My power company here in Australia charges me 0.673700c a day for the fixed connection to the grid and 0.259500c for each kWh of electricity I use. Other electricity providers I have been with in other places in Australia do the same thing (per-day charge and per-KWh charge)
There is no reason utilities in the US and elsewhere can't do the same thing (charge all customers a fixed per-day fee that covers the cost of maintaining and running the network and stuff then charge customers for each kWh of electricity they actually use). Most importantly this should be a change for everyone (with a corresponding drop in actual per unit charges for power to account for the removal of maintainence costs etc from those charges) and not just an extra fee charged only to solar power users.
I would have thought any assets (be they physical or intangible like copyrights) held by Nazi leaders would have been confiscated by the allies at the end of the war, meaning the descendents of Goebbels would have no claim to the copyrights.
The SLS should be scrapped anyway, the only real reason it exists (at least in its current form) is to keep a bunch of contractors in key congressional districts in business after the end of the shuttle program.
The issue isn't "android" per se, its "Google Play Services" which is a big set of (AFAIK closed source and proprietary) libraries that many apps depend on to do stuff. If you want "Google Play Services" on your device you need to follow all the other Google rules. So the EU is saying that Google is using "Google Play Services" (something it has a dominant market position in since its the only provider of many of these services for Android apps) as a way to push other things in the Google stable (and hurting things not made by Google that compete with those other things)
I use SeaMonkey which is the descendent of the old Mozilla suite. Its got all the same web engine stuff as Firefox does but it doesn't have the crappy UI or some of the other "unwanted" crap from Firefox.
Right now Microsoft has a JIT compiler running on a few platforms that translates.NET byte code into native code. Instead of reinventing the wheel and writing their own JIT compiler for a bunch other platforms they want to be able to run.NET code on, they are instead using something that already exists in the form of LLVM.
They aren't abandoning anything, just using LLVM instead of rolling their own JIT compiler on certain platforms where doing so makes sense.
Whats it going to take to get politicians elected (not just in New Zealand but in Australia, the USA, Europe and elsewhere) that are no longer in bed with the big media companies and no longer giving those companies whatever the hell they want?
WE get nothing at all. But the Congressmen supporting these bills get nice fat cheques from the big corporations who see net neutrality as a threat to their business model (especially those who make their money through the old legacy business model of selling linear channels instead of the new consume-what-you-want-when-you-want business model that entities like Netflix use)
The only times I tend to see UAC prompts are for software installs/update, changing system or privileged settings (e.g. anti-virus settings), running certain older software (games mostly) that need admin rights for some reason or running certain pieces of software that legitimately need admin rights to do their job (e.g. Process Explorer or the tool that I use to log GPU calls for a DirectX app)
The feds cant use a warrant obtained in the USA to require a US based company to hand over physical documents stored in a foreign company, why should they be able to do it for electronic documents?
If the feds REALLY need this data so badly, why dont they just go to Ireland or wherever the data is being held and get a warrant from there?
What SHOULD have happened in this case is that the kid should have been given a few days of detention. All of the teachers should have been made to change their passwords, not type them in when students can see and not let students use them. And the student body should have been given a warning that anyone caught messing with the computers or using the teachers passwords will get a few days detention.
If the same student re-offends (and continues to mess with the computers) they can then be given a suspension.
How do you make the rifled barrels for your AR-15s and AK-47s? In the US you may be able to easily buy one but in Australia getting a barrel seems to be just as hard as getting a full gun (at least from my understanding)
3D printed gins are no different to any other home-made gun.
It doesn't matter if its 3D printed, machined with a lathe, hand-forged by a blacksmith or made on a production line, its still a gun and is still just as illegal or legal as any other gun (depending on what sort of gun it is and what jurisdiction you are in)
Why all the stories I hear about mass-lawsuits over piracy seem to be for crappy films like Dallas Buyers Club and that Hurt Locker thing.
Why hasn't Warner Bros filed a mass-lawsuit over piracy of the new Hobbit film? Or what about a lawsuit from Universal over the latest Fast & Furious film.
I am sure there are films out there that have been pirated a LOT more than Dallas Buyers Club (a film I hadn't even heard of before the lawsuit showed up) so why aren't we seeing these kinds of mass lawsuits on those films? (or if those lawsuits do happen, how come they dont get as much attention as the ones we hear about like this Dallas Buyers Club film?)
The number of people saved over the years by pilots doing things with airplanes that no computer system (or remote operator) could ever have done vastly outnumbers the number of people killed because of deliberate actions by pilots.
Examples of such heroic flights where lives may not have been saved without pilots in the cockpit include: US Airways Flight 1549 British Airways Flight 9 Air Canada Flight 143 British Airways Flight 38 Northwest Airlines Flight 85 TACA Flight 110 United Airlines Flight 232 Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8
Canon digital camera with CHDK (Canon Hack Development kit for adding new features to Canon cameras) should be able to do this if someone was to write the code for it.
So it has a camera, its programmable and it (at least the Canon PowerShot SX130IS sitting next to me anyway) has no network connectivity.
And its probably easier to find a camera that is supposed by CHDK than to get hold of an ancient PDA AND a camera dongle for it.
The whole point of this new deal is that A.The US and its partners aren't trusting the Iranians to keep their side of the bargain, they are verifying that they will via inspections and enforcement and B.If the Iranians do anything to break the deal (build facilities they aren't allowed to build, start producing uranium enriched beyond the level allowed by the deal, kick the inspectors out or whatever else) the sanctions and other things will be re-imposed even harder than before.
Unlike what the opponents to this deal (Israel, some in Congress, others) would have you believe the options are not "this deal" vs "a deal that gets Iran to give up their nuclear program completly", its "this deal" vs "do nothing and let Iran continue to move towards a nuclear weapons program"
Here in Australia (and probably in many other countries too) you have to undergo a complete identity check before you are allowed to open a prepaid phone account.
I am surprised the USA still allows you to obtain a phone number that has absolutely zero records indicating who obtained it. But I suspect companies like TracFone and AT&T that sell a lot of these prepaid phones don't want to have to deal with the ID checks and have been able to lobby the government against them.
As long as your work on that oven didn't require messing with the gas system without an appropriate license (from the sounds of it since you didn't mess with the gas lines though)
There are JavaScript (and other client-side-but-in-the-browser) implementations of all kinds of encryption algorithms out there. The mega.co.nz site does client-side encryption before uploading to the server (so they never get the plaintext)
I see no real reason why you couldn't have a client side/browser extention/JavaScript/whatever implementation of something like PGP/GPG where the private keys never get seen by the web mail provider (it would mean each device you want to send email from has to have its own copy of the private key stored somewhere though)
Google and Yahoo already have in-browser addons in development that are designed to do client-side end-to-end encryption in the browser for their email platforms.
It may survive a court challenge but it wont survive the new legislation Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc are getting ready to submit to Congress via their bought congressmen and senators.
Considering how many successful launches SpaceX has had to date (including launches where the launch was successful but the land-and-reuse part of the mission failed) I recon SpaceX will be just as good at launching stuff into space as ULA is. And they (per the figures I have seen quoted) are cheaper than ULA too.
When I moved into a rental property I specifically researched to make sure that I was able to get the broadband option I wanted and actually rejected whole suburbs because they didn't have the right broadband options.
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My power company here in Australia charges me 0.673700c a day for the fixed connection to the grid and 0.259500c for each kWh of electricity I use. Other electricity providers I have been with in other places in Australia do the same thing (per-day charge and per-KWh charge)
There is no reason utilities in the US and elsewhere can't do the same thing (charge all customers a fixed per-day fee that covers the cost of maintaining and running the network and stuff then charge customers for each kWh of electricity they actually use). Most importantly this should be a change for everyone (with a corresponding drop in actual per unit charges for power to account for the removal of maintainence costs etc from those charges) and not just an extra fee charged only to solar power users.
I would have thought any assets (be they physical or intangible like copyrights) held by Nazi leaders would have been confiscated by the allies at the end of the war, meaning the descendents of Goebbels would have no claim to the copyrights.
The SLS should be scrapped anyway, the only real reason it exists (at least in its current form) is to keep a bunch of contractors in key congressional districts in business after the end of the shuttle program.
The issue isn't "android" per se, its "Google Play Services" which is a big set of (AFAIK closed source and proprietary) libraries that many apps depend on to do stuff. If you want "Google Play Services" on your device you need to follow all the other Google rules. So the EU is saying that Google is using "Google Play Services" (something it has a dominant market position in since its the only provider of many of these services for Android apps) as a way to push other things in the Google stable (and hurting things not made by Google that compete with those other things)
I use SeaMonkey which is the descendent of the old Mozilla suite.
Its got all the same web engine stuff as Firefox does but it doesn't have the crappy UI or some of the other "unwanted" crap from Firefox.
Right now Microsoft has a JIT compiler running on a few platforms that translates .NET byte code into native code. Instead of reinventing the wheel and writing their own JIT compiler for a bunch other platforms they want to be able to run .NET code on, they are instead using something that already exists in the form of LLVM.
They aren't abandoning anything, just using LLVM instead of rolling their own JIT compiler on certain platforms where doing so makes sense.
Whats it going to take to get politicians elected (not just in New Zealand but in Australia, the USA, Europe and elsewhere) that are no longer in bed with the big media companies and no longer giving those companies whatever the hell they want?
WE get nothing at all. But the Congressmen supporting these bills get nice fat cheques from the big corporations who see net neutrality as a threat to their business model (especially those who make their money through the old legacy business model of selling linear channels instead of the new consume-what-you-want-when-you-want business model that entities like Netflix use)
The only times I tend to see UAC prompts are for software installs/update, changing system or privileged settings (e.g. anti-virus settings), running certain older software (games mostly) that need admin rights for some reason or running certain pieces of software that legitimately need admin rights to do their job (e.g. Process Explorer or the tool that I use to log GPU calls for a DirectX app)
The feds cant use a warrant obtained in the USA to require a US based company to hand over physical documents stored in a foreign company, why should they be able to do it for electronic documents?
If the feds REALLY need this data so badly, why dont they just go to Ireland or wherever the data is being held and get a warrant from there?
What SHOULD have happened in this case is that the kid should have been given a few days of detention. All of the teachers should have been made to change their passwords, not type them in when students can see and not let students use them. And the student body should have been given a warning that anyone caught messing with the computers or using the teachers passwords will get a few days detention.
If the same student re-offends (and continues to mess with the computers) they can then be given a suspension.
How do you make the rifled barrels for your AR-15s and AK-47s?
In the US you may be able to easily buy one but in Australia getting a barrel seems to be just as hard as getting a full gun (at least from my understanding)
3D printed gins are no different to any other home-made gun.
It doesn't matter if its 3D printed, machined with a lathe, hand-forged by a blacksmith or made on a production line, its still a gun and is still just as illegal or legal as any other gun (depending on what sort of gun it is and what jurisdiction you are in)
Why all the stories I hear about mass-lawsuits over piracy seem to be for crappy films like Dallas Buyers Club and that Hurt Locker thing.
Why hasn't Warner Bros filed a mass-lawsuit over piracy of the new Hobbit film? Or what about a lawsuit from Universal over the latest Fast & Furious film.
I am sure there are films out there that have been pirated a LOT more than Dallas Buyers Club (a film I hadn't even heard of before the lawsuit showed up) so why aren't we seeing these kinds of mass lawsuits on those films? (or if those lawsuits do happen, how come they dont get as much attention as the ones we hear about like this Dallas Buyers Club film?)
The number of people saved over the years by pilots doing things with airplanes that no computer system (or remote operator) could ever have done vastly outnumbers the number of people killed because of deliberate actions by pilots.
Examples of such heroic flights where lives may not have been saved without pilots in the cockpit include:
US Airways Flight 1549
British Airways Flight 9
Air Canada Flight 143
British Airways Flight 38
Northwest Airlines Flight 85
TACA Flight 110
United Airlines Flight 232
Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8
Canon digital camera with CHDK (Canon Hack Development kit for adding new features to Canon cameras) should be able to do this if someone was to write the code for it.
So it has a camera, its programmable and it (at least the Canon PowerShot SX130IS sitting next to me anyway) has no network connectivity.
And its probably easier to find a camera that is supposed by CHDK than to get hold of an ancient PDA AND a camera dongle for it.
The whole point of this new deal is that A.The US and its partners aren't trusting the Iranians to keep their side of the bargain, they are verifying that they will via inspections and enforcement and B.If the Iranians do anything to break the deal (build facilities they aren't allowed to build, start producing uranium enriched beyond the level allowed by the deal, kick the inspectors out or whatever else) the sanctions and other things will be re-imposed even harder than before.
Unlike what the opponents to this deal (Israel, some in Congress, others) would have you believe the options are not "this deal" vs "a deal that gets Iran to give up their nuclear program completly", its "this deal" vs "do nothing and let Iran continue to move towards a nuclear weapons program"
Here in Australia (and probably in many other countries too) you have to undergo a complete identity check before you are allowed to open a prepaid phone account.
I am surprised the USA still allows you to obtain a phone number that has absolutely zero records indicating who obtained it. But I suspect companies like TracFone and AT&T that sell a lot of these prepaid phones don't want to have to deal with the ID checks and have been able to lobby the government against them.
As long as your work on that oven didn't require messing with the gas system without an appropriate license (from the sounds of it since you didn't mess with the gas lines though)
Until ad networks can ensure that EVERY ad they run is 100% free of malware, I will continue to block their ads.
There are JavaScript (and other client-side-but-in-the-browser) implementations of all kinds of encryption algorithms out there. The mega.co.nz site does client-side encryption before uploading to the server (so they never get the plaintext)
I see no real reason why you couldn't have a client side/browser extention/JavaScript/whatever implementation of something like PGP/GPG where the private keys never get seen by the web mail provider (it would mean each device you want to send email from has to have its own copy of the private key stored somewhere though)
Google and Yahoo already have in-browser addons in development that are designed to do client-side end-to-end encryption in the browser for their email platforms.
It may survive a court challenge but it wont survive the new legislation Comcast, Verizon, AT&T etc are getting ready to submit to Congress via their bought congressmen and senators.
Considering how many successful launches SpaceX has had to date (including launches where the launch was successful but the land-and-reuse part of the mission failed) I recon SpaceX will be just as good at launching stuff into space as ULA is. And they (per the figures I have seen quoted) are cheaper than ULA too.
Or better yet, dont use an internet cafe or other public computer to do anything sensitive and just read websites on your phone if you really have to.
When I moved into a rental property I specifically researched to make sure that I was able to get the broadband option I wanted and actually rejected whole suburbs because they didn't have the right broadband options.