Re: "unmodified Androids provided they were connected to a computer."
Which of course raises the question is that because iOS is too tough to get into or that they have not gotten round to doing iOS yet
I don't know.
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So the police not involved?
You're looking at massive counts under the Computer Misuse Act, potential massive theft and PC Plod is not to be called.
Because a Police response is considered "unnecessary" perhaps?
Personally I doubt these exercises will be realistic enough until there is a real risk of one of the participants going bankrupt and not getting a government bailout.
But that's just me.
"Sorry, but could you explain just exactly what your third point has to do with climate change ?"
Simply to give perspective.
A very small group of people (that's not a typo it's a figure from the world bank IIRC) control more cash that roughly 3.3 billion That's about 38 million to 1.
Anyone wanting to affect global change should be aware of what their plans mean to those people.
Because if they don't like it you can bet it's very unlikely to happen.
Thumbs up for that collection.
Note that we are looking at a possible sea level rise of a few mm.
But before we start panicking let's recall 3 things.
1) There has been a 15 year hiatus in the trend in average global temperature rise.
2) Without reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from China, India and the US nobody's efforts are worth a damm
3) The richest 85 individuals own as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the global population combined.
But this is v 0.1 tech at best.
However note that the molecule is much smaller than a wavelength of light.
While very inefficient it is a start of getting some kind of I/O between some kind of molecular electronic logic and the outside world.
So thumbs up for the start of the art.
"It was back in 2002:"
Wow.
Twelve years
"And it might not seem like it, but every year since then, Windows has had fewer total vulnerabilities that were on average fixed faster than competing OSs."
What an interesting (and very specific) measurement of bugs.
But was not Windows 7 (or 8) meant to be a complete groundup re write? No reused code. So all code written to the new "secure" standards?
Says pretty much all you need to know about this particular "cunning plan."
I suppose we should be grateful they did not feel the need for some kind of central reporting system to give a kind of nationwide radar picture (technically a Plan Position Indicator display) of the whole country.
Still there's always V 2.0.
AFAIK ARM licenses it's products at various levels.
At the instruction set level they specify a binary pattern and state what that instruction does in some way, like VHDL. You could run that through a design system which would do an implementation. It would be based on what assumptions the design system made (register blocks with single read/multiple read, decoding strategy etc).
You could get a version licensed to one of the big fabs and add your own hardware blocks (or ones from their catalogue)
Or you could go for completely custom implementation of their instruction set, with your own team.
If Apple have gone that route then they are solely to blame for an infringement since it's their designers decision to do this, whereas if they'd imported a component from a design tool it would be the tool vendors problem.
"Why are they contradicting themselves, how about....they could work around it, but thought it easier / cheaper to just ignore the patent and go ahead anyway and worry about the consequences (if any) later."
Hard to believe?
Well that's pretty much what Kodak did with the Polaroid patents on instant photography.
And Ford over the intermittent windscreen wiper.
Didn't end well for either of them.
"We do this but not to <home country of data fetishist> citizens."
So what, they cross reference everything to Canadian passport holders and shoot that data over the border for the NSA to scan with their computers?
I'd suggest the first 3 words in such a sentence are honest and accurate.
The rest I think can be filed under "mendacious."
I would not have believed if if I had not seen it.
Note it's not the level it's sudden (and steep) changes in noise level that does it.
BTW. From nozzle theory almost any kind of pipe that has a gas tank with more than about 2 atm pressure difference between it and the exhaust will give an exhaust at the speed of sound.
Low volume (70 psi) pneumatic industrial control systems leak like this.
It's very loud.
Firstly 2TB for how much?
"unlimited?" Whose cloud servers?
It's either the bargain of the century (but how could you verify "unlimited") or hugely expensive.
I'll play the odds on bet of it being the latter.
"Well, we'll have to agree to disagree on that one :-) My view of UKIP is that they combine the worst aspects of President Blair's Politburo with the more invidious policies of the BNP."
So very much a "protest vote" strategy.
But it sounds like an effective protest vote strategy. I salute you (with a beer).
Next question is of course do those generally hacked off non-voters know where to find what the order across the finishing line last time was?
"I've tried several varieties of non-meat, simulated burgers and -- all cheap laffs aside -- the one that came closest to a real burger was made from textured protein and hemp."
Umm.
I think right now this is still more of a supplement than a replacement.
So burgers are still on the menu.
But look at the numbers. Today it costs 5Kg/person/day to support a 'naut in orbit.
I'm amazed closed cycle life support work did not start research years ago.
No it should not be dangerous.
But I wonder if anyone's read the short story (by CM Cornbluth IIRC) called "Saffrey amongst the immortals."
College professor at minor school dreams up a series of get rich quick schemes. One is to try mushroom preservation by exposing them to a dental Xray machine.
He gets famous, having created a mutated botulism strain that is much more dangerous than any previously known.
He is it's first victim.
Couldn't happen IRL?
Want to bet your life on that?
"BUT THERE IS A WAY AROUND THIS PROBLEM, rather than using a kill signal, maybe the way to do this is to get the car's computer to periodically request permission to drive from some big brother computer. No permission, car stops**. Make it request every 5 minutes and that should be enough to stop the crims before they can do to much damage. (**Country folk will of course be off the grid, but hey they have horses)"
Oh sweet $deity, are you f**king mad?
The last thing you need to give these ar**wipes are more ideas.
"The big thing is ensuring the security IS tight so a remote hack in couldn't reverse it and start the worlds car speeding up at random."
Except all evidence on the security of car systems is that there is effectively none.
The best security to restrict this system is to not fit it in the first place.