You have to protect against the computer not firing explosives and against it firing them when it shouldn't. I don't see how two wires can protect against both cases. Having two independent systems might even increase the chance of failure.
Good point unfortunately. If now in the US companies have to deal with stringent environmental regulations and in China they can pollute and get away with it, that's one more reason to close US plants and open plants in China.
What if they don't have permission to distribute movies and they're just distributing other videos, even just a black screen and silence, and claiming those are movies? That's kind of like how the police can sell fake drugs.
After installing Ubuntu on my laptop I found out about an interesting bug which sometimes stops the realtime clock. When that happens the machine won't even POST and the only way to recover is by opening up the laptop and removing a coin cell battery for a bit. Some people returned their laptops to Dell for service. I read somewhere that someone had their motherboard replaced. Fortunately it never happened to me.
Using the hosts file to redirect accesses to the DTD would block access to my.netscape.com. Maybe they deserve it for breaking RSS and still not having fixed it, but I'm sure some users would complain.
It is true that the data rate is too high for recording it right now but they have to think of the future. I'm sure that 200 MB per second won't seem so high in a few years. It is also possible that dedicated hardware could compress it and make the data rate more manageable. What I find outrageous about HDCP is that they went through all that effort to plug certain security holes they imagined while other obvious holes, such as the current attack on HD-DVD are wide open. This makes it a total waste of money and effort which inconveniences customers and makes pirated video better than purchased video. What were they thinking?
I have an account with Yahoo Canada. A few months ago I was able to enable POP3 access if I agreed to receive some spam. However, they did not support encryption and so I felt that was useless. I just checked and I was able to activate POP3 access without agreeing to receive any spam, and SSL is supported both for POP3 and SMTP. Sure, Yahoo is just trying to catch up to Google, but I think they're doing fairly well. I sent a message using SMTP and they didn't even append the stupid ad at the bottom.
Just one warning regarding POP3: It was originally disabled and the option for enabling it is a set of radio buttons which allow you to choose between web+POP3 and forwarding. There doesn't seem to be any way to disable POP3 once the selection has been made.
You must be wrong about hot water systems. You have to provide energy to replace heat that has left with hot water which is being used and to replace heat which has leaked through the insulation of the tank. Leakage through insulation depends on the temperature differential between the water inside and the outside. If you turn off the water heater and keep it off long enough so that the water cools down below the temperature that would cause the water heater to start heating, then you are saving energy. The temperature will be below where it would be if the water heater was turned on and therefore the heat leakage will be lower too. Sure, when you turn the water heater back on it will stay on for a longer period and use a lot of energy, but it's less than what would have been used if it was turned on all the time.
That would spread the benefit over the entire state. Don't those people who were duped deserve more than someone unrelated to the whole affair? I think that someone who was tricked into buying a useless product using false and alarmist marketing deserves something more than a refund.
Unlicensed transmitters make sense for hobbyist or experimental use. I just don't understand why large companies would routinely use them in popular consumer products.
Why is should the Air Force be morally obligated to pay? If they had the spectrum for a long time as some other articles claim then I think the garage door opener companies should pay instead. They were basically betting that the government was not going to use that frequency and they lost their bet.
I don't think it matters that it's http or that they're images. What matters is authentication is required. Sure, the data is free as in beer, but it's not free in any other sense and it is protected by something that might give it DMCA protection.
I suppose that this process does add some thickness. It seems like it creates a very thin irregular and maybe even sponge-like layer on the surface. That layer probably takes up more space than the same material in its former compact form.
DVD burners don't allow you to burn proper encrypted DVDs. You cannot write to the special area containing the region information and keys. So if you put CSS encypted data on a burned DVD, normal DVD players would be unable to play it.
My point was just that Soviet elections were not anonymous. They would have been anonymous if everyone always used voting booths. Unfortunately, voting booths only had to be used if voting against candidates, and so any observer could tell who might be voting against candidates. You just don't seem to get it and I give up on debating about this. I think I've made my point clearly.
Once again you're disagreeing with the Wikipedia article that you linked to. It says people could vote against a candidate by marking the ballot in a secret voting booth. It said that a very low percentage did actually make use of the booth and an even lower percentage voted against candidates. Sure, the percentage voting against was tiny but you can't say that everyone voted for the candidate.
You said that Soviet voting was completely anonymous. The section I quoted shows how anybody observing voters could see who is probably dissenting, because a voter that supports the candidate wouldn't have to use the voting booth.
Take another look at the Wikipedia article on Soviet Democracy that you linked. Sure, the laws look pretty good but look at what else is there:
Despite these provisions, the electors were not given much choice: the electoral ballot paper always contained only one name, and an unmarked ballot was interpreted as support for the candidate. To vote against the candidate required the paper to be marked and a secret voting booth used to ensure secrecy. In practice, the use of a voting booth by an elector was itself an expression of dissent, as a supporting vote did not need the use of the booths. Around one to five percent of the electorate used booth in the 1960s and 70s, with the number of opposing votes rarely exceeding 0.5%, mostly directed against locally unpopular individuals. Only at the lowest level did such votes have a chance of having any significant effect; in the Soviet Union circa 1970, about one in ten thousand candidates at village level was defeated.
I just did this for my "Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-Card" and it works. The old driver was 4.80.28.5. It still says the version is that but if I go to driver details in device manager I see the file is 4.100.15.5.
I'm not sure it's especially hard to write a secure wireless driver. It's more probable that they just didn't think very much about security when writing drivers.
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Microsoft recently released KB940510. Here is what it does. I've read it detects the Paradox BIOS emulator and the timerstop crack.
Do they have to let you into the country if you refuse a search?
You have to protect against the computer not firing explosives and against it firing them when it shouldn't. I don't see how two wires can protect against both cases. Having two independent systems might even increase the chance of failure.
You mean create a single point of failure?
Good point unfortunately. If now in the US companies have to deal with stringent environmental regulations and in China they can pollute and get away with it, that's one more reason to close US plants and open plants in China.
What if they don't have permission to distribute movies and they're just distributing other videos, even just a black screen and silence, and claiming those are movies? That's kind of like how the police can sell fake drugs.
After installing Ubuntu on my laptop I found out about an interesting bug which sometimes stops the realtime clock. When that happens the machine won't even POST and the only way to recover is by opening up the laptop and removing a coin cell battery for a bit. Some people returned their laptops to Dell for service. I read somewhere that someone had their motherboard replaced. Fortunately it never happened to me.
Yes, a capacitor bank can burn out internal shorts in a NiCd cell but often such cells short again quite quickly.
Using the hosts file to redirect accesses to the DTD would block access to my.netscape.com. Maybe they deserve it for breaking RSS and still not having fixed it, but I'm sure some users would complain.
It is true that the data rate is too high for recording it right now but they have to think of the future. I'm sure that 200 MB per second won't seem so high in a few years. It is also possible that dedicated hardware could compress it and make the data rate more manageable. What I find outrageous about HDCP is that they went through all that effort to plug certain security holes they imagined while other obvious holes, such as the current attack on HD-DVD are wide open. This makes it a total waste of money and effort which inconveniences customers and makes pirated video better than purchased video. What were they thinking?
Just one warning regarding POP3: It was originally disabled and the option for enabling it is a set of radio buttons which allow you to choose between web+POP3 and forwarding. There doesn't seem to be any way to disable POP3 once the selection has been made.
You must be wrong about hot water systems. You have to provide energy to replace heat that has left with hot water which is being used and to replace heat which has leaked through the insulation of the tank. Leakage through insulation depends on the temperature differential between the water inside and the outside. If you turn off the water heater and keep it off long enough so that the water cools down below the temperature that would cause the water heater to start heating, then you are saving energy. The temperature will be below where it would be if the water heater was turned on and therefore the heat leakage will be lower too. Sure, when you turn the water heater back on it will stay on for a longer period and use a lot of energy, but it's less than what would have been used if it was turned on all the time.
I just think it's in the wrong section. It should be in politics not YRO.
That would spread the benefit over the entire state. Don't those people who were duped deserve more than someone unrelated to the whole affair? I think that someone who was tricked into buying a useless product using false and alarmist marketing deserves something more than a refund.
Unlicensed transmitters make sense for hobbyist or experimental use. I just don't understand why large companies would routinely use them in popular consumer products.
Why is should the Air Force be morally obligated to pay? If they had the spectrum for a long time as some other articles claim then I think the garage door opener companies should pay instead. They were basically betting that the government was not going to use that frequency and they lost their bet.
I don't think it matters that it's http or that they're images. What matters is authentication is required. Sure, the data is free as in beer, but it's not free in any other sense and it is protected by something that might give it DMCA protection.
I suppose that this process does add some thickness. It seems like it creates a very thin irregular and maybe even sponge-like layer on the surface. That layer probably takes up more space than the same material in its former compact form.
DVD burners don't allow you to burn proper encrypted DVDs. You cannot write to the special area containing the region information and keys. So if you put CSS encypted data on a burned DVD, normal DVD players would be unable to play it.
My point was just that Soviet elections were not anonymous. They would have been anonymous if everyone always used voting booths. Unfortunately, voting booths only had to be used if voting against candidates, and so any observer could tell who might be voting against candidates. You just don't seem to get it and I give up on debating about this. I think I've made my point clearly.
Once again you're disagreeing with the Wikipedia article that you linked to. It says people could vote against a candidate by marking the ballot in a secret voting booth. It said that a very low percentage did actually make use of the booth and an even lower percentage voted against candidates. Sure, the percentage voting against was tiny but you can't say that everyone voted for the candidate.
You said that Soviet voting was completely anonymous. The section I quoted shows how anybody observing voters could see who is probably dissenting, because a voter that supports the candidate wouldn't have to use the voting booth.
Despite these provisions, the electors were not given much choice: the electoral ballot paper always contained only one name, and an unmarked ballot was interpreted as support for the candidate. To vote against the candidate required the paper to be marked and a secret voting booth used to ensure secrecy. In practice, the use of a voting booth by an elector was itself an expression of dissent, as a supporting vote did not need the use of the booths. Around one to five percent of the electorate used booth in the 1960s and 70s, with the number of opposing votes rarely exceeding 0.5%, mostly directed against locally unpopular individuals. Only at the lowest level did such votes have a chance of having any significant effect; in the Soviet Union circa 1970, about one in ten thousand candidates at village level was defeated.
I just did this for my "Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-Card" and it works. The old driver was 4.80.28.5. It still says the version is that but if I go to driver details in device manager I see the file is 4.100.15.5.
I'm not sure it's especially hard to write a secure wireless driver. It's more probable that they just didn't think very much about security when writing drivers.