Please do find a reference to it being standard. From the pictures I've seen, it is not the USB 3.0 version of the B connector. (The B connector is the one that you find on the back of most ink-jet printers.) That one has the bump on top centered over an old B connector, while the Xbone Kinect plug has its bump off to one side, over something that looks like an A jack on the back of the console. USB 3.0 didn't need a special A connector, because it was already backward-compatible with the extra pins.
The adapter which Microsoft is discontinuing provides power and a standard USB 3.0 B jack.
Sure, this is a potentially big problem for people who run virtual server farms, but for my Windows game box (which runs Windows 7, and has had updates turned off since all that "gwx" bullshit), what is the point? Even if I did get it in malware (how? I don't do general web browsing on that computer, just one or two specific games, not even Steam, it's behind NAT, and I also disable a lot of useless services), they would do better to force ads on me... oh wait, but I'm not even web browsing.
And on my main computer, which is a MacBook Pro from 2012, running OS X from a few major versions back, even if they could get it working in javascript (browsers are likely to change their timing support to be less precise by default), that's a lot of work to try to find something I probably won't even have.
Add in the "herd immunity" of it being patched soon for most people, due to updates and normal computer replacement, and I can't see it being worth the effort to use on me, except in a very targeted attack. Only on something like a virtual server, where you can expect them to all be running the same OS and hardware, and with other people's private data, does it begin to get useful.
I haven't even heard of proof of concept beyond "oh look, I can dump a bunch of your RAM in a few hours!" Great, now do something interesting with it. With my RAM, and the oddball stuff I run, not that specific version of whatever you installed for the demo.
So I don't want the patch, because I don't care. It's a read-only attack, so it won't cause anybody to crash my computer, much less root it, and it is slow, too. It won't cause computation errors like the divide bug. And the attacker still has to know what to do with the data dump. The exploit sounds scary, but just how hard is it to exploit on a random computer? I'm going on the side of OS diversity and herd immunity.
Great, now fit one of those into a laptop. Oops. That's why Apple went with Intel, because the only low-power PPC CPUs were embedded CPUs from Motorola/Freescale, with low performance. And the only high-power PPC CPUs were server-class from IBM, when they really needed desktop-class.
Not having used a Kinect before, I wanted to see just how special this adapter was. Apparently Kinect uses a special plug that combines USB and 12V power. Microsoft's adapter for the Xbone version presents this as a USB 3.0 B jack.
There seem to be a lot of third-party adapters out there for the 360 version. They have a wall wart, an orange-tongue "USB" jack for the Kinect, and a USB A plug. It is also possible to hack off the end of the connector, which seems to only use USB 2.0, and splice in a 12V 1.5A power supply and USB connector.
So basically this is just another special proprietary variation of a standard plug, simply because they didn't want to have a second plug in the Kinect for power. Not that it's anything new, Microsoft has been pulling this bullshit ever since the original Xbox used plain USB with a two special connectors for its controllers. (To be fair, it probably had better durability for insertions/removals.)
At least with USB 3 for the Xbone version, why couldn't they have used the official extended power management support? Then at least it could use some kind of standard power inserter or powered hub. Or was that from USB C?
As long as China can find a supply of connectors for the Xbone version, I'm sure you will see replacements out there soon.
We can do that too, but the problem is that you can fake ANY caller ID because the system (CNID) was designed when AT&T was a monopoly, and you could trust where the call came from. When you fake a number, it's not "no caller id" anymore, so the hidden number blocking doesn't work. The other technology (ANI) requires the source of the call to be trusted, which hasn't been true for a long time.
The caller ID thing is neither here nor there, the phone company will record the actual caller for billing purposes.
Are you from outside the USA? First of all, local calls have been free here for decades, and you might not be used to that. Second, the caller is the one that is billed, and if it came from VoIP, like most of our junk spam phone calls come from these days, it would have come from the internet, and could have come from anywhere.
There is no record of an incoming call other than the (easily forge-able) caller ID information. (Receiving a call on a cell phone might count against your minutes, but for purposes of billing it doesn't matter who is calling you.) I can go the att.com web site and see the list of calls I've received, but the only number they record is the caller ID number, even the calls with the recent "same exchange" scam that uses your first six digits plus RND(10000).
Sure, back in the days when it was just the monopoly of Ma Bell, they could figure out where the call came from, because they owned ALL the lines. But it could still take a while, even if you notified them in advance of the call. Now the call could come from Outer Bumfuckistan and there would be no way to trace it back farther than the VoIP gateway. Good luck getting access to those logs, if they even exist, much less getting them in any reasonable time frame. And even then, the guy could be behind seven proxies.
If they figure out who made the call, it's going to be because the guy did something stupid, either calling from a wired or cell phone of a (reputable) telco, or posting about it on social media.
Bottom line: I have felt completely gipped leaving the theatre after episodes 1,2,3,6,7,8.
I didn't. Oh, wait, that's because I never watched any of them. When Episode 1 came out, I waited, saw what people were saying about it, then didn't go. Most of what I know about Episode 1, I learned from that Weird Al song. No Jar Jar, no annoying little kid, no recycled "it's yet another death star all over again" plots, no SJW bullshit. I've heard that 2 and 3 weren't as bad as 1, but I'll pass.
I still like the original trilogy, but mostly the first movie, which is rough but fun. And I don't go out of my way to re-watch it.
I also gave up on Star Trek with not watching the "reboot" of a few years ago (I'm still cool with ZQ as Spock), but I had stopped watching that long before, back when UPN meant that I could only see it if I signed up for cable TV (I became a cord cutter back in 2001), because the only UPN station was in the next market over, just out of antenna range.
At least The Orville is coming back for another season. Time to put a bigger hard drive in my MythTV.
Given the timing when I use their "free 5-8 days" shipping, I think they're using their own logistics to get packages across the country, then injecting the packages at the final city for delivery. So the USPS isn't schlepping them across the country, just doing the final delivery. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of pre-sort requirement too.
I guess I need to listen to it to see just how bad it is. You make it seem like William Shatner should be worried about losing work to automation.
About 10 or so years ago, there was an automated voice reading weather reports on an HDTV sub-channel. I think it was actually the official National Weather Service radio audio. Whenever it came across "patchy fog", it would always say "patch-eef ogg". So now I'm expecting that times a hundred.
Wake me up when they can answer out-of-band questions like "What is today?", or respond in a human way to talking over their script with "Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?" I'm not saying it won't happen, but for now, those are the fastest ways to fail them on a Turing test. When they figure those out, I'll move up to a next level of ez-fail questions.
Once you are in the space, the thrust requirements are very low and having more power shouldn't matter much even when dealing with big distances.
True, unless you're sending up meatbags. At that point, extra thrust means a shorter flight. Right now, a trip to Mars and back on a free trajectory will take two years: six months one way, eighteen months the other way, you get to choose which way. With constant thrust, such as from an ion engine, the trip will take a lot less time.
We remember Henry Ford more than we remember Karl Benz. This is a rocket that almost does what another one did a few times 50 years ago in a skunk works project with strong financial backing from a large government, a level of financial backing that only lasted a decade or so. SpaceX also is starting to account for a major fraction of all space launches as of 2017.
Oh yeah, and there's that minor detail about getting an orbital rocket's first stage to land on its tail like some 1950s space opera flick, then nailing all the next 20 attempts in a row after the first success. They didn't do that 50 years ago. So F9 certainly has made history. But if you're saying FH won't be historic, I won't disagree with that, it seems destined to become a footnote between F9 and BFR.
The only problem with color laser printers is that they won't give photo-quality prints. Many years ago I tried to get my mom to use a color laser, and she hated it because it didn't have that 600dpi resolution. So she kept using clunky old inkjets that needed new cartridges every 3 or 4 months whether you used them or not, and "cleaning" seemed to use about a quarter tank of ink. Meanwhile, I weaned myself from printing during the 200x decade, and hardly print anything at all now unless it really needs to be a printed document.
"Laserjet" is HP's brand name for laser printers. I don't know where you got the idea it was otherwise. And any one of those with mostly square corners in its case ought to be a workhorse.
I have a LaserWriter IIg of which the only problem is that even though it has an Ethernet port, it only supports Appletalk printing protocols. My main printer is an Oki C5150 color laser which I use every few months and recently got the rest of the toner refills it should need for a while. I also have an old monster HP color laser that IIRC can print on tabloid size, for which one day I found a bunch of toner bottles cheap that I have never even had a chance to use.
There are a large number of bitcoins siezed in an illegal (prescription) drugs case, that the government is about to put up for sale. I think this was actually a Slashdot article in the past week or two. Once that hits, it could cause a shake-up.
Anyone who has bitcoins from way back when they were cheap, and refuses to sell any of them now, is an idiot. At least try to sell a few of them to make sure that you even know how to do it! Otherwise you might as well forget that they are worth anything. If you can't figure it out now, you won't able to figure it out in time once it starts crashing. You can't sell them with the ease of an E-trade account, and there is a limit to how fast transactions can be made on the blockchain. They could be worthless by the time your hoard could even begin to sell.
I like those drain tiles they have. It was probably Katamari Damacy that brought them to my attention; how can you fail to notice them when you pull up a row of them with a sticky ball of stuff?
I also like those diagonal rock retaining walls, though from too much time spent on Google street view, it seems that a lot of them are just lines drawn into concrete to make it look like that kind of wall.
Thunderbolt 3 USB C port -> Thunderbolt classic adapter -> Firewire 800 adapter -> Firewire 800/400 cable, and if you're really l33t, there is such a thing as a Firewire 400 to SCSI adapter. I have one somewhere, but it got misplaced in a move. Don't forget the SCSI terminator!
Because of some weird brand-love that Apple wants to have with AMD?
Probably more due to brand-hate for Nvidia, after all those crappy mobile GPUs they got back in 2010-2012. (Crappy as in the internal chip mounting was crap and they would die after a few years of use.)
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Please do find a reference to it being standard. From the pictures I've seen, it is not the USB 3.0 version of the B connector. (The B connector is the one that you find on the back of most ink-jet printers.) That one has the bump on top centered over an old B connector, while the Xbone Kinect plug has its bump off to one side, over something that looks like an A jack on the back of the console. USB 3.0 didn't need a special A connector, because it was already backward-compatible with the extra pins.
The adapter which Microsoft is discontinuing provides power and a standard USB 3.0 B jack.
Here is a guide to the various official (and some unofficial) USB connectors:
https://www.cablestogo.com/learning/connector-guides/usb
The thing about all this is: Why should I care?
Sure, this is a potentially big problem for people who run virtual server farms, but for my Windows game box (which runs Windows 7, and has had updates turned off since all that "gwx" bullshit), what is the point? Even if I did get it in malware (how? I don't do general web browsing on that computer, just one or two specific games, not even Steam, it's behind NAT, and I also disable a lot of useless services), they would do better to force ads on me... oh wait, but I'm not even web browsing.
And on my main computer, which is a MacBook Pro from 2012, running OS X from a few major versions back, even if they could get it working in javascript (browsers are likely to change their timing support to be less precise by default), that's a lot of work to try to find something I probably won't even have.
Add in the "herd immunity" of it being patched soon for most people, due to updates and normal computer replacement, and I can't see it being worth the effort to use on me, except in a very targeted attack. Only on something like a virtual server, where you can expect them to all be running the same OS and hardware, and with other people's private data, does it begin to get useful.
I haven't even heard of proof of concept beyond "oh look, I can dump a bunch of your RAM in a few hours!" Great, now do something interesting with it. With my RAM, and the oddball stuff I run, not that specific version of whatever you installed for the demo.
So I don't want the patch, because I don't care. It's a read-only attack, so it won't cause anybody to crash my computer, much less root it, and it is slow, too. It won't cause computation errors like the divide bug. And the attacker still has to know what to do with the data dump. The exploit sounds scary, but just how hard is it to exploit on a random computer? I'm going on the side of OS diversity and herd immunity.
Don't pirate or we'll post more dupes on Slashdot!
Great, now fit one of those into a laptop. Oops. That's why Apple went with Intel, because the only low-power PPC CPUs were embedded CPUs from Motorola/Freescale, with low performance. And the only high-power PPC CPUs were server-class from IBM, when they really needed desktop-class.
Not having used a Kinect before, I wanted to see just how special this adapter was. Apparently Kinect uses a special plug that combines USB and 12V power. Microsoft's adapter for the Xbone version presents this as a USB 3.0 B jack.
There seem to be a lot of third-party adapters out there for the 360 version. They have a wall wart, an orange-tongue "USB" jack for the Kinect, and a USB A plug. It is also possible to hack off the end of the connector, which seems to only use USB 2.0, and splice in a 12V 1.5A power supply and USB connector.
So basically this is just another special proprietary variation of a standard plug, simply because they didn't want to have a second plug in the Kinect for power. Not that it's anything new, Microsoft has been pulling this bullshit ever since the original Xbox used plain USB with a two special connectors for its controllers. (To be fair, it probably had better durability for insertions/removals.)
At least with USB 3 for the Xbone version, why couldn't they have used the official extended power management support? Then at least it could use some kind of standard power inserter or powered hub. Or was that from USB C?
As long as China can find a supply of connectors for the Xbone version, I'm sure you will see replacements out there soon.
We can do that too, but the problem is that you can fake ANY caller ID because the system (CNID) was designed when AT&T was a monopoly, and you could trust where the call came from. When you fake a number, it's not "no caller id" anymore, so the hidden number blocking doesn't work. The other technology (ANI) requires the source of the call to be trusted, which hasn't been true for a long time.
The caller ID thing is neither here nor there, the phone company will record the actual caller for billing purposes.
Are you from outside the USA? First of all, local calls have been free here for decades, and you might not be used to that. Second, the caller is the one that is billed, and if it came from VoIP, like most of our junk spam phone calls come from these days, it would have come from the internet, and could have come from anywhere.
There is no record of an incoming call other than the (easily forge-able) caller ID information. (Receiving a call on a cell phone might count against your minutes, but for purposes of billing it doesn't matter who is calling you.) I can go the att.com web site and see the list of calls I've received, but the only number they record is the caller ID number, even the calls with the recent "same exchange" scam that uses your first six digits plus RND(10000).
Sure, back in the days when it was just the monopoly of Ma Bell, they could figure out where the call came from, because they owned ALL the lines. But it could still take a while, even if you notified them in advance of the call. Now the call could come from Outer Bumfuckistan and there would be no way to trace it back farther than the VoIP gateway. Good luck getting access to those logs, if they even exist, much less getting them in any reasonable time frame. And even then, the guy could be behind seven proxies.
If they figure out who made the call, it's going to be because the guy did something stupid, either calling from a wired or cell phone of a (reputable) telco, or posting about it on social media.
Bottom line: I have felt completely gipped leaving the theatre after episodes 1,2,3,6,7,8.
I didn't. Oh, wait, that's because I never watched any of them. When Episode 1 came out, I waited, saw what people were saying about it, then didn't go. Most of what I know about Episode 1, I learned from that Weird Al song. No Jar Jar, no annoying little kid, no recycled "it's yet another death star all over again" plots, no SJW bullshit. I've heard that 2 and 3 weren't as bad as 1, but I'll pass.
I still like the original trilogy, but mostly the first movie, which is rough but fun. And I don't go out of my way to re-watch it.
I also gave up on Star Trek with not watching the "reboot" of a few years ago (I'm still cool with ZQ as Spock), but I had stopped watching that long before, back when UPN meant that I could only see it if I signed up for cable TV (I became a cord cutter back in 2001), because the only UPN station was in the next market over, just out of antenna range.
At least The Orville is coming back for another season. Time to put a bigger hard drive in my MythTV.
Apparently we need a new Linux distro called "Trumpix". Then Slashdot will finally implode and take the universe along with it.
Not sure why you think it was that recent. I'm talking about 15 or so years ago.
Given the timing when I use their "free 5-8 days" shipping, I think they're using their own logistics to get packages across the country, then injecting the packages at the final city for delivery. So the USPS isn't schlepping them across the country, just doing the final delivery. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of pre-sort requirement too.
I guess I need to listen to it to see just how bad it is. You make it seem like William Shatner should be worried about losing work to automation.
About 10 or so years ago, there was an automated voice reading weather reports on an HDTV sub-channel. I think it was actually the official National Weather Service radio audio. Whenever it came across "patchy fog", it would always say "patch-eef ogg". So now I'm expecting that times a hundred.
Wake me up when they can answer out-of-band questions like "What is today?", or respond in a human way to talking over their script with "Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?" I'm not saying it won't happen, but for now, those are the fastest ways to fail them on a Turing test. When they figure those out, I'll move up to a next level of ez-fail questions.
Once you are in the space, the thrust requirements are very low and having more power shouldn't matter much even when dealing with big distances.
True, unless you're sending up meatbags. At that point, extra thrust means a shorter flight. Right now, a trip to Mars and back on a free trajectory will take two years: six months one way, eighteen months the other way, you get to choose which way. With constant thrust, such as from an ion engine, the trip will take a lot less time.
It was both that and continual improvements to F9 making FH less necessary.
Seeing it mounted to a payload fitting at an odd angle looks even more silly than I expected.
We remember Henry Ford more than we remember Karl Benz. This is a rocket that almost does what another one did a few times 50 years ago in a skunk works project with strong financial backing from a large government, a level of financial backing that only lasted a decade or so. SpaceX also is starting to account for a major fraction of all space launches as of 2017.
Oh yeah, and there's that minor detail about getting an orbital rocket's first stage to land on its tail like some 1950s space opera flick, then nailing all the next 20 attempts in a row after the first success. They didn't do that 50 years ago. So F9 certainly has made history. But if you're saying FH won't be historic, I won't disagree with that, it seems destined to become a footnote between F9 and BFR.
The only problem with color laser printers is that they won't give photo-quality prints. Many years ago I tried to get my mom to use a color laser, and she hated it because it didn't have that 600dpi resolution. So she kept using clunky old inkjets that needed new cartridges every 3 or 4 months whether you used them or not, and "cleaning" seemed to use about a quarter tank of ink. Meanwhile, I weaned myself from printing during the 200x decade, and hardly print anything at all now unless it really needs to be a printed document.
Not Laserjet nor inkjet wannabes.
"Laserjet" is HP's brand name for laser printers. I don't know where you got the idea it was otherwise. And any one of those with mostly square corners in its case ought to be a workhorse.
I have a LaserWriter IIg of which the only problem is that even though it has an Ethernet port, it only supports Appletalk printing protocols. My main printer is an Oki C5150 color laser which I use every few months and recently got the rest of the toner refills it should need for a while. I also have an old monster HP color laser that IIRC can print on tabloid size, for which one day I found a bunch of toner bottles cheap that I have never even had a chance to use.
There are a large number of bitcoins siezed in an illegal (prescription) drugs case, that the government is about to put up for sale. I think this was actually a Slashdot article in the past week or two. Once that hits, it could cause a shake-up.
Anyone who has bitcoins from way back when they were cheap, and refuses to sell any of them now, is an idiot. At least try to sell a few of them to make sure that you even know how to do it! Otherwise you might as well forget that they are worth anything. If you can't figure it out now, you won't able to figure it out in time once it starts crashing. You can't sell them with the ease of an E-trade account, and there is a limit to how fast transactions can be made on the blockchain. They could be worthless by the time your hoard could even begin to sell.
The eighth planet has a google spot on it and is jealous of our solar system.
I like those drain tiles they have. It was probably Katamari Damacy that brought them to my attention; how can you fail to notice them when you pull up a row of them with a sticky ball of stuff?
I also like those diagonal rock retaining walls, though from too much time spent on Google street view, it seems that a lot of them are just lines drawn into concrete to make it look like that kind of wall.
Thunderbolt 3 USB C port -> Thunderbolt classic adapter -> Firewire 800 adapter -> Firewire 800/400 cable, and if you're really l33t, there is such a thing as a Firewire 400 to SCSI adapter. I have one somewhere, but it got misplaced in a move. Don't forget the SCSI terminator!
Because of some weird brand-love that Apple wants to have with AMD?
Probably more due to brand-hate for Nvidia, after all those crappy mobile GPUs they got back in 2010-2012. (Crappy as in the internal chip mounting was crap and they would die after a few years of use.)