The more that Americans perceive that Russia thinks that electing Trump will be good for Russia, the more likely Americans might also think that electing Trump might not be so good for America.
That was my thought also, but in the context of a false-flag operation arranged by the Dems to bring further discredit down upon The Donald. You'd think that seeing him constantly step on his own dick would be enough to convince people not to vote for him, but there are lots of voters who still imagine his presidency would be good for them. And they're the same kinds of people who still carry the old Cold War grudge and have a hate on for them Russkies. I wouldn't put it past Democratic strategists to take advantage of that, if they thought they could get away with it.
"Developers of the standard hope that elimination of mini-jacks will help to make devices slimmer, smarter and less power hungry."
Less power hungry? Sounds like bullshit. Could someone explain how?
Because of the lack of a 3.5mm standard jack, more users will choose NOT to play music on their devices. This results in less usage of the audio amplifiers that feed signal to earbuds and headphones, resulting in less power use overall.;-)
and it's churning out another Cold War. I'm not saying the story isn't true; I'm saying that with all the similar news we've been hearing recently, a new Cold War is being created and sold to the world. After all, the last one was immensely profitable, and built many lucrative careers on both sides. There are still many old spooks and military people hanging around, longing for the good old days and salivating over a second chance; and there are many younger, heartless, cynical pricks willing to cash in on all that angst and fear, and on the 'need' for 'security'. War, (cold or otherwise), is good for (big) business.
I find that FedEx is usually pretty good; I get that Amazon could save themselves a lot of money by doing their own delivery, but they might want to maintain a relationship with FedEx, for times when delivery volume exceeds current capacity or when other factors compromise their own fleet's ability to deliver. As for UPS, well, it's like that other common brown thing - it stinks, and nobody likes it. If Amazon flushes them, good riddance.
but we're going to continue to piss on every other fire hydrant we sell you, repeatedly; and we will do our level best to make sure you can never wash our territory-marking stench off the product which you paid for, but which we continue to own. Because IP, because we're pissy little mutts with delusions of grandeur, because we'll do everything in our power to screw you if it fattens our bottom line, because we can, and because you let us get away with it.
You know, consumers still have tremendous power to stop such abuses by simply buying other companies' products, and/or by LOUDLY and REPEATEDLY pressing our legislators to put an end to this shit. It's really too bad that, collectively speaking, we don't care enough to do so.
This strikes me as a contravention of anti-fraud and/or anti-trust laws, and should be the subject of criminal charges filed by various States and Federal attorneys. Sure, it's about Electronic Freedoms, and I'm glad the EFF is weighing in - but dammit, they shouldn't have to do so. Legal authorities should be doing their jobs.
16-bit @ 44 KHz was "good enough" for the average Joe.
And by that you mean "mathematically proven to capture everything the human ear can hear".
"Experimentally proven to capture everything the human ear can hear, and add some as well". Unfortunately, even the best 16b-bit 44kHz reproduction chains introduce uncorrelated high-order harmonics that fall in the audible range and can add a harshness to the sound that makes people tire of listening more quickly. Higher resolution and higher sample rates push these spurious components farther up in frequency, where they are inaudible, or at least less audible.
For the first time since I can remember, TFA was actually written more poorly than TFS. Of course, that wasn't not too hard; TFS only contained one paragraph from the article, while TFA itself went on and on and on in an a meandering, fuzzy-headed, buzz-word-filled fashion that said nothing and went nowhere. As a bonus, that 'coal' metaphor seems to have come straight from a cannabis-induced moment of "enlightenment".
Well which one is it? It's like I don't do understand it!
Well, I'll be the first to risk Flamebait mods by saying it: this summary reads as though it was written by someone whose first language was Hindi or something similar. If you read the following sections aloud in the common stereotype of an Indian accent you'll immediately know what I mean:
"their privacy and those of other billion plus users"
"reneging from its original promise"
"approached Delhi High Court"
"the bench of chief justice"
"must delete data of users"
"who are opt out of privacy policy changes"
Palmer Luckey: "You can't fight the American elite without serious firepower. They will outspend you and destroy you by any and all means."
Gee, with a net worth of $700M, you yourself are in danger of being a member of the elite you profess to despise but secretly long to join.
It must truly suck to be a member of the 'nouveau nouveau riche', when the 'nouveau riche' won't even give you the time of day, let alone take you seriously, and I feel for you - NOT. The fact that you have to resort to shitposting to gain any audience at all probably has nothing to do with the newness of your wealth. I'm sure it has everything to do with the fact that you're an ignorant, whiny, petulant brat who can afford a seat at the 'grownup table' but who can't act or talk like an adult. (Come to think of it, that makes you the PERFECT Trump shill). If you ever grow up to the point where trolling, bitching, and crowing give way to reasoned, thoughtful discourse, (but I'm not holding my breath), then maybe you'll be taken seriously. Until then, STFU - adults are trying to have a conversation, and we don't need mini-Trump butting in when Big Trump is already making rude noises and sticking his tongue out at us.
After entering user name and password there is a screen that says "Make sure your account is secure! To secure your account, change your password and update your mobile number", followed by a large blue button with "Yes, secure my account" and small grey text below that saying "I'll secure my account later". Clicking on the latter asks for a mobile number, (hell no), and then proceeds to the Yahoo main page, from whence I click on the email link. Clicking on the former presents the usual two-field password entry, then proceeds to the mobile number prompt when matching new passwords are entered.
The behaviour I see may be different from what others see - I don't allow JS to run when I'm on Yahoo. Their email interface sucks, but it actually sucks a little less when it can't do all the cutesy client-side crap their code-monkeys thought was good design. When I have to attach files I enable JS, then quickly disable it again.
Two years ago was when the breach happened. Ergo, prompting a mandatory password change was the breach notification.
I just checked again, on a third Yahoo account I had almost forgotten about, and the password change is NOT mandatory. There may be a time-limited or login-limited period after which they force a password change, but for all I know users may be able to keep their compromised passwords until Yahoo implodes.
Just recently I was prompted to change passwords on my two Yahoo accounts. I've had both for about 10 years and this is the first time I've seen this, so yeah, they're visibly doing something about it. Unfortunately, they waited an unacceptably long time, and they still weren't forcing the password change. That's not surprising, given that it's Yahoo, but it's still kinda disappointing.
How about making electronics stuff that, you know, lasts? And that can be economically repaired? Why don't we, as a culture, forego the latest bit of shiny in favour of, I dunno, 4-or-5-year-old devices that still do what they're needed to do, even if they're slightly slower, slightly bigger or smaller, and a bit lower in resolution? And while we're at it, let's make it fucking illegal to sell products whose batteries can't be easily and readily replaced by the user.
The three R's of conservation are, in descending order of preference, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. We should make the first one the highest priority, followed closely by the second. If we're relying heavily on the third to save our asses from environmental destruction and material depletion, we've already failed. If we're tossing items into landfill when they contain precious metals and non-renewable petroleum products, (not to mention all the energy that went into making those items, from raw material to finished products), then we're committing a crime against the Earth and its future inhabitants. But hey, it's all good, because voodoo economics has almost totally removed environmental damage and resource depletion as cost factors in production, and my, those bonuses are going to be really sweet this year.
We've made a god of the giant Ponzi scheme we call the economy, and we're scared shitless of even acknowledging to ourselves, (much less pointing out to each other), that not only does this emperor have no clothes, he's on fucking life support, and we're mortgaging our descendants' lives to keep him going.
It's easy to bash the incumbents but let's not just hand the keys to the city over to Google just yet.
Don't think of it as handing the keys to the city over to Google. Rather, see it for what it is - mandating the transfer of the keys from AT&T and Comcast over to Google. And after all, the municipality owns said utility poles, so it's their decision. Besides, as much as I hate and distrust Google, I don't believe they would do anything during their work on the poles to purposely disrupt AT&T or Comcast service. But I can certainly see AT&T and Comcast putting the screws to Google in any way possible, including 'accidental sabotage'.
I would guess they chose an inductor too small and it is vibrating.
Or, it could just be a fault in the hardware or firmware that controls audio - maybe it's just yer average digital noise coming right of the speaker. Plugging in those old earbuds you have lying around would help with the troubleshooting effort. Oh, wait...
... they produce more distortion... They do not sound better, given $X spent on whatever, presuming some reasonable amount of tech is returned per dollar.
This is simply not true; in fact, it's a line of BS almost as bad as the one that says thousand dollar cables will make your system sound magical. (BTW, something you hear is not necessarily true just because it's said by a bunch of engineers bathed in the fountain of 'knowledge' passed on by an earlier generation of engineers whose conclusions were 'helped' by marketing requirements).
First, let's look at the metric known as THD; it is calculated as the ratio between the total power of all harmonics and the power of the fundamental. It assumes that all harmonics are equal in their detrimental effects on the final sound. However, we've known since the 50's that: 1) odd-order harmonics are more audible, and more objectionable, than even-order harmonics; 2) audibility and objectionability of harmonics increases as the order increases. In fact, the best audio engineers of the day, (such as the BBC's D.E.L. Shorter), proposed that THD be calculated based on the square, or even the cube, of the order of the harmonic. They were overruled, probably because the amplifier manufacturers of the day had turned to push-pull pentode designs with lots of NFB; these had many more odd-order and high-order harmonics than earlier triode designs, and the unweighted THD calcs made them look better on paper.
Why does this matter? Well, first, negative feedback obtains lower THD figures at the expense of creating more high-order harmonics - the total power in the harmonics is decreased, but the number of measurable harmonics, (and they, or at least their effects, are audible, as it turns out), increases. Second, negative feedback can increase the number of odd-order harmonics, depending on the feedback scheme and the amplifier topology. What does this have to do with tube VS transistor? In short, triode vacuum tubes, (the 'triode' part is important), have far greater intrinsic linearity than any semiconductor device. (Intrinsic linearity is a measure of the device's distortion in a circuit that has no negative feedback). The best directly heated triode power amplifiers can obtain percent THD figures in the low single-digits without the use of any negative feedback. That means that they can avoid excessive odd-order and higher-order harmonics to an extent that no transistor amplifier can - transistor amps simply require too much NFB.
For a better view of this that is both broader and deeper than my explanation above, see Lynn Olson's excellent explanations here, and here
As for tubes' fragility: although they wear out and can break, they are also more likely to survive EMP's, solar flares, lightning strikes, and power-line surges...;-)
You're not entitled to be able to use third party ink cartridges in a printer. The printer manufacturer doesn't have to modify the firmware or hardware in a printer because you're too cheap to pay for quality ink cartridges. Why does everyone have such a sense of entitlement these days? I'm getting really tired of millennials and everyone else deciding they can act just as entitled as the millennials. This is ridiculous. If you don't want to pay for ink cartridges, don't buy the printer.
Hmmm... smells like a troll. A really ripe, rotten, shitty smelling troll. An anonymous troll! A cowardly troll... Apparently NOT young enough to be a millennial, yet still living in Mom's basement. Crawl up the stairs, you overgrown little boy - Mommy's calling you, and it's bath time.
Slashdot Mirror
One of Facebook's stated aims is to bring the next 3 billion people online
One of Facebook's implicit aims is to line up the next 3 billion suckers for privacy invasion, data mining, and targeted advertising. FTFY.
it feels like every time you run Windows update you are rolling the dice
The more that Americans perceive that Russia thinks that electing Trump will be good for Russia, the more likely Americans might also think that electing Trump might not be so good for America.
That was my thought also, but in the context of a false-flag operation arranged by the Dems to bring further discredit down upon The Donald. You'd think that seeing him constantly step on his own dick would be enough to convince people not to vote for him, but there are lots of voters who still imagine his presidency would be good for them. And they're the same kinds of people who still carry the old Cold War grudge and have a hate on for them Russkies. I wouldn't put it past Democratic strategists to take advantage of that, if they thought they could get away with it.
"Developers of the standard hope that elimination of mini-jacks will help to make devices slimmer, smarter and less power hungry."
Less power hungry? Sounds like bullshit. Could someone explain how?
Because of the lack of a 3.5mm standard jack, more users will choose NOT to play music on their devices. This results in less usage of the audio amplifiers that feed signal to earbuds and headphones, resulting in less power use overall. ;-)
Sounds an awful lot like "g-spot."
I came here to say exactly that, and to ask if fingering it will make Google squirt...
and it's churning out another Cold War. I'm not saying the story isn't true; I'm saying that with all the similar news we've been hearing recently, a new Cold War is being created and sold to the world. After all, the last one was immensely profitable, and built many lucrative careers on both sides. There are still many old spooks and military people hanging around, longing for the good old days and salivating over a second chance; and there are many younger, heartless, cynical pricks willing to cash in on all that angst and fear, and on the 'need' for 'security'. War, (cold or otherwise), is good for (big) business.
I think they should change Mount Rushmore and replace those evil white men with Marrissa Meyer, Ellen Pao, Elizabeth Holmes, and Hillary Clinton.
You forgot Carly Fiorina!
I find that FedEx is usually pretty good; I get that Amazon could save themselves a lot of money by doing their own delivery, but they might want to maintain a relationship with FedEx, for times when delivery volume exceeds current capacity or when other factors compromise their own fleet's ability to deliver. As for UPS, well, it's like that other common brown thing - it stinks, and nobody likes it. If Amazon flushes them, good riddance.
but we're going to continue to piss on every other fire hydrant we sell you, repeatedly; and we will do our level best to make sure you can never wash our territory-marking stench off the product which you paid for, but which we continue to own. Because IP, because we're pissy little mutts with delusions of grandeur, because we'll do everything in our power to screw you if it fattens our bottom line, because we can, and because you let us get away with it.
You know, consumers still have tremendous power to stop such abuses by simply buying other companies' products, and/or by LOUDLY and REPEATEDLY pressing our legislators to put an end to this shit. It's really too bad that, collectively speaking, we don't care enough to do so.
This strikes me as a contravention of anti-fraud and/or anti-trust laws, and should be the subject of criminal charges filed by various States and Federal attorneys. Sure, it's about Electronic Freedoms, and I'm glad the EFF is weighing in - but dammit, they shouldn't have to do so. Legal authorities should be doing their jobs.
16-bit @ 44 KHz was "good enough" for the average Joe.
And by that you mean "mathematically proven to capture everything the human ear can hear".
"Experimentally proven to capture everything the human ear can hear, and add some as well". Unfortunately, even the best 16b-bit 44kHz reproduction chains introduce uncorrelated high-order harmonics that fall in the audible range and can add a harshness to the sound that makes people tire of listening more quickly. Higher resolution and higher sample rates push these spurious components farther up in frequency, where they are inaudible, or at least less audible.
For the first time since I can remember, TFA was actually written more poorly than TFS. Of course, that wasn't not too hard; TFS only contained one paragraph from the article, while TFA itself went on and on and on in an a meandering, fuzzy-headed, buzz-word-filled fashion that said nothing and went nowhere. As a bonus, that 'coal' metaphor seems to have come straight from a cannabis-induced moment of "enlightenment".
Keeping Firefox cutting edge...
'Scuse me?
Well which one is it? It's like I don't do understand it!
Well, I'll be the first to risk Flamebait mods by saying it: this summary reads as though it was written by someone whose first language was Hindi or something similar. If you read the following sections aloud in the common stereotype of an Indian accent you'll immediately know what I mean:
"their privacy and those of other billion plus users"
"reneging from its original promise"
"approached Delhi High Court"
"the bench of chief justice"
"must delete data of users"
"who are opt out of privacy policy changes"
Palmer Luckey: "You can't fight the American elite without serious firepower. They will outspend you and destroy you by any and all means."
Gee, with a net worth of $700M, you yourself are in danger of being a member of the elite you profess to despise but secretly long to join.
It must truly suck to be a member of the 'nouveau nouveau riche', when the 'nouveau riche' won't even give you the time of day, let alone take you seriously, and I feel for you - NOT. The fact that you have to resort to shitposting to gain any audience at all probably has nothing to do with the newness of your wealth. I'm sure it has everything to do with the fact that you're an ignorant, whiny, petulant brat who can afford a seat at the 'grownup table' but who can't act or talk like an adult. (Come to think of it, that makes you the PERFECT Trump shill). If you ever grow up to the point where trolling, bitching, and crowing give way to reasoned, thoughtful discourse, (but I'm not holding my breath), then maybe you'll be taken seriously. Until then, STFU - adults are trying to have a conversation, and we don't need mini-Trump butting in when Big Trump is already making rude noises and sticking his tongue out at us.
I'm curious, how exactly did they prompt you?
After entering user name and password there is a screen that says "Make sure your account is secure! To secure your account, change your password and update your mobile number", followed by a large blue button with "Yes, secure my account" and small grey text below that saying "I'll secure my account later". Clicking on the latter asks for a mobile number, (hell no), and then proceeds to the Yahoo main page, from whence I click on the email link. Clicking on the former presents the usual two-field password entry, then proceeds to the mobile number prompt when matching new passwords are entered.
The behaviour I see may be different from what others see - I don't allow JS to run when I'm on Yahoo. Their email interface sucks, but it actually sucks a little less when it can't do all the cutesy client-side crap their code-monkeys thought was good design. When I have to attach files I enable JS, then quickly disable it again.
Two years ago was when the breach happened. Ergo, prompting a mandatory password change was the breach notification.
I just checked again, on a third Yahoo account I had almost forgotten about, and the password change is NOT mandatory. There may be a time-limited or login-limited period after which they force a password change, but for all I know users may be able to keep their compromised passwords until Yahoo implodes.
Just recently I was prompted to change passwords on my two Yahoo accounts. I've had both for about 10 years and this is the first time I've seen this, so yeah, they're visibly doing something about it. Unfortunately, they waited an unacceptably long time, and they still weren't forcing the password change. That's not surprising, given that it's Yahoo, but it's still kinda disappointing.
How about making electronics stuff that, you know, lasts? And that can be economically repaired? Why don't we, as a culture, forego the latest bit of shiny in favour of, I dunno, 4-or-5-year-old devices that still do what they're needed to do, even if they're slightly slower, slightly bigger or smaller, and a bit lower in resolution? And while we're at it, let's make it fucking illegal to sell products whose batteries can't be easily and readily replaced by the user.
The three R's of conservation are, in descending order of preference, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. We should make the first one the highest priority, followed closely by the second. If we're relying heavily on the third to save our asses from environmental destruction and material depletion, we've already failed. If we're tossing items into landfill when they contain precious metals and non-renewable petroleum products, (not to mention all the energy that went into making those items, from raw material to finished products), then we're committing a crime against the Earth and its future inhabitants. But hey, it's all good, because voodoo economics has almost totally removed environmental damage and resource depletion as cost factors in production, and my, those bonuses are going to be really sweet this year.
We've made a god of the giant Ponzi scheme we call the economy, and we're scared shitless of even acknowledging to ourselves, (much less pointing out to each other), that not only does this emperor have no clothes, he's on fucking life support, and we're mortgaging our descendants' lives to keep him going.
My apologies for the mixed metaphors.
It's easy to bash the incumbents but let's not just hand the keys to the city over to Google just yet.
Don't think of it as handing the keys to the city over to Google. Rather, see it for what it is - mandating the transfer of the keys from AT&T and Comcast over to Google. And after all, the municipality owns said utility poles, so it's their decision. Besides, as much as I hate and distrust Google, I don't believe they would do anything during their work on the poles to purposely disrupt AT&T or Comcast service. But I can certainly see AT&T and Comcast putting the screws to Google in any way possible, including 'accidental sabotage'.
(NCTA) will henceforth be called NCTA-The Internet and Television Association
Just change the acronym to TITA, and get used to us all shortening it to "TIT".
Clearly there's a tiny snake coiled up in there. And it's angry.
Clearly there's a tiny coil snaked up in there. FTFY
I would guess they chose an inductor too small and it is vibrating.
Or, it could just be a fault in the hardware or firmware that controls audio - maybe it's just yer average digital noise coming right of the speaker. Plugging in those old earbuds you have lying around would help with the troubleshooting effort. Oh, wait...
... they produce more distortion... They do not sound better, given $X spent on whatever, presuming some reasonable amount of tech is returned per dollar.
This is simply not true; in fact, it's a line of BS almost as bad as the one that says thousand dollar cables will make your system sound magical. (BTW, something you hear is not necessarily true just because it's said by a bunch of engineers bathed in the fountain of 'knowledge' passed on by an earlier generation of engineers whose conclusions were 'helped' by marketing requirements).
First, let's look at the metric known as THD; it is calculated as the ratio between the total power of all harmonics and the power of the fundamental. It assumes that all harmonics are equal in their detrimental effects on the final sound. However, we've known since the 50's that: 1) odd-order harmonics are more audible, and more objectionable, than even-order harmonics; 2) audibility and objectionability of harmonics increases as the order increases. In fact, the best audio engineers of the day, (such as the BBC's D.E.L. Shorter), proposed that THD be calculated based on the square, or even the cube, of the order of the harmonic. They were overruled, probably because the amplifier manufacturers of the day had turned to push-pull pentode designs with lots of NFB; these had many more odd-order and high-order harmonics than earlier triode designs, and the unweighted THD calcs made them look better on paper.
Why does this matter? Well, first, negative feedback obtains lower THD figures at the expense of creating more high-order harmonics - the total power in the harmonics is decreased, but the number of measurable harmonics, (and they, or at least their effects, are audible, as it turns out), increases. Second, negative feedback can increase the number of odd-order harmonics, depending on the feedback scheme and the amplifier topology. What does this have to do with tube VS transistor? In short, triode vacuum tubes, (the 'triode' part is important), have far greater intrinsic linearity than any semiconductor device. (Intrinsic linearity is a measure of the device's distortion in a circuit that has no negative feedback). The best directly heated triode power amplifiers can obtain percent THD figures in the low single-digits without the use of any negative feedback. That means that they can avoid excessive odd-order and higher-order harmonics to an extent that no transistor amplifier can - transistor amps simply require too much NFB.
For a better view of this that is both broader and deeper than my explanation above, see Lynn Olson's excellent explanations here, and here
As for tubes' fragility: although they wear out and can break, they are also more likely to survive EMP's, solar flares, lightning strikes, and power-line surges... ;-)
You're not entitled to be able to use third party ink cartridges in a printer. The printer manufacturer doesn't have to modify the firmware or hardware in a printer because you're too cheap to pay for quality ink cartridges. Why does everyone have such a sense of entitlement these days? I'm getting really tired of millennials and everyone else deciding they can act just as entitled as the millennials. This is ridiculous. If you don't want to pay for ink cartridges, don't buy the printer.
Hmmm... smells like a troll. A really ripe, rotten, shitty smelling troll. An anonymous troll! A cowardly troll... Apparently NOT young enough to be a millennial, yet still living in Mom's basement. Crawl up the stairs, you overgrown little boy - Mommy's calling you, and it's bath time.