Great, more bandwidth for my fridge. And once they run out of repositioning fuel there'll be 75 more pieces of space junk in orbit. I wonder how many 'dark satellites' there are in orbit that are technically functional yet have been abandoned because they're no longer able to maintain the desired orbit. I bet enthusiasts could do some interesting things if given access to those.
they haven't updated the core hardware in forever.
The Vive Pro just came out recently, you don't consider that 'core hardware' since it's more expensive and doesn't replace the original? Also, a new prototype of the Knuckles controllers was revealed a couple weeks ago, the retail release shouldn't be far off.
The big question is why people will go to this Amazon store when they can go to Walmart instead, although I suspect the answer is "there's no Walmart near there." The cashierless stores are a bit different as the point is to have better automation and logistics than Walmart. Add in robotic stockers and it won't even be worth hiring the human loss-prevention person.
In other news, DeepMind is now able to use meteorological and climatological data to ascertain where and how to release energy in order to cause flooding in India./s
Even if crime's dropping, that doesn't mean there are fewer assholes. Furthermore, an easy way to get crime to seem to drop is to discourage reporting, e.g. "don't bother reporting if your smartphone was stolen". Distrust of police also leads to fewer police reports.
Be wary of weasel words like 'contributes to' because they can be misleading yet technically correct (not always the best kind). In particular, if a contributor is responsible for a negligible portion.
There is. According to the story, condoms were handed out in some 3rd world country, and their use was demonstrated by unrolling the condom over the finger of the demonstrator. It was later found that the people who saw these demonstrations were putting the condoms over their fingers and then fucking as per usual, not understanding that it has to actually go over the penis. I presume the demonstrations are a little more explicit now.
Second-gen immigrants have FAR fewer children than first-gen immigrants. Allowing poor people to emigrate to rich countries lowers that family's birth rate compared to keeping them out. Brazil's government gave out free vasectomies to any man that wanted one, and it was far more successful than expected. Other countries could do the same thing; how many 1st world nations even do that? The world population is expected to level out at ~10billion, FWIW. I do agree that if every good person flees a country, then who's going to stay behind to rebuild the country or vote in competent/moral leadership?
If your or your neighbor's child dies of whatever, then you'll have 2 more just to make sure one survives. Thus why the birth rate is astronomical in places wracked by war/famine/plague/death. The push to eliminate malaria is in large part driven by the fact that doing so will cause the sub-Saharan birth rate to plummet. After lowering infant mortality rates, the next-best ways to lower the birth rate are female empowerment (enough to allow them to choose how many children they bear), sex education, then access to contraception (which is useless if you use it wrong because your instructor was a prude and assumed you would understand).
In the US, it's not illegal to be a monopoly (or part of an oligopoly, the word you're apparently looking for), but it IS illegal to abuse that position in certain ways (e.g. leveraging control over unrelated markets). Oligopolies generally abuse their position via colluding with one another to keep supply from rising or prices from dropping (price fixing), which violates anti-trust laws. Patent cross-licensing agreements (e.g. between Intel and AMD) are a grey-area that could be a problem, if used by an oligopoly to lock out newcomers. Anti-competitive behavior is illegal in the USA, and given most of these tech companies are global by nature, they're beholden to every country's anti-trust legislation in practice.
Because if it were called 'adolescent' people might start to wonder why TV show writing is so poor. Or feel insulted when they realize how immature they are.
AMD is planning on releasing large chips made on TSMC's 7nm process later this year, and more chips in January. The first of these is expected to be a 7nm shrink of Vega, targeted at the enterprise IIRC.
Intel's transition to 10nm is delayed until late next year at best, whereas TSMC is selling (similar-size) 7nm chips en-masse today. Furthermore, Intel is facing a 14nm chip shortage due to their long-term planning on having moved to 10nm already, which is hitting the server chip business hard. Now is the time when Qualcomm should've doubled-down and pushed into the market.
It's Saturday morning in the USA now, and it still hasn't been announced if they made it. When they spend this many hours not announcing success, that usually means there was a problem. Their Twitter feed talks about the Hayabusa2 returning to its normal distance, but says nothing of the rovers.
If the 5G companies want to roll out quickly by piggy backing on city and country poles then they should pay for this, otherwise they can put up their own poles.
Maybe they can do a Kickstarter for this, and a survey beforehand to find out how much people want it. That would be Polls for 'Poles for Proles'.
the content pumped out by the Russians was not paid or promoted ads; it was so-called native content
This sounds interesting. 'Native content' as in supposedly-factual articles on CNN.com written by their journalists? Or 'native content' as in tweets from randos on Twitter? There's a big difference in terms of reach/credibility.
I'm skeptical this 'view hardening' would actually make someone vote who otherwise wouldn't. Anyone who cares enough that confirmation bias would work on them (to this degree), is easily riled up enough that they were already gotten to vote by any other firebrand politician (who are a dime a dozen). Also, this type of 'rallying' propaganda is UBIQUITOUS on Facebook, coming from every direction/source/interest imaginable. Imagine a temple with one proselyte representative from every religion on the planet, and you have a good idea of what a clusterfuck it is. Why single out the Russians as if they're omnipotent and the only voice in existence? Sure they shouldn't be given a free pass, but this isn't a sudden new problem that Russia invented or holds a monopoly on. IMO, tweets are pissing in the wind unless someone known/respected sends them out. I'd want some specific examples of non-Twitter non-Facebook stuff that Russia was actually known to do, before I start to worry about this. Otherwise I'm gonna say 'much ado about nothing'.
To give more info, this bill is a renamed/modified version of the CLASSICS Act, which was mentioned on Slashdot back in May. It extends copyright for certain works to 144 years. It was also introduced to Congress by a Republican, lest one think that only Democrats are beholden to the MAFIAA (although the unanimous support is a dead giveaway.) Actually I'm surprised no Libertarians in Congress oppose these bills.
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Luckily, as with all women, I turned off Siri when I first met her.
Seems even Siri is vulnerable to social engineering hacks. /s
Great, more bandwidth for my fridge. And once they run out of repositioning fuel there'll be 75 more pieces of space junk in orbit. I wonder how many 'dark satellites' there are in orbit that are technically functional yet have been abandoned because they're no longer able to maintain the desired orbit. I bet enthusiasts could do some interesting things if given access to those.
they haven't updated the core hardware in forever.
The Vive Pro just came out recently, you don't consider that 'core hardware' since it's more expensive and doesn't replace the original?
Also, a new prototype of the Knuckles controllers was revealed a couple weeks ago, the retail release shouldn't be far off.
They neglected the annual human sacrifice to the AS/400 gods.
The big question is why people will go to this Amazon store when they can go to Walmart instead, although I suspect the answer is "there's no Walmart near there."
The cashierless stores are a bit different as the point is to have better automation and logistics than Walmart. Add in robotic stockers and it won't even be worth hiring the human loss-prevention person.
Pho said in court he took the materials home so he could put in more work to earn a promotion
He went from an NSA employee to a convicted felon. That's a promotion in status in my eyes.
Pedant using mastery of English syntax to demonstrate superiority over editors, warn Slashdot users.
In other news, DeepMind is now able to use meteorological and climatological data to ascertain where and how to release energy in order to cause flooding in India. /s
Even if crime's dropping, that doesn't mean there are fewer assholes. Furthermore, an easy way to get crime to seem to drop is to discourage reporting, e.g. "don't bother reporting if your smartphone was stolen". Distrust of police also leads to fewer police reports.
Be wary of weasel words like 'contributes to' because they can be misleading yet technically correct (not always the best kind). In particular, if a contributor is responsible for a negligible portion.
There is. According to the story, condoms were handed out in some 3rd world country, and their use was demonstrated by unrolling the condom over the finger of the demonstrator. It was later found that the people who saw these demonstrations were putting the condoms over their fingers and then fucking as per usual, not understanding that it has to actually go over the penis. I presume the demonstrations are a little more explicit now.
Second-gen immigrants have FAR fewer children than first-gen immigrants. Allowing poor people to emigrate to rich countries lowers that family's birth rate compared to keeping them out.
Brazil's government gave out free vasectomies to any man that wanted one, and it was far more successful than expected. Other countries could do the same thing; how many 1st world nations even do that? The world population is expected to level out at ~10billion, FWIW.
I do agree that if every good person flees a country, then who's going to stay behind to rebuild the country or vote in competent/moral leadership?
If your or your neighbor's child dies of whatever, then you'll have 2 more just to make sure one survives. Thus why the birth rate is astronomical in places wracked by war/famine/plague/death. The push to eliminate malaria is in large part driven by the fact that doing so will cause the sub-Saharan birth rate to plummet. After lowering infant mortality rates, the next-best ways to lower the birth rate are female empowerment (enough to allow them to choose how many children they bear), sex education, then access to contraception (which is useless if you use it wrong because your instructor was a prude and assumed you would understand).
In the US, it's not illegal to be a monopoly (or part of an oligopoly, the word you're apparently looking for), but it IS illegal to abuse that position in certain ways (e.g. leveraging control over unrelated markets). Oligopolies generally abuse their position via colluding with one another to keep supply from rising or prices from dropping (price fixing), which violates anti-trust laws. Patent cross-licensing agreements (e.g. between Intel and AMD) are a grey-area that could be a problem, if used by an oligopoly to lock out newcomers. Anti-competitive behavior is illegal in the USA, and given most of these tech companies are global by nature, they're beholden to every country's anti-trust legislation in practice.
Because if it were called 'adolescent' people might start to wonder why TV show writing is so poor. Or feel insulted when they realize how immature they are.
AMD is planning on releasing large chips made on TSMC's 7nm process later this year, and more chips in January. The first of these is expected to be a 7nm shrink of Vega, targeted at the enterprise IIRC.
Intel's transition to 10nm is delayed until late next year at best, whereas TSMC is selling (similar-size) 7nm chips en-masse today. Furthermore, Intel is facing a 14nm chip shortage due to their long-term planning on having moved to 10nm already, which is hitting the server chip business hard. Now is the time when Qualcomm should've doubled-down and pushed into the market.
9 out of 10 songs produced today aren't worth the space on a HD to be archived for longer than it takes to listen to them once.
That explains all the 404 errors I get when I try to download FLAC albums on Mega. They self-deleted to spare me from listening.
It's Saturday morning in the USA now, and it still hasn't been announced if they made it. When they spend this many hours not announcing success, that usually means there was a problem. Their Twitter feed talks about the Hayabusa2 returning to its normal distance, but says nothing of the rovers.
If the 5G companies want to roll out quickly by piggy backing on city and country poles then they should pay for this, otherwise they can put up their own poles.
Maybe they can do a Kickstarter for this, and a survey beforehand to find out how much people want it. That would be Polls for 'Poles for Proles'.
the content pumped out by the Russians was not paid or promoted ads; it was so-called native content
This sounds interesting. 'Native content' as in supposedly-factual articles on CNN.com written by their journalists? Or 'native content' as in tweets from randos on Twitter? There's a big difference in terms of reach/credibility.
I'm skeptical this 'view hardening' would actually make someone vote who otherwise wouldn't. Anyone who cares enough that confirmation bias would work on them (to this degree), is easily riled up enough that they were already gotten to vote by any other firebrand politician (who are a dime a dozen). Also, this type of 'rallying' propaganda is UBIQUITOUS on Facebook, coming from every direction/source/interest imaginable. Imagine a temple with one proselyte representative from every religion on the planet, and you have a good idea of what a clusterfuck it is. Why single out the Russians as if they're omnipotent and the only voice in existence? Sure they shouldn't be given a free pass, but this isn't a sudden new problem that Russia invented or holds a monopoly on. IMO, tweets are pissing in the wind unless someone known/respected sends them out. I'd want some specific examples of non-Twitter non-Facebook stuff that Russia was actually known to do, before I start to worry about this. Otherwise I'm gonna say 'much ado about nothing'.
Beat me to the punch.
Now instead of a default router password, users will be prompted to change it, thus setting it to 'Password1'.
Progress!
To give more info, this bill is a renamed/modified version of the CLASSICS Act, which was mentioned on Slashdot back in May. It extends copyright for certain works to 144 years. It was also introduced to Congress by a Republican, lest one think that only Democrats are beholden to the MAFIAA (although the unanimous support is a dead giveaway.) Actually I'm surprised no Libertarians in Congress oppose these bills.