So they have a secret capability to spy on North Korea, and they tell us because Sony got hacked? So now North Korea knows about it and probably will do something about it? That sounds an incredibly stupid action to me.
Or perhaps they got the info through other means but thought they'd troll North Korea - make them disrupt their own network looking for the compromise which wasn't there to begin with.
How would the West feel about the release of a popular film in which the assassination of a living head of state is planned?
You mean like if a villain plotted to kill the queen at a baseball game with hypnotised assassins with all kinds of hilarious pratfalls along the way?
I suspect the reason it doesn't happen more often is due to legal issues, audience reception (and therefore box office) and the fear of repercussions of pissing off the people whose good graces they want to be in. It doesn't stop one book, movie and TV show after another putting fictional heads of state in perilous situations and occasionally bumping them off.
And if North Korea did some movie about whacking Obama, it's likely it might generate some media noise but I doubt it would do much else.
"I can guarantee they are wrong. It has to do with a group of hackers - I will not name them - who are civil libertarians and who hate the confinement the restrictions the music industry and the movie industry has placed on art and so they are behind it."
Oh so it was a noble cause all along. Pull the other one.
At one time I was semi considering a satellite internet system because of problems getting decent broadband where I lived but I was put off by the horrific latencies (500-1000ms) and the equally horrific costs of using the system. It all looked quite Heath Robinson with the upload being via ISDN / ADSL and the download via a satellite and some kind of kludge in the middle to reconcile the two halves. I bet anyone using satellite internet has to tweak their browsers to max out concurrent requests to reduce the lag and suffers all kinds of frustrations (e.g. no games, no public servers etc.).
Anyway 2-way satellite to 750 miles is obviously better but there would be lag there too - at least 2*750 miles for a message to go up and straight back down. Except of course it's more likely the packet goes up, gets routed to one or more satellites in the constellation (e.g. by using geo IP or some heuristic), down, across a terrestrial network and then the reverse trip. In some scenarios it might be faster than land based solutions but it could well be slower over all especially if the satellites are under heavy load.
Still, if I had really bad internet I would be seriously interested in this solution provided it was affordable. But what's affordable to me might not be affordable even for an entire village in some places in the world, so it has issues unrelated to technology to work out too.
How do you fill that knowledge gap? Nobody outside of IT is going to have a clue how tor works. Should you limit the jury selection to IT professionals?
Tor works via a series of tubes.
there will always be people willing to take the risk of being caught. if they want to stop it they need to issue two fines. The current $1700 fine the driver gets and perhaps an exponentially larger fine for each infringement to Uber, say $17,000 fine for them. though drivers really should be getting suspensions too as they are placing passengers at risk due to no valid license or insurance.
Most countries would have the powers against unlicenced taxi operators to fine them, impound their vehicle, ban drivers, even hand out custodial sentences if the offence merited it. I'm sure Australia is no exception and if people are stupid enough to operate an unlicenced taxi service (which is what Uber is), then they can enjoy whatever delights the courts throw at them.
As for Uber, actively impeding the government might please libertarian nitwits (like Roman Mir), but I expect the courts would take an extremely dim view of such actions since it demonstrates intent to break the law.
VR seems to be more work than fun, especially if you want to get the fully immersive shebang, which will likely require that 360-degree treadmill thingy and a nice surround sound system.
The biggest issue with VR is it's extremely limited what kinds of games you could play with it. Racing games - yes. Spaceship / fighter games - yes. Some sedentary sports simulations - yes. First person shooter games - yes but now the cracks start to appear - how to reconcile actions like crouching, running, turning, looking between the virtual world and the real one. Basically the further you go from a seated experience, the worse it's going to become. I also expect that holds for the amount of nausea inducing too.
And yes it can be used to serve up content from a server although I wonder how much overlap it actually has with PHP. PHP is the P in LAMP and would suit data driven requests - where a server does database queries to produce the output. It's the database that determines how scalable the server is and whoever sets up the server would set their max clients accordingly.
Node.js is event driven and could potentially server hundreds or thousands of concurrent requests assuming they had little overhead in and of themselves. But if you bound it to a backend database then chances are performance is no better than LAMP with its max clients.
So I doubt the two would find themselves competing as solutions to the same problems. Either could serve out a basic website but beyond that it really depends what the site is doing which dictates the solution. Not that PHP or Node.js are the only solutions to problems by any stretch.
Secondly, I think everyone recognises that electric vehicles are still relatively expensive but that doesn't mean they are without merit. They cost more upfront but significantly less to operate. In certain locations they also qualify for grants and reduced road charges / taxse. e.g. the London congestion charge doesn't apply to electric vehicles and there is no road tax for pure EVs in the UK. So it may well pay for itself as-is and as production quantities expand and infrastructure develops it is likely that the cost will reduce further.
I expect this all boils down to the usual thing - money. Tesla has all the cake to itself and doesn't want to let others take a share of it. Problem is, the laws on car sale were put in to enforce competition. Even if dealers are scum (and I think most people would hold that view), they do represent a form of competition. I expect sooner or later Tesla will have to sell their cars whole sale but perhaps access to all the aftermarket servicing kit is the weapon they can use to beat dealers into some form of compliance with standards of ethics, transparency and all the rest.
Anyway playing with plasma on FC21 suggests the penny still hasn't dropped in KDE land. Dolphin looks a lot simpler than it used to be and the system settings looks superficially like OS X / GNOME. But click into the settings and it's the same mess as it ever was, e.g. why is "SSL versions and certificates" a top level thing instead of an advanced button somewhere several dialogs down? And standard apps like Konq, Kwrite etc. are as stuffed with superfluous options and menus as they ever were. Assuming KDE work through the apps and start ruthlessly moving the advanced menus settings out of the top level, it should turn into a pleasant experience.
One could argue GNOME have gone too far in the other direction, simplifying things beyond the extent they should be simplified. IMO it's still a better experience than KDE's.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs
