TFA makes it sound sinister, but this is exactly what people signed up for. When turn on your new Android phone for the first time it asks if you want to turn on location history and gives you the privacy policy, which states that anonymized data may be used to build tools like this.
Also note that they don't sell your data, that would make it worthless. They provide a GUI that lets city planners visualize it, similar to how advertisers can select certain interest groups to show ads to but can't access the underlying data used to assign people to those groups. Google isn't about to give away it's USP.
Someone needs to make a consumer router that has a special Internet of Shit wifi hotspot built in.
I've got one on my own network. It can't access the internet, can't access anything that isn't local in fact. I can get at it from the main LAN though. Device isolation is turned on as well, so devices can't even talk to each other.
I've got another one just for my smart meter. It is allowed to talk to the energy company server only, once a month, for five minutes. That appears to be adequate for them.
People object more when they are the subject of the photo. If they are just there in the background when you take a selfie or snapshot some landmark they don't care so much.
They haven't caught up with technology like Facebook that can identify and tag them automatically yet.
Google assumed that having Glass was just like having a smartphone with a camera. People assumed that having Glass was like pointing a camera at them.
The old plug-ins and the UI customization were what were holding Firefox back. Go back and try one of the versions from before the change over, comparing performance with current Firefox and Chrome. It's night and day.
And that's before you look at the security nightmare that results from Javascript being able to hook deep into the browser, alter the UI and get executed in critical paths.
Look at the projects keeping the old system alive, like Waterfox and Pale Moon. All suffering from being unable to fix the performance issues and being very slow with security patches because their security model is so terrible. The developers have realized what Mozilla realized years ago - the fundamental design is flawed, and it can't be fixed.
No uBlock Origin for Safari either. They already introduced something similar to the new ad blocking API that was proposed for Chrome and which is apparently evil according to Slashdot collective wisdom.
The charges don't make any sense. The claim that they tried to steal a robot from T-Mobile called "Tappy". T-Mobile didn't build it though, it's an off-the-shelf Epson robot with some basic programming.
It seems extremely unlikely that Huawei would bother steal something that they could just buy and get an undergrad to program for them. All i does is press some buttons in sequence over and over to see how long they take to fail. Some simple calibration for pressure to simulate a heavy handed user is all you need.
Huawei didn't steal 5G tech, it invented it. Its patents cover the modulation schemes, the bandwidth allocation and spectrum sharing, the power management that minimizes interference and maximizes battery life. If those things were stolen then they would have been patented elsewhere, or the patents challenged. It's original technology that China developed.
Upgrades, accessories, DLC... It all costs money. And the sexbot has them by the balls, governed by corporate "ethics" that prioritize profit over all else.
It's more of an AI revolution, which is also why it's in doubt.
When machines first started replacing humans it was hard for people to transition, but there were new jobs for them because we couldn't build really intelligent machines. When AI reaches the point where it can do clerical jobs as well as a human there will be fewer options for people to find new work.
The question is if AI is anywhere near that point. I think not. AI is always much harder than pundits think and proponents promise.
Efforts to help buys academically started long ago. Back in the 90s I remember efforts to help them improve in maths in particular, and to try to take some stigma away from more traditionally female subjects.
There was a lot of research done in the 2000s but we are still figuring out how to put it into practice. One promising technique is to encourage girls to get involved in traditionally male spaces, so for example building Lego kits or playing football. Of course boys often enjoy things like netball too. Boys and girls are physically equal up to age 8 or 9, before puberty kicks in, so actually mixed sports are a good opportunity. At my school it was hockey.
Well, no. Even TFS admits that the headline is bullshit.
It can be part of a sustain harassment campaign, sure. Get thousands of followers to tweet it at the target. But on its own? No.
It's worrying that people can't see the difference between a genuinely helpful suggestion made in good faith and trolling. Apparently Twitter can, but TFA seems to be being obtuse to make a non-story into something.
Why avoid cherry picking air disasters, but then cherry pick statistics? What is the highest ever cost of an aviation accident, including all the insurance and compensation claims paid out?
MPC-HC is feature complete, stable and bug free as far as I can tell. I'm sure if security issues are found someone will write a patch.
Lack of updates isn't really an issue. In fact I like that it's not nagging be to update every few weeks. It uses Windows video codes too so any new formats will be supported that way.
The concept of race existed before of course, but was not really something Europeans thought about much until the scientific revolution of the 1800s, which coincided with colonialism. The various empires were in full swing by then, as was slavery and the development of moral philosophy, and Europeans looked to justify their position as the literal master race.
To that end they started measuring skulls and coming up with all kinds of dubious reasons, which at the time seemed plausible because a) they were the masters and had the best science/technology and b) they didn't understand biology very well.
In other words there was a lot of confirmation bias and simplistic, flawed science produced by people who benefited greatly from the conclusions they found.
They could, but not without additional costs. Manufacturing is often "just in time", as in the truck carrying screws arrives about 15 minutes before they get loaded into the machine and installed in iPhones. That way they don't need a lot of on-site storage.
When screws are coming on the slow boat from China you need to keep months of them in stock. For high volume products that's a lot of screws, not to mention all the other parts.
What will they do if they find a vulnerable device? They could trace the IP address back to an ISP and ask them to contact the customer I guess. But what if they find some device that is vulnerable to an attack being used in the wild, or even already infected?
Ethically shutting it down or patching it is acceptable, but legally?
The Pi doesn't have sound output, not really. It's got PWM. If you want sound you need to add your own DAC.
The Compute Module is even more basic. It doesn't have any USB ports even, let alone HDMI. It's basically a CPU card that you need to add to your own system. It's a nice product, with long term availability and decent support which is actually a really big deal for smaller companies. It's a huge improvement of most existing System-on-Module offerings.
I want a box I can put multiple video cards, half a dozen hard drives and several PCI cards in.
Sorry buddy, this doesn't fit with Apples "Dongle" aesthetic. You are supposed to buy a MacBook Pro and a Thunderbolt dock, with a chain of Thunderbolt HDDs and external GPUs hung off that. The longer the chain the better, and ideally you will have a few additional USB chains with hubs and more dongles on them.
Your computer just doesn't cut it if it doesn't have multiple huge dong(le)s.
A TV didn't prevent you having square pixels, and in fact the Amiga did support them with modes like 640x512 or 320x256.
The problem with TVs was the poor picture quality, especially in the United States where RF was often the only option, and sometimes composite. In Europe we at least had RGB via SCART, although on most sets of the era 640 horizontal pixels was really pushing it.
The other issue was that TVs needed interlace to do 512 vertical lines, where as monitors could support more than ~250 vertical lines with progressive scan.
Look at the MacOS GUI pre and post Amiga OS. Both of which were influenced by Xerox. At the time they were all feeding off each other.
Speaking of influence, I'd say the single most influential GUI element was the start button. As much as we mocked it when Windows 95 came out, it's been widely copied. Followed by the Android notification shade, which was quickly copied by iOS and then desktop operating systems (Windows 10 has one that comes in from the right, I think MacOS has "toast" or something, many Linux desktops too).
The Mac didn't multitask though, at least not until later when more memory was common. As such it could get away with less RAM.
I'd argue that true pre-emptive multitasking was the bigger innovation. Graphics just got cheaper and many earlier machines were limited more by the affordable monitors of the time than by the availability of graphics hardware. Multitasking really made the desktop work as it was supposed to, as we know it now.
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TFA makes it sound sinister, but this is exactly what people signed up for. When turn on your new Android phone for the first time it asks if you want to turn on location history and gives you the privacy policy, which states that anonymized data may be used to build tools like this.
Also note that they don't sell your data, that would make it worthless. They provide a GUI that lets city planners visualize it, similar to how advertisers can select certain interest groups to show ads to but can't access the underlying data used to assign people to those groups. Google isn't about to give away it's USP.
Oh great, Javascript that can write to the filesystem. How could that possibly go wrong?
By the way, those web archives are actually just ZIP files and can be extracted with tools like 7zip. The HTML is inside.
Also in Chrome when you save the page you can select between "complete" (the archive) and "HTML only".
Someone needs to make a consumer router that has a special Internet of Shit wifi hotspot built in.
I've got one on my own network. It can't access the internet, can't access anything that isn't local in fact. I can get at it from the main LAN though. Device isolation is turned on as well, so devices can't even talk to each other.
I've got another one just for my smart meter. It is allowed to talk to the energy company server only, once a month, for five minutes. That appears to be adequate for them.
People object more when they are the subject of the photo. If they are just there in the background when you take a selfie or snapshot some landmark they don't care so much.
They haven't caught up with technology like Facebook that can identify and tag them automatically yet.
Google assumed that having Glass was just like having a smartphone with a camera. People assumed that having Glass was like pointing a camera at them.
Is that actually true?
According to their own numbers only a fairly small part of their income is from advertising. The bulk is selling software, cloud services and XBOX.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
The old plug-ins and the UI customization were what were holding Firefox back. Go back and try one of the versions from before the change over, comparing performance with current Firefox and Chrome. It's night and day.
And that's before you look at the security nightmare that results from Javascript being able to hook deep into the browser, alter the UI and get executed in critical paths.
Look at the projects keeping the old system alive, like Waterfox and Pale Moon. All suffering from being unable to fix the performance issues and being very slow with security patches because their security model is so terrible. The developers have realized what Mozilla realized years ago - the fundamental design is flawed, and it can't be fixed.
No uBlock Origin for Safari either. They already introduced something similar to the new ad blocking API that was proposed for Chrome and which is apparently evil according to Slashdot collective wisdom.
If it's just memes posted unprompted the fine, go ahead. They do kinda deserve it and it's completely fair. Wouldn't dispute that.
And neither would Twitter I think, given the response they gave in TFA.
You could just as easily say the same thing about race.
That's what I am saying. And I'm not American.
This is just part of Trump's trade war with China.
The charges don't make any sense. The claim that they tried to steal a robot from T-Mobile called "Tappy". T-Mobile didn't build it though, it's an off-the-shelf Epson robot with some basic programming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
It seems extremely unlikely that Huawei would bother steal something that they could just buy and get an undergrad to program for them. All i does is press some buttons in sequence over and over to see how long they take to fail. Some simple calibration for pressure to simulate a heavy handed user is all you need.
Huawei didn't steal 5G tech, it invented it. Its patents cover the modulation schemes, the bandwidth allocation and spectrum sharing, the power management that minimizes interference and maximizes battery life. If those things were stolen then they would have been patented elsewhere, or the patents challenged. It's original technology that China developed.
Guys like this will be enslaved by sexbots.
Upgrades, accessories, DLC... It all costs money. And the sexbot has them by the balls, governed by corporate "ethics" that prioritize profit over all else.
It's more of an AI revolution, which is also why it's in doubt.
When machines first started replacing humans it was hard for people to transition, but there were new jobs for them because we couldn't build really intelligent machines. When AI reaches the point where it can do clerical jobs as well as a human there will be fewer options for people to find new work.
The question is if AI is anywhere near that point. I think not. AI is always much harder than pundits think and proponents promise.
Efforts to help buys academically started long ago. Back in the 90s I remember efforts to help them improve in maths in particular, and to try to take some stigma away from more traditionally female subjects.
There was a lot of research done in the 2000s but we are still figuring out how to put it into practice. One promising technique is to encourage girls to get involved in traditionally male spaces, so for example building Lego kits or playing football. Of course boys often enjoy things like netball too. Boys and girls are physically equal up to age 8 or 9, before puberty kicks in, so actually mixed sports are a good opportunity. At my school it was hockey.
Tweeting "Learn to code" is harassment.
Well, no. Even TFS admits that the headline is bullshit.
It can be part of a sustain harassment campaign, sure. Get thousands of followers to tweet it at the target. But on its own? No.
It's worrying that people can't see the difference between a genuinely helpful suggestion made in good faith and trolling. Apparently Twitter can, but TFA seems to be being obtuse to make a non-story into something.
Why avoid cherry picking air disasters, but then cherry pick statistics? What is the highest ever cost of an aviation accident, including all the insurance and compensation claims paid out?
MPC-HC is feature complete, stable and bug free as far as I can tell. I'm sure if security issues are found someone will write a patch.
Lack of updates isn't really an issue. In fact I like that it's not nagging be to update every few weeks. It uses Windows video codes too so any new formats will be supported that way.
Race is arbitrary, that's what I said.
The concept of race existed before of course, but was not really something Europeans thought about much until the scientific revolution of the 1800s, which coincided with colonialism. The various empires were in full swing by then, as was slavery and the development of moral philosophy, and Europeans looked to justify their position as the literal master race.
To that end they started measuring skulls and coming up with all kinds of dubious reasons, which at the time seemed plausible because a) they were the masters and had the best science/technology and b) they didn't understand biology very well.
In other words there was a lot of confirmation bias and simplistic, flawed science produced by people who benefited greatly from the conclusions they found.
They could, but not without additional costs. Manufacturing is often "just in time", as in the truck carrying screws arrives about 15 minutes before they get loaded into the machine and installed in iPhones. That way they don't need a lot of on-site storage.
When screws are coming on the slow boat from China you need to keep months of them in stock. For high volume products that's a lot of screws, not to mention all the other parts.
What will they do if they find a vulnerable device? They could trace the IP address back to an ISP and ask them to contact the customer I guess. But what if they find some device that is vulnerable to an attack being used in the wild, or even already infected?
Ethically shutting it down or patching it is acceptable, but legally?
The Pi doesn't have sound output, not really. It's got PWM. If you want sound you need to add your own DAC.
The Compute Module is even more basic. It doesn't have any USB ports even, let alone HDMI. It's basically a CPU card that you need to add to your own system. It's a nice product, with long term availability and decent support which is actually a really big deal for smaller companies. It's a huge improvement of most existing System-on-Module offerings.
I want a box I can put multiple video cards, half a dozen hard drives and several PCI cards in.
Sorry buddy, this doesn't fit with Apples "Dongle" aesthetic. You are supposed to buy a MacBook Pro and a Thunderbolt dock, with a chain of Thunderbolt HDDs and external GPUs hung off that. The longer the chain the better, and ideally you will have a few additional USB chains with hubs and more dongles on them.
Your computer just doesn't cut it if it doesn't have multiple huge dong(le)s.
I want a new full sized tower for heavy lifting.
Surely dumbbells are cheaper and more durable.
A TV didn't prevent you having square pixels, and in fact the Amiga did support them with modes like 640x512 or 320x256.
The problem with TVs was the poor picture quality, especially in the United States where RF was often the only option, and sometimes composite. In Europe we at least had RGB via SCART, although on most sets of the era 640 horizontal pixels was really pushing it.
The other issue was that TVs needed interlace to do 512 vertical lines, where as monitors could support more than ~250 vertical lines with progressive scan.
Look at the MacOS GUI pre and post Amiga OS. Both of which were influenced by Xerox. At the time they were all feeding off each other.
Speaking of influence, I'd say the single most influential GUI element was the start button. As much as we mocked it when Windows 95 came out, it's been widely copied. Followed by the Android notification shade, which was quickly copied by iOS and then desktop operating systems (Windows 10 has one that comes in from the right, I think MacOS has "toast" or something, many Linux desktops too).
The Mac didn't multitask though, at least not until later when more memory was common. As such it could get away with less RAM.
I'd argue that true pre-emptive multitasking was the bigger innovation. Graphics just got cheaper and many earlier machines were limited more by the affordable monitors of the time than by the availability of graphics hardware. Multitasking really made the desktop work as it was supposed to, as we know it now.