You'd need to make sure the mine was completely water tight or water would be draining in from the surrounding rock and not draining in via the turbine and so reduce the efficency of the system.
You would also still need a reservior of water nearby to to drain into the mine, it's basically the same problem of all hydro-storage setups, whether you store the water up high and let it drain out in mountainous areas or store the water at ground and let it drain into a mine. You need to find the right geology to do it.
Would you rather they didnt encrypt the data and sent it over the air like that instead?
We are talking about HTTPS, the data payload being transmitted is already encrypted, only the data headers which include routing information are in the clear text, there is no need for a proxy server to decrypt the packet to route it.
Amazon Silk browser does the same, Opera mini does the same, what's with this jumping on the Nokia hate bandwagon?
running HTTPS through a proxy is not a problem, decrypting the HTTPS at the proxy, reading it... for what ever reason... then encrypting it back up and pretending that the connection between the client and server is secure is a problem.
I don't know about Amazon Silk, but Opera Mini only relays the packets from HTTPS protocol connections which is a completely legimate action, it's not the same thing as what Nokia are doing at all.
Easy, just keep raising the per-gallon taxes as the fleet average increases.
That works until electric makes up a significant proportion of the traffic in the state.
At best it buys you a bit more time before you have to introduce either a flat rate tax per vehicle or a start some sort of tracking system either using roadside Number Plate recognition or in vehicle GPS and both have horrible privacy implications.
I suppose you could start making greater use of toll roads which in theory minimises the privacy implications.
There is still Southampton to New York cruises available, it's a 1 week crossing, but obviously they are aimed at tourists rather than business travel so the ships are stacked to to brim with entertainment type stuff, and old people taking a retirement cruise.
Those are Youtube tutorials by people unassociated Windows Development, their very existance reinforces the GP's comment about they needing to be an easier learning curve for a completely new way of interacting with a PC.
I think he has a point. I'm an atheist and even I think that parents should be allowed to teach their kids whatever the the hell they want.
I think people are getting confused by the idea that Free Schools are like a single family home schooling their own children
These tend to be small schools but are definitely 'schools' in that they teach children from multiple families, in a dedicated school environment following a set curriculum with an expectation that the students will be able to pass standard national exams for the age group in question.
The parents are free to teach what they like, but there is still a national curriculum which has to be taught. The "parents should be allowed to teach what they like" thing is a bit of a red herring unless the parents were hoping to teach something diametrically opposed to Evolution without having to cover that subject at all.
My understanding of those robo-turrents is that they have sufficent image processing to identify a human, but nowhere near enough to identify friend or foe or to infer anything based on actions and expected behaviours, it's why they need to send video feeds back to the control center so there is still a human in the loop to decide on firing.
That doesn't mean the turret couldn't be left in free fire mode incase of an all out ground attack from the NK line and it just shoots at anything that moves but that only makes it a very complicated reusable anti-personel mine. There isn't much "AI" there, only a shape recognition.
What people tend to mean about proper AI in this context is to identify humans, recognising friend or foe, either through appearance or behaviour and choose an appropriate course of action without human interaction - a bit like ED-209 from Robocop, a room full off people but it identified the guy holding a gun as the possible threat and only the guy holding the gun, of course when the gun was put down it didn't change it's threat assessment so there were bugs in the system:)
I agree, the loopholes are all there for a valid reason, it's the way they are being used by the companies that goes beyond the spirit of the law that I think had changed without being widely noticed until people found one tax avoider, looked at how it was being done, then noticed a few more companies doing the same thing.
The scale of the avoidance has taken government by surprise. Thats not to say that there aren't individuals in government who have a good idea of tax avoidance of individual companies but very few people in government would be in the position to see the big picture and how wide spread (in terms of number of companies, what industries are involved etc) that has surprised them.
Taking another example from the UK, Anglia Water is the Water and Sewage supplier for East of England, it used to be a public organisation but was privatized by Maggie in 80s/90s. Even as a private company it has no competition because the water boards were allowed to keep their monopolies in the their own area unlike the Gas and Electricity boards. It's based in East Anglia, all it's pipes and reserviors and pumps are in East Anglia and all it's customers by definition are in East Anglia. Guess how much they paid in Corporation Tax last year due to payments they had to make to companies in the Caymans?
If you didn't look into it, you would just assume a company like that would be paying the taxes you would have expected and until now the Government has had no reason to look too closely, it's own tax collectors were reporting that that companies were compliant with the law (which as has been said before, they all are) or was prosecuting those which were.
The problem is there is a disconnect between the people making the laws and the people enforcing them.
Of course, I'm also going to blame the laws, but I'm so tired of people acting as if the people directly abusing the system can't be blamed.
There is a lot of hypocrisy around this sort of issue.
If companies use the law to minimise taxes paid, stretching the definitions to limit and going way beyond the spirit of the law then it's the lawmakers at fault.
If a benefit claimant uses the law to increase the benefits he recieves, , claiming for everything possible but never making a false statement, it's the claimants fault.
If you put money into a government saving scheme to encourage saving where the government doesn't charge tax on the interest then you're avoiding tax.
Thats true, but ISAs and Pensions tax relief is a benefit to the government/country
The whole point of tax relief on ISA and Pensions is to encourage long term savings by individuals in the expectation of reducing the likely hood of needing government support in the medium to long term.The ISA's and Pensions are specifically enabled by law makers as they see a benefit to the country.
In theory, taxing profit, rather than turn over is meant to be a benefit as well, it allows a company time to build a business by minimizing costs while they aren't profitable, thus providing jobs to the economy. This is paid for by a larger tax percentage on profitable companies and a larger percentage tax on VAT and individual incomes. The trouble is large multinationals have found a way to never paid tax because they have found away to make it look like they never make a profit in any given tax regime. As Multinations starts taking an ever increasing percentage of the money changing hands within a country, the effects of the tax avoidance they can undertake becomes every greater forcing ever greater tax rates on everyone else, it's unsustainable.
This behaviour of tax avoidance by counting cost to companies outside the country but within the same group of companies is within the letter of the law but certainly not within the spirit of the law, as this issue started gaining in public exposure and everyone started looking for tax avoidance, the scale of tax avoidance has shocked everyone... including governments, even the tory gits in power in the UK at the moment.
That just shows the martians technical skills, they can manipulate objects on the Macro and Micro scales and make 2 seperate objects exact scale replicas of each other.
I agree, DVD renting as business is on the way out. in the not-too-far future there will be too few customers to keep him in business.
It's not just the customers needed to keep him in business, DVD Rental is dependant on the Movie Publishing houses wanting to rent DVD's and so allowing them to be licensed for rental.
With all that lovely, easily updatable DRM they can load into streamed movies, I think the publishers will stop licensing DVD's as soon as the streaming market has developed enough.
That leaves the owner spending time and money trying to make his store relevant to his customers only to have his product pulled from under him.
Apple is heading for a cliff. It looks like Steve Jobs didn't choose
his successor wisely.
Apple was doing this stuff under Jobs as well. It's got nothing to do with Cook.
It's a reaction from a company who make expensive gadgets to a threat which was always going to come, namely that innovation on smartphones has reached a plateau allowing mass market device manufacturers to undercut them with functionally equivalent devices.
A GIGABYTE of flash storage? Why the hell would you do that?
If the idea is that people are taking their mouse with them between computers (which seems to be why they need cloud syncing features in the first place), which is something I find bizarre, then why not use that device to store all the users files and settings.
Win 8 has that USB profile mode, Windows 8 To Go, if you have to carry something with you anyway, and people are carrying a mouse with them everywhere (again, I think thats bizarre, but I guess it's a really nice mouse) then incorporate the two devices.
But as time goes on, those purely mechanical vehicles will get rarer and rarer, to the point where not everyone is going to be able to afford one.
Evenutally you are going to get to the point where enthusiasts will need to decode the diagnostics codes to work on their own cars, maybe by then the codes will be well known, maybe they wont.
There is something else to consider here. At the moment the manufacturers are using security though obscurity, the codes may become well known especially 25 years after manufacture but if there is no law which says consumers have to be able to decode the diagnostics themselves. Whats to stop the manufacurers encrypting the codes, possibly on an ECU by ECU basis? The reader has to be networked to head office and request the decryption code for each customer vehicle at least one in order to work out whats wrong?
As a classic car enthusiast, the only interface you need is your wrench set.
That seems a bit short sighted.
What about the classic enthusiasts coming up behind you, prehaps your children who might want to restore the car he remembers doing family holiday in from todays line up of cars?
this guy was found against because he didn't bother turning up
The videos were stamped with his account ID from the flava website where he initially downloaded the videos from.
OK, it's not proof that he was the one that uploaded but it certainly stacks the evidence against him that he was involved in the process some how, even if it was unwillingly.
Not turning up just gave Flava an easy home run, but it probably didn't change the result, although it might of affected the payout.
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Just don't detonate any nukes in space for a while.
You'd need to make sure the mine was completely water tight or water would be draining in from the surrounding rock and not draining in via the turbine and so reduce the efficency of the system.
You would also still need a reservior of water nearby to to drain into the mine, it's basically the same problem of all hydro-storage setups, whether you store the water up high and let it drain out in mountainous areas or store the water at ground and let it drain into a mine. You need to find the right geology to do it.
We are talking about HTTPS, the data payload being transmitted is already encrypted, only the data headers which include routing information are in the clear text, there is no need for a proxy server to decrypt the packet to route it.
running HTTPS through a proxy is not a problem, decrypting the HTTPS at the proxy, reading it... for what ever reason... then encrypting it back up and pretending that the connection between the client and server is secure is a problem.
I don't know about Amazon Silk, but Opera Mini only relays the packets from HTTPS protocol connections which is a completely legimate action, it's not the same thing as what Nokia are doing at all.
That works until electric makes up a significant proportion of the traffic in the state.
At best it buys you a bit more time before you have to introduce either a flat rate tax per vehicle or a start some sort of tracking system either using roadside Number Plate recognition or in vehicle GPS and both have horrible privacy implications.
I suppose you could start making greater use of toll roads which in theory minimises the privacy implications.
There is still Southampton to New York cruises available, it's a 1 week crossing, but obviously they are aimed at tourists rather than business travel so the ships are stacked to to brim with entertainment type stuff, and old people taking a retirement cruise.
Personally, I'd consider 3D Printing to just be a form of robotics.
Those are Youtube tutorials by people unassociated Windows Development, their very existance reinforces the GP's comment about they needing to be an easier learning curve for a completely new way of interacting with a PC.
Couldn't a computer do most of that?
I think people are getting confused by the idea that Free Schools are like a single family home schooling their own children
These tend to be small schools but are definitely 'schools' in that they teach children from multiple families, in a dedicated school environment following a set curriculum with an expectation that the students will be able to pass standard national exams for the age group in question.
The parents are free to teach what they like, but there is still a national curriculum which has to be taught. The "parents should be allowed to teach what they like" thing is a bit of a red herring unless the parents were hoping to teach something diametrically opposed to Evolution without having to cover that subject at all.
Doctor Manhattan, is that you?
My understanding of those robo-turrents is that they have sufficent image processing to identify a human, but nowhere near enough to identify friend or foe or to infer anything based on actions and expected behaviours, it's why they need to send video feeds back to the control center so there is still a human in the loop to decide on firing.
:)
That doesn't mean the turret couldn't be left in free fire mode incase of an all out ground attack from the NK line and it just shoots at anything that moves but that only makes it a very complicated reusable anti-personel mine. There isn't much "AI" there, only a shape recognition.
What people tend to mean about proper AI in this context is to identify humans, recognising friend or foe, either through appearance or behaviour and choose an appropriate course of action without human interaction - a bit like ED-209 from Robocop, a room full off people but it identified the guy holding a gun as the possible threat and only the guy holding the gun, of course when the gun was put down it didn't change it's threat assessment so there were bugs in the system
I agree, the loopholes are all there for a valid reason, it's the way they are being used by the companies that goes beyond the spirit of the law that I think had changed without being widely noticed until people found one tax avoider, looked at how it was being done, then noticed a few more companies doing the same thing.
The scale of the avoidance has taken government by surprise. Thats not to say that there aren't individuals in government who have a good idea of tax avoidance of individual companies but very few people in government would be in the position to see the big picture and how wide spread (in terms of number of companies, what industries are involved etc) that has surprised them.
Taking another example from the UK, Anglia Water is the Water and Sewage supplier for East of England, it used to be a public organisation but was privatized by Maggie in 80s/90s. Even as a private company it has no competition because the water boards were allowed to keep their monopolies in the their own area unlike the Gas and Electricity boards. It's based in East Anglia, all it's pipes and reserviors and pumps are in East Anglia and all it's customers by definition are in East Anglia. Guess how much they paid in Corporation Tax last year due to payments they had to make to companies in the Caymans?
If you didn't look into it, you would just assume a company like that would be paying the taxes you would have expected and until now the Government has had no reason to look too closely, it's own tax collectors were reporting that that companies were compliant with the law (which as has been said before, they all are) or was prosecuting those which were.
The problem is there is a disconnect between the people making the laws and the people enforcing them.
There is a lot of hypocrisy around this sort of issue.
If companies use the law to minimise taxes paid, stretching the definitions to limit and going way beyond the spirit of the law then it's the lawmakers at fault.
If a benefit claimant uses the law to increase the benefits he recieves, , claiming for everything possible but never making a false statement, it's the claimants fault.
Thats true, but ISAs and Pensions tax relief is a benefit to the government/country
The whole point of tax relief on ISA and Pensions is to encourage long term savings by individuals in the expectation of reducing the likely hood of needing government support in the medium to long term.The ISA's and Pensions are specifically enabled by law makers as they see a benefit to the country.
In theory, taxing profit, rather than turn over is meant to be a benefit as well, it allows a company time to build a business by minimizing costs while they aren't profitable, thus providing jobs to the economy. This is paid for by a larger tax percentage on profitable companies and a larger percentage tax on VAT and individual incomes. The trouble is large multinationals have found a way to never paid tax because they have found away to make it look like they never make a profit in any given tax regime. As Multinations starts taking an ever increasing percentage of the money changing hands within a country, the effects of the tax avoidance they can undertake becomes every greater forcing ever greater tax rates on everyone else, it's unsustainable.
This behaviour of tax avoidance by counting cost to companies outside the country but within the same group of companies is within the letter of the law but certainly not within the spirit of the law, as this issue started gaining in public exposure and everyone started looking for tax avoidance, the scale of tax avoidance has shocked everyone... including governments, even the tory gits in power in the UK at the moment.
That just shows the martians technical skills, they can manipulate objects on the Macro and Micro scales and make 2 seperate objects exact scale replicas of each other.
If it's large enough, it would make a great location for a moon base.
It's not just the customers needed to keep him in business, DVD Rental is dependant on the Movie Publishing houses wanting to rent DVD's and so allowing them to be licensed for rental.
With all that lovely, easily updatable DRM they can load into streamed movies, I think the publishers will stop licensing DVD's as soon as the streaming market has developed enough.
That leaves the owner spending time and money trying to make his store relevant to his customers only to have his product pulled from under him.
Apple was doing this stuff under Jobs as well. It's got nothing to do with Cook.
It's a reaction from a company who make expensive gadgets to a threat which was always going to come, namely that innovation on smartphones has reached a plateau allowing mass market device manufacturers to undercut them with functionally equivalent devices.
If the idea is that people are taking their mouse with them between computers (which seems to be why they need cloud syncing features in the first place), which is something I find bizarre, then why not use that device to store all the users files and settings.
Win 8 has that USB profile mode, Windows 8 To Go, if you have to carry something with you anyway, and people are carrying a mouse with them everywhere (again, I think thats bizarre, but I guess it's a really nice mouse) then incorporate the two devices.
But as time goes on, those purely mechanical vehicles will get rarer and rarer, to the point where not everyone is going to be able to afford one.
Evenutally you are going to get to the point where enthusiasts will need to decode the diagnostics codes to work on their own cars, maybe by then the codes will be well known, maybe they wont.
There is something else to consider here. At the moment the manufacturers are using security though obscurity, the codes may become well known especially 25 years after manufacture but if there is no law which says consumers have to be able to decode the diagnostics themselves. Whats to stop the manufacurers encrypting the codes, possibly on an ECU by ECU basis? The reader has to be networked to head office and request the decryption code for each customer vehicle at least one in order to work out whats wrong?
That seems a bit short sighted.
What about the classic enthusiasts coming up behind you, prehaps your children who might want to restore the car he remembers doing family holiday in from todays line up of cars?
The videos were stamped with his account ID from the flava website where he initially downloaded the videos from.
OK, it's not proof that he was the one that uploaded but it certainly stacks the evidence against him that he was involved in the process some how, even if it was unwillingly.
Not turning up just gave Flava an easy home run, but it probably didn't change the result, although it might of affected the payout.
AFAIK, it's not looking at phrases only individual words.
So now his sentence is solitary confinement for accessing a computer which had no security on it?