With iOS 11 Apple is leaving Ipad 2 (2011), iPhone 5(2012), 5c (2013), iPod 5th gen (2012)devices unsupported. The minimum time is about 3.75 years and the max nearly 6 between market introduction and unsupported. However, new iPhone buyers probably go 2.5-3.5 years between new and unsupported. That's really not much better in terms of obsolescence than cheap Chinese android phones.
I always believed you want to maximize the area under the quality of life curve mapped over time. On one end you probably don't want a highly restricted calorie diet and an extended life, nor do you want a 8k calorie a day diet and die at 34 of a heart attack.
Agreed, as in a greed. However it "could" be an accident as in it was all coded up and not meant to actually be implemented yet. Then it could be as simple as uncommenting a single line or a single number.
Musk in 2017 "society won't know how to react "until people see robots going down the street killing people..."
The first AI CEO turned presidential candidate will be noted as saying in the upcoming 2070 election "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible"
While the main efforts need to be made to conserve habitats, lower pollution, and stop over harvesting of animals, one thing is different this time around that provides some hope. De-extinction. More of an effort needs to be made to preserve as much tissue and DNA from existing threatened species and save them in a bank similar to how we already do with seeds. We are close to bringing back animals like the passenger pigeon but with proper samples and possibly living cell cultures this job is made much much easier. With advancements over the coming decades de-extinction will become a reality and a last hope for many species. Not just giving elephants a few mammoth genes, but nearly complete genomes will become possible. The specific information stored in DNA and the creatures it brings forth are a unique treasure of this planet within the visible universe, we have learned so much we never would have otherwise by reverse engineering them it boggles the mind, and in my opinion our most valuable resource.
The crucial step was software purposefully missing. After the public blowback the next iOS update unbricked them. This was all about lock-in and had nothing to do with security or improper repairs.
Not correct on both accounts. Apple withheld the software needed to make simple repairs. It wasn't possible to fix this even with the proper procedure. After the public outcry 9.1.2 was released that unbricked the phone. Second it's BS about the service light, you can drive with the idiot light on no problem. This literally turned the phone into a paperweight.
I think there are already plans afoot to get rid of private prisons in this country. Private prisons are being phased out... at least for now, unless Trump or a later President decides to reverse that decision.
At this point, premade UAVs can easily be reprogrammed to be fully autonomous (with minimal skill) and microwave jamming won't do anything to stop it. What's really needed here is for the prison guards to actually... guard the prison. -_-
With minimal skill, most drones will land or otherwise not function correctly if you jam the gps signal, which is in the microwave range. Inertial and gyroscopic measurements lose accuracy quickly without gps to fuse the data accurately. That said I'm certainly not in favor of private prisons just ruining Gps for everyone in a large radius because of thier sloppy practices and cost cutting measures.
Do keep in mind that Error 53 is there for good reason: The Fingerprint reader has been tampered with and cannot be trusted. Now, it would have been better to warn the user and allow it to be used as a normal home button, but the reason for Error 53 is sound. It just wasn't handled elegantly.
The sensor, even when replaced with an apple sensor, but not done through an official apple channel, bricked the phone. It even happened if the sensor was never used to authenticate the unlocking feature. It was only with blowback from the public that they changed this. Elegantly my ass, apple knew exactly what they were doing; they aren't known for doing things half assed and not thought through. To use a car analogy that's like saying ford disabled your truck because the brakes were replaced - it's for your safety.
Apple has had right to repair issues such as error 53. Apple, or any other company, remote bricking a phone because you had it repaired with 3rd party parts should be illegal. That kind of lock in is the BS this is attempting to resolve.
Here is some math comparing the energy of orbital speed vs nuclear weapons. First of all, think about it, if you are going to drop something from orbit, first you have to put it into orbit, which will take more energy to do than the ultimate energetic yield upon reentry (discounting the even more far fetched ideas of redirecting asteroids...).
Not necessarily. The solar system is full of massive objects including asteroids containing cubic miles of metal and easily dwarfing 70Mtons. You would only need a small amount of thrust to park it in orbit if you had a decade or so and didn't mind the safety implications of using the earth to aerodynamically brake it. Or better yet, if impact time was less of a concern and you had a few months to a few years, you could just impact it directly into the earth. You can get back billions or more times the amount of energy as you put into thrust since you are just nudging its orbit slightly, it's already extremely massive and energetic from the reference frame of inside our gravity well.
You only need to use electronic payments, such as a credit card, not necessarily online. Many thefts used compromised readers during a regular in person transaction, though newer cards make this less likely. Ultimately your retailer will typically store your payment information in a database, along with other personally identifying information. This is even more likely with over the phone purchases. Many companies store it in plain text while few properly hash/encrypt it.
I travel through msp a lot and went through the msp airport a few months before 9/11 and the TSA update to security. They were understaffed and was waiting so I just walked through the detector. It beeped and no one came. I said, almost shouting, "OK, if no one is coming to check I'm leaving!" I proceeded to walk off as the guy behind me laughed (he also left). Believe it or not 1/18 is probably an improvement. At least they walled up the walkway where you could just toss a package up from the lower entrance level before security to the upper walkway after it lmafo.
From TFA Tesla only promised the "worlds biggest". TBH that's pretty easy to deliver. If I was asking I would have instead requested the largest capacity in watt hours with enough actual capacity at the watts/second needed to meet my peak demands.
Copulating with freshly manufactured robots should already be illegal. 18 years should be enough time for those robots to mature and understand the life consequences of thier actions.
The real issue not even being addressed is these low lifes actually have companies that sell robots for sex! While it's only natural a robot dosent get a say in if it's going to be manufactured, for gods sake you owe it a happy childhood and quality working environment. These are the same fucks who think it's OK to make cheap goods with warehouses full of robots only 6 years old working 24 hour days.
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With iOS 11 Apple is leaving Ipad 2 (2011), iPhone 5(2012), 5c (2013), iPod 5th gen (2012)devices unsupported. The minimum time is about 3.75 years and the max nearly 6 between market introduction and unsupported. However, new iPhone buyers probably go 2.5-3.5 years between new and unsupported. That's really not much better in terms of obsolescence than cheap Chinese android phones.
I always believed you want to maximize the area under the quality of life curve mapped over time. On one end you probably don't want a highly restricted calorie diet and an extended life, nor do you want a 8k calorie a day diet and die at 34 of a heart attack.
Agreed, as in a greed. However it "could" be an accident as in it was all coded up and not meant to actually be implemented yet. Then it could be as simple as uncommenting a single line or a single number.
Maybe while he is at it he can use his irrational fears to make pi legally equal to three and save us all a lot of work.
Musk in 2017 "society won't know how to react "until people see robots going down the street killing people..."
The first AI CEO turned presidential candidate will be noted as saying in the upcoming 2070 election "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible"
What could go wrong?
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Here's a quarter, kid. Go away.
Ahh, a two bit relationship.
Being able to record detailed data in a genome raises the question: has this already been done before?
Yes. Star Trek season 6 episode 20
The obvious! I want a blue puppy with gills so I can take it in the pool with me. Also some jellyfish DNA so I can see him in the dark.
Ok, ok. We will use it for something practical like bigger boobs.
While the main efforts need to be made to conserve habitats, lower pollution, and stop over harvesting of animals, one thing is different this time around that provides some hope. De-extinction. More of an effort needs to be made to preserve as much tissue and DNA from existing threatened species and save them in a bank similar to how we already do with seeds. We are close to bringing back animals like the passenger pigeon but with proper samples and possibly living cell cultures this job is made much much easier. With advancements over the coming decades de-extinction will become a reality and a last hope for many species. Not just giving elephants a few mammoth genes, but nearly complete genomes will become possible. The specific information stored in DNA and the creatures it brings forth are a unique treasure of this planet within the visible universe, we have learned so much we never would have otherwise by reverse engineering them it boggles the mind, and in my opinion our most valuable resource.
I'm guessing yes
It even bricked the phone with genuine apple parts that did not get repairs done by Apple. All that was missing was crucial software.
The crucial step was software purposefully missing. After the public blowback the next iOS update unbricked them. This was all about lock-in and had nothing to do with security or improper repairs.
Not correct on both accounts. Apple withheld the software needed to make simple repairs. It wasn't possible to fix this even with the proper procedure. After the public outcry 9.1.2 was released that unbricked the phone. Second it's BS about the service light, you can drive with the idiot light on no problem. This literally turned the phone into a paperweight.
I think there are already plans afoot to get rid of private prisons in this country. Private prisons are being phased out... at least for now, unless Trump or a later President decides to reverse that decision.
Are you nuts? While it's not really true Jeff sessions owns private prisons it most certainly is true private prisons lobbied trump lavishly, and he accepted the money including over 250k usd for just the inauguration. Further Trumps cleansing of America of immigrants requires a detainment period at, you guessed it, prison of which many are private. It's no wonder Sessions is bringing back 1960s hystaria around marijuana and minor offenses either, the shitshow of how private prisons are run in the USA needs to end but is instead expanding.
At this point, premade UAVs can easily be reprogrammed to be fully autonomous (with minimal skill) and microwave jamming won't do anything to stop it. What's really needed here is for the prison guards to actually... guard the prison. -_-
With minimal skill, most drones will land or otherwise not function correctly if you jam the gps signal, which is in the microwave range. Inertial and gyroscopic measurements lose accuracy quickly without gps to fuse the data accurately.
That said I'm certainly not in favor of private prisons just ruining Gps for everyone in a large radius because of thier sloppy practices and cost cutting measures.
Do keep in mind that Error 53 is there for good reason: The Fingerprint reader has been tampered with and cannot be trusted. Now, it would have been better to warn the user and allow it to be used as a normal home button, but the reason for Error 53 is sound. It just wasn't handled elegantly.
The sensor, even when replaced with an apple sensor, but not done through an official apple channel, bricked the phone. It even happened if the sensor was never used to authenticate the unlocking feature. It was only with blowback from the public that they changed this. Elegantly my ass, apple knew exactly what they were doing; they aren't known for doing things half assed and not thought through. To use a car analogy that's like saying ford disabled your truck because the brakes were replaced - it's for your safety.
Apple has had right to repair issues such as error 53. Apple, or any other company, remote bricking a phone because you had it repaired with 3rd party parts should be illegal. That kind of lock in is the BS this is attempting to resolve.
The odds it's just random chance is about 1 in 80 or so of at least one in a universe like ours. So I wouldn't hold my breath, but it is intriguing.
Here is some math comparing the energy of orbital speed vs nuclear weapons. First of all, think about it, if you are going to drop something from orbit, first you have to put it into orbit, which will take more energy to do than the ultimate energetic yield upon reentry (discounting the even more far fetched ideas of redirecting asteroids...).
Not necessarily. The solar system is full of massive objects including asteroids containing cubic miles of metal and easily dwarfing 70Mtons. You would only need a small amount of thrust to park it in orbit if you had a decade or so and didn't mind the safety implications of using the earth to aerodynamically brake it. Or better yet, if impact time was less of a concern and you had a few months to a few years, you could just impact it directly into the earth. You can get back billions or more times the amount of energy as you put into thrust since you are just nudging its orbit slightly, it's already extremely massive and energetic from the reference frame of inside our gravity well.
and get that triple glazing filled with unicorn farts first,.
TIL unicorns fart noble gasses.
You only need to use electronic payments, such as a credit card, not necessarily online. Many thefts used compromised readers during a regular in person transaction, though newer cards make this less likely. Ultimately your retailer will typically store your payment information in a database, along with other personally identifying information. This is even more likely with over the phone purchases. Many companies store it in plain text while few properly hash/encrypt it.
I travel through msp a lot and went through the msp airport a few months before 9/11 and the TSA update to security. They were understaffed and was waiting so I just walked through the detector. It beeped and no one came. I said, almost shouting, "OK, if no one is coming to check I'm leaving!" I proceeded to walk off as the guy behind me laughed (he also left). Believe it or not 1/18 is probably an improvement. At least they walled up the walkway where you could just toss a package up from the lower entrance level before security to the upper walkway after it lmafo.
From TFA Tesla only promised the "worlds biggest". TBH that's pretty easy to deliver. If I was asking I would have instead requested the largest capacity in watt hours with enough actual capacity at the watts/second needed to meet my peak demands.
Copulating with freshly manufactured robots should already be illegal. 18 years should be enough time for those robots to mature and understand the life consequences of thier actions.
The real issue not even being addressed is these low lifes actually have companies that sell robots for sex! While it's only natural a robot dosent get a say in if it's going to be manufactured, for gods sake you owe it a happy childhood and quality working environment. These are the same fucks who think it's OK to make cheap goods with warehouses full of robots only 6 years old working 24 hour days.