It is not acceptable for a sovereign government that any company, especially a foreign one, has the ability to render the whole country's computer infrastructure to a halt with the flick of a switch on their automatic update servers.
The system is already broken. Using closed source software puts any country sovereignty at stake. Your software providers' "red buttons" are bigger and faster than Trump's.
They limit content access to countries based on contract restrictions that they agree to when acquiring the distribution licenses.
They are only going to implement these kind of thing if the content owners require so.
Just pick your application to run here:
They are only gaining some critical time at launch
First they started associating computer hackers with crime. Now they call 'hacker' somebody that steals from a gas pump? Soon we will be reading that a bunch of humans have been hacked by actively attacking their skin, with lead bullets.
Also, Slashdot, you were cool.
My company buys apple hardware for everybody and I have been working on GNU/Linux for 15 years. I use the operating system where I'm most productive, which is GNU/Linux. Also, nowadays OSX seems to be more prone to problems that were reserved for windows users in the past, like unexplicable slugginesh, tons of crap loading at startup, etc. No thanks.
And I will certify your competence in anything. (Signed piece of paper included)
It only took as much as actually being able to have a paperless office.
Once you decap a chip, a toy microscope is enough to tell a counterfeit die from the real thing. Using a laser to stimulate the chip is not a tool to detect counterfeit chips, but for testing, reverse engineer, and thus potentially make counterfeits.
Sorry, I have completely forgotten that the surface area is measured in football fields here lately.
A 10 seconds look at the geographic situation of Nicaragua is enough to realize there is no way to do this withouth destroying thousands of square meters of forest and endangering a freshwater lake that is bigger than Delaware.
You are right! According to Wikipedia "Phosphorus, the chemical element named for its light-emitting behavior, emits light due to chemiluminescence, not phosphorescence; hence it is not a phosphor.", go figure!
To make it even more confusing, as a native Spanish speaker, I use the same word "fósforo" for both the chemical element and the luminescent substances.
Blue lasers positioned at the rear of the assembly fire onto a set of mirrors closer to the front. Those mirrors focus the laser energy into a lens filled with yellow phosphorus. The yellow phosphorus, when excited by the blue laser, emits an intense white light.
There is no coherent laser light coming out from the headlight.
Sergei Krikalev has logged 803 days and 9 hours and 39 minutes in space, including eight EVAs.
He currently holds the record for the most time spent in space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Put no trust in cryptic comments.
