Hard to believe any bacteria could survive the collision velocities involved with an orbiting object, whether they floated in from space or up from the atmosphere. They were there when it launched.
When apps like "DuckDuckGo Search & Stories" seem to be in there because they want INTERNET, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE & INSTALL_SHORTCUT permissions, a perfectly reasonable and tight set for what it does, you have to question the quality of this research. When apps can get on the list for blocking known trackers that's even more worrying.
It's not safe enough because the average Android user blindly clicks through even the scary warnings after years of too many apps having to work round missing APIs. If nothing else Google will get a clearer idea what's still missing in their API.
As an app developer I don't hurry to switch working functionality to use newer APIs, we need a kick sometimes to do it. Especially when we've used hacky tricks to get stuff done.
All consumers benefit when companies start taking security seriously. This is a deterrent, not a tax. If companies just pay up then it's not working and something more onerous will be created.
You should be dismayed by sectors that get killed when their subsidies get removed too early. You should be dismayed when that's a deliberate political choice for very questionable reasons.
What happened is politicians ideologically opposed to subsidies and with "big energy" friends to support looked at price projections and thought they were crippling PV by jumping way ahead of the expected curve.
There was a deliberate intent to move faster than the numbers suggested. What went wrong is those projections turned out to be wrong - which they didn't know at the time. Probably couldn't have predicted. They did manage to severely damage the domestic PV installation business despite that, UK PV is now increasingly large scale farms.
You overlook the way China dominates PV panel production. For solar they might or might not lead in deployment but they own the production side and it's become almost impossible for the developed world to compete. The scale of production gives them an overwhelming price advantage.
Chinese PV prices are falling so fast in markets that don't use tariff proctectionism it's threatening traditional energy companies. Here in the UK our idiot gov are trying really hard to kill PV by premature subsidy removal and failing to outrun the price drops. In the US you as usual let the incumbent energy companies lobby and sue PV out of many states even before Trump declared war.
It's big business and you're lost the war for the production business.
Can't remember when Sharp had a reputation worth defending but it wasn't this century! Here in the UK HiSense is now a more respected brand than most Japanese brands that went down the licencing cheap foreign factory built crap route long, long ago.
You're right that 'enthusiasts' aren't going to get much from this.
For gamers even XB1/PS4 ports aren't going to use more than 6 cores and last time we tested, running single threaded an FX8370 usually beat well threaded XB1 code.
There are workloads it makes a difference on. Moving to 8 core/16 thread Ryzen scales really well on large compile jobs on insanely badly designed codebases like Unreal. Those 'coding enthusiasts' along with video encoding fans are well able to use more cores.
I'm enjoying being able to play CPU intensive games with those huge compile or encoding jobs running almost full speed in the background and I could easily use 16 cores to shave worthwhile chunks off my build times:)
Unfortunately that won't stop MS keeping broken drivers in their update db or trying to install them every time they 'accidentally' reset your preferences during an update (assuming you even found the 'don't update anything' option).
Until I built a dedicated PVR backend and locked it down, Win8 then 10 persistently tried installing broken 64bit DVB-T drivers for 3 of my tuners. On a good day they threw warnings, a mediocre one I found out when recordings failed. On a bad day it blue screened booting. WHQL certified drivers every time.
The correct settings: defer updates, disable driver updates, image the drive before any update. The install any other OS.
As a game developer and gamer, I remember AMD invented the X64 architecture Intel licences. Intel have been pretty good at conforming to AMDs standard....also looking at those AMD powered XB1 devkits on my desk.
"Direct Democracy" has been successfully used for hundreds of years in Switzerland. A large part of how they make it work is that referenda are regularly reversed and regularly only partially implemented - with no obvious complaint from the voters.
In contrast to the extreme brexiteers claims, a direct public vote is not final in a working direct democracy and always subject to sanity checking. The reason our brexit crazy ministers are so eager to bypass parliament is they understand that all too well, that the public can change their minds, that parliament has a responsibility to filter out insanity espoused by government. They know that they have to hurry through their wrecking ball before anyone can stop them.
The brexiteers tried to bypass our constitution and got caught.
I think there's a reasonable (flawed) assumption devices provide an acceptable level of physical protection for their batteries, mainly from puncture and external short circuits. At least more protection than padded bags, cardboard or light plastic packing is going to achieve without stringent unenforceable packing standards.
Another condition for transporting in devices is that they cannot turn on, ruling out most of the causes of in-device fires.
Possibly credible if you ignore cheap knockoffs that aren't standards tested.
Too expensive is the big problem but it's not the only one. Android has seen many attempts to sell devices with physical keyboard's, outside the ultra low end, where a keyboard can improve on a poor and small touchscreen, the market rejected them all.
For all we claim to want them, on modern devices we don't need them and once that sinks in we choose the smaller, lighter version. I even carry a keyboard case with my tablet yet never bother using it as anything but a case and kickstand.
Blackberry fulfilled a need that no longer exists. It probably would have sank even on their own OS with today's hardware.
The scum managed to update my network HTPC this weekend and wiped all my firewall config in the process. Best guess is they noticed it was blocking the telemetry and most update shit and 'fixed' it. Fixed with extreme prejudice.
There really is nothing they won't do to take control of your hardware and it can only get worse till a few class action suits hit them in the wallet.
If the mirrors were perfect the input energy would just bounce around forever generating thrust and this would be a perpetual motion machine. We don't believe in them.
So somewhere energy is leaking out of the cavity and the thrust is easily explained if there's any bias to the direction it leaks in. It works because the cavity shape creates a bias to the leakage.
"The fear the companies have is that there will be non GMO products available at the same price they have been selling theirs at, and everyone will buy that instead"
Finally.
The vast majority of GM food is designed to be cheaper to grow, not be better as food. As long as you can't distinguish it from non GM food you can't assess a fair price for it. You can't do the arithmetic and work out how much of the saving the patent owning company is siphoning off, or work out if you're getting a good deal.
The industry is afraid the public will realise the cost benefits aren't reaching them, that there's no reason to buy GM.
And Microsoft are trying very,very hard to give as many opportunities to make that mistake as possible, simultaneously trying to ensure it's a damn easy mistake to make with deceptive install dialogs.
Trickery, it's still wrong, no better than any other malware campaign relying on the same tricks.
Since the option is 'acceptable but less effective' or 'no ads, no effect' it's not really a choice.
However 'effective' largely means compared to it's competition in a near zero sum game. Fighting over existing sales not creating new ones. That's how we got in this mess with continuous escalation 'for effect'.
Adblocking and whitelisting just level the playing field, removing the ability for excess. I might consider enabling it when the checkers prove they can do the job right.
What I'm unlikely to ever do is trust the sites or ad middlemen to police themselves. They'll surely try some scheme to bypass adblocker whitelisting. It will be ignored.
The actual words are clumsy but the most reasonable interpretation is 'the plane was also used to extradite Abu Hamza'. Just the bad writing letting people read rendition into it.
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Hard to believe any bacteria could survive the collision velocities involved with an orbiting object, whether they floated in from space or up from the atmosphere. They were there when it launched.
When apps like "DuckDuckGo Search & Stories" seem to be in there because they want INTERNET, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE & INSTALL_SHORTCUT permissions, a perfectly reasonable and tight set for what it does, you have to question the quality of this research. When apps can get on the list for blocking known trackers that's even more worrying.
It's not safe enough because the average Android user blindly clicks through even the scary warnings after years of too many apps having to work round missing APIs. If nothing else Google will get a clearer idea what's still missing in their API.
As an app developer I don't hurry to switch working functionality to use newer APIs, we need a kick sometimes to do it. Especially when we've used hacky tricks to get stuff done.
All consumers benefit when companies start taking security seriously. This is a deterrent, not a tax. If companies just pay up then it's not working and something more onerous will be created.
You should be dismayed by sectors that get killed when their subsidies get removed too early. You should be dismayed when that's a deliberate political choice for very questionable reasons.
What happened is politicians ideologically opposed to subsidies and with "big energy" friends to support looked at price projections and thought they were crippling PV by jumping way ahead of the expected curve.
There was a deliberate intent to move faster than the numbers suggested. What went wrong is those projections turned out to be wrong - which they didn't know at the time. Probably couldn't have predicted. They did manage to severely damage the domestic PV installation business despite that, UK PV is now increasingly large scale farms.
You overlook the way China dominates PV panel production. For solar they might or might not lead in deployment but they own the production side and it's become almost impossible for the developed world to compete. The scale of production gives them an overwhelming price advantage.
Chinese PV prices are falling so fast in markets that don't use tariff proctectionism it's threatening traditional energy companies. Here in the UK our idiot gov are trying really hard to kill PV by premature subsidy removal and failing to outrun the price drops. In the US you as usual let the incumbent energy companies lobby and sue PV out of many states even before Trump declared war.
It's big business and you're lost the war for the production business.
Can't we just pretend Eccleston never happened? Please! His playing "Wallace" to Billy Pipers "Gromit" is a memory no one needs.
Can't remember when Sharp had a reputation worth defending but it wasn't this century! Here in the UK HiSense is now a more respected brand than most Japanese brands that went down the licencing cheap foreign factory built crap route long, long ago.
You're right that 'enthusiasts' aren't going to get much from this.
For gamers even XB1/PS4 ports aren't going to use more than 6 cores and last time we tested, running single threaded an FX8370 usually beat well threaded XB1 code.
There are workloads it makes a difference on. Moving to 8 core/16 thread Ryzen scales really well on large compile jobs on insanely badly designed codebases like Unreal. Those 'coding enthusiasts' along with video encoding fans are well able to use more cores.
I'm enjoying being able to play CPU intensive games with those huge compile or encoding jobs running almost full speed in the background and I could easily use 16 cores to shave worthwhile chunks off my build times :)
Unfortunately that won't stop MS keeping broken drivers in their update db or trying to install them every time they 'accidentally' reset your preferences during an update (assuming you even found the 'don't update anything' option).
Until I built a dedicated PVR backend and locked it down, Win8 then 10 persistently tried installing broken 64bit DVB-T drivers for 3 of my tuners. On a good day they threw warnings, a mediocre one I found out when recordings failed. On a bad day it blue screened booting. WHQL certified drivers every time.
The correct settings: defer updates, disable driver updates, image the drive before any update. The install any other OS.
Pretty common here in the UK but we don't have housing associations to stop us doing what we like on our own property.
My neighbour has repaired Landrovers on his drive constantly for the last 20 years or so, did most repairs on mine on the drive.
As a game developer and gamer, I remember AMD invented the X64 architecture Intel licences. Intel have been pretty good at conforming to AMDs standard. ...also looking at those AMD powered XB1 devkits on my desk.
Last week he still hoped his FBI elfs would find something and save his career.
This week the flames are licking his nuts and he's saying whatever it takes to avoid prison.
"Direct Democracy" has been successfully used for hundreds of years in Switzerland. A large part of how they make it work is that referenda are regularly reversed and regularly only partially implemented - with no obvious complaint from the voters.
In contrast to the extreme brexiteers claims, a direct public vote is not final in a working direct democracy and always subject to sanity checking. The reason our brexit crazy ministers are so eager to bypass parliament is they understand that all too well, that the public can change their minds, that parliament has a responsibility to filter out insanity espoused by government. They know that they have to hurry through their wrecking ball before anyone can stop them.
The brexiteers tried to bypass our constitution and got caught.
I think there's a reasonable (flawed) assumption devices provide an acceptable level of physical protection for their batteries, mainly from puncture and external short circuits. At least more protection than padded bags, cardboard or light plastic packing is going to achieve without stringent unenforceable packing standards.
Another condition for transporting in devices is that they cannot turn on, ruling out most of the causes of in-device fires.
Possibly credible if you ignore cheap knockoffs that aren't standards tested.
They even server a purpose: more paper to wipe with.
Too expensive is the big problem but it's not the only one. Android has seen many attempts to sell devices with physical keyboard's, outside the ultra low end, where a keyboard can improve on a poor and small touchscreen, the market rejected them all.
For all we claim to want them, on modern devices we don't need them and once that sinks in we choose the smaller, lighter version. I even carry a keyboard case with my tablet yet never bother using it as anything but a case and kickstand.
Blackberry fulfilled a need that no longer exists. It probably would have sank even on their own OS with today's hardware.
The scum managed to update my network HTPC this weekend and wiped all my firewall config in the process. Best guess is they noticed it was blocking the telemetry and most update shit and 'fixed' it. Fixed with extreme prejudice.
There really is nothing they won't do to take control of your hardware and it can only get worse till a few class action suits hit them in the wallet.
If the mirrors were perfect the input energy would just bounce around forever generating thrust and this would be a perpetual motion machine. We don't believe in them.
So somewhere energy is leaking out of the cavity and the thrust is easily explained if there's any bias to the direction it leaks in. It works because the cavity shape creates a bias to the leakage.
"The fear the companies have is that there will be non GMO products available at the same price they have been selling theirs at, and everyone will buy that instead"
Finally.
The vast majority of GM food is designed to be cheaper to grow, not be better as food. As long as you can't distinguish it from non GM food you can't assess a fair price for it. You can't do the arithmetic and work out how much of the saving the patent owning company is siphoning off, or work out if you're getting a good deal.
The industry is afraid the public will realise the cost benefits aren't reaching them, that there's no reason to buy GM.
And Microsoft are trying very,very hard to give as many opportunities to make that mistake as possible, simultaneously trying to ensure it's a damn easy mistake to make with deceptive install dialogs.
Trickery, it's still wrong, no better than any other malware campaign relying on the same tricks.
Since the option is 'acceptable but less effective' or 'no ads, no effect' it's not really a choice.
However 'effective' largely means compared to it's competition in a near zero sum game. Fighting over existing sales not creating new ones. That's how we got in this mess with continuous escalation 'for effect'.
Adblocking and whitelisting just level the playing field, removing the ability for excess. I might consider enabling it when the checkers prove they can do the job right.
What I'm unlikely to ever do is trust the sites or ad middlemen to police themselves. They'll surely try some scheme to bypass adblocker whitelisting. It will be ignored.
The actual words are clumsy but the most reasonable interpretation is 'the plane was also used to extradite Abu Hamza'. Just the bad writing letting people read rendition into it.
I have no problem with sane argument about who profits, where the farm is, whether it's appropriate.
None of that excuses the utterly batshit dumb things they claim to believe. Stupidity remains stupidity even if it aligns with a credible argument.