And this is supposedly a tech website but gets garbage like this modded insightful? No office monitor uses 500ma (sic!) anymore even when on at full brightness. 500 milliampere is half an ampere, at 120V this means 60 watts. An energy meter generally measures watts, but if it would measure amperes, one that can only measure stuff above 500mA would be just the same kind of garbage as this post above: useless for general use.
In the EU, devices have had regulations for max standby power usage for some years now. Afaik for a PC it's half a watt or so. Since all hardware is basically internationally the same, the same standards by default apply to the US as well. It's easier to design and build hardware which can be sold everywhere, the power of mass production. Maybe the power supplies made for the US market use slightly worse components with higher tolerances, since those are cheaper and there is no such regulation there, but it probably won't be worse than 1-2W instead of the half watt in the EU.
While I agree strongly with your sentiment in the rigging part, keep in mind that wikileaks obtained the info illegally, which is in general an advantage over running a legal news service (wikileaks hasn't leaked for a good intention in years and this wasn't done because they thought the world should kmow, it's pretty much a political tool at this point).
Wrong. Whoever hacked the democrats, did so illegally. Wikileaks itself didn't do anything illegal by receiving the resulting data. Otherwise. Otherwise all the News Services like CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, etc. would all be criminally liable as well when they released the Snowden Papers, the files from Manning, even back to the Pentagon papers etc. When it helped the media and served their political narrative, they welcomed wikileaks. Now that they don't like what is leaked they, and you condemn it. Hypocrites.
Wikileaks didn't change, the media did, even when Assange has an obvious agenda: he always did.
In this case, it is ok ever since Google and its corporate brethren dodged paying taxes by playing shenanigans with the tax system in different countries. It's the same here: this worked cause some US state doesn't have a sales tax. If Google can arbitrate taxes cause it's "technically not illegal", then so can their customers. Or do you think Google is allowed but their customers have to play by a different rule?
What Microsoft needed to do, and failed, was to get a big chunk of the new market called "mobile". Microsoft surface division with its much touted billions of marketshare is not mobile. It's 100% pure PC: PC hardware with PC software. Not a single sliver of a new market there at all. So the surface division as it stands right now is totally irrelevant to this. Even if you want part of the mobile market, it's debatable if you need to build your own hardware. Google steamrolled this market and now owns it like Microsoft owns the desktop without building and selling any hardware. Yes there are Nexus devices but they certainly weren't made to make money or get marketshare.
So Ballmer was utterly wrong in his assessment of needing to build and sell hardware, the surface division is like the xbox one: horrible losses for years, billions of dollars spent to make a few millions in "profits". With profits like those, no one would want any.
Whether or not he lives in a "money-free fantasy land", it's quite clear that you don't understand the main issue here, which is really about privacy.
Newspaper reading never was about privacy ever. The paper you buy at the front of the train station is anonymous, true. But the subscription for your local paper most certainly isn't. The business model of all newspapers with ads precludes any form of privacy whatsoever. Just cannot exist in this world simply cause no one would pay the price of a paper without ads: about triple the current price, and online ads must be targetable and be able to build a profile of a single reader or they are worthless.
What RMS wants is logical, good for society, etc. but totally nonpractical and hasn't got a snowballs chance of working since he doesn't understand or ignore how newspapers, print and online both, make their money.
A newspaper hasn't been financed by the price of the paper in your local 7-11 for decades now. that nickel and dime is paying for distribution and maybe the cost of printing at most. The actual money, the biggest part of the cost producing a newspaper has been financed for ages with advertising. Ads from big and small companies but also from classifieds, death notices by relatives (not sure if that custom exists in the US), etc.
So ads are more important than the actual price paid for the traditional papers on dead trees. Now let's move on to the online version of the paper: the pretty much only thing of value one gets from online ads is to be able to directly identify the one watching the ad. To be able to exactly pinpoint the person and then in turn creating a very detailed profile about this person. https://yro.slashdot.org/story... So the online newspaper needs to do the same calculation of ads as main income and subscription price, or some other pay per view, as only very secondary or else the subscription will be so outrageous, no one will ever buy one. It would cost probably two or three times as high without ads than the dead tree paper version for the privilege of reading it on your IPad. Very few subscribers indeed for such a thing.
Since the ads however demand a detailed profile as seen above, no newspaoper can ever deliver what RMS here wants.
This article is awful, both here on slashdot and pcworld. It shows that neither site is suitable for reporting on tech or IT journalism.
TSM doesn't design chips, they build them. Others design the chips, hand over that design to TSMC to get actual hardware back. TheRegister correctly reports this "bult by TSMC" 8MB SDRAM and 1GB DDR3 RAM. That is the same thing! DDR3 is a form of SDRAM and of course SDRAM makes no sense whatsoever here. Instead again, TheRegister correctly reports: 8GB SRAM, which is typically used for caching purposes: small size but fast, just like L1 to L3 caches in most/all CPUs which are also for caching.
Neither slashdot nor pcworld senior editor can correctly transcribe a simple news tidbit from another site.
Of course you can trick any sensor invented by man some way or other. That's nothing new. We even know tons of ways to trick the sensors made by god/nature aka our eyes as well. Shine a bright light into them for $10 or maybe $100 and the driver will be forced to drive blind. Or you can have a $0 natural snow storm and the driver will also be on literally very dangerous ground: zero visibility and icy roads.
The point is not that either can be fooled, the point is, is the mechanical sensor better or at least equal to mark I eyeball? Is the program doing the automatic driving at least as good as an average driver? as good as the best driver possible?
He knows, we know, he will never have to make good on any of his campaign promises or boasts. He is 100% certain to lose the election. He can promise anything he wants and it's meaningless. So why not go for the big ones: abolish the IRS but bring a efficient and fair tax enforcement, dismantle the Fed and have a strong monetary policy, kill off Wall Street and at the same time promote free enterprise, yadda, yadda.
Singling out only the universally unpopular NSA ist what a coward would do.
It's not really american when the Atlas V, the rocket which this capsule ist built for, still uses russian RD-180 rocket motors. A rocket is a fuel tank and a rocket motor mostly. It's not the fuel tank that's hard to build....
Let's hope this rumour is right. One less shitty vendor with shitty WLAN chips. Then Apple and Dell have to look elswhere to fsck over their customers with crappy hardware without working (Linux) drivers.
They found the problem in 2012 and it took until 2016 to actually fix this relatively minor problem with big consequences? Apparently the state of Washington has outsourced this software and its maintenance to their biggest taxpayer, Microsoft. No other way there is any reason to wait for a bugfix for four years.
Yes the sealevels will rise, but they already rise with every hurricane or tides of the moon. After Fukushima everyone knows that you need big ass dams, flood walls, protected and working backup generators etc.
If you build a 10m high floodwall or a 11m high one to also protect against global warming induced sea level rise simply doesn't really matter. If someone hasn't already built said 10-15m high flood wall, it's not global warming that is an issue but the regulatory commission in your country. A much more immediate problem too.
A university is not a government agency with special powers against other citizens. Law enforcement ist allowed to do these things only with the approval of the judiciary too. Which they apparently didn't get. 4th amendment, computer security laws and all thoes pesky things.
for the FBI and the university to take: If they are allowed to decrypt messages which are passing through "their" property, then: a) Pay TV hackers must be allowed to decrypt the Pay TV signals ending at the cable box or coming from a satellite b) Any ISP or whoever owns a router which transmits encrypted traffic is allowed to decrypt and read it.
Either the FBI and the university have to be punished like cable signal hackers and other bad guys, or the law covering those offenses is not worth the paper.
On your Laptop there is a normal Windows installation which is not used for work. Only for stuff like browsing the web in the evening at the hotel. mails to the kids, etc. On a USB stick on the keychain there is a copy of Tails https://tails.boum.org/index.e... You rent some VPS or root server in a country of your choice, under a different name, preferably paid via cash. This is the place where all the data for work is stored. encrypted. This server you only access via Tails which uses Tor by default.
If you can't do this, you put an encrypted VM onto your Laptop which happens to have the data for work and you write your stuff or access the web for work related research only in this VM. Again using a distro like Tails.
Why would anyone with even an ounce of self-estime parrot bullshit like "that can can be dropped from an aircraft to deliver supplies to isolated locations in the event of disasters, then evaporate into thin air once their job is done."
This is not for disasters. When there is a disaster, and you deliver stuff via one-time use means, you want to keep these aur vehicles cause they are valuable and incredibly useful. For example some parachute can be easily repurposed as a tent, to keep out rain or simply people from freezing. These are valuable materials. Metals are equally useful, etc. There simply is no trash at a disaster site, only ressources
The only, really ONLY reason for self destructing air vehicles are to infilttrate spies and spec ops into foreign countries to cause violence.
Yes and no: when someone posts the latest Hollywood blockbuster and it ends up in a Google search, then I as a european citizen see "we have removed some hits due to a DMCA violation" (paraphrased) in my german results. DMCA and the whole thing being a US law, brought with US lawsuits, etc. So, Google can't have it both ways: either it doesn't care about US law and their DMCA in Europe either, or it cares about all law everywhere. Courts usually dislike double standards like these.
It was released to the press and only to the press, notably The Guardian and the Washington Post. Where we've all seen it. Or can you point me to a tarball with all the Snowden documents, unredacted by anyone else? Can you? No, cause that doesn't exist.
Seems you should educate yourself about things before you commenting on things?
But you have to read the statement carefully to understand what he says. It is true that Russia doesn't have the money to put everyone under surveillance like the US does. So they might not do a mass surveillance like the US, instead they just put everyone interesting under direct surveillance: every Duma representative, every Oligarch, and especially everyone who is in public politicial opposition to President Putin. The NSA can't do that even when they would want to, so they simply target everyone: it's wasteful but now they can't be accused of any bias or that they target anyone they don't like.
I love to use my OpenVPN server on port 443 at home, or http tunnel. Any people complaining here about loss of privacy and so on: are you really surfing on any public AP, be it McD, library, etc without the protection of a VPN/tunnel of some sort? If so then you are not allowed to complain about privacy loss. And if you do: why do you care, you just got another free AP in the city, saving your preciousss MBs on the mobile plan! Yay!
What brings this new thing to the table what the old and proven VPNs like openvpn or tinc don't? Is it only the hip google sponsorship? If so then it's a good slashvertisement and clickbait in one.
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And this is supposedly a tech website but gets garbage like this modded insightful?
No office monitor uses 500ma (sic!) anymore even when on at full brightness. 500 milliampere is half an ampere, at 120V this means 60 watts. An energy meter generally measures watts, but if it would measure amperes, one that can only measure stuff above 500mA would be just the same kind of garbage as this post above: useless for general use.
In the EU, devices have had regulations for max standby power usage for some years now. Afaik for a PC it's half a watt or so. Since all hardware is basically internationally the same, the same standards by default apply to the US as well. It's easier to design and build hardware which can be sold everywhere, the power of mass production. Maybe the power supplies made for the US market use slightly worse components with higher tolerances, since those are cheaper and there is no such regulation there, but it probably won't be worse than 1-2W instead of the half watt in the EU.
While I agree strongly with your sentiment in the rigging part, keep in mind that wikileaks obtained the info illegally, which is in general an advantage over running a legal news service (wikileaks hasn't leaked for a good intention in years and this wasn't done because they thought the world should kmow, it's pretty much a political tool at this point).
Wrong. Whoever hacked the democrats, did so illegally. Wikileaks itself didn't do anything illegal by receiving the resulting data. Otherwise. Otherwise all the News Services like CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, etc. would all be criminally liable as well when they released the Snowden Papers, the files from Manning, even back to the Pentagon papers etc.
When it helped the media and served their political narrative, they welcomed wikileaks. Now that they don't like what is leaked they, and you condemn it. Hypocrites.
Wikileaks didn't change, the media did, even when Assange has an obvious agenda: he always did.
In this case, it is ok ever since Google and its corporate brethren dodged paying taxes by playing shenanigans with the tax system in different countries. It's the same here: this worked cause some US state doesn't have a sales tax.
If Google can arbitrate taxes cause it's "technically not illegal", then so can their customers. Or do you think Google is allowed but their customers have to play by a different rule?
What Microsoft needed to do, and failed, was to get a big chunk of the new market called "mobile". Microsoft surface division with its much touted billions of marketshare is not mobile. It's 100% pure PC: PC hardware with PC software. Not a single sliver of a new market there at all. So the surface division as it stands right now is totally irrelevant to this.
Even if you want part of the mobile market, it's debatable if you need to build your own hardware. Google steamrolled this market and now owns it like Microsoft owns the desktop without building and selling any hardware. Yes there are Nexus devices but they certainly weren't made to make money or get marketshare.
So Ballmer was utterly wrong in his assessment of needing to build and sell hardware, the surface division is like the xbox one: horrible losses for years, billions of dollars spent to make a few millions in "profits". With profits like those, no one would want any.
This is a public place for pedestrians, bikes and market stalls.It's not even a road!
Call me again when they put it in an actual road where a few hundred semi trucks driver over it per day, all of them with gravel in their tires.
This is just a stupid publicity stunt.
Whether or not he lives in a "money-free fantasy land", it's quite clear that you don't understand the main issue here, which is really about privacy.
Newspaper reading never was about privacy ever. The paper you buy at the front of the train station is anonymous, true. But the subscription for your local paper most certainly isn't. The business model of all newspapers with ads precludes any form of privacy whatsoever. Just cannot exist in this world simply cause no one would pay the price of a paper without ads: about triple the current price, and online ads must be targetable and be able to build a profile of a single reader or they are worthless.
What RMS wants is logical, good for society, etc. but totally nonpractical and hasn't got a snowballs chance of working since he doesn't understand or ignore how newspapers, print and online both, make their money.
A newspaper hasn't been financed by the price of the paper in your local 7-11 for decades now. that nickel and dime is paying for distribution and maybe the cost of printing at most. The actual money, the biggest part of the cost producing a newspaper has been financed for ages with advertising. Ads from big and small companies but also from classifieds, death notices by relatives (not sure if that custom exists in the US), etc.
So ads are more important than the actual price paid for the traditional papers on dead trees. Now let's move on to the online version of the paper: the pretty much only thing of value one gets from online ads is to be able to directly identify the one watching the ad. To be able to exactly pinpoint the person and then in turn creating a very detailed profile about this person.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
So the online newspaper needs to do the same calculation of ads as main income and subscription price, or some other pay per view, as only very secondary or else the subscription will be so outrageous, no one will ever buy one. It would cost probably two or three times as high without ads than the dead tree paper version for the privilege of reading it on your IPad. Very few subscribers indeed for such a thing.
Since the ads however demand a detailed profile as seen above, no newspaoper can ever deliver what RMS here wants.
This article is awful, both here on slashdot and pcworld. It shows that neither site is suitable for reporting on tech or IT journalism.
TSM doesn't design chips, they build them. Others design the chips, hand over that design to TSMC to get actual hardware back. TheRegister correctly reports this "bult by TSMC"
8MB SDRAM and 1GB DDR3 RAM. That is the same thing! DDR3 is a form of SDRAM and of course SDRAM makes no sense whatsoever here. Instead again, TheRegister correctly reports: 8GB SRAM, which is typically used for caching purposes: small size but fast, just like L1 to L3 caches in most/all CPUs which are also for caching.
Neither slashdot nor pcworld senior editor can correctly transcribe a simple news tidbit from another site.
Of course you can trick any sensor invented by man some way or other. That's nothing new. We even know tons of ways to trick the sensors made by god/nature aka our eyes as well. Shine a bright light into them for $10 or maybe $100 and the driver will be forced to drive blind. Or you can have a $0 natural snow storm and the driver will also be on literally very dangerous ground: zero visibility and icy roads.
The point is not that either can be fooled, the point is, is the mechanical sensor better or at least equal to mark I eyeball? Is the program doing the automatic driving at least as good as an average driver? as good as the best driver possible?
He knows, we know, he will never have to make good on any of his campaign promises or boasts. He is 100% certain to lose the election.
He can promise anything he wants and it's meaningless. So why not go for the big ones: abolish the IRS but bring a efficient and fair tax enforcement, dismantle the Fed and have a strong monetary policy, kill off Wall Street and at the same time promote free enterprise, yadda, yadda.
Singling out only the universally unpopular NSA ist what a coward would do.
It's not really american when the Atlas V, the rocket which this capsule ist built for, still uses russian RD-180 rocket motors. A rocket is a fuel tank and a rocket motor mostly. It's not the fuel tank that's hard to build....
What moron would still "buy" any cloud based smarthom systerm after this?
Let's hope this rumour is right. One less shitty vendor with shitty WLAN chips. Then Apple and Dell have to look elswhere to fsck over their customers with crappy hardware without working (Linux) drivers.
They found the problem in 2012 and it took until 2016 to actually fix this relatively minor problem with big consequences?
Apparently the state of Washington has outsourced this software and its maintenance to their biggest taxpayer, Microsoft. No other way there is any reason to wait for a bugfix for four years.
Yes the sealevels will rise, but they already rise with every hurricane or tides of the moon.
After Fukushima everyone knows that you need big ass dams, flood walls, protected and working backup generators etc.
If you build a 10m high floodwall or a 11m high one to also protect against global warming induced sea level rise simply doesn't really matter. If someone hasn't already built said 10-15m high flood wall, it's not global warming that is an issue but the regulatory commission in your country. A much more immediate problem too.
A university is not a government agency with special powers against other citizens.
Law enforcement ist allowed to do these things only with the approval of the judiciary too. Which they apparently didn't get. 4th amendment, computer security laws and all thoes pesky things.
for the FBI and the university to take:
If they are allowed to decrypt messages which are passing through "their" property, then:
a) Pay TV hackers must be allowed to decrypt the Pay TV signals ending at the cable box or coming from a satellite
b) Any ISP or whoever owns a router which transmits encrypted traffic is allowed to decrypt and read it.
Either the FBI and the university have to be punished like cable signal hackers and other bad guys, or the law covering those offenses is not worth the paper.
On your Laptop there is a normal Windows installation which is not used for work. Only for stuff like browsing the web in the evening at the hotel. mails to the kids, etc.
On a USB stick on the keychain there is a copy of Tails https://tails.boum.org/index.e...
You rent some VPS or root server in a country of your choice, under a different name, preferably paid via cash. This is the place where all the data for work is stored. encrypted.
This server you only access via Tails which uses Tor by default.
If you can't do this, you put an encrypted VM onto your Laptop which happens to have the data for work and you write your stuff or access the web for work related research only in this VM. Again using a distro like Tails.
Why would anyone with even an ounce of self-estime parrot bullshit like "that can can be dropped from an aircraft to deliver supplies to isolated locations in the event of disasters, then evaporate into thin air once their job is done."
This is not for disasters. When there is a disaster, and you deliver stuff via one-time use means, you want to keep these aur vehicles cause they are valuable and incredibly useful. For example some parachute can be easily repurposed as a tent, to keep out rain or simply people from freezing. These are valuable materials. Metals are equally useful, etc. There simply is no trash at a disaster site, only ressources
The only, really ONLY reason for self destructing air vehicles are to infilttrate spies and spec ops into foreign countries to cause violence.
Yes and no: when someone posts the latest Hollywood blockbuster and it ends up in a Google search, then I as a european citizen see "we have removed some hits due to a DMCA violation" (paraphrased) in my german results. DMCA and the whole thing being a US law, brought with US lawsuits, etc.
So, Google can't have it both ways: either it doesn't care about US law and their DMCA in Europe either, or it cares about all law everywhere.
Courts usually dislike double standards like these.
Letter to the athletes:
To participate in the 2020 Olympics you will need to pack:
1. Geiger counter
2. Passport
Sincerely your National Committee
It was released to the press and only to the press, notably The Guardian and the Washington Post. Where we've all seen it. Or can you point me to a tarball with all the Snowden documents, unredacted by anyone else? Can you? No, cause that doesn't exist.
Seems you should educate yourself about things before you commenting on things?
But you have to read the statement carefully to understand what he says. It is true that Russia doesn't have the money to put everyone under surveillance like the US does.
So they might not do a mass surveillance like the US, instead they just put everyone interesting under direct surveillance: every Duma representative, every Oligarch, and especially everyone who is in public politicial opposition to President Putin. The NSA can't do that even when they would want to, so they simply target everyone: it's wasteful but now they can't be accused of any bias or that they target anyone they don't like.
I love to use my OpenVPN server on port 443 at home, or http tunnel. Any people complaining here about loss of privacy and so on: are you really surfing on any public AP, be it McD, library, etc without the protection of a VPN/tunnel of some sort? If so then you are not allowed to complain about privacy loss. And if you do: why do you care, you just got another free AP in the city, saving your preciousss MBs on the mobile plan! Yay!
What brings this new thing to the table what the old and proven VPNs like openvpn or tinc don't? Is it only the hip google sponsorship? If so then it's a good slashvertisement and clickbait in one.