Getting data onto that MicroSD card would be an issue.
The main reasons for the lockdown on the device is stray EM emissions which can give away a ships position - and that includes peripherals, so no ports. I have no doubt that its cheaper to replace the readers with new ones every year than it is to build in a way to securely updateable.
By the same merit, some people want a similar sweep of the legislators arm to stop tracking on the internet, and as many of those people post here I'm pretty sure they surf the same web as we do.
What makes you think they are abandoning the software? Chances are the software core is the same for older and brand new games, with the differences being the rules system and assets - the system holding it all together at the EA end is more to do with scalability, speed, user management etc. Whats more likely here is that they are seeing too few users to justify a single supporting cluster per game, which would include front end servers, interconnects, database servers etc. From their point of view, its better to shift that cluster to a newer game which is struggling to support its initial peak.
The why not is an easy one - spy satellites are put into orbits which cover the likely hotspots for their use, and changing those orbits lessens the useful life of the satellite fairly significantly.
Oh, and no one really wants to give away the true capabilities of their spy satellites...
We already have weapons that make the decisions you suggest - the European StormShadow cruise missile for example, or the British ALARM anti-radar missile (launch it in standoff mode, it climbs to a given height and then deploys a parachute and waits until it can see a ground based radar, at which point it releases the parachute and kills the radar).
What they are trying to address is the decision to release the weapon - whether that decision is made by a human or non-human. After that point, automated guidance is a non-issue, its been around for 60 years and thus does not pose an ethical question (a 2000lb laser guided bomb taking out a bridge is better than 100 B-17s dropping 50 tonnes of bombs to drop the same bridge - the automated guidance aspect of the LGB means much less collateral damage than with area bombing).
At the moment the point to which we have progressed is having the non-human decide when to release the weapon, but not whether to release the weapon - that decision is always made by a human (yes, there is a huge difference between the two).
And yet again you completely miss the point - the paywall is the price the auction ends at, only the winning bidder gets the exact location at the end of the auction, and even then only when they pay up.
And how are you going to "wait for the tow truck" on a street with no parking? There are fines for double parking, for loitering and for blocking a public thoroughfare.
Not legally questionable at all - you are being paid to vacate a spot, not resell anything you have purchased from the city.
Not sure what you mean by "locating the bidder" - I assume you mean "locate the spot occupier who is auctioning the spot vacancy", which is far from easy as their location would be hidden behind the apps paywall (with the minimum information you would have up front being the general area the spot is located in, so you aren't bidding on something 10 miles away from where you want to visit), so you would have to win the auction, pay up and only then get the parking spots actual exact location.
Besides, waiting on a public highway for anywhere up to an hour for a parking spot to be vacated isn't exactly what I would call "winning" in your scenario...
That's like saying they are sent to Norwich as part of an organised system, rather than randomly patrolling the countryside.
They go where they are expected to be required - in general that's the population centres, and in specific that's where the population congregates at that particular time. Go to a cities shopping centre at 2pm on a Saturday afternoon and you will see a lot more police than you would at 7am on a Monday morning in exactly the same place.
Your original comment comes across much more as if they are sitting around in their police station until they are dispatched, on a per call basis. Which is patently not true.
Consider that police don't just walk around in the hope of finding bad things happening. They get sent places from the control centre, which in turn gets reports from the public via 999 calls or similar.
Aside from the fact that I regularly see plenty of uniformed police officers or PCSOs patrolling on foot around the city in which I live (Norwich, UK), try going to a population centres club district and see how heavy the police presence is then - here in Norwich, its not unusual to see 50 or more police on one stretch of road (Prince of Wales Road - the main nightclub district for the city) at the same time on a friday or saturday night. This is a road I can typically walk from one end to the other in less than 15 minutes.
So yes, the police do "just walk around in the hope of finding bad things happening", they just do it when appropriate.
The 1980s miners strike was an illegal strike - Arthur Scargill did not hold the required ballot but instead just declared a strike, which was illegal under legislation then active - so the police had every right to "support the government".
Being non-identifiable was a safety issue with regard to the police, because it was shown on many occasions that the striking miners were not adverse to taking action against identified individuals and their families.
You should tell the 30 strong team from Poland, Austria, France, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Latvia that they weren't there...
No tensions in Ukraine’s autonomous republic of Crimea were reported by the team of international observers Saturday, as they started monitoring polling stations and readying for the crucial vote on the peninsula’s independence.
Thirty observers, who come from 10 European nations, have arrived in Crimea at the invitation of the republic's election commission and have already started their work, Mateusz Piskorski, the director of the European Geopolitical Analysis Centre and the mission coordinator, said.
“At the moment we are starting to monitor the preparation of polling stations. In general, the situation is very calm, there is no tension,” he told Interfax news agency. “Everyone hopes there will be no provocations."
Members of the mission come from Poland, Austria, France, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Latvia. Representing the European Democracy and Election Monitoring Institute (Brussels), they are deputies from the European parliament, members of national parliaments of their native countries, as well as leading European international law experts and famous human rights activists.
There are well over 4,000 F-35s forecast to be purchased by various countries around the world, with the bulk being purchased by the US - which means that there are probably going to be 20 - 30,000 of these helmets purchased during its lifetime.
In the past the U-2 was flown by the CIA, the Taiwanese and the British Royal Air Force, and as another posted notes its still flown by NASA, so the comment is actually valid.
Is it actually about the act of clicking, or the fact that typically the Like button is included by means of a javascript snippet which allows Facebook to see you visited that page without any interaction with the button.
Of course, if thats the case, then video services using Google Analytics, ad networks etc are all on the same hook.
But then all of these things require the users browser to download the thing that is giving the information away...
Have you tried getting a safe deposit box these days? Not sure about the US, but in the UK its near to impossible - banks are dumping the business as fast as they can.
But yes there is - Comcast don't throttle Netflix at the last mile, they filter it in their network, so unless you want to buy your internet service from Netflix using a liberated last mile link, there's nothing stopping whomever replaces Comcast as the link between the last mile and the internet proper from doing the same thing as Comcast...
Even if you managed to get your last mile connected directly to a backbone provider, such as L3, there's nothing stopping them from screwing with your traffic on a source/destination basis.
The UK has something similar - BT, the major incumbent, is required to sell access to the local loop at a similar rate to which it would charge itself cost wise, and is also regulated on how much it can charge for central line access etc. It seems to work very well - as you note, there has been a period of consolidation over the past decade, but competition is still fierce.
For example, today I have Sky internet and telephone, run over the same phone line that BT installed 25 years ago. On that same phone line I can get decent broadband from Plusnet, Pipex, or a whole host of others, each with their own offers, deals, limits and benefits.
Or I can go with Virgin, who aren't required to sell their connectivity to third parties...
A portion of the internet does, but remember that this story is a reaction to the ruling of an American government body, the FCC, which applies to American internet service providers, Comcast et al, requiring American content distribution companies, Netflix et al, to deliver to one of the largest internet demographics, Americans.
This has a very big impact overall, especially as Americans are one of the biggest audiences for non-US content distributors as well so the US ISPs can still require payment from non-US content distribution companies in order to not throttle them at point of entry into their network.
Problem is, this proposal would also cover all of the backbones in the jurisdictional areas - so L3 would cease to have any privately owned infrastructure.
This proposal goes much further than the last mile, its top to bottom, otherwise it won't work as the "fast lane" is created at the border of the ISP and the central carriers, so the local and national governments would have to essentially nationalise the ISPs, the backbone carriers, and more besides.
Thats a heck of a lot of nationalisation going on...
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It travels far enough.
You have no idea what the EM restrictions are like on a submarine.
Getting data onto that MicroSD card would be an issue.
The main reasons for the lockdown on the device is stray EM emissions which can give away a ships position - and that includes peripherals, so no ports. I have no doubt that its cheaper to replace the readers with new ones every year than it is to build in a way to securely updateable.
By the same merit, some people want a similar sweep of the legislators arm to stop tracking on the internet, and as many of those people post here I'm pretty sure they surf the same web as we do.
What makes you think they are abandoning the software? Chances are the software core is the same for older and brand new games, with the differences being the rules system and assets - the system holding it all together at the EA end is more to do with scalability, speed, user management etc. Whats more likely here is that they are seeing too few users to justify a single supporting cluster per game, which would include front end servers, interconnects, database servers etc. From their point of view, its better to shift that cluster to a newer game which is struggling to support its initial peak.
The why not is an easy one - spy satellites are put into orbits which cover the likely hotspots for their use, and changing those orbits lessens the useful life of the satellite fairly significantly.
Oh, and no one really wants to give away the true capabilities of their spy satellites...
Why would any country dedicate valuable spy satellite time and resources to searching for an airliner?
We already have weapons that make the decisions you suggest - the European StormShadow cruise missile for example, or the British ALARM anti-radar missile (launch it in standoff mode, it climbs to a given height and then deploys a parachute and waits until it can see a ground based radar, at which point it releases the parachute and kills the radar).
What they are trying to address is the decision to release the weapon - whether that decision is made by a human or non-human. After that point, automated guidance is a non-issue, its been around for 60 years and thus does not pose an ethical question (a 2000lb laser guided bomb taking out a bridge is better than 100 B-17s dropping 50 tonnes of bombs to drop the same bridge - the automated guidance aspect of the LGB means much less collateral damage than with area bombing).
At the moment the point to which we have progressed is having the non-human decide when to release the weapon, but not whether to release the weapon - that decision is always made by a human (yes, there is a huge difference between the two).
And yet again you completely miss the point - the paywall is the price the auction ends at, only the winning bidder gets the exact location at the end of the auction, and even then only when they pay up.
And how are you going to "wait for the tow truck" on a street with no parking? There are fines for double parking, for loitering and for blocking a public thoroughfare.
Not legally questionable at all - you are being paid to vacate a spot, not resell anything you have purchased from the city.
Not sure what you mean by "locating the bidder" - I assume you mean "locate the spot occupier who is auctioning the spot vacancy", which is far from easy as their location would be hidden behind the apps paywall (with the minimum information you would have up front being the general area the spot is located in, so you aren't bidding on something 10 miles away from where you want to visit), so you would have to win the auction, pay up and only then get the parking spots actual exact location.
Besides, waiting on a public highway for anywhere up to an hour for a parking spot to be vacated isn't exactly what I would call "winning" in your scenario...
That's like saying they are sent to Norwich as part of an organised system, rather than randomly patrolling the countryside.
They go where they are expected to be required - in general that's the population centres, and in specific that's where the population congregates at that particular time. Go to a cities shopping centre at 2pm on a Saturday afternoon and you will see a lot more police than you would at 7am on a Monday morning in exactly the same place.
Your original comment comes across much more as if they are sitting around in their police station until they are dispatched, on a per call basis. Which is patently not true.
Consider that police don't just walk around in the hope of finding bad things happening. They get sent places from the control centre, which in turn gets reports from the public via 999 calls or similar.
Aside from the fact that I regularly see plenty of uniformed police officers or PCSOs patrolling on foot around the city in which I live (Norwich, UK), try going to a population centres club district and see how heavy the police presence is then - here in Norwich, its not unusual to see 50 or more police on one stretch of road (Prince of Wales Road - the main nightclub district for the city) at the same time on a friday or saturday night. This is a road I can typically walk from one end to the other in less than 15 minutes.
So yes, the police do "just walk around in the hope of finding bad things happening", they just do it when appropriate.
The 1980s miners strike was an illegal strike - Arthur Scargill did not hold the required ballot but instead just declared a strike, which was illegal under legislation then active - so the police had every right to "support the government".
Being non-identifiable was a safety issue with regard to the police, because it was shown on many occasions that the striking miners were not adverse to taking action against identified individuals and their families.
You should tell the 30 strong team from Poland, Austria, France, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Latvia that they weren't there...
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There are well over 4,000 F-35s forecast to be purchased by various countries around the world, with the bulk being purchased by the US - which means that there are probably going to be 20 - 30,000 of these helmets purchased during its lifetime.
In the past the U-2 was flown by the CIA, the Taiwanese and the British Royal Air Force, and as another posted notes its still flown by NASA, so the comment is actually valid.
Is it actually about the act of clicking, or the fact that typically the Like button is included by means of a javascript snippet which allows Facebook to see you visited that page without any interaction with the button.
Of course, if thats the case, then video services using Google Analytics, ad networks etc are all on the same hook.
But then all of these things require the users browser to download the thing that is giving the information away...
Have you tried getting a safe deposit box these days? Not sure about the US, but in the UK its near to impossible - banks are dumping the business as fast as they can.
At last count, we have five broadcasters - over the air, Sky, Virgin, BT, and Freeview - so it seems to be working out just fine.
But yes there is - Comcast don't throttle Netflix at the last mile, they filter it in their network, so unless you want to buy your internet service from Netflix using a liberated last mile link, there's nothing stopping whomever replaces Comcast as the link between the last mile and the internet proper from doing the same thing as Comcast...
Even if you managed to get your last mile connected directly to a backbone provider, such as L3, there's nothing stopping them from screwing with your traffic on a source/destination basis.
The UK has something similar - BT, the major incumbent, is required to sell access to the local loop at a similar rate to which it would charge itself cost wise, and is also regulated on how much it can charge for central line access etc. It seems to work very well - as you note, there has been a period of consolidation over the past decade, but competition is still fierce.
For example, today I have Sky internet and telephone, run over the same phone line that BT installed 25 years ago. On that same phone line I can get decent broadband from Plusnet, Pipex, or a whole host of others, each with their own offers, deals, limits and benefits.
Or I can go with Virgin, who aren't required to sell their connectivity to third parties...
A portion of the internet does, but remember that this story is a reaction to the ruling of an American government body, the FCC, which applies to American internet service providers, Comcast et al, requiring American content distribution companies, Netflix et al, to deliver to one of the largest internet demographics, Americans.
This has a very big impact overall, especially as Americans are one of the biggest audiences for non-US content distributors as well so the US ISPs can still require payment from non-US content distribution companies in order to not throttle them at point of entry into their network.
Problem is, this proposal would also cover all of the backbones in the jurisdictional areas - so L3 would cease to have any privately owned infrastructure.
This proposal goes much further than the last mile, its top to bottom, otherwise it won't work as the "fast lane" is created at the border of the ISP and the central carriers, so the local and national governments would have to essentially nationalise the ISPs, the backbone carriers, and more besides.
Thats a heck of a lot of nationalisation going on...
Would that be the same way there aren't any mechanical watches available today, decades after digital and electronic watches came on the market?