Sounds like Firefox may get a bump in NetStat numbers, however small, and Chrome will drop. I still don't get why anyone would use that phone home spyware, but over 40% of the market can't be wrong, can it? Think about the windows users!
Hmmm this sandbox strategy is used by Firefox and many more tools. As more and more tools move to threads this ability to sync them will gain traction.
My guess is there is a window of risk that needs to be closed before it surfaces as a bug or exploit. All in all this sandbox stuff is new but interesting as heck. There are stronger models but this is an improvement especially when RAM is limited -- (tablets and phones).
This secure computing mode might be too simple for some but it seems like a necessary tool to write code that needs some trust and or is the target of all the hackers in the world.
Since malware and other browser vectored problems abound this could be a good thing. I see a long list of multithreaded tools that use this sandbox.... It seems necessary to have TSYNC if Intel and others are serious about growing the number of cores in future processors.
Well nicotine is even more addictive than heroin and tobacco is sold everywhere.
Yet withdrawal is not life threatening the way heroin and alcohol are.
Nicotine might be a much safer anti anxiety drug than the long list of too easy to abuse drugs available to doctors.
Separated from Tobacco there is no Po210 in a nicotine product. Some suspect Po210 combined with tar and dust is the most likely trigger for lung cancers.
A vapor (E-cig) or patch that contains nicotine might replace many mood altering prescriptions. There are those that daemonize nicotine because cigarettes and tobaccos are so clearly associated with the big C. The over reaction reminds me of C++ and some programmers. But I should not overload this here.
This is only news to those who have had their head in the ground, listening to fox news and government shills.
This report is interesting in a couple troubling ways.
The most important one is that it is an example of "consensus science".
The two groups are presented as expert and citizen at large. The problem with this is the experts are experts in sciences unrelated to alcohol or drug addiction. Well educated "experts in their field" are notoriously under informed on other issues but the ego and strength of conviction is often extreme and extraordinary.
Way too many smart or conscientious individuals were hoodwinked by the the fabrication behind science reported by Andrew Wakefield. His extreme and extraordinary conviction on the topic elevated his biased study of twelve selected children to the global horror it is now. Worse the issues with the MMR vaccine were ignored because the vastly larger numbers of Autism cases (1 in 16) while serious febrile seizures in children is perhaps 1 in a million doses.
The good news is that with the dismissal of the Wakefield tomfoolery and all that was built on it -- new studies and new methods are at least making some progress on the febrile reactions. Mild reactions are common yet vastly less risky than any of the three childhood diseases in MMR vaccines.
The bad news is that Autism research has no clue that I know of for the increase in our population. This increase is larger than I can ascribe to school districts over diagnosing it to pad the special education staff and budget. It is possible that the responsibility to report in schools gets them to report any sniff or suspect behaviour and try to classify it. A spectrum diagnosis can be astoundingly easy to make as I suspect we all have behaviours that are suspect. Too quiet, too noisy, too social, not social enough. Statistics indicates that 50% of our students across the nation are below average and we must boost our standings in local, state and national tests so that 95% of the the student body is above average.
Because they are unwilling to disclose the use of these devices it is possible that a very long list of prosecutions will be undone including this plea should the information see the light of day.
There is some reason to believe that a court order to demand the police retain all records could be justified. It is not clear if the records can be released but this and other actions with these tools implies the legal footing is not clear and that the tool is astoundingly broad and effective in what it gathers.
I might note here that it has been recently disclosed that the keys to SIM card codes have apparently been stolen by one or more TLA. http://www.ign.com/articles/20... One article gave a four year window to this key theft perhaps more. If these devices are sold and if these stolen keys are involved it gets interesting.
One very real issue is where someone grew up and learned the rules of the road. Phones and distracted walking make it all worse.
There are nations with left hand and right hand auto driving. Pedestrian bias is shaped by these early days and parents.
Many communities now have a large enough community of newcomers that these habits collide on the sidewalk. Mericans in Stralia, Brits in France,.... India, Japan, Indonesia,,.... all nations now have a large enough influx of newcomers that this is important.
I first encountered this at airports. Then the powered walkways seemed to make it go away but.. no it is still there....
Worse or perhaps more importantly Mericans have highly controlled cross walks for K-12 students. Students do not learn to look all ways for traffic. They simply step out -- many will wait for a light but many not. No officer blows a whistle and hollers get yer butt off the road. No one hollers get a move on you are blocking traffic. Entitlement like turtles goes all the way down...
Universities have always had pedestrian accidents as egg heads oblivious to the world forget that they have left the safe roads of the school and stepped into townie roads. This and the localized communities of H1B visa holder make this obvious in some parts of the US. Other nations have the same problems with clusters of expats.
There is a point for many of us where thin is thin enough and durability and battery life and even a second disk rule.
I would love to see less drive to vanishingly thin and fragile to a more middle ground of durable, capable and functional.
The 3200x1800 display does appear inviting. But for any power user the keyboard often matters more.
I happen to have an HP laptop that is nearly 18 years old. It has a fine keyboard as laptop keyboards go and more importantly the display has a lot of vertical pixels which makes it nice to read text and code. Ubuntu keeps it ticking... I think it came with DOS;)
Sadly the BIOS has a hard wired white list for WiFi bits so I cannot upgrade the WiFi. It is so old that a replacement battery costs an arm and a leg and has much less life than I like. It is not silent 0db it has a noisy fan, it has a spinning disk.... it weighs in at 6 or 7 lb.
Darn I just convinced myself to check this one out when it hits the local stores.
You would know if it was always sending your conversations because your battery life would be terrible.
But wait.... Each and every owner of a smartphone I know complains about terrible battery life.
My gut reaction is to craft an audio tool that mumbles and speaks at my TV all day and all night when I am not using it. I would seed it with all manner of mumble foo including banned words and implications of my neighbors. I would turn FoX news on the internet and AM shock radio perhaps passing it through a re-tuner (not auto tune to musical notes) and reshaper.
Now that Ebola is actually a threat to rich white people living in developed nations, we can expect that new treatments will be created soon.
Not so much me thinks.
A test and or a tester is very different than a cure or immunization for Ebola. The ability to further screen someone identified by a remote non touch fever sensor is the gold here.
Hospitals had issues sorting 80 some common infections that presented like Ebola. The only unique Q&A answer that identified Ebola as a likely infection was "did you travel to _Africa_?".
Should Ebola have surfaced with a vengeance in one or more modern cities the options that health departments have are few. One is to isolate the city and divide it while Ebola burns itself out. The collapse of commerce for food and other common needs would be difficult to sort out.
And more importantly because this is not a treatment the testing and approval time frame could be very short. And more importantly there are cities in Africa that could use it now.
There are some social implications but from the containment side of the option list this is a good thing.
Where are you getting that from? I have a Samsung F6300, and they have fixed the apps via updates whenever there is an issue.
Samsung use the same smart tv software for all their models with minor tweaks, so no reason you shouldn't have updates.
Check avs forums for the owners thread, and more than likely there is a fix for whatever issue you are having.
OK model UN46D6050 From todays online chat...
Xyzzzz:: The particular TV come with 2011 smart hub interface. Thus, this particular TV does not support multiple profiles in netflix app. Visitor: Sigh... I am disappointed. Such a fine TV matched with little or no software support. Makes me sad... Xyzzzz: Multiple profile option for netflix is only available in F and H series models. Xyzzzz: I can understand how important this is to you. Xyzzzz: Netflix 3.1 app is available on your TV. This updated Netflix app will allow you to use: Xyzzzz: Subtitles on supported movies. Xyzzzz: Multi-Audio Tracks on supported movies. Xyzzzz: 5.1 audio tracks on supported movies. Xyzzzz: Full HD (1080p) on supported movies Visitor: But not profiles? Xyzzzz: Yes, only for the F and H series model TV's you can see that feature.
For a long time folk have said that moderation and alcohol go hand in hand. For a number of reasons the first 1/2 to 1 standard drinks has a place at the table in my mind. About the second standard drink most of the advantage is undone and by the 4th for sure the only advantage might be social lubrication. But that is a slippery slope that gets increasingly dangerous.
Adding the smallest amount of alcohol vastly changes the way water and common fats interact. Surface tension changes and the ability to emulsify fats so a lot of surface area for digestion is available improves. This solubility/ surface interaction can also apply to fats in motion in the blood and how they interact with plaque in the arteries. Mostly it has interaction with bile and the fat in the gut.
A number of common bacteria in the gut generate some alcohol but as a rule this is quite small. Some cases of walking intoxication from gut bacteria are known. Given the legal consequences of alcohol I find this biologic reality and lack of data on this combined with wanting instrumentation precision and accuracy to be appalling. The lack of science in this area is deafening.
Anyone that has noticed the burbling of a beer fermenter or the tooting of a person with lots of healthy fiber in their diet should realize that bacteria and bacteria byproducts happen.
I warned about this when HDMI was still just a plan in the works.........snip....... Allowing others to control the content you watch was always a bad idea,........
Of interest in a freedom of speech context there is a talker and a listener. If it is impossible to listen (or read) then the freedom of speech has been infringed.
Actually, the Smart TV is abetter investment. Built in DLNA, and Netflix and Amazon apps built directly into the TV are far more convenient, not to mention the convenience of not having to have a HTPC and a lesser electricity bill as a result.
Not in the Samsung case. A wonderful Samsung screen with "smart" features and Samstung is unable or unwilling to update the Netflix software. No Amazon app... on my perfectly good TV AND Smart Blu Ray player. Android tablets and phones are now seeing incompatible application update notifications as Android moves and cell service and phone makers conspire to constipate and control the update and bug fix process.
The life of a $1000 TV is not one or two years... If you purchase one of these about the time the new model is out you will see a corresponding shortening of the update stream. If you purchases it early you will see some bug fixes and feel good but all new computer hardware will need an update just because software takes time and testing on a simulator is so much slower than real hardware.
Sorry you have had your two updates... you are SOL.
Samstung needs to be slapped with a DCMA or some such tampering statute. A content stream is Copyright. They are modifying it for the purpose of generating $$ and that can be illegal all across the globe. The fact that the author and owner of the stream cannot easily see this tomfoolery is perhaps the only thing keeping an attorney from turning the company upside down and shaking money out.
Some countries do have what amounts to squatter's rights in that if you occupy and otherwise unoccupied dwelling for a long enough duration you can claim it as a residency and the actual owner will not be able to evict you.
Do these countries happen to be countries overrun by war?
Enormous parts of European cities were emptied of citizens that were stuffed into camps and vanished or simply displaced by destruction and war. Some laws were crafted to legalize the good, bad and ugly parts of this chaos.
I am blushing and filing this with "gullible is not in the dictionary". razn1 ~ $ w
23:14:15 up 11 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.05 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT bob pts/0 whitechrome.wr.t 23:14 7.00s 1.29s 0.04s w razn1 ~ $ razn1 ~ $ razn1 ~ $ # flash flash flash... must be one honking flash but mine is big. razn1 ~ $ @razn1 ~ $ w
23:16:14 up 13 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.05.....
There is a move toward BSD for a number of reasons. It is difficult to comply with the new GPL on some modern platforms where bits of this and that are closed. Many of the new SOC devices have NDA or binary blob support for this and that.
The new compiler has already kicked the GCC folk in the logjam of bugs and features.
As long as the bits packaged with GCC are GPL there is no big issue.
The Apple example is interesting. They have used LLVM and kit on some projects but recently have given their internal changes back to the LLVM community. Not because they had to but because keeping up with a wider and wider collection of diffs is harder and harder to do.
RMS is correct to be concerned and the selection of hardware and software needs to consider licence as well as long term maintenance of their product. With the internet of things coming there will be litigation should a company fail to maintain a bug fix stream during the reasonable life expectancy of the device. Some cell phones distribute the blame... Google, Samsung, AT&T where each is a congested pile of congesting making me feel samstung. I now only buy half price unlocked refurbished hardware with removable batteries when a device get too long in the tooth. My current phone was purchased because of tower investment and no more. They are no longer updating it so I am looking hard at rooting it for a list of missing features.
First we need to establish what a Legitimate purpose is.
Journalism is a mixed tangle of bags. There are many goals one of which is honesty and transparency. Another is greed and avarice to sell more pages, papers and air time than the others. Another is to inform...
A journal or diary in history has been the best and most informative connection we have with the past. Some of the content in the "Diary of Ann Frank" is not rated G or even PG but had it been lost the world would have less awareness of that bit of ugly history. "The Voyage of the Beagle" based on Darwin's journals has changed the world. The journals of the Apostles and yes Mohamed have changed the world. Letters and collections of letters like "The The Born-Einstein Letters" qualify as journalism.
For those that are in denial about the methods and motives of ISIS this might qualify as a legitimate wake up call. For those that share the TV with a family: children, parents, grand parents... this is wrong in a number of ways too obvious to elaborate on.
The worst photo is the one you did not take. Cell phone cameras cover this convenience factor very well. Al lot better than the early box point and shoot film cameras.
Camera vendors will need to look a lot harder at the user interface, form factor, low light performance, automatic bracketing,
The good news is the mirrorless cameras are grabbing a lot of attention and have made astounding moves forward. They allow quality glass and are also well suited for home video...
Megapixels are no longer a challenge. With ten times the pixels needed to display on FleaseBlock and wanting quality issues on home computer displays the camera side of this consumer producer equation will remain unbalanced and the camera market will continue to shrink. The sensor side has already consolidated behind the shutter. Sensor upgrades are pixel depth limited enough that HDR will continue to be an interesting tool. Automatic bracketing and on demand HDR is possible on almost all systems today. Bigger faster lenses with more dynamics will do better than cell phones.
This may enable potentially important solutions like: http://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose.... Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) creates a secure end node from trusted media on almost any Intel-based computer (PC or Mac). LPS boots a thin Linux operating system from a CD or USB flash stick without mounting a local hard drive.
The LPS may be less than ideal but it is a good step forward and makes it clear that a like solution has a valid place in government and corporate America. Some think this is a baby step. I think it is a step in the correct direction.
Those languages strongly encourage you to produce your own security holes.
This is sage... No language can protect from a stupid programmer.
Of interest the security model and features in Java as far as I can tell has foundational problems. The sandbox is not as well built as it might be.... and parts of the security model are unverified and ill understood.
It is a notable language. It is not magically secure... The moderately recent enhancements to the VM to permit other languages to use the VM are interesting.
Oracle has used Java for a long time and before they picked off Sun depended on a very old and outdated version of Java to run many Oracle tools in a browser. This left such a bad impression on me that I have been unwilling to look and see if it is still necessary to use Java 4.5 or whatever it was...
In the intervening years I would hope that Oracle fixed this now that they own both parts. Not owning a dependency is like having a pebble in your shoe, painful and crippling. Being an optimist I hope this was the reason for getting Sun... I hope they acted on it.
Verbosity is one of the reasons Pascal was a complete failure. It wasn't pragmatic and/or practical for SERIOUS coding.
Pascal had the advantage of replacing a gaggle of teaching assistants with a compiler. As a teaching tool it is worthy of consideration. In reality finding Pascal compilers is moderately difficult which might exclude it. But as a first language capable of real programs it is real.
I do have a bias. One of the best assembly programmers I know is also an astounding Pascal programmer. His assembly had all the organizational requirements that the Pascal language enforces but in assembly it is a free for all but he keeps it together.
Proof to me was his six+ months of work on a BIOS with no emulator that booted the first time on new hardware when the hardware was done. Back when the MC68000 was hot cutting edge stuff tools were sparse and skilled disciplined programmers were a requirement. Skill and discipline still has value.
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Sounds like Firefox may get a bump in NetStat numbers, however small, and Chrome will drop. I still don't get why anyone would use that phone home spyware, but over 40% of the market can't be wrong, can it? Think about the windows users!
Hmmm this sandbox strategy is used by Firefox and many more tools.
As more and more tools move to threads this ability
to sync them will gain traction.
My guess is there is a window of risk that needs to be closed before it surfaces
as a bug or exploit. All in all this sandbox stuff is new but interesting as heck.
There are stronger models but this is an improvement especially when RAM is
limited -- (tablets and phones).
If we take the chrome browser out of this
most would agree that improving the ability
to sandbox a program is good.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Secur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (out dated by a bit)
This secure computing mode might be too simple for
some but it seems like a necessary tool to write code
that needs some trust and or is the target of all the
hackers in the world.
Since malware and other browser vectored problems abound
this could be a good thing. I see a long list of multithreaded
tools that use this sandbox.... It seems necessary
to have TSYNC if Intel and others are serious about growing
the number of cores in future processors.
.
Even the military grade tech deteriorates. Surely it should withstand a two degree increase - especially over a century!
Climate change does not apply to objects in space. Surely you cannot hear me scream.
Take some time and be honest with her. .... never enough notice.
Stuff happens, no notice, lots of notice
Make sure she knows that you have spoken with
and trust her mother in all things.
Keep it simple and while you are living live.
Take care...
Well nicotine is even more addictive than heroin and tobacco is sold everywhere.
Yet withdrawal is not life threatening the way heroin and alcohol are.
Nicotine might be a much safer anti anxiety drug than the long list of
too easy to abuse drugs available to doctors.
Separated from Tobacco there is no Po210 in a nicotine product.
Some suspect Po210 combined with tar and dust is the most likely
trigger for lung cancers.
A vapor (E-cig) or patch that contains nicotine might replace many
mood altering prescriptions. There are those that daemonize nicotine
because cigarettes and tobaccos are so clearly associated with
the big C. The over reaction reminds me of C++ and some programmers.
But I should not overload this here.
Cancer is one ugly motherF*&^$r
This is only news to those who have had their head in the ground, listening to fox news and government shills.
This report is interesting in a couple troubling ways.
The most important one is that it is an example of "consensus science".
The two groups are presented as expert and citizen at large. The problem with
this is the experts are experts in sciences unrelated to alcohol or drug addiction.
Well educated "experts in their field" are notoriously under informed on other issues
but the ego and strength of conviction is often extreme and extraordinary.
Way too many smart or conscientious individuals were hoodwinked by the
the fabrication behind science reported by Andrew Wakefield. His extreme
and extraordinary conviction on the topic elevated his biased study of
twelve selected children to the global horror it is now. Worse the issues
with the MMR vaccine were ignored because the vastly larger numbers of
Autism cases (1 in 16) while serious febrile seizures in children is perhaps 1 in a
million doses.
The good news is that with the dismissal of the Wakefield tomfoolery and
all that was built on it -- new studies and new methods are at least making
some progress on the febrile reactions. Mild reactions are common yet
vastly less risky than any of the three childhood diseases in MMR vaccines.
The bad news is that Autism research has no clue that I know of for the
increase in our population. This increase is larger than I can ascribe to
school districts over diagnosing it to pad the special education staff and
budget. It is possible that the responsibility to report in schools gets them to report
any sniff or suspect behaviour and try to classify it. A spectrum diagnosis
can be astoundingly easy to make as I suspect we all have behaviours that
are suspect. Too quiet, too noisy, too social, not social enough. Statistics
indicates that 50% of our students across the nation are below average and
we must boost our standings in local, state and national tests so that 95% of the
the student body is above average.
Because they are unwilling to disclose the use of these devices it is possible that
a very long list of prosecutions will be undone including this plea should the information
see the light of day.
There is some reason to believe that a court order to demand the police retain all records could be justified.
It is not clear if the records can be released but this and other actions with these tools implies the legal footing
is not clear and that the tool is astoundingly broad and effective in what it gathers.
I might note here that it has been recently disclosed that the keys to SIM card codes
have apparently been stolen by one or more TLA. http://www.ign.com/articles/20...
One article gave a four year window to this key theft perhaps more.
If these devices are sold and if these stolen keys are involved it gets interesting.
One very real issue is where someone grew up
and learned the rules of the road. Phones and distracted
walking make it all worse.
There are nations with left hand and right hand auto driving.
Pedestrian bias is shaped by these early days and parents.
Many communities now have a large enough community of newcomers .... India, Japan, Indonesia,,.... all nations now have a large enough
that these habits collide on the sidewalk. Mericans in Stralia, Brits
in France,
influx of newcomers that this is important.
I first encountered this at airports. Then the powered walkways seemed
to make it go away but.. no it is still there....
Worse or perhaps more importantly Mericans have highly controlled cross walks
for K-12 students. Students do not learn to look all ways for traffic. They simply
step out -- many will wait for a light but many not. No officer blows a whistle and
hollers get yer butt off the road. No one hollers get a move on you are blocking
traffic. Entitlement like turtles goes all the way down...
Universities have always had pedestrian accidents as egg heads oblivious to the world forget that
they have left the safe roads of the school and stepped into townie roads. This and the
localized communities of H1B visa holder make this obvious in some parts of the US.
Other nations have the same problems with clusters of expats.
What is it with this rush to thinner and lighter?
There is a point for many of us where thin is thin enough
and durability and battery life and even a second disk rule.
I would love to see less drive to vanishingly thin and fragile
to a more middle ground of durable, capable and functional.
The 3200x1800 display does appear inviting.
But for any power user the keyboard often matters more.
I happen to have an HP laptop that is nearly 18 years old. ;)
It has a fine keyboard as laptop keyboards go and more importantly
the display has a lot of vertical pixels which makes it nice to read
text and code. Ubuntu keeps it ticking... I think it came with DOS
Sadly the BIOS has a hard wired white list for WiFi bits so I cannot
upgrade the WiFi. It is so old that a replacement battery costs
an arm and a leg and has much less life than I like. It is not silent 0db
it has a noisy fan, it has a spinning disk.... it weighs in at 6 or 7 lb.
Darn I just convinced myself to check this one out when it hits the
local stores.
You would know if it was always sending your conversations because your battery life would be terrible.
But wait....
Each and every owner of a smartphone I know complains about terrible battery life.
My gut reaction is to craft an audio tool that mumbles and speaks at my TV all day and all night when
I am not using it. I would seed it with all manner of mumble foo including banned words and implications
of my neighbors. I would turn FoX news on the internet and AM shock radio perhaps passing it through
a re-tuner (not auto tune to musical notes) and reshaper.
Now that Ebola is actually a threat to rich white people living in developed nations, we can expect that new treatments will be created soon.
Not so much me thinks.
A test and or a tester is very different than a cure or immunization for Ebola.
The ability to further screen someone identified by a remote non touch fever
sensor is the gold here.
Hospitals had issues sorting 80 some common infections that presented like Ebola.
The only unique Q&A answer that identified Ebola as a likely infection was "did you travel to _Africa_?".
Should Ebola have surfaced with a vengeance in one or more modern cities the options that
health departments have are few. One is to isolate the city and divide it while Ebola burns itself out.
The collapse of commerce for food and other common needs would be difficult to sort out.
And more importantly because this is not a treatment the testing and approval time frame
could be very short. And more importantly there are cities in Africa that could use it now.
There are some social implications but from the containment side of the option list
this is a good thing.
Where are you getting that from? I have a Samsung F6300, and they have fixed the apps via updates whenever there is an issue.
Samsung use the same smart tv software for all their models with minor tweaks, so no reason you shouldn't have updates.
Check avs forums for the owners thread, and more than likely there is a fix for whatever issue you are having.
OK model UN46D6050 From todays online chat...
Xyzzzz:: The particular TV come with 2011 smart hub interface. Thus, this particular TV does not support multiple profiles in netflix app.
Visitor: Sigh... I am disappointed. Such a fine TV matched with little or no software support. Makes me sad...
Xyzzzz: Multiple profile option for netflix is only available in F and H series models.
Xyzzzz: I can understand how important this is to you.
Xyzzzz: Netflix 3.1 app is available on your TV. This updated Netflix app will allow you to use:
Xyzzzz: Subtitles on supported movies.
Xyzzzz: Multi-Audio Tracks on supported movies.
Xyzzzz: 5.1 audio tracks on supported movies.
Xyzzzz: Full HD (1080p) on supported movies
Visitor: But not profiles?
Xyzzzz: Yes, only for the F and H series model TV's you can see that feature.
For a long time folk have said that moderation and alcohol go hand in hand.
For a number of reasons the first 1/2 to 1 standard drinks has a place at the table in my mind.
About the second standard drink most of the advantage is undone and by the 4th for sure
the only advantage might be social lubrication. But that is a slippery slope that gets
increasingly dangerous.
Adding the smallest amount of alcohol vastly changes the way water and
common fats interact. Surface tension changes and the ability to emulsify
fats so a lot of surface area for digestion is available improves. This solubility/ surface
interaction can also apply to fats in motion in the blood and how they interact
with plaque in the arteries. Mostly it has interaction with bile and the fat in the gut.
A number of common bacteria in the gut generate some alcohol but as a rule
this is quite small. Some cases of walking intoxication from gut bacteria are known.
Given the legal consequences of alcohol I find this biologic reality and lack of data on
this combined with wanting instrumentation precision and accuracy to be appalling.
The lack of science in this area is deafening.
Anyone that has noticed the burbling of a beer fermenter or the tooting of a
person with lots of healthy fiber in their diet should realize that bacteria
and bacteria byproducts happen.
I warned about this when HDMI was still just a plan in the works. ........snip....... ........
Allowing others to control the content you watch was always a bad idea,
Of interest in a freedom of speech context there is a talker and
a listener. If it is impossible to listen (or read) then the freedom of
speech has been infringed.
Actually, the Smart TV is abetter investment. Built in DLNA, and Netflix and Amazon apps built directly into the TV are far more convenient, not to mention the convenience of not having to have a HTPC and a lesser electricity bill as a result.
Not in the Samsung case. A wonderful Samsung screen with "smart" features and
Samstung is unable or unwilling to update the Netflix software. No Amazon app...
on my perfectly good TV AND Smart Blu Ray player. Android tablets and phones
are now seeing incompatible application update notifications as Android moves and
cell service and phone makers conspire to constipate and control the update and
bug fix process.
The life of a $1000 TV is not one or two years... If you purchase one of these about
the time the new model is out you will see a corresponding shortening of the update
stream. If you purchases it early you will see some bug fixes and feel good but
all new computer hardware will need an update just because software takes time
and testing on a simulator is so much slower than real hardware.
Sorry you have had your two updates... you are SOL.
Samstung needs to be slapped with a DCMA or some such tampering
statute. A content stream is Copyright. They are modifying it for
the purpose of generating $$ and that can be illegal all across the
globe. The fact that the author and owner of the stream cannot easily
see this tomfoolery is perhaps the only thing keeping an attorney
from turning the company upside down and shaking money out.
Some countries do have what amounts to squatter's rights in that if you occupy and otherwise unoccupied dwelling for a long enough duration you can claim it as a residency and the actual owner will not be able to evict you.
Do these countries happen to be countries overrun by war?
Enormous parts of European cities were emptied of citizens that were stuffed into camps and vanished
or simply displaced by destruction and war. Some laws were crafted to legalize the good,
bad and ugly parts of this chaos.
I am blushing and filing this with "gullible is not in the dictionary".
.....
razn1 ~ $ w
23:14:15 up 11 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.05
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
bob pts/0 whitechrome.wr.t 23:14 7.00s 1.29s 0.04s w
razn1 ~ $
razn1 ~ $
razn1 ~ $ # flash flash flash... must be one honking flash but mine is big.
razn1 ~ $
@razn1 ~ $ w
23:16:14 up 13 min, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.05
There is a move toward BSD for a number of reasons. It is difficult to comply with the
new GPL on some modern platforms where bits of this and that are closed. Many of
the new SOC devices have NDA or binary blob support for this and that.
The new compiler has already kicked the GCC folk in the logjam of bugs and features.
As long as the bits packaged with GCC are GPL there is no big issue.
The Apple example is interesting. They have used LLVM and kit on some projects
but recently have given their internal changes back to the LLVM community. Not because
they had to but because keeping up with a wider and wider collection of diffs is harder
and harder to do.
RMS is correct to be concerned and the selection of hardware and software
needs to consider licence as well as long term maintenance of their product.
With the internet of things coming there will be litigation should a company
fail to maintain a bug fix stream during the reasonable life expectancy of the device.
Some cell phones distribute the blame... Google, Samsung, AT&T where each
is a congested pile of congesting making me feel samstung. I now only buy
half price unlocked refurbished hardware with removable batteries when a device
get too long in the tooth. My current phone was purchased because of tower investment
and no more. They are no longer updating it so I am looking hard at rooting it
for a list of missing features.
First we need to establish what a Legitimate purpose is.
Journalism is a mixed tangle of bags. There are many goals
one of which is honesty and transparency. Another is greed
and avarice to sell more pages, papers and air time than the
others. Another is to inform...
A journal or diary in history has been the best and most informative
connection we have with the past. Some of the content in the
"Diary of Ann Frank" is not rated G or even PG but had it
been lost the world would have less awareness of that bit of ugly
history. "The Voyage of the Beagle" based on Darwin's journals
has changed the world. The journals of the Apostles and yes
Mohamed have changed the world. Letters and collections of
letters like "The The Born-Einstein Letters" qualify as journalism.
For those that are in denial about the methods and motives of ISIS
this might qualify as a legitimate wake up call. For those that
share the TV with a family: children, parents, grand parents... this
is wrong in a number of ways too obvious to elaborate on.
The worst photo is the one you did not take.
Cell phone cameras cover this convenience factor
very well. Al lot better than the early box point and shoot
film cameras.
Camera vendors will need to look a lot harder at
the user interface, form factor, low light performance,
automatic bracketing,
The good news is the mirrorless cameras are grabbing
a lot of attention and have made astounding moves
forward. They allow quality glass and are also well
suited for home video...
Megapixels are no longer a challenge. With ten
times the pixels needed to display on FleaseBlock
and wanting quality issues on home computer displays
the camera side of this consumer producer equation
will remain unbalanced and the camera market
will continue to shrink. The sensor side has already
consolidated behind the shutter. Sensor upgrades
are pixel depth limited enough that HDR will continue
to be an interesting tool. Automatic bracketing and
on demand HDR is possible on almost all systems today.
Bigger faster lenses with more dynamics will do better
than cell phones.
Can I have this part on a $37 Raspberry Pi mod next please?
This may enable potentially important solutions like: http://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose....
Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) creates a secure end node from trusted media on
almost any Intel-based computer (PC or Mac). LPS boots a thin Linux operating system
from a CD or USB flash stick without mounting a local hard drive.
The LPS may be less than ideal but it is a good step forward and makes it clear
that a like solution has a valid place in government and corporate America.
Some think this is a baby step. I think it is a step in the correct direction.
Those languages strongly encourage you to produce your own security holes.
This is sage... No language can protect from a stupid programmer.
Of interest the security model and features in Java as far as I can tell has foundational .... and parts of the security
problems. The sandbox is not as well built as it might be
model are unverified and ill understood.
It is a notable language. It is not magically secure...
The moderately recent enhancements to the VM to permit other languages to use the VM are interesting.
Oracle has used Java for a long time and before they picked off Sun depended on a very old
and outdated version of Java to run many Oracle tools in a browser. This left such a bad
impression on me that I have been unwilling to look and see if it is still necessary to use Java 4.5
or whatever it was...
In the intervening years I would hope that Oracle fixed this now that they own both parts.
Not owning a dependency is like having a pebble in your shoe, painful and crippling.
Being an optimist I hope this was the reason for getting Sun... I hope they acted on it.
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Verbosity is one of the reasons Pascal was a complete failure. It wasn't pragmatic and/or practical for SERIOUS coding.
Pascal had the advantage of replacing a gaggle of teaching assistants with a compiler.
As a teaching tool it is worthy of consideration.
In reality finding Pascal compilers is moderately difficult which might exclude it.
But as a first language capable of real programs it is real.
I do have a bias. One of the best assembly programmers I know
is also an astounding Pascal programmer. His assembly had all
the organizational requirements that the Pascal language enforces but
in assembly it is a free for all but he keeps it together.
Proof to me was his six+ months of work on a BIOS with no emulator
that booted the first time on new hardware when the hardware was done.
Back when the MC68000 was hot cutting edge stuff tools were sparse and skilled
disciplined programmers were a requirement. Skill and discipline still has value.