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I don't pretend that it's for people who want the highest performance from the latest games or anything approaching that.

But if you look at the Dota2 Vulkan and the Unigine results, it is approaching that. Vulkan on Linux within 1.5% of windows on AMD and 9% on nVidia. Not that OpenGL is any slouch - Unigine OpenGL are within 9% of windows DirectX, showing the huge difference between native support and translation layers. But developers already voted with their allegiance: few had the luxury of supporting two dissimilar rendering platforms and almost all picked the one with the biggest market and modest performance advantage.

That equation changes now. See this this or this if you have any doubts. The new equation is, if you want one platform that delivers top performance across Android and Windows you go with Vulkan, end of story. Desktop Linux is the lucky beneficiary of that.

I don't pretend that it's for people who want the highest performance from the latest games or anything approaching that.

But if you look at the Dota2 Vulkan and the Unigine results, it is approaching that. Vulkan on Linux within 1.5% of windows on AMD and 9% on nVidia. Not that OpenGL is any slouch - Unigine OpenGL are within 9% of windows DirectX, showing the huge difference between native support and translation layers. But developers already voted with their allegiance: few had the luxury of supporting two dissimilar rendering platforms and almost all picked the one with the biggest market and modest performance advantage.

That equation changes now. See this this or this if you have any doubts. The new equation is, if you want one platform that delivers top performance across Android and Windows you go with Vulkan, end of story. Desktop Linux is the lucky beneficiary of that.

It's been a long time but I liked the book a lot and never forgot the main message.
In the video of the shifter you can see that they took care to add multiple ways of visual feedback on the dashboard , probably to compensate for the loss of tactile feedback. This year old review describes well how drivers need to adapt to it. It doesn't show the dashboard, for that I checked other reviews.
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I worked for the company that used to provide this service (and a lot fo other 800, 866 and 900 numbers) for the NJ and NYC areas.

It was fascinating equipment. Ancient but robust. It was a constantly turning magnetic drum that had the recording on it about 6 inches tall with a little oil reservoir on top that had to be filled every few months.

If you want something approaching steampunk, the UK had a speaking clock system using 1930s technology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Australian system was installed in the 1950s and is more compact and easier to see working, but the basic mechanism is the same:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I worked for the company that used to provide this service (and a lot fo other 800, 866 and 900 numbers) for the NJ and NYC areas.

It was fascinating equipment. Ancient but robust. It was a constantly turning magnetic drum that had the recording on it about 6 inches tall with a little oil reservoir on top that had to be filled every few months.

If you want something approaching steampunk, the UK had a speaking clock system using 1930s technology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Australian system was installed in the 1950s and is more compact and easier to see working, but the basic mechanism is the same:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Technically every story about the future is made-up.

So let's hear some alternate stories. Like maybe the UK saves itself from the migration swarm flooding into Europe of unskilled, uneducated, military-age men who don't share European values and will be a drain on the welfare system. Maybe they'll stop bringing in people who think marrying your first cousin is a good idea. Maybe they'll do that and still let in the smart people. Maybe.

I'm claiming Irish citizenship through a reverse agreement. Anyone born on the island before 2005 can claim it. On a darker note, I didn't say it would bring peace. If anything it will inflame tensions in NI. Source : From NI

You'd better check your sources. Ireland's Citizenship referendum ended Irish citizenship by birth in 2005 after a campaign reminiscent of UKIP's xenophobic frothing at the mouth.

The real reason was Family Guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

(Peter meets his Irish Father)

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Body Electric is Rush at their best. The bass and drums on the intro are instantly recognizable. It's one of several tracks on the Grace Under Pressure album (released in 1984) that showcase the classic Rush sound.

Few rock bands dare to address "heavy" topics, but Rush did it regularly, and with great success. Neal Peart's skill with lyrics is on full display here. Grace Under Pressure included songs about artificial life ("The Body Electric"), the holocaust ("Red Sector A"), and the cold war ("Distant Early Warning"). None are "preachy", and all are quite accessible to mainstream audiences. They all received a good amount of airplay on rock radio.

(Yes, I'm a huge Rush fan, and I'm proud to admit it!)

Here is a movie clip with a joke making fun of the idiots that are bullshitting you about a different dialect.
It's from the 1980 comedy "Airplane", a segment called "I speak jive" which is about a minute in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It was funny because the idea of it being a separate dialect needing a translator is absurd.
You probably only fell for the bullshit by being too young to remember how fucking stupid and cynical the Ebonics suggestion was in the 1980s. As I wrote above it didn't even get majority support in the Republican party so it remained as nothing but a suggestion and a topic of jokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY

Thank you. I'll take over now!

And let's have a little taste of that old computer-generated swagger...

Yes!

Vive le Quebec libre!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And by three, I mean four. You know what they say - there are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors. ;)

Did you used to work with these guys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJZ2m6_T1wc

As a physician practicing in a US state (Oregon) where oral contraceptive pills are available behind the counter, I'm all for expanding access to contraception. Nothing quite has made otherwise young, promising women be overwhelmed in my practice than unplanned pregnancy (combined with flaky partners). OCP's are available here without a prescription, but require a consultation from a pharmacist. This isn't free, but where they make sure you don't have any of the various risk factors for having a stroke or blood clot on estrogen-containing contraceptives.

I'm also in favor of expanding access to more effective forms of contraception, like the subdermal implant (sold as Nexplanon in the US), and IUD. I'm pretty puzzled, however, about how one would implement an app to jab the implant in your arm. It's not hard to do (see this video), but clinicians have to get special certification from the manufacturer to do it. (This is to avoid the Norplant debacle of inadequately trained people putting the rods in a little too deep, making eventual removal challenging.) I do love the idea of having etonorgestrel rods and lidocaine hooked up to a smartphone app, however.

This is more like how it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Should I stay or should I go

Vive le Quebec libre!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Very interesting article. It aligns with testimonies from inside the Iron Curtain. Thanks very much for posting it
"Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism"
https://www.amazon.com/Disinfo...
or in video form
"Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Former KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov Explains How to Brainwash a Nation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Very interesting article. It aligns with testimonies from inside the Iron Curtain. Thanks very much for posting it
"Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism"
https://www.amazon.com/Disinfo...
or in video form
"Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Former KGB Agent Yuri Bezmenov Explains How to Brainwash a Nation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The article is certainly shorter than the equivalent in book form
"Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism"
https://www.amazon.com/Disinfo...
or in video form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The article is certainly shorter than the equivalent in book form
"Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism"
https://www.amazon.com/Disinfo...
or in video form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'm not saying this is impossible, but the fact is that a lot of people go to pizzerias because they can easily get special orders, because if you can't, frozen pizzas are less expensive and you don't have to leave home. Say what you will about cardboard and disappointment, but big pizza chains that rely on human help will still do special orders.

Of all the times I've eaten big chain pizza, whether it's with work or friends or family I don't remember anyone ordering a special. At most I seem to remember ordering a half-and-half, extra cheese on the edge, sour cream or salsa dip and such but they're all minor variations where if you've made a robot to handle the 20 pizzas on the menu, you'll easily make the variations too. At most they have a "pick your own toppings" pizza where you essentially make a pizza just from "extra" toppings. Really you can make the interface far more advanced than the demand.

Here in Norway we have this thing called Whopper Labs, a web/app interface for Burger King where you can make your burger exactly like you want it, extra this, hold that, gluten free bread and I'd like a quadruple burger. The video is in Norwegian but it quite visual so you'll understand. It's a fraction of a percent of the sales, most people just want a Whopper Cheese or something like that. But if you're making a robot, it should be pretty trivial to extend it from making a "normal" burger to handle the full selection, assuming you've solved the first part.

I don't think you can really compare frozen pizza with chain pizza, sure they have prefabs and whatnot but I doubt the cheese and ham on a chain pizza has ever been frozen. It's the sort of thing you'd buy vacuum packed but not frozen in the store and with the turnaround chains have they have no problem keeping the supply fresh. And they have proper pizza ovens and all that, what you get heating a frozen pizza isn't exactly the same. So if you could manage to scale it down, I certainly think automated chain quality pizza has a big market.

But of course, because bespoke pizzas are easier to make when the maker can /adapt/, unlike a machine, which must be retooled.

The big industrial robots we've had now for many decades are like that. But there's been a ton of research into making robots more flexible and generic. It's not going to be like one "Eureka" moment, but many baby steps. They don't blindly do things, they have computer vision. They don't have one custom designed grip that can do one custom designed motion. The problem is the speed goes way down and cost also goes way up, until replacing a minimum wage worker seems like a bad idea. But it's constantly improving so just because it doesn't happen today maybe it will in 5, 10 or 20 years.

Subject-change detected â" the usual tactics of Kremlin bots.

You mean projection, from another American Exceptionalist. With the bit that anyone who answers western propaganda with facts is a Putinbot.

I accept your surrender of the previous topic â" of Russia being a dangerous aggressor

They're not. You're comparing an anthill to Mt. Everest. Parked on top of Mauna Kea. On top Mt. McKinley, on Fuji, on Rainier...It takes a positively Biblical level of willful blindness for a westerner to point at Russia and claim it's an aggressive power. How many democracies has Russia overthrown since Obama took office? How many countries in Central America have Russian drones flying over them, ready to murder suspects (and dozens of nearby people) at the touch of a button? How many countries has Russia illegally bombed/invaded since the fall of the USSR, compared to the United States? Has Putin been busy expanding the Warsaw Pact to Mexico and Canada, after promising not to do so, running the largest military drills since the second world war? How many bases does Russia have around the world, compared to the U.S.> I could go on all day with facts that cannot be disputed.

Notably, your bombastic accusation includes neither a link to the video, nor transcript of the actual words.

Like asking for a citation that water is wet.

It is perfectly normal for countries to spend money on legal organizations abroad. USSR has been doing just that for decades fomenting racial strife in the US, for example, as well as the so-called "Peace Movement". In the Middle East KGB kept Arafat afloat and fighting Israel.

GTFO with that amateur hour BS. Radio America, heard of it? How many governments around the world has Russia - and even the USSR - overthrown compared to the United States? Is the KGB trying to spy on the electronic communications of every person on the planet? No, that would be the NSA.

You joked about Obama being a KGB-agent

On what planet was that?

And that, even if it were true, equates to an armed invasion in your opinion? Wow...

You want to play that game? Obama has bombed more countries than Bush - how many countries has Putin bombed without the request of that nation's government? Where's the evidence of Putin's "invasion" of Ukraine that doesn't come from social media? Months of western propaganda that Ukraine was being "invaded" by Russian forces, without a single satellite photo.

Because even Colin Powell, when testifying at the U.N., had satellite photos. He was as full of shit as the rest of you American Exceptionalists, but he had photos! Which is more than you have.

No problem.

This is why legalizing drugs is a bad idea, we'll get more far-out posts like this.

Then stop toking, Exceptionalist, so you stop looking like a dumbass by disputing indisputable facts.

She'll likely win it, but not because she's liked. The only reason why she'll win is that the R side is just so horribly /bad/. Indeed the justification by a lot of Clintonistas is that they hold up the spectre of a "Trump Presidency."

Yep. It's getting harder and harder to beat voters with the LOTE crowbar, though, when their candidates are actually the Greater Evil in many respects. Trump, for example, would have to overthrow two democracies and start two regional wars, just to catch up to Hillary.

I love this term. Consider it stolen.

Just don't tell Jayne Cullen that I stole it from one of her Salon comments. :)

"But that's negative ads" and he pledged to not do negative ads. All the while she's killing him in the media with rumors and nonsense.

The part that drove me nuts was how her supporters were dragging out the fainting couches when ever Bernie would touch her with a feather....while at the same time HRC was rhetorically exhuming the bodies of dead Sandy Hook kids to leave on Bernie's campaign doorstep. Hillbots are as obnoxious (and as right wing) as the Bushbots ever were. Anyway, I doubt Trump is going to be so kind as to not bring up HRC's hypocrisy over private email servers, or mention the fact that at least Brian Williams heard actual gunfire.

They're working on it.

Well done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"The elites are not the problem, the population at the moment is the problem"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I do so miss SCSI connectors - connectivity and personal defense in one somewhat unwieldy package.

Reminds me of those phones with built in crime deterrent.

What may well happen is we leave and stop fucking up Europe. Europe will get stronger and we'll have a recession. Eventually we'll re-join the single market and accept all of the rules. That way we'll have a nice strong Europe to trade with which will be god for us but no influence with which to fuck it up.

This is what I (as a non-Brit) foresee as well. Especially after seeing this Swiss guy's view on it. The Swiss ended up accepting pretty much everything the EU dictated since they had a long recession and it was all too obvious how access to the common market would enable them to recover. Initially, I foresee what economists acknowledge as a political barrier to trade: Avoidance to enter trade agreements even though it would clearly benefit you because for political reasons you don't want the other party to benefit as well. So you rather harm yourself in order to harm them as well. Nations are not mature. A British re-entry in the future will probably depend on how much of a federation the EU has become at that point and how small the UK has become compared with it - Scotland might leave the UK to join the EU, you know. As far as Scotland it concerned, I foresee that they'll either have a new referendum very soon to make the transition very smooth since then there would effectively not be any break in existing agreements with the EU or they'll wait and see what happens to the UK first even if it means a slower entry to the EU later on. And one thing which was very clear in the Scottish referendum was that the younger generations are very much in favour of independence and EU membership. Thus simply time will lead to it but it might now also have been expedited. Unless all the promises of a rosy future outside the EU by the Brexit side come true in the UK...

Given that Great Britain is the name of the island on which Scotland, Wales, and England are located, it will be quite difficult for Scotland to leave it.

How England, Great Britain, and UK differ.

I am supporting your statement, FPTP is broken.

For a really good explanation I highly recommend this video by "CGP Grey".

Take a breath, friend. There's all kind of isms and it sounds like you've been ism'd to death. We all have... but today is not so different from yesterday. And Trump is not simply the antichrist, he's gathered the support of close to half of the voters. Some young people (for example) clearly aren't giving this enough ( clip #1 ) thought ( clip #2 ). So you'd better see this campaign through and postpone your own final judgement until the very end--- unless you want to bow out now and (merely) declare civil war on the half of everyone you meet.

With its slight BREXIT majority the UK is not rejecting the EU outright. Those 48% who chose REMAIN will certainly see to that --- but perhaps they can now examine the individual reasons they voted that way and continue to steer the UK in that direction for the reasons that matter. And leave by the wayside the things that haven't worked out so well. Would their individual voices of these 48% have had that power in an ever-growing EU? Or is it just as the LEAVE folks said, "Better choose now. You will not have this opportunity again this generation." Or maybe ever. It is chilling to be told this.

Britain will now be able decouple its economy from the rest of Europe to a greater extent than it is now able. Is that not what China is presently doing with the US, now that they have emerged as a world superpower? Come to think of it... being able to combine the economic might of its various countries to break the global hegemony of the United States dollar exerted through reserve currency... hey, wasn't that one of the reasons EU was formed?

So when EU countries gather they are the mighty mice that roar. When the UK withdraws it is a dirty rat. Be wary of people who try to sell you solutions that require you to go "all in", or else you're "all out". You are usually being asked to buy into something menacing --- or just shoddily implemented.

The EU is not just some touchy-feely utopian ideal. It's not just a shared currency and economy. It's not just some concept of a free travel zone and mass migration without border checks. It's also a powerful central planning committee, and those can really suck. Ask anyone from the former USSR.

I find it surreal that I am living in a time when the President of Russia finds it necessary to reach out to the United States to say in effect, Beware... socialism does not work! We have tried it... only to be rebuked, because the trendy thing we are pursuing is called something else.

Take a breath, friend. There's all kind of isms and it sounds like you've been ism'd to death. We all have... but today is not so different from yesterday. And Trump is not simply the antichrist, he's gathered the support of close to half of the voters. Some young people (for example) clearly aren't giving this enough ( clip #1 ) thought ( clip #2 ). So you'd better see this campaign through and postpone your own final judgement until the very end--- unless you want to bow out now and (merely) declare civil war on the half of everyone you meet.

With its slight BREXIT majority the UK is not rejecting the EU outright. Those 48% who chose REMAIN will certainly see to that --- but perhaps they can now examine the individual reasons they voted that way and continue to steer the UK in that direction for the reasons that matter. And leave by the wayside the things that haven't worked out so well. Would their individual voices of these 48% have had that power in an ever-growing EU? Or is it just as the LEAVE folks said, "Better choose now. You will not have this opportunity again this generation." Or maybe ever. It is chilling to be told this.

Britain will now be able decouple its economy from the rest of Europe to a greater extent than it is now able. Is that not what China is presently doing with the US, now that they have emerged as a world superpower? Come to think of it... being able to combine the economic might of its various countries to break the global hegemony of the United States dollar exerted through reserve currency... hey, wasn't that one of the reasons EU was formed?

So when EU countries gather they are the mighty mice that roar. When the UK withdraws it is a dirty rat. Be wary of people who try to sell you solutions that require you to go "all in", or else you're "all out". You are usually being asked to buy into something menacing --- or just shoddily implemented.

The EU is not just some touchy-feely utopian ideal. It's not just a shared currency and economy. It's not just some concept of a free travel zone and mass migration without border checks. It's also a powerful central planning committee, and those can really suck. Ask anyone from the former USSR.

I find it surreal that I am living in a time when the President of Russia finds it necessary to reach out to the United States to say in effect, Beware... socialism does not work! We have tried it... only to be rebuked, because the trendy thing we are pursuing is called something else.

The UK is a democracy... or maybe it just acts like one ?

I'll just leave this video here about how well elections work in the UK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But hey, Slashdot from the US. In the US things are a lot worse than in the UK, so I guess that means the UK is doing fine right ?

It would make me laugh if it wasn't such a fucked up mess..

Probably because they usually do it more like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJczSB7bago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You pointed out that YouTube already does it, implying that the complaint is 100% valid; except YouTube appears to not do it, so what's the big deal? Is Google maliciously allowing copyrighted works?

Google can't readily assemble a list of all songs requiring a certain action, and can't readily determine what is fair use. They have been able to work with artists to compromise on the fair use angle by triggering ads via detection.

Some labels claim Google isn't 100% squashing anything that they haven't agreed is allowed. A video which contains some music is actually fair-use and not necessarily infringing; a video which is some music is infringing. The distinction can be a matter of legal debate. For example: you can argue the first video's primary entertainment value is its original content, and that it's enhanced by the music, and thus is fair use; while you might argue an AMV is derivative of music (it's a video made to express music, rather than an entertainment piece given a musical backing), and thus not fair use.

This seems strange to people because most of us like to analyze state; a lot of law relies on analyzing how state gets reached. One person tried to explain it as lawyers identifying computer bits as having color, even though we know bits can't carry any such information.

So how does Youtube know the difference?

You pointed out that YouTube already does it, implying that the complaint is 100% valid; except YouTube appears to not do it, so what's the big deal? Is Google maliciously allowing copyrighted works?

Google can't readily assemble a list of all songs requiring a certain action, and can't readily determine what is fair use. They have been able to work with artists to compromise on the fair use angle by triggering ads via detection.

Some labels claim Google isn't 100% squashing anything that they haven't agreed is allowed. A video which contains some music is actually fair-use and not necessarily infringing; a video which is some music is infringing. The distinction can be a matter of legal debate. For example: you can argue the first video's primary entertainment value is its original content, and that it's enhanced by the music, and thus is fair use; while you might argue an AMV is derivative of music (it's a video made to express music, rather than an entertainment piece given a musical backing), and thus not fair use.

This seems strange to people because most of us like to analyze state; a lot of law relies on analyzing how state gets reached. One person tried to explain it as lawyers identifying computer bits as having color, even though we know bits can't carry any such information.

So how does Youtube know the difference?

In any country where Uber drivers are making $13 an hour they already have a very decent standard of living. Compare an Uber driver in the USA or Europe to anyone from Africa, the Middle East, India, or most of China.

No wonder the rest of the world considers first-worlders such pricks. We complain about living in the lap of luxury. We have air conditioning, big screen TVs, internet, no warlords raping and killing us by the thousands, and so much food that over half of us are obese and dying from it! Yet folks like you complain about earning more than minimum wage?!

Even the poorest in the first world is like a king. But most importantly of all: even if you're poor now nothing prevents you from rising above it thanks to the relative freedom and opportunity we enjoy in the first world. Yes, it absolutely isn't a cake walk to raise oneself out of poverty, but then again all it takes is hard work and not making stupid decisions in the first world. No wonder the third world is stampeding our borders.

However from another point of view, Obi Wan manipulated a son into trying to kill his father and blow up infrastructure to push his own political/religious agenda, so from a certain point of view, Obi Wan is a terrorist, ISIS like figure.

Heh. Reminded me of this... :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Are they all removed from their parents at birth and put into the same environment to face the same stimulus?

Athletics are different. Your anatomy is tall, short, long-legged, prone to more fatty or more muscular development, and so forth. Every single person in the world can play baseball like Barry Bonds: we can all swing a bat and run; some of us will expend more or less energy to reach the same training state, or to perform more or less well. If you have a long stride (which is controlled by skeletal structure), you're going to run fast with less energy.

Just as all humans have arms, legs, eyes, and the ability to physically coordinate themselves and develop strength, they all have the same brain anatomy. Do you honestly think you're using the most efficient mathematical computation algorithms your brain can deploy? Have you internalized the mechanical act of computation? Can you rapidly perform arithmetic calculations while playing word games?

Do you really think normal people can't learn to do this?

Your brain has to conceive a non-default action in the prefrontal cortex, then direct the midbrain by expending energy (ATP) and neurotransmitters (notably, acetylcholine) in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The fatigue limit of the dlPFX is called "willpower" in scientific papers, and the reduction of load is called "motivation". Motivation is affected by interests, reframing, and so forth.

So if you're *interested* in math, you need less energy to study it well, because passing mathematical theory in front of you triggers a distraction response: you respond to it like most people respond to food, sex, or video games. Same with music, art, biology, cooking, and so forth.

You can otherwise decrease the energy required to study math, computers, or anything else by adjusting the brain's habitual impulses. Studying on a schedule works by making you impulsively study at a particular time--even if you hate the material, it feels like what you're supposed to do, and it takes effort to *not* do it. Setting a schedule is hard (you have to force yourself to do it for weeks before it sticks); repeatedly setting schedules as your requirements change causes your brain to rewire itself to change schedules more efficiently. This is why many highly-successful people have strong time management skills: developing those skills gives you the ability to more-readily develop other skills.

You observe that things are easier for some people than others; that doesn't mean people aren't capable of learning and doing. Life isn't that simple.

ROFL keep drinking that koolaid SJWs, but I can provide citations showing the manipulation

Anyone else ROFL at the irony of using youtube video to bash Big G?

ROFL keep drinking that koolaid SJWs, but I can provide citations showing the manipulation, the fact google's own trends does NOT support what their autocomplete is coming up with, oh and the fact that the CEO is getting paid by HRC, specifically he is owner of "the groundwork" which is a company whose goal is to put HRC in the white house.

Gee search results aren't backed up by their own trending data AND the CEO is part of a company to elect the person the results are being skewed for? Nope don't see nothing fishy here, please ignore that man behind the curtain.

Sony seems incapable of intelligent business decisions or showing any commitment to customers.

The OtherOS is just the latest in a long line of disappointing behavior on the part of Sony. Others include Sony XCP music CDs designed to crash Windows for Sony customers. Or Sony's commitment to the PlayStation 3 having PS2 emulation as being a "key component" of the system. Later they decided to save about $20 in parts for revised PS3 systems by leaving out PS2 emulation.

But in terms of OtherOS, it was going to show the Cell Processor as a platform that goes far beyond gaming. IBM was going to provide cell processor blades for data centers. Sony and Toshiba was going to have other non-game related Cell Processor products. Sony was going to usher in a new era in computing and it was going to be cell. The removing of OtherOS seem to be a major acknowledgement that Sony's hyper about Cell being the future was really just flat out hype.

In terms of removal of OtherOS for security reasons, PS3 was a series of jokes when it came to offering security and anti-piracy. A talk given at a Chaos Communication Congress by the title of PS3 Epic Fail goes over just every which way Sony could have failed was yet another way that Sony did fail.

One of the best slides is 39 minutes into the video where after explaining for ECDSA crypto to work, the value of "m" must *ALWAYS* be random. Then they give Sony's code for deciding a random number for "m" as:

"Sony's ECDSA code: int getRandomNumber() { return 4; } // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random"

Instead of acknowledging the PS3 security system was fundamentally flawed, they just stripped out OtherOS and sued George Hotz. Neither of these actions really fixed the real issue of Sony's incompetence. Instead it seem to only serve as method of distracting game publishers from demanding a well designed security system to protect games.

Lastly, for the court to decide OtherOS amounts to a worth of $64 for a $800 console which amounts to only 8% is a major slap in the face to anyone that really bought into the "cell is the future" hype. People that bought the PS3 to really get into using the cell for non-gaming should be entitled to the full $800 back for getting stabbed in the back by Sony.

So Russia allowing the US to grab the Ukraine because they were sick of subsidising the Ukraine economy to the tune of tens of billions of dollar per year, to maintain access to the Crimea, that was stolen by the Soviet Union and given to the Ukraine, after hundreds of thousands of Russian died fighting to defend and then retake it from the Nazis (Russians got exactly what they wanted, the Crimea and the end of the huge fiscal burden that was the Ukraine, as for the Baltic states, all crap, they are just playing a game to get as much NATO cash as possible, soldier tourists spending big on rotation, outside of that they spend bugger all on defence).

Perhaps Germany sees fracking as just another Ukraine, it originally seemed like a good idea but the actual consequences are quite undesirable. From accelerated geologic movement (you are actually accelerating the system to the next major event via the relocation of stresses), to extensive pollution of the environment, which of course will be hugely magnified when there is a major earthquake in those affected regions.

Fracking should definitely be contained to unpopulated zones only and should be required to recover and store for reuse all fracking fluids. Most likely reason why the ban, https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Considering the seize of the Australia, just why the fuck did they allow fracking in a populated rural zone, just fucking why?!? So what is happening to that river in the driest country in the world, as fracking gases and fluids disperse into it, hmm, tasty.

I deal with risk management daily. The factors KFC is considering here are pretty interesting but they are probably going to target advertisements to the phones for sure -- I mean that's a given that some kind of phone home device will happen -- permissions or not.

They may ask you to sign up to something for charging and then pair your device with their network. That's possible.

All the free wifi networks are kind of tracking people like this now anyway and if they aren't they are missing some interesting fingerprinting.

One vector is a USB mount attack which leaves the user unable to defend their microsd data. Sure if you're an IT expert you may be able to protect against it with proper configs, but KFC is targeting nightclub people basically who won't go home so they need to charge their phones after the bars. Stop at KFC for greasy food and a quick charge... boom. pwn'd.

The device this guy is talking about could be rigged to send certain things through an open wifi or on a lower cost budget, the blackhat goes through the garbage later on and grabs all the boxes out to recycle them. KFC may even ask that users recycle the boxes, which would make mr. blackhat's job even easier.