Comment Re: I should hope so (Score 1) 279
Ah, You mean the right not to be shot by the police thinking you are Doner.
Ah, You mean the right not to be shot by the police thinking you are Doner.
No, it's like how convicted pedophiles are not allowed to live or hang out near schools.
Obviously one has to draw a line somewhere, but comparing a computer to food is obviously not a rational comparison.
(And FYI, the analogy would be "People accused of lock picking are not allowed to have lockpicks". Which should be obvious.)
First off, £350 is probably not particularly out of line for the cost to process the records. If we were talking £350000 pounds, yeah, that would look like an attempt at censorship. But there's nothing pecular about £350. Secondly, if anyone in the media had felt it was even remotely newsworthy, they would have paid it. The media pays processing costs for records all the time. All that this means is that most news agencies consider Warg a non-story.
Warg's restrictions are special specifically because the crime his charged with is hacking. Banning a graphing calculator is probably overreach, but it's understandable why they'd want to keep him away from computers.
Sort of like the last leak, the "Kissinger Cables", that were publicly accessible data that journalists and historians have been making use of for years, which he downloaded, reformatted, and set on the Wikileaks site.
New slogan suggestion: Wikileaks: We Open Governments (by taking the data they've already released, running it through a couple python scripts, putting it on our site, and calling it something new)
A sphere of cubical modules. Individually spheres are probably not the most optimal shape of CPUs and each blade of the super-computer. Across a large super-computer a spherical shape sets the best distance from center to edge for maximum latency.
I'm not sure how this is a related question? At X miles you can have the fluid taken out and tested and show the percentage of breakdown that occurs. There is a reason there are SAE standards. Now the breakdown may occur more or less quickly depending on environment and driving habits but the number are a good average. These are all parts that suffer mechanical stress and will eventually wear out.
It's not much different from computer hard drives. They will eventually fail, keep an eye on your SMART diagnostics. The real question comes in to play with solid state devices. If it has good caps, good power, and kept cool, the life of the device should far exceed the usefulness of the device. I've had servers in climate and dust controlled rooms last 12+ years. Support for the devices ends far quicker then the usefulness.
Its not like they could have just said Critical update patch...oh no, we need to make things confusing.
What happens when admins get confused and pour the contents of their beverage containers into their servers?
We apologize for the confusion in the Critical Patch Updates. The individuals responsible have been sacked. To avoid further confusion, all CPUs will be processed through CUPS, the Critical Update Patch Server.
And now the goddamn printer doesn't work.
Ever hear of the saying 'Turtles all the way down'. There is probably a reason the not so old machine is not supported.
One particular case I had to deal with was for a digital x-ray machine. The firm upgraded their x-ray management software to a new edition, but the 3 year old machine would no longer work with it. The company had changed the base processors in the x-ray machines so they required different drivers. They didn't licence the drivers for the old machines in to the new package because of the expense. They are better off forcing you to buy a new x-ray anyway.
Have you even hacked? Old systems are great places for hackers to jump in. It's likely they are never looked at so information gathering can occur for a long time with low risk of discovery. Once you have your foot in an old system you can use it to exploit other network resources.
Never assume any secret is worthless, you never know the motivations of an attacker.
Because the business owners understand machines pretty well. They require parts specifications on the machines they use, and many times a secondary supplier to fix or replace said machines.
They do not understand software, they treated it like a machine that was fungible. They didn't know enough about software to see that all the machines running and operating are far less complex then the financial package alone. The factory they have is anti-fragile. Engineers optimize each part of it for efficiency and the safety of each part is pretty well understood, the steps a product takes are very well layed out. The software is custom code and series of black boxes that no one in the company may understand, after a few years of changes the data flow in these black boxes can do very unexpected things. The failure rate and mechanism of machines in a factory can be calculated and pretty well planed for. A simple change in software can have drastic effects.
You have to figure out how to convert in to a society that can handle population decline. You also have to convince everybody that this is a good idea. A significant percent of the population won't agree with your policies and may spend an inordinate amount of time lighting your shit on fire. You also may have to deal with nationalist neighbors attempting to breed your population out of existence. Oh, and after a short few generations of one child you are going to have a population crisis. Essentially it's going to take a totalitarian society with an iron fist and a loaded gun to make this happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline#Economic_consequences
No, we run the risk of the people who own the robots going on strike. They tend to be the same groups that own military production, own politicians, and control large portions of the media with financial sway.
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