I suppose someone could build a tower of things over their stove in order for cook and charge at the same time but it would be obviously impractical and dangerous. And if you think it's a bad idea to take some spares an emergency phone and a solar charger than having the luxury of sitting around for a stove and device a phone to charge then it's you who is the fool.
Windows 8 tablets running the latest Atom processors are 2-3x more more powerful than a netbook I still use for trips away. It's quite feasible to envisage a phone / tablet which makes a perfectly decent desktop for word processing, browsing the web, doing a presentation etc.
Whatever you think about it personally, much of the activity on the site was illegal and it wasn't confined to just recreational drugs. And it's clear that these weren't saints running this business either. Read the criminal complaint if you like.
I think it would be very useful if I could stuff a phone or tablet into a dock and suddenly I have a full blown desktop. I think Microsoft and Ubuntu are far better placed to deliver this than either Apple or Google are although technically there is no reason that stops any of them doing it.
The same is true of VNC. Just because a machine has no display, or even display hardware doesn't mean it can't listen on a port and shove bitmaps down it.
Of course in the case of a router, or web server, the question is why someone would want to use VNC or X to configure it. It would make more sense in either case to build a web based UI and shove all the rendering out to the client in their web browser.
No different than any other currency. I am 100% sure more drugs and murders are purchased with USD and EURO than bitcoins.
For drug dealing, money laundering and assorted cybercrimes I suspect that as a % of transactions, that bitcoin has other currencies beat. Bitcoin was being used by Silk Road and doubtless criminals on other sites / forums trade in bitcoin as an easy way to move money around without detection.
On one level Bitcoin owners should rejoice that this criminality is being snuffed out. But on the other, it also demonstrates the volatility of this currency when the exchange rate takes a shit every time something like this happens.
I think Biolite looks like a more practical solution - provided someone is able to collect twigs off the ground or carry hexamine tablets or whatever around with them. This FlameStower thing may work but it's clearly very inefficient and comes with its own problems, namely the stove can't be used while someone is charging their phone and the whole set up looks fiddly. Maybe a better option than either would be to buy a solar panel that attaches to a backpack, a few spare batteries and a second emergency phone.
My god the horror. That old line drawing code from the 80's. Sitting all alone, stable and debugged in some source file somewhere. And paged out on disk taking up no resources if it's really not being used.
Yes the horror. It's junk which must be maintained and tested and impedes development of new functionality.
Maybe. But the thing is which I find mildly disturbing is that while X11 has many, many defincies, the Wayland folks seem to enjoy making up straw men and picking on things which are easily refutable.
They're not straw men and you didn't refute them so much as pretended that the brokenness didn't matter. Many of the people supporting Wayland are former X11 developers fed up with having to work around broken design. There are some good technical articles describing what is wrong with X11 such as this one.
Yeah, yeah, cue all the "X11 is crufty and nobody needs all those awesome features it has". Sure. Right. One question: what do you think Wayland and Mir will look like in five years, especially if you're leaving out highly desirable features from day one?
The problem is that X11 doesn't have "awesome features". It has a critical path which acts as a bottleneck and a bunch of crap that nobody uses any more. And increasingly it has a bunch of extensions trying to work around the framework's deficiencies which reside in their own processes and increase the render and network latency.
So whatever form Wayland takes the chances are it'll be a damned sight more maintainable than X11.
The first question is the interesting challenge and perhaps in some case it would be hard to detect them. I think the second question is a no brainer. I bet most ISPs would happily tell users with infected who were unwilling to clean them to take their business elsewhere.
So what you are saying is that you deserve to be punished every time you accidentaly hurt yourself?
Infected PCs are not just hurting themselves. They're putting an uncessary burden on the PC, potentially compromising any other PC on the same network, and potentially compromising any other person the owner has a relationship with.
At the very least I think ISPs should be well within their rights to disable access to the subscriber if there was cause to believe the machine was infected.
It's fairly obvious that botnets could be used for mining.
For that matter, any popular website could be used for mining via page hits e.g. a site could throw a hash computation into every page served, store the result in a cookie and return the result with the next request. It'd probably happen so fast people wouldn't even notice their CPU cycles being stolen. Perhaps some sites are already do this.
I think the answer would be yes, given that they don't exist in any acceptable form and probably won't for any forseeable time to come either.
But Saudi Arabia being Saudi Arabia, they'd probably insist that the woman "driving" be escorted by a male relation lest any other male on the road be so overcome by passion to ram her vehicle and rape her by the roadside. Which would be her fault obviously.
Stupid #1 - using an iPad, one of the most expensive thief attractive tablets on the market and one of the most proprietary.
Stupid #2 - thinking that client side software (doubtless very shoddy client side software) could stop students who want to look at porn in class.
A smarter programme would have required students to buy their own tablets that supported some common platform (which Apple, Google or anybody else could implement) and put the firewall / netnanny filter as a transparent proxy in the school's wifi. Then there is nothing to "hack", at least not in the devices.
It's fairly obvious that SteamOS and its hardware is leading up to cloud gaming. They might support streaming from a PC as well in the short term but that's a side effect of where they are heading. I expect that when they finally out themselves that many existing titles will be instantly playable through the cloud if someone has already bought them. Not sure what they'd do for things like DLC though.
The autonomous vehicle in the headline is actually just an advanced cruise control / driver assist system according to the synopsis. It doesn't surprise me that this is all this is (proper autonomous vehicles are a pipe dream for at least a few decades if not more) but it does make me wonder how a headline and description can be so far apart.
Sometimes cost isn't the only determining factor. Space and weight could be equally important considerations. e.g. maybe the difference in efficiency between two devices means one is compact enough to stick into a backpack and charge a phone/laptop in a reasonable amount of time and the other one isn't. Even if it costs more money, it may be the only viable option.
I bet that even as we speak there are bots operating which are scraping every single publicly available comment and photo in anticipation of the day in 10 years when it might prove commercially valuable to sell that info to potential employers, newspapers, governments, or political parties.
Or is it because it's an electric car, it can't be good?
I didn't say that or even imply it. No need to be defensive. The simple fact is that a model S is like a distributed computer on wheels and without access to the diagnostics and other computer systems a mechanic's ability to do anything with the car is extremely limited. They might be able to change some parts of the drivetrain, but they couldn't calibrate them, test if they were working within operating parameters or anything else.
Their ability to do anything to the car is probably limited to things like wheels, brakes, bulbs etc.
I doubt a Tesla vehicle will require less repairs. It has plenty of things that could go wrong, break, or be subject to periodic servicing. I bet Tesla will be more than happy to fleece drivers as readily as any dealer would. Furthermore, due to the nature of the vehicle, people would be compelled to take them authorised service centers for all but the simplest of maintenance.
Anyway I assume Tesla would have to build out servicing centers and most probably they would be franchises. I see no reason that existing motor dealerships couldn't operate these centers.
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I suppose someone could build a tower of things over their stove in order for cook and charge at the same time but it would be obviously impractical and dangerous. And if you think it's a bad idea to take some spares an emergency phone and a solar charger than having the luxury of sitting around for a stove and device a phone to charge then it's you who is the fool.
Windows 8 tablets running the latest Atom processors are 2-3x more more powerful than a netbook I still use for trips away. It's quite feasible to envisage a phone / tablet which makes a perfectly decent desktop for word processing, browsing the web, doing a presentation etc.
Whatever you think about it personally, much of the activity on the site was illegal and it wasn't confined to just recreational drugs. And it's clear that these weren't saints running this business either. Read the criminal complaint if you like.
I think it would be very useful if I could stuff a phone or tablet into a dock and suddenly I have a full blown desktop. I think Microsoft and Ubuntu are far better placed to deliver this than either Apple or Google are although technically there is no reason that stops any of them doing it.
Of course in the case of a router, or web server, the question is why someone would want to use VNC or X to configure it. It would make more sense in either case to build a web based UI and shove all the rendering out to the client in their web browser.
No different than any other currency. I am 100% sure more drugs and murders are purchased with USD and EURO than bitcoins.
For drug dealing, money laundering and assorted cybercrimes I suspect that as a % of transactions, that bitcoin has other currencies beat. Bitcoin was being used by Silk Road and doubtless criminals on other sites / forums trade in bitcoin as an easy way to move money around without detection.
On one level Bitcoin owners should rejoice that this criminality is being snuffed out. But on the other, it also demonstrates the volatility of this currency when the exchange rate takes a shit every time something like this happens.
I think Biolite looks like a more practical solution - provided someone is able to collect twigs off the ground or carry hexamine tablets or whatever around with them. This FlameStower thing may work but it's clearly very inefficient and comes with its own problems, namely the stove can't be used while someone is charging their phone and the whole set up looks fiddly. Maybe a better option than either would be to buy a solar panel that attaches to a backpack, a few spare batteries and a second emergency phone.
My god the horror. That old line drawing code from the 80's. Sitting all alone, stable and debugged in some source file somewhere. And paged out on disk taking up no resources if it's really not being used.
Yes the horror. It's junk which must be maintained and tested and impedes development of new functionality.
Maybe. But the thing is which I find mildly disturbing is that while X11 has many, many defincies, the Wayland folks seem to enjoy making up straw men and picking on things which are easily refutable.
They're not straw men and you didn't refute them so much as pretended that the brokenness didn't matter. Many of the people supporting Wayland are former X11 developers fed up with having to work around broken design. There are some good technical articles describing what is wrong with X11 such as this one.
Yeah, yeah, cue all the "X11 is crufty and nobody needs all those awesome features it has". Sure. Right. One question: what do you think Wayland and Mir will look like in five years, especially if you're leaving out highly desirable features from day one?
The problem is that X11 doesn't have "awesome features". It has a critical path which acts as a bottleneck and a bunch of crap that nobody uses any more. And increasingly it has a bunch of extensions trying to work around the framework's deficiencies which reside in their own processes and increase the render and network latency.
So whatever form Wayland takes the chances are it'll be a damned sight more maintainable than X11.
Maybe someone needs to figure a way of turning jellyfish into energy.
The first question is the interesting challenge and perhaps in some case it would be hard to detect them. I think the second question is a no brainer. I bet most ISPs would happily tell users with infected who were unwilling to clean them to take their business elsewhere.
So what you are saying is that you deserve to be punished every time you accidentaly hurt yourself?
Infected PCs are not just hurting themselves. They're putting an uncessary burden on the PC, potentially compromising any other PC on the same network, and potentially compromising any other person the owner has a relationship with.
At the very least I think ISPs should be well within their rights to disable access to the subscriber if there was cause to believe the machine was infected.
For that matter, any popular website could be used for mining via page hits e.g. a site could throw a hash computation into every page served, store the result in a cookie and return the result with the next request. It'd probably happen so fast people wouldn't even notice their CPU cycles being stolen. Perhaps some sites are already do this.
Yet $600 tablets are? One way or another people are paying for them. And besides, how much do schoolbooks cost?
But Saudi Arabia being Saudi Arabia, they'd probably insist that the woman "driving" be escorted by a male relation lest any other male on the road be so overcome by passion to ram her vehicle and rape her by the roadside. Which would be her fault obviously.
Stupid #2 - thinking that client side software (doubtless very shoddy client side software) could stop students who want to look at porn in class.
A smarter programme would have required students to buy their own tablets that supported some common platform (which Apple, Google or anybody else could implement) and put the firewall / netnanny filter as a transparent proxy in the school's wifi. Then there is nothing to "hack", at least not in the devices.
It's fairly obvious that SteamOS and its hardware is leading up to cloud gaming. They might support streaming from a PC as well in the short term but that's a side effect of where they are heading. I expect that when they finally out themselves that many existing titles will be instantly playable through the cloud if someone has already bought them. Not sure what they'd do for things like DLC though.
Such as?
The autonomous vehicle in the headline is actually just an advanced cruise control / driver assist system according to the synopsis. It doesn't surprise me that this is all this is (proper autonomous vehicles are a pipe dream for at least a few decades if not more) but it does make me wonder how a headline and description can be so far apart.
The real reason is their solar panels are not just efficient. They're ruthlessly efficient.
Sometimes cost isn't the only determining factor. Space and weight could be equally important considerations. e.g. maybe the difference in efficiency between two devices means one is compact enough to stick into a backpack and charge a phone/laptop in a reasonable amount of time and the other one isn't. Even if it costs more money, it may be the only viable option.
I bet that even as we speak there are bots operating which are scraping every single publicly available comment and photo in anticipation of the day in 10 years when it might prove commercially valuable to sell that info to potential employers, newspapers, governments, or political parties.
Slower. For a time. Chances are it would provide the motivation for someone to optimize it even more.
Or is it because it's an electric car, it can't be good?
I didn't say that or even imply it. No need to be defensive. The simple fact is that a model S is like a distributed computer on wheels and without access to the diagnostics and other computer systems a mechanic's ability to do anything with the car is extremely limited. They might be able to change some parts of the drivetrain, but they couldn't calibrate them, test if they were working within operating parameters or anything else. Their ability to do anything to the car is probably limited to things like wheels, brakes, bulbs etc.
Anyway I assume Tesla would have to build out servicing centers and most probably they would be franchises. I see no reason that existing motor dealerships couldn't operate these centers.