I have several passwords that require a "special" character. I've found it frustrating on the occasions when I need to enter these on my phone, having to switch to the symbols to enter my password. Now if a password requires a special character, I use one that is part of the default keyboard, which limits it to using a period.
Special character requirements might be fine when using a physical keyboard, but mobile devices change how people will use them.
It would seem rather obvious that one major factor in blood from younger people is a different mix of hormones. Did the study do anything to control for that? Could the same effect be generated by hormone therapy?
It seems the obvious next step is to determine why young blood extends life.
People have talked about browser fingerprints for years, but I haven't heard any solid reports of sites making use of them. For example, news sites that limit you to a few free articles before paywalling you are easily viewed in a private window or with self-destructing cookies.
If this becomes a real issue, then a browser extension that sanitizes and randomizes the fingerprint would defeat the process. Some aspects might be harder to sanitize or randomize than others, but with a bit of effort, fingerprints could be rendered useless.
Maybe this should be the next extension offered by the EFF.
Based on the popularity of Pokemon Go, I would expect every mobile game company out there is working on a re-themed clone of some sort. Harry Potter would certainly be a great idea for a game like this.
There are plenty of people who like the idea of Pokemon Go, but don't have any interest in Pokemon.
The biggest problem raised in the article is the commingling of inventory. Many sellers of products provide the products to Amazon, and they are shipped out of Amazon warehouses. When multiple companies are selling the exact same product, Amazon commingles the inventory, as they consider the products to be fungible. In theory, that's fine. However, if some of the companies are selling knock-offs, you have a problem. People ordering from the knock-off seller have a good chance of getting the real thing and writing a great review. People ordering from legitimate sellers get knock-offs and write terrible reviews.
I've seen a number of products myself where the reviews clearly indicate that people are receiving different products, and there's no way to tell which one you might actually receive.
If Amazon were to fix this one problem, they would be in a much better position to manage counterfeit products.
I've wondered how hard it would be for Google to take multiple photos and then automatically remove temporary objects like cars and people. I'm not sure how they could do it without significantly adding to the cost of collecting the images, though (by combining photos from multiple drives). They might be able to remove pedestrians with multiple cameras at different angles on the same vehicle.
Great idea. What would the different poll options be:
*) Yes, right away *) Yes, when the price drops *) No, I don't use gaming consoles *) Only if it comes with a Pokemon *) I'm happy with my Atari 2600. Get off my lawn!
How hard is it to package the binary along with all the required libraries together. Put them in some directory by themselves, and then have/usr/bin/skype be a script that uses something like LD_LIBRARY_PRELOAD to use the versions that work with the binary?
If you have the right versions, you can just move the real binary to/usr/bin, but you're fine if you don't.
Your distribution could set this up when they package it. There's no need for end users to ever have to worry about it.
Personally, I'm just glad that this is a 64-bit binary. I think this leaves only one other program that I need that is only available as a 32-bit binary (the discontinued Adobe Acrobat Reader for those times when Okular can't handle forms).
No, because you may find that you need to use half a dozen different tools that all display the code, plus emailed copy-and-paste snippets here and there. Sure, you can control what a tab expands to in your primary editor, but you don't have control over all the other tools.
Yes, if the use of tabs is completely consistent, then at least the code won't be too terribly mangled by other tools, but it won't look anything like what you're used to.
Not really, but that's actually what I use because work mandates it. Apparently there was a big debate in the early days of the company between 2 and 4, so they compromised. Much of our coding standard is based on one particular engineer who had vision problems and needed to keep the number of columns restricted.
But you know what? It works. Millions of lines of code dating back two decades, and it's extremely consistent. Ninety percent of the code looks like it was written by the same engineer. That's what you want on a major project.
Though I will say that I've come to hate tabs in indentation. They're fine until they're not. At some point you end up using some tool where they don't look right.
My pet peeve, though, is trailing spaces. Any code management system should be designed to strip trailing spaces or block commits that contain them. I've seen far too many code merges break because of a disagreement on trailing spaces, and that's just dumb.
DNA and fingerprints get left all over the place. Iris scans don't. That has obvious privacy implications.
On the other hand, fingerprints and DNA are very well understood at this point. (Yes, there have been scandals where markers in DNA have provided "conclusive" matches that were anything but, but at least the science is understood.) We're pretty clear on fingerprints being left behind when we touch things, and DNA being left behind pretty much everywhere we go. Most people aren't so clear on iris scans--apparently a good camera can check for a match at some distance. The privacy implications are quite serious. This has the potential to be the biometric equivalent of license plate scanners that pick up every car that drives by.
It's like facial recognition without the false matches.
We might someday soon talk about sunglasses instead of tinfoil hats.
They already do. Obviously, they need to adjust the algorithms. The camera was fooled by the lack of contrast between the side of the truck and the sky (white truck and white clouds, perhaps). The radar was fooled by the open space under the truck, making it look like an overhead sign. The good news is that unlike most traditional accidents, this one will result in an improved design that should eliminate similar accidents in the future.
I've never had trouble with glare making my backup camera unviewable in my Tesla. I've seen some horrible screens on rentals, though.
The problems I have had are too many fingerprints on the screen and water drops on the camera. A heating element around the lens could quickly eliminate water drops, but they haven't incorporated that yet.
The radar is the primary sensor for the traffic-aware cruise control that slows the vehicle down below the set speed when there is a slower vehicle in front.
The camera is the primary sensor for watching the stripes on the road to handle the steering. The camera also watches for vehicles and reads speed limit signs.
The sonar is the primary sensor for auto-park and summon features. It's also used to detect if the lane is clear for lane changes and to swerve to avoid side-impact collisions.
Please note my use of "primary" above. The autopilot system uses a combination of all three sensor systems.
It's widely expected that the next generation of hardware will include more cameras. It's also widely expected that this new hardware will start shipping later this year on the S and X, and will be the same hardware that is on the Model 3 late next year. Any updates besides a second or third camera and an updated controller would be a welcome surprise. The ability to upgrade existing cars to the new hardware would also be a welcome surprise.
Adobe hasn't released a Linux version since version 11. Unless there's a big surprise, there's no option for Linux users but to give up on Flash entirely.
After switching the flash stick to ext2, we haven't had any issues. I have seen the screen occasionally get sluggish as you describe, but I think that's unrelated to the issue I was seeing. I guess the lesson here is to avoid vfat for flash sticks.
No, no other files. It's actually a micro SD card reader, but the system shouldn't notice the difference. I don't buy real flash sticks anymore so that all my flash is in the same format.
It's not 100%, but it's pretty frequent. It may ask for a reboot 20% of the time we drive it, but then it will often take a half dozen reboots before it's happy. We've seen it report a touch screen problem immediately upon inserting the stick. If the system comes up correctly, then there's never a problem until the next time we turn on the car.
The stick we're using has 9.4GB in 2416 files in 170 directories. There are three.m3u playlist files that I believe it ignores, the rest are all.mp3.
No, it's not fixed, but your post suggests two possibilities: First, our flash stick might have less data but more separate files; I would assume that it's the number of files or directories that cause the problem. Second, our flash stick is VFAT, not EXT2; I should convert it and see if that solves the problem.
My S has a constant center screen crashing problem. Absolutely horrible. One day I had my cell phone plugged in to charge when the screen was crashed and kept needing to be rebooted, and I noticed that the charging shut off and on every five seconds. That led to my discovering that the screen crashing problem was due to having a flash stick plugged in for listening to MP3s. Apparently having more than 8GB of music is more than the system can handle. When I reported this to the service center, they said they were already aware of the bug.
So yes, there is a screen freezing problem. It's a known bug, and Tesla needs to fix it. But the MP3 player is so horrible that most people tether their phones and play music from there instead of using flash sticks.
And I agree that more cupholders would be nice, as would more USB ports and door pockets would be nice (the X at least has them in the front).
But despite the shortcomings, it's still the most amazing vehicle ever, and I have no regrets in purchasing it.
Google tells me that the highest recorded temperature on Earth is 58C, recorded in the Libyan desert in 1922, but that was later disqualified, leaving the record at 56.7 (134F) in Death Vally in 1913.
Right. The solution is to have the OS support per-application data caps. If an app hits the daily limit, you get a pop-up asking permission. Unless (and until) you say yes, the app sees that the network is down.
I know the world is streaming, but why, oh, why don't they include a radio receiver? Many stations stream, but almost universally that doesn't include sports broadcasts. My wife uses a radio to listen to baseball when she's doing other things and can't watch the TV.
If not for that one shortcoming, we would probably get one.
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I have several passwords that require a "special" character. I've found it frustrating on the occasions when I need to enter these on my phone, having to switch to the symbols to enter my password. Now if a password requires a special character, I use one that is part of the default keyboard, which limits it to using a period.
Special character requirements might be fine when using a physical keyboard, but mobile devices change how people will use them.
Right, but Ingress is not Harry Potter. Why not a licensed version for various other themes like Harry Potter?
It would seem rather obvious that one major factor in blood from younger people is a different mix of hormones. Did the study do anything to control for that? Could the same effect be generated by hormone therapy?
It seems the obvious next step is to determine why young blood extends life.
People have talked about browser fingerprints for years, but I haven't heard any solid reports of sites making use of them. For example, news sites that limit you to a few free articles before paywalling you are easily viewed in a private window or with self-destructing cookies.
If this becomes a real issue, then a browser extension that sanitizes and randomizes the fingerprint would defeat the process. Some aspects might be harder to sanitize or randomize than others, but with a bit of effort, fingerprints could be rendered useless.
Maybe this should be the next extension offered by the EFF.
Based on the popularity of Pokemon Go, I would expect every mobile game company out there is working on a re-themed clone of some sort. Harry Potter would certainly be a great idea for a game like this.
There are plenty of people who like the idea of Pokemon Go, but don't have any interest in Pokemon.
Just make two simple reforms:
*) H1B visas convert to Green Cards after two years.
*) Limit them to no more than 5% of the workforce for any work site.
The biggest problem raised in the article is the commingling of inventory. Many sellers of products provide the products to Amazon, and they are shipped out of Amazon warehouses. When multiple companies are selling the exact same product, Amazon commingles the inventory, as they consider the products to be fungible. In theory, that's fine. However, if some of the companies are selling knock-offs, you have a problem. People ordering from the knock-off seller have a good chance of getting the real thing and writing a great review. People ordering from legitimate sellers get knock-offs and write terrible reviews.
I've seen a number of products myself where the reviews clearly indicate that people are receiving different products, and there's no way to tell which one you might actually receive.
If Amazon were to fix this one problem, they would be in a much better position to manage counterfeit products.
I've wondered how hard it would be for Google to take multiple photos and then automatically remove temporary objects like cars and people. I'm not sure how they could do it without significantly adding to the cost of collecting the images, though (by combining photos from multiple drives). They might be able to remove pedestrians with multiple cameras at different angles on the same vehicle.
Great idea. What would the different poll options be:
*) Yes, right away
*) Yes, when the price drops
*) No, I don't use gaming consoles
*) Only if it comes with a Pokemon
*) I'm happy with my Atari 2600. Get off my lawn!
How hard is it to package the binary along with all the required libraries together. Put them in some directory by themselves, and then have /usr/bin/skype be a script that uses something like LD_LIBRARY_PRELOAD to use the versions that work with the binary?
If you have the right versions, you can just move the real binary to /usr/bin, but you're fine if you don't.
Your distribution could set this up when they package it. There's no need for end users to ever have to worry about it.
Personally, I'm just glad that this is a 64-bit binary. I think this leaves only one other program that I need that is only available as a 32-bit binary (the discontinued Adobe Acrobat Reader for those times when Okular can't handle forms).
No, because you may find that you need to use half a dozen different tools that all display the code, plus emailed copy-and-paste snippets here and there. Sure, you can control what a tab expands to in your primary editor, but you don't have control over all the other tools.
Yes, if the use of tabs is completely consistent, then at least the code won't be too terribly mangled by other tools, but it won't look anything like what you're used to.
I love three-space indent!
Not really, but that's actually what I use because work mandates it. Apparently there was a big debate in the early days of the company between 2 and 4, so they compromised. Much of our coding standard is based on one particular engineer who had vision problems and needed to keep the number of columns restricted.
But you know what? It works. Millions of lines of code dating back two decades, and it's extremely consistent. Ninety percent of the code looks like it was written by the same engineer. That's what you want on a major project.
Though I will say that I've come to hate tabs in indentation. They're fine until they're not. At some point you end up using some tool where they don't look right.
My pet peeve, though, is trailing spaces. Any code management system should be designed to strip trailing spaces or block commits that contain them. I've seen far too many code merges break because of a disagreement on trailing spaces, and that's just dumb.
DNA and fingerprints get left all over the place. Iris scans don't. That has obvious privacy implications.
On the other hand, fingerprints and DNA are very well understood at this point. (Yes, there have been scandals where markers in DNA have provided "conclusive" matches that were anything but, but at least the science is understood.) We're pretty clear on fingerprints being left behind when we touch things, and DNA being left behind pretty much everywhere we go. Most people aren't so clear on iris scans--apparently a good camera can check for a match at some distance. The privacy implications are quite serious. This has the potential to be the biometric equivalent of license plate scanners that pick up every car that drives by.
It's like facial recognition without the false matches.
We might someday soon talk about sunglasses instead of tinfoil hats.
They already do. Obviously, they need to adjust the algorithms. The camera was fooled by the lack of contrast between the side of the truck and the sky (white truck and white clouds, perhaps). The radar was fooled by the open space under the truck, making it look like an overhead sign. The good news is that unlike most traditional accidents, this one will result in an improved design that should eliminate similar accidents in the future.
I've never had trouble with glare making my backup camera unviewable in my Tesla. I've seen some horrible screens on rentals, though.
The problems I have had are too many fingerprints on the screen and water drops on the camera. A heating element around the lens could quickly eliminate water drops, but they haven't incorporated that yet.
The current system already has radar.
The radar is the primary sensor for the traffic-aware cruise control that slows the vehicle down below the set speed when there is a slower vehicle in front.
The camera is the primary sensor for watching the stripes on the road to handle the steering. The camera also watches for vehicles and reads speed limit signs.
The sonar is the primary sensor for auto-park and summon features. It's also used to detect if the lane is clear for lane changes and to swerve to avoid side-impact collisions.
Please note my use of "primary" above. The autopilot system uses a combination of all three sensor systems.
It's widely expected that the next generation of hardware will include more cameras. It's also widely expected that this new hardware will start shipping later this year on the S and X, and will be the same hardware that is on the Model 3 late next year. Any updates besides a second or third camera and an updated controller would be a welcome surprise. The ability to upgrade existing cars to the new hardware would also be a welcome surprise.
Adobe hasn't released a Linux version since version 11. Unless there's a big surprise, there's no option for Linux users but to give up on Flash entirely.
After switching the flash stick to ext2, we haven't had any issues. I have seen the screen occasionally get sluggish as you describe, but I think that's unrelated to the issue I was seeing. I guess the lesson here is to avoid vfat for flash sticks.
No, no other files. It's actually a micro SD card reader, but the system shouldn't notice the difference. I don't buy real flash sticks anymore so that all my flash is in the same format.
It's not 100%, but it's pretty frequent. It may ask for a reboot 20% of the time we drive it, but then it will often take a half dozen reboots before it's happy. We've seen it report a touch screen problem immediately upon inserting the stick. If the system comes up correctly, then there's never a problem until the next time we turn on the car.
The stick we're using has 9.4GB in 2416 files in 170 directories. There are three .m3u playlist files that I believe it ignores, the rest are all .mp3.
No, it's not fixed, but your post suggests two possibilities: First, our flash stick might have less data but more separate files; I would assume that it's the number of files or directories that cause the problem. Second, our flash stick is VFAT, not EXT2; I should convert it and see if that solves the problem.
It does. (Currently it's Slacker in the USA, but I hear they're switching.)
However, sometimes we want to listen to our own music.
My S has a constant center screen crashing problem. Absolutely horrible. One day I had my cell phone plugged in to charge when the screen was crashed and kept needing to be rebooted, and I noticed that the charging shut off and on every five seconds. That led to my discovering that the screen crashing problem was due to having a flash stick plugged in for listening to MP3s. Apparently having more than 8GB of music is more than the system can handle. When I reported this to the service center, they said they were already aware of the bug.
So yes, there is a screen freezing problem. It's a known bug, and Tesla needs to fix it. But the MP3 player is so horrible that most people tether their phones and play music from there instead of using flash sticks.
And I agree that more cupholders would be nice, as would more USB ports and door pockets would be nice (the X at least has them in the front).
But despite the shortcomings, it's still the most amazing vehicle ever, and I have no regrets in purchasing it.
Google tells me that the highest recorded temperature on Earth is 58C, recorded in the Libyan desert in 1922, but that was later disqualified, leaving the record at 56.7 (134F) in Death Vally in 1913.
Right. The solution is to have the OS support per-application data caps. If an app hits the daily limit, you get a pop-up asking permission. Unless (and until) you say yes, the app sees that the network is down.
I know the world is streaming, but why, oh, why don't they include a radio receiver? Many stations stream, but almost universally that doesn't include sports broadcasts. My wife uses a radio to listen to baseball when she's doing other things and can't watch the TV.
If not for that one shortcoming, we would probably get one.