Probably true but the real question is how fast they will iterate and improve it.
Siri came out first but improved very slowly, quickly being eclipsed by Google Assistant and Alexa.
Apple Maps is another good example. Even if they hadn't started from way behind, it's incredible how far Google has opened up the gap between them. All those building models you see on Google Maps? AI looking at satellite photos for the most part. Accurate locations for businesses and homes? AI reading signs and door numbers from Street View.
And when you look at how Apple does improve these products, it's mostly by paying other companies to do it for them. They don't do their own map data, they buy it in. They don't provide intelligence and web data for Siri, they take it from Bing.
ARM embedded controllers with a huge number of peripherals are extremely cheap now. As such they get thrown in to all sorts of things. In a way it's good, they offload work from the main CPU. In another way it's bad, because they rarely even consider security in the design.
Sadly I doubt sockets will be coming back. They are expensive. Back in the day they made more sense because you might need to issue a firmware update which meant replacing chips. That an parts were unreliable or had to be matched during manufacture in some significant percentage of systems. Nowadays flash memory is so cheap and parts are reliable that there isn't much call for sockets.
It's hard for the Dems to attack Trump on policy, because he has made any attack on populist ideas into "political correctness" and other easily dismissed slogans.
He's very hard to criticise because he's already so offensive and so far divorced from reality that any sort of appeal to the decency or truth is ineffective. In fact his base revels in him being that way.
Short of creating some kind of left-wing version of Trump to oppose him, which let's be honest none of us want to see, the only thing anyone can really do at this point is wait. He is already failing, so just let it happen, let people realize he is full of shit and put up a good candidate in 2020.
The worst part is that we knew it was going to happen and exactly what they would do. The leaked GCHQ manual on trolling laid out all the techniques that Russia is using. GCHQ uses them too... But apparently forgot to develop any ways to detect or defend against them.
Since GCHQ knew, that means the NSA knew as well, as also failed to do anything about it.
You think he'd just turn off the Bat-Wifi or install a Bat-Firewall. Or have his own custom Bat-Smartphone that looks suspiciously like an iPhone with plastic bat wings stuck on and the GPS disabled.
Actually, I'm impressed that location services work in the Bat-Cave.
The annual Pyongyang Marathon is in April. There are probably people training for that, or maybe for the Olympics. NK does import tech like Fitbits, mostly via China.
These days DC is often used for long distance transmission lines. It's more efficient and there is no problem converting it back to AC now that we have efficient solid state hardware to do that. That also allows the conversion hardware to match the local frequency. In fact in Japan they have two separate AC grids, one 50Hz and one 60Hz, tied together with this kind of AC/DC -> DC/AC conversion.
Long story short anywhere that multiple AC systems come together there is usually some conversion going on, either from DC or just to correct phase enough to avoid issues.
300k is just the fake events that apparently some Americans did actually attend. The number of people who saw Russian posts is higher.
Anyway, eyeballs are not a good metric. Influence is, but influence is hard to measure. This story is very significant because it appears that there is evidence that people definitely were influenced to the point of attending protests organized by Russia.
We are slowly moving towards acceptance. First it was "this never happened", then it was "the posts only reached a few hundred people", after that "no one was actually influenced by this stuff".
The government is competent at most of the things it does, you just don't hear about it because "XYZ doing fine, nothing to see here" isn't a very good headline.
That's what I'm pushing for, especially for my server that was very badly impacted. New Xeon, new mobo, new RAM, Windows 10 licences and my hourly rate.
I wish windowing systems were less flexible. In the 80s everyone was trying to build libraries that made creating consistent UIs easier. Some operating systems just built a standard library in and enforced its use.
In the late 90s people switched to horrific skinned UIs and breaking basic functionality that users came to expect. We never fully recovered.
TFA points it that the title bar is actually the responsibly of the application and is optional. Screw that, make it mandatory and consistent. Life is too short to dick around with non standard UIs that break in the next version of the OS our with my preferred dark mode or on high DPI displays.
He didn't run away. He was told he could leave Sweden. It was only after he had left that they decided they wanted him back. Even though they routinely question people in other countries, for some reason they wanted him back in Sweden to talk to investigators. No to stand trial, to talk to him.
It's extremely suspicious. Assange believed it was an attempt to extradite or render him into US custody. He was willing to answer questions in the UK.
If the Swedish were interested in justice they would have take the many available opportunities to interview him and move the case forward. Instead, they simply let the clock run out.
Considering he has been effectively incarcerated longer than any possible sentence he might face, and that it's cost the country many millions of Pounds, there does seem to be little purpose in pursuing any prosecution.
Even if convicted he likely wouldn't serve any time. There is no public interest in keeping him at the embassy.
Neither, just commenting on the way doubt is seeded on these stories. You are probably right, the timing is likely due to the referendum, but that of course doesn't meant it isn't true. There is plenty of corroborating evidence in this case.
Cosy Bear, the group involved here, is well documented by multiple parties in multiple countries. Several anti-virus/security vendors have identified their malware and examined it in detail including Kaspersky (!), Symantec and F-Secure. So Russian, Finnish and American companies all reaching the same conclusions. Multiple law enforcement and security services have detected their attacks too.
At this point their existence and activities are not really in question. They are known to attack politicians in other countries, seemingly with the goal of causing disruption to governments and democratic processes.
If you want to read more then the Wikipedia article is a good jumping off point, with lots of references and links to analysis of their malware and operations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This story is tagged "orsotheysay", and every time any story about Russian hacking is posted there are a lot of people questioning if it had any effect on the election and trying to dismiss it as a conspiracy theory. Stories about Russian activities on social media are the same, questioning if they had any influence at all.
Some of the accounts doing this are obvious Russia trolls. ACs, young accounts with few posts etc. Some are established but with a long history of supporting Trump by dismissing anything that suggests his win might be illegitimate or that the Muller investigation might go somewhere.
In other words we have an odd situation where it's obvious that even now Russian trolls are trying to sow doubt and gaslight us, while the people who benefited from their meddling are help them because their goals happen to align at this time.
That's why companies want JavaScript. They have huge piles of the stuff, mountains of spaghetti code, a mishmash of frameworks and Stack Overflow copypasta.
Last Jedi made $1.26 BILLION at the box office alone, on a budget of $200 million. It's hardly been a failure.
Rey's force abilities are relatively weak. She struggled in fights, especially compared to Kylo Ren. She kinda failed in that movie really, unable to convince Luke to re-join the rebellion or Ren to switch sides.
The main reason it didn't perform so well in China is that it didn't star Donnie Yen, and up against some stiff competition.
This should be a non-partisan issue. It doesn't matter who side the Russian meddling was in support of, the fact that it happened and is now being properly investigated is the important thing.
My favourite moment seen in a new light thanks to the prequels is in Empire where Luke is fighting Vader. Luke takes the high ground and Vader looks up at him, pausing for a moment as if remembering something...
Some other time his opponent had the higher ground...
Didn't end well...
Then Vader flings his lightsabre in Luke's direction like he can't think of anything better to do.
The problem with polls on web sites is that only people who care enough to go and vote are represented. As such the results are usually at one extreme or the other, as stuff that isn't particularly good or bad doesn't get many votes.
Worse still such polls are often dominated by people directed there from Reddit or Facebook to make some point.
The only reliable polls are the ones done of people leaving theatres after watching the movie.
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Probably true but the real question is how fast they will iterate and improve it.
Siri came out first but improved very slowly, quickly being eclipsed by Google Assistant and Alexa.
Apple Maps is another good example. Even if they hadn't started from way behind, it's incredible how far Google has opened up the gap between them. All those building models you see on Google Maps? AI looking at satellite photos for the most part. Accurate locations for businesses and homes? AI reading signs and door numbers from Street View.
And when you look at how Apple does improve these products, it's mostly by paying other companies to do it for them. They don't do their own map data, they buy it in. They don't provide intelligence and web data for Siri, they take it from Bing.
ARM embedded controllers with a huge number of peripherals are extremely cheap now. As such they get thrown in to all sorts of things. In a way it's good, they offload work from the main CPU. In another way it's bad, because they rarely even consider security in the design.
Sadly I doubt sockets will be coming back. They are expensive. Back in the day they made more sense because you might need to issue a firmware update which meant replacing chips. That an parts were unreliable or had to be matched during manufacture in some significant percentage of systems. Nowadays flash memory is so cheap and parts are reliable that there isn't much call for sockets.
It's hard for the Dems to attack Trump on policy, because he has made any attack on populist ideas into "political correctness" and other easily dismissed slogans.
He's very hard to criticise because he's already so offensive and so far divorced from reality that any sort of appeal to the decency or truth is ineffective. In fact his base revels in him being that way.
Short of creating some kind of left-wing version of Trump to oppose him, which let's be honest none of us want to see, the only thing anyone can really do at this point is wait. He is already failing, so just let it happen, let people realize he is full of shit and put up a good candidate in 2020.
The worst part is that we knew it was going to happen and exactly what they would do. The leaked GCHQ manual on trolling laid out all the techniques that Russia is using. GCHQ uses them too... But apparently forgot to develop any ways to detect or defend against them.
Since GCHQ knew, that means the NSA knew as well, as also failed to do anything about it.
You think he'd just turn off the Bat-Wifi or install a Bat-Firewall. Or have his own custom Bat-Smartphone that looks suspiciously like an iPhone with plastic bat wings stuck on and the GPS disabled.
Actually, I'm impressed that location services work in the Bat-Cave.
The annual Pyongyang Marathon is in April. There are probably people training for that, or maybe for the Olympics. NK does import tech like Fitbits, mostly via China.
These days DC is often used for long distance transmission lines. It's more efficient and there is no problem converting it back to AC now that we have efficient solid state hardware to do that. That also allows the conversion hardware to match the local frequency. In fact in Japan they have two separate AC grids, one 50Hz and one 60Hz, tied together with this kind of AC/DC -> DC/AC conversion.
Long story short anywhere that multiple AC systems come together there is usually some conversion going on, either from DC or just to correct phase enough to avoid issues.
300k is just the fake events that apparently some Americans did actually attend. The number of people who saw Russian posts is higher.
Anyway, eyeballs are not a good metric. Influence is, but influence is hard to measure. This story is very significant because it appears that there is evidence that people definitely were influenced to the point of attending protests organized by Russia.
We are slowly moving towards acceptance. First it was "this never happened", then it was "the posts only reached a few hundred people", after that "no one was actually influenced by this stuff".
If you just finished reading the sentence you quoted...
but CNN has previously found evidence that the Russian group successfully convinced Americans to attend the demonstrations
The government is competent at most of the things it does, you just don't hear about it because "XYZ doing fine, nothing to see here" isn't a very good headline.
That's what I'm pushing for, especially for my server that was very badly impacted. New Xeon, new mobo, new RAM, Windows 10 licences and my hourly rate.
It's probably your massive hosts file causing buffer overflows.
I wish windowing systems were less flexible. In the 80s everyone was trying to build libraries that made creating consistent UIs easier. Some operating systems just built a standard library in and enforced its use.
In the late 90s people switched to horrific skinned UIs and breaking basic functionality that users came to expect. We never fully recovered.
TFA points it that the title bar is actually the responsibly of the application and is optional. Screw that, make it mandatory and consistent. Life is too short to dick around with non standard UIs that break in the next version of the OS our with my preferred dark mode or on high DPI displays.
He didn't run away. He was told he could leave Sweden. It was only after he had left that they decided they wanted him back. Even though they routinely question people in other countries, for some reason they wanted him back in Sweden to talk to investigators. No to stand trial, to talk to him.
It's extremely suspicious. Assange believed it was an attempt to extradite or render him into US custody. He was willing to answer questions in the UK.
If the Swedish were interested in justice they would have take the many available opportunities to interview him and move the case forward. Instead, they simply let the clock run out.
His friends knew exactly what they were getting in to. He fled because he feared rendition. You can argue and how realistic that fear is.
Considering he has been effectively incarcerated longer than any possible sentence he might face, and that it's cost the country many millions of Pounds, there does seem to be little purpose in pursuing any prosecution.
Even if convicted he likely wouldn't serve any time. There is no public interest in keeping him at the embassy.
Neither, just commenting on the way doubt is seeded on these stories. You are probably right, the timing is likely due to the referendum, but that of course doesn't meant it isn't true. There is plenty of corroborating evidence in this case.
Cosy Bear, the group involved here, is well documented by multiple parties in multiple countries. Several anti-virus/security vendors have identified their malware and examined it in detail including Kaspersky (!), Symantec and F-Secure. So Russian, Finnish and American companies all reaching the same conclusions. Multiple law enforcement and security services have detected their attacks too.
At this point their existence and activities are not really in question. They are known to attack politicians in other countries, seemingly with the goal of causing disruption to governments and democratic processes.
If you want to read more then the Wikipedia article is a good jumping off point, with lots of references and links to analysis of their malware and operations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This story is tagged "orsotheysay", and every time any story about Russian hacking is posted there are a lot of people questioning if it had any effect on the election and trying to dismiss it as a conspiracy theory. Stories about Russian activities on social media are the same, questioning if they had any influence at all.
Some of the accounts doing this are obvious Russia trolls. ACs, young accounts with few posts etc. Some are established but with a long history of supporting Trump by dismissing anything that suggests his win might be illegitimate or that the Muller investigation might go somewhere.
In other words we have an odd situation where it's obvious that even now Russian trolls are trying to sow doubt and gaslight us, while the people who benefited from their meddling are help them because their goals happen to align at this time.
Imminent threat to the guys behind bullet proof shields, heavily armed and wearing body armour?
That's why companies want JavaScript. They have huge piles of the stuff, mountains of spaghetti code, a mishmash of frameworks and Stack Overflow copypasta.
Last Jedi made $1.26 BILLION at the box office alone, on a budget of $200 million. It's hardly been a failure.
Rey's force abilities are relatively weak. She struggled in fights, especially compared to Kylo Ren. She kinda failed in that movie really, unable to convince Luke to re-join the rebellion or Ren to switch sides.
The main reason it didn't perform so well in China is that it didn't star Donnie Yen, and up against some stiff competition.
This should be a non-partisan issue. It doesn't matter who side the Russian meddling was in support of, the fact that it happened and is now being properly investigated is the important thing.
My favourite moment seen in a new light thanks to the prequels is in Empire where Luke is fighting Vader. Luke takes the high ground and Vader looks up at him, pausing for a moment as if remembering something...
Some other time his opponent had the higher ground...
Didn't end well...
Then Vader flings his lightsabre in Luke's direction like he can't think of anything better to do.
The problem with polls on web sites is that only people who care enough to go and vote are represented. As such the results are usually at one extreme or the other, as stuff that isn't particularly good or bad doesn't get many votes.
Worse still such polls are often dominated by people directed there from Reddit or Facebook to make some point.
The only reliable polls are the ones done of people leaving theatres after watching the movie.