What would happen if I happened to find such a device on my car and put a fine metallic mesh grounded to the chassis of the vehicle? They would have a serious problem, I guess...
A more obvious response would be to call the police and say that a suspicious device was attached to your car. Maybe even mention the "b" word.
Well, I'm not an aircraft engineer (either ground or flight), but I really don't remember 120v 60hz AC service routinely available on most military aircraft I've flown in. The stuff I've seen is 120 Vac at 400hz or 28 Vdc. I suppose a multi-billion dollar program to retrofit all these AMC aircraft to include US household current on the flight decks of the current transport aircraft inventory wouldn't be all bad...
Since the device actually needs 5Vdc it's going to need a converter anyway. Also a device to convert 120Vac to 5Vdc may or may not care what the frequency is.
All the GPL forces you to do is to release source code if you plan to redistribute GPL code, including code that you modified. You aren't required to share anything, if you don't want to. In other words, you are free to download GPL code, modify it all you like, and use it all you like without sharing a thing.
It's important to remember that most people (both individuals and corporations) don't distribute software at all. For people who wish to use software the likes of EULAs, CALs, per user/machine, locking to specific hardware, is likely to be far more of an issue. (Especially in a corporate setting.) Since these are restrictions on how the software can actually be used. Whereas GPL software puts no restrictions on use. Including not restricting how many copies you make for your own use. If you want to distribute someone else's software copyright law requires that you have the copyright holders' permission to do so. In the case of GPL software the GPL grants you that permission.There is always the alternative of negotiating with the copyright holders.
You don't think the presence of explosive recipes, instructions for the manufacture of ricin, and price lists for military weapons on the same USB drive isn't evidence as to what he meant by Jihad?
It's also possible that the information could be used to write an article (or novel) opposed to terrorists and their methods.
The word "jihad" is transliteration of an Arabic word. The usual translation is "struggle" but when translating between languages context can be very important. Thus it can matter a lot if the original letter was in English or Arabic.
The TS1000 had a slightly different motherboard, with an NTSC RF modulator and twice the RAM (2K!) built in.
IIRC the ZX81 board could actually be fitted with a 2k static RAM chip. There were also two different ways getting 1k. Either two 4bit chips or one 8 bit chip.
Sun Tzu also stated (paraphrased) that if you find yourself in a position where war is final option, you expend every ounce of your military force from the first moment and crush your enemy absolutely, demoralizing them and ending the conflict forever.
This would only be possible if your military is capable of doing this to your enemy. Wonder what he had to say about the situation of facing an enemy who's military greatly outmatches yours...
All they have to do is include a few thousands signs with each order that says "This cable is GroundSmart Copper Clad Steel Cable and is worthless to scrap yards"
You have to ensure that the signs are in all appropriate languages and that they themselves have no scrap value.
You overestimate the intelligence of thieves. The word is out that cable is valuable so the average thief will carry right on stealing it.
Also by the time the thief discovers the cable isn't valuable the damage has already been done. As happens with telephone cables. Since the typical thief can't tell the difference between copper and fibre cable before cutting it.
30,500 meters is NOT space, and falling from stationary at 30,500 meters is nothing at all like re-entering from REAL space at full orbital velocity.
In terms of impact survival you could just as easily drop from 1km. A dropped object can't exceed its terminal velocity and will be going more or less straight down.Whereas an object entering the atmosphere can hit the ground at higher than terminal velocity and have a substantial horizontal component to its motion.
That is corporate ethics at it's absolute worst. You can be sure that it's likely Apple in Italy knew of the situation and was milking it if they got a fine like that...:(
I wonder if the fine even approaches the profits they made abusing the laws like that.
They could potentially be facing nearly 30 similar fines. Given that it's unlikely they only did this in Italy.
Yeah, whatever happened to self-destruct mechanisms?...or maybe that would constitute an aggressive detonation of a munition on enemy soil, with the potential for casualties (civilian or military) and an international incident?
Invading a country's airspace with a military aircraft is already an act of war. (It's not as if the CIA would have filed a flight plan with Iranian ATC.)
In better future news, the US opens virtual embassies for all countries and dramatically reduces the number of bureaucrats taxpayers have to pay to sit in overseas offices.
That might happen in fiction. More likely both the number of bureaucrats and the costs would dramatically increase.
Obviously you don't work in a position that requires any form of real concentration. I find the phone is my constant enemy, I just get focused on a tricky design and then the thought process gets derailed by what is often an irrelevant phone call.
IIRC there was some research that such calls can disrupt someone's work for 10-15 minutes longer than how ever long the call lasts.
Because addicts of certain substances don't just sit in their living room, they run out of money, and in order to avoid complete withdrawl, break into your grandma and granpappies house and bust thier skulls for the monthly check. You can deny it happens, but it does happen. I personally know a meth head who did this.
How often does this happen with legal drugs? Even highly addictive ones such as nicotine?
That' right everyone, remember when you store your information on a computer in the US, be fully aware that information is now subject to US laws.
It's probably more accurate to say that "Storing information on a computer in a foreign country can have many legal implications." Not that it is always obvious where a computer actually is. Especially with "cloud computing", where physical location can vary with time.
Someone better warn her that her Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo are also at risk.
With at least Facebook things get "interesting" quickly. There is is-is.facebook.com, which is in Icelandic. Facebook claims that Irish data protection law applies within the EU. Iceland's data protection law is more or less identical with that of EU member states. There's also the map on the Facebook login pages. Which could be interpreted as their having servers in the USA, Canada, France, Russia, Egypt, Japan, Colombia, Ghana, India, Brazil, Chile, South Africa and Australia.
Digital media once created has a verry high supply ability. Thus it's cost is lowered. Digital content providers are charging more then what supply and demand curve intercection states. And legal controls that are trying to maintain this off balance. So... Blackmarkets are naturally formed to provide goods at their actual costs.
This is the same thing with drugs, unpasturized milk, under the counter workers...
Whilst there are similarities there are also differences. If drug prohibition were ended there would be a hugely profitable legal market (including many products which don't exist in the current black market). It would also be very likely that the result would be better quality products at a cheaper price. It's rather hard to see how anyone could possibly compete with the current "black market" file sharing. Content is typically available worldwide very soon after the first showing. Quality tends to be high. "Purity" also tends to be high. With ads, trailers, etc removed. The only "adulterations" tending to be DOGs, adverts mixed in with the content, etc.
If, as is most likely, nothing much has happened by the end of 2016 they'd just come up with another prediction. The same as these people who predict the end of the world on a specific date. The only unusual thing is usually these people are smart enough to use 50-100 years for their predictions of doom.
Spot-on; however, if it was possible to become a billionaire by substantially reducing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, within 30 years the discussion would be about the dangerously-low levels of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere.
That would be 200 ppm the point at which a mass extinction event is likely to happen due to failure of photosynthesis. It's only once you get above 1 part per thousand that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is no longer a limiting factor for photosynthesis.
He also misrepresents the entire process of modern agriculture - namely, none of the inputs are implicitly dependent on the active production of more CO2.
The current amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is below optimal for plants. For some plant species, including those grown in agriculture, it's considerably below optimal. To the extent that there are commercial products specifically designed to increase the CO2 levels in greenhouses. These would appear to qualify as "active production of more CO2".
Don't just name the names of the corrupt politicians
Unless Mexico has one of the least corrupt political systems on the planet the number of non-corrupt politicians is likely to be close to zero anyway...
In terms of geoengineering, there is the obvious that will go wrong. For starters, all these schemes are schemes to alter the planet so it copes better with high CO2 levels.
Since the planet has coped perfectly well with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels considerably higher than present it would be rather a suprise if were to have any problems. If there is actually anything to be concerned about it's that carbon dioxide levels very close to the level where photosynthesis ceases.
So, how about addressing the real problem? How about stopping emission of additional CO2 instead of kicking down the garbage down the road and letting it accumulate?
In other words another kind of attempt at "geo-engineering". Thing is that for about the last half million years carbon dioxide concentration has followed temperature with a delay of 500-800 years. So current "emissions" be they from human activities, "natural" oxidation of fossil fuels, vulcanism, etc. May well have little to no effect on current circumstances.
Does it matter if it's a group of students or a group of politicians? or a group of little old ladies? or a group of aliens from Betelgeuse?
In all seriousness, it doesn't matter *who* does the censoring, they'll always get it wrong.
However exactly how they will get things wrong depends on both the censoring/classifying group and the target group. Also a group of US students is not the same in this context as a group of British or Australian students. With a "foreign" group being more likely to get things badly wrong. Rather bad things have happened with TV broadcasters trusting ratings on imported programmes. e.g. obscene dialogue in "children's slots".
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What would happen if I happened to find such a device on my car and put a fine metallic mesh grounded to the chassis of the vehicle? They would have a serious problem, I guess...
A more obvious response would be to call the police and say that a suspicious device was attached to your car. Maybe even mention the "b" word.
Well, I'm not an aircraft engineer (either ground or flight), but I really don't remember 120v 60hz AC service routinely available on most military aircraft I've flown in. The stuff I've seen is 120 Vac at 400hz or 28 Vdc.
I suppose a multi-billion dollar program to retrofit all these AMC aircraft to include US household current on the flight decks of the current transport aircraft inventory wouldn't be all bad...
Since the device actually needs 5Vdc it's going to need a converter anyway. Also a device to convert 120Vac to 5Vdc may or may not care what the frequency is.
All the GPL forces you to do is to release source code if you plan to redistribute GPL code, including code that you modified. You aren't required to share anything, if you don't want to. In other words, you are free to download GPL code, modify it all you like, and use it all you like without sharing a thing.
It's important to remember that most people (both individuals and corporations) don't distribute software at all. For people who wish to use software the likes of EULAs, CALs, per user/machine, locking to specific hardware, is likely to be far more of an issue. (Especially in a corporate setting.) Since these are restrictions on how the software can actually be used. Whereas GPL software puts no restrictions on use. Including not restricting how many copies you make for your own use.
If you want to distribute someone else's software copyright law requires that you have the copyright holders' permission to do so. In the case of GPL software the GPL grants you that permission.There is always the alternative of negotiating with the copyright holders.
You don't think the presence of explosive recipes, instructions for the manufacture of ricin, and price lists for military weapons on the same USB drive isn't evidence as to what he meant by Jihad?
It's also possible that the information could be used to write an article (or novel) opposed to terrorists and their methods.
Or the fact that he pleaded guilty.
That's really the only issue.
Prepared for jihad. That's your argument.
The word "jihad" is transliteration of an Arabic word. The usual translation is "struggle" but when translating between languages context can be very important.
Thus it can matter a lot if the original letter was in English or Arabic.
The TS1000 had a slightly different motherboard, with an NTSC RF modulator and twice the RAM (2K!) built in.
IIRC the ZX81 board could actually be fitted with a 2k static RAM chip. There were also two different ways getting 1k. Either two 4bit chips or one 8 bit chip.
Sun Tzu also stated (paraphrased) that if you find yourself in a position where war is final option, you expend every ounce of your military force from the first moment and crush your enemy absolutely, demoralizing them and ending the conflict forever.
This would only be possible if your military is capable of doing this to your enemy. Wonder what he had to say about the situation of facing an enemy who's military greatly outmatches yours...
All they have to do is include a few thousands signs with each order that says "This cable is GroundSmart Copper Clad Steel Cable and is worthless to scrap yards"
You have to ensure that the signs are in all appropriate languages and that they themselves have no scrap value.
Nominal skin depth in copper at 60 Hz is about 9 mm. It takes a lot of current to require wires with a radius greater than 9mm.
Which would be indistinguishable from solid copper until cut to a depth of more than 9mm and still contains a substantial quanity of copper.
You overestimate the intelligence of thieves. The word is out that cable is valuable so the average thief will carry right on stealing it.
Also by the time the thief discovers the cable isn't valuable the damage has already been done. As happens with telephone cables. Since the typical thief can't tell the difference between copper and fibre cable before cutting it.
30,500 meters is NOT space, and falling from stationary at 30,500 meters is nothing at all like re-entering from REAL space at full orbital velocity.
In terms of impact survival you could just as easily drop from 1km.
A dropped object can't exceed its terminal velocity and will be going more or less straight down.Whereas an object entering the atmosphere can hit the ground at higher than terminal velocity and have a substantial horizontal component to its motion.
That is corporate ethics at it's absolute worst. You can be sure that it's likely Apple in Italy knew of the situation and was milking it if they got a fine like that... :(
I wonder if the fine even approaches the profits they made abusing the laws like that.
They could potentially be facing nearly 30 similar fines. Given that it's unlikely they only did this in Italy.
This is WARNER BROS, the same guys who sue people for selling or giving away homemade SUPERMAN costumes on halloween.
Which is probably the only reason for this lawsuit in the first place.
The point of this case is interesting, because the kind of laws that WB supports are being used against it.
As well as the interpretation of the laws. With the plaintiff in this case being big enough to actually worry WB.
Yeah, whatever happened to self-destruct mechanisms? ...or maybe that would constitute an aggressive detonation of a munition on enemy soil, with the potential for casualties (civilian or military) and an international incident?
Invading a country's airspace with a military aircraft is already an act of war. (It's not as if the CIA would have filed a flight plan with Iranian ATC.)
In better future news, the US opens virtual embassies for all countries and dramatically reduces the number of bureaucrats taxpayers have to pay to sit in overseas offices.
That might happen in fiction. More likely both the number of bureaucrats and the costs would dramatically increase.
Obviously you don't work in a position that requires any form of real concentration. I find the phone is my constant enemy, I just get focused on a tricky design and then the thought process gets derailed by what is often an irrelevant phone call.
IIRC there was some research that such calls can disrupt someone's work for 10-15 minutes longer than how ever long the call lasts.
Because addicts of certain substances don't just sit in their living room, they run out of money, and in order to avoid complete withdrawl, break into your grandma and granpappies house and bust thier skulls for the monthly check. You can deny it happens, but it does happen. I personally know a meth head who did this.
How often does this happen with legal drugs? Even highly addictive ones such as nicotine?
That' right everyone, remember when you store your information on a computer in the US, be fully aware that information is now subject to US laws.
It's probably more accurate to say that "Storing information on a computer in a foreign country can have many legal implications." Not that it is always obvious where a computer actually is. Especially with "cloud computing", where physical location can vary with time.
Someone better warn her that her Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo are also at risk.
With at least Facebook things get "interesting" quickly.
There is is-is.facebook.com, which is in Icelandic.
Facebook claims that Irish data protection law applies within the EU. Iceland's data protection law is more or less identical with that of EU member states.
There's also the map on the Facebook login pages. Which could be interpreted as their having servers in the USA, Canada, France, Russia, Egypt, Japan, Colombia, Ghana, India, Brazil, Chile, South Africa and Australia.
Digital media once created has a verry high supply ability. Thus it's cost is lowered. Digital content providers are charging more then what supply and demand curve intercection states. And legal controls that are trying to maintain this off balance. So... Blackmarkets are naturally formed to provide goods at their actual costs.
This is the same thing with drugs, unpasturized milk, under the counter workers...
Whilst there are similarities there are also differences. If drug prohibition were ended there would be a hugely profitable legal market (including many products which don't exist in the current black market). It would also be very likely that the result would be better quality products at a cheaper price.
It's rather hard to see how anyone could possibly compete with the current "black market" file sharing. Content is typically available worldwide very soon after the first showing. Quality tends to be high. "Purity" also tends to be high. With ads, trailers, etc removed. The only "adulterations" tending to be DOGs, adverts mixed in with the content, etc.
Just wait 5 years and see.
If, as is most likely, nothing much has happened by the end of 2016 they'd just come up with another prediction. The same as these people who predict the end of the world on a specific date. The only unusual thing is usually these people are smart enough to use 50-100 years for their predictions of doom.
Spot-on; however, if it was possible to become a billionaire by substantially reducing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, within 30 years the discussion would be about the dangerously-low levels of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere.
That would be 200 ppm the point at which a mass extinction event is likely to happen due to failure of photosynthesis. It's only once you get above 1 part per thousand that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is no longer a limiting factor for photosynthesis.
He also misrepresents the entire process of modern agriculture - namely, none of the inputs are implicitly dependent on the active production of more CO2.
The current amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is below optimal for plants. For some plant species, including those grown in agriculture, it's considerably below optimal. To the extent that there are commercial products specifically designed to increase the CO2 levels in greenhouses. These would appear to qualify as "active production of more CO2".
Don't just name the names of the corrupt politicians
Unless Mexico has one of the least corrupt political systems on the planet the number of non-corrupt politicians is likely to be close to zero anyway...
In terms of geoengineering, there is the obvious that will go wrong. For starters, all these schemes are schemes to alter the planet so it copes better with high CO2 levels.
Since the planet has coped perfectly well with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels considerably higher than present it would be rather a suprise if were to have any problems.
If there is actually anything to be concerned about it's that carbon dioxide levels very close to the level where photosynthesis ceases.
So, how about addressing the real problem? How about stopping emission of additional CO2 instead of kicking down the garbage down the road and letting it accumulate?
In other words another kind of attempt at "geo-engineering".
Thing is that for about the last half million years carbon dioxide concentration has followed temperature with a delay of 500-800 years. So current "emissions" be they from human activities, "natural" oxidation of fossil fuels, vulcanism, etc. May well have little to no effect on current circumstances.
Does it matter if it's a group of students or a group of politicians? or a group of little old ladies? or a group of aliens from Betelgeuse?
In all seriousness, it doesn't matter *who* does the censoring, they'll always get it wrong.
However exactly how they will get things wrong depends on both the censoring/classifying group and the target group. Also a group of US students is not the same in this context as a group of British or Australian students. With a "foreign" group being more likely to get things badly wrong. Rather bad things have happened with TV broadcasters trusting ratings on imported programmes. e.g. obscene dialogue in "children's slots".