Presumably DDG pays Google for the use of their search API anyway.
DDG's business model is to sell ads on its platform, so you have to trust that they won't use those to spy on you or infect your machine with malware. Unfortunately they seem to be using the Bing and Amazon ad networks.
From what I can get from their web site the diagnostic system is basically a PC that downloads a firmware image, and then uploads it to the pacemaker. The pacemaker itself never connects directly to the internet.
The update disables the online update mechanism on the diagnostic equipment entirely. Presumably they could still send out a USB flash drive with new firmware if required. But the diagnostic PC won't even look for new firmware any more.
Hunting and gathering is risky, and there is always a risk that some kind of disaster will mean no food this year and you have to move a very very long way or starve.
Agriculture and permanent settlements overall provide much more stability and safety than being nomadic hunter/gatherers. It also allows the land to be much more productive so your population can grow beyond what nature alone can provide.
The way to detect bots is to look for bot-like behaviour, such as posting the same material as other bots, only every liking/reposting material from a small number of people, having fake profiles with stock images, the fact that they only ever post during Moscow office hours etc.
All of those things are relatively easy to fix, but the bot herders don't bother because they don't have to.
Is photo printing at home convenient though? You can get prints sent overnight, no mucking about with ink cartridges, blocked heads, expensive paper, re-ordering supplies etc.
Maybe if you are a professional doing high volume it's worth it, but for most home users it just isn't.
The FDA alert notice says that the FDA made the determination that there was a problem, so it sounds like they didn't realize during the approval process but have figured it out now.
I bought an Oki colour laser when they were being sold cheap as end of line. I'd printed a few hundred pages at least and the "starter" cartridges it came with are still about 2/3rds full according to the display. I think it was about £120 from memory, although sadly it's wired only and not wireless.
Lack of businesses and celebrities was what made it good. G+ wasn't just an endless stream of bullshit like Facebook, it was stuff that was actually interesting and relevant to you. A lot of nerds used it for technical groups and discussion, including Linus.
The other great thing was Hangouts, which isn't really part of G+ but was tied in to it. It's basically a webcam chat system but the only one that really works for multiple users. It detects who is talking and displays their avatar on everyone's screen, so not only is it obvious whose voice you are hearing but it helps prevent people talking over each other. If you needed more control than that you could appoint a moderator who could mute people, which was great for formal moderated debates that otherwise just turn into shouting matches.
Hangouts is still going for now, hope they keep it alive.
In China the domestic platforms already do all that and more. For example WePay is pretty much the universal way to pay for stuff now, even random street vendors accept it right up to luxury hotels. Of course all the search and social media platforms monitor and allow the government full access. So the situation with regards to privacy is already dire.
In Europe Google has some of the strongest privacy controls of any major service. Way better than Facebook and Microsoft, for example. From what I read it's not too dissimilar in the US. You can go here to see the available controls: https://myaccount.google.com/p...
So while it is possible that Google will abandon all that stuff for the Chinese market it's not certain, and perhaps we should at least see what they are proposing/doing first. If they did launch with even half those privacy controls it would be a huge deal for the Chinese market, making privacy a thing that people think and care about.
Have you tried a Thinkpad ultrabook keyboard? They are very thin, maybe a millimetre or two more than a Macbook, but the keyboard are excellent. Decent amount of travel and feel, usual Lenovo quality and robustness, and very easy to replace if you spill something on them.
It's because so many people love to jump on bandwagons and repeat the same talking points with slight variations.
Check Amazon reviews on popular products, most of them are very similar to each other and written by people who have obviously only had to the item for about 5 seconds, or not even bought it at all but just wanted to get in on the action.
Go read the user reviews on IMDB for movies like Black Panther and The Last Jedi, for example, and a very large number of them are just repeating standard generic criticisms that have little to do with the actual movie.
People have started to act more like bots. Maybe deliberately in some cases, maybe unconsciously in others, but they realized that they can just pile in with bot-like comments and affect simple average scores or vote their opinion to the top of the list.
I keep telling people not to buy those printers. Photo printing isn't economical to do at home, it's cheaper to do online and get the prints sent to you.
Get a laser printer. A black and white Samsung costs less than a set of colour ink cartridges. Even colour ones are pretty cheap these days.
This already exists in the EU. In the UK, for example, if Epson send you this bogus update and mislead you into installing it you could return the printer to the retailer as defective. They would have 28 days to fix it, and if they can't downgrade the firmware they can give you a new one (with old firmware) or refund. Of course the retailer is probably already suffering from a huge number of returns on "defective" third party cartridges.
While I can't condone that, this is where we are at now. Both sides trying to sabotage the vote and a political system that apparently can't do anything about it.
The determination of legal/illegal migrant is often quite arbitrary, depending on what the current administration is enforcing or tolerating and what laws have been signed in. Sure some sneak over the border, but a lot are people who tried to do the right thing but a random judge decided to deny them.
I think you got the names mixed up there. Clinton was under far more scrutiny and was held to a far higher standard than Trump was. Trump's whole gimmick was that everything he says is such an obvious falsehood or exaggeration you can't possibly take any of it seriously, it's all just "political hype" or a joke.
I can get traffic conditions in Minsk from my home in the U.S., why is it impossible to fathom that accounts even in other countries could be providing real time monitoring of polling traffic?
How do you know traffic conditions in Minsk from your home in the US? Can you see Minsk, do you have employees on the ground there, or are you simply repeating information from a source that you trust?
If it's the latter then it's easy to check if you are lying or not. Just look at your source. Posts that link back to the source get promoted more than ones that don't. A bit of simple AI can even check if you tried to link to the source but added your own lies as a comment.
There are 4.3 million people in Maricopa County, over an area of 24,000km2. 60 polling stations isn't much for such a large county.
Most of the county leans heavily towards the Republicans, except for Phoenix which is mostly Democrat voting. And guess where most of the polling station closures have been.
Now Democrat voters have to travel further and queue for longer just to vote.
There are still some reliable publications out there who provide information on polling day.
Facebook doesn't have to be perfect to make a difference, they just have to block viral bullshit from the fake news factories they already know about but mostly tolerate.
The subsidies are to help the bottom end of the market. Someone buying a £80k Tesla won't care, but someone buying a £20k Zoe will.
When you look at how much it adds to finance deals on sub £35k cars like the recently released Kona it's quite a significant hit for people.
And the reason to subsidise them is that it's worked to drive the cost down quickly and get demand up, which increases the roll out of infrastructure etc. We need to get rid of most of the fossil vehicles as soon as possible, because they pollute and damage people's health.
It's kind of amazing how these companies have massively popular products that dominate the market (Nokia, Blackberry) and then start talking completely bollocks, baffling everyone with management-speak buzzwords until they become irrelevant.
There is zero detail about what this actually means. Presumably they agreed on a protocol, but what protocol? What is the significance for ARM, are they going to add protocol acceleration to the next generation of the ARM spec?
Only because the US is the worst major developed nation by far for per-capita emissions. It's not like the EU isn't paying anything either, look at how much money Germany has put in to mitigating climate change. Of course Germany is also reaping the rewards of having pioneered a lot of that technology.
Never being profitable isn't a problem. The goal is to get lots of users and then get bought out by someone like Facebook. Maybe Facebook can make some money using your app to drive users to get a Facebook account, harvesting their data or whatever, but your app itself doesn't need to have any potential to be profitable on its own.
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Presumably DDG pays Google for the use of their search API anyway.
DDG's business model is to sell ads on its platform, so you have to trust that they won't use those to spy on you or infect your machine with malware. Unfortunately they seem to be using the Bing and Amazon ad networks.
From what I can get from their web site the diagnostic system is basically a PC that downloads a firmware image, and then uploads it to the pacemaker. The pacemaker itself never connects directly to the internet.
The update disables the online update mechanism on the diagnostic equipment entirely. Presumably they could still send out a USB flash drive with new firmware if required. But the diagnostic PC won't even look for new firmware any more.
Hunting and gathering is risky, and there is always a risk that some kind of disaster will mean no food this year and you have to move a very very long way or starve.
Agriculture and permanent settlements overall provide much more stability and safety than being nomadic hunter/gatherers. It also allows the land to be much more productive so your population can grow beyond what nature alone can provide.
The way to detect bots is to look for bot-like behaviour, such as posting the same material as other bots, only every liking/reposting material from a small number of people, having fake profiles with stock images, the fact that they only ever post during Moscow office hours etc.
All of those things are relatively easy to fix, but the bot herders don't bother because they don't have to.
Is photo printing at home convenient though? You can get prints sent overnight, no mucking about with ink cartridges, blocked heads, expensive paper, re-ordering supplies etc.
Maybe if you are a professional doing high volume it's worth it, but for most home users it just isn't.
The FDA alert notice says that the FDA made the determination that there was a problem, so it sounds like they didn't realize during the approval process but have figured it out now.
I bought an Oki colour laser when they were being sold cheap as end of line. I'd printed a few hundred pages at least and the "starter" cartridges it came with are still about 2/3rds full according to the display. I think it was about £120 from memory, although sadly it's wired only and not wireless.
Lack of businesses and celebrities was what made it good. G+ wasn't just an endless stream of bullshit like Facebook, it was stuff that was actually interesting and relevant to you. A lot of nerds used it for technical groups and discussion, including Linus.
The other great thing was Hangouts, which isn't really part of G+ but was tied in to it. It's basically a webcam chat system but the only one that really works for multiple users. It detects who is talking and displays their avatar on everyone's screen, so not only is it obvious whose voice you are hearing but it helps prevent people talking over each other. If you needed more control than that you could appoint a moderator who could mute people, which was great for formal moderated debates that otherwise just turn into shouting matches.
Hangouts is still going for now, hope they keep it alive.
In China the domestic platforms already do all that and more. For example WePay is pretty much the universal way to pay for stuff now, even random street vendors accept it right up to luxury hotels. Of course all the search and social media platforms monitor and allow the government full access. So the situation with regards to privacy is already dire.
In Europe Google has some of the strongest privacy controls of any major service. Way better than Facebook and Microsoft, for example. From what I read it's not too dissimilar in the US. You can go here to see the available controls: https://myaccount.google.com/p...
So while it is possible that Google will abandon all that stuff for the Chinese market it's not certain, and perhaps we should at least see what they are proposing/doing first. If they did launch with even half those privacy controls it would be a huge deal for the Chinese market, making privacy a thing that people think and care about.
Have you tried a Thinkpad ultrabook keyboard? They are very thin, maybe a millimetre or two more than a Macbook, but the keyboard are excellent. Decent amount of travel and feel, usual Lenovo quality and robustness, and very easy to replace if you spill something on them.
It's because so many people love to jump on bandwagons and repeat the same talking points with slight variations.
Check Amazon reviews on popular products, most of them are very similar to each other and written by people who have obviously only had to the item for about 5 seconds, or not even bought it at all but just wanted to get in on the action.
Go read the user reviews on IMDB for movies like Black Panther and The Last Jedi, for example, and a very large number of them are just repeating standard generic criticisms that have little to do with the actual movie.
People have started to act more like bots. Maybe deliberately in some cases, maybe unconsciously in others, but they realized that they can just pile in with bot-like comments and affect simple average scores or vote their opinion to the top of the list.
I keep telling people not to buy those printers. Photo printing isn't economical to do at home, it's cheaper to do online and get the prints sent to you.
Get a laser printer. A black and white Samsung costs less than a set of colour ink cartridges. Even colour ones are pretty cheap these days.
This already exists in the EU. In the UK, for example, if Epson send you this bogus update and mislead you into installing it you could return the printer to the retailer as defective. They would have 28 days to fix it, and if they can't downgrade the firmware they can give you a new one (with old firmware) or refund. Of course the retailer is probably already suffering from a huge number of returns on "defective" third party cartridges.
While I can't condone that, this is where we are at now. Both sides trying to sabotage the vote and a political system that apparently can't do anything about it.
The determination of legal/illegal migrant is often quite arbitrary, depending on what the current administration is enforcing or tolerating and what laws have been signed in. Sure some sneak over the border, but a lot are people who tried to do the right thing but a random judge decided to deny them.
I think you got the names mixed up there. Clinton was under far more scrutiny and was held to a far higher standard than Trump was. Trump's whole gimmick was that everything he says is such an obvious falsehood or exaggeration you can't possibly take any of it seriously, it's all just "political hype" or a joke.
I can get traffic conditions in Minsk from my home in the U.S., why is it impossible to fathom that accounts even in other countries could be providing real time monitoring of polling traffic?
How do you know traffic conditions in Minsk from your home in the US? Can you see Minsk, do you have employees on the ground there, or are you simply repeating information from a source that you trust?
If it's the latter then it's easy to check if you are lying or not. Just look at your source. Posts that link back to the source get promoted more than ones that don't. A bit of simple AI can even check if you tried to link to the source but added your own lies as a comment.
There are 4.3 million people in Maricopa County, over an area of 24,000km2. 60 polling stations isn't much for such a large county.
Most of the county leans heavily towards the Republicans, except for Phoenix which is mostly Democrat voting. And guess where most of the polling station closures have been.
Now Democrat voters have to travel further and queue for longer just to vote.
There are still some reliable publications out there who provide information on polling day.
Facebook doesn't have to be perfect to make a difference, they just have to block viral bullshit from the fake news factories they already know about but mostly tolerate.
I thought this was supposed to make IoT more secure, and now they want to introduce Intel vulnerabilities into it?
In Intel lingo "secure" means "nobody found the flaws yet".
The subsidies are to help the bottom end of the market. Someone buying a £80k Tesla won't care, but someone buying a £20k Zoe will.
When you look at how much it adds to finance deals on sub £35k cars like the recently released Kona it's quite a significant hit for people.
And the reason to subsidise them is that it's worked to drive the cost down quickly and get demand up, which increases the roll out of infrastructure etc. We need to get rid of most of the fossil vehicles as soon as possible, because they pollute and damage people's health.
It's kind of amazing how these companies have massively popular products that dominate the market (Nokia, Blackberry) and then start talking completely bollocks, baffling everyone with management-speak buzzwords until they become irrelevant.
There is zero detail about what this actually means. Presumably they agreed on a protocol, but what protocol? What is the significance for ARM, are they going to add protocol acceleration to the next generation of the ARM spec?
Only because the US is the worst major developed nation by far for per-capita emissions. It's not like the EU isn't paying anything either, look at how much money Germany has put in to mitigating climate change. Of course Germany is also reaping the rewards of having pioneered a lot of that technology.
Never being profitable isn't a problem. The goal is to get lots of users and then get bought out by someone like Facebook. Maybe Facebook can make some money using your app to drive users to get a Facebook account, harvesting their data or whatever, but your app itself doesn't need to have any potential to be profitable on its own.