Good idea but why not push for 100MB and just be done with it? If you are going to lay a cable to a rural location just make it fibre already. Or, if it's going to be wireless, used fixed 5G or something fast.
Virtually everyone in the whole world uses mobile phones every day, young and old, rich, poor, etc. and they have done for decades. If phone radiation caused any significant health issues, we'd be able to see those pretty darn easily. Have we?
As I understand it, a lot of big corporations use these tools and have the employee PC's install certs so that it all works. The upshot is that not only is your traffic not hidden from your employer (something that was made clear to me every time I logged into my previous employer-owned PC) but that when the traffic goes onto the internet, it's not that securely protected because of these weak appliances. That may have an impact on the security of any SaaS products the corporation is using (Salesforce, etc.), so as a Corp IT guy I'd be trying to fix that. Alternatively, as a corporate espionage attacker, it sounds like traffic between corporations and SaaS offering are ripe for the picking!
This happened with the Minecraft server CraftBukkit project a few years ago. After it came to light that Mojang had bought Bukkit (in a not so secretive way), one of the lead CraftBukkit devs in a fit of pique issued take down DCMA notices on all the repos claiming copyright over his contributions which were GPL. CraftBukkit code disappeared from GitHub, the net, and CraftBukkit binaries with it. At the time it did cause harm and almost killed the Bukkit community. Subsequent projects have grown to fill in the gap like Spigot, and now licenses that spell out how contributions work explicitly are used.
Yes, it was a game-changer. I remember the newspaper ad for the ZX-81 because my dad showed it to me. It was a full page in The Times (of London for US readers) and offered a fully functional computer for under 100 pounds! Wowza! Even at that price, I couldn't get one and had to hold out for a secondhand Video Genie, after which a few years later I graduated to a BBC Model B. As a result, I never got into the Sinclair side of things. I heard that if you zipped a ballpoint pen around each of the ZX-81 keys, you could get them to pop up slightly so they gave more tactile feedback.
I'm banned for life by Paypal. About a year ago they suspended my account, held onto all funds for 6 months and told me they'll never accept me as a customer ever again (they track SSN and CC numbers). I've no idea why because the customer support rep never said anything except that I should take my business elsewhere. I can only guess that they rate users / merchants by risk and are heavily culling any that blip above their line (which is pretty low). I sold software through a web site for $3.99 a pop and had a few customers claim their money back via Paypal (maybe 4 out of hundreds). Only one was ever valid, but there was absolutely no way to dispute a dispute with Paypal, so I just returned the money via the button they provided on the website. Now, Paypal can do what they like because they are a business, but I recommend no one ever use them for anything ever. If you are using them, go elsewhere and never rely on them to have your back.
Cloning is possible. However, in this case, the digital signature is not even being checked of the data. So, right now, you can create complete forgeries without the private key (or certificate) required. If they actually started to check signatures, which let's face it, software should be able to do easily today (I wonder why it's never been implemented), then you would have to match the details on the written passport exactly and you'd have to be a clone of another passport holder. That is a far higher bar to get over.
If as a consumer you want to save your hard-earned dollars (e.g, you have an HSA) when you need healthcare in the US, tough luck - you can't. The US health care system is not set up to enable anything like the usual way we shop. It's like being forced to buy things on recommendation from a stranger without knowing the prices for anything until you get your credit card statement. And then experiencing utter sticker shock at the cost!
Case in point: I went to the doctor for a check up. The doctor had no idea how much it would cost me for the checkup or how much any of the recommendations she made to me would cost me. So I asked the insurance system. They couldn't give me a price or even a quote, and only pointed me to a web-based useless "calculator" that gave rough numbers. It's not surprising, because the actual cost had been negotiated by some unseen, unknown entity (my employer? the company my employer contracts with?) and it certainly wasn't ever to be shared with a lowly patient/employee. The only time I could find out how much it cost was when I received the bill. And it was outrageous! Over $200 for a simple look-see. The doctor had claimed it was the "annual checkup", which was much more expensive. Apparently, there are multiple types of check up, with the cheapest being $60, but there's no way to request that, or know what you are getting in advance. Other procedures are completely opaque too and often involve bills from multiple entities. My wife received bills from approximately 6 different entities after an ER visit for concussion, including the individual doctors, the MRI, the CT staff along with billing for various bits and pieces (tubes, packs, etc.) that apparently were used. What a load of crap.
Another area that the health care system needs to address is their methodology of tracking the status of health issues. Currently, they run completely on the squeaky-wheel system. If the wheel don't squeak, it's not an issue any more. (Doesn't matter if the wheel has crumbled into dust or not!). As engineers, if we find an issue we usually have a process to track progress to resolution. Not in the health care system! It's completely random and ad hoc. You as a patient have to manage your own "bug tracking" because no one else will. They seem to be pretty good in tactical situations, but anything that isn't an easy fix, or takes a long time isn't handled well at all.
I'm glad that this is happening. The system needs a really big kick up the butt.
There are a few other things you'll get, but forcing them to reveal a trade secret is not one of them. GDPR will allow you to request a complete wipe of your data (right to be forgotten) and the ability to request a copy of all the data they have on you in machine-readable form so you can take it to a competitor. I expect for the latter they'll just point to their RESTful API.
The 787 is better, but other aircraft can be extremely noisy. Listening to that for 10 hours straight can really mess you up. Those who can afford them buy Bose noise cancellation headphones, but even cheaper Sony or Colby ones will work too at a push. Worse case, slip in some foam earplugs.
The rich fossil record of virii in equine species has made them a model for evolutionary processes1. Here we present a 1.12-times coverage draft genome from a virus found in horse bone recovered from permafrost dated to approximately 560–780 thousand years before present (kyrBP)2,3. Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA decoding techniques described by Erlich1 et al, [DNA Fountain enables a robust and efficient storage architecture] we recovered a total of 2.14 × 106 bytes in DNA oligonucleotides and perfectly retrieved the information from a sequencing coverage equivalent to a single tile of Illumina sequencing. The process allowed retrieval and decoding the data, reference, https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
My engineering friend doesn't do time changes. He stays on the same time all the time. This does mean he gets into work 1 hour earlier than everyone else now, but he's that type of guy anyway.
It's interesting how the full-page newspaper ad still holds so much gravitas. Doing it in these papers will apparently reach about 5 million people upper-middle-class and financial types. Not a bad move for damage control.
Could someone do a kickstarter to open up my car's SW and create dev tools for it? I have a 2015 Subraru Outback with EyeSight and I've already taken into the shop for two SW bug updates (one affected braking). I won't necessarily change anything, but it'd be good to have a look see. I'd also like an assessment of the SW quality level from someone knowledgeable in automotive programming. I could imagine a new kind of car review site that will take car code and run it through non-real time simulations and perform quality assessments just like other parts of the car are reviewed.
I bought an Apple TimeCapsule and I couldn't read the instruction manual. I'm over 40 and usually don't have any problem with print, but the small light gray font they used beat me. I managed to work out how to use it from the web, but it pissed me off.
Every time I read news like this I feel like I've just entered the Total Perspective Vortex http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/w.... For those that don't know (shame!), this invention, originally created by Trin Tragula as a way to get back at his wife (who was always telling him to get a "sense of proportion"), is now used as a torture and (in effect) killing device on the planet Frogstar B. The prospective victim of the TPV is placed within a small chamber wherein is displayed a model of the entire universe - together with a microscopic dot bearing the legend "you are here". The sense of perspective thereby conveyed destroys the victim's mind; it was stated that the TPV is the only known means of crushing a man's soul.
I totally agree. If I'm stressed or aggravated going for a walk really helps. Like you say it gives time to think - sometimes about nothing - sometimes I resolve algorithms. I purposely don't use headphones or play games because it lets my mind wander. Like all exercise, doing it regularly comes down to erasing the barriers to it - that's why I walk outside at lunchtime instead of walking on a treadmill in the gym. It's not that it's better, it's just easier not to go through the hassle of changing clothes, etc. If I can build exercise into my daily routine even more - I'm thinking of riding to work - then that will be even better.
Years ago (1995 to be precise), I had a modem plugged into the airphone that used to be in the headrest of the middle seat on Delta and other airplane seats. I had the phone clicked into the holder, but there was a gap that allowed the cable to snake out to the laptop. As we were waiting for take off, I idly pushed the buttons on the handset and after hitting the # key the screen displayed "dial your number" - this only showed if the modem cable was plugged in and the handset was clicked into the headrest. Although the keypad itself was disabled, it was entirely possible to dial using the modem for a data-only call. Just in case, I switched seats and tried it, connected to my internet provider at that time and everything worked great, albeit at 2.4kbps or whatever it was. I did call up the skyphone folks afterwards and told customer care about it. They were very grateful, but I never heard anything from them and I doubt the backdoor was shut. If anyone worked on that system, I'd like to know if it was left there intentionally or not!
TLA conflates Carrier with OEM. I worked for an OEM and never saw any revenue sharing from Google or the Carrier. Nothing. Zippo. We bid on RFQ's sent out by the carriers every 6 months with the best and lowest bid for slots the carrier had (high end, mid-priced, low, specialized, etc.), competing against every other OEM from Chinese wannabes to Tier 1's. Carrier was always hoping for iPhone quality at a $250 price point and once we sold it, we were onto the next product. In the end, we couldn't compete with Apple and had no marketing budget to compete with Samsung and went out of business. The article is right that money talks, but to think they'd give any to an OEM. Ha.
It's a good question, but the phone is not the Xiaomi experience.The full Xiaomi experience is all about hyper-focused customer marketing. See this paper - "Fan-centric social media: The Xiaomi phenomenon in China" (PD: https://goo.gl/f7EZtS)
Abstract:
In this highly competitive century, social media offers both opportunities and challenges. The concept of social media is top of mind for many entrepreneurs today. Fans are assuming an increasingly active role in co-creating marketing content with companies and their respective brands. Based on the Xiaomi success story in China, we provide a framework for building the power of the fan base and propose a new fan-centric social media business model. We examine the best practice case study of an emerging company’s successful efforts to leverage social media in order to reach an important audience of young consumers. Thereafter, we conclude with several lessons related to the integration of social media into a new firm’s operation strategy. We strongly recommend that businesses, and especially startups, make good use of powerfulsocial media to develop a business model with fan demand asthe core. This is what we call the ‘fan-centric’ social media business model.
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Good idea but why not push for 100MB and just be done with it? If you are going to lay a cable to a rural location just make it fibre already. Or, if it's going to be wireless, used fixed 5G or something fast.
Virtually everyone in the whole world uses mobile phones every day, young and old, rich, poor, etc. and they have done for decades. If phone radiation caused any significant health issues, we'd be able to see those pretty darn easily. Have we?
As I understand it, a lot of big corporations use these tools and have the employee PC's install certs so that it all works. The upshot is that not only is your traffic not hidden from your employer (something that was made clear to me every time I logged into my previous employer-owned PC) but that when the traffic goes onto the internet, it's not that securely protected because of these weak appliances. That may have an impact on the security of any SaaS products the corporation is using (Salesforce, etc.), so as a Corp IT guy I'd be trying to fix that. Alternatively, as a corporate espionage attacker, it sounds like traffic between corporations and SaaS offering are ripe for the picking!
This happened with the Minecraft server CraftBukkit project a few years ago. After it came to light that Mojang had bought Bukkit (in a not so secretive way), one of the lead CraftBukkit devs in a fit of pique issued take down DCMA notices on all the repos claiming copyright over his contributions which were GPL. CraftBukkit code disappeared from GitHub, the net, and CraftBukkit binaries with it. At the time it did cause harm and almost killed the Bukkit community. Subsequent projects have grown to fill in the gap like Spigot, and now licenses that spell out how contributions work explicitly are used.
Of course, the WaPo would report this!
Yes, it was a game-changer. I remember the newspaper ad for the ZX-81 because my dad showed it to me. It was a full page in The Times (of London for US readers) and offered a fully functional computer for under 100 pounds! Wowza! Even at that price, I couldn't get one and had to hold out for a secondhand Video Genie, after which a few years later I graduated to a BBC Model B. As a result, I never got into the Sinclair side of things. I heard that if you zipped a ballpoint pen around each of the ZX-81 keys, you could get them to pop up slightly so they gave more tactile feedback.
I'm banned for life by Paypal. About a year ago they suspended my account, held onto all funds for 6 months and told me they'll never accept me as a customer ever again (they track SSN and CC numbers). I've no idea why because the customer support rep never said anything except that I should take my business elsewhere. I can only guess that they rate users / merchants by risk and are heavily culling any that blip above their line (which is pretty low). I sold software through a web site for $3.99 a pop and had a few customers claim their money back via Paypal (maybe 4 out of hundreds). Only one was ever valid, but there was absolutely no way to dispute a dispute with Paypal, so I just returned the money via the button they provided on the website. Now, Paypal can do what they like because they are a business, but I recommend no one ever use them for anything ever. If you are using them, go elsewhere and never rely on them to have your back.
Cloning is possible. However, in this case, the digital signature is not even being checked of the data. So, right now, you can create complete forgeries without the private key (or certificate) required. If they actually started to check signatures, which let's face it, software should be able to do easily today (I wonder why it's never been implemented), then you would have to match the details on the written passport exactly and you'd have to be a clone of another passport holder. That is a far higher bar to get over.
If as a consumer you want to save your hard-earned dollars (e.g, you have an HSA) when you need healthcare in the US, tough luck - you can't. The US health care system is not set up to enable anything like the usual way we shop. It's like being forced to buy things on recommendation from a stranger without knowing the prices for anything until you get your credit card statement. And then experiencing utter sticker shock at the cost!
Case in point: I went to the doctor for a check up. The doctor had no idea how much it would cost me for the checkup or how much any of the recommendations she made to me would cost me. So I asked the insurance system. They couldn't give me a price or even a quote, and only pointed me to a web-based useless "calculator" that gave rough numbers. It's not surprising, because the actual cost had been negotiated by some unseen, unknown entity (my employer? the company my employer contracts with?) and it certainly wasn't ever to be shared with a lowly patient/employee. The only time I could find out how much it cost was when I received the bill. And it was outrageous! Over $200 for a simple look-see. The doctor had claimed it was the "annual checkup", which was much more expensive. Apparently, there are multiple types of check up, with the cheapest being $60, but there's no way to request that, or know what you are getting in advance. Other procedures are completely opaque too and often involve bills from multiple entities. My wife received bills from approximately 6 different entities after an ER visit for concussion, including the individual doctors, the MRI, the CT staff along with billing for various bits and pieces (tubes, packs, etc.) that apparently were used. What a load of crap.
Another area that the health care system needs to address is their methodology of tracking the status of health issues. Currently, they run completely on the squeaky-wheel system. If the wheel don't squeak, it's not an issue any more. (Doesn't matter if the wheel has crumbled into dust or not!). As engineers, if we find an issue we usually have a process to track progress to resolution. Not in the health care system! It's completely random and ad hoc. You as a patient have to manage your own "bug tracking" because no one else will. They seem to be pretty good in tactical situations, but anything that isn't an easy fix, or takes a long time isn't handled well at all.
I'm glad that this is happening. The system needs a really big kick up the butt.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There are a few other things you'll get, but forcing them to reveal a trade secret is not one of them. GDPR will allow you to request a complete wipe of your data (right to be forgotten) and the ability to request a copy of all the data they have on you in machine-readable form so you can take it to a competitor. I expect for the latter they'll just point to their RESTful API.
The 787 is better, but other aircraft can be extremely noisy. Listening to that for 10 hours straight can really mess you up. Those who can afford them buy Bose noise cancellation headphones, but even cheaper Sony or Colby ones will work too at a push. Worse case, slip in some foam earplugs.
From Nature:
The rich fossil record of virii in equine species has made them a model for evolutionary processes1. Here we present a 1.12-times coverage draft genome from a virus found in horse bone recovered from permafrost dated to approximately 560–780 thousand years before present (kyrBP)2,3. Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA decoding techniques described by Erlich1 et al, [DNA Fountain enables a robust and efficient storage architecture] we recovered a total of 2.14 × 106 bytes in DNA oligonucleotides and perfectly retrieved the information from a sequencing coverage equivalent to a single tile of Illumina sequencing. The process allowed retrieval and decoding the data, reference, https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
You could link up the geo-location too, and if the accident wasn't too severe, have the car auto-drive to the hospital to deliver the organ(s).
My engineering friend doesn't do time changes. He stays on the same time all the time. This does mean he gets into work 1 hour earlier than everyone else now, but he's that type of guy anyway.
It's interesting how the full-page newspaper ad still holds so much gravitas. Doing it in these papers will apparently reach about 5 million people upper-middle-class and financial types. Not a bad move for damage control.
WSJ - 2,378,827
NYT - 1,865,318
WP - 474,767
Total 4,718,912 average circulation.
Could someone do a kickstarter to open up my car's SW and create dev tools for it? I have a 2015 Subraru Outback with EyeSight and I've already taken into the shop for two SW bug updates (one affected braking). I won't necessarily change anything, but it'd be good to have a look see. I'd also like an assessment of the SW quality level from someone knowledgeable in automotive programming. I could imagine a new kind of car review site that will take car code and run it through non-real time simulations and perform quality assessments just like other parts of the car are reviewed.
They went bankrupt in 2012. Who's paying for the layers? Or did it take 4 years for the court to issue a ruling?
I bought an Apple TimeCapsule and I couldn't read the instruction manual. I'm over 40 and usually don't have any problem with print, but the small light gray font they used beat me. I managed to work out how to use it from the web, but it pissed me off.
Every time I read news like this I feel like I've just entered the Total Perspective Vortex http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/w.... For those that don't know (shame!), this invention, originally created by Trin Tragula as a way to get back at his wife (who was always telling him to get a "sense of proportion"), is now used as a torture and (in effect) killing device on the planet Frogstar B. The prospective victim of the TPV is placed within a small chamber wherein is displayed a model of the entire universe - together with a microscopic dot bearing the legend "you are here". The sense of perspective thereby conveyed destroys the victim's mind; it was stated that the TPV is the only known means of crushing a man's soul.
I totally agree. If I'm stressed or aggravated going for a walk really helps. Like you say it gives time to think - sometimes about nothing - sometimes I resolve algorithms. I purposely don't use headphones or play games because it lets my mind wander. Like all exercise, doing it regularly comes down to erasing the barriers to it - that's why I walk outside at lunchtime instead of walking on a treadmill in the gym. It's not that it's better, it's just easier not to go through the hassle of changing clothes, etc. If I can build exercise into my daily routine even more - I'm thinking of riding to work - then that will be even better.
Years ago (1995 to be precise), I had a modem plugged into the airphone that used to be in the headrest of the middle seat on Delta and other airplane seats. I had the phone clicked into the holder, but there was a gap that allowed the cable to snake out to the laptop. As we were waiting for take off, I idly pushed the buttons on the handset and after hitting the # key the screen displayed "dial your number" - this only showed if the modem cable was plugged in and the handset was clicked into the headrest. Although the keypad itself was disabled, it was entirely possible to dial using the modem for a data-only call. Just in case, I switched seats and tried it, connected to my internet provider at that time and everything worked great, albeit at 2.4kbps or whatever it was. I did call up the skyphone folks afterwards and told customer care about it. They were very grateful, but I never heard anything from them and I doubt the backdoor was shut. If anyone worked on that system, I'd like to know if it was left there intentionally or not!
TLA conflates Carrier with OEM. I worked for an OEM and never saw any revenue sharing from Google or the Carrier. Nothing. Zippo. We bid on RFQ's sent out by the carriers every 6 months with the best and lowest bid for slots the carrier had (high end, mid-priced, low, specialized, etc.), competing against every other OEM from Chinese wannabes to Tier 1's. Carrier was always hoping for iPhone quality at a $250 price point and once we sold it, we were onto the next product. In the end, we couldn't compete with Apple and had no marketing budget to compete with Samsung and went out of business. The article is right that money talks, but to think they'd give any to an OEM. Ha.
It's a good question, but the phone is not the Xiaomi experience.The full Xiaomi experience is all about hyper-focused customer marketing. See this paper - "Fan-centric social media: The Xiaomi phenomenon in China" (PD: https://goo.gl/f7EZtS)
Abstract:
In this highly competitive century, social media offers both opportunities
and challenges. The concept of social media is top of mind for many entrepreneurs
today. Fans are assuming an increasingly active role in co-creating marketing content
with companies and their respective brands. Based on the Xiaomi success story in
China, we provide a framework for building the power of the fan base and propose a
new fan-centric social media business model. We examine the best practice case
study of an emerging company’s successful efforts to leverage social media in order to
reach an important audience of young consumers. Thereafter, we conclude with
several lessons related to the integration of social media into a new firm’s operation
strategy. We strongly recommend that businesses, and especially startups, make good
use of powerfulsocial media to develop a business model with fan demand asthe core.
This is what we call the ‘fan-centric’ social media business model.