This is a bit reminiscent of the movie Zardoz. Despite the low-budget element and Sean Connery's red diaper (nappies if you prefer) outfit, the basic premise of the movie is an intriguing one, and unlike a lot of "better" movies, the plot mostly makes sense.
Even simpler, you point a laser pointer at the sky, and sweep it manually over a very distant target (bigger than the moon, but further away as well). Clearly your hand is not going to move faster than light, but the point where the beam finally hits something very well might. Again, this intersection is not a "thing", and cannot be used to communicate faster than the speed of light.
Using outside DNS doesn't help if the carrier is blocking access to an IP address.
BTW another alternate DNS you can add to your list: Velocity Networks (Los Angeles): 206.126.128.2 - it's not as easy to remember as 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 for sure, but some people don't want to be bound to Google.
How long before all traffic other than Netflix and Hulu appears to originate and end in Eastern Europe? For a few things (like those mentioned) it helps to be inside a specific zone, but for just about everything else, it helps to be outside the heavy-handed, censoring regimes.
This fix still requires much of the resources of the previous method, essentially bracketing the shot and picking the best one. This means it will still take just as long to obtain each image, but apparently that wasn't a huge problem. What this saves is something precious though: bandwidth. Now the rover is picking the best shot, instead of sending a bunch of blind guesses and making us sort it out. I suspect that if the bandwidth wasn't precious, they wouldn't have bothered improving on the existing workaround, so it must have been worth all the trouble.
Each company will do exactly the same calculation Amazon has done, and figure out which method of accounting allows them to keep the most money while remaining able to operate in the jurisdictions they care about. If the others come to the same conclusion, it's not because Amazon said so, it's because the numbers and the lawyers said so.
Governments worldwide that are marching to fascism want encryption banned. God forbid (and you bet they'll invoke God in what they're doing) you should be able to talk to someone in a manner they can't easily listen in on! This is not an unintended effect of sloppy legalese, it's a fully intentional consequence of obfuscated legalese.
Will they nail you for communicating with your bank? No. Will they nail you for communicating with someone they consider "undesirable"? You bet your arse they will.
Not only that, but the Internet doesn't even respect international boundaries, let alone state boundaries. The FCC is absolutely within its rights to play the "interstate commerce" card here. You can argue the merits of the FCC position, but it's disingenuous to argue that this isn't under Federal jurisdiction.
Piracy is less of a problem when the platform is "free" to start with. Most people will accept slightly annoying/intrusive advertising to get their OS for free. A few will jailbreak and clean it, but most won't.
If those ads are for relevant things (like "you have less than a quarter tank of fuel, why not try Chevron with Techron?", "You are nearing 50,000 miles, here's a coupon for a free tire inspection", etc.) they may not even be perceived as intrusive so much as helpful.
The problem with double shots is that until quite recently, they were always made of ABS. That means they get shiny, and generally (but not always) feel kinda cheap. PBT and POM have much better feel and don't pick up a shine, but double-shot PBT has always been a low-yield process. Recently a process has been developed to use POM for the inserts and PBT for the key body, and this seems to work, though the wrinkles are still being ironed out. Also, PBT tends to warp while cooling, making the yield low for spacebars. Lots of PBT-key sets still come with an ABS spacebar for this reason.
Pad printing is also not the only option. Dye sublimation is an option for PBT (it doesn't work well on ABS), and although it has less contrast and sharpness than double-shot, it does not wear out because it's not on the surface, it's in the first 0.2 mm or so. Then there's lasering of the legends, which is exactly what it sounds like. The uppermost layer is lasered away, and the plastic below is either photosensitive or is a different color. The downside is that contrast is typically poor and there is a derpression at the legend which can sometimes be felt -- the opposite of pad printing, where sometimes the raised area can be felt, particularly when a clearcoat is applied to reduce wear.
You're rocking a board with Cherry MX switches. There are plenty of replacement key sets available for you. The bad news is that the keys alone probably cost more than your entire keyboard.
Similarly one could ask "why are so few artists making 8-bit chiptunes these days, voluntarily restricting themselves to the limits of a pair of AY3-8910 chips?" The answer is: because it's passé, plain and simple. I still do it (some, far from exclusively), but even some of the other people on the same project don't understand why I am sticking religiously to either 3 notes + 1 noise in mono, or 6 + 2 in hard-panned stereo, with no exceptions. (OK, for Berlioz I used exactly double that.) I force myself to adhere to those limitations because that's what they were. If I don't, then it's inauthentic, and once I start bending rules for convenience, why should I stick to the Mockingboard format at all? I might as well do cheesy MIDI with 16 channels and essentially no composition limits.
"If you hit the wall in an Indy Car and don't take your hands off the wheel, you'll break your wrists. Our wheel is a one-to-one replication of that, but we don't turn it up that high.
If you don't turn it up that high, it's not really a one-to-one replication then, is it?
It is, up to its limit. One-to-one just means they aren't scaling back ALL outputs to fit them in their dynamic range, they're allowing them to clip to the safety limits.
I can foresee asymmetric travel. In the mornings, you'd have people going north, and in the evenings, people going south, more than the reverse. It's easier to get around the SF Bay without a car than it is to get around L.A. without a car. Thus, a lot of the people coming south are going to drive, because even if a train can get them 90% of the way there, they still have a last mile problem.
Of course, but letting the doctors from outside do their work uninhibited IS to their credit. The same cannot be said of all such operations in the region.
This may have something to do with the fact that Liberia itself has an internal image that it is a modern nation with a money problem, rather than a "developing nation".
You: "Okay, let me rephrase this. The hard drive in your server is failing. Do you want to schedule downtime for replacement, or let it fail unpredictably? Your call."
Were LinkedIn profiles used in the little games of Spot The Fed at DEF CON? Seems that if you could tie someone to their profile, you could determine a lot more about them than they're actually willing to tell you directly.
Of all the Cheap Chinese Crap I've had to deal with, remote controls have probably been the least troublesome. They generally live as long as the devices they control, and who knows what's left in them after that?
Now if only the Rii Touch keyboard had been as reliable...
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This is a bit reminiscent of the movie Zardoz. Despite the low-budget element and Sean Connery's red diaper (nappies if you prefer) outfit, the basic premise of the movie is an intriguing one, and unlike a lot of "better" movies, the plot mostly makes sense.
Such a small heating source could come from a soldering iron, and 12VDC soldering irons are not difficult to find.
Even simpler, you point a laser pointer at the sky, and sweep it manually over a very distant target (bigger than the moon, but further away as well). Clearly your hand is not going to move faster than light, but the point where the beam finally hits something very well might. Again, this intersection is not a "thing", and cannot be used to communicate faster than the speed of light.
Using outside DNS doesn't help if the carrier is blocking access to an IP address.
BTW another alternate DNS you can add to your list: Velocity Networks (Los Angeles): 206.126.128.2 - it's not as easy to remember as 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 for sure, but some people don't want to be bound to Google.
How long before all traffic other than Netflix and Hulu appears to originate and end in Eastern Europe? For a few things (like those mentioned) it helps to be inside a specific zone, but for just about everything else, it helps to be outside the heavy-handed, censoring regimes.
This fix still requires much of the resources of the previous method, essentially bracketing the shot and picking the best one. This means it will still take just as long to obtain each image, but apparently that wasn't a huge problem. What this saves is something precious though: bandwidth. Now the rover is picking the best shot, instead of sending a bunch of blind guesses and making us sort it out. I suspect that if the bandwidth wasn't precious, they wouldn't have bothered improving on the existing workaround, so it must have been worth all the trouble.
Each company will do exactly the same calculation Amazon has done, and figure out which method of accounting allows them to keep the most money while remaining able to operate in the jurisdictions they care about. If the others come to the same conclusion, it's not because Amazon said so, it's because the numbers and the lawyers said so.
They do it themselves when repeatedly told they don't exist.
They don't need to break encryption to find out what you're doing with your bank, since the bank legally has no choice but to roll over and tell them.
Governments worldwide that are marching to fascism want encryption banned. God forbid (and you bet they'll invoke God in what they're doing) you should be able to talk to someone in a manner they can't easily listen in on! This is not an unintended effect of sloppy legalese, it's a fully intentional consequence of obfuscated legalese.
Will they nail you for communicating with your bank? No. Will they nail you for communicating with someone they consider "undesirable"? You bet your arse they will.
Not only that, but the Internet doesn't even respect international boundaries, let alone state boundaries. The FCC is absolutely within its rights to play the "interstate commerce" card here. You can argue the merits of the FCC position, but it's disingenuous to argue that this isn't under Federal jurisdiction.
Piracy is less of a problem when the platform is "free" to start with. Most people will accept slightly annoying/intrusive advertising to get their OS for free. A few will jailbreak and clean it, but most won't.
If those ads are for relevant things (like "you have less than a quarter tank of fuel, why not try Chevron with Techron?", "You are nearing 50,000 miles, here's a coupon for a free tire inspection", etc.) they may not even be perceived as intrusive so much as helpful.
This is hardly a new phenomenon. To quote Don Henley:
Out on the read today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.
A little voice inside my head said 'don't look back, you can never look back.'
The problem with double shots is that until quite recently, they were always made of ABS. That means they get shiny, and generally (but not always) feel kinda cheap. PBT and POM have much better feel and don't pick up a shine, but double-shot PBT has always been a low-yield process. Recently a process has been developed to use POM for the inserts and PBT for the key body, and this seems to work, though the wrinkles are still being ironed out. Also, PBT tends to warp while cooling, making the yield low for spacebars. Lots of PBT-key sets still come with an ABS spacebar for this reason.
Pad printing is also not the only option. Dye sublimation is an option for PBT (it doesn't work well on ABS), and although it has less contrast and sharpness than double-shot, it does not wear out because it's not on the surface, it's in the first 0.2 mm or so. Then there's lasering of the legends, which is exactly what it sounds like. The uppermost layer is lasered away, and the plastic below is either photosensitive or is a different color. The downside is that contrast is typically poor and there is a derpression at the legend which can sometimes be felt -- the opposite of pad printing, where sometimes the raised area can be felt, particularly when a clearcoat is applied to reduce wear.
You're rocking a board with Cherry MX switches. There are plenty of replacement key sets available for you. The bad news is that the keys alone probably cost more than your entire keyboard.
Model Ms that don't work with a passive PS/2-USB connector generally do work with an active one like the Blue Cube.
I put the link in there but it apparently got eaten.
https://vimeo.com/107395294
Or I may have put it in forum tags instead of html...
I imagined this all voiced like the bear in The Missing Scarf. Jump to 2:39 if you are in a hurry.
I bet this guy will kick ass at chess boxing when his NFL days are over.
Similarly one could ask "why are so few artists making 8-bit chiptunes these days, voluntarily restricting themselves to the limits of a pair of AY3-8910 chips?" The answer is: because it's passé, plain and simple. I still do it (some, far from exclusively), but even some of the other people on the same project don't understand why I am sticking religiously to either 3 notes + 1 noise in mono, or 6 + 2 in hard-panned stereo, with no exceptions. (OK, for Berlioz I used exactly double that.) I force myself to adhere to those limitations because that's what they were. If I don't, then it's inauthentic, and once I start bending rules for convenience, why should I stick to the Mockingboard format at all? I might as well do cheesy MIDI with 16 channels and essentially no composition limits.
If you don't turn it up that high, it's not really a one-to-one replication then, is it?
It is, up to its limit. One-to-one just means they aren't scaling back ALL outputs to fit them in their dynamic range, they're allowing them to clip to the safety limits.
I can foresee asymmetric travel. In the mornings, you'd have people going north, and in the evenings, people going south, more than the reverse. It's easier to get around the SF Bay without a car than it is to get around L.A. without a car. Thus, a lot of the people coming south are going to drive, because even if a train can get them 90% of the way there, they still have a last mile problem.
Of course, but letting the doctors from outside do their work uninhibited IS to their credit. The same cannot be said of all such operations in the region.
This may have something to do with the fact that Liberia itself has an internal image that it is a modern nation with a money problem, rather than a "developing nation".
You: "Okay, let me rephrase this. The hard drive in your server is failing. Do you want to schedule downtime for replacement, or let it fail unpredictably? Your call."
Were LinkedIn profiles used in the little games of Spot The Fed at DEF CON? Seems that if you could tie someone to their profile, you could determine a lot more about them than they're actually willing to tell you directly.
Of all the Cheap Chinese Crap I've had to deal with, remote controls have probably been the least troublesome. They generally live as long as the devices they control, and who knows what's left in them after that?
Now if only the Rii Touch keyboard had been as reliable...