Eventually the cable companies are going to raise the internet price so high if you don't have a cable subscription with them that you'll almost be forced to do it.
Dangerous for them - for cable is not a monopoly on internet connections. In some areas - yes. In other areas, you have choice. All the choosers choose something else, then the alternatives eat into cable-only land.
But why does the key work better than authenticating with a mobile phone?
Both are "something you have" so what's the difference? Of course the phone is "something you already have" while the key is "something you have to buy".
The phone is something you have only until the scammer convinces the phone company to transfer access to them. So technically, while you may or may not own the physical phone but do control it, you do not own or control the phone's identification; the phone company owns and controls that.
If you blow up your photos to the pixel level, you'll find that it's not the pixel count that's making them look bad, it's the pixel-to-pixel noise and compression and color fringing, for example.
On my 15MP camera, I am limited by coma and chromatic aberration before sensor resolution.
How does this help when performance is limited by the lens? My 15 megapixel camera has more coma and chromatic aberration than the sensor will support.
The faster DSL and cable standards actually have higher latency because they used interleaving for error control. When I went from SDSL which was basically the DSL version of a T1 or ISDN to must faster ADSL, latency went from 5 milliseconds to 30 milliseconds on the hop to the gateway.
For the faster standards you used to be able to select whether interleaving was used giving the option between lower latency or higher bandwidth but at some point, that decision was made for you by marketing; higher peak bandwidth sounds better in ads whether it is possible to make use of or not.
Indeed. I believe BBC did a study after some outrage issue and found that much of the conservation money comes from those dentists and other great white hunters. Also, that $50k is just for the license for that one animal. That doesn't include all the other costs the host country typically requires like hiring guides, rangers, gun holders, etc. Even then, the creatures they hunt are usually the ones that need to be culled anyway.
In Africa it comes down to people or animals and if the animals have no economic value because of hunting restrictions, then there is no reason to conserve them.
Or would tourists be willing to pay $50,000 for authorization to *photograph* an animal?
Didn't their last satellite go kablooey? SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion on the launch pad during fueling destroyed Facebook's co-leased AMOS-6 Satellite Sept 1st 2016. The satellite was to provide Internet service to large parts of West, East and Southern Africa. The satellite cost approximately $200 million. Sounds like the new plan is smaller, simpler and cheaper lower orbit satellites.
Do you remember that PoIP (punch over IP) protocol? We are way beyond that now.
This article says, per the company itself, "could be" as low as 30 milliseconds. Which means it won't be anywhere near that--just like your internet speeds are nothing compared to what your ISP says it "could be".
Speed of light delay is about 1 nanosecond per foot (1) so about 5.3 microseconds per mile and 0.53 milliseconds per 100 miles. Geosynchronous orbit at about 22.5 thousand miles contributes about 125 milliseconds. The interleaved error correction commonly used on high speed DSL and cable contributes 10s of milliseconds of latency. If you were using the old ISDN or SDSL standards, this is more like 1 millisecond.
So the contribution in latency from a LEO satellite constellation is insignificant even under conditions of poor geometry. The 30 milliseconds they are referring to is due to factors other than the distance to the satellites.
(1) It is actually easier for me to think of this using English units; 3.336 nanoseconds per meter is more inconvenient to start with.
Since the operating systems and USB drives routinely ignore the standards which should prevent data corruption, using any ejection function is irrelevant. The same goes for SATA devices and various Flash drives.
And who cares what the OS says if removing the USB drive could corrupt it. Does that mean that they USB drives do not support idle time scrubbing? What a surprise that they are so unreliable then.
>> I explained that I know just how secure phones are, and that I would never trust financial stuff to a device that is so easily stolen Feeling smart, right? Did you heard about device called "wallet", where you can hold "financial stuff" we call "cash", which is... easy stolen! There's another easy stolen device, called "check book".
And btw, why "personal banker" in quotes? Her job is indeed personal banker.
The real irony here, that idiot like you, which "know just how secure phones are" probably didn't even enabled device encryption
Nobody can social engineer the phone company to transfer my wallet and if someone does try to social engineer my wallet, I can make them a counter offer personally.
Banks hate cash. It requires physical handling. It can be stolen. It wears out. It "isn't working for us" as it sits in a vault, an ATM, or an armored car. Electronic money can be working all the time - earning interest, being leveraged, being arbitraged, whatever. Cash is so "static" compared to electronic funds.
The nice thing about electronic resources including electronic cash is that when someone steals it from the bank, they are stealing from the banks customers instead of the bank.
As for the blackmarket, it is already fairly hard for them to laundry their monies with real currency. US currency already has digital identifiers, and anything over $10k is tracked. Anything over $10k undeclared will be confiscated at the border.
The US also has civil assets forfeiture for amounts above and below $10k whether at the border or not.
Let's not forget about these amazing thought leaders and CEOs? I mean Marissa at Yahoo put in an adjacent office as a daycare for her kid so she can sit back and day dream with meetings and have these amazing thoughts that turn into code and cash. She can't be bothered as thoughts and big offices create sales and deserve insane bonuses without having to produce anything.
The only exception I have seen is in oil companies where they had insane layoffs. All the managers kept their job and shafted the oil workers. Now we have hundreds of managers with 1 to 2 employees each and still wondering why they can't make money will all these idea creators around?
Company provided day care actually sounds like a good idea but I assume your point was that this was for the top CEO only. The less employees have to worry about family responsibilities, the more effective workers they should be.
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How is this not noticed during initial testing?
Stressing a system is hardly difficult or involving.
It is not noticed when you do not bother to test the system in its final configuration.
Eventually the cable companies are going to raise the internet price so high if you don't have a cable subscription with them that you'll almost be forced to do it.
Dangerous for them - for cable is not a monopoly on internet connections. In some areas - yes. In other areas, you have choice. All the choosers choose something else, then the alternatives eat into cable-only land.
Pray they do not alter the deal.
Single, and 200GB cap is plenty for me.
I could not even reinstall part of my Steam library with that much.
Or a warning not to get caught again.
Next MB to be Gigabyte.
Dropped support (or never had it) for ECC on AM4? No thanks.
If 5G needs millimeter-wave antennas, does that mean it would be possible to very accurately triangulate your 5G phones' position between towers?
In theory it allows greater angular resolution for the same physical antenna size. In practice I doubt it would help.
But why does the key work better than authenticating with a mobile phone?
Both are "something you have" so what's the difference? Of course the phone is "something you already have" while the key is "something you have to buy".
The phone is something you have only until the scammer convinces the phone company to transfer access to them. So technically, while you may or may not own the physical phone but do control it, you do not own or control the phone's identification; the phone company owns and controls that.
If you blow up your photos to the pixel level, you'll find that it's not the pixel count that's making them look bad, it's the pixel-to-pixel noise and compression and color fringing, for example.
On my 15MP camera, I am limited by coma and chromatic aberration before sensor resolution.
How does this help when performance is limited by the lens? My 15 megapixel camera has more coma and chromatic aberration than the sensor will support.
The faster DSL and cable standards actually have higher latency because they used interleaving for error control. When I went from SDSL which was basically the DSL version of a T1 or ISDN to must faster ADSL, latency went from 5 milliseconds to 30 milliseconds on the hop to the gateway.
For the faster standards you used to be able to select whether interleaving was used giving the option between lower latency or higher bandwidth but at some point, that decision was made for you by marketing; higher peak bandwidth sounds better in ads whether it is possible to make use of or not.
Indeed. I believe BBC did a study after some outrage issue and found that much of the conservation money comes from those dentists and other great white hunters. Also, that $50k is just for the license for that one animal. That doesn't include all the other costs the host country typically requires like hiring guides, rangers, gun holders, etc. Even then, the creatures they hunt are usually the ones that need to be culled anyway.
In Africa it comes down to people or animals and if the animals have no economic value because of hunting restrictions, then there is no reason to conserve them.
Or would tourists be willing to pay $50,000 for authorization to *photograph* an animal?
Dear Google,
Please indicate on the attached screenshot where I can click to drag the window around.
The next improvement will be requiring the user to reboot if they click wrong.
http://dilbert.com/strip/1994-...
It may be dated, but UI designers today would do the world a favor by familiarizing themselves with Apple's HIG from the days of the original Macs.
Apple (and Microsoft) would do the world a favor by familiarizing themselves with Apple's HIG from the days of the original Macs.
They already did this 5 years ago and just removed it last year.
I removed it immediately.
... and less than that 20% voted for the scary clown that is now in the Whitehouse.
I sure hope that the roughly 60% that didn't vote learned their lesson.
Do you mean the lesson that they were right about not having a choice as shown by what the DNC did to Bernie Sanders?
Water wet!
Politicians dishonest, corrupt shysters!
The definition of a good politician in the US is the same as any other country; once they are bought, they stay bought.
When Bill and Hill left the White House they were loud about the fact that they were 'dirt poor.'
And since then they're now three figure millionaires?
That doesn't pass any sort of smell test.
If you are not rich after being elected to high office, then you are doing it wrong.
Didn't their last satellite go kablooey? SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion on the launch pad during fueling destroyed Facebook's co-leased AMOS-6 Satellite Sept 1st 2016. The satellite was to provide Internet service to large parts of West, East and Southern Africa. The satellite cost approximately $200 million. Sounds like the new plan is smaller, simpler and cheaper lower orbit satellites.
Do you remember that PoIP (punch over IP) protocol? We are way beyond that now.
This article says, per the company itself, "could be" as low as 30 milliseconds. Which means it won't be anywhere near that--just like your internet speeds are nothing compared to what your ISP says it "could be".
Speed of light delay is about 1 nanosecond per foot (1) so about 5.3 microseconds per mile and 0.53 milliseconds per 100 miles. Geosynchronous orbit at about 22.5 thousand miles contributes about 125 milliseconds. The interleaved error correction commonly used on high speed DSL and cable contributes 10s of milliseconds of latency. If you were using the old ISDN or SDSL standards, this is more like 1 millisecond.
So the contribution in latency from a LEO satellite constellation is insignificant even under conditions of poor geometry. The 30 milliseconds they are referring to is due to factors other than the distance to the satellites.
(1) It is actually easier for me to think of this using English units; 3.336 nanoseconds per meter is more inconvenient to start with.
Since the operating systems and USB drives routinely ignore the standards which should prevent data corruption, using any ejection function is irrelevant. The same goes for SATA devices and various Flash drives.
And who cares what the OS says if removing the USB drive could corrupt it. Does that mean that they USB drives do not support idle time scrubbing? What a surprise that they are so unreliable then.
>> I explained that I know just how secure phones are, and that I would never trust financial stuff to a device that is so easily stolen ... easy stolen! There's another easy stolen device, called "check book".
Feeling smart, right? Did you heard about device called "wallet", where you can hold "financial stuff" we call "cash", which is
And btw, why "personal banker" in quotes? Her job is indeed personal banker.
The real irony here, that idiot like you, which "know just how secure phones are" probably didn't even enabled device encryption
Nobody can social engineer the phone company to transfer my wallet and if someone does try to social engineer my wallet, I can make them a counter offer personally.
Banks hate cash. It requires physical handling. It can be stolen. It wears out. It "isn't working for us" as it sits in a vault, an ATM, or an armored car. Electronic money can be working all the time - earning interest, being leveraged, being arbitraged, whatever. Cash is so "static" compared to electronic funds.
The nice thing about electronic resources including electronic cash is that when someone steals it from the bank, they are stealing from the banks customers instead of the bank.
As for the blackmarket, it is already fairly hard for them to laundry their monies with real currency. US currency already has digital identifiers, and anything over $10k is tracked. Anything over $10k undeclared will be confiscated at the border.
The US also has civil assets forfeiture for amounts above and below $10k whether at the border or not.
Do you suggest we kill them?
I am sure the Soylent Corporation has some ideas.
Let's not forget about these amazing thought leaders and CEOs? I mean Marissa at Yahoo put in an adjacent office as a daycare for her kid so she can sit back and day dream with meetings and have these amazing thoughts that turn into code and cash. She can't be bothered as thoughts and big offices create sales and deserve insane bonuses without having to produce anything.
The only exception I have seen is in oil companies where they had insane layoffs. All the managers kept their job and shafted the oil workers. Now we have hundreds of managers with 1 to 2 employees each and still wondering why they can't make money will all these idea creators around?
Company provided day care actually sounds like a good idea but I assume your point was that this was for the top CEO only. The less employees have to worry about family responsibilities, the more effective workers they should be.