The fact that you can turn bitcoins into dollars means that, yes, the US regulates it.
You can turn practically every currency on this planet into dollars. Now ask all of the sovereign governments whether the US regulates them.
Reality: The US regulates YOU, the US citizen. For all intents and purposes, you live behind an economic iron curtain. Have fun traveling around the globe. But when the DoJ wants your ass, its theirs. Read your Thirteenth Amendment and weep.
Restate the question: Who would want to buy ARM hardware without knowing whether they would be locked into Windows RT forever. Or could rescue the hardware by loading some other O/S.
This is going to boost the market value of used ARM devices. It may have the perverse effect of selling some more Windows RT, as people don't have the useless brick issue to deal with should they tire of RT.
maybe she just told you it did so that you'd go to her office after hours. Ever think about that?
Except for her husband. Picture Dolph Lundgren, with normal hair. And glasses. I'd never pick on someone wearing glasses. I'm just a nice guy that way.
Yes. And when we let Microsoft lead, they keep stepping on everyone's toes. I'm going to a friend's office soon to find out why the addition of one stinking Windows 8 system has broken all the file sharing between her existing Vista, Windows 7 and XP systems.
For $120M, can you find some way to stop meth addicts from sawing off catalytic converters and selling them for cash to scrap dealers? Who will turn around and ship them overseas where the rare metals are recovered?
No doubt, everyone is thinking NSA/CIA/FBI. But Nokia isn't a US company and there's no reason to expect that they'll intercept US user's data on a US server. Or an Indian user' inside India. It would be a simple matter for them to direct HTTPS traffic through a nation with little regard (or laws) for privacy protection or espionage.
the ability to fire multiple shots in crowded areas or when no other guns are present would be limited by software that understands where the gun is being used.
So I carry two guns. Gun A senses the presence of Gun B, validates the possible threat and enables itself. Same for Gun B. That gets around the inconvenient 10 round clip limitation as well.
Sensory data can be used by built-in software to disable firing if the gun is pointed at a child or someone holding a child.
I predict the beginning of a crime wave conducted by midgets.
Make sure that the certificate fingerprints agree with those obtained through some alternate channel (another browser on another system through a different ISP, etc.).
If they agree, this is all a non issue. Its not likely that a certificate replaced by a MITM attack would generate the same hash as the original.
Yeah, I remember playing 1280x720 3D games across X-Windows at 60FPS in the 80s.
Nobody did that.
But, in the 90s, I remember extensions for X that allowed streaming compressed video from client to server and utilizing the server display hardware to do the rendering. The same could be done from a graphics intensive game on the client to display hardware with a powerful GPU.
That may be what raised some suspicions about the capabilities of this badge.
Yes, most RFID is powered by RF from the reader. As such, it has a limited range. Put a power source in it and that range could (theoretically) approach that of a cellular phone. And that could lead to long range tracking. Nobody is certain.
Battery power can also overcome many crude shielding techniques (foil lined pouches) allowing for surreptitious on-campus tracking (who's hiding in the can, smoking a joint). RF powered RFID would have to be taken out of such a pouch to be scanned at known checkpoints (entry doors, lunch counter, library, etc.) where students expect to present ID anyway.
Since a battery creates a significant maintenance cost, the added capabilities it allows must be significant to justify its incorporation.
But that's the character of the Internet. Its not a classical war with front lines, like the last big one. Its more like an insurgency or just plain old criminal activity conducted by the punks on the street corner.
Attribution is fine if your plan is to counter attack some state entity. But it does no good against a criminal organization, terrorist cell or spammer that can dissolve and reorganize at any time.
Thales is responsible for the electrical system. GS Yuasa makes the batteries. There's probably no one left at Boeing Commercial Aircraft that has a handle on what's going on beyond contract management.
The AIG (and other) bailouts were not typical bankruptcy cases. These are initiated by creditors when the debtor can't meet obligations. The government's role (the courts) is only to oversee the terms of the reorganization/liquidation. With AIG, the court case will probably depend on who and how AIG was found to be illiquid (or under capitalized), and how the exchange of equity for a capital injection was requested. If AIG's board of directors came looking for help, the government may not be guilty of taking private property. If the BoD negotiated that deal, it was their prerogative to do so, or they are the ones shareholders should be suing (good luck with that).
One could claim that AIG management was pressured into taking the deal. But much of that pressure came from other private investment banks to keep the AIG paper they held from becoming worthless. The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy may stand as evidence of the government offering the option of allowing investment banking to solve its own problems without intervention.
FLIR for vehicles. You don't actually need the image. Just a processor that looks at the data and recognizes a cold patch on the road ahead. Turn on a warning light, throttle back automatically, select an optimized anti-lock traction control algorithm, etc.
Get decent headlights. Dump the NHTSA standards and adopt European lighting. I can see just fine with my H4 headlamps (30+ year old technology, still better than US headlamps).
If you can't see without overhead lighting, you need a restricted license (daytime only). We can't light every square foot of road, so eventually you'll be in the dark anyway.
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The fact that you can turn bitcoins into dollars means that, yes, the US regulates it.
You can turn practically every currency on this planet into dollars. Now ask all of the sovereign governments whether the US regulates them.
Reality: The US regulates YOU, the US citizen. For all intents and purposes, you live behind an economic iron curtain. Have fun traveling around the globe. But when the DoJ wants your ass, its theirs. Read your Thirteenth Amendment and weep.
Restate the question: Who would want to buy ARM hardware without knowing whether they would be locked into Windows RT forever. Or could rescue the hardware by loading some other O/S.
This is going to boost the market value of used ARM devices. It may have the perverse effect of selling some more Windows RT, as people don't have the useless brick issue to deal with should they tire of RT.
Picture Rachel McLish, but blond.
maybe she just told you it did so that you'd go to her office after hours. Ever think about that?
Except for her husband. Picture Dolph Lundgren, with normal hair. And glasses. I'd never pick on someone wearing glasses. I'm just a nice guy that way.
Samba is a dance.
Yes. And when we let Microsoft lead, they keep stepping on everyone's toes. I'm going to a friend's office soon to find out why the addition of one stinking Windows 8 system has broken all the file sharing between her existing Vista, Windows 7 and XP systems.
For $120M, can you find some way to stop meth addicts from sawing off catalytic converters and selling them for cash to scrap dealers? Who will turn around and ship them overseas where the rare metals are recovered?
Where is this "other entity" of which you speak?
No doubt, everyone is thinking NSA/CIA/FBI. But Nokia isn't a US company and there's no reason to expect that they'll intercept US user's data on a US server. Or an Indian user' inside India. It would be a simple matter for them to direct HTTPS traffic through a nation with little regard (or laws) for privacy protection or espionage.
Because everyone wants to watch their relatives, friends, and neighbors comings and goings.
Gee. My ex-girlfriend just got in at 3:00AM. I wonder who she brought home?
Can we use wildcards? Grep has never been so much fun!
3D printer plans coming soon.
From the Halls of mount Zune A: ....
To the Shores of IEEE
the ability to fire multiple shots in crowded areas or when no other guns are present would be limited by software that understands where the gun is being used.
So I carry two guns. Gun A senses the presence of Gun B, validates the possible threat and enables itself. Same for Gun B. That gets around the inconvenient 10 round clip limitation as well.
Sensory data can be used by built-in software to disable firing if the gun is pointed at a child or someone holding a child.
I predict the beginning of a crime wave conducted by midgets.
Make sure that the certificate fingerprints agree with those obtained through some alternate channel (another browser on another system through a different ISP, etc.).
If they agree, this is all a non issue. Its not likely that a certificate replaced by a MITM attack would generate the same hash as the original.
Yeah, I remember playing 1280x720 3D games across X-Windows at 60FPS in the 80s.
Nobody did that.
But, in the 90s, I remember extensions for X that allowed streaming compressed video from client to server and utilizing the server display hardware to do the rendering. The same could be done from a graphics intensive game on the client to display hardware with a powerful GPU.
Nothing terribly novel to see here.
That's what my doctor does when his patients die.
That may be what raised some suspicions about the capabilities of this badge.
Yes, most RFID is powered by RF from the reader. As such, it has a limited range. Put a power source in it and that range could (theoretically) approach that of a cellular phone. And that could lead to long range tracking. Nobody is certain.
Battery power can also overcome many crude shielding techniques (foil lined pouches) allowing for surreptitious on-campus tracking (who's hiding in the can, smoking a joint). RF powered RFID would have to be taken out of such a pouch to be scanned at known checkpoints (entry doors, lunch counter, library, etc.) where students expect to present ID anyway.
Since a battery creates a significant maintenance cost, the added capabilities it allows must be significant to justify its incorporation.
There just ain't no justice!
But that's the character of the Internet. Its not a classical war with front lines, like the last big one. Its more like an insurgency or just plain old criminal activity conducted by the punks on the street corner.
Attribution is fine if your plan is to counter attack some state entity. But it does no good against a criminal organization, terrorist cell or spammer that can dissolve and reorganize at any time.
Which is to say: Its all been subcontracted out.
Thales is responsible for the electrical system. GS Yuasa makes the batteries. There's probably no one left at Boeing Commercial Aircraft that has a handle on what's going on beyond contract management.
The AIG (and other) bailouts were not typical bankruptcy cases. These are initiated by creditors when the debtor can't meet obligations. The government's role (the courts) is only to oversee the terms of the reorganization/liquidation. With AIG, the court case will probably depend on who and how AIG was found to be illiquid (or under capitalized), and how the exchange of equity for a capital injection was requested. If AIG's board of directors came looking for help, the government may not be guilty of taking private property. If the BoD negotiated that deal, it was their prerogative to do so, or they are the ones shareholders should be suing (good luck with that).
One could claim that AIG management was pressured into taking the deal. But much of that pressure came from other private investment banks to keep the AIG paper they held from becoming worthless. The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy may stand as evidence of the government offering the option of allowing investment banking to solve its own problems without intervention.
Now, not only can you brick your phone, but you can phone your brick.
... yet.
Back to the salt, ... er, Bitcoin mines.
Headlights, plural??
Do you mean to say that we're supposed to have two of them working?
FLIR for vehicles. You don't actually need the image. Just a processor that looks at the data and recognizes a cold patch on the road ahead. Turn on a warning light, throttle back automatically, select an optimized anti-lock traction control algorithm, etc.
Get decent headlights. Dump the NHTSA standards and adopt European lighting. I can see just fine with my H4 headlamps (30+ year old technology, still better than US headlamps).
If you can't see without overhead lighting, you need a restricted license (daytime only). We can't light every square foot of road, so eventually you'll be in the dark anyway.