Apache is easy to replace - most people use nginx or nodejs these days anyway. X is supposed to be replaced by Wayland, and only needed for workstations, which are a minority of Linux installations. While the GNU userspace could theoretically be replaced, it isn't - every major desktop and server distribution uses GNU, the only deviations are embedded systems using busybox and uclibc or newlib, and Android with its own busybox analog and the bionic library.
Personally I think the primary reason is more likely to be the accident they had at their nuclear test site last September. They are closing it down now, because it isn't recoverable, and quite possibly they've already lost a lot of troops trying, to tunnel collapses and radiation poisoning. They have been defeated by their own inadequacies, and finally facing up to that.
The "intel from Israel" consisted of a PowerPoint presentation with a slide that said, "Iran is Cheating"
If you read it carefully, it doesn't even say that. It says they were cheating in 2007. Nothing in the Israeli intel is relevant to anything that has happened since the deal was reached in 2015.
Ironically, you just disproved your own point. You CAN have a UK pound sign, as long as you put up with the other baggage that comes with mixing Latin -1 with UTF-8 in the same application.
of the 2,470 alerts from the facial recognition system, 2,297 were false positives... the SWP said that it has arrested "over 450" people as a result of its facial recognition efforts...
saying that despite the system having a 92-percent false positive rate, "no one" has ever been arrested due to such an error.
I think someone is not being totally honest with the facts here, and experience tells me it might be the guy in uniform on a power trip.
Having looked at the Wikipedia page now, I see that I misinterpreted the problem. If I have say 10 lines radiating out from a common centre, it doesn't matter if the other ends are all the same color, as they cannot join to each other. Each line is considered independently, not together with all the lines connecting to the same dot.
Maybe I'm missing a rule here, but I can trivially put down some dots making a bunch of diamond shapes radiating from a central point such that a lot more than 7 colours are required to give unique colour to all the dots connected to the centre dot. It says the diagonals are not connected for a square, so I don't see a requirement that they be connected for a diamond either, and such a rule seems to be the only thing making a plane of hexagons the bounding shape.
Nice to see that you can view the certificate details by clicking on the "Secure" icon in the address-bar again. It was insane when they hid that under Developer Tools so you had to jump through hoops to check why a site was showing up as Insecure.
The numbering on the claims is all screwed up. It seems they removed one at some stage, and forgot to update the references - with the result that they probably haven't patented what they think they did. In particular, where the communication port is wireless, they have only specifically protected it for the case where the communication port is fibre optic. Of course it should theoretically still be covered under claim 1, but that is going to be a more difficult case for them to argue, as it will come down to whether the court accepts that the word "attached" does not have to mean physically attached with respect to the communication port. There is also an issue with whether the controllers on a Switch have the structural bridge described in the patent. It could be argued that the screen case itself is the structural bridge, but it is described throughout the patent as a separate structure which detaches with the controllers, and appears in the drawings as such - either wrapping around the bottom of the screen device, or around the back.
What if they are not doing this to rummage up the passengers, but to improve the economic decision making for the airline whether this passenger is worth waiting for or not?
If a passenger is already rushing towards the gate, it is going to cost the airline more to offload their luggage than to wait an extra 5 minutes for them - especially if they were on an incoming flight that was delayed so the airline is responsible. If a passenger is still shopping in duty free, or sitting in a bar or restaurant, they don't necessarily need to rummage them up, it makes the decision to shut the aircraft doors and offload that passenger's luggage easier, and provides evidence the airline can use to refuse compensation.
Singapore is a major transfer hub, so there are a lot of cases where the airline is responsible due to late incoming flights. Flights out of Singapore often arrive at their destination up to half an hour early due to the published schedule having some allowance for this. Recognizing where people are in the airport, and whether they are trying to make it to the gate, or just got distracted shopping or drinking lets them make smarter decisions more quickly about whether to wait for the late passengers or not. Make no mistake, this is not going to be used to help fewer people miss their flights, rather to reduce the cases where the airline is waiting for passengers who are late through their own negligence, and to provide evidence that the airline can use to deny compensation to such passengers.
If the facial recognition finds you sitting at the bar ordering another beer, they can quickly make the decision to close the gate and start unloading your baggage. If they spot you on your way to the gate in a hurry, they know you'll be there in another 2 minutes, so it won't hurt to keep the gate open. This isn't for the convenience of the passengers who dawdle at restaurants or duty free, it is for the convenience of the airlines and the rest of the passengers who have no trouble getting themselves to the gate on time.
QNX is an operating system. It may provide the fundamentals required to secure the system, but it doesn't magically make the software running on top of it secure.
But nothing that they accomplished supports the outlandish claim that they could have messed with the brakes, "but stopped due to fear of breaking VWs intellectual property on those systems." If they reverse engineered the the Wifi and USB protocols for controlling the unit, they have likely "broken VWs intellectual property" already, but accessing data that is normally under control of the infotainment system proves nothing about how secure the safety systems of the car are against remote attack.
The fact that it was delivered only 13 days before that 1000 days ran out, makes me think this was all carefully planned out long before he made the announcement.
You also get a digitally encoded version of your DNA sample back from most of these companeis, which you can enter into other websites. I'm guessing they used this, as the decades old DNA samples they had from the crime scene are unlikely to be in a form that can be analyzed by these consumer DNA test labs.
I don't think the website is knowingly sharing data with law enforcement without a warrant. I'm guessing the cops created a fake profile for "John Doe", uploaded the DNA sequence they had from the crime scene, and started tracing through the families of the "probable distant cousins" that it identified, filling in the gaps in the family trees from government birth records, which they have complete access to (while the general public and genealogy site generally only has easy access to historic data).
DNA tests often only test a small subset of information which means that false positives are possible
The police seem to be aware of this. In the article I read yesterday, it said they confirmed the match with a second fresh DNA sample they collected, and presumably did a full forensic DNA test on, before getting the arrest warrant.
I can attest to their increased transparency. Yesterday when I logged into the mobile website, it went straight into a full page ad for their mobile app. It is now more transparent than ever that what they really want is access to everything else that the browser alone cannot pull off my smartphone.
Previously I'd only seen this when I tried to access messages, when one of my friends had posted a limited time video, or recently, when someone posted a GIF as a comment (apparently browsers are not capable of displaying GIFs these days, just as they can't view messages).
I admit my ignorance there, but I would still blame the Russians for any cases where Cyrillic has been imposed on a language as part of their cultural domination.
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Apache is easy to replace - most people use nginx or nodejs these days anyway. X is supposed to be replaced by Wayland, and only needed for workstations, which are a minority of Linux installations. While the GNU userspace could theoretically be replaced, it isn't - every major desktop and server distribution uses GNU, the only deviations are embedded systems using busybox and uclibc or newlib, and Android with its own busybox analog and the bionic library.
Personally I think the primary reason is more likely to be the accident they had at their nuclear test site last September. They are closing it down now, because it isn't recoverable, and quite possibly they've already lost a lot of troops trying, to tunnel collapses and radiation poisoning. They have been defeated by their own inadequacies, and finally facing up to that.
The joke doesn't mention death. It only mentions censorship of speech. To be offended by this takes a special brand of snowflake.
The "intel from Israel" consisted of a PowerPoint presentation with a slide that said, "Iran is Cheating"
If you read it carefully, it doesn't even say that. It says they were cheating in 2007. Nothing in the Israeli intel is relevant to anything that has happened since the deal was reached in 2015.
Ironically, you just disproved your own point. You CAN have a UK pound sign, as long as you put up with the other baggage that comes with mixing Latin -1 with UTF-8 in the same application.
the total system has a false-positive rate of 0%
A quick fact check on that assertion :
of the 2,470 alerts from the facial recognition system, 2,297 were false positives... the SWP said that it has arrested "over 450" people as a result of its facial recognition efforts ...
saying that despite the system having a 92-percent false positive rate, "no one" has ever been arrested due to such an error.
I think someone is not being totally honest with the facts here, and experience tells me it might be the guy in uniform on a power trip.
Having looked at the Wikipedia page now, I see that I misinterpreted the problem. If I have say 10 lines radiating out from a common centre, it doesn't matter if the other ends are all the same color, as they cannot join to each other. Each line is considered independently, not together with all the lines connecting to the same dot.
Maybe I'm missing a rule here, but I can trivially put down some dots making a bunch of diamond shapes radiating from a central point such that a lot more than 7 colours are required to give unique colour to all the dots connected to the centre dot. It says the diagonals are not connected for a square, so I don't see a requirement that they be connected for a diamond either, and such a rule seems to be the only thing making a plane of hexagons the bounding shape.
Hey tech team, look over there while I mess with a couple of the voting machines.
As a distraction this very much can be part of a scheme to affect the election result, even if it is not affecting it directly by itself.
That is why supporters call it "affirmative action" these days.
Nice to see that you can view the certificate details by clicking on the "Secure" icon in the address-bar again. It was insane when they hid that under Developer Tools so you had to jump through hoops to check why a site was showing up as Insecure.
The numbering on the claims is all screwed up. It seems they removed one at some stage, and forgot to update the references - with the result that they probably haven't patented what they think they did. In particular, where the communication port is wireless, they have only specifically protected it for the case where the communication port is fibre optic. Of course it should theoretically still be covered under claim 1, but that is going to be a more difficult case for them to argue, as it will come down to whether the court accepts that the word "attached" does not have to mean physically attached with respect to the communication port. There is also an issue with whether the controllers on a Switch have the structural bridge described in the patent. It could be argued that the screen case itself is the structural bridge, but it is described throughout the patent as a separate structure which detaches with the controllers, and appears in the drawings as such - either wrapping around the bottom of the screen device, or around the back.
What if they are not doing this to rummage up the passengers, but to improve the economic decision making for the airline whether this passenger is worth waiting for or not?
If a passenger is already rushing towards the gate, it is going to cost the airline more to offload their luggage than to wait an extra 5 minutes for them - especially if they were on an incoming flight that was delayed so the airline is responsible. If a passenger is still shopping in duty free, or sitting in a bar or restaurant, they don't necessarily need to rummage them up, it makes the decision to shut the aircraft doors and offload that passenger's luggage easier, and provides evidence the airline can use to refuse compensation.
Singapore is a major transfer hub, so there are a lot of cases where the airline is responsible due to late incoming flights. Flights out of Singapore often arrive at their destination up to half an hour early due to the published schedule having some allowance for this. Recognizing where people are in the airport, and whether they are trying to make it to the gate, or just got distracted shopping or drinking lets them make smarter decisions more quickly about whether to wait for the late passengers or not. Make no mistake, this is not going to be used to help fewer people miss their flights, rather to reduce the cases where the airline is waiting for passengers who are late through their own negligence, and to provide evidence that the airline can use to deny compensation to such passengers.
If the facial recognition finds you sitting at the bar ordering another beer, they can quickly make the decision to close the gate and start unloading your baggage. If they spot you on your way to the gate in a hurry, they know you'll be there in another 2 minutes, so it won't hurt to keep the gate open. This isn't for the convenience of the passengers who dawdle at restaurants or duty free, it is for the convenience of the airlines and the rest of the passengers who have no trouble getting themselves to the gate on time.
But nothing that they accomplished supports the outlandish claim that they could have messed with the brakes, "but stopped due to fear of breaking VWs intellectual property on those systems." If they reverse engineered the the Wifi and USB protocols for controlling the unit, they have likely "broken VWs intellectual property" already, but accessing data that is normally under control of the infotainment system proves nothing about how secure the safety systems of the car are against remote attack.
The fact that it was delivered only 13 days before that 1000 days ran out, makes me think this was all carefully planned out long before he made the announcement.
Gay and bisexual men account for 70% of infections
That's in the US. The US makes up about 3% of the world's HIV cases.
Or to OpenJDK, based on the same source code but without the Oracle licensing nonsense.
You thought you were safe with quantum pairs, but the Chinese are ahead of you, and have the triplicate safely locked away in Xiyuan.
You also get a digitally encoded version of your DNA sample back from most of these companeis, which you can enter into other websites. I'm guessing they used this, as the decades old DNA samples they had from the crime scene are unlikely to be in a form that can be analyzed by these consumer DNA test labs.
I don't think the website is knowingly sharing data with law enforcement without a warrant. I'm guessing the cops created a fake profile for "John Doe", uploaded the DNA sequence they had from the crime scene, and started tracing through the families of the "probable distant cousins" that it identified, filling in the gaps in the family trees from government birth records, which they have complete access to (while the general public and genealogy site generally only has easy access to historic data).
DNA tests often only test a small subset of information which means that false positives are possible
The police seem to be aware of this. In the article I read yesterday, it said they confirmed the match with a second fresh DNA sample they collected, and presumably did a full forensic DNA test on, before getting the arrest warrant.
I can attest to their increased transparency. Yesterday when I logged into the mobile website, it went straight into a full page ad for their mobile app. It is now more transparent than ever that what they really want is access to everything else that the browser alone cannot pull off my smartphone.
Previously I'd only seen this when I tried to access messages, when one of my friends had posted a limited time video, or recently, when someone posted a GIF as a comment (apparently browsers are not capable of displaying GIFs these days, just as they can't view messages).
I admit my ignorance there, but I would still blame the Russians for any cases where Cyrillic has been imposed on a language as part of their cultural domination.