Re: Red tape
Getting charged duty and then being able to reclaim it is horrible and can make a business unprofitable.. as you are essentially financing the gvnt.. at your own cost, both in actual cost and also debt and ratings.
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What aboit using well known and understood libraries/frameworks for this? I a quite keen on using standards for these things, as more people have looked at the problem, and if there are problems, it has greayer chances of being detected.
So, essentially, the same reason you should not use your own random number generator or cryptography.
We put airbags, pretensioner seatbelts, and crumpling zones in cars because we humans make mistakes. A car with active and passive security deatures is safer, even if it weights more and burns more fuel.
For the same reason, using programking languages without safety features seems.. well, dangerous, and statistics are clear about the results of such practices.
We would certainly need some low level programming, but we should try to balance the risks.
It can be more efficien t because heating a pot with brning gas is not very efficient, and a combined cycle power generator is.. plus induction hobs are extremely efficient.
As for the power losses.. compressing gas plus gas loses are qt least as costly as transporting electricity
Where I live, the council "fixes" them with cold tarmac, if you call them. More than a fix, I would call it a bodge.
Potholes everywhere.. I have never seen streets in such a poor state anywhere, including the ruins of Pompei and quite a few third world countries.
And yes, I do A) if only to not hear from my wife that I only complain and take no action..
Yes and no.
Most laptop designers and producers are in taiwan and china.
The US companies either ask for certain features or buy the models. There are few options besides these ODMs.
So, the brands have to pay more for laptops and mobile phones, and either pass those costs to their clients or pay themselves the costs.
Now, with clothes they can eat the cost, clothes are very cheap to buy, but laptops and mobes have razor thin margins.. they will have to raise the prices.
Downvotes --> This is the reason it is not on my CV.
People have an instant dislike for VB, hate I would say.. and for its time, it was ok.
Could it be terrible? of course, same as perl, or C/C++, but more amateurs used it than other languages.. so it got terrible publicity.... and it seems it perdures.
Look how much flak I got!
I went from C to mostly VB as it was way faster to develop than Visual C++, then got away from that for business reasons.. but it was OK.
I did for some years, as part of larger jobs, my main thing wasn´t programming perl,
Perl is the language that could, but failed. Python is much much better.
My preference? Something simple, like VB6, but with proper inheritance and support for multithreading and pointers.
I mostly program in Java right now, and while it has way to much boiler plate, it is ok.
No data free collection version.
The data selling model assumes that you have a mix of low value and high value targets in the group.
The low value targets are valuable only because you cannot identify without doubt the high value ones.
If you offer a more expensive version without the data slurp, you are removing most of the value from the mix, so you will be able to charge way less from the mass surveillance, so it makes little sense to do so.
That is the reason you don´t see a pay for version of Facebook, for example.
Most feminists are reasonable, but the ones that get attention tend not to.
Why? well, shock value... a radical tends to be more newsworthy than a reasonable person.
This wouldn´t be a problem if these shouty ppl in general (not just alleged feminists) got heard and effectively had a disproportionate effect on policy and law.
Also, as they are retweeted/republished everywhere, they tend to steal the movements from within and gain plenty of power.
This is not something new, look at some extremist movements in the 30s.. it is just that now the cost of doing so is much much lower, and the speed much much faster.
I don´t have a good solution for this, at least not one I would like to see implemented.. any ideas?
Instead of using logic, just make it even more illogical and make it so each time that you print, you have to add the project id that you are charging the printing to and the password, so all gets logged and those overpriced prints are attributed to your project.. and at that point as a project manager you wonder if it would be cheaper to buy a printer and pay it with your project funds.. (yes, it is, and no, you are not allowed to do it).
They were happy to use components and know how from the US, Europe or elsewhere, the government wanted them to be fully independent, and they made half hearted attempts.
Now they have no other choice, as basic international law is not respected by the US and Europe, so they are forced to do it.
It is sad, as they were stopping their IP theft somewhat.
"They do not block the socket using the earth pin
You can buy sockets that do that here."
Those are not standard and most houses do not have them. So no, the point is that they are mostly not used.
https://www.homedepot.com/c/types_of_electrical_outlets
As you can see, only new builds from 2008 require
Limited wattage --> Of course said plugs and circuits do exist, and also you can have 240v circuits. But they are uncommon. Also, normal 15A plugs and 20A plugs are different. Not in the UK.. the standard says max 13A at 240v, although the circuit has more amps available.. but that plug in W is que equivalent of a 26A plug at normal US voltages.
Touch partially plugged connectors: good for you, but it is not a random thought that made the UK and some other places to mandate partial insulated pins, as I know from when I was a small kid. It is an unnecessary danger.
Phases --> You are simply wrong, I assume that you live in the us.. and you seem to have no knowledge of how power is delivered to your house.
A link as an example:
http://www.oempanels.com/240v-single-phase-and-240v-3-phase
If you have 240v both poles are probably active unless you are on a commercial/industrial building.
You normal case is called "1P3W" and what we have in the uk and most of western europe as far as I know is "240V Single Phase 2 Wire" with "415Y / 240V 3 Phase 4 Wire (3P4W)" reaching most buildings but just a single phase being used for each individual home/flat.
Actual voltages do vary depending on countries.. right now most of western continental europe has 230v (used to be 220v) and the UK has 240v, all are 230v with some tolerance (both 220 and 240 are accepted).
So no, I am not embarrassing myself, even if I am not an industrial engineer or qualified electrician.
British spec kettles use 12.5A, at 240v = 3000W
By law (code), the circuits in the house are at least 16A, so this is about 78% of a normal circuit. and 39% of a kitchen circuit.
Power circuits in the kitchen/high power areas in the houses are 32A, at 240V this is 7680W, useful for electric showers, aircon etc.
Even if you had overload in the circuit, a 16A can withstand at least 20A, but the protections in your panel will trip way before there is a problem.
The us plugs are unsafe:
They do not block the socket using the earth pin
The pins bend,
The earth is below the active pins, so if it is partially inserted and a metal part drops from above, you can get into trouble.
The pins are full metal, not partly plastic, so a partially inserted plug can shock you.
US plugs don't have a fuse (I know this is only in part to protect the user in the UK)
The plugs and circuits in the us are quite limited in wattage, even on amps, and half the voltage.
True, US voltage is less likely to kill you, but also more likely to touch you.
As for 230v.. not all 230v is created equal. In the uk it is single phase, in the US it is mostly two phases.. so you have no neutral, both are live and can electrocute you.
Galvanic corrosion and power usage also means that copper is way more expensive to maintain.. also almost no maintenance except when the JCB gods decide to ruin your day.
There are some challenges with water/dust ingress in connectors, but electric interfaces in my experience are more expensive to run.
As for laying the last mile.. I have seen the data for Spain, and it was more expensive to lay copper than to lay fiber. I don´t have the data for ALU, or steel, as those are horrible choices from a maintenance/quality point of view.
24 Mbps is just not true.
I have many friends who are, officially at that speed.. and actual one varies from 6 to 12.. plus uploads are terrible.
OFCON knows it, the network providers know it and The Reg of course knows it..
As for lower speeds being more reliable.. no. And FTTP is way more reliable than FTTC as it doesn´t use electrical interfaces, hence no galvanic corrosion, etc.
If backdoors are mandatory (and is not clear they are not right now for US companies), you would have:
-Backdoors in the UEFI
-Backdoors in the Chip itself, in the black box "safe enclave".
-Backdoors in the HDD and network card.
Yes, you can install Linux, but you would still be as vulnerable as before..