Italy's Luxottica [...] "That's how they gained control of so many brands" Dahan said. "If you don't do what they want, they cut you off"
Dat's a nice eyeglass store youse got dere. Be a shame if your arms was to be cut off from your torso. I'm sure Guido and Luigi can work out an offer you can't refuse...
It'll be watered down to pointlessness by the time it passes anyway, like most of these bills usually are. As long as it doesn't override the California law, which again these bills usually do, things should be OK though, at least that has some teeth. The CA one is still pretty weak, but at least it's something.
Is there something special about glasses in the US, like healthcare, where everything is outrageously expensive? I'm outside the US and I buy $5 glasses from either my local supermarket or one of several KMart-style chains that are indistinguishable from $200-300 eyeglass-store ones. They're cheap enough that I keep a pair in various locations so I don't have to remember where I put the ones I'm currently wearing down.
It's not foolproof -- there's always the risk a sufficiently determined thief could steal and imitate your fingerprint
Why would you do that? The chip, or hacked/cloned/fake chip, is the one that's telling the terminal that all is OK. "Uh yeah, this is the chip in the card, I've, uhh, verified the owner's fingerprint, all good here, nothing to see, move along". They're doing the checking in the wrong place.
The transactions showed credit to the customers accounts, but when the customer tried to withdraw cash, they had to wait until other customers deposited cash before the funds became available. There is also an accusation that this behavior exists at many other crypto exchanges as well.
So you're saying they're just ordinary Ponzi schemes dressed up with fancy geekery? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
So nice for Microsoft to think of themselves first, to the exclusion of anyone else.
They didn't think of themselves first though. I've now heard from two family members who use Skype (they're old, and all their equally old friends use it too), and am reliably informed that the updated Skype doesn't support Windows either. Argh, now I've got to go round and find "Skype Classic" on some dodgy Russian site and reinstall the version that mostly worked for them.
I suspect this is just random chance. Although there are no hard figures for the number of people with HIV, there are WHO estimates in the 50-100 million range. Three cured out of 50 million is just chance, there happened to be some combination of their genes and their history and the environment and whatever else that made it work.
I'll treat it as an actual cure when 10,000 have been cured.
I wonder what attracts the Instacretins to just this street? It's reasonably picturesque for Paris (most of which is actually kinda dull), but nothing special compared to any small French town, which will have dozens of streets much prettier than this.
Mind you I guess that's a feature, keep the Instacretins in Paris and not spoiling lovely French towns elsewhere.
Windows again was lucky there, they used that weirdo format of 100ns ticks in a 64-bit counter that Dave Cutler brought over from VMS. Not saying it makes sense, but it happens to work.
I think the plan with Windows is that there won't be any 32-bit code still running by the time it becomes an issue. Unlike Linux it's not really usable as an embedded OS that'll be around forever, and MS are close to discontinuing the remaining 32-bit Windows versions (XP and Vista are already gone), so all that'll be left is some legacy apps running on a 64-bit base OS.
Since Windows already has a massive infrastructure present that exists to provide shims for broken apps, I'm assuming significant time_t breakage will be addressed the same way if there's anything left by 2038.
In terms of specific protocols, NTP isn't actually that bad since it works on timestamp deltas, not absolute values. Depending on how badly the client is written you can still get problems going to the native date encoding if it's 32-bit, but it's not the hard-fail that it would appear to be.
Everyone is always working on the next big thing OS. Can't remember the last time when one of these actually took off... literally every single one has failed, the core always ends up being either BSD (1970s), Windows (1980s), or Linux (1990s, the most recent).
Windows actually got this pretty right, they just made time_t 64 bits when they switched to Win64 and everything works as required. Linux kinda missed that window some time ago, unfortunately.
But it's also a case of whoever accumulates the most porn wins. Guy I used to work with ended up having his porn collection used as a navigation aid by commercial aircraft. If you knew where to look it was even visible from the ISS.
In other news, 70% of blockchain startups don't use blockchain, except as a means of getting VC funding. Which is what the AI startups are doing too. And if you really want a way of getting VCs to bukkake money at you, do an AI blockchain startup.
What were you doing on a Linux box that only allowed you to get a year of uptime?
We used to dream of having an uptime of a year. Woulda' been a miracle to us. We used to run an old Windows 95 box found on a rubbish tip. We had a hundred and sixty of them situated in a small shoebox in the middle of the road. We got woken up every morning by having an alarm go off when Windows crashed, and then had a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! A year!? Hmph.
Had the same thing in the 90s, a Sparc 1+ that had been running for years without interruption doing whatever it was it was set up for. Then one day there was a power cut, and we found it had a trashed superblock and hadn't been capable of booting for an unknown period of time.
Yeah, the answer to what happened is right there in the article, the page was created by or for Brazilians, where ethnicity = skin colour. The category "yellow" is a direct translation of amarelo, which is how Asians describe themselves in Brazil. So it's something that's the norm in Brazil where the page/code presumably came from, but less so in translation into English.
I would be very surprised if, given enough time, they couldn't find vulns in any PDF reader there is. You're trying to sign a Turing machine that can do anything it wants, at some point that's going to include bypassing the signature guarantees. More generally, you can't safely sign active content if the content is hostile, or there's a means of getting it to pull in hostile content. XMLDsig is a prime example of this.
Something is also up with the photo that Qz used to illustrate this. WTF have they done with this, the rider is obviously moving at low speed (look at her hair), and then the background is smeared to imitate motion blur, but look at the railing, theres' breaks in it and features that appear and disappear across different regions of blurring. What a mess!
It's used in things like neutron howitzers, you can buy up to 1 Ci 239Pu as part of a 239PuBe source if you meet the requirements and fill out the paperwork.
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Italy's Luxottica [...] "That's how they gained control of so many brands" Dahan said. "If you don't do what they want, they cut you off"
Dat's a nice eyeglass store youse got dere. Be a shame if your arms was to be cut off from your torso. I'm sure Guido and Luigi can work out an offer you can't refuse...
I'm beginning to think that cryptocurrency is some of the best value you can get for your money.
Congresspeople are the best value you can get for your money. Cryptocurrency is a distinct second.
It'll be watered down to pointlessness by the time it passes anyway, like most of these bills usually are. As long as it doesn't override the California law, which again these bills usually do, things should be OK though, at least that has some teeth. The CA one is still pretty weak, but at least it's something.
Is there something special about glasses in the US, like healthcare, where everything is outrageously expensive? I'm outside the US and I buy $5 glasses from either my local supermarket or one of several KMart-style chains that are indistinguishable from $200-300 eyeglass-store ones. They're cheap enough that I keep a pair in various locations so I don't have to remember where I put the ones I'm currently wearing down.
It's not foolproof -- there's always the risk a sufficiently determined thief could steal and imitate your fingerprint
Why would you do that? The chip, or hacked/cloned/fake chip, is the one that's telling the terminal that all is OK. "Uh yeah, this is the chip in the card, I've, uhh, verified the owner's fingerprint, all good here, nothing to see, move along". They're doing the checking in the wrong place.
The transactions showed credit to the customers accounts, but when the customer tried to withdraw cash, they had to wait until other customers deposited cash before the funds became available. There is also an accusation that this behavior exists at many other crypto exchanges as well.
So you're saying they're just ordinary Ponzi schemes dressed up with fancy geekery? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
He used to use gmane which does give a threaded interface, but gmane is not maintained reliably as it once was.
That's like saying Atlantis is not maintained reliably as it once was. Visited gmane.org recently?
So nice for Microsoft to think of themselves first, to the exclusion of anyone else.
They didn't think of themselves first though. I've now heard from two family members who use Skype (they're old, and all their equally old friends use it too), and am reliably informed that the updated Skype doesn't support Windows either. Argh, now I've got to go round and find "Skype Classic" on some dodgy Russian site and reinstall the version that mostly worked for them.
I suspect this is just random chance. Although there are no hard figures for the number of people with HIV, there are WHO estimates in the 50-100 million range. Three cured out of 50 million is just chance, there happened to be some combination of their genes and their history and the environment and whatever else that made it work.
I'll treat it as an actual cure when 10,000 have been cured.
I wonder what attracts the Instacretins to just this street? It's reasonably picturesque for Paris (most of which is actually kinda dull), but nothing special compared to any small French town, which will have dozens of streets much prettier than this.
Mind you I guess that's a feature, keep the Instacretins in Paris and not spoiling lovely French towns elsewhere.
Windows again was lucky there, they used that weirdo format of 100ns ticks in a 64-bit counter that Dave Cutler brought over from VMS. Not saying it makes sense, but it happens to work.
I think the plan with Windows is that there won't be any 32-bit code still running by the time it becomes an issue. Unlike Linux it's not really usable as an embedded OS that'll be around forever, and MS are close to discontinuing the remaining 32-bit Windows versions (XP and Vista are already gone), so all that'll be left is some legacy apps running on a 64-bit base OS.
Since Windows already has a massive infrastructure present that exists to provide shims for broken apps, I'm assuming significant time_t breakage will be addressed the same way if there's anything left by 2038.
In terms of specific protocols, NTP isn't actually that bad since it works on timestamp deltas, not absolute values. Depending on how badly the client is written you can still get problems going to the native date encoding if it's 32-bit, but it's not the hard-fail that it would appear to be.
Everyone is always working on the next big thing OS. Can't remember the last time when one of these actually took off... literally every single one has failed, the core always ends up being either BSD (1970s), Windows (1980s), or Linux (1990s, the most recent).
Windows actually got this pretty right, they just made time_t 64 bits when they switched to Win64 and everything works as required. Linux kinda missed that window some time ago, unfortunately.
But it's also a case of whoever accumulates the most porn wins. Guy I used to work with ended up having his porn collection used as a navigation aid by commercial aircraft. If you knew where to look it was even visible from the ISS.
In other news, 70% of blockchain startups don't use blockchain, except as a means of getting VC funding. Which is what the AI startups are doing too. And if you really want a way of getting VCs to bukkake money at you, do an AI blockchain startup.
What were you doing on a Linux box that only allowed you to get a year of uptime?
We used to dream of having an uptime of a year. Woulda' been a miracle to us. We used to run an old Windows 95 box found on a rubbish tip. We had a hundred and sixty of them situated in a small shoebox in the middle of the road. We got woken up every morning by having an alarm go off when Windows crashed, and then had a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! A year!? Hmph.
Had the same thing in the 90s, a Sparc 1+ that had been running for years without interruption doing whatever it was it was set up for. Then one day there was a power cut, and we found it had a trashed superblock and hadn't been capable of booting for an unknown period of time.
A conventional fire, yes. A lithium fire, no.
Yeah, the answer to what happened is right there in the article, the page was created by or for Brazilians, where ethnicity = skin colour. The category "yellow" is a direct translation of amarelo, which is how Asians describe themselves in Brazil. So it's something that's the norm in Brazil where the page/code presumably came from, but less so in translation into English.
I would be very surprised if, given enough time, they couldn't find vulns in any PDF reader there is. You're trying to sign a Turing machine that can do anything it wants, at some point that's going to include bypassing the signature guarantees. More generally, you can't safely sign active content if the content is hostile, or there's a means of getting it to pull in hostile content. XMLDsig is a prime example of this.
Not necessarily. Windows has an ARM version. Though more than likely they'll ditch POSIX support and go full iOS across the line.
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Not necessarily. Windows has an ARM version. Though more than likely they'll ditch POSIX support and go full retard across the line.
My guess is they grabbed sections of the image and stretched them to fake motion blur.
Something is also up with the photo that Qz used to illustrate this. WTF have they done with this, the rider is obviously moving at low speed (look at her hair), and then the background is smeared to imitate motion blur, but look at the railing, theres' breaks in it and features that appear and disappear across different regions of blurring. What a mess!
Interesting to see how different media are reporting this, from the Weekly World News-worthy:
Teen builds working nuclear fusion reactor
to:
Boy, 12, said to have created nuclear reaction
by a media outlet with a science reporter who actually knows about science.
... you can buy plutonium off the shelf ...
Where?
It's used in things like neutron howitzers, you can buy up to 1 Ci 239Pu as part of a 239PuBe source if you meet the requirements and fill out the paperwork.