I can't build an impregnable vault that the government can't get into either if they are so inclined. But its still a pretty safe place to store valuables in the meantime.
The fact that a given hacker or government might be able to defeat a self-encrypting drive doesn't mean it necessarily won't defeat most people most of the time.
It is not supposed to be a way to generate revenue
I propose that all traffic fine revenue should simply be placed into a pot, and then distributed back each year to everyone with a vehicle insured in the jurisdiction. Then its revenue neutral to the police / government / state; and its only function is to be used as a punitive / disincentive to driving poorly. I figure that solves a lot problems.
A tax increase is required to offset it though since we'd have to fund the police enforcement directly. But that's a good thing.
Driving without a license plate and or parking in a handicapped spot does not put people into danger. It may be rude or even morally wrong but it is putting anyone in danger so it not reckless.
I agree. But I also wouldn't call 15mph over the limit to be reckless in a LOT of scenarios. It might be reckless in some scenarios... in others it is just going with the regular flow of traffic.
If you want to do fines right IMHO the first fine in a year should be 1 day the second 10 days and third 50 days and the fourth 100 days.
That's not half bad. I think it scales a bit too fast for regular speeding tickets, but for reckless driving
Now, you COULD get around this in a few ways- but ultimately, it's just a bad idea to trust hardware encryption. It is fundamentally not trustworthy.
As with all things, its a question of what you are trying to accomplish.
If you don't want to have your laptop stolen out of your car and then find your identity stolen a self-encrypting drive isn't a bad idea; and might work out quite well.
If your a suspected terrorist and want to keep the US or Chinese government out... no, its not good enough.
You "really hate" moving the year from the start to the finish?
I know I do. For two reasons:
Year at the front in YYYY-mm-dd format (with leading zeros on single digit months and days) lets you sort sort dates as text without having to do anything extra. That's more than a little bit convenient in a LOT of situations.
The other issue with mm-dd-YYYY is that is indistinguishable from dd-mm-YYYY for a stupidly large number of dates; and both versions are in common use -in english speaking countries (US is mm/dd/yyyy; UK is dd/mm/yyyy so its a nightmare.) I've seen documents with both formats used interchangeably.
If you see YYYY-nn-mm you KNOW its Year-month-day, because nobody anywhere ever uses YYYY-day-month.
The difference is this - to be "commercial" there has to be the intention and expectation of *making a profit* from your activities.
Intention is sufficient. One does not have to successful nor even expect to be successful for it to be commercial.
If the suggestion that he has made less than 1 dollar from this is true, then he is *not* in any reasonable sense a commercial drone operator.
Then I guess film production companies are a charity since they usually lose money; at least as far as the accounting is concerned.
I agree, when push comes to shove this guy is NOT a problem, and not what the FAA should be going after but they didn't single him out.
Someone *complained*, and they are required to follow up, and it *is* commercial activity... so here we are...
Did they throw the book at him? No. They warned him that he'd have to stop. I don't publish to youtube... can he not opt out of posting his videos with affiliate advertising?? If so... done.
Its not even newsworthy.
You must have never seen someone shotgun a beer.
I've seen a LOT more people down a flight of shooters than shotgun six beers in a row though.
And for this powder... i dunno... I could see people just eating it straight and letting it dissolve in their stomachs... or getting it moist and shoving it up their asses.
And I can definitely see them sneaking it it into schools, onto planes, into sports venues etc
People are stupid.
Targeting files that can easily be replaced by exactly the same means that they were gotten in the first place doesn't seem like a super brilliant move.
Presumably they'd be targeting the save games.
Given that PC gamers are by and large usually at least a bit technically savvy, and often very savvy going after the executables doesn't seem like a winning strategy. You'd catch someone I'm sure... but only a fraction of the audience would even care.
Then again... only a fraction of the audience is really that invested in their save games. The truly valuable stuff (relatively speaking) is all tied to mmo accounts (and therefore not stored on your PC anyway).
Other manufacturers have (even on thicker notebooks) either put the Ethernet-port in a bulge thicker than the rest of the computer, turned the port so the locking flap is always pressed (and the cable can easily be removed by accident), or use an proprietary adapter.
Hardly a universal truth; and if anything a distinct minority. I've seen lots of perfectly fine Ethernet ports on laptops from other manufacturers.
, and if every song using four chords is a derivative work
Alternatively, you could just argue that 4 chords by itself is not sufficient to make a copyright claim.
The 4 chords in a '4 chord song' are G, C, F, A
And yes, if you play them in sequence at the right tempo, and then sing, you can do 100 pop songs. Big deal. The fact that songs as different sounding as Poker Face and No Woman No Cry rest on them just argues to what small degree the chord sequence is to the whole song.
Go ahead grab a guitar or a piano and just play G, C, F, A over and over again. You aren't playing anything. Not even the intro to Journey's Don't stop believing is as simple as that.
Its harmonic; and you can play along with Journey or a 100 other songs as compatible accompaniment; but you aren't playing the songs, anymore than you would be than if you were just keeping time by tapping your feet.
No, commerce represents the will of the people in the community. If you put up a strip club and nobody shows up and it goes out of business, that is the will of the community.
If 95% of the people don't want it in the community, the remaining 5% that patronize it can still keep it thriving; especially if its bringing traffic from outside the neighborhood its actually in as well.
Commercial viability vs the will of the community are not necessarily in alignment either.
If you want to put up a strip club and the government says no, that may or may not be the will of the community
Of course.
In many of THOSE cases its government functioning as it should -- representing the will of the people in the community.
Lots of communities CITIZENS don't want strip clubs or pawn shops or porn shops or Walmarts or whatever; but they aren't illegal and the community can't outlaw them outright.. so the local government's mazes of red-tape to make opening such a business in the community difficult are simply a reflection of what the community wants implemented with the tools they have available to them.
Not always, of course, but often.
On the one hand its annoying if you want to open such a business; on the other hand... why exactly shouldn't a community be able to decide what businesses it does and doesn't want within its borders? It raises all kinds of genuinely interesting questions about the role of local government.
Of course, since you are innocent until proven guilty, bail is unconstitutional, but that is another topic.
Bail is clearly allowed by the constitution. In particularly read the 8th amendment.
The real problem is that RJ-45 is much too big for a notebook over an inch thick - the weird solutions I've seen on non-Apple notebooks speak volumes. Solutions nobody would accept on an Apple product.
The rj-45 on my 13" 2012 (?) macbook pro is just fine. And I don't need a pro laptop to be thinner than that. I'm buying a pro because I want flexibility, performance, and capability not "maximum thin". If I wanted maximum thin at the expense of ports... I wouldn't be buying a Pro.
I was on the Apple platform back then (and maybe you were too?) but honestly, no one gave a crap
YOU didn't give a crap it was missing. I get that. but you wouldn't have given a crap if it was there either. And the dime it added to the cost of your mac wouldn't have offended you either.
But if NO ONE gave a crap, the market for usb-adb adapters wouldn't have existed. In our case, it was a big PITA, at the time I worked for retail company that was all mac -- every workstation and laptop had barcode scanners. Not cheap-o ones either. (And yeah, they went with imacs for the aesthetics / counter appeal.)
but we gained a huge selection of USB devices.
Yes, the addition of USB was a godsend.
SCSI was kind of a problem for a tiny bit, but Firewire was so much better.
And did nothing for you if you had a big SCSI stack on your desk (which I had). The idea that I'm going to replace thousands of dollars of high end scsi gear just because i got a new computer
My 3 year old MBP has one. Never been used. All it does is catch dust.
Ok. That's you.
WiFi is not the bottleneck, so why would I tie myself to a wire?
Wifi isn't always available. I typically configure wifi access points and other network gear using wired connections; because wired is working long before wireless is even turned on and configured.
I've been in hotel rooms that don't have wifi, but have wired as recently as last year.
I've been in client sites that don't have wifi but have wired as recently as this year.
Other times its absolutely the bottleneck:
I've needed to transfer 10s of GB of data between client and server in both home and office environments and waiting 20x as long for wifi to do it would be ridiculous.
I've used my laptop on occasion as an impromptu ISO storage to get citrix xen virtual machines installed
WiFi is not the bottleneck, so why would I tie myself to a wire?
If its available, and not a bottleneck, you wouldn't. But if you find you do need it... what then? You've got it. It added a nickel to the price of your laptop.
How can you be for Apple to make another nickel of profit (because its not like they pass that savings on to you)? What do you get in return for that? You get to carry an adapter around with you everywhere just in case. You get to shell out an absurd amount of money for said adapter. And murphy's law dictates that you probably won't have it with you when you need it anyway... wasting your time and money to source another one.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
