For a computer with pretty much unlimited memory, it probably is easier. Taking books etc into an exam is usually considered cheating, you are expected to memorise them. A computer can "memorise" a book much easier than a human.
They transfer the funds to money mules who then transfer it to them using Western Union or similar. It is the money mules who end up losing out when the fraud is discovered. The transfer to them gets reversed, leaving an overdrawn account, but withdrawing the money as cash to take to a Western Union shop isn't a reversible transaction.
But shoplifting increases the cost of doing business, and therefore the profit maximisation point on the supply/demand curve will be at a higher price.
Well lets look at it a different way. The internet is heavily controlled in China, so it doesn't help with democracy. However people can make things and put them up for sale on Alibaba and E-bay, and that improves their standard of living in a way that wouldn't be possible without the internet.
The least developed countries are not a homogeneous mass. Some of the countries that were in the "least developed" category in the early 20th century have broken out. Greece is one example. It is in a bit of a mess at the moment, but nowhere near as bad as the 3rd world military dictatorship status it had in 1945. China is another. Some countries have been less successful. Of the current "least developed" countries, some will be successful in the future, some won't. Some countries are relatively prosperous now will go down-hill, like what happened in North Korea and Zimbabwe.
Downloading child porn is illegal no matter what. Downloading other movies is legal if you have the permission of the copyright holder, either because they choose to give it away for free, eg on hulu.com or YouTube, or they sell you a copy in exchange for some money, eg on iTunes or Google Play.
The fact that you obtained the file from the copyright holder is a good defence in court. The copyright holder is the one who decides on what terms you can have it. If they give it away for free, who are you to question it?
But if you put your scripts in the same place as the rest of your website, then while the uptime may not be as good, it at least exactly correlates with the uptime of the rest of the site.
Your site will be down if the hosting provider of that site is down, or if the hosting provider of the scripts is down. Having a different hosting provider can only ever mean more potential downtime.
When you are talking about 40% of internet traffic, it is mostly YouTube rather than the google search engine. YouTube accounts for something like 98% of all video on demand, and video makes up a substantial amount of all internet traffic.
If it is just people googling for facebook, probably most of them didn't notice, because they were already on facebook when google went down.
And lets look at this 85% reliability more carefully.
Supposing you have 1,000,000 non-terrorists and 100 terrorists. You ask them if the are a terrorist, and use the lie detector to determine whether or not they are telling the truth. Everyone says they are not a terrorist. The lie detector will identify 150,085 people as terrorists, of which only 85 are actually terrorists. In otherwords, if the lie detector says you are a terrorist, there is a 0.057% probability that you are actually a terrorist.
How do these figures work?
Of the 1,000,000 non-terrorists, it will correctly identify 850,000 of them as being non-terrorists, and incorrectly identify 150,000 as being terrorists. Of the 100 terrorists, it will correctly identify 85 of them as being terrorists, and incorrectly identify 15 of them as not being terrorists. A total of 150,085 people identified as terrorists, only 85 actually are.
Well the fastest Maglev is 581 km/h, on a test track. The fastest TGV is 574.8km/h, on the LGV Est line under test conditions. That's why I say it is only slightly faster.
Freight certainly does run through the Channel Tunnel, which links LGV Nord in France to HS1 in the UK. It is timed to fit around the gaps in the passenger schedule, and overnight when passenger services aren't running. Also, the last 17 km or so of LGV Nord on the way into Paris is regular commuter lines running at slower speeds. There isn't really the space for dedicated high speed lines, nor is there the need for it. It doesn't make a huge amount of difference to journey times, and the train wouldn't be running at full speed anyway because it needs to accelerate / decelerate.
Maglev is only slightly faster than TGV or similar high speed rail, and normal trains, eg freight services can't run on maglev tracks, whereas they can run on LGV tracks.
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The theoretical limit is 56 kilobits per second, which is 7 kilobytes per second. However 5 kilobytes per second is a more realistic real-world speed.
Protesters have dumped several chests of tea into Boston harbour.
Seriously, this was reported over a week ago - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23776345 I thought this was supposed to be a news website.
For a computer with pretty much unlimited memory, it probably is easier. Taking books etc into an exam is usually considered cheating, you are expected to memorise them. A computer can "memorise" a book much easier than a human.
They transfer the funds to money mules who then transfer it to them using Western Union or similar. It is the money mules who end up losing out when the fraud is discovered. The transfer to them gets reversed, leaving an overdrawn account, but withdrawing the money as cash to take to a Western Union shop isn't a reversible transaction.
But shoplifting increases the cost of doing business, and therefore the profit maximisation point on the supply/demand curve will be at a higher price.
Well lets look at it a different way. The internet is heavily controlled in China, so it doesn't help with democracy. However people can make things and put them up for sale on Alibaba and E-bay, and that improves their standard of living in a way that wouldn't be possible without the internet.
The least developed countries are not a homogeneous mass. Some of the countries that were in the "least developed" category in the early 20th century have broken out. Greece is one example. It is in a bit of a mess at the moment, but nowhere near as bad as the 3rd world military dictatorship status it had in 1945. China is another. Some countries have been less successful. Of the current "least developed" countries, some will be successful in the future, some won't. Some countries are relatively prosperous now will go down-hill, like what happened in North Korea and Zimbabwe.
If Soviet Russia is your benchmark for good practice in government, then fair enough.
Yes, bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Bribery of American officials is not illegal.
Downloading child porn is illegal no matter what. Downloading other movies is legal if you have the permission of the copyright holder, either because they choose to give it away for free, eg on hulu.com or YouTube, or they sell you a copy in exchange for some money, eg on iTunes or Google Play.
The fact that you obtained the file from the copyright holder is a good defence in court. The copyright holder is the one who decides on what terms you can have it. If they give it away for free, who are you to question it?
Netflix isn't so common in other parts of the world. In most places, you can't get a subscription even if you want one.
It wasn't 1AM everywhere in the world.
But if you put your scripts in the same place as the rest of your website, then while the uptime may not be as good, it at least exactly correlates with the uptime of the rest of the site.
Your site will be down if the hosting provider of that site is down, or if the hosting provider of the scripts is down. Having a different hosting provider can only ever mean more potential downtime.
When you are talking about 40% of internet traffic, it is mostly YouTube rather than the google search engine. YouTube accounts for something like 98% of all video on demand, and video makes up a substantial amount of all internet traffic.
If it is just people googling for facebook, probably most of them didn't notice, because they were already on facebook when google went down.
[jonathan@naoto] ~% df /tank1/media
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
tank1/media 20079143924 17658235578 2420908346 88%
Think I can cope
What about my local council's traffic cams? Webcams that let you look at various roads around the town.
Generally speaking, it is illegal to upload, not to download, so Netflix might be committing a felony, but you would not.
There were 100 terrorists, and it caught 85 of them.
That is the case in Europe. They still sell all the stuff, but there is nothing at the point of sale to say what it is supposed to do.
And lets look at this 85% reliability more carefully.
Supposing you have 1,000,000 non-terrorists and 100 terrorists. You ask them if the are a terrorist, and use the lie detector to determine whether or not they are telling the truth. Everyone says they are not a terrorist. The lie detector will identify 150,085 people as terrorists, of which only 85 are actually terrorists. In otherwords, if the lie detector says you are a terrorist, there is a 0.057% probability that you are actually a terrorist.
How do these figures work?
Of the 1,000,000 non-terrorists, it will correctly identify 850,000 of them as being non-terrorists, and incorrectly identify 150,000 as being terrorists. Of the 100 terrorists, it will correctly identify 85 of them as being terrorists, and incorrectly identify 15 of them as not being terrorists. A total of 150,085 people identified as terrorists, only 85 actually are.
Well the fastest Maglev is 581 km/h, on a test track. The fastest TGV is 574.8km/h, on the LGV Est line under test conditions. That's why I say it is only slightly faster.
Freight certainly does run through the Channel Tunnel, which links LGV Nord in France to HS1 in the UK. It is timed to fit around the gaps in the passenger schedule, and overnight when passenger services aren't running. Also, the last 17 km or so of LGV Nord on the way into Paris is regular commuter lines running at slower speeds. There isn't really the space for dedicated high speed lines, nor is there the need for it. It doesn't make a huge amount of difference to journey times, and the train wouldn't be running at full speed anyway because it needs to accelerate / decelerate.
Maglev is only slightly faster than TGV or similar high speed rail, and normal trains, eg freight services can't run on maglev tracks, whereas they can run on LGV tracks.
If I visit www.thepiratebay.org on a browser that doesn't have an anti-censorship plugin installed, I get
"The page you're looking for has been blocked.
"We're complying with a court order that means access to this website has
"to be blocked to protect against copyright infringement."
Radio Times are one of the official distributors of TV listings. They have been around since the 1920s.