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You just got featured on the frontpage of HN/Slashdot - now you need 1000x as much capacity for a couple of days. Better hope that ebay seller does fast delivery of your 1000 laptops
You have a SAAS product that needs a lot of power on a saturday, or the last day of the month or peaks at Christmas. Or you want to roll out a new version without having to build a duplicate data center for the switch-over
Yes but they were all poor and being prosecuted for terrorism/child abuse with lots of other evidence so no money to take it to a higher court and no public sympathy.
Good to get a lot of precedence set before you use it on journalists or human rights lawyers who might have the money and lawyers to take it further
The big advantage is that it lets them "judge shop"
If you don't think that a Californian judge will give you a warrant to hack Apple, or a Washington one approve of hacking the Clinton foundation - you just need to find a good-old-boy/true-patriot in Alabama somewhere and have them approve your warrant for anywhere in the country
> no fewer than 59 battleships were anchored
And they remained hidden in Orkney because you couldn't risk the morale of losing 59 battleships.
Except for one battle where they didn't dare pursue the enemy because of the morale risk of losing a battleship.
Perhaps the navy could save money by keeping the fleet at anchor? If you were to put them at anchor somewhere secret you could save even more money. Incidentally, I have a fleet of aircraft carriers fully equipped with F35s held at a secret location for hire.
Or they could flog off some admirals.
I understand that the RN now has more admirals than ships, surely the excess could be sold for a profit to some 3rd world nation who have a shortage of native gold braid?
>Will Airbus have to pay tarriffs when importing the wings in future?
It does demonstrate a flaw with the Eu in the way taxes are decided and collected.
eg. The Eu supports a French demand for a 100% import duty on wings to punish perfidious Albion, the money is paid to the French government when the wings arrive in Toulouse but the cost is paid by all the Airbus partners - making Germany and Spain subsidise France.
Or China could say "lovely aircraft and we would love to buy them if some major component, like say the wings, was built locally and I hear you are having some political difficulty with your other foreign wing supplier."
Of course the aviation industry has always been immune to this sort of pork-barrel politicing so no need to worry.
>Why don't aircraft manufacturers have the courage to actually make something revolutionary anymore
For pretty much the same reasons that cricket balls are all round.
The big design decisions are cos of physics, the small ones are to make them compatible with all the airports, ground equipment and passengers
Changes in gravity travel at the speed of light.
Newton assumed that gravity travelled instantly (he didn't know light had a finite speed) which meant that same classical astronomy observations didn't add up.
When you assume that gravity travels at the speed of light it all works out. Which was the reason for trying to measure a speed of light and was done succesfully pretty much at the end of Newton's life.
Relativity and classical electromagnetism (JCM got tantalizingly close to discovering special relativity if he hadn't died so young) only assume speed of light is constant for any observer in any frame of reference.
Admittedly it raises problems if it varies day-day but there is no problem with it being different in the early universe.
You wouldn't have a VOIP provider because the company that pipes your internet undoubtedly also sells mobile or landline phones, so would be allowed to block any competing product on their connection. But you won't be reading this because they have a deal with Murdoch corp so that only Fox news sites are allowed.
Nor will a lot of SE Asian countries who now won't have Google re-writing their copyright laws, Johnson+Johnson deciding which of their traditional remedies are now patented and having Exxon Mobile tear up their environmental laws while Haliburton take over their infrastructure.
We used to buy macbooks for salesdroids because of the service.
If it breaks down in just about any major city in the world go into the Apple store, get them to fix/replace it and connect back to our sharepoint site and you are working again in an hour.
Now it takes longer to get a macbook fixed than it does for us to get a replacement Lenovo delivered to them and with Windows10 we don't need an IT guy to spend a day configuring it.
But with no keyboard feel you have to look to know if you pressed it, so it's no better than a taskbar icon.
If Apple had convertible laptop/tablets with QHD+ screens with full multitouch and Microsoft launched a laptop with a tiny little touchscreen below a dumb passive screen they would be ridiculed.
>I actually thought about a range of other options: from a Google Chromebook to a Lenovo ThinkPad.
I bought Lenovo's MIIX surface pro clone: Mobile i7,8Gb/256Gb,keyboard cover for <$600 and an openbox Chromebook for $100
The chromebook sits there for web browsing and email notifications, the Lenovo does visual studio better than any previous laptop. For python/matlab it's indistinguishable from my desktop except for having awesome screen resolution. The folding keyboard cover, while better than the surface, sucks for typing other than coding
The problem is that even if you can make a system which is able to unlock the data without the original key and still be secure. Who do you give the backdoor to?
Field Marshal Haig,
Field Marshal Haig's wife,
all Field Marshal Haig's wife's friends, their families,
their families' servants, their
families' servants' tennis partners, and some chap I
bumped into the mess the other day called Bernard."
To be fair I just spent several minutes looking for the switch to turn a newly installed HP printer on.
When I finally found it (press the white HP logo on the white front of the machine so it lights up white)
A secretary walked in and pointed out the illuminated HP logo on the identical model next to it.
Or the extra revenue could just go into someone's pockets.
When cell phones were first common in the UK calls between networks were insanely expensive, which meant you had to be on the same network as your friends, so whichever network got the cool kids first got everyone else in the region it offered service.
It will be the same with your internet. TheReg is included in your basic package but you need the upgrade service if you want decent speed for Netflix. But a different cable company has the deal with Amazon Prime, so if you want fast access to their site you need to pay that provider.
Big sites like Facebook and Youtube will be able to demand the same sort of fees from internet providers that HBO and ESPN can from their cable arm. If you want us not to throttle your customers then you pay, and then you charge the customers not to throttle them again.
>And even then, the statement "With access to the shell, an attacker could then decrypt Linux machines" is totally wrong.
Not quite totally wrong. It just needs to be modified to
"With access to the shell, AND THE PASSWORD, an attacker could then decrypt Linux machines"
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