need for profit.
House, mortgage, kids, car payments etc etc. Your attention is divided, you've got no chance of coming up with the next big thing because you're laden down with frankly far more important problems to solve.
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mmm, it isn't quite that bad, the CPS have to make it clear that it is encrypted data in the first place, e.g. ascii armoured GPG headers and footers etc. But yeah, it could all be very silly depending on how stupid the police and lawyers are.
Could be swap, could be unformatted forgotten junk etc. The government would have to prove it was real data in an encrypted format. That's easy if it's a file on a filesystem, not easy if it's "forgotten" space on an apparently unformatted part of a disk. That's why this kind of legislation is so bloody stupid. What can I say, we're talking about politicians here, always trying to treat the symptoms rather than the cause.
Have you looked at the design of a motorcycle recently?
Fuel tank wedged between your legs, 20 litres of highly explosive fuel less than an inch from your bollocks.
Directly beneath said 20 litre tank of highly explosive fuel we have the engine, on a modern 600cc sportsbike we're talking about somewhere around 100bhp or around 75kW and that's at the crank. Say the engine is a not unreasonable 25% efficient, the "waste heat" output of the engine is 225kW. Yeah that's clever... placing a 225kW heater directly under the fuel tank. Way to go.
Actually the biggest problem is t-boning a muppet who hasn't seen you, that is the biggest risk of riding a bike and most of the heat's piped down the exhaust. It's amazing how risk averse some people are, they have no idea what the biggest risks are.
Ok, not so much, actually about $4.50 in a bar but you get the point. Eventually the exchange rates will even it all out as the money flows round the world.
Lots of sunlight in desert regions.
Seems like the equatorial regions suddenly have an advantage in terms of future energy production. Wouldn't it be ironic if in the future Americans may find themselves fighting over shit farms in the Sahara.
An automated vehicle which will take an individual directly to his destination.
For the vast majority of the population anyway.
It's simple physics.
People have to walk or otherwise travel to a station, that takes time. They have to wait for a vehicle, that takes time. the vehicle has to slow down and stop at every station, that takes time. They have to travel from the station to their destination, that takes time.
The closer the stations are together the more often the vehicle has to stop. This reduces performance. The further apart they are the faster the vehicle can go but the longer it takes to travel to and from the station.
In short, group based public transport systems are severely limited in terms of performance for all but the small percentage of the population (10-15%) who live in close proximity to the station and who work in close proximity to a destination station and therefore don't have to change routes or travel far to a station.
This is true until someone comes up with a public transport system which transports individuals rather than groups of people.
Public transport is *useless* for around 85%-90% of the population. The conventional kind which tries to move groups of people around anyway.
Why? Well, because it doesn't go where you want to go, when you want to go as fast as you want to go. It does this because it has to follow a route, a schedule and stop to drop people off at stations. It has to follow a route because it's transporting a group of people. It has to follow a schedule because it's transporting a group of people and it's too slow because it has to stop to drop people off at stations because it's transporting a group of people...
Because public transport attempts to transport groups of people around, it'll never ever ever replace the automobile, which transports individuals around...
My parent's african grey whistles the first few notes when it hears me in the vicinity. I obviously reply with the next few. It also shouts the dogs names when it can see they're outside. The eclectus parrots on the other hand screech, growl and attempt to rip off your fingers at the slightest opportunity.
It really isn't specific to operating system kernel design. It applies to all orgnisational structures which are assembled to perform actions, from computers to businesses and biology.
Speed and efficiency vs distributed modularity and security. Which is most appropriate depends on the environment, there's no one true right or wrong answer.
Oh an Anonymous Coward. I'm sure T-mobile are quaking in their boots right now.
It's their network, they can apply all the restrictions they like. You don't like it? Go elsewhere.
There's a few companies growing gem quality diamonds. Gemesis, Chatham Created Gems and Apollo. Gradually as production increases for industrial and jewelery purposes the market value of diamonds as gems will decrease.
Not that diamonds really have much value as gems anyway, have you ever tried to sell a second hand diamond ring?
Make it legal. After all, how much of your taxes are going on enforcement?
You can get an add-on trailer for the ACP which generates electricity to drive/charge it. Fill up at any gas station.
Because it's fully electric you can use anything which can produce electricity. Hell, you could have a wood powered steam engine powering the generator on the trailer and cut down trees as you go. Run electric and piss off the environmentalists at the same time.
It's actually quite an elegant idea, modular power generation and it means the car itself should be serviceable for the forseeable future. 99% of journeys would be well within the 300 mile range. Hire a power/trailer for the 1 journey a year which goes further.
For ACP's machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Propulsion_tzero
The original lead acid version was even earlier than 2003.
So who're they going to buy to get their innovation from then?
Rushes to set up a company "CS Innovation Ltd". A mere snip at $20 million.
"You typically don't see packs of monkeys chasing down a water buffalo and tearing out its throat."
Actually I've seen packs of chimpanzees chase down monkeys, tear them apart and eat them damned near still alive. Chimps like us are omnivores, they eat meat if they can get it. That isn't to say that meat with every meal is healthy.
Feel free to continue limiting yourself to the minimum possible of two choices. Others are quite capable of making decisions involving more than two choices.
Not the one you seem to think, funnily enough. Go research the efficiencies of power generation, electricity transmission, battery storage and electric motors.
I'm quite sure you've never had sex.
In the larger interests of mankind perhaps the government should fund sex therapy sessions for all potential mad scientists.
Good advertisement for your mag mates.
... pulled ... in that there is a need for them... Traditional software is ... pushed ... in that there's a need for profit.
You see, one thing economists (and many, many others) get wrong time and time again, is self organisation... They just don't get it for some reason. The "bazaar" encourages, promotes lots of projects, lots of errors, lots of iterations, lots of dead projects and we get emergent behaviour out of that environment. These are projects which are strong, robust and evolutionary in that they will fill all of the niches in which they are needed. These projects are
Are supposed to run like glacially slow dogs, which have just been fed a tranquiliser overdose?
House, mortgage, kids, car payments etc etc. Your attention is divided, you've got no chance of coming up with the next big thing because you're laden down with frankly far more important problems to solve.
but other than that I'm as confused as you are.