I suspect that Google has this so sandboxed to hell they don't give a fuck what you do to it. VM inside a VM inside a VM inside a VM rebooting and losing state every 5 minutes sounds about right. Also alternate between linux and windows in the VMs, and make sure to run Norton antivirus on all hte Windows ones.
For optimal security, randomly vary the VM recursion depth so attackers can't figure it out.
You can already get stuff to do this for free. Is this stuff that's getting sold made for the less technical crowd or something?
Yes, that occurred to me too. I just have this feeling that if I ever get this project truly off the ground, somebody's going to use it to spot UAVs in Afghanistan and I'll suddenly be a terrorist.
They would most likely content that total sexual abandon is physically and emotionally damaging, but that sex is an important part of life. Note: I am not a Buddhist.
I'm not a Buddhist either, just an interested of under-informed outsider, so I ask with all sincerity:
Wouldn't they likely contend that "total X abandon is physically and emotionally damaging"
for all values of X?
Except electric cars, even if 100% powered by electricity from gasoline plants, would still be a massive improvement. Internal combustion engines have a maximum theoretical efficiency of 30%, but large stationary plants can afford to be much more efficient. Collecting the energy from a gasoline plant, piping it through wires to a person's home, putting it into a battery, taking it out of the battery, and operating an electric motor adds up (or, rather, multiplies down) to a total efficiency of... 48%. That's right, 60% more bang for your buck, even if nothing else changes.
so there are usually a few interesting questions that somehow never come up
where will the turbines be manufactured? I doubt we have the capability anymore, so i would guess china
are we dealing with generation or batteries? the usual thing for alt energy is it takes more energy to create the installation then it will ever produce. (nukes produce twice as much energy as they take to build.)
suppose you were serious about wind power. I hear a long time ago that the energy content of the wind, world-wide, is about world energy demand, which would be interesting. I recently tried to research this and came up with a paper based on a climate model that did not look very physical to me. this was a try based on a drag coefficient prediction. somehow, I think a back of the envelope energy thing would give you a straightforward order of magnitude number that would be pretty convincing and actually meaniful. pooh, thinking about it, this is the sort of thing you could have a bright high school student do. a couple input numbers and a trivial equation. is it too trivial or too embarassing? If you push me, I suppose i would try to come up with the numbers, but it is not like I think this will ever be built.
You are correct, but this rule won't do anything to stop people who are breaking the rules already.
Here's a thought experiment:
If I invent a replicator and make an exact, atom by atom copy (yes, this would be impossible space magic, just go with me here) of something with a copyright on it, is that copyright infringement?
If yes, then how can an exact digital copy of a series of 1's and 0's with a copyright on them not be copyright infringement?
Note: this wasn't really the conclusion I was aiming for... stupid thought experiment...
Both would be copyright infringement. I don't know who said it wouldn't be. It doesn't even have to be an exact duplicate to be copyright infringement. The GP was simply pointing out that copyright infringement is not theft. Theft is when the item is removed from its original owner's possession.
Here's a couple side by side examples:
If you walk into a shop, grab a DVD, and sneak it out without paying for it, then you have committed theft. You have stolen the item from the shop.
If someone goes into the shop and purchases that DVD, creates an ISO of it on their home computer, and sends it to you over the internet, then you have committed copyright infringement. You have infringed upon the rights of whoever holds the copyright over it. They are in control of how copies of the item are allowed to be produced, and you disobeyed them.
Can't we just get rid of all those portable media ASAP?
Flash memory may be more durable than CDs but they still break, especially the cheap ones.
Just put everything on a server that can be properly secured.
I can't remember the last time that I used a computer that was not connected to the internet.
I prefer to have my files accessible online so I don't have to care about where the latest version of my file is stored or if the right stuff is on my usb key.
Neither do I have to worry about the media being stolen, nor do I have to bother with encryption.
Well, you have to remember (or scroll a bit up) that said remedy was supposed to make it fun for those being ganked in their home areas. And more specifically in a context boiling down to, basically, "how to make uncontrolled PvP ok for the victims."
The option to at least not be shanghaied into more PvP would of course be better than making it mandatory to take it. But refusing it still won't do anything to remedy the fact that I was ganked in my home area, when I didn't want to take part into PvP at all in the first place. Basically being able to opt out of the second kick in the nuts doesn't make the first kick in the nuts any more fun.
Look, I don't want PvP at all. Give me that PvE flag and I won't mind what the rest of all y'all are doing to each other.
There is no magic bullet that would make me happy to be in an uncontrolled PvP environment. That's all I'm saying. Giving me an option to be the ganker for a change (which is the kind of proposal we're discussing) isn't going to change the fact that, well, if I wanted to be a ganker, I'd already know how and where to go for that. E.g., I could already park a level 80 hordie rogue near that NPC near Theramore which turns level 35 alliance people PvP without warning. I know how it's done. I just don't want to have anything to do with it at all. Tacking that on top of an uncontrolled PvP setup, optional or not, won't make me go "it may be uncontrolled PvP but it's fun", but still more like "it's uncontrolled PvP and it can go fuck itself sideways, I'm not supporting that with my money."
We've seen a few ISPs that MitM www.google.com in DNS (you can check for yourself in Netalyzr.
Does anyone know (save me looking at a TCPdump) what domain name firefox uses, is it www.google.com or something else, for the google searches?
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory keeps all its data in an old gray trunk.