Comment Re:innovation (Score 1) 172
Of course not. Think of the RIAA!
The reality is that terrorists are a tiny proportion of the threats to the average American.
There are only two possibilities:
a) The European view: Americans are a bunch of spineless, knicker-wetting, yellow bellied softies, or
b) The American View: those Corporate American Commie bastards have infitrated our gummint!
I wish to propose a third way: both of the above!
If BT isn't blocking you as a result of government policy, then it is probably because their DNS settings are corrupt - again.
In the days of the AMD586, it was common for mother boards to be sold with fake ECC. There was actually a "fake ECC" chip soldered where the ECC should be. Often, these boards had defective RAM in too, but would pass the BIOS fake memory test! Memtest86 was written because of these boards.
I bought one myself and was astonished that it was cost effective to deliberately engineer defective machines. Memtest86 may not be very good, but it would flush these boards out, which was the problem when it was written.
Realistic testing for the kind of problem in this article requires knowledge of the layout of memory cells to know which is ajacent to what, as well as prolongued testing. However, it should be possible to produce a background task that does the test continuously and put it in the idle loop. This is often done in embedded systems. Perhaps the memory chips could hold a guide to the cell layout.
And perhaps people who sell defective memory chips could face a class action.
You obviously have not tried it.
No. Install it yourself, and let them use the backdoor. Saves the state a lot of money. He is not as stupid as he looks.
There is no reason on earth why calling from France Telecom in London to France Telecom in Paris costs more than France telecom in London to France Telecom in Manchester (Or Deutche Telecom for that matter).
In the case of Hutchinson 3G (a Hongkong company) IT ALREADY DOESNT!
What you see here is "we have the technology to fleece you" being optimised.
Yep: You can be certain the NSA already has a copy of one of these.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
