Gasoline weighs roughly 6 lb/gallon (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_a_gallon_of_gasoline_weigh). An average car drives 20 miles/gallon (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_gas_mileage_of_the_average_car) So gasoline weighs some 0.3 lb/mile.
These batteries weigh 55 lb per 20 miles; 2.75 lb/mile; roughly 9 times more.
Your comparison is flawed. You're measuring the weight of 1 gallon of fuel that goes 20 miles to the weight of 50 aluminum plates that weight 55 lbs combined that goes 1000 miles.
If you're going to compare lbs/mile, it would be 55lbs/1000miles or.055lb/mile. Divide the weight and miles by 50 if you are looking at only individual plates, but the answer is still the same.
No one ever gets fired because they are black/white, male/female, handicapped/able bodied, whatever/whatever-else. They are fired for whatever piddly thing that they can come up with. If they want you fired, they'll find something. Weren't able to come in an work the mandatory overtime? Forget to use the new TPS report format? Didn't check with your 8 bosses when you did something?
I don't see why they need to focus on campuses at all, except it's a good market for delivery & cell phone usage.
I'd say good market for delivery is a huge reason why. Usually a campus has a higher densities of potential customers. Students studying and don't want to take a break to get it on their own or go to a dining hall. Or don't have a car and don't want to walk/take the bus/ride their bike/whatever. Or their car is parked on the opposite side of campus where the student parking is at. Or they wanted something to eat outside the normal hours of the dining hall. Or at least all those were reasons why I'd order Jimmy Johns when I lived on campus.
The same amount of information that is available at just about every business around a major campus that has student discounts or other reasons for looking at a ID.
For 60 years they've been instilling in their populous that their Dear Leader is a god (or god-like).
I seriously wonder how quickly their beliefs would change should food, clothing, medicine, etc become readily available by the "imperialist aggressors".
If I'm cold, sick, and on the brink of starvation, it's not going to take much for me to ditch whatever current beliefs I have.
The B-2 gets about 1/4 mile per gallon of jet fuel. 1 gallon jet fuel costs around $3/gallon. Each flight is 13k miles round trip. So that's 13000 * 4 * $3 = ~$156k. I'd say a couple of flights exceed the scrap value of all of North Korea, about all it would be good for.
If you are decommissioning a lot of drives, $9,000 may be a drop in the bucket compared to the time or effort required to wipe them alternative means. If you are just sliding them through 9 seconds a drive, it's quick and easy to go through a ton of them in very short order. And anyone can do it from Ethyl the 80 year old receptionist to John the 16 year old summer high school intern.
If you have to rely on disassembly, the process is time consuming per drive.
If you rely on physical destruction, either by sledge hammer, drill, gun, or thermite, then there are obvious risks of injury or worse, and no real company is knowingly going to sanction the latter activities. And the former methods require a decent amount of strength to do many drives thoroughly.
A single serious PCI, HIPPA, or whatever other regulation acronym violation can easily cost what that one $9,000 purchase would be.
It's just a comparison. With a nuclear war, the target may be destroyed, but there is always going to be collateral damage to innocent around the target. With this attack, it's very powerful (like a nuclear bomb) and it has affected many unrelated, innocent companies/users (like a nuclear bomb).
Shutting off the computer and going outside may work for John Q. Public when his favorite gaming server is experiencing high latency as a result. When your job is to consult to prevent or mitigate this specific attack, an attack that likely isn't going to let up in a couple of hours, then shutting down and going outside isn't exactly an option.
Of course, now many doctors have time constraints for patient visits imposed by insurance companies.
My guess is none. The insurance company may only pay $X for a particular diagnosis, but they aren't limiting how much the doctor could chose to be with the patient. The doctor could chose to stay longer, but there's this need to be profitable in order to stay in business that necessitates moving from patient to patient in a timely manner.
Seriously though, why should the doctor ask about life, family, job status, etc if it's not relevant to the issue at hand. If the problem was depression, or carpel tunnel, or something that may be related specifically to life or environment, then some inquiry would be warranted. But if I had bronchitis, or diabetes, needed some stitches because I had a bad cut, asking how the kids and job were going isn't really pertinent to the condition. If it's just small talk while things are being prepped or as a distraction, that's one thing. But not to linger and prolong the appointment. I'm already doing good if I can get in to see the doctor within an hour of my scheduled appointment...adding further delay is just going to make things worse.
Wait, you won't deal with GoPro because they are being a bully and bad netizen, but you'll happily give Sony your money instead? Way to hold true to your principals there.
Just to point out, many FOSS projects rely on copyright in order for copyleft to be enforced. If it's just a free-for-all, some of the projects likely would still exist, but companies or individuals would be free to take publicly available source, possibly make changes, then close it up and never giving credit to the original authors or sharing the code that may be required.
So far they are doing enough on their own to seriously screw with their livelihood. They don't need any Anonymous help in shooting themselves in the foot and a reason for them to say they are a victim.
It's nitpicking, but in the case of these letters, I don't believe the defendant/victim/alleged downloader can be considered a debtor. At the time of the letter, there is no legal obligation to pay a "debt". They haven't entered into a contract or agreement for exchange of goods or services.
It's in essence not that different then magazine or other services that send an "invoice" for their service in an attempt to get you to subscribe to them. This presume that the letter they send does not misrepresent the plaintiffs, "debt", or what is required.
When the mob knocks on your door and says that you need to pay up or bad things might happen, that's racketeering. The bad thing that might happen is not of the individual or business's doing, rather it's the mob ransacking the place, torching it, scaring away customers, etc.
While they may have no intentions of actually going after file traders if they don't "settle", they have the option to legally do so. This isn't getting into the debate of whether IP addresses are sufficient evidence to sustain a case, just that the legal option.
Perhaps if the case was absolutely baseless then extortion could be a possibility. But even just an IP address probably would be sufficient enough to get past an extortion claim.
Really? Why hasn't anyone ever mentioned that? I would have thought that someone would have brought up that they are technically at war still. It's not like it's in the first paragraph of almost any NK article.
Both the universities I went to had police forces that were just extensions of the local law enforcement. One was for the county sheriff, the other for the city police. I'm not sure whose budget their paycheck came from, but they had the same authority off campus that they had on. They were just rarely found off campus.
I believe there are 88 parameters that are required to be recorded by modern flight data recorders, although they have the option to record far more. However I would be surprised if they dumped the same amount of data to the FDR that they would send to a quick access recorder type of device.
I wouldn't buy a lottery ticket, you're not lucky really.
October of 2002 I took a flight. While passing through security, they sent my laptop bag through the scanner several times as they saw something but couldn't figure out what it was. A 5" lock back knife had fallen into the bottom of the bag under some padding. They tossed it into a box with all the other pocket knives they found and told me to enjoy my flight, not caring one bit. Maybe you would have had a problem the day after Richard Reid was caught, but I doubt it would have been much of an issue.
Judgements are the cause of bankruptcies all the time. Someone who had a civil judgement against them from a car accident for instance can discharge the judgement as part of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. It's cases of fraud and willful and malicious injury (among other reasons) where a bankruptcy doesn't usually discharge.
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Your comparison is flawed. You're measuring the weight of 1 gallon of fuel that goes 20 miles to the weight of 50 aluminum plates that weight 55 lbs combined that goes 1000 miles.
If you're going to compare lbs/mile, it would be 55lbs/1000miles or .055lb/mile. Divide the weight and miles by 50 if you are looking at only individual plates, but the answer is still the same.
The funny thing with this statement is that this case had nothing to do with the RIAA or MPAA.
No one ever gets fired because they are black/white, male/female, handicapped/able bodied, whatever/whatever-else. They are fired for whatever piddly thing that they can come up with. If they want you fired, they'll find something. Weren't able to come in an work the mandatory overtime? Forget to use the new TPS report format? Didn't check with your 8 bosses when you did something?
How do you tell a legitimate emergency call from a VOIP customer from a malicious one also originating with VOIP?
I'd say good market for delivery is a huge reason why. Usually a campus has a higher densities of potential customers. Students studying and don't want to take a break to get it on their own or go to a dining hall. Or don't have a car and don't want to walk/take the bus/ride their bike/whatever. Or their car is parked on the opposite side of campus where the student parking is at. Or they wanted something to eat outside the normal hours of the dining hall. Or at least all those were reasons why I'd order Jimmy Johns when I lived on campus.
The same amount of information that is available at just about every business around a major campus that has student discounts or other reasons for looking at a ID.
Thousands? Try millions.
I seriously wonder how quickly their beliefs would change should food, clothing, medicine, etc become readily available by the "imperialist aggressors".
If I'm cold, sick, and on the brink of starvation, it's not going to take much for me to ditch whatever current beliefs I have.
If they are having problems with it carrying 3 life preservers, I'm going to bet a tactical nuke might be a little further away.
The B-2 gets about 1/4 mile per gallon of jet fuel. 1 gallon jet fuel costs around $3/gallon. Each flight is 13k miles round trip. So that's 13000 * 4 * $3 = ~$156k. I'd say a couple of flights exceed the scrap value of all of North Korea, about all it would be good for.
If you are decommissioning a lot of drives, $9,000 may be a drop in the bucket compared to the time or effort required to wipe them alternative means. If you are just sliding them through 9 seconds a drive, it's quick and easy to go through a ton of them in very short order. And anyone can do it from Ethyl the 80 year old receptionist to John the 16 year old summer high school intern.
If you have to rely on disassembly, the process is time consuming per drive.
If you rely on physical destruction, either by sledge hammer, drill, gun, or thermite, then there are obvious risks of injury or worse, and no real company is knowingly going to sanction the latter activities. And the former methods require a decent amount of strength to do many drives thoroughly.
A single serious PCI, HIPPA, or whatever other regulation acronym violation can easily cost what that one $9,000 purchase would be.
Are there really modern (ie within the last 2-3 years) computers that don't support WOL?
It's just a comparison. With a nuclear war, the target may be destroyed, but there is always going to be collateral damage to innocent around the target. With this attack, it's very powerful (like a nuclear bomb) and it has affected many unrelated, innocent companies/users (like a nuclear bomb).
Shutting off the computer and going outside may work for John Q. Public when his favorite gaming server is experiencing high latency as a result. When your job is to consult to prevent or mitigate this specific attack, an attack that likely isn't going to let up in a couple of hours, then shutting down and going outside isn't exactly an option.
My guess is none. The insurance company may only pay $X for a particular diagnosis, but they aren't limiting how much the doctor could chose to be with the patient. The doctor could chose to stay longer, but there's this need to be profitable in order to stay in business that necessitates moving from patient to patient in a timely manner.
Seriously though, why should the doctor ask about life, family, job status, etc if it's not relevant to the issue at hand. If the problem was depression, or carpel tunnel, or something that may be related specifically to life or environment, then some inquiry would be warranted. But if I had bronchitis, or diabetes, needed some stitches because I had a bad cut, asking how the kids and job were going isn't really pertinent to the condition. If it's just small talk while things are being prepped or as a distraction, that's one thing. But not to linger and prolong the appointment. I'm already doing good if I can get in to see the doctor within an hour of my scheduled appointment...adding further delay is just going to make things worse.
Wait, you won't deal with GoPro because they are being a bully and bad netizen, but you'll happily give Sony your money instead? Way to hold true to your principals there.
Just to point out, many FOSS projects rely on copyright in order for copyleft to be enforced. If it's just a free-for-all, some of the projects likely would still exist, but companies or individuals would be free to take publicly available source, possibly make changes, then close it up and never giving credit to the original authors or sharing the code that may be required.
What's the cost of one nuclear missile that makes it way to Honolulu, Anchorage, Seattle, San Francisco, or LA?
Is it likely to happen? No. Could it happen? Yes.
So far they are doing enough on their own to seriously screw with their livelihood. They don't need any Anonymous help in shooting themselves in the foot and a reason for them to say they are a victim.
It's nitpicking, but in the case of these letters, I don't believe the defendant/victim/alleged downloader can be considered a debtor. At the time of the letter, there is no legal obligation to pay a "debt". They haven't entered into a contract or agreement for exchange of goods or services.
It's in essence not that different then magazine or other services that send an "invoice" for their service in an attempt to get you to subscribe to them. This presume that the letter they send does not misrepresent the plaintiffs, "debt", or what is required.
When the mob knocks on your door and says that you need to pay up or bad things might happen, that's racketeering. The bad thing that might happen is not of the individual or business's doing, rather it's the mob ransacking the place, torching it, scaring away customers, etc.
While they may have no intentions of actually going after file traders if they don't "settle", they have the option to legally do so. This isn't getting into the debate of whether IP addresses are sufficient evidence to sustain a case, just that the legal option.
Perhaps if the case was absolutely baseless then extortion could be a possibility. But even just an IP address probably would be sufficient enough to get past an extortion claim.
Really? Why hasn't anyone ever mentioned that? I would have thought that someone would have brought up that they are technically at war still. It's not like it's in the first paragraph of almost any NK article.
Both the universities I went to had police forces that were just extensions of the local law enforcement. One was for the county sheriff, the other for the city police. I'm not sure whose budget their paycheck came from, but they had the same authority off campus that they had on. They were just rarely found off campus.
I believe there are 88 parameters that are required to be recorded by modern flight data recorders, although they have the option to record far more. However I would be surprised if they dumped the same amount of data to the FDR that they would send to a quick access recorder type of device.
I wouldn't buy a lottery ticket, you're not lucky really.
October of 2002 I took a flight. While passing through security, they sent my laptop bag through the scanner several times as they saw something but couldn't figure out what it was. A 5" lock back knife had fallen into the bottom of the bag under some padding. They tossed it into a box with all the other pocket knives they found and told me to enjoy my flight, not caring one bit. Maybe you would have had a problem the day after Richard Reid was caught, but I doubt it would have been much of an issue.
Judgements are the cause of bankruptcies all the time. Someone who had a civil judgement against them from a car accident for instance can discharge the judgement as part of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. It's cases of fraud and willful and malicious injury (among other reasons) where a bankruptcy doesn't usually discharge.