I know it's Slashdot tradition not to RTFA, but it should be rather obvious even at first glance that they photoshopped a Tesla S's front onto a regular pickup. The author says so in the article.
Quebec never signed the constitution when it was patriated in 1982 (all other province PMs signed it in secret and the law was passed). Nobody's wanted to touch the thing ever since, it'd be like opening Pandora's Box. This does mean that whether Supreme Court decisions are binding in Quebec is rather unclear, as well as whether laws from the province can affect the rest of Canada and vice-versa. By and large, Supreme Court decisions are respected, but on the flip side the court and the federal government avoid touching some laws which could cause a ruckus and have no negative effect on the rest of Canada.
You can drop the LoTR though because there's no DRM here. Galaxy still installs and executes DRM-free games, so you can uninstall it at any point and the games will function. What Galaxy provides is value-added features like CrossPlay, automatic updates, etc.
Windows Phone also has fragmentation issues, and iOS has as well, though generally for older phones comparatively. The only way to get timely updates in the mobile space is to vertically integrate hardware and software. OEMs will never turn mobiles into PC-like open platforms, so you may as well stop dreaming with that part.
I wouldn't even say it's about killing machines or rockets. Republicans hate big government, but they love pork. They know they can say pretty much anything to the people who vote for them, so long as they also pork them up a bit they'll get reelected. As it turns out, military equipment and space equipment are two of the best means of pork.
I'm surprised because every review process I've seen was blind. Papers are submitted with just an ID, authors are not disclosed until the paper is accepted (they are never disclosed if it is rejected, as far as I'm aware). PLoS One is reputable enough that I would've expected the same.
For what it's worth, LastPass will already warn you if a password is reused across two different domains. You need to explicitly set a list of equivalences if two domains share the same backend, for example.
And let's not forget that even "e-diesel" is going to release chemical composites of some sort into the air, which means the whole city pollution issue is not solved with any of those alternative fuels. To me, that's one of the key advantages of moving away from internal combustion engines beyond global warming and sustainability. The only technologies so far which do not have this issue are hydrogen and electric.
So wait, it supports a processor that was introduced 7 years ago in November 2008, has room for the minimum about of RAM I'd expect on a modern PC, and well under half what I could have installed on my desktop 3 years ago, only room for two hard drives, and a 4k screen? it really doesn't sound that great.
You try lugging that desktop around in a bag and we'll see how that works out for you. Hint: laptops aren't desktops for a reason. Also, the M3800 sports Haswell CPUs (another hint! i7 indicates relative strength within a series, it's not the series itself), which were definitely not introduced 7 years ago. Better luck next time.
This. XP is dead, get on with the times, especially something like iTunes where the old excuse of corporate software forcing you to stay on XP most certainly doesn't apply since it's strictly a consumer application.
This is one of the few cases where I'll just go with "Yeah, throw her into jail for a solid 5-10 years, see how she likes the opulent lifestyle there."
That's funny because IQ is defined according to the population's statistical distribution of intelligence, so in doing so you would effectively cull half the population every generation. I don't think you'd survive very long either with a comment like this.
Why yes, because herd immunity is still largely intact. This could change if the anti-vaxxer movement keeps going though, which is exactly why it's good to handle this now rather than later, when a new, larger outbreak happens.
Comparing the 147 who got infected to the entire population of the US is disingenuous and you know it. Might as well compare it to the population of the Earth for how little it matters. What matters is that a significant number of children were infected by a deadly disease. This time around, everyone was safe and nothing bad happened. How many times do you want to roll the wheel of fortune?
By that logic, SSL is also broken, and so is any form of encryption: if you have the key, you're shit out of luck. Thankfully, getting the key(s) is a lot more complicated than you make it sound.
You're severely misrepresenting things here: the notion of putting IT staff in control and removing privileges from users is a fundamental part of how corporate IT is supposed to work. Linux does the exact same thing in that context. You are using and working your employer's hardware: they, not you, get to decide how it's run and what happens on it. You're free to ask them about something, but you don't get to install your own shit because you wanted to. A dumb user installing a cat screensaver trojan doesn't risk losing their family photos, they risk exposing their entire company to a leak or a hack or whatever else.
You can directly trace the slow uptake of many consumer platforms in the corporate sector to how little support they have for central management.
I think the only potential weaknesses would be Java, Flash and browsers which now run a bunch of apps of their own. Java still only ever shows up as a single executable and is easily the biggest security risk in that context. Mind you, you might be able to get away with not having Java installed in a corporate environment, depending on your in-house platform of choice.
it's questionable whether or not it's actual gameplay or just pre-rendered cut scenes from the game engine.
It's not questionable at all. When devs actually use in-game footage, they'll rub it in your face in every way possible. In-engine footage is marketing speak for "We wish we could do something like that, but right now it's running at 2 fps on SLI Titan Xs and all the animations are static".
To be fair, they did give one good justification for moving things to the GApps package: updates. They initially put everything in the OS and expected that manufacturers would, in good faith, keep their devices updated. As it turns out, manufacturers are complete shit at doing anything beyond pushing a device on market and dropping it like a hot turd six months later, and so thanks to them Android has been called "fragmented" and every new OS version takes years to see significant adoption. Their solution was to push as much stuff as possible into their GApps package, which is the only thing they control absolutely and which manufacturers cannot meddle with or delay. It's not the full OS, but a lot of key functionality gets ported over, allowing for instance to develop for 5.0 and still be able to backport to 4.x or even 2.x thanks to GApps providing a compatibility layer.
I just hope any connected device that can heat up requires manual intervention to turn on... I don't want to think about what'd happen if you could turn up the oven remotely.
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I know it's Slashdot tradition not to RTFA, but it should be rather obvious even at first glance that they photoshopped a Tesla S's front onto a regular pickup. The author says so in the article.
Quebec never signed the constitution when it was patriated in 1982 (all other province PMs signed it in secret and the law was passed). Nobody's wanted to touch the thing ever since, it'd be like opening Pandora's Box. This does mean that whether Supreme Court decisions are binding in Quebec is rather unclear, as well as whether laws from the province can affect the rest of Canada and vice-versa. By and large, Supreme Court decisions are respected, but on the flip side the court and the federal government avoid touching some laws which could cause a ruckus and have no negative effect on the rest of Canada.
You can drop the LoTR though because there's no DRM here. Galaxy still installs and executes DRM-free games, so you can uninstall it at any point and the games will function. What Galaxy provides is value-added features like CrossPlay, automatic updates, etc.
Windows Phone also has fragmentation issues, and iOS has as well, though generally for older phones comparatively. The only way to get timely updates in the mobile space is to vertically integrate hardware and software. OEMs will never turn mobiles into PC-like open platforms, so you may as well stop dreaming with that part.
I wouldn't even say it's about killing machines or rockets. Republicans hate big government, but they love pork. They know they can say pretty much anything to the people who vote for them, so long as they also pork them up a bit they'll get reelected. As it turns out, military equipment and space equipment are two of the best means of pork.
The thing is, being "tough on crime" isn't about rehabilitating the convicts, it's about making the jailers feel good about themselves.
I'm surprised because every review process I've seen was blind. Papers are submitted with just an ID, authors are not disclosed until the paper is accepted (they are never disclosed if it is rejected, as far as I'm aware). PLoS One is reputable enough that I would've expected the same.
Or make each incremental update increase the total cost of the patent application by 10x. I'd love to see them squirm at that.
For what it's worth, LastPass will already warn you if a password is reused across two different domains. You need to explicitly set a list of equivalences if two domains share the same backend, for example.
Except that's not quite how it works. The EPA would instead ask for the study showing this link, call it utter bullshit, and carry on.
And let's not forget that even "e-diesel" is going to release chemical composites of some sort into the air, which means the whole city pollution issue is not solved with any of those alternative fuels. To me, that's one of the key advantages of moving away from internal combustion engines beyond global warming and sustainability. The only technologies so far which do not have this issue are hydrogen and electric.
Sorry, you're probably the one in a million exception in that case. There are many reasons Google+ failed, but that's most certainly not one of them.
So wait, it supports a processor that was introduced 7 years ago in November 2008, has room for the minimum about of RAM I'd expect on a modern PC, and well under half what I could have installed on my desktop 3 years ago, only room for two hard drives, and a 4k screen? it really doesn't sound that great.
You try lugging that desktop around in a bag and we'll see how that works out for you. Hint: laptops aren't desktops for a reason. Also, the M3800 sports Haswell CPUs (another hint! i7 indicates relative strength within a series, it's not the series itself), which were definitely not introduced 7 years ago. Better luck next time.
This. XP is dead, get on with the times, especially something like iTunes where the old excuse of corporate software forcing you to stay on XP most certainly doesn't apply since it's strictly a consumer application.
This is one of the few cases where I'll just go with "Yeah, throw her into jail for a solid 5-10 years, see how she likes the opulent lifestyle there."
That's funny because IQ is defined according to the population's statistical distribution of intelligence, so in doing so you would effectively cull half the population every generation. I don't think you'd survive very long either with a comment like this.
The difference is that Stop Signs have a legal basis and if you fail to stop at them, you can be fined.
Yes, the notion of a stop sign is enshrined into law. This proposed law would do the same for vaccines. That's not what I call a difference.
You want the license to drive, then you agree to play by the rules that keeps everyone safer.
Yep. And if you want your children to go to school, you agree to play by the rules that keep everyone safer.
Why yes, because herd immunity is still largely intact. This could change if the anti-vaxxer movement keeps going though, which is exactly why it's good to handle this now rather than later, when a new, larger outbreak happens.
Comparing the 147 who got infected to the entire population of the US is disingenuous and you know it. Might as well compare it to the population of the Earth for how little it matters. What matters is that a significant number of children were infected by a deadly disease. This time around, everyone was safe and nothing bad happened. How many times do you want to roll the wheel of fortune?
By that logic, SSL is also broken, and so is any form of encryption: if you have the key, you're shit out of luck. Thankfully, getting the key(s) is a lot more complicated than you make it sound.
You're severely misrepresenting things here: the notion of putting IT staff in control and removing privileges from users is a fundamental part of how corporate IT is supposed to work. Linux does the exact same thing in that context. You are using and working your employer's hardware: they, not you, get to decide how it's run and what happens on it. You're free to ask them about something, but you don't get to install your own shit because you wanted to. A dumb user installing a cat screensaver trojan doesn't risk losing their family photos, they risk exposing their entire company to a leak or a hack or whatever else.
You can directly trace the slow uptake of many consumer platforms in the corporate sector to how little support they have for central management.
I think the only potential weaknesses would be Java, Flash and browsers which now run a bunch of apps of their own. Java still only ever shows up as a single executable and is easily the biggest security risk in that context. Mind you, you might be able to get away with not having Java installed in a corporate environment, depending on your in-house platform of choice.
it's questionable whether or not it's actual gameplay or just pre-rendered cut scenes from the game engine.
It's not questionable at all. When devs actually use in-game footage, they'll rub it in your face in every way possible. In-engine footage is marketing speak for "We wish we could do something like that, but right now it's running at 2 fps on SLI Titan Xs and all the animations are static".
To be fair, they did give one good justification for moving things to the GApps package: updates. They initially put everything in the OS and expected that manufacturers would, in good faith, keep their devices updated. As it turns out, manufacturers are complete shit at doing anything beyond pushing a device on market and dropping it like a hot turd six months later, and so thanks to them Android has been called "fragmented" and every new OS version takes years to see significant adoption. Their solution was to push as much stuff as possible into their GApps package, which is the only thing they control absolutely and which manufacturers cannot meddle with or delay. It's not the full OS, but a lot of key functionality gets ported over, allowing for instance to develop for 5.0 and still be able to backport to 4.x or even 2.x thanks to GApps providing a compatibility layer.
I just hope any connected device that can heat up requires manual intervention to turn on... I don't want to think about what'd happen if you could turn up the oven remotely.
Or perhaps comparing a ~$350 phone with a ~$650 one and a dumb-but-not-quite Nokia phone isn't exactly fair.