Outside of the long business of selling multi-adapters, I'll point out that a lot of new laptops are moving to USBC for charging, so the different adapter thing may soon be a thing of the past
It will just mean the product is locked to the manufacturer's adapter so you need a separate charger for every device, again. USBC includes provisions for DRM to limit which charger can be used; the first USBC ASICs which were advertised to me were for USBC charger authentication from NXP.
If making relatively minor edits to a few inconsequential posts insulting him, then admitting it and repeatedly apologising and swearing he will never do it again isn't enough, then maybe it's not worth trying to regain the trust of people who feel that way.
When a government agency or civilian equivalent investigates an employee for malfeasance publicly and then find that they are actually innocent, they fire them or effectively fire them anyway because they know that their formerly loyal employee will no longer trust them and therefor cannot be trusted.
What Steve Huffman says may or may not be true but it is irrelevant. He cannot be trusted. Fire him. That he got away with this means Reddit cannot be trusted either. Fire Reddit.
If ransomware really can't work without crypto-currency then this would have to be factored in as part of the cost of crypto-currency and it should be seriously looked at to decide if the costs are worth the benefits of the currency.
Then also factor in the benefits of using crypto-currency instead of cash which the law enforcement can seize on bogus charges at any time without charging you with anything.
I am still using my ancient Celeron 300A for my pfsense router. The only failure it has had is when the ice maker sprung a leak and water dripped into the case and when that happened, I transferred the pfsense configuration over to a spare Pentium 4 and got the original hardware back up in running within a day. Power is about 25 watts.
It is better to use an independent wireless access point than a wireless port directly on a BSD router. It should not be that way but the wireless manufacturers are jerks about open source support. Ubiquiti's CPE wireless products work well.
I hate the way AT&T U-Verse works also. The DMZ+ mode works poorly, AT&T blocks IPv6 tunneling, their caps are completely unreasonable, and performance and reliability are poor.
When I switched to Charter a couple months ago which is the only other option in my area, their modem only operated in bridge mode. All I had to do was plug my router's WAN port into the modem and the switch over was immediate.
... said every tyrant ever. There's a process for amending the Constitution. It requires a supermajority for a reason. The fact that a slim majority can't run rampant over the 49% is a feature, not a bug.
Does that include the slim majority composed of law enforcement, the courts, and the politicians?
the agency's most talented people to leave in favor of private sector jobs,
What better way is there to plant agents into companies who can then subvert products?
What really bothers me is that the people of NSA, these folks who take paltry government salaries to protect this nation, are made to look like they are doing something wrong.
Either pay your employees more or earn the trust of the people you are allegedly "protecting".
The NSA created this situation and was even warned about it. Let them fix it.
so the traffic light will cater to whats best for the person in the $100k luxury car but the kid in the beater has to be at a disadvantage on teh public right of way? seems like an equal access issue to me. Whats next? priority access to the side walk for those wearing $500 hand made Italian leather shoes while those in $50 sneakers wait??
The $100k luxury car will be going the same speed with the same response time when it is stuck behind the beater.
I get your point but that would be quite a problem since car engine pistons are made from aluminum; they start out rusted with a nice protective coating of aluminum oxide.
A licensed professional engineer would have been bound by their professional code of ethics to hold public safety paramount above all else, even if it hurt their career by doing so.
So what exactly happened here? Were there no professional Engineers involved with the design, or did the professional engineers who were involved violate their professional code of ethics?
Serious question: In Debt of Honor there was a hack directed against the NYSE. They rolled back all transactions for the day. In a bank hack no one took physical cash. If they can show the transactions were fraudulent, why can't they just reverse it?
In Dept of Honor, only the transactions with US exchanges where both sides were recorded and could be changed were rolled back. External transactions were beyond their control.
Pricing their video service over cellular implies that the cost of the cellular hop is zero, and that the expense of transmitting the video to the viewer is all in the Internet link. Since their own video service is hosted locally, there is no Internet bandwidth consumed, and thus the price should be zero (which was what Netflix offered these guys for free on their landline ISP service and they turned it down). For a market economy to function properly, the minimum pricing has to reflect the expense incurred by the seller.
I might agree with this argument however ISPs do *not* charge based on transit, peer, and local usage. If I transfer data between two adjacent subscribers of the same ISP, it does not get zero rated. Many services would be happy to meet peering requirements for essentially free transfers but ISPs deliberately avoid this in favor of their own services.
You don't put a "protection circuit" in, you specify speakers that can handle the max power output of the amplifier, and if you can't do that for some reason (space constraints maybe), then you design the max gain of the amp so it can't damage the speakers.
It can be a difficult compromise. If the amplifier output cannot damage the speakers under any condition, then the speakers are larger than necessary. If the output level is limited by clipping, then this can increase harmonic distortion enough to damage the speakers anyway.
I know I'm not the first to point this out but this tendency for old professional politicians to run is likely a big reason why Trump won. Trump is just as old as Clinton but he appears to be in better health and hasn't been a politician for 50 years like his Republican primary competitors and the Democrat general election competitor. People don't like professional politicians any more, assuming they were ever liked.
I have only seen this point brought up in one article. Trump not only won against Hillary as the anti-establishment candidate, but he won against the Republican politicians in the primary in the same way which is why the Republicans were so pissed off.
That's why we USED TO have a Senate. When the Senate changed to popular vote instead of appointment by the state governments it became just another House of Representatives.
A majority of states were already electing their US Senators by popular vote before the 17th Amendment so it made little difference.
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Outside of the long business of selling multi-adapters, I'll point out that a lot of new laptops are moving to USBC for charging, so the different adapter thing may soon be a thing of the past
It will just mean the product is locked to the manufacturer's adapter so you need a separate charger for every device, again. USBC includes provisions for DRM to limit which charger can be used; the first USBC ASICs which were advertised to me were for USBC charger authentication from NXP.
Want to bet that those "counterfeit" products come from the same assembly line as the "genuine" ones?
Considering the abysmal reviews that many of Apple's chargers and port adapters get on their own web site, I would not be surprised.
Middlemen and rent-seekers rolled into one. And now they want to shotgun copyright claims carte blanche.
Eliminating the middleman is never as simple as it sounds. About 50% of the human race is middlemen, and they don't take kindly to being eliminated.
The DEA and other law enforcement agencies take payments. Why wouldn't the FBI?
They just don't, unless they're in the form of bribes.
Sure they take payments; they just call them civil forfeitures.
If making relatively minor edits to a few inconsequential posts insulting him, then admitting it and repeatedly apologising and swearing he will never do it again isn't enough, then maybe it's not worth trying to regain the trust of people who feel that way.
When a government agency or civilian equivalent investigates an employee for malfeasance publicly and then find that they are actually innocent, they fire them or effectively fire them anyway because they know that their formerly loyal employee will no longer trust them and therefor cannot be trusted.
What Steve Huffman says may or may not be true but it is irrelevant. He cannot be trusted. Fire him. That he got away with this means Reddit cannot be trusted either. Fire Reddit.
Here's my predication: as oil supplies dwindle, its cost will go up. As "green" technology improves, its costs will go down.
And during the whole process, politicians will use rent seeking to take from the poor and give to the rich.
If ransomware really can't work without crypto-currency then this would have to be factored in as part of the cost of crypto-currency and it should be seriously looked at to decide if the costs are worth the benefits of the currency.
Then also factor in the benefits of using crypto-currency instead of cash which the law enforcement can seize on bogus charges at any time without charging you with anything.
I asked him if he thought the FBI really took payments, and if so, that they would take them by Western Union or iTunes cards or whatever.
The DEA and other law enforcement agencies take payments. Why wouldn't the FBI?
So what would you do if this ransomware infected your files?
I would find considerable pleasure in hunting down the instigator.
All martyrs have one things in common; they suffer the internet death penalty.
I am still using my ancient Celeron 300A for my pfsense router. The only failure it has had is when the ice maker sprung a leak and water dripped into the case and when that happened, I transferred the pfsense configuration over to a spare Pentium 4 and got the original hardware back up in running within a day. Power is about 25 watts.
It is better to use an independent wireless access point than a wireless port directly on a BSD router. It should not be that way but the wireless manufacturers are jerks about open source support. Ubiquiti's CPE wireless products work well.
I hate the way AT&T U-Verse works also. The DMZ+ mode works poorly, AT&T blocks IPv6 tunneling, their caps are completely unreasonable, and performance and reliability are poor.
When I switched to Charter a couple months ago which is the only other option in my area, their modem only operated in bridge mode. All I had to do was plug my router's WAN port into the modem and the switch over was immediate.
... said every tyrant ever. There's a process for amending the Constitution. It requires a supermajority for a reason. The fact that a slim majority can't run rampant over the 49% is a feature, not a bug.
Does that include the slim majority composed of law enforcement, the courts, and the politicians?
the agency's most talented people to leave in favor of private sector jobs,
What better way is there to plant agents into companies who can then subvert products?
What really bothers me is that the people of NSA, these folks who take paltry government salaries to protect this nation, are made to look like they are doing something wrong.
Either pay your employees more or earn the trust of the people you are allegedly "protecting".
The NSA created this situation and was even warned about it. Let them fix it.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
so the traffic light will cater to whats best for the person in the $100k luxury car but the kid in the beater has to be at a disadvantage on teh public right of way? seems like an equal access issue to me. Whats next? priority access to the side walk for those wearing $500 hand made Italian leather shoes while those in $50 sneakers wait??
The $100k luxury car will be going the same speed with the same response time when it is stuck behind the beater.
I get your point but that would be quite a problem since car engine pistons are made from aluminum; they start out rusted with a nice protective coating of aluminum oxide.
A licensed professional engineer would have been bound by their professional code of ethics to hold public safety paramount above all else, even if it hurt their career by doing so.
So what exactly happened here? Were there no professional Engineers involved with the design, or did the professional engineers who were involved violate their professional code of ethics?
That sure worked for Challenger.
Paying people to bugger off and stay out of trouble is less desirable than locking them in a cage and paying other people to keep them in it?
Maybe Trump is onto something about building a wall around the US.
Serious question: In Debt of Honor there was a hack directed against the NYSE. They rolled back all transactions for the day. In a bank hack no one took physical cash. If they can show the transactions were fraudulent, why can't they just reverse it?
In Dept of Honor, only the transactions with US exchanges where both sides were recorded and could be changed were rolled back. External transactions were beyond their control.
I see a market for 'USB condoms' that provide this function for people who need to plug in unknown USB devices.
Always practice safe hex.
Pricing their video service over cellular implies that the cost of the cellular hop is zero, and that the expense of transmitting the video to the viewer is all in the Internet link. Since their own video service is hosted locally, there is no Internet bandwidth consumed, and thus the price should be zero (which was what Netflix offered these guys for free on their landline ISP service and they turned it down). For a market economy to function properly, the minimum pricing has to reflect the expense incurred by the seller.
I might agree with this argument however ISPs do *not* charge based on transit, peer, and local usage. If I transfer data between two adjacent subscribers of the same ISP, it does not get zero rated. Many services would be happy to meet peering requirements for essentially free transfers but ISPs deliberately avoid this in favor of their own services.
You don't put a "protection circuit" in, you specify speakers that can handle the max power output of the amplifier, and if you can't do that for some reason (space constraints maybe), then you design the max gain of the amp so it can't damage the speakers.
It can be a difficult compromise. If the amplifier output cannot damage the speakers under any condition, then the speakers are larger than necessary. If the output level is limited by clipping, then this can increase harmonic distortion enough to damage the speakers anyway.
I know I'm not the first to point this out but this tendency for old professional politicians to run is likely a big reason why Trump won. Trump is just as old as Clinton but he appears to be in better health and hasn't been a politician for 50 years like his Republican primary competitors and the Democrat general election competitor. People don't like professional politicians any more, assuming they were ever liked.
I have only seen this point brought up in one article. Trump not only won against Hillary as the anti-establishment candidate, but he won against the Republican politicians in the primary in the same way which is why the Republicans were so pissed off.
That's why we USED TO have a Senate. When the Senate changed to popular vote instead of appointment by the state governments it became just another House of Representatives.
A majority of states were already electing their US Senators by popular vote before the 17th Amendment so it made little difference.