Don't forget they have (apparent) FTL travel. That could reduce the time distance for information considerably, although we'd have to take the word of a Harrison Ford lookalike and a very furry hominid who can only roar to communicate.
If your ISP won't help and you don't mind adding an additional gateway to your network you can generally fix bufferbloat by traffic-shaping your own traffic on a NAT router with custom firmware or even a PC running *nix. Drop upstream packets that exceed your average upstream, and drop inbound packets exceeding your average downstream (which can change throughout the day, making it kind of difficult to find the right limit). TCP/IP will handle the rest.
Economics is thermodynamics and information theory. Our wealth is almost entirely invested in a very long term prospect in the center of the solar system which yields yearly dividends of which we currently completely waste all but a billionth. Despite this we rely mostly on the continuous liquidation of fixed assets, primarily energy-dense hydrocarbons, which are converted to energy with at best 40% efficiency an used primary to chemically and mechanically transform collections of matter, transport that matter across the globe, exchange it for tokens of secondary economic value, and promptly (by global scales) and permanently bury the matter in the ground where the chemical and mechanical transformations slowly revert to their original state.
Further details are left as an exercise to the reader.
However, I have found that I'm a pretty bad judge of character, and can be somewhat gullible when my guard is down. Am I smart?
Yes, because you recognize your weakness. If you can't judge behavior then enforce it. Use game theory to your advantage. Do not put other people in an unguarded position of power over you. Make the payoff for cooperation higher than the payoff for defection. Make your arrangements so that only a fool would attempt to defraud you and then filter out the fools. It's much easier to do the latter.
And really, don't forget the ~7700 year cycle either. We'll have to deal with that in a couple thousand years and no doubt some ancient software will be running off the epoch still.
After the invasion, only then did we discover that the US analysis was almost all wrong. But was the analysis in fact wrong?
How else can you judge analysis except against reality? Maybe on proper penmanship? Israel has WMD. Britain has WMD. China has WMD. Pakistan has WMD. Why on Earth would any sensible analysis of WMD lead anyone to invade Iraq instead of one of those other countries?
Here's my analysis for you: invest all your money in SCOX. I hear they've got Copyrights of Mass Destruction with which they'll bring down IBM.
It sounds like a large part of the district administration is probably worthless. Who cares about that? The voters, potentially, and the Federal government ultimately. Claim that All The Children Will Be Left Behind if they don't have good IT resources. Get local news coverage, get the mayor or city council involved (anonymously, obviously). That's the only way to fix broken administration. You'll get your token budget from the admins for a year or two (they probably couldn't care less about it anyway), and you can try to future-proof what you buy to last until the next time you have to drum up support.
Keeping the 50KWHr battery topped off shouldn't require more than about 50 watts. What kind of extension cord can't supply that, apart from a completely broken one? Maybe the battery charger module is an idiot and tries to apply full current charges in periodic cycles despite it being worse for the battery.
Regardless, I don't understand the point of AWD. I'll stick with my twin sticked gear driven transfer case.
Can you fit one of those in a transverse setup? If not, there's your answer. Also most people can barely operate two pedals and a steering wheel much less decide whether or not they need to lock their front and rear axles to the drive train.
If you release a free spyware version pirates will still pirate the full version because it's far more convenient to have free software that also isn't spyware.
I think the traditional way to handle your problem is with accounting so that the majority of your "losses" are in sales lost to piracy instead of, say, an inability to pay your own vendors or your paychecks. Build up huge tax write-offs that you can defer to future years and never pay taxes again.
Are you sure you're at the optimal price on the supply-demand curve? Maybe $10k per copy is totally appropriate for your market, but it sounds high. Neither DRM nor any other action on your part is going to magically create $10k in the pockets of your potential customers and if they currently can't (or won't) afford your product then DRM or spyware isn't going to drastically alter their budget or their demand for your product (except perhaps reduce it). How are you determining your market size and which potential customers have bought, pirated, or simply don't use your software? Assume 75% to 90% of people are honest (even the BSA says US piracy rates are about 20%). If more than 10% to 25% of your installed software is pirated it means it's overpriced. If you can't make a living from the three quarters of your users who are honest then your product is unnecessary in the current market.
What xkcd forgot to mention is that the police will beat you with a five dollar wrench whether you remember your password or not, and occasionally regardless of whether or not you even have encrypted files on your hardware. If your skin is not pale you probably have a higher probability of being beaten by the police than the worst pedophile with an encrypted hard disk.
protip: What happens in a book does not always reflect the author's desires, nor should the exposition necessarily instruct your morals.
You noticed that genetically modified people may not be great candidates for slavery. Good for you. That was one of the major points that I think the author wanted to make by, in this case, describing the negative aspects of such a situation.
No big deal; I'm on my 5th clone by now according to the number of times new atoms have shifted through my cells. Just because the natural biological process was gradual doesn't make it fundamentally different than scanning my brain/body into bits and running them in a physics simulator.
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cranking out thousands of watts of power.
My crappy old car produces over 100 kilowatts. I'm assuming a big generator will be putting out megawatts, not kilowatts.
Don't forget they have (apparent) FTL travel. That could reduce the time distance for information considerably, although we'd have to take the word of a Harrison Ford lookalike and a very furry hominid who can only roar to communicate.
..that you once owned, you have a much bigger problem than your scrollback buffer.
AES-NI makes encryption almost free. There's no reason not to use it.
I hope a revocation of computer privileges for the offender, or some other disciplinary action on their part, followed.
Sadly, no, it looks like the RIAA and other MAFIAA members still have an online presence.
If your ISP won't help and you don't mind adding an additional gateway to your network you can generally fix bufferbloat by traffic-shaping your own traffic on a NAT router with custom firmware or even a PC running *nix. Drop upstream packets that exceed your average upstream, and drop inbound packets exceeding your average downstream (which can change throughout the day, making it kind of difficult to find the right limit). TCP/IP will handle the rest.
Economics is thermodynamics and information theory. Our wealth is almost entirely invested in a very long term prospect in the center of the solar system which yields yearly dividends of which we currently completely waste all but a billionth. Despite this we rely mostly on the continuous liquidation of fixed assets, primarily energy-dense hydrocarbons, which are converted to energy with at best 40% efficiency an used primary to chemically and mechanically transform collections of matter, transport that matter across the globe, exchange it for tokens of secondary economic value, and promptly (by global scales) and permanently bury the matter in the ground where the chemical and mechanical transformations slowly revert to their original state.
Further details are left as an exercise to the reader.
However, I have found that I'm a pretty bad judge of character, and can be somewhat gullible when my guard is down. Am I smart?
Yes, because you recognize your weakness. If you can't judge behavior then enforce it. Use game theory to your advantage. Do not put other people in an unguarded position of power over you. Make the payoff for cooperation higher than the payoff for defection. Make your arrangements so that only a fool would attempt to defraud you and then filter out the fools. It's much easier to do the latter.
Because "Everyone knows that X is true" and "X is true" are loosely correlated at best.
I would assert that, in fact, they are almost always negatively correlated.
Oh, but everyone know that.'s true.
And you'll still get T-boned by some soccer mom in an SUV.
Hell, "Entitlements" includes public roads, the postal service, and being defending by a national military.
Don't forget the 400-year cycle.
And really, don't forget the ~7700 year cycle either. We'll have to deal with that in a couple thousand years and no doubt some ancient software will be running off the epoch still.
After the invasion, only then did we discover that the US analysis was almost all wrong. But was the analysis in fact wrong?
How else can you judge analysis except against reality? Maybe on proper penmanship? Israel has WMD. Britain has WMD. China has WMD. Pakistan has WMD. Why on Earth would any sensible analysis of WMD lead anyone to invade Iraq instead of one of those other countries?
Here's my analysis for you: invest all your money in SCOX. I hear they've got Copyrights of Mass Destruction with which they'll bring down IBM.
But then, you already believe that the IC is full of evil liars and lawbreakers anyway
Proven cases of rendition isn't enough for you?
It sounds like a large part of the district administration is probably worthless. Who cares about that? The voters, potentially, and the Federal government ultimately. Claim that All The Children Will Be Left Behind if they don't have good IT resources. Get local news coverage, get the mayor or city council involved (anonymously, obviously). That's the only way to fix broken administration. You'll get your token budget from the admins for a year or two (they probably couldn't care less about it anyway), and you can try to future-proof what you buy to last until the next time you have to drum up support.
Keeping the 50KWHr battery topped off shouldn't require more than about 50 watts. What kind of extension cord can't supply that, apart from a completely broken one? Maybe the battery charger module is an idiot and tries to apply full current charges in periodic cycles despite it being worse for the battery.
Regardless, I don't understand the point of AWD. I'll stick with my twin sticked gear driven transfer case.
Can you fit one of those in a transverse setup? If not, there's your answer. Also most people can barely operate two pedals and a steering wheel much less decide whether or not they need to lock their front and rear axles to the drive train.
If you release a free spyware version pirates will still pirate the full version because it's far more convenient to have free software that also isn't spyware.
I think the traditional way to handle your problem is with accounting so that the majority of your "losses" are in sales lost to piracy instead of, say, an inability to pay your own vendors or your paychecks. Build up huge tax write-offs that you can defer to future years and never pay taxes again.
Are you sure you're at the optimal price on the supply-demand curve? Maybe $10k per copy is totally appropriate for your market, but it sounds high. Neither DRM nor any other action on your part is going to magically create $10k in the pockets of your potential customers and if they currently can't (or won't) afford your product then DRM or spyware isn't going to drastically alter their budget or their demand for your product (except perhaps reduce it). How are you determining your market size and which potential customers have bought, pirated, or simply don't use your software? Assume 75% to 90% of people are honest (even the BSA says US piracy rates are about 20%). If more than 10% to 25% of your installed software is pirated it means it's overpriced. If you can't make a living from the three quarters of your users who are honest then your product is unnecessary in the current market.
Ahh!!! I've been hit by a neutrino beam! I might get my yearly radiation dose in... 4 months!
And if you're any sort of proper gentleman you'll continue to spread those superstitions.
Instant get-out-of-jail-free card. Priests don't have to testify. Become ordained by the universal unitarians or something.
Sadly, contempt of court requires no proof. You might get an appeal, maybe, if you find a higher judge who doesn't care for your original judge.
What xkcd forgot to mention is that the police will beat you with a five dollar wrench whether you remember your password or not, and occasionally regardless of whether or not you even have encrypted files on your hardware. If your skin is not pale you probably have a higher probability of being beaten by the police than the worst pedophile with an encrypted hard disk.
protip: What happens in a book does not always reflect the author's desires, nor should the exposition necessarily instruct your morals.
You noticed that genetically modified people may not be great candidates for slavery. Good for you. That was one of the major points that I think the author wanted to make by, in this case, describing the negative aspects of such a situation.
If people don't die, what do we do with babies?
Eat them?
Your clone wouldn't, but you'd be dead.
No big deal; I'm on my 5th clone by now according to the number of times new atoms have shifted through my cells. Just because the natural biological process was gradual doesn't make it fundamentally different than scanning my brain/body into bits and running them in a physics simulator.