No, this is a reminder to people who have no idea how judicial law works that any company you do business with is subject to the laws of the jurisdictions under which they're incorporated, or do business in.
Any jurisdiction in the world can force the local incorporation of an entity to produce data it has access to outside of its borders.
It may not be able to go seize that data for itself, but it can certainly levy sanction against the entity subject to its jurisdiction.
Moving incriminating evidence offshore is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. It never has been. They may not be able to nail you for the fine, but they'll hit you with the full power of a contempt order until you produce the evidence.
Google is an incorporated entity in the United States of America.
The IRS most certainly *can* bring suit against them in a US court, and demand that they turn over records for their tax-haven bank accounts.
The jurisdiction applies between the plaintiff and the defendant, borders matter not.
Where jurisdiction comes in, is we can't fly a team of cops over to the Bahamas and raid the offices of the bank to produce the data, the worst we can do is levy sanctions against the defendant.
This is *completely normal*, all over the goddamn world.
This is why the data should never have been in Microsoft's possession to begin with, and why it matters what companies you do business with, and what countries they operate in/what laws they are subject to in the various jurisdictions they're incorporated in.
US Law applies to a US entity, plain and simple, just like Swiss law applies to a Swiss entity.
If the Swiss pass a law requiring a Swiss bank to turn over all data for their American citizens, all conveniently stored in their US offices/subsidiary, then that Swiss presence absolutely must produce said data.
It does if US law says it must under court order, and it wants to maintain a US presence.
This is the same *anywhere*.
The court may not be able to enforce said subpoena upon actual individuals in Dublin, but it can damn well enforce it upon the US Microsoft presence.
"Sorry your honor, we already shipped the stolen goods to China. We're off the hook, see ya."
It used to be $45, but it has apparently gone up to $55:/
Although, it still eats RPi lunch for anything other than being able to play media. (RPi VideoCore can flick 1080p hardware-decoded video, the BBB can't.)
Tons more GPIOs, over twice the real-world performance in computing, and 2 dedicated processors to run deterministically timed code for GPIO/peripherals (outside of the OS)
BBB retails for $45. While that is 28% more... It's still just $10.
Also, the BBB is just the successor to the BeagleBone, itself a successor/lower-price option for the BeagleBone... All of which were alive and well with active communities *long* before the RPi existed.
BeagleBone Black is better, hands down for every application other than a Media Center, (It can't frame 1080p video over its HDMI), or applications where 50-100mA @ 5V more, or an extra $10 on the price is a deal-breaker.
I've replaced my RPi's with them in all my embedded gadgets. The horsepower difference is well worth it.
I wish people would stop apologizing for that anemic ass ARM11 in the RPi. They need to update the CPU specs. RAM, I'm not so worried about.
Beaglebone Black eats its lunch for general computing, if you don't mind the inability to handle media quite so well, and for only $10 more. The Cortex A8 in the BBB eats the ARM11 in the RPIs' lunch.
It also dominates in actual embedded hardware applications, since it's got 2 little built-in processors that allow deterministic timed code to run with access to GPIO/peripherals, and many more GPIOs to play with.
The RPi VideoCore hardware-accelerated codecs and ability to frame 1080p are awesome, and it definitely takes the cake in graphics/media.
I've got both, and I will be getting one of the B+'s, just because the old layout was goddamn atrocious, and an RPi is still a neat toy, but my RPi has been retired and replaced by BBB's for embedded work where a Linux installation is beneficial.
You can always move the problem around. That heat can definitely be pumped elsewhere- and that can even by an awesome thing by design-
Solar-thermal collector plants? They want to absorb as much radiation as they can, and move it around. This stuff is perfect for that. The hard part then is moving that heat quick enough to prevent this stuff from breaking down chemically- which is the best bottleneck to have.
Coatings inside very sensitive optical instruments- great for that, too.
It has cool uses, just not the ones that are hyped.
Someone above mentioned coating one's roof in it and using the thermal energy to drive a heat pump. That kind of tech could change the world in terms of energy use, but I figure it wouldn't be cheap since the cooling and insulation for a roof of this stuff would need to be pretty damn robust.
I'd be interested to see how a near perfect black-body made of chemically-bound materials holds up in space. Hell, I'd like to know how long it takes it to glow red just suspended near the pavement exposed to the daytime sun.
250W/m^2 is a non-trivial amount of heat to get rid of, and black-body radiation isn't a fantastic way to shed heat.
Ever wonder why satellites are covered in gold foil? Why the cooling required for spacecraft solar cells rivals that of the actual load they're driving? 1366 W/m^2 is the solar insolation *they* are exposed to. They're not even anywhere close to that black.
Ever touched asphalt on a 100 degree day? Now imagine that above the atmosphere, in a near-perfect thermal insulator called space, and not attached to a massive heat-sink (earth). Remember, the ambient temperature of space does not help cool something down, while 100 degree air flowing across 150 degree asphalt, and 55 degree dirt does cool IT down.
The claim that this could ever be used for a stealth plane is... wildly silly, unless you mean stealthy to everything but infrared, where it's going to glow like a second sun to something infrared sensitive. When the world switches from radar and infrared missiles to visible wavelength-guided, this stuff will be all the rage in military aerospace. Otherwise, no.
There are limited satellite uses, mostly involving coating around already-well-shielded optical detectors. The problem then is that if too much light gets in, the black inside turns into an infrared flashlight, and most optical sensors are sensitive to it.
Call it kicking a dead horse, but you and the parent were speaking about how it would be good at... "trapping" infrared radiation and making it less visible in that spectrum, but it is very important to note that a perfect black body has the very important down side of perfectly following Planck's Law. That being true, no matter what, this thing is going to *glow* in infrared if any significant amount of radiation hits it, thus: "I would not be surprised if it wasn't particularly impressive for IR" should probably be about how impressively *bright* it will be in IR, not how invisible it will be.
I'm sure you're right, it would probably absorb it and then re-emit it at a different IR wavelength, corresponding to its temperature.
Mostly, I just meant however impressive it was in IR was mostly not-so-relevant since it would emit it regardless.
It most certainly must emit infrared, and copiously if it's being hit with enough visible light and refracting and reflecting almost none of it.
Fancy short-wave radiation absorption characteristics can't get you out of Planck's Law or thermodynamics.
I'll bite, though I don't believe the second crash site nonsense.
Big planes are subject to big aerodynamic stresses. It isn't hard to imagine that a large jetliner, told to do a full-thrust nose dive could come apart with even the slightest bit of wind-sheer. Hell, tails have been ripped off of C-5s without accelerating toward the ground at mach 1.
I'm pretty sure the loopholes were worked out for him by the previous administration. It's a good thing too, because he never would have been able to get the bills authorizing this bullshit through Congress.
I thank you for your wisdom, but it's entirely not relevant to above discussion.
While the Equivalence Principle may very well be an approximation (Can has Quantum Gravity?), it is more accurate a model than we have technology to either disprove, or even imply that it is likely to be in question. I'm pretty sure he was talking about the Cosmological Principle, which is actually a questionable axiom, that simply has a few pieces of observational evidence in support of it, and plenty of evidence that casts it in questionable light.
The math of the Equivalence Principle is self evident, in the context of General Relativity, a lot like F = ma. When I say our understanding of gravity falls apart, I mean we can no longer explain why orbitals precess, why time dilates, *why the universe is relative*: *everything* falls apart. If it's wrong in any appreciable manner, it doesn't matter to the universe as a whole except under probably very, very isolated and small ways.
I don't think anyone with much credit questions the Equivalence Principle... Basically our entire modern understanding of gravity and General Relativity falls to pieces without it.
I agree 100%. Einstein didn't prefer to use the word God when describing nature and its laws, it was simply an analogous concept that he felt fit. The baggage really mostly comes from the anthropomorphized Judaic derivative works. The word has been and is used by some still in a way more in line with eastern religions, like you pointed out, which as I said, I find a romantic and appealing viewpoint, even though I'm a pretty staunch atheist.
Though, that said, Einstein was far closer to an atheist by the above poster's definition, since he most definitely viewed "God"/The Universe/Laws of Physics as entirely uncaring; probably as a result of his functional logic state machine in his brain.
It's pretty spot-on to what a lot of enlightenment thinkers and Einstein conceived as "God".
A lot of brilliant people have noticed that anthropomorphized religion is entirely illogical from the ground up, yet still felt that nature was too great and inexplicably law-bound to arise from the ground state alone.
I don't personally follow their line of thinking, and I'm not sure they would anymore either with the breadth of human cosmological knowledge, but I have always found that particular concept of a God as elegant and attractive.
Userspace processes that also function as servers for the microkernel that do most of their heavy lifting with the monolithic BSD skin graft. It's bizarre, ugly, and a nightmare to work with.
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No, this is a reminder to people who have no idea how judicial law works that any company you do business with is subject to the laws of the jurisdictions under which they're incorporated, or do business in.
Any jurisdiction in the world can force the local incorporation of an entity to produce data it has access to outside of its borders.
It may not be able to go seize that data for itself, but it can certainly levy sanction against the entity subject to its jurisdiction.
Moving incriminating evidence offshore is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. It never has been. They may not be able to nail you for the fine, but they'll hit you with the full power of a contempt order until you produce the evidence.
The dude you're responding to is a class A troll. Give up, you can't open eyes that are sewn shut.
They are able to.
All you can hope, is that said company is wise enough not to have data you consider sensitive on their server in China.
Google is an incorporated entity in the United States of America.
The IRS most certainly *can* bring suit against them in a US court, and demand that they turn over records for their tax-haven bank accounts.
The jurisdiction applies between the plaintiff and the defendant, borders matter not.
Where jurisdiction comes in, is we can't fly a team of cops over to the Bahamas and raid the offices of the bank to produce the data, the worst we can do is levy sanctions against the defendant.
This is *completely normal*, all over the goddamn world.
This is why the data should never have been in Microsoft's possession to begin with, and why it matters what companies you do business with, and what countries they operate in/what laws they are subject to in the various jurisdictions they're incorporated in.
I'm afraid you're simply an idiot.
US Law applies to a US entity, plain and simple, just like Swiss law applies to a Swiss entity.
If the Swiss pass a law requiring a Swiss bank to turn over all data for their American citizens, all conveniently stored in their US offices/subsidiary, then that Swiss presence absolutely must produce said data.
Come on, use your damn head.
It does if US law says it must under court order, and it wants to maintain a US presence.
This is the same *anywhere*.
The court may not be able to enforce said subpoena upon actual individuals in Dublin, but it can damn well enforce it upon the US Microsoft presence.
"Sorry your honor, we already shipped the stolen goods to China. We're off the hook, see ya."
http://beagleboard.org/black
:/
It used to be $45, but it has apparently gone up to $55
Although, it still eats RPi lunch for anything other than being able to play media. (RPi VideoCore can flick 1080p hardware-decoded video, the BBB can't.)
Tons more GPIOs, over twice the real-world performance in computing, and 2 dedicated processors to run deterministically timed code for GPIO/peripherals (outside of the OS)
*itself a successor/lower-price option for the BeagleBoard
proof-read fail on my part.
BBB retails for $45. While that is 28% more... It's still just $10.
Also, the BBB is just the successor to the BeagleBone, itself a successor/lower-price option for the BeagleBone... All of which were alive and well with active communities *long* before the RPi existed.
BeagleBone Black is better, hands down for every application other than a Media Center, (It can't frame 1080p video over its HDMI), or applications where 50-100mA @ 5V more, or an extra $10 on the price is a deal-breaker.
I've replaced my RPi's with them in all my embedded gadgets. The horsepower difference is well worth it.
I wish people would stop apologizing for that anemic ass ARM11 in the RPi. They need to update the CPU specs. RAM, I'm not so worried about.
Beaglebone Black eats its lunch for general computing, if you don't mind the inability to handle media quite so well, and for only $10 more. The Cortex A8 in the BBB eats the ARM11 in the RPIs' lunch.
It also dominates in actual embedded hardware applications, since it's got 2 little built-in processors that allow deterministic timed code to run with access to GPIO/peripherals, and many more GPIOs to play with.
The RPi VideoCore hardware-accelerated codecs and ability to frame 1080p are awesome, and it definitely takes the cake in graphics/media.
I've got both, and I will be getting one of the B+'s, just because the old layout was goddamn atrocious, and an RPi is still a neat toy, but my RPi has been retired and replaced by BBB's for embedded work where a Linux installation is beneficial.
You can always move the problem around. That heat can definitely be pumped elsewhere- and that can even by an awesome thing by design-
Solar-thermal collector plants? They want to absorb as much radiation as they can, and move it around. This stuff is perfect for that. The hard part then is moving that heat quick enough to prevent this stuff from breaking down chemically- which is the best bottleneck to have.
Coatings inside very sensitive optical instruments- great for that, too.
It has cool uses, just not the ones that are hyped.
Someone above mentioned coating one's roof in it and using the thermal energy to drive a heat pump. That kind of tech could change the world in terms of energy use, but I figure it wouldn't be cheap since the cooling and insulation for a roof of this stuff would need to be pretty damn robust.
I'd be interested to see how a near perfect black-body made of chemically-bound materials holds up in space. Hell, I'd like to know how long it takes it to glow red just suspended near the pavement exposed to the daytime sun.
250W/m^2 is a non-trivial amount of heat to get rid of, and black-body radiation isn't a fantastic way to shed heat.
Ever wonder why satellites are covered in gold foil? Why the cooling required for spacecraft solar cells rivals that of the actual load they're driving? 1366 W/m^2 is the solar insolation *they* are exposed to. They're not even anywhere close to that black.
Ever touched asphalt on a 100 degree day? Now imagine that above the atmosphere, in a near-perfect thermal insulator called space, and not attached to a massive heat-sink (earth). Remember, the ambient temperature of space does not help cool something down, while 100 degree air flowing across 150 degree asphalt, and 55 degree dirt does cool IT down.
The claim that this could ever be used for a stealth plane is... wildly silly, unless you mean stealthy to everything but infrared, where it's going to glow like a second sun to something infrared sensitive. When the world switches from radar and infrared missiles to visible wavelength-guided, this stuff will be all the rage in military aerospace. Otherwise, no.
There are limited satellite uses, mostly involving coating around already-well-shielded optical detectors. The problem then is that if too much light gets in, the black inside turns into an infrared flashlight, and most optical sensors are sensitive to it.
Call it kicking a dead horse, but you and the parent were speaking about how it would be good at... "trapping" infrared radiation and making it less visible in that spectrum, but it is very important to note that a perfect black body has the very important down side of perfectly following Planck's Law. That being true, no matter what, this thing is going to *glow* in infrared if any significant amount of radiation hits it, thus: "I would not be surprised if it wasn't particularly impressive for IR" should probably be about how impressively *bright* it will be in IR, not how invisible it will be.
I'm sure you're right, it would probably absorb it and then re-emit it at a different IR wavelength, corresponding to its temperature.
Mostly, I just meant however impressive it was in IR was mostly not-so-relevant since it would emit it regardless.
It most certainly must emit infrared, and copiously if it's being hit with enough visible light and refracting and reflecting almost none of it.
Fancy short-wave radiation absorption characteristics can't get you out of Planck's Law or thermodynamics.
I'll bite, though I don't believe the second crash site nonsense.
Big planes are subject to big aerodynamic stresses. It isn't hard to imagine that a large jetliner, told to do a full-thrust nose dive could come apart with even the slightest bit of wind-sheer. Hell, tails have been ripped off of C-5s without accelerating toward the ground at mach 1.
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I'm pretty sure the loopholes were worked out for him by the previous administration. It's a good thing too, because he never would have been able to get the bills authorizing this bullshit through Congress.
LOL.
I thank you for your wisdom, but it's entirely not relevant to above discussion.
While the Equivalence Principle may very well be an approximation (Can has Quantum Gravity?), it is more accurate a model than we have technology to either disprove, or even imply that it is likely to be in question. I'm pretty sure he was talking about the Cosmological Principle, which is actually a questionable axiom, that simply has a few pieces of observational evidence in support of it, and plenty of evidence that casts it in questionable light.
The math of the Equivalence Principle is self evident, in the context of General Relativity, a lot like F = ma. When I say our understanding of gravity falls apart, I mean we can no longer explain why orbitals precess, why time dilates, *why the universe is relative*: *everything* falls apart. If it's wrong in any appreciable manner, it doesn't matter to the universe as a whole except under probably very, very isolated and small ways.
I think you meant the Cosmological Principle?
I don't think anyone with much credit questions the Equivalence Principle... Basically our entire modern understanding of gravity and General Relativity falls to pieces without it.
I agree 100%. Einstein didn't prefer to use the word God when describing nature and its laws, it was simply an analogous concept that he felt fit. The baggage really mostly comes from the anthropomorphized Judaic derivative works. The word has been and is used by some still in a way more in line with eastern religions, like you pointed out, which as I said, I find a romantic and appealing viewpoint, even though I'm a pretty staunch atheist.
Though, that said, Einstein was far closer to an atheist by the above poster's definition, since he most definitely viewed "God"/The Universe/Laws of Physics as entirely uncaring; probably as a result of his functional logic state machine in his brain.
Perhaps an atheistic naturalist deist?
Never?
It's pretty spot-on to what a lot of enlightenment thinkers and Einstein conceived as "God".
A lot of brilliant people have noticed that anthropomorphized religion is entirely illogical from the ground up, yet still felt that nature was too great and inexplicably law-bound to arise from the ground state alone.
I don't personally follow their line of thinking, and I'm not sure they would anymore either with the breadth of human cosmological knowledge, but I have always found that particular concept of a God as elegant and attractive.
Userspace processes that also function as servers for the microkernel that do most of their heavy lifting with the monolithic BSD skin graft. It's bizarre, ugly, and a nightmare to work with.