Buying Intel
Is it time, or past time, to fire people for buying Intel?
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I'm glad that these people have been caught. Despite the bluster about the size of the operation, I suspect it was just a tip of an evil iceberg.
However, blaming Tor and Bitcoin is just blaming useful tools that the accusers have yet to make use of themselves, or cynically, because they know that the majority of listeners have yet to do so. The same people might have blamed the Internet a few years ago.
Well, below that individual electrons. You might call that digital, in a weird quantum way.
I guess whether it's digital depends on the resolution of the sensors. It's functionally digital if you are able to detect increments; if you're reading instead of just measuring.
SQRL is a decentralised authentication system that has now, after five years, reached the point where it's ready for widespread use. It trusts no government, no commercial interest, and gives the websites that use it for authentication no secrets to keep. It is not encumbered by IP rights. There is a reference client for Windows, and clients for other platforms. There is also a SQRL server API that can be used by existing websites to quickly add support. This should make FIDO dead in the water.
Details at sqrl dot grc dot com .
Apart from the fact that not everyone uses a screw fitting, you also have to consider that the bulb will have to remember without power that it has already reset itself, and you might want to reset that. The article's suggestion of electrocuting yourself with a paper clip is another good solution.
So many so-called privacy policies say at the begining that they will never take or sell any personal data without your permission. Many, many pages later, it will say that by using their software/service you're giving them permission to do anything they wish. That sort of professional dishonesty is still standard in many jurisdictions.
It's not unusual to recieve emails that attempt to download all or part of their content from a remote server, which implicitly gets to see all the IP addresses of the recipients, and to record the time when the email was read.
It's always good security and privacy practice to only use the plain text content of emails and to disable the fetching of new content.
The numbers are everything and, unfortunately, this article doesn't give us any.
We've had lunar rocks brought to Earth to study, so I would be surprised if we didn't have a pretty good idea about the level of hydration in the common minerals in areas that are exposed to sunlight, at least close to the surface. Perhaps a dedicated drilling mission would throw up some surprises. It would be fortunate if there were usable quantities of water in areas other than the poles.
I gave you a thumbs up because you're making people think and raising quality standards by playing devil's advocate.
If a lawyer defends a well-known criminal, the lawyer may strongly suspect that his/her client is guilty, but it would be in *everyone's* interest that the evidence be tested very carefully.
"The Planck constant, named after the physicist Max Planck, is incredibly small (it's 6.62607015 x 10-34 Js)"
I think we need to be careful about describing units as large or small, when the magnitude of the numerical parts of their value is a function of the units we've chosen to use.
For example, would it be reasonable to describe the speed of light as incredibly small because it's 9.71561e-9 parsecs per second?
If we deployed a large sunshade near Venus, large enough to put the whole planet into shadow, the planet would start to cool and begin absorbing CO2 by chemical weathering. After some millions years, maybe even Earth-like tectonics may begin. Teraforming Venus is definitely a long-term project.
Besides other things mentioned, I guess it would rule out the use of cryogenic propellants such as liquid oxygen. By the time, you got the rocket up to height, it'd be covered in ice and a lot of propellant would have boiled of
Also, recovering the rocket and payload if there was an aborted launch would be a problem.
I "guess" as you have put solar energy in you must get more energy from burning the carbon monoxide and hydrogen
I think the solar energy is effectively used to split water and the water is reformed at the end, releasing that extra energy. Doing that without the involvement of methane would be more difficult.
Most people are not technology-sensitive. What they care about is cost, and what they can do with their Internet connection. Most are therefore still oblivious to the fact that their fast Internet is perfectly capable of handling their telephone traffic at near-zero incremental cost, even for many international calls, just as their visits to web sites are.
So they continue to think that they need something separate, and continue to be charged in the old way. I am not asking for FTTP to be universally installed. I am asking for more FTTC (which suffices for telephony). I do not want Ofcom to ask, as you do, what evidence there is that people are wising up to the new possibilities. When it comes to improving our national telecoms, they should be proactive, acting for the general good.
Ripping up the old copper wires to the exchanges would be a one-time cost that will have to be done eventually anyway. The sooner it's taken out, the sooner the ongoing maintenance costs end. This should be part of the process of rolling out FTTC to a neighbourhood.
No problem. Just get your land line discontinued. I'm sure your ISP will find some other way of connecting you
In the UK most consumers who need a wired service are forced to use either a service that uses Openreach or Virgin Cable. With the former, you're required to pay for an ordinary phone line too. Virgin therefore makes you pay for a phone line whether you have one or not. Indeed, you're often quoted more for service without a phone line.
These days, we should be plugging our telephone handsets into our routers. We're well passed the point where we need to replace the USO for phone service with a USO for broadband that includes VoIP.
None of the big telcos will put the old cash cow at risk by offering a VoIP service that competes with it. You have to go to a company that specialises in VoIP service. That is why we need a regulator to act.
I'm typing this on a 2010 mini with its original HDD. It's been running 24/7 since new. The only upgrade was to put 8GB of RAM in when new. I have long considered replacing the HDD with an SSD but have instead been waiting for a new mini because I also need more than two cores.
If my mini fails (likely to be the HDD) before a new mini is out, I will simply buy a new PC, transfer my existing Windows VM to that, and give up on running native Mac apps. I certainly won't spend a fortune on new Apple kit with a screen I have no use for.