There is a major investigation into Russian inference in US elections going on. The Charlottesville march and murder was a national event. Incels keep murdering people and getting international news coverage. Games got more inclusive as a result, citing GG as one of the reasons.
Maybe time to come out of your bubble, although how the hell you missed all that I have no idea.
Actually, protests often do block people's access to their property. Some businesses give their staff time off when they know that a large demonstration is planned around their location.
There are no hard and fast rules for it. It all depends on the nature of the protest, how long the disruption lasts, how much support it has etc. Ideally you want to avoid ever having to get to the stage where people want to protest, but it's an important recourse in any democracy.
Protesting on private property tends to be seen less favourably by the law, but in this case it's mostly irrelevant anyway because they were blocking the site entrance too. They wanted them completely removed form the area, not just the private property.
A protest is basically a DoS attack on the real world. Marching down a street blocks it for other users. It creates noise that is difficult to ignore.
If you are upset about that then you basically oppose all protesting, which is a fundamental and important part of democracy. Reminds me of the "free speech zones" and efforts to keep protests away from visiting dignitaries from China and the US, to avoid upsetting them.
Lots of things, but is the odd mistake that gets quickly fixed really worse than regularly showing conspiracy theories about the moon landings, US presidents being in the KKK, Obama declaring martial law, vaccines giving kids autism etc?
TFA shows that with breaking news there is a little warning saying that details may change. A search for "moon landing" uses a snippet from Encyclopedia Britannica.
Seems like they have thought this one through. It's very conservative.
No, I think that they saw how powerful GamerGate was and adopted it. And it has brought them political power. Steve Bannon was Trump's guy, Brietbart manufactured a lot of the fake news that supported him and used the 4channers to build and disseminate the memes onto social media via fake accounts, exactly as they did with GamerGate.
Not to mention the violence... Not just Nazis, look at how many "incels" have been radicalized to commit mass murder in the past few years.
It's not about 4chan, it's about the techniques that GamerGate pioneered and the way it went from simple misogyny and trolling to hard core far right politics. And unfortunately the narrative that it's just some 14 year old 4chan trolls so don't be so silly is a great cover for them. It's the same as with Russian interference, some people dismiss it because how can memes have any effect? But that's a gross oversimplification, as I have explained.
Solar is the default option because it's cheap and pretty good, but often you want to put sensors in places where there isn't much light. Inside buildings, underground (there is a lot of infrastructure down there), underwater, in permanently shadowed areas etc.
In those cases a small thermal gradient might now provide enough energy to do something useful. And 5C is only the lower limit, often there is a much larger gradient available if you have things like running water.
The bit about GamerGate being used as a gateway to the alt-right, and the techniques pioneered by it being adopted by the alt-right to gain popularity.
GamerGate started on 4chan (before even 4chan banned it), and the politics and harassment lives on via/pol/ which is where young guys get radicalized. Don't take my word for it though, just head over there and have a read. It's all Jewish conspiracy theories and white supremacy ("is X white" is such a common question they had to ban it), which traces directly back to GamerGate.
And this is 4chan we are talking about, if they have to ban something it must be pretty bad.
It's because Apple does not licence its OS to other companies. Google does, and Google benefits from Android being licensed (they don't sell many of their own phones, 99% of Android devices are made by other companies). So their business models are fundamentally quite different.
Because Google licences its OS as its primary business model, similar to how Microsoft does to PC manufacturers, there are certain legal requirements to prevent them abusing that to suppress competition. Apple doesn't stifle competition in that way, so they are not being investigated (at least not for this, their tax affairs are another matter).
They had another issue last year where it turned out that the personnel doing safety checks were not qualified. It had been going on for years. Not malicious, just a cock-up where the wrong people were assigned to do the tests and no-one noticed.
They had to re-test all affected vehicles because it was a safety issue.
Well, the GT-R is already in the worst bracket for emissions anyway... Also the engines are hand made and signed by the person who built them, so I'd imagine they have been extensively tested and tuned anyway, before the final emissions test.
That's the biggest barrier to entering the broadband market. You have to make a huge investment in infrastructure, up against an incumbent who already has their infrastructure paid off. Sure there are laws that stop you installing new cables sometimes, but even if they went away it wouldn't really change the economics of having to build a brand new network by very much.
The solution is for the government to force the existing networks to open up so you can use their last mile infrastructure. It makes so much sense - fewer cables all over the place, less disruption digging up roads and pavements, full coverage and finally some real competition on a level playing field.
Actually I was thinking of the vehicular murder at the "Unite the Right" rally... It has to start somewhere. Fortunately it looks like it's not going anywhere, but the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
I'm not so sure. If they cared about security they would make the time-out zero seconds, not one hour. What is the reason for that extremely long time-out?
Smells like someone put pressure on them to allow that one hour window of vulnerability. Maybe it's a compromise to avoid a fight with the government, allowing them to access phones they are really interested in why making the public think that Apple is protecting them.
Only a few phones (mostly Google devices) get updates direct from Google
Untrue. All Android devices get updates direct from Google, it's a mandatory part of using the Android operating system (you must install Play Sevices that delivers the patches).
Also, if 90% of Android phones are vulnerable, why don't we see vast botnets consisting of a billion phones? Surely they would be an extremely attractive target for hackers, for botnets, for crypto mining and for stealing personal information. Yet somehow it doesn't happen... Perhaps because Android isn't so badly designed that an unpatched flaw in an ancient version of some component allows you to compromise the entire system.
Mainly because Apple is way behind on this (Android locks USB data transfer the moment you unplug the cable, no one hour time-out or any of that nonsense) and we don't see unlock devices being sold for Android phones that claim to be secure.
For example, where are the unlock devices for the Pixel 2 or Galaxy S8 with Knox enabled?
Nope, Android devices are more secure than the iPhone.
Take the Pixel 2. Flash memory is encrypted with a key, same as the iPhone. Key is stored in a secure element, same as the iPhone. Arbitrarily long passwords supported, same as the iPhone.
But where Android is better is that you need to unlock the phone and enable USB data every single time you want to use it. There is no time-out, the moment you unplug the USB cable it's locked to charge only/host mode again.
Some manufacturers go even further, e.g. Samsung with it's "Knox" system, which was certified by the NSA and DoD.
I don't see why they didn't make the time-out zero. On Android it's zero, every time you plug a USB cable in you have to unlock and enable the data connection if you need it.
240V AC isn't going away. It's been here for getting on a century. Maybe the socket might need changing one day, but all you need is the right cable for your car. For example Type 2 is the standard for AC charging in Europe and every car comes with a Type 2 to whatever-the-car-has cable.
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There is a major investigation into Russian inference in US elections going on. The Charlottesville march and murder was a national event. Incels keep murdering people and getting international news coverage. Games got more inclusive as a result, citing GG as one of the reasons.
Maybe time to come out of your bubble, although how the hell you missed all that I have no idea.
How many mistakes does it take to damage the reputation of a "reputable source"?
Depends on the nature of the mistake and if they publish corrections.
Actually, protests often do block people's access to their property. Some businesses give their staff time off when they know that a large demonstration is planned around their location.
There are no hard and fast rules for it. It all depends on the nature of the protest, how long the disruption lasts, how much support it has etc. Ideally you want to avoid ever having to get to the stage where people want to protest, but it's an important recourse in any democracy.
Protesting on private property tends to be seen less favourably by the law, but in this case it's mostly irrelevant anyway because they were blocking the site entrance too. They wanted them completely removed form the area, not just the private property.
NBC said Jill Stein had a show on RT
Do you have a link for this? A quick google didn't turn up anything.
A protest is basically a DoS attack on the real world. Marching down a street blocks it for other users. It creates noise that is difficult to ignore.
If you are upset about that then you basically oppose all protesting, which is a fundamental and important part of democracy. Reminds me of the "free speech zones" and efforts to keep protests away from visiting dignitaries from China and the US, to avoid upsetting them.
Lots of things, but is the odd mistake that gets quickly fixed really worse than regularly showing conspiracy theories about the moon landings, US presidents being in the KKK, Obama declaring martial law, vaccines giving kids autism etc?
Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good here.
TFA shows that with breaking news there is a little warning saying that details may change. A search for "moon landing" uses a snippet from Encyclopedia Britannica.
Seems like they have thought this one through. It's very conservative.
No, I think that they saw how powerful GamerGate was and adopted it. And it has brought them political power. Steve Bannon was Trump's guy, Brietbart manufactured a lot of the fake news that supported him and used the 4channers to build and disseminate the memes onto social media via fake accounts, exactly as they did with GamerGate.
Not to mention the violence... Not just Nazis, look at how many "incels" have been radicalized to commit mass murder in the past few years.
It's not about 4chan, it's about the techniques that GamerGate pioneered and the way it went from simple misogyny and trolling to hard core far right politics. And unfortunately the narrative that it's just some 14 year old 4chan trolls so don't be so silly is a great cover for them. It's the same as with Russian interference, some people dismiss it because how can memes have any effect? But that's a gross oversimplification, as I have explained.
Huh, hard to tell what triggered the poor mod in that one. Android isn't security flaw ridden is somehow offensive to them??
Solar is the default option because it's cheap and pretty good, but often you want to put sensors in places where there isn't much light. Inside buildings, underground (there is a lot of infrastructure down there), underwater, in permanently shadowed areas etc.
In those cases a small thermal gradient might now provide enough energy to do something useful. And 5C is only the lower limit, often there is a much larger gradient available if you have things like running water.
We need to invent a way of paying a few cents at a time for stuff. Until then advertising is the only way to "charge" people small amounts.
The bit about GamerGate being used as a gateway to the alt-right, and the techniques pioneered by it being adopted by the alt-right to gain popularity.
GamerGate started on 4chan (before even 4chan banned it), and the politics and harassment lives on via /pol/ which is where young guys get radicalized. Don't take my word for it though, just head over there and have a read. It's all Jewish conspiracy theories and white supremacy ("is X white" is such a common question they had to ban it), which traces directly back to GamerGate.
And this is 4chan we are talking about, if they have to ban something it must be pretty bad.
You may have used it for selecting photos from another app. In any case, it's easy to fix.
Open settings and go into Apps. Find Photos and disable it, then optionally uninstall updates.
It's because Apple does not licence its OS to other companies. Google does, and Google benefits from Android being licensed (they don't sell many of their own phones, 99% of Android devices are made by other companies). So their business models are fundamentally quite different.
Because Google licences its OS as its primary business model, similar to how Microsoft does to PC manufacturers, there are certain legal requirements to prevent them abusing that to suppress competition. Apple doesn't stifle competition in that way, so they are not being investigated (at least not for this, their tax affairs are another matter).
They had another issue last year where it turned out that the personnel doing safety checks were not qualified. It had been going on for years. Not malicious, just a cock-up where the wrong people were assigned to do the tests and no-one noticed.
They had to re-test all affected vehicles because it was a safety issue.
Well, the GT-R is already in the worst bracket for emissions anyway... Also the engines are hand made and signed by the person who built them, so I'd imagine they have been extensively tested and tuned anyway, before the final emissions test.
How did you solve the last mile problem?
That's the biggest barrier to entering the broadband market. You have to make a huge investment in infrastructure, up against an incumbent who already has their infrastructure paid off. Sure there are laws that stop you installing new cables sometimes, but even if they went away it wouldn't really change the economics of having to build a brand new network by very much.
The solution is for the government to force the existing networks to open up so you can use their last mile infrastructure. It makes so much sense - fewer cables all over the place, less disruption digging up roads and pavements, full coverage and finally some real competition on a level playing field.
I already explained it, go back a few levels.
Actually I was thinking of the vehicular murder at the "Unite the Right" rally... It has to start somewhere. Fortunately it looks like it's not going anywhere, but the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Hence this is good news.
I'm not so sure. If they cared about security they would make the time-out zero seconds, not one hour. What is the reason for that extremely long time-out?
Smells like someone put pressure on them to allow that one hour window of vulnerability. Maybe it's a compromise to avoid a fight with the government, allowing them to access phones they are really interested in why making the public think that Apple is protecting them.
Only a few phones (mostly Google devices) get updates direct from Google
Untrue. All Android devices get updates direct from Google, it's a mandatory part of using the Android operating system (you must install Play Sevices that delivers the patches).
Also, if 90% of Android phones are vulnerable, why don't we see vast botnets consisting of a billion phones? Surely they would be an extremely attractive target for hackers, for botnets, for crypto mining and for stealing personal information. Yet somehow it doesn't happen... Perhaps because Android isn't so badly designed that an unpatched flaw in an ancient version of some component allows you to compromise the entire system.
Mainly because Apple is way behind on this (Android locks USB data transfer the moment you unplug the cable, no one hour time-out or any of that nonsense) and we don't see unlock devices being sold for Android phones that claim to be secure.
For example, where are the unlock devices for the Pixel 2 or Galaxy S8 with Knox enabled?
Nope, Android devices are more secure than the iPhone.
Take the Pixel 2. Flash memory is encrypted with a key, same as the iPhone. Key is stored in a secure element, same as the iPhone. Arbitrarily long passwords supported, same as the iPhone.
But where Android is better is that you need to unlock the phone and enable USB data every single time you want to use it. There is no time-out, the moment you unplug the USB cable it's locked to charge only/host mode again.
Some manufacturers go even further, e.g. Samsung with it's "Knox" system, which was certified by the NSA and DoD.
I don't see why they didn't make the time-out zero. On Android it's zero, every time you plug a USB cable in you have to unlock and enable the data connection if you need it.
What were Apple thinking?
240V AC isn't going away. It's been here for getting on a century. Maybe the socket might need changing one day, but all you need is the right cable for your car. For example Type 2 is the standard for AC charging in Europe and every car comes with a Type 2 to whatever-the-car-has cable.