I believe the suits at ESA were in damage control because they are scared about losing funding for the 2020 lander so they mentioned NOTHING about the crashed lander, so that when politicians check on the press releases/conferences in months to come there is NO info on the crash, but in a few days the world will know anyway, especially if NASA gets a photo of the impact and debris.
The ESA in general seems to hold their cards a lot closer than NASA. I suppose there are cultural or political reasons like you suggest, but it's annoying if you're used to the flood of information NASA releases.
Looks to me, sorry to say, like a kid's console. They're playing on the TV, then the rest of the family needs the TV so they move over and carry on playing.
Really? That makes it sound to me more like a gamers-with-kids console.
The original controllers were sized appropriately, they just happened to have very uncomfortable edges (the SNES/SFC controllers were about perfect for their time).
But why? Why use something other than a grease pen on a white board? These aren't software developers, and I don't think there is a pressing need for technology on the sidelines besides the sponsorship deals. And maybe 3M can sponsor them or something.
Man buys IoT kettle that doesn't have support for Amazon Echo, spends 11 hours coding support, puts lame spin on story because nobody cares.
To be fair, he didn't spin the story, he just tweeted what he was doing. It isn't his fault that newspapers and the public can't tell the difference between a hacker's project log and an average person struggling with a consumer device.
Seriously? I'm not sure what has me more gobsmacked - the fact that somebody would make a WiFi kettle, or the fact that anybody would actually BUY the fucking thing and burn 11 hours of his life trying to make it work.
Perhaps it was about the journey and not the destination? If you follow the link you'll see that he was using a network scanner and other tactics to coax it into working that suggest his motivation was curiosity. He's not an average consumer, he's a tinkerer/hacker.
I'm a touch typist who keeps my fingernails to about 1mm most of the time. Right now the my 4-year-old 17" MacBook Pro keyboard has five keys where the black color on top has been eroded away: E A S D and left shift.
If you really care about typing perhaps you should be using an external mechanical keyboard anyway? If all I am doing is typing, I'll take a five year old computer with a good mechanical KB versus a brand new laptop with a built in KB. It's the part of the computer, along with the pointing device and screen, that has the greatest impact on me while using it.
he seems to have gone a but nuts in his old age. He seems to have forgotten that DNRC was all a big joke and has started to actually take it seriously.
He seems not to have gone nuts. You seem to have misread a satirist.
It's a sad indictment of American intelligence that we have citizens who actually believe the government wants to be paid in iTunes gift cards.
It says nothing of "American Intelligence." Just like spam from ten or more years ago, it says everything about the low barrier of entry of doing spray-and-pray tactics.
It doesn't matter how few people fall for it because most of these are robocalls. You just need a few people to be available when the victims call back or press 1.
This being Slashdot, many of you don't want to go to theaters and see films. You want to view them at home, from your HTPC where you won't be bothered by other people, people you consider dumb, rude, loud, too young, always on their phones and generally needing to get off your lawn.
I remember this last time movie theaters came up. I was in the minority because I do consider going to the movies to be a social experience, especially when when seeing a suspenseful or funny movie.
Use the source code to create malware that disables the functionality of the insecure devices. When it becomes apparent that massive numbers of them stop working soon after installation, sales will drop through the floor and that is the only thing that will make manufacturers change their behavior.
That sounds ethical. While you're at it, why not have them first DDOS the websites of political entities you find objectionable?
Just when you though selfie sticks were annoying...
This is nothing new. The only difference is that now people don't have to make their friends fly the quadcopter while they surf/skate/rock climb/try to look cool. I can't get over how compact this one folds down. That's some serious James Bond level stuff.
“We have undertaken analysis on pathways into cyber crime offending and can conclude that some young people who have an interest in online games may begin to participate in gaming cheat websites and ‘modding',”
This is not what most gamers think when they read "modding." I could see how some script kiddies might get their start trying to cheat at online games.
I recently called about an account issue and they offered to "upgrade" my prepaid account. That is, they put me on the current offering that I was already paying for, rather than the old offering, which had less data. It looks like the "always on" data was part of the deal. I wish they'd just give you the best deal you're already paying for automatically.
I would rather know what I am using and pay for what I use in at least a somewhat transparent fashion, than pay the exact same as all other customers and never really know what I am paying for. Verizon's system for me has been reliable and fast, and I pay for it, which I'm happy to do.
You may want to look at Project Fi, though I can't comment on the reliability. https://fi.google.com/about/plan/
How about, if you have to have caps, you simply throttle speeds so that emails and navigation are still possible, rather than gouging people on overage charges?
A "workaround" implies that a manufacturer has intently put up roadblocks to installing whatever OS you please.
That's not what "workaround" means or implies. It means you are mitigating or bypassing a problem without eliminating it. It has nothing to do with the cause of the problem. http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
I was doing that 6-7 years ago, but I haven't worried about "driver support" for anything in Linux in about that long. Almost everything works these days - intentional sabotage by competitors being the obvious exception.
I'm just saying, if I were likely to run Linux on a laptop, I wouldn't go to a retail store and buy what sounds like a relatively new model without first seeing what kind of support it had. It's Best Buy. There is no impetus for Lenovo to support Linux on models destined for retail shelves.
If I were planning to run Linux on a computer, I probably would have done a few quick searches on driver support beforehand. And I wouldn't be buying it at Best Buy.
The educational system is fucked for a variety of reasons (far-off bureaucrats as you've alluded to) and it seems like no one is really interested in fixing it, more so just applying their own solutions that are at best unproven or just a way of selling something to be picked up at the expense of the tax payers.
There is no institutional fix for the biggest problem schools face: the breakdown of the family.
Kids without parental involvement and investment in their education become anchors that drag down the rest of the class. The worse the kid, the more of the teacher's time and energy gets sucked up, the less time the rest of the class gets.
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I believe the suits at ESA were in damage control because they are scared about losing funding for the 2020 lander so they mentioned NOTHING about the crashed lander, so that when politicians check on the press releases/conferences in months to come there is NO info on the crash, but in a few days the world will know anyway, especially if NASA gets a photo of the impact and debris.
The ESA in general seems to hold their cards a lot closer than NASA. I suppose there are cultural or political reasons like you suggest, but it's annoying if you're used to the flood of information NASA releases.
Looks to me, sorry to say, like a kid's console. They're playing on the TV, then the rest of the family needs the TV so they move over and carry on playing.
Really? That makes it sound to me more like a gamers-with-kids console.
The original controllers were sized appropriately, they just happened to have very uncomfortable edges (the SNES/SFC controllers were about perfect for their time).
But why? Why use something other than a grease pen on a white board? These aren't software developers, and I don't think there is a pressing need for technology on the sidelines besides the sponsorship deals. And maybe 3M can sponsor them or something.
Come for the Stranger Things, stay for everything else.
Man buys IoT kettle that doesn't have support for Amazon Echo, spends 11 hours coding support, puts lame spin on story because nobody cares.
To be fair, he didn't spin the story, he just tweeted what he was doing. It isn't his fault that newspapers and the public can't tell the difference between a hacker's project log and an average person struggling with a consumer device.
Seriously? I'm not sure what has me more gobsmacked - the fact that somebody would make a WiFi kettle, or the fact that anybody would actually BUY the fucking thing and burn 11 hours of his life trying to make it work.
Perhaps it was about the journey and not the destination? If you follow the link you'll see that he was using a network scanner and other tactics to coax it into working that suggest his motivation was curiosity. He's not an average consumer, he's a tinkerer/hacker.
With his foot...
Missed the joke you have.
I'm a touch typist who keeps my fingernails to about 1mm most of the time. Right now the my 4-year-old 17" MacBook Pro keyboard has five keys where the black color on top has been eroded away: E A S D and left shift.
If you really care about typing perhaps you should be using an external mechanical keyboard anyway? If all I am doing is typing, I'll take a five year old computer with a good mechanical KB versus a brand new laptop with a built in KB. It's the part of the computer, along with the pointing device and screen, that has the greatest impact on me while using it.
Just like Lucy tricking Charlie Brown into thinking she's not going to yank the football away this time.
Except the lame duck President is the Lucy holding the ball and Congress is the Lucy that pulls it away.
he seems to have gone a but nuts in his old age. He seems to have forgotten that DNRC was all a big joke and has started to actually take it seriously.
He seems not to have gone nuts. You seem to have misread a satirist.
It's a sad indictment of American intelligence that we have citizens who actually believe the government wants to be paid in iTunes gift cards.
It says nothing of "American Intelligence." Just like spam from ten or more years ago, it says everything about the low barrier of entry of doing spray-and-pray tactics.
It doesn't matter how few people fall for it because most of these are robocalls. You just need a few people to be available when the victims call back or press 1.
This being Slashdot, many of you don't want to go to theaters and see films. You want to view them at home, from your HTPC where you won't be bothered by other people, people you consider dumb, rude, loud, too young, always on their phones and generally needing to get off your lawn.
I remember this last time movie theaters came up. I was in the minority because I do consider going to the movies to be a social experience, especially when when seeing a suspenseful or funny movie.
Use the source code to create malware that disables the functionality of the insecure devices. When it becomes apparent that massive numbers of them stop working soon after installation, sales will drop through the floor and that is the only thing that will make manufacturers change their behavior.
That sounds ethical. While you're at it, why not have them first DDOS the websites of political entities you find objectionable?
A drone that does selfies eh?
Just when you though selfie sticks were annoying...
This is nothing new. The only difference is that now people don't have to make their friends fly the quadcopter while they surf/skate/rock climb/try to look cool. I can't get over how compact this one folds down. That's some serious James Bond level stuff.
“We have undertaken analysis on pathways into cyber crime offending and can conclude that some young people who have an interest in online games may begin to participate in gaming cheat websites and ‘modding',”
This is not what most gamers think when they read "modding." I could see how some script kiddies might get their start trying to cheat at online games.
Unfortunately, even a lot of people who weren't threatening to punch others were still put off by them. Penny Arcade summarized the issue pretty well.
Good catch.
I recently called about an account issue and they offered to "upgrade" my prepaid account. That is, they put me on the current offering that I was already paying for, rather than the old offering, which had less data. It looks like the "always on" data was part of the deal. I wish they'd just give you the best deal you're already paying for automatically.
I would rather know what I am using and pay for what I use in at least a somewhat transparent fashion, than pay the exact same as all other customers and never really know what I am paying for. Verizon's system for me has been reliable and fast, and I pay for it, which I'm happy to do.
You may want to look at Project Fi, though I can't comment on the reliability.
https://fi.google.com/about/plan/
How about, if you have to have caps, you simply throttle speeds so that emails and navigation are still possible, rather than gouging people on overage charges?
What evidence do you have of the contrary?
Simple: risk vs reward. Why release such trivial and mundane information unless you're basically immune to repercussions?
I think there is a difference in terminology.
A "workaround" implies that a manufacturer has intently put up roadblocks to installing whatever OS you please.
That's not what "workaround" means or implies. It means you are mitigating or bypassing a problem without eliminating it. It has nothing to do with the cause of the problem.
http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
I was doing that 6-7 years ago, but I haven't worried about "driver support" for anything in Linux in about that long. Almost everything works these days - intentional sabotage by competitors being the obvious exception.
I'm just saying, if I were likely to run Linux on a laptop, I wouldn't go to a retail store and buy what sounds like a relatively new model without first seeing what kind of support it had. It's Best Buy. There is no impetus for Lenovo to support Linux on models destined for retail shelves.
If I were planning to run Linux on a computer, I probably would have done a few quick searches on driver support beforehand. And I wouldn't be buying it at Best Buy.
The educational system is fucked for a variety of reasons (far-off bureaucrats as you've alluded to) and it seems like no one is really interested in fixing it, more so just applying their own solutions that are at best unproven or just a way of selling something to be picked up at the expense of the tax payers.
There is no institutional fix for the biggest problem schools face: the breakdown of the family.
Kids without parental involvement and investment in their education become anchors that drag down the rest of the class. The worse the kid, the more of the teacher's time and energy gets sucked up, the less time the rest of the class gets.