...so we have little experience with the really strong ones and modern electronics, but frying a few million computers and smartphones would (if not fatal) have some pretty nasty economic consequences for the owners of same.
We don't need such experience. We have physics, which tells us that even extremely severe geomagnetic storms won't affect such devices at all.
> They want to sell new hardware, not provide new software.
Why? Software is cheaper and more likely to retain the customer. Services are more profitable than things. Offering the customer a free OS upgrade if they sign an new contract makes sense.
> If they can read books, why not do this as well?
Because they'd rather read books? PR is the NASA PR department's job. Why would an astronaut want to use up her limited personal time promoting herself? More money from endorsements? Fear of being cut from the team due to not having enough fans?
If your abandoned satellite collides with someone else's working one you will pay for the damage (unless you are a government). All the private satellites have deorbit mechanisms[1] (of course nothing can be guaranteed to work for certain). Most of the junk up there belongs to governments.
[1] From synchronous orbit they are moved to a higher "junkyard" orbit.
The DMCA does not apply to trademark infringement. It is for copyright only. Send Google a "counter-takedown notice". They will put your stuff back up and the complainant will then have to deal directly with you. Somewhere on Google's site are instructions on how to do this.
A certain state form, a certain religion, a certain principle... if it keeps you from being free, if it keeps you from prospering, if it keeps you from advancing...
For some values of it, it doesn't, for some values of you.
People in the US government are like people anywhere else -- some good, some bad, most just trying to pay their bills and keep out of trouble.
Which is why it is dangerous to give them power over others. People do not become demons when they join the government, but neither do they become angels. They remain human and as such tend to conform to the values of their social referent group. When government is large and powerful it becomes its own social referent group, and tends toward values that benefit its members.
Just because it's in the political interest of certain right-wing media organizations to regularly vilify them doesn't mean you have to mindlessly play along.
Because it is only correct to vilify them when the "right" is in ascendancy.
...that explicitly says that it can be terminated without notice don't be surprised or outraged when it is. If you need guaranteed uninterrupted service pay for it. There are people who will sell it to you.
The "deal" is that only the photographer has an opportunity to "photoshop" it (and it isn't easy for him). The homicide detective can't alter them even if he does carry them around in his jacket pocket all weekend.
For 90% of victims changing the file name would be adequate "encryption". Simpler yet would be to just delete the files, collect $120 for returning them, and move on to the next victim. After all, these people have already demonstrated their stupidity by downloading the malware in the first place.
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We don't need such experience. We have physics, which tells us that even extremely severe geomagnetic storms won't affect such devices at all.
Fusion Auxillary Power Units? Wow!
Oh. Overloaded initialism. Damn. Carry on.
Geomagnetic storm.
> They want to sell new hardware, not provide new software.
Why? Software is cheaper and more likely to retain the customer. Services are more profitable than things. Offering the customer a free OS upgrade if they sign an new contract makes sense.
> If they can read books, why not do this as well?
Because they'd rather read books? PR is the NASA PR department's job. Why would an astronaut want to use up her limited personal time promoting herself? More money from endorsements? Fear of being cut from the team due to not having enough fans?
If your abandoned satellite collides with someone else's working one you will pay for the damage (unless you are a government). All the private satellites have deorbit mechanisms[1] (of course nothing can be guaranteed to work for certain). Most of the junk up there belongs to governments.
[1] From synchronous orbit they are moved to a higher "junkyard" orbit.
Early on they didn't worry about it. They've all had designed-in de-orbit mechanisms for quite a while now but they don't always work.
Evidently I'd have to enable Javascript to find out.
The hubris is in publishing it without doing any research first.
What's really piteous is that the reviewers didn't catch it.
I've had good luck letting them read and write /dev/null.
The DMCA does not apply to trademark infringement. It is for copyright only. Send Google a "counter-takedown notice". They will put your stuff back up and the complainant will then have to deal directly with you. Somewhere on Google's site are instructions on how to do this.
For some values of it, it doesn't, for some values of you.
It's about what people say about fear of death.
Which is why it is dangerous to give them power over others. People do not become demons when they join the government, but neither do they become angels. They remain human and as such tend to conform to the values of their social referent group. When government is large and powerful it becomes its own social referent group, and tends toward values that benefit its members.
Because it is only correct to vilify them when the "right" is in ascendancy.
...that explicitly says that it can be terminated without notice don't be surprised or outraged when it is. If you need guaranteed uninterrupted service pay for it. There are people who will sell it to you.
The "deal" is that only the photographer has an opportunity to "photoshop" it (and it isn't easy for him). The homicide detective can't alter them even if he does carry them around in his jacket pocket all weekend.
Jury "instructions" are not enforceable in any way.
Yes, that's how it works in the USA.
...there is nothing left to save.
> How is this not criminal fraud on Best Buy's part?
Did you file a complaint?
When amortized over an entire train the cost of a driver is negligible.
More likely they were trying to protect their wonderful proprietary code from their competitors.
This con has been widely known for many years. It still works.
All the email my wife has ever sent or received is critical: just ask her (and she has been using email for more than 25 years).
For 90% of victims changing the file name would be adequate "encryption". Simpler yet would be to just delete the files, collect $120 for returning them, and move on to the next victim. After all, these people have already demonstrated their stupidity by downloading the malware in the first place.
> I don't understand why people hate Email Ads so much.
They constitute more than 99% of email traffic.
> All you have to do is filter them out.
It is impossible to reliably filter them all without losing real mail.
> It's not worth killing someone.
Correct.
> Now the head of the RIAA or MPAA - that's a different story.
No it isn't.