I assume the US government thinks that 0.5% average tax is fine ? If they have that opinion, I think they should let everybody know, and make sure Apple pays just as little in the US. If not, shut up and let Apple pay what they rightfuly should have done. Be it 10-20 or 30%. Everybody knows 0.5% is wrong.
How about the dead children ? Can we get their name printed as well ? Avocados uses up to around 130 liters of water per fruit, in an area with way too little drinkign water. So eating avocado is killing the poor, as the Avocado mafia monopolizes water for their plantations.
Kermit - For file transfers etc. BBS for information exchange.
For programmers: ASCII graphics, and using the grphic characters above 127 to make blocks, lines etc. Dot Matrix Printers, PCL, PostScript. Now nobody knows the language of the orinter anymore. And PostScript is still in PDF and is very powerfull.
And everybody knew at least some machine language. I coded my ZX-81 using the ASCII table in the manual. It had decimal, hex, Ascii char and Z-80 Mnemonic. PEEK and POKE was the commands used at the time.
I agree. Factory reset before crossing the borders, and restore your iCloud backup when you have passed it. Of course it will kill the hotel Internet, but if that is what the US wants, that is what the US gets.
I am in Denmark, and I have a $11/month subscription. This is a small subscription with limited 12GB data and 12 hours of outgoing calls to other providers (free within the provider). for $1.50 extra per month, I could switch to 20GB/10hours.
Since I am in Denmark, I do pay for my own phone (no contract can be longer than 6 months, so we pay full price for phones). And we actually have unlimited calls and data for DKK 119/month = $17. And I am pretty sure it is unlimited since it is $3 more expensive/mo than the 20GB.
I am sure we can find a correlation between number of vegetarians and Methane gasses. And of course, everybody knows that the vegatarian cow is way more dangerous to the environment than a sweet little pig.
No news. But it is selling the weakness of non-https as something new. This is so old school. But hopefully somebody cn get the budget to implement HTTPS or whatever the purpose was.
How many great software products have you seen being invented and created in India ? Is the number around null ? Or is it a large NULL ?
There are many reasons why Indians are not really a threat, and it is not only the language problem. It is their culture. Been in a startup in Bangledesh for 3 months, most employees from Indian universities. They work very hierachical, and not independent. It is almost impossible to make an employee choose between a blue and a red ball, we want hios managers approval first. I could not get my employees to to code things using stuff not part of their curriculum. I had to train them in those chapters in their book from university that was not part of their university education. Their attitude is, that it is better do make nothing than to make a mistake. They don't know the word no. They can't say they can't do it, but would rather delay forever.
Now I am in a large company, and the code quality we get out of India, no matter what huge front company we use, is nowhere as good as an average local person with a bachelor in CS can deliver. Their missing ability to think and read documentation, and explore is a killer.
The big threat comes from christian countries, countries with our culture. The threat comes from eastern europe and south america. They think more or less the same way. They can work independent. If they don't get an answer, they will decide on a direction to go. Even if they go the wrong direction, it is stillbetter than looking out the windows until the boss comes around.
And one important fact that you forget is, that brain workers, including IT developers, has a salary way above average salary in whatever country they are from. Personally, I would say it takes 3-5 average indians to be as efficient as an average westerner. that is $10.000-$15.000/month. So there is not good economi in using indian developers if they are available locally.
Outsourcing of jobs is mostly operations, where it is accepted that the level will be much worse at half the cost. And partly development because you can't get the skills locally. Operations today is waiting for the server to burn and then piss on it. Nothing proactively, except from scheduled reboots. So whatever is outsourced to india is not the same thing as the comanies used to get. They get less $ for $. They could save more money by deciding on the same service level with inhouse staff, and fire 90% of IT operations staff, and use external consultant when things are bad. They would even get a better service from that solution. Outsourcing to india is the new black. Everybody does it, nobody is happy, but because everybody does it, it must be the best.
Medical hacking is the way forward. The established industry will fight it, but there are so many engineers and other tech people out there that will come up with solutions to their own problems, or that of their families. This is not the first time we hear about this. Many of the problems in the health industry is continously monitoring, and reacting upon values. This is just as much an IT discipline as a medical discipline. With low power computers (Arduino as an example), all types of sensors being available for cheap etc, we are almost where the computer industry was around 1975-80. engineers and hobbyists will hack together such devices. It is trivial to monitor blood glucose using a sensor on i2c. You could add 2 for redundancy. Then write code, and decide what to do with abnormal values.
The problem for the established industry is, that things will get invented by users before the medical industry gets there = no patents.
No. If he has forgotten the password, then he does whatever is possible for him to help execute the search warrant - when he comes up with wrong guesses he is no longer in contempt and can walk freely.
The only defense here is to claim the password is forgotten, and give some wrong guesses to th police, then he can walk free. For many people, the password is not remembered, I certainly do not remember all my passwords. But they are remembered in the fingers. I can type them even if I can not write them down or tell them to others. After some time, this finger memory weakens. The court should accept that.
They need to come up with some security, such that the enemy can't take it over like existing $50k drones. Having experience with both quads and planes (not copters, too difficult to fly), I see advantages in both. Plane made of foam is light weight, long flight time and distance, little noise, but of course can't stay stationery, a bullet is no problem, unless it kills battery or motor. With a flight controller, they are easy to fly. Quads are dead if hit by anything. Short flight time and range. But can stay in place, and fly where there is less room. But they make a lot of noise.
250 size is probably what is needed. But it needs new radio tech for both video and comms to stay secure, and difficult to jam. And GPS is not a trustworthy option, will be jammed since it is trivial to to. It is just 2 frequencies. 1575.42 MHz and 1227.60 MHz. Clearly GPS was never designed by the military for military purposes.
Just use the fingerprints of the criminals. Or clone the phone and brute-force the pin-code.
Or use all the rest of the logging taking place to see who they communicated with and when, and ignore the little data on the phone. A phone is just a computer. The problem is, politicians don't realise this.
What is wrong with those rules ? They are still more relaxed than what we have everywhere outside city areas here in Denmark. Max 7 kg = 15.4 pounds vs US 55 lbs Max 100 meters = 328 ft vs US 400 ft. We have LoS only - But can use spotter that can take over. We must move away from other aircraft (which normally have to stay above 150 meters / 500 ft) We don't have the clear conditions requirement, but still Line of sight
Things are cheap. Arduino Pro mini is $1.50 - stepper motors $1. SG90 servos $2. Ultrasound sensors = $1.60. GY-521 6DOF gyro is $2.04.... Parts are small and cheap.
So the code is so big and complicated, that nobody could hire a group of cheap indian / chinese programmer to write something better in 6 months ? Must be a huge package, like MS Office.
Small programs like Photoshop could be 80% written by a couple of people in 6 months. Look at RC equipment, communication protocols are reverse engineered, and people are using arduinos as converters within a couple months. My FlySky i6 / TGY-i6 6-channel transmitter had its firmware hacked within a few months, now it does 10 channels, with the iA6B 6-channel receiver. And it has virtual switches etc. This is not new firmware, it is just reverse engineering, and changing. I have a $7 logic analyzer, so I also look at protocols on the wire/pins of chips.
Software is overrated in value. The value lies in the product, the marketing, the customers. OK, without software you would not have the other. But the software alone is worthless.
Look at my $7 logic analyzer. It s a Saleae Logic clone. Runs with the original software. And with many free 3rd party apps. People by SL to support them, and to get them to further develop the software. Or to be legit. But anybody could bundle some of the Open Source software with a clone, and sell for $50 instead of $150 like SL. But they would not have a chance. They don't have the name. If you get a clone, why not get the cheapest ?
DIY means you would inject common 12V. No reason to go higher, And use cheap DC-DC buck converters to step down without too much heat. LM7805 is another possibility. No reason to go 44V DIY PoE. The standard is outdated. 12V is plenty to allow for voltage drop.
This should be easy. Controller could be Raspberry Pi, Arduino with HC-05, ESP wifi etc. Say $5. 12V, 10A relay is $0.50 buck converter, step down, 3A is $0.70. Then you need a power supply. Modern PC power supplies are able to deliver all as 12V (PoE standard). The buck converter will accept 5.7V -> 20V or so. So voltage drop on line no issue. Or get a 12V, 6A PSU for $10. 10 pairs of JST connectors $2.49 So if you want 4 ports, the cost would be $5 + $2 + $2.8 + $10 + $2.49 + little time = $23 - with the PSU being most important, and being 72W it is scalable. If average device is consuming 1A, it is 5W, and it will handle 14 ports. Get a smaller PSU and stay under $20.
The issues is keeping the power inject/extraction Cat 5E. But if you want to to DIY cables, you could just cut the connector, put a new connector on, and solder an injection connector on, say JST-style on for power.
They put readers at unnecessary risk causing readers to become infected. All this with one motive only. Financial gain from crap displayed at users computers
There are more people killed while trying to take selfies every year than are killed by sharks. So I think we need a license for all cameras and an extra license for using a selfie stick to protect people from death.
There are also young people taking nude photos of themself, and sending them to friends. I think we need to combat the ignorance by requiring every phone and camera user to get a license. And if you do not posses common sense, no phone or camera for you. It is for your own protection, and privacy of others.
Who patrols the skies, warehouse buildings etc for license plates on drones ? The difference between cars/planes and drones is, that cars drives where everybody can see their license plates. Planes needs it for radio communications, when landing at airfields. Drones are small, and a registration can't be read from a distance.
If I use my own airfield in middle of nowhere, using my own scratch-built plane, nobody checks the airplane registration. I am not sure if I ever saw airplane registration on paragliders where the pilot strapped a propeller on the back. And parachutes for sure does not have a visible registration (only small seruial number from manufacturer, and nobody knows who owns it).
I buy lots of stuff from China, and it is trivial to make a quadcopter. DIY wooden frame. 4x ESC+motor+prop = $80. Add GPS and Flight controller for $45. Battery for $10. And we are talking an autonomous drone for $135.
4 inch wide tape in different colors on the floor, with text in it saying where each strip leads to. Works on hospitals (Here in Denmark) for guiding patients around. Just follow the red line to the waiting room, or the yellow to x-ray.
I read that slefies kills moe people than sharks every year. Is this fist more dangerous than selfies ? Or are selfies still on top as the most dangerous animal in the world ?
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I assume the US government thinks that 0.5% average tax is fine ?
If they have that opinion, I think they should let everybody know, and make sure Apple pays just as little in the US.
If not, shut up and let Apple pay what they rightfuly should have done. Be it 10-20 or 30%. Everybody knows 0.5% is wrong.
How about the dead children ? Can we get their name printed as well ? Avocados uses up to around 130 liters of water per fruit, in an area with way too little drinkign water. So eating avocado is killing the poor, as the Avocado mafia monopolizes water for their plantations.
Stop eating avocado.
http://www.konbini.com/us/life...
To produce three avocados, you need 264 gallons of water = 1m^3 = 1000 liters. That is more water than consumed by a child in one year.
Give us Warp 2.2 and we can talk. Mach 2.2 is just another Concorde.
Kermit - For file transfers etc.
BBS for information exchange.
For programmers:
ASCII graphics, and using the grphic characters above 127 to make blocks, lines etc.
Dot Matrix Printers, PCL, PostScript. Now nobody knows the language of the orinter anymore. And PostScript is still in PDF and is very powerfull.
And everybody knew at least some machine language. I coded my ZX-81 using the ASCII table in the manual. It had decimal, hex, Ascii char and Z-80 Mnemonic.
PEEK and POKE was the commands used at the time.
I agree. Factory reset before crossing the borders, and restore your iCloud backup when you have passed it.
Of course it will kill the hotel Internet, but if that is what the US wants, that is what the US gets.
I am in Denmark, and I have a $11/month subscription. This is a small subscription with limited 12GB data and 12 hours of outgoing calls to other providers (free within the provider). for $1.50 extra per month, I could switch to 20GB/10hours.
Since I am in Denmark, I do pay for my own phone (no contract can be longer than 6 months, so we pay full price for phones). And we actually have unlimited calls and data for DKK 119/month = $17. And I am pretty sure it is unlimited since it is $3 more expensive/mo than the 20GB.
I am sure we can find a correlation between number of vegetarians and Methane gasses.
And of course, everybody knows that the vegatarian cow is way more dangerous to the environment than a sweet little pig.
No news. But it is selling the weakness of non-https as something new. This is so old school.
But hopefully somebody cn get the budget to implement HTTPS or whatever the purpose was.
How many great software products have you seen being invented and created in India ? Is the number around null ? Or is it a large NULL ?
There are many reasons why Indians are not really a threat, and it is not only the language problem. It is their culture. Been in a startup in Bangledesh for 3 months, most employees from Indian universities. They work very hierachical, and not independent. It is almost impossible to make an employee choose between a blue and a red ball, we want hios managers approval first. I could not get my employees to to code things using stuff not part of their curriculum. I had to train them in those chapters in their book from university that was not part of their university education. Their attitude is, that it is better do make nothing than to make a mistake. They don't know the word no. They can't say they can't do it, but would rather delay forever.
Now I am in a large company, and the code quality we get out of India, no matter what huge front company we use, is nowhere as good as an average local person with a bachelor in CS can deliver. Their missing ability to think and read documentation, and explore is a killer.
The big threat comes from christian countries, countries with our culture. The threat comes from eastern europe and south america. They think more or less the same way. They can work independent. If they don't get an answer, they will decide on a direction to go. Even if they go the wrong direction, it is stillbetter than looking out the windows until the boss comes around.
And one important fact that you forget is, that brain workers, including IT developers, has a salary way above average salary in whatever country they are from. Personally, I would say it takes 3-5 average indians to be as efficient as an average westerner. that is $10.000-$15.000/month. So there is not good economi in using indian developers if they are available locally.
Outsourcing of jobs is mostly operations, where it is accepted that the level will be much worse at half the cost. And partly development because you can't get the skills locally. Operations today is waiting for the server to burn and then piss on it. Nothing proactively, except from scheduled reboots. So whatever is outsourced to india is not the same thing as the comanies used to get. They get less $ for $. They could save more money by deciding on the same service level with inhouse staff, and fire 90% of IT operations staff, and use external consultant when things are bad. They would even get a better service from that solution. Outsourcing to india is the new black. Everybody does it, nobody is happy, but because everybody does it, it must be the best.
Medical hacking is the way forward. The established industry will fight it, but there are so many engineers and other tech people out there that will come up with solutions to their own problems, or that of their families.
This is not the first time we hear about this. Many of the problems in the health industry is continously monitoring, and reacting upon values. This is just as much an IT discipline as a medical discipline. With low power computers (Arduino as an example), all types of sensors being available for cheap etc, we are almost where the computer industry was around 1975-80. engineers and hobbyists will hack together such devices. It is trivial to monitor blood glucose using a sensor on i2c. You could add 2 for redundancy. Then write code, and decide what to do with abnormal values.
The problem for the established industry is, that things will get invented by users before the medical industry gets there = no patents.
No. If he has forgotten the password, then he does whatever is possible for him to help execute the search warrant - when he comes up with wrong guesses he is no longer in contempt and can walk freely.
The only defense here is to claim the password is forgotten, and give some wrong guesses to th police, then he can walk free. For many people, the password is not remembered, I certainly do not remember all my passwords. But they are remembered in the fingers. I can type them even if I can not write them down or tell them to others. After some time, this finger memory weakens. The court should accept that.
They need to come up with some security, such that the enemy can't take it over like existing $50k drones.
Having experience with both quads and planes (not copters, too difficult to fly), I see advantages in both. Plane made of foam is light weight, long flight time and distance, little noise, but of course can't stay stationery, a bullet is no problem, unless it kills battery or motor. With a flight controller, they are easy to fly. Quads are dead if hit by anything. Short flight time and range. But can stay in place, and fly where there is less room. But they make a lot of noise.
250 size is probably what is needed. But it needs new radio tech for both video and comms to stay secure, and difficult to jam. And GPS is not a trustworthy option, will be jammed since it is trivial to to. It is just 2 frequencies. 1575.42 MHz and 1227.60 MHz. Clearly GPS was never designed by the military for military purposes.
But at least we will get 24 months of warranty here in EU. So it will be built to last that long, or be expensive for Mattel.
Just use the fingerprints of the criminals. Or clone the phone and brute-force the pin-code.
Or use all the rest of the logging taking place to see who they communicated with and when, and ignore the little data on the phone. A phone is just a computer. The problem is, politicians don't realise this.
What is wrong with those rules ? They are still more relaxed than what we have everywhere outside city areas here in Denmark.
Max 7 kg = 15.4 pounds vs US 55 lbs
Max 100 meters = 328 ft vs US 400 ft.
We have LoS only - But can use spotter that can take over.
We must move away from other aircraft (which normally have to stay above 150 meters / 500 ft)
We don't have the clear conditions requirement, but still Line of sight
Things are cheap. Arduino Pro mini is $1.50 - stepper motors $1. SG90 servos $2. Ultrasound sensors = $1.60. GY-521 6DOF gyro is $2.04....
Parts are small and cheap.
So the code is so big and complicated, that nobody could hire a group of cheap indian / chinese programmer to write something better in 6 months ? Must be a huge package, like MS Office.
Small programs like Photoshop could be 80% written by a couple of people in 6 months. Look at RC equipment, communication protocols are reverse engineered, and people are using arduinos as converters within a couple months. My FlySky i6 / TGY-i6 6-channel transmitter had its firmware hacked within a few months, now it does 10 channels, with the iA6B 6-channel receiver. And it has virtual switches etc. This is not new firmware, it is just reverse engineering, and changing. I have a $7 logic analyzer, so I also look at protocols on the wire/pins of chips.
Software is overrated in value. The value lies in the product, the marketing, the customers. OK, without software you would not have the other. But the software alone is worthless.
Look at my $7 logic analyzer. It s a Saleae Logic clone. Runs with the original software. And with many free 3rd party apps. People by SL to support them, and to get them to further develop the software. Or to be legit. But anybody could bundle some of the Open Source software with a clone, and sell for $50 instead of $150 like SL. But they would not have a chance. They don't have the name. If you get a clone, why not get the cheapest ?
DIY means you would inject common 12V. No reason to go higher, And use cheap DC-DC buck converters to step down without too much heat. LM7805 is another possibility. No reason to go 44V DIY PoE. The standard is outdated. 12V is plenty to allow for voltage drop.
This should be easy. Controller could be Raspberry Pi, Arduino with HC-05, ESP wifi etc. Say $5.
12V, 10A relay is $0.50
buck converter, step down, 3A is $0.70.
Then you need a power supply. Modern PC power supplies are able to deliver all as 12V (PoE standard). The buck converter will accept 5.7V -> 20V or so. So voltage drop on line no issue. Or get a 12V, 6A PSU for $10.
10 pairs of JST connectors $2.49
So if you want 4 ports, the cost would be $5 + $2 + $2.8 + $10 + $2.49 + little time = $23 - with the PSU being most important, and being 72W it is scalable. If average device is consuming 1A, it is 5W, and it will handle 14 ports. Get a smaller PSU and stay under $20.
The issues is keeping the power inject/extraction Cat 5E. But if you want to to DIY cables, you could just cut the connector, put a new connector on, and solder an injection connector on, say JST-style on for power.
They put readers at unnecessary risk causing readers to become infected. All this with one motive only. Financial gain from crap displayed at users computers
Raspberry Pi Zero. $5 + some source of power + cables.
There are more people killed while trying to take selfies every year than are killed by sharks.
So I think we need a license for all cameras and an extra license for using a selfie stick to protect people from death.
There are also young people taking nude photos of themself, and sending them to friends. I think we need to combat the ignorance by requiring every phone and camera user to get a license. And if you do not posses common sense, no phone or camera for you. It is for your own protection, and privacy of others.
Who patrols the skies, warehouse buildings etc for license plates on drones ?
The difference between cars/planes and drones is, that cars drives where everybody can see their license plates. Planes needs it for radio communications, when landing at airfields. Drones are small, and a registration can't be read from a distance.
If I use my own airfield in middle of nowhere, using my own scratch-built plane, nobody checks the airplane registration. I am not sure if I ever saw airplane registration on paragliders where the pilot strapped a propeller on the back. And parachutes for sure does not have a visible registration (only small seruial number from manufacturer, and nobody knows who owns it).
I buy lots of stuff from China, and it is trivial to make a quadcopter. DIY wooden frame. 4x ESC+motor+prop = $80. Add GPS and Flight controller for $45. Battery for $10. And we are talking an autonomous drone for $135.
4 inch wide tape in different colors on the floor, with text in it saying where each strip leads to.
Works on hospitals (Here in Denmark) for guiding patients around. Just follow the red line to the waiting room, or the yellow to x-ray.
I read that slefies kills moe people than sharks every year. Is this fist more dangerous than selfies ? Or are selfies still on top as the most dangerous animal in the world ?