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You see population growth is rapidly decelerating, albeit still positive. Hence our impact is likely to be decelerating too.

Population is one factor, the other is per capita emissions and resource usage. It's the latter that's increasing. A common theme in the news recently has been the alarm expressed by scientists at the rapidity with which changes are happening. Nobody is saying that things are progressing at lower than expected rates. They're all shocked at how fast it's hitting home. People can make cute comments about Malthus to imply that there's nothing to worry about, but that's not what we're seeing. Just because Malthus wasn't right in his lifetime, that doesn't make him wrong. Malthus died in 1834: that's really not that long ago.

Google's page about this new feature states that a site cannot use Bluetooth until the user clicks:

User Gesture Required

As a security feature, discovering nearby Bluetooth devices with navigator.bluetooth.requestDevice must be called via a user gesture like a touch or mouse click.

Did you click to enable "porns ads blasting out of your sound bar"? Did you click to enable "your Skype chats being intercepted by blackmailers"? DId you click to enable "websites that can keylog your friend's BT keyboards"?

Another day, another new web API that's impractical to test across a home or small office LAN, just like Service Workers before it.

you'll naturally want to find (or create) a website that uses the tech in the first place.

I have one machine on my home LAN that I want to use as a server, and another machine that I want to use as the client. But from Google's page about this new feature:

HTTPS Only

Because this experimental API is a powerful new feature added to the Web, Google Chrome aims to make it available only to secure contexts. This means you’ll need to build with TLS in mind.

It recommends running python -m SimpleHTTPServer on localhost. But that fails if the web server and web browser are running on separate machines, which might be the case if the machine that you are using as a web server to test your app, such as a Raspberry Pi board, is incapable of running Google Chrome or incapable of connecting to Bluetooth devices.

I personally enjoy GitHub Pages for demo purposes.

That's fine for demos that have reached the stage where they are ready for public consumption. I'm referring to the stage before that.

To add HTTPS to your server you’ll need to get a TLS certificate and set it up. Be sure to check out the Security with HTTPS article for best practices there. For info, you can now get free TLS certificates with the new Certificate Authority Let’s Encrypt.

Let's Encrypt issues certificates only for domains that have either A. publicly reachable dynamic DNS or B. a publicly reachable HTTP server. Neither of these is likely to apply to a machine on a home or small office LAN.

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Hosts add speed (hardcodes/adblocks), security (bad sites/poisoned dns), reliability (dns down), & anonymity (dns requestlogs/trackers) natively.

Works vs. caps & PUSH ads.

Avg. page = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of it.

Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out to admen inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.

Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).

Gets data via 10 security sites.

APK

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APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?...

Ads rob speed, security (malvertising), privacy (tracking).

Hosts add speed (hardcodes/adblocks), security (bad sites/poisoned dns), reliability (dns down), & anonymity (dns requestlogs/trackers) natively.

Works vs. caps & PUSH ads.

Avg. page = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of it.

Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out to admen inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.

Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).

Gets data via 10 security sites.

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/... (Verified by Malwarebytes' S. Burn "seen the code & it's safe" http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi... )

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?...

Ads rob speed, security (malvertising), privacy (tracking).

Hosts add speed (hardcodes/adblocks), security (bad sites/poisoned dns), reliability (dns down), & anonymity (dns requestlogs/trackers) natively.

Works vs. caps & PUSH ads.

Avg. page = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of it.

Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out to admen inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.

Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).

Gets data via 10 security sites.

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/... (Verified by Malwarebytes' S. Burn "seen the code & it's safe" http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi... )

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?...

Ads rob speed, security (malvertising), privacy (tracking).

Hosts add speed (hardcodes/adblocks), security (bad sites/poisoned dns), reliability (dns down), & anonymity (dns requestlogs/trackers) natively.

Works vs. caps & PUSH ads.

Avg. page = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of it.

Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out to admen inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.

Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).

Gets data via 10 security sites.

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/... (Verified by Malwarebytes' S. Burn "seen the code & it's safe" http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi... )

Chrome doesn't bundle any other software. Proof: go try the official download right now. Not the dodgy Softpedia one, this one.

The only third party component it includes is Flash player, which is built in to the browser and updated along with it. It doesn't install Flash on your system or in other browsers, it's just an internal plug-in.

Given that you arbitarily declared "SJW" as something people labelled themselves

Don't be such an idiot...there are *lots* of people who proudly declare that they're "social justice warriors", in case you haven't been paying attention. Which you obviously haven't.

See for yourself: https://www.google.com/#q=i%27m+a+proud+social+justice+warrior

My parents live in Renville, MN. The post office doesn't deliver mail or packages to houses south of the train tracks there, they figure everyone that close to the post office can come get their mail themselves. I don't remember which is which but I think FedEx delivers to their house and UPS packages end up at the post office, but it could be the other way around.

Like on police cars?

Like these ones?

I suppose undercover officers/agents should have to wear badges too.

Just because Android's package format is called "APK" doesn't mean you can use a hosts file. A workaround is to use a firewall app with a DNS filter, and then plug your hosts file into that. I haven't tried NoRoot Firewall to see whether it supports a hosts file, but it does show that a firewall is possible without rooting.

Because in Zimbabwe, your monthly broadband payment is a wheelbarrow load of those hundred-trillion-dollar bills.

https://www.google.com/search?...

The Zimbabwean dollar was abandoned as of April 2009, after which a multicurrency system was adopted.

In other words, your statement is wrong unless you are hailing us from 2009

If your bitlocker drive is unlocked, wouldn't anything be able to read the drive anyway?

If it can still read your bitlocker drive when you haven't unlocked it yet then can it still read pre-win8 bitlocker drives before microsoft dumbed it down? https://encrypted.google.com/s...

Check Point has an app in the Google Play app store that scans your phone for the vulnerabilities: https://play.google.com/store/...

Because your personal choices about business dealings, charitable donations, what sort of bonuses you might give to your personal assistant or landscaper, and a thousand other things are private and can be kept that way if you choose to do so.

However, Trump has made statements about all these things in relation to his character and many (if not most) of these claims have been demonstrated to be, if not outright false, exaggerations. His tax returns are more objective in this regard - which is what concerns Trump.

• Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years.
• Five questions we still can’t answer about Donald Trump’s charity donations
• Four months after fundraiser, Trump says he gave $1 million to veterans group

More info: trump charitable donation

The thing is if you start 20 businesses and 17 of them go bankrupt, you are still doing ok as a businessman.

If they still go bankrupt after stiffing your sub-contractors and/or getting an illegal $3.4M loan from your father (excerpt below) to pay the bills, then you're not doing so OK. Furthermore, does that sound like someone you'd like to do business with - or run your country - or be head of the free world?

In December of 1990, a lawyer for Fred Trump walked into Trump Castle in Atlantic city and, according to reports at the time, deposited a check with the casino for $3.36 million in exchange for chips. Instead of using the chips to play in the casino, the lawyer left.

The result: an interest free loan to Trump from “Daddy-O.”

The loan scheme was ultimately found to be illegal, btw, and Trump kept the money but had to pay a $30,000 fine. That's a pretty good return on investment for breaking the law. Oh, and then this happened:

Fred Trump would make further payments to his son, and Donald Trump ultimately settled his debts.

More info: trump father illegal loan

More to the point what information could you find in his tax returns that would sway people from voting for him?

Most likely that his Returns won't portray him in the same light as he's been shining on himself. But, that's really only a problem for the naive. From Trump Admits That He Will Lose The Election If He Releases His Tax Returns (and other places):

Trump admitted that there is something in his tax returns that will cause him to lose the election. His reference to his own belief that something in Romney’s tax return cost Republicans in 2012 was about as close to an admission as voters are going to get from Trump.

Donald Trump defended his tax returns as legal, but that doesn’t mean that it’s right. What Trump is most likely hiding is the fact that he hasn’t paid any personal income taxes for decades. Trump isn’t paying his fair share of taxes. That is what he is hiding. Donald Trump is trying to pass himself off as some sort of blue-collar billionaire while he is manipulating the system in a way that no working class American ever could.

For more info: trump romney tax returns

* Instead of browsers generating errors about missing tags, they silently accept it. *facepalm*

* Who was the idiot that thought case insensitivity for tags name was a good idea??

A) Browsers now have to accept twice as many tags.
e.g. &amp; and &AMP; both generate ampersands. You can start with <BLOCKQUOTE> and end with </blockquote>, etc.

B) We dumb grave accent tags, like &Agrave; for À and &agrave; for à which prevents browsers from converting all tags to either uppercase (or lowercase) and generating a hash from _that_ that for fast lookup.

* Instead of using unique characters for begin tag: < >, and end tag: such as { }, browsers instead have to waste time looking ahead if the next character is a '/' when they find a '<' char.
  i.e.
    <a name='foo'>...</a>

compared to the simpler to parse:
  <a name='foo'>...{a}

* Some of the HTML abbreviations make zero sense. These are the arrow glyphs:

&larr;
&rarr;
&uarr;
&darr;

/Sarcasm Argh, matey! What, &left; &right; &up; &down; weren't available?!

At least it isn't a badly designed and bloated as XML.

Because in Zimbabwe, your monthly broadband payment is a wheelbarrow load of those hundred-trillion-dollar bills.

https://www.google.com/search?...

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?...

Ads rob speed, security (malvertising), privacy (tracking).

Hosts add speed (hardcodes/adblocks), security (bad sites/poisoned dns), reliability (dns down), & anonymity (dns requestlogs/trackers) natively.

Works vs. caps & PUSH ads.

Avg. page = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of it.

Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out to admen inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.

Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).

Gets data via 10 security sites.

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/... (Verified by Malwarebytes' S. Burn "seen the code & it's safe" http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi... )

The patents in question, if they are proved valid, have far reaching applications. This will be bigger than the SCO Caldera Unix thing ever was.

• The patents include: [web-copy-pasted From Ars article above]
• Nos. 9,143,801 and 8,964,849, relating to "significance maps" for coding video data;
• No. 8,116,739, describing methods of displaying messages;
• No. 8,886,212, describing tracking location of mobile devices;
• No. 8,688,439, relating to speech decoding and compression;
• No.7,440,561, describing integrating wireless phones into a PBX network;
• No. 8,554,218, describing call routing methods; and
• No. 7,372,961, a method of generating a cryptographicpublic key.

So, how does this impact all of us?

First, they've already signed a cross licensing deal with Cisco. Cisco's paying them a license fee as well. What does Cisco get out of it? That last patent is against OpenSSL, specifically on the generation of X.509 certificates and certain cryptographic methods. (How? I thought that business methods weren't patent-able?). So, that includes certificate based VPNs, self-signed HTTPS certificates, and things like that found on the router. Since the method of generation appears to be patented, even work-alike implementations, e.g. LibreSSL, are probably in danger of lawsuits. So, for free, Cisco gets to single-handedly raise the cost of home and small business router appliances, and quite-possibly squeeze some of the smaller ones out of business. Not to mention punishing open firmware router implementations at the same time, such as SmoothWall, DD-WRT, and OpenWRT.

If history serves as any guide, Microsoft will be the next to pony up (Just like they did with SCO Unix). Microsoft would benefit greatly from this agreement. They'll get to squeeze the phone market and the Open Source ecosystem all at the same time. They'll probably cross-license with RIM, and make sure that WinMo is covered. Then they'd go to the phone manufacturers and sell it for less than they'd have to pay RIM for each phone with the infringing OpenSSL bits and Android installed. Google has already shown they've no interest in shielding their partners from patent litigation. RIM and Microsoft will likely start small, with Alcatel and Blu, and work their way up to HTC and Samsung. Similarly, MS will probably ask RIM to provide Linux licenses (which they will pay for their Azure instances), so they can attempt to force Google and Amazon to do the same.

It's not quite the end of the world though. Linux and open source have beaten overly broad patents before. We may be entering a period of long technological stagnation, while we wait to see what happens with all this.

The patents in question, if they are proved valid, have far reaching applications. This will be bigger than the SCO Caldera Unix thing ever was.

• The patents include: [web-copy-pasted From Ars article above]
• Nos. 9,143,801 and 8,964,849, relating to "significance maps" for coding video data;
• No. 8,116,739, describing methods of displaying messages;
• No. 8,886,212, describing tracking location of mobile devices;
• No. 8,688,439, relating to speech decoding and compression;
• No.7,440,561, describing integrating wireless phones into a PBX network;
• No. 8,554,218, describing call routing methods; and
• No. 7,372,961, a method of generating a cryptographicpublic key.

So, how does this impact all of us?

First, they've already signed a cross licensing deal with Cisco. Cisco's paying them a license fee as well. What does Cisco get out of it? That last patent is against OpenSSL, specifically on the generation of X.509 certificates and certain cryptographic methods. (How? I thought that business methods weren't patent-able?). So, that includes certificate based VPNs, self-signed HTTPS certificates, and things like that found on the router. Since the method of generation appears to be patented, even work-alike implementations, e.g. LibreSSL, are probably in danger of lawsuits. So, for free, Cisco gets to single-handedly raise the cost of home and small business router appliances, and quite-possibly squeeze some of the smaller ones out of business. Not to mention punishing open firmware router implementations at the same time, such as SmoothWall, DD-WRT, and OpenWRT.

If history serves as any guide, Microsoft will be the next to pony up (Just like they did with SCO Unix). Microsoft would benefit greatly from this agreement. They'll get to squeeze the phone market and the Open Source ecosystem all at the same time. They'll probably cross-license with RIM, and make sure that WinMo is covered. Then they'd go to the phone manufacturers and sell it for less than they'd have to pay RIM for each phone with the infringing OpenSSL bits and Android installed. Google has already shown they've no interest in shielding their partners from patent litigation. RIM and Microsoft will likely start small, with Alcatel and Blu, and work their way up to HTC and Samsung. Similarly, MS will probably ask RIM to provide Linux licenses (which they will pay for their Azure instances), so they can attempt to force Google and Amazon to do the same.

It's not quite the end of the world though. Linux and open source have beaten overly broad patents before. We may be entering a period of long technological stagnation, while we wait to see what happens with all this.

The patents in question, if they are proved valid, have far reaching applications. This will be bigger than the SCO Caldera Unix thing ever was.

• The patents include: [web-copy-pasted From Ars article above]
• Nos. 9,143,801 and 8,964,849, relating to "significance maps" for coding video data;
• No. 8,116,739, describing methods of displaying messages;
• No. 8,886,212, describing tracking location of mobile devices;
• No. 8,688,439, relating to speech decoding and compression;
• No.7,440,561, describing integrating wireless phones into a PBX network;
• No. 8,554,218, describing call routing methods; and
• No. 7,372,961, a method of generating a cryptographicpublic key.

So, how does this impact all of us?

First, they've already signed a cross licensing deal with Cisco. Cisco's paying them a license fee as well. What does Cisco get out of it? That last patent is against OpenSSL, specifically on the generation of X.509 certificates and certain cryptographic methods. (How? I thought that business methods weren't patent-able?). So, that includes certificate based VPNs, self-signed HTTPS certificates, and things like that found on the router. Since the method of generation appears to be patented, even work-alike implementations, e.g. LibreSSL, are probably in danger of lawsuits. So, for free, Cisco gets to single-handedly raise the cost of home and small business router appliances, and quite-possibly squeeze some of the smaller ones out of business. Not to mention punishing open firmware router implementations at the same time, such as SmoothWall, DD-WRT, and OpenWRT.

If history serves as any guide, Microsoft will be the next to pony up (Just like they did with SCO Unix). Microsoft would benefit greatly from this agreement. They'll get to squeeze the phone market and the Open Source ecosystem all at the same time. They'll probably cross-license with RIM, and make sure that WinMo is covered. Then they'd go to the phone manufacturers and sell it for less than they'd have to pay RIM for each phone with the infringing OpenSSL bits and Android installed. Google has already shown they've no interest in shielding their partners from patent litigation. RIM and Microsoft will likely start small, with Alcatel and Blu, and work their way up to HTC and Samsung. Similarly, MS will probably ask RIM to provide Linux licenses (which they will pay for their Azure instances), so they can attempt to force Google and Amazon to do the same.

It's not quite the end of the world though. Linux and open source have beaten overly broad patents before. We may be entering a period of long technological stagnation, while we wait to see what happens with all this.

The patents in question, if they are proved valid, have far reaching applications. This will be bigger than the SCO Caldera Unix thing ever was.

• The patents include: [web-copy-pasted From Ars article above]
• Nos. 9,143,801 and 8,964,849, relating to "significance maps" for coding video data;
• No. 8,116,739, describing methods of displaying messages;
• No. 8,886,212, describing tracking location of mobile devices;
• No. 8,688,439, relating to speech decoding and compression;
• No.7,440,561, describing integrating wireless phones into a PBX network;
• No. 8,554,218, describing call routing methods; and
• No. 7,372,961, a method of generating a cryptographicpublic key.

So, how does this impact all of us?

First, they've already signed a cross licensing deal with Cisco. Cisco's paying them a license fee as well. What does Cisco get out of it? That last patent is against OpenSSL, specifically on the generation of X.509 certificates and certain cryptographic methods. (How? I thought that business methods weren't patent-able?). So, that includes certificate based VPNs, self-signed HTTPS certificates, and things like that found on the router. Since the method of generation appears to be patented, even work-alike implementations, e.g. LibreSSL, are probably in danger of lawsuits. So, for free, Cisco gets to single-handedly raise the cost of home and small business router appliances, and quite-possibly squeeze some of the smaller ones out of business. Not to mention punishing open firmware router implementations at the same time, such as SmoothWall, DD-WRT, and OpenWRT.

If history serves as any guide, Microsoft will be the next to pony up (Just like they did with SCO Unix). Microsoft would benefit greatly from this agreement. They'll get to squeeze the phone market and the Open Source ecosystem all at the same time. They'll probably cross-license with RIM, and make sure that WinMo is covered. Then they'd go to the phone manufacturers and sell it for less than they'd have to pay RIM for each phone with the infringing OpenSSL bits and Android installed. Google has already shown they've no interest in shielding their partners from patent litigation. RIM and Microsoft will likely start small, with Alcatel and Blu, and work their way up to HTC and Samsung. Similarly, MS will probably ask RIM to provide Linux licenses (which they will pay for their Azure instances), so they can attempt to force Google and Amazon to do the same.

It's not quite the end of the world though. Linux and open source have beaten overly broad patents before. We may be entering a period of long technological stagnation, while we wait to see what happens with all this.

The patents in question, if they are proved valid, have far reaching applications. This will be bigger than the SCO Caldera Unix thing ever was.

• The patents include: [web-copy-pasted From Ars article above]
• Nos. 9,143,801 and 8,964,849, relating to "significance maps" for coding video data;
• No. 8,116,739, describing methods of displaying messages;
• No. 8,886,212, describing tracking location of mobile devices;
• No. 8,688,439, relating to speech decoding and compression;
• No.7,440,561, describing integrating wireless phones into a PBX network;
• No. 8,554,218, describing call routing methods; and
• No. 7,372,961, a method of generating a cryptographicpublic key.

So, how does this impact all of us?

First, they've already signed a cross licensing deal with Cisco. Cisco's paying them a license fee as well. What does Cisco get out of it? That last patent is against OpenSSL, specifically on the generation of X.509 certificates and certain cryptographic methods. (How? I thought that business methods weren't patent-able?). So, that includes certificate based VPNs, self-signed HTTPS certificates, and things like that found on the router. Since the method of generation appears to be patented, even work-alike implementations, e.g. LibreSSL, are probably in danger of lawsuits. So, for free, Cisco gets to single-handedly raise the cost of home and small business router appliances, and quite-possibly squeeze some of the smaller ones out of business. Not to mention punishing open firmware router implementations at the same time, such as SmoothWall, DD-WRT, and OpenWRT.

If history serves as any guide, Microsoft will be the next to pony up (Just like they did with SCO Unix). Microsoft would benefit greatly from this agreement. They'll get to squeeze the phone market and the Open Source ecosystem all at the same time. They'll probably cross-license with RIM, and make sure that WinMo is covered. Then they'd go to the phone manufacturers and sell it for less than they'd have to pay RIM for each phone with the infringing OpenSSL bits and Android installed. Google has already shown they've no interest in shielding their partners from patent litigation. RIM and Microsoft will likely start small, with Alcatel and Blu, and work their way up to HTC and Samsung. Similarly, MS will probably ask RIM to provide Linux licenses (which they will pay for their Azure instances), so they can attempt to force Google and Amazon to do the same.

It's not quite the end of the world though. Linux and open source have beaten overly broad patents before. We may be entering a period of long technological stagnation, while we wait to see what happens with all this.

The patents in question, if they are proved valid, have far reaching applications. This will be bigger than the SCO Caldera Unix thing ever was.

• The patents include: [web-copy-pasted From Ars article above]
• Nos. 9,143,801 and 8,964,849, relating to "significance maps" for coding video data;
• No. 8,116,739, describing methods of displaying messages;
• No. 8,886,212, describing tracking location of mobile devices;
• No. 8,688,439, relating to speech decoding and compression;
• No.7,440,561, describing integrating wireless phones into a PBX network;
• No. 8,554,218, describing call routing methods; and
• No. 7,372,961, a method of generating a cryptographicpublic key.

So, how does this impact all of us?

First, they've already signed a cross licensing deal with Cisco. Cisco's paying them a license fee as well. What does Cisco get out of it? That last patent is against OpenSSL, specifically on the generation of X.509 certificates and certain cryptographic methods. (How? I thought that business methods weren't patent-able?). So, that includes certificate based VPNs, self-signed HTTPS certificates, and things like that found on the router. Since the method of generation appears to be patented, even work-alike implementations, e.g. LibreSSL, are probably in danger of lawsuits. So, for free, Cisco gets to single-handedly raise the cost of home and small business router appliances, and quite-possibly squeeze some of the smaller ones out of business. Not to mention punishing open firmware router implementations at the same time, such as SmoothWall, DD-WRT, and OpenWRT.

If history serves as any guide, Microsoft will be the next to pony up (Just like they did with SCO Unix). Microsoft would benefit greatly from this agreement. They'll get to squeeze the phone market and the Open Source ecosystem all at the same time. They'll probably cross-license with RIM, and make sure that WinMo is covered. Then they'd go to the phone manufacturers and sell it for less than they'd have to pay RIM for each phone with the infringing OpenSSL bits and Android installed. Google has already shown they've no interest in shielding their partners from patent litigation. RIM and Microsoft will likely start small, with Alcatel and Blu, and work their way up to HTC and Samsung. Similarly, MS will probably ask RIM to provide Linux licenses (which they will pay for their Azure instances), so they can attempt to force Google and Amazon to do the same.

It's not quite the end of the world though. Linux and open source have beaten overly broad patents before. We may be entering a period of long technological stagnation, while we wait to see what happens with all this.

The patents in question, if they are proved valid, have far reaching applications. This will be bigger than the SCO Caldera Unix thing ever was.

• The patents include: [web-copy-pasted From Ars article above]
• Nos. 9,143,801 and 8,964,849, relating to "significance maps" for coding video data;
• No. 8,116,739, describing methods of displaying messages;
• No. 8,886,212, describing tracking location of mobile devices;
• No. 8,688,439, relating to speech decoding and compression;
• No.7,440,561, describing integrating wireless phones into a PBX network;
• No. 8,554,218, describing call routing methods; and
• No. 7,372,961, a method of generating a cryptographicpublic key.

So, how does this impact all of us?

First, they've already signed a cross licensing deal with Cisco. Cisco's paying them a license fee as well. What does Cisco get out of it? That last patent is against OpenSSL, specifically on the generation of X.509 certificates and certain cryptographic methods. (How? I thought that business methods weren't patent-able?). So, that includes certificate based VPNs, self-signed HTTPS certificates, and things like that found on the router. Since the method of generation appears to be patented, even work-alike implementations, e.g. LibreSSL, are probably in danger of lawsuits. So, for free, Cisco gets to single-handedly raise the cost of home and small business router appliances, and quite-possibly squeeze some of the smaller ones out of business. Not to mention punishing open firmware router implementations at the same time, such as SmoothWall, DD-WRT, and OpenWRT.

If history serves as any guide, Microsoft will be the next to pony up (Just like they did with SCO Unix). Microsoft would benefit greatly from this agreement. They'll get to squeeze the phone market and the Open Source ecosystem all at the same time. They'll probably cross-license with RIM, and make sure that WinMo is covered. Then they'd go to the phone manufacturers and sell it for less than they'd have to pay RIM for each phone with the infringing OpenSSL bits and Android installed. Google has already shown they've no interest in shielding their partners from patent litigation. RIM and Microsoft will likely start small, with Alcatel and Blu, and work their way up to HTC and Samsung. Similarly, MS will probably ask RIM to provide Linux licenses (which they will pay for their Azure instances), so they can attempt to force Google and Amazon to do the same.

It's not quite the end of the world though. Linux and open source have beaten overly broad patents before. We may be entering a period of long technological stagnation, while we wait to see what happens with all this.

The patents in question, if they are proved valid, have far reaching applications. This will be bigger than the SCO Caldera Unix thing ever was.

• The patents include: [web-copy-pasted From Ars article above]
• Nos. 9,143,801 and 8,964,849, relating to "significance maps" for coding video data;
• No. 8,116,739, describing methods of displaying messages;
• No. 8,886,212, describing tracking location of mobile devices;
• No. 8,688,439, relating to speech decoding and compression;
• No.7,440,561, describing integrating wireless phones into a PBX network;
• No. 8,554,218, describing call routing methods; and
• No. 7,372,961, a method of generating a cryptographicpublic key.

So, how does this impact all of us?

First, they've already signed a cross licensing deal with Cisco. Cisco's paying them a license fee as well. What does Cisco get out of it? That last patent is against OpenSSL, specifically on the generation of X.509 certificates and certain cryptographic methods. (How? I thought that business methods weren't patent-able?). So, that includes certificate based VPNs, self-signed HTTPS certificates, and things like that found on the router. Since the method of generation appears to be patented, even work-alike implementations, e.g. LibreSSL, are probably in danger of lawsuits. So, for free, Cisco gets to single-handedly raise the cost of home and small business router appliances, and quite-possibly squeeze some of the smaller ones out of business. Not to mention punishing open firmware router implementations at the same time, such as SmoothWall, DD-WRT, and OpenWRT.

If history serves as any guide, Microsoft will be the next to pony up (Just like they did with SCO Unix). Microsoft would benefit greatly from this agreement. They'll get to squeeze the phone market and the Open Source ecosystem all at the same time. They'll probably cross-license with RIM, and make sure that WinMo is covered. Then they'd go to the phone manufacturers and sell it for less than they'd have to pay RIM for each phone with the infringing OpenSSL bits and Android installed. Google has already shown they've no interest in shielding their partners from patent litigation. RIM and Microsoft will likely start small, with Alcatel and Blu, and work their way up to HTC and Samsung. Similarly, MS will probably ask RIM to provide Linux licenses (which they will pay for their Azure instances), so they can attempt to force Google and Amazon to do the same.

It's not quite the end of the world though. Linux and open source have beaten overly broad patents before. We may be entering a period of long technological stagnation, while we wait to see what happens with all this.

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Notable researchers and organizations agree BMI is useless.

You can have 2 people, identical height, same actual body fat, and one will be obese according to BMI merely because they are large framed and heavily boned vs the other being small framed and light boned. BMI is like trying to measure success by IQ.

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>> So far there's no indication that any more Tesla Autopilot drivers think their car can do more than it can than drivers of any other car on the road. No, this is the fundamental problem here. You don't determine right and wrong by comparing to others. You figure out what is right and then you try to close the gap. What other manufacturers do or don't do isn't relevant to what Tesla *should* do. This is just a long-winded form of the "everybody is doing it" argument that went out the window in grade school. If Tesla's name is a problem, they should fix it. If other manufacturers names are problem, they should fix it. I've already provided links that document the confusion around what autopilot does and it takes a cursory Google search ( https://www.google.com/search?... ) to see that there is plenty of confusion. You seem to think that there is some soft of massive conspiracy theory against Tesla to hold them to a higher standard than other auto manufacturers. That may or may not be true, but it in no way invalidates an argument that everybody should be held to a high standard.

You get a computer.

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Moral of this story, don't try to use another OS on one of Microsofts computers.

If you use another operating system, Windows 10 will be very jealous. Windows 10 yandere

And yet oddly enough, few question the Microsoft default setting of 42 days

Maybe that was to give you a week to remember to reboot the machine before being locked out, as Win95 and early Win98 would only manage an uptime of 49.7 days before becoming unresponsive

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(The mouse pointer would move, but no click, double-click or right click actions would work)

You'd never get the pages loaded, or files uploaded - even in their "basic" modes.

So you'd use their IMAP-service instead — and stop wasting bandwidth.

IMAP? No, not over 56k modem. You'd certainly want POP3 access.

IMAP is certainly better than the web interfaces, but not by much. If you want IMAP-like functionality, then just configure your POP client to only download headers and leave messages on the server - same effect, less overhead, faster, and more bandwidth friendly.

Back then there would have been 2 pay phones in the lobby and a landline behind the bar. Still it must be nice to have that option to render your business a mobile phone free zone. Actively blocking or jamming cell signals in the US is an violation of FCC regulations but to use a faraday cage or to take advantage of natural interference is still very legal and in my opinion the right of the owner/operator of any private establishment. I probably wouldn't frequent such a place, being on-call a lot it would make things difficult. I also won't frequent a bar/pub that has cameras facing the customer area if I know about them that is.

http://answers.google.com/answ...

I love that this link circles back to /. as part of its tech reference.

I remember being on call a lot.

I remember making note of places where I could not be reached ... for those times when I was not on call but people seemed to think they needed to contact me.

Contrary to what the /. crowd might think, human beings really do benefit from periods of "down time" and "disconnecting from the world".

Since you mention Archer, would you know where to find subtitles for it?

Don't know if this helps and/or if you've tried it, but I literally just did the following and got bunches of hits: archer subtitles

Seems like there are some at subscene.com and tvsubtitles.net

Back then there would have been 2 pay phones in the lobby and a landline behind the bar. Still it must be nice to have that option to render your business a mobile phone free zone. Actively blocking or jamming cell signals in the US is an violation of FCC regulations but to use a faraday cage or to take advantage of natural interference is still very legal and in my opinion the right of the owner/operator of any private establishment. I probably wouldn't frequent such a place, being on-call a lot it would make things difficult. I also won't frequent a bar/pub that has cameras facing the customer area if I know about them that is.

http://answers.google.com/answ...

I love that this link circles back to /. as part of its tech reference.

You are sorely misinformed on the "wipe and flash" for any Android. Yes, many android handsets can be rooted and flashed, but Android handset manufacturers are just as protective of their hardware and custom skin software as Apple is. Android phones are all of the things you mentioned, but they're not all of those things IN ONE PHONE. You can get removable batteries. You can get expandable storage. You can get waterproof. You can get flashable. You can get none of those in an iPhone. You can get at least one of those in most Android handsets. In several you can get two of them. You cannot get all those things at the same time - you have to choose which advantages you want most. The good news is that, with one exception of the Note 7, which you can't yet buy - pretty much all Android handsets are priced less than the equivalent iPhone at a given screen size and internal memory size. And the Note 7, which will cost $30 more than the (slightly smaller) iPhone 6s+, comes with expandable memory, waterproof features, and an active digitizer and stylus. And the camera is better. And by betterm I mean objectively better. Some people like iPhone cameras better due to subjective considerations such as software applied sharpening, color casts, and the like. It's like choosing a set of Bose speakers over B&W or MK. The latter two are markedly superior at sound reproduction, but some people still like the "warmth" of the altered sound Bose produces. But I digress...

Anyway...If wiping and flashing is your thing, you want one of the Nexus handsets from Google. They're affordable, always get the first updates and you can do pretty much whatever you like with them. https://store.google.com/categ... They are $350 or $400-550 - less than 2/3 the cost of the iPhone 6s and 6s+ (the direct analogs in the Apple world).

If you want to do a bit more work and force-root the phone, you'll have a wide array of options. Just check at XDA developers and see which phones are easy to root.

I'm not giving every other manufacturer a pass. I'm saying they all should call their product "cruise control." And cruise control *is* something on the drivers test. The tests include questions on how to use it. So in short, a licensed driver knows exactly what it is and how to use it safely if it is called "cruise control" and may have no knowledge whatsoever if it's called anything else. Therefore, everybody should call it cruise control and that includes your beloved Tesla. https://books.google.com/books...