Google's original motto "Don't be evil" changed to "Do the right thing"
To be fair to them both are traditional Blue State Millennial disingenuousness. Is it more evil to censor? Or to allow 'fascism'? Who defines 'fascism'? I.e. it's almost like 'don't be evil' is something idiots think is a moral code but which is actually completely meaningless. Same with 'do the right thing'. Who decides what's 'the right thing'? Google's pronouncements on morality are meaningless, and in the long run Google will, like any other American megacorp, do things which help their tribe in American politics and which hurt the other side. Regardless of morality.
You could probably infect a Linux or Android installation from the firmware if you wanted to. All you need to be able to do is to write one executable file into the filesystem and get the OS to run it each boot.
The basic problem is that you trust the people who write the firmware. And if the people who write the firmware can always be forced to install spyware if the government of the jurisdiction their company operates in tells them forcefully.
In the US a US company can be sent a National Security Letter. In Russia or China it's probably more like the company had to suck up to the gangsters who run the place to even exist. And if those gangsters tell you to do something for 'national security' you know that not doing it means you end up like Mikhail Khodorkovsky. I.e. you lose a lot of money and end up in a hellish prison.
And even though conventional wisdom says malware only targets WIndows because that's where the volume is, that doesn't apply in this case. If you work for a company where the boss got an NSL or worries about being Khodorovsky'd you're going to find some code to read and write Linux/Android filesystems and hack into the firmware once he explains the consequences for not doing it.
Now IMO I'm less concerned about the US spying on me than Russia or China. So personally I'm OK with US kit. Same with UK or Taiwanese kit, because the US and UK are close collaborators and Taiwan is very much aligned with the US and against China. I'm not OK with Chinese or Russian kit. However the US kit *made* by a Chinese company is increasingly dangerous.
I.e. the issue is not OS. The issue is that the allegiance of your hardware vendor matters, because they can always inject malware into your OS. And there's a plausible motive why they'd do it, regardless of how hard you make it for them by picking a non mainstream OS.
Funny thing is as much as distrust Apple in other areas, they're actually very resistant to this sort of thing. They control both the OS and the firmware very closely. It's Windows, Linux, *BSD and which are vulnerable because the OS vendor and the hardware vendor don't share code. So a secure OS can be rooted by a malicious hardware vendor.
And I suppose the Android OEMs like Samsung, LG, HTC, Asus are too. They ship hardware and software together and control both. So if you trust them, you don't need to worry about a third party hardware vendor subverting their system.
It's more of an opportunity really. Just make sure you get a good deal when you sell out humanity to the machines. Personally I'm holding out for a Basestar full of naked Boomers. Accept nothing less!
Eh. You can make an argument that one US party is worse than the other and you should vote for the other party's candidate, however flawed, to keep them out of power. E.g. I might decide don't want a party in power which is racially divisive, authoritarian, treasonous, economically and morally illiterate and plays Orwellian games with language and censorship.
But I'd never say the Republicans are 'honestly looking for truth'. I'd just say the alternative is worse. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for a party which is pretty damn evil, and you need to be intellectually honest enough to admit that.
These 12 second video platforms always seem a bit apocalyptic to me. In fact if I were writing a apocalyptic sci fi I'd have that as a plot point - videos would appear where people try to explain what the problem is but get cut off due to platform limitations.
It gets worse. Some of them are probably still using Thinkpads, even though they're made by Lenovo. Now you'll say "No worries, if they re-image them they can avoid any spyware Lenovo put in there at the behest of the Chinese government".
Uh yeah, that won't help. Lenovo uses the WIndows Platform Binary feature to reinstall it. Basically you put an executable file into one of the ACPI tables. Windows copies it to disk and then runs it. With Administrator access. Probably more than Administrator access actually - I bet a native executable has more privilege than one running with Administrator rights on the Win32 subsystem does.
To pull this off, the LSE exploits Microsoft's Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) feature. This allows PC manufacturers and corporate IT to inject drivers, programs and other files into the Windows operating system from the motherboard firmware.
The WPBT is stored in the firmware, and tells Windows where in memory it can find an executable called a platform binary to run. Said executable will take care of the job of installing files before the operating system starts.
"During operating system initialization, Windows will read the WPBT to obtain the physical memory location of the platform binary," Microsoft's documentation states.
"The binary is required to be a native, user-mode application that is executed by the Windows Session Manager during operating system initialization. Windows will write the flat image to disk, and the Session Manager will launch the process."
Crucially, the WPBT documentation stresses:
The primary purpose of WPBT is to allow critical software to persist even when the operating system has changed or been reinstalled in a "clean" configuration... Because this feature provides the ability to persistently execute system software in the context of Windows, it becomes critical that WPBT-based solutions are as secure as possible and do not expose Windows users to exploitable conditions.
Oh dear. Secure as possible? Not in this case: security researcher Roel Schouwenberg found and reported a buffer-overflow vulnerability in the LSE that can be exploited to gain administrator-level privileges.
I.e. even if you reinstall them from a known clean image, they can still regrow the amputated LSE. And even if the LSE is not spyware, it contains exploitable vulnerabilities that a third party could use to install whatever they wanted. Lenovo didn't do this in Thinkpads, but they could.
At the moment the US is in the midst of media created paranoia about Russian hackers. Honestly if I were in charge of cybersecurity I'd be a lot more worried that the Chinese spy services would use something like LSE, with or without the cooperation of Lenovo, to spy on sensitive stuff.
And of course it's not just Lenovo laptops. There's Huawei phones and routers. Or indeed US brands which make routers in China could have either hacked firmware loaded onto them or the Chinese spy agencies could find an stockpile vulnerabilities in the manufacturer's firmware.
And then you have companies like XiaoMi with their young pioneer uniformed bunny signifying their devotion to the regime as a Taiwanese friend of mine pointed out
If you buy US stuff, you expect the US companies to cooperate with the NSA. If you buy Chinese stuff you expect Chinese companies to cooperate with its Chinese equivalents. XiaoMi's Young Pioneer bunny is none to subtle sign by the company that they're pro regime and it's not unreasonable to assume if the government asked them to help it out with national security they'd say yes.
Humans have been living in conditions like this long before there was airconditioning.
Then again maybe that's the reason people decided to do the contemporary equivalent of an interstellar journey - a series of risky boat journeys across the pacific eventually reaching Hawaii
Sure a lot of people must have ended up dieing of thirst in the middle of the Pacific ocean but perhaps it was better than staying in a place where the climate was literally like ass.
MAORI legend has it that Polynesians originated from a place called "Hawaiki". Where Hawaiki was located is a mystery. But the toings and froings of the Polynesians-arguably the greatest seafarers in history-have long intrigued researchers of an anthropological turn of mind, and two of them, Jean Trejaut and Marie Lin of Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei, think they know the answer to the riddle of Hawaiki: Taiwan.
This is not a total surprise. Linguistic evidence pointed that way already. But, in a study just published in Public Library of Science Biology, Dr Trejaut and Dr Lin nail the question down with that talisman of modern research, genetics.
Present day Taiwan has a population of 23m, but only 400,000 are descended from the island's original inhabitants (the majority of the population is descended from mainland Chinese who have settled there over the past 400 years). Those 400,000 speak-or, at least historically spoke-languages belonging to a group known as Austronesian, which is unrelated to Chinese, but includes the Polynesian tongues. Indeed, small though the aboriginal Taiwanese population is, it accounts for nine of the ten linguistic sub-families of Austronesian. Hence the supposition that Hawaiki might be Taiwan.
To check this out, Dr Trejaut and Dr Lin decided to look at variations in mitochondrial DNA. This is passed from mother to offspring without genetic admixture from the father, because it is found in the bodies of cells-including, crucially, egg cells-rather than in the cell nuclei where the rest of the genes reside. (Sperm jettison their mitochondrial DNA at fertilisation.) That makes tracing mutations through the generations easier than looking at those genes that get mixed up by sex.
In a study involving 640 people from nine Taiwanese tribes, Dr Trejaut and Dr Lin found three mutations shared by Taiwanese, Polynesians and Melanesians (who also speak Austronesian) which are not found in other Asians. So the mystery seems to have been solved at last. Where the Taiwanese came from, though, is a different question again.
Still regardless of whether the Polynesians came from Taiwan, the fact that Taiwan has been populated long enough for that to be possible shows that humans can exist just fine in an environment which is hot and humid. Hell even non Taiwanese like me can adapt to it.
I think what they're doing is admirable, once you understand the sort of society they operate in.
They are a minor house, bannermen sworn to House Democrat. As a feudal vassal they are expected to inveigh against the current ruling King Donald of House Trump and attempt to restore what they see as the rightful ruling house.
You can't judge them by modern standards, you have to judge them according the standards of morality which operate in the feudal society they live in.
Expecting them to think about things like 'truth' and 'journalism' is completely anachronistic. It'd be like expecting packs of dogs to treat members of rival pack the same way they treat the alpha of their pack. Of course they yap at members of rival packs and bend over and expose their bellies in submissive way to the alpha. All their ancestors did that and the ones that didn't weren't given food and weren't allowed to mate with the interns and thus their genes didn't survive. The ones who played by the rules were allowed to breed whether the interns wanted it or not. So evolution has selected for this behaviour and essentially for this morality. Expecting them to treat non ingroup members of their species the same as ingroup ones is ridiculous! Same with expecting them to worry about whether the interns wanted to be bred with! Dog society has different rules than our society.
And it's the same with CNN. You can't expect them to behave like humans.
True. House Democrat has Google and Facebook as bannermen. House Republican has Comcast and Verizon. Neither care for smallfolk, whose only option is to be whores or sellswords in war between great feudal houses for control. Eventually winter will bring ice zombies from the frozen north and doom all of humanity.
Does it feel a bit chilly in here, or is it just me?
You could install a WiMax basestation rural areas and have a line of sight microwave link to the nearest place you can get a wired internet connection, or to the next base station.
A WiMAX tower station can connect directly to the Internet using a high-bandwidth, wired connection (for example, a T3 line). It can also connect to another WiMAX tower using a line-of-sight microwave link.
Problem is of course that you'd need to make sure you had enough subscribers to make it profitable before you did it. On the upside you could spread out quite fast this way - so long as the base stations are either in WiMax or microwave range they can talk to each other. So initially you'd put them at the edges of cities where they can get a wired connection and power. Then you'd add ones which talked to them. Eventually you'd be building them way out in the country. You can actually get ones which run off solar and batteries
I think you'd fall foul of regulations though. Aka 'people trying to protect their monopoly which lets them sell shitty, overpriced services to a captive audience who have no alternative'.
On March 8, 2017, the stream resumed from an "unknown location," with the artists announcing that a flag emblazoned with the words "He Will Not Divide Us" would be flown for the duration of the presidency. The camera was pointed up at the flag, set against a backdrop of nothing but sky. Reporting on the move, Nylon reflected that "in tumultuous times like these, it's encouraging to see that art finds a way to exist and artists find a way to create, even when their work and message are under attack." Within 38 hours of resuming transmission, the flag was located by a collaboration of 4chan users, who used airplane contrails, celestial navigation, and other techniques to determine that it was located in Greeneville, Tennessee. In the early hours of March 10, 2017, an unknown person took down and stole the flag, replacing it with a red 'Make America Great Again' hat and a Pepe the Frog shirt. These were later removed, and the stream continued broadcasting an empty flag pole. Following escalating threats coordinated via 4chan and 8chan, and after a field at the location was set on fire, the artists were again forced to relocate the project.
On June 26, 2014, LaBeouf was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass at New York's Studio 54 theater. He was reported to have been "acting disorderly, yelling and being loud". He refused to leave the theater, so the police were called. In the arrest report it was stated that LaBeouf spat at arresting officers. The report also details LaBeouf using an impolite slur and swearing at arresting officers. He was arrested and held at the Midtown North police station to later appear in court. Following the incident, LaBeouf voluntarily began seeking outpatient treatment for alcoholism, becoming involved in a 12-step program.
On July 8, 2017, around 4 a.m. LaBeouf was arrested in Savannah, Georgia, for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and obstruction. Bodycam footage was released of LaBeouf's profane tirade against the arresting officers following his arrest. In October 2017 LaBeouf was found not guilty on one charge of public intoxication and pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct, for which he was fined $1,000, and will spend 12 months on probation minus time served. He was also required to attend anger management counseling.
Even if the current rate doubled or tripled it wouldn't make much difference. If you look at the UK the government decides what the worst case forecast is, and people maintaining coastal defences plan to deal with that. Last I checked they decided on 3mm per year. Still, people are measuring this sort of thing and those measurements, plus a safety factor, become the future government decision.
Unless you're either building sea walls or trying to forecast, it doesn't matter what the rate is.
Is there any way to use a 53 qubit quantum computer to crack a longer key faster than a classical computer but slower than a quantum computer with more bits? I.e split Shor's algorithm up into multiple stages?
As someone observed after the "He will not divide us" episode where 4chaners found the flag in a rather clever cunning way - "4chan is smart people pretending to be dumb. Reddit is dumb people pretending to be smart".
So how did 4chan find and steal the He Will Not Divide Us flag?
It turns out, Shia made one mistake in setting up the camera on the soon-to-be-stolen flag. It was such a simple thing that normal people would never have noticed, but the 4chan trolls sprung into action when they realized the camera was aimed in part at the sky.
According to various users on 4chan, members of the board used jet contrails, flight paths, and astronomy to determine the general location of the He Will Not Divide Us flag installation. After narrowing down the location to somewhere in Tennesee, 4chan sleuths drove around the area honking their horns to see if the sound would show up on the live stream.
And as it turns out, they were successful almost immediately, as 4chan found the flag site less than a couple days after it went live. The trolls replaced the stolen flag with the hat and T-shirt mentioned earlier.
Besides the obvious issues with theft and harassment, 4chan's actions in this incident are merely a part of what has become known to many who study the impact of social media in society as the "Great Meme War."
Slashdot Mirror
Google's original motto "Don't be evil" changed to "Do the right thing"
To be fair to them both are traditional Blue State Millennial disingenuousness. Is it more evil to censor? Or to allow 'fascism'? Who defines 'fascism'? I.e. it's almost like 'don't be evil' is something idiots think is a moral code but which is actually completely meaningless. Same with 'do the right thing'. Who decides what's 'the right thing'? Google's pronouncements on morality are meaningless, and in the long run Google will, like any other American megacorp, do things which help their tribe in American politics and which hurt the other side. Regardless of morality.
You could probably infect a Linux or Android installation from the firmware if you wanted to. All you need to be able to do is to write one executable file into the filesystem and get the OS to run it each boot.
The basic problem is that you trust the people who write the firmware. And if the people who write the firmware can always be forced to install spyware if the government of the jurisdiction their company operates in tells them forcefully.
In the US a US company can be sent a National Security Letter. In Russia or China it's probably more like the company had to suck up to the gangsters who run the place to even exist. And if those gangsters tell you to do something for 'national security' you know that not doing it means you end up like Mikhail Khodorkovsky. I.e. you lose a lot of money and end up in a hellish prison.
And even though conventional wisdom says malware only targets WIndows because that's where the volume is, that doesn't apply in this case. If you work for a company where the boss got an NSL or worries about being Khodorovsky'd you're going to find some code to read and write Linux/Android filesystems and hack into the firmware once he explains the consequences for not doing it.
Now IMO I'm less concerned about the US spying on me than Russia or China. So personally I'm OK with US kit. Same with UK or Taiwanese kit, because the US and UK are close collaborators and Taiwan is very much aligned with the US and against China. I'm not OK with Chinese or Russian kit. However the US kit *made* by a Chinese company is increasingly dangerous.
I.e. the issue is not OS. The issue is that the allegiance of your hardware vendor matters, because they can always inject malware into your OS. And there's a plausible motive why they'd do it, regardless of how hard you make it for them by picking a non mainstream OS.
Funny thing is as much as distrust Apple in other areas, they're actually very resistant to this sort of thing. They control both the OS and the firmware very closely. It's Windows, Linux, *BSD and which are vulnerable because the OS vendor and the hardware vendor don't share code. So a secure OS can be rooted by a malicious hardware vendor.
And I suppose the Android OEMs like Samsung, LG, HTC, Asus are too. They ship hardware and software together and control both. So if you trust them, you don't need to worry about a third party hardware vendor subverting their system.
It's fast. And more importantly it's not made by Google. Because right now Google seems like it's becoming a problem.
It's more of an opportunity really. Just make sure you get a good deal when you sell out humanity to the machines. Personally I'm holding out for a Basestar full of naked Boomers. Accept nothing less!
Eh. You can make an argument that one US party is worse than the other and you should vote for the other party's candidate, however flawed, to keep them out of power. E.g. I might decide don't want a party in power which is racially divisive, authoritarian, treasonous, economically and morally illiterate and plays Orwellian games with language and censorship.
But I'd never say the Republicans are 'honestly looking for truth'. I'd just say the alternative is worse. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for a party which is pretty damn evil, and you need to be intellectually honest enough to admit that.
These 12 second video platforms always seem a bit apocalyptic to me. In fact if I were writing a apocalyptic sci fi I'd have that as a plot point - videos would appear where people try to explain what the problem is but get cut off due to platform limitations.
China does, where there are TLDs that require kanji characters to access
Uh dude. Don't call them 'kanji' around Chinese people.
It gets worse. Some of them are probably still using Thinkpads, even though they're made by Lenovo. Now you'll say "No worries, if they re-image them they can avoid any spyware Lenovo put in there at the behest of the Chinese government".
Uh yeah, that won't help. Lenovo uses the WIndows Platform Binary feature to reinstall it. Basically you put an executable file into one of the ACPI tables. Windows copies it to disk and then runs it. With Administrator access. Probably more than Administrator access actually - I bet a native executable has more privilege than one running with Administrator rights on the Win32 subsystem does.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
To pull this off, the LSE exploits Microsoft's Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) feature. This allows PC manufacturers and corporate IT to inject drivers, programs and other files into the Windows operating system from the motherboard firmware.
The WPBT is stored in the firmware, and tells Windows where in memory it can find an executable called a platform binary to run. Said executable will take care of the job of installing files before the operating system starts.
"During operating system initialization, Windows will read the WPBT to obtain the physical memory location of the platform binary," Microsoft's documentation states.
"The binary is required to be a native, user-mode application that is executed by the Windows Session Manager during operating system initialization. Windows will write the flat image to disk, and the Session Manager will launch the process."
Crucially, the WPBT documentation stresses:
The primary purpose of WPBT is to allow critical software to persist even when the operating system has changed or been reinstalled in a "clean" configuration ... Because this feature provides the ability to persistently execute system software in the context of Windows, it becomes critical that WPBT-based solutions are as secure as possible and do not expose Windows users to exploitable conditions.
Oh dear. Secure as possible? Not in this case: security researcher Roel Schouwenberg found and reported a buffer-overflow vulnerability in the LSE that can be exploited to gain administrator-level privileges.
I.e. even if you reinstall them from a known clean image, they can still regrow the amputated LSE. And even if the LSE is not spyware, it contains exploitable vulnerabilities that a third party could use to install whatever they wanted. Lenovo didn't do this in Thinkpads, but they could.
At the moment the US is in the midst of media created paranoia about Russian hackers. Honestly if I were in charge of cybersecurity I'd be a lot more worried that the Chinese spy services would use something like LSE, with or without the cooperation of Lenovo, to spy on sensitive stuff.
And of course it's not just Lenovo laptops. There's Huawei phones and routers. Or indeed US brands which make routers in China could have either hacked firmware loaded onto them or the Chinese spy agencies could find an stockpile vulnerabilities in the manufacturer's firmware.
And then you have companies like XiaoMi with their young pioneer uniformed bunny signifying their devotion to the regime as a Taiwanese friend of mine pointed out
https://hungermarketingchina.w...
If you buy US stuff, you expect the US companies to cooperate with the NSA. If you buy Chinese stuff you expect Chinese companies to cooperate with its Chinese equivalents. XiaoMi's Young Pioneer bunny is none to subtle sign by the company that they're pro regime and it's not unreasonable to assume if the government asked them to help it out with national security they'd say yes.
Of course I can see
Taipei can get above 37% and is very humid. Humidity never gets to 100% but it's dang hot and humid
http://www.taiwan.climatemps.c...
Humans have been living in conditions like this long before there was airconditioning.
Then again maybe that's the reason people decided to do the contemporary equivalent of an interstellar journey - a series of risky boat journeys across the pacific eventually reaching Hawaii
Sure a lot of people must have ended up dieing of thirst in the middle of the Pacific ocean but perhaps it was better than staying in a place where the climate was literally like ass.
http://www.economist.com/node/...
https://archive.fo/BSsEl
MAORI legend has it that Polynesians originated from a place called "Hawaiki". Where Hawaiki was located is a mystery. But the toings and froings of the Polynesians-arguably the greatest seafarers in history-have long intrigued researchers of an anthropological turn of mind, and two of them, Jean Trejaut and Marie Lin of Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei, think they know the answer to the riddle of Hawaiki: Taiwan.
This is not a total surprise. Linguistic evidence pointed that way already. But, in a study just published in Public Library of Science Biology, Dr Trejaut and Dr Lin nail the question down with that talisman of modern research, genetics.
Present day Taiwan has a population of 23m, but only 400,000 are descended from the island's original inhabitants (the majority of the population is descended from mainland Chinese who have settled there over the past 400 years). Those 400,000 speak-or, at least historically spoke-languages belonging to a group known as Austronesian, which is unrelated to Chinese, but includes the Polynesian tongues. Indeed, small though the aboriginal Taiwanese population is, it accounts for nine of the ten linguistic sub-families of Austronesian. Hence the supposition that Hawaiki might be Taiwan.
To check this out, Dr Trejaut and Dr Lin decided to look at variations in mitochondrial DNA. This is passed from mother to offspring without genetic admixture from the father, because it is found in the bodies of cells-including, crucially, egg cells-rather than in the cell nuclei where the rest of the genes reside. (Sperm jettison their mitochondrial DNA at fertilisation.) That makes tracing mutations through the generations easier than looking at those genes that get mixed up by sex.
In a study involving 640 people from nine Taiwanese tribes, Dr Trejaut and Dr Lin found three mutations shared by Taiwanese, Polynesians and Melanesians (who also speak Austronesian) which are not found in other Asians. So the mystery seems to have been solved at last. Where the Taiwanese came from, though, is a different question again.
Still regardless of whether the Polynesians came from Taiwan, the fact that Taiwan has been populated long enough for that to be possible shows that humans can exist just fine in an environment which is hot and humid. Hell even non Taiwanese like me can adapt to it.
Welcome to IniTech. You're best bet is to kick someone's ass or become someone's bitch on the first day.
You know what they say. You always pull the pigtails of the girl you fancy.
I think what they're doing is admirable, once you understand the sort of society they operate in.
They are a minor house, bannermen sworn to House Democrat. As a feudal vassal they are expected to inveigh against the current ruling King Donald of House Trump and attempt to restore what they see as the rightful ruling house.
You can't judge them by modern standards, you have to judge them according the standards of morality which operate in the feudal society they live in.
Expecting them to think about things like 'truth' and 'journalism' is completely anachronistic. It'd be like expecting packs of dogs to treat members of rival pack the same way they treat the alpha of their pack. Of course they yap at members of rival packs and bend over and expose their bellies in submissive way to the alpha. All their ancestors did that and the ones that didn't weren't given food and weren't allowed to mate with the interns and thus their genes didn't survive. The ones who played by the rules were allowed to breed whether the interns wanted it or not. So evolution has selected for this behaviour and essentially for this morality. Expecting them to treat non ingroup members of their species the same as ingroup ones is ridiculous! Same with expecting them to worry about whether the interns wanted to be bred with! Dog society has different rules than our society.
And it's the same with CNN. You can't expect them to behave like humans.
I'm no great of fan of his by upping Bush's drone and special forces strikes against Islamists was one of the few things he did I liked.
T Reginald Gibbons tried to clarify the difference in this memorable article
http://adequacy.org/stories/20...
Best thing about it is the comments from l33t h@x0rz who couldn't spot the whole thing was designed to troll them. Good times, man. Good times.
Nor is the plural of '360-degree browser video experience'.
True. House Democrat has Google and Facebook as bannermen. House Republican has Comcast and Verizon. Neither care for smallfolk, whose only option is to be whores or sellswords in war between great feudal houses for control. Eventually winter will bring ice zombies from the frozen north and doom all of humanity.
Does it feel a bit chilly in here, or is it just me?
You could install a WiMax basestation rural areas and have a line of sight microwave link to the nearest place you can get a wired internet connection, or to the next base station.
https://www.tutorialspoint.com...
A WiMAX tower station can connect directly to the Internet using a high-bandwidth, wired connection (for example, a T3 line). It can also connect to another WiMAX tower using a line-of-sight microwave link.
Problem is of course that you'd need to make sure you had enough subscribers to make it profitable before you did it. On the upside you could spread out quite fast this way - so long as the base stations are either in WiMax or microwave range they can talk to each other. So initially you'd put them at the edges of cities where they can get a wired connection and power. Then you'd add ones which talked to them. Eventually you'd be building them way out in the country. You can actually get ones which run off solar and batteries
http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~zakhi...
I think you'd fall foul of regulations though. Aka 'people trying to protect their monopoly which lets them sell shitty, overpriced services to a captive audience who have no alternative'.
This is awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And Shia cracked up completely a few weeks after
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On March 8, 2017, the stream resumed from an "unknown location," with the artists announcing that a flag emblazoned with the words "He Will Not Divide Us" would be flown for the duration of the presidency. The camera was pointed up at the flag, set against a backdrop of nothing but sky. Reporting on the move, Nylon reflected that "in tumultuous times like these, it's encouraging to see that art finds a way to exist and artists find a way to create, even when their work and message are under attack." Within 38 hours of resuming transmission, the flag was located by a collaboration of 4chan users, who used airplane contrails, celestial navigation, and other techniques to determine that it was located in Greeneville, Tennessee. In the early hours of March 10, 2017, an unknown person took down and stole the flag, replacing it with a red 'Make America Great Again' hat and a Pepe the Frog shirt. These were later removed, and the stream continued broadcasting an empty flag pole. Following escalating threats coordinated via 4chan and 8chan, and after a field at the location was set on fire, the artists were again forced to relocate the project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On June 26, 2014, LaBeouf was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass at New York's Studio 54 theater. He was reported to have been "acting disorderly, yelling and being loud". He refused to leave the theater, so the police were called. In the arrest report it was stated that LaBeouf spat at arresting officers. The report also details LaBeouf using an impolite slur and swearing at arresting officers. He was arrested and held at the Midtown North police station to later appear in court. Following the incident, LaBeouf voluntarily began seeking outpatient treatment for alcoholism, becoming involved in a 12-step program.
On July 8, 2017, around 4 a.m. LaBeouf was arrested in Savannah, Georgia, for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and obstruction. Bodycam footage was released of LaBeouf's profane tirade against the arresting officers following his arrest. In October 2017 LaBeouf was found not guilty on one charge of public intoxication and pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct, for which he was fined $1,000, and will spend 12 months on probation minus time served. He was also required to attend anger management counseling.
Result : Decisive victory for Kekistani forces.
Even if the current rate doubled or tripled it wouldn't make much difference. If you look at the UK the government decides what the worst case forecast is, and people maintaining coastal defences plan to deal with that. Last I checked they decided on 3mm per year. Still, people are measuring this sort of thing and those measurements, plus a safety factor, become the future government decision.
Unless you're either building sea walls or trying to forecast, it doesn't matter what the rate is.
Is there any way to use a 53 qubit quantum computer to crack a longer key faster than a classical computer but slower than a quantum computer with more bits? I.e split Shor's algorithm up into multiple stages?
FYI 53 cubits is 0.120454 furlongs
Meanwhile cats have bred humans for trainability. Cats also have a symbiote which infects humans and causes those humans to care for them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Dogs maybe smarter, but cats don't need to be smart to get humans to feed them.
I love this guy's videos.
LOL!
As someone observed after the "He will not divide us" episode where 4chaners found the flag in a rather clever cunning way - "4chan is smart people pretending to be dumb. Reddit is dumb people pretending to be smart".
https://www.inquisitr.com/4060...
So how did 4chan find and steal the He Will Not Divide Us flag?
It turns out, Shia made one mistake in setting up the camera on the soon-to-be-stolen flag. It was such a simple thing that normal people would never have noticed, but the 4chan trolls sprung into action when they realized the camera was aimed in part at the sky.
According to various users on 4chan, members of the board used jet contrails, flight paths, and astronomy to determine the general location of the He Will Not Divide Us flag installation. After narrowing down the location to somewhere in Tennesee, 4chan sleuths drove around the area honking their horns to see if the sound would show up on the live stream.
And as it turns out, they were successful almost immediately, as 4chan found the flag site less than a couple days after it went live. The trolls replaced the stolen flag with the hat and T-shirt mentioned earlier.
Besides the obvious issues with theft and harassment, 4chan's actions in this incident are merely a part of what has become known to many who study the impact of social media in society as the "Great Meme War."