Logic - Problem solving - Politics
Choose the odd one out.
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In the EU all these types of product are guaranteed for 2 years and the point of sale is responsible. If the manufacturer offers one year the shop can pass it on to them during that period but has to take on the responsibility for the second year. Any local dealers who are not interested in problems can have their interest aroused by the small claims court.
If E-voting was workable, why use it to concentrate an entire constituency's votes down to 1 (the elected MP)? Even if your choice was elected would they vote the way you wished every time? It would be better to use a digital voting system to effectively have a national referendum on everything and lose the party politics with whip systems that are every bit as iniquitous as union block votes.
Many supermarkets in Greece have a machine for taking empty beer bottles and printing a credit slip for the 20 eurocent per bottle deposit refund. A few years back there were one armed bandits dotted about that took empty drinks cans. Pulling a lever to spin the reels also crushed the can and the payouts were in the form of money off vouchers to spend in a nearby establishment.
A few simple incentives work a whole lot better than fines and punishments.
I'm finding the original million ton figure for PCB waste a little difficult to reconcile. That is somewhere in the region of 16 kilograms for every man, woman and child in the country. There must surely be an awful lot of recyclable metal (e.g. transformers and bits of chassis) included to get to this figure. Even a big old TV would only have a couple of kilograms of PCB with components and I can't see the average family scrapping the equivalent of about 30 TV's worth of electronics annually.
Set up a strategic investment group funded by money taken from scientific research. Group decides that best strategic investment would be scientific research. Net result? Scientific research loses funding to the amount of a few bureaucrats salaries plus expenses, lots of paper pushed around, lots of lunches consumed and very little else.
I've been on several flights that display flight data (ground speed, altitude, outside air temperature, etc.) on the entertainment screens. Anyone know if these are coming from the same sensors providing the pilot/auto-pilot with their info, or are they separate air-gapped sensors? I suspect they are from the actual flight sensors (probably the auxiliary set) and they are hopefully optically isolated to prevent anything coming back from the entertainment system. It isn't hacking that is the threat, it is more likely to be some idiot feeding large voltages back down the headphone sockets.
I'd go further and say that it is beyond fair game and it shouldn't be down to the likes of Wikileaks to do the publishing. The government itself should be doing it. When two of the most untrusted entities in the world are corresponding in secret it can only reinforce the view that they are up to no good.
Any RAM chip that is operated within the manufacturer's guidelines should be able to handle any pattern of address and/or data thrown at it. If it fails, it is faulty and should be returned for replacement or refund. Describing the process as 'hammering' unfairly shifts the perceived blame in the same manner as 'overclocking' or 'over/undervolting'. It comes down to a design error in the chip and if the entire line has to be withdrawn and the mask redesigned from scratch, so be it.