Now, where it may get harder is finding a 32-bit system that is server oriented since most server builders are looking towards packing in the memory beyond the capabilities of a 32-bit system.
The whole argument is nothing more than a straw man. All you have to do is have a multi-boot system where one of the images is 32 bit. Sure, you won't be able to take advantage of all of the RAM, but it will run, just fine. And, you can have one using a PAE kernel so that you can test programs in that environment as well. (Yes, people do use PAE. It's for when you have more than 4 GB RAM but either don't want to nuke, pave and reinstall a 64 bit system or can't because you can't afford the downtime. All you need to do for that is install a PAE kernel and support packages, reboot into it and later, remove the non-PAE packages. And yes, I'm writing from personal experience.)
Well, for one, they don't have to to be the owner of it. In the US, it's first to use, not first to register.
I don't think so. Back in the '80s I did tech support for a small startup (long gone by now) marketing specialized software to law firms. The owner of the firm was a lawyer and he trademarked the program's name after doing a proper trademark search. About a year after we started selling, we got a Cease and Desist letter from somebody who'd been marketing a completely different, unrelated program under the same name for about ten years, but never trademarked the name. My boss replied, pointing out that they'd never bothered to trademark the name and he had, meaning that he owned the name and they didn't. He also told them that he'd allow them to continue using the name as long as they stopped bothering him and made sure that their customers knew that this was a different program. We never heard from them again.
Considering all of the money that Sony's paid out to lawyers over the years fighting this plus the amount they'll end up paying out to the customers if they're going to end up worse off than they would have if they'd settled before this even came to trial. Maybe, if the total costs of the case are high enough, Sony's stockholders may decide to vote out the current management on the grounds of their failing to protect the company's assets. One can only hope.
Maybe, maybe not. But Hillary certainly should be. Not because of her politics but because more than anything else, she's driven by ambition, and a lust for power and that's what Slytherin is all about. To quote the Sorting Hat from when it's examining Harry, " Slytherins will do anything to get their way."
Exactly. Paper records are far more secure than digital ones can ever be because you need to get physical access to examine them. Anybody who trusts any of their private information to the cloud is nothing but a common, ordinary F-O-O-L.
If you want to get rid of most telemarketing, put all of your phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. Then, make a habit of reporting violations so that the feds have the evidence they need to enforce the law. This won't stop all of it, but it will keep away the more honest companies and give you a way to fight back against scammers.
And how, exactly, is restricted computer access going to prevent him from going right back to his old tricks? Not only has he proven time and time again that he has no intention of stopping, he doesn't even need to be in the same room as a computer because all he's doing is paying other people to send out spam for him. No, the only thing that might work is sending some of his employees to prison because they're just as guilty as he is.
And there are some people who just don't care who sees them naked. If that weren't the case, there'd be no pornography industry. This really doesn't sound like a good business model.
True. And I'm sure that there are people who wouldn't mind having random strangers looking at their naked body as long as there's no way to identify them, but would be horribly embarrassed if anybody they knew saw the pictures, or they were showing their ID so that people could find out who they were and possibly harass them.
My sister was diagnosed with MS over fifteen years ago, so I know more about it than most people need to. When you have an episode, various functions degrade, such as vision and so-on. When you go into remission, some, but not all of the functions return, meaning that you're on a gradual downward slope. Judging from what was written, not all of the patients who experienced a stop in the progression got any function back.
In many populated areas all is needed is WiFi to get 50m accuracy of your location. If there's no WiFi, a guess will be made, sometimes the guess isn't far off, sometimes it is.
At home, on my desktop, I have a wired connection to my router and out by ADSL. Location sharing is generally several miles off because that's where the DSLAM is. If I'm using my laptop at home, the WiFi is connected to my own router, which again, goes out the phone lines. The only time I'm likely to get more accurate location data from WiFi is when I'm on the road and using my phone. Of course, if I'm looking for a nearby gas station, a few miles isn't going to make much of a difference.
...i just pull out my drivers license and enter my licence number...
You mean you haven't memorized it yet? I memorized mine over forty years ago and still remember it. I wish I could say the same for my cell phone number, but then, the only time I need to know it is when I give it out to somebody and pretty much everybody who might need it already has it.
If you go to their website, you still have to go to the right city. This may involve getting to the right county first (I live in Ventura County in California but I often need this in Los Angeles, or Orange County.) or even the right state, depending on how far you're going. With the mobile app, you bring it up, tell it to find gas prices for you and get a list of what's local, with prices. Much faster, much easier and no worries about getting wrong info because of a typo.
Why would anyone install an app which does not offer anything above the web site?
Convenience. Let me give you an example. There's a site I have bookmarked on both my desktop and my laptop that tells me the best gas prices near where I live. If I'm on the road, I can tell the site where I am and it will get me the best local prices, but I have to do that every time I need it, and I can't use it in the car. I also have their mobile app on my phone. If I'm low on gas, I can pull over, bring the app up and it will use my GPS to find the nearest stations and they're prices, or I can hand my phone to a passenger and let them use the app. Most of the time, it's just as simple to use the website because it already defaults to prices where I live, but there are times that that's not practical and using the app is.
I have three tattoos, but there's no way they're going to get pictures of them for their database without a warrant, two days of prep and the assistance of a proctologist. All three of them are 50cm "up."
... save for the very unlikely chance that it survives the suns transition to a white dwarf.
Long before that happens, the sun will transform itself to a red giant and balloon out to about Saturn's orbit. Even though most of the volume of a red giant is simply a red-hot vacuum, it's unlikely that the Earth will survive until the sun collapses into a white dwarf.
Back in the '80s, I worked for a little startup that sold a program similar to a document generator to the Legal Industry. It helped you create templates for legal instruments that you used repeatedly then helped you fill them out from a database of facts related to the current case. The routines that helped you create the template and fill them out looked incredibly smart, but all they really did was suggest the same thing you'd used last time.
I think that if I managed to hijack a site in North Korea, I'd simply redirect it to a tourism site in South Korea to let the North Koreans get a look at how the other half lives.
I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with the black box, it's just that it's designed to survive practically anything rather than being as easy as possible to locate, and it's hard to see how you could make it do both. My thought was to leave it alone to do what it does so well and add a second piece of emergency gear designed to help searchers locate the crash site. Then, if there's no other wreckage visible, they can send divers or underwater drones to locate it and recover the black box.
Black boxes are already as optimized as they can be for cost and recoverability.
Indeed they are, but they're not built to be easy to find. Something that's designed to break away from the plane in a crash, float and be easy to spot might not tell you why the plane crashed, but if it's found soon after the crash it will tell searchers where to look for the rest of the wreckage. Give it a battery operated beacon and a sea anchor to minimize drift and will be easy to find under most weather conditions and should stay fairly close to where the crash happened.
I learned decades ago that the more vulgar your password is the easier it is to remember. When I worked for an (unnamed) ISP, they decided that it was a Good Idea to make all of our internal passwords (only valid for on-site connections) expire every 60 days, probably because somebody discovered that they could do it and conflated "could" and "should." At one point, my password there was FuC|y0U! Then, I had trouble with it and had to give it to my lead to see if she could make it work. She was quite amused by it, and even more so by my explanation of why I'd picked it.
Oh, I'm not claiming that I'll never grow old, or that I'm still the same as I was at 35. I am, however, active enough that most people who don't know me wouldn't consider me elderly, and as Asimov used to say, I consider myself to be in late youth. Among other things, I still have most of my hair and it's not even started to turn gray yet.
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Now, where it may get harder is finding a 32-bit system that is server oriented since most server builders are looking towards packing in the memory beyond the capabilities of a 32-bit system.
The whole argument is nothing more than a straw man. All you have to do is have a multi-boot system where one of the images is 32 bit. Sure, you won't be able to take advantage of all of the RAM, but it will run, just fine. And, you can have one using a PAE kernel so that you can test programs in that environment as well. (Yes, people do use PAE. It's for when you have more than 4 GB RAM but either don't want to nuke, pave and reinstall a 64 bit system or can't because you can't afford the downtime. All you need to do for that is install a PAE kernel and support packages, reboot into it and later, remove the non-PAE packages. And yes, I'm writing from personal experience.)
You keep the robot in the same way the British kept classic Daleks out: every exit leads to stairs, not a ramp.
Well, for one, they don't have to to be the owner of it. In the US, it's first to use, not first to register.
I don't think so. Back in the '80s I did tech support for a small startup (long gone by now) marketing specialized software to law firms. The owner of the firm was a lawyer and he trademarked the program's name after doing a proper trademark search. About a year after we started selling, we got a Cease and Desist letter from somebody who'd been marketing a completely different, unrelated program under the same name for about ten years, but never trademarked the name. My boss replied, pointing out that they'd never bothered to trademark the name and he had, meaning that he owned the name and they didn't. He also told them that he'd allow them to continue using the name as long as they stopped bothering him and made sure that their customers knew that this was a different program. We never heard from them again.
Considering all of the money that Sony's paid out to lawyers over the years fighting this plus the amount they'll end up paying out to the customers if they're going to end up worse off than they would have if they'd settled before this even came to trial. Maybe, if the total costs of the case are high enough, Sony's stockholders may decide to vote out the current management on the grounds of their failing to protect the company's assets. One can only hope.
Maybe, maybe not. But Hillary certainly should be. Not because of her politics but because more than anything else, she's driven by ambition, and a lust for power and that's what Slytherin is all about. To quote the Sorting Hat from when it's examining Harry, " Slytherins will do anything to get their way."
Exactly. Paper records are far more secure than digital ones can ever be because you need to get physical access to examine them. Anybody who trusts any of their private information to the cloud is nothing but a common, ordinary F-O-O-L.
If you want to get rid of most telemarketing, put all of your phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. Then, make a habit of reporting violations so that the feds have the evidence they need to enforce the law. This won't stop all of it, but it will keep away the more honest companies and give you a way to fight back against scammers.
And how, exactly, is restricted computer access going to prevent him from going right back to his old tricks? Not only has he proven time and time again that he has no intention of stopping, he doesn't even need to be in the same room as a computer because all he's doing is paying other people to send out spam for him. No, the only thing that might work is sending some of his employees to prison because they're just as guilty as he is.
And there are some people who just don't care who sees them naked. If that weren't the case, there'd be no pornography industry. This really doesn't sound like a good business model.
True. And I'm sure that there are people who wouldn't mind having random strangers looking at their naked body as long as there's no way to identify them, but would be horribly embarrassed if anybody they knew saw the pictures, or they were showing their ID so that people could find out who they were and possibly harass them.
My sister was diagnosed with MS over fifteen years ago, so I know more about it than most people need to. When you have an episode, various functions degrade, such as vision and so-on. When you go into remission, some, but not all of the functions return, meaning that you're on a gradual downward slope. Judging from what was written, not all of the patients who experienced a stop in the progression got any function back.
In many populated areas all is needed is WiFi to get 50m accuracy of your location. If there's no WiFi, a guess will be made, sometimes the guess isn't far off, sometimes it is.
At home, on my desktop, I have a wired connection to my router and out by ADSL. Location sharing is generally several miles off because that's where the DSLAM is. If I'm using my laptop at home, the WiFi is connected to my own router, which again, goes out the phone lines. The only time I'm likely to get more accurate location data from WiFi is when I'm on the road and using my phone. Of course, if I'm looking for a nearby gas station, a few miles isn't going to make much of a difference.
...i just pull out my drivers license and enter my licence number...
You mean you haven't memorized it yet? I memorized mine over forty years ago and still remember it. I wish I could say the same for my cell phone number, but then, the only time I need to know it is when I give it out to somebody and pretty much everybody who might need it already has it.
That's not going to work very well unless the computer has a GPS chip, and neither my desktop nor my laptop has one.
If you go to their website, you still have to go to the right city. This may involve getting to the right county first (I live in Ventura County in California but I often need this in Los Angeles, or Orange County.) or even the right state, depending on how far you're going. With the mobile app, you bring it up, tell it to find gas prices for you and get a list of what's local, with prices. Much faster, much easier and no worries about getting wrong info because of a typo.
Why would anyone install an app which does not offer anything above the web site?
Convenience. Let me give you an example. There's a site I have bookmarked on both my desktop and my laptop that tells me the best gas prices near where I live. If I'm on the road, I can tell the site where I am and it will get me the best local prices, but I have to do that every time I need it, and I can't use it in the car. I also have their mobile app on my phone. If I'm low on gas, I can pull over, bring the app up and it will use my GPS to find the nearest stations and they're prices, or I can hand my phone to a passenger and let them use the app. Most of the time, it's just as simple to use the website because it already defaults to prices where I live, but there are times that that's not practical and using the app is.
Not only that, you'll be able to keep warm on cold winter nights by using Steam Heat.
I have three tattoos, but there's no way they're going to get pictures of them for their database without a warrant, two days of prep and the assistance of a proctologist. All three of them are 50cm "up."
... save for the very unlikely chance that it survives the suns transition to a white dwarf.
Long before that happens, the sun will transform itself to a red giant and balloon out to about Saturn's orbit. Even though most of the volume of a red giant is simply a red-hot vacuum, it's unlikely that the Earth will survive until the sun collapses into a white dwarf.
What about when I have a long running process I need to run and I don't want it to be stopped if I get disconnected from wifi?
Why don't you just use nohup, because that's exactly what it's designed for.
Back in the '80s, I worked for a little startup that sold a program similar to a document generator to the Legal Industry. It helped you create templates for legal instruments that you used repeatedly then helped you fill them out from a database of facts related to the current case. The routines that helped you create the template and fill them out looked incredibly smart, but all they really did was suggest the same thing you'd used last time.
I think that if I managed to hijack a site in North Korea, I'd simply redirect it to a tourism site in South Korea to let the North Koreans get a look at how the other half lives.
I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with the black box, it's just that it's designed to survive practically anything rather than being as easy as possible to locate, and it's hard to see how you could make it do both. My thought was to leave it alone to do what it does so well and add a second piece of emergency gear designed to help searchers locate the crash site. Then, if there's no other wreckage visible, they can send divers or underwater drones to locate it and recover the black box.
Black boxes are already as optimized as they can be for cost and recoverability.
Indeed they are, but they're not built to be easy to find. Something that's designed to break away from the plane in a crash, float and be easy to spot might not tell you why the plane crashed, but if it's found soon after the crash it will tell searchers where to look for the rest of the wreckage. Give it a battery operated beacon and a sea anchor to minimize drift and will be easy to find under most weather conditions and should stay fairly close to where the crash happened.
I learned decades ago that the more vulgar your password is the easier it is to remember. When I worked for an (unnamed) ISP, they decided that it was a Good Idea to make all of our internal passwords (only valid for on-site connections) expire every 60 days, probably because somebody discovered that they could do it and conflated "could" and "should." At one point, my password there was FuC|y0U! Then, I had trouble with it and had to give it to my lead to see if she could make it work. She was quite amused by it, and even more so by my explanation of why I'd picked it.
Oh, I'm not claiming that I'll never grow old, or that I'm still the same as I was at 35. I am, however, active enough that most people who don't know me wouldn't consider me elderly, and as Asimov used to say, I consider myself to be in late youth. Among other things, I still have most of my hair and it's not even started to turn gray yet.