Literally nothing about this violates any standard whatsoever or is in any way an actual problem. The fact that a person regardless of their ethical standards can have multiple email accounts isn't relevant at all. I have had catchall email addresses since before Google existed.
Free market economies only work when the supply isn't externally constrained. In a truly free market, another company might be able to produce, for instance, an iPhone which was otherwise identical and fully compatible to Apple's but included a headphone jack. The problem is it stands is that they can make a poor decision and because of business momentum, legal protections, and consumer lock-in it can appear to be successful even when it is abysmally stupid.
911 will already transfer callers to suicide intervention, plus they can handle all of the related emergencies that require additional immediate support: for instance "I've just eaten a bunch of random pills" Every mental health professional in the US already has "If this is an emergency hang up and dial 911" on their voicemail.
There is really no need to go through the expense and other regulatory nonsense necessary to establish a new special emergency dialing number for just because you are a senator. This is the same nonsense that brought us the spectacular failure that is the "Amber Alert"
Yes, it's important. But so long as you have a million different 501c3's vying for dollars to "raise awareness" and promote their own competing solutions the problem is effectively gridlocked. We already have a national emergency line that routes you to a person trained to assist with any emergency. Please use it.
This is DRM news I can get behind. Trying to develop an absurd concept using an absurd system that is designed essentially to absorb and destroy capital investment is glorious. The question is whether or not the negative reinforcement will be enough to make them stop trying. Sadly I suspect not.
The irony is these fuckers will be the loudest ones bitching when their phones dont work for shit at home. I have already had to explain this to a lot of work collegues that live in large developments with HOAs. No antennas = no service. How much more fucking obvious can you get?
"100 times greater than Blu-Ray" is wildly incorrect. Blu-ray is about 12.5Gb per square inch; 1.2Pb would therefore be an areal density nearly 100,000 times greater than Blu-Ray.
I'd find the claims more credible if they defined what "match" meant and showed comparisons of which photos actually "matched."
If you are familiar with the birthday problem, you must certainly realize that if you take a couple of sizable populations, such as, say, the 535 members of congress and try to match them up with another large set of data, say, 25,000 mugshots then certainly you are likely to find some uncanny resemblances even given the overwhelmingly huge variety inherent in a person's appearance. On top of this, you are using an algorithm that is designed to give a confidence value to be interpreted by a person and is therefore inherently tuned to match optimistically.
To be clear I am not a fan of any of this, but the ACLU spreading a bunch of FUD really doesn't do anything to properly advance the discussion; instead it solidifies the argument that the opponents of facial recognition technologies are complete idiots who don't understand how the technologies operate or are applied.
I mean this stuff only works if you have programs and cmdlets that actually return and operate on such objects. Now, in addition to writing your powershell script, you also have to write wrapper libraries that control the native linux tools to present something that is API compatible with whatever windows api you are trying to use. Anyone who has tried to get a WinForms application running under Mono/Linux can tell you how well this shit is going to work.
Austin Mann didn't do any real performance tests at all beyond some HEVC video conversion that on the latest hardware is done almost entirely on the GPU (and doesnt take that long)
Craig Hunter's review quite clearly shows once there is a CPU bound task working on >= 3-5 cores in his particular workload the expected per-core performance scaling demonstrated on comparable CPUs in the iMacs is not achieved. He kind of gives this a pass since is comparable to their previous (equally shit) design, but this is due to thermal throttling. The only other thing he benchmarks is eGPU workloads which is not relevant to the issue at hand.
There is no doubt that Apple could have delivered a better thermal solution, a better keyboard, more ports, lower engineering costs, lower assembly cost, a more competitive supply chain, (and probably a lot of other better t hings) if they were not after the eternal conquest to build something that is so stupidly thin for a group of users who are asking for the opposite.
Surprise surprise people don't want another premium cable network which is exactly what Netflix has stupidly turned itself into. Whats worse is they killed every competing movie jukebox service (what people actually want) and video rental store during their market conquest before they changed their business model.
If it's not plainly fucking obvious to anyone, the fact that many cable providers now allow you bundle Netflix in with your cable or internet package (or it is used as a value add) should be a pretty big clue.
Am I missing something in that there is no evidence presented around the actual message coding except for pictures of letters and then apparently the secret messages which have been conveniently 'decoded' from them?
Considering it's rather trivial to produce an enciphering scheme that will transliterate any plaintext into any other the designer desires (not that the "investigators" even bothered in this case) I find the whole thing pretty suspect.
Netflix was popularized on their ability to innovate and deliver a targeted experience. It was so important to them that they used to sponsor a million dollar prize to anyone who could improve upon their ability to match content to users.
Two things happened simultaneously that changed this:
1) They started making their own content; some of which is good but most of which is shit.
and
2) They started losing good content from 3rd parties, leaving them with mostly shit.
A good, balanced ratings system doesn't exactly work in an environment where you have very little of value to offer and you want to prioritize your own garbage besides. Netflix has had to absolutely gut and now flush one of the core innovations that built them into the juggernaut they are today; they are fast becoming just another new media studio. HBO is their competitor now. I yearn for the Netflix catalog of yore.
Sort of; you can no longer download and install a packaged extension. You have to unpack the extension and put chrome into developer mode where it will display a warning about the extension every time you open Chrome.
Tried to install moonlight on my macbook yesterday (chrome is the only way to run it on os x) and it was really fucking annoying.
Of course it is still profitable; it has a manageable cost and royalty structure that has been established for decades; it actually has all of the content that their customers want to see; and they aren't spending billions of dollars out of the revenue stream trying to make their own films while simultaneously trying to hide the fact that all other content on the service is gradually migrating away to a fractured mess of competing services.
At this point people are putting up with the minor inconvenience of the "mail a disc" bit because it's the only service that gives the customer what they actually want. If someone is honestly surprised by this they should take a moment to quietly contemplate how it is possible that they became so stupid.
It does still matter; prior art is not an affirmative defense to a patent suit but it is useful in attempting to invalidate those patents in a separate action.
Why in the fuck would they do that? Adding the ports is literally a couple of bucks in parts. Add in the fact that both models would require separate certifications and differntiated aprts and it's just not worth it at all.
This is a basic supply and demand problem. The demand outstrips supply in a radical way. The winners of this are currently Intel with their embedded GPUs.
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Game makers can't afford lock-in. If Apple wants everything to be exclusive this thing is dead in the water before it starts.
Just put in a bill changer kiosk that vends prepaid cards. Every kids' arcade in the country knows how this shit works.
Literally nothing about this violates any standard whatsoever or is in any way an actual problem. The fact that a person regardless of their ethical standards can have multiple email accounts isn't relevant at all. I have had catchall email addresses since before Google existed.
Free market economies only work when the supply isn't externally constrained. In a truly free market, another company might be able to produce, for instance, an iPhone which was otherwise identical and fully compatible to Apple's but included a headphone jack. The problem is it stands is that they can make a poor decision and because of business momentum, legal protections, and consumer lock-in it can appear to be successful even when it is abysmally stupid.
911 will already transfer callers to suicide intervention, plus they can handle all of the related emergencies that require additional immediate support: for instance "I've just eaten a bunch of random pills" Every mental health professional in the US already has "If this is an emergency hang up and dial 911" on their voicemail.
There is really no need to go through the expense and other regulatory nonsense necessary to establish a new special emergency dialing number for just because you are a senator. This is the same nonsense that brought us the spectacular failure that is the "Amber Alert"
Yes, it's important. But so long as you have a million different 501c3's vying for dollars to "raise awareness" and promote their own competing solutions the problem is effectively gridlocked. We already have a national emergency line that routes you to a person trained to assist with any emergency. Please use it.
Not going to debate you on the underpowered aspect but you can have it enter DTMF on a call. It's unwieldy as hell but it works. "Hey google press 0"
So now you will need an adapter to charge the goddamn "it's not a stylus we would never do such a thing" stylus
This is DRM news I can get behind. Trying to develop an absurd concept using an absurd system that is designed essentially to absorb and destroy capital investment is glorious. The question is whether or not the negative reinforcement will be enough to make them stop trying. Sadly I suspect not.
The irony is these fuckers will be the loudest ones bitching when their phones dont work for shit at home. I have already had to explain this to a lot of work collegues that live in large developments with HOAs. No antennas = no service. How much more fucking obvious can you get?
Or you could get one that doesn't block all the IO pins https://amazon.com/NavoLabs-Ra...
"100 times greater than Blu-Ray" is wildly incorrect. Blu-ray is about 12.5Gb per square inch; 1.2Pb would therefore be an areal density nearly 100,000 times greater than Blu-Ray.
I'd find the claims more credible if they defined what "match" meant and showed comparisons of which photos actually "matched."
If you are familiar with the birthday problem, you must certainly realize that if you take a couple of sizable populations, such as, say, the 535 members of congress and try to match them up with another large set of data, say, 25,000 mugshots then certainly you are likely to find some uncanny resemblances even given the overwhelmingly huge variety inherent in a person's appearance. On top of this, you are using an algorithm that is designed to give a confidence value to be interpreted by a person and is therefore inherently tuned to match optimistically.
To be clear I am not a fan of any of this, but the ACLU spreading a bunch of FUD really doesn't do anything to properly advance the discussion; instead it solidifies the argument that the opponents of facial recognition technologies are complete idiots who don't understand how the technologies operate or are applied.
I mean this stuff only works if you have programs and cmdlets that actually return and operate on such objects. Now, in addition to writing your powershell script, you also have to write wrapper libraries that control the native linux tools to present something that is API compatible with whatever windows api you are trying to use. Anyone who has tried to get a WinForms application running under Mono/Linux can tell you how well this shit is going to work.
Austin Mann didn't do any real performance tests at all beyond some HEVC video conversion that on the latest hardware is done almost entirely on the GPU (and doesnt take that long)
Craig Hunter's review quite clearly shows once there is a CPU bound task working on >= 3-5 cores in his particular workload the expected per-core performance scaling demonstrated on comparable CPUs in the iMacs is not achieved. He kind of gives this a pass since is comparable to their previous (equally shit) design, but this is due to thermal throttling. The only other thing he benchmarks is eGPU workloads which is not relevant to the issue at hand.
There is no doubt that Apple could have delivered a better thermal solution, a better keyboard, more ports, lower engineering costs, lower assembly cost, a more competitive supply chain, (and probably a lot of other better t hings) if they were not after the eternal conquest to build something that is so stupidly thin for a group of users who are asking for the opposite.
Surprise surprise people don't want another premium cable network which is exactly what Netflix has stupidly turned itself into. Whats worse is they killed every competing movie jukebox service (what people actually want) and video rental store during their market conquest before they changed their business model.
If it's not plainly fucking obvious to anyone, the fact that many cable providers now allow you bundle Netflix in with your cable or internet package (or it is used as a value add) should be a pretty big clue.
Am I missing something in that there is no evidence presented around the actual message coding except for pictures of letters and then apparently the secret messages which have been conveniently 'decoded' from them?
Considering it's rather trivial to produce an enciphering scheme that will transliterate any plaintext into any other the designer desires (not that the "investigators" even bothered in this case) I find the whole thing pretty suspect.
Netflix was popularized on their ability to innovate and deliver a targeted experience. It was so important to them that they used to sponsor a million dollar prize to anyone who could improve upon their ability to match content to users.
Two things happened simultaneously that changed this:
1) They started making their own content; some of which is good but most of which is shit.
and
2) They started losing good content from 3rd parties, leaving them with mostly shit.
A good, balanced ratings system doesn't exactly work in an environment where you have very little of value to offer and you want to prioritize your own garbage besides. Netflix has had to absolutely gut and now flush one of the core innovations that built them into the juggernaut they are today; they are fast becoming just another new media studio. HBO is their competitor now. I yearn for the Netflix catalog of yore.
Problem is I'm not sure who fucked up here.
Sort of; you can no longer download and install a packaged extension. You have to unpack the extension and put chrome into developer mode where it will display a warning about the extension every time you open Chrome.
Tried to install moonlight on my macbook yesterday (chrome is the only way to run it on os x) and it was really fucking annoying.
Pretty instrumental guy in the early days of /. -- see ya round the bend, Roblimo
If you keep a small queue you always get what you want. Is it right that you should have to do this? No, but it's not all that hard either.
Of course it is still profitable; it has a manageable cost and royalty structure that has been established for decades; it actually has all of the content that their customers want to see; and they aren't spending billions of dollars out of the revenue stream trying to make their own films while simultaneously trying to hide the fact that all other content on the service is gradually migrating away to a fractured mess of competing services.
At this point people are putting up with the minor inconvenience of the "mail a disc" bit because it's the only service that gives the customer what they actually want. If someone is honestly surprised by this they should take a moment to quietly contemplate how it is possible that they became so stupid.
It does still matter; prior art is not an affirmative defense to a patent suit but it is useful in attempting to invalidate those patents in a separate action.
Why in the fuck would they do that? Adding the ports is literally a couple of bucks in parts. Add in the fact that both models would require separate certifications and differntiated aprts and it's just not worth it at all.
This is a basic supply and demand problem. The demand outstrips supply in a radical way. The winners of this are currently Intel with their embedded GPUs.
Cisco does not use anything other than RFC1918 reserved blocks. They are actually incredibly diligent about that.
Sadly there's not exactly a good open source or otherwise no-cost solution but this would work very well for HOAs if only we could get more to use it.
Less than $10 from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A...