The problem is if it goes away and gets replaced by something harder to block. Right now the Flash bottleneck is easy to control, even if it means I have to click to enable for a few things. If it gets replaced by something innate to browsers, rather than a plug-in, it could become harder to block.
On the other hand, that bottleneck is also a bad thing, in that when it's not blocked, it's a common source of vulnerabilities that everyone has. In other words, a monoculture.
Also, people losing proficiency in skills like flying an airplane, such that when the automatic pilot is confused and gives up, the human pilots are also confused and keep pushing up on the stick when the plane is in a dive. (aka flight 447) I'm sure we'll see similar situations when self-driving cars happen... suddenly something strange happens that the computer can't handle, and it says "Here, you drive!" to the human passenger who wasn't even paying attention to the road... because the car is supposed to drive itself, right?
So your premise is that we will go from machines with no autonomous intelligence at all, directly to super-genius intelligence? Without passing through the ant, lizard, cow, and monkey levels of intelligence first?
Of course the best part of all this is that to keep with the bazillion different cable channels out there, and the limited (125 or so) RF channels that they also have to share with cable modems, they try to cram as many sub-channels on the same RF channel as possible, at least 10 or so for SD channels, re-compressing them to lower quality. Meanwhile, my antenna gets a full-quality HD signal that maybe only has to share with one or two SD channels. (FWIW, I think cable QAM gives twice the bit rate per channel as antenna ATSC, but still.)
Actually, more batteries is probably more important than better batteries. You can only make so many cars per year until you exceed battery manufacture quantity. Hence the battery factory that Tesla is building.
And Europeans can take the train if they want to travel.
Sounds good to me. They certainly enjoy laughing at Americans for not having any kind of decent passenger rail service. If theirs is so much better, then they should use it or shut up.
I'm pretty sure most of those DC-DC converters (the modern efficient ones) work by converting to high-frequency AC internally, running it through a transformer (higher frequency = smaller transformer), then back to DC.
The main advantage of AC is that you can use higher voltages safely, and higher voltages mean higher wattage with the same wires. And bigger wires are more expensive.
That was 220 volts, but 110 volts isn't much better on the DC side. There's a reason why DC-powered telecoms equipment uses 48 volts; much more than that and switches start arcing.
Ohmic loss is an issue when DC power is transmitted over power lines, but not so much when the DC is generated in the same building (solar panels, etc.).
At work I have to use Windows. (At home I use a MacBook Pro so there are basically no danger keys.) While currently I only have the keycaps for F1 and INS removed, in the past I have also pulled F12, caps lock, and the Windows/menu keys. I just leave them in a small plastic bag next to the keyboard.
I don't know how you missed the Windows menu key, since it yanks focus away from your current program if it gets tapped by accident, then you have to waste time getting back to normal. It's almost as bad as F1.
The insert key is bad if you have an editor that tries to implement "overwrite mode" in a mouse-based text editor, which is pretty silly. It can also rarely get engaged by pressing the keypad zero key under certain conditions. (like with the shift key hald down, I think)
Actually there is one important danger key with OS X. I don't know why UI implementers insist on being able to do all sorts of file manipulation functions in contexts where you are supposed to be selecting or viewing a file (instead of, you know, switching to the file manager program), but they do. Windows goes out of its way to support moving and deleting files when you need to select a file, and various OS X programs insist on deleting a file whenever you hit command-delete (aka command-backspace).
The problem is that command-plus and command-minus are used for zoom in and out. (Very useful in the Preview.app image viewer.) Be off by one key when zooming in, and your file is suddenly moved to the trash, and its window (if it has one) closes. In a file viewer program. WITH NO UNDO AVAILABLE. WTF. Now you get to fish it out and put it back where it belongs. At least it also insists on playing a (non-configurable!) sound when it does that, so you can have some idea that something has happened.
I wouldn't underestimate them. They could make it impossible for the enemy to shoot, possibly bringing the whole city down for maintenance. Or just change things around that the enemy gets lost.
Apparently because it's some sort of "drop off" safe.
In the normal operation of the safe, the majority of operations are executed by way of a touch-screen on the safe. Once the money has been inserted into the safe, it is automatically deposited to the retailer's bank, which means that it's the bank's money and a store manager cannot remove cash from the safe. Typically, to remove cash, there is a requirement for both the store manager and a Brink's employee to be present.
That still doesn't explain why people in this sort of industry think you need Microsoft freaking Windows for a simple UI screen. Perhaps they are using Visual Basic? (rolls eyes)
This is 2015, folks, this is the kind of crap you can do with a Raspberry Pi, and if it's long-term support you want, you will still be able to get boards ten years from now, at most needing software changes in the form of a few different kernel drivers.
I suspect that all the automatic exploits on SSH these days are expecting x86, if for no other reason than that the botnet people don't want to have to support too many architectures. I have an old Mac G3 (the blue tower) running 10.4 that I am still using as an internet server (I plan to retire it in a few months when other stuff isn't a priority), and every now and then SSH is wedged and won't connect remotely. I suspect one of those "automatic exploits" every now and then manages to hit a bug in that version of SSH which locks it up without a proper crash.
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It's just HP ES, formerly EDS, that are required to dress like that. I am also guessing it's just the customer facing team.
If this is true, you needed to be modded up. EDS is the IT services company that was started by H. Ross Perot, and if they're only asking it for the customer-facing people, then why the fuck hasn't it already been in place for years?
But TFA says "R&D", which doesn't sound like the kind of stuff I would expect from the EDS folks.
I'm getting shown advertisements for something that's using my own resources.
If they are doing that, then they are definitely being assholes. If they don't have to proxy the connection, then it's not costing them bandwidth. If they are running a service to let you find or connect to your box (due to stuff like not being on a static IP), that's a little bit of effort on their part, but not much.
If their only contribution is requiring you to go to a web site to connect to a box when you could have reached it directly with older client software by typing in its IP address, fuck them.
When they originally announced the SLS and Orion, they were planning to shut down ISS to pay for it. At the same time, ISS was going to be its main destination.
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The 'time' obviously follows a circle, which has 360 degrees.
But time is actually of a cubic nature!
Maybe they can put those more ads on the television. I don't watch that at hotels anymore.
"A huge network full of information" hasn't helped your cat or dog become a super-genius.
Macs may not get viruses... but when they do get exploits, they get Dos Dupis.
The problem is if it goes away and gets replaced by something harder to block. Right now the Flash bottleneck is easy to control, even if it means I have to click to enable for a few things. If it gets replaced by something innate to browsers, rather than a plug-in, it could become harder to block.
On the other hand, that bottleneck is also a bad thing, in that when it's not blocked, it's a common source of vulnerabilities that everyone has. In other words, a monoculture.
I'm waiting for HitchBot5 because it'll be ALIVE! (and with a frickin' laser, too)
NO DISASSEMBLE!
In Texas, it is a crime (misdemeanor) to arm a dillo. ~ CaptainDork
And it's dangerous, too!
Also, people losing proficiency in skills like flying an airplane, such that when the automatic pilot is confused and gives up, the human pilots are also confused and keep pushing up on the stick when the plane is in a dive. (aka flight 447) I'm sure we'll see similar situations when self-driving cars happen... suddenly something strange happens that the computer can't handle, and it says "Here, you drive!" to the human passenger who wasn't even paying attention to the road... because the car is supposed to drive itself, right?
So your premise is that we will go from machines with no autonomous intelligence at all, directly to super-genius intelligence? Without passing through the ant, lizard, cow, and monkey levels of intelligence first?
From TFA comments:
If people sing it in a different key, is that copyright infringement?
Yes. (At least in Australia.)
Honestly cable should be crystal clear.
Of course the best part of all this is that to keep with the bazillion different cable channels out there, and the limited (125 or so) RF channels that they also have to share with cable modems, they try to cram as many sub-channels on the same RF channel as possible, at least 10 or so for SD channels, re-compressing them to lower quality. Meanwhile, my antenna gets a full-quality HD signal that maybe only has to share with one or two SD channels. (FWIW, I think cable QAM gives twice the bit rate per channel as antenna ATSC, but still.)
Actually, more batteries is probably more important than better batteries. You can only make so many cars per year until you exceed battery manufacture quantity. Hence the battery factory that Tesla is building.
And Europeans can take the train if they want to travel.
Sounds good to me. They certainly enjoy laughing at Americans for not having any kind of decent passenger rail service. If theirs is so much better, then they should use it or shut up.
I'm pretty sure most of those DC-DC converters (the modern efficient ones) work by converting to high-frequency AC internally, running it through a transformer (higher frequency = smaller transformer), then back to DC.
The main advantage of AC is that you can use higher voltages safely, and higher voltages mean higher wattage with the same wires. And bigger wires are more expensive.
AC versus DC load breaking comparison with a knife switch
That was 220 volts, but 110 volts isn't much better on the DC side. There's a reason why DC-powered telecoms equipment uses 48 volts; much more than that and switches start arcing.
Ohmic loss is an issue when DC power is transmitted over power lines, but not so much when the DC is generated in the same building (solar panels, etc.).
At work I have to use Windows. (At home I use a MacBook Pro so there are basically no danger keys.) While currently I only have the keycaps for F1 and INS removed, in the past I have also pulled F12, caps lock, and the Windows/menu keys. I just leave them in a small plastic bag next to the keyboard.
I don't know how you missed the Windows menu key, since it yanks focus away from your current program if it gets tapped by accident, then you have to waste time getting back to normal. It's almost as bad as F1.
The insert key is bad if you have an editor that tries to implement "overwrite mode" in a mouse-based text editor, which is pretty silly. It can also rarely get engaged by pressing the keypad zero key under certain conditions. (like with the shift key hald down, I think)
Actually there is one important danger key with OS X. I don't know why UI implementers insist on being able to do all sorts of file manipulation functions in contexts where you are supposed to be selecting or viewing a file (instead of, you know, switching to the file manager program), but they do. Windows goes out of its way to support moving and deleting files when you need to select a file, and various OS X programs insist on deleting a file whenever you hit command-delete (aka command-backspace).
The problem is that command-plus and command-minus are used for zoom in and out. (Very useful in the Preview.app image viewer.) Be off by one key when zooming in, and your file is suddenly moved to the trash, and its window (if it has one) closes. In a file viewer program. WITH NO UNDO AVAILABLE. WTF. Now you get to fish it out and put it back where it belongs. At least it also insists on playing a (non-configurable!) sound when it does that, so you can have some idea that something has happened.
Any comment from the emacs development team about that? They can't let the feature gap get wider!
I wouldn't underestimate them. They could make it impossible for the enemy to shoot, possibly bringing the whole city down for maintenance. Or just change things around that the enemy gets lost.
Apparently because it's some sort of "drop off" safe.
In the normal operation of the safe, the majority of operations are executed by way of a touch-screen on the safe. Once the money has been inserted into the safe, it is automatically deposited to the retailer's bank, which means that it's the bank's money and a store manager cannot remove cash from the safe. Typically, to remove cash, there is a requirement for both the store manager and a Brink's employee to be present.
That still doesn't explain why people in this sort of industry think you need Microsoft freaking Windows for a simple UI screen. Perhaps they are using Visual Basic? (rolls eyes)
This is 2015, folks, this is the kind of crap you can do with a Raspberry Pi, and if it's long-term support you want, you will still be able to get boards ten years from now, at most needing software changes in the form of a few different kernel drivers.
If they had used a Mac instead, Jeff Goldblum would get the safe to hack YOU! (In Soviet Russia, of course!)
I suspect that all the automatic exploits on SSH these days are expecting x86, if for no other reason than that the botnet people don't want to have to support too many architectures. I have an old Mac G3 (the blue tower) running 10.4 that I am still using as an internet server (I plan to retire it in a few months when other stuff isn't a priority), and every now and then SSH is wedged and won't connect remotely. I suspect one of those "automatic exploits" every now and then manages to hit a bug in that version of SSH which locks it up without a proper crash.
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It's just HP ES, formerly EDS, that are required to dress like that. I am also guessing it's just the customer facing team.
If this is true, you needed to be modded up. EDS is the IT services company that was started by H. Ross Perot, and if they're only asking it for the customer-facing people, then why the fuck hasn't it already been in place for years?
But TFA says "R&D", which doesn't sound like the kind of stuff I would expect from the EDS folks.
I'm getting shown advertisements for something that's using my own resources.
If they are doing that, then they are definitely being assholes. If they don't have to proxy the connection, then it's not costing them bandwidth. If they are running a service to let you find or connect to your box (due to stuff like not being on a static IP), that's a little bit of effort on their part, but not much.
If their only contribution is requiring you to go to a web site to connect to a box when you could have reached it directly with older client software by typing in its IP address, fuck them.
When they originally announced the SLS and Orion, they were planning to shut down ISS to pay for it. At the same time, ISS was going to be its main destination.