No. The reason the EU cares is that a country must treat all its residents and resident companies on an equal footing. Ireland offered lower tax rates to Apple than it does to other companies, which is illegal in the EU.
Ireland is allowed to and does undercut other EU countries in corporate tax rates in order to attract businesses. That practice is frowned upon, but allowed, for the time being.
"You boil the straws. That should work for sanitizing any drinking straw made of glass, metal, or even plastic. If you don't have a pot and something to heat it to"
The fuel needed to boil a pot of water could easily exceed the petroleum equivalent of a couple of straws. One liter of water requires 340 kJ of heat to bring to a boil, which is about the heat of combustion for 9 g of oil, about 20 drinking straws. It depends on how often you reuse the straws between sterilizations and how exactly you heat the water and how much water you use. A similar argument holds for plastic disposable coffee cups. Washing a reusable cup by hand under running hot water after each use, that isn't a very environmentally friendly alternative.
I don't understand what happens in the US after you put a piece of plastic in the bin; does it somehow end up in the sea? The problem of drinking straws is (I suppose) that they end up as street litter and get flushed into the sewer. But I don't see people carrying their reusable straws to the fast-food vending place.
"that everyone will be getting a new(er) phone every five or six years."
I'm all for using stuff until it falls apart, but all my previous phones developed serious hardware issues within about three years. Nexus 5: power button stuck and battery worn out - after I spent EUR 70, I botched the battery replacement. HTC Desire S: touch screen stopped working. Nokia N82: camera broke. Dumb phone before that: couldn't make phone calls anymore and all the key labels had worn off.
I wonder how people can make a phone last for six years when it is subjected to the stress of being in my pocket or hands all the time.
"the right way is not to ban bulbs, just simply require bulbs with a certain level of lumens / watts."
Which is exactly what the EU regulations do. It's just that the thresholds in lm/W are picked exactly to cover standard and now incandescents, but a LED supplier that somehow manages to get incandescent-like efficiencies would also be affected.
I think there was another tier of lm/W for an experimental incandescent technology that has not (yet) been proven viable: incandescent bulbs with an IR-reflective coating that reflects some of the infrared back onto the filament. (I didn't look into the details, but I think for that to work, you'd need to pose unrealistic requirements on the shape of the filament and shape tolerance of the bulb.)
"eventually... maybe in 50 years or less... incandescent lighting technology efficiency will surpass LED efficiency. But LED will always be cheap."
Uhm, what? Are you trolling? For incandescent to become substantially more efficient, the temperature of the filament hs to go up, to, say 5800 K, from the present 2900 K. There is no material that withstands such temperatures.
From.your link: "...faulty implementation of the EMV standard, whereby payment operators fail to perform all of the required validations on data before approving a transaction."
The cards themselves are fine. The PoS terminals in Brazil were apparently pieces of s.
"Proper sanitation, being necessary to the preparation of healthy food, the right of the people to wash their hands, shall not be infringed."
I'd say that the use of commas in that sentence makes it gibberish, just like in the second amendment. I cannot parse that sentence in a way that is grammatically correct, which means that I have to guess what the author probably meant, based on what I know about him and his background.
Disclaimer: I'm not from the US, nor a native speaker of English.
The flash device is encrypted using a random-generated (strong) key that's stored on the phone but not on the flash device; the key itself is not derived from the PIN; instead, the key can be accessed only using the PIN . The secure subsystem will not allow brute-forcing the PIN, deleting the decryption key after too many attempts. So downloading the flash device will give you a lot of random numbers, at most telling you how much of the flash storage was in use. (Are you sure that you don't need to unlock the bootloader first? Unlockimg it will also result in a factory reset and erasing of the decryption key).
It's possible that some manufacturers don't have the secure subsystem (some Samsung devices on Android 4 required a long alphanumeric screen unlock code if device encryption was on, wtf?) but I would be surprised if this is the case for Nexus 5 and later.
Maybe Swillden, our local Android security expert, will chime in.
"Meaning they license the ARM chip design, modify it, then send it off to be manufactured."
I think how it works is that Apple and Qualcomm treat an ARM core as a black box with just interface specifications. Kind of like how you'd by an IC, except that you don't solder it but rather draw it in a chip design. Qualcomm/Apple decide how to interface cores with the other stuff that's on a SoC (modems, GPU, memory bus, USB logic, power management). The SoC designer never* gets to see what's inside the ARM core; that knowledge is only shared with the fab company (e.g. TSMC, Samsung). In turn, the fab company has the details of how to make the individual transistors on the chip and only tells ARM (and other customers) how big the transistors are and what their electrical characteristics are.
I'm not sure how it works with Samsung, which both has fabs and designs SoCs.
*Well, of course there is a lot of reverse engineering going on in the industry...
"prosecute him for offering a legitimate service a-la Google Drive, DropBox, icloud, etc "
As I recall, Megaupload was actively subverting the DMCA takedown process by not actually deleting content from their servers, but rather changing the download URLs and having farms of sockpuppets post the new links. If it turned out that Dropbox does this, they would be in deep trouble as well.
I had a Nexus 7 (2012) that turned out to have a bug in the flash wear-leveling that made it slower and slower to the point of being unusable. Google's fix was to periodically run fstrim, but they didn't update the linux kernel to support fstrim through an encrypted filesystem. I was almost glad when I finally dropped it and cracked the screen.
Do you know how bluetooth stereo pairs work? I've been wondering. I'd think it's tricky to control the latency to a sub-millisecond level with a digital audio protocol.
What helps is that most bulky food products in Europe are sold in round-number quantities, e.g 100 g or 200 g for a bar of chocolate, so for a quarter of a 200 g chocolate bar it's half the per-100-g kcal count. I don't think multiplying the per-serving value by three is easier.
I never count the portions of a chocolate bar anyway. I admire people who can leave an open package of chocolate and not touch it for a day.:)
My workplace (mostly windows laptops) is phasing out docking stations, replacing them by DisplayLink. It was convenient: just a power plug and a usb plug, which takes care of monitor, mouse, keyboard, and ethernet. You could use any DL-equipped desk without dealing with incompatible docking station models. Past tense, because then IT switched to a different laptop brand with a different power plug...
And on many currencies it doesn't say "good for debts public and private". I checked the law for the Netherlands (Euro zone, unlike Sweden) some time ago. Here: "legal tender" mostly means means that you're not allowed to copy it. There is no rule that someone has to accept banknotes or coins even for settling a debt. Try paying your phone bill using one-cent coins... many smaller (MVNO) providers don't even have a physical store.
Whatsapp will by default display your full name and phone number to group members that you don't know, in a group that you didn't necessarily ask to join. You can replace your full name by a nickname, but you have to be aware of the need. When you install Whatsapp, "this name will be visible to your Whatsapp contacts" does not make it obvious that "Whatsapp contacts" include those group members.
You have posted the story about Korea's car taxes before. Would you mind providing references?
I have been googling a bit (also including the name Gephardt) and the closest what I can find is this:
http://benmuse.typepad.com/kor... : "All imported cars were legally banned in Korea until 1989, while the country was furiously building its own auto industry" (and there is more in that article)
And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... : "Automobile Industry Promotion Policy in 1962,... Foreign automakers were barred from operating in Korea, except in joint ventures with local business entities."
I have been surprised how hard it is to make a cellphone lose signal. If I wrap it in aluminum foil and leave a hole big enough to see the wifi and cell signal bars, they barely drop. I'm out of aluminum foil, but my phone in a stainles steel cooking vessel with the metal lid just open far enough (1 mm gap) to see the screen shows 4 out of 5 bars for wifi and cell reception. I can even call my phone with the lid closed and it will ring.
You still need to get wires in and out of that Faraday cage without them acting as antennas and get a proper conductive connection between the plates forming the side walls of the faraday cage. I'm sure that an RF engineer can do that without too much cost; a layman: not so much.
That article claims that air resistance is 5% of the energy of fuel, or 13% of the actual mechanical output of the engine (assumed 38% thermodynamic efficiency). The 13% is the relevant number, if the article is correct.
I find the numbers dubious; I don't think a car (gasoline) engine has as much as 38% thermodynamic efficiency. Also: at motorway speed (120 km/h) and a typical drag area of 0.7 m2, the air resistance is responsible for 15 kW of mechanical power, which is about 25% of the energy of combustion of a car with 7.5 l/100 km fuel economy, or pretty close to 100% of the mechanical output of the engine.
I think the parent poster meant that it was not common to have wiring and switches for high voltages go through the interior of a machine, because of costs of doing that safely. Safety regulations about handling high (100-240 V) voltages predate the IBM PC.
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No. The reason the EU cares is that a country must treat all its residents and resident companies on an equal footing. Ireland offered lower tax rates to Apple than it does to other companies, which is illegal in the EU.
Ireland is allowed to and does undercut other EU countries in corporate tax rates in order to attract businesses. That practice is frowned upon, but allowed, for the time being.
"You boil the straws. That should work for sanitizing any drinking straw made of glass, metal, or even plastic. If you don't have a pot and something to heat it to"
The fuel needed to boil a pot of water could easily exceed the petroleum equivalent of a couple of straws. One liter of water requires 340 kJ of heat to bring to a boil, which is about the heat of combustion for 9 g of oil, about 20 drinking straws. It depends on how often you reuse the straws between sterilizations and how exactly you heat the water and how much water you use. A similar argument holds for plastic disposable coffee cups. Washing a reusable cup by hand under running hot water after each use, that isn't a very environmentally friendly alternative.
I don't understand what happens in the US after you put a piece of plastic in the bin; does it somehow end up in the sea? The problem of drinking straws is (I suppose) that they end up as street litter and get flushed into the sewer. But I don't see people carrying their reusable straws to the fast-food vending place.
Figure 1 in the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.102...
Mostly variants (rotations and flips) of L, Z, and 1.
"that everyone will be getting a new(er) phone every five or six years."
I'm all for using stuff until it falls apart, but all my previous phones developed serious hardware issues within about three years. Nexus 5: power button stuck and battery worn out - after I spent EUR 70, I botched the battery replacement. HTC Desire S: touch screen stopped working. Nokia N82: camera broke. Dumb phone before that: couldn't make phone calls anymore and all the key labels had worn off.
I wonder how people can make a phone last for six years when it is subjected to the stress of being in my pocket or hands all the time.
I'm sure they appreciate you posting their email addresses in a public forum. /s
"the right way is not to ban bulbs, just simply require bulbs with a certain level of lumens / watts."
Which is exactly what the EU regulations do. It's just that the thresholds in lm/W are picked exactly to cover standard and now incandescents, but a LED supplier that somehow manages to get incandescent-like efficiencies would also be affected.
I think there was another tier of lm/W for an experimental incandescent technology that has not (yet) been proven viable: incandescent bulbs with an IR-reflective coating that reflects some of the infrared back onto the filament. (I didn't look into the details, but I think for that to work, you'd need to pose unrealistic requirements on the shape of the filament and shape tolerance of the bulb.)
"eventually... maybe in 50 years or less... incandescent lighting technology efficiency will surpass LED efficiency. But LED will always be cheap."
Uhm, what? Are you trolling? For incandescent to become substantially more efficient, the temperature of the filament hs to go up, to, say 5800 K, from the present 2900 K. There is no material that withstands such temperatures.
From.your link: "...faulty implementation of the EMV standard, whereby payment operators fail to perform all of the required validations on data before approving a transaction."
The cards themselves are fine. The PoS terminals in Brazil were apparently pieces of s.
"Proper sanitation, being necessary to the preparation of healthy food, the right of the people to wash their hands, shall not be infringed."
I'd say that the use of commas in that sentence makes it gibberish, just like in the second amendment. I cannot parse that sentence in a way that is grammatically correct, which means that I have to guess what the author probably meant, based on what I know about him and his background.
Disclaimer: I'm not from the US, nor a native speaker of English.
The flash device is encrypted using a random-generated (strong) key that's stored on the phone but not on the flash device; the key itself is not derived from the PIN; instead, the key can be accessed only using the PIN . The secure subsystem will not allow brute-forcing the PIN, deleting the decryption key after too many attempts. So downloading the flash device will give you a lot of random numbers, at most telling you how much of the flash storage was in use. (Are you sure that you don't need to unlock the bootloader first? Unlockimg it will also result in a factory reset and erasing of the decryption key).
It's possible that some manufacturers don't have the secure subsystem (some Samsung devices on Android 4 required a long alphanumeric screen unlock code if device encryption was on, wtf?) but I would be surprised if this is the case for Nexus 5 and later.
Maybe Swillden, our local Android security expert, will chime in.
"Meaning they license the ARM chip design, modify it, then send it off to be manufactured."
I think how it works is that Apple and Qualcomm treat an ARM core as a black box with just interface specifications. Kind of like how you'd by an IC, except that you don't solder it but rather draw it in a chip design. Qualcomm/Apple decide how to interface cores with the other stuff that's on a SoC (modems, GPU, memory bus, USB logic, power management). The SoC designer never* gets to see what's inside the ARM core; that knowledge is only shared with the fab company (e.g. TSMC, Samsung). In turn, the fab company has the details of how to make the individual transistors on the chip and only tells ARM (and other customers) how big the transistors are and what their electrical characteristics are.
I'm not sure how it works with Samsung, which both has fabs and designs SoCs.
*Well, of course there is a lot of reverse engineering going on in the industry...
"prosecute him for offering a legitimate service a-la Google Drive, DropBox, icloud, etc "
As I recall, Megaupload was actively subverting the DMCA takedown process by not actually deleting content from their servers, but rather changing the download URLs and having farms of sockpuppets post the new links. If it turned out that Dropbox does this, they would be in deep trouble as well.
I had a Nexus 7 (2012) that turned out to have a bug in the flash wear-leveling that made it slower and slower to the point of being unusable. Google's fix was to periodically run fstrim, but they didn't update the linux kernel to support fstrim through an encrypted filesystem. I was almost glad when I finally dropped it and cracked the screen.
Do you know how bluetooth stereo pairs work? I've been wondering. I'd think it's tricky to control the latency to a sub-millisecond level with a digital audio protocol.
What helps is that most bulky food products in Europe are sold in round-number quantities, e.g 100 g or 200 g for a bar of chocolate, so for a quarter of a 200 g chocolate bar it's half the per-100-g kcal count. I don't think multiplying the per-serving value by three is easier.
I never count the portions of a chocolate bar anyway. I admire people who can leave an open package of chocolate and not touch it for a day. :)
My workplace (mostly windows laptops) is phasing out docking stations, replacing them by DisplayLink. It was convenient: just a power plug and a usb plug, which takes care of monitor, mouse, keyboard, and ethernet. You could use any DL-equipped desk without dealing with incompatible docking station models. Past tense, because then IT switched to a different laptop brand with a different power plug...
And on many currencies it doesn't say "good for debts public and private". I checked the law for the Netherlands (Euro zone, unlike Sweden) some time ago. Here: "legal tender" mostly means means that you're not allowed to copy it. There is no rule that someone has to accept banknotes or coins even for settling a debt. Try paying your phone bill using one-cent coins... many smaller (MVNO) providers don't even have a physical store.
Whatsapp will by default display your full name and phone number to group members that you don't know, in a group that you didn't necessarily ask to join. You can replace your full name by a nickname, but you have to be aware of the need. When you install Whatsapp, "this name will be visible to your Whatsapp contacts" does not make it obvious that "Whatsapp contacts" include those group members.
Wouldn't you have to dial 9911 on a system like that?
The video is in grayscale. Infrared illumination and recording, just like security cameras.
You have posted the story about Korea's car taxes before. Would you mind providing references?
I have been googling a bit (also including the name Gephardt) and the closest what I can find is this:
http://benmuse.typepad.com/kor... : "All imported cars were legally banned in Korea until 1989, while the country was furiously building its own auto industry" (and there is more in that article)
And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... : "Automobile Industry Promotion Policy in 1962, ... Foreign automakers were barred from operating in Korea, except in joint ventures with local business entities."
I have been surprised how hard it is to make a cellphone lose signal. If I wrap it in aluminum foil and leave a hole big enough to see the wifi and cell signal bars, they barely drop. I'm out of aluminum foil, but my phone in a stainles steel cooking vessel with the metal lid just open far enough (1 mm gap) to see the screen shows 4 out of 5 bars for wifi and cell reception. I can even call my phone with the lid closed and it will ring.
So, you didn't convince me.
You still need to get wires in and out of that Faraday cage without them acting as antennas and get a proper conductive connection between the plates forming the side walls of the faraday cage. I'm sure that an RF engineer can do that without too much cost; a layman: not so much.
That article claims that air resistance is 5% of the energy of fuel, or 13% of the actual mechanical output of the engine (assumed 38% thermodynamic efficiency). The 13% is the relevant number, if the article is correct.
I find the numbers dubious; I don't think a car (gasoline) engine has as much as 38% thermodynamic efficiency. Also: at motorway speed (120 km/h) and a typical drag area of 0.7 m2, the air resistance is responsible for 15 kW of mechanical power, which is about 25% of the energy of combustion of a car with 7.5 l/100 km fuel economy, or pretty close to 100% of the mechanical output of the engine.
I think the parent poster meant that it was not common to have wiring and switches for high voltages go through the interior of a machine, because of costs of doing that safely. Safety regulations about handling high (100-240 V) voltages predate the IBM PC.