The trend in New Zealand is weekly delivered food and recipes. No more meal planning, no more big grocery shops. People pay for convenience. Maybe that's happening elsewhere too?
This Firefox feature only works on nvidia GPUs, as stated in the summary. How many CPUs have integrated nvidia GPUs? If you want Firefox to not use the discrete GPU, you can't use WebRender.
If you're on a laptop with an nvidia gpu, usually the gpu is powered down and the integrated gpu is running everything, saving power. Now when Firefox is open, your nvidia gpu needs to stay powered up the whole time.
An single alkaline D cell has over 18W/hr of energy, That's at least a 4600mAh 3.85V cellphone battery. The Pixel 2 has a 2700mAh battery.
The "talk time" rating is about 16 hours, that's while running an active 3G session for voice. That's about 600mW average power consumption. That's not a whole lot of power and I assume playing MP3's is much less power than a voice call. Apparently the 3G performance of the Pixel 2 is not very good.
It's also not just the dongle consuming power. It's the USB host inside the phone as well. If the new chip in the new dongle is better at USB power management, that means less power consumed by the phone while it's in use. It probably has a more efficient amplifier too.
I know, it's hard to keep up. I mean for small devices there's been 3 different types! Two of which have been used on cellphones! There's the usb mini, which wasn't really used and wasn't designed for lots of insertions There's the usb micro, which is very common Now there's usb type-c!
Because they already have a whole bunch of them. The majority of desalination in the world happens in Dubai. It costs more and more to operate them, because they're increasing the salt concentration in the gulf.
And the managing of the account that allows anyone who controls it to send automatic updates of arbitrary code to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of customer devices, is not as important?
Do you also realise that having the publisher sign the code too requires the device to explicitly trust the publisher, or trust someone else who has signed their certificate?
Mozilla realised this is pointless, you may as well sign it with the party the browser already trusts. You don't sign your own extensions anymore. You use an API to have Mozilla sign them now. This changed in Firefox 43, back in 2015. It's great to see you've kept up with things. https://developer.mozilla.org/...
Who's going to verify the publishers signature? You'll need someone you trust to hold the relevant public keys. How is the browser going to know where to find the public key to verify the publishers signature? From a copy held by the Chrome Store? Uploaded using the publishers account, which is what was compromised? Or verify that Google has signed their signing certificate? Signed using the publishers account to verify their identity?
The application can't do it itself, as that's what is compromised.
You haven't thought this through end to end have you?
The low paid workers in these big companies are warehouse workers at Amazon and checkout operators at Target. Can't really shift those jobs overseas. If they shift the costs on to the consumer, that's increasing their prices compared to smaller companies. Replacing humans with robots isn't going too well, and Amazon have been trying to do this in their warehouses for years. If they could get away with hiring fewer staff, why haven't they done it already?
Do you currently receive any of the following benefits: SNAP, Section 8 Housing Assistance, Medicare......
If so, please deposit application in the recycling box on your way out. Alternatively, please send this application form to a lawyer, so you can sue us
Alternatively, they could have yet you run malicious code.
they also told you they'd do that too, btw
20. Additional Terms for Extensions for Google Chrome
20.1 These terms in this section apply if you install extensions on your copy of Google Chrome. Extensions are small software programs, developed by Google or third parties, that can modify and enhance the functionality of Google Chrome. Extensions may have greater privileges to access your browser or your computer than regular webpages, including the ability to read and modify your private data.
20.2 From time to time, Google Chrome may check with remote servers (hosted by Google or by third parties) for available updates to extensions, including but not limited to bug fixes or enhanced functionality. You agree that such updates will be automatically requested, downloaded, and installed without further notice to you.
20.3 From time to time, Google may discover an extension that violates Google developer terms or other legal agreements, laws, regulations or policies. Google Chrome will periodically download a list of such extensions from Google’s servers. You agree that Google may remotely disable or remove any such extension from user systems in its sole discretion.
Google signs them to prove the official account uploaded the extension. If mega lost control of their account, what makes you think they wouldn't have lost their private signing key if one was required?
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So the promoters get control back, by paying the streaming services to insert their songs in to unrelated playlists.
That way one unintentional partial play counts as much as a psycho fan listening to the same song on repeat 24x7
City Folks will eat out more.
How does location change what they do in the bedroom?
The trend in New Zealand is weekly delivered food and recipes. No more meal planning, no more big grocery shops. People pay for convenience.
Maybe that's happening elsewhere too?
How dare you!
The two are not mutually exclusive
I eat fast food while my kernel compiles!
This Firefox feature only works on nvidia GPUs, as stated in the summary. How many CPUs have integrated nvidia GPUs?
If you want Firefox to not use the discrete GPU, you can't use WebRender.
Good thing they're not running the javascript vm on the gpu then.
If you're on a laptop with an nvidia gpu, usually the gpu is powered down and the integrated gpu is running everything, saving power.
Now when Firefox is open, your nvidia gpu needs to stay powered up the whole time.
Don't worry, a "serial entrepreneur" has been leading the project.
An single alkaline D cell has over 18W/hr of energy, That's at least a 4600mAh 3.85V cellphone battery. The Pixel 2 has a 2700mAh battery.
The "talk time" rating is about 16 hours, that's while running an active 3G session for voice. That's about 600mW average power consumption.
That's not a whole lot of power and I assume playing MP3's is much less power than a voice call. Apparently the 3G performance of the Pixel 2 is not very good.
It's also not just the dongle consuming power. It's the USB host inside the phone as well. If the new chip in the new dongle is better at USB power management, that means less power consumed by the phone while it's in use. It probably has a more efficient amplifier too.
I know, it's hard to keep up.
I mean for small devices there's been 3 different types! Two of which have been used on cellphones!
There's the usb mini, which wasn't really used and wasn't designed for lots of insertions
There's the usb micro, which is very common
Now there's usb type-c!
I'm completely lost now.
I don't need a dongle to plug a 3.5mm headphone plug in to my Moto X4
How do they diagnose and repair, if they don't have access to the tools or spare parts?
Have you got an idea of where to put millions of tons of salt?
Because they already have a whole bunch of them. The majority of desalination in the world happens in Dubai.
It costs more and more to operate them, because they're increasing the salt concentration in the gulf.
They're still building more capacity.
So they signed something that no one is going to check.
Yeah, i'd trust them with security.
And the managing of the account that allows anyone who controls it to send automatic updates of arbitrary code to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of customer devices, is not as important?
Do you also realise that having the publisher sign the code too requires the device to explicitly trust the publisher, or trust someone else who has signed their certificate?
Mozilla realised this is pointless, you may as well sign it with the party the browser already trusts. You don't sign your own extensions anymore. You use an API to have Mozilla sign them now. This changed in Firefox 43, back in 2015. It's great to see you've kept up with things.
https://developer.mozilla.org/...
Who's going to verify the publishers signature?
You'll need someone you trust to hold the relevant public keys. How is the browser going to know where to find the public key to verify the publishers signature? From a copy held by the Chrome Store? Uploaded using the publishers account, which is what was compromised?
Or verify that Google has signed their signing certificate? Signed using the publishers account to verify their identity?
The application can't do it itself, as that's what is compromised.
You haven't thought this through end to end have you?
The low paid workers in these big companies are warehouse workers at Amazon and checkout operators at Target. Can't really shift those jobs overseas.
If they shift the costs on to the consumer, that's increasing their prices compared to smaller companies.
Replacing humans with robots isn't going too well, and Amazon have been trying to do this in their warehouses for years.
If they could get away with hiring fewer staff, why haven't they done it already?
They don't need to ask, Target knows their shoppers are pregnant before they tell their own family.
Did you not read far enough into the summary to see that it would apply to all companies with 500 or more staff?
Do you currently receive any of the following benefits:
SNAP, Section 8 Housing Assistance, Medicare......
If so, please deposit application in the recycling box on your way out.
Alternatively, please send this application form to a lawyer, so you can sue us
Does your paranoia keep you awake at night?
That's why Google removed the extension from their store and disabled it in all browsers?
Your conspiracy theory makes no sense at all.
Alternatively, they could have yet you run malicious code.
they also told you they'd do that too, btw
20. Additional Terms for Extensions for Google Chrome
20.1 These terms in this section apply if you install extensions on your copy of Google Chrome. Extensions are small software programs, developed by Google or third parties, that can modify and enhance the functionality of Google Chrome. Extensions may have greater privileges to access your browser or your computer than regular webpages, including the ability to read and modify your private data.
20.2 From time to time, Google Chrome may check with remote servers (hosted by Google or by third parties) for available updates to extensions, including but not limited to bug fixes or enhanced functionality. You agree that such updates will be automatically requested, downloaded, and installed without further notice to you.
20.3 From time to time, Google may discover an extension that violates Google developer terms or other legal agreements, laws, regulations or policies. Google Chrome will periodically download a list of such extensions from Google’s servers. You agree that Google may remotely disable or remove any such extension from user systems in its sole discretion.
Google signs them to prove the official account uploaded the extension.
If mega lost control of their account, what makes you think they wouldn't have lost their private signing key if one was required?