Are we talking about those relatively small drones with multiple propellers that cost $1k or so and fly at a few hundred feet altitude or are we talking about the big ones the CIA and military use in places like Syria and Iraq? The big ones may have GPS guided bombs able to be flown at night or through clouds and fog and can be effective weapons in bad weather. Lasers aren't very useful in bad weather situations because of light scattering. Would this anti-drone device be useful for, maybe, shooting down Amazon packages?
Apparently the US military personnel weren't marines. One was a US Army National Guardsman, one was a US Air Force service man and a third was a US college student. US Marines aren't the only US military heroes.
"...ESPN has lost 7.2 million viewers in the last four years, and a little more than three million in the last year. Since ESPN is annoyingly force-bundled with most basic cable subscriptions a lot of these users are cord cutters."
I think the amount of cable cutters depends on how it's measured. Some, if not most, cable companies have an Internet plan that is cheaper if one buys a package that includes a very basic channel selection which may include only the local broadcast channels. People who got rid of all higher level packages and just wanted Internet but took the less expensive package with some TV may not be considered cable cutters because they get cable provided Pay TV. What really needs to be counted are the changes in the numbers of subs to content providers as ESPN, CNN/MSNBC/CNBC/Fox News/ which are generally included in the next higher level Pay TV package. Loss in those subscribers would be a better measure of cable cutting. Oh, and many of those getting the local broadcast channel and Internet package may not even be watching the Pay TV content. Disney, owner of ESPN, seems to have some cash flow problems seen by the dismissal/loss of some of their expensive on air "talent". They've paid huge sums to some sports leagues, notably to the NBA, and may have trouble paying for that. Sports leagues could be in trouble.
My Dell XPS 15 laptop running Windows 7 has an Nvidia graphics processor as well as Intel graphics. A choice can be made as to which processor to use for any application. I wonder if this is why I haven't seen the Widows 10 update Icon that invites me to reserve my update to Win 10. Maybe it's something else. A desktop computer I built running Win 7 does show the update icon.
Like many who have posted above, I have disabled auto updates on both these Win 7 computers and wait for a week to find out if there have been problems with any second Tuesday updates before installing them. I'm waiting to see if some auto update to Windows 10 bricks 10% of Win 10 computers and nothing can be done to use a restore point installation because there's no way to boot without a bootable disk or image. That is even if a restore point created. Even then restoring to a previous set up would just auto update to the faulty configuration because there's no way to turn off auto updates. This is going to be a mess.
My understanding is that the current atmospheric carbon isotope ratio is not used for carbon dating but that from tree rings. Knowing the ratio from tree rings and the decay rate of C-14 should give the atmospheric ratio when the tree ring grew. One problem is that the oldest trees are something like 4,000 to 5,000 years old but then 5,000 years ago was well before the industrial revolution when the huge quantities of fossil fuels began to be used. Assuming the isotope ratio wasn't much different before ~2,000 BCE doesn't seem much of a stretch. I guess some have a problem with that, though. There are other dating methods for radioactive dating for much earlier times particularly for geology. See:
Let's put the $10 billion to better use like finding a cure for one of the many illness that affect many so as to extend their life. The return on investment could be enormous not only because of the likely improvement in the quality of life of sufferers but also the elimination of the care that might be required for such a disease and the general population as well. Look what virologists and medicinal chemists have accomplished in the treatment of HIV AIDS or hepatitis C and how that research may improve treatments for other chronic ailments. There are so many conditions that need work that setting a priority for what to study will always be difficult.
It looks like/. had a Plan B ready in the case of a catastrophic failure. For some sites one just gets a blank page with some strange message when that happens./. did the right thing letting users know they had a problem and were working on it and then let us know a bit about what happened. Thanks,/. techs.
Isn't it true that Microsoft makes a lot of money on Android phone sales through licensing patents to Android phone makers - something like $5 per Android phone? I wonder if this isn't more income than from their Nokia, er Microsoft, phones.
"Interactions with websites running HTTPS encryption, which includes financial transactions, were not leaked."
Whew... Although there are some privacy implications, HTTPS seems to work for your most important web use. And, with the transition to almost all sites running HTTPS encryption - hopefully with no bugs in that - the problem cited in the article may go away. There have been some concerns about HTTPS reliability, such as forged certificates, but hopefully the problems will be solved. I'm not completely up to date an the problems w/ HTTPS, though.
I presume you are in the UK. In the USA persons educated and licensed to distribute prescription drugs are called pharmacists, not chemists. In the USA persons educated and who work in the area of the chemical sciences are called chemists. I'm not sure what the latter are called in the UK - chemical scientists? If both professionals are called chemists then I can imagine some confusion.
One of my favorite lines in a movie which I think was in one of the Thin Man films was by William Powell sitting at a wrestling match was something like: you must have attended the rehearsal.
Canoes aren't cars. Canoes don't have wheels which means they can't go "off the water". Canoes also use the energy of its occupants to provide energy unless they're going down stream then generally they'll end up in a lake, reservoir or the ocean. Of course, if the occupants of the canoe are living on the nutritious air the North Koreans invent, they could use canoes for water trips and put bicycle like wheel drives in the cars to make them move on hard ground.
Soon we'll hear how North Koreans can drive the cars they don't have on water without any external energy supply. Also, they'll produce, without any energy use, a form of air that's so nutritious that there will be no need for food thus traditional agriculture will be unnecessary.
I hate to give them any new ideas about productive research possibilities that might come from the curious US workers with garages and an advertising budget, but you never know.
Maybe I'm wrong, but why is this kind of data on publicly accessible Internet? Is it not possible to put the encrypted data on totally secure servers requiring the best kind of login services that are not attached in any way to the public Internet but accessible through a separate wide area network? Folks who have access to this kind of data might need a separate terminal to access the data perhaps in a physically different location from their Internet connected computer. Users would need to be prevented from switching cables between the two kinds of terminals or otherwise allowing the servers to connect to the public Internet.
I haven't found anything that matches Yahoo! for its financial pages. I've used their Portfolios feature to keep track of a variety of investments for quite some time. Portfolios can be set up with a variety of views that gives me what I want to know about my investments.If you want historical information on particular stocks, mutual funds or indices, you can usually find it there. If others here have a better free recommendation I'd like to hear about it. The yahoo.com home age aggregates information that's of interest to me, but maybe not everyone in this thread. I have a Yahoo! mail account, though I don't have any correspondents there, but I can't remember whether that's required to access other features. Gmail works well for me either in the web view or via my imap desktop app.
It's too bad Yahoo! may fail. Maybe they've tried to be everything to everyone. A smaller number of best of class features might let them survive.
For fixed-in-place lighting, such as sconces, pot lights in the kitchen, under counter lighting, out of doors lighting, etc. I'd figure out how to set up LED lights connected to a central electric supply. Each fixture would not generate much heat because the conversion from 110 V AC to low voltage DC would take place either outside the home or in the garage away from the living space.
Secondly, I'd put conduits in the walls, ceilings and floors, as needed, from a central location/utility closet so that cabling could easily be fished to every room. Right now the kinds of cables likely would be coax, ethernet and maybe telephone. Any changes in tech might require replacing current stuff with new tech (fiber optic) or higher quality than anything currently available. I wouldn't pay to put in cables that aren't currently needed because there might be something better in the future obsoleting what you put in. At a multi building campus where I once worked IT installed connections between buildings to a central location using fiber optics which wasn't needed. They thought they were future proofing themselves. It turned out all the fiber had to be replaced (not the conduits, thankfully) because when they finally got around to installing the switches some years later, they found the originally installed fiber was the wrong stuff. Newer fiber was somehow different.
Likewise, you might consider wiring windows, doors and motion detector locations for an alarm system, even if you don't plan on installing one. The sensors for wired alarms are quite small compared to those used for RF sensors and you will save on the cost of replacing batteries in the sensors. If later you find you need to install an alarm system it'll be an easy job.
First, if Hastert committed the sexual crime some have guessed/alleged, wouldn't it be a violation of an Indiana statute and up to the local DA to prosecute? Secondly, often many criminal statutes have a limited time after which they cannot be prosecuted, so if Hastert did what is alleged with a child, it may be so long ago that it cannot be prosecuted. Murder is one of those crimes that generally does not have a statue of limitation. Also, one cannot be prosecuted for an action that became a crime ex post facto. The only thing law enforcement could find to legally go after him is the crime of taking out too little money per transaction from bank accounts.
Not to muddy the waters, and perhaps a little off topic, but I've read several articles that estimate Microsoft brings in between $2 billion to $8.8 billion in license fees from harware makers using Android. These are two year old posts:
The last link asserts MS makes five times as much from these fees than it does on the Windows Phone OS. There have been recent developments in settling disputes about fees paid by Samsung to Microsoft, so some of the numbers are not up to date, but one point that's clear, Android is not free to hardware makers and indirectly to hardware purchasers but do result in substantial Microsoft revenue.
Just askin'. Not an expert in encryption and not sure the number of bits employed in HTTPS, but wouldn't this basically ban a secure Internet in Oz? Many important non-Australian sites would not be available there. I'm guessing much, if not most, Internet traffic comes from overseas to Oz; again, not sure.
About the only thing that Apple might bring to a smart TV might be a better UI. My Samsung smart TV UI is usable but certainly could be better. I don't own a Roku, but some have said its UI is somewhat clumsy. I think LG has new smart TVs with Roku build in, but I think an external streaming box is the best solution. Maybe TVs should really be just dumb monitors and even broadcast TV should use a separate box, but I think US regulation or law requires built in TV tuners.
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Are we talking about those relatively small drones with multiple propellers that cost $1k or so and fly at a few hundred feet altitude or are we talking about the big ones the CIA and military use in places like Syria and Iraq? The big ones may have GPS guided bombs able to be flown at night or through clouds and fog and can be effective weapons in bad weather. Lasers aren't very useful in bad weather situations because of light scattering. Would this anti-drone device be useful for, maybe, shooting down Amazon packages?
Apparently the US military personnel weren't marines. One was a US Army National Guardsman, one was a US Air Force service man and a third was a US college student. US Marines aren't the only US military heroes.
Techdirt seems to have some numbers in answer to my post:
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
For instance:
"...ESPN has lost 7.2 million viewers in the last four years, and a little more than three million in the last year. Since ESPN is annoyingly force-bundled with most basic cable subscriptions a lot of these users are cord cutters."
I think the amount of cable cutters depends on how it's measured. Some, if not most, cable companies have an Internet plan that is cheaper if one buys a package that includes a very basic channel selection which may include only the local broadcast channels. People who got rid of all higher level packages and just wanted Internet but took the less expensive package with some TV may not be considered cable cutters because they get cable provided Pay TV. What really needs to be counted are the changes in the numbers of subs to content providers as ESPN, CNN/MSNBC/CNBC/Fox News/ which are generally included in the next higher level Pay TV package. Loss in those subscribers would be a better measure of cable cutting. Oh, and many of those getting the local broadcast channel and Internet package may not even be watching the Pay TV content. Disney, owner of ESPN, seems to have some cash flow problems seen by the dismissal/loss of some of their expensive on air "talent". They've paid huge sums to some sports leagues, notably to the NBA, and may have trouble paying for that. Sports leagues could be in trouble.
My Dell XPS 15 laptop running Windows 7 has an Nvidia graphics processor as well as Intel graphics. A choice can be made as to which processor to use for any application. I wonder if this is why I haven't seen the Widows 10 update Icon that invites me to reserve my update to Win 10. Maybe it's something else. A desktop computer I built running Win 7 does show the update icon.
Like many who have posted above, I have disabled auto updates on both these Win 7 computers and wait for a week to find out if there have been problems with any second Tuesday updates before installing them. I'm waiting to see if some auto update to Windows 10 bricks 10% of Win 10 computers and nothing can be done to use a restore point installation because there's no way to boot without a bootable disk or image. That is even if a restore point created. Even then restoring to a previous set up would just auto update to the faulty configuration because there's no way to turn off auto updates. This is going to be a mess.
My understanding is that the current atmospheric carbon isotope ratio is not used for carbon dating but that from tree rings. Knowing the ratio from tree rings and the decay rate of C-14 should give the atmospheric ratio when the tree ring grew. One problem is that the oldest trees are something like 4,000 to 5,000 years old but then 5,000 years ago was well before the industrial revolution when the huge quantities of fossil fuels began to be used. Assuming the isotope ratio wasn't much different before ~2,000 BCE doesn't seem much of a stretch. I guess some have a problem with that, though. There are other dating methods for radioactive dating for much earlier times particularly for geology. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Let's put the $10 billion to better use like finding a cure for one of the many illness that affect many so as to extend their life. The return on investment could be enormous not only because of the likely improvement in the quality of life of sufferers but also the elimination of the care that might be required for such a disease and the general population as well. Look what virologists and medicinal chemists have accomplished in the treatment of HIV AIDS or hepatitis C and how that research may improve treatments for other chronic ailments. There are so many conditions that need work that setting a priority for what to study will always be difficult.
It looks like /. had a Plan B ready in the case of a catastrophic failure. For some sites one just gets a blank page with some strange message when that happens. /. did the right thing letting users know they had a problem and were working on it and then let us know a bit about what happened. Thanks, /. techs.
Isn't it true that Microsoft makes a lot of money on Android phone sales through licensing patents to Android phone makers - something like $5 per Android phone? I wonder if this isn't more income than from their Nokia, er Microsoft, phones.
Quote:
"Interactions with websites running HTTPS encryption, which includes financial transactions, were not leaked."
Whew... Although there are some privacy implications, HTTPS seems to work for your most important web use. And, with the transition to almost all sites running HTTPS encryption - hopefully with no bugs in that - the problem cited in the article may go away. There have been some concerns about HTTPS reliability, such as forged certificates, but hopefully the problems will be solved. I'm not completely up to date an the problems w/ HTTPS, though.
If that's true, we won't have to worry about the trivial climate heating we are experiencing now. We will be toast!
I presume you are in the UK. In the USA persons educated and licensed to distribute prescription drugs are called pharmacists, not chemists. In the USA persons educated and who work in the area of the chemical sciences are called chemists. I'm not sure what the latter are called in the UK - chemical scientists? If both professionals are called chemists then I can imagine some confusion.
One of my favorite lines in a movie which I think was in one of the Thin Man films was by William Powell sitting at a wrestling match was something like: you must have attended the rehearsal.
Canoes aren't cars. Canoes don't have wheels which means they can't go "off the water". Canoes also use the energy of its occupants to provide energy unless they're going down stream then generally they'll end up in a lake, reservoir or the ocean. Of course, if the occupants of the canoe are living on the nutritious air the North Koreans invent, they could use canoes for water trips and put bicycle like wheel drives in the cars to make them move on hard ground.
Soon we'll hear how North Koreans can drive the cars they don't have on water without any external energy supply. Also, they'll produce, without any energy use, a form of air that's so nutritious that there will be no need for food thus traditional agriculture will be unnecessary.
I hate to give them any new ideas about productive research possibilities that might come from the curious US workers with garages and an advertising budget, but you never know.
You need to have all three diseases to cure all of them with this magic elixir. Otherwise, well, you know what happens.
Maybe I'm wrong, but why is this kind of data on publicly accessible Internet? Is it not possible to put the encrypted data on totally secure servers requiring the best kind of login services that are not attached in any way to the public Internet but accessible through a separate wide area network? Folks who have access to this kind of data might need a separate terminal to access the data perhaps in a physically different location from their Internet connected computer. Users would need to be prevented from switching cables between the two kinds of terminals or otherwise allowing the servers to connect to the public Internet.
I haven't found anything that matches Yahoo! for its financial pages. I've used their Portfolios feature to keep track of a variety of investments for quite some time. Portfolios can be set up with a variety of views that gives me what I want to know about my investments.If you want historical information on particular stocks, mutual funds or indices, you can usually find it there. If others here have a better free recommendation I'd like to hear about it. The yahoo.com home age aggregates information that's of interest to me, but maybe not everyone in this thread. I have a Yahoo! mail account, though I don't have any correspondents there, but I can't remember whether that's required to access other features. Gmail works well for me either in the web view or via my imap desktop app.
It's too bad Yahoo! may fail. Maybe they've tried to be everything to everyone. A smaller number of best of class features might let them survive.
For fixed-in-place lighting, such as sconces, pot lights in the kitchen, under counter lighting, out of doors lighting, etc. I'd figure out how to set up LED lights connected to a central electric supply. Each fixture would not generate much heat because the conversion from 110 V AC to low voltage DC would take place either outside the home or in the garage away from the living space.
Secondly, I'd put conduits in the walls, ceilings and floors, as needed, from a central location/utility closet so that cabling could easily be fished to every room. Right now the kinds of cables likely would be coax, ethernet and maybe telephone. Any changes in tech might require replacing current stuff with new tech (fiber optic) or higher quality than anything currently available. I wouldn't pay to put in cables that aren't currently needed because there might be something better in the future obsoleting what you put in. At a multi building campus where I once worked IT installed connections between buildings to a central location using fiber optics which wasn't needed. They thought they were future proofing themselves. It turned out all the fiber had to be replaced (not the conduits, thankfully) because when they finally got around to installing the switches some years later, they found the originally installed fiber was the wrong stuff. Newer fiber was somehow different.
Likewise, you might consider wiring windows, doors and motion detector locations for an alarm system, even if you don't plan on installing one. The sensors for wired alarms are quite small compared to those used for RF sensors and you will save on the cost of replacing batteries in the sensors. If later you find you need to install an alarm system it'll be an easy job.
First, if Hastert committed the sexual crime some have guessed/alleged, wouldn't it be a violation of an Indiana statute and up to the local DA to prosecute? Secondly, often many criminal statutes have a limited time after which they cannot be prosecuted, so if Hastert did what is alleged with a child, it may be so long ago that it cannot be prosecuted. Murder is one of those crimes that generally does not have a statue of limitation. Also, one cannot be prosecuted for an action that became a crime ex post facto. The only thing law enforcement could find to legally go after him is the crime of taking out too little money per transaction from bank accounts.
Just what I was thinking. No Johns. Your seat at your open office desk is a toilet. More efficient that way.
Not to muddy the waters, and perhaps a little off topic, but I've read several articles that estimate Microsoft brings in between $2 billion to $8.8 billion in license fees from harware makers using Android. These are two year old posts:
https://www.google.com/#q=micr...
http://www.zdnet.com/article/m...
And,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti...
The last link asserts MS makes five times as much from these fees than it does on the Windows Phone OS. There have been recent developments in settling disputes about fees paid by Samsung to Microsoft, so some of the numbers are not up to date, but one point that's clear, Android is not free to hardware makers and indirectly to hardware purchasers but do result in substantial Microsoft revenue.
What a deal. Actually, it may be a real deal compared to a comparably powerful Mac Book if it's available.
Just askin'. Not an expert in encryption and not sure the number of bits employed in HTTPS, but wouldn't this basically ban a secure Internet in Oz? Many important non-Australian sites would not be available there. I'm guessing much, if not most, Internet traffic comes from overseas to Oz; again, not sure.
About the only thing that Apple might bring to a smart TV might be a better UI. My Samsung smart TV UI is usable but certainly could be better. I don't own a Roku, but some have said its UI is somewhat clumsy. I think LG has new smart TVs with Roku build in, but I think an external streaming box is the best solution. Maybe TVs should really be just dumb monitors and even broadcast TV should use a separate box, but I think US regulation or law requires built in TV tuners.