Proportionally, solar employment accounts for the largest share of workers in the Electric Power Generation sector. This is largely due to the construction related to the significant buildout of new solar generation capacity.
On pages 37+ there are some graphs with employment category distribution and construction and installation accounts for over 37% of solar employment (compared to less then 5% in coal and not even on graph for oil and gas.
- iOS has 2 ratings. Current version rating and all time rating. I hate this as it's actually stifling innovation on the App Store. Why? Because the keyword search rankings are affected by current version rating. So if you submit a new version of your App it resets to zero and your App falls in ranking as do install numbers. What you end up with is a top 10 (no one ever looks beyond there) of complacent Apps that haven't had an update in a couple of years.
This is actually something that Android devs at work are jealous of. On android a single problematic version is likely to stain your rating forever, as people use 1 star ratings "new update broke it" as a way to complain and often never changing their vote when its fixed. Basically both approaches have their own merits.
Can we stop with all those irrelevant politics? Trump won, elections are over. When he starts doing something there may be topics for further discussion, but now its just a waste of time. While there may be some people that are still coping with the results, lets keep this stuff out of slashdo as its for tech stories not social studies.
To go this way you would need some way to actually offer something resembling advertised speeds to all customers. Unfortunately signal strength would put some of them permanently in the lowest tier and then they would complain that they dont get what they paid for - technical limitations dont work for this kind of people (and actually why should normal user need to "measure" their own maximum net speed?)
Intel had some "fairly good" DRM in their chips for years now. The problem is that no one really bothers, at least in mass market - DRM that only works on some machines is much more bothersome then just using one of software level ones (eg PlayReady) that will be accepted by majors. After all to be reasonable you need to support whole os as asking users "what type of processor do you have" is likely to give you pretty bad results. Theoretically Intel could get sort of exclusive from majors for 4k (as in "you need this drm for 4k"), but I doubt it. Intel only has dominance in pc market and I expect skipping other platforms (eg smart tv) would not be very popular idea.
"The ABS will certainly try to force compliance—fines range from AUS$1800 (~£1,000 or ~$1,370) for providing false information to AUS$180 per day for failing to submit the form. But the agency will have no real way to verify the answers provided by those who do complete the form as accurate. Failure to vote in the Federal Election last month resulted in only a AUS$20 fine." http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Without this info the summary is simple sensationalist "panic, panic! if you have this you are in danger!". By adding simple "in earlier versions" or similar info it turns into the shaming message you are talking about.
Post by the researcher is quite nice and understandable. Basically Avast opens a local port for the purpose of interprocess communication (or RPC to be specific). It listens to properly formatted post requests (that can be easily sent from another page you open) and performs some actions from predefined list. One of those actions allows to launch this weird "safe" browser with an arbitrary url. Since Avast removed some chromium safety feature it allowed launching dev tools with some arbitrary controlling javascript, allowing acces to local files, doing requests using stored cookies etc. Other application are generally not affected, because they dont provide this local port, so they cant be remotely launched in an easy way (Avast command list is limited, so you cant launch random stuff).
The study a few links deep from the article revealed that in 2014 over 40% of London black cabs did NOT accept card payment. All this stuff is about is making card terminal mandatory for drivers.
No, they are not getting the customer base. They are buying only IP so patents, software etc. They are not taking over the service (its going to get closed) and their own similiar stuff will not appear for about a year more, so likely there will even be no indirect transfers of the "we are closing, but you may like..." kind
Main reason not to do this is the fact that you would still need to build and provide 32 bit versions for users on 32 bit only systems (eg windows xp still has about 10% share and its all 32bit). Then you also get bonus support issues when users download the wrong version, it doesnt work for obvious reasons and they explain it in some completely incomprehensible way to your support (or just drop your app altogether).
Google just removed the results from some local domains (fr, co.uk etc), but left it working for com domain. Basically it means they failed at delisting since EU citizen can still easily avoid it. Instead they should comply by doing some kind of geoip delisting as then they would be really compliant within EU jurisdiction.
If you want to make it consumer friendly you need to have vendor server for one puprose: finding your device from the internet. Otherwise to get it to work you would need to input some magic numbers* (that may even change sometimes randomly!) or setup some strange services** you dont understand. With vendor server its just few simple clicks.
advertisment in pretty clear form. "I went to this company conference and they told me they're cool and I have nothing to worry when storing my data on their great services"
You do realize that retail games dont count, right? So all the people with several AAA titles bought in their local store (or just somewhere else on the internet) lose their ability to for example participate in mod discussions (workshop). In some parts of the world steam prices for new games (without big sales) are extremely high compared to those in stores.
I would say some people may get annoyed due to following limitations: >Submit content on the Steam Workshop >Post in an item's Steam Workshop Discussions Retail games dont give you full account, so if you buy some steam only game with a mod community (eg Civilization 5) you potentially lose quite a bit
In settings, advanced tab you will find section named Origin Experience Reporting when you can uncheck "Share hardware specification" and "Share system interaction data" to get rid of most of this (or at least the part that is objectionable to most people).
from wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID-based_encryption)
Identity-based systems allow any party to generate a public key from a known identity value such as an ASCII string. A trusted third party, called the Private Key Generator (PKG), generates the corresponding private keys. To operate, the PKG first publishes a master public key, and retains the corresponding master private key (referred to as master key). Given the master public key, any party can compute a public key corresponding to the identity ID by combining the master public key with the identity value. To obtain a corresponding private key, the party authorized to use the identity ID contacts the PKG, which uses the master private key to generate the private key for identity ID.
How exactly does the attacker know the passwords expiration date?
How exactly WOULDN'T they? If the attacker is doing offline brute forcing of passwords, that means they've obtained at least a partial copy of the database for the site (since they have to have the hashes and salts), at which point it's probable that they would have also obtained the expiration dates linked to each password.
Expiration dates != expiration time of current password. If you assume some maximum password expiration time (lets say 3 months) then as long as user is registered for at lest that amount of time the password expiration date doesnt provide any useful information about it. Unless of course hacker gets multiple database snapshots from widely different days, but then the system is probably doomed anyway.
I think its quite good decision in short run, since it will kill all those weird connectors with no merit to them aside from being unique and driving charger sales for manufacturer. On the other hand in the long run its bad, since it actually hampers ("why bother if we have to put usb anyway") or even completely blocks some possible innovation (eg wirelessly charged waterproof phone with no external connections at all). IMO the best course would be to keep this legislation for a several years (5-10) to get everyone to standardize and then repeal it. Given its EU though, I expect we are stuck with those connectors long after it will become completely obsolete...
phone companies generally know this. Im not quite sure about this weird rating one - it doesnt seem to be connected with actual phone service providers.
Slashdot Mirror
essential fragment from the report (page 28):
Proportionally, solar employment accounts for the largest share of workers in the Electric Power Generation sector. This is largely due to the construction related to the significant buildout of new solar generation capacity.
On pages 37+ there are some graphs with employment category distribution and construction and installation accounts for over 37% of solar employment (compared to less then 5% in coal and not even on graph for oil and gas.
- iOS has 2 ratings. Current version rating and all time rating. I hate this as it's actually stifling innovation on the App Store. Why? Because the keyword search rankings are affected by current version rating. So if you submit a new version of your App it resets to zero and your App falls in ranking as do install numbers. What you end up with is a top 10 (no one ever looks beyond there) of complacent Apps that haven't had an update in a couple of years.
This is actually something that Android devs at work are jealous of. On android a single problematic version is likely to stain your rating forever, as people use 1 star ratings "new update broke it" as a way to complain and often never changing their vote when its fixed. Basically both approaches have their own merits.
Can we stop with all those irrelevant politics? Trump won, elections are over. When he starts doing something there may be topics for further discussion, but now its just a waste of time. While there may be some people that are still coping with the results, lets keep this stuff out of slashdo as its for tech stories not social studies.
But then how do you define country? And how do you differentiate it from International Association of People That Drink Beer and Use Dynamite?
To go this way you would need some way to actually offer something resembling advertised speeds to all customers. Unfortunately signal strength would put some of them permanently in the lowest tier and then they would complain that they dont get what they paid for - technical limitations dont work for this kind of people (and actually why should normal user need to "measure" their own maximum net speed?)
The title made me immediately think: "so that you stop hating win10 by comparison". Somehow it doesnt sound like a recommendation to me.
Intel had some "fairly good" DRM in their chips for years now. The problem is that no one really bothers, at least in mass market - DRM that only works on some machines is much more bothersome then just using one of software level ones (eg PlayReady) that will be accepted by majors. After all to be reasonable you need to support whole os as asking users "what type of processor do you have" is likely to give you pretty bad results.
Theoretically Intel could get sort of exclusive from majors for 4k (as in "you need this drm for 4k"), but I doubt it. Intel only has dominance in pc market and I expect skipping other platforms (eg smart tv) would not be very popular idea.
"The ABS will certainly try to force compliance—fines range from AUS$1800 (~£1,000 or ~$1,370) for providing false information to AUS$180 per day for failing to submit the form. But the agency will have no real way to verify the answers provided by those who do complete the form as accurate. Failure to vote in the Federal Election last month resulted in only a AUS$20 fine."
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Without this info the summary is simple sensationalist "panic, panic! if you have this you are in danger!". By adding simple "in earlier versions" or similar info it turns into the shaming message you are talking about.
Post by the researcher is quite nice and understandable.
Basically Avast opens a local port for the purpose of interprocess communication (or RPC to be specific). It listens to properly formatted post requests (that can be easily sent from another page you open) and performs some actions from predefined list. One of those actions allows to launch this weird "safe" browser with an arbitrary url. Since Avast removed some chromium safety feature it allowed launching dev tools with some arbitrary controlling javascript, allowing acces to local files, doing requests using stored cookies etc.
Other application are generally not affected, because they dont provide this local port, so they cant be remotely launched in an easy way (Avast command list is limited, so you cant launch random stuff).
it would be nice to point out in the summary, that the problem has already been fixed (in December, 10 days after being reported)
The study a few links deep from the article revealed that in 2014 over 40% of London black cabs did NOT accept card payment. All this stuff is about is making card terminal mandatory for drivers.
No, they are not getting the customer base. They are buying only IP so patents, software etc. They are not taking over the service (its going to get closed) and their own similiar stuff will not appear for about a year more, so likely there will even be no indirect transfers of the "we are closing, but you may like..." kind
Main reason not to do this is the fact that you would still need to build and provide 32 bit versions for users on 32 bit only systems (eg windows xp still has about 10% share and its all 32bit). Then you also get bonus support issues when users download the wrong version, it doesnt work for obvious reasons and they explain it in some completely incomprehensible way to your support (or just drop your app altogether).
Google just removed the results from some local domains (fr, co.uk etc), but left it working for com domain. Basically it means they failed at delisting since EU citizen can still easily avoid it. Instead they should comply by doing some kind of geoip delisting as then they would be really compliant within EU jurisdiction.
If you want to make it consumer friendly you need to have vendor server for one puprose: finding your device from the internet. Otherwise to get it to work you would need to input some magic numbers* (that may even change sometimes randomly!) or setup some strange services** you dont understand. With vendor server its just few simple clicks.
* IP address
** DNS
advertisment in pretty clear form.
"I went to this company conference and they told me they're cool and I have nothing to worry when storing my data on their great services"
You do realize that retail games dont count, right? So all the people with several AAA titles bought in their local store (or just somewhere else on the internet) lose their ability to for example participate in mod discussions (workshop). In some parts of the world steam prices for new games (without big sales) are extremely high compared to those in stores.
I would say some people may get annoyed due to following limitations:
>Submit content on the Steam Workshop
>Post in an item's Steam Workshop Discussions
Retail games dont give you full account, so if you buy some steam only game with a mod community (eg Civilization 5) you potentially lose quite a bit
My only real problems with it are that it pops up an advertising page every time you run it.
You can disable it in advanced settings ("Hide Featured Today..."). The other problem is annoying me too.
In settings, advanced tab you will find section named Origin Experience Reporting when you can uncheck "Share hardware specification" and "Share system interaction data" to get rid of most of this (or at least the part that is objectionable to most people).
from wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID-based_encryption)
Identity-based systems allow any party to generate a public key from a known identity value such as an ASCII string. A trusted third party, called the Private Key Generator (PKG), generates the corresponding private keys. To operate, the PKG first publishes a master public key, and retains the corresponding master private key (referred to as master key). Given the master public key, any party can compute a public key corresponding to the identity ID by combining the master public key with the identity value. To obtain a corresponding private key, the party authorized to use the identity ID contacts the PKG, which uses the master private key to generate the private key for identity ID.
How exactly does the attacker know the passwords expiration date?
How exactly WOULDN'T they? If the attacker is doing offline brute forcing of passwords, that means they've obtained at least a partial copy of the database for the site (since they have to have the hashes and salts), at which point it's probable that they would have also obtained the expiration dates linked to each password.
Expiration dates != expiration time of current password. If you assume some maximum password expiration time (lets say 3 months) then as long as user is registered for at lest that amount of time the password expiration date doesnt provide any useful information about it. Unless of course hacker gets multiple database snapshots from widely different days, but then the system is probably doomed anyway.
I think its quite good decision in short run, since it will kill all those weird connectors with no merit to them aside from being unique and driving charger sales for manufacturer. On the other hand in the long run its bad, since it actually hampers ("why bother if we have to put usb anyway") or even completely blocks some possible innovation (eg wirelessly charged waterproof phone with no external connections at all).
IMO the best course would be to keep this legislation for a several years (5-10) to get everyone to standardize and then repeal it. Given its EU though, I expect we are stuck with those connectors long after it will become completely obsolete...
phone companies generally know this. Im not quite sure about this weird rating one - it doesnt seem to be connected with actual phone service providers.