Well, yeah, they do actually. When you consider how much content is on Reddit that would be removed from other sites immediately, they actually pretty liberal about what content they host.
In other news, the owners of Gab.ai threatened to get the police involved over threats made against them on their platform. Last year they removed a couple of posts at the request of corporations too. Turns out that expecting unlimited freeze peach is somewhat unrealistic.
Sadly your wallet isn't quite so invulnerable to being sued for libel. If someone with money sues you in the US, even if it's without merit, you had better have deep pockets or be extremely lucky.
No, the folks who were forced to leave their homes and jobs and schools, and watch them decay from afar. The folks whose communities have been destroyed, never to return. The folks whose farming and fishing businesses have been destroyed.
Reminds me of the attack that finally recovered the hidden Gameboy boot ROM. Up until that point it had to be replaced by an open source one in emulators. The ROM was inside the CPU, and the final instruction in it disabled the ability to read said ROM until the next reset.
Someone realized they could simply count the number of clock cycles needed to exit the ROM after reset, then sent that number -1 and glitched the clock line. The glitch caused the ROM-read-disable instruction to be skipped and the ROM could be dumped with a custom cart.
Carbon taxes don't have to harm the economy as a whole, and especially not individuals. If they are used to fund development of cheaper, clean forms of energy and consumption they can be a net benefit.
Don't forget to factor in the reduced cost of dealing with the emissions and associated pollution either, e.g. healthcare, environmental disasters and cleaning.
Norway is an interesting example. Most new cars are electric. Charging infrastructure is extensive. Yet it didn't bankrupt them or make cars massively more expensive or anything like that. In fact Norway is consistently rated as one of the best places in the world to live in terms of quality of life.
Kennedy couldn't have been in office by the end of the decade even if he hadn't been assassinated. He proposed a literal moon-shot and it happened.
Germany proposed a massive change to its energy infrastructure and generation, with the initial legislation in 2010 and the expected end date around 2024. Merkel may still be in power but could hardly count on it, and many of those involved are already out.
The Kyoto agreement, limited as it was, resulted in real changes and targets that live on to this day. In fact it served as the basis for further, more aggressive targets later on. Even though Trump pulled out of Paris, many states are doing it anyway and so are many bother big nations like China and all of the EU.
That's how politics work. Set a goal and build towards it. Once set, it becomes politically harder to turn away from that goal (as Trump learned) and encourages others, even those who come later, to pursue it.
The bootloader can be accessed via the lightning port. That's how iTunes can recover an unbootable phone by doing a "factory reset". In that case iTunes instructs the bootloader to secure erase the flash memory and writes a new OS image to it.
The bootloader loads before the OS does. It doesn't have any concept of users. All it can do is ask for the passcode to decrypt flash memory or secure erase and overwrite the flash with a new image (for disaster recovery).
The idea is that the secure element rate limits the number of password attempts. However, it appears that they have found some way to circumvent the limit, which involves exploiting the bootloader. It might be a case of loading their own code, or causing the secure element to crash and reset the attempt count/delay timer, or something else.
I'm not sure this change will affect GrayKey and Cellebrite anyway. My understanding is that they attack the phone's bootloader. It's a special bit of firmware that loads at boot time and is designed to make recovery from a broken OS image possible. It seems that they found some vulnerability in it that they can exploit to disable the passcode attempt limit and then automatically try passcodes until they find the right one.
Also, this fix doesn't seem to be enough... On my Pixel you always have to unlock to access any of the phone's resources via USB. There is no 1 hour grace period, it's needed every single time.
A Leaf looks good for about 400k km on the original pack, and Tesla maybe 1.5M km. Basically the bodywork will fall off it before the battery needs replacing, unless there is a fault with the pack. And used packs won't be expensive either, in fact used Leaf packs are not bad right now. In the future there will be refurbs too.
Pollution is quite effective. For example, there are various add-ons for popular browsers that add random noise to canvas elements, changing the fingerprint every time. Even if they are tracking you by other means such as detecting installed fonts, the random canvas fingerprint and maybe a random user-agent pollutes their data.
Tesla is believed to make over $20K per Model S and Model X
That seems to be the margin before all the warranty work on the car though.
Take the Model X drive unit. There was a design flaw that caused it to start vibrating under acceleration and eventually all the time after a few thousand miles, if that. At first they replaced them with identical ones. By early this year they seemed to have developed a new model that was more reliable, but by then some people had had two replacement drive units.
That's just one example but if you check the Tesla forums there are endless stories of common and expensive faults. Seats seem to be another expensive one - Model X seats don't get repaired, they just replace the entire seat. It's not a normal seat either, it's got ventilation, heating, motors and premium coverings. Plus labour, of course.
I'd love to know the average amount that warranty work costs Tesla per vehicle.
Name changes used to work, but these days they tend to backfire. Journalists will still call them Monsanto (now rebranded Bayer due to bad publicity).
All changing your name like that does is publicly admit that your reputation is impossible to salvage and you are trying to be sneaky. It's not like in the old days where such things could get by unnoticed.
Saudi Arabia jumped the gun on nuclear and it doesn't look like a good investment any more. When they selected it there wasn't much of a grid scale battery storage market and it seemed like it might be a long way off. Now solar+battery costs about half as much per megawatt as nuclear does, and works much better in terms of reacting to demand.
Even worse, they are buying in the nuclear tech (some from France, some from Japan and some from South Korea) and don't have any capability to produce fuel themselves. They missed an opportunity to become leaders in solar+battery tech and export it, rather than being reliant on technology and fuel imports.
To be fair it was harder to see back when they made the decision to build $80bn of nuclear generation, but it's also not too late to pivot away from it.
But there will also be plenty of used EVs, and they are a much more attractive purchase. Next to no maintenance and "fuel" is extremely cheap or even free.
It's really good news that Apple is doing something about this.
Hopefully others will follow. Their improvements seem to be based on research done by Mozilla, so perhaps at least Firefox will get something similar soon.
Japan already has a lot of rail. It's so popular that it gets really crowded at peak times. They expand the platforms wherever possible to increase capacity.
They have trams in some cities. I think there are a few in Tokyo, maybe in the north somewhere near Ikebukuro from memory. But it's hard to add more, with the road layout and traffic density they have. When new rail goes in it's usually elevated or underground. For example the Tsukuba Express line which was built about 15 years ago is a mixture of underground in central Tokyo and elevated as it gets further out.
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Well, yeah, they do actually. When you consider how much content is on Reddit that would be removed from other sites immediately, they actually pretty liberal about what content they host.
In other news, the owners of Gab.ai threatened to get the police involved over threats made against them on their platform. Last year they removed a couple of posts at the request of corporations too. Turns out that expecting unlimited freeze peach is somewhat unrealistic.
Sadly your wallet isn't quite so invulnerable to being sued for libel. If someone with money sues you in the US, even if it's without merit, you had better have deep pockets or be extremely lucky.
I would be surprised if it didn't support Linux, because they will surely want to support Android.
Of course, the drivers will probably be binary blobs.
No, the folks who were forced to leave their homes and jobs and schools, and watch them decay from afar. The folks whose communities have been destroyed, never to return. The folks whose farming and fishing businesses have been destroyed.
Oh god, you aren't of those soy-brain-pill crackpots are you?
Anyone who starts quoting Infowars and Paul Joseph Watson isn't doing their credibility any favours.
I don't think locking will affect DFU.
Even if you read the flash (an optional part of the DFU spec) it's encrypted. The only realistic attack is on the passcode.
California is leading the country in terms of EV ownership, right?
Yes, that's the point. You can only erase the flash, you can't recover data from the phone via the bootloader.
Reminds me of the attack that finally recovered the hidden Gameboy boot ROM. Up until that point it had to be replaced by an open source one in emulators. The ROM was inside the CPU, and the final instruction in it disabled the ability to read said ROM until the next reset.
Someone realized they could simply count the number of clock cycles needed to exit the ROM after reset, then sent that number -1 and glitched the clock line. The glitch caused the ROM-read-disable instruction to be skipped and the ROM could be dumped with a custom cart.
Carbon taxes don't have to harm the economy as a whole, and especially not individuals. If they are used to fund development of cheaper, clean forms of energy and consumption they can be a net benefit.
Don't forget to factor in the reduced cost of dealing with the emissions and associated pollution either, e.g. healthcare, environmental disasters and cleaning.
Norway is an interesting example. Most new cars are electric. Charging infrastructure is extensive. Yet it didn't bankrupt them or make cars massively more expensive or anything like that. In fact Norway is consistently rated as one of the best places in the world to live in terms of quality of life.
Yet we see many counter-examples of this.
Kennedy couldn't have been in office by the end of the decade even if he hadn't been assassinated. He proposed a literal moon-shot and it happened.
Germany proposed a massive change to its energy infrastructure and generation, with the initial legislation in 2010 and the expected end date around 2024. Merkel may still be in power but could hardly count on it, and many of those involved are already out.
The Kyoto agreement, limited as it was, resulted in real changes and targets that live on to this day. In fact it served as the basis for further, more aggressive targets later on. Even though Trump pulled out of Paris, many states are doing it anyway and so are many bother big nations like China and all of the EU.
That's how politics work. Set a goal and build towards it. Once set, it becomes politically harder to turn away from that goal (as Trump learned) and encourages others, even those who come later, to pursue it.
5GHz is only the turbo frequency though, meaning it can only do it on one or two cores and only for a limited amount of time without extreme cooling.
Given that it's crippled by Meltdown I think I'll take much cheaper Ryzen or Threadripper with more cores and especially more PCIe lanes.
If it was a fold out screen so I could have dual monitors in my hotel room I'd be interested. A touch keyboard... Sod off.
The bootloader can be accessed via the lightning port. That's how iTunes can recover an unbootable phone by doing a "factory reset". In that case iTunes instructs the bootloader to secure erase the flash memory and writes a new OS image to it.
The bootloader loads before the OS does. It doesn't have any concept of users. All it can do is ask for the passcode to decrypt flash memory or secure erase and overwrite the flash with a new image (for disaster recovery).
The idea is that the secure element rate limits the number of password attempts. However, it appears that they have found some way to circumvent the limit, which involves exploiting the bootloader. It might be a case of loading their own code, or causing the secure element to crash and reset the attempt count/delay timer, or something else.
I'm not sure this change will affect GrayKey and Cellebrite anyway. My understanding is that they attack the phone's bootloader. It's a special bit of firmware that loads at boot time and is designed to make recovery from a broken OS image possible. It seems that they found some vulnerability in it that they can exploit to disable the passcode attempt limit and then automatically try passcodes until they find the right one.
Also, this fix doesn't seem to be enough... On my Pixel you always have to unlock to access any of the phone's resources via USB. There is no 1 hour grace period, it's needed every single time.
A Leaf looks good for about 400k km on the original pack, and Tesla maybe 1.5M km. Basically the bodywork will fall off it before the battery needs replacing, unless there is a fault with the pack. And used packs won't be expensive either, in fact used Leaf packs are not bad right now. In the future there will be refurbs too.
Try the EFF's Panopticlick.
Pollution is quite effective. For example, there are various add-ons for popular browsers that add random noise to canvas elements, changing the fingerprint every time. Even if they are tracking you by other means such as detecting installed fonts, the random canvas fingerprint and maybe a random user-agent pollutes their data.
Tesla is believed to make over $20K per Model S and Model X
That seems to be the margin before all the warranty work on the car though.
Take the Model X drive unit. There was a design flaw that caused it to start vibrating under acceleration and eventually all the time after a few thousand miles, if that. At first they replaced them with identical ones. By early this year they seemed to have developed a new model that was more reliable, but by then some people had had two replacement drive units.
That's just one example but if you check the Tesla forums there are endless stories of common and expensive faults. Seats seem to be another expensive one - Model X seats don't get repaired, they just replace the entire seat. It's not a normal seat either, it's got ventilation, heating, motors and premium coverings. Plus labour, of course.
I'd love to know the average amount that warranty work costs Tesla per vehicle.
Name changes used to work, but these days they tend to backfire. Journalists will still call them Monsanto (now rebranded Bayer due to bad publicity).
All changing your name like that does is publicly admit that your reputation is impossible to salvage and you are trying to be sneaky. It's not like in the old days where such things could get by unnoticed.
Saudi Arabia jumped the gun on nuclear and it doesn't look like a good investment any more. When they selected it there wasn't much of a grid scale battery storage market and it seemed like it might be a long way off. Now solar+battery costs about half as much per megawatt as nuclear does, and works much better in terms of reacting to demand.
Even worse, they are buying in the nuclear tech (some from France, some from Japan and some from South Korea) and don't have any capability to produce fuel themselves. They missed an opportunity to become leaders in solar+battery tech and export it, rather than being reliant on technology and fuel imports.
To be fair it was harder to see back when they made the decision to build $80bn of nuclear generation, but it's also not too late to pivot away from it.
But there will also be plenty of used EVs, and they are a much more attractive purchase. Next to no maintenance and "fuel" is extremely cheap or even free.
It's really good news that Apple is doing something about this.
Hopefully others will follow. Their improvements seem to be based on research done by Mozilla, so perhaps at least Firefox will get something similar soon.
Japan already has a lot of rail. It's so popular that it gets really crowded at peak times. They expand the platforms wherever possible to increase capacity.
They have trams in some cities. I think there are a few in Tokyo, maybe in the north somewhere near Ikebukuro from memory. But it's hard to add more, with the road layout and traffic density they have. When new rail goes in it's usually elevated or underground. For example the Tsukuba Express line which was built about 15 years ago is a mixture of underground in central Tokyo and elevated as it gets further out.