It's unbelievable that a data centre can't cope with an extra degree or two. What sort of idiot designs these places? Haven't they heard of tolerances?
They had air conditioners fail. They probably needed more redundancy, but they shut down some systems as a precaution when the AC failed.
As for the hypothetical McDonald's case - they can most certainly call the cops on you and have the cops escort you away from the premises if you're actually stopping them from entering the store, and not just trying to persuade them not to. This also applies in the U.S. You can picket - but you can't block the entry. UK law is a bit more strict and you can probably easily slip into the "disturbing the peace" clause. It is the UK after all.
Actually, you can't picket unless the state lets you, even in the United States. Governments including state governments are allowed to impose "content-neutral time, place, or manner restrictions" on free speech provided that there are sufficient "alternative channels of communication" and the regulation served a substantial government interest that would be achieved less effectively absent the regulation. Hence the state can restrict speech severely with relatively little pretext, even in the abortion context. See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
In most states it is also a crime to fail to obey a lawful police order, which is the favored charge for arresting protestors or pretty much anybody a cop doesn't like.
I don't know if the carriers are implementing anything, which is really where this would have to happen.
Mmmm... just spitballing, there are two things that come to mind: (1) create a more asymmetric internet or (2) significantly reduce anonymity.
If you route machines with major penalties for any connections outside of machines they have connected to in the past week or month, for example, or if you require ISP-level configuration for peer-to-peer (at least logging into your ISP's web site to enable it), you could begin to reduce the usefulness of DDoS. On the anonymity side, you can strongly prefer authenticated and digitally signed connections, until at some point you perhaps only allow them.
It would add significant overhead, but if every packet, or at least connection, were signed by every piece of hardware it goes through, you could send (and sign) "compromised upstream" messages. When a large enough portion of traffic from any route becomes "compromised upstream," you bandwidth-limit (or even cut off) the route, with some intelligent rules for preferred traffic from that connection. (E.g. signed by a regular customer of the destination site.) End-users get messages once a day if they are generating compromised upstream errors.
The problem is it adds a *lot* of overhead.
You could also use the same system to *stop* junk phone calls.
I was suspicious of the U.S. allegations that the North Korean government was behind it when the North Koreans denied it was them. If you're going to hack somebody to make a political statement, it makes no sense to later deny that you were involved. Someone might be trying to make it look like North Korea, but I seriously doubt they were directly involved in this.
Wrong--Even implausible denials can be very useful in international relations. They give sympathetic expatriates and foreigners something to support and are also useful legally. The obvious example is Putin's recent doublespeak over invading Ukraine. It is only a paper shield but it helps confuse the issues slightly, delaying and discouraging organized response of any kind.
As another example, since the UN Charter as passed, open wars of aggression have been outlawed. As a result, there have been a whole lotta agressive "self-defense."
As another example, Israel-Palestine. Regardless of which side you're on, you'll see the other side doing what you think is lying about something or the other.
Phone and Game Console have much more entertainment value to most people. $1000 for a 3D-printer may be consumer grade, but you're talking a consumer grade luxury item.
Median household income is 50K; now take out cost of living, educating children, etc...,
The work is meant as a metaphor for showing the battle being waged by Mother Nature on the accelerated development of industrialized civilization."
Ah, so he's an idiot.
Nah, he has just decided to fight for the environment... by printing lots and lots of plastic.
A real head-scratching conundrum about the universe is explaining why it's not already overrun with self-replicating robots. Because if it's possible to send self-replicating interstellar probes, all it takes is one launch, plus a few million years, to get the galaxy overrun with them. So are they not possible? nobody's launched one yet? here, but not detected? The implications boggle the mind.
It may just take them a *long* time to reach every planet. They also may, for example, have a strategy of not visiting every planet as often as possible so as to conserve fuel. They may only visit a planet when it develops detectable signs of life, knowing they command sufficient resources to utterly destroy the existing life at that point regardless of the technological sophistication of the planet. Kind of like if the rest of the world were to decide to declare war on Molokini.
Historically, being embraced by Microsoft has often been deadly...
True in the 80s and early 90s, but today Microsoft is pretty responsive to their partners and that role has more been taken on by Amazon. I hear Amazon basically data mines business partners who sell on their site to undercut prices on everything except for certain narrowly agreed products.
It's a good business model for Amazon's move to gather more market power, which will give them a near-monopoly in the end. They're definitely playing the long game. But it's not a good move for their partners.
They are trying to leverage their IP to get more people to buy or subscribe to their products. There's nothing wrong with that; it actually helps developers.
The idea is that if you make it easy for developers to do good stuff on your platform, they are more likely to do good stuff on your platform. Then end-users who want the good stuff will buy the good stuff from the developer and the platform from you.
This is a federal judge, not a federal appellate panel. The company will pay to have amazing representation on appeal and is much more likely to win.
It is a war crime and hence a crime against humanity. The customary punishment for those is a noose or a firing squad.
Actually, the customary punishment for most human rights violations, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, is none. Nuremberg was a first, and only the defeated powers were prosecuted. (In a perfectly neutral world, allies would have been prosecuted for things like the fire-bombing of Dresden and the nuking of Nagasaki, and possibly the nuking of Hiroshima.)
Nuremberg was a first, the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda were much more recent and were beginning some international movement toward accountability for war crimes, and the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court also took us closer, but we are *nowhere* near a place where there is a "customary punishment" for crimes against humanity.
Consumers can buy any commercially available 3D printer out there, so define consumer 3D printer while you're at it.
Printer cost of under $1000. IE what the average consumer can spend on a personal printer.
The average consumer of 3D printers may be able to, the average consumer of personal printers in no way can afford to spend $1,000 on a printer.
http://pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0053_defense-comparison
See the US Military budget is bigger than
China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and India combined, you see the glaring omission don't you, where the HELL IS NEW ZEALAND mentioned, Bloody hell we have seen Lord of the Rings, we KNOW how many Orcs there are.
Yes, but the US also does more with its military than those countries combined. It is also facing different cost balloon problems than some of them--e.g. China and Russia--and has a larger portion of its budget that is declassified. China with 1/3rd of the US Military budget has a good chance of approaching par with the US Military in the next two decades, if they run an efficient program.
Yes; I was saying the problems inherent with the zeroeth law arise in one of the best scenarios we could have, and it is fraught with problems. That does not mean that that is the scenario we will have; it is more likely we will not, or will have some AI that develops that way but more that does not.
6 Curses = 1 Hexahex
