I think the question is whether the structure of the governance of the resulting organization is such that investors can require them to fuck over customers if such action shown to generate more profit. I've been a customer of both T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile (now wholly owned by Sprint), and it's scary for me when I read that Softbank wants a say in how the resulting company is run.
OTOH, if T-Mobile signal starts originating from the towers used by Sprint, then they'll finally be getting strong enough signal to provide for more than intermittent text messages to my house. I eagerly await the 600 MHz LTE.
What's the deal with Google and HTC? and From the Editor's Desk: HTC x Google These seem to be well thought out and in more depth than many. It sounds like Google and HTC complement one another pretty well in what it takes to succeed in the smartphone business, and it also sounds like Google is getting excellent manufacturing at a very good price. I wonder how long before they also have a product that competes well with MS Surface?
So, if the "wakeup" command woke up a plasma arc microphone and only those further commands confirmed by both microphones are accepted, would that prevent this attack?
Dave: "Don't tell Facebook my purchase history."
Alexa: "You haven't enabled purchase privacy, Dave"
Cortana: "Dave, you can enable purchase privacy by first registering as a terrorist."
Clippy: "So you want to register as a terrorist! I've downloaded terrorist registration form 317-9 from the FBI and autofilled it using your saved preferences. You can conveniently confirm transmission by touching any part of your cell phone."
My thought was that, in comparison to AIs, we are all monkeys, on account of genetics, biological evolution and such. No wanting behavior modification practiced on me, I'm also not favorable towards it being practiced on others.
Reading your suggestion makes me think you're like the phone company making me hang up and dial a "1" or hang up and dial without the "1." If they're computers connected directly to the brains of these people whose usage is habitually improper, they can just ensure that the words that get out henceforth are correct and not bother with trying to train monkeys.
When I think of Amazon, I think of a store with more variety of products available than retailers with a physical presence. i'd be happy with two day delivery, but first they have to catch up with local physical retailers Total Wine and BevMo on selection.
It depends on what they mean when they say that. If the "network" part of their unhackable network is only the part that distributes the keys, and not the part the contains the data that the keys are intended to be used to protect, that will be much harder to hack. Also, if the "unhackable" part of their unhackable network refers only to something done with only electronic access, and not something done with physical access or social engineering of the network operators, then the hacking will also be harder. Similarly, I might have an unhackable network at home, between two desktop computers connected to one another by an ethernet cable and connected to nothing else.
Maybe with info collected by body cameras, we can get an idea of what percentage of overall taser use is outside the manufacturers guidelines. Then they can advertise something like "even when used inappropriately, our product doesn't kill the people it's used on 97% of the time."
Clearly I want to be in an autonomous car that has a chainsaw in the trunk - and maybe a Saiga 12. That should cover most of the videogame reasons why my car wouldn't manage to get me to my destination. Who wants to share the road with any vehicle regardless of how driven that does not prioritize safety?
What about that app that puts the time of day on my lockscreen? That's the one I really use. It bears a little scrutiny when the functionality is ubiquitous, but there aren't a dozen different ways to do the same thing.
It'll be interesting to see how Amazon implements selling to different customers at different prices, considering that prime membership costs $100 more than a typical grocery store loyalty card. Costco and Sam's Club have paid memberships, but they don't mix selling to members and non-members for different prices. However strictly Amazon enforces the membership requirement for discount, some people who paid the $100 will be making cheating accusations, and others will be wanting to use their membership to help out random strangers. OTOH, I know several people who will say "Here's my debit card and PIN. Buy this for me while you're at the store." and no one seems to care about the behavior that's identical to the behavior of someone who stole those things, so maybe it won't matter.
is not a selling point for any piece of any kind of hardware. How many tech entrepreneurs structure their companies to prevent investors from leveraging the installed customer base to maximize quarterly profits the moment the founder is no longer there to hold them back?
The ability of a machine with an arm to know the position of the end of that arm in space and link it to a location in a plan has many uses in construction, even as similar robotics does in manufacturing smaller things. Just by using this technology to limit an excavator from digging where it should not would allow many property owners to rent a mini-excavator and dig out a basement, make a drainage ditch with an exact slope, etc.
The brick laying attachment on the end of these machines will be out of a job about 10 minutes after on-site brick extruding comes to the market. Personally, I think the future is going to be on-site extruded insulating wall, either as ICF with poured structural concrete in the middle and channels cut for plumbing and wiring, or extruded around structural elements, plumbing and wiring that are put in place first. Probably there will be a few layers to the extrusion until a material is found that's good at both insulating and stopping intrusion by vermin.
I've built that way, and while it doesn't have to be mortar, you have to use some sort of adhesive or interlock between the Insulating Concrete Forms, or the weight of the poured concrete will push them apart at the bottom during the pour.
Yes & no. The USCG doesn't have the budget to patrol the entire edge of the EEZ. Any additional budget they got when they moved from department of transportation to department of homeland security was directed more towards improving other than economic aspects of security. Whether they care is moot when they don't have the vessels or the fuel to be on the spot every place there's a violation. You'll notice blobs of USA EEZ that are closer to mainland China than they are to mainland USA. Those are the ones where you're more likely to find Chinese fishing vessels.
I'm sure it won't surprise you to know that NMFS and the Chinese government have different ideas about resource conservation, considering that even as our fertile soil exceeds theirs by 3:1, our fishing EEZ exceeds theirs in area by more than 12:1. Whereas, their population exceeds ours by 4:1 leading to a per capita fishing EEZ disparity between USA and China of more than 48:1.
You can thank the politically powerful IPHC for some of that price. Visit this site, and look at this map. There is no biological basis for how the catch quota for area 3A exceeds the catch quota for all parts of area 4 combined. That's strictly the IPHC keeping its members happy (ie wealthy). Of course the other factor is that the number of people around the globe who are willing to pay $30/lb for halibut grows every year.
Qt will let you be able develop cross platform applications if that's your intent from the start. I was talking about something that duplicates enough functionality that one doesn't have to attempt to make their application cross platform. Something that would allow a person with access to the Photoshop source code written for MacOS 10.1 to, with only trivial modification, compile an executable that would run on Linux where the emulator resources have been installed. The notion is not to provide the user with a MacOS like experience, but rather to provide the software company an almost zero effort way to make their product also available on Linux. For a publicly held software company, no effort for more money is a decision that could only go one way, or they might be sued by their investors. The idea is similar to that of Qt, but with the added intent to make life extra easy for closed source vendors of software on a particular other platform. If there was a version for MacOS 10.1 and a version for WinXP, that would be a good start.
Rather than open source Photoshop, I'd want to see a "close enough to work alike" set of OSX emulating libraries that would make it trivially easy for anyone who writes for Mac OSX to cross compile their product to be able to run under Linux. Also, to the extent that Wine isn't there already, it'd be good to have something similar for WinXP.
Truthfully, between Picture Window Pro (now free to use) and Adobe Lightroom (for those times when nothing but adjustment layers will do) I find little need for a full version of Photoshop.
The deleting photos taken while locked doesn't sound good. Someone who physically overpowers a witness and rips the phone from hir hand shouldn't be able to delete photos. Also, if I can remember the number and dial it on a numpad, the phone should allow me to call the friend who can notify my attorney with only my fingerprint for permission, not just only call the local government's emergency services.
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I think the question is whether the structure of the governance of the resulting organization is such that investors can require them to fuck over customers if such action shown to generate more profit. I've been a customer of both T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile (now wholly owned by Sprint), and it's scary for me when I read that Softbank wants a say in how the resulting company is run.
OTOH, if T-Mobile signal starts originating from the towers used by Sprint, then they'll finally be getting strong enough signal to provide for more than intermittent text messages to my house. I eagerly await the 600 MHz LTE.
What's the deal with Google and HTC? and From the Editor's Desk: HTC x Google These seem to be well thought out and in more depth than many. It sounds like Google and HTC complement one another pretty well in what it takes to succeed in the smartphone business, and it also sounds like Google is getting excellent manufacturing at a very good price. I wonder how long before they also have a product that competes well with MS Surface?
So, if the "wakeup" command woke up a plasma arc microphone and only those further commands confirmed by both microphones are accepted, would that prevent this attack?
Dave: "Don't tell Facebook my purchase history."
Alexa: "You haven't enabled purchase privacy, Dave"
Cortana: "Dave, you can enable purchase privacy by first registering as a terrorist."
Clippy: "So you want to register as a terrorist! I've downloaded terrorist registration form 317-9 from the FBI and autofilled it using your saved preferences. You can conveniently confirm transmission by touching any part of your cell phone."
No offence taken. Communication is often imperfect for me as well.
My thought was that, in comparison to AIs, we are all monkeys, on account of genetics, biological evolution and such. No wanting behavior modification practiced on me, I'm also not favorable towards it being practiced on others.
Reading your suggestion makes me think you're like the phone company making me hang up and dial a "1" or hang up and dial without the "1." If they're computers connected directly to the brains of these people whose usage is habitually improper, they can just ensure that the words that get out henceforth are correct and not bother with trying to train monkeys.
When I think of Amazon, I think of a store with more variety of products available than retailers with a physical presence. i'd be happy with two day delivery, but first they have to catch up with local physical retailers Total Wine and BevMo on selection.
It depends on what they mean when they say that. If the "network" part of their unhackable network is only the part that distributes the keys, and not the part the contains the data that the keys are intended to be used to protect, that will be much harder to hack. Also, if the "unhackable" part of their unhackable network refers only to something done with only electronic access, and not something done with physical access or social engineering of the network operators, then the hacking will also be harder. Similarly, I might have an unhackable network at home, between two desktop computers connected to one another by an ethernet cable and connected to nothing else.
Maybe with info collected by body cameras, we can get an idea of what percentage of overall taser use is outside the manufacturers guidelines. Then they can advertise something like "even when used inappropriately, our product doesn't kill the people it's used on 97% of the time."
Clearly I want to be in an autonomous car that has a chainsaw in the trunk - and maybe a Saiga 12. That should cover most of the videogame reasons why my car wouldn't manage to get me to my destination. Who wants to share the road with any vehicle regardless of how driven that does not prioritize safety?
What about that app that puts the time of day on my lockscreen? That's the one I really use. It bears a little scrutiny when the functionality is ubiquitous, but there aren't a dozen different ways to do the same thing.
It'll be interesting to see how Amazon implements selling to different customers at different prices, considering that prime membership costs $100 more than a typical grocery store loyalty card. Costco and Sam's Club have paid memberships, but they don't mix selling to members and non-members for different prices. However strictly Amazon enforces the membership requirement for discount, some people who paid the $100 will be making cheating accusations, and others will be wanting to use their membership to help out random strangers. OTOH, I know several people who will say "Here's my debit card and PIN. Buy this for me while you're at the store." and no one seems to care about the behavior that's identical to the behavior of someone who stole those things, so maybe it won't matter.
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is not a selling point for any piece of any kind of hardware. How many tech entrepreneurs structure their companies to prevent investors from leveraging the installed customer base to maximize quarterly profits the moment the founder is no longer there to hold them back?
The ability of a machine with an arm to know the position of the end of that arm in space and link it to a location in a plan has many uses in construction, even as similar robotics does in manufacturing smaller things. Just by using this technology to limit an excavator from digging where it should not would allow many property owners to rent a mini-excavator and dig out a basement, make a drainage ditch with an exact slope, etc.
The brick laying attachment on the end of these machines will be out of a job about 10 minutes after on-site brick extruding comes to the market. Personally, I think the future is going to be on-site extruded insulating wall, either as ICF with poured structural concrete in the middle and channels cut for plumbing and wiring, or extruded around structural elements, plumbing and wiring that are put in place first. Probably there will be a few layers to the extrusion until a material is found that's good at both insulating and stopping intrusion by vermin.
Look into insulating concrete forms.
I've built that way, and while it doesn't have to be mortar, you have to use some sort of adhesive or interlock between the Insulating Concrete Forms, or the weight of the poured concrete will push them apart at the bottom during the pour.
Yes & no. The USCG doesn't have the budget to patrol the entire edge of the EEZ. Any additional budget they got when they moved from department of transportation to department of homeland security was directed more towards improving other than economic aspects of security. Whether they care is moot when they don't have the vessels or the fuel to be on the spot every place there's a violation. You'll notice blobs of USA EEZ that are closer to mainland China than they are to mainland USA. Those are the ones where you're more likely to find Chinese fishing vessels.
I'm sure it won't surprise you to know that NMFS and the Chinese government have different ideas about resource conservation, considering that even as our fertile soil exceeds theirs by 3:1, our fishing EEZ exceeds theirs in area by more than 12:1. Whereas, their population exceeds ours by 4:1 leading to a per capita fishing EEZ disparity between USA and China of more than 48:1.
You can thank the politically powerful IPHC for some of that price. Visit this site, and look at this map. There is no biological basis for how the catch quota for area 3A exceeds the catch quota for all parts of area 4 combined. That's strictly the IPHC keeping its members happy (ie wealthy). Of course the other factor is that the number of people around the globe who are willing to pay $30/lb for halibut grows every year.
Qt will let you be able develop cross platform applications if that's your intent from the start. I was talking about something that duplicates enough functionality that one doesn't have to attempt to make their application cross platform. Something that would allow a person with access to the Photoshop source code written for MacOS 10.1 to, with only trivial modification, compile an executable that would run on Linux where the emulator resources have been installed. The notion is not to provide the user with a MacOS like experience, but rather to provide the software company an almost zero effort way to make their product also available on Linux. For a publicly held software company, no effort for more money is a decision that could only go one way, or they might be sued by their investors. The idea is similar to that of Qt, but with the added intent to make life extra easy for closed source vendors of software on a particular other platform. If there was a version for MacOS 10.1 and a version for WinXP, that would be a good start.
Rather than open source Photoshop, I'd want to see a "close enough to work alike" set of OSX emulating libraries that would make it trivially easy for anyone who writes for Mac OSX to cross compile their product to be able to run under Linux. Also, to the extent that Wine isn't there already, it'd be good to have something similar for WinXP.
Truthfully, between Picture Window Pro (now free to use) and Adobe Lightroom (for those times when nothing but adjustment layers will do) I find little need for a full version of Photoshop.
If I had to spend $3500 and hire a hacker, I'd want that custom immobilizer never to immobilize again. A purely mechanical key would be fine.
The deleting photos taken while locked doesn't sound good. Someone who physically overpowers a witness and rips the phone from hir hand shouldn't be able to delete photos. Also, if I can remember the number and dial it on a numpad, the phone should allow me to call the friend who can notify my attorney with only my fingerprint for permission, not just only call the local government's emergency services.
While similar in some ways, patents and copyright are not the same thing.