I can only hope this is actually implemented transparently. Having to choose (and pay for) all the memory you'll ever use the day you buy your phone is ridiculous, and limiting people to what the manufacturer's cost targets are (and no mfr is interested in a bunch of expensive, slow moving stock) made no sense in the market.
Now if Verizon can get it's head out of it's ass and roll out 5.0 updates quickly after the mfrs release them, things might be looking up.
Had a guy in my office a couple weeks ago. Cleans chimneys. This year he's going to clear about $500k after expenses and taxes. I just designed a 3000SF garage for his and his wife's cars. Had another guy a couple of months ago who does insulation. He's building a 12,000 SF home I helped design and just consulted with him on three large barn buildings for his growing exotic bird collection.
Seriously, the money really is in the trades - mostly because all the "smart" people are doing 9-5 for big companies and thinking that 100k is a big deal.
What does a homebuilder care about Comcast? $5000 for properly run, terminated, and coordinated fiber per house vs. $0 to offer Comcast. At the end of a small builder's 20 home year, means $100,000 different in the builders pocket (or boat, or vacation home, or wife's new boobs). I work with these people, and they don't give a shit unless it puts money directly in their pocket.
Many, probably most, municipalities have hookup fees for water and sewer. There's an initial feel and sometimes an added amortization fee on your bill as well because even the per-user cost of building a water treatment plan is enormous. I think I heard that Blacksburg, Virginia's hookup fees are in the $25,000 per house range. Some places have a school fee (more homes = more students, statistically speaking) to help cover the cost of building out education facilities. With a typical 3-school strand costing upwards of $100,000 per pupil, adding one house seems inconsequential, but adding a development of 1000 new homes means a $50M bill that has to be footed by the taxpayers.
Actually, this is where the law gets interesting. You can build a program to rip a DVD to your hard drive, and you can build a program to decode the CSS encoding to allow it on commercial discs, and you are allowed - though fair use - to rip discs you purchase to your home computer. BUT it is illegal to sell that program to anyone else - it's considered trafficking. It's a catch-22 in the law - it's legal to do (ripping/decoding), but you must do it yourself; nobody can help you.
If you'd like an example, you can look up the woes of Kaleidescape. What they do is perfectly legal for the end user, and has been determined to be illegal if you sell it, even though what the end user does is actually legal.
Note that this is a particular law, and is not involved in firearms, but the CONCEPT is nearly identical.
You'd probably have most of the villagers at the town hall with pitchforks and torches. Funny how we want the services and value, but almost nobody is willing to pay what it's worth to get it.
When I flip an old-fashioned switch, the lights turn on. Every. Single. Time. For 50 years without fail. I want that kind of simplicity and reliability. But I want it to do everything. Temperature, lighting, music (or silence), automatic maintenance, fix/change/update without interaction from me and with mission critical fail safe reliability.
What do you think they can do with the current mag-stripe cards? You've already given them a credit card number, your home pr business address, your telephone number, and you've accepted a card in which you have no idea what they've embedded but at the minimum they can easily track your entrances into the room through their computer system which is linked to their headquarters (Which is partnered with all of their brand flags as well as several travel related services like autos and flights) and your cc payment processor (which has a record of every CC purchase you've made).
Just deny the app any permissions you don't want it to have, and/or freeze it when you don't need it and thaw it just to unlock the door. If the app fails under those conditions, get the above mentioned swipe card. Unless you have Apple devices of course...in which case, you're fucked, but at that point you've already sold out so hard that worrying about Starwood knowing whos' in your phone list and where you went for dinner is the least of your worries.
They're not rights when you're talking about negotiations between corporations. You are, of course, welcome to not use stripe for your payment services. I suspect Stripe is so worried about losing your non-existent business they're - at this very moment - trying to figure out how to win you back.
Luckily for Stripe, they're not beholden to some government definition of what they, as a corporation, decide NOT to process transactions for. Upper receiver, lower receiver, high power magnets,Shirts with sexual innuendo, Hello Kitty paraphernalia. Their terms of service, their call.
Leave your card, take your phone. If, by some chance, you manage to have a completely dead phone when you get back to the hotel, you just get a physical card from the front desk, or they plug in your phone for 2 minutes and you go up and get in normally.
And that's less secure than the current system exactly how? Right now you can do the exact same thing, all you need is a magstripe card. With the proper backend this could be far more secure than the current setup.
This is the potential future of convenience. With NFC and actual secure chips, you should be able to use your phone for ID verification, boarding passes, purchases, hotel rentals, rental car "keys", and everything else you need.
Properly implemented, it would have as much or more security than just about every other common form used for any of the areas above. Of course, we all know they're going to fumble the security part, so hopefully it won't be any worse that what we already have.
As I understand it, the big problem with the engine was uneven combustion and the vibrations it caused, not explosion. Hybrid engines are unlikely to explode, though I believe some oxidizer tanks have.
Do you have a credible reference for the vibration theory? The engines had undergone multiple ground/static tests to verify that they performed consistently and within spec. Most space protoflight hardware is ground tested for 3dB or 6dB above the baseline random vibration PSD profile, though I don't know what end-to-end tests the SS2 underwent. (fwiw, the protoflight testing is based on requirements for space shuttle payloads, but I think we tested some expendables to the same criteria)
Oxidizer tanks are just pressure tanks. The NO2 used for hybrid rocket motors is pretty stable stuff. They're no more likely to explode (or more dangerous) than a SCUBA tank or the CO2 tank that pushes beer and soda at your local pub.
Normally, the feather system wouldn’t be unlocked until the rocket-powered spaceship is moving about Mach 1.4, or 1.4 times faster than the speed of sound. Instead, the co-pilot moved the lever from locked to unlock when the spaceship was traveling at about Mach 1, Hart said. “I’m not stating that this is the cause of the mishap,” he added. “We have months and months of investigation to determine what the cause was. If we find the problem right away, we don't get paid nearly as much. I've been told we need to generate about $2 Million in billables before we can write up any conclusions ” In addition to the possibility of pilot error, Hart said the NTSB is looking a variety of other issues that may have caused or contributed to the accident
I wondered the same thing. If anybody else tries to prioritize by "authenticity" they could be violating another's IP, so they can claim that one of the content owners was basically forcing them to rank pirated content or pay them royalties for not ranking it. The law usually does not look favorably on such squeeze plays.
Strangely, it actually comes down to safety. Hybrid motors have a compromise between controllability and safety. Liquid fuel rockets often have at least one cryogenic component (sometimes both) or use a hypergolic fuel - both of which have very serious safety issues for storage and transport. Solid fuel rockets are very stable, but have little or no controllability.
The hybrid here is generally more stable than cryo/hypergolic and controllable, though no engine is completely safe.
"'when you have viewed particular content or a particular email message"
Sounds horrible and ominous. Unless, of course, you realize that the TV would otherwise have no way of indicating your next unread message / new messages, sorting your watched shows from your unwatched ones, and allowing you to browse your history. Do not track (I'm guessing) is ignored so that it doesn't break functionality on content sites which need it to, again, show you your history, make viewing suggestions, and keep track of which episodes you've watched. Facial recognition sounds super 1984, but would be exceptionally convenient so that the TV brings up Dr. Who and The Simpsons when you sit down rather than Twilight and Wizards of Waverly Place (though its easy to see how a mis-match - or correct match - could be a bit embarassing).
Maybe our TVs just need an "incognito mode" on the remote?
Yes, but 3 of your salads will still have too few calories to meet the basal metabolic rate for even a thin adult human, whereas $3 in burgers will get you there.
On the bright side, the chance of catching e. coli is about the same from a fast food burger and from pre-washed, bagged greens. A bout with the bac is always good for a quick weight loss.
If he's so concerned, perhaps he should donate his time and form a non-profit organization which solicits donations to do the survey. It's how the republicans have suggested we deal with homelessness, child nutrition, mental health, and the arts. Why should his pet project/idea get a larger share of federal dollars?
You clearly have no idea the amount of time this takes to do correctly and verify it has been done on every. single. record. This isn't a dozen applications, this is (I presume) hundreds of thousands.
As compared to deleting the files based on date and/or having a shredding company come in and dump the bankers boxes, you're talking several magnitudes of effort (and cost).
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I can only hope this is actually implemented transparently. Having to choose (and pay for) all the memory you'll ever use the day you buy your phone is ridiculous, and limiting people to what the manufacturer's cost targets are (and no mfr is interested in a bunch of expensive, slow moving stock) made no sense in the market.
Now if Verizon can get it's head out of it's ass and roll out 5.0 updates quickly after the mfrs release them, things might be looking up.
There was this recently: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
Had a guy in my office a couple weeks ago. Cleans chimneys. This year he's going to clear about $500k after expenses and taxes. I just designed a 3000SF garage for his and his wife's cars. Had another guy a couple of months ago who does insulation. He's building a 12,000 SF home I helped design and just consulted with him on three large barn buildings for his growing exotic bird collection.
Seriously, the money really is in the trades - mostly because all the "smart" people are doing 9-5 for big companies and thinking that 100k is a big deal.
Except when talent works hard. Then talent beats hard work every time.
What does a homebuilder care about Comcast? $5000 for properly run, terminated, and coordinated fiber per house vs. $0 to offer Comcast. At the end of a small builder's 20 home year, means $100,000 different in the builders pocket (or boat, or vacation home, or wife's new boobs). I work with these people, and they don't give a shit unless it puts money directly in their pocket.
Many, probably most, municipalities have hookup fees for water and sewer. There's an initial feel and sometimes an added amortization fee on your bill as well because even the per-user cost of building a water treatment plan is enormous. I think I heard that Blacksburg, Virginia's hookup fees are in the $25,000 per house range. Some places have a school fee (more homes = more students, statistically speaking) to help cover the cost of building out education facilities. With a typical 3-school strand costing upwards of $100,000 per pupil, adding one house seems inconsequential, but adding a development of 1000 new homes means a $50M bill that has to be footed by the taxpayers.
Actually, this is where the law gets interesting. You can build a program to rip a DVD to your hard drive, and you can build a program to decode the CSS encoding to allow it on commercial discs, and you are allowed - though fair use - to rip discs you purchase to your home computer. BUT it is illegal to sell that program to anyone else - it's considered trafficking. It's a catch-22 in the law - it's legal to do (ripping/decoding), but you must do it yourself; nobody can help you.
If you'd like an example, you can look up the woes of Kaleidescape. What they do is perfectly legal for the end user, and has been determined to be illegal if you sell it, even though what the end user does is actually legal.
Note that this is a particular law, and is not involved in firearms, but the CONCEPT is nearly identical.
You'd probably have most of the villagers at the town hall with pitchforks and torches. Funny how we want the services and value, but almost nobody is willing to pay what it's worth to get it.
When I flip an old-fashioned switch, the lights turn on. Every. Single. Time. For 50 years without fail. I want that kind of simplicity and reliability. But I want it to do everything. Temperature, lighting, music (or silence), automatic maintenance, fix/change/update without interaction from me and with mission critical fail safe reliability.
What do you think they can do with the current mag-stripe cards? You've already given them a credit card number, your home pr business address, your telephone number, and you've accepted a card in which you have no idea what they've embedded but at the minimum they can easily track your entrances into the room through their computer system which is linked to their headquarters (Which is partnered with all of their brand flags as well as several travel related services like autos and flights) and your cc payment processor (which has a record of every CC purchase you've made).
Just deny the app any permissions you don't want it to have, and/or freeze it when you don't need it and thaw it just to unlock the door. If the app fails under those conditions, get the above mentioned swipe card. Unless you have Apple devices of course...in which case, you're fucked, but at that point you've already sold out so hard that worrying about Starwood knowing whos' in your phone list and where you went for dinner is the least of your worries.
They're not rights when you're talking about negotiations between corporations. You are, of course, welcome to not use stripe for your payment services. I suspect Stripe is so worried about losing your non-existent business they're - at this very moment - trying to figure out how to win you back.
Luckily for Stripe, they're not beholden to some government definition of what they, as a corporation, decide NOT to process transactions for. Upper receiver, lower receiver, high power magnets,Shirts with sexual innuendo, Hello Kitty paraphernalia. Their terms of service, their call.
Leave your card, take your phone. If, by some chance, you manage to have a completely dead phone when you get back to the hotel, you just get a physical card from the front desk, or they plug in your phone for 2 minutes and you go up and get in normally.
And that's less secure than the current system exactly how? Right now you can do the exact same thing, all you need is a magstripe card. With the proper backend this could be far more secure than the current setup.
Based on the video it looks like NFC, fwiw.
This is the potential future of convenience. With NFC and actual secure chips, you should be able to use your phone for ID verification, boarding passes, purchases, hotel rentals, rental car "keys", and everything else you need.
Properly implemented, it would have as much or more security than just about every other common form used for any of the areas above. Of course, we all know they're going to fumble the security part, so hopefully it won't be any worse that what we already have.
As I understand it, the big problem with the engine was uneven combustion and the vibrations it caused, not explosion. Hybrid engines are unlikely to explode, though I believe some oxidizer tanks have.
Do you have a credible reference for the vibration theory? The engines had undergone multiple ground/static tests to verify that they performed consistently and within spec. Most space protoflight hardware is ground tested for 3dB or 6dB above the baseline random vibration PSD profile, though I don't know what end-to-end tests the SS2 underwent. (fwiw, the protoflight testing is based on requirements for space shuttle payloads, but I think we tested some expendables to the same criteria)
Oxidizer tanks are just pressure tanks. The NO2 used for hybrid rocket motors is pretty stable stuff. They're no more likely to explode (or more dangerous) than a SCUBA tank or the CO2 tank that pushes beer and soda at your local pub.
Normally, the feather system wouldn’t be unlocked until the rocket-powered spaceship is moving about Mach 1.4, or 1.4 times faster than the speed of sound. Instead, the co-pilot moved the lever from locked to unlock when the spaceship was traveling at about Mach 1, Hart said. “I’m not stating that this is the cause of the mishap,” he added. “We have months and months of investigation to determine what the cause was. If we find the problem right away, we don't get paid nearly as much. I've been told we need to generate about $2 Million in billables before we can write up any conclusions ” In addition to the possibility of pilot error, Hart said the NTSB is looking a variety of other issues that may have caused or contributed to the accident
I presume others read my added words as well?
I wondered the same thing. If anybody else tries to prioritize by "authenticity" they could be violating another's IP, so they can claim that one of the content owners was basically forcing them to rank pirated content or pay them royalties for not ranking it. The law usually does not look favorably on such squeeze plays.
But if it's spelled Koch it's going to offend a lot of people. ;-)
Strangely, it actually comes down to safety. Hybrid motors have a compromise between controllability and safety. Liquid fuel rockets often have at least one cryogenic component (sometimes both) or use a hypergolic fuel - both of which have very serious safety issues for storage and transport. Solid fuel rockets are very stable, but have little or no controllability.
The hybrid here is generally more stable than cryo/hypergolic and controllable, though no engine is completely safe.
"'when you have viewed particular content or a particular email message"
Sounds horrible and ominous. Unless, of course, you realize that the TV would otherwise have no way of indicating your next unread message / new messages, sorting your watched shows from your unwatched ones, and allowing you to browse your history. Do not track (I'm guessing) is ignored so that it doesn't break functionality on content sites which need it to, again, show you your history, make viewing suggestions, and keep track of which episodes you've watched. Facial recognition sounds super 1984, but would be exceptionally convenient so that the TV brings up Dr. Who and The Simpsons when you sit down rather than Twilight and Wizards of Waverly Place (though its easy to see how a mis-match - or correct match - could be a bit embarassing).
Maybe our TVs just need an "incognito mode" on the remote?
Yes, but 3 of your salads will still have too few calories to meet the basal metabolic rate for even a thin adult human, whereas $3 in burgers will get you there.
On the bright side, the chance of catching e. coli is about the same from a fast food burger and from pre-washed, bagged greens. A bout with the bac is always good for a quick weight loss.
That, and they're partially exempt from CAFE and gas guzzler taxes (or were at the time of their wildly increasing popularity)
If he's so concerned, perhaps he should donate his time and form a non-profit organization which solicits donations to do the survey. It's how the republicans have suggested we deal with homelessness, child nutrition, mental health, and the arts. Why should his pet project/idea get a larger share of federal dollars?
You clearly have no idea the amount of time this takes to do correctly and verify it has been done on every. single. record. This isn't a dozen applications, this is (I presume) hundreds of thousands.
As compared to deleting the files based on date and/or having a shredding company come in and dump the bankers boxes, you're talking several magnitudes of effort (and cost).