"Hey Pizza Shop, it's The Law here. Did you have any orders for an 'A. Tate' recently? You did? Where did you deliver them to? Ok, thanks."
Stupider things have happened and if I was a detective you'd be damn sure I'd at least give this a try.
dgriffith
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"Old timey journalism" was usually when someone with a political axe to grind started a local newspaper to try and counter the other guy who had started a newspaper. That's when you get editorialism and a particular slant on your news.
You probably want something like large public-funded-but-relatively-neutral news agencies, who have the resources, time, and budget to allow proper investigative journalism to take it's full course, and are large enough that they don't have to pander to the politicians of the day or big business.
So we're talking at this point about BBC, ABC (Australia), Al-Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and other similar organisations.
None are without bias - it's very difficult to actually be bias-free, most will have a home country bias, for example. But they're better than the billionaire's media circus.
So what we need to do is keep a bunch of umbilical adaptor hoses in the glovebox of every spacecraft.
"Do we have a Boeing to SpaceX adaptor?"
"No but we can do Boeing to ESA to Soyuz to Shuttle to SpaceX. It's 8 feet long but it will work."
"Good enough then."
True. Hence my caveat of "most cards". If it's got LEDs on the port, it's quite likely to signal which speed it is at with those LEDs.
I haven't yet come across a gigabit card that won't do 10Mbit (edit: switches are a different matter) but sometimes I've come across cards that fail to negotiate speeds correctly, eg trying for gigabit when they only actually have a 4 wire connection that can support 100Mbit. Forcing the card to the "correct" speed makes them work.
I'm guessing something like:
Robots.txt: Do not index this particular area.
Main page: invisible link to particular area at top of page, with alt text of "don't follow this, it's just a bot trap" for screen readers and such.
Result: any access to said particular area equals insta-ban for that IP. Maybe just for 24 hours so nosy humans can get back to enjoying your site.
Me: "This binary file is merely an approximate mathematical and statistical transform of the complainant's "Deadpool 3", your honour. If you care to glance through a few A4 pages of the binary representation of both items, you can clearly see that there is no direct copying involved, thus, no copyright claim can be upheld."
Result: $250k fine, two years community service in anti piracy groups.
NVIDIA: "Each copyrighted work was ingested and a statistical model was generated that leverages that information for our own profit. We have no intention of compensating copyright owners for their information."
Result: Oh you! Get out of here, you scamp! Ruffles hair
There was a series of books in the '80s where a systems programmer gets pulled through a portal into your typical magical world, good vs evil, etc.
They subsequently look at the magical spells in use and realise they can apply Good Systems Programming Practices™ to them. And thus, with their knowledge of subroutines and parallel processing, they amplify their tiny innate magical abilities up to become a Pretty Good Magician™. So while all the rest of the magicians basically have to construct their spells to execute in a linear fashion, they're making magical subroutines and utility functions and spawning recursive spells without halting checks and generally causing havoc.
It's quite a good allegory for modern times, where a select few build all the magic and the rest just have useful artefacts they use on a day to day basis with no idea how they work
I hate the camera bumps. Just make the entire phone the same thickness and - hey! This is crazy, but maybe then you could then add a bit more structural integrity and put a bigger battery and a SD card slot and a headphone jack in there as well.
F9 with Crew Dragon on top should have plenty of headroom for a dogleg, the dragon module is a relatively light payload.
Presumably there is a transformation of charge to energy which is then carried away by the photon, but all of this is beyond my understanding of the theories involved.
I looked it up, after 6.6 x 10e28 years or so they are theorised to decay into neutrinos and photons.
Because they can manage and control all the windows PCs , pushing updates automatically, restricting what users can do locally and on the network, they have monitoring tools and whatever antivirus and antimalware tools they have, and are able to easily manage and deploy/remove software and associated group licensing and so on and so forth.
Meanwhile you're a single user of unknown (to them) capabilities that they now have to trust with the rest of their system, basically.
The first rule of corporate IT is, "control what's on your network". Your PC is their concern still, but they have no effective control over it. That's why they're being a bit of a pain in the ass about it.