Pedestrians with their eyes and mind in their phones are mostly a danger to themselves. Drivers with their eyes and minds in their phones are a danger to also everyone around them: passengers, other drivers and pedestrians alike.
I know at least one case where Apple iOS has been giving applications signed with Apple's own code-signing certificate some additional entitlement(s) within iOS.
Under iOS, mmap() and mprotect() disallow regular applications to set both +w and +x flags on the same segment. Mobile Safari, however, has the "dynamic-codesigning" entitlement which enables MAP_JIT to do that. This has allowed Safari to perform just-in-time - compilation to run Javascript faster than third-party web browsers.
Now, it does not seem entirely unreasonable to restrict MAP_JIT to trusted developers. The questions are why it has not been available to others, and if there are other entitlements within iOS that Apple has been hogging.
There is some obvious bad maths in the article. The screen is not composed out of 4*4 "4K televisions". A "4K TV" has an aspect ratio of 16:9, whereas this screen has an aspect ratio of 32:9. So, if it is "16K" across, then it is only equivalent to eight "4K" TV screens, not sixteen.
And that's not mentioning that "16K" here is 4 * "4K" = 4 * 3840 = 15360 = 15 * 1024... But Sony is counting like Sony is counting. Back a few years ago it was Sony who had started the convention of calling "UltraHD" standad "4K.
The key to good user interface/user experience design is to have and to mediate a simple, straightforward mental model of the system to users. The mental model also has to fit to how the users work, not to how the system works inside.
If you don't do that, there will always be people who will never learn the system's model, but only the steps necessary to get by doing their tasks.
It should go without saying that you must not ever turn that model up-side down in an upgrade to the system.
Unfortunately, there are just too many people who call themselves "user experience designers" who do not understand this.
Temperatures in Sweden, on roughly the same latitudes as Canada, have also been reported as rising twice as much as the global mean. The press release (Swedish) from the Swedish meteorological institute was posted last Friday, and in the newspaper this mornin.
That temperatures would be rising faster near the poles than the global mean, is right in line with expectations. So nobody around here who is the least bit in the know about climate change is surprised one bit.
The researchers had tested only an AMD processor of the previous generation: Bulldozer. It is still unknown if Zen is susceptible to this attack or not.
A 35 mm release print of a film, used to project a film in a threatre back in the day, is considered to be roughly equivalent to 2K or 1080p, and those are at least a third generation copy from the original master.
This UHD release is supposed to be scanned from the original negative, so, however how grainy it is, it should at least be as good as it could be.
1. Tickets could be electronic. To take a snapshot of a ticket as a QR code (what my local theatre chain does), you would need a second phone running the RT app to photograph the first phone that shows the ticket. I suppose there could be systems out there that use NFC instead.
2. The tickets need to be verified by a human. How would they identify what they see as a ticket? I have gone to many press screenings in Europe where the "ticket" was a full-size letter with just info about the movie, the name of the theatre and a date... and written in a foreign language.
3. Instead of an actual ticket to a pre-screening, the ticket attendant would carry a list of names. Attendants show their IDs. (I have done this.) Or not even that. I have been asked to cosplay semi-professionally at movie premieres and pre-screenings, and allowed to just stay in the theatre and see the movie afterwards. The only proof here was that I belonged to the group.
4. It is so easy to fake. One troll could set up a web site that makes fake ticket images and then all trolls would use that.
Apple's own CPUs are not strictly "ARM-based", as they do not have cores developed by ARM itself. They have their own cores that are merely using ARM's ISA.
Apple's CPU designs are likely to have lineage to P.A. Semi which Apple acquired in 2008. Before then, P.A. Semi had made processors running the PowerPC ISA. Apple had previously been interested in using those, but opted not to in favour of x86.
Who in their right mind have not suspected that one cryptocurrency network or other had not been designed for Chinese Lottery attacks against hashing functions in the first place? Of course, there would need to be a backdoor somewhere, of some fashion. And of course some attacker would find it sooner or later.
I find it more likely that they would use the same keyboard mechanism as the Ipad Pro's "Smart Keyboard". It is the "butterfly" switch with a flexible keyboard condom on the [i]outside[/i] to protect it from dust. It looks and feels even worse than the "keyboard" on the recent MacBook.
Razer is one of the least respected computer peripheral manufacturers. Not only do they have a reputation for mid to lower-than-par quality of some of their products, and for requiring their Razer Synapse software to run on the Windows host to enable many functions on their keyboards and mice. They are infamous for using ambiguous and misleading marketing, misusing terminology to mean different things than what is industry-standard, thus making their products appear better than they really are. In other words: more bullshit than substance. Sometimes right outside the edge of fraudulent territory.
The worst thing, though, might be Razer Softminer: A cryptocurrency mining app. It mines real cryptocurrency for Razer (it is unclear which), and in return the user would get credits in Razer's rewards program. Considering that Razer caters to the gullible in the first place: often kids with gaming PCs, but who are not paying the energy bills, you could say that they are encouraging kids to steal from their parents on their behalf.
I've seen multiple reviewers say that this movie would be worth watching in 3D. It is unusual that a movie is enhanced by 3D in reality, and not the opposite. Where I live, most theaters are in Real-D projection which is utter crap. Only one has laser-IMAX 3D, but it is expensive.
I have also heard that the movie would have felt a bit condensed, like they would have had deleted scenes that could have provided e.g. more character development. Therefore, there is a possibility that there would be an extended cut on BluRay, and I had been planning to wait for that. (or, if deleted scenes are only separate, there would probably be at least a fan-made cut from BluRay some day). I have waited sixteen years for this movie. I could wait three more months... But if there is a point to seeing it in 3D then maybe I will.
Lufthansa who are doing this in Germany, and United Airlines who tried this in the USA are both members of the Star Alliance. They share programs, procedures and booking system with each other while not competing on the same routes, even though several of them both land and take off in the Germany. Lufthansa is therefore not suing for creating precedence just for itself, but on behalf of all of its members.
So, if you'd want to boycott Lufthansa and/or United Airlines for this stunt, then you would probably want to boycott all of them. Besides those two mentioned, they are: Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air India, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, Austrian Airlines. Avianca, Brussels Airlines, Copa Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EgyptAir, Ethiopian Airlines, EVA Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Swiss International Air Lines, TAP Air Portugal, Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines.
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Many UV-cured resins for 3D-printing are too fragile to be used as-is anyway This could be useful for prototyping, though, or for creating masters for casting more durable materials.
Which keyboard position that is best for you depends on your typing style. You could avoid problems with your wrists if you hold them as straight as you can while you type.
Some people (like me) do type with their right hand angled to the left, with the fingers somewhat aligned with the slanted "columns" of the keyboard. If the alphabetic keyboard is a bit to the left of centre, then my right wrist is straight and my left wrist is only slightly angled. I have seen other people type the other way around: with the left hand angled to the right -- and for those, a more ergonomic position of the keyboard would instead be somewhat to the right of centre because then it would be easier to hold the left wrist straight.
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Pedestrians with their eyes and mind in their phones are mostly a danger to themselves.
Drivers with their eyes and minds in their phones are a danger to also everyone around them: passengers, other drivers and pedestrians alike.
I know at least one case where Apple iOS has been giving applications signed with Apple's own code-signing certificate some additional entitlement(s) within iOS.
Under iOS, mmap() and mprotect() disallow regular applications to set both +w and +x flags on the same segment.
Mobile Safari, however, has the "dynamic-codesigning" entitlement which enables MAP_JIT to do that. This has allowed Safari to perform just-in-time - compilation to run Javascript faster than third-party web browsers.
Now, it does not seem entirely unreasonable to restrict MAP_JIT to trusted developers. The questions are why it has not been available to others, and if there are other entitlements within iOS that Apple has been hogging.
There is some obvious bad maths in the article. The screen is not composed out of 4*4 "4K televisions".
A "4K TV" has an aspect ratio of 16:9, whereas this screen has an aspect ratio of 32:9.
So, if it is "16K" across, then it is only equivalent to eight "4K" TV screens, not sixteen.
And that's not mentioning that "16K" here is 4 * "4K" = 4 * 3840 = 15360 = 15 * 1024 ...
But Sony is counting like Sony is counting. Back a few years ago it was Sony who had started the convention of calling "UltraHD" standad "4K.
The key to good user interface/user experience design is to have and to mediate a simple, straightforward mental model of the system to users.
The mental model also has to fit to how the users work, not to how the system works inside.
If you don't do that, there will always be people who will never learn the system's model, but only the steps necessary to get by doing their tasks.
It should go without saying that you must not ever turn that model up-side down in an upgrade to the system.
Unfortunately, there are just too many people who call themselves "user experience designers" who do not understand this.
Temperatures in Sweden, on roughly the same latitudes as Canada, have also been reported as rising twice as much as the global mean.
The press release (Swedish) from the Swedish meteorological institute was posted last Friday, and in the newspaper this mornin.
That temperatures would be rising faster near the poles than the global mean, is right in line with expectations. So nobody around here who is the least bit in the know about climate change is surprised one bit.
The FUD is strong in this submission ...
Besides, the multiplication symbol is not the letter 'x', but Ã--
The researchers had tested only an AMD processor of the previous generation: Bulldozer.
It is still unknown if Zen is susceptible to this attack or not.
A 35 mm release print of a film, used to project a film in a threatre back in the day, is considered to be roughly equivalent to 2K or 1080p, and those are at least a third generation copy from the original master.
This UHD release is supposed to be scanned from the original negative, so, however how grainy it is, it should at least be as good as it could be.
I'm from Europe, not from Armenia, Georgia or Azerbaijan
I don't think that would work.
1. Tickets could be electronic. To take a snapshot of a ticket as a QR code (what my local theatre chain does), you would need a second phone running the RT app to photograph the first phone that shows the ticket.
I suppose there could be systems out there that use NFC instead.
2. The tickets need to be verified by a human. How would they identify what they see as a ticket? ... and written in a foreign language.
I have gone to many press screenings in Europe where the "ticket" was a full-size letter with just info about the movie, the name of the theatre and a date
3. Instead of an actual ticket to a pre-screening, the ticket attendant would carry a list of names. Attendants show their IDs. (I have done this.)
Or not even that. I have been asked to cosplay semi-professionally at movie premieres and pre-screenings, and allowed to just stay in the theatre and see the movie afterwards. The only proof here was that I belonged to the group.
4. It is so easy to fake. One troll could set up a web site that makes fake ticket images and then all trolls would use that.
Apple's own CPUs are not strictly "ARM-based", as they do not have cores developed by ARM itself.
They have their own cores that are merely using ARM's ISA.
Apple's CPU designs are likely to have lineage to P.A. Semi which Apple acquired in 2008.
Before then, P.A. Semi had made processors running the PowerPC ISA. Apple had previously been interested in using those, but opted not to in favour of x86.
Who in their right mind have not suspected that one cryptocurrency network or other had not been designed for Chinese Lottery attacks against hashing functions in the first place?
Of course, there would need to be a backdoor somewhere, of some fashion. And of course some attacker would find it sooner or later.
I find it more likely that they would use the same keyboard mechanism as the Ipad Pro's "Smart Keyboard".
It is the "butterfly" switch with a flexible keyboard condom on the [i]outside[/i] to protect it from dust. It looks and feels even worse than the "keyboard" on the recent MacBook.
Razer is one of the least respected computer peripheral manufacturers. Not only do they have a reputation for mid to lower-than-par quality of some of their products, and for requiring their Razer Synapse software to run on the Windows host to enable many functions on their keyboards and mice.
They are infamous for using ambiguous and misleading marketing, misusing terminology to mean different things than what is industry-standard, thus making their products appear better than they really are. In other words: more bullshit than substance. Sometimes right outside the edge of fraudulent territory.
The worst thing, though, might be Razer Softminer: A cryptocurrency mining app. It mines real cryptocurrency for Razer (it is unclear which), and in return the user would get credits in Razer's rewards program.
Considering that Razer caters to the gullible in the first place: often kids with gaming PCs, but who are not paying the energy bills, you could say that they are encouraging kids to steal from their parents on their behalf.
I've seen multiple reviewers say that this movie would be worth watching in 3D. It is unusual that a movie is enhanced by 3D in reality, and not the opposite. Where I live, most theaters are in Real-D projection which is utter crap. Only one has laser-IMAX 3D, but it is expensive.
I have also heard that the movie would have felt a bit condensed, like they would have had deleted scenes that could have provided e.g. more character development.
Therefore, there is a possibility that there would be an extended cut on BluRay, and I had been planning to wait for that. (or, if deleted scenes are only separate, there would probably be at least a fan-made cut from BluRay some day).
I have waited sixteen years for this movie. I could wait three more months...
But if there is a point to seeing it in 3D then maybe I will.
The current Opera browser and company behind it has very little left of the old Opera in it.
The old core team left to develop Vivaldi.
Lufthansa who are doing this in Germany, and United Airlines who tried this in the USA are both members of the Star Alliance.
They share programs, procedures and booking system with each other while not competing on the same routes, even though several of them both land and take off in the Germany.
Lufthansa is therefore not suing for creating precedence just for itself, but on behalf of all of its members.
So, if you'd want to boycott Lufthansa and/or United Airlines for this stunt, then you would probably want to boycott all of them.
Besides those two mentioned, they are:
Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air India, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, Austrian Airlines. Avianca, Brussels Airlines, Copa Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EgyptAir, Ethiopian Airlines, EVA Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Swiss International Air Lines, TAP Air Portugal, Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines.
Why does Forbes use the term "believe is morally wrong", when this is a question about opinion?
It seems to me that they want to hammer their own opinion into the heads of the readers, and belittle those with one that is different from theirs.
Bad form. A new low.
Have you checked?
I use Privacy Badger (2019.1.30), and www.google-analytics.com, as well as www.googletagmanager.com and www.googletagservices.com have got categorised under "The domains below don't appear to be tracking you".
Many UV-cured resins for 3D-printing are too fragile to be used as-is anyway
This could be useful for prototyping, though, or for creating masters for casting more durable materials.
Which keyboard position that is best for you depends on your typing style.
You could avoid problems with your wrists if you hold them as straight as you can while you type.
Some people (like me) do type with their right hand angled to the left, with the fingers somewhat aligned with the slanted "columns" of the keyboard. If the alphabetic keyboard is a bit to the left of centre, then my right wrist is straight and my left wrist is only slightly angled.
I have seen other people type the other way around: with the left hand angled to the right -- and for those, a more ergonomic position of the keyboard would instead be somewhat to the right of centre because then it would be easier to hold the left wrist straight.
I first read "Facebook Is Shutting Down in Moments".
So much for getting my hopes up ...
The mobile payment providers are not actively trying to subvert and make it harder for you to use cash.
Clear skies in Stockholm, at 6 in the morning. The weather report had warned of clouds but been wrong.
I walked outside to an open field in -12 degrees C cold and gazed upon the super-blood-wolf-moon in the West.