"The only real method available is CNC machining, an expensive and difficult process that requires laying pieces by hand."
CNC means Computer Numerical Controlled, which isn't remotely similar to laying out sheets of resin-bonded carbon fiber by hand. Or are they forming blocks of fiber made out of a lot of bonded sheets, and then CNC-milling them into shapes? That seems like a pointless waste. Very confusing sentence, there.
Flash is still in use at 80% of the sites I visit.
Apple's management are jack-asses. Let the consumer harass them instead of whining to the websites that their iShiny's don't work.
Have you been under a rock for the past couple years? Flash is dead, and Apple killed it. It went from being used on damn near every site around to less than 15% today. It cannot be used on an iOS or Android device. Adobe has abandoned it. You should be thanking Apple for leading the charge to kill that turd instead of cursing them as jackasses.
Android already supports WebM (http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html). I'm thinking this is more of a "should we care about the people with iPhones?"
My answer would be "no." That'll add more pressure on Apple to not be jackasses w/ their mobile OS.
Remember Flash? Me neither. Fighting H.264 is tilting at windmills. The vast majority of people couldn't care less about free (to them) video formats as long as stuff works and looks good.
First, there's no question that this is an example of a horrible design, and a security flaw that should be fixed.
But the article is way over-the-top. It talks about "credit card numbers", pretty much implying that they are in clear text (TFA, not the actual report). Credit card numbers are not stored in clear text, nor would the clear text credentials give you access to the credit card numbers.
Also, this is really an article about bypassing the lock code, and nothing else. Physical access to a computer (phone) can eventually get you more sensitive stuff than a cup of coffee.
I don't think credit card numbers are used by the app, anyway. All it has is my Starbucks card linked to it, which in turn is linked to my credit card. But that's on their web site, not the phone app. Not saying they're doing any better of a job storing my credit card information in their back-end databases, but I'm reasonably sure it's not stored on my phone.
When food is so readily available we can afford to set aside a small amount of it for trim and decoration, it's just not that tough out there.
Think how many present countries and/or past civilizations would stand mouth agape at our excesses.
Good times.
Dude, it's just raspberry jello. I kind of get your point, but Jesus H, Debbie Downer, better remember your position next time you eat any little thing you didn't absolutely need.
Surely this means that all world hunger and nutrition issues across the globe have been solved, now that corporations are pouring millions into 3D cocktail garnish R&D, right?
Yes, it's frivolous, but it's interesting. Unless everything you do every day drives towards those goals, you're a hypocrite.
There is a man, lets call him Keith. Keith thinks that repair men and contractors are overpriced, and decides he can do it himself. He does this, and it works...for now.
Keith does good work. Sometimes he even has it inspected and passes. Mostly, it's not that hard.
I have a friend who's an electrician and from the stories he tells many/most places he visits have something wrong with them. Even calls he gets to go out and install something new and there's no reported issues seem to have at least 1 thing he can point to that doesn't meet "code". If Tesla's design doesn't account for this then personally I'd count that as a flaw, but go ahead, keep thinking it's not Tesla's problem to fix...
Tesla could just modify their charger so that if the wiring isn't done right, your garage won't burn down due to your electrician's negligence. Which is what they've done. So...?
Ahh. So with Google safe-browsing in Firefox and Chrome, and MS whateverthefuck filter, clearly there are no successful phishing attacks involving websites.
No, I've reported phishing domains that stayed up for over 48 hours. Google (stopbadware, opendns anti-phishing) and Netcraft respond pretty quickly to phishing reports but people still end up at the sites trying their damnest to log in.
Maybe hosting providers should be the same way when you report one of their servers as hacked and being used for a botnet check-in or malware hoster. Do nothing until a court order. That should work well!
Assuming they acted immediately, the root DNS servers would still retain their cache for a long time. Perhaps as much as 24 hours.
Why buy a PC when you can buy an iPad or and Android tablet ?
Because the tablet is slow and clunky and Google (and possibly Apple) are tracking your every move? I left my laptop at home last time I traveled and took the tablet instead, but I went back to the laptop (and the desktop for anything CPU or graphics intensive) as soon as I returned home.
What can be done on a desktop or laptop PC that can't be done on a tablet ?
You can do word processing on a tablet, but it's god-awfully painful compared to a desktop or laptop. Even emails are clunky if you're sending more than two lines.
Apple and Microsoft are tracking quite a lot more on their desktop platforms now, too. A tablet with a keyboard and external monitor is indistinguishable from a desktop for most user tasks.
my prediction for 2014 to 2016 apple comes out with a somewhat cheap A7 powered laptop in the $300 to $500 range sort of like a chromebook
most of the cost of a computer goes to intel and MS. once you trade those out for cheaper parts you can make yourself it fairly easy to make a nice profit
as long as it has a 500GB hard drive, its enough for close to 90% of the people out there
I'd be very surprised if this happened, for two reasons: (1) there's really no reason to buy a laptop with the same processing power as a tablet and (2), even if there were, Apple has nothing to gain by offering one. They are already growing their market share at premium prices.
It wasn't that Google hired the buses. It was that Google's buses were using the public-transit bus stops, interfering with the regular buses. That's an entirely reasonable objection, if Google wants to run buses then let them arrange all the infrastructure needed themselves or pay the transit system for using public bus stops.
Google is now paying the city $100,000 annually for the use of the public bus stops.
It sounds like Google didnt' co-opt the boat, they just hired it. The company that owns it and hires it out decided to take Google's offer over that of the whale-watching company who apparently didn't have a long-term contract for it's use. That's frankly one of the risks you take when you make your company's operation dependent on someone else without locking it down with an iron-clad air-tight contract: that someone else may change their mind and you're left high and dry.
Plus there's not exactly a shortage of charter boats operating out of Long Beach. TFS is a troll.
It takes 51% of the network to manipulate bitcoin.
What % of control do you think regular banking systems have and how much is required to manipulate that?
Any individual bank? Not very much. Nowhere near 51%. Government, though, do have that control but tend to act in their own self-interest, which is to keep the economy running so that they can continue to collect taxes. See how that works out nicely? No need to trust in altruism.
The SCOTUS ruling on DOMA reinforces that states are in charge of marriage; married people get treated as married by the fed as long as their state says they're married.
What you want is for people to be slaves to states. I suppose you also don't recognize that nationalism is simply feudalism writ larger.
What are you blathering on about? You are confusing facts with opinions. My comments consisted solely of the former.
You aren't reading what the court says. They very clearly prefer for society to make a determination on the issue rather than legislate it one way or the other. They won't be making a definitive ruling on the subject of gay marriage anytime soon.
They'll let the States deal with it because it's not Federal business. Marriage has ALWAYS been a State matter in the USA - remember when people went to Nevada to get divorced, because their State didn't allow that, but Nevada did?
Yup, and if I didn't say that explicitly enough that was an error. The SCOTUS ruling on DOMA reinforces that states are in charge of marriage; married people get treated as married by the fed as long as their state says they're married. Seems reasonable to me.
There's some possibility of a civil rights argument going all the way up, and there's precedent for the SCOTUS to rule on those grounds, but no one has yet brought them that case. They could have taken on the issue with the California decision appeal, but they ruled on standing instead. It would have set an interesting precedent if they recognized the right of citizens to sue on the behalf of their state.
Well, that's silly. They ruled that the "Defense of Marriage Act"'s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional...
And a few short months later, that same court has said that Utah may continue (pending the appeals process) to discriminate against same sex couples. Nice try. This is a shamelessly tilted court, especially when you take the social issues off the scales.
You aren't reading what the court says. They very clearly prefer for society to make a determination on the issue rather than legislate it one way or the other. They won't be making a definitive ruling on the subject of gay marriage anytime soon. They'll let the states deal with it except issues where there's conflict between one state and another, or conflict between state's rights and federal law (as was the case with DOMA).
Well, that's silly. They ruled that the "Defense of Marriage Act"'s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. It (mostly) affirmed the constutionality of "affirmative action" in university admissions. It allowed Congress to change the formula determining which local and state governments have more strict requirements under the Voting Rights Act. And other stuff I can't remember.
DOMA was not a ban on gay marriage. It was a ban on marital benefits in cases of gay marriage. The SCOTUS never ruled that gay marriage was constitutional or unconstitutional. Rather they affirmed the state's right to legislate marriage, and that if a state says you are married then the federal government must agree.
There was a separate case where some private citizens petitioned the SCOTUS to overturn the California Supreme Court's decision that banning gay marriage was unconstitutional, where the state had decided they did not want to appeal that decision. The SCOTUS ruled that the private citizens lacked standing to appeal.
In other words, they're staying as far away from the question as possible.
If you figure there's one Coke vending machine per 100 people, that's 3 million Coke machines in the US alone. So certainly the scale (if we extend to worldwide) is about right.
Or it could be fountain kegs instead of vending machines. I can see an application for keg connectivity to monitor syrup level, temperature, and gas PSI. Coke has end-to-end control of bottled/canned products, excepting temperature, but not fountain drinks.
It's easy. If they keep this HR philosophy, they will never have long term viability. No one who is sane will want to hang around with a bunch of eccentric, hard to deal with egotistical "A" players.
"A" players are not eccentric and hard to deal with. You are describing a "B" player. The "A" player delivers the same results, but isn't an asshole.
Someone I'm very close to had worked for her company for 15 years. Changes in the company direction, which may or may not be right for the company, limited the opportunities to grow their career to the point where it was clearly better to seek opportunities elsewhere. The company's needs had changed, and the employee didn't want to fulfill the role they now needed. A severance package was provided, no one walked away entirely happy but no one walked away bitter, either. This is how it's done correctly.
Addressing the point made above, severance packages are not mandatory, and acceptance of them isn't mandatory either. The entire point is the company wants to indemnify themselves and is providing some kind of value in order to obtain that indemnification. Severance requires agreement from the employer AND the employee. I've known people who refused the severance and preferred to litigate. Sometimes it worked out better for them, sometimes it didn't.
I've seen a lot of replies today where I hope very much I never, ever have to work with the persons who wrote them.
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"The only real method available is CNC machining, an expensive and difficult process that requires laying pieces by hand."
CNC means Computer Numerical Controlled, which isn't remotely similar to laying out sheets of resin-bonded carbon fiber by hand. Or are they forming blocks of fiber made out of a lot of bonded sheets, and then CNC-milling them into shapes? That seems like a pointless waste. Very confusing sentence, there.
Flash is still in use at 80% of the sites I visit.
Apple's management are jack-asses. Let the consumer harass them instead of whining to the websites that their iShiny's don't work.
Have you been under a rock for the past couple years? Flash is dead, and Apple killed it. It went from being used on damn near every site around to less than 15% today. It cannot be used on an iOS or Android device. Adobe has abandoned it. You should be thanking Apple for leading the charge to kill that turd instead of cursing them as jackasses.
Android already supports WebM (http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html). I'm thinking this is more of a "should we care about the people with iPhones?"
My answer would be "no." That'll add more pressure on Apple to not be jackasses w/ their mobile OS.
Remember Flash? Me neither. Fighting H.264 is tilting at windmills. The vast majority of people couldn't care less about free (to them) video formats as long as stuff works and looks good.
First, there's no question that this is an example of a horrible design, and a security flaw that should be fixed.
But the article is way over-the-top. It talks about "credit card numbers", pretty much implying that they are in clear text (TFA, not the actual report). Credit card numbers are not stored in clear text, nor would the clear text credentials give you access to the credit card numbers.
Also, this is really an article about bypassing the lock code, and nothing else. Physical access to a computer (phone) can eventually get you more sensitive stuff than a cup of coffee.
I don't think credit card numbers are used by the app, anyway. All it has is my Starbucks card linked to it, which in turn is linked to my credit card. But that's on their web site, not the phone app. Not saying they're doing any better of a job storing my credit card information in their back-end databases, but I'm reasonably sure it's not stored on my phone.
My misinterpretation, sorry about that. I apologize.
When food is so readily available we can afford to set aside a small amount of it for trim and decoration, it's just not that tough out there.
Think how many present countries and/or past civilizations would stand mouth agape at our excesses.
Good times.
Dude, it's just raspberry jello. I kind of get your point, but Jesus H, Debbie Downer, better remember your position next time you eat any little thing you didn't absolutely need.
Surely this means that all world hunger and nutrition issues across the globe have been solved, now that corporations are pouring millions into 3D cocktail garnish R&D, right?
Yes, it's frivolous, but it's interesting. Unless everything you do every day drives towards those goals, you're a hypocrite.
Root DNS is not involved here at all unless its a TLD.
The roots don't cache? I always assumed they did. Learn something new every day.
There is a man, lets call him Keith. Keith thinks that repair men and contractors are overpriced, and decides he can do it himself. He does this, and it works...for now.
Keith does good work. Sometimes he even has it inspected and passes. Mostly, it's not that hard.
I have a friend who's an electrician and from the stories he tells many/most places he visits have something wrong with them. Even calls he gets to go out and install something new and there's no reported issues seem to have at least 1 thing he can point to that doesn't meet "code". If Tesla's design doesn't account for this then personally I'd count that as a flaw, but go ahead, keep thinking it's not Tesla's problem to fix...
Tesla could just modify their charger so that if the wiring isn't done right, your garage won't burn down due to your electrician's negligence. Which is what they've done. So...?
Ahh. So with Google safe-browsing in Firefox and Chrome, and MS whateverthefuck filter, clearly there are no successful phishing attacks involving websites.
No, I've reported phishing domains that stayed up for over 48 hours. Google (stopbadware, opendns anti-phishing) and Netcraft respond pretty quickly to phishing reports but people still end up at the sites trying their damnest to log in.
Maybe hosting providers should be the same way when you report one of their servers as hacked and being used for a botnet check-in or malware hoster. Do nothing until a court order. That should work well!
Assuming they acted immediately, the root DNS servers would still retain their cache for a long time. Perhaps as much as 24 hours.
Why buy a PC when you can buy an iPad or and Android tablet ?
Because the tablet is slow and clunky and Google (and possibly Apple) are tracking your every move? I left my laptop at home last time I traveled and took the tablet instead, but I went back to the laptop (and the desktop for anything CPU or graphics intensive) as soon as I returned home.
What can be done on a desktop or laptop PC that can't be done on a tablet ?
You can do word processing on a tablet, but it's god-awfully painful compared to a desktop or laptop. Even emails are clunky if you're sending more than two lines.
Apple and Microsoft are tracking quite a lot more on their desktop platforms now, too.
A tablet with a keyboard and external monitor is indistinguishable from a desktop for most user tasks.
my prediction for 2014 to 2016
apple comes out with a somewhat cheap A7 powered laptop in the $300 to $500 range sort of like a chromebook
most of the cost of a computer goes to intel and MS. once you trade those out for cheaper parts you can make yourself it fairly easy to make a nice profit
as long as it has a 500GB hard drive, its enough for close to 90% of the people out there
I'd be very surprised if this happened, for two reasons: (1) there's really no reason to buy a laptop with the same processing power as a tablet and (2), even if there were, Apple has nothing to gain by offering one. They are already growing their market share at premium prices.
It wasn't that Google hired the buses. It was that Google's buses were using the public-transit bus stops, interfering with the regular buses. That's an entirely reasonable objection, if Google wants to run buses then let them arrange all the infrastructure needed themselves or pay the transit system for using public bus stops.
Google is now paying the city $100,000 annually for the use of the public bus stops.
It sounds like Google didnt' co-opt the boat, they just hired it. The company that owns it and hires it out decided to take Google's offer over that of the whale-watching company who apparently didn't have a long-term contract for it's use. That's frankly one of the risks you take when you make your company's operation dependent on someone else without locking it down with an iron-clad air-tight contract: that someone else may change their mind and you're left high and dry.
Plus there's not exactly a shortage of charter boats operating out of Long Beach. TFS is a troll.
It takes 51% of the network to manipulate bitcoin.
What % of control do you think regular banking systems have and how much is required to manipulate that?
Any individual bank? Not very much. Nowhere near 51%. Government, though, do have that control but tend to act in their own self-interest, which is to keep the economy running so that they can continue to collect taxes. See how that works out nicely? No need to trust in altruism.
Well, to be fair I did say it seemed reasonable. Hardly a desire for a police state.
The SCOTUS ruling on DOMA reinforces that states are in charge of marriage; married people get treated as married by the fed as long as their state says they're married.
What you want is for people to be slaves to states. I suppose you also don't recognize that nationalism is simply feudalism writ larger.
What are you blathering on about? You are confusing facts with opinions. My comments consisted solely of the former.
They'll let the States deal with it because it's not Federal business. Marriage has ALWAYS been a State matter in the USA - remember when people went to Nevada to get divorced, because their State didn't allow that, but Nevada did?
Yup, and if I didn't say that explicitly enough that was an error. The SCOTUS ruling on DOMA reinforces that states are in charge of marriage; married people get treated as married by the fed as long as their state says they're married. Seems reasonable to me.
There's some possibility of a civil rights argument going all the way up, and there's precedent for the SCOTUS to rule on those grounds, but no one has yet brought them that case. They could have taken on the issue with the California decision appeal, but they ruled on standing instead. It would have set an interesting precedent if they recognized the right of citizens to sue on the behalf of their state.
Well, that's silly. They ruled that the "Defense of Marriage Act"'s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional...
And a few short months later, that same court has said that Utah may continue (pending the appeals process) to discriminate against same sex couples. Nice try. This is a shamelessly tilted court, especially when you take the social issues off the scales.
You aren't reading what the court says. They very clearly prefer for society to make a determination on the issue rather than legislate it one way or the other. They won't be making a definitive ruling on the subject of gay marriage anytime soon. They'll let the states deal with it except issues where there's conflict between one state and another, or conflict between state's rights and federal law (as was the case with DOMA).
Well, that's silly. They ruled that the "Defense of Marriage Act"'s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. It (mostly) affirmed the constutionality of "affirmative action" in university admissions. It allowed Congress to change the formula determining which local and state governments have more strict requirements under the Voting Rights Act. And other stuff I can't remember.
DOMA was not a ban on gay marriage. It was a ban on marital benefits in cases of gay marriage. The SCOTUS never ruled that gay marriage was constitutional or unconstitutional. Rather they affirmed the state's right to legislate marriage, and that if a state says you are married then the federal government must agree.
There was a separate case where some private citizens petitioned the SCOTUS to overturn the California Supreme Court's decision that banning gay marriage was unconstitutional, where the state had decided they did not want to appeal that decision. The SCOTUS ruled that the private citizens lacked standing to appeal.
In other words, they're staying as far away from the question as possible.
If you figure there's one Coke vending machine per 100 people, that's 3 million Coke machines in the US alone. So certainly the scale (if we extend to worldwide) is about right.
Or it could be fountain kegs instead of vending machines. I can see an application for keg connectivity to monitor syrup level, temperature, and gas PSI. Coke has end-to-end control of bottled/canned products, excepting temperature, but not fountain drinks.
It's easy. If they keep this HR philosophy, they will never have long term viability. No one who is sane will want to hang around with a bunch of eccentric, hard to deal with egotistical "A" players.
"A" players are not eccentric and hard to deal with. You are describing a "B" player. The "A" player delivers the same results, but isn't an asshole.
Someone I'm very close to had worked for her company for 15 years. Changes in the company direction, which may or may not be right for the company, limited the opportunities to grow their career to the point where it was clearly better to seek opportunities elsewhere. The company's needs had changed, and the employee didn't want to fulfill the role they now needed. A severance package was provided, no one walked away entirely happy but no one walked away bitter, either. This is how it's done correctly.
Addressing the point made above, severance packages are not mandatory, and acceptance of them isn't mandatory either. The entire point is the company wants to indemnify themselves and is providing some kind of value in order to obtain that indemnification. Severance requires agreement from the employer AND the employee. I've known people who refused the severance and preferred to litigate. Sometimes it worked out better for them, sometimes it didn't.
I've seen a lot of replies today where I hope very much I never, ever have to work with the persons who wrote them.
They got a photo of it already.