You are missing a piece, Amazons shenanigans put some EU competition out of business which led to people losing their jobs which also means less taxes paid in the EU.
So, no matter how you try to spin it - it was a net loss for EU.
I'm afraid I'm going to place the people who can't describe what's going wrong in a browser in the same category of people that describes their car-problems in the style 'it made a clunking sound'.
I can understand that commonality is good but I also expect that someone who uses a tool also understands how it works in general terms and adapt to changes. If someone can't bother to superficially understand a technological tool used by the majority of humankind it's a sad day.
But I guess it has always been like that, most people doesn't want to think and things should just work in the way they are used to.
You are aware that the US economy only functions because of China, right?
China owns about $1.1 trillion of the US debt, Japan about as much too, in total about 11% of the total US national debt.
A majority of the consumer goods imported to the US comes from China, an embargo will make a huge impact on the economy and getting into a pissing contest with China will mostly hurt the US badly.
The problem you are describing can only exists because of crappy infrastructure and ISP lock in. It's funny how other countries doesn't have this problem - because most of them actually have a competitive market.
And talking about how NN takes power away from the individual is laughable when you look at how it works right now. Most consumers doesn't have any power at all since they have no choices in what ISP to use.
The thing is, without NN there will be no new Netflix's for example because the cost of entering the market will be too high. Or for that matter, the ISP can throttle traffic to sites that they find questionable. There is no end to all the shenanigans they can do with the traffic without NN.
In the end it all boils down to that there is almost no choice for the consumers which the ISP's milk for all it's worth and a bit more.
You seem to miss the point entirely (which most slashdotters tend to do).
How do you propose the dash-cam make the ambulance reach an accident faster?
You talk about waste of money - so I have to ask you, what is a life worth in your opinion? Because if the system saves lives, is it still a waste of money?
And before complaining about "taking over", FFS read up on what RDS is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System), And if you are driving in a car it is your frickin responsibility to make use of any information available to get as a complete picture you can of the traffic situation so you can drive safely. If you think it's an undue burden to have your music interrupted by a message that can save lives please sell your car.
And you couldn't even get the thing about bad drivers right, one bad driving habit is LACK OF COMMUNICATION! You know like . . . eye contact! Or using the turn signal! Or being oblivious to the traffic around you because you can't hear it over your stereo blaring.
I'd suggest you amend your knowledge regarding browsers. I have mine set to 16 connections/host out of a total pool of 64. And if your browser only have 6 connections per host max, may I recommend you switch to something better.
Duh! The SIM-card isn't just used for storing numbers. It's a physical token representing your number and what operator you are using.
Image the hassle when you get a new phone and have to call customer support to validate it and get your number ported to it from the old one. Or moving to a new operator (if it's allowed).. Brrr...
You forgot the "better resolution C/E/VGA" style graphics the UI has so tablet users can see the UI and use their fat sticky fingers to navigate which effectively reduces your displays information density to something from the early 90's.
A warranty cannot be voided if you replace a part that has a limited life due to being used up, for example ink-cartridges, paper in a printer, brake-pads on a car etc etc..
If someone claims otherwise they are wrong. Just check the Magnusson-Moss Warranty act regarding "Tie-in sales".
The only time you can void your warranty in this kind of instance is if you use 3rd party replacements parts even though the original manufacturer supplies the replacement for free OR if your 3rd party replacement breaks the equipment.
The biggest problem with being poor that people often overlook is that it's very expensive being poor. Almost all their earnings goes to their subsistence which means having the money to get a higher education is almost impossible.
Do you really believe that poor people doesn't want better education and jobs? Your comment makes it sound like poor people are lazy slobs waiting for government handouts.
It's the same reasoning the super-rich uses when talking about "ordinary people" (ie. wage slaves), "ordinary people" are lazy slobs trying to get as much money as possible from them.
All the shit Microsoft have pulled the last year only mean that a lot of people gets pissed off.
Microsoft has become that guy in the office nobody can stand because he is a total asshole but they have to deal with him on a daily basis anyway - which means when they get the chance to get rid of him they will.
In this instance you seem to get a free/forced OS-upgrade when in reality Microsoft makes you and your information a product which they can capitalize on.
Do car makers really have good incentives to fix their security?
Not really, since they can sell a new car paid by the insurance company when someones car gets stolen. The only downside is negative reporting - but that can be fixed by massive ad-campaigns; just look at VAG, they are running ads like crazy in Europe right now, but they have dropped their tag-line "vorsprung durch technik" (lead by technology). I guess they don't want to use the new and improved tag-line "vorsprung durch betrug" (lead by cheating).
The whole wireless key fob thing is a pure convenience thing that when it fails becomes extremely inconvenient because convenience is security's biggest enemy. I can't understand that people would accept that their car have no physical security to speak of since it is quite a huge investment for many people.
The only mitigation I can think of if you still want the convenience of a wholly wireless key fob is that they introduce a check for max latency for the key-challenge response which is like 27 picoseconds(?) for a 4 meter radius not including the electronics internal response time. This means of course that the timing of the key exchange must be wholly deterministic.
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You are missing a piece, Amazons shenanigans put some EU competition out of business which led to people losing their jobs which also means less taxes paid in the EU.
So, no matter how you try to spin it - it was a net loss for EU.
..it comes with quantum memory too since the current firefox gobbles memory like a bloated app from Microsoft...
I'm afraid I'm going to place the people who can't describe what's going wrong in a browser in the same category of people that describes their car-problems in the style 'it made a clunking sound'.
I can understand that commonality is good but I also expect that someone who uses a tool also understands how it works in general terms and adapt to changes. If someone can't bother to superficially understand a technological tool used by the majority of humankind it's a sad day.
But I guess it has always been like that, most people doesn't want to think and things should just work in the way they are used to.
You are aware that the US economy only functions because of China, right?
China owns about $1.1 trillion of the US debt, Japan about as much too, in total about 11% of the total US national debt.
A majority of the consumer goods imported to the US comes from China, an embargo will make a huge impact on the economy and getting into a pissing contest with China will mostly hurt the US badly.
The problem you are describing can only exists because of crappy infrastructure and ISP lock in. It's funny how other countries doesn't have this problem - because most of them actually have a competitive market.
And talking about how NN takes power away from the individual is laughable when you look at how it works right now. Most consumers doesn't have any power at all since they have no choices in what ISP to use.
The thing is, without NN there will be no new Netflix's for example because the cost of entering the market will be too high. Or for that matter, the ISP can throttle traffic to sites that they find questionable. There is no end to all the shenanigans they can do with the traffic without NN.
In the end it all boils down to that there is almost no choice for the consumers which the ISP's milk for all it's worth and a bit more.
It translates just fine if you have an adequate education.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Quality of MPEG-2 is always greater than MPEG-2 re-encoded into mp4.
There is some encoding and filter tricks you can do to hide the loss of quality somewhat, but is still a loss.
I'm afraid that we would then have food riots in 10 months time due to the incredible population growth...
You seem to miss the point entirely (which most slashdotters tend to do).
How do you propose the dash-cam make the ambulance reach an accident faster?
You talk about waste of money - so I have to ask you, what is a life worth in your opinion? Because if the system saves lives, is it still a waste of money?
And before complaining about "taking over", FFS read up on what RDS is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System), And if you are driving in a car it is your frickin responsibility to make use of any information available to get as a complete picture you can of the traffic situation so you can drive safely. If you think it's an undue burden to have your music interrupted by a message that can save lives please sell your car.
And you couldn't even get the thing about bad drivers right, one bad driving habit is LACK OF COMMUNICATION! You know like . . . eye contact! Or using the turn signal! Or being oblivious to the traffic around you because you can't hear it over your stereo blaring.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/10/15/2121214/sonar-software-detects-laptop-user-presence
Actually been using it although it drove a co-worker batty because he heard the high-frequency ticks and he couldn't find the source.. ;)
Your sig is 100% accurate for your post.
I'd suggest you amend your knowledge regarding browsers. I have mine set to 16 connections/host out of a total pool of 64. And if your browser only have 6 connections per host max, may I recommend you switch to something better.
Duh! The SIM-card isn't just used for storing numbers. It's a physical token representing your number and what operator you are using.
Image the hassle when you get a new phone and have to call customer support to validate it and get your number ported to it from the old one. Or moving to a new operator (if it's allowed).. Brrr...
You forgot the "better resolution C/E/VGA" style graphics the UI has so tablet users can see the UI and use their fat sticky fingers to navigate which effectively reduces your displays information density to something from the early 90's.
Their math adds up just fine, it's you who don't understand it and the numbers they are presenting. Go read up on confidence intervals and statistics.
A warranty cannot be voided if you replace a part that has a limited life due to being used up, for example ink-cartridges, paper in a printer, brake-pads on a car etc etc..
If someone claims otherwise they are wrong. Just check the Magnusson-Moss Warranty act regarding "Tie-in sales".
The only time you can void your warranty in this kind of instance is if you use 3rd party replacements parts even though the original manufacturer supplies the replacement for free OR if your 3rd party replacement breaks the equipment.
Some people saw this coming when WhatsApp was sold.
How do you think Facebook where going to recoup the money? By turning their users into a product they can sell of course.
Surprised?
You shouldn't be, this how it works with social platforms; you aren't a user - you are a product.
But but but how then are they going to be able play paid content containing ads about something totally irrelevant?
...that they post reverse-get-rich-quick scams.
It's like a bad hi-tech variant on those spam messages touting obscure stocks.
"A fool and his money are soon parted" comes to mind.
So Japan can now watch American p0rn faster and American can watch Japanese p0rn faster also! ;)
The biggest problem with being poor that people often overlook is that it's very expensive being poor. Almost all their earnings goes to their subsistence which means having the money to get a higher education is almost impossible.
Do you really believe that poor people doesn't want better education and jobs? Your comment makes it sound like poor people are lazy slobs waiting for government handouts.
It's the same reasoning the super-rich uses when talking about "ordinary people" (ie. wage slaves), "ordinary people" are lazy slobs trying to get as much money as possible from them.
All the shit Microsoft have pulled the last year only mean that a lot of people gets pissed off.
Microsoft has become that guy in the office nobody can stand because he is a total asshole but they have to deal with him on a daily basis anyway - which means when they get the chance to get rid of him they will.
But compressing gas to almost 2000psi has me wondering what kind of compressor they using?
Most likely a variant on the scroll compressor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_compressor...
TANSTAAFL!
In this instance you seem to get a free/forced OS-upgrade when in reality Microsoft makes you and your information a product which they can capitalize on.
Do car makers really have good incentives to fix their security?
Not really, since they can sell a new car paid by the insurance company when someones car gets stolen. The only downside is negative reporting - but that can be fixed by massive ad-campaigns; just look at VAG, they are running ads like crazy in Europe right now, but they have dropped their tag-line "vorsprung durch technik" (lead by technology). I guess they don't want to use the new and improved tag-line "vorsprung durch betrug" (lead by cheating).
The whole wireless key fob thing is a pure convenience thing that when it fails becomes extremely inconvenient because convenience is security's biggest enemy. I can't understand that people would accept that their car have no physical security to speak of since it is quite a huge investment for many people.
The only mitigation I can think of if you still want the convenience of a wholly wireless key fob is that they introduce a check for max latency for the key-challenge response which is like 27 picoseconds(?) for a 4 meter radius not including the electronics internal response time. This means of course that the timing of the key exchange must be wholly deterministic.
First time I saw a photo of Ted Cruz I thought that he looked like Richard Nixon for some reason, go figure...