I think the UN has a responsibility to ensure that if any of its troops have cholera, they're not at a base with poor sanitation, as an organisational lesson if not a matter of responsibility and blame.
It's not a zero-sum game: the cost involved in preventing it happening is so low that it's a no-brainer to send in the aid without bringing in a monstrously contagious disease, so the UN should be considering this idea even as a matter of principle.
Of course that'd mean looking past the idea that one is being blamed for something one is not responsible for. Lots of people lose their pragmatism in that situation.
I should add that this is a problem for data security; there seems to be a mistaken belief that we entered a paperless world in 2000 and all our information security problems are now computer security problems.
The issue with paper isn't an outside breach, it's someone throwing a two-inch stack of papers out in the recycling bucket, which might be a few hundred to a thousand records.
Not this case specifically, but in my experience where documents exist and travel in electronic form, you still print them off to do work on them.
Computers are great tools for writing documents. Computers are great tools for looking up and reading out a single datum. Computers are great tools for large-scale data analysis. What they are not good for is sitting down with a modestly-sized group of data - say, twelve letter-sized sheets - and getting something done. You can't get a screen big enough, or an interface lean enough, to replicate the kind of easy access you get from spreading the pages across your desk, or even using fingers and bookmarks to quickly jump between places. The relationships between individual documents are never as obvious as when you pull out a sheaf of records and pore over it.
So, people print documents off while they're working with them, and sometimes they forget that those documents are supposed to be shredded, or meticulously filed away.
Now, this is something that computers should be good at, but it's hard, and it's not in the wheelhouse of most software developers or companies. Look at scientific publications. You have a whole lot of documents encrusted in rich, well-formatted meta-data, being used by organisations that could throw down thousands on records-management software like it was loose change. Yet we only just have Papers and Mendeley. We're only just transitioning away from filing cabinets.
Actually, the Bush administration launched such a program (the Vision for Space Exploration, instantiated in NASA as Constellation) before Obama took office. It was nicknamed The Unfunded Mandate because it required NASA to create an Apollo-level interplanetary manned flight program with zero dollars of additional funding. The budget wasn't pretty.
The Obama administration actually gutted that project, and replaced it with a smaller scale but not a whole lot more palatable road map.
As far as your games are concerned, that memory is empty; Windows lets apps that need memory simply march right over the cache as though it wasn't there. Same in every other OS worth a damn.
I don't just mean they operated independently, I mean they actively undermined each other's work. There's no legal impediment to the Windows and Office divisions having the same relationship as Libreoffice and Linux, but they had the kind of relationship Holmes and Moriarty had instead.
You'd have to develop a technology based around principles other than electromagnetism. If we find a biotech civilisation, it'll be around a very active star.
Microsoft's various divisions were pitched against each other as internal competitors; all of the gaming talent was in the Xbox console division, but internal politics likely meant that the Windows team could never, ever ask them for help.
To nitpick, they collected as much data as planned, but it was noisier than expected. Therefore they needed more data to bring the signal above the noise. Interestingly the source of the noise isn't Kepler, but sunspots on the stars causing fluctuations in the brightness. They'd counted on a 3.5 year mission being long enough to collect a strong enough signal by assuming sunspot noise was the same as from the Sun, but it turned out it was actually stronger.
I don't think any state or nation has ever had an FOIA which trumped things like Secret classification or commercial priviledge. Where on Earth did you get the impression that it was supposed to provide access to things like NSA files?
Of course, that was all part of the plan. The alien rumours were a start, but by creating a project that genuinely came in under budget - completely impossible, but irrefutable because it was true - they ensured that nobody would ever believe anything that was said about Area 51.
That's not true. It's meant to be a California intercity shuttle, and he actually stated that it's not economical over distances greater than 1000 miles.
I don't think anyone has proposed a transport system between NY and LA in 30 minutes.
It's a moral battle, not a pragmatic one. P2P would already be dead if they simply treated it as a competitor. They've got huge war chests, loads of deals with device manufacturers, all of the content, and the ability to make more. They could beat it on convenience and narrow the price disadvantage until they mopped the floor with it. Unfortunately they see the moral issue that people shouldn't be pirating content and mistakenly assume that reversing that is the solution.
Lifespan is almost completely determined by battery chemistry*. The chemistry is largely fungible and is in the hands of a few major manufacturers. I could imagine in principle that Apple's battery designs might be less safe, but they'd have to go out and find a specialist if they wanted to make batteries that are chemically worse than their competitors.
*It's possible to produce a short-lifespan battery through poor assembly, but those tend to be the sort of lifespans that end with a loud pop and a jet of flame.
If you only let it discharge to 50% you get twice as many cycles, and each of those cycles is going to be half as long, so your total actual usage of the battery is completely unchanged.
Temperature is by far the most important factor in calendar life. Usage is by far the most important factor in cycle life. I'm not saying that keeping it below 90% won't have an effect on lifespan, but it's such a small one that it'll be swamped by the other aging effects. Certainly it's not worth the inconvenience.
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I think the UN has a responsibility to ensure that if any of its troops have cholera, they're not at a base with poor sanitation, as an organisational lesson if not a matter of responsibility and blame.
It's not a zero-sum game: the cost involved in preventing it happening is so low that it's a no-brainer to send in the aid without bringing in a monstrously contagious disease, so the UN should be considering this idea even as a matter of principle.
Of course that'd mean looking past the idea that one is being blamed for something one is not responsible for. Lots of people lose their pragmatism in that situation.
http://bash.org/?5775
You know that Person of the Year isn't an accolade, right? It goes to whoever had the biggest impact on that year's events. They gave it to Hitler.
I should add that this is a problem for data security; there seems to be a mistaken belief that we entered a paperless world in 2000 and all our information security problems are now computer security problems.
The issue with paper isn't an outside breach, it's someone throwing a two-inch stack of papers out in the recycling bucket, which might be a few hundred to a thousand records.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=records+found+in+bin&oq=records+found+in+bin&aqs=chrome.0.69i57j69i60j69i65l2j0l2.2171j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Not this case specifically, but in my experience where documents exist and travel in electronic form, you still print them off to do work on them.
Computers are great tools for writing documents. Computers are great tools for looking up and reading out a single datum. Computers are great tools for large-scale data analysis. What they are not good for is sitting down with a modestly-sized group of data - say, twelve letter-sized sheets - and getting something done. You can't get a screen big enough, or an interface lean enough, to replicate the kind of easy access you get from spreading the pages across your desk, or even using fingers and bookmarks to quickly jump between places. The relationships between individual documents are never as obvious as when you pull out a sheaf of records and pore over it.
So, people print documents off while they're working with them, and sometimes they forget that those documents are supposed to be shredded, or meticulously filed away.
Now, this is something that computers should be good at, but it's hard, and it's not in the wheelhouse of most software developers or companies. Look at scientific publications. You have a whole lot of documents encrusted in rich, well-formatted meta-data, being used by organisations that could throw down thousands on records-management software like it was loose change. Yet we only just have Papers and Mendeley. We're only just transitioning away from filing cabinets.
You realise that the "sheeple" you're complaining about doubtless, to a man, justify their inaction by complaining that everyone else is inactive?
They also monitor only a small percentage of 'net traffic, but I thought that it was worth a little inaccuracy for the sake of a joke.
I was mistaken.
Actually, the Bush administration launched such a program (the Vision for Space Exploration, instantiated in NASA as Constellation) before Obama took office. It was nicknamed The Unfunded Mandate because it required NASA to create an Apollo-level interplanetary manned flight program with zero dollars of additional funding. The budget wasn't pretty.
The Obama administration actually gutted that project, and replaced it with a smaller scale but not a whole lot more palatable road map.
As far as your games are concerned, that memory is empty; Windows lets apps that need memory simply march right over the cache as though it wasn't there. Same in every other OS worth a damn.
I don't just mean they operated independently, I mean they actively undermined each other's work. There's no legal impediment to the Windows and Office divisions having the same relationship as Libreoffice and Linux, but they had the kind of relationship Holmes and Moriarty had instead.
You'd have to develop a technology based around principles other than electromagnetism. If we find a biotech civilisation, it'll be around a very active star.
Imagine if the NSA servers went down, nothing would be getting through.
Microsoft's various divisions were pitched against each other as internal competitors; all of the gaming talent was in the Xbox console division, but internal politics likely meant that the Windows team could never, ever ask them for help.
To nitpick, they collected as much data as planned, but it was noisier than expected. Therefore they needed more data to bring the signal above the noise. Interestingly the source of the noise isn't Kepler, but sunspots on the stars causing fluctuations in the brightness. They'd counted on a 3.5 year mission being long enough to collect a strong enough signal by assuming sunspot noise was the same as from the Sun, but it turned out it was actually stronger.
I don't think any state or nation has ever had an FOIA which trumped things like Secret classification or commercial priviledge. Where on Earth did you get the impression that it was supposed to provide access to things like NSA files?
Right, they're hoping to use it to perform new science missions because it can still steer, just with impaired precision.
In fact, the Government's motion to dismiss that lawsuit was (I believe) the first public acknowledgement that the base existed.
Of course, that was all part of the plan. The alien rumours were a start, but by creating a project that genuinely came in under budget - completely impossible, but irrefutable because it was true - they ensured that nobody would ever believe anything that was said about Area 51.
That's not true. It's meant to be a California intercity shuttle, and he actually stated that it's not economical over distances greater than 1000 miles.
I don't think anyone has proposed a transport system between NY and LA in 30 minutes.
It's a moral battle, not a pragmatic one. P2P would already be dead if they simply treated it as a competitor. They've got huge war chests, loads of deals with device manufacturers, all of the content, and the ability to make more. They could beat it on convenience and narrow the price disadvantage until they mopped the floor with it. Unfortunately they see the moral issue that people shouldn't be pirating content and mistakenly assume that reversing that is the solution.
Lifespan is almost completely determined by battery chemistry*. The chemistry is largely fungible and is in the hands of a few major manufacturers. I could imagine in principle that Apple's battery designs might be less safe, but they'd have to go out and find a specialist if they wanted to make batteries that are chemically worse than their competitors.
*It's possible to produce a short-lifespan battery through poor assembly, but those tend to be the sort of lifespans that end with a loud pop and a jet of flame.
What. The. Eff.
If you only let it discharge to 50% you get twice as many cycles, and each of those cycles is going to be half as long, so your total actual usage of the battery is completely unchanged.
Temperature is by far the most important factor in calendar life. Usage is by far the most important factor in cycle life. I'm not saying that keeping it below 90% won't have an effect on lifespan, but it's such a small one that it'll be swamped by the other aging effects. Certainly it's not worth the inconvenience.