OK, so you spread applications across a number of computers, all linked together by the Internet. Exactly how is this supposed to reduce network traffic??
Those two consecutive sentences tell you everything you need to know - "XXX predicts downfall of WWW. XXX is pushing new technology."
I've got a BUD (Big Ugly Dish - 9ft diameter) in my yard. Not currently hooked up, but it just needs a decent pole. It has C-band and Ku-band heads and receivers to match. There are literally thousands of these things all over the country. There's no way that someone isn't going to pick up any signal coming down out of the sky...
OK, so it can be encrypted - but do the current crop of satellites have that capability onboard?? Can they be reprogrammed to support encryption?? How much of a hit can they afford to take in CPU power??
Don't forget that "we" only have to get lucky once to get usable data - "they" have to be lucky all the time...
Yeah, my 13-year-old daughter. Absolutely nobody has any right whatsoever to watch her on the crapper or in the shower. Before that legislation passes, they'd better redefine pedophile.
They'd better also figure out a way to distinguish between actual footage of any given room and a photo of the room taken from alongside the camera and then hung in front of it...
The simple answer to that is - I am storing it all, and unless you're storing it as well, you can't prove that this floppy disk doesn't have all my data...
It would take a rather extremely foolish leader to launch an attack against an enemy that can devastate your cities.
On the other hand, if you can develop a nuke small enough to smuggle into your enemy's capital city, that's a whole different can of worms. The nuke wouldn't even have to be suitcase or backpack sized - as long as the various components can be transported easily, the assembled bomb could be as big as a truck.
Not even big explosions - an ex-boss of mine tells a story of when he and his men in the UK Territorial Army (which is like the US National Guard) took their turn disposing of old munitions and other such things. On one particular occasion, they were asked to dispose of some old gas cylinders, for which the normal method was to use a small explosive charge to blow the valve stem off. Well, they placed the charges, stepped into the blast shelter and hit the switch. The resultant, beautifully formed mushroom cloud drifted off towards the nearby town.
The local population was more than a little disturbed by that, because just a short time before the cloud came by, they'd seen a bunch of trucks roll through the town on their way to the firing range, and every one of them bore the nuclear logo and the name of their owner: UK Atomic Energy Authority.
On another occasion, or possibly the same one, they decided to get creative and save some of the explosives by laying two cylinders bottom-end to bottom-end, with a single charge in the hollow space between them. Naturally, when they lit it off, the cylinders took off in opposite directions...
When the crazy guy has a gun you don't point your gun at him and start yelling at him.
Didn't crazy guy with a gun used to be more or less the definition of a terrorist, before it started to be redefined as "anyone the US think is acting suspiciously"??
I've been "overtime exempt" since some time back in the 80's, both in England and the USA. Last time I was paid overtime was during a Multics upgrade that went tits up. We scored 2 weeks overtime over one weekend for that fiasco...
In 2038, according to Ritchie and other experts, that 32-bit signed integer that Unix uses to count time will finally reach its last digit, and the change could conceivably cause problems.
That "Ritchie" as in "Bell Labs' Ritchie", who presumably has a clue...
3a. The serial change from yyyymmddnn to Unix epoch time makes perfect senese. And no, it does not suffer the 32-bit problem. Serial numbers can be much more than 32 bits. Heck the yyyymmddnn takes 8 bits per character now, so 80 bits just for that. Dare I guess how far into the future an 80-bit Unix time would go (if it was stored that way)?
Doesn't Unix time wrap around some time in 2035? I think the kernel stores time since the Epoch at least in milliseconds, if not nanoseconds...
I thought the comms blackout was at least partly caused by the intense heat of re-entry wrapping a layer of plasma around the forward end of the object. So, yes it's an ionization blackout, but no it's not (solely) due to the ionosphere.
Surely there's more to it than that? If not, *I* could register, and I'm British... I've been here 11 years, have had a Green Card for 2 years, and can't even file for naturalization for another 3 years. Unless they change the rules...
My kids both scored substantially higher in US History than their peers in school. Does that make them more eligible to vote than the other kids in that school??
Just out of curiousity, what counts as proof of residency?? Presumably a driver's license, as that's a photo id, but what else?? Utility bills?? If so, I could probably register to vote if I lived in Wisconsin, even though I'm not a citizen...
Foreigners in Norway are allowed to vote in local elections after 3 years of legal residency.
In the US, foreigners have to have permanent residency (a.k.a Green Card) for 5 years before being allowed to apply for citizenship. If the application is approved and citizenship is granted, then the person can vote.
I don't know how long the citizenship application takes to approve, but the Green Card part of the process can take 6 years or more, depending on where the application is filed. In the meantime, the foreigner is, presumably, working and paying taxes. Which is a bit ironic, because it's the same "taxation without representation" that the original colonists bitched about before declaring independance.
What if the winner goes ahead and keeps election promises that the voters didn't expect to be kept?? As I recall, that happened to Margeret Thatcher when she became Prime Minister of Britain. Within a reasonably short time of being elected she made good on all (or at least a very large fraction) of her campaign promises and managed to piss off a lot of people in the process.
Submitting an empty ballot can be an individually powerful message. It tells both parties that "Hey, I don't like either of you guys. Come up with something that better suits me in the future".
Are the election officials required to maintain counts of the different ways the ballots can be screwed up?? If all the blank ballots get tagged as "spoiled", along with those that are marked more than once, etc, then all the parties will see is that "x% of voters are too stupid to make their mark properly".
Granted that in areas where you can write in your own candidate, those ought to be listed in the results. I just wouldn't want to bet on a blank ballot sending anyone a message.
Yes, agreed. But the whole article specifically refers to the military, and tells about how their votes may be collected by a third party. It just seems wrong to me that it would even be thought necessary to engage a third party, especially if that third party is somehow able to review and possibly discard a portion of the vote.
The grandparent poster gave a link to fraudfactor.com, which asserts that military absentee votes were discarded due to not having postmarks. Having an armed escort deliver the ballots to a place where they can be properly postmarked would go a long way towards fixing that issue. No third party required.
No risk of the army siding with the people, if ordered to commit unconstitutional acts, because the Republicans will have "weeded out" the untrustworthy elements before.
On the other hand, if you weed out the "untrustworthy" elements, and then try shenigans, you run the risk of having a bunch of pissed off, highly trained, recently-ex soldiers taking independant action. And as spies and freedom fighters all over the world have demonstrated, it's far, far easier for loosely grouped individuals to fade into the background and reappear elsewhere than it is for a whole army to track them down.
Not that I'm advocating armed insurrection, but I shouldn't have to remind anyone that that's what got this country started...
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Those two consecutive sentences tell you everything you need to know - "XXX predicts downfall of WWW. XXX is pushing new technology."
I was just wondering - do you think they are also planning on scanning or photocopying regular mail envelopes??
Hor do they react to recorded delivery??
OK, so it can be encrypted - but do the current crop of satellites have that capability onboard?? Can they be reprogrammed to support encryption?? How much of a hit can they afford to take in CPU power??
Don't forget that "we" only have to get lucky once to get usable data - "they" have to be lucky all the time...
They'd better also figure out a way to distinguish between actual footage of any given room and a photo of the room taken from alongside the camera and then hung in front of it...
The simple answer to that is - I am storing it all, and unless you're storing it as well, you can't prove that this floppy disk doesn't have all my data...
Depends on who's smoking the 'shrooms...
On the other hand, if you can develop a nuke small enough to smuggle into your enemy's capital city, that's a whole different can of worms. The nuke wouldn't even have to be suitcase or backpack sized - as long as the various components can be transported easily, the assembled bomb could be as big as a truck.
The local population was more than a little disturbed by that, because just a short time before the cloud came by, they'd seen a bunch of trucks roll through the town on their way to the firing range, and every one of them bore the nuclear logo and the name of their owner: UK Atomic Energy Authority.
On another occasion, or possibly the same one, they decided to get creative and save some of the explosives by laying two cylinders bottom-end to bottom-end, with a single charge in the hollow space between them. Naturally, when they lit it off, the cylinders took off in opposite directions...
Didn't crazy guy with a gun used to be more or less the definition of a terrorist, before it started to be redefined as "anyone the US think is acting suspiciously"??
I've been "overtime exempt" since some time back in the 80's, both in England and the USA. Last time I was paid overtime was during a Multics upgrade that went tits up. We scored 2 weeks overtime over one weekend for that fiasco...
Doesn't Unix time wrap around some time in 2035? I think the kernel stores time since the Epoch at least in milliseconds, if not nanoseconds...
Yeah - the next one will be a sphere covered in big springs, so the helicopter pilots get more than one shot at catching it...
I thought the comms blackout was at least partly caused by the intense heat of re-entry wrapping a layer of plasma around the forward end of the object. So, yes it's an ionization blackout, but no it's not (solely) due to the ionosphere.
Surely there's more to it than that? If not, *I* could register, and I'm British... I've been here 11 years, have had a Green Card for 2 years, and can't even file for naturalization for another 3 years. Unless they change the rules...
My kids both scored substantially higher in US History than their peers in school. Does that make them more eligible to vote than the other kids in that school??
Do that, and you risk enrolling a bunch of foreigners, who are allowed to pay taxes but not allowed to vote.
Try reading it as I did - "disembowelled". Makes it more humorous in some cases...
Just out of curiousity, what counts as proof of residency?? Presumably a driver's license, as that's a photo id, but what else?? Utility bills?? If so, I could probably register to vote if I lived in Wisconsin, even though I'm not a citizen...
In the US, foreigners have to have permanent residency (a.k.a Green Card) for 5 years before being allowed to apply for citizenship. If the application is approved and citizenship is granted, then the person can vote.
I don't know how long the citizenship application takes to approve, but the Green Card part of the process can take 6 years or more, depending on where the application is filed. In the meantime, the foreigner is, presumably, working and paying taxes. Which is a bit ironic, because it's the same "taxation without representation" that the original colonists bitched about before declaring independance.
What if the winner goes ahead and keeps election promises that the voters didn't expect to be kept?? As I recall, that happened to Margeret Thatcher when she became Prime Minister of Britain. Within a reasonably short time of being elected she made good on all (or at least a very large fraction) of her campaign promises and managed to piss off a lot of people in the process.
Are the election officials required to maintain counts of the different ways the ballots can be screwed up?? If all the blank ballots get tagged as "spoiled", along with those that are marked more than once, etc, then all the parties will see is that "x% of voters are too stupid to make their mark properly".
Granted that in areas where you can write in your own candidate, those ought to be listed in the results. I just wouldn't want to bet on a blank ballot sending anyone a message.
The grandparent poster gave a link to fraudfactor.com, which asserts that military absentee votes were discarded due to not having postmarks. Having an armed escort deliver the ballots to a place where they can be properly postmarked would go a long way towards fixing that issue. No third party required.
On the other hand, if you weed out the "untrustworthy" elements, and then try shenigans, you run the risk of having a bunch of pissed off, highly trained, recently-ex soldiers taking independant action. And as spies and freedom fighters all over the world have demonstrated, it's far, far easier for loosely grouped individuals to fade into the background and reappear elsewhere than it is for a whole army to track them down.
Not that I'm advocating armed insurrection, but I shouldn't have to remind anyone that that's what got this country started...