In the United States, the federal government has sovereign immunity and may not be sued unless it has waived its immunity or consented to suit; there are exceptions for tort and contract law.
It's a very interesting legal stance if the government says it has sovereign immunity, they claim to have not committed any actions that would invoke the tort exceptions. Therefore, running a child porn website does, according to the government, not do any harm to any potential victims (which is what tort is) and thus dissemination of child porn which is 'illegal because it harms the children', may then fall under first amendment protections just like any other website.
I don't think the op was talking about hybrid vehicles. An ICE is ~50% efficient regardless of how you use it in a vehicle. In a large energy station you can use less refined oil products at 80-90% efficiency. Any conversion between the net, battery and electric motor is 90-99% efficient. With nuclear energy you could get very clean, unlimited energy for very cheap.
In-app purchases on iOS likewise require authorization unless you explicitly turn it off. I get the password for every transaction and I also have the (default) setting to email me for every monetary transaction. I don't understand how these people have such problems, you have to go through quite some work to change the default settings unless off course you give your little brat the password as well, kids will figure it out.
I understand how BES works, the issue is that it isn't entirely unfeasible that Blackberry (the entity) doesn't have a master key that could access the data-in-stream to each of it's BES servers. The BES servers are a closed environment, a black box really, we really don't know. What we do know is that by default Blackberry DOES have a global pin which is enabled by default AND that your mobile carrier (could) know your PIN as well.
The BlackBerry device scrambles PIN messages using the PIN encryption key. By default, each BlackBerry device uses a global PIN encryption key, which allows the BlackBerry device to decrypt every PIN message that the BlackBerry device receives. Your organisation can use a global PIN encryption key, a PIN encryption key that is specific to your organisation, or both.
And guess how a specific PIN encryption key gets sent out? Encrypted using the global PIN.
The problem is not size but will power. We ARE talking seriously about moon bases for the ultra rich. They CAN afford it, if Gates and Musk and that Facebook guy and the Google guys with a few others got together they could easily become rulers of the moon with a small army of servants (2000 isn't all that much people and would probably cost sub-10B to launch them all into space). Have a few trillion dollars refunded from the military every year and send it into a massive ship building exercise and we could start sending off people a dozen at a time into deep space in the next century. Yes, many would die but we'd learn and send more eventually with more tools and world building tools.
If you wait for the better/faster to come along at any time nothing would ever get done. You may be able to pickup the original crew eventually (and you would find your clocks would be way skewed) but they would have done valuable research and development that would make any subsequent runs not at all possible. You could plan for it and leave the ships behind as com relays or restocking stations.
You're forgetting Einstein. The closer you get to c the slower "your" clock will run. We can currently get to.9 c relatively easy with existing/cutting edge tech and a long, slow runin. You could spend a lifetime in a craft and many more years will pass by on earth.
Their selling point was always encryption but then they sold out their customers to the US government and later other governments as well and all trust in their platform was lost. That and the fact that their functionality is easily replicated by going full SSL and remotely revoked full device encryption (which the iPhone did early on).
They can't give physical access to the clients' BES servers but that doesn't mean they haven't given them a key to unlock intercepted encrypted traffic. If they are okay with giving access to their less paying patrons, why draw the line there?
Yes, sometimes I copy and paste stuffs in my code especially while debugging. Python also bitches if you don't stay consistent with your indentation. Sometimes it just makes more sense to indent differently, especially when you're not soloing the project. Python is like PHP that way, good enough to script or make a not so complex program because a library warrants it but when you need others to do stuff with you, it becomes a gluttonous mess. And yes, a good project would have code style in agreement but that's usually not how things are done in the real world.
It's cleaner until you get to a sufficiently complex program and that makes indentation so much harder to read because you're exceeding the width of your terminal.
I've worked with Python in an unstructured contributor paradigm. I started having bad dreams about the compiler complaining and failing to run because my indentation was not uniform across the entire code base and I had to go fix it (you can use spaces or tabs but not both and no different ways on the number of spaces either even though they appear visually and for all intents and purposes even Python-logic-wise the same, an indent is an indent, deal with it).
Linux is one of the largest deployed operating systems in the world. Even very old versions like 2.2 are still prevalent in embedded devices that are never updated. If you're looking at all the consumer devices out there, Linux is running a LOT and most of them are unmanaged. For every Windows XP/2000 embedded still out there for which people are scrambling to contain them (often by using an unmanaged Linux based system) there is at least a magnitude more of the same era running Linux.
If you want to collect people's data and maintain endless amounts of bots, Linux 2.2-2.6 is the holy grail for security holes to find. Think of all the Netgear/Asus/... SOHO routers, the Checkpoint VPN and Firewall systems that often analyze corporate SSL traffic, data center firewalls and load balancers, the entire root DNS system, most of the "cloud", many of those things "just run" and have ports open to the world on public IPs with their owners having no clue that they have a powerful bog standard computer with a standard operating system directly connected to the net. And these days it gets even worse with all those 'software defined' devices that do everything a dedicated setup does without any custom chips.
No, Apple assigns and patches security vulnerabilities in everything from its (open source) BSD core to their web stacks running in OS X Server. Also iOS == OS X so the vulnerabilities largely overlap. They also list potential vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and input sanitation issues even without working exploits.
So you could have stuff from MachO to OpenSSL, Samba to Apache and Tomcat all mapping as OS X bugs. On the other hand Microsoft and some others don't even fix bugs without a working exploits much less report them.
There are some Chinese vendors that you can get a sub-$2k laser cutter from. There is a guy somewhere that sells a board that converts them from their proprietary software to a generic open source friendly printer driver. They aren't the best (I think it's a 40-60W laser) and require some work (cooling system etc) but they are darn cheap and relatively precise for most prototyping.
Renting the things (even 3D printers) is still the best option unless you are a business or want to rent it out, I have access to a number of tools at my job but the amount I actually use them vs other stuff I need to do (most of the time goes in the design, not the printing/cutting). If you don't have access to a maker space, there are sites online that let you find other makers in your area that have (access to) these large tools you need only once every few months.
Besides the obvious slashvertisement for HP, an "alternative for less" implies a large difference in price yet the summary doesn't declare any prices for either camp. There is a small ad on the page that lists it at about $800 which for an iPad Pro or Surface Pro replacement (respectively $800 and $700 for the base models) is not any cheaper.
The problem is that many sources that are conflicting with a certain viewpoint, even if they are true are rejected by editors with an agenda. That's particularly true when you go to subjects on cults or things that are particularly controversial such as the social justice issues. It's also the case for any political issue, candidate or corporation that has the money to hire editors to continue editing 24/7. There are simply too many sources (opinion blogs and PR releases) that are frequently copied and thus 'verified' but sources such as actual (offline) scientific evidence are rejected either because the shills or people that are too lazy to go to a library to verify it.
Not just social justice warriors. The entire 'open' encyclopedia is rife with editors and people that have more control than others to make and roll back edits. Niche topics are controlled in and large by corporate shills, know-it-all armchair experts and others with interest to keep the status quo. Somehow the people with a special interest in a topic (aka payed for social media spin doctors) gained control, grew to the top of the pyramid and are preventing anything that doesn't fit their agenda to go in.
For example any topic on Jehovahs Witnesses is controlled and edited by a Jehovahs Witness who rolls back any edit that is not published by their own official public releases and when pressed in the editor forums they mention that 'apostate' sources aren't trustworthy or independently confirmed (even things supported by journalists such as leaked internal doctrinal documents and publications, court cases and books) So are the Scientology topics (a few years ago at least) and to a lesser extent quite a few mainstream Christian doctrine topics.
In the context of just Star Wars it was 'exciting' if you don't watch anything else. But you could have easily replaced Luke and his entourage with The Avengers and the bad guy (Darth Whatever) with Magneto and the movie would've played out just the same. I thought it was cookie cutter hero vs super villain, nothing really interesting happened. It played out much like a few rounds of that trash Star Wars game they released.
Linus Torvalds has been indicted for creating numerous pieces of malware. "His coding style is unmistakable" prosecutors said quoting numerable code fixes he made after scolding commentaries on other people's coding style.
Not really. The taxes for passenger vehicles are based on the average distance you do in normal circumstances. If you operate your personal car as a commercial vehicle or taxi then you do a LOT more distance and pollute and break down roads accordingly. You also set up a number of risks therefore taxing the first responder and similar infrastructure harder.
That's why in the US at least, if you lease/rent/insure or take out a loan for a car you cannot operate it as a taxi. It also voids most extended warranties as they do not want to cover the maintenance for the 100,000km/year a taxi vehicle may do.
The problem with any of those rules is that they will never be used and reflect a human driver decision based on human reaction time.
A self driving vehicle can anticipate an accident much faster than any human driver and you can often (as a human) come to a complete stop or decelerate enough in cities before the worst has happened.
Sure the kid and cyclist might get hit (or more likely and in most situations they hit your car) but they most likely won't die from the impact (and if they do its not your fault) whereas a human driver might continue full speed ahead between the realization of a hit and a maneuver to stop and that is where most of the damage occurs.
The other occurrence is malfunction (tyre blows etc) and then your insurance or the car company is on the line, even then, a computer can often correct better than a human. My VW already corrects the direction of my car when I go full speed over a bump or slip on ice. It also corrects against sudden overreacting on the steering wheel or slamming the brakes. Adaptive ABS in these cars will allow for even shorter brake distances.
According to the document the manufacturing contract was awarded between the establishment of the office to oversee a non-existing program and a requirements review. It also took two years to set up the administration of the program and these administrators are now merged with another office.
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In the United States, the federal government has sovereign immunity and may not be sued unless it has waived its immunity or consented to suit; there are exceptions for tort and contract law.
It's a very interesting legal stance if the government says it has sovereign immunity, they claim to have not committed any actions that would invoke the tort exceptions. Therefore, running a child porn website does, according to the government, not do any harm to any potential victims (which is what tort is) and thus dissemination of child porn which is 'illegal because it harms the children', may then fall under first amendment protections just like any other website.
I don't think the op was talking about hybrid vehicles. An ICE is ~50% efficient regardless of how you use it in a vehicle. In a large energy station you can use less refined oil products at 80-90% efficiency. Any conversion between the net, battery and electric motor is 90-99% efficient. With nuclear energy you could get very clean, unlimited energy for very cheap.
In-app purchases on iOS likewise require authorization unless you explicitly turn it off. I get the password for every transaction and I also have the (default) setting to email me for every monetary transaction. I don't understand how these people have such problems, you have to go through quite some work to change the default settings unless off course you give your little brat the password as well, kids will figure it out.
I understand how BES works, the issue is that it isn't entirely unfeasible that Blackberry (the entity) doesn't have a master key that could access the data-in-stream to each of it's BES servers. The BES servers are a closed environment, a black box really, we really don't know. What we do know is that by default Blackberry DOES have a global pin which is enabled by default AND that your mobile carrier (could) know your PIN as well.
The BlackBerry device scrambles PIN messages using the PIN encryption key. By default, each BlackBerry device uses a global PIN encryption key, which allows the BlackBerry device to decrypt every PIN message that the BlackBerry device receives. Your organisation can use a global PIN encryption key, a PIN encryption key that is specific to your organisation, or both.
And guess how a specific PIN encryption key gets sent out? Encrypted using the global PIN.
The problem is not size but will power. We ARE talking seriously about moon bases for the ultra rich. They CAN afford it, if Gates and Musk and that Facebook guy and the Google guys with a few others got together they could easily become rulers of the moon with a small army of servants (2000 isn't all that much people and would probably cost sub-10B to launch them all into space). Have a few trillion dollars refunded from the military every year and send it into a massive ship building exercise and we could start sending off people a dozen at a time into deep space in the next century. Yes, many would die but we'd learn and send more eventually with more tools and world building tools.
If you wait for the better/faster to come along at any time nothing would ever get done. You may be able to pickup the original crew eventually (and you would find your clocks would be way skewed) but they would have done valuable research and development that would make any subsequent runs not at all possible. You could plan for it and leave the ships behind as com relays or restocking stations.
You're forgetting Einstein. The closer you get to c the slower "your" clock will run. We can currently get to .9 c relatively easy with existing/cutting edge tech and a long, slow runin. You could spend a lifetime in a craft and many more years will pass by on earth.
Their selling point was always encryption but then they sold out their customers to the US government and later other governments as well and all trust in their platform was lost. That and the fact that their functionality is easily replicated by going full SSL and remotely revoked full device encryption (which the iPhone did early on).
They can't give physical access to the clients' BES servers but that doesn't mean they haven't given them a key to unlock intercepted encrypted traffic. If they are okay with giving access to their less paying patrons, why draw the line there?
You have 32 fingers?
This is a database value so it most likely only accepts valid date integers. False is not an integer.
Yes, sometimes I copy and paste stuffs in my code especially while debugging. Python also bitches if you don't stay consistent with your indentation. Sometimes it just makes more sense to indent differently, especially when you're not soloing the project. Python is like PHP that way, good enough to script or make a not so complex program because a library warrants it but when you need others to do stuff with you, it becomes a gluttonous mess. And yes, a good project would have code style in agreement but that's usually not how things are done in the real world.
It's cleaner until you get to a sufficiently complex program and that makes indentation so much harder to read because you're exceeding the width of your terminal.
I've worked with Python in an unstructured contributor paradigm. I started having bad dreams about the compiler complaining and failing to run because my indentation was not uniform across the entire code base and I had to go fix it (you can use spaces or tabs but not both and no different ways on the number of spaces either even though they appear visually and for all intents and purposes even Python-logic-wise the same, an indent is an indent, deal with it).
Linux is one of the largest deployed operating systems in the world. Even very old versions like 2.2 are still prevalent in embedded devices that are never updated. If you're looking at all the consumer devices out there, Linux is running a LOT and most of them are unmanaged. For every Windows XP/2000 embedded still out there for which people are scrambling to contain them (often by using an unmanaged Linux based system) there is at least a magnitude more of the same era running Linux.
If you want to collect people's data and maintain endless amounts of bots, Linux 2.2-2.6 is the holy grail for security holes to find. Think of all the Netgear/Asus/... SOHO routers, the Checkpoint VPN and Firewall systems that often analyze corporate SSL traffic, data center firewalls and load balancers, the entire root DNS system, most of the "cloud", many of those things "just run" and have ports open to the world on public IPs with their owners having no clue that they have a powerful bog standard computer with a standard operating system directly connected to the net. And these days it gets even worse with all those 'software defined' devices that do everything a dedicated setup does without any custom chips.
No, Apple assigns and patches security vulnerabilities in everything from its (open source) BSD core to their web stacks running in OS X Server. Also iOS == OS X so the vulnerabilities largely overlap. They also list potential vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and input sanitation issues even without working exploits.
So you could have stuff from MachO to OpenSSL, Samba to Apache and Tomcat all mapping as OS X bugs. On the other hand Microsoft and some others don't even fix bugs without a working exploits much less report them.
There are some Chinese vendors that you can get a sub-$2k laser cutter from. There is a guy somewhere that sells a board that converts them from their proprietary software to a generic open source friendly printer driver. They aren't the best (I think it's a 40-60W laser) and require some work (cooling system etc) but they are darn cheap and relatively precise for most prototyping.
Renting the things (even 3D printers) is still the best option unless you are a business or want to rent it out, I have access to a number of tools at my job but the amount I actually use them vs other stuff I need to do (most of the time goes in the design, not the printing/cutting). If you don't have access to a maker space, there are sites online that let you find other makers in your area that have (access to) these large tools you need only once every few months.
Besides the obvious slashvertisement for HP, an "alternative for less" implies a large difference in price yet the summary doesn't declare any prices for either camp. There is a small ad on the page that lists it at about $800 which for an iPad Pro or Surface Pro replacement (respectively $800 and $700 for the base models) is not any cheaper.
The problem is that many sources that are conflicting with a certain viewpoint, even if they are true are rejected by editors with an agenda. That's particularly true when you go to subjects on cults or things that are particularly controversial such as the social justice issues. It's also the case for any political issue, candidate or corporation that has the money to hire editors to continue editing 24/7. There are simply too many sources (opinion blogs and PR releases) that are frequently copied and thus 'verified' but sources such as actual (offline) scientific evidence are rejected either because the shills or people that are too lazy to go to a library to verify it.
Not just social justice warriors. The entire 'open' encyclopedia is rife with editors and people that have more control than others to make and roll back edits. Niche topics are controlled in and large by corporate shills, know-it-all armchair experts and others with interest to keep the status quo. Somehow the people with a special interest in a topic (aka payed for social media spin doctors) gained control, grew to the top of the pyramid and are preventing anything that doesn't fit their agenda to go in.
For example any topic on Jehovahs Witnesses is controlled and edited by a Jehovahs Witness who rolls back any edit that is not published by their own official public releases and when pressed in the editor forums they mention that 'apostate' sources aren't trustworthy or independently confirmed (even things supported by journalists such as leaked internal doctrinal documents and publications, court cases and books) So are the Scientology topics (a few years ago at least) and to a lesser extent quite a few mainstream Christian doctrine topics.
As in no emotional investment by the viewer was provoked. We watched a few rounds of fighting and even Han Solo "dying" wasn't much of a shock.
In the context of just Star Wars it was 'exciting' if you don't watch anything else. But you could have easily replaced Luke and his entourage with The Avengers and the bad guy (Darth Whatever) with Magneto and the movie would've played out just the same. I thought it was cookie cutter hero vs super villain, nothing really interesting happened. It played out much like a few rounds of that trash Star Wars game they released.
Linus Torvalds has been indicted for creating numerous pieces of malware. "His coding style is unmistakable" prosecutors said quoting numerable code fixes he made after scolding commentaries on other people's coding style.
Not really. The taxes for passenger vehicles are based on the average distance you do in normal circumstances. If you operate your personal car as a commercial vehicle or taxi then you do a LOT more distance and pollute and break down roads accordingly. You also set up a number of risks therefore taxing the first responder and similar infrastructure harder.
That's why in the US at least, if you lease/rent/insure or take out a loan for a car you cannot operate it as a taxi. It also voids most extended warranties as they do not want to cover the maintenance for the 100,000km/year a taxi vehicle may do.
The problem with any of those rules is that they will never be used and reflect a human driver decision based on human reaction time.
A self driving vehicle can anticipate an accident much faster than any human driver and you can often (as a human) come to a complete stop or decelerate enough in cities before the worst has happened.
Sure the kid and cyclist might get hit (or more likely and in most situations they hit your car) but they most likely won't die from the impact (and if they do its not your fault) whereas a human driver might continue full speed ahead between the realization of a hit and a maneuver to stop and that is where most of the damage occurs.
The other occurrence is malfunction (tyre blows etc) and then your insurance or the car company is on the line, even then, a computer can often correct better than a human. My VW already corrects the direction of my car when I go full speed over a bump or slip on ice. It also corrects against sudden overreacting on the steering wheel or slamming the brakes. Adaptive ABS in these cars will allow for even shorter brake distances.
According to the document the manufacturing contract was awarded between the establishment of the office to oversee a non-existing program and a requirements review. It also took two years to set up the administration of the program and these administrators are now merged with another office.