I'm surprised that most music isn't just passive stuff you hear on the radio while stuck on the freeway. Sure some people may listen to more music on a personal player, but it's a surprise that most people do this. I suspect most people hear music passively as they walk through shopping malls or stand in elevators.
However the article talks about music *consumption*, not listening. So maybe this means more people BUY music from streaming services than either itunes or physical media. That's a different thing.
There are too many standards for IOT, mostly because it's a big new buzzwords that means immediately there are many competing marketing based standards groups trying to get everyone to side with them, which means competing security standards, and because it's being rushed we have ridiculous demands in the standards so that the members of the consortium don't have to redesign their products.
I work with devices for industry. They DO update without being forced. You can't force a customer who's giving you millions of dollars to have an automatic update (especially with security as it might brick and lock them out). The customers spend months evaluating new releases before upgrading. But that is for professional devices, not the TOYS for the home consumers, for those toys you must blame the consumer for being dumb enough to buy the products in the first place.
How about requiring all customers to take a class in how to turn on security in their existing product and to configure it correctly? Or maybe a class in how to parse through bullshit in marketing and decide that maybe they don't need their toaster on the internet.
The problem is often with the customer. Major industries aren't asking for security. Absolutely the home user doesn't even consider asking this question, they don't even know what security is or how to evaluate it. The same customer that doesn't hesitate to type in personal information to a smart tv is the wrong person to be judging whether or not a refrigerator needs to be on the internet. Why blame the manufacturer and their security when the customer does not even configure the device or its security?
No, we've had IoT devices before there was even the acronym. There are very secure IoT devices. They're not using passwords like it was just another exploitable wi-fi device but instead of PKI, and they're not purchased by consumers looking for a cool gadget to brag about. The best way to make IoT devices secure is to stop marketing them to hipsters. Nobody needs an internet connected thermostat so badly that they'd be willing to bypass all security and common sense.
Yes, some SCADA systems have security problems, usually from the same sort of short sighted thinking but often because owners don't plan on keeping them up to date after purchase. Sometimes the same problem as home gadget lovers, they don't have the capability to properly assess security and instead just believe the marketing (marketing is just a long word that means lying).
These online companies love this because they get more impulse buys. If you have to pull out the credit card to buy then it gives the dumb consumers chance to rethink their order. If someone complains they will refund for one order, or one customer, etc, but they will not change their minds on the technology that makes them tons of money taking advantage of customers.
(Amazon even tries to mislead people into signing up for Prime where the one-touch buy works best, by saying "click here for free shipping!" Had to clean this up from my mother after noticing she was into a Prime first month free trial with automatic charging of the credit card at the end of the month, and she had no idea what Prime even was and only purchases one or two things a year from them. This seems very deliberate and not just a misunderstanding as you can see the lack of safeguards or explanations of what you're signing up for.)
Consumers love this stuff though, they cannot see anything wrong with the one-button-buy-without-approval until something like this happens. Seriously how lazy do fat Americans have to be that they need voice activated Amazon purchases because it takes too much energy to use the computer?
Another problem with American voters is that so many only bother to vote for the president. So in midterm elections they stay home and then are baffled the the opposition inevitably wins big in the house. Doesn't matter if the president is Democrat or Republican, midterms very often go the opposite direction. Congress has much more power than the president and yet the same fools get reelected over and over.
Problem is too many people just believe the made up stuff from Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and the like, and will believe the most bizarre rumors about Obama. As in that he's actively working to remove borders between the US, Canada, and Mexico, or that there was literally zero immigration between the 30s and the 50s. They don't have the evidence to back this up but they do believe whatever these people say on the air. So it's no wonder that people think Obama was raised by communists, is a muslim, was born in Kenya, etc, because American no longer bother to use their brains, it is a vestigial organ. Obama has deported more people than any other president and yet so many are firmly convinced that he's trying to get illegal immigration to increase. What's even more bizarre is that someone who's solidly right wing conservative can deny these conspiracy theories and then get shouted down for being a liberal who's trying to steal their guns, they're stuck to a viewpoint that you must be 100% in agreement with them or else you are an enemy. And they'll defend all this by saying "all mass media lies" which is their way of saying that all evidence must be ignored and rely only on your gut instincts. I've never seen America so weird before, and I lived in the 60s.
Turning CO2 into something else is useful. Doing it with coal is not useful. Better to avoid the coal altogether, it is a dead technology and it only wants such gimmicks to artificially extend its lifetime.
3D is a gimmick. It was never going to take off. Even if the 3D picture is bright and you can move around and look at different angles, it will still be a gimmick. I don't really care much about looking at different angles myself, you don't get that choice in live action theater either. It provides nothing substantial beyond a 2D picture, except for a lot of cost.
What land has been taken away from private owners without going through eminent domain process? The recent national monuments was a change in status of public land, not private land.
Ford received a $9 billion line of credit from the government which it used to upgrade plants to make electric and hybrid vehicles. So while that's not directly a bail out it was given at the same time as the other bail outs.
It's much more reasonable to assume that Iran didn't want to release hostages while Carter was president. New regime gives them an excuse to release hostages without feeling like they acquiesced to international pressure.
But how does Trump get jobs? I can't personally beg each company to do this, although so far that seems to be his only plan. We're all waiting until his first day in office when he finally reveals his secret plans he was talking about during his campaign.
F-150 is a pretty large truck for city commuting. For some reason the light small pickups (mostly Japanese) have fallen out of favor which would work much better for a commuter vehicle that can also do light hauling. What they call "light trucks" today are much bigger than the old Datsun or Isuzu pickups.
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My arm chair did need the help though. It was deeply depressed and sat in the corner all day.
These open access points are not rare. I see plenty in my neighborhood, my mother's neighborhood, and a friend's neighborhood.
I'm surprised that most music isn't just passive stuff you hear on the radio while stuck on the freeway. Sure some people may listen to more music on a personal player, but it's a surprise that most people do this. I suspect most people hear music passively as they walk through shopping malls or stand in elevators.
However the article talks about music *consumption*, not listening. So maybe this means more people BUY music from streaming services than either itunes or physical media. That's a different thing.
Can't individual users download the apps themselves? You need Google's permission to install an app now?
I'm worried about last year's cottage cheese going bad and starting to download porn.
And if you don't, it may decide to use the first available open access point.
There are too many standards for IOT, mostly because it's a big new buzzwords that means immediately there are many competing marketing based standards groups trying to get everyone to side with them, which means competing security standards, and because it's being rushed we have ridiculous demands in the standards so that the members of the consortium don't have to redesign their products.
I work with devices for industry. They DO update without being forced. You can't force a customer who's giving you millions of dollars to have an automatic update (especially with security as it might brick and lock them out). The customers spend months evaluating new releases before upgrading. But that is for professional devices, not the TOYS for the home consumers, for those toys you must blame the consumer for being dumb enough to buy the products in the first place.
How about requiring all customers to take a class in how to turn on security in their existing product and to configure it correctly? Or maybe a class in how to parse through bullshit in marketing and decide that maybe they don't need their toaster on the internet.
The problem is often with the customer. Major industries aren't asking for security. Absolutely the home user doesn't even consider asking this question, they don't even know what security is or how to evaluate it. The same customer that doesn't hesitate to type in personal information to a smart tv is the wrong person to be judging whether or not a refrigerator needs to be on the internet. Why blame the manufacturer and their security when the customer does not even configure the device or its security?
No, we've had IoT devices before there was even the acronym. There are very secure IoT devices. They're not using passwords like it was just another exploitable wi-fi device but instead of PKI, and they're not purchased by consumers looking for a cool gadget to brag about. The best way to make IoT devices secure is to stop marketing them to hipsters. Nobody needs an internet connected thermostat so badly that they'd be willing to bypass all security and common sense.
Yes, some SCADA systems have security problems, usually from the same sort of short sighted thinking but often because owners don't plan on keeping them up to date after purchase. Sometimes the same problem as home gadget lovers, they don't have the capability to properly assess security and instead just believe the marketing (marketing is just a long word that means lying).
These online companies love this because they get more impulse buys. If you have to pull out the credit card to buy then it gives the dumb consumers chance to rethink their order. If someone complains they will refund for one order, or one customer, etc, but they will not change their minds on the technology that makes them tons of money taking advantage of customers.
(Amazon even tries to mislead people into signing up for Prime where the one-touch buy works best, by saying "click here for free shipping!" Had to clean this up from my mother after noticing she was into a Prime first month free trial with automatic charging of the credit card at the end of the month, and she had no idea what Prime even was and only purchases one or two things a year from them. This seems very deliberate and not just a misunderstanding as you can see the lack of safeguards or explanations of what you're signing up for.)
Consumers love this stuff though, they cannot see anything wrong with the one-button-buy-without-approval until something like this happens. Seriously how lazy do fat Americans have to be that they need voice activated Amazon purchases because it takes too much energy to use the computer?
What does "bizzarely attractive" mean?
Another problem with American voters is that so many only bother to vote for the president. So in midterm elections they stay home and then are baffled the the opposition inevitably wins big in the house. Doesn't matter if the president is Democrat or Republican, midterms very often go the opposite direction. Congress has much more power than the president and yet the same fools get reelected over and over.
Problem is too many people just believe the made up stuff from Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and the like, and will believe the most bizarre rumors about Obama. As in that he's actively working to remove borders between the US, Canada, and Mexico, or that there was literally zero immigration between the 30s and the 50s. They don't have the evidence to back this up but they do believe whatever these people say on the air. So it's no wonder that people think Obama was raised by communists, is a muslim, was born in Kenya, etc, because American no longer bother to use their brains, it is a vestigial organ. Obama has deported more people than any other president and yet so many are firmly convinced that he's trying to get illegal immigration to increase. What's even more bizarre is that someone who's solidly right wing conservative can deny these conspiracy theories and then get shouted down for being a liberal who's trying to steal their guns, they're stuck to a viewpoint that you must be 100% in agreement with them or else you are an enemy. And they'll defend all this by saying "all mass media lies" which is their way of saying that all evidence must be ignored and rely only on your gut instincts. I've never seen America so weird before, and I lived in the 60s.
Turning CO2 into something else is useful. Doing it with coal is not useful. Better to avoid the coal altogether, it is a dead technology and it only wants such gimmicks to artificially extend its lifetime.
3D is a gimmick. It was never going to take off. Even if the 3D picture is bright and you can move around and look at different angles, it will still be a gimmick. I don't really care much about looking at different angles myself, you don't get that choice in live action theater either. It provides nothing substantial beyond a 2D picture, except for a lot of cost.
What land has been taken away from private owners without going through eminent domain process? The recent national monuments was a change in status of public land, not private land.
Ford received a $9 billion line of credit from the government which it used to upgrade plants to make electric and hybrid vehicles. So while that's not directly a bail out it was given at the same time as the other bail outs.
Trump really isn't a Republican though.
It's much more reasonable to assume that Iran didn't want to release hostages while Carter was president. New regime gives them an excuse to release hostages without feeling like they acquiesced to international pressure.
I dunno, that sounds like sucky mileage. Maybe a lighter truck would do better for commuting.
What about world market share?
But how does Trump get jobs? I can't personally beg each company to do this, although so far that seems to be his only plan. We're all waiting until his first day in office when he finally reveals his secret plans he was talking about during his campaign.
F-150 is a pretty large truck for city commuting. For some reason the light small pickups (mostly Japanese) have fallen out of favor which would work much better for a commuter vehicle that can also do light hauling. What they call "light trucks" today are much bigger than the old Datsun or Isuzu pickups.