It's not a security feature, because anyone who wants to pirate the video will do so regardless of how they try to restrict it.
I have worked with video streaming. Don't think for a second that any demand from the movie industry for a security feature has any realistic basis in how hard it makes it to crack.
Both PC and Apple keyboards are USB keyboards that work with on both PCs and Macs. There are only a handful of badly engineered keyboards that don't work on MacOS and iOS because of Apple's USB HID stack being more picky about correctness than MS Window and Linux.
The Windows keys and the Command keys both emit the same codes in the USB Human Interface Device protocol. The only significant difference between PC and Mac keyboards is in the order between those keys and their neighbouring Alt on the bottom row. Better keyboards (like my Ducky G2Pro) have a DIP switch or a programming setting for swapping the order of those keys between PC order and Mac order.
In the European Union, devices are required by EU law not to draw more than 1W in standby.
However... many manufacturers get around that by simply not calling it standby. Games consoles' "standby" power usage was in the news a while ago. The XBox One, PS4 and Nintendo Wii each draws more in "standby" than my NUC in idle.
The reason why antibiotic-resistant strains have been forming and allowed to be a problem is that people have been misusing antibiotics.
A small scale problem is that antibiotics have been used by human patients that would not benefit from them. Other patients have stopped or cut down on using antibiotics when they have started to feel well - but before the strain has been fully eradicated. In some countries, antibiotics have even been available over the counter without prescription.
A large scale problem is the over-used of antibiotics in agriculture. Livestock are given antibiotics in their feed as a precaution, and this is still going on on a large scale in most Western countries. Antibiotics-resistant strains are widespread, even the norm in many parts of the world. Seriously, this has to stop! We need to treat this problem seriously. If a resistant strain of bacteria is found on a farm then that farm should be put in quarantine and the stock of animals should be destroyed, like what happened when Mad Cow Disease - but instead this is seen as normal. Diseased eggs and meat are the norm, and I am not talking about third-world countries. I am talking about Western Europe and the USA.
The man in question was forced to resign as CIA director in 1995. However, after that he did not retire but worked as a lobbyist for several right-wing and warmongering groups in Washington. This statement here, is just another lobbyist action in the same vein.
Most significant of Woolsey's allegiances, is, I would say his membership in the PNAC - a lobbyist group for a US invasion of Iraq, Iran and Syria. Woolsey was one of the signers of a petition to Clinton in the late '90s to invade - a petition with one of the stated objectives to snatch their oil for US interests. When G.W.Bush became president, several leading members of the PNAC got high-ranking positions in that administration: vice-president Dick Cheney, defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolwovitz are the most well-known. When PNAC became the government, the PNAC's agenda became the agenda of the United States.
There is therefore no doubt that this ex-CIA director has a lot of blood on his hands. That whole clusterfuck in that region was caused by the Woolsey-supported invasion to thieve oil followed by gross mismanagement by US officials in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of civilians, soldiers and civilians have been killed, and millions of people are refugees from and in the region. How can one even compare Snowden to that?
Sure, but an iPad has a touch-screen. Transposition errors are much more common on touch-screens than on proper keypads where you can feel when you have pressed a key - and where you can feel when you have pressed in-between two keys. Real keypads even have a homing dot on the 5 key in the middle to make it easier to find the keys by touch.
Have you tried touch-typing on a tablet? That is an exercise in frustration, even if the tablet is really large, such as on a MS PixelSense.
And the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is not a Nobel Prize.
As the full title says, it was instigated not by Alfred Nobel but by Sveriges Riksbank - the Swedish Bank, the central bank of the Swedish currency. And this was done in 1969, 68 years after the first Nobel Prizes in natural sciences and literature.
I have a 7G mobile hanging in my window. That is seven G's! Two more than this 5G and at least THREE MORE than what most people have.
I added a small bell to balance them to eight items. I had used a pre-made mobile ring with eight holes around the circumference and was too lazy to measure and drill seven new ones for the strings. But when the window is open, and the wind catches the G's in the mobile, the bell hanging from the ring rings. People have asked me if I could also talk into it: of course I can, but I don't see the point.
Titanium Dioxide is a common additive as white colouring in foodstuffs such as cookies and candy. For instance, it is sometimes used to make sugar glazing on German lebkuchen cookies whiter. In Europe it is often in ingredients lists under the number E-171 rather than its full name.
Titanium Dioxide is one of the pigments that are suspected of leaking into the body, both from food and from its use in sunscreen. Therefore, it is something that I look for and avoid.
Why don't you re-educate the world to speak Lojban while you're at it? Then computers would also understand humans, with much less difficulty as many of the ambiguities of language have been removed.
If you have studied anything about any ethnic minority, then you will have come across cases of their native language being suppressed in schools and society at large. You will find several examples of such if you read up on the history of Native Americans and in the history of French-speaking Cajun and Creole in Southern USA.
Suppression of language is a form of suppression of culture, and suppression of a people's culture is oppression of people.
... but not a very popular disability, Especially not among people who depend on electronics for their livelihood, or in other ways in our daily lives - which is the entire user base of Slashdot. It goes without saying that someone with Electrohypersensitivity (EHS) will never ever post on Slashdot.
The theory behind EHS is well established in academia. The mechanism called NO-/ONOO+ - cycle is well known, and the trigger mechanism: voltage-gated calcium canals is too, and has been linked to the NO-/ONOO+ - cycle. The cycle builds up from prolonged exposure to certain chemicals, not electric fields by itself.
It is not an allergy, it is not a disease: it is a hypersensitivity. There is also not just one type of EHS, and not all EHS manifest themselves in physical sensation - which is why there have been many studies that have failed to detect it in people who claim to suffer from it. Almost every person with EHS has at one time or another had a job that involved strong solvents, and almost every person with EHS has also hypersensitivity to certain chemicals.
I am not going to post links to articles, because there are so many of them and you will in most cases need a degree in something or other to understand any of them. The keywords are above. Use Google! Instead I would suggest you search Youtube for lectures by Martin Pall.
That is not to say that there aren't people who claim to suffer from EHS who are emotionally unstable. But ponder that if EHS was real, and you got it, and everyone you told about it called you a faker, wouldn't that make you paranoid?
I am a keyboard geek, and I collect all info I can get on split ergonomic keyboards. I found that among different keyboard brands there is about a 2:1 ratio of having the '6' key on the left vs. right. I suspect however that most brands have it on the left, because of Microsoft. (Above, I counted Microsoft as one, and discarded all direct clones.) On keyboards with columns instead of rows, the '6' key is always on the right side, in the same columns as 'Y', 'H' and 'N'.
I know of one keyboard with the '6' key on both sides: Kinesis Evolution.
Actually, even back in the 1970s there were more scientists who were inclined to believe in global warming than in global cooling. It is just that cooling was more interesting to put in the news...
For instance, Global warming was one of the more important topics of the Stockholm Conference in 1972 (the biggest conference on the environment in the 70's) , while global cooling wasn't even hinted at.
Of course not all of the world is warming right now. Some parts of the world are indeed cooling (temporarily) because of warming having disrupting ocean currents that would otherwise warm those areas, or from warming having caused some areas to be cloudier and/or rainier. That is why climatologists prefer to use the term "Climate Change" rather than "Global Warming".
Beside the effects of carbon compounds in the atmosphere, there is also the effect of increased aerosols from human activity and those do cause a bit of climate change in form of more clouds, which cool. It has been theorized that this had contributed significantly to the Ethiopian famine in the mid-1980s - again, the effect in one part of the system causing a different effect in another. Ethiopia got a draught while another part of Africa got more rain. But while carbon emissions take thirty or more years to make a measurable difference in the atmosphere, aerosol cooling is very temporary. The white condensation trails from airplanes do contribute to cooling (cue the tin foil hat people:-P ) and that is only because how they are artificial clouds - and clouds cool. Back in September 11, 2001, airplanes across the USA were grounded causing the airspace above USA to be clear from condensation trails for the first time in decades - which had a measurable effect on the weather that day. But it was back to "normal" a couple of days later.
What is new is: 1. Auto-stabilisation, so it does not require as much skill to handle as before. 2. Realtime video feed, so you won't need to keep the helicopter in your line of sight at all times. 3. High-quality cameras are cheap and light: lighter weight means cheaper helicopter. Back 15-20 years ago, the kind of model helicopter that could carry a reasonably good camera had to be larger than the hobbyist norm just to be able to carry the weight.
I have an early, cheap quadcopter without auto-stabilisation and video feed. It takes hours to learn how to fly one of those things and still after you have learned how it requires your complete concentration to do it. With one of the new breed of drones, you can buy it at the local gadget store and be filming nude children in an hour with no previous skill.
So that means that up close, an image projected with these laser devices would look somewhat like a Pointilism painting? I am not sure that I would disapprove, actually.
Another way that makes it look dated is that the aesthetic design has glossy white and translucent blue plastic is like a 1999' Apple iMac. Maybe someone at Samsung has nostalgia for those. I really don't.
It appears that this monitor is a very small update of last years' S29D390H with a new stand. That screen has got pretty bad reviews for its build quality. The stand does not only lack a VESA mount, it is not height-adjustable either.
It has AMD FreeSync though, so I suppose that the intended target demographic is gamers. For gaming, the resolution is good enough. (BTW, screen resolution is measured in pixels-per-inch, not pixels per total: that is video resolution) For desktop work in 2015, I agree that it is not.
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I have worked with video streaming. Don't think for a second that any demand from the movie industry for a security feature has any realistic basis in how hard it makes it to crack.
Both PC and Apple keyboards are USB keyboards that work with on both PCs and Macs. There are only a handful of badly engineered keyboards that don't work on MacOS and iOS because of Apple's USB HID stack being more picky about correctness than MS Window and Linux.
The Windows keys and the Command keys both emit the same codes in the USB Human Interface Device protocol.
The only significant difference between PC and Mac keyboards is in the order between those keys and their neighbouring Alt on the bottom row.
Better keyboards (like my Ducky G2Pro) have a DIP switch or a programming setting for swapping the order of those keys between PC order and Mac order.
In the European Union, devices are required by EU law not to draw more than 1W in standby.
However... many manufacturers get around that by simply not calling it standby.
Games consoles' "standby" power usage was in the news a while ago. The XBox One, PS4 and Nintendo Wii each draws more in "standby" than my NUC in idle.
The reason why antibiotic-resistant strains have been forming and allowed to be a problem is that people have been misusing antibiotics.
A small scale problem is that antibiotics have been used by human patients that would not benefit from them. Other patients have stopped or cut down on using antibiotics when they have started to feel well - but before the strain has been fully eradicated. In some countries, antibiotics have even been available over the counter without prescription.
A large scale problem is the over-used of antibiotics in agriculture. Livestock are given antibiotics in their feed as a precaution, and this is still going on on a large scale in most Western countries.
Antibiotics-resistant strains are widespread, even the norm in many parts of the world.
Seriously, this has to stop! We need to treat this problem seriously. If a resistant strain of bacteria is found on a farm then that farm should be put in quarantine and the stock of animals should be destroyed, like what happened when Mad Cow Disease - but instead this is seen as normal. Diseased eggs and meat are the norm, and I am not talking about third-world countries. I am talking about Western Europe and the USA.
The man in question was forced to resign as CIA director in 1995.
However, after that he did not retire but worked as a lobbyist for several right-wing and warmongering groups in Washington.
This statement here, is just another lobbyist action in the same vein.
Most significant of Woolsey's allegiances, is, I would say his membership in the PNAC - a lobbyist group for a US invasion of Iraq, Iran and Syria. Woolsey was one of the signers of a petition to Clinton in the late '90s to invade - a petition with one of the stated objectives to snatch their oil for US interests.
When G.W.Bush became president, several leading members of the PNAC got high-ranking positions in that administration: vice-president Dick Cheney, defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolwovitz are the most well-known.
When PNAC became the government, the PNAC's agenda became the agenda of the United States.
There is therefore no doubt that this ex-CIA director has a lot of blood on his hands. That whole clusterfuck in that region was caused by the Woolsey-supported invasion to thieve oil followed by gross mismanagement by US officials in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of civilians, soldiers and civilians have been killed, and millions of people are refugees from and in the region.
How can one even compare Snowden to that?
Sure, but an iPad has a touch-screen. Transposition errors are much more common on touch-screens than on proper keypads where you can feel when you have pressed a key - and where you can feel when you have pressed in-between two keys.
Real keypads even have a homing dot on the 5 key in the middle to make it easier to find the keys by touch.
Have you tried touch-typing on a tablet? That is an exercise in frustration, even if the tablet is really large, such as on a MS PixelSense.
Excuse me, which organization are you referring to?
X-rays are ionizing radiation, after all.
And how strong do they need to be to penetrate the metal body of a car?
And the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is not a Nobel Prize.
As the full title says, it was instigated not by Alfred Nobel but by Sveriges Riksbank - the Swedish Bank, the central bank of the Swedish currency.
And this was done in 1969, 68 years after the first Nobel Prizes in natural sciences and literature.
I have a 7G mobile hanging in my window. That is seven G's! Two more than this 5G and at least THREE MORE than what most people have.
I added a small bell to balance them to eight items. I had used a pre-made mobile ring with eight holes around the circumference and was too lazy to measure and drill seven new ones for the strings. But when the window is open, and the wind catches the G's in the mobile, the bell hanging from the ring rings.
People have asked me if I could also talk into it: of course I can, but I don't see the point.
For those Europeans who listen to Hip Hop it would be a large wad of cash ...
Titanium Dioxide is a common additive as white colouring in foodstuffs such as cookies and candy. For instance, it is sometimes used to make sugar glazing on German lebkuchen cookies whiter.
In Europe it is often in ingredients lists under the number E-171 rather than its full name.
Titanium Dioxide is one of the pigments that are suspected of leaking into the body, both from food and from its use in sunscreen.
Therefore, it is something that I look for and avoid.
That looks exactly like the font that is already used as default fixed-width font in my five-year-old install of Ubuntu ...
Why don't you re-educate the world to speak Lojban while you're at it? Then computers would also understand humans, with much less difficulty as many of the ambiguities of language have been removed.
If you have studied anything about any ethnic minority, then you will have come across cases of their native language being suppressed in schools and society at large.
You will find several examples of such if you read up on the history of Native Americans and in the history of French-speaking Cajun and Creole in Southern USA.
Suppression of language is a form of suppression of culture, and suppression of a people's culture is oppression of people.
... but not a very popular disability, Especially not among people who depend on electronics for their livelihood, or in other ways in our daily lives - which is the entire user base of Slashdot. It goes without saying that someone with Electrohypersensitivity (EHS) will never ever post on Slashdot.
The theory behind EHS is well established in academia. The mechanism called NO-/ONOO+ - cycle is well known, and the trigger mechanism: voltage-gated calcium canals is too, and has been linked to the NO-/ONOO+ - cycle. The cycle builds up from prolonged exposure to certain chemicals, not electric fields by itself.
It is not an allergy, it is not a disease: it is a hypersensitivity. There is also not just one type of EHS, and not all EHS manifest themselves in physical sensation - which is why there have been many studies that have failed to detect it in people who claim to suffer from it. Almost every person with EHS has at one time or another had a job that involved strong solvents, and almost every person with EHS has also hypersensitivity to certain chemicals.
I am not going to post links to articles, because there are so many of them and you will in most cases need a degree in something or other to understand any of them. The keywords are above. Use Google! Instead I would suggest you search Youtube for lectures by Martin Pall.
That is not to say that there aren't people who claim to suffer from EHS who are emotionally unstable.
But ponder that if EHS was real, and you got it, and everyone you told about it called you a faker, wouldn't that make you paranoid?
I am a keyboard geek, and I collect all info I can get on split ergonomic keyboards.
I found that among different keyboard brands there is about a 2:1 ratio of having the '6' key on the left vs. right.
I suspect however that most brands have it on the left, because of Microsoft. (Above, I counted Microsoft as one, and discarded all direct clones.)
On keyboards with columns instead of rows, the '6' key is always on the right side, in the same columns as 'Y', 'H' and 'N'.
I know of one keyboard with the '6' key on both sides:
Kinesis Evolution.
Actually, even back in the 1970s there were more scientists who were inclined to believe in global warming than in global cooling. It is just that cooling was more interesting to put in the news...
For instance, Global warming was one of the more important topics of the Stockholm Conference in 1972 (the biggest conference on the environment in the 70's) , while global cooling wasn't even hinted at.
Of course not all of the world is warming right now.
Some parts of the world are indeed cooling (temporarily) because of warming having disrupting ocean currents that would otherwise warm those areas, or from warming having caused some areas to be cloudier and/or rainier.
That is why climatologists prefer to use the term "Climate Change" rather than "Global Warming".
Beside the effects of carbon compounds in the atmosphere, there is also the effect of increased aerosols from human activity and those do cause a bit of climate change in form of more clouds, which cool. It has been theorized that this had contributed significantly to the Ethiopian famine in the mid-1980s - again, the effect in one part of the system causing a different effect in another. Ethiopia got a draught while another part of Africa got more rain. :-P ) and that is only because how they are artificial clouds - and clouds cool. Back in September 11, 2001, airplanes across the USA were grounded causing the airspace above USA to be clear from condensation trails for the first time in decades - which had a measurable effect on the weather that day. But it was back to "normal" a couple of days later.
But while carbon emissions take thirty or more years to make a measurable difference in the atmosphere, aerosol cooling is very temporary. The white condensation trails from airplanes do contribute to cooling (cue the tin foil hat people
What is new is:
1. Auto-stabilisation, so it does not require as much skill to handle as before.
2. Realtime video feed, so you won't need to keep the helicopter in your line of sight at all times.
3. High-quality cameras are cheap and light: lighter weight means cheaper helicopter. Back 15-20 years ago, the kind of model helicopter that could carry a reasonably good camera had to be larger than the hobbyist norm just to be able to carry the weight.
I have an early, cheap quadcopter without auto-stabilisation and video feed. It takes hours to learn how to fly one of those things and still after you have learned how it requires your complete concentration to do it.
With one of the new breed of drones, you can buy it at the local gadget store and be filming nude children in an hour with no previous skill.
Both remind me of the examples of bad design in Donald Norman's classic textbook on usability design: The Design of Everyday Things.
Each example got the note "probably won an award".
I am not Danish, but I visit often and I think it is pronounced "sooglslangeh".
Danish pronunciation is very soft on the consonants.
So that means that up close, an image projected with these laser devices would look somewhat like a Pointilism painting?
I am not sure that I would disapprove, actually.
Another way that makes it look dated is that the aesthetic design has glossy white and translucent blue plastic is like a 1999' Apple iMac.
Maybe someone at Samsung has nostalgia for those. I really don't.
It appears that this monitor is a very small update of last years' S29D390H with a new stand. That screen has got pretty bad reviews for its build quality.
The stand does not only lack a VESA mount, it is not height-adjustable either.
It has AMD FreeSync though, so I suppose that the intended target demographic is gamers.
For gaming, the resolution is good enough. (BTW, screen resolution is measured in pixels-per-inch, not pixels per total: that is video resolution)
For desktop work in 2015, I agree that it is not.
Or ... how about having all tabs muted except the one that is active?
The Mac Pro has four DIMM slots.
The MacBook Pro has soldered-on RAM.
Yet, somehow I doubt that New York's mayor speaks for Wall Street.