You can see this in the 737. there are 8 or 9 models, all of them are flown under the same type certificate.
However unfamiliarity with the changes Boeing had made with the 737-400 were factors in the crew of G-OBME shutting down the wrong engine. IIRC all 747s are the same type. Even though the 100, 200 & 300 have a Captain, First Office and Flight Engineer whereas the 400 & 800 have only a Captain and First Officer.
The idea is that in the _design_ phase there are important points where CAD doesn't help much, like checking for failure possibilities that aren't part of your computer model.
The A in CAD stands for Aided. The computer is a tool which still requires a human to use it properly. Computer models can in some cases be worst that useless too.
We need legislation that not only enshrines the right to record any and all public officials, but adds severe consequences to the destruction of evidence.
Considering that destruction of evidence (and concealing crimes) is undoubtedly already against the law the real issue is one of lack of enforcement. Effectivly dealing with police who break the law is not a simple problem. About the only possible way of doing things would be to have at least two independent sets of "police" who can only investigate and arrest "cops". (There needs to be at least two since history has show that no police force will effectivly police themselves.)
If you purchased your computer with a copy of Windows already on it, almost certainly, the licence is tied to that machine (legally, if not technically).
If you purchase a copy of Windows separately in the shops, you can transfer it, but also, it is much more expensive than the nominal cost of the OEM licence.
It's not that simple, when it comes to legally. Such a "licence" says what Microsoft would like the "law of the land" to be. Which may not be what the "law of the land" actually is. IIRC in Germany a court ruled that the "OEM"/"Retail" distinction is meaningless.
Are the Colonies really still using Imperial units?
The US units predate Imperial units and are different. Especially in the case of units for volumes. e.g 473ml against 568ml for a "pint". It's only since WWII that both inches were redefined to be exactly 25.4 mm
I don't understand. 104.7 FM is a part of the spectrum allocated for radio broadcast. Why was that interfering with keyless entry systems? Is this just an issue of too much power?
Such pirate transmitters are typically built as cheap as possible. Such things as filtering carrier harmonics don't tend to feature in the design. Pirates with two brain cells to rub together tend to assume that their hardware will be quickly found and confiscated. Thus are more likely to spend money on having multiple "hot spare" transmitters than having one half decent one.
Not only was he broadcasting pirate radio but he did it in the commerical frequency range, more likely to interfere with a licensed operator (who wants that ad money) and get the FCC called to investigate.
You wouldn't expect that this would have operated for months if it was interfering with a regular station (at least not one which had any listeners.)
Here in NJ we are not allowed to pump our own gas. That's right, we get Full Service whether we like it or not (it is very convenient on cold or bad weather days).
Who is going to be responsible if they start putting this E15 into cars older than 2001?
I suspect it's going to be rather more complex than a 2001 cut off date. Newer cars could quite easily contain older parts and some older cars may have no problems with the fuel at all.
I remember a time when it was a given that you do not use your real name or details for anything online. Now it a part of the terms of service that if you do not provide your real name and information you can be dropped from a site. (facebook/google plus for example).
Which will cause problems when such systems start rejecting people's "real names".
Google plus would not let me sign up unless i provided a name that was not obviously an actual name. If I want to be Nunya Bizniss online, I should have the right to do so. I am not applying for government assistance or buying a house, I am trying to talk to strangers, or friends, online.
There's an FAQ covering common mistakes people writing information systems make with respect to names. In many places "Nunya Bizniss" is a valid legal name. Even on a birth certificate.
Someone can easily launch a man in the middle attack, steal credentials and use said credentials to send spam.
This interesting thing is that MitM attacks can actually be harder to detect using the HTTPS type approach of trusting everything any CA signs. As compared with the SSH type approach where an alert would be generated had the remote end apparently changed.
The actual name attached to the account should be quite irrelevant in that matter. It's merely psychological - a "real name" (whatever that may mean) would denote an individual, and a "fake name" not? Most people using nicknames tend to use the same handle across various web sites, exactly so other people can recognise them, and those handles tend to be more unique than real names anyway.
The whole concept of "real name" is rather difficult to define. Even discounting the likes of musicians, actors, authors, etc who can be best known by their, globally unique, professional name. Along with names being "translated" between different languages. There are also plenty of people where a nickname is more "real" than some "legal name" they may hardly ever make use of.
Solar planes aren't ideal for carrying cargo due to their low wing loading. This prototype can only carry 400kg of cargo for example.
The 400kg in the article refers to the batteries. I suspect the only way you could get this thing to carry any cargo would be to remove the cockpit and convert it to a UAV.
Who the hell cares where you go? What does it matter if you aren't committing a crime? You are no one. The government has bigger fish to fry. Just because they can track you doesn't mean they are the least bit interested in doing so until you pop up on their radar.
People interested in kidnapping, robbing or raping you can be very interested in knowing where you are. Similarly criminals using identity fraud want identities of "nobodies". From the point of view of a criminal (or "intelligence" operative) they have more time to escape if the cops are after you instead!
The student was offered a security card with no battery and chip, but still refused.
If the device contains a battery then it will have a much longer effective range compared with a passive RFID. At least until the battery fails. Wonder if anyone has considered what to do when that starts happening. There's also the issue of what to do when bullies and criminals find out what the effective range of these devices is.
I was opposed to gTLD's at first, but I thought about another existing problem that we have, which gTLD's may fix.
If you own a trademark, let's say videolan. You figure, ok, let's pick up videolan.org. But oh wait, we need to prevent domain squatters from grabbing up the same names on.net,.us,.com, etc etc etc. Now instead of one domain name to maintain and pay for, you have numerous.
The thing to remember is that trademarks are NOT intended to be globally unique in the first place. They are specific to both places and types of business.
The students are paying customers, who have the right to free speech. These universities might as well publish the fact that they require their students to be politically correct, or they are unwanted on campus. Probably better if they clearly state what they consider to be "politically correct". Otherwise potential students will be left guessing if they and the university in question have the same definition.
I think it would even be healthy to have a "debate corner" on a college campus where any student could express any political opinion they may have... including "hate speech" full of bigotry, sexism, and racism. If you think some sort of speech should be censored, you definitely don't understand the purpose or the philosophy behind the 1st amendment and why it was ratified in the first place.
Even if you think such censorship is a good idea in principle there are at least two practical issues. The first is that people will make false accusations for all sorts of reasons. The second is that bigotry which is "politically correct" tends to be ignored (even encouraged).
The problem is that patches are applied individually, and they need to be applied in a specific order. When some patches need to update in-use files, the patcher has no good way to identify that those files are already patched (because they're waiting as temporary files to be renamed over an in-use file). Linux typically has a lot more metadata available, and they also tend to do full package updates rather than incremental file updates.. so they need only get the latest kernel package and all intermediate updates are automatically part of that. The obvious difference is that unix type systems will let you delete a file which is in use. With the OS only removing the data when the file is no longer in use. AFAIK Windows filesystems can't work in this way. So you instead have to patch/replace certain files at specific parts of the boot process.
However, merchants are allowed to store limited CC data on the terminal. This includes the card number and expiration date as long as they are encrypted. CID and raw track data are forbidden from being stored. This means it is possible to reverse transactions without the card present.
Is it not possible to do this using transaction ID? Unless the stored data can only be decrypted via the operator entering a key which is unique per transaction (and not stored in the machine) any encryption is rather pointless. Storing key and cyphertext together is for all practical purposes storing the plaintext.
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You can see this in the 737. there are 8 or 9 models, all of them are flown under the same type certificate.
However unfamiliarity with the changes Boeing had made with the 737-400 were factors in the crew of G-OBME shutting down the wrong engine.
IIRC all 747s are the same type. Even though the 100, 200 & 300 have a Captain, First Office and Flight Engineer whereas the 400 & 800 have only a Captain and First Officer.
The idea is that in the _design_ phase there are important points where CAD doesn't help much, like checking for failure possibilities that aren't part of your computer model.
The A in CAD stands for Aided. The computer is a tool which still requires a human to use it properly. Computer models can in some cases be worst that useless too.
Also, was I the only person to think 'Judge Dredd' when I read it?
The important factor is that machines in fiction can have whatever level of reliability is required for the plot.
We need legislation that not only enshrines the right to record any and all public officials, but adds severe consequences to the destruction of evidence.
Considering that destruction of evidence (and concealing crimes) is undoubtedly already against the law the real issue is one of lack of enforcement. Effectivly dealing with police who break the law is not a simple problem. About the only possible way of doing things would be to have at least two independent sets of "police" who can only investigate and arrest "cops". (There needs to be at least two since history has show that no police force will effectivly police themselves.)
If you purchased your computer with a copy of Windows already on it, almost certainly, the licence is tied to that machine (legally, if not technically).
If you purchase a copy of Windows separately in the shops, you can transfer it, but also, it is much more expensive than the nominal cost of the OEM licence.
It's not that simple, when it comes to legally. Such a "licence" says what Microsoft would like the "law of the land" to be. Which may not be what the "law of the land" actually is. IIRC in Germany a court ruled that the "OEM"/"Retail" distinction is meaningless.
Are the Colonies really still using Imperial units?
The US units predate Imperial units and are different. Especially in the case of units for volumes. e.g 473ml against 568ml for a "pint".
It's only since WWII that both inches were redefined to be exactly 25.4 mm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
Interestingly nowhere does this text contain the word "terrorism". Maybe the people involved were just the "wrong" religion...
I don't understand. 104.7 FM is a part of the spectrum allocated for radio broadcast. Why was that interfering with keyless entry systems? Is this just an issue of too much power?
Such pirate transmitters are typically built as cheap as possible. Such things as filtering carrier harmonics don't tend to feature in the design. Pirates with two brain cells to rub together tend to assume that their hardware will be quickly found and confiscated. Thus are more likely to spend money on having multiple "hot spare" transmitters than having one half decent one.
Not only was he broadcasting pirate radio but he did it in the commerical frequency range, more likely to interfere with a licensed operator (who wants that ad money) and get the FCC called to investigate.
You wouldn't expect that this would have operated for months if it was interfering with a regular station (at least not one which had any listeners.)
Here in NJ we are not allowed to pump our own gas. That's right, we get Full Service whether we like it or not (it is very convenient on cold or bad weather days).
Who is going to be responsible if they start putting this E15 into cars older than 2001?
I suspect it's going to be rather more complex than a 2001 cut off date. Newer cars could quite easily contain older parts and some older cars may have no problems with the fuel at all.
I remember a time when it was a given that you do not use your real name or details for anything online. Now it a part of the terms of service that if you do not provide your real name and information you can be dropped from a site. (facebook/google plus for example).
Which will cause problems when such systems start rejecting people's "real names".
Google plus would not let me sign up unless i provided a name that was not obviously an actual name. If I want to be Nunya Bizniss online, I should have the right to do so. I am not applying for government assistance or buying a house, I am trying to talk to strangers, or friends, online.
There's an FAQ covering common mistakes people writing information systems make with respect to names. In many places "Nunya Bizniss" is a valid legal name. Even on a birth certificate.
Are you over 13? Yes/Cancel.
Shouldn't this be 21 rather than 13 though...
Someone can easily launch a man in the middle attack, steal credentials and use said credentials to send spam.
This interesting thing is that MitM attacks can actually be harder to detect using the HTTPS type approach of trusting everything any CA signs. As compared with the SSH type approach where an alert would be generated had the remote end apparently changed.
The actual name attached to the account should be quite irrelevant in that matter. It's merely psychological - a "real name" (whatever that may mean) would denote an individual, and a "fake name" not? Most people using nicknames tend to use the same handle across various web sites, exactly so other people can recognise them, and those handles tend to be more unique than real names anyway.
The whole concept of "real name" is rather difficult to define. Even discounting the likes of musicians, actors, authors, etc who can be best known by their, globally unique, professional name. Along with names being "translated" between different languages. There are also plenty of people where a nickname is more "real" than some "legal name" they may hardly ever make use of.
Solar planes aren't ideal for carrying cargo due to their low wing loading. This prototype can only carry 400kg of cargo for example.
The 400kg in the article refers to the batteries. I suspect the only way you could get this thing to carry any cargo would be to remove the cockpit and convert it to a UAV.
RFID is close range.
Even for a purely passive RFID this can be tens of metres.
If she isn't at school her whereabouts won't be noted. The RFID would simply monitor location while on school property.
Only the badge itself stays on school property. It's basically a transponder which will send out a reply whenever it receives an appropriate signal.
At all. I don't care if my location is traced because I'm not committing a crime
What if a criminal wants to know your location so they can commit a crime against you?
Who the hell cares where you go? What does it matter if you aren't committing a crime? You are no one. The government has bigger fish to fry. Just because they can track you doesn't mean they are the least bit interested in doing so until you pop up on their radar.
People interested in kidnapping, robbing or raping you can be very interested in knowing where you are. Similarly criminals using identity fraud want identities of "nobodies". From the point of view of a criminal (or "intelligence" operative) they have more time to escape if the cops are after you instead!
The student was offered a security card with no battery and chip, but still refused.
If the device contains a battery then it will have a much longer effective range compared with a passive RFID. At least until the battery fails. Wonder if anyone has considered what to do when that starts happening. There's also the issue of what to do when bullies and criminals find out what the effective range of these devices is.
I was opposed to gTLD's at first, but I thought about another existing problem that we have, which gTLD's may fix. .net, .us, .com, etc etc etc. Now instead of one domain name to maintain and pay for, you have numerous.
If you own a trademark, let's say videolan. You figure, ok, let's pick up videolan.org. But oh wait, we need to prevent domain squatters from grabbing up the same names on
The thing to remember is that trademarks are NOT intended to be globally unique in the first place. They are specific to both places and types of business.
Amazon.ch redirects to amazon.de. Not sure why, population possibly.
Though the whole lot are really amazon.lu anyway.
The students are paying customers, who have the right to free speech. These universities might as well publish the fact that they require their students to be politically correct, or they are unwanted on campus.
Probably better if they clearly state what they consider to be "politically correct". Otherwise potential students will be left guessing if they and the university in question have the same definition.
I think it would even be healthy to have a "debate corner" on a college campus where any student could express any political opinion they may have... including "hate speech" full of bigotry, sexism, and racism. If you think some sort of speech should be censored, you definitely don't understand the purpose or the philosophy behind the 1st amendment and why it was ratified in the first place.
Even if you think such censorship is a good idea in principle there are at least two practical issues. The first is that people will make false accusations for all sorts of reasons. The second is that bigotry which is "politically correct" tends to be ignored (even encouraged).
The problem is that patches are applied individually, and they need to be applied in a specific order. When some patches need to update in-use files, the patcher has no good way to identify that those files are already patched (because they're waiting as temporary files to be renamed over an in-use file).
Linux typically has a lot more metadata available, and they also tend to do full package updates rather than incremental file updates.. so they need only get the latest kernel package and all intermediate updates are automatically part of that.
The obvious difference is that unix type systems will let you delete a file which is in use. With the OS only removing the data when the file is no longer in use. AFAIK Windows filesystems can't work in this way. So you instead have to patch/replace certain files at specific parts of the boot process.
However, merchants are allowed to store limited CC data on the terminal. This includes the card number and expiration date as long as they are encrypted. CID and raw track data are forbidden from being stored. This means it is possible to reverse transactions without the card present.
Is it not possible to do this using transaction ID?
Unless the stored data can only be decrypted via the operator entering a key which is unique per transaction (and not stored in the machine) any encryption is rather pointless. Storing key and cyphertext together is for all practical purposes storing the plaintext.
Why are they storing CCs plain text on the terminals.
A better question would be "Why are these 'terminals' storing anything?" Along with "Why is the 'firmware' upgradable via the user interface?"