There are actually lots of places where your family makeup would be no big deal. Honestly - look at technology hubs around other major cities, esp on the east coast / northeast / mid-atlantic (but not necessarily the insanity of NYC or Boston) or simply target college towns. You may be in a "blue bubble" in those areas, but they can be quite nice places to live. Ex - I live near Virginia Tech, which is a blue oasis in a sea of red. Lots of great tech stuff, great outdoors activities, great events. Travel is not as convenient - we're 3 hours from an airport hub - but if you're not always jetting off somewhere it's not a huge deal.
So you've paid for all the expensive, local things, and you "only" have TRIPLE the federal minimum full time wage (or the average 4 year college degree salary) left over for discretionary spending. I might have to go find my small violin.
That's really what it comes down to. You have to make a decision on employment not just based on the size of your paycheck. Quality of life, proximity to activities/transportation, cost of housing, general cost of living all play into the equation.
It's as if nobody every taught these kids any sort of financial management or business skills, or even analytical thinking to work out the finances themselves. This is not, as they say, rocket science.
This is the real danger of using a kill or wipe code.
Still better than handing over your phone. The first rule of criminal law if that you never, ever talk to police without your lawyer present. Never. No matter how innocent or how innocuous the situation is, if you are being questioned you must have your lawyer. Personally, I have nothing to hide, but I'd still wipe my phone if I were detained by TSA or law enforcement.
For those worried about hackers remotely wiping your phone - such a mechanism already exists. If you mis-enter your pin X times, most phones will automatically lock or wipe as an anti-theft protection. If you're concerted about a hacker entering your wipe code, you should be more concerned about the same hacker entering 5/10/12 incorrect PINs and locking you out or using the iOS or Android Find My Phone functionality to remotely wipe the phone.
Total destruction seems excessive. If your phone is (properly) encrypted, a simple deletion of the key is sufficient. I think a WIPE (Witness Immunization from Procurement of Evidence) PIN would be a fabulous addition to both Android and iOS.
If nothing else, the existence of such a PIN would stop law enforcement from requesting/requiring your PIN, as they could receive the wrong one.
There are a number of automatic backup apps which can run on a schedule. Many applications themselves have options to back up to cloud services. For those paranoid, several android phones have removable uSD cards which can be set to be the default location for application storage. If you're travelling and don't have the necessary network for backups, you can remove the uSD and store it somewhere unlikely to be found or searched - or just drop it in the mail to yourself on the way to the airport.
When interdictions at the airport became news, my first thought was to having a kill PIN. That would be better than a wipe and reset, as the whole process of re-downloading my apps from a fresh install, having to re-set some of my personal ringtones, custom keyboard, and logging back into apps can take close to an hour (Even if most of it is unattended).
What you're looking for is a dd-like mirror of the device which, afaik, does not exist for either platform. It's unlikely for iOS and most Android simply because you're talking about a backup which, for the barest devices, is going to be north of 12GB. Even on good WiFi to a local server that's going to be a long process, likely taking over an hour - easily three or more if you want to do a verification of the transfer (which you'd better do if you're about to wipe your phone). Phones with removable storage are an option, but even then you're talking multiple hours for backup and verification based on even the fastest cards.
Not really. You can easily get 5-6 hours of screen-on time if your not processing much. Put it into game mode where you're driving the CPU/GPU at the edge of its thermal envelope and you'll be lucky to get 90 minutes.
In fact, for amoled screens, that on-time can be pushed to 9+ hours if you use a dark theme. After reading online using a dark background and light screen font, with ~20-25% brightness, my Note 7 (God rest it's fiery soul) showed a predicted 16 hours of remaining battery life after three hours of reading (after starting nearly fully charged). Pop that baby into a GearVR, though, and 2 hours was more than you would likely get before having to recharge.
There few, if any, actual staff journalists there. IBT is now a cesspit of uninformed bloggers who can post stories to fluff their online resume. There's little reliable or insightful content on there.
No matter how good v3 is going to be in 2 years, v4, in 4 years will be much, much better. With this logic, there's really no reason to release. Ever.
Unless, of course, the team really has just been surfing the internet and going to to lunch and then straight to the bar afterwards for the past 2 years instead of working on product.
Android only has them turned on if you get an unlocked or non-carrier specific/marketed variant. Verizon and ST&T - the two biggest carriers, often have the vendors turn off that functionality even if ti exists.
That's because it's in a form that does not allow for the rapid release of electrical power. This will be in a form that is specifically designed to release power, or it's going to be pretty useless as a high capacity/high draw battery.
You might say the same about gasoline - you can spill it, but it's certainly not "safe." And if it should spill while actively producing power (aka on fire), it's going to get messy really fast.
Anything that doesn't have enough energy to go boom if the contents are spilled/mixed/come in contact while charged won't have enough energy to power whatever portable device I'm likely to be using. I would check to see that the energy density is low, but there isn't a single link to the actual research in the article, nor to even the researchers name, just "Harvard Researchers." This article would get a failing grade in a 3th grade science fair. It's no wonder people believe lies when you can just post anything in an article on the internet and not bother with even a single source.
True (well, I suppose - I never did international travel with NASA when I was there), but JPL is not NASA - it is a government contractor. Note that Sidd Bikkannavar was not identified as a government employee working for NASA, but rather that he worked at JPL. The only people NASA has in Pasadena are, essentially, contract managers. All the work is done by Cal Tech and outside contractors, if I remember my contracts correctly. The line is very blurred there from a public perspective, but from a contract one it is clear. It may have been NASA hardware, or it may have been CalTech hardware, or it may be hardware of another contractor.
It does make me wonder if Android should add a "PIN to Wipe" to their "PIN to Unlock" screen.
All forms of payment cost money. Ever tried to deposit $50k at a national bank account? Fee. Have more than X number of checks per month. Fee.
CC fees are more, no doubt. BUT, for the consumer, having an intermediary like a CC is an enormous level should anything go wrong with the transaction. It's almost a mini-escow transaction, but where the buyer has an unfair advantage in the initial mediation - aka a chargeback. If it's a transaction worth more than $100 or so, there is almost no way I'll be paying with cash, except where it's a service or good covered by some other means of protection. You may be a great vendor, just as I think I'm also a great vendor (and I grudgingly take CC, too), but there are way too many shysters out there these days.
I was kind of jazzed about the LG Urbane and its stand-alone LTE capabilities, but it never really materialized. I would much rather ditch my monolith phone in favor of a watch. Add connectivity to automotive head units (Android Auto) and better and better speech recognition and the number of applications requiring a slab phone is reduced. If I could get two days of life from a watch while having it paired (even just BT) with my tablet, it would be suffice ~98% of the time for all my needs. Let me usb tether (power & data to my tablet) for high intensity work and I might never need a handheld phone again.
How, as an editor for a tech site, do you hire someone who can't even recognize a total goof in the summary intro? The PRESSURE at the surface of Venus is 90x that of earth.
I'd understand if you had one or two editors posting hundreds of stories a day - one might slip through. But you're barely posting one story an hour to the front page. How do you fuck that up?
Look, if all you have is a 1 and a 0, there's no way to represent the entirety of practical numeration. If it could be done, somebody would have already done it.
>this is always going to cost a LOT more than ground transportation- for fuel costs alone
I don't care. I'm not sure the commute angle is going to be practical in the near future for all the noise, congestion, and safe/available VTOL locations, but I'd sure as shit drop $100k right now if I could by a vehicle that could navigate normal roads/act as a "regular car" and also fly me between general aviation strips with a 250-300 mile range, even if it meant the equivalent of 10-12MPG on road fuel. That's half the range of a little Cessna, and probably similar efficiency (accounting for road fuel cost vs aviation fuel). I live in the middle of nowhere, and cutting my time to destination in half (or better, given none of the roads around me are straight) would be worth it.
Of course, these beasts are more likely to run in the small-jet class, with a starting price in the $2M price range and get the (cost) equivalent of 2-4MPG so my checking account is probably safe for a while.
Depends. Comcast is the ONLY high speed internet provider to my house. I can pay $100/mo for their 75Mb internet, or $90/mo for their 75Mb internet and the basic digital cable channels (except for the 13th month of service, where I have to be off their current "promotion" for 30 days before I can get back on). But it's $10 extra per cable box. and another $10 extra if you want that service in HD. So we have a single SD link on the TV my wife watches. If I can pay $87.50 for all of that and just plug in the handful of Rokus I've gotten for free over the years (and maybe even get HD), I'm in.
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There are actually lots of places where your family makeup would be no big deal. Honestly - look at technology hubs around other major cities, esp on the east coast / northeast / mid-atlantic (but not necessarily the insanity of NYC or Boston) or simply target college towns. You may be in a "blue bubble" in those areas, but they can be quite nice places to live. Ex - I live near Virginia Tech, which is a blue oasis in a sea of red. Lots of great tech stuff, great outdoors activities, great events. Travel is not as convenient - we're 3 hours from an airport hub - but if you're not always jetting off somewhere it's not a huge deal.
"Down to 46k"
So you've paid for all the expensive, local things, and you "only" have TRIPLE the federal minimum full time wage (or the average 4 year college degree salary) left over for discretionary spending. I might have to go find my small violin.
That's really what it comes down to. You have to make a decision on employment not just based on the size of your paycheck. Quality of life, proximity to activities/transportation, cost of housing, general cost of living all play into the equation.
It's as if nobody every taught these kids any sort of financial management or business skills, or even analytical thinking to work out the finances themselves. This is not, as they say, rocket science.
BA must be insane. $150k/yr will get you a $2M house, including taxes and insurance.
This is the real danger of using a kill or wipe code.
Still better than handing over your phone. The first rule of criminal law if that you never, ever talk to police without your lawyer present. Never. No matter how innocent or how innocuous the situation is, if you are being questioned you must have your lawyer. Personally, I have nothing to hide, but I'd still wipe my phone if I were detained by TSA or law enforcement.
For those worried about hackers remotely wiping your phone - such a mechanism already exists. If you mis-enter your pin X times, most phones will automatically lock or wipe as an anti-theft protection. If you're concerted about a hacker entering your wipe code, you should be more concerned about the same hacker entering 5/10/12 incorrect PINs and locking you out or using the iOS or Android Find My Phone functionality to remotely wipe the phone.
Total destruction seems excessive. If your phone is (properly) encrypted, a simple deletion of the key is sufficient. I think a WIPE (Witness Immunization from Procurement of Evidence) PIN would be a fabulous addition to both Android and iOS.
If nothing else, the existence of such a PIN would stop law enforcement from requesting/requiring your PIN, as they could receive the wrong one.
There are a number of automatic backup apps which can run on a schedule. Many applications themselves have options to back up to cloud services. For those paranoid, several android phones have removable uSD cards which can be set to be the default location for application storage. If you're travelling and don't have the necessary network for backups, you can remove the uSD and store it somewhere unlikely to be found or searched - or just drop it in the mail to yourself on the way to the airport.
When interdictions at the airport became news, my first thought was to having a kill PIN. That would be better than a wipe and reset, as the whole process of re-downloading my apps from a fresh install, having to re-set some of my personal ringtones, custom keyboard, and logging back into apps can take close to an hour (Even if most of it is unattended).
What you're looking for is a dd-like mirror of the device which, afaik, does not exist for either platform. It's unlikely for iOS and most Android simply because you're talking about a backup which, for the barest devices, is going to be north of 12GB. Even on good WiFi to a local server that's going to be a long process, likely taking over an hour - easily three or more if you want to do a verification of the transfer (which you'd better do if you're about to wipe your phone). Phones with removable storage are an option, but even then you're talking multiple hours for backup and verification based on even the fastest cards.
Not really. You can easily get 5-6 hours of screen-on time if your not processing much. Put it into game mode where you're driving the CPU/GPU at the edge of its thermal envelope and you'll be lucky to get 90 minutes.
In fact, for amoled screens, that on-time can be pushed to 9+ hours if you use a dark theme. After reading online using a dark background and light screen font, with ~20-25% brightness, my Note 7 (God rest it's fiery soul) showed a predicted 16 hours of remaining battery life after three hours of reading (after starting nearly fully charged). Pop that baby into a GearVR, though, and 2 hours was more than you would likely get before having to recharge.
There few, if any, actual staff journalists there. IBT is now a cesspit of uninformed bloggers who can post stories to fluff their online resume. There's little reliable or insightful content on there.
No matter how good v3 is going to be in 2 years, v4, in 4 years will be much, much better. With this logic, there's really no reason to release. Ever.
Unless, of course, the team really has just been surfing the internet and going to to lunch and then straight to the bar afterwards for the past 2 years instead of working on product.
When things go wrong, terribly wrong, there needs to be one ass to kick. That always goes in the CEO column.
but if I don't ever do anything to get one except tell people I should have one, I won't ever have one.
Pai will have about the same luck with his desire for FM radio on phones.
Android only has them turned on if you get an unlocked or non-carrier specific/marketed variant. Verizon and ST&T - the two biggest carriers, often have the vendors turn off that functionality even if ti exists.
That's because it's in a form that does not allow for the rapid release of electrical power. This will be in a form that is specifically designed to release power, or it's going to be pretty useless as a high capacity/high draw battery.
You might say the same about gasoline - you can spill it, but it's certainly not "safe." And if it should spill while actively producing power (aka on fire), it's going to get messy really fast.
Anything that doesn't have enough energy to go boom if the contents are spilled/mixed/come in contact while charged won't have enough energy to power whatever portable device I'm likely to be using. I would check to see that the energy density is low, but there isn't a single link to the actual research in the article, nor to even the researchers name, just "Harvard Researchers." This article would get a failing grade in a 3th grade science fair. It's no wonder people believe lies when you can just post anything in an article on the internet and not bother with even a single source.
True (well, I suppose - I never did international travel with NASA when I was there), but JPL is not NASA - it is a government contractor. Note that Sidd Bikkannavar was not identified as a government employee working for NASA, but rather that he worked at JPL. The only people NASA has in Pasadena are, essentially, contract managers. All the work is done by Cal Tech and outside contractors, if I remember my contracts correctly. The line is very blurred there from a public perspective, but from a contract one it is clear. It may have been NASA hardware, or it may have been CalTech hardware, or it may be hardware of another contractor.
It does make me wonder if Android should add a "PIN to Wipe" to their "PIN to Unlock" screen.
All forms of payment cost money. Ever tried to deposit $50k at a national bank account? Fee. Have more than X number of checks per month. Fee.
CC fees are more, no doubt. BUT, for the consumer, having an intermediary like a CC is an enormous level should anything go wrong with the transaction. It's almost a mini-escow transaction, but where the buyer has an unfair advantage in the initial mediation - aka a chargeback. If it's a transaction worth more than $100 or so, there is almost no way I'll be paying with cash, except where it's a service or good covered by some other means of protection. You may be a great vendor, just as I think I'm also a great vendor (and I grudgingly take CC, too), but there are way too many shysters out there these days.
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I was kind of jazzed about the LG Urbane and its stand-alone LTE capabilities, but it never really materialized. I would much rather ditch my monolith phone in favor of a watch. Add connectivity to automotive head units (Android Auto) and better and better speech recognition and the number of applications requiring a slab phone is reduced. If I could get two days of life from a watch while having it paired (even just BT) with my tablet, it would be suffice ~98% of the time for all my needs. Let me usb tether (power & data to my tablet) for high intensity work and I might never need a handheld phone again.
How, as an editor for a tech site, do you hire someone who can't even recognize a total goof in the summary intro? The PRESSURE at the surface of Venus is 90x that of earth.
I'd understand if you had one or two editors posting hundreds of stories a day - one might slip through. But you're barely posting one story an hour to the front page. How do you fuck that up?
Look, if all you have is a 1 and a 0, there's no way to represent the entirety of practical numeration. If it could be done, somebody would have already done it.
>this is always going to cost a LOT more than ground transportation- for fuel costs alone
I don't care. I'm not sure the commute angle is going to be practical in the near future for all the noise, congestion, and safe/available VTOL locations, but I'd sure as shit drop $100k right now if I could by a vehicle that could navigate normal roads/act as a "regular car" and also fly me between general aviation strips with a 250-300 mile range, even if it meant the equivalent of 10-12MPG on road fuel. That's half the range of a little Cessna, and probably similar efficiency (accounting for road fuel cost vs aviation fuel). I live in the middle of nowhere, and cutting my time to destination in half (or better, given none of the roads around me are straight) would be worth it.
Of course, these beasts are more likely to run in the small-jet class, with a starting price in the $2M price range and get the (cost) equivalent of 2-4MPG so my checking account is probably safe for a while.
Depends. Comcast is the ONLY high speed internet provider to my house. I can pay $100/mo for their 75Mb internet, or $90/mo for their 75Mb internet and the basic digital cable channels (except for the 13th month of service, where I have to be off their current "promotion" for 30 days before I can get back on). But it's $10 extra per cable box. and another $10 extra if you want that service in HD. So we have a single SD link on the TV my wife watches. If I can pay $87.50 for all of that and just plug in the handful of Rokus I've gotten for free over the years (and maybe even get HD), I'm in.