Nobody is getting the money, sure, but this is still a crime that the government can prosecute and send the guy to jail.
How 'bout: the contract that is causing issues is the one where the now-missing founder was paid a salary of $375,000+ per quarter and the company has ran out of money and is being sued by him as it owes him backpay. No crimes there.
The article content is fine, the irony is the title of it - "Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices".
As we all (should) know, security is only as good as the weakest link - and having a telemetry ridden Windows 10 OS on a device means the security of the hardware itself is essentially irrelevant.
I recently tested the Samsung Note 8 on the Dex dock with a large 4k monitor, + USB kb & mouse. Currently the Dex dock does not support >1080p, even though the HDMI interface is v2.0. Other than that, I could use native Android apps for a bunch of basic work stuff, and where I needed x86 apps I ran a virtual desktop. Worked perfectly fine as a PC replacement.
We'll be looking at this more in future as the potential to move to a single mobile device with a dock at work and home could save significant $$$ over even a normal desktop.
The public wonders why we could get stuff done so effectively in the past. I can tell you why: the government didn't have the level of red tape it has today in the name of "accountability."
My experience is that red tape is created when someone does something so dodgy that bureaucratic oversight is needed to prevent it happening again. The more problems encountered, the more red tape. Every once in a while a new government comes in and removes a swatch of it, only to have to reinstate some of it when those dodgy practices come to light again.
You'll still be world leader in military might for quite a while yet, so I guess starting a war pretty soon is on the cards. Probably near the end of your current administration so that they can use the old cliche "don't change government in a time of war".
Moon dust needs to be isolated from living areas, so the walls would at minimum be coated with something like a concrete or polymer spray. Structural spars would be added for both strength and for supporting internal structures. The cave collapsing would not be an issue.
This leads to a quick saturation of highly educated individuals still without positions. So they go into the only jobs on offer in the service sector, creating massive under-unemployment.
They (we?) will join the service industry, selling our time for $$$, in whatever way we can to pay for food. It's already underway with the massive number of vlogging, prostitution etc. The price of unskilled human labour will drop like a stone, welfare costs will balloon, and the ruling elite will eventually legalise things that currently make do as fiction - The Purge, Running Man etc. Time to update that zombie-proof castle to human-proof?
What I had in mind was that Windows wants to reboot pretty much once per week.
That seems strange - my personal Windows desktop boxes seem to reboot once a month, unless some critical vulnerability that requires a restart is forced as an out of bands update. That doesn't seem to happen much at all now.
There are many countries where snowfall is simply not a factor. Let AV get a foothold first where the climate is less harsh, and it can extend into the more difficult regions as the technology matures. There may be areas where it just does not make sense - doesn't mean it cannot be used elsewhere.
My Mazda 3 has 2 knobs for controls, both down on the centre console - one is for sound only, including a mute button on top. The other controls the rest, along with a few extra buttons as shortcuts. You can use the touchscreen only when the car is stationary (using default software, you can hack your own on top it seems). No need to look down either, and the screen is in your peripheral vision too. Works fairly well.
My question was if the bank's bank-end data servers could be on an internal only LAN with a very restrictive connection allowed from the public web servers, something that could only get a single record at a time and only with customer credentials then.
They're not hacking the banks multi-layered firewalls then searching around the LAN looking for the customer databases and hacking those systems, they target the systems that are known to be connected to the data that is desired, ie, those public facing web servers. Compromise those and use the credentials that the web-server uses to get access to the database.
Even if nobody realizes they've been hacked due to that in particular, it was shown that their hardware is not secure.
And yet your FTC could cite no specific cases where unsecure hardware has caused harm. Your legal system lets D-Link get away with this. Is this how capitalism is meant to work? You get to do whatever you want until you're sued or charged and found guilty?
I know I've been discriminated by race, and I've seen people throw away unread resumes of people they knew they were black (I've seen it with my fucking eyes.)
I'm sure I've seen an article about how your name affects your job prospects. Have something innocuous like Scott or Jacke or Jane or Mary and there's no thought put into that area. Have something like Darnell or Tyrone or Shaneequa or Neveah and your resume is tossed before they get to your skill set.
Oh here's one: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/top...
OF COURSE diets changed. But why did they change? A small bump of 5% or 10% might be explained away as "advertising for junk food" or "more video games". But we saw a 200% increase, a TRIPLING of obesity. That is a profound and extreme change in food consumption and metabolism. Why?
There are probably many correlations. The release of the food pyramid with carbs to be the most consumed item. Colour TV becomes widespread & advertising of junk food increases. Could be a rapid increases in wages vs cost of food. Maybe some new really cheap way of harvesting vegetable oil.
Or maybe it's the change to add HFCS in so much of our food? From the HFCS wiki article:
In 1965–1970 Yoshiyuki Takasaki, at the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) developed a heat-stable xylose isomerase enzyme from yeast. In 1967, the Clinton Corn Processing Company obtained an exclusive license to a manufacture glucose isomerase derived from Streptomyces bacteria and began shipping an early version of HFCS in February 1967.[3]:140 In 1983, the FDA approved HFCS as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), and that decision was reaffirmed in 1996[30]
Prior to the development of the worldwide sugar industry, dietary fructose was limited to only a few items. Milk, meats, and most vegetables, the staples of many early diets, have no fructose, and only 5–10% fructose by weight is found in fruits such as grapes, apples, and blueberries. Most traditional dried fruits, however, contain about 50% fructose. From 1970 to 2000, there was a 25% increase in "added sugars" in the U.S
Now, maybe different brains work differently and some people can handle semi-automation, but I know I can't. So don't even TRY to give me a car that can sorta drive itself and expect ME to be the ultimate failsafe... that just isn't going to happen. And I expect I am far, FAR from alone in this.
My partners' new car has this. She uses it all the time, and I do as well when I'm driving. Once I figured out how to adjust the distance between the car and the one ahead, and added the max cruise speed, it is super simple to use.
Neither of us have had difficulty in being overly bored whilst using it.
There are obviously groups of people where this does work, and quite well.
If you don't have the cash then you can't afford that car.
It costs me $20 a week to have that car now rather than save up a few years for it. The gas savings from having the more frugal car is around $15-18 per week, so to have this newer car 'on credit' is costing me less than a dollar a day. Think I'll take that deal.
Next time it may be different as I won't be going from a gas guzzler to an econobox, but even so that $20 a week will be covered by a single year pay rise, let alone the other 4 years for when the car is paid off. Actually by then pay increases will cover a payments for a replacement car completely.
It's going to be amusing when we start reusing numbers. We've already exhausted about 460 million of the 988.9 numbers available.
Can you not change it to alphanumeric?
If you started that process now, everything used everywhere would have time to be replaced with updated software that can handle that format - even those places running COBOL or FORTRAN or whatever the flavor was 40 years ago.
Yup, this was the original premise of the movie - our brains running the VM that enslaved us. Too complicated apparently, so was dumbed down to 'batteries'.
If you need more tax revenue, you tax on things that are increasing (company profits) not things that are decreasing (worker income). If your government is proposing lower company taxes, whoever is left working will need to pay more in income tax.
I think it would simply be faster delivery - make the pizza and chuck into the car oven. Pizza is cooked during autonomous delivery. Saves several minutes of in-house cooking time.
Of course, coming up with a level 5 autonomous car is going to take some time...
Windows Phone offered nothing that the other major phone OSs didn't offer.
They announced that a new Windows phone OS on ARM would be able to run native Win32 apps, which could be interesting if it is ever released. There's demand for device consolidation to a single piece of hardware, and still a lot of legacy Win32 apps out there. Shrinking by the minute I would guess, and/or capable of being provided by virtual desktops otherwise, so maybe they've canned that too.
Those "specialised situations" could very well be cities that no longer allow ICE powered trucks to be used within their boundaries. Have depots outside the city for ICE road-train long haul pick-ups and drop-offs, and shuffle the goods onto electric short-haul for travel to/from the final destination within the city borders.
The article describes the iOS app as having this issue - is it replicated in Android? AccuWeather was installed by default on my Samsung Galaxy phone...
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Nobody is getting the money, sure, but this is still a crime that the government can prosecute and send the guy to jail.
How 'bout: the contract that is causing issues is the one where the now-missing founder was paid a salary of $375,000+ per quarter and the company has ran out of money and is being sued by him as it owes him backpay.
No crimes there.
As we all (should) know, security is only as good as the weakest link - and having a telemetry ridden Windows 10 OS on a device means the security of the hardware itself is essentially irrelevant.
I recently tested the Samsung Note 8 on the Dex dock with a large 4k monitor, + USB kb & mouse. Currently the Dex dock does not support >1080p, even though the HDMI interface is v2.0. Other than that, I could use native Android apps for a bunch of basic work stuff, and where I needed x86 apps I ran a virtual desktop. Worked perfectly fine as a PC replacement.
We'll be looking at this more in future as the potential to move to a single mobile device with a dock at work and home could save significant $$$ over even a normal desktop.
The public wonders why we could get stuff done so effectively in the past. I can tell you why: the government didn't have the level of red tape it has today in the name of "accountability."
My experience is that red tape is created when someone does something so dodgy that bureaucratic oversight is needed to prevent it happening again. The more problems encountered, the more red tape.
Every once in a while a new government comes in and removes a swatch of it, only to have to reinstate some of it when those dodgy practices come to light again.
Like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You'll still be world leader in military might for quite a while yet, so I guess starting a war pretty soon is on the cards. Probably near the end of your current administration so that they can use the old cliche "don't change government in a time of war".
Moon dust needs to be isolated from living areas, so the walls would at minimum be coated with something like a concrete or polymer spray. Structural spars would be added for both strength and for supporting internal structures. The cave collapsing would not be an issue.
This leads to a quick saturation of highly educated individuals still without positions. So they go into the only jobs on offer in the service sector, creating massive under-unemployment.
They (we?) will join the service industry, selling our time for $$$, in whatever way we can to pay for food. It's already underway with the massive number of vlogging, prostitution etc. The price of unskilled human labour will drop like a stone, welfare costs will balloon, and the ruling elite will eventually legalise things that currently make do as fiction - The Purge, Running Man etc.
Time to update that zombie-proof castle to human-proof?
the software will become even less useful as Microsoft hides regularly used features such as Control Panel.
Is this the update that uninstalls Windows Media Player, but at least it is available to reinstall if needed?
What I had in mind was that Windows wants to reboot pretty much once per week.
That seems strange - my personal Windows desktop boxes seem to reboot once a month, unless some critical vulnerability that requires a restart is forced as an out of bands update. That doesn't seem to happen much at all now.
There are many countries where snowfall is simply not a factor. Let AV get a foothold first where the climate is less harsh, and it can extend into the more difficult regions as the technology matures. There may be areas where it just does not make sense - doesn't mean it cannot be used elsewhere.
My Mazda 3 has 2 knobs for controls, both down on the centre console - one is for sound only, including a mute button on top. The other controls the rest, along with a few extra buttons as shortcuts. You can use the touchscreen only when the car is stationary (using default software, you can hack your own on top it seems). No need to look down either, and the screen is in your peripheral vision too.
Works fairly well.
My question was if the bank's bank-end data servers could be on an internal only LAN with a very restrictive connection allowed from the public web servers, something that could only get a single record at a time and only with customer credentials then.
They're not hacking the banks multi-layered firewalls then searching around the LAN looking for the customer databases and hacking those systems, they target the systems that are known to be connected to the data that is desired, ie, those public facing web servers. Compromise those and use the credentials that the web-server uses to get access to the database.
Even if nobody realizes they've been hacked due to that in particular, it was shown that their hardware is not secure.
And yet your FTC could cite no specific cases where unsecure hardware has caused harm. Your legal system lets D-Link get away with this. Is this how capitalism is meant to work? You get to do whatever you want until you're sued or charged and found guilty?
I know I've been discriminated by race, and I've seen people throw away unread resumes of people they knew they were black (I've seen it with my fucking eyes.)
I'm sure I've seen an article about how your name affects your job prospects. Have something innocuous like Scott or Jacke or Jane or Mary and there's no thought put into that area. Have something like Darnell or Tyrone or Shaneequa or Neveah and your resume is tossed before they get to your skill set.
Oh here's one:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/top...
OF COURSE diets changed. But why did they change? A small bump of 5% or 10% might be explained away as "advertising for junk food" or "more video games". But we saw a 200% increase, a TRIPLING of obesity. That is a profound and extreme change in food consumption and metabolism. Why?
There are probably many correlations. The release of the food pyramid with carbs to be the most consumed item. Colour TV becomes widespread & advertising of junk food increases. Could be a rapid increases in wages vs cost of food. Maybe some new really cheap way of harvesting vegetable oil.
Or maybe it's the change to add HFCS in so much of our food? From the HFCS wiki article:
In 1965–1970 Yoshiyuki Takasaki, at the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) developed a heat-stable xylose isomerase enzyme from yeast. In 1967, the Clinton Corn Processing Company obtained an exclusive license to a manufacture glucose isomerase derived from Streptomyces bacteria and began shipping an early version of HFCS in February 1967.[3]:140 In 1983, the FDA approved HFCS as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), and that decision was reaffirmed in 1996[30] Prior to the development of the worldwide sugar industry, dietary fructose was limited to only a few items. Milk, meats, and most vegetables, the staples of many early diets, have no fructose, and only 5–10% fructose by weight is found in fruits such as grapes, apples, and blueberries. Most traditional dried fruits, however, contain about 50% fructose. From 1970 to 2000, there was a 25% increase in "added sugars" in the U.S
Now, maybe different brains work differently and some people can handle semi-automation, but I know I can't. So don't even TRY to give me a car that can sorta drive itself and expect ME to be the ultimate failsafe... that just isn't going to happen. And I expect I am far, FAR from alone in this.
My partners' new car has this. She uses it all the time, and I do as well when I'm driving.
Once I figured out how to adjust the distance between the car and the one ahead, and added the max cruise speed, it is super simple to use.
Neither of us have had difficulty in being overly bored whilst using it.
There are obviously groups of people where this does work, and quite well.
If you don't have the cash then you can't afford that car.
It costs me $20 a week to have that car now rather than save up a few years for it. The gas savings from having the more frugal car is around $15-18 per week, so to have this newer car 'on credit' is costing me less than a dollar a day.
Think I'll take that deal.
Next time it may be different as I won't be going from a gas guzzler to an econobox, but even so that $20 a week will be covered by a single year pay rise, let alone the other 4 years for when the car is paid off. Actually by then pay increases will cover a payments for a replacement car completely.
It's going to be amusing when we start reusing numbers. We've already exhausted about 460 million of the 988.9 numbers available.
Can you not change it to alphanumeric?
If you started that process now, everything used everywhere would have time to be replaced with updated software that can handle that format - even those places running COBOL or FORTRAN or whatever the flavor was 40 years ago.
Yup, this was the original premise of the movie - our brains running the VM that enslaved us. Too complicated apparently, so was dumbed down to 'batteries'.
If you need more tax revenue, you tax on things that are increasing (company profits) not things that are decreasing (worker income). If your government is proposing lower company taxes, whoever is left working will need to pay more in income tax.
Of course, coming up with a level 5 autonomous car is going to take some time...
Windows Phone offered nothing that the other major phone OSs didn't offer.
They announced that a new Windows phone OS on ARM would be able to run native Win32 apps, which could be interesting if it is ever released. There's demand for device consolidation to a single piece of hardware, and still a lot of legacy Win32 apps out there.
Shrinking by the minute I would guess, and/or capable of being provided by virtual desktops otherwise, so maybe they've canned that too.
Those "specialised situations" could very well be cities that no longer allow ICE powered trucks to be used within their boundaries. Have depots outside the city for ICE road-train long haul pick-ups and drop-offs, and shuffle the goods onto electric short-haul for travel to/from the final destination within the city borders.
The article describes the iOS app as having this issue - is it replicated in Android? AccuWeather was installed by default on my Samsung Galaxy phone...