People make mistakes all the time. The only person who makes no mistakes is a person who does nothing.
I can't completely agree with this. While mistakes can/will/do happen, there are different degrees of mistakes, and you can't call them all equal. They range from "that outcome was essentially completely impossible to have foreseen or predicted" to "gross negligence". At one end you have "freak accident" and at the other end you have "incompetence".
I agree that people should not be fired for (or fear being fired for) accidents, but gross negligence / incompetence should be a firing offense. This should intensify when the mistake has a significant risk of loss of life or significant property damage, or where there were numerous protocols and procedures in place to prevent it that were all bypassed to allow the mistake to occur.
Drilling a hole in a space ship could certainly lead to loss of life or severe damage. I would HOPE there were significant procedures in place for determining where to make holes. I wonder why the problem was not caught by independent inspection after the work also. I realize there was a pressure test, but that's a very general final test for the entire product, and if you're going to be compromising the hull during production (for holes that need to be there) then that work should be inspected visually by someone other than the worker after the work is done, and not be relying solely on the pressure test at the end to make sure nobody messed up in the last six months somewhere.
Given that this mistake could be successfully covered up by a bit of epoxy, it seems fairly safe to assume that they were insuring quality by threat of termination rather than by rigorous post-inspection, which is a process that more strongly encourages cover-up of mistakes. If that's the case, you have created a culture where cover-up is an option worth considering, which can only be fixed by making serious changes to your manufacturing and vetting processes. "Cover-up" should never be an option worth considering when lives are on the line.
the obvious solution to this is to have partitions inside the ship, to limit the amount of shift possible.
Also, picking "the right ship for the job" such that your cargo comes as close as possible to completely filling the hold to the top, to limit the amount of possible shifting.
I'm just surprised that the pressures added by "drop-filling" the cargo at port have any effect on the possibility of liquifying long after the ship has sailed. I would have expected that only the vibrations during the voyage would have affected it.
I wonder how much of a role uneven loading at port plays? Like if the hold is filled from only a relatively small number of hold covers, leading to cargo that's in roughy pyramid-shaped piles in the hold. If they have just barely enough cohesion to maintain that pyramid shape, I could definitely see how that could shift suddenly and significantly on a rolling sea. Once the shift starts, it's like the article describes, with the entire mass moving as a liquid, a lot like an avalanche, until the pressure drops below critical. And then the cargo "freezes" in place in its new position, quite likely creating a dangerous imbalance in the load.
I've always found watching avalanche videos to be fascinating, how snow, seemingly solid, can flow like a river, and then suddenly stop as if hit by a freeze ray, cementing everything in place. Trees, cars, people, buildings, everything is moved like it's being carried away by a tsunami, and then suddenly it all just stops. Landslides are the same eerie way. It's like god is playing "red-light-green-light" with giant hunks of material.
Looking at the video, at first I saw the pad at the bottom of the tower and thought "Wow, it must have pulled that right off the foundation!"
Then as they panned around, I realized the pad WAS the foundation! Just dirt below it, not so much as a pylon or two. Just two big black cables, probably power and control, going into the dirt under the pad. The entire foundation for the giant turbine was just a (relatively) thin slab of concrete.
There weren't any guy wires either. Just a button of concrete at the bottom. As someone who puts up towers from time to time (amateur radio) I'm not t al surprised that this came down in high winds. That'd be obscenely negligent of me to put up a tower with so little stability. When we plant a tower, it gets a large (often square) block of concrete poured in, several yards if it's a big tower, and self-supporting (no guy wires) always requires more support. You're doing a lot more than just preventing it from sinking into the ground, it's got to provide lateral stability to keep it from moving in high winds. (cube is much better for this than slab) We don't expect anything short of a direct hit from a strong tornado should be able to take them down. And this hurricane was an EF-3 at best. Either drop in a more substantial block of concrete, or guy that baby down, or wind load is gonna take it down eventually.
I would hope that no one would be dumb enough to leak something on a public file sharing platform like dropbox/onedrive/etc without having taken many precautions to insure the account was registered and uploaded to with extreme anonymity. BBC is most likely aware that this is going to be a dead-end, and is just satisfying their legal requirement of "defense of their protected works" so as not to weaken the protections granted to them under copyright. (if you don't use the legal defenses granted to you, even on small things you don't care much about, they tend to be less effective down the road when you really do need to exercise them) This is why companied prefer to license things for $1/yr instead of just "not going after someone whose use they don't care about or mind". If anything, it's publicity, and as long as they don't actually identify and go after any individuals, it'll be mostly beneficial publicity, even if it appears to be negative.
They are crap mics. Blue is the Beats of the microphone world. The only reason they got where they are is because they got their product in front of a few youtube/podcast "influencers". Go into any REAL professional recording environment and Blue is not what you will find.
I've got a Yeti myself, and so does a friend of mine that runs his own business. He bought his after hearing how mine sounded, it can provide that rich "radio announcer" voice that people like to listen to. (in addition to the audio clarity, I also really appreciate its directivity and noise-cancelling selectable sampling patterns) He ended up re-dubbing all his existing instructional videos for his product line with the Yeit because of how much better it sounded.
I really don't know why you'd describe them (all?) as "crap mics", without anything to back up what you say, you don't sound very convincing. Cheap webcam mics are my idea of crap because that's what they sound like. And I'm speaking with over a dozen years of radio experience under my belt.
And no, you don't see them in hardly any big studios, because that's not what they are. They're high end consumer mics, not professional recording studio mics, at least not ones like what I got. The Yeti is one of their best values / most affordable small-studio-grade mics and is a great choice for smaller outfits like podcasters, streamers, and small businesses.
I get the impression you've never spent any time with a Blue mic and are just kicking the brand for some hidden agenda, or just snobbing it because "that's not what my friend the PRO uses".
t should be really easy to spot patterns - if a person reports a lot of crimes, and they're usually false claims, then the default assumption should be that they're the guilty party rather than their target. Similarly, if a person gets a lot of reports against them, and they're usually valid, then the new report is probably valid.
Well when the inciter is being paid 20RNB and the passer is being fined 750RNB, the state profits 730RNB, why would they want to close the gold mine?
They don't actually have to bother with that. China's doing this now, they've got an automated system where users can upload cell phone video of you breaking a law. So then they'll do things like go out on the highways and drive just above the lower speed limit, block traffic, weave around, and generally incite people to speed around them to "get out of the way of that maniac", who is of course filming you breaking the law.
The reason it's a problem there though is they get PAID for the snitching. There's really no reason for that, people that are truly upset by lawbreakers will be more than happy to upload a video that may get them a hand-slap and reduce future occurrences, they don't need a monetary reward. Paying people to report this sort of thing on the other hand, is just insanely stupid because it just encourages people to incite lawbreaking. So lets hope the UK doesn't Do The Stupid and think about paying people for these reports.
That was the original job of the FCC. To make sure your transmitter was operating correctly.
Well, that and to prevent stations from accidentally (or deliberately) interfering with each other.
I recal a story from many years ago where several stations had promised live coverage of a (baseball?) game and there were several station trucks at the statdium trying to provide live scores. Things escalated, until they basically were all just belting out full power broad spectrum so that "if my report can't get through to the station, neither can yours", and as a result nobody was able to provide live coverage and reports had to be made to the stations by runners.
That's the big thing they started to deal with, and to some degree that's what their core work still is. Their #1 goal right now from what I can tell is to prevent disruption of important and emergency communications. They go after individuals that disrupt police/ambulance/fire dispatch for example, or that try to jam TV station satellite links. They also dedicate some of their limited resources into radio and tv station licensing, mainly to coordinate frequency allocation and prevent nearby stations from interfering with each other by limiting their power and adjusting their antenna coverage patterns.
More recently they've had to start dealing with cell phone and wifi jammers, mostly in venues where businesses are selling or restricting wireless internet access. (they also insure 9-1-1 access, as we've seen a big carrier recently get the smack-down for dropping for 5 hrs in a region)
They just don't have the time, manpower, or finances to do much else nowadays. Even the kilowatt CB stations are mostly being ignored. The only time they're going to bother with that is if they are interfering with something local. The FCC publishes their enforcements online (sorry I foet where) and I've browsed them a few times. The handful of CB stations they've gone after have indeed been the high powered stations, but only when they were interfering with a sheriff or ambulance dispatcher's repeater etc.
Small threat? When a drone is seen near an active fire, all aircraft are grounded until it is removed from the scene. The removal of those aircraft can allow a fire to escape fire lines, to surround and entrap ground crews and many more issues. Not just increasing risk to humans but also substantially increasing the cost of fighting a fire.
Go watch some dashcams on youtube for awhile. Shouldn't take long to find someone that makes a (legal) lane change, followed by someone severely over-reacting by violently swerving away, then back, quickly losing control, and causing a multicar wreck.
Just because idiots over-react and do damage / threaten loss of life doesn't mean we need to make their trigger a felony.
It's no different than trying to "childproof the world". You're focusing on the wrong end of the problem.
Should flying drones over wildfires be illegal? Sure. Should speeding be illegal? Sure. Do they both elevate risks? Sure. Should they be felonies? NO.
Lets be brutally honest here. If the firefighters are honestly afraid for their lives when a drone flies around overhead, the fire marshal should be executed for sending those poor men into a dangerous situation where they could die of smoke inhalation or burn to death. And the odds of a speeder causing an injury or death on the road is many times more likely than a drone happening to collide with an bring down a plane. Surely speeders deserve the death penalty!
Most felonies are intentional, and all of them consider actual or severely high risk of damage/injury/death. A drone taking down a firefighting plane is neither intentional nor high risk. And don't kneejerk about the odds of a collision bringing down a plane - you're ignoring the slim odds of the collision occurring in the first place. It's much lower than the odds of a speeder getting into a collision, which is MUCH more likely to cause injury, and speeding of course is not a felony.
"Any lower case letter can be represented by as many as 40 different variations."
Mixing upper and lower thresholds in one sentence - please stop doing that. That's just like "Save up to 95% on select in-store items!" It's completely meaningless other than to attempt to grab attention. It's just abusing a typically small number of outliers to suggest a much broader fact.
iTunes has been available on Windows for quite some time now. All those windows users that bought an iPhone or iPad and need to put stuff on it.
It's a lot easier on the windows users to go to the MS store where the download and installation process is familiar.
Of course iTunes's time as the "gateway to the iPhone" is on borrowed time. Apple is moving away from that to direct cloud access. Users can already do almost everything iTunes can do directly with Apple from their iDevice. By 2020 iTunes probably won't be able to do much of anything directly with your iPhone, regardless of what platform you're on.
You bring up an interesting point. Every controlling structure has some resource that is key to maintaining or increasing its influence. In most governments, this is in arms or mining or even food production. But for religion, the most important resource is population. One common theme in any religion is they strongly oppose anything that affects population growth. They're against abortion, and very against birth control. All of them. They desperately want their followers to breed like rabbits, because that's how they increase their power and influence.
Even if this origin has been lost to modern times, the roots are still firmly planted in the sacred books and the words of the prophets, and so it goes on, even if it's now destroying the foundations of their countries. They can't just step in and say "Hey, this is actually turning out to be BAD for us now, please stop!" They're kinda stuck with it. It takes generations to ease a religious body through a major change, and unfortunately this whole "climate change" thing and "global population booms" has come up a faster than these religious groups can change course to match.
So for now, yes, all the priests and pontiffs and clerics are going to continue shouting "KEEP MAKING MORE BABIES!!" because it's all they or their followers know to do. Normally crusades, invasions, or other wars would keep this in check, but now that job is getting handed over to famine, disease, and civil unrest. What an improvement!
There will always be vultures hanging around peddling impotent miracles to desperate people. The original intent of the law was to address that problem. There was (and still is) a real need for it to protect the desperate from exploitation by the unscrupulous.
But the law as it was written, like so many others before it, was overfly-broad.
I don't see why anyone USES pgp on a mac. Just go get a free certificate from any of several sources, (free for personal use) and import it and DONE. all 100% integrated and supported in apple mail. has had this built-in for YEARS. Buying PGP is like buying another headlight for your car... your car already has two and they work MUCH better than any aftermarket you might be looking at.
Imagine a sort of reverse lottery. If you don't buy a ticket, there is a small chance (and nobody can tell you the exact likelihood) that your reputation will be publicly tarnished and you will be fined millions of dollars. If you buy a ticket, your chance drops drastically (but is never really zero). But the ticket costs thousands of dollars.
That already exists, and it's called "medical insurance";)
well, it IS time. but time IS money. so, yeah, kinda.
Pinheads that only how how to count beans and don't understand the problem are asking each other "Is it important? How much does it cost? What's the return on investment?"
They don't see the risk or the cost of losing on the risk. They only see the cost of the fix, and that looks like a very poor ROI, and it gets shot down, or continuously delayed.
nitrogen is tasteless, colorless, and odorless. CO is detectable and tends to give you a headache at lower doses. Other gases will make you start coughing or have strong odor. Pure natural gas is hard (impossible?) to smell, and that's why public utilities add in a warning scent to the gas. When you "smell gas", you aren't smelling the gas, you're smelling the warning additive. It will make you cough though.
(though CO does have the same drowsy effect, I suspect that's true of most oxygen-displacing gasses)
not all of it would go to the locals of course, but there's a huge initial influx from the construction, and an ongoing benefit in the form of maintenance/support of the facilities, permanent jobs, and a serious upgrade needed to support so many more local people.
I'm betting Ireland is going to look at this as a "lesson" on what can happen to cause them to lose out on such a big opportunity, and to draft measures and responses in place for the next time opportunity comes knocking, to make sure someone opens the door promptly.
Most pigs in Australia, including those raised âoefree rangeâ, are killed in these carbon dioxide gas chambers,
A CO2 gas chamber is probably one of the worst possible ways to go. Suffocating in CO2 rings pretty much every alarm bell in an animal's head. Hypoxia by CO2 surplus is an incredibly distressing and painful way to go. I have no idea how anyone could refer to that as "humane". Of course those pigs are going crazy!
This is completely unlike Nitrogen displacement, which is found to be incredibly hazardous exactly because it triggers NO pain, panic, or flight response. Your mental capacity goes downhill steadily, imperceptibly, and painlessly, until without even realizing anything is wrong or amiss, you just lose consciousness, with zero chance of waking up before it kills you.
They wouldn't even have to tell you when its happening. You could sit down in a comfy chair, listening to your favorite music, while enjoying your last meal, with no idea when they were going to start changing the air in the room out. At some point you'd faceplant in your mashed potatoes and that'd be it. No pain, no table or chair to strap you to, no needles, it actually is a heck of a lot more humane than lethal injection or any of the other more popular methods. Even a firing squad is more humane than the electric chair or lethal injection!
Bonus: nitrogen is a heck of a lot cheaper than lethal injection drugs. (and they are getting really hard to obtain)
it really sounds like they got hit with a big threat from someone (like youtube) and were given the no-choice-choice of 100% compliance with their demands or facing a bankrupting lawsuit. The typical demand is:
1. take down your service immediately 2. never come back 3. don't tell anyone who we are
there is no tree or fence or wall in the world that is close enough to the road that can beat an automated car's reaction time
Automation has better Reaction Time, yes - better Braking Time, NO.
And if the car COULD stop on a dime, you'd have only one survivor in this incident, the bimbo that jaywalked. Everyone in the car would be dead. Sudden stops are just as dangerous as sudden accelerations.
We're not trying to blame the victim here - the jaywalker wasn't the victim, the autonomous car was the victim. This isn't a question of "Could (someone/something) else have compensated for the illegal behavior of the other party?" The whole world isn't responsible for your gross negligence. Keep responsibility where it belongs.
OPENED the email, or actually pursued it? (clicked a link, replied to the email) Depending on the subject line, it may be totally innocuous looking until you OPEN the email and read the content.
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I can't completely agree with this. While mistakes can/will/do happen, there are different degrees of mistakes, and you can't call them all equal. They range from "that outcome was essentially completely impossible to have foreseen or predicted" to "gross negligence". At one end you have "freak accident" and at the other end you have "incompetence".
I agree that people should not be fired for (or fear being fired for) accidents, but gross negligence / incompetence should be a firing offense. This should intensify when the mistake has a significant risk of loss of life or significant property damage, or where there were numerous protocols and procedures in place to prevent it that were all bypassed to allow the mistake to occur.
Drilling a hole in a space ship could certainly lead to loss of life or severe damage. I would HOPE there were significant procedures in place for determining where to make holes. I wonder why the problem was not caught by independent inspection after the work also. I realize there was a pressure test, but that's a very general final test for the entire product, and if you're going to be compromising the hull during production (for holes that need to be there) then that work should be inspected visually by someone other than the worker after the work is done, and not be relying solely on the pressure test at the end to make sure nobody messed up in the last six months somewhere.
Given that this mistake could be successfully covered up by a bit of epoxy, it seems fairly safe to assume that they were insuring quality by threat of termination rather than by rigorous post-inspection, which is a process that more strongly encourages cover-up of mistakes. If that's the case, you have created a culture where cover-up is an option worth considering, which can only be fixed by making serious changes to your manufacturing and vetting processes. "Cover-up" should never be an option worth considering when lives are on the line.
the obvious solution to this is to have partitions inside the ship, to limit the amount of shift possible.
Also, picking "the right ship for the job" such that your cargo comes as close as possible to completely filling the hold to the top, to limit the amount of possible shifting.
I'm just surprised that the pressures added by "drop-filling" the cargo at port have any effect on the possibility of liquifying long after the ship has sailed. I would have expected that only the vibrations during the voyage would have affected it.
I wonder how much of a role uneven loading at port plays? Like if the hold is filled from only a relatively small number of hold covers, leading to cargo that's in roughy pyramid-shaped piles in the hold. If they have just barely enough cohesion to maintain that pyramid shape, I could definitely see how that could shift suddenly and significantly on a rolling sea. Once the shift starts, it's like the article describes, with the entire mass moving as a liquid, a lot like an avalanche, until the pressure drops below critical. And then the cargo "freezes" in place in its new position, quite likely creating a dangerous imbalance in the load.
I've always found watching avalanche videos to be fascinating, how snow, seemingly solid, can flow like a river, and then suddenly stop as if hit by a freeze ray, cementing everything in place. Trees, cars, people, buildings, everything is moved like it's being carried away by a tsunami, and then suddenly it all just stops. Landslides are the same eerie way. It's like god is playing "red-light-green-light" with giant hunks of material.
I'd imagine they are thinking more about government installed and run back doors, not finding zero-days. Like what the phone co uses.
Looking at the video, at first I saw the pad at the bottom of the tower and thought "Wow, it must have pulled that right off the foundation!"
Then as they panned around, I realized the pad WAS the foundation! Just dirt below it, not so much as a pylon or two. Just two big black cables, probably power and control, going into the dirt under the pad. The entire foundation for the giant turbine was just a (relatively) thin slab of concrete.
There weren't any guy wires either. Just a button of concrete at the bottom. As someone who puts up towers from time to time (amateur radio) I'm not t al surprised that this came down in high winds. That'd be obscenely negligent of me to put up a tower with so little stability. When we plant a tower, it gets a large (often square) block of concrete poured in, several yards if it's a big tower, and self-supporting (no guy wires) always requires more support. You're doing a lot more than just preventing it from sinking into the ground, it's got to provide lateral stability to keep it from moving in high winds. (cube is much better for this than slab) We don't expect anything short of a direct hit from a strong tornado should be able to take them down. And this hurricane was an EF-3 at best. Either drop in a more substantial block of concrete, or guy that baby down, or wind load is gonna take it down eventually.
I would hope that no one would be dumb enough to leak something on a public file sharing platform like dropbox/onedrive/etc without having taken many precautions to insure the account was registered and uploaded to with extreme anonymity. BBC is most likely aware that this is going to be a dead-end, and is just satisfying their legal requirement of "defense of their protected works" so as not to weaken the protections granted to them under copyright. (if you don't use the legal defenses granted to you, even on small things you don't care much about, they tend to be less effective down the road when you really do need to exercise them) This is why companied prefer to license things for $1/yr instead of just "not going after someone whose use they don't care about or mind". If anything, it's publicity, and as long as they don't actually identify and go after any individuals, it'll be mostly beneficial publicity, even if it appears to be negative.
I've got a Yeti myself, and so does a friend of mine that runs his own business. He bought his after hearing how mine sounded, it can provide that rich "radio announcer" voice that people like to listen to. (in addition to the audio clarity, I also really appreciate its directivity and noise-cancelling selectable sampling patterns) He ended up re-dubbing all his existing instructional videos for his product line with the Yeit because of how much better it sounded.
I really don't know why you'd describe them (all?) as "crap mics", without anything to back up what you say, you don't sound very convincing. Cheap webcam mics are my idea of crap because that's what they sound like. And I'm speaking with over a dozen years of radio experience under my belt.
And no, you don't see them in hardly any big studios, because that's not what they are. They're high end consumer mics, not professional recording studio mics, at least not ones like what I got. The Yeti is one of their best values / most affordable small-studio-grade mics and is a great choice for smaller outfits like podcasters, streamers, and small businesses.
I get the impression you've never spent any time with a Blue mic and are just kicking the brand for some hidden agenda, or just snobbing it because "that's not what my friend the PRO uses".
Well when the inciter is being paid 20RNB and the passer is being fined 750RNB, the state profits 730RNB, why would they want to close the gold mine?
They don't actually have to bother with that. China's doing this now, they've got an automated system where users can upload cell phone video of you breaking a law. So then they'll do things like go out on the highways and drive just above the lower speed limit, block traffic, weave around, and generally incite people to speed around them to "get out of the way of that maniac", who is of course filming you breaking the law.
The reason it's a problem there though is they get PAID for the snitching. There's really no reason for that, people that are truly upset by lawbreakers will be more than happy to upload a video that may get them a hand-slap and reduce future occurrences, they don't need a monetary reward. Paying people to report this sort of thing on the other hand, is just insanely stupid because it just encourages people to incite lawbreaking. So lets hope the UK doesn't Do The Stupid and think about paying people for these reports.
Well, that and to prevent stations from accidentally (or deliberately) interfering with each other.
I recal a story from many years ago where several stations had promised live coverage of a (baseball?) game and there were several station trucks at the statdium trying to provide live scores. Things escalated, until they basically were all just belting out full power broad spectrum so that "if my report can't get through to the station, neither can yours", and as a result nobody was able to provide live coverage and reports had to be made to the stations by runners.
That's the big thing they started to deal with, and to some degree that's what their core work still is. Their #1 goal right now from what I can tell is to prevent disruption of important and emergency communications. They go after individuals that disrupt police/ambulance/fire dispatch for example, or that try to jam TV station satellite links. They also dedicate some of their limited resources into radio and tv station licensing, mainly to coordinate frequency allocation and prevent nearby stations from interfering with each other by limiting their power and adjusting their antenna coverage patterns.
More recently they've had to start dealing with cell phone and wifi jammers, mostly in venues where businesses are selling or restricting wireless internet access. (they also insure 9-1-1 access, as we've seen a big carrier recently get the smack-down for dropping for 5 hrs in a region)
They just don't have the time, manpower, or finances to do much else nowadays. Even the kilowatt CB stations are mostly being ignored. The only time they're going to bother with that is if they are interfering with something local. The FCC publishes their enforcements online (sorry I foet where) and I've browsed them a few times. The handful of CB stations they've gone after have indeed been the high powered stations, but only when they were interfering with a sheriff or ambulance dispatcher's repeater etc.
Go watch some dashcams on youtube for awhile. Shouldn't take long to find someone that makes a (legal) lane change, followed by someone severely over-reacting by violently swerving away, then back, quickly losing control, and causing a multicar wreck.
Just because idiots over-react and do damage / threaten loss of life doesn't mean we need to make their trigger a felony.
It's no different than trying to "childproof the world". You're focusing on the wrong end of the problem.
Should flying drones over wildfires be illegal? Sure. Should speeding be illegal? Sure. Do they both elevate risks? Sure. Should they be felonies? NO.
Lets be brutally honest here. If the firefighters are honestly afraid for their lives when a drone flies around overhead, the fire marshal should be executed for sending those poor men into a dangerous situation where they could die of smoke inhalation or burn to death. And the odds of a speeder causing an injury or death on the road is many times more likely than a drone happening to collide with an bring down a plane. Surely speeders deserve the death penalty!
Most felonies are intentional, and all of them consider actual or severely high risk of damage/injury/death. A drone taking down a firefighting plane is neither intentional nor high risk. And don't kneejerk about the odds of a collision bringing down a plane - you're ignoring the slim odds of the collision occurring in the first place. It's much lower than the odds of a speeder getting into a collision, which is MUCH more likely to cause injury, and speeding of course is not a felony.
Mixing upper and lower thresholds in one sentence - please stop doing that. That's just like "Save up to 95% on select in-store items!" It's completely meaningless other than to attempt to grab attention. It's just abusing a typically small number of outliers to suggest a much broader fact.
iTunes has been available on Windows for quite some time now. All those windows users that bought an iPhone or iPad and need to put stuff on it.
It's a lot easier on the windows users to go to the MS store where the download and installation process is familiar.
Of course iTunes's time as the "gateway to the iPhone" is on borrowed time. Apple is moving away from that to direct cloud access. Users can already do almost everything iTunes can do directly with Apple from their iDevice. By 2020 iTunes probably won't be able to do much of anything directly with your iPhone, regardless of what platform you're on.
You bring up an interesting point. Every controlling structure has some resource that is key to maintaining or increasing its influence. In most governments, this is in arms or mining or even food production. But for religion, the most important resource is population. One common theme in any religion is they strongly oppose anything that affects population growth. They're against abortion, and very against birth control. All of them. They desperately want their followers to breed like rabbits, because that's how they increase their power and influence.
Even if this origin has been lost to modern times, the roots are still firmly planted in the sacred books and the words of the prophets, and so it goes on, even if it's now destroying the foundations of their countries. They can't just step in and say "Hey, this is actually turning out to be BAD for us now, please stop!" They're kinda stuck with it. It takes generations to ease a religious body through a major change, and unfortunately this whole "climate change" thing and "global population booms" has come up a faster than these religious groups can change course to match.
So for now, yes, all the priests and pontiffs and clerics are going to continue shouting "KEEP MAKING MORE BABIES!!" because it's all they or their followers know to do. Normally crusades, invasions, or other wars would keep this in check, but now that job is getting handed over to famine, disease, and civil unrest. What an improvement!
There will always be vultures hanging around peddling impotent miracles to desperate people. The original intent of the law was to address that problem. There was (and still is) a real need for it to protect the desperate from exploitation by the unscrupulous.
But the law as it was written, like so many others before it, was overfly-broad.
This new legislation just seeks a better balance.
I don't see why anyone USES pgp on a mac. Just go get a free certificate from any of several sources, (free for personal use) and import it and DONE. all 100% integrated and supported in apple mail. has had this built-in for YEARS. Buying PGP is like buying another headlight for your car... your car already has two and they work MUCH better than any aftermarket you might be looking at.
That already exists, and it's called "medical insurance" ;)
well, it IS time. but time IS money. so, yeah, kinda.
Pinheads that only how how to count beans and don't understand the problem are asking each other "Is it important? How much does it cost? What's the return on investment?"
They don't see the risk or the cost of losing on the risk. They only see the cost of the fix, and that looks like a very poor ROI, and it gets shot down, or continuously delayed.
nitrogen is tasteless, colorless, and odorless. CO is detectable and tends to give you a headache at lower doses. Other gases will make you start coughing or have strong odor. Pure natural gas is hard (impossible?) to smell, and that's why public utilities add in a warning scent to the gas. When you "smell gas", you aren't smelling the gas, you're smelling the warning additive. It will make you cough though.
(though CO does have the same drowsy effect, I suspect that's true of most oxygen-displacing gasses)
not all of it would go to the locals of course, but there's a huge initial influx from the construction, and an ongoing benefit in the form of maintenance/support of the facilities, permanent jobs, and a serious upgrade needed to support so many more local people.
I'm betting Ireland is going to look at this as a "lesson" on what can happen to cause them to lose out on such a big opportunity, and to draft measures and responses in place for the next time opportunity comes knocking, to make sure someone opens the door promptly.
A CO2 gas chamber is probably one of the worst possible ways to go. Suffocating in CO2 rings pretty much every alarm bell in an animal's head. Hypoxia by CO2 surplus is an incredibly distressing and painful way to go. I have no idea how anyone could refer to that as "humane". Of course those pigs are going crazy!
This is completely unlike Nitrogen displacement, which is found to be incredibly hazardous exactly because it triggers NO pain, panic, or flight response. Your mental capacity goes downhill steadily, imperceptibly, and painlessly, until without even realizing anything is wrong or amiss, you just lose consciousness, with zero chance of waking up before it kills you.
They wouldn't even have to tell you when its happening. You could sit down in a comfy chair, listening to your favorite music, while enjoying your last meal, with no idea when they were going to start changing the air in the room out. At some point you'd faceplant in your mashed potatoes and that'd be it. No pain, no table or chair to strap you to, no needles, it actually is a heck of a lot more humane than lethal injection or any of the other more popular methods. Even a firing squad is more humane than the electric chair or lethal injection!
Bonus: nitrogen is a heck of a lot cheaper than lethal injection drugs. (and they are getting really hard to obtain)
"Iran Bans Use of Telegram Messaging App To Protect the people in power from their citizens "
I feel no pity for those that get hit repeatedly by this sort of thing. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on ME!"
it really sounds like they got hit with a big threat from someone (like youtube) and were given the no-choice-choice of 100% compliance with their demands or facing a bankrupting lawsuit. The typical demand is:
1. take down your service immediately
2. never come back
3. don't tell anyone who we are
"in exchange, we won't sue you into oblivion"
Automation has better Reaction Time, yes - better Braking Time, NO.
And if the car COULD stop on a dime, you'd have only one survivor in this incident, the bimbo that jaywalked. Everyone in the car would be dead. Sudden stops are just as dangerous as sudden accelerations.
We're not trying to blame the victim here - the jaywalker wasn't the victim, the autonomous car was the victim. This isn't a question of "Could (someone/something) else have compensated for the illegal behavior of the other party?" The whole world isn't responsible for your gross negligence. Keep responsibility where it belongs.
OPENED the email, or actually pursued it? (clicked a link, replied to the email) Depending on the subject line, it may be totally innocuous looking until you OPEN the email and read the content.