A) Probably that won't happen. B) The FBI would be in a position to examine the ARP tables (they're there in the router for a while) as long as they got there in time. C) I leave the store wifi open so customers are happy. The personal wifi is password protected. This isn't complicated.
Why do you equate "open" wifi to "unsecured" wifi?
Our shop (a yarn store) has open wifi for the customers to use to connect to the internet. There's no stupid interstitial or UAM because when we wrote the 802.11 spec, we called it "open auth" because it's open.
I don't understand this summary at all. Is this a good thing or a bad thing for Microsoft?
If I parsed it right. A) Console owners got themselves a class action lawsuit. B) In 2012 a federal judge dismissed the class action lawsuit B2) They would then have to wait until the rest of the process (whatever that is, it doesn't say, maybe individual (non class) lawsuits) complete. C) But then the 9th circuit said "We'll let you dismiss that suit you brought, so it's ended, so you can appeal the dismissal of the class certification". D) The supremes, but not including Diana Ross said "You can't do that. That's cheating". You have to wait while paying large sums to lawyers.
Lesson: If your product breaks due to a design defect, wear the plaintiffs down with process.
Now after 10 years, the Scratch programming language can come to the iPhone! Too bad my kids are all grown up now... Thanks for waiting so long for some common sense!
Kids at some point in the last decade could have considered using a different sort computers to learn to program. I understand there are things called PCs which seem to work for that purpose.
>What do you do when you can't turn off its wifi, and it connects automatically to your neighbor's xfinity free wifi? how you will you even know when this is happening?
Nominally I can turn off its wifi. That might be an unsound assumption, but I do have free wifi in my house (we have a store downstairs), so I blocked it at the AP as well.
Of course there's some corner case scenario where someone determined to hack my TV might be able to exfiltrate data, but I don't see how that can be monetized so I'm not bothered to go to greater lengths. If security against those things was an imperative, then the TV wouldn't be there and my living room would not be a living room.
We just brought a used 2015 Mazda 5 (the most recent model in the states, they stopped selling them after that). It seems to be free of wireless connectivity and touchscreens, but that didn't stop the salesman pushing their crappy and very expensive warranty, because "There are lots of computers in there and they might break".
Watching a salesman trying to instill a fear of computers in me was fascinating, given I've spent 30 years designing them, some of them designed to go in cars.
> It seems that some blame immigrants for (ab)using the health system beyond its supposed usage level and thus the service quality has deteriorated.
But of course that's not true. Immigrants are economically productive, more than the existing citizens due to demographics. So they bear more of the cost of health care than the average and only increase the tax revenue.
This is Britain. Health insurance is a burden Americans have to deal with. In the UK and most of the rest of the world there is a health service. Offering better health insurance to a Brit is like offering better chastity belts to monks.
>But I'm wondering why any Brits would NOT want the Brexit?
Hmm. Let's see. A) The personal right to live and work in any of the EU countries. B) The UK government being held to a decent set of human right laws. C) The Schengen agreement. Crossing borders unimpeded with passport controls. D) Being part of something bigger and better than petty isolation.
But really it's the first one. If you were thinking of retiring in Italy, eating pasta and drinking grappa, you're now fucked by the little Englanders. Thanks a lot.
>How many people will protest this by cutting out trips by plane?
I won't protest by cutting out trips. I will just cut out trips because the business value plummets once I can't be productive on the plane and my laptop is stolen from checked baggage so I can't be productive at my destination.
It will destroy the airlines if half the business travelers desert them.
They're assuming a manual trigger. If it'd I'm the cargo hold you can't set it off. Which is completely idiotic of course. Real bad guys use more advanced stuff even in the desert.
Indeed. The technology necessary to count for a specified period of time and then apply a voltage to a wire may seem like science fiction today, but in a few years and a few more generations of silicon scaling, we might get there.
All of these batteries are sufficient to drive a boost circuit that charged a low ESR cap at a voltage sufficient to trigger a detonator. It only needs a fraction of a second.
Yet this doesn't seem to happen much. As a danger to my person, bombs on planes are off the bottom of the chart, even given that I travel quite a lot.
My guess is that campaign contributions from travel related companies will fix this issue. If I can't take my laptop I'm not traveling, and as it stands I'm certainly not checking it. I'll make do with video calls.
>You can't fake the expected results if you use a RNG Yes you can.
>Also, RNGs don't generate Normal results. They most certainly can. Look up the Box Muller method or the Ziggurat algorithm.
>They generate random results. If the designer knew what he or she was doing. Usually they don't.
>Most real-world "random" events are not "random", but are "normal". That depends on how you measure it. Poisson distributions are an example of something you can force by choosing your measurement method.
>So a computer-generated RNG would fail to make reasonable results. A computer properly programmed is quite capable of generating any of the usual distributions you desire and the result will be statistically indistinguishable from other data conforming to the same distribution.
>You need to overlay a normal distribution on your RNG. See above. Box Muller and Ziggurat.
> It's easier to just guess results, using your brain as both the RNG and normal distribution. No it isn't. Humans are awful RNGs.
>Just a mere six months after announcing Quick Charge 4,...
This is SOP. Put features into specs late in the day to make it impossible for other vendors, who may have been working in a standards body for an industry wide solution, to have compatible silicon available in a timely fashion.
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A) Probably that won't happen.
B) The FBI would be in a position to examine the ARP tables (they're there in the router for a while) as long as they got there in time.
C) I leave the store wifi open so customers are happy. The personal wifi is password protected. This isn't complicated.
Xfinity free wifi is only free after you enter your customer login,
so you know for certain that there is no back channel here? really? how did you come to this determination?
Well the bad guys can pay for a login. So I don't think that's an insurmountable barrier.
>Unsecured wifi networks are rare
Why do you equate "open" wifi to "unsecured" wifi?
Our shop (a yarn store) has open wifi for the customers to use to connect to the internet. There's no stupid interstitial or UAM because when we wrote the 802.11 spec, we called it "open auth" because it's open.
Nothing bad has happened. The sky didn't fall it.
Of course there's some corner case scenario where someone determined to hack my TV might be able to exfiltrate data
so there is a tornado/flash flood/armed gunman/gas leak/etc in the area, you're watching TV to see if you are in danger, it's hacked, and you die
Apparently I should be concerned mostly about poisoning. https://www.google.com/imgres?...
But this one says heart disease first, then cancer : https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fasta...
At least my TV isn't doing the cooking.
I don't understand this summary at all.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing for Microsoft?
If I parsed it right.
A) Console owners got themselves a class action lawsuit.
B) In 2012 a federal judge dismissed the class action lawsuit
B2) They would then have to wait until the rest of the process (whatever that is, it doesn't say, maybe individual (non class) lawsuits) complete.
C) But then the 9th circuit said "We'll let you dismiss that suit you brought, so it's ended, so you can appeal the dismissal of the class certification".
D) The supremes, but not including Diana Ross said "You can't do that. That's cheating". You have to wait while paying large sums to lawyers.
Lesson: If your product breaks due to a design defect, wear the plaintiffs down with process.
Now after 10 years, the Scratch programming language can come to the iPhone! Too bad my kids are all grown up now... Thanks for waiting so long for some common sense!
Kids at some point in the last decade could have considered using a different sort computers to learn to program. I understand there are things called PCs which seem to work for that purpose.
>What do you do when you can't turn off its wifi, and it connects automatically to your neighbor's xfinity free wifi? how you will you even know when this is happening?
Nominally I can turn off its wifi. That might be an unsound assumption, but I do have free wifi in my house (we have a store downstairs), so I blocked it at the AP as well.
Of course there's some corner case scenario where someone determined to hack my TV might be able to exfiltrate data, but I don't see how that can be monetized so I'm not bothered to go to greater lengths. If security against those things was an imperative, then the TV wouldn't be there and my living room would not be a living room.
>You want to buy a "dumb" TV? Try EBay.
Or don't plug in the ethernet and block its MAC address on wireless.
That's what I did. It took 30 seconds to block the MAC address and -10 seconds to not plug in the ethernet.
We just brought a used 2015 Mazda 5 (the most recent model in the states, they stopped selling them after that). It seems to be free of wireless connectivity and touchscreens, but that didn't stop the salesman pushing their crappy and very expensive warranty, because "There are lots of computers in there and they might break".
Watching a salesman trying to instill a fear of computers in me was fascinating, given I've spent 30 years designing them, some of them designed to go in cars.
I tried making a witty Japanese response, but slashdot kills my unicode. What could possibly be the matter? Surely Slashdot supports unicode?
Slashdot to unicode wa ketsugo shimasen
> It seems that some blame immigrants for (ab)using the health system beyond its supposed usage level and thus the service quality has deteriorated.
But of course that's not true. Immigrants are economically productive, more than the existing citizens due to demographics. So they bear more of the cost of health care than the average and only increase the tax revenue.
Surely you mean LISP, not Lisp.
Yeth,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
>that their health insurance gets better,
This is Britain. Health insurance is a burden Americans have to deal with. In the UK and most of the rest of the world there is a health service.
Offering better health insurance to a Brit is like offering better chastity belts to monks.
>But I'm wondering why any Brits would NOT want the Brexit?
Hmm. Let's see.
A) The personal right to live and work in any of the EU countries.
B) The UK government being held to a decent set of human right laws.
C) The Schengen agreement. Crossing borders unimpeded with passport controls.
D) Being part of something bigger and better than petty isolation.
But really it's the first one. If you were thinking of retiring in Italy, eating pasta and drinking grappa, you're now fucked by the little Englanders. Thanks a lot.
>How many people will protest this by cutting out trips by plane?
I won't protest by cutting out trips. I will just cut out trips because the business value plummets once I can't be productive on the plane and my laptop is stolen from checked baggage so I can't be productive at my destination.
It will destroy the airlines if half the business travelers desert them.
They're assuming a manual trigger. If it'd I'm the cargo hold you can't set it off. Which is completely idiotic of course. Real bad guys use more advanced stuff even in the desert.
Indeed. The technology necessary to count for a specified period of time and then apply a voltage to a wire may seem like science fiction today, but in a few years and a few more generations of silicon scaling, we might get there.
All of these batteries are sufficient to drive a boost circuit that charged a low ESR cap at a voltage sufficient to trigger a detonator. It only needs a fraction of a second.
Yet this doesn't seem to happen much. As a danger to my person, bombs on planes are off the bottom of the chart, even given that I travel quite a lot.
My guess is that campaign contributions from travel related companies will fix this issue. If I can't take my laptop I'm not traveling, and as it stands I'm certainly not checking it. I'll make do with video calls.
>You can't fake the expected results if you use a RNG
Yes you can.
>Also, RNGs don't generate Normal results.
They most certainly can. Look up the Box Muller method or the Ziggurat algorithm.
>They generate random results.
If the designer knew what he or she was doing. Usually they don't.
>Most real-world "random" events are not "random", but are "normal".
That depends on how you measure it. Poisson distributions are an example of something you can force by choosing your measurement method.
>So a computer-generated RNG would fail to make reasonable results.
A computer properly programmed is quite capable of generating any of the usual distributions you desire and the result will be statistically indistinguishable from other data conforming to the same distribution.
>You need to overlay a normal distribution on your RNG.
See above. Box Muller and Ziggurat.
> It's easier to just guess results, using your brain as both the RNG and normal distribution.
No it isn't. Humans are awful RNGs.
Wow! And they call me a troll! Was it because I got first post?
Nope. It is because it is how many of us feel.
>Just a mere six months after announcing Quick Charge 4, ...
This is SOP. Put features into specs late in the day to make it impossible for other vendors, who may have been working in a standards body for an industry wide solution, to have compatible silicon available in a timely fashion.
>There are rare exceptions, where a strong woman character fits the script,
Fargo.
>To me, anyone who has a Tektronix oscilloscope on a shelf above his desk [vice.com] is likely to call himself an "engineer".
Crap. I got a Rigol because I'm cheap.
>except your wrong. so lets clarify:
What about his wrong?
> I mean, there is really a Traffic engineer as a carreer?
There's one who goes to my wife's knitting group. She gets the brunt of people's complaints about the local traffic.