Plus there are the content delivery companies like Akamai who provide content for many sites. You can't easily block out just the evil company they host content for without blocking out all the good stuff too.
How much of that $67B is through crippled software which needs a permanent net connection to function in single player mode?
Jobs also setup NeXT after leaving Apple, proving he could make another company selling nicely designed expensive GUI systems
This is Verizon we're talking about - so its about on par for them catching up with modern tech
The original Linux car infotainment system. Only 13 years old now.
Non-essential services.
Passports are non-essential as they are not an essential requirement for the functioning of the government. They are essential to citizens travelling overseas, who are not by definition 'government' as those travelling as government have diplomatic papers.
All company staff are non-essential. This is why you can have companies which exist only on paper for legal and tax purposes. You don't need sales staff, but it can make the company more profitable if you have some. You don't need IT staff, but it makes the company run smoother if you have some. You don't need HR, but they exist to annoy staff everywhere
Nuclear fission reactor powered craft - assembled in space whose initial mission was out to the icy moons of Jupiter, where solar power would not be reliable.
Aswell as the JIMO (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter) it was also considered for an unmanned inner-planet ion drive delivery system, where you would launch cargo into orbit around the Earth which would then be collected and delivered to the inner planets where the cargo would be released. This would then be able to deliver satellites and landers to Mars aswell as return goods back to earth.
After WWII German enigma & lorenz machines were being sold to other nations as uncrackable. It was the forerunner to GCHQ, Bletchley Park which cracked them during the war and then buried all evidence of it.
The long pipes on a set of bagpipes are also "drones"
Actually its the other way around - UAV are the new name for drones. Just with all the bad press UAV have been getting, they're back to flying the user friendly drones and not those evil UAV.
We've been using drones as target aircraft for years (sicne the 1950's) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Drone
Some other countries (eg. most of Europe) have a "fit for purpose" condition in consumer law.
What this means is if you sell a high end product then it is expected to last longer than a cheap product. So if you bought a high spec top end laptop then its expected to last longer than a no-brand $150 one. So even if the warranty only says 1 year - it can be argued that its "not fit for purpose" and you can get it replaced/fixed/refunded.
eg. Cellphone with 1 year warranty but sold on a 2 year contract. The carrier expects the phone to last 2 years as thats the period of contract they sold with the phone, so if the phone fails in that time then you can claim it was not fit for purpose.
Torrent will only backup what is popular.
If something is unpopular then it won't get duplicated across the torrent seeds and so will be lost.
The best method is to use as many formats and medium as possible - tape, CD, SSD, etc.
Anything which is restricted in software can also be compromised by software.
Well I suppose they can always add another HD and extend the storage period.
You need to expand it a bit.
If you want to stay out of PRISM don't use or contact any US services, or services from the Five Eyes (FVEY - USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand), or services provided by companies with US parents, or comms links routed through any of the FVEY allies.
Or, you can accept you're going to end up in PRISM somewhere and carry on using those companies and services feeding the data in, but with the knowledge that they will be passing on the info.
Cobol programmers are down in the dumps.
