I believe the concern is the Subsystem for Linux can work something like some cornfields or an underground labyrinth inside the castle walls, where an invading army or a few soldiers that successfully scaled the walls and gained Administrator can secretly retreat soldiers to, and hide out in, and the normal security protocols will never be able to root out all the enemies hiding in the underground maze that has secret passages going out to the treasury and all the critical areas of the kingdom.
IOW, the Subsystem for Linux can be an attacker beach-head outside the reach of the conventional security software, because Windows AV are designed to scan for Windows threats, but they don't know about scripting languages like Bash, Ruby, Python, or the WSL.
Culture. New developments. Social trends and fads. EXISTENCE OF ENABLING CONDITIONS such as creation or proliferation of products is enough for humans to change. It's kind of silly that you are incredulous about there being major changes, or that there has to be some grand conspiracy like "something hidden in the water", because humans are LIVING beings, and their behavior can be affected massively by things as simple as Advertising, or what other people say, but ultimately it comes down to disorderly chaos of millions of peoples' personal choices, and whatever becomes popular...... The "latest fashion trends", "what's cool", or what direction they've seen the herd randomly move in.
ALL Infinitely more plausible than "some bits of plastic escaped from our clothing, got into our water supply, and implanted our brains to reprogram people to seek out as many carbs as possible."
At that point, it is effectively a ban on sharing.
Exactly, because any required "Consent" is going to be obtained surreptitiously or through coercion, or annoying end users; the providers simply cannot be trusted, and sharing/selling for an additional marketing revenue stream should just be banned, EXCEPT possibly if the customer voluntarily opts to purchase an additional service completely separate and not bundled with the broadband, where sharing may be technically necessary to provide the separate service.
"percent" and "per cent" aren't the same thing, and this is especially grievous when talking about money.
False. "Percent" literally means per 100 ( a fraction), and "Per cent" literally means per 100 ( a fraction). It is your "Per US cent" which is completely different, because now you are suddenly comparing it to units of a different currency.
The bill would require Internet service providers to obtain customers' permission before they use, share, or sell the customers' Web browsing....
In addition to REQUIRING customers' permission, I suggest they add the following to the law:
For the purposes of this act; specific permission MUST be obtained from the customer IN WRITING with the customer's official signature EACH time their history information or private details are to be shared, sold, or used for any purpose not directly essential to providing that customer's broadband service or resolving abuse complaints due to customer's activity. Non-written forms such as a verbal direction or acknowledging a "Click-Through Agreement" may not be used to obtain permission.
Customer's permission to share information SHALL NOT be required as a condition to purchase or renew subscription to any broadband, or internet access services.
Service providers SHALL NOT interfere with network access or delivery of purchased services in any way order to request or wait for permission.
has gone up most among poor people who are least likely to be able to afford these things.
You claim "least likely to be able to afford those things", but in fact, in many cases poor people may have plenty of access to these things and might be prioritizing purchasing these things over massively more expensive toys such as a car for basic transportation ---- Can't afford a $5000 car and $2000 a year in insurance, but a $200 game console for the kids is nothing; ability to afford does not always equate to access and usage. Computers and video games if anything have gotten more and more affordable over the past 35 years; to the point now where anyone with a mobile phone can play them, and Everyone has to have a smart phone ----- plenty of people with their iPhone 7s and 6s... seen checking out at the grocery store with their EBT card.
Why did the problem become much much worse over the last 35 years?
Dietary changes. The emergence of Fast Food lifestyle.... McDonalds' arrived at New York in 1972; not a lot longer than 35 years ago. Then over the following decades we got Internet, Console games, then Mobile games.
My suspicion is they're benign and that this is a well-known phenomena, or rare, but it upsets people concerned about the idea of "un-natural" or "synthetic" things making their way in their food source.
Otherwise: Wouldn't this discovery have been its own article and study LONG before someone was working on developing a product?
Maybe the findings about microfibers are specifically being printed to create demand for a product.
Also; it's not a very practical product..... sure you may FILTER your own laundry, with a dryer sheet, but what about the tens or hundreds of other people living in your city who still use their washing machines, and still drain washwater into the sewers that will still be consumed by the fishes?
You're not going to be able to force everyone to buy dryer sheets to mitigate this sort of problem. So if it infact is one, then the Textile industry is in for an upset, or perhaps the municipalities will need new tech to filter Potable water and destroy plastic fibres during sewage treatment..
Sounds like they just pass straight through the digestive system to waste, just like other numerous toxins and junk components of things you eat that don't have nutritive value.
Is there evidence that any of these residual plastic bits that get through the water filters are actually harmful?
Then they'll think the website is broken. Better idea to send them to a "landing page" explaining them to complain to Apple, or prompt them for an E-Mail address or other tracking key every time they load content, and funnel that to advertisers.
Advertisers want ads, AND they want to make as-efficient use of the space as possible -- which means showing you an ad that has the highest probability of a potential conversion. If they can't target them, then the value of the ad-space decreases, AND we will begin to see a larger volume of ads on websites to make up for the diminishing efficiency..... Remember those webpages in the 1990s that didn't just have a couple ads, but pages and pages of ads interspersed with the content, with Popups?
That's what eliminating tracking is incentivizing..... MORE ADS per PAGE. And countermeasures against Ad-Blocking.
Ads will just be less targeted, that's all. They will still make money,
How about: Instead of PayWalls, websites start prompting users to provide their E-mail address or Facebook username, before you can see the content you want; they might network publishers and give you a "User Key" you type in once to set a 24 hour cookie and use across their network.
People are more likely to supply some small bit of info than to pay, AND the small bit of info can be used as a database key to attribute the username to the 24-hour cookie.
The right headline would be "Warranted to last only...."
They're not guaranteeing it will last 1 year; they're not promising you it will break after 1 year exactly; they're assuring you some services or replacement at their cost if it should become completely non-functional before the end of 1 year, but if it should simply malfunction (such as some dead pixels), that might or might not be covered.
Not all heat dissipated contributes towards heating up the air that is in the room; some energy will be released in other forms such as electromagnetic noise or radiation that escapes the room.
CPUs aren't really designed as space heaters, so they have a relatively small resistor surface area, and a massive number of transistors, and the switching could generate various forms of EMR.
A CPU bank that consumes 1500 watts of power converts that 1500 watts into heat with the exact same conversion ratio (100%) as a 1500 watt space heater.
No.... in either case SOME of the 1500 Watts will convert into forms of energy such as mechanical sound waves that don't heat the room, this it will be less than 100%.
Also, both Space Heater AND CPU are terribly inefficient heaters, regarding the amount of heat generated to the source fuel; Heat Pumps are much preferred and can reach energy efficiency levels >= 300%.
A processor is no less efficient at producing heat from electricity than a space heater.
The processor might produce LESS heat per Watt input than a resistive coil; given that a portion of the energy is being used for computation operations that dissipate some energy as other high-entropy forms that are not heat.
You don't chuck it in directly.... you pump water through a water block heatsink containing heat exchanges mounted directly on the CPU it's called a "Watercooled" processor, but in this case you gather the heat into the liquid, and after pumping through a large number of heat exchangers, the water becomes hot.
It's not Apple's 1-Year guarantee that's unconscionable; Its the CARRIERS providing an early termination fee for 2 years on hardware not even warranted to last 2 years.
If THEIR TRADING PARTNER implements sanctions they are required to, then they will not accept Bitcoin either ---- Also, if you want your trading sanctions to work properly when not all merchants agree to them, anyone with a clue knows you need an embargo or monitoring in place and means of enforcing your sanctions too; a nice thing about Bitcoin is it's traceable, thus more transparent to monitoring than cash transactions.
North Korea doesn't have the least bit of trouble obtaining US-Dollars. Also, North Korea has been known to counterfeit US Dollars. Even if they didn't.... if NK can get overseas suppliers to transact in bitcoin, they can also get them to transact using other media such as Chinese Renminbi, they just need to exchange through any of many countries either not recognizing or not aggressively enforcing the sanctions.
Each, and every, transaction is recorded and saved forever.
I wouldn't be so sure about "forever". Human civilization has been around a tiny fraction equal to about 0% of "forever".
Even if the blockchain gets preserved permanently somehow --- the actual details of each of those trades will probably be long gone in a hundred years or so.
Average starting salary for an investment banker in NYC is $75k.
That's 80% of a 90k salary with 1/10th the amount of effort required for the required learning compared to CS....
generally requires an MBA, which is not a 4 year degree.
Right it's a 2-year degree on top of a BA. Easy-Peasy compared to a course of study requiring advanced Math and Sciences.
90k is not a bad average starting salary, but it may not be sufficiently high enough to make it as great as the "next alternative option" for a whole lot of people --- resulting in a lot of good potential technical workers pursuing MBA, Lawyerss' or Bankers' careers instead.
Out of curiosity, how much help did HAM's provide during Harvey.
The Ham groups typically work with the state and local emergency management agencies directly.
After the dust settles: I'm sure there will be the ARES division report summaries showing how much traffic the hams passed and how many man-hours their groups put into it, Although you might need to subscribe to QST or find the corresponding ARES groups and attend their meetings to learn the info; it's not like there will be press releases with a lot of fanfare about how these groups helped, they are not among those to brag.
I am guessing probably of particular interest will be Aransas TX, where 18 out of 19 cell towers went down completely.
I also wonder what happened when the Portland police department 911 PSAP went down completely with no reroute.
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Until .invalid gets auctioned to a bidder
They cannot be; RFC6761 is a compulsory standard to the DNS and specifies these names as permanently reserved.
I believe the concern is the Subsystem for Linux can work something like some cornfields or an underground labyrinth inside the castle walls, where an invading army or a few soldiers that successfully scaled the walls and gained Administrator can secretly retreat soldiers to, and hide out in, and the normal security protocols will never be able to root out all the enemies hiding in the underground maze that has secret passages going out to the treasury and all the critical areas of the kingdom.
IOW, the Subsystem for Linux can be an attacker beach-head outside the reach of the conventional security software, because Windows AV are designed to scan for Windows threats, but they don't know about scripting languages like Bash, Ruby, Python, or the WSL.
OF COURSE diets changed. But why did they change?
Culture. New developments. Social trends and fads. EXISTENCE OF ENABLING CONDITIONS such as creation or proliferation of products is enough for humans to change. It's kind of silly that you are incredulous about there being major changes, or that there has to be some grand conspiracy like "something hidden in the water", because humans are LIVING beings, and their
behavior can be affected massively by things as simple as Advertising, or what other people say, but ultimately it comes down to
disorderly chaos of millions of peoples' personal choices, and whatever becomes popular......
The "latest fashion trends", "what's cool", or what direction they've seen the herd randomly move in.
ALL Infinitely more plausible than "some bits of plastic escaped from our clothing, got into our water supply, and implanted our brains to reprogram people to seek out as many carbs as possible."
At that point, it is effectively a ban on sharing.
Exactly, because any required "Consent" is going to be obtained surreptitiously or through coercion, or annoying end users;
the providers simply cannot be trusted, and sharing/selling for an additional marketing revenue stream should just be banned, EXCEPT possibly if the customer
voluntarily opts to purchase an additional service completely separate and not bundled with the broadband,
where sharing may be technically necessary to provide the separate service.
"percent" and "per cent" aren't the same thing, and this is especially grievous when talking about money.
False. "Percent" literally means per 100 ( a fraction), and "Per cent" literally means per 100 ( a fraction). It is your "Per US cent" which is completely different, because now you are suddenly comparing it to units of a different currency.
Show the people that fall into these categories ads aimed at changing their views. Or direct them to the nearest re-education camp, or whatever
The bill would require Internet service providers to obtain customers' permission before they use, share, or sell the customers' Web browsing ....
In addition to REQUIRING customers' permission, I suggest they add the following to the law:
has gone up most among poor people who are least likely to be able to afford these things.
You claim "least likely to be able to afford those things", but in fact, in many cases poor people may have plenty of access to these things and might be prioritizing purchasing these things over massively more expensive toys such as a car for basic transportation ---- Can't afford a $5000 car and $2000 a year in insurance, but a $200 game console for the kids is nothing; ability to afford does not always equate to access and usage. Computers and video games if anything have gotten more and more affordable over the past 35 years; to the point now where anyone with a mobile phone can play them, and Everyone has to have a smart phone ----- plenty of people with their iPhone 7s and 6s... seen checking out at the grocery store with their EBT card.
Why did the problem become much much worse over the last 35 years?
Dietary changes. The emergence of Fast Food lifestyle.... McDonalds' arrived at New York in 1972;
not a lot longer than 35 years ago. Then over the following decades we got Internet, Console games, then Mobile games.
My suspicion is they're benign and that this is a well-known phenomena, or rare, but it upsets people concerned about the idea of "un-natural" or "synthetic" things making their way in their food source.
Otherwise: Wouldn't this discovery have been its own article and study LONG before someone was working on developing a product?
Maybe the findings about microfibers are specifically being printed to create demand for a product.
Also; it's not a very practical product..... sure you may FILTER your own laundry, with a dryer sheet, but what about the tens or hundreds of other people living in your city who still use their washing machines, and still drain washwater into the sewers that will still be consumed by the fishes?
You're not going to be able to force everyone to buy dryer sheets to mitigate this sort of problem.
So if it infact is one, then the Textile industry is in for an upset, or perhaps the municipalities will need new tech to filter Potable water and destroy plastic fibres during sewage treatment..
Sounds like they just pass straight through the digestive system to waste, just like other numerous toxins and junk components of things you eat that don't have nutritive value.
Is there evidence that any of these residual plastic bits that get through the water filters are actually harmful?
Then they'll think the website is broken. Better idea to send them to a "landing page" explaining them to complain to Apple, or prompt them for an E-Mail address or other tracking key every time they load content, and funnel that to advertisers.
Advertisers want ads, AND they want to make as-efficient use of the space as possible -- which means showing you an ad that has the highest probability of a potential conversion. If they can't target them, then the value of the ad-space decreases, AND we will begin to see a larger volume of ads on websites to make up for the diminishing efficiency..... Remember those webpages in the 1990s that didn't just have a couple ads, but pages and pages of ads interspersed with the content, with Popups?
That's what eliminating tracking is incentivizing..... MORE ADS per PAGE. And countermeasures against Ad-Blocking.
Ads will just be less targeted, that's all. They will still make money,
How about: Instead of PayWalls, websites start prompting users to provide their E-mail address or Facebook username, before you can see the content you want; they might network publishers and give you a "User Key" you type in once to set a 24 hour cookie and use across their network.
People are more likely to supply some small bit of info than to pay, AND the small bit of info can be used as a database key to attribute the username to the 24-hour cookie.
The right headline would be "Warranted to last only ...."
They're not guaranteeing it will last 1 year; they're not promising you it will break after 1 year exactly; they're assuring you some services or replacement at their cost if it should become completely non-functional before the end of 1 year, but if it should simply malfunction (such as some dead pixels), that might or might not be covered.
Not all heat dissipated contributes towards heating up the air that is in the room; some energy will be released in other forms such as electromagnetic noise or radiation that escapes the room.
CPUs aren't really designed as space heaters, so they have a relatively small resistor surface area, and a massive number of transistors, and the switching could generate various forms of EMR.
A CPU bank that consumes 1500 watts of power converts that 1500 watts into heat with the exact same conversion ratio (100%) as a 1500 watt space heater.
No.... in either case SOME of the 1500 Watts will convert into forms of energy such as mechanical sound waves that don't heat the room, this it will be less than 100%.
Also, both Space Heater AND CPU are terribly inefficient heaters, regarding the amount of heat generated to the source fuel; Heat Pumps are much preferred and can reach energy efficiency levels >= 300%.
A processor is no less efficient at producing heat from electricity than a space heater.
The processor might produce LESS heat per Watt input than a resistive coil; given that a portion of the energy is being used for computation operations that dissipate some energy as other high-entropy forms that are not heat.
You don't chuck it in directly.... you pump water through a water block heatsink containing heat exchanges mounted directly on the CPU it's called a "Watercooled" processor, but in this case you gather the heat into the liquid, and after pumping through a large number of heat exchangers, the water becomes hot.
It's not Apple's 1-Year guarantee that's unconscionable;
Its the CARRIERS providing an early termination fee for 2 years on hardware not even warranted to last 2 years.
If THEIR TRADING PARTNER implements sanctions they are required to, then they will not accept Bitcoin either ---- Also, if you want your trading sanctions to work properly when not all merchants agree to them, anyone with a clue knows you need an embargo or monitoring in place and means of enforcing your sanctions too; a nice thing about Bitcoin is it's traceable, thus more transparent to monitoring than cash transactions.
North Korea doesn't have the least bit of trouble obtaining US-Dollars. Also, North Korea has been known to counterfeit US Dollars. Even if they didn't.... if NK can get overseas suppliers to transact in bitcoin, they can also get them to transact using other media such as Chinese Renminbi, they just need to exchange through any of many countries either not recognizing or not aggressively enforcing the sanctions.
Each, and every, transaction is recorded and saved forever.
I wouldn't be so sure about "forever". Human civilization has been around a tiny fraction equal to about 0% of "forever".
Even if the blockchain gets preserved permanently somehow --- the actual details of each of those trades will probably be long gone in a hundred years or so.
Average starting salary for an investment banker in NYC is $75k.
That's 80% of a 90k salary with 1/10th the amount of effort required for the required learning compared to CS....
generally requires an MBA, which is not a 4 year degree.
Right it's a 2-year degree on top of a BA. Easy-Peasy compared to a course of study requiring advanced Math and Sciences.
90k is not a bad average starting salary, but it may not be sufficiently high enough to make it as great as the "next alternative option" for a whole lot of people --- resulting in a lot of good potential technical workers pursuing MBA, Lawyerss' or Bankers' careers instead.
Out of curiosity, how much help did HAM's provide during Harvey.
The Ham groups typically work with the state and local emergency management agencies directly.
After the dust settles: I'm sure there will be the ARES division report summaries showing how much traffic the hams passed and how many man-hours their groups put into it, Although you might need to subscribe to QST or find the corresponding ARES groups and attend their meetings to learn the info; it's not like there will be press releases with a lot of fanfare about how these groups helped, they are not among those to brag.
I am guessing probably of particular interest will be Aransas TX, where 18 out of 19 cell towers went down completely.
I also wonder what happened when the Portland police department 911 PSAP went down completely with no reroute.