You'll note that the units are energy/(area^2), as in J/(m^2).
Just a small nitpick here. The units are energy/area, as in J/(m^2) not energy/(area^2), which would translate to energy/((m^2)^2). I'm not sure just what that would be, but it's clearly not what you intended.
At the high end, it's actually pretty amazing how much yield you can get out of a small space by going vertical.
Yes, there's a lot of space between the shelves and the ceiling in the average supermarket, but have you ever wondered why? It's so that all of the hot air generated by the machinery, the employees and the customers has someplace to go, because hot air rises. This way, they get the ventilation they need without using as much electricity for cooling as they'd otherwise need. Now, what happens if you fill that space up with hydroponics, along with all of the electrical machinery you need to make those "farms" work? Do you still get all of the cooling and air circulation you need? I don't know, but I doubt it. Candidly, this idea doesn't sound as well thought out as it sounds on the surface, but I'm willing to be persuaded.
Though I can't really fathom much reason to store US data (exclusively) on non-US servers except to try and skip around US data (anti-)protection laws.
And that, right there, is the one question that everybody seems to be ignoring. If the data refers strictly to US customers, why is it being stored only in Ireland? Unless Microsoft can come up with an answer for that that doesn't include trying to dodge around US laws, they should be subject to whatever sanctions are appropriate for their actions. (IANAL, so I don't know the right terminology for this.)
If your APIs are unstable then you are just going to have an undocumented and difficult to understand system that is impossible to debug for anyone but the fools that built it.
Correction: it will be impossible for anybody to debug including the fools that built it because even they won't understand what they did wrong.
If I read TFS correctly, they're planning on having three spacecraft with each pointing lasers at the other two. If I'm right, that gives you six sets of data to work with instead of the two that your way does, making it easier to correct for the inevitable station-keeping issues. Alas, even if this goes off on schedule, I'll be in my mid-80s when it launches and I'll be very lucky if I survive long enough to see any results. Still, it sounds like a great idea and I hope they pull it off.
I don't know how things are where you live, but here in Southern California, grocery checkers are expected to recognize all common produce and know the codes without looking them up. The more codes they know, the less time they waste looking them up and the more customers they can serve per hour.
It doesn't have to pack any power. Using a solar sail, it could exit the solar system at about 0.05c (80 years to go 4ly) just using sunlight. But it could be boosted to a much higher speed by also aiming earth or space based lasers at the sail.
That's not even a new idea. Back in 1974, The Mote in God's Eye had an interstellar probe carried by a light sail come into a human-colonized system and reveal the Motie's existence to humanity. In fact, the space-based lasers that were used to launch it were so powerful that they changed the apparent brightness and color of the star they orbited enough to cause credulous colonists to found a new religion.
This doesn't align with the business interest. If it costs money and doesn't save money or make money you're wasting your time.
If your company were going to be held liable for security vulnerabilities, finding and plugging these holes during development would be part of your job. As things are, there's no reason to look for or deal with them unless there's a way to make your customers pay for it. This holds true for all custom software, either open or closed source.
I was thinking the same thing, but I'm guessing that he meant the only land animal. There's no reason that there wouldn't have been birds, and the foxes probably preyed on the birds. Checking, I see that they also eat fish, and seal pups, so it's not unreasonable to see how they survived.
No, it shouldn't create a random password when you install it. Part of logging in for the first time should be a mandatory password change, leaving as little time for something like this as possible. And, remote access should be disabled until after the password has been changed.
No. As a typewriter, either manual or electric, gets used, the hammers wear in distinctive ways, and sometimes shift position. Given a sample, it's not hard to see that (as an example) the left edge of a lower-case t's crossbar is worn, the bottom of the upper-case P doesn't quite go all the way down and the lower-case e has shifted up and to the right. Once you know that, you can look for those specific imperfections on a document and if you see all of them and no others, you can be sure that the typewriter in question was used to create the document. And, unlike some other forms of identification, it's very rare for two experienced investigators to come to different conclusions, either in court cases or blind trials.
The OP mentions, among other things, using torrents to download recordings of concerts. Every torrent client I've ever used includes configuring it to work only during specified hours, along with putting a cap on the bandwidth used at certain times of day. Using that, you can throttle your client to a rate low enough to avoid the cap, except between midnight and 8 AM, to work around your carrier's data limits.
I use Xfce, and agree with you completely. I'm an old-time CLI hack, I used Windows 3.1 a bit, but only when I needed it. The first time I used a GUI full time was when I was working at a company in the '90s that had Win 95 on every desktop. By the time I migrated to a full-time GUI about ten years ago or so, organizing my desktop in the Win 95 fashion, with one panel and columns of icons down one side of the screen simply felt right to me. Gnome 2 let me do that, but the fact that Gnome 3 wasn't going to allow me to decide for myself what went where, I moved away, and ended up with Xfce. From what I've heard about recent versions of Windows, letting people customize things for themselves isn't always an easy task. I won't say that most users would abandon Windows if they knew how easy it was to set most Linux DEs up the way they want, but it would probably be another nail in the Microsoft coffin.
If the geek squad tries to claim that they can't testify about corporate procedure under oath, they're in a world of trouble. This isn't national security here, and unless they can prove that what they did is a trade secret, they can end up in jail for contempt.
You clearly don't understand what "reasonable doubt" means. It doesn't mean that all you have to do is throw out another possible explanation and you're home free, it means that the jury has to find your alternate explanation to be reasonable and plausible to the extent that they can't really be sure if the defendant is guilty or not. Just saying that the CP came from some other infected computer in the repair facility isn't enough; you either have to show that there was another computer there with the exact same images on it, or at least show that the facility didn't take proper precautions to prevent infection. And, you also have to explain why the images were deleted, so that you had to use forensic tools to find and recover them. Not impossible, but a far more difficult task than you think.
I have often thought it should be that way (or, similarly, if one is accepting public assistance, he/she can't vote).
I'm retired. My income consists of Social Security and compensation from the VA because I'm 30% disabled. (Service connected.) The compensation isn't considered income for tax purposes, and it's been at least a decade since I've even had to file a tax return. Does that mean that you think that I shouldn't be allowed to vote?
I have circumstantial evidence suggesting Trump is the reason...
No, you don't. You have one, unverifiable anecdote. I'm not calling you a liar, but all we have is your unsupported claim that you've decided not to visit the US this year strictly because you don't like this country's policy on social media accounts.
It's important to keep in mind that this is only an estimate, expressed as a round number. That doesn't mean that it's wrong, or that we should disregard it, it just means that we shouldn't take it too literally.
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You'll note that the units are energy/(area^2), as in J/(m^2).
Just a small nitpick here. The units are energy/area, as in J/(m^2) not energy/(area^2), which would translate to energy/((m^2)^2). I'm not sure just what that would be, but it's clearly not what you intended.
At the high end, it's actually pretty amazing how much yield you can get out of a small space by going vertical.
Yes, there's a lot of space between the shelves and the ceiling in the average supermarket, but have you ever wondered why? It's so that all of the hot air generated by the machinery, the employees and the customers has someplace to go, because hot air rises. This way, they get the ventilation they need without using as much electricity for cooling as they'd otherwise need. Now, what happens if you fill that space up with hydroponics, along with all of the electrical machinery you need to make those "farms" work? Do you still get all of the cooling and air circulation you need? I don't know, but I doubt it. Candidly, this idea doesn't sound as well thought out as it sounds on the surface, but I'm willing to be persuaded.
...all they have now is some semblence of hope those virgins that they were promised... arent male!
Some of them might actually prefer that, you know. I'd much rather they ended up with 72 nuns with shotguns.
Though I can't really fathom much reason to store US data (exclusively) on non-US servers except to try and skip around US data (anti-)protection laws.
And that, right there, is the one question that everybody seems to be ignoring. If the data refers strictly to US customers, why is it being stored only in Ireland? Unless Microsoft can come up with an answer for that that doesn't include trying to dodge around US laws, they should be subject to whatever sanctions are appropriate for their actions. (IANAL, so I don't know the right terminology for this.)
If your APIs are unstable then you are just going to have an undocumented and difficult to understand system that is impossible to debug for anyone but the fools that built it.
Correction: it will be impossible for anybody to debug including the fools that built it because even they won't understand what they did wrong.
Try eating too many beets. In some people, it makes your piss turn bright red, but aside from that, it's harmless.
If I read TFS correctly, they're planning on having three spacecraft with each pointing lasers at the other two. If I'm right, that gives you six sets of data to work with instead of the two that your way does, making it easier to correct for the inevitable station-keeping issues. Alas, even if this goes off on schedule, I'll be in my mid-80s when it launches and I'll be very lucky if I survive long enough to see any results. Still, it sounds like a great idea and I hope they pull it off.
How should a product code be memorised?
I don't know how things are where you live, but here in Southern California, grocery checkers are expected to recognize all common produce and know the codes without looking them up. The more codes they know, the less time they waste looking them up and the more customers they can serve per hour.
It doesn't have to pack any power. Using a solar sail, it could exit the solar system at about 0.05c (80 years to go 4ly) just using sunlight. But it could be boosted to a much higher speed by also aiming earth or space based lasers at the sail.
That's not even a new idea. Back in 1974, The Mote in God's Eye had an interstellar probe carried by a light sail come into a human-colonized system and reveal the Motie's existence to humanity. In fact, the space-based lasers that were used to launch it were so powerful that they changed the apparent brightness and color of the star they orbited enough to cause credulous colonists to found a new religion.
This doesn't align with the business interest. If it costs money and doesn't save money or make money you're wasting your time.
If your company were going to be held liable for security vulnerabilities, finding and plugging these holes during development would be part of your job. As things are, there's no reason to look for or deal with them unless there's a way to make your customers pay for it. This holds true for all custom software, either open or closed source.
I was thinking the same thing, but I'm guessing that he meant the only land animal. There's no reason that there wouldn't have been birds, and the foxes probably preyed on the birds. Checking, I see that they also eat fish, and seal pups, so it's not unreasonable to see how they survived.
OK, so tell me: if passwords are disabled, and your public key hasn't been sent yet, how do you connect to it to transfer the key?
No, it shouldn't create a random password when you install it. Part of logging in for the first time should be a mandatory password change, leaving as little time for something like this as possible. And, remote access should be disabled until after the password has been changed.
No. As a typewriter, either manual or electric, gets used, the hammers wear in distinctive ways, and sometimes shift position. Given a sample, it's not hard to see that (as an example) the left edge of a lower-case t's crossbar is worn, the bottom of the upper-case P doesn't quite go all the way down and the lower-case e has shifted up and to the right. Once you know that, you can look for those specific imperfections on a document and if you see all of them and no others, you can be sure that the typewriter in question was used to create the document. And, unlike some other forms of identification, it's very rare for two experienced investigators to come to different conclusions, either in court cases or blind trials.
The OP mentions, among other things, using torrents to download recordings of concerts. Every torrent client I've ever used includes configuring it to work only during specified hours, along with putting a cap on the bandwidth used at certain times of day. Using that, you can throttle your client to a rate low enough to avoid the cap, except between midnight and 8 AM, to work around your carrier's data limits.
I use Xfce, and agree with you completely. I'm an old-time CLI hack, I used Windows 3.1 a bit, but only when I needed it. The first time I used a GUI full time was when I was working at a company in the '90s that had Win 95 on every desktop. By the time I migrated to a full-time GUI about ten years ago or so, organizing my desktop in the Win 95 fashion, with one panel and columns of icons down one side of the screen simply felt right to me. Gnome 2 let me do that, but the fact that Gnome 3 wasn't going to allow me to decide for myself what went where, I moved away, and ended up with Xfce. From what I've heard about recent versions of Windows, letting people customize things for themselves isn't always an easy task. I won't say that most users would abandon Windows if they knew how easy it was to set most Linux DEs up the way they want, but it would probably be another nail in the Microsoft coffin.
That shouldn't prevent anybody from being allowed to use them. Life itself is a terminal condition.
If the geek squad tries to claim that they can't testify about corporate procedure under oath, they're in a world of trouble. This isn't national security here, and unless they can prove that what they did is a trade secret, they can end up in jail for contempt.
Under reasonable doubt I can say...
You clearly don't understand what "reasonable doubt" means. It doesn't mean that all you have to do is throw out another possible explanation and you're home free, it means that the jury has to find your alternate explanation to be reasonable and plausible to the extent that they can't really be sure if the defendant is guilty or not. Just saying that the CP came from some other infected computer in the repair facility isn't enough; you either have to show that there was another computer there with the exact same images on it, or at least show that the facility didn't take proper precautions to prevent infection. And, you also have to explain why the images were deleted, so that you had to use forensic tools to find and recover them. Not impossible, but a far more difficult task than you think.
Look: if you're going to use food as a unit of currency, do it right! How much is that in saffron?
I have often thought it should be that way (or, similarly, if one is accepting public assistance, he/she can't vote).
I'm retired. My income consists of Social Security and compensation from the VA because I'm 30% disabled. (Service connected.) The compensation isn't considered income for tax purposes, and it's been at least a decade since I've even had to file a tax return. Does that mean that you think that I shouldn't be allowed to vote?
I have circumstantial evidence suggesting Trump is the reason...
No, you don't. You have one, unverifiable anecdote. I'm not calling you a liar, but all we have is your unsupported claim that you've decided not to visit the US this year strictly because you don't like this country's policy on social media accounts.
It's important to keep in mind that this is only an estimate, expressed as a round number. That doesn't mean that it's wrong, or that we should disregard it, it just means that we shouldn't take it too literally.
Or get more RAM. The sticks are dirt cheap.
This works if, and only if your mobo isn't already maxed out.
God have mercy on all morons who are still running unpatched machines...
Because I certainly won't. Either this will be a good object lesson, or they'll get what they deserve for not learning from experience.