Actually, there's only like three or four. But they don't sell direct to consumers: they just sell chips to other companies, who then package them and put their name on it.
And no current airplanes are direct decedents of the Wright brother's planes. All current planes are derived from competing models that didn't violate the Wright brother's patents.
I mostly think it was a piece of the puzzle. And I don't believe it was a major influence in the why of the split. But it did provide a major benefit after the split that the USA didn't have to abide by England's patent system any longer. In certain industries, (notably shipbuilding) this had major impacts, and basically revived US industries. I think it correlated more closely to the decline of the economic power of the British Empire than anything else, probably as a part of a self-feedback loop like we are seeing the start of in the USA.
The exact extent of how much this can impact an Empire's economy can easily be seen by looking back a little bit into history. A couple of hundred years ago a major world-spanning power had quite restrictive and onerous patent and copyright laws (to the point where certain types of boats could only be constructed in particular home ports), and one of their upstart colonies took advantage of that with much more open and innovation-friendly rules.
The countries in question of course are England and the USA.
Only if they can't cover it out of pocket. (Car drivers are a special case: Increasing access to private transportation has massive economic advantages, but an accident can cause hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages, more than 90% of the population would be able to pay. By requiring insurance, we keep the cost of insurance down and make sure that someone can pay for damages in case of a massive accident.)
Actually, from what I've read, the insurance company is trying to claim that cybersecurity breaches (or whatever you wanted to call this) wasn't part of the policy. So it's not that Sony was negligent, it's that Sony wasn't insured at all. (According to the insurance company, at least.)
And the problem with it in most cases is that servers shrink over time. Every new generation is both smaller and more power-effiecent, or they just plain get moved.
Which means that in 15~20 years you are barely supplying enough heat to overcome heat losses in the system. And the homes and offices have no heating.
It's a ZFS command, not all that tedious. Just run it from a cron job.;)
It goes through every block on the filesystem and re-computes it's checksum, and compares it to the stored checksum. If they differ, it initiates repair. (Pulling the block from a mirror, if possible.) ZFS will also do that on read, but if you are doing long-term backup you may not be reading things all that often. Scrub will do it for everything. Note that in ZFS directory mapping blocks and so on are stored in the same way as other blocks, so this also makes sure that the directory structure is good.
How long it takes depends on how much space has been used (not the total size of the array; it only needs to work on actual used blocks) and how fast your processor is. It typically gets done as a background process. It'll eat a bit of performance while it's running, but that's about it.
This catches minor errors, and bad blocks. If your drive dies hard the scrub will report it, but it's not the only way to notice. Either way, you can swap the drive if you need to: ZFS can in modes equivalent to RAID 0,1,5,6,0+1, and a couple of others that don't have direct RAID equivalents. (RAID 5 with 3 parity, multiple mirrors in level 1, etc. Nothing majorly different there.)
For large storage sizes and reliability, ZFS would be well worth looking at. Set up a multiple-mirrored array, with dedup and compression, and scrub it regularly to detect hardware failures and disk degeneration. It's not really 'offline', but I'd be hesitant to use HDDs as purely offline storage. They aren't really designed for that use-case.
I don't know if that's the best option for the submitter, but it's worth looking at. Easy to set up under FreeBSD as well.
USAA does it. They also let you use your email (or not allow your email; configurable) and you can set some computers as 'authenticated', which means you only need your password and PIN on that computer. (Which will reset after a few months, or if you clear cookies, or do something which looks fishy, like use two browsers at once from the same computer.)
Briefly mentioned in the summary: Medical uses. If you can make gelatin that is completely human bio-compatable, you can use it freely in the human body. Infuse it with drugs and you have a time-release capsule that can be implanted. Build it around shattered bone, and you've got a scaffolding that you can re-grow bone on. It'd even make a decent short-term replacement skin in some cases.
Bio-compatable, bio-degradable, flexible, and about the same density as most human tissue. There's lots of uses for that.
Reading that, I stand by my statement. It doesn't appear from the Wikipedia article that the subject was brought up to the courts, and when he renounced his US citizenship and agreed not to sue the US government over their treatment of him, it was made extremely difficult (if possible at all) to bring it up.
Just because the US government has done it - and even gotten away with it - that doesn't mean it's constitutional.
According to George Bush Jr.'s lawyers, IIRC, I think so. Though even there they managed to skirt this issue: Guantanamo was neither in the USA, nor did it hold American citizens.
Of course there are quite a few who would disagree with that legal argument, but Junior managed to keep the issue from being directly addressed in court. So at this point it depends on which lawyer you talk to.
There's arguments about whether it would be effective... But regardless, it's unconstitutional to torture US citizens. (And a large part of the upcry against Guantanamo is that as written there really shouldn't need to be that 'US citizens' exception on that.)
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I actually blame this on Asimov. His three-law robots were a great idea, and people loved the simple and 'obviously right' three laws that made them 'safe' around humans. People praise them, and actually say that they are trying to work them into their designs. At this point, even designs made by people who have never heard of the stories are following the same philosophy of design that they helped inspire.
Except we never actually want our machines to follow the three laws as he wrote them. We want rules 1 and 2 switched, in nearly all cases: It's more important that the machine does what we ask it to do than for it to second-guess what that might mean to our safety.
I'm sure Asimov's not the first person to come up with the idea, but he definitely codified it and encouraged it.
The most relevant difference is that it automatically uses different types of compute resources for the same task, depending on what's available. Core Image can do some of that, but it's limited to graphics workloads.
So it's Grand Central Dispatch + Core Image + a bit.
Probably started out eating water-surface insects, then learned to dive after swimmers/larva. Which it had mostly to itself in many cases, and surfacing brings it into range of predators that handle a wide variety of spiders, so at that point the push is to stay underwater longer.
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Actually, there's only like three or four. But they don't sell direct to consumers: they just sell chips to other companies, who then package them and put their name on it.
And no current airplanes are direct decedents of the Wright brother's planes. All current planes are derived from competing models that didn't violate the Wright brother's patents.
I mostly think it was a piece of the puzzle. And I don't believe it was a major influence in the why of the split. But it did provide a major benefit after the split that the USA didn't have to abide by England's patent system any longer. In certain industries, (notably shipbuilding) this had major impacts, and basically revived US industries. I think it correlated more closely to the decline of the economic power of the British Empire than anything else, probably as a part of a self-feedback loop like we are seeing the start of in the USA.
The exact extent of how much this can impact an Empire's economy can easily be seen by looking back a little bit into history. A couple of hundred years ago a major world-spanning power had quite restrictive and onerous patent and copyright laws (to the point where certain types of boats could only be constructed in particular home ports), and one of their upstart colonies took advantage of that with much more open and innovation-friendly rules.
The countries in question of course are England and the USA.
Only if they can't cover it out of pocket. (Car drivers are a special case: Increasing access to private transportation has massive economic advantages, but an accident can cause hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages, more than 90% of the population would be able to pay. By requiring insurance, we keep the cost of insurance down and make sure that someone can pay for damages in case of a massive accident.)
Actually, from what I've read, the insurance company is trying to claim that cybersecurity breaches (or whatever you wanted to call this) wasn't part of the policy. So it's not that Sony was negligent, it's that Sony wasn't insured at all. (According to the insurance company, at least.)
And the problem with it in most cases is that servers shrink over time. Every new generation is both smaller and more power-effiecent, or they just plain get moved.
Which means that in 15~20 years you are barely supplying enough heat to overcome heat losses in the system. And the homes and offices have no heating.
It's a ZFS command, not all that tedious. Just run it from a cron job. ;)
It goes through every block on the filesystem and re-computes it's checksum, and compares it to the stored checksum. If they differ, it initiates repair. (Pulling the block from a mirror, if possible.) ZFS will also do that on read, but if you are doing long-term backup you may not be reading things all that often. Scrub will do it for everything. Note that in ZFS directory mapping blocks and so on are stored in the same way as other blocks, so this also makes sure that the directory structure is good.
How long it takes depends on how much space has been used (not the total size of the array; it only needs to work on actual used blocks) and how fast your processor is. It typically gets done as a background process. It'll eat a bit of performance while it's running, but that's about it.
This catches minor errors, and bad blocks. If your drive dies hard the scrub will report it, but it's not the only way to notice. Either way, you can swap the drive if you need to: ZFS can in modes equivalent to RAID 0,1,5,6,0+1, and a couple of others that don't have direct RAID equivalents. (RAID 5 with 3 parity, multiple mirrors in level 1, etc. Nothing majorly different there.)
For large storage sizes and reliability, ZFS would be well worth looking at. Set up a multiple-mirrored array, with dedup and compression, and scrub it regularly to detect hardware failures and disk degeneration. It's not really 'offline', but I'd be hesitant to use HDDs as purely offline storage. They aren't really designed for that use-case.
I don't know if that's the best option for the submitter, but it's worth looking at. Easy to set up under FreeBSD as well.
US Banks don't do it?
USAA does it. They also let you use your email (or not allow your email; configurable) and you can set some computers as 'authenticated', which means you only need your password and PIN on that computer. (Which will reset after a few months, or if you clear cookies, or do something which looks fishy, like use two browsers at once from the same computer.)
And typically they just sub-contract the system out to some large company.
They don't. He just happened to talk about both.
Briefly mentioned in the summary: Medical uses. If you can make gelatin that is completely human bio-compatable, you can use it freely in the human body. Infuse it with drugs and you have a time-release capsule that can be implanted. Build it around shattered bone, and you've got a scaffolding that you can re-grow bone on. It'd even make a decent short-term replacement skin in some cases.
Bio-compatable, bio-degradable, flexible, and about the same density as most human tissue. There's lots of uses for that.
Reading that, I stand by my statement. It doesn't appear from the Wikipedia article that the subject was brought up to the courts, and when he renounced his US citizenship and agreed not to sue the US government over their treatment of him, it was made extremely difficult (if possible at all) to bring it up.
Just because the US government has done it - and even gotten away with it - that doesn't mean it's constitutional.
According to George Bush Jr.'s lawyers, IIRC, I think so. Though even there they managed to skirt this issue: Guantanamo was neither in the USA, nor did it hold American citizens.
Of course there are quite a few who would disagree with that legal argument, but Junior managed to keep the issue from being directly addressed in court. So at this point it depends on which lawyer you talk to.
There's arguments about whether it would be effective... But regardless, it's unconstitutional to torture US citizens. (And a large part of the upcry against Guantanamo is that as written there really shouldn't need to be that 'US citizens' exception on that.)
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Is that not as good or better?
I actually blame this on Asimov. His three-law robots were a great idea, and people loved the simple and 'obviously right' three laws that made them 'safe' around humans. People praise them, and actually say that they are trying to work them into their designs. At this point, even designs made by people who have never heard of the stories are following the same philosophy of design that they helped inspire.
Except we never actually want our machines to follow the three laws as he wrote them. We want rules 1 and 2 switched, in nearly all cases: It's more important that the machine does what we ask it to do than for it to second-guess what that might mean to our safety.
I'm sure Asimov's not the first person to come up with the idea, but he definitely codified it and encouraged it.
Bridled capitalism, with monopolies dealt with.
A little capitalism is a good thing. Too much is just as bad as having everything run by the state. All in moderation.
The most relevant difference is that it automatically uses different types of compute resources for the same task, depending on what's available. Core Image can do some of that, but it's limited to graphics workloads.
So it's Grand Central Dispatch + Core Image + a bit.
The article mentioned birds, but those also. Which was why I wanted to be generic.
Probably started out eating water-surface insects, then learned to dive after swimmers/larva. Which it had mostly to itself in many cases, and surfacing brings it into range of predators that handle a wide variety of spiders, so at that point the push is to stay underwater longer.
Why are you flying so low you can hit a kid anyway?
As I said, it only applies a subset of the time. It's probably not applicable in this case, but that won't mean it won't get brought up.
No, they aren't violating it, because that situation is explicitly in the law as allowed.
What, you don't think they wrote the law with those loopholes in mind?