China already owns 20% of all foreign USA debt (Japan also owns 20%). The USA government can't do anything "funny" or the Chinese will devaluate the US dollar so much that the average Nigerian 419er won't even be interested in US citizens anymore. With the USA foreign debt as high as it is today, they have effectively lost the power over the US national markets completely to Japan and China. Forty years ago, they found out that this would be a bad thing, when the oil crisis started and it turned out that most of the dollars payed for foreign oil were used to buy US companies and real estate. I guess by not allowing the Chinese to buy into companies and real estate, they tried to protect their economy from anything like that happening again. However, if you need foreign money to fund your own economy, because it's basically tits up, you end up being owned anyway.
The only real solution for this for the USA would be to stop exporting war and start producing their own goods again, instead of importing everything from "cheap" countries. Those goods aren't cheap, they just make them appear cheap because you pay the rest through your foreign debts. Stop importing and start producing, even if the price appears to be higher. Everything you make yourself, you save money going abroad.
The translation states that the technologies were all adapted to the Chinese line system, by the western companies. That means they only have to support one line type, but get access to 3 different technologies. They don't have to deal with adapting them to their own system anymore because they bought them adapted already. They are the only country right now that has the luxury of being able to choose, mix and match from all high-speed trains in the world. I'd say that's pretty awesome indeed.
And most European cities are filled with those. Even tho the SUVs (yes, people here buy those over sized gas guzzlers now) are a pain, eco-unfriendly and impossible to park, the average moped causes more smog and foul smell than those SUVs do. There's been talk of banning "old cars" from the Amsterdam center as well, but neither Amsterdam nor Paris seem to want to deal with the mopeds. There have been no decent scientific studies to the effects of actually banning "stinking cars" from the city center. How much less pollution would this result in? How much more pollution would the replacement vehicle cause? Imagine all SUV owners having to park outside city limits and renting mopeds to get into town, do a pollution calculation based on that and then tell me it's not purely symbolic.
Also in the article, it takes the police 59000 cameras to solve 6 crimes a day. That's one per 1000 cameras. Doubling the hit rate will require another 60000 cameras, at least. The article fails to state the general crime rate or the percentages of crimes solved. In Wales alone, 215.000 crimes were reported in a year, with a fall in crime rate of 9%. At 2200 crimes solved with cameras in the entire UK, the typical success rate of cameras is 0.1% at best, if you consider the rest of the UK crimeless. With crime falling 9% in Wales, this proves that cameras have no significant influence or help in solving crimes or reducing crime rates whatsoever.
start-stop cars have batteries with glass-fiber mats that are 90% drained with battery acid around the lead plates. This gives them the ability to deep-cycle the batteries. Also, the alternators have more power and in most European cars with this system, the alternators only deliver power when the batteries need charging. The preferred method is even to only charge when the car is decelerating, so it brakes the car, in stead of using power that could also be used to accelerate or propel the car.
These batteries and intelligent charging systems cost money. That is why it hasn't been done before.
All USA news sources are bad. They are afraid to publish a lot of things, either because they will get raided or sued, or just because advertisers will run away. Stating one of them is bad, or even doing a comparison to other bad sources has no relevancy. Try comparing to some other sources around the world. How about comparing with BBC World news, or other sources that have a good reputation? The article itself is bad, sure, but the whole idea of trying to find a reason for how uninformed people are, should be done by looking at USA legislation and culture. The USA is rated 20th, well below most of Europe in the Reporters Without Borders Index 2009. How about doing something about that first and then see what the worst sources are inside the USA?
The whole point is you have no idea or guarantee the website will keep your data secure. They could plaintext your password along with all your information in a readable directory of the web root. Yes, that still happens, a lot. If it can be rainbowtabled in mere seconds on one OS, it can be eyeballed in even less on your precious apache on linux. Old MySQL passwords are abundant as well, same story as the windows rainbow tables used as an example here.
Have you ever been shopping for cameras that are capable of surviving more than a day of space radiation? How about buying the video encoder for it and getting your extra data traffic through the transmitter on the thing you hurled into space? You're going to be spending millions just to watch a few minutes of a deployment that either works, or it doesn't.
You already know what it's going to look like if it works, so for that occasion, using a microswitch will suffice. The only reason why you might want to put a camera on is to see how it fails. For that you will need a lot of speed and resolution, IE expensive equipment, lots of data to be stored on the solid state so it can reliably be (re)transmitted to earth. I doubt NASA, with it's current budget, will want to spend many millions so they can show the world they failed.
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How's that for "the web is the computer", mister Ellison?
I have long worried about stuff like this and ended up with a basement and a loft full of redundant old crap nobody is interested in anymore. In five years time, all you will have is some old sun boxes that have been surpassed by who knows what new hardware the future brings. Why is that? Because within one year, competitors computers will be so much cheaper to buy and get support for that replacing sun boxes will be cheaper than maintaining them. You're flogging a dying horse trying to get a few "free" more steps out of it before you'll have to pay for them. Sell the horse while it's still walking, and buy something not cursed with the money you get for your hardware.
Ehm, no? Most European cars are based on European designed platforms and parts. You are confusing Japanese and Korean cars with European. Incidentally, a lot of of Korean cars are based on European designs as well.
Most parts of every car, including the "US Made" ones, are indeed produced in China, since they have the least environmental laws and the cheapest labor. Your new "green" car is made in decidedly brown plants. Only the assembly is done semi-green.
I don't think that "threatening to take their ball and leave" by the big USA companies has been a very big factor in this Irish government plan. Looking at it that way is very chauvinistic and in my opinion shows a very limited and one-sided view of the world economy. They were facing being cast out of the EU and are in a lot more trouble financially, than just with a few USA companies that already have left Ireland for a good part anyhow.
The Irish government probably figured that any production or tech support job, no matter who owned the company, was making the Irish economy money. The only reason production companies are producing in Ireland and not in China is because of EU tax regulations. Anything not manufactured in the EU is heavily taxed. A lot of manufacturing (Dell is a good example) has already moved out of Ireland to new EU countries like Poland in the last years. You won't believe how many unemployed computer assembly workers there are in Ireland at the moment. Raising taxes may be of some influence to production, but it's very limited since the bulk has moved away to cheaper countries already.
As to the tech/help desk centers they have there. Real estate and wages are comparatively cheap in Ireland, especially compared to the level of schooling. Any other country in the western EU would still be more expensive to go to. You can't outsource everything to India (believe me, they keep trying) so "leaving Ireland if taxes rise" is not a serious threat at all for the bulk of those industries. Try finding people speaking at least 3 European languages (there are over 20) and with enough education to do advanced tech support. You won't find enough of them outside of Europe on one location. Maybe in the future, Africa (with a lot of people speaking French and English) will be providing here, but that will take another 10 years at least. Catering Eastern Europe will be done from the east, where labor is even cheaper and people speak those languages. Catering western Europe will continue from Ireland, even with raised taxes. Maybe, that will move to Eastern Europe in the future, but I doubt taxes will remain low there, they have to adhere to the same standards Ireland is now forced to uphold.
will be monitored because they must be some sort of terrorist or criminal. Because why would someone want to decide for themselves what to watch, read or comment about?
It's a large and accepted platform. We don't want to be stuck with x86 forever just because there is no valid alternative and no innovation because it's dominating the market.
The other main reason is that power actually is very important in the data center. Everything you power, you have to cool. All large server room users, the cloud providers and firms that need their own centers because they have a whopping amount of servers for their use, are looking at moving to colder climates, using natural resources to get a more friendly power bill and carbon footprint and all. Sun is playing the power consumption card with their latest SPARC generation and it seems to be very beneficial for certain usages.
that this pitch fork thing was true
Bill Gates was the devil
jesus was an architect previous to his career as an open source developer
all of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
so there was only one thing that I could do
was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
The blog posting actually gives good information on how to get the SD card out of the hive. Apparently you can reset the card with a special command. It would be relatively trivial for someone to write a tool to send that command, providing the low-level drivers permit this. Otherwise, support for this command should be added to the drivers.
This being an ancient and not extensively field tested extension to SD, chances are the encryption is weak and decryption tools will pop up within weeks. Geeks and government agencies will want to be able to read what's on these cards bad enough to bother putting in the effort to crack it. What encryption is used? What kind of passwords are generated? How good is the random seed on a typical smart phone these days? How good is the software implementation for this whole key and encryption thing on those phones? This whole encryption standard was made when we couldn't crack MD5 hashes with rainbow tables in seconds and the average device using SD didn't have any real computing power to speak off. I very much doubt the encryption used is anything significant when attacked with today's hardware and knowledge.
Sod the whole "not compatible" mantra. Of course it's compatible, once we make it so. Someone will find the password generation code in the firmware of the phone. Someone will find weaknesses in that code and make the keys a whole lot more predictable. Someone will come up with the encryption method and find weaknesses in it, if it's not a known standard. I'm not giving this whole system 12 months. Then again, chances are Windows Phone 7 may not be around that long....
for more than the gratification of taking a shot at them would give you. Also, you'd have to shoot an awful lot of BP managers before you would get anywhere near as much effect as shooting the guy that just fired you. Shoot just one, and he will never be able to fire you again, but BP will just put another manager in the place of the missing one, without any less effectivity of the company after your deed.
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of those banks. Or to the big money distribution center that transports money from and to the banks, ATMs and all that.
the research on those chem trails was flawed!
China already owns 20% of all foreign USA debt (Japan also owns 20%). The USA government can't do anything "funny" or the Chinese will devaluate the US dollar so much that the average Nigerian 419er won't even be interested in US citizens anymore. With the USA foreign debt as high as it is today, they have effectively lost the power over the US national markets completely to Japan and China. Forty years ago, they found out that this would be a bad thing, when the oil crisis started and it turned out that most of the dollars payed for foreign oil were used to buy US companies and real estate. I guess by not allowing the Chinese to buy into companies and real estate, they tried to protect their economy from anything like that happening again. However, if you need foreign money to fund your own economy, because it's basically tits up, you end up being owned anyway.
The only real solution for this for the USA would be to stop exporting war and start producing their own goods again, instead of importing everything from "cheap" countries. Those goods aren't cheap, they just make them appear cheap because you pay the rest through your foreign debts. Stop importing and start producing, even if the price appears to be higher. Everything you make yourself, you save money going abroad.
The translation states that the technologies were all adapted to the Chinese line system, by the western companies. That means they only have to support one line type, but get access to 3 different technologies. They don't have to deal with adapting them to their own system anymore because they bought them adapted already. They are the only country right now that has the luxury of being able to choose, mix and match from all high-speed trains in the world. I'd say that's pretty awesome indeed.
to fill potholes next. Yes, you can play live tetris.
And most European cities are filled with those. Even tho the SUVs (yes, people here buy those over sized gas guzzlers now) are a pain, eco-unfriendly and impossible to park, the average moped causes more smog and foul smell than those SUVs do. There's been talk of banning "old cars" from the Amsterdam center as well, but neither Amsterdam nor Paris seem to want to deal with the mopeds. There have been no decent scientific studies to the effects of actually banning "stinking cars" from the city center. How much less pollution would this result in? How much more pollution would the replacement vehicle cause? Imagine all SUV owners having to park outside city limits and renting mopeds to get into town, do a pollution calculation based on that and then tell me it's not purely symbolic.
Oops, giant miscalculation, it should be 1 percent. Still trivial given the deviation and the 9% fall in crime rate, but still an error.
Also in the article, it takes the police 59000 cameras to solve 6 crimes a day. That's one per 1000 cameras. Doubling the hit rate will require another 60000 cameras, at least. The article fails to state the general crime rate or the percentages of crimes solved. In Wales alone, 215.000 crimes were reported in a year, with a fall in crime rate of 9%. At 2200 crimes solved with cameras in the entire UK, the typical success rate of cameras is 0.1% at best, if you consider the rest of the UK crimeless. With crime falling 9% in Wales, this proves that cameras have no significant influence or help in solving crimes or reducing crime rates whatsoever.
start-stop cars have batteries with glass-fiber mats that are 90% drained with battery acid around the lead plates. This gives them the ability to deep-cycle the batteries. Also, the alternators have more power and in most European cars with this system, the alternators only deliver power when the batteries need charging. The preferred method is even to only charge when the car is decelerating, so it brakes the car, in stead of using power that could also be used to accelerate or propel the car.
These batteries and intelligent charging systems cost money. That is why it hasn't been done before.
All USA news sources are bad. They are afraid to publish a lot of things, either because they will get raided or sued, or just because advertisers will run away. Stating one of them is bad, or even doing a comparison to other bad sources has no relevancy. Try comparing to some other sources around the world. How about comparing with BBC World news, or other sources that have a good reputation? The article itself is bad, sure, but the whole idea of trying to find a reason for how uninformed people are, should be done by looking at USA legislation and culture. The USA is rated 20th, well below most of Europe in the Reporters Without Borders Index 2009. How about doing something about that first and then see what the worst sources are inside the USA?
The whole point is you have no idea or guarantee the website will keep your data secure. They could plaintext your password along with all your information in a readable directory of the web root. Yes, that still happens, a lot. If it can be rainbowtabled in mere seconds on one OS, it can be eyeballed in even less on your precious apache on linux. Old MySQL passwords are abundant as well, same story as the windows rainbow tables used as an example here.
Have you ever been shopping for cameras that are capable of surviving more than a day of space radiation? How about buying the video encoder for it and getting your extra data traffic through the transmitter on the thing you hurled into space? You're going to be spending millions just to watch a few minutes of a deployment that either works, or it doesn't.
You already know what it's going to look like if it works, so for that occasion, using a microswitch will suffice. The only reason why you might want to put a camera on is to see how it fails. For that you will need a lot of speed and resolution, IE expensive equipment, lots of data to be stored on the solid state so it can reliably be (re)transmitted to earth. I doubt NASA, with it's current budget, will want to spend many millions so they can show the world they failed.
How's that for "the web is the computer", mister Ellison?
I have long worried about stuff like this and ended up with a basement and a loft full of redundant old crap nobody is interested in anymore. In five years time, all you will have is some old sun boxes that have been surpassed by who knows what new hardware the future brings. Why is that? Because within one year, competitors computers will be so much cheaper to buy and get support for that replacing sun boxes will be cheaper than maintaining them. You're flogging a dying horse trying to get a few "free" more steps out of it before you'll have to pay for them. Sell the horse while it's still walking, and buy something not cursed with the money you get for your hardware.
Ehm, no? Most European cars are based on European designed platforms and parts. You are confusing Japanese and Korean cars with European. Incidentally, a lot of of Korean cars are based on European designs as well.
Most parts of every car, including the "US Made" ones, are indeed produced in China, since they have the least environmental laws and the cheapest labor. Your new "green" car is made in decidedly brown plants. Only the assembly is done semi-green.
should be made a crime!
I don't think that "threatening to take their ball and leave" by the big USA companies has been a very big factor in this Irish government plan. Looking at it that way is very chauvinistic and in my opinion shows a very limited and one-sided view of the world economy. They were facing being cast out of the EU and are in a lot more trouble financially, than just with a few USA companies that already have left Ireland for a good part anyhow.
The Irish government probably figured that any production or tech support job, no matter who owned the company, was making the Irish economy money. The only reason production companies are producing in Ireland and not in China is because of EU tax regulations. Anything not manufactured in the EU is heavily taxed. A lot of manufacturing (Dell is a good example) has already moved out of Ireland to new EU countries like Poland in the last years. You won't believe how many unemployed computer assembly workers there are in Ireland at the moment. Raising taxes may be of some influence to production, but it's very limited since the bulk has moved away to cheaper countries already.
As to the tech/help desk centers they have there. Real estate and wages are comparatively cheap in Ireland, especially compared to the level of schooling. Any other country in the western EU would still be more expensive to go to. You can't outsource everything to India (believe me, they keep trying) so "leaving Ireland if taxes rise" is not a serious threat at all for the bulk of those industries. Try finding people speaking at least 3 European languages (there are over 20) and with enough education to do advanced tech support. You won't find enough of them outside of Europe on one location. Maybe in the future, Africa (with a lot of people speaking French and English) will be providing here, but that will take another 10 years at least. Catering Eastern Europe will be done from the east, where labor is even cheaper and people speak those languages. Catering western Europe will continue from Ireland, even with raised taxes. Maybe, that will move to Eastern Europe in the future, but I doubt taxes will remain low there, they have to adhere to the same standards Ireland is now forced to uphold.
will be monitored because they must be some sort of terrorist or criminal. Because why would someone want to decide for themselves what to watch, read or comment about?
It's a large and accepted platform. We don't want to be stuck with x86 forever just because there is no valid alternative and no innovation because it's dominating the market.
The other main reason is that power actually is very important in the data center. Everything you power, you have to cool. All large server room users, the cloud providers and firms that need their own centers because they have a whopping amount of servers for their use, are looking at moving to colder climates, using natural resources to get a more friendly power bill and carbon footprint and all. Sun is playing the power consumption card with their latest SPARC generation and it seems to be very beneficial for certain usages.
that this pitch fork thing was true
Bill Gates was the devil
jesus was an architect previous to his career as an open source developer
all of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
so there was only one thing that I could do
was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
MicroSoft themselves say that. In http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dcook/archive/2010/11/08/sd-cards-in-windows-phone-7.aspx it is mentioned, as well as in the knowledgebase article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2450831 here.
The blog posting actually gives good information on how to get the SD card out of the hive. Apparently you can reset the card with a special command. It would be relatively trivial for someone to write a tool to send that command, providing the low-level drivers permit this. Otherwise, support for this command should be added to the drivers.
This being an ancient and not extensively field tested extension to SD, chances are the encryption is weak and decryption tools will pop up within weeks. Geeks and government agencies will want to be able to read what's on these cards bad enough to bother putting in the effort to crack it. What encryption is used? What kind of passwords are generated? How good is the random seed on a typical smart phone these days? How good is the software implementation for this whole key and encryption thing on those phones? This whole encryption standard was made when we couldn't crack MD5 hashes with rainbow tables in seconds and the average device using SD didn't have any real computing power to speak off. I very much doubt the encryption used is anything significant when attacked with today's hardware and knowledge.
Sod the whole "not compatible" mantra. Of course it's compatible, once we make it so. Someone will find the password generation code in the firmware of the phone. Someone will find weaknesses in that code and make the keys a whole lot more predictable. Someone will come up with the encryption method and find weaknesses in it, if it's not a known standard. I'm not giving this whole system 12 months. Then again, chances are Windows Phone 7 may not be around that long....
It was forked from a development version and as such, not as stable as the 3.2 release version that OOo is now. That is why you should fret.
they won't share with the government.
for more than the gratification of taking a shot at them would give you. Also, you'd have to shoot an awful lot of BP managers before you would get anywhere near as much effect as shooting the guy that just fired you. Shoot just one, and he will never be able to fire you again, but BP will just put another manager in the place of the missing one, without any less effectivity of the company after your deed.