- Duplicating the product under another label and competing with the original
Pfft. Product? Amateurs. China has been caught duplicating entire companies
Not only that, but they expanded the companies they counterfeited. Did you know NEC made DVD players? NEC didn't know. But apparently they did and they were designed in a subsidiary that they never knew existed.
Seems like a rather big clue that they went after everyone exact the far-right AFD.
OMG False flag operation. It wasn't us! It's just like in America we're being victimised. They probably hacked themselves. https://www.washingtonexaminer...
Holy crap can you come up with any more complicated and expensive to run and maintain system? I'm sure Marriott would rather go bankrupt due to fines and being sued rather than high overhead costs of ill conceived security measures.
just WHY does a hotel need to know your PASSPORT number?
Legal requirements for serving foreigners in most countries in the world combined with the concept of having a common database for guests rather than a unstructured garbled mess.
many foreigners don't understand even even born/raised americans are still not getting it.
Many foreigners live in countries where your entire life doesn't get royally screwed up just because someone knows your 9 digit number.
99% reduction in energy demand? Doesn't that mean 99% reduction in required workload and thus either a 99% reduction in the core value of the coin or more likely a 10000% factor increase in the number of people who now have an interest in your new super cheap to mine coin?
But Intel paid all major tech outlets, including this one, to sing its praises.
Err look. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean everyone is shilling. The reality is Netburst was horrible, but it was also the best thing on the market.
AMD's tech lead over Intel was massive- even if sites like this one still shilled Intel Netburst.
AMD's tech lead was irrelevant at a time when a chip supported 64bits without any OS, apps, and for the large part of the world without any use case. AMD can have all the tech in the world. It didn't matter, Netburst was faster. It took a long time for AMD to actually provide a decent contended from when they first created their "tech lead".
For 10+ years all tech sites conspired to lie and state the OS thread system could provide thread security.
I think you're off your meds. Hey can someone call this guy's carer, he skipped his meds today.
Intel is curently paying tech sites to benchmark using decades old CAD programs that are single threaded
Except that even the most recently called out paid for and rigged for Intel benchmark didn't do that. And why would they need to? Intel still leads multi-core AVX2 benchmark loads as well.
Today the ONLY way to safely use an Intel CPU is to only run one thread at a time on the chip
Define safe? The only safe place to live is underground in a nuclear bunker otherwise you may get hit by an asteroid. In the mean time back in the real world aside from a small select group the vast majority of the world couldn't give a shit about Spectre, Meltdown or Hyperthreading related issues in general. Who's out to get you? The CIA? North Korea? Some Chinese scammer isn't going to hit you with a sophisticated speculative execution attack when he can just fire off 20k emails looking like they came from Paypal.com and get a few customers to enter their details in the form. The scammers from India can't code anyway, they are too busy calling you pretending they are from Microsoft, and that Nigerian Prince is still waiting for your reply.
Anyone using Intel CPUs today is a complete fool.
Anyone who describes a sliding scaling security vs risk in a generalised single sentence is a complete idiot.
Jobs would have rolled out the iSuppository by now: you stick a slick shiny ball up your [bleep] and it would use vibrations and electric shock to convey sound and images.
And like every other Jobs' innovation he'd have copied it from someone else. (NSFW) https://we-vibe.com/ditto
That's not a reality distortion field, that's him trying to to cover his arse. Reality distortion field is where everyone else covers his arse for him.
I am in the same boat. I would like a OLED screen, but.... I do not want a physically bigger phone. I do not want to give up the 3.5mm headphone jack (which I use everyday, while charging). I actually prefer Touch ID over the new Face ID garbage. I like having a home button I can physically feel and press without needing to look at the phone.
*Looks at Galaxy S8 on the desk*... Have you considered a Samsung?
BIOS has been a mixture of incredibly and increasingly uglier hacks as it's grown beyond it's initial scope and size while maintaining backwards compatibility which made absolutely no sense on modern hardware.
You think EFI is bad? More power to you. I think the hackjobs that were BIOSes are worse. FYI the code required to initiate HyperTransport in the latest AGESA firmware from AMD is larger than the entire BIOS was pre-EFI, and that's just a small portion of getting a small part of a modern system to boot.
It's not up to the cable to be expensive. It's up to the device at either end to limit itself to a safe level. We've repeated the mistakes from early USB 1.0 devices. And no protecting does not cost money for implementation, at least not significantly due to the incredibly low cost of protection devices and the fact that they are often baked into the silicon itself.
If you have a standard that auto-negotiates how to provide power, then that standard should also ensure that no possible misconnection scenario can damage the port and that includes whatever shitty Chinese cable you plug into it.
Yeah, insecure devices being accessed via UPNP is way worse than insecure devices connected directly to the net via their own IPV6 address!
You are completely right. the UPNP hack has the knock on effect of breaking firewalls. If every device had it's own IPv6 address we wouldn't need the hack and our routers and firewalls could adequately mitigate this issue.
Oh you were being sarcastic? Well in that case you're wrong.
It is now that the last mine is closing. It was super small the last decades already, the exit from mining started around 1980... A typical mine hardly had more than 100 workers, 200 if they work in two shifts.
Prosper-Haniel had 1500 employees at the end. But that's only the direct costs. When you close something in an industry town there are huge effects felt quite widely outside of the business themselves.
I was in Australia during the oil and auto industry crisis there. We closed a relatively small refinery, only 450 employees. The knock on effects were that some 5000 workers lost their jobs at contract firms, maintenance firms, cleaning firms, catering firms and most recently I heard that our favourite after work pub has closed too. The German Linde Group had a plant near us which became nonviable, and when they closed the government shut down the local fire department too as the local fire risk was reduced.
The same happened with the car industry. When Ford left about 1500 jobs were lost. When Toyta left 1000 jobs were lost. When GM-Holden left 2000 jobs were lost at that factory however it made a percentage jump in our unemployment figures in Australia due to the support industry for the car industry dissolving with the lost of the last car manufacturing base. Actual job losses were closer to 50000.
For an industry downturn you can often estimate a 10x higher number of indirect job losses than the direct losses associated with the plant.
But it doesn't matter anyway. The coal industry has been dying for 20 years and we should not prop up business at the cost of the world.
No, GIMP on PC. Not all workloads involve adding a bit of text to a 256x256 image and uploading a creative meme to the internet. For many of the people where speed matters, they have suitable workloads to complain about too. Install them side by side, fire up a 200mpxl image and try yourself, or fire up a smaller image with a shitton of layers.
If you can do that you could make a shitton of money in the security game. Every security product on the market scans emails, yet phishing is still trivial and incredibly effective.
The internal microphones on modern smartphones aren't ideal for this situation. They are positioned in a way that makes filtering background difficult, and any attempt at raising the volume would likely have horribly detrimental effects due to the environment too.
Not all bluetooth headsets are created equal but there are many that have excellent background noise filtering. I don't have experience with very many but through my work I use a Platronics Voyager 5200 https://www.plantronics.com/us... and that is already leaps and bounds in audible quality improvement over normal phone users. Some headsets have audio normalisation in them as well.
This kind of solution will be a tradeoff, the best results would be with a headset that has an unwieldy long boom that actually reaches the person's mouth.
The cases on IP have been ongoing for quite a while and are still being battled in the courts. Why is it then that Steam and GOG responded to the DMCA takedown requests if the ownership of the IP itself is in question?
Earlier this year the DMCA was used to block promotional material. Stardock issued a counter notice but the promotional material was not put back up. This is a clear indication that Steam and GOG are arbitrarily deciding who owns IP despite an ongoing court case about it.
Would this open Steam and GOG up to liability claims if it is found that the Stardock's game actually does not infringe the IP?
I for one am glad I bought the game a few days before this shit hit the fan. The game itself is quite fun and for my limited experience well written. If this sinks the studio after Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III did nothing with the IP for 20 years I'll be pissed.
DMCA takedowns as for owned IP. As the ownership of the IP is in question why was the DMCA acted upon? It's up to the courts not up to Steam to make the ruling, and it's up to the courts to determine damages as a result of infringement / ban sale.
Is it a little awkward to use? Yes, but so is Photoshop if you don't know how to use it.
No that's not the issue here. All software is awkward to use if you don't know how to use it. The key is that Photoshop is not awkward to use if you have used other image editing software. If you learnt Photoshop you can pick up Paint.NET and everything would be and work like you expect it to.
GIMP isn't awkward to use, it's different from everything else for having a learning curve that shouldn't exist someone who has used advanced image editing software before. And likewise becoming an expert at GIMP will more than likely simply render you clueless if you're ever stuck using something else.
GIMP users have the same problem with Photoshop, I assure you.
GIMP users would. Paint.Net users would not. CorelDraw users would not. It's worth remembering GIMP's criticisms isn't that it's UI isn't functional, it's that it is unique in the industry.
but i've learnt graphics using Gimp and it feels pretty consistent to me.
That is why you don't understand it. It's also why you're limited as a result. The thing about Photoshop's UI is not that it's different from GIMP's, but rather that the UI is more similar to that of every other product on the market and fits into a larger ecosystem.
There's no problem with being unique unless you're in an industry where uniqueness is not appreciated. That's where the criticism from GIMP's perfectly functional UI comes from. You can seamlessly jump between Photoshop, Paint.NET, and CorelDraw with ease. Not so with GIMP.
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- Duplicating the product under another label and competing with the original
Pfft. Product? Amateurs. China has been caught duplicating entire companies
Not only that, but they expanded the companies they counterfeited. Did you know NEC made DVD players? NEC didn't know. But apparently they did and they were designed in a subsidiary that they never knew existed.
Seems like a rather big clue that they went after everyone exact the far-right AFD.
OMG False flag operation. It wasn't us! It's just like in America we're being victimised. They probably hacked themselves.
https://www.washingtonexaminer...
Holy crap can you come up with any more complicated and expensive to run and maintain system? I'm sure Marriott would rather go bankrupt due to fines and being sued rather than high overhead costs of ill conceived security measures.
just WHY does a hotel need to know your PASSPORT number?
Legal requirements for serving foreigners in most countries in the world combined with the concept of having a common database for guests rather than a unstructured garbled mess.
many foreigners don't understand even even born/raised americans are still not getting it.
Many foreigners live in countries where your entire life doesn't get royally screwed up just because someone knows your 9 digit number.
99% reduction in energy demand? Doesn't that mean 99% reduction in required workload and thus either a 99% reduction in the core value of the coin or more likely a 10000% factor increase in the number of people who now have an interest in your new super cheap to mine coin?
This!. OSNews just said dismissed everyone by saying "It's okay, we only lost your most valuable data".
But Intel paid all major tech outlets, including this one, to sing its praises.
Err look. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean everyone is shilling. The reality is Netburst was horrible, but it was also the best thing on the market.
AMD's tech lead over Intel was massive- even if sites like this one still shilled Intel Netburst.
AMD's tech lead was irrelevant at a time when a chip supported 64bits without any OS, apps, and for the large part of the world without any use case. AMD can have all the tech in the world. It didn't matter, Netburst was faster. It took a long time for AMD to actually provide a decent contended from when they first created their "tech lead".
For 10+ years all tech sites conspired to lie and state the OS thread system could provide thread security.
I think you're off your meds. Hey can someone call this guy's carer, he skipped his meds today.
Intel is curently paying tech sites to benchmark using decades old CAD programs that are single threaded
Except that even the most recently called out paid for and rigged for Intel benchmark didn't do that. And why would they need to? Intel still leads multi-core AVX2 benchmark loads as well.
Today the ONLY way to safely use an Intel CPU is to only run one thread at a time on the chip
Define safe? The only safe place to live is underground in a nuclear bunker otherwise you may get hit by an asteroid. In the mean time back in the real world aside from a small select group the vast majority of the world couldn't give a shit about Spectre, Meltdown or Hyperthreading related issues in general. Who's out to get you? The CIA? North Korea? Some Chinese scammer isn't going to hit you with a sophisticated speculative execution attack when he can just fire off 20k emails looking like they came from Paypal.com and get a few customers to enter their details in the form. The scammers from India can't code anyway, they are too busy calling you pretending they are from Microsoft, and that Nigerian Prince is still waiting for your reply.
Anyone using Intel CPUs today is a complete fool.
Anyone who describes a sliding scaling security vs risk in a generalised single sentence is a complete idiot.
Jobs would have rolled out the iSuppository by now: you stick a slick shiny ball up your [bleep] and it would use vibrations and electric shock to convey sound and images.
And like every other Jobs' innovation he'd have copied it from someone else.
(NSFW) https://we-vibe.com/ditto
Hey, no using inflation! That's just counteracting our cheating!
That's not a reality distortion field, that's him trying to to cover his arse. Reality distortion field is where everyone else covers his arse for him.
I am in the same boat. I would like a OLED screen, but.... I do not want a physically bigger phone. I do not want to give up the 3.5mm headphone jack (which I use everyday, while charging). I actually prefer Touch ID over the new Face ID garbage. I like having a home button I can physically feel and press without needing to look at the phone.
*Looks at Galaxy S8 on the desk*... Have you considered a Samsung?
Hush. The spokesman for the entire Internet is speaking.
It's a "spokesperson".
Sincerely
SJW for the entire Internet.
BIOS has been a mixture of incredibly and increasingly uglier hacks as it's grown beyond it's initial scope and size while maintaining backwards compatibility which made absolutely no sense on modern hardware.
You think EFI is bad? More power to you. I think the hackjobs that were BIOSes are worse. FYI the code required to initiate HyperTransport in the latest AGESA firmware from AMD is larger than the entire BIOS was pre-EFI, and that's just a small portion of getting a small part of a modern system to boot.
It's not up to the cable to be expensive. It's up to the device at either end to limit itself to a safe level. We've repeated the mistakes from early USB 1.0 devices. And no protecting does not cost money for implementation, at least not significantly due to the incredibly low cost of protection devices and the fact that they are often baked into the silicon itself.
If you have a standard that auto-negotiates how to provide power, then that standard should also ensure that no possible misconnection scenario can damage the port and that includes whatever shitty Chinese cable you plug into it.
Yeah, insecure devices being accessed via UPNP is way worse than insecure devices connected directly to the net via their own IPV6 address!
You are completely right. the UPNP hack has the knock on effect of breaking firewalls. If every device had it's own IPv6 address we wouldn't need the hack and our routers and firewalls could adequately mitigate this issue.
Oh you were being sarcastic? Well in that case you're wrong.
It is now that the last mine is closing. ...
It was super small the last decades already, the exit from mining started around 1980
A typical mine hardly had more than 100 workers, 200 if they work in two shifts.
Prosper-Haniel had 1500 employees at the end. But that's only the direct costs. When you close something in an industry town there are huge effects felt quite widely outside of the business themselves.
I was in Australia during the oil and auto industry crisis there. We closed a relatively small refinery, only 450 employees. The knock on effects were that some 5000 workers lost their jobs at contract firms, maintenance firms, cleaning firms, catering firms and most recently I heard that our favourite after work pub has closed too. The German Linde Group had a plant near us which became nonviable, and when they closed the government shut down the local fire department too as the local fire risk was reduced.
The same happened with the car industry. When Ford left about 1500 jobs were lost. When Toyta left 1000 jobs were lost. When GM-Holden left 2000 jobs were lost at that factory however it made a percentage jump in our unemployment figures in Australia due to the support industry for the car industry dissolving with the lost of the last car manufacturing base. Actual job losses were closer to 50000.
For an industry downturn you can often estimate a 10x higher number of indirect job losses than the direct losses associated with the plant.
But it doesn't matter anyway. The coal industry has been dying for 20 years and we should not prop up business at the cost of the world.
No, GIMP on PC. Not all workloads involve adding a bit of text to a 256x256 image and uploading a creative meme to the internet. For many of the people where speed matters, they have suitable workloads to complain about too. Install them side by side, fire up a 200mpxl image and try yourself, or fire up a smaller image with a shitton of layers.
That can be detected.
If you can do that you could make a shitton of money in the security game. Every security product on the market scans emails, yet phishing is still trivial and incredibly effective.
The internal microphones on modern smartphones aren't ideal for this situation. They are positioned in a way that makes filtering background difficult, and any attempt at raising the volume would likely have horribly detrimental effects due to the environment too.
Not all bluetooth headsets are created equal but there are many that have excellent background noise filtering. I don't have experience with very many but through my work I use a Platronics Voyager 5200 https://www.plantronics.com/us... and that is already leaps and bounds in audible quality improvement over normal phone users. Some headsets have audio normalisation in them as well.
This kind of solution will be a tradeoff, the best results would be with a headset that has an unwieldy long boom that actually reaches the person's mouth.
The cases on IP have been ongoing for quite a while and are still being battled in the courts. Why is it then that Steam and GOG responded to the DMCA takedown requests if the ownership of the IP itself is in question?
Earlier this year the DMCA was used to block promotional material. Stardock issued a counter notice but the promotional material was not put back up. This is a clear indication that Steam and GOG are arbitrarily deciding who owns IP despite an ongoing court case about it.
Would this open Steam and GOG up to liability claims if it is found that the Stardock's game actually does not infringe the IP?
I for one am glad I bought the game a few days before this shit hit the fan. The game itself is quite fun and for my limited experience well written. If this sinks the studio after Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III did nothing with the IP for 20 years I'll be pissed.
Not a difficult situation for customers:
DMCA takedowns as for owned IP. As the ownership of the IP is in question why was the DMCA acted upon? It's up to the courts not up to Steam to make the ruling, and it's up to the courts to determine damages as a result of infringement / ban sale.
Is it a little awkward to use? Yes, but so is Photoshop if you don't know how to use it.
No that's not the issue here. All software is awkward to use if you don't know how to use it. The key is that Photoshop is not awkward to use if you have used other image editing software. If you learnt Photoshop you can pick up Paint.NET and everything would be and work like you expect it to.
GIMP isn't awkward to use, it's different from everything else for having a learning curve that shouldn't exist someone who has used advanced image editing software before. And likewise becoming an expert at GIMP will more than likely simply render you clueless if you're ever stuck using something else.
Photoshop takes longer to startup than GIMP.
Huh? Who cares about startup? GIMP is noticeably slower at actually working with images especially large ones.
Oh and no it isn't, both start within seconds of each other, but Photoshop wins on my system.
GIMP users have the same problem with Photoshop, I assure you.
GIMP users would. Paint.Net users would not. CorelDraw users would not. It's worth remembering GIMP's criticisms isn't that it's UI isn't functional, it's that it is unique in the industry.
but i've learnt graphics using Gimp and it feels pretty consistent to me.
That is why you don't understand it. It's also why you're limited as a result. The thing about Photoshop's UI is not that it's different from GIMP's, but rather that the UI is more similar to that of every other product on the market and fits into a larger ecosystem.
There's no problem with being unique unless you're in an industry where uniqueness is not appreciated. That's where the criticism from GIMP's perfectly functional UI comes from. You can seamlessly jump between Photoshop, Paint.NET, and CorelDraw with ease. Not so with GIMP.