I don't know in your locality, but here you can charge back to the water company if you have an invisible leakage. Therefore, they have all the needed incentive to warn you as soon as possible that the consumption is abnormal.
I don't know in England, but here I had a friend that had just the car stolen. Called the police immediately and got the response that he would need first to fill in an application for the message to be passed to the cops. Obviously it was too late at that point. (it was in a region that the police knew, and he didn't, that there was a steep ramp up in this crime for a couple weeks)
Too much people dicking around with the system and making false calls led to this absurd and ridiculous situation. If you lose some emergencies because of some assholes, the remedy is not to insure no one gets the response on time.
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I'm pretty sure the money doesn't go to the farmers in china...
This leads me to ask who wrote the descriptions of the various browsers.
It's something that is trivial to find out on your own. Here is the ballot page. If you click on "Tell me more" buttons, you'll see that all links lead to web pages hosted on a domain owned the company behind the browser (mozilla.com, apple.com, opera.com, google.com etc).
Sorry if that didn't provide any substance to yet another "evil MS" conspiracy theory...
I read it not as "yet another "evil MS" conspiracy theory", but as "yet another bashing on poor marketing from other companies than microsoft. (Granted apple has superb marketing as well, but that's not a target market).
How can math be unrigorous? Either something adds up, or it doesnt, or both.
Or neither.
I don't think it would save him any time, since he mentioned posting on slashdot.
For me it's as simple as survival. As long as humanity is confined to a single planet, we're vulnerable to being wiped out by a planetary scale disaster. Move some of us to a self-sufficient base on Mars, and even if Earth turns back into molten slag, humanity will continue to exist.
Out of curiosity, why is the survival of the human race so important?
I mean, I really want to know... what is the foundation of the idea that the human race must survive at all costs? Why should we not accept that if the earth gets hit by a quasar pulse, our time is up and that's all she wrote? Are we that important to the galaxy or the universe that the survival of the human race is of such paramount importance? Seems like a bit of hubris to me.
I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely curious about the philosophical underpinnings of your common mentality. I'm not saying I disagree with it, I haven't completely thought it out... so I'd like to read why it's a given that we need to ensure the survival of human life.
It doesn't matter if we're that important to the universe. It really matters that we're that important to ourselves.
Surely not a weapon.
No. Any reasonably focused laser would achieve such density, but over a much smaller area.
You'd need to focus one of those 50mW laser beam pointers to something like a 150um diameter round spot. Not that hard, even givem the bad mode these lasers have.
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You forgot Micron for DRAM.
These guys don't sell in the corner store. Some (most?) of them don't even sell the finished products, like memory cards and RAM modules.
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You should consider cosmology. That's the only field I know of where errors at the 10^27 level might be acceptable.
You must be really good to install RAM without rebooting. That's one thing I never managed to do.
In that case it's known to the industry that only storing the keys with battery-backed RAM can minimize this kind of attack.
It's although an interesting breakthrough see someone achieve this without sophisticated lab equipment.
Do you REALLY consider any form of encryption as impossible to crack? I'd say all of them are a matter of time.
You see but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
