There are countries (including the US) that do consider certain acts committed outside of their borders, not by their citizens, that only indirectly affect their country or citizens, as full crimes, to be persecuted and the guilty to be extradited, regardless of laws of the countries where these "crimes" were committed.
So, if given country has a law against aiding unauthorized entities from spying on their citizens, and the firm sells the software to these entities, it is committing a crime. And while extradition or direct consequences are unlikely, they are not impossible, especially if employees of the firm ever visit the country in question.
Filler appendices and introduction to the problem? What about over 30 pages of autopromo? Testimonials. Reviews. Forewords By Famous People I'd Never Heard About. Award nominations. Blurbs. Thanks to Famous People for Help.
If I see the book needs so much space to convince the reader it's any good, it means the actual content definitely isn't good enough to sell the book.
it would be very nice if Windows stopped insisting that its driver for "Unknown Device" is up to date, at newest version and doesn't need to be replaced by another driver supplied by the manufacturer. Once new hardware in Windows is recognized as "Unknown Device" it's about impossible to convince Windows to change it to something more reasonable. Remove the hardware, wipe all traces of its past existence from system, install the correct drivers and only then install the hardware.
Seriously, Microsoft, the first this issue appeared was Windows 95. And it still persists!
One thing she could have done - turn call forwarding to a private phone on, so that the 24/7 condition is met, and then... sky's the limit.
Get a friendly taxi driver to take the phone for the night. Put it on an RC plane and take it for a trip over the city center. Put it in a box and attach with a magnet to your boss' car. Borrow it for a friend who does car races (preferably illegal) to take it for a 200MPH ride. Root the phone, get a GPS spoofing app and "send it to Antarctica".
There's always an option of energy hoarding. I saw that sci-fi once; the whole universe is long dead but the civilization thrives on a single isle of enormous hoard of energy picked before that. Yes, that means the universe isn't -entirely- dead, but its final thermal death is prolonged far past its natural date through artificial means buying the civilization extra time to either migrate to a different universe or trigger a new big bang.
Plus it's not entirely sure if space expansion can't be harnessed as an energy source; that effect seems to increase potential energy between distant objects at no cost at all - a mysterious source of negative entropy.
Not to mention any more considerable violation results in a lawsuit against the violator, and in that case eBay must provide whatever help available in identifying and locating the violator.
Here, we're playing whack-a-mole, with Google pretending to help while in reality they protect the violators.
What about giving of yourself freely to the world? Contributing - and making sure your contributions stay around, available to these, who need them?
Maybe they aren't significant enough for someone to establish some estate that would perpetuate publishing them; that doesn't mean they are useless - and sure once I'm dead I won't care what happens to them and the rest of the world, but currently I am alive and I do care.
Modify your robots.txt and allow the Wayback Machine to archive it. Once it's there, feel free to shut it down. People who need it, will find it in the archive.
You're way optimistic with that "forever". Flash memory is based on electromagnetic charge which has the nasty property of leaking.
I tried some MicroSD cards that's been sitting in my drawer for past 4 years. All needed to be reformatted. SSDs may retain data longer, but it's by no means 'eternal'.
Cherry-picked for "a week" yes, but still disturbing. It's not an issue for datacenters, but for offices.
Imagine an office PC set next to the radiator - oh, the employees are free to set up their desks as they like, and they really don't care about stuff like that. Given employee going for a holiday break for a month, taking the family for a skiing trip. The PC experiencing 50C on regular basis. That's quite enough to cause the data loss.
Yes, in a responsible company there will be backups - or the data will be held on network drives. Visit your average office and see if they use these responsible practices; roughly half don't. Yes, once that occurs any admin who isn't a total idiot will spot the reason for the problem and recommend moving the PC away from the radiator. Still, the problem is not an impossible one - just needing a bad set of circumstances; iterate over enough PCs and offices and it *will* happen.
Reduce the number of flights to what can be comfortably served by existing infrastructure. Reduce maximum planes size. Make it a domestic terminal for flights to several major airports where large, intercontinental flights depart.
As I understand all the problems originate from too high traffic at various points and all of them would need to be expanded. So what if you instead reduced the traffic to the narrowest choke point size?
Do build a large airport away from the city. If someone goes on a 14 hour flight, an extra hour of commute won't change much, especially if it means comfortable and organized boarding experience. OTOH it makes a difference if you want to visit your aunt seven hours of driving away, if you can get there through one hour of commute, half-hour of boarding and an hour of flight.
Closing down all that existing infrastructure would be a huge waste of money. Smaller planes mean safer landing. Less traffic means safety in air. Fewer passengers mean the terminals, parking lots and public communication will be able to handle the numbers comfortably, without need for upgrades.
Sure the solution shares some disadvantages of leaving the airport running at current capacity, and some disadvantages of shutting it down and building a new one - but it seems to me it resolves the worst of disadvantages of both.
It doesn't matter how trivial and stupid the DRM is - what matters is that circumventing it is illegal.
Like these AudioCDs that had a data track that would auto-install some malware that breaks your CD writing capability. Circumventing it required holding shift down while inserting the disk, to prevent autoplay from starting. The guy who published that information was arrested for "providing tools for circumvention of DRM".
Their whole DRM could have consisted in a single notch in the edge, and as result placing scissors next to the coffee maker would make you a felon.
You're as much a customer as a product. You are provided service and your *basic* customer data is protected.
But more advanced data - like data usage, profile of usage, tracking information, network of contacts, all that "meta" stuff - is a product you manufacture and they sell or use to optimize their service (read: give you less, get you to pay more). And the police can just request free access to that product.
the distance to the visible horizon - the most distant object we can see - isn't growing, it's *shrinking*.
Not yet. We have a much more firm limit in the form of the image of the Big Bang and it's still within the Hubble Sphere. We technically *could* see past it, but even if we had the hardware, it's pretty much opaque.
Yes, as the universe ages, the image moves away from us at c + expansion rate, and eventually it will vanish behind the cosmic event horizon forever, and since then its acceleration will begin to swallow objects making less available for observation. But we have a good few billion years until the cosmological limits imposed by space expansion become our worry. Until then, our theoretical limits are caused by the structure of the universe, and practical limits - by $$$.
That's only if our telescopes could reach the Hubble Sphere. That way light speed + space expansion would be our distance limit and only time would allow us to see objects between the Hubble Sphere and the Cosmic Space Horizon.
But so far with our best equipment we are barely reaching a third of this distance and our limits are still of technological nature - or more accurately of economical nature (we *know* how to build better telescopes that would reach farther, but we don't have the budget).
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There are countries (including the US) that do consider certain acts committed outside of their borders, not by their citizens, that only indirectly affect their country or citizens, as full crimes, to be persecuted and the guilty to be extradited, regardless of laws of the countries where these "crimes" were committed.
So, if given country has a law against aiding unauthorized entities from spying on their citizens, and the firm sells the software to these entities, it is committing a crime. And while extradition or direct consequences are unlikely, they are not impossible, especially if employees of the firm ever visit the country in question.
Filler appendices and introduction to the problem? What about over 30 pages of autopromo?
Testimonials. Reviews. Forewords By Famous People I'd Never Heard About. Award nominations. Blurbs. Thanks to Famous People for Help.
If I see the book needs so much space to convince the reader it's any good, it means the actual content definitely isn't good enough to sell the book.
Nah, the kind of companies they shop at are the kind of corps that dodge the tax.
Do you happen to work for RIAA? They tend to sue people for causing them losses like these.
DRY the containment :) Though that changes the concentration.
Nope. SJWs don't pay taxes. SJW's parents pay taxes.
it would be very nice if Windows stopped insisting that its driver for "Unknown Device" is up to date, at newest version and doesn't need to be replaced by another driver supplied by the manufacturer. Once new hardware in Windows is recognized as "Unknown Device" it's about impossible to convince Windows to change it to something more reasonable. Remove the hardware, wipe all traces of its past existence from system, install the correct drivers and only then install the hardware.
Seriously, Microsoft, the first this issue appeared was Windows 95. And it still persists!
One thing she could have done - turn call forwarding to a private phone on, so that the 24/7 condition is met, and then... sky's the limit.
Get a friendly taxi driver to take the phone for the night.
Put it on an RC plane and take it for a trip over the city center.
Put it in a box and attach with a magnet to your boss' car.
Borrow it for a friend who does car races (preferably illegal) to take it for a 200MPH ride.
Root the phone, get a GPS spoofing app and "send it to Antarctica".
Or just leave it in a desk drawer at work...
Almost... almost... Broken wrists? Getting there:
"If you die in the game you die for real."
There's always an option of energy hoarding. I saw that sci-fi once; the whole universe is long dead but the civilization thrives on a single isle of enormous hoard of energy picked before that. Yes, that means the universe isn't -entirely- dead, but its final thermal death is prolonged far past its natural date through artificial means buying the civilization extra time to either migrate to a different universe or trigger a new big bang.
Plus it's not entirely sure if space expansion can't be harnessed as an energy source; that effect seems to increase potential energy between distant objects at no cost at all - a mysterious source of negative entropy.
Probably crappy controllers that don't refresh the written data. I guess the retention is 1 year since last write of given block.
Not to mention any more considerable violation results in a lawsuit against the violator, and in that case eBay must provide whatever help available in identifying and locating the violator.
Here, we're playing whack-a-mole, with Google pretending to help while in reality they protect the violators.
That's a very selfish approach.
What about giving of yourself freely to the world? Contributing - and making sure your contributions stay around, available to these, who need them?
Maybe they aren't significant enough for someone to establish some estate that would perpetuate publishing them; that doesn't mean they are useless - and sure once I'm dead I won't care what happens to them and the rest of the world, but currently I am alive and I do care.
Thermal death of the universe will happen long after we develop cross-multiverse travel.
I thought I could connect with the world of living over the Ethernet but it appeared not to be what I hoped.
Modify your robots.txt and allow the Wayback Machine to archive it. Once it's there, feel free to shut it down. People who need it, will find it in the archive.
You're way optimistic with that "forever". Flash memory is based on electromagnetic charge which has the nasty property of leaking.
I tried some MicroSD cards that's been sitting in my drawer for past 4 years. All needed to be reformatted. SSDs may retain data longer, but it's by no means 'eternal'.
Cherry-picked for "a week" yes, but still disturbing. It's not an issue for datacenters, but for offices.
Imagine an office PC set next to the radiator - oh, the employees are free to set up their desks as they like, and they really don't care about stuff like that. Given employee going for a holiday break for a month, taking the family for a skiing trip. The PC experiencing 50C on regular basis. That's quite enough to cause the data loss.
Yes, in a responsible company there will be backups - or the data will be held on network drives. Visit your average office and see if they use these responsible practices; roughly half don't. Yes, once that occurs any admin who isn't a total idiot will spot the reason for the problem and recommend moving the PC away from the radiator. Still, the problem is not an impossible one - just needing a bad set of circumstances; iterate over enough PCs and offices and it *will* happen.
Reduce the number of flights to what can be comfortably served by existing infrastructure. Reduce maximum planes size. Make it a domestic terminal for flights to several major airports where large, intercontinental flights depart.
As I understand all the problems originate from too high traffic at various points and all of them would need to be expanded. So what if you instead reduced the traffic to the narrowest choke point size?
Do build a large airport away from the city. If someone goes on a 14 hour flight, an extra hour of commute won't change much, especially if it means comfortable and organized boarding experience. OTOH it makes a difference if you want to visit your aunt seven hours of driving away, if you can get there through one hour of commute, half-hour of boarding and an hour of flight.
Closing down all that existing infrastructure would be a huge waste of money. Smaller planes mean safer landing. Less traffic means safety in air. Fewer passengers mean the terminals, parking lots and public communication will be able to handle the numbers comfortably, without need for upgrades.
Sure the solution shares some disadvantages of leaving the airport running at current capacity, and some disadvantages of shutting it down and building a new one - but it seems to me it resolves the worst of disadvantages of both.
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You mean you'll be able to do "apt-get dist-upgrade" in Windows?
It doesn't matter how trivial and stupid the DRM is - what matters is that circumventing it is illegal.
Like these AudioCDs that had a data track that would auto-install some malware that breaks your CD writing capability. Circumventing it required holding shift down while inserting the disk, to prevent autoplay from starting. The guy who published that information was arrested for "providing tools for circumvention of DRM".
Their whole DRM could have consisted in a single notch in the edge, and as result placing scissors next to the coffee maker would make you a felon.
You're as much a customer as a product. You are provided service and your *basic* customer data is protected.
But more advanced data - like data usage, profile of usage, tracking information, network of contacts, all that "meta" stuff - is a product you manufacture and they sell or use to optimize their service (read: give you less, get you to pay more). And the police can just request free access to that product.
the distance to the visible horizon - the most distant object we can see - isn't growing, it's *shrinking*.
Not yet.
We have a much more firm limit in the form of the image of the Big Bang and it's still within the Hubble Sphere. We technically *could* see past it, but even if we had the hardware, it's pretty much opaque.
Yes, as the universe ages, the image moves away from us at c + expansion rate, and eventually it will vanish behind the cosmic event horizon forever, and since then its acceleration will begin to swallow objects making less available for observation. But we have a good few billion years until the cosmological limits imposed by space expansion become our worry. Until then, our theoretical limits are caused by the structure of the universe, and practical limits - by $$$.
That's only if our telescopes could reach the Hubble Sphere. That way light speed + space expansion would be our distance limit and only time would allow us to see objects between the Hubble Sphere and the Cosmic Space Horizon.
But so far with our best equipment we are barely reaching a third of this distance and our limits are still of technological nature - or more accurately of economical nature (we *know* how to build better telescopes that would reach farther, but we don't have the budget).