If they weren't using someone else's key system (which they probably are), they could add an option to force a registration name as part of a demo key. The key would contain a hash of the name it was intended for, and refuse to validate if the name didn't match. Then at least the people buying the keys would have to see the same wrong name every time, so at least the scammer couldn't pass them off as regular keys. The regular keys would have none of this, just the ones requested from the company as review keys.
It still wouldn't help when scammers ask for a "raffle prize" or some such, but at least a "review" key would have a name burned into it, manually, by the people who made the game.
I did a google image search for barrel roll just to be sure. And pictures of this plane have already appeared in the results for "barrel roll". An aileron roll is simply rotating along the long axis of the plane with no change in direction, and he definitely did not do that. What people are saying he really did was a Split S, and that does seem to be rather more like what I saw in the video, though I think he flipped in the middle of the loop, rather than at the start.
At least the Atari 400 had little bumps at the edges of where the keys went. A full-size "touch bar" keyboard wouldn't even have that to give you a tactile clue where to put your fingers. And it would probably be too thick anyhow. Did they also remove the bumps from the F and J keys on the most recent keyboards in the interest of thin-uber-alles?
And for those whom our education system has failed to teach any science, technology, engineering, or math, "STEM" gets corrupted to "STEAM". This is partly to keep them the little snowflakes from feeling bad about themselves, and partly to keep the education system from being held accountable.
Land is not the only issue -- if t was, then why is traffic in Austin so bad?
Because for decades, even before they made any effort toward it becoming a tech mecca, the far left city government was anti-highways. By the time they finally needed the land on which to build new highways, it was already developed, often having become high-price residential areas, and thus way too expensive to buy, combined with a few badly placed cemeteries. I-35 has always been a nightmare of construction somewhere, but when it's time to work on the double-decker part, it's going to become a tenth circle of hell.
I remember when Apple had a mouse that was perfectly round. You couldn't figure out which way was "up" without looking at it and aligning it properly in your hand before using it.
When will they have the courage to lose the Lightning port? The future is USB-C, and not only have they made a major product with it already, they went all-in and removed all other types of ports. Also, I know that USB-C is now mainstream, as I have already had someone ask me in the past month if I had a charger cable they could borrow.
...and the only reason the 3rd failed to land was that it ran out of "lighter fluid" and couldn't restart its engines. But that double landing was one of the most amazing things ever accomplished by humanity. Too bad they aren't likely to do it again even a dozen more times, because they would rather use a bigger rocket instead.
The way I read TFS, it's not requiring them to use reusables, it's requiring them to not reject reusables. This is a subtle difference, but still a big step that acknowledges that it works. Right now we've got one and a half reusable launch companies (Blue Origin is still only capable of tourist launches until they can get an orbital launcher working, but they're committed to re-usability) and a bunch of old companies who didn't even want to try.
They don't need laws to help them win, just to level the playing field against the old companies with their tentacles all through government procurement. Their own economics are what will make them win. The future is going to belong to SpX and BO.
To be fair, 7/8 of the first is taken up by storage devices, 1/2 of it for not one, but two reel-to-reel 9-track tape drives. So the size change is actually more like 12U to 4U.
My understanding is that they're not launching any more Block 4, except one that they're saving for the Crew Dragon max-Q abort test in three months or so. They're standardizing on Block 5 and plan to keep re-using those. I suppose they could use an old Block 4 for an expendable flight, but they'll probably encourage use of Falcon Heavy or even BFR instead.
What proprietary connectors? There is only USB-C! Apple got rid of all its proprietary connectors by soldering and gluing everything together! Also, get with the times, there is no more glowing Apple logo, it made the laptops too thick!
I guess if one is in a retrograde orbit, there would be a head-on collision. That would certainly put that one on collision course with "the others" (plural).
In the US, ESPN has a sweet deal to be put in all but the basic tier of cable networks. Any sports beyond ESPN is usually on a special, extra-cost sports package. And then there are still league-specific channels that require you to have the sports package before you can add them. Very few games are on the free OTA channels.
It's so nice that I don't care about sportsball. Except for the part where afternoon sports games on the OTA channels invariably run overtime and screw up the schedule of what my DVR was set to record. Handegg always runs beyond its time slot, often by more than 30 minutes. And sometimes they still want to run the post-game show for its full half hour.
It seems there may be multiple explanations. A price that temporarily goes to a high number and back down seems likely as "out of stock but we don't want to re-list". Other fishy prices could be money laundering. Most of the bogus book pricing seems to be of (usually obscure) out-of-print titles. But it's all fun and games until an author gets a real 1099 form for someone else selling bogus books under his/her name, as in the Krebs link posted above.
I remember many years ago reading about (probably on The Daily WTF forums) where certain out-of-print books were going for prices that were not only absurd, but kept climbing, to six figure prices and maybe even seven, then every now and then they would reset. It was thought that some sellers were using a "that other guy plus a few percent" algorithm, and so was "that other guy".
But this seems to be a different modus operandi, and that Krebs idea is much more likely here. It is possible that the constant reprice was also money laundering, and the price changes were needed to keep the listings up on whatever site that was. Apparently Amazon has made that unnecessary.
There is a notable decline in repairability starting in 2012 when the retina models came out, just after he died. The obsession with thin has made things even worse since then. I think he would not have allowed it to get this bad.
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If they weren't using someone else's key system (which they probably are), they could add an option to force a registration name as part of a demo key. The key would contain a hash of the name it was intended for, and refuse to validate if the name didn't match. Then at least the people buying the keys would have to see the same wrong name every time, so at least the scammer couldn't pass them off as regular keys. The regular keys would have none of this, just the ones requested from the company as review keys.
It still wouldn't help when scammers ask for a "raffle prize" or some such, but at least a "review" key would have a name burned into it, manually, by the people who made the game.
Maybe they're going to use high-test astronauts?
i have two radio controlled clocks i will have to throw out, both set their time by WWVB at 60_KHz
Or you could RTFS and see no mention of WWVB.
I put Whataburger stickers on my laptop power bricks. Mostly "JALAPEÑO". I guess that would profile me as being from Texas.
Natural gas-powered water heaters might be an even better fix. They might even be cheaper to run, too.
I did a google image search for barrel roll just to be sure. And pictures of this plane have already appeared in the results for "barrel roll". An aileron roll is simply rotating along the long axis of the plane with no change in direction, and he definitely did not do that. What people are saying he really did was a Split S, and that does seem to be rather more like what I saw in the video, though I think he flipped in the middle of the loop, rather than at the start.
...and actually able to buy them...
I remember how when they first came out they sold out quickly, and if you hadn't bought them right away, you were SOL.
At least the Atari 400 had little bumps at the edges of where the keys went. A full-size "touch bar" keyboard wouldn't even have that to give you a tactile clue where to put your fingers. And it would probably be too thick anyhow. Did they also remove the bumps from the F and J keys on the most recent keyboards in the interest of thin-uber-alles?
And for those whom our education system has failed to teach any science, technology, engineering, or math, "STEM" gets corrupted to "STEAM". This is partly to keep them the little snowflakes from feeling bad about themselves, and partly to keep the education system from being held accountable.
We did, his name was "Barfin'" Jake Garn
Land is not the only issue -- if t was, then why is traffic in Austin so bad?
Because for decades, even before they made any effort toward it becoming a tech mecca, the far left city government was anti-highways. By the time they finally needed the land on which to build new highways, it was already developed, often having become high-price residential areas, and thus way too expensive to buy, combined with a few badly placed cemeteries. I-35 has always been a nightmare of construction somewhere, but when it's time to work on the double-decker part, it's going to become a tenth circle of hell.
I remember when Apple had a mouse that was perfectly round. You couldn't figure out which way was "up" without looking at it and aligning it properly in your hand before using it.
When will they have the courage to lose the Lightning port? The future is USB-C, and not only have they made a major product with it already, they went all-in and removed all other types of ports. Also, I know that USB-C is now mainstream, as I have already had someone ask me in the past month if I had a charger cable they could borrow.
...and the only reason the 3rd failed to land was that it ran out of "lighter fluid" and couldn't restart its engines. But that double landing was one of the most amazing things ever accomplished by humanity. Too bad they aren't likely to do it again even a dozen more times, because they would rather use a bigger rocket instead.
The way I read TFS, it's not requiring them to use reusables, it's requiring them to not reject reusables. This is a subtle difference, but still a big step that acknowledges that it works. Right now we've got one and a half reusable launch companies (Blue Origin is still only capable of tourist launches until they can get an orbital launcher working, but they're committed to re-usability) and a bunch of old companies who didn't even want to try.
They don't need laws to help them win, just to level the playing field against the old companies with their tentacles all through government procurement. Their own economics are what will make them win. The future is going to belong to SpX and BO.
To be fair, 7/8 of the first is taken up by storage devices, 1/2 of it for not one, but two reel-to-reel 9-track tape drives. So the size change is actually more like 12U to 4U.
For those who don't understand, that's what I ask the ones that call me (junk calls), not ones that I called.
My go-to question when I suspect a bot is "What is today?"
My understanding is that they're not launching any more Block 4, except one that they're saving for the Crew Dragon max-Q abort test in three months or so. They're standardizing on Block 5 and plan to keep re-using those. I suppose they could use an old Block 4 for an expendable flight, but they'll probably encourage use of Falcon Heavy or even BFR instead.
What proprietary connectors? There is only USB-C! Apple got rid of all its proprietary connectors by soldering and gluing everything together! Also, get with the times, there is no more glowing Apple logo, it made the laptops too thick!
I guess if one is in a retrograde orbit, there would be a head-on collision. That would certainly put that one on collision course with "the others" (plural).
In the US, ESPN has a sweet deal to be put in all but the basic tier of cable networks. Any sports beyond ESPN is usually on a special, extra-cost sports package. And then there are still league-specific channels that require you to have the sports package before you can add them. Very few games are on the free OTA channels.
It's so nice that I don't care about sportsball. Except for the part where afternoon sports games on the OTA channels invariably run overtime and screw up the schedule of what my DVR was set to record. Handegg always runs beyond its time slot, often by more than 30 minutes. And sometimes they still want to run the post-game show for its full half hour.
It seems there may be multiple explanations. A price that temporarily goes to a high number and back down seems likely as "out of stock but we don't want to re-list". Other fishy prices could be money laundering. Most of the bogus book pricing seems to be of (usually obscure) out-of-print titles. But it's all fun and games until an author gets a real 1099 form for someone else selling bogus books under his/her name, as in the Krebs link posted above.
I remember many years ago reading about (probably on The Daily WTF forums) where certain out-of-print books were going for prices that were not only absurd, but kept climbing, to six figure prices and maybe even seven, then every now and then they would reset. It was thought that some sellers were using a "that other guy plus a few percent" algorithm, and so was "that other guy".
But this seems to be a different modus operandi, and that Krebs idea is much more likely here. It is possible that the constant reprice was also money laundering, and the price changes were needed to keep the listings up on whatever site that was. Apparently Amazon has made that unnecessary.
There is a notable decline in repairability starting in 2012 when the retina models came out, just after he died. The obsession with thin has made things even worse since then. I think he would not have allowed it to get this bad.