I think all or at least most of us have this idealized desire for simpler lives and simpler times, up to a point. For example I recently went camping and there's a certain charm to the crackle of a fire instead of turning up the central heating. Does it really mean I'd like to chop my own firewood and use a wood stove all winter long? Not really. Where we went now there was very weak cell phone coverage but actually I consider the lack of it to be positive, then people have gone camping and the rest of the world is out of touch, we can't reach them and they can't reach us. Which would be a bad thing if there's some kind of real emergency, but some of my friends freak if they're out of touch. Or worse yet, their kids don't have their cell phone despite we all grew up without one.
Playing the C64 is of course reliving some good memories from the past. But it's also sort of a reminder that it didn't take super high-end photo realistic graphics, sound, AI or whatever to have fun. But at the end of the day I'd rather watch a BluRay than a DVD or VHS. It's fun as long as you're doing just the fun parts, just like say medieval reenactments put on the show and splendor. Not the unclean water, food poisoning, rats and pests, infections and plagues, all the peasants and servants slaving all day long to support the relatively little glamour there was. We cherry pick, I mean I can play an Amish for a while but if I get really sick then I want to get to a 2017 hospital to see a 2017 doctor.
And that's why I think it's pretty harmless, we want to relive certain aspects but we don't really want to go back. My job would be practically impossible with 1980s tech, it just didn't exist. What was out there was paper records, there was no network infrastructure to collect it and even if there was we'd barely have the processing power without vast halls of computers at our disposal. I'm not a fool about what we have today. At the same time, I realize society now so specialized that my skills are an increasingly narrow slice where other people make sure everything else around me is operational. I understand the people who want to say buy a little farm and feel like this is my flour, my eggs, my meat... mine just magically appears in the grocery store.
Photons are photons, the only theoretical difference is that a CMYK display that depends on reflection instead of emission would work relative to the amount of light available so it a dark place they'd be dark and in a very bright place like in sunlight they'd be bright. In practice though, we don't have surfaces that reflect all the possible combinations of light that you can emit, that is to say Pointer's gamut. But even within that gamut it's not a solid, you can't just pick a point and say I want exactly this color. What's possible is determined by what inks you can combine to get close and we don't magically get more. There's many Pantone colors you can't do with CMYK and many other real world surfaces like metallic you can't easily emulate with anything else. And that's for a static image.
I think the biggest difference is that with emissive technology you're in control, you create a structure and then either emit or don't emit light. With a reflective structure you have to alter it physically or chemically so that when light hits it, something different happens. We're making improvements in leaps and bounds when it comes to high intensity (HDR/nits), color space (Rec. 2020), spaltial resolution (UHD), color resolution (10 bit), color accuracy (better factory calibration, lifetime adjustment), frame rates (48/60 fps vs 24 fps) etc. so YMMV but I find we're making more and more naturalistic screens. Right now the standards are a bit of a mess but I expect that eventually the dust will settle and we'll have it all the way from content to display.
If you attempt to extract common component, from a small number of signals, you *still* can identify the sources from the supposedly "common" signal you get
You're not trying to average away the distortions, you're trying to find the union so you can jam the signal. I don't have to be able to decrypt your cell phone to jam the frequency band.
Watermarks are a neat trick if each person only has a single copy and getting hold of more would be difficult, like Oscar screenings, digital cinemas, classified documents and such. Or if there is only one watermark for all copies, like Cinavia on Blu-Rays. If you can trivially get many streams with unique watermarks then it's extremely hard to hide the nature of the watermark and and prevent anyone from destroying it.
Cinemas are a protectionist business, if you don't give them a time limited exclusivity they refuse to show it at all. Since by far most movies can't survive without box office sales, they win. Don't expect that to change unless a collective Hollywood threatens to give them the finger.
They want non-muslims to hate moderate muslims and associate the attacks with islam in general, thereby boosting their numbers. It all helps, whether achieved through murder or oppressive changes to law. And yeah, lots of dumbasses are doing their work for them. Golf clap.
Well Islamic terror is the icing on the cake, but there's plenty other and more widespread reasons people do not like Muslims when it comes to gender equality, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, treatment of LBGTs, religious doctrine as law and so on. Quite a few "moderate" Muslims are highly regressive elements in a modern western democracy. And contrary to what we might think of ourselves, many find our culture decadent with women walking around like sluts or whores, deviants of all forms roaming free, full of blasphemy, apostates and heretics. Not particularly unique to Islam, but that we've spent the last few centuries beating back in Europe, inch by inch.
Since the US doesn't have jurisdiction outside the US, attacking any foreign computer will likely remain illegal under foreign law. If the US courts protect them they'll become modern day privateers, state-sanctioned thugs. Like a loose cannon version of the NSA, this will not end well.
All ISIS's band of maniacs seem able to do is blow up concert goers and little girls.
Could they have staged an attack on centers of power like 9/11? Those hit the Pentagon, WTC towers and the 4th plane was probably going for the White House or Congress. They have hit places like Charlie Hebdo. But going after "important" people would imply that the "unimportant" people were pretty much safe except for some collateral damage. They want everyone to feel unsafe just for going to a concert or restaurant or nightclub or football game or Christmas market or beach stroll or running the marathon or going to the airport or taking the subway or train or whatever.
They don't need to hit Paris and London, they can just as easily pick Nice or Manchester or any other gathering of people. They are on a campaign of universal terror and it's not an accident that they can strike pretty much anywhere, killing anyone. They're deliberately picking soft targets they know there's a million of and no real way to secure to make us seem powerless to stop it. It's pure malice and hatred, not incompetence. It's intended to fuel an anger towards Muslims, so they can find more angry rejects of society to recruit. Not sure it's working, but they're making a mess in the progress.
How on earth does one design a plain-text subtitle system capable of being instructed to execute code?
Well in terms of the Butter fix linked it would appear they put the subtitles as text into a JS-rendered page. No sanitation = text interpreted as JavaScript run as local code outside any sandbox. The fix is really just this:
So many developers have a "bang it until it works" mentality, they couldn't see a security hole the size of a barn door without working exploit code. And even then they'll make a hare-brained fix for that particular code, still leaving the barn door open.
I'm sure a lot of criminals who don't have the gall to assault a regular truck may be able to justify going after a self-driving truck, since there are no people onboard to leave behind as witnesses.
Well there's also nobody to intimidate. Nobody with any keys or codes to give you access to or control over the truck. My first thoughts apart from the constant cell phone/GPS tracking to alert police would be to just kill the engine, lock the brakes, give a little light and siren show and if you can't draw anyone's attention and they're really determined to break in by force before the police get there, just set off a few dye packs/stink bombs. Sure it'll ruin the cargo but zero payoff will make the highway robberies stop pretty quick.
Radical islam will load it full of anfo with a remote camera and detonator and use it as a guided missile to wage jihad. Ford will be sued and the cars will be outlawed.
Except they'll both chase you and backtrack where you came from, how many terrorists successfully escape even if they don't do it as a suicide mission? They mostly end up in some kind of shootout/hostage situation shortly after, like the Boston marathon bombers, San Bernardino, the Christmas market attack in Berlin etc. so I figure for the most part jihadists will simply drive themselves. Failing that you can much easier make an "RC car" with a dummy, dash cam and a bit of hydraulics to push the pedals. Didn't someone essentially make that for $1000?
I just thought of a name for it: "deflation". It will NEVER work!
You know, there's this whole sham called "antiques", "art" and "collector's items" that often get more valuable over time and seem to be doing quite well as a deflationary market. You might say, well if they're getting more valuable why would anyone sell them? There's lots of reasons people choose to cash in and do something else. The only thing that's needed is the faith that people would always want to buy a genuine Ming vase or Picasso or Superman #1, if you end up sitting on yesterday's fad it might be landfill material. It's not great as your everyday trading currency because you want people to spend it rather than hoard it and a market where the product's value depends on the whims of public opinion is always volatile, but the market does exist and is neither collapsing nor booming to infinity. Not that it's a great analogy to Bitcoin, but it's not like deflation = FAIL.
I don't think it will be an issue to read many files because many of them use open standards. It's the closed source proprietary stuff that could be lost to time. However, it seems unlikely because we make emulators for all our dead hardware platforms and keep them accessible with their software.
Yeah, I think if you have it as a file we'll find a way to decode it, it's transitory online services like web sites, streaming, online game servers etc. that will be "lost". And for preservation not editing I think we'll converge on relatively few and long lasting standards. Like lossy pictures => JPG, lossless pictures => PNG, audio => MP3 (or maybe AAC), video => MP4/H.264 (once the patents expire), documents/presentations => PDF/A. Despite the actual content being a clusterfsck many use standard base formats like XML or JSON. When you consider the absurdly vast amounts of information we generate compared to any past generation I think we'll be the most well preserve generation in history so far. If anyone cares to keep it, that is.
Movie pirates are strange, I can't think of when the last movie came out that I would even accept if given to me for free. They're basically stealing someones trash.
So you're calling most people's taste trash because it doesn't align with yours, classy. I like my sci-fi/fantasy drivel, I just don't pretend that the Force or warp drives is objectively better than romantic comedies, Bond movies or whatever. The worst kind... well, okay not really the worst kind of people I get are wine-sipping intellectuals that have decided that their obscure art movies is the pinnacle of culture and everyone else is simply not sophisticated enough to appreciate it. No, it's just your fucking weird niche taste and you're not better than any of the rest of us.
I guess this is why you always make your ransom videos on a really shitty old video camera that can't be traced back to anyone...
It would have to be a pretty terrible camera, these forensic watermarks are designed to be recognized on camcorder copies. They'd probably still find the cinema, but the fact that they had access to the digital copy proved it was an inside job by someone with access to the digital distribution system.
Well prices are expected to go up over time due to inflation. The real problem is that wages have been stagnant, and haven't kept pace with inflation.
From year to year I think inflation and CPI is an okay measure. Over long stretches of time, well... according to some measures the US middle class hasn't improved at all since the 1970s. But if you took a family from 1970 and transported them to 2017, would they want to go back? There's no internet. No PCs. No cell phones. No digital cameras. Maybe there's lots of things you'd spend money on in 1970 that doesn't really make any sense in 2017. There will be things in 2017 that no money can buy in 1970, what's the value of that? Average lifespan has gone up from 71 to 79 years, what's 8 more years of life worth? That you get more money and spend more money is hardly the only valid way to quantify life.
Like they could afford to pass up the entire EU market, it's 741 million people and fairly wealthy ones at that. They will comply. While they're fairly liberal when it comes to international restrictions like non-EU vs EU countries, inside the EU there's very strong forces to make it one united market. Most recently they bludgeoned the cell phone operators, you can now roam the whole EU like home for one price. This is the second half, you can enjoy every content like that home. So once this is firmly put in place, I can go anywhere in Europe and watch anything for the same price I could at home. Despite Brexit and all that the "United States of Europe" project is very much on. I'll admit it also has some very clear upsides despite the democratic deficit it has.
"If there was a worst case scenario where there was so much water, or the pumping systems failed, that it made its way uphill to the seed vault, then it would encounter minus 18 [degrees celsius] and freeze again. Then thereâ(TM)s another barrier [the ice] for entry into the seed vault," Fowler says. In other words, any water that floods into the tunnel has to make it 100 meters downhill, then back uphill, then overwhelm the pumping systems, and then manage not to freeze at well-below-freezing temperatures. Otherwise, there's no way liquid is getting into the seed bank-so the seeds are probably safe."
As for volcanic activity, the area is geographically dead. We know the areas with volcanic activity and tectonic plates meet and that won't significantly change in the next 1000 years.
Because IBM had a better reputation for business/uptime/everything than Microsoft at the time OS/2 found wide usage in commercial & embedded devices (most notably ATMs). However, in the PC world, it didn't catch on.
Basically all the places that could afford the hardware OS/2 needed to run well. On low end hardware particularly without enough memory it was very slow, IIRC it needed 8MB to run okay vs 4MB for Windows 3.11 also many games were DOS based so you only started Windows 3.x when you needed to, a poor man's "dual boot" if you will. It was technically superior but lost anyway, a bit like VHS vs Betamax or how SCSI never took over for (E)IDE.
It is just an attempt to get him into custody so he can be extradited to the US. Why not extradite him from the UK? The UK have a special agreement and never refuse to extradite. The only difference being that if extradited from Sweden the US does not have to agree not to execute him.
This is a load of bullshit. Neither Sweden nor Norway will extradite anyone facing capital punishment, this was also directly confirmed by the Swedish minister of justice William Hague. That is to say we'll certainly extradite to countries that have the law on the books, but in that particular case we'll insist you can at most get life without parole. If they executed him it'd lead to a huge diplomatic incident and the end of any future EU-US extraditions, that would never happen. The only semi-valid accusation he could make is that this was a honey trap set to discredit Assange and Wikileaks by creating trumped up rape charges.
As for the actual charges, to have any power to demand invasive tests you must be charged not merely a suspect, at least here in Norway and I assume also in Sweden. That is to say, a breathalyzer is considered a non-invasive test, but before anyone will poke a needle in you because you're suspected of a DUI you will be charged first, then tested and if you're sober the charges will be dropped. I believe STD checking is the same, they interpreted what the women said in terms of some sexual misconduct so they'd have a basis for demanding he take the test. If he had come and taken the test I think the whole case would probably fall apart either before court or in court and never reach a conviction.
When you try to evade the justice system though that becomes the issue by itself. And when you run the assumption becomes that you run because you're guilty, not because you fear a miscarriage of justice. The justice system doesn't care if the accused trust the system. They care that the people can trust in the rule of law and that if they've been victims of a crime that the police will investigate, the courts will give a fair trial and hopefully the guilty punished and the presumed innocent let go. The merits of this case will never be tested in court, because the accused has successfully evaded it. I real don't understand people cheering over this.
Same reasons as always. Lazy and incompetent IT staff at corporations, low knowledge techies that disable Windows Update, long beards who only install certain updates manually after reading the associated KB article and self-determining whether or not they need an update. This is one of the reasons that Microsoft set Windows Update to be automatic in Windows 10. It makes the OS much safer and generally makes the internet safer as a whole.
And if they put in a safe, encased the safe in concrete and dumped it at the bottom of the ocean it'd be even safer. Not very user-friendly though, neither is the force-feeding of random feature updates at inconvenient times. They could have had a category for "Security bulletins and critical updates" that contained only tiny, to-the-point patches for exploits and other big malfunctions, no feature upgrades, no license checks, no trivial extras just the absolute minimum no sane user should disable and 99% of this problem would go away. I'm happy running an OS from 2009. Before that I was running an OS from 2001. I don't need feature updates twice a year and particularly not GUI makeovers.
I realize though that having a zillion combination of patches might be a pain to support, so here's what I'd like to have seen: 1. Microsoft releases version A. You can either stay on stable branch A or get rolling updates A*. 2. After 4 years Microsoft takes the current setup, calls it B. You now have three supported configurations A, B, B*. 3. After 8 years Microsoft takes the current setup, calls it C. You now have four supported configurations A, B, C and C*. 4. After 10 years support for A ends, before that you should migrate to B, C or C*. From there they'd just bounce between 3-4 supported configurations of N-2, N-1, N and N*.
Most importantly still regardless of when it's updated everything should come with an off switch. I don't mind if Microsoft asks for telemetry. I have a problem with Microsoft demanding telemetry. It's like my car dealer refusing to service the car unless I've kept a log of how I've used it. I could almost live with that if you had to find some obscure setting only 0.01% would turn off. But it's when you deny me that choice this smells really foul. Not that I expect Microsoft to do anything really ugly until most people are on Win10 and can't disable the updates.
This may fly at home, but it won't work in a professional environment.
Well first off rumors of this have been going around for the last 15 years and ever really materialized. But if it did it'll be an either-or, you can either run a stock Trusted Computing DRM-signed OS and watch Netflix or you can get root and install your custom bootloader/drivers/patches/virtualization/other OS but not at the same time. They barely allow 4K/UHD content in software, both streaming and blurays need so much hardware support and DRM standards that it's essentially a built-in set top box. They're almost there simply by not allowing it on open platforms at all.
Unfortunately, the Dodge Challenger Demon, is in VERY limited run for 2018, and I hear that may be the only year for it.
From what I've read about it, it's basically a dragster made barely street legal. If the road has curves you'd probably prefer a "normal" sports car, as such the appeal is extremely limited.
Expect the policy to continue until they start to hurt from the lack of experienced people to execute the little actual work that gets done in the corporation.
I suspect that if they don't see the value of teleworkers they'll hurt a lot faster from the "invisible" work that just went missing. I mean you have your written duties, the big stuff that they mostly know about.. but then you have all those little things where something this is wrong/missing/not updated and eventually it turns out Bob used to do that but Bob's not around anymore.
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I think all or at least most of us have this idealized desire for simpler lives and simpler times, up to a point. For example I recently went camping and there's a certain charm to the crackle of a fire instead of turning up the central heating. Does it really mean I'd like to chop my own firewood and use a wood stove all winter long? Not really. Where we went now there was very weak cell phone coverage but actually I consider the lack of it to be positive, then people have gone camping and the rest of the world is out of touch, we can't reach them and they can't reach us. Which would be a bad thing if there's some kind of real emergency, but some of my friends freak if they're out of touch. Or worse yet, their kids don't have their cell phone despite we all grew up without one.
Playing the C64 is of course reliving some good memories from the past. But it's also sort of a reminder that it didn't take super high-end photo realistic graphics, sound, AI or whatever to have fun. But at the end of the day I'd rather watch a BluRay than a DVD or VHS. It's fun as long as you're doing just the fun parts, just like say medieval reenactments put on the show and splendor. Not the unclean water, food poisoning, rats and pests, infections and plagues, all the peasants and servants slaving all day long to support the relatively little glamour there was. We cherry pick, I mean I can play an Amish for a while but if I get really sick then I want to get to a 2017 hospital to see a 2017 doctor.
And that's why I think it's pretty harmless, we want to relive certain aspects but we don't really want to go back. My job would be practically impossible with 1980s tech, it just didn't exist. What was out there was paper records, there was no network infrastructure to collect it and even if there was we'd barely have the processing power without vast halls of computers at our disposal. I'm not a fool about what we have today. At the same time, I realize society now so specialized that my skills are an increasingly narrow slice where other people make sure everything else around me is operational. I understand the people who want to say buy a little farm and feel like this is my flour, my eggs, my meat... mine just magically appears in the grocery store.
Photons are photons, the only theoretical difference is that a CMYK display that depends on reflection instead of emission would work relative to the amount of light available so it a dark place they'd be dark and in a very bright place like in sunlight they'd be bright. In practice though, we don't have surfaces that reflect all the possible combinations of light that you can emit, that is to say Pointer's gamut. But even within that gamut it's not a solid, you can't just pick a point and say I want exactly this color. What's possible is determined by what inks you can combine to get close and we don't magically get more. There's many Pantone colors you can't do with CMYK and many other real world surfaces like metallic you can't easily emulate with anything else. And that's for a static image.
I think the biggest difference is that with emissive technology you're in control, you create a structure and then either emit or don't emit light. With a reflective structure you have to alter it physically or chemically so that when light hits it, something different happens. We're making improvements in leaps and bounds when it comes to high intensity (HDR/nits), color space (Rec. 2020), spaltial resolution (UHD), color resolution (10 bit), color accuracy (better factory calibration, lifetime adjustment), frame rates (48/60 fps vs 24 fps) etc. so YMMV but I find we're making more and more naturalistic screens. Right now the standards are a bit of a mess but I expect that eventually the dust will settle and we'll have it all the way from content to display.
If you attempt to extract common component, from a small number of signals, you *still* can identify the sources from the supposedly "common" signal you get
You're not trying to average away the distortions, you're trying to find the union so you can jam the signal. I don't have to be able to decrypt your cell phone to jam the frequency band.
Watermarks are a neat trick if each person only has a single copy and getting hold of more would be difficult, like Oscar screenings, digital cinemas, classified documents and such. Or if there is only one watermark for all copies, like Cinavia on Blu-Rays. If you can trivially get many streams with unique watermarks then it's extremely hard to hide the nature of the watermark and and prevent anyone from destroying it.
Cinemas are a protectionist business, if you don't give them a time limited exclusivity they refuse to show it at all. Since by far most movies can't survive without box office sales, they win. Don't expect that to change unless a collective Hollywood threatens to give them the finger.
They want non-muslims to hate moderate muslims and associate the attacks with islam in general, thereby boosting their numbers. It all helps, whether achieved through murder or oppressive changes to law. And yeah, lots of dumbasses are doing their work for them. Golf clap.
Well Islamic terror is the icing on the cake, but there's plenty other and more widespread reasons people do not like Muslims when it comes to gender equality, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, treatment of LBGTs, religious doctrine as law and so on. Quite a few "moderate" Muslims are highly regressive elements in a modern western democracy. And contrary to what we might think of ourselves, many find our culture decadent with women walking around like sluts or whores, deviants of all forms roaming free, full of blasphemy, apostates and heretics. Not particularly unique to Islam, but that we've spent the last few centuries beating back in Europe, inch by inch.
Since the US doesn't have jurisdiction outside the US, attacking any foreign computer will likely remain illegal under foreign law. If the US courts protect them they'll become modern day privateers, state-sanctioned thugs. Like a loose cannon version of the NSA, this will not end well.
All ISIS's band of maniacs seem able to do is blow up concert goers and little girls.
Could they have staged an attack on centers of power like 9/11? Those hit the Pentagon, WTC towers and the 4th plane was probably going for the White House or Congress. They have hit places like Charlie Hebdo. But going after "important" people would imply that the "unimportant" people were pretty much safe except for some collateral damage. They want everyone to feel unsafe just for going to a concert or restaurant or nightclub or football game or Christmas market or beach stroll or running the marathon or going to the airport or taking the subway or train or whatever.
They don't need to hit Paris and London, they can just as easily pick Nice or Manchester or any other gathering of people. They are on a campaign of universal terror and it's not an accident that they can strike pretty much anywhere, killing anyone. They're deliberately picking soft targets they know there's a million of and no real way to secure to make us seem powerless to stop it. It's pure malice and hatred, not incompetence. It's intended to fuel an anger towards Muslims, so they can find more angry rejects of society to recruit. Not sure it's working, but they're making a mess in the progress.
How on earth does one design a plain-text subtitle system capable of being instructed to execute code?
Well in terms of the Butter fix linked it would appear they put the subtitles as text into a JS-rendered page. No sanitation = text interpreted as JavaScript run as local code outside any sandbox. The fix is really just this:
strings = Common.sanitize(strings); // xss-style attacks // restore srt format
strings = strings.replace(/--\>\;/g, '-->');
So many developers have a "bang it until it works" mentality, they couldn't see a security hole the size of a barn door without working exploit code. And even then they'll make a hare-brained fix for that particular code, still leaving the barn door open.
I'm sure a lot of criminals who don't have the gall to assault a regular truck may be able to justify going after a self-driving truck, since there are no people onboard to leave behind as witnesses.
Well there's also nobody to intimidate. Nobody with any keys or codes to give you access to or control over the truck. My first thoughts apart from the constant cell phone/GPS tracking to alert police would be to just kill the engine, lock the brakes, give a little light and siren show and if you can't draw anyone's attention and they're really determined to break in by force before the police get there, just set off a few dye packs/stink bombs. Sure it'll ruin the cargo but zero payoff will make the highway robberies stop pretty quick.
Radical islam will load it full of anfo with a remote camera and detonator and use it as a guided missile to wage jihad. Ford will be sued and the cars will be outlawed.
Except they'll both chase you and backtrack where you came from, how many terrorists successfully escape even if they don't do it as a suicide mission? They mostly end up in some kind of shootout/hostage situation shortly after, like the Boston marathon bombers, San Bernardino, the Christmas market attack in Berlin etc. so I figure for the most part jihadists will simply drive themselves. Failing that you can much easier make an "RC car" with a dummy, dash cam and a bit of hydraulics to push the pedals. Didn't someone essentially make that for $1000?
I just thought of a name for it: "deflation". It will NEVER work!
You know, there's this whole sham called "antiques", "art" and "collector's items" that often get more valuable over time and seem to be doing quite well as a deflationary market. You might say, well if they're getting more valuable why would anyone sell them? There's lots of reasons people choose to cash in and do something else. The only thing that's needed is the faith that people would always want to buy a genuine Ming vase or Picasso or Superman #1, if you end up sitting on yesterday's fad it might be landfill material. It's not great as your everyday trading currency because you want people to spend it rather than hoard it and a market where the product's value depends on the whims of public opinion is always volatile, but the market does exist and is neither collapsing nor booming to infinity. Not that it's a great analogy to Bitcoin, but it's not like deflation = FAIL.
That's the nature of every system, including Wall Street, education, investments, government, and sex. The ones who get in early reap the benefits.
Note to self: Don't hire "Notabadguy" as babysitter.
I don't think it will be an issue to read many files because many of them use open standards. It's the closed source proprietary stuff that could be lost to time. However, it seems unlikely because we make emulators for all our dead hardware platforms and keep them accessible with their software.
Yeah, I think if you have it as a file we'll find a way to decode it, it's transitory online services like web sites, streaming, online game servers etc. that will be "lost". And for preservation not editing I think we'll converge on relatively few and long lasting standards. Like lossy pictures => JPG, lossless pictures => PNG, audio => MP3 (or maybe AAC), video => MP4/H.264 (once the patents expire), documents/presentations => PDF/A. Despite the actual content being a clusterfsck many use standard base formats like XML or JSON. When you consider the absurdly vast amounts of information we generate compared to any past generation I think we'll be the most well preserve generation in history so far. If anyone cares to keep it, that is.
Movie pirates are strange, I can't think of when the last movie came out that I would even accept if given to me for free. They're basically stealing someones trash.
So you're calling most people's taste trash because it doesn't align with yours, classy. I like my sci-fi/fantasy drivel, I just don't pretend that the Force or warp drives is objectively better than romantic comedies, Bond movies or whatever. The worst kind... well, okay not really the worst kind of people I get are wine-sipping intellectuals that have decided that their obscure art movies is the pinnacle of culture and everyone else is simply not sophisticated enough to appreciate it. No, it's just your fucking weird niche taste and you're not better than any of the rest of us.
I guess this is why you always make your ransom videos on a really shitty old video camera that can't be traced back to anyone...
It would have to be a pretty terrible camera, these forensic watermarks are designed to be recognized on camcorder copies. They'd probably still find the cinema, but the fact that they had access to the digital copy proved it was an inside job by someone with access to the digital distribution system.
Well prices are expected to go up over time due to inflation. The real problem is that wages have been stagnant, and haven't kept pace with inflation.
From year to year I think inflation and CPI is an okay measure. Over long stretches of time, well... according to some measures the US middle class hasn't improved at all since the 1970s. But if you took a family from 1970 and transported them to 2017, would they want to go back? There's no internet. No PCs. No cell phones. No digital cameras. Maybe there's lots of things you'd spend money on in 1970 that doesn't really make any sense in 2017. There will be things in 2017 that no money can buy in 1970, what's the value of that? Average lifespan has gone up from 71 to 79 years, what's 8 more years of life worth? That you get more money and spend more money is hardly the only valid way to quantify life.
Like they could afford to pass up the entire EU market, it's 741 million people and fairly wealthy ones at that. They will comply. While they're fairly liberal when it comes to international restrictions like non-EU vs EU countries, inside the EU there's very strong forces to make it one united market. Most recently they bludgeoned the cell phone operators, you can now roam the whole EU like home for one price. This is the second half, you can enjoy every content like that home. So once this is firmly put in place, I can go anywhere in Europe and watch anything for the same price I could at home. Despite Brexit and all that the "United States of Europe" project is very much on. I'll admit it also has some very clear upsides despite the democratic deficit it has.
"If there was a worst case scenario where there was so much water, or the pumping systems failed, that it made its way uphill to the seed vault, then it would encounter minus 18 [degrees celsius] and freeze again. Then thereâ(TM)s another barrier [the ice] for entry into the seed vault," Fowler says. In other words, any water that floods into the tunnel has to make it 100 meters downhill, then back uphill, then overwhelm the pumping systems, and then manage not to freeze at well-below-freezing temperatures. Otherwise, there's no way liquid is getting into the seed bank-so the seeds are probably safe."
As for volcanic activity, the area is geographically dead. We know the areas with volcanic activity and tectonic plates meet and that won't significantly change in the next 1000 years.
Because IBM had a better reputation for business/uptime/everything than Microsoft at the time OS/2 found wide usage in commercial & embedded devices (most notably ATMs). However, in the PC world, it didn't catch on.
Basically all the places that could afford the hardware OS/2 needed to run well. On low end hardware particularly without enough memory it was very slow, IIRC it needed 8MB to run okay vs 4MB for Windows 3.11 also many games were DOS based so you only started Windows 3.x when you needed to, a poor man's "dual boot" if you will. It was technically superior but lost anyway, a bit like VHS vs Betamax or how SCSI never took over for (E)IDE.
It is just an attempt to get him into custody so he can be extradited to the US. Why not extradite him from the UK? The UK have a special agreement and never refuse to extradite. The only difference being that if extradited from Sweden the US does not have to agree not to execute him.
This is a load of bullshit. Neither Sweden nor Norway will extradite anyone facing capital punishment, this was also directly confirmed by the Swedish minister of justice William Hague. That is to say we'll certainly extradite to countries that have the law on the books, but in that particular case we'll insist you can at most get life without parole. If they executed him it'd lead to a huge diplomatic incident and the end of any future EU-US extraditions, that would never happen. The only semi-valid accusation he could make is that this was a honey trap set to discredit Assange and Wikileaks by creating trumped up rape charges.
As for the actual charges, to have any power to demand invasive tests you must be charged not merely a suspect, at least here in Norway and I assume also in Sweden. That is to say, a breathalyzer is considered a non-invasive test, but before anyone will poke a needle in you because you're suspected of a DUI you will be charged first, then tested and if you're sober the charges will be dropped. I believe STD checking is the same, they interpreted what the women said in terms of some sexual misconduct so they'd have a basis for demanding he take the test. If he had come and taken the test I think the whole case would probably fall apart either before court or in court and never reach a conviction.
When you try to evade the justice system though that becomes the issue by itself. And when you run the assumption becomes that you run because you're guilty, not because you fear a miscarriage of justice. The justice system doesn't care if the accused trust the system. They care that the people can trust in the rule of law and that if they've been victims of a crime that the police will investigate, the courts will give a fair trial and hopefully the guilty punished and the presumed innocent let go. The merits of this case will never be tested in court, because the accused has successfully evaded it. I real don't understand people cheering over this.
Same reasons as always. Lazy and incompetent IT staff at corporations, low knowledge techies that disable Windows Update, long beards who only install certain updates manually after reading the associated KB article and self-determining whether or not they need an update. This is one of the reasons that Microsoft set Windows Update to be automatic in Windows 10. It makes the OS much safer and generally makes the internet safer as a whole.
And if they put in a safe, encased the safe in concrete and dumped it at the bottom of the ocean it'd be even safer. Not very user-friendly though, neither is the force-feeding of random feature updates at inconvenient times. They could have had a category for "Security bulletins and critical updates" that contained only tiny, to-the-point patches for exploits and other big malfunctions, no feature upgrades, no license checks, no trivial extras just the absolute minimum no sane user should disable and 99% of this problem would go away. I'm happy running an OS from 2009. Before that I was running an OS from 2001. I don't need feature updates twice a year and particularly not GUI makeovers.
I realize though that having a zillion combination of patches might be a pain to support, so here's what I'd like to have seen:
1. Microsoft releases version A. You can either stay on stable branch A or get rolling updates A*.
2. After 4 years Microsoft takes the current setup, calls it B. You now have three supported configurations A, B, B*.
3. After 8 years Microsoft takes the current setup, calls it C. You now have four supported configurations A, B, C and C*.
4. After 10 years support for A ends, before that you should migrate to B, C or C*.
From there they'd just bounce between 3-4 supported configurations of N-2, N-1, N and N*.
Most importantly still regardless of when it's updated everything should come with an off switch. I don't mind if Microsoft asks for telemetry. I have a problem with Microsoft demanding telemetry. It's like my car dealer refusing to service the car unless I've kept a log of how I've used it. I could almost live with that if you had to find some obscure setting only 0.01% would turn off. But it's when you deny me that choice this smells really foul. Not that I expect Microsoft to do anything really ugly until most people are on Win10 and can't disable the updates.
This may fly at home, but it won't work in a professional environment.
Well first off rumors of this have been going around for the last 15 years and ever really materialized. But if it did it'll be an either-or, you can either run a stock Trusted Computing DRM-signed OS and watch Netflix or you can get root and install your custom bootloader/drivers/patches/virtualization/other OS but not at the same time. They barely allow 4K/UHD content in software, both streaming and blurays need so much hardware support and DRM standards that it's essentially a built-in set top box. They're almost there simply by not allowing it on open platforms at all.
Unfortunately, the Dodge Challenger Demon, is in VERY limited run for 2018, and I hear that may be the only year for it.
From what I've read about it, it's basically a dragster made barely street legal. If the road has curves you'd probably prefer a "normal" sports car, as such the appeal is extremely limited.
Expect the policy to continue until they start to hurt from the lack of experienced people to execute the little actual work that gets done in the corporation.
I suspect that if they don't see the value of teleworkers they'll hurt a lot faster from the "invisible" work that just went missing. I mean you have your written duties, the big stuff that they mostly know about.. but then you have all those little things where something this is wrong/missing/not updated and eventually it turns out Bob used to do that but Bob's not around anymore.