An adhesive bar code or QR-code on fingernails sound about as permanent as a Post It note on a cloth sleeve. A tattoo on a wrist or other visible place would be pretty permanent but the data base connected to the tattoo must be kept up to date. Another less permanent device might be an end sealed plastic wrist band containing appropriate information including perhaps a readable chip or QR-code. Maybe even an identity chip placed under the skin like those for wayward pets.
There's still the problem of dementia patients wandering away from their residence. This seems to happen fairly frequently and sometimes with tragic results. Some kind of tracking of such folks would also be nice. These are often used in the residential settings of such people, but don't work when the the patient walks away.
Movie theaters are a disaster. Your shoes stick to the floor from spilled drinks, and who knows what was left in the seat by a previous customer before you arrived. Then there are the idiots who turn on their phones in front of you, blinding you, to make or receive a call or an SMS and talk their head off. And of course, most movies are made for 14 year old boys or 12 year old girls. If there is any dialog, which is unusual, it's normally filled with inappropriate language (every three words are the F word), simulated (or real?) sex acts, lots of booze and cigarette smoke.
I'm sure there's more I can complain about, but Gunsmoke is on over the air TV in a few minutes and I want to watch it.
In order to have a fire, the organic liquid electrolyte in the battery must come in contact with air. It's possible the pressure produced by heating the electrolyte and converting it to a high pressure gas caused the battery case to break. The battery case could also have been pierced by some sharp component inside the phone as the case expanded. If these ether containing liquids-turned-to-gas came in contact with air they can spontaneously explode if peroxides formed (which ethers form in air) or undergo self ignition because of their high temperature exceeding their flash point temperature.
One thing's seems for sure: these phone cases are pretty rigid and do not pucker of bend under the intense force produced by the expanding battery case. If the cause of the fires and explosions is because of the volume expansion of the battery case inside the phone's case, that phone case is pretty tough.
Double or triple pane windows usually have argon as the fill gas as both its higher molar mass and smaller molecular size than the diatomic major molecules in air increase its insulation ability because of reduced thermal conductivity. It's also naturally water free if provided from liquid argon which is generally available. FYI, the thermal conductivity of a gas is proportional to the square root of molar mass and inversely proportional to the square of the molecule's diameter. At least that's true for real gases at atmospheric pressure which behave nearly like ideal gases
The punishment could differ depending on the country in which each individual set up was located and the individuals running them. In some places they might get a bullet (which they must pay for) in the back of the head or a bullet from a firing squad in a prison located on an island. Others might become some kind of hero for the president of a large country.
Of all of those channels, I only saw two or three that I would want to watch. I don't want ESPN. Should I completely cut the cable, let me choose the 10 channels I want, some of which aren't listed, for $1.00 each, and I might be all in. I might need to pay Comcast an extra $50 per month for unlimited data use because of data use limits now in force. I see very few channels that don't have commercials. I HATE commercials.
My question involves differences in the ways which the normal users use their Home editions of Windows 10 software and enterprise users use the various enterprise editions. How can the telemetry data from home users be used to help enterprise users? First, I'm guessing no enterprise is ever going to allow telemetry data to escape its premises. I would also expect any enterprise is going to try to make use of the strongest security measures possible, although we sometimes read about incredible stupidity when enterprise data is compromised. Enterprises want to protect their proprietary secrets. Anyway, I'm not sure the telemetry data from home users would be too much value in solving enterprise problems particularly if they involve security considering the kinds of attacks that enterprises suffer compared to that of home users. Discovering other difficulties with enterprise software from problems with home software seems a stretch.
Other Questions: What's FireEye going to do with the data and how secure is it in their hands?
For residential Comcast Internet accounts one does not have a static IP address and it used to change quite frequently. However, mine has not changed since about July, 2011. And what about accessing your Google account using a Wi-Fi hotspot at a coffee shop? It's not likely to be your home IP address.
This sounds like a pretty good situation, except, the merchant/manufacturer will probably build the cost of legal challenges into the price of refrigerators purchased by the next group of buyers. The best situation would be for manufacturers to recognize a problem exists and execute a recall to fix problems and pay for that instead of pay for the fix and the court and legal fees. Corporations are in the business of making a profit and should build costs of repairs into the original price of items they sell.
My original comment was also somewhat tongue in cheek, perhaps applicable in many cases today, as you point out, but very applicable in the past. The company store could be a credit card, near zero checking account, student loans even for folks with OK jobs, landlords to whom rent is due, and more. I'm guessing that the situation I described in an earlier comment about the Chinese Foxcon near slave labor situation of young women or girls living in crowded dorms and working to assemble small electronic devices might be another example of owing to the company store.
Remember the song "Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Part of the Lyrics, "You load sixteen tons, what do you get? / Another day older and deeper in debt / Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go / I owe my soul to the company store" This was the way corporate labor worked before the advent of labor unions, and certainly in some industries including mining and agriculture. You worked for a mining company or as a migrant farm worker, lived in a shack owned by the company and bought everything, including food and clothing, from the company's store, all this eating up more than your income.
Foxconn uses enormous amounts of robotics in manufacturing but it also requires large numbers of hand laborers. Can all of that be eliminated by automation? Probably not. And the hand laborers are indebted to "the company store." Could US manufacturing return to the olden times of the itinerant farm worker and miner? Possibly.
Not if you own Apple stock. You may not own it directly, but look at the stocks held in many mutual funds, and even non tech funds have it as one of its major holdings. If you have an IRA, 401k or other retirement plan with stock mutual funds, you likely own some Apple stock. Cutting Apple's profit in half (assuming all Apple's products are to be made in the USA) could have some affect on retirement income for Americans.
Don't forget the costs associated with the building in which the coffee is made: rent, electricity, fuel for heat when needed, janitorial services, building maintenance if not rented, property taxes if not rented, security systems, internet connection,....
I'm not sure there would be any US teenage girls out of high school (or not) willing to live in dorms at a walled factory, 10 to a room, working 16 hours a day, seven days a week for minimum wage assembling small electronic packages. Wages would be reduced by the cost of housing and food.
Not only cotton fabric exported to Asia to make clothing but trees exported to Asia to make plywood and returned to the US for building and repairing houses and anything that uses plywood.
In 1930, in order to raise revenue the Republican Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley increased import tariffs on 20,000 imports. Trading partners did the same for US imports and a trade war started. US imports decreased to about a third and exports decreased by about 61%. The US GDP was cut in half. Was this act the cause? Other things were going on, but the increase in tariffs is blamed by many economists as part of the cause of deepening the Great Depression. Since the end of WW II there has been a continuing process of reducing tariffs and though we've had ups and downs in economic progress the trend has generally been up.
In this particular situation, if GM decides it can't make the Cruze economically in the US and the tariff would make it price uncompetitive then it could just stop making the car. Not only would no US workers make the car and dealers not have it to sell and make a profit, but there would be no Mexican workers making it either. This would be good news for foreign car makers producing similar sized cars made overseas. Another option is to build the car completely using robots. GM knows a lot about industrial robotic car assembly.
Economics is complicated and dramatic, swift changes in policies can have many unintended consequences.
At that price you shouldn't need more than one connector to external devices. Want more ports, we have an octopus adapter for $75 and all the cables you need and for hundreds of dollars you get those you need. Profit!
Windows 7 still has majority market share my a large margin. Programs will still be working for quite a while.
And Windows 7 new adoptions last month were 10 times the adoptions of Windows 10.
Think of all those computers being borked or bricked with blue screens of death (or red depending on how your Win 10 was set up) when auto updates that you can't turn off update your machine.
I'm not sure there are non-critical systems in a hospital. Surely all the computers and their networks are critical in one way or another, including billing, employee attendance records and payroll or they wouldn't be there.
I'm assuming the virus got into the hospital's record keeping data system through an Internet connection. This makes me wonder if every system in the hospital is connected to the public Internet, including life support systems such as ventilators, heart monitors, etc., and and other devices such as robotic surgery machines, analytical laboratory equipment, x-ray data analysis computers, and more. Every data storage and manipulation device does not need to be on the general public Internet. Imagine if a county's ICBM launch systems were connected to the public Internet. The mind boggles. Even if these many systems were not on the Internet, a black hat with access to a significant collection of important networked computers can still do damage. The Stuxnet compromise of the Iranian uranium enrichment centrifuges is a perfect example.
I live in Colorado Springs, reported to be the second best place in the country for photovoltaic applications with 320 days of sunshine per year with moderate winter weather. However, we have one problem and that's hail propelled at 40 to 60 MPH (or greater speeds) down on roofs. It's great for the roofing businesses, but for glass roofs, likely not so good. I'm not talking about those little golf ball hail stones but hail stones the size of tennis balls building piles of hail two feet deep. An expensive glass roof should survive such a storm. I want to see the test results for such an event.
Thinking it won't be the color per se, but an enforced OS 'rental' that we should be on the lookout for... on the plus side they won't charge you for upgrades.:/
...they won't charge your for upgrades that bork the update process or brick your hardware. Blue Screens (or red screens depending on how your computer was set up) Of Death now quite commonly show up during installation of Windows 10 updates.
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An adhesive bar code or QR-code on fingernails sound about as permanent as a Post It note on a cloth sleeve. A tattoo on a wrist or other visible place would be pretty permanent but the data base connected to the tattoo must be kept up to date. Another less permanent device might be an end sealed plastic wrist band containing appropriate information including perhaps a readable chip or QR-code. Maybe even an identity chip placed under the skin like those for wayward pets.
There's still the problem of dementia patients wandering away from their residence. This seems to happen fairly frequently and sometimes with tragic results. Some kind of tracking of such folks would also be nice. These are often used in the residential settings of such people, but don't work when the the patient walks away.
Movie theaters are a disaster. Your shoes stick to the floor from spilled drinks, and who knows what was left in the seat by a previous customer before you arrived. Then there are the idiots who turn on their phones in front of you, blinding you, to make or receive a call or an SMS and talk their head off. And of course, most movies are made for 14 year old boys or 12 year old girls. If there is any dialog, which is unusual, it's normally filled with inappropriate language (every three words are the F word), simulated (or real?) sex acts, lots of booze and cigarette smoke.
I'm sure there's more I can complain about, but Gunsmoke is on over the air TV in a few minutes and I want to watch it.
In order to have a fire, the organic liquid electrolyte in the battery must come in contact with air. It's possible the pressure produced by heating the electrolyte and converting it to a high pressure gas caused the battery case to break. The battery case could also have been pierced by some sharp component inside the phone as the case expanded. If these ether containing liquids-turned-to-gas came in contact with air they can spontaneously explode if peroxides formed (which ethers form in air) or undergo self ignition because of their high temperature exceeding their flash point temperature.
One thing's seems for sure: these phone cases are pretty rigid and do not pucker of bend under the intense force produced by the expanding battery case. If the cause of the fires and explosions is because of the volume expansion of the battery case inside the phone's case, that phone case is pretty tough.
Double or triple pane windows usually have argon as the fill gas as both its higher molar mass and smaller molecular size than the diatomic major molecules in air increase its insulation ability because of reduced thermal conductivity. It's also naturally water free if provided from liquid argon which is generally available. FYI, the thermal conductivity of a gas is proportional to the square root of molar mass and inversely proportional to the square of the molecule's diameter. At least that's true for real gases at atmospheric pressure which behave nearly like ideal gases
The punishment could differ depending on the country in which each individual set up was located and the individuals running them. In some places they might get a bullet (which they must pay for) in the back of the head or a bullet from a firing squad in a prison located on an island. Others might become some kind of hero for the president of a large country.
Of all of those channels, I only saw two or three that I would want to watch. I don't want ESPN. Should I completely cut the cable, let me choose the 10 channels I want, some of which aren't listed, for $1.00 each, and I might be all in. I might need to pay Comcast an extra $50 per month for unlimited data use because of data use limits now in force. I see very few channels that don't have commercials. I HATE commercials.
My question involves differences in the ways which the normal users use their Home editions of Windows 10 software and enterprise users use the various enterprise editions. How can the telemetry data from home users be used to help enterprise users? First, I'm guessing no enterprise is ever going to allow telemetry data to escape its premises. I would also expect any enterprise is going to try to make use of the strongest security measures possible, although we sometimes read about incredible stupidity when enterprise data is compromised. Enterprises want to protect their proprietary secrets. Anyway, I'm not sure the telemetry data from home users would be too much value in solving enterprise problems particularly if they involve security considering the kinds of attacks that enterprises suffer compared to that of home users. Discovering other difficulties with enterprise software from problems with home software seems a stretch.
Other Questions: What's FireEye going to do with the data and how secure is it in their hands?
For residential Comcast Internet accounts one does not have a static IP address and it used to change quite frequently. However, mine has not changed since about July, 2011. And what about accessing your Google account using a Wi-Fi hotspot at a coffee shop? It's not likely to be your home IP address.
Fixed or not (how do you tell?), I think the market for used iPhone 6 Pluses just tanked. What's Apple offering for an upgrade trade?
This sounds like a pretty good situation, except, the merchant/manufacturer will probably build the cost of legal challenges into the price of refrigerators purchased by the next group of buyers. The best situation would be for manufacturers to recognize a problem exists and execute a recall to fix problems and pay for that instead of pay for the fix and the court and legal fees. Corporations are in the business of making a profit and should build costs of repairs into the original price of items they sell.
The shot in the butt where you keep your wallet will hurt. I guess if you're in the UK it's the jab in the buttocks.
That's total nonsense. It shouldn't cost even as much as an aspirin in a 500 pill bottle obtained from Walmart.
My original comment was also somewhat tongue in cheek, perhaps applicable in many cases today, as you point out, but very applicable in the past. The company store could be a credit card, near zero checking account, student loans even for folks with OK jobs, landlords to whom rent is due, and more. I'm guessing that the situation I described in an earlier comment about the Chinese Foxcon near slave labor situation of young women or girls living in crowded dorms and working to assemble small electronic devices might be another example of owing to the company store.
Remember the song "Sixteen Tons" by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Part of the Lyrics, "You load sixteen tons, what do you get? / Another day older and deeper in debt / Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go / I owe my soul to the company store" This was the way corporate labor worked before the advent of labor unions, and certainly in some industries including mining and agriculture. You worked for a mining company or as a migrant farm worker, lived in a shack owned by the company and bought everything, including food and clothing, from the company's store, all this eating up more than your income.
Foxconn uses enormous amounts of robotics in manufacturing but it also requires large numbers of hand laborers. Can all of that be eliminated by automation? Probably not. And the hand laborers are indebted to "the company store." Could US manufacturing return to the olden times of the itinerant farm worker and miner? Possibly.
Not if you own Apple stock. You may not own it directly, but look at the stocks held in many mutual funds, and even non tech funds have it as one of its major holdings. If you have an IRA, 401k or other retirement plan with stock mutual funds, you likely own some Apple stock. Cutting Apple's profit in half (assuming all Apple's products are to be made in the USA) could have some affect on retirement income for Americans.
Don't forget the costs associated with the building in which the coffee is made: rent, electricity, fuel for heat when needed, janitorial services, building maintenance if not rented, property taxes if not rented, security systems, internet connection, ....
I'm not sure there would be any US teenage girls out of high school (or not) willing to live in dorms at a walled factory, 10 to a room, working 16 hours a day, seven days a week for minimum wage assembling small electronic packages. Wages would be reduced by the cost of housing and food.
Not only cotton fabric exported to Asia to make clothing but trees exported to Asia to make plywood and returned to the US for building and repairing houses and anything that uses plywood.
In 1930, in order to raise revenue the Republican Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley increased import tariffs on 20,000 imports. Trading partners did the same for US imports and a trade war started. US imports decreased to about a third and exports decreased by about 61%. The US GDP was cut in half. Was this act the cause? Other things were going on, but the increase in tariffs is blamed by many economists as part of the cause of deepening the Great Depression. Since the end of WW II there has been a continuing process of reducing tariffs and though we've had ups and downs in economic progress the trend has generally been up.
In this particular situation, if GM decides it can't make the Cruze economically in the US and the tariff would make it price uncompetitive then it could just stop making the car. Not only would no US workers make the car and dealers not have it to sell and make a profit, but there would be no Mexican workers making it either. This would be good news for foreign car makers producing similar sized cars made overseas. Another option is to build the car completely using robots. GM knows a lot about industrial robotic car assembly.
Economics is complicated and dramatic, swift changes in policies can have many unintended consequences.
At that price you shouldn't need more than one connector to external devices. Want more ports, we have an octopus adapter for $75 and all the cables you need and for hundreds of dollars you get those you need. Profit!
Windows 7 still has majority market share my a large margin. Programs will still be working for quite a while.
And Windows 7 new adoptions last month were 10 times the adoptions of Windows 10.
Think of all those computers being borked or bricked with blue screens of death (or red depending on how your Win 10 was set up) when auto updates that you can't turn off update your machine.
Just what I was going to write. Since Win 7 can't use Edge, maybe I'm safe from some of these ads. I'm not putting money on that conclusion, though.
I'm not sure there are non-critical systems in a hospital. Surely all the computers and their networks are critical in one way or another, including billing, employee attendance records and payroll or they wouldn't be there.
I'm assuming the virus got into the hospital's record keeping data system through an Internet connection. This makes me wonder if every system in the hospital is connected to the public Internet, including life support systems such as ventilators, heart monitors, etc., and and other devices such as robotic surgery machines, analytical laboratory equipment, x-ray data analysis computers, and more. Every data storage and manipulation device does not need to be on the general public Internet. Imagine if a county's ICBM launch systems were connected to the public Internet. The mind boggles. Even if these many systems were not on the Internet, a black hat with access to a significant collection of important networked computers can still do damage. The Stuxnet compromise of the Iranian uranium enrichment centrifuges is a perfect example.
I live in Colorado Springs, reported to be the second best place in the country for photovoltaic applications with 320 days of sunshine per year with moderate winter weather. However, we have one problem and that's hail propelled at 40 to 60 MPH (or greater speeds) down on roofs. It's great for the roofing businesses, but for glass roofs, likely not so good. I'm not talking about those little golf ball hail stones but hail stones the size of tennis balls building piles of hail two feet deep. An expensive glass roof should survive such a storm. I want to see the test results for such an event.
Thinking it won't be the color per se, but an enforced OS 'rental' that we should be on the lookout for... on the plus side they won't charge you for upgrades. :/