Because Steam is partly a DRM solution. Being able to run unpatched versions would allow for crackers to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities which could be used for piracy. Yes it's silly and ineffective like all DRM, but the big publishers, Steam's main customers, want to keep the illusion. Now I don't know what will happen to older games that don't run on Win7, but hopefully Steam will force the developers to upgrade them before the 2019 deadline.
You don't understand, MIT just found a way to make diplomas transferable! Like, if you have a job where you don't need your diploma, you'll be able to sell it. Or get two diplomas and sell one of them. Imagine the possibilities!
With everything being full of security holes and connected to the internet the only reason why the cyberpocalypse hasn't happened yet is exactly because there's plenty of legitimate work available so not many bother.
They just hacked the second largest site on the web, I don't think they need an obscure tech forum to spread their propaganda. And if this drives islamists towards vandalism instead of murder, that's an improvement.
First of all, I don't think there's much "AI" going on in those stores. As far as I know it's more of a combination of pressure sensors and Amazon's own QR code like hieroglyphs read by the cameras. The image recognition is mostly there to track the buyers, not the products. Which is the real reason why these stores can work: you have to authenticate yourself each time you enter a store, which means that if you keep shoplifting it's not going to be hard for Amazon to connect the dots and realize how a suspicious amount of stuff tends to go missing at the same time you have visited the stores in question. After they got you suspect, they can easily check the footage for evidence (even more easily with the facetracking). Now shoplifting alone isn't a very serious offence, but because of the authentication, Amazon can ban you from their stores for life, which is a pretty big deterrent not to mention an almost perfect method to get rid of repeat offenders.
These islands don't happen to be just above the water by pure chance, but because coral reefs grow until they hit the surface and then stop. When the sea level rises, the reefs will grow to match it.
Maybe Google just wants to avoid an unfruitful and overly emotional debate about a highly controversial topic. I wouldn't blame them for that, but the right way to do it would be to spell out clearly in company policy which topics are taboo.
I may be overly optimistic but I hope that this move will provide enough incentive for big corporations to get behind open source drivers and help create something that's on par with the official ones.
There were a series of accidents at Mayak, this is just another one. It's worth noting that this is not a power plant but a military installation producing weapons grade plutonium. Together, the accidents (one of which was actually caused by an idiot pouring a plutonium solution down the drain) have released more radioactive material than Chernobyl and Fukushima put together. The only reason this didn't result in a major catastrophe is because the surrounding area is very sparsely inhabited. But while the number of direct deaths was low, because the authorities kept the whole thing under wraps (doctors weren't allowed to diagnose people in the area with cancer for example), the number of deaths from radiation poisoning of the groundwaters is very hard to determine. We are not talking about a single big event here, more of a contamination that have been going on for decades, and because of this its impact is staggeringly large compared to its "visibility".
According to the article this "vulnerability" can only be exploited through adb which pretty much limits it to cases where the attacker already has physical access to the device.
Because Twitter autoshortens URLs you can post one as big as you want, no "hack" needed. That's sort of the point of URL shortening. You can argue that the design is bad, but I still don't see how this is news.
Buildings don't collapse, trains don't crash and planes don't fall out of the sky because there are strict government standards on how to make one. These standards cover the software used in them as well, and we now actually have some reasonably good standard practices on how to make software reliable. Unfortunately, reliability and security are not the same, so what's needed is a set of standards that describe how to make secure networks. I fully understand that's not an easy job, but I'm pretty sure that some agencies that need high security have already developed their own solutions that could be adapted, no need to reinvent the wheel. These security practices should be classed in different levels, and an appropriate certification level would be required for certain operations. Storing user data would require a low level if it's only an email address for example, but a very high level if it's a credit card number or fingerprint. Government contracts would also mandate a certification level depending on how security sensitive the job is. When multiple parties are involved in a project, their security level would equal to the lowest one. So a company could only outsource part of a level 4 job to an organisation that's at least level 4 certified. Let's be honest, the free market haven't solved this problem for decades and likely never will if left to itself.
Yep, if true this sounds really bad. I've got to say though that the agencies should've at least tried to notify Kaspersky of the breach without giving away too much just to see how they react. That would've made things clearer. But in the end it doesn't matter whether through malice or incompetence, if this is true this means Kaspersky isn't just sending your data to the Russians but also the Israelis, making it even worse. I wonder who else managed to hack them. Personally I use Clam on a liveCD to scan my windows box from time to time, but it has its limits. But the real defence is that I'm migrating more and more to Linux, which I originally only used for coding. In the last couple years though MS have neglected Win7 causing a bunch of security issues and Win10 is itself a virus, so I'm moving anything not gaming related over.
USB-C is just the connector, the cable can carry both analog and digital signals. AFAIK USB-C analog mode is only meant for adapters, my guess is because noise cancellation isn't very good over distances beyond a couple centimeters. This is probably why you don't see any licenced USB-C headphones. Because it's just an adapter, there shouldn't be any difference in sound quality. Digital headphones are a different matter, they have their own DAC inside instead of using the one in the phone. With phone DACs being as bad as they are, a digital headphone can significantly increase audio quality when used with a phone. And once you go digital you can also use Bluetooth if you don't mind having to charge your headphones. But having a DAC inside increases the price. For me, that's a price worth paying, and I've been using a (USB-A) digital headphone long before the jack removal trend so I'm not really affected by it. But I'd happily trade that for a phone that has a jack and a good DAC inside. I guess most people just don't care and it's a lot easier to reuse the DAC in the wireless module for audio than to put in a dedicated one.
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Because Steam is partly a DRM solution. Being able to run unpatched versions would allow for crackers to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities which could be used for piracy. Yes it's silly and ineffective like all DRM, but the big publishers, Steam's main customers, want to keep the illusion. Now I don't know what will happen to older games that don't run on Win7, but hopefully Steam will force the developers to upgrade them before the 2019 deadline.
You don't understand, MIT just found a way to make diplomas transferable! Like, if you have a job where you don't need your diploma, you'll be able to sell it. Or get two diplomas and sell one of them. Imagine the possibilities!
Technical knowledge doesn't guarantee political insight.
With everything being full of security holes and connected to the internet the only reason why the cyberpocalypse hasn't happened yet is exactly because there's plenty of legitimate work available so not many bother.
And why is that a problem? Trading cards should've been classified as gambling long ago.
They just hacked the second largest site on the web, I don't think they need an obscure tech forum to spread their propaganda. And if this drives islamists towards vandalism instead of murder, that's an improvement.
If Twitter realized that retweets are stupid they should just remove the feature instead of penalizing people who use it.
For that price it's cheaper to set up a heat pump.
First of all, I don't think there's much "AI" going on in those stores. As far as I know it's more of a combination of pressure sensors and Amazon's own QR code like hieroglyphs read by the cameras. The image recognition is mostly there to track the buyers, not the products. Which is the real reason why these stores can work: you have to authenticate yourself each time you enter a store, which means that if you keep shoplifting it's not going to be hard for Amazon to connect the dots and realize how a suspicious amount of stuff tends to go missing at the same time you have visited the stores in question. After they got you suspect, they can easily check the footage for evidence (even more easily with the facetracking). Now shoplifting alone isn't a very serious offence, but because of the authentication, Amazon can ban you from their stores for life, which is a pretty big deterrent not to mention an almost perfect method to get rid of repeat offenders.
These islands don't happen to be just above the water by pure chance, but because coral reefs grow until they hit the surface and then stop. When the sea level rises, the reefs will grow to match it.
Maybe Google just wants to avoid an unfruitful and overly emotional debate about a highly controversial topic. I wouldn't blame them for that, but the right way to do it would be to spell out clearly in company policy which topics are taboo.
I may be overly optimistic but I hope that this move will provide enough incentive for big corporations to get behind open source drivers and help create something that's on par with the official ones.
Something tells me this guy may not be true believer.
Didn't Yahoo go bankrupt by now?
He doesn't need to turn a profit, it's enough to become too big to fail.
There were a series of accidents at Mayak, this is just another one. It's worth noting that this is not a power plant but a military installation producing weapons grade plutonium. Together, the accidents (one of which was actually caused by an idiot pouring a plutonium solution down the drain) have released more radioactive material than Chernobyl and Fukushima put together. The only reason this didn't result in a major catastrophe is because the surrounding area is very sparsely inhabited. But while the number of direct deaths was low, because the authorities kept the whole thing under wraps (doctors weren't allowed to diagnose people in the area with cancer for example), the number of deaths from radiation poisoning of the groundwaters is very hard to determine. We are not talking about a single big event here, more of a contamination that have been going on for decades, and because of this its impact is staggeringly large compared to its "visibility".
According to the article this "vulnerability" can only be exploited through adb which pretty much limits it to cases where the attacker already has physical access to the device.
Because Twitter autoshortens URLs you can post one as big as you want, no "hack" needed. That's sort of the point of URL shortening. You can argue that the design is bad, but I still don't see how this is news.
You can self sign.
Buildings don't collapse, trains don't crash and planes don't fall out of the sky because there are strict government standards on how to make one. These standards cover the software used in them as well, and we now actually have some reasonably good standard practices on how to make software reliable. Unfortunately, reliability and security are not the same, so what's needed is a set of standards that describe how to make secure networks. I fully understand that's not an easy job, but I'm pretty sure that some agencies that need high security have already developed their own solutions that could be adapted, no need to reinvent the wheel.
These security practices should be classed in different levels, and an appropriate certification level would be required for certain operations. Storing user data would require a low level if it's only an email address for example, but a very high level if it's a credit card number or fingerprint. Government contracts would also mandate a certification level depending on how security sensitive the job is. When multiple parties are involved in a project, their security level would equal to the lowest one. So a company could only outsource part of a level 4 job to an organisation that's at least level 4 certified. Let's be honest, the free market haven't solved this problem for decades and likely never will if left to itself.
That won't happen before advertisers pressure W3C to include every BS from Flash into web standards.
Yep, if true this sounds really bad. I've got to say though that the agencies should've at least tried to notify Kaspersky of the breach without giving away too much just to see how they react. That would've made things clearer. But in the end it doesn't matter whether through malice or incompetence, if this is true this means Kaspersky isn't just sending your data to the Russians but also the Israelis, making it even worse. I wonder who else managed to hack them. Personally I use Clam on a liveCD to scan my windows box from time to time, but it has its limits. But the real defence is that I'm migrating more and more to Linux, which I originally only used for coding. In the last couple years though MS have neglected Win7 causing a bunch of security issues and Win10 is itself a virus, so I'm moving anything not gaming related over.
Yes, American government has some such instruments as well
Yep, like spreading FUD about AV that doesn't cooperate and coercing businesses to stop using/selling it.
They do stop for the night which I believe isn't added to the total time.
USB-C is just the connector, the cable can carry both analog and digital signals.
AFAIK USB-C analog mode is only meant for adapters, my guess is because noise cancellation isn't very good over distances beyond a couple centimeters. This is probably why you don't see any licenced USB-C headphones. Because it's just an adapter, there shouldn't be any difference in sound quality.
Digital headphones are a different matter, they have their own DAC inside instead of using the one in the phone. With phone DACs being as bad as they are, a digital headphone can significantly increase audio quality when used with a phone. And once you go digital you can also use Bluetooth if you don't mind having to charge your headphones. But having a DAC inside increases the price.
For me, that's a price worth paying, and I've been using a (USB-A) digital headphone long before the jack removal trend so I'm not really affected by it. But I'd happily trade that for a phone that has a jack and a good DAC inside. I guess most people just don't care and it's a lot easier to reuse the DAC in the wireless module for audio than to put in a dedicated one.