Also, user scores don't correlate to success either. At best only people who could be bothered will actually give an opinion, and then their motivation for rating the movie is often unrelated to its quality (e.g. they dislike the cast or the director).
The standard advice applies. Find a critic who seems to like the same stuff as you, and follow them.
Dual cameras have various uses. Some phones use them to improve image quality, some to have one narrow and one wide angle lens (which can be combined to produce better images that a single sensor). Wireless charging is great, no mucking about with cables any more, just a fixed pad on your desk/bedside table/car storage unit.
We are still a little way from the perfect phone. The latest Samsung devices have all the hardware, they just need to make a Google edition with raw Android and Google's camera software tech.
For your somewhat less common requirement it may not be better, but for most people it is. Charging at home is so much more convenient than having to go and pump smelly liquid at a dirty petrol station (not to mention the cost), and it's better for everyone's health too.
There will always be some uses where ICE is more suitable I imagine, the question is not if EVs are "better" it's what percentage of people they are better for.
Equifax's service isn't based on providing reliable information or securing that information. It's based on fulfilling a legal requirement to mitigate risk when evaluating potential customers for loans.
They really don't care if they information they have is accurate, let alone secure. You are not their customer, they don't care what happens to you. All they care about is charging companies for read/write access to your file.
Ballot boxes are not exactly fortresses. They are, at least in my country, metal boxes secured shut with an official zip tie.
The solution to verification is to simply print out a receipt. If there is any doubt the receipts can be manually counted.
The main problems with these machines always seem to be extreme stupidity - USB ports on the outside, connected to the internet, running Windows XP... An open source version could easily build custom hardware and run a hardened BSD system. It wouldn't be invulnerable but it would be at least as good as what we have now.
This is just a small part of their massive push towards EVs. A push that is not only cleaning up their environment, but allowing their manufacturers to become the world leaders in EV technology. They are getting the patents, selling the busses and cars while western manufacturers dick around with hybrids and compliance cars.
Look at IKEA. For all their faults, they manage to make cheap but good furniture out of materials like wood and cotton, which don't create landfill problems and which are sustainable. When they use plastic, they try to use as much recycled material as possible.
Just saying "we need oil to make model cars, curtains, yarn, pillows and folding doors" and therefore must consume all that is available is not even trying. No surprise from the Ranken Energy Corporation of course, but it's not like you can't make a lot of that stuff either out of other things or out of recycled plastic.
Is there really no way to manufacture a drinking cup without oil? How did people consume beverages before plastics were available?
It will be a long time before it becomes economically responsible for the US to move away from oil. It generates a lot of profit and tax revenue, and most of the costs are externalized to other people who don't matter and are easily fooled into thinking that it's good for them.
It would be better to let the customers get hurt I'm afraid. They can sue Symantec for any costs or lost revenue. If it's that critical then Symantec should have had indemnity insurance and the customers should have had insurance.
Don't forget, the consequence of delaying is that innocent people can be victimized with bad Symantec certificates. There is no option that avoids harming anyone.
ISPs have been screwing to HTTP for over a decade around here. When I have issues the first thing I check is if I'm not connected to my VPN for some reason, and if I get the same result on a mobile connection. I've never had to go beyond checking those two so far.
The point is that it scales easily. The you need say one counter per 5,000 votes, no matter how many votes you have. You can adjust the work-load based on how quickly you want to know the result.
The basic idea is a good one. If you can stagger HVAC units coming on by even a few seconds it can massively reduce the peak loads. That's good for everyone.
The problem is that the system is proprietary. I'd have no issue connecting my AC unit to wifi so it can use an open protocol to talk to the power company and negotiate when to turn on. What I don't want is some black box connected to my system that I have no control over and no idea what it is doing.
Or just design your product so that it doesn't soft-brick when the user screws up, and make the factory reset process easy. As long as you can do that any other warranty issues will be judged by if there is physical damage or not.
The reason companies do this shit has nothing to do with support. It's all about retaining control of the product after sale, turning a purchase into a licence agreement that benefits them and opens up additional customer farming opportunities.
You could get most of that, but the modem will always be the problem. Especially in the US, networks are very picky about what they let connect. To get certified is expensive, and if you tell them that it's an open platform that lets people run their own arbitrary code they are going to deny you.
Cellular networks are a shared resource, and only work if every device on the network behaves. If anyone could go to xdadevelopers and download a hacked modem.bin that grabs all the bandwidth and tags it data with the highest priority above emergency calls the system will quickly break down.
I can't see any way around this. The radio spectrum is shared, it has to be regulated or it becomes useless.
The last couple of versions of Android let you disable the baked-in apps to a greater or lesser degree. They still waste some space, but once disabled and their functionality replaced they don't do much harm, and you get a cheaper phone.
Having said that, I prefer to buy phones without bloatware these days, rather than get one on contract. And in the UK, even phones on contract can be vanilla unlocked models if you just avoid going to the network directly.
Around here it is already the law that the company claiming you owe them has to prove that the debt exists. Unfortunately it doesn't always help.
I had some company contact me with a debt I didn't recognize about a decade ago. I asked them to send me some proof, like a signed agreement, which obviously there is no way they could have. So they know that if they ever try to go to court they are screwed and will be laughed out, but it doesn't stop them sending me a letter every few months offering me some crappy deal on repayment.
Worse still, if I had not responded it seems that a lot of companies try going to court on the off chance that the defendant doesn't turn up. If they consistently get no response they often chance it and try to get a default judgement, and the courts don't even bother to do basic checks like seeing if they have a valid signature (how could they?)
Tesla sold a 75kWh and a 65kWh model with the same battery in both. You could pay to unlock the extra capacity at any time. Even in the 75kWh car you could only use about 72kWh at most, the rest being reserved to prevent excessive battery degradation.
That's really all you need. Tesla and other manufacturers have found that the batteries will likely outlast the car, certainly outlast the warranty, with that much reserve.
The upgrade costs thousands of dollars. Based on the estimated cost of the battery pack, for the extra failures to be costing Tesla thousands of dollars per car it would have to be insanely high, like 25-30%.
They are mostly making extra profit on it. The amount to cover extra warranty failures is going to be a tiny fraction.
The issue isn't the treaty, it's human rights. We aren't supposed to extradite people of their human rights are likely to be violated. That could include the death penalty and extremely long sentences.
They aren't taxed in the US. They avoid taxes everywhere.
Anyway, the EU has a right to collect taxes on business done in the EU. If the US taxes that business as well then Google needs to take it up with the US government.
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Also, user scores don't correlate to success either. At best only people who could be bothered will actually give an opinion, and then their motivation for rating the movie is often unrelated to its quality (e.g. they dislike the cast or the director).
The standard advice applies. Find a critic who seems to like the same stuff as you, and follow them.
Dual cameras have various uses. Some phones use them to improve image quality, some to have one narrow and one wide angle lens (which can be combined to produce better images that a single sensor). Wireless charging is great, no mucking about with cables any more, just a fixed pad on your desk/bedside table/car storage unit.
We are still a little way from the perfect phone. The latest Samsung devices have all the hardware, they just need to make a Google edition with raw Android and Google's camera software tech.
If companies want people to relocate they should offer assistance (cash) and expect more than the usual 10% salary bump.
For your somewhat less common requirement it may not be better, but for most people it is. Charging at home is so much more convenient than having to go and pump smelly liquid at a dirty petrol station (not to mention the cost), and it's better for everyone's health too.
There will always be some uses where ICE is more suitable I imagine, the question is not if EVs are "better" it's what percentage of people they are better for.
Equifax's service isn't based on providing reliable information or securing that information. It's based on fulfilling a legal requirement to mitigate risk when evaluating potential customers for loans.
They really don't care if they information they have is accurate, let alone secure. You are not their customer, they don't care what happens to you. All they care about is charging companies for read/write access to your file.
Ballot boxes are not exactly fortresses. They are, at least in my country, metal boxes secured shut with an official zip tie.
The solution to verification is to simply print out a receipt. If there is any doubt the receipts can be manually counted.
The main problems with these machines always seem to be extreme stupidity - USB ports on the outside, connected to the internet, running Windows XP... An open source version could easily build custom hardware and run a hardened BSD system. It wouldn't be invulnerable but it would be at least as good as what we have now.
Are the 167,000 charging stations they built also "meaningless propaganda"?
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
This is just a small part of their massive push towards EVs. A push that is not only cleaning up their environment, but allowing their manufacturers to become the world leaders in EV technology. They are getting the patents, selling the busses and cars while western manufacturers dick around with hybrids and compliance cars.
Look at IKEA. For all their faults, they manage to make cheap but good furniture out of materials like wood and cotton, which don't create landfill problems and which are sustainable. When they use plastic, they try to use as much recycled material as possible.
Just saying "we need oil to make model cars, curtains, yarn, pillows and folding doors" and therefore must consume all that is available is not even trying. No surprise from the Ranken Energy Corporation of course, but it's not like you can't make a lot of that stuff either out of other things or out of recycled plastic.
Is there really no way to manufacture a drinking cup without oil? How did people consume beverages before plastics were available?
It will be a long time before it becomes economically responsible for the US to move away from oil. It generates a lot of profit and tax revenue, and most of the costs are externalized to other people who don't matter and are easily fooled into thinking that it's good for them.
It would be better to let the customers get hurt I'm afraid. They can sue Symantec for any costs or lost revenue. If it's that critical then Symantec should have had indemnity insurance and the customers should have had insurance.
Don't forget, the consequence of delaying is that innocent people can be victimized with bad Symantec certificates. There is no option that avoids harming anyone.
ISPs have been screwing to HTTP for over a decade around here. When I have issues the first thing I check is if I'm not connected to my VPN for some reason, and if I get the same result on a mobile connection. I've never had to go beyond checking those two so far.
I really can't understand why it is so hard to build a secure voting machine. Maybe we need GNU Democracy or something.
The point is that it scales easily. The you need say one counter per 5,000 votes, no matter how many votes you have. You can adjust the work-load based on how quickly you want to know the result.
The basic idea is a good one. If you can stagger HVAC units coming on by even a few seconds it can massively reduce the peak loads. That's good for everyone.
The problem is that the system is proprietary. I'd have no issue connecting my AC unit to wifi so it can use an open protocol to talk to the power company and negotiate when to turn on. What I don't want is some black box connected to my system that I have no control over and no idea what it is doing.
Or just design your product so that it doesn't soft-brick when the user screws up, and make the factory reset process easy. As long as you can do that any other warranty issues will be judged by if there is physical damage or not.
The reason companies do this shit has nothing to do with support. It's all about retaining control of the product after sale, turning a purchase into a licence agreement that benefits them and opens up additional customer farming opportunities.
You could get most of that, but the modem will always be the problem. Especially in the US, networks are very picky about what they let connect. To get certified is expensive, and if you tell them that it's an open platform that lets people run their own arbitrary code they are going to deny you.
Cellular networks are a shared resource, and only work if every device on the network behaves. If anyone could go to xdadevelopers and download a hacked modem.bin that grabs all the bandwidth and tags it data with the highest priority above emergency calls the system will quickly break down.
I can't see any way around this. The radio spectrum is shared, it has to be regulated or it becomes useless.
The last couple of versions of Android let you disable the baked-in apps to a greater or lesser degree. They still waste some space, but once disabled and their functionality replaced they don't do much harm, and you get a cheaper phone.
Having said that, I prefer to buy phones without bloatware these days, rather than get one on contract. And in the UK, even phones on contract can be vanilla unlocked models if you just avoid going to the network directly.
Around here it is already the law that the company claiming you owe them has to prove that the debt exists. Unfortunately it doesn't always help.
I had some company contact me with a debt I didn't recognize about a decade ago. I asked them to send me some proof, like a signed agreement, which obviously there is no way they could have. So they know that if they ever try to go to court they are screwed and will be laughed out, but it doesn't stop them sending me a letter every few months offering me some crappy deal on repayment.
Worse still, if I had not responded it seems that a lot of companies try going to court on the off chance that the defendant doesn't turn up. If they consistently get no response they often chance it and try to get a default judgement, and the courts don't even bother to do basic checks like seeing if they have a valid signature (how could they?)
That's not the case here.
Tesla sold a 75kWh and a 65kWh model with the same battery in both. You could pay to unlock the extra capacity at any time. Even in the 75kWh car you could only use about 72kWh at most, the rest being reserved to prevent excessive battery degradation.
That's really all you need. Tesla and other manufacturers have found that the batteries will likely outlast the car, certainly outlast the warranty, with that much reserve.
The upgrade costs thousands of dollars. Based on the estimated cost of the battery pack, for the extra failures to be costing Tesla thousands of dollars per car it would have to be insanely high, like 25-30%.
They are mostly making extra profit on it. The amount to cover extra warranty failures is going to be a tiny fraction.
Citation? It's hard to evaluate when you don't specify.
There is also some question over the availability of suitable treatment for his condition, and if the US system can give someone with it a fair trial.
The issue isn't the treaty, it's human rights. We aren't supposed to extradite people of their human rights are likely to be violated. That could include the death penalty and extremely long sentences.
They aren't taxed in the US. They avoid taxes everywhere.
Anyway, the EU has a right to collect taxes on business done in the EU. If the US taxes that business as well then Google needs to take it up with the US government.
So where were these people when Tesla built its factory?
Your imaginary foes cloud your judgement.