I like the concept behind the preqels and sequels, even if they were not always executed very well.
We see the fall of the Jedi order, the flaws in it laid bare. Then the rebels fight back and eventually defeat the empire, but with no Jedi to maintain order and only evil force users the First Order rises out of the ashes.
Now it looks like they are going to conclude with how the rebellion and the good guys can survive in a post-Jedi universe, where the Force is unbound by the old religious dogma. Obviously there will be a showdown between Ray and Kylo Ren, echoing Return of the Jedi but surely with a different outcome.
Presumably they prevent that in the same way that they prevent you locking the key in the car. I've done it a couple of times and the car just beeps to let me know the key is still inside.
"Someone sniffed the NFC transaction from across the street- NFC is short-range-powered, but long-range-ordinary-radio-signal", "Every garage has a way to open that car if the system should fail and you can buy the kit to open any car for $20k", "My phone got a virus and now anyone can open my car"
Proven to be groundless fears by many years of using NFC payment systems like Android Pay and Apple Pay.
"Previous owners of the car can just walk up to it with their phone to unlock it"
At least you can just unpair their phone from the car's screen, unlike if they keep the old key which requires expensive reprogramming.
Not least "your battery runs flat, but you need to open it to jump-start it"
You use the backup key. There is a slight loss of functionality here, in that you might keep the key at home so need to go and get it. It's a lot like having a puncture repair kit instead of a spare tyre - you can be screwed if the tyre is unrepairable, but in most cases it is and for most people the fuel saving is worth taking the risk of having to call a mechanic/flatbed.
Actually phones have increased security for things like mobile payments. Rather than just a contactless tap or easily observed PIN, you have a fingerprint unlock or arbitrarily long password.
Let's think about the security implications of unlocking/starting your car with your phone instead of the key. The key is probably just as vulnerable to theft since you have to have it on you, but has no authentication mechanism at all. No fingerprints, no passcodes, just having it unlocks and starts you car. So even if you disable authentication on your phone it's still no worse than the key.
Modern car keys use radio comms, so no loss there. Actually the wireless comms used for mobile payments are even more secure, being extremely short range and using a well tested standard algorithm instead of the manufacturer's own concoction. Never roll your own security if you can help it.
So all in all using your phone as a key seems like it can only be a net win. We have established that phones can securely keep secret tokens, as require for contactless payments.
They aren't so much worried about cheating in exam rooms; that's easy to fix, just take away mobile phones. They are worried about students taking an exam and then posting the questions and answers on social media afterwards. Not all students sit the exams at the exact same time so the ones taking them later could benefit from prior knowledge of the test content.
They do already have a watchdog and use it, but that doesn't help if the kernel is still ticking over but the UI has frozen.
Gestures are janky, a magnet would allow anyone to reset your iPhone with a magnet and would break magnetic phone holders (which are awesome by the way).
Some phones have a squeeze sensor that works quite well now, maybe that could be used. But really you need a physical button that not only resets the phone but can put it into recovery mode. Since there is no USB^W lighting port any more it will have to have a wifi stack with TCP/IP, DHCP and some kind of bootloader, which means a brand new and much larger attack surface.
Meanwhile everyone else just fits a waterproof USB-C connector and waterproof headphone socket.
They are going to get rid of the SIM socket too. The SIM card can be replaced by a chip SIM that can be reprogrammed to use various networks, or more likely locked to the network you bought it on with no way to ever change it.
The Fairphone 2 doesn't seem like a good deal I'm afraid.
The price is â530, which is a lot more than flagships from companies like OnePlus and Xaomi. You get Android 6.0 and no sign of regular updates, a mediocre camera and a removable battery. So really the only major benefit is the removable battery, and in practice it's not difficult to replace the battery in a OnePlus or even most of the non-Apple flagships.
Replacement parts are a nice idea, but you have to compare that to buying a phone that costs half as much and replacing it twice as often. Even with replacement parts this thing won't last forever.
Twitter has changed our democracy. It used to be that you only got a couple of opinions from the people that the TV or newspapers decided to interview, and that was usually a soundbite at most. Now you can not only see what every politician is saying, but you can interact with them and even shape their opinions.
Thanks to Twitter I have far more influence over politics than I ever have had before.
Does anyone know exactly what Intel's policy is? For example, if you did decided you wanted to have a relationship could you request a transfer to put enough distance between the two of you to avoid it being a problem?
If you want to have a relationship with a subordinate the right thing to do is to remove yourself from a position of power over them. No matter how good your intentions are it's probably only a matter of time until there is a conflict of interest or you make a request they feel like they can't refuse without it hurting their career. And when if/when it does eventually come out, every decision you ever made affecting them will be questioned.
As uncle Ben says, microwave rice isn't... I mean, with great power comes great responsibility.
In this case it seems that he probably didn't want to do any of that stuff because he is already married with kids. Still, perhaps it doesn't need so much media coverage... "Stepped down due to personal issues" is probably enough.
Stack Exchange seems to have popularized questions in the form of "what are some X".
Instead of asking "What is a good technique for doing X", which gets instantly closed as "too broad" and "primarily opinion based", you just phrase it as "What are some good techniques for doing X" and it's all good.
Now we even get this odd phrasing on Ask Slashdot sometimes.
This is also the reason for sell-by dates on bottled water. The water slowly escapes from the bottle while it sits on the shelf, through the plastic. It's so slow that it doesn't cause puddles or anything, but after some years the amount of water in the bottle is less than the advertised 2L or whatever and can't be sold at full price any more.
It also tastes of plastic by that point but that isn't a legal problem.
Hayabusa is a type of falcon, so naturally it was used as the name of a number of products and projects over the years. I wouldn't say it's that popular though... Maybe Hikari is even more common. It means "light" so gets used for all sorts of things to do with illumination, fibre optic internet, high speed transport and is even a not too uncommon girl's name.
It's not just normal notifications. If you stop visiting they send you special "please come back, look at what you are missing!" messages that are quite different to the normal notification ones. I turned all the notification emails off and still got these "please come back" ones.
You can turn them off, but it's a lot of clicks and that doesn't lessen the fact that they are using psychological tricks to try to get recovering addicts back on to their site.
They are still hundreds of kilometres away. Their really good cameras are set up for closer range work. These are just the first images that are more than a spec and which give an indication that they are on course and the object is what they were expecting.
You pretty much have to be a member of the Communist Party to get to that level in China. But what does that mean for Huwawei products?
Maybe they are backdoored by the government. But then again we know for a fact with 100% certainty that Cisco products are backdoored by the US government, and probably many other US products.
From a security standpoint relying on any single point of failure is always a bad idea. Just replacing your Huwawei network gear with Cisco isn't going to make your organization secure. Maybe the opposite - with Huwawei perhaps you can afford to hire some competent security admins.
Okay, but what is the nature of the relationship between Google and Huwawei? From what I can tell they share some AI research projects, which makes sense because both Huwawei and Google are leaders in the field and neither has particularly good access to the other's market.
Hay, we can still be friends... Often people want to stop using Facebook regularly but keep an account there so that they can deal with events that people put on there or view the odd family photo etc.
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I like the concept behind the preqels and sequels, even if they were not always executed very well.
We see the fall of the Jedi order, the flaws in it laid bare. Then the rebels fight back and eventually defeat the empire, but with no Jedi to maintain order and only evil force users the First Order rises out of the ashes.
Now it looks like they are going to conclude with how the rebellion and the good guys can survive in a post-Jedi universe, where the Force is unbound by the old religious dogma. Obviously there will be a showdown between Ray and Kylo Ren, echoing Return of the Jedi but surely with a different outcome.
Google pulled out of the Chinese market over that kind of thing. All Google services are blocked by the Great Firewall.
That's why he gets the big bucks. If he wants to persue such a relationship he needs to resign.
Not cameras, from memory. What book and what charterers are on the literature exam etc.
Most countries get around that by having a selection of papers, and having all students sit one paper on one day and then discarding it.
There are times, like going to a restaurant, that the phone is off, or better, left in the car.
My phone has both an "off" and a "mute" button.
the dead smartphone battery
Just add a USB port on teh OUTSIDE of the car. Then you can charge the car from USB as well!
"I locked my phone in the car"
Presumably they prevent that in the same way that they prevent you locking the key in the car. I've done it a couple of times and the car just beeps to let me know the key is still inside.
"Someone sniffed the NFC transaction from across the street- NFC is short-range-powered, but long-range-ordinary-radio-signal", "Every garage has a way to open that car if the system should fail and you can buy the kit to open any car for $20k", "My phone got a virus and now anyone can open my car"
Proven to be groundless fears by many years of using NFC payment systems like Android Pay and Apple Pay.
"Previous owners of the car can just walk up to it with their phone to unlock it"
At least you can just unpair their phone from the car's screen, unlike if they keep the old key which requires expensive reprogramming.
Not least "your battery runs flat, but you need to open it to jump-start it"
You use the backup key. There is a slight loss of functionality here, in that you might keep the key at home so need to go and get it. It's a lot like having a puncture repair kit instead of a spare tyre - you can be screwed if the tyre is unrepairable, but in most cases it is and for most people the fuel saving is worth taking the risk of having to call a mechanic/flatbed.
Actually phones have increased security for things like mobile payments. Rather than just a contactless tap or easily observed PIN, you have a fingerprint unlock or arbitrarily long password.
Let's think about the security implications of unlocking/starting your car with your phone instead of the key. The key is probably just as vulnerable to theft since you have to have it on you, but has no authentication mechanism at all. No fingerprints, no passcodes, just having it unlocks and starts you car. So even if you disable authentication on your phone it's still no worse than the key.
Modern car keys use radio comms, so no loss there. Actually the wireless comms used for mobile payments are even more secure, being extremely short range and using a well tested standard algorithm instead of the manufacturer's own concoction. Never roll your own security if you can help it.
So all in all using your phone as a key seems like it can only be a net win. We have established that phones can securely keep secret tokens, as require for contactless payments.
They aren't so much worried about cheating in exam rooms; that's easy to fix, just take away mobile phones. They are worried about students taking an exam and then posting the questions and answers on social media afterwards. Not all students sit the exams at the exact same time so the ones taking them later could benefit from prior knowledge of the test content.
Have you tried those fake-meat "impossible" burgers? They are expensive but they are remarkably good.
To be fair, you can get Qi chargers for less than the typical Lightning cable, so this might be a net win for iPhone users.
Do you really think Apple will allow that to happen? They will have to come up with some reason for you to buy the $150 Apple Wireless Charger.
They do already have a watchdog and use it, but that doesn't help if the kernel is still ticking over but the UI has frozen.
Gestures are janky, a magnet would allow anyone to reset your iPhone with a magnet and would break magnetic phone holders (which are awesome by the way).
Some phones have a squeeze sensor that works quite well now, maybe that could be used. But really you need a physical button that not only resets the phone but can put it into recovery mode. Since there is no USB^W lighting port any more it will have to have a wifi stack with TCP/IP, DHCP and some kind of bootloader, which means a brand new and much larger attack surface.
Meanwhile everyone else just fits a waterproof USB-C connector and waterproof headphone socket.
They are going to get rid of the SIM socket too. The SIM card can be replaced by a chip SIM that can be reprogrammed to use various networks, or more likely locked to the network you bought it on with no way to ever change it.
The Fairphone 2 doesn't seem like a good deal I'm afraid.
The price is â530, which is a lot more than flagships from companies like OnePlus and Xaomi. You get Android 6.0 and no sign of regular updates, a mediocre camera and a removable battery. So really the only major benefit is the removable battery, and in practice it's not difficult to replace the battery in a OnePlus or even most of the non-Apple flagships.
Replacement parts are a nice idea, but you have to compare that to buying a phone that costs half as much and replacing it twice as often. Even with replacement parts this thing won't last forever.
Twitter has changed our democracy. It used to be that you only got a couple of opinions from the people that the TV or newspapers decided to interview, and that was usually a soundbite at most. Now you can not only see what every politician is saying, but you can interact with them and even shape their opinions.
Thanks to Twitter I have far more influence over politics than I ever have had before.
Does anyone know exactly what Intel's policy is? For example, if you did decided you wanted to have a relationship could you request a transfer to put enough distance between the two of you to avoid it being a problem?
If you want to have a relationship with a subordinate the right thing to do is to remove yourself from a position of power over them. No matter how good your intentions are it's probably only a matter of time until there is a conflict of interest or you make a request they feel like they can't refuse without it hurting their career. And when if/when it does eventually come out, every decision you ever made affecting them will be questioned.
As uncle Ben says, microwave rice isn't... I mean, with great power comes great responsibility.
In this case it seems that he probably didn't want to do any of that stuff because he is already married with kids. Still, perhaps it doesn't need so much media coverage... "Stepped down due to personal issues" is probably enough.
Stack Exchange seems to have popularized questions in the form of "what are some X".
Instead of asking "What is a good technique for doing X", which gets instantly closed as "too broad" and "primarily opinion based", you just phrase it as "What are some good techniques for doing X" and it's all good.
Now we even get this odd phrasing on Ask Slashdot sometimes.
This is also the reason for sell-by dates on bottled water. The water slowly escapes from the bottle while it sits on the shelf, through the plastic. It's so slow that it doesn't cause puddles or anything, but after some years the amount of water in the bottle is less than the advertised 2L or whatever and can't be sold at full price any more.
It also tastes of plastic by that point but that isn't a legal problem.
Hayabusa is a type of falcon, so naturally it was used as the name of a number of products and projects over the years. I wouldn't say it's that popular though... Maybe Hikari is even more common. It means "light" so gets used for all sorts of things to do with illumination, fibre optic internet, high speed transport and is even a not too uncommon girl's name.
It's not just normal notifications. If you stop visiting they send you special "please come back, look at what you are missing!" messages that are quite different to the normal notification ones. I turned all the notification emails off and still got these "please come back" ones.
You can turn them off, but it's a lot of clicks and that doesn't lessen the fact that they are using psychological tricks to try to get recovering addicts back on to their site.
They are still hundreds of kilometres away. Their really good cameras are set up for closer range work. These are just the first images that are more than a spec and which give an indication that they are on course and the object is what they were expecting.
You pretty much have to be a member of the Communist Party to get to that level in China. But what does that mean for Huwawei products?
Maybe they are backdoored by the government. But then again we know for a fact with 100% certainty that Cisco products are backdoored by the US government, and probably many other US products.
From a security standpoint relying on any single point of failure is always a bad idea. Just replacing your Huwawei network gear with Cisco isn't going to make your organization secure. Maybe the opposite - with Huwawei perhaps you can afford to hire some competent security admins.
Okay, but what is the nature of the relationship between Google and Huwawei? From what I can tell they share some AI research projects, which makes sense because both Huwawei and Google are leaders in the field and neither has particularly good access to the other's market.
Hay, we can still be friends... Often people want to stop using Facebook regularly but keep an account there so that they can deal with events that people put on there or view the odd family photo etc.
It's not about being right or wrong, it's about setting out what the likely future is going to be so we can plan accordingly.
That's why once you get past the headline black and white claims most of these predictive reports give probabilities and multiple possible scenarios.