The whole point of "Smart" TVs is for natively streaming online media, quickly & easily, without the fuss of having to muck around with HDMI cables & external devices. And the concept of locally streaming via DLNA is very much limited to the realm of the geek/enthusiast, and that's very unlikely to ever change.
...it doesn't rain all that much down there is starting to tell. Round here in the North West...
Relatively speaking perhaps. "The North" is wetter than Trump in a Russian hotel. But the south gets more than enough rainfall to cover its needs. They just need to start prioritising maintenance over shareholders.
There are far drier populous regions who are able to manage their water supplies perfectly well.
But you have to download & install each & every one. Streaming is just easier, and comes with none of the baggage. Netflix beat out Blockbuster for the same reasons.
I'm far more adventurous & consume more on Netflix than I ever did at Blockbuster. It'd probably be the same story with gaming, if I had a huge library of games within a second's reach..
Mobile games are hardly known for their lightening fast reaction times, especially the light-hearted all-ages type games that Rovio produces. And taking the heavy duty computing to the cloud, leaving the handheld as little more than a video decoder, could even provide a far more consistent gaming experience across devices.
It's the one platform I could actually see streaming games work well on in the near future.
This is the first I've read of any supposed "sexual predation" in relation to this story. Where did the paedo angle come from? Every other article, including the one linked, only makes mention of macabre & violent content being hidden in the midst of the videos, explicitly for unexpecting kids to see. There's nothing "coded" about it, it's shock material that was meant to be seen.
Intelligence is only a part of the recipe for success. You also need discipline, motivation, people skills, a good balance of executive functions (eg. organisation) "common sense", etc, etc
I've known plenty of very intelligent people, who know a lot about a wide range of subjects & are excellent problem solvers, but have been held back by a lack of focus, organisation & people skills.
Simply waving at a car is far less work & less conspicuous than going to the work of repainting road markings or finding & donning a disguise that looks like a local official.
There's a basic list of search syntax at the below link, however you can find far more if you search "google search syntax". https://support.google.com/web...
You've clearly not seen much of the world - at least not life on different latitudes.
Near the equator, you'd be limited to 12hr days. The sun rises at 6, & it sets at 6. And beyond certain latitudes, the big differences in the length of a day in summertime & wintertime would also present a big challenge. Heck, go far enough & the day/night cycle lasts months!
China is not arresting everyone with a hood pulled up are they? That seems unrealistic.
Perhaps not today, but it wouldn't be a surprising development. France already has a ban on headwear that covers the face, in public places, & I doubt it's the only place with such legislation.
And China doesn't even need to track its citizens via CCTV. It's already starting to mandate that citizens keep mandated tracking software installed on their phones. Mandating the constant possession of a phone, as the States' does with IDs, would be a logical next step.
The GP's point isn't whether school shootings may, or may not, now be more common in the USA. It's the fact that it's even an issue. It's an anomaly not only in the developed world, but the world as a whole. It's an indicator that something in its society is really quite fucked up.
Wait, what? Your point still sort of stands, however your examples are a tad askew...
Eggplants are fruit. And neither harvesting them, nor beans ("legumes"), kills the host plant. Roots can also frequently be harvested without killing the whole organism. They can asexually sprout nodules, which in turn grow into edible produce (which is still considered part of the original organism).
Although the UK formally switched to metric in 1965, it is still in the process of slowly seeping through popular culture. The general public still travels in miles, quotes Fahrenheit temperatures, and weighs people not even in imperial but in the Neolithic unit that preceded it.
That's not even half true. Sure, it's still a messy mix, however there are very few things we still use imperial for, and it's mostly the baby boomer generation. Our schools started the transition as far back as 1968, however it wasn't until 1988 that the National Curriculum forced all schools to conform.
For those over 60, Centigrade is the only Metric (SI) measurement they use - not even my grandparents use Fahrenheit. For human weight, they also use Stones (14lbs).
For everyone under 60, it's mostly SI Metric.
Imperial
Miles: Long distances & speed
Pints: Beer & Milk
Gallons: Petrol
Pounds & Stones: Used only by those over 60
Metric
Metres: Distances below a mile & speeds below 1MPH, except those over 60
For card-not-present transactions (online and e-commerce) EMV makes no difference at all.
Not quite. If I try to pay anything online with one of my UK cards, after passing my card details to the merchant, a token is used to forward me to my bank, where I have to confirm 3 letters of my pin & 4 letters of my online banking password. I then get returned to the merchant once the payment's been authorised.
Fine, that system's completely independent of my card, however it's only possible because the bank's been able to force me to set two separate passwords for authentication.
People are advocating that the federal government pays for healthcare. They wouldn't have anything to do with actually delivering it. The doctors and caregivers make those decisions with universal guidelines which eliminates a ton of inconsistency caused by every organization doing it differently.
If you think the federal govt will operate in that fashion, of just paying only and not regulating the hell out of it, and making decisions rather than the doctors....you've either not dealt with the Feds much or are just deluded.
Funny, we Europeans, with our public healthcare, generally see the overpriced abusive mess of the US health cartel in the same light. Deluded.
A long way from the strict one-glove-fits-all approach you describe, our doctors still decide which treatments best suite each individual patient, and more still, without any influence from private kickbacks or pressures to prescribe unnecessary treatments to inflate profits.
The only "interference" is the independent oversight body which determines which treatments to make available based on their cost/benefit balance. A pragmatic necessity that private insurance companies would also have to take into account.
Beyond prioritising care over profits, the bulk buying power of national health systems means they are also able to access drugs at a far lesser cost than individual private insurance companies.
As a native English speaker living in a foreign speaking country, I would absolutely primarily speak English at home with my children. I don't yet have children, so I mostly speak the native language at home in order to hone my skills, however that will change when I have kids. Being immersed in the local lingo, they'll have no problem learning it - no doubt to a level far higher than my own! But using English at home will give them the rare opportunity to simultaneously learn a second language to native proficiency.
Over here, the locals frequently complement me on my local language skills, however it's sad to see that I all too frequently see people in English speaking countries criticising the English of immigrants who speak English far better than I speak my own second language. It's not just ignorant, it's arrogant.
There's a huge difference in maintaining a personal mail server, and one used by hundreds or thousands of staff.
A big part of the headache of maintaining email infrastructure is trying to control what goes out, without getting in the way of day-to-day operations - much like the challenge of finding the balance in maintaining a secure network without being a hinderance
When I've had problems with email, it's usually because some clueless dev has tried to spam 100k contacts with poorly formed emails with dodgy headers. In this case, rather than try to find a technical solution for stupid(R), I've found it's far easier to just try & train people & enforce some basic rules.
Likewise. It's been at least the best part of a decade, if not more, that the UK has had so called "biometric" passports. From what I can tell, all that really means is they added an RFID & doubled the renewal fees. I've never been asked to give any prints, and until this day, the only places in the UK with any of my biometric records are a couple of datacentres.
Although TPM only addresses some of the concerns. It's only useful for detecting hardware interference post-installation, and only as long as the manufacturer doesn't leak the burned-in keys - but that's not something that could ever be easily solved, short of fabricating everything in-house.
"Anyone with access to the private endorsement key would be able to forge the chip's identity and break some of the security that the chip provides. Thus, the security of the TPM relies entirely on the manufacturer and the authorities in the country where the hardware is produced."
Without delving into the nitty details, both lsyncd* & the NextCloud/ownCloud clients use inotify to watch for file changes & kick off syncs, & I've never had an issue with either of them.
*I use lsyncd to maintain a rudimentary redundant mirror for one of my sites. Abstract from its readme:
Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or block devices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.
Slashdot Mirror
The whole point of "Smart" TVs is for natively streaming online media, quickly & easily, without the fuss of having to muck around with HDMI cables & external devices. And the concept of locally streaming via DLNA is very much limited to the realm of the geek/enthusiast, and that's very unlikely to ever change.
...it doesn't rain all that much down there is starting to tell. Round here in the North West...
Relatively speaking perhaps. "The North" is wetter than Trump in a Russian hotel. But the south gets more than enough rainfall to cover its needs. They just need to start prioritising maintenance over shareholders.
There are far drier populous regions who are able to manage their water supplies perfectly well.
Spending extended periods of time at a fixed focal length of only 1" isn't going to do your eyes much good.
That's even worse than keeping your eyes glued to a computer screen 24/7, you've not even a distant wall to look at.
So less Virtual Reality, more Reality SD...
But you have to download & install each & every one. Streaming is just easier, and comes with none of the baggage. Netflix beat out Blockbuster for the same reasons.
I'm far more adventurous & consume more on Netflix than I ever did at Blockbuster.
It'd probably be the same story with gaming, if I had a huge library of games within a second's reach..
Mobile games are hardly known for their lightening fast reaction times, especially the light-hearted all-ages type games that Rovio produces. And taking the heavy duty computing to the cloud, leaving the handheld as little more than a video decoder, could even provide a far more consistent gaming experience across devices.
It's the one platform I could actually see streaming games work well on in the near future.
This is the first I've read of any supposed "sexual predation" in relation to this story. Where did the paedo angle come from? Every other article, including the one linked, only makes mention of macabre & violent content being hidden in the midst of the videos, explicitly for unexpecting kids to see. There's nothing "coded" about it, it's shock material that was meant to be seen.
Intelligence is only a part of the recipe for success. You also need discipline, motivation, people skills, a good balance of executive functions (eg. organisation) "common sense", etc, etc
I've known plenty of very intelligent people, who know a lot about a wide range of subjects & are excellent problem solvers, but have been held back by a lack of focus, organisation & people skills.
Simply waving at a car is far less work & less conspicuous than going to the work of repainting road markings or finding & donning a disguise that looks like a local official.
Sounds fun to hack. I'm now imagining mischievous jumping into the middle of intersections & waving at cars.
I expect it'd need to be quite advanced to reliably tell legitimate traffic cops from pedestrians.
You are wrong.
Wrap the word in quotes.
There's a basic list of search syntax at the below link, however you can find far more if you search "google search syntax".
https://support.google.com/web...
You've clearly not seen much of the world - at least not life on different latitudes.
Near the equator, you'd be limited to 12hr days. The sun rises at 6, & it sets at 6.
And beyond certain latitudes, the big differences in the length of a day in summertime & wintertime would also present a big challenge. Heck, go far enough & the day/night cycle lasts months!
China is not arresting everyone with a hood pulled up are they? That seems unrealistic.
Perhaps not today, but it wouldn't be a surprising development. France already has a ban on headwear that covers the face, in public places, & I doubt it's the only place with such legislation.
And China doesn't even need to track its citizens via CCTV. It's already starting to mandate that citizens keep mandated tracking software installed on their phones. Mandating the constant possession of a phone, as the States' does with IDs, would be a logical next step.
To quote Aristotle, "Whoooooooosh!"
The GP's point isn't whether school shootings may, or may not, now be more common in the USA. It's the fact that it's even an issue. It's an anomaly not only in the developed world, but the world as a whole. It's an indicator that something in its society is really quite fucked up.
Tripe. Please find me one British newspaper article that quotes the temperature in Fahrenheit.
Even my 90 year old grandparents use Celsius.
Wait, what? Your point still sort of stands, however your examples are a tad askew...
Eggplants are fruit. And neither harvesting them, nor beans ("legumes"), kills the host plant.
Roots can also frequently be harvested without killing the whole organism. They can asexually sprout nodules, which in turn grow into edible produce (which is still considered part of the original organism).
Although the UK formally switched to metric in 1965, it is still in the process of slowly seeping through popular culture. The general public still travels in miles, quotes Fahrenheit temperatures, and weighs people not even in imperial but in the Neolithic unit that preceded it.
That's not even half true. Sure, it's still a messy mix, however there are very few things we still use imperial for, and it's mostly the baby boomer generation. Our schools started the transition as far back as 1968, however it wasn't until 1988 that the National Curriculum forced all schools to conform.
For those over 60, Centigrade is the only Metric (SI) measurement they use - not even my grandparents use Fahrenheit. For human weight, they also use Stones (14lbs).
For everyone under 60, it's mostly SI Metric.
Imperial
Metric
For card-not-present transactions (online and e-commerce) EMV makes no difference at all.
Not quite. If I try to pay anything online with one of my UK cards, after passing my card details to the merchant, a token is used to forward me to my bank, where I have to confirm 3 letters of my pin & 4 letters of my online banking password. I then get returned to the merchant once the payment's been authorised.
Fine, that system's completely independent of my card, however it's only possible because the bank's been able to force me to set two separate passwords for authentication.
If you think the federal govt will operate in that fashion, of just paying only and not regulating the hell out of it, and making decisions rather than the doctors....you've either not dealt with the Feds much or are just deluded.
Funny, we Europeans, with our public healthcare, generally see the overpriced abusive mess of the US health cartel in the same light. Deluded.
A long way from the strict one-glove-fits-all approach you describe, our doctors still decide which treatments best suite each individual patient, and more still, without any influence from private kickbacks or pressures to prescribe unnecessary treatments to inflate profits.
The only "interference" is the independent oversight body which determines which treatments to make available based on their cost/benefit balance. A pragmatic necessity that private insurance companies would also have to take into account.
Beyond prioritising care over profits, the bulk buying power of national health systems means they are also able to access drugs at a far lesser cost than individual private insurance companies.
As a native English speaker living in a foreign speaking country, I would absolutely primarily speak English at home with my children. I don't yet have children, so I mostly speak the native language at home in order to hone my skills, however that will change when I have kids. Being immersed in the local lingo, they'll have no problem learning it - no doubt to a level far higher than my own! But using English at home will give them the rare opportunity to simultaneously learn a second language to native proficiency.
Over here, the locals frequently complement me on my local language skills, however it's sad to see that I all too frequently see people in English speaking countries criticising the English of immigrants who speak English far better than I speak my own second language. It's not just ignorant, it's arrogant.
There's a huge difference in maintaining a personal mail server, and one used by hundreds or thousands of staff.
A big part of the headache of maintaining email infrastructure is trying to control what goes out, without getting in the way of day-to-day operations - much like the challenge of finding the balance in maintaining a secure network without being a hinderance
When I've had problems with email, it's usually because some clueless dev has tried to spam 100k contacts with poorly formed emails with dodgy headers. In this case, rather than try to find a technical solution for stupid(R), I've found it's far easier to just try & train people & enforce some basic rules.
Likewise. It's been at least the best part of a decade, if not more, that the UK has had so called "biometric" passports. From what I can tell, all that really means is they added an RFID & doubled the renewal fees. I've never been asked to give any prints, and until this day, the only places in the UK with any of my biometric records are a couple of datacentres.
Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
Although TPM only addresses some of the concerns. It's only useful for detecting hardware interference post-installation, and only as long as the manufacturer doesn't leak the burned-in keys - but that's not something that could ever be easily solved, short of fabricating everything in-house.
"Anyone with access to the private endorsement key would be able to forge the chip's identity and break some of the security that the chip provides. Thus, the security of the TPM relies entirely on the manufacturer and the authorities in the country where the hardware is produced."
Without delving into the nitty details, both lsyncd* & the NextCloud/ownCloud clients use inotify to watch for file changes & kick off syncs, & I've never had an issue with either of them.
*I use lsyncd to maintain a rudimentary redundant mirror for one of my sites. Abstract from its readme:
Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or block devices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.