At least my main email client is a text-only client, and I can follow the link with something that is definitely not going to get triggered by a drive-by. And that's to check out strange links that I may get in email, even from people I have previously been in contact with. I definitely don't follow links. Still, on the phone, I may be exposed to vulnerabilities in the non-standard email client I use.
I bought this during the Black Friday sales.
My use case for this is to run SkySafari Pro 4, with the SkyFi box, to control my Celestron AVX telescope mount with a 6" reflector, and my SCB-4000 lowlight video camera for doing video-assisted astronomy.
It does this most admirably, and works very well when out at the scope, and it makes it easy to go chasing magnitude 15 galaxies from my backyard. Locate object in the app's database, center on screen, and tell the scope to slew from the screen. Then, I can see that celestial object on my portable screen.
When I got the tablet, I was aware that the bootloader was locked, but I knew there were alternate roms available via XDA developers forums. The one that I ended up using, SlimLP, renders the tablet pretty much a bog-standard low-end Android tablet. All the installed hardware works well, the bluetooth and wifi are perfect, and when I'm not using it for stargazing I have it on the coffee table for those quick web browses about subjects that pop up when watching my tv shows. The battery life is pretty good, I charge it about every 10-15 days when not in use, and it'll easily last for a full stargazing session when I'm outside.
Yes, the standard OS install is pretty crappy, but once it's rendered as a standard Android tablet, it's proven to be perfect for my particular use case.
Up to date spamassassin and well configured greylisting works very well for my email solution. The most spam mail comes in on mailing lists that deliberately have differing settings on them. Plus I have spam and ham training active. Rare enough to get spam into my actual inbox these days.
I've also got very little spam on my Gmail address as well..
For a 3 year old build, I'm pretty proud of how this has held up performance-wise. I've updated the gpu since I built this machine, and that's pretty much the only change since building it.
Intel i7-3930 @ 4.3Ghz, 16Gb ram, 120Gb SSD, 4x1Tb spinning HDD in RAID 1+0, Asus Nvidia 760GTX (I think..). Asus P9x79 pro motherboard. Using the integrated sound, but with a PCIe wireless card. 1600x1200 Dell lcd monitor (yep, still in 4:3 land). Closed circuit watercooling on CPU.
I have to send the motherboard away for repair as a BIOS update failed - for the second time on this board - I've already had a warranty replacement for failed bios update.
Air filters are a bad analogy - as the stock ones are hugely low resistance anyway and changing for a so-called "performance" filter is anything but.
You can measure the resistance of an air filter by checking the pressure difference before and after the filter element. In all of the tests that I have seen the airflow resistance due to a stock filter is miniscule, and there is more pressure loss due to a bend in the pipe than due to the filter. Putting an ineffective filter that passes lots of grit through it, may be less pressure loss, but 80% of a miniscule number is still miniscule and has *no* measureable effect on power.
Otherwise I completely agree with you.
There's a lot to be said for a car company continuing to use a known-reverse-engineered protocol for the inter-module communications and code interrogation such as the protocol used by VAG on all of their cars. That makes things a lot easier, being able to use an inexpensive cable and software to access the same items as the main dealers.
Yes indeed, thank you to the OP, for letting me know this, so I can go and get them and tease people about them. I pay a TV license, I pay for Sky, so I've no problem about timeshifting this series. I've already paid my money.
Here in the EU, if there are terms in an employment contract that effectively mean a non-compete for X length of time after leaving that employment, they are completely unenforceable once the employment contract is terminated. The key terms are "contract" and "terminated". The contract no longer exists legally once the employment is terminated.
If a company wants non-compete methods, then they have to request that the newly-ex-employee sign a new contract to not compete with the previous employer's competitors, and in every case that I have heard of, the monetary terms for that non-compete had to be very very generous in order for the newly available employee to not work for the next 6 to 18 months in the business. Some in this situation went on training courses to stay current, others branched out into differing areas of work, all while getting handsomely paid not to work for the competitor.
Amazon have their head up their ass regarding the treatment of their employees for a long time in the US, and it'll come back to bite them. At least in the EU the employee protection legislation prevent such entities from taking that level of advantage of their employees. I'll be glad if/when karma comes back to burn Bezos and gang over their unethical actions and general mistreatment of their staff.
Considering how the US gets laws passed, that's a definition of corruption where I live. It's corruption for a representative to take bribes in return for voting particular ways. The fact that it's done openly and has no outcry from the public always amazes me and tells me that the voting public are complicit in this. It's also considered corruption not to have the civil service draft the actual law text - where in the US the representative brings the text to the floor.
Another way that the US system is thoroughly broken, is the way that bills in most other countries are exactly for the purpose of the bill where in the US you have the riders and amendments that have absolutely nothing to so with the main bill.
When the free market extends into politics, it can only mean bad things for those that cannot afford to purchase their public representatives the same way that the corporates can..
I'll bite.. It's worth noting that your rebuttal statement is not consistent, plus it sets up a little strawman that I will now proceed to take down.
You can have either a doubling of aperture and have the power the same, or you can have double the aperture and double the power and have the f/ratio the same.
If you have a doubling of aperture and maintaining the magnification the same, your diffraction disks (Airy disks) are half the width, and the image has 4 times the light coming through. In itself at low magnifications you may not be able to see any more detail as such, but because you now have that much more light to play with you can up the magnification and see more detail, and more contrasted details with the 12" than the 6". You'll note that I did not specify at the same magnification, only that the 12" will outperform the 6" in every way. Having 4 times the light is already performing better by one metric. Having twice the resolving capability is another metric, better utilised with more magnification.
Can you instead show a situation where a 6" scope of any type optically outperforms a well built well cooled 12"?
Then your 12" dob has some pretty crappy optics. There's absolutely no optical reason why a low f/ratio reflecting telescope will perform more poorly than an equivalent diameter longer focal length scope. Yes, you may require the use of a Paracorr II to minimise coma, but that doesn't affect the area subtended by a planet's surface in the eyepiece. If you have a short focal length scope then you are of course well advised to use decent quality eyepieces that can handle a wide incoming light cone, eyepieces such as the Ethos and Delos range from TeleVue. There's no substitute for clean optics, decent eyepieces, and a quality well-figured mirror. A 12" should outperform a 6" in absolutely every way, and I've seen this proven with my own scopes.
I recently upgraded from a 200mm Newtonian with a.977 Strehl f6 mirror to a Skywatcher 12" f4.9 dob. I've since been able to resolve features on the disks of the Galilean moons, and I've been able to see the Pup (Sirius B). I've found that I still see more detail on the planets than I used to see with the 8" even when using the 12" in bad seeing. A good 12" scope will outperform *every* 6" scope, top end refractors included, on the planets when set up and built and used correctly.
As for the OP's point, you'll still be well able to see the three shadows, and Ganymede in silhouette against the cloudtops, and you'll be well able to see Io when it's in eclipse again silhouetted against the cloud tops. I've been able to see shadow transits very easily with my 70mm and 80mm ED refractors, so you should have no problem with your 110mm scope. It'll be small for sure, but still visible
I've been an observational astronomer for about 30 years at this stage, and I'm saving to get myself a nice 28" f2.7 Webster scope as my perfect scope, both for planetary and deep sky observations.
Given that the effect of nutation is ~20 seconds over a period of 18 years, it's measureable but minute. It's circa a second difference per year, which seen per day can be effectively ignored. It was seen first with changes in latitude, and was some time before the changes in longitude were measurable.
The one second per year difference is more than 3 magnitudes different to with the 35 minutes a year that solar time varies by.
Sidereal time does *NOT* have a variable length day. Since it's defined as the average time between successive transits of any particular star, it's *ALWAYS* 23h 56m 04s (approx, or for the decimal preferrers 23.9344696 hours). Apparent solar time does have a variable length, due to the Equation of Time - the function of the difference between a perfectly circular Earth solar orbit and the actual elliptical orbit that we follow.
The sidereal day was always much easier to time, with transit telescopes.
Makes me very happy that I have XPrivacy installed on my rooted S4 Active, and I now have a fine-grained security model with the ability to control what apps have access to what.
It was an eyeopener to see some apps that were misbehaving or just outright being illegal. My flashlight app now only controls the LED on the rear, and cannot see any of my private details - and they earned themselves a 1-star review..
Why do people constantly think to use biometrics as passwords, instead of as usernames? The fuzzy nature of digitising a biometric makes the system fall between two stools - few false negatives at the expense of many false positives or the reverse. In practice this means that you either need to scan a few times to get a good id, or run the risk of scanning as someone else.
Given that you cannot change a biometric, why on earth would you use it as a single factor authentication system. It's far far better to scan a biometric then use a PIN as you can change a PIN...
If you use a biometric as a single factor, you have not gained anything over the use of e.g. only a PIN, and you must allow for the possibility of false positives (equivalent of entering someone else's PIN).
The company can easily say "no, thanks" to the offer of the reduced price. After all the sticker prices are not final, they are only an offer to treat. There's nothing to stop someone negotiating a price that suits. If both parties agree to it, it's not illegal. Ergo, it's not stealing. If using fake prices as a negotiation tool, it is underhanded yes, but illegal, no.
If you have broken your promises and failed to make good on it - honest and free market forces mean that you'll be remembered for that and punished appropriately. Personally if I was the recipient of such broken promises I would ensure that everyone knew about it so they would not fall victim to the same lies. The internet does make it easier, and that's a very good thing for cases like this where snakeoil salesmen can more easily be outed.
Having said that - if the promise breaker made good on the restitution, I'd also make sure that everyone knew about it so that the good work done by the promise-breaker.
You may consider that changing your mind does not constitute a lie, and you may be correct in saying that. However, changing from the product as described up front at the beginning of funding to a product that has significantly changed from the original premise - that constitutes FRAUD.
I bought in on the kickstarter on the assumption - validated by the original text - that there was going to be a single-player offline game mode, that did not require always-online.
I d not want a game based on an external set of servers - I want to be able to play my game at my pace, on my own computer, without the need to phone externally for in-game items, transaction etc. Frontier Developments have shot themselves in the foot here - two-thirds of those that have already paid want offline play, and one in 5 of those that have already paid have stated that they need offline.
I've a funny feeling that the consumer protection laws will apply here, as one thing was sold pre-development, and another is being delivered. You would not be happy if you pre-bought a watch only to find that the production version, while having numerals on the face, does not tell you the time; as such I am not happy at all with this development.
My feelings on this matter?:(
I intensely dislike systemd and all of its methodology - it's not the Unix way, and I really dislike the systemd developer's attitudes towards bugfixes and other problems with their processes. Systemd is a solution looking for a problem.
As an admin in a company with something like 50,000 *nix machines, of which I have root on about 10,000 of them, systemd will not be making an appearance on any of these systems and the vendors have been appraised of this fact. Any vendor that cannot provide an alternative to systemd will not be in the running for the next phase of server rebuilds.
Personally, I think I'll be migrating all my own personal servers and the servers of my University's computer society to something a lot more useful and not requiring systemd to boot. Going to be a fun time.
Make it so that the average solar noon is some time between 11.30 and 12.30 on the clock. No change of clocks during the year. Exactly as convention has had it for centuries. The timezone divisions are about right.
If you need more time in the evening, then petition your boss to have differing hours of work. There's no real reason why you can't wake at dawn, be at work shortly after sunrise, lunch at local noon, and finish work and have hours of daylight left to play with.
Current NFC payment schemes actually in operation and not just theoretical exercises like Apple's scheme, only require the waving of the card over the reader. Nothing else required. At least the exposure is limited by most banks to a certain value above which the PIN is required. I suggest you read up on the "Visa Paywave" or "Mastercard Paypass". My original comment referred to all NFC payment types, not specifically to Apple's. Given that the Apple fingerprint sensor fails the same tests as all biometric schemes, it's still not an adequate response. At least with pin&chip, no transaction occurs until you enter your PIN, and you can easily change your PIN if required. Good luck changing your fingerprint.
Biometrics, if used, should be used as usernames, not as passwords.
For one, there is far less physical security. There's no physical feedback for a transaction to have taken place when the card is e.g. in a wallet or pocket.
The card doesn't even need to be visible for inspection, nor does it even need to be present at the reader terminal for a transaction to take place.
I've seen a proof of concept described that bypasses a lot of the physical security that is assumed to be present with NFC payments. Take two reasonably powerful and sensitive NFC transmitter/receivers, both portable and each connected to a comms device like a rooted Android phone, give one combination pair each to two people involved in the demonstration. Put one of the aerials inside a wallet, carried in the hand with the cable hidden e.g. up a sleeve. This person would be the one "paying". The other person just need to be nearby the "mark" whose card is to be used to pay for the transaction, close enough for the card interrogation to take place. Create a channel where the received data at one aerial is transmitted by the other, and vice-versa. Then when the payment is requested, the shops' cardreader has no way to recognise that the device being waved at it is not the actual one being interrogated for the transaction. The "mark" has no knowledge that their card was just used for a purchase. The merchant has no way to know that the transaction was fraudulent.
The same type of paired-device communication will also work to get through doors that require only a wave of a card in front of it.
So, if you want to have something that can be as easily bypassed as this in your pocket, please ensure that there is a decent faraday cage around it to prevent signal leakage when you don't want it used.
Agreed. I'll happily use NFC for non-critical/toy items, but there's no way in hell that I'm using anything RFID or NFC for payment options. Just not secure enough for me, no matter what the card companies and payment handlers say, as they aren't as interested in my security as I'd like.
I'm going to watch these types of development very closely. I've got the earliest symptoms of macular degeneration, only spotted this early (too early for the retinal thickness measuring laser to definitively measure) due to using astronomical equipment including a hydrogen-alpha scope. Also the fact that I am utterly pedantic about my sight is another factor in my being able to spot the early onset symptoms.
The prospect of a valid retinal transplant is something that I would certainly look at in the future if/when I lose the central portions of my vision, and the possibility of sight restoration is something I know I would like the option of.
It's a nasty complaint for a lifelong astronomer that likes extreme sports:(
Ah, but the EULA is completely non-enforceable in the EU, and has been continually shown as such in the courts. It's not a contract and cannot be treated as such. When there's no contract in play as in this situation, it's standard consumer protection laws that apply. FTDI would almost certainly face criminal proceedings for this action in any/all EU legislative areas. The EULA presentation upon installation has no legal standing for ordinary people that buy computer stuff. The end-user/purchaser/consumer cannot have their rights restricted at any time, and most certainly not my some text on a click-through text with unsigned agreements.
EULAs are nothing more than wishlists for the selling company and can be completely ignored. When I click through them I say out loud "This EULA states I will be paid" and it has the same legal standing.
Those of you living under certain fascist regimes that have allowed the legal recognition of EULAs, well you've got bigger problems..
My place of work, with ~50,000 *NIX boxen of various flavours and vintages, has decided to not go with systemd at all. It's proving to be a complete shitstorm in the enterprise-level environments here, from an administration POV and for breaking the existing management tools that are present.
(we've recently moved from a RH contract to an Oracle Linux contract, and Oracle will bend over backwards to keep us happy..)
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At least my main email client is a text-only client, and I can follow the link with something that is definitely not going to get triggered by a drive-by. And that's to check out strange links that I may get in email, even from people I have previously been in contact with. I definitely don't follow links. Still, on the phone, I may be exposed to vulnerabilities in the non-standard email client I use.
I bought this during the Black Friday sales.
My use case for this is to run SkySafari Pro 4, with the SkyFi box, to control my Celestron AVX telescope mount with a 6" reflector, and my SCB-4000 lowlight video camera for doing video-assisted astronomy.
It does this most admirably, and works very well when out at the scope, and it makes it easy to go chasing magnitude 15 galaxies from my backyard. Locate object in the app's database, center on screen, and tell the scope to slew from the screen. Then, I can see that celestial object on my portable screen.
When I got the tablet, I was aware that the bootloader was locked, but I knew there were alternate roms available via XDA developers forums. The one that I ended up using, SlimLP, renders the tablet pretty much a bog-standard low-end Android tablet. All the installed hardware works well, the bluetooth and wifi are perfect, and when I'm not using it for stargazing I have it on the coffee table for those quick web browses about subjects that pop up when watching my tv shows. The battery life is pretty good, I charge it about every 10-15 days when not in use, and it'll easily last for a full stargazing session when I'm outside.
Yes, the standard OS install is pretty crappy, but once it's rendered as a standard Android tablet, it's proven to be perfect for my particular use case.
I've also got very little spam on my Gmail address as well..
Intel i7-3930 @ 4.3Ghz,
16Gb ram,
120Gb SSD,
4x1Tb spinning HDD in RAID 1+0,
Asus Nvidia 760GTX (I think..).
Asus P9x79 pro motherboard.
Using the integrated sound, but with a PCIe wireless card.
1600x1200 Dell lcd monitor (yep, still in 4:3 land).
Closed circuit watercooling on CPU.
I have to send the motherboard away for repair as a BIOS update failed - for the second time on this board - I've already had a warranty replacement for failed bios update.
You can measure the resistance of an air filter by checking the pressure difference before and after the filter element. In all of the tests that I have seen the airflow resistance due to a stock filter is miniscule, and there is more pressure loss due to a bend in the pipe than due to the filter. Putting an ineffective filter that passes lots of grit through it, may be less pressure loss, but 80% of a miniscule number is still miniscule and has *no* measureable effect on power.
Otherwise I completely agree with you.
There's a lot to be said for a car company continuing to use a known-reverse-engineered protocol for the inter-module communications and code interrogation such as the protocol used by VAG on all of their cars. That makes things a lot easier, being able to use an inexpensive cable and software to access the same items as the main dealers.
Yes indeed, thank you to the OP, for letting me know this, so I can go and get them and tease people about them. I pay a TV license, I pay for Sky, so I've no problem about timeshifting this series. I've already paid my money.
Here in the EU, if there are terms in an employment contract that effectively mean a non-compete for X length of time after leaving that employment, they are completely unenforceable once the employment contract is terminated. The key terms are "contract" and "terminated". The contract no longer exists legally once the employment is terminated.
If a company wants non-compete methods, then they have to request that the newly-ex-employee sign a new contract to not compete with the previous employer's competitors, and in every case that I have heard of, the monetary terms for that non-compete had to be very very generous in order for the newly available employee to not work for the next 6 to 18 months in the business. Some in this situation went on training courses to stay current, others branched out into differing areas of work, all while getting handsomely paid not to work for the competitor.
Amazon have their head up their ass regarding the treatment of their employees for a long time in the US, and it'll come back to bite them. At least in the EU the employee protection legislation prevent such entities from taking that level of advantage of their employees. I'll be glad if/when karma comes back to burn Bezos and gang over their unethical actions and general mistreatment of their staff.
Another way that the US system is thoroughly broken, is the way that bills in most other countries are exactly for the purpose of the bill where in the US you have the riders and amendments that have absolutely nothing to so with the main bill.
When the free market extends into politics, it can only mean bad things for those that cannot afford to purchase their public representatives the same way that the corporates can..
You can have either a doubling of aperture and have the power the same, or you can have double the aperture and double the power and have the f/ratio the same.
If you have a doubling of aperture and maintaining the magnification the same, your diffraction disks (Airy disks) are half the width, and the image has 4 times the light coming through. In itself at low magnifications you may not be able to see any more detail as such, but because you now have that much more light to play with you can up the magnification and see more detail, and more contrasted details with the 12" than the 6". You'll note that I did not specify at the same magnification, only that the 12" will outperform the 6" in every way. Having 4 times the light is already performing better by one metric. Having twice the resolving capability is another metric, better utilised with more magnification.
Can you instead show a situation where a 6" scope of any type optically outperforms a well built well cooled 12"?
I recently upgraded from a 200mm Newtonian with a .977 Strehl f6 mirror to a Skywatcher 12" f4.9 dob. I've since been able to resolve features on the disks of the Galilean moons, and I've been able to see the Pup (Sirius B). I've found that I still see more detail on the planets than I used to see with the 8" even when using the 12" in bad seeing. A good 12" scope will outperform *every* 6" scope, top end refractors included, on the planets when set up and built and used correctly.
As for the OP's point, you'll still be well able to see the three shadows, and Ganymede in silhouette against the cloudtops, and you'll be well able to see Io when it's in eclipse again silhouetted against the cloud tops. I've been able to see shadow transits very easily with my 70mm and 80mm ED refractors, so you should have no problem with your 110mm scope. It'll be small for sure, but still visible
I've been an observational astronomer for about 30 years at this stage, and I'm saving to get myself a nice 28" f2.7 Webster scope as my perfect scope, both for planetary and deep sky observations.
The one second per year difference is more than 3 magnitudes different to with the 35 minutes a year that solar time varies by.
The sidereal day was always much easier to time, with transit telescopes.
It was an eyeopener to see some apps that were misbehaving or just outright being illegal. My flashlight app now only controls the LED on the rear, and cannot see any of my private details - and they earned themselves a 1-star review..
Why do people constantly think to use biometrics as passwords, instead of as usernames? The fuzzy nature of digitising a biometric makes the system fall between two stools - few false negatives at the expense of many false positives or the reverse. In practice this means that you either need to scan a few times to get a good id, or run the risk of scanning as someone else. Given that you cannot change a biometric, why on earth would you use it as a single factor authentication system. It's far far better to scan a biometric then use a PIN as you can change a PIN... If you use a biometric as a single factor, you have not gained anything over the use of e.g. only a PIN, and you must allow for the possibility of false positives (equivalent of entering someone else's PIN).
The company can easily say "no, thanks" to the offer of the reduced price. After all the sticker prices are not final, they are only an offer to treat. There's nothing to stop someone negotiating a price that suits. If both parties agree to it, it's not illegal. Ergo, it's not stealing. If using fake prices as a negotiation tool, it is underhanded yes, but illegal, no.
Having said that - if the promise breaker made good on the restitution, I'd also make sure that everyone knew about it so that the good work done by the promise-breaker.
You may consider that changing your mind does not constitute a lie, and you may be correct in saying that. However, changing from the product as described up front at the beginning of funding to a product that has significantly changed from the original premise - that constitutes FRAUD.
I bought in on the kickstarter on the assumption - validated by the original text - that there was going to be a single-player offline game mode, that did not require always-online.
I d not want a game based on an external set of servers - I want to be able to play my game at my pace, on my own computer, without the need to phone externally for in-game items, transaction etc. Frontier Developments have shot themselves in the foot here - two-thirds of those that have already paid want offline play, and one in 5 of those that have already paid have stated that they need offline.
I've a funny feeling that the consumer protection laws will apply here, as one thing was sold pre-development, and another is being delivered. You would not be happy if you pre-bought a watch only to find that the production version, while having numerals on the face, does not tell you the time; as such I am not happy at all with this development.
My feelings on this matter? :(
I intensely dislike systemd and all of its methodology - it's not the Unix way, and I really dislike the systemd developer's attitudes towards bugfixes and other problems with their processes. Systemd is a solution looking for a problem.
As an admin in a company with something like 50,000 *nix machines, of which I have root on about 10,000 of them, systemd will not be making an appearance on any of these systems and the vendors have been appraised of this fact. Any vendor that cannot provide an alternative to systemd will not be in the running for the next phase of server rebuilds.
Personally, I think I'll be migrating all my own personal servers and the servers of my University's computer society to something a lot more useful and not requiring systemd to boot. Going to be a fun time.
If you need more time in the evening, then petition your boss to have differing hours of work. There's no real reason why you can't wake at dawn, be at work shortly after sunrise, lunch at local noon, and finish work and have hours of daylight left to play with.
Biometrics, if used, should be used as usernames, not as passwords.
I've seen a proof of concept described that bypasses a lot of the physical security that is assumed to be present with NFC payments. Take two reasonably powerful and sensitive NFC transmitter/receivers, both portable and each connected to a comms device like a rooted Android phone, give one combination pair each to two people involved in the demonstration. Put one of the aerials inside a wallet, carried in the hand with the cable hidden e.g. up a sleeve. This person would be the one "paying". The other person just need to be nearby the "mark" whose card is to be used to pay for the transaction, close enough for the card interrogation to take place. Create a channel where the received data at one aerial is transmitted by the other, and vice-versa. Then when the payment is requested, the shops' cardreader has no way to recognise that the device being waved at it is not the actual one being interrogated for the transaction. The "mark" has no knowledge that their card was just used for a purchase. The merchant has no way to know that the transaction was fraudulent.
The same type of paired-device communication will also work to get through doors that require only a wave of a card in front of it.
So, if you want to have something that can be as easily bypassed as this in your pocket, please ensure that there is a decent faraday cage around it to prevent signal leakage when you don't want it used.
Agreed. I'll happily use NFC for non-critical/toy items, but there's no way in hell that I'm using anything RFID or NFC for payment options. Just not secure enough for me, no matter what the card companies and payment handlers say, as they aren't as interested in my security as I'd like.
I'm going to watch these types of development very closely. I've got the earliest symptoms of macular degeneration, only spotted this early (too early for the retinal thickness measuring laser to definitively measure) due to using astronomical equipment including a hydrogen-alpha scope. Also the fact that I am utterly pedantic about my sight is another factor in my being able to spot the early onset symptoms. :(
The prospect of a valid retinal transplant is something that I would certainly look at in the future if/when I lose the central portions of my vision, and the possibility of sight restoration is something I know I would like the option of.
It's a nasty complaint for a lifelong astronomer that likes extreme sports
EULAs are nothing more than wishlists for the selling company and can be completely ignored. When I click through them I say out loud "This EULA states I will be paid" and it has the same legal standing.
Those of you living under certain fascist regimes that have allowed the legal recognition of EULAs, well you've got bigger problems..
(we've recently moved from a RH contract to an Oracle Linux contract, and Oracle will bend over backwards to keep us happy..)