X-ray images would likely defeat both of your ideas, because the battery cell would look different on an X-ray than the explosive material. If it's all uniform, then it would probably be easier to get it through.
Of course with the average attention span of a poorly-paid TSA agent going into hour number 6 of staring at bags going by on the conveyor, they may not spot anything anyway.
Didn't bother to read the summary? There's a reason why they are restricting from the cabin and not the cargo hold - if you can put one of these things right next to a window, there's a far better chance of creating a breach than if it's in the middle of a suitcase, in the middle of the fuselage.
Short version, since you appear to be attention challenged: Aircraft windows are weaker than fuselage, and if you can't put it next to a window, then there's a better chance of the aircraft surviving the detonation.
What the hell are you doing with your phone to drain the battery in "barely a day" ? My iPhone lasts for 3 days easy, receiving email and push notifications all day, bluetooth turned on 24/7, mostly on WiFi the whole time.
Why is it the carrier's responsibility to patch someone else's handset? The device manufacturers should be making the patches and distributing them via the fucking internet. Let the carrier's be a dumb pipe - it's what they are best at. And if the device manufacturers don't patch their shit, don't buy their shit and go with someone who does.
I've never understood why people think that AT&T or Verizon should be writing and distributing patches for the thousands of shitty phones they sell - Best Buy doesn't make patches for all the shitty laptops and tablets they sell, and neither do the ISPs that connect them to the internet - it comes from the OEM or the OS publisher. In fact, the only retail relationship I can think of where the retailer is responsible for updates to something manufactured by someone else is with cars. And that works sooooo well that we should absolutely replicate that model with phones and tablets....
You think an ISP will actually lower your price because they can also make money selling your traffic information? Nope, it's just an added revenue stream. ISPs aren't not-for-profit organizations.
As it's been said before, that's not the fault of "android" - that's the fault of shitty manufacturers.
Nvidia just released Android 7 for the Shield K1 tablet, even though they've discontinued production. Not a whole lot of other manufacturers out there that would continue development on something they no longer sell.
And that tablet is still one of the best (if not THE best) 8-inch android tablet you can buy, even though it's 14 months old. Every manufacturer is sitting atop a big pile of laurels right now, and wondering why the market is shrinking.
That's because Apple has been ignoring the iPad Mini for like 3+ years now. Seriously, what have they done with it since putting the Retina display in it? Add the TouchID that all other iOS devices have, and throw us a bone with storage. It's the red-headed stepchild of tablets. If you really want to make it look like shit, compare it to the Nvidia Shield K1 that is now like 14 months old, and better in every way at practically half the price.
I really like the form factor of the iPad Mini, but Apple seems hell bent on not making products I want, and in fact killing off the line of products that are even close.
What austerity measures has New Zealand enacted that is causing suffering and dying again? All because greedy corporations don't pay more taxes than the duly passed laws require? And if New Zealand is capable of enacting austerity measures (they haven't) due to not having enough tax revenue coming in, why can't they change the laws to enhance revenue coming from corporations?
Short version: You don't know what you are talking about, or you are talking about something completely unrelated to this article and discussion.
They're only "screwing*" those nations because those nations allow it through inaction. They are sovereign entities that have 100% capability to change their taxation laws to stop the "screwing*"
They are 100% in control here, and the company can only suck it up if they want to continue doing business there. So why is there all this outrage when a company follows the laws?
*Yeah, not actually being screwed when they have all the means necessary to prevent it, and in fact reverse the screwing should they want to.
Here's a clue: The taxes the corporation pays, is money coming from the customer. If you think the corporation ever pays taxes out of their own coffers without making a deliberate decision to price goods underneath the total cost to bring them to market (including taxes) you have no idea how a company (or an economy) operates.
The end consumer always pays. Any taxes or expenses to bring the product to market are included in the sale price. So sure, if you want the prices of these items to go up by 10%, feel free to find a way to start taxing Apple 10% more. They aren't going to eat it - they pass it on, just like every other business.
Do you pay more taxes than you have to? Neither does Apple. If you want Apple to pay more tax, change the tax law to make it happen.
I can't fault a corporation for doing what is legal, and what every single other taxpayer does - reduce the amount of tax they owe by legal means. Besides, you're acting like New Zealand isn't still getting plenty of revenues from sales tax / VAT / etc. from these high priced items.
So let's work a deal - they can outsource their defense needs to the US, and only raise their taxes by 10% to pay for it.
We'll happily keep a carrier battle group parked in the Mediterranean. The EU's GDP was around $16T in 2016, so the invoice for $1.6T is on it's way, payable Net 30.
It's even cheaper if you are able to use AWS DirectConnect. $0.30/hour for 1GbE plus whatever it costs to get a circuit through a peering provider if you don't already have presence in a facility peered with AWS.
My company was already in a peered facility, so it was just a matter of stringing a fiber line between their edge router and ours, and setting up BGP.
$225/mo to move as much data as we please back and forth between our data center and our VPC.
Yeah, was going to post something along these lines.
Woohoo, Google now includes instances up to half of what you can do on AWS! And, without the flexibility of getting not only the 64 cores and almost 500GB of RAM, but also getting EIGHT dedicated 1900GB NVMe SSD you get with an i3.16xlarge!
It's not only possible, long-range transmission via HVDC already exists in Washington, Oregon, and California; and has for decades.
Seattle already gets the vast majority of it's energy from hydroelectric, without spending untold amounts of effort on non-engineering issues like the politics of trying to transmit energy across another sovereign nation. Seattle and Portland both benefit from the 11 or so hydroelectric dams on the Columbia (one of which is the largest electrical generating station in the United States at 6800MW), which generate enough power that Southern California Edison has been purchasing the energy since the early 1970s via the Pacific DC Intertie. These dams are so important for flood control, irrigation, and electrical generation that there is actually a treaty between Canada and the US that spells out how much water that Canada will store and / or release and how much money and power the US will convey to Canada in exchange. This treaty and all the dam construction only came about because a flood wiped out the second largest city in Oregon because the dams weren't there, and back in those days, the government wasn't paralyzed and actually solved problems.
Hawaii is rather short on land, so the less of it they use or make unsuitable for other uses the better (I imagine a shload of 50+ meter water towers sticking up everywhere probably don't do much for tourists).
Could they have wired up pumps to use the excess generation for pumped storage? Probably. But there are other factors that go into the land use permitting processes.
Well, SolarCity / Tesla has done a project like this on the American Samoa island of Ta'o that does have 3 days worth of battery, which recharges in 7 hours. And, they can still turn on the diesel generators should they need to.
It's not like they are taking a wrecking ball to the existing infrastructure after flipping the switch on this solar install. It turns out that electrical engineers that design and build grid systems think about this shit and plan for it.
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X-ray images would likely defeat both of your ideas, because the battery cell would look different on an X-ray than the explosive material. If it's all uniform, then it would probably be easier to get it through.
Of course with the average attention span of a poorly-paid TSA agent going into hour number 6 of staring at bags going by on the conveyor, they may not spot anything anyway.
Didn't bother to read the summary? There's a reason why they are restricting from the cabin and not the cargo hold - if you can put one of these things right next to a window, there's a far better chance of creating a breach than if it's in the middle of a suitcase, in the middle of the fuselage.
Short version, since you appear to be attention challenged: Aircraft windows are weaker than fuselage, and if you can't put it next to a window, then there's a better chance of the aircraft surviving the detonation.
What the hell are you doing with your phone to drain the battery in "barely a day" ? My iPhone lasts for 3 days easy, receiving email and push notifications all day, bluetooth turned on 24/7, mostly on WiFi the whole time.
Why is it the carrier's responsibility to patch someone else's handset? The device manufacturers should be making the patches and distributing them via the fucking internet. Let the carrier's be a dumb pipe - it's what they are best at. And if the device manufacturers don't patch their shit, don't buy their shit and go with someone who does.
I've never understood why people think that AT&T or Verizon should be writing and distributing patches for the thousands of shitty phones they sell - Best Buy doesn't make patches for all the shitty laptops and tablets they sell, and neither do the ISPs that connect them to the internet - it comes from the OEM or the OS publisher. In fact, the only retail relationship I can think of where the retailer is responsible for updates to something manufactured by someone else is with cars. And that works sooooo well that we should absolutely replicate that model with phones and tablets....
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You think an ISP will actually lower your price because they can also make money selling your traffic information? Nope, it's just an added revenue stream. ISPs aren't not-for-profit organizations.
Exactly. It's just controlling that release, and repeating it without the whole assembly being destroyed or otherwise ruined that is the trick.
They've been doing that with Mac for over a decade.
As it's been said before, that's not the fault of "android" - that's the fault of shitty manufacturers.
Nvidia just released Android 7 for the Shield K1 tablet, even though they've discontinued production. Not a whole lot of other manufacturers out there that would continue development on something they no longer sell.
And that tablet is still one of the best (if not THE best) 8-inch android tablet you can buy, even though it's 14 months old. Every manufacturer is sitting atop a big pile of laurels right now, and wondering why the market is shrinking.
That's because Apple has been ignoring the iPad Mini for like 3+ years now. Seriously, what have they done with it since putting the Retina display in it? Add the TouchID that all other iOS devices have, and throw us a bone with storage. It's the red-headed stepchild of tablets. If you really want to make it look like shit, compare it to the Nvidia Shield K1 that is now like 14 months old, and better in every way at practically half the price.
I really like the form factor of the iPad Mini, but Apple seems hell bent on not making products I want, and in fact killing off the line of products that are even close.
It's almost like he's a law enforcement officer who's just investigating issues of law enforcement...
You can't fix stupid.
Wow.
What austerity measures has New Zealand enacted that is causing suffering and dying again? All because greedy corporations don't pay more taxes than the duly passed laws require? And if New Zealand is capable of enacting austerity measures (they haven't) due to not having enough tax revenue coming in, why can't they change the laws to enhance revenue coming from corporations?
Short version: You don't know what you are talking about, or you are talking about something completely unrelated to this article and discussion.
They're only "screwing*" those nations because those nations allow it through inaction. They are sovereign entities that have 100% capability to change their taxation laws to stop the "screwing*"
They are 100% in control here, and the company can only suck it up if they want to continue doing business there. So why is there all this outrage when a company follows the laws?
*Yeah, not actually being screwed when they have all the means necessary to prevent it, and in fact reverse the screwing should they want to.
You really aren't reading what he's saying.
Here's a clue: The taxes the corporation pays, is money coming from the customer. If you think the corporation ever pays taxes out of their own coffers without making a deliberate decision to price goods underneath the total cost to bring them to market (including taxes) you have no idea how a company (or an economy) operates.
The end consumer always pays. Any taxes or expenses to bring the product to market are included in the sale price. So sure, if you want the prices of these items to go up by 10%, feel free to find a way to start taxing Apple 10% more. They aren't going to eat it - they pass it on, just like every other business.
What's your point?
Do you pay more taxes than you have to? Neither does Apple. If you want Apple to pay more tax, change the tax law to make it happen.
I can't fault a corporation for doing what is legal, and what every single other taxpayer does - reduce the amount of tax they owe by legal means. Besides, you're acting like New Zealand isn't still getting plenty of revenues from sales tax / VAT / etc. from these high priced items.
Nope - they've published video of the factory creating the trash can case and everything. They built a very expensive facility to do it.
It's a shame they aren't using it to make a computer that anyone actually wants to buy.
So let's work a deal - they can outsource their defense needs to the US, and only raise their taxes by 10% to pay for it.
We'll happily keep a carrier battle group parked in the Mediterranean. The EU's GDP was around $16T in 2016, so the invoice for $1.6T is on it's way, payable Net 30.
It's even cheaper if you are able to use AWS DirectConnect. $0.30/hour for 1GbE plus whatever it costs to get a circuit through a peering provider if you don't already have presence in a facility peered with AWS.
My company was already in a peered facility, so it was just a matter of stringing a fiber line between their edge router and ours, and setting up BGP.
$225/mo to move as much data as we please back and forth between our data center and our VPC.
Amazon tells you here what processors each instance type is running on. Looks like they are using Xeon, which really isn't that surprising.
Yeah, was going to post something along these lines.
Woohoo, Google now includes instances up to half of what you can do on AWS! And, without the flexibility of getting not only the 64 cores and almost 500GB of RAM, but also getting EIGHT dedicated 1900GB NVMe SSD you get with an i3.16xlarge!
It's not only possible, long-range transmission via HVDC already exists in Washington, Oregon, and California; and has for decades.
Seattle already gets the vast majority of it's energy from hydroelectric, without spending untold amounts of effort on non-engineering issues like the politics of trying to transmit energy across another sovereign nation. Seattle and Portland both benefit from the 11 or so hydroelectric dams on the Columbia (one of which is the largest electrical generating station in the United States at 6800MW), which generate enough power that Southern California Edison has been purchasing the energy since the early 1970s via the Pacific DC Intertie. These dams are so important for flood control, irrigation, and electrical generation that there is actually a treaty between Canada and the US that spells out how much water that Canada will store and / or release and how much money and power the US will convey to Canada in exchange. This treaty and all the dam construction only came about because a flood wiped out the second largest city in Oregon because the dams weren't there, and back in those days, the government wasn't paralyzed and actually solved problems.
Hawaii is rather short on land, so the less of it they use or make unsuitable for other uses the better (I imagine a shload of 50+ meter water towers sticking up everywhere probably don't do much for tourists).
Could they have wired up pumps to use the excess generation for pumped storage? Probably. But there are other factors that go into the land use permitting processes.
Well, SolarCity / Tesla has done a project like this on the American Samoa island of Ta'o that does have 3 days worth of battery, which recharges in 7 hours. And, they can still turn on the diesel generators should they need to.
It's not like they are taking a wrecking ball to the existing infrastructure after flipping the switch on this solar install. It turns out that electrical engineers that design and build grid systems think about this shit and plan for it.
In which case they turn on the diesel generators they used to use 365 days a year.
Only using those generators for 5 to 10 days out of the year under extreme circumstances is an incredible improvement.