"Do what I mean" is the worst possible response from a computer, "Do what I say" might be bad but it's better than any of the alternatives.

That's why my Google links have a veritable alphabet soup attached to them... Google Search 1 vs. Google search 2

What I'd like is a nice simple dwiS flag that I can attach ... but, Of course if the first one doesn't work for you maybe Google has already decided you're too dumb...

Air drag goes up as a fourth power of the speed.

3G and similar connections across the phone network are connection based. If you don't send packets the connection drops and takes a substantial fraction of a second to reconnect. Remotes sending you packets (usually) won't bring the connection up so they don't hit either your bill or your battery. (Nor do they waste the very limited shared bandwidth of the network)

This happens even if you have a global IP address.

Sigh, you don't need NAT to intercept connections, at the primitive level you can block the connection with a firewall and receive and respond to the connection with packet capture. All the IPtables 'REDIRECT' target does it wrap this up into a 'simple' interface; when your server program receives the connection it still has the IP address that the original connection was being made to so it can continue the proxy connection even if the client doesn't say what it was trying to do. NAT actually breaks this.

The mobile phone companies looked into using NAT, in fact they are using NAT because there are simply not enough IPv4 addresses for them. They have hundreds of millions of customers, so they have to use multiple copies of 10.0/8 , one isn't enough.

It doesn't matter; even if they put those addresses back into the pool now it would last about 6 months top. The "burn rate" for IP addresses when they ran out at the top level was three /8 networks per month; think about that at the peak rate what you're proposing would last about 80 days!

The thing is you really don't have any concept of the number of IP capable mobile phones being made in the world.

I don't have 2020 vision, but it's really unlikely that the new guy can be as successful as the extremely "unique" individual who built the company. The board of directors, who took control when he left, wouldn't allow it. They will basically choose someone just like them with the exception that this person is willing to take a greater risk, ie when something goes wrong they will be kicked out, for a better reward.

This is nothing like Steve Jobs who basically loved the game, he was very, very good at it but basically played to the game because he wanted to, the money was just the way of keeping score.

As for being successful enough; well there's a good reason the guy before him to left so he wasn't bought in to captain a sinking ship which probably means he will be successful because he'll be able to leave 'for personal reasons' before the ship hits the fan.

That's easy, for patents, the environment hasn't changed much since the Patent was invented.

So if a "little guy" gets a markable idea a big company will come along, copy it, and use it's larger manufacturing capacity to put through a shitty knock off before the little guy gets the first one out of the door. If the little guy tries to go to court (which will still in theory be possibly) he'll be swamped under lawyers. If two middle size companies come out with similar products at the same time they'll sue each other and waste lots of court time trying to convince everyone that the other guy knocked them off.

So nope, patent reform is needed, abolishing patents is still a really bad idea.

NB: The "equation" is different for copyrights though.

It's not talked about much, but one of the things that helps reduce the price of fertiliser is treated sewage. So it basically sets up a cycle with what's taken out of the land for food being "given back". This frequently works as a double loop with crops grown with Human sewage used to feed cattle and bullshit used to feed the crops for people as this is generally "less yukky" and normally safer because diseases don't switch between species much.

In Africa (in general) this cycle doesn't exist, the sanitation is often poor and the sewage treatment worse. Even when sanitation does exist many people seem to prefer a quiet spot in the bushes. Without the cycle fertiliser is expensive without fertiliser you will only get a couple of crops from a piece of land before you drain it of nutrients.

This is a basic rule of farming, another way of doing the same thing is crop rotation now this works on a much more local scale which keeps big business out of the equation but but will probably work best if the soil recovery is aided by a contract with the local 'nightsoil collector.'

Sure, they don't want to kill the internet connections of thousands (or millions) of people in one night, this will cause the odd serious problem.

But leaving some servers running perfectly isn't going to solve anything either. If everything is working fine these people are just going to leave it be; as they were told by the last guy who charged them to fix their machine last time!

The answer is actually very simple; leave the server running but make sure it's CRAP.

On day zero it works perfectly.
On day one just one percent of queries are given a serverfail.
On day two two percent are failed
By the end of the first week people will start to notice that their internet is getting crap.
By the end of the first month they will be asking around for help
By the end of the second month they'll be ready to pay for help
And finally, after just three months (and a week) the servers can be turned off, they're not doing anything anymore.

Because that's the default if you have a single colon like in my example.

rsync -PAX -Hax somedir remote@remotehost::module/remote/path
This is for a bare rsync server, (or use rsync:// )

The wrong one; they reboot the iphone into unbricking mode and suck all or part of it's flash onto the PC. Probably decrypt it there.

I eventually RTFA (and movie), They appear to be 'unbricking' the iPhone with a custom bootloader from the USB. Once they've done this they can grab the flash and post it to the PC. For a PC brute forcing a 4 digit passcode is a millisecond job (hell, a 20digit passcode is just an annoying little pause).

It's very much a dumb user tool, if your fingers are too fat to properly push the iPhone's buttons they even have special recovery options for when you mess up.

I used to use this, but I tend to use rsync nowadays; it automatically does something very similar (only better in that the physical copy only copies new data) in a fraction of the command size. And it has it's -P argument.

rsync -PAX -Hax somedir remote@remotehost:/a/remote/path

Okay, I tried to look it up ...

WXGA 1280 720 16:9 0.922
WXGA 1280 768 5:3 0.983
WXGA 1280 800 16:10 1.024
WXGA 1360 768 ~16:9 1.044
WXGA 1366 768 ~16:9 1.049

It looks more like you're trolling; so now I too ask WTF is WXGA!