It *is* raising red flags, because mathemeticians are skeptical that such a well known and long standing conjecture such as Riemann could have a relatively simple proof that hasn't already been found, even without the $1m incentive to go looking. Like Fermat, I don't think we're talking about a "relatively simple proof" that will fit in the margin of a book here, but it is certainly possible that he's managed to find some new approach in the works of von Neumann, Hirzebruch, and Dirac that is still simpler than - say - Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, let alone Shinichi Mochizuki’s claimed proof of the ABC Conjecture.
I doubt that will happen. A lot of his recent mathematical claims have apparently been met with skepticism, so it's hardly surprising that this one is being treated the same, and I doubt it will change how people view his legacy. He's confident enough to go up in front of his peers and present it though, and even if he is over-looking some flaw in the proof it might still help others - or be resolved, as was the case with Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s last theorem. He's also claiming it's a "relatively simple proof" (echos of Fermat there!), so unlike Shinichi Mochizuki’s claimed but inpeneterable proof of the ABC Conjecture at least we should know for sure pretty quickly, although that is also ringing alarm bells; long standing mathematical problems don't generally have relatively simple proofs.
The UK's issue with electrification isn't will - government, Network Rail (who operated the track), and the various train operating companies that run the trains all want electrification. The problem is a combination of budget and project planning, especially when confronted with the engineering challenges of dealing with legacy infrastructure. It's kind of hard to electrify a tunnel that's barely big enough for a train, let alone any form of catenary, and still maintain service. The typical result is things take *much* longer and cost *much* more than initially expected.
As with many EU countries, the mainlines are now mostly electrified and have fully electric passenger service on the intercity routes. That includes the main north-south routes on the west coast (London-Birmingham-Manchester-Carlisle-Glasgow) and east coast (London-York-Newcastle-Edinburgh) mainlines, plus most major branches thereof, plus the HS1 (Eurostar into St. Pancras) and under-construction HS2 routes roughly alongside the WCML, freeing it up for slower passenger and freight traffic. Since that covers most long distance rail travel passengers it's easy for visitors to get the impression there's a lot of electric, but there's also an awfully long tail of routes - including to some quite major cities - that are still reliant on diesel and, often utilise the ECML and WCML track to do so.
Just because the lines are electrified doesn't mean that all - or even most - of the trains running on them are - most countries in the EU are still at some point in their transition to all-electric operation, so it's a bit of mixed bag, albeit mostly on the non-mainline routes. If it's a passenger-only line with a single operator or two, then yes, that's highly likely to be the case, but if you've got several operators and/or freight trains on the route then all bets are off - you need to actually look at the trains, not just the presense of overhead line equipment. There's also a scenario where only part of a given route is electrified, in which case you might get diesel/electric hybrids that will pull electrical power via a pantograph when available but switch over to diesel when it's not, which further muddies the waters.
Mostly different groups of people to the civil servants I was mostly talking about - the EC being the exception - , but lets break your list down:
Council of Ministers - duly elected leaders of each member state, chosen by the preferred electoral system of each individual country.
European Comission - not directly elected, but confirmed by the elected European Parliament (MEPs) even mostly for show, as I noted.
European Parliament - as we both noted, elected by those EU citizens who can be bothered to do so, and with power of veto over the EC, which they can and do use. This is, in effect, a similar relationship to the UK's Houses of Commons and Lords, so not really something the UK is in a position to scream and shout about being "undemocratic" if they're not also saying the same about the Lords (which many are, to be fair).
No, it's definitely not perfect, but it's somewhat ironic that the country doing the most bitching and moaning about it is also the same one that has used its veto to block many of the attempts to improve it. That's one hidden benefit to Brexit for the EU's federalists at least; once the UK's boat anchor is removed it might at least be a bit easier for the remaining 27 countries to move forwards - assuming they can successfully marginalise those in other governments that are toying with similar notions, anyway.
The fact that all the people with actual power are unelected and unaccountable.
Oh, please, the EU has not been the EEC for literally a few decades now. The people within the EU this misinformation is generally referring to are the EU's equivalent of high-level civil servants, you know, those people that are not typically elected by the general public in every single democracy, including the UK and US where this issue is particularly relevant right now. They are, however, is appointed by elected representatives - MEPs in the case of the EU, Senate confirmation hearings in the case of the US and (in theory at least) are managed by and report into elected representatives, albeit with some exceptions, like maintaining at least a semblence of separation between legislature and judiciary. Yes, the politicians will tend to appoint and promote civil servants that lean the same way politically that they do, but you do get to choose your politicians, so you reap what you sow - case in point, a certain judge aspiring to the Supreme Court in the US right now. The EU also has a backstop; the civil servants can (and do) propose some ridiculous things, but ultimately those things also need the assent of the elected MEPs before they can become legislation, which is more than can be said for some of the mandarins in the UK and US' civil service.
The function of the observatory has nothing to do with it, but it does have a large tower that overlooks the White Sands missile range and a couple of airbases used for testing new aviation tech. Besides the benefit of greater altitude and a clear line of sight, the tower also potentially offers a much better place to try and stash some electronic surveillance equipment in the hope that might get overlooked amidst all the legit gear mounted on it compared to trying to figure out a way to locate it in any of the other surrounding viewpoints that also overlook the area.
Note also that at least some the Observatory staff are in the loop having seemingly called in the FBI in the first place, but the local police are not. That's pushing me more towards with the epsionage angle too, possibly as a result of the staff having discovered and identified the most likely purpose of some additional equipment on the tower and knowing that would fall under the FBI's jurisdiction. Post Office angle is a bit of a puzzle, but maybe something to do with data exfiltration?
In part but, as with most security SNAFUs where people really should have known better, I'm also wondering how much involvement the intelligence services like the NSA, GCHQ, etc. may have had behind the scenes. It's well documented that governments have been looking to get backdoors in secure web protocols one way or another (legislation being the means du jour), and what better way to do that than with an end-run around the whole problem by compromising users' accounts and simply acquiring their login details? Sure, the researchers might be claiming that some of the attacks are not really practical for typical attackers, but the NSA etc. are not really typical attackers, and especially so since they have things like NSLs in their toolbox.
If so, it's good to see that they are *still* only paying lip service to the notion that if only $friendly_governments has knowledge of the backdoor and necessary computation resources, then it's just a matter of time before $not_so_friendly_governments, $very_unfriendly_governments, $cyber_criminals, and (eventually) $every_script_kiddie_and_their_dog will have the necessary knowledge and resources too. Perhaps they think Snowden was a one-off or something?
Don't even get me started on that.:) Oh, sure, it's kinda interesting for something like the WWII news reel footage, but taking a film that was deliberately lit and filmed as film noir[1] and colourising it just demonstrates a staggering lack of understanding of what the film and lighting directors were trying to achieve in terms of look and mood.
[1] For those that don't know, "Film Noir" is not so much a genre like "Sci Fi" or "Fantasy", despite often being referred to as such, but quite literally what "Black Film" implies; if you were to remove the artificial lighting and re-shoot with the same settings in the available ambient light you wouldn't see a thing - the negatives would be effectively blank. It's *all* about the lighting setup, and the use of monochrome film played a huge part in that, which is why noir films were still being shot in monochrome even after colour stock was available. Colourising it would be almost as bad as some lunatic releasing a "Special Edition" where Greedo shoots first.
An interesting point. If that is the case then it would seem to make the 25th far more likely as it implies the "fifth column" in the White House might actually be at least somewhat organized, with at least some members knowing the identity of others and trusting them well enough to co-author the article. Still, as with impeachment, the 25th relies on the Senate signing off on it, in which case this could be groundwork intended to take advantage of any potential swings to the Democrats in the November mid-terms - e.g. hoping that there then will be enough Democrats and hacked-off Republicans in the Senate to get it through. Between that and the growing discontent with Theresa May's Chequers Plan for Brexit likely to come to head around the same time due to the planned publication of whatever terms (or lack thereof) the UK and EU have agreed, it's starting to look like November might be a memorable month for political spectacle.
At this point it's probably easier to wait for the inevitable Hollywood remake and hope they don't fsck it up (increasingly unlikely), or just accept that even 4K is overkill for many cinema setups and almost all home ones, let alone 8K.
In my expereince, even when original high quality (70mm/IMAX/etc.) filmstock was available and still in good condition, there have still been some pretty poor quality cash-grab Blu-ray releases of the original, and I don't see this being any different. Additionally, a lot of CGI wasn't rendered with sufficient resolution for the original release to save time and money, so unless there's enough financial justification for a re-render (which assumes the original files and compatible software are still available) you're only going to get any scenes with CGI in them upsampled anyway. This is why there has never been - nor is there ever likely to be - a high-res release of "Babylon 5", amongst other movies and series from the same era.
It's even worse if you're into real classics that were shot on lower grade filmstock that has had longer to deteriorate, in which case you might as well just get the existing "Collectors Edition" DVD/Blu-ray/stream and let your player/display handle any upsampling. It's going to be far cheaper than buying all the media again, and I doubt anyone is going to really notice the image quality difference compared to having a professional studio doing the upsampling. 4K/8K seems to be more about the new content anyway - think about how many classics were re-released on DVD and compare with the numbers re-released for Blu-Ray - a trend I expect to continue given the YouTube mindset, which might not be a bad thing if it means Hollywood leaves the classics alone.
One conspiracy theory suggests that it might be, although the same article does provide some pretty compelling arguments why it probably isn't as well. Specifically, while "Lodestar" is an unusual word used by the author and also on multiple occassions by Mike Pence, the author also claims to use idioms used by other staffers to obfuscate. Quite brilliant really, given how mercurial and suspicious Trump can be, as lashing out at Pence would only serve to further the authors objective of showing how disfunctional they think Trump's inner circle is.
Either way, if it does come to the 25th, Trump's supporters are going to go *nuts* about a coup if it succeeds and Pence takes the oath. Never mind buying popcorn, I'm going to be buying stock in popcorn *suppliers*.
For public figures like celebs, MPs, etc. in the UK they do - people have been arrested, tried, and fined/jailed for it. Whether that would hold true for members of the general public working on a voluntary basis online is another matter, of course, especially if (as is statistically quite likely the case) the perpetrator was not a UK citizen, but ISTR a few instances where threats against non-celebs have resulted in a successful prosecution.
Note that the UK doesn't have the same level of free speech protections that the US does, but does have various applicable laws about hate speech and threatening behaviour, so it's also probably much easier to get a prosecution in the UK. YMMV as to whether that's a good thing or not.
As ffkom notes above the ELT is a better comparison for next-gen optical imagery; the SKA doesn't really count since it's a radio telescope and doesn't take "pictures" as such - although the data produced can be visualised as a kind of image. The SKA is coming along fine, btw, with the 64 dishes of the MeerKAT array in South Africa currently undergoing final testing (some dishes are already fully operational), the 36 dishes of the Australian ASKAP array are in operation, and 256 antennae "tiles" of the Australian Murchison Widefield Array are also complete and in operation with the completion of Phase II earlier this year; providing half of the initial proposal for 512 tiles.
It's an even worse deal if T-Mobile doesn't sort out their custom Android firmware security and/or start checking their hardware vendor's default configs. Judging by the number of probes I'm seeing on port 5555 from T-Mobile US's IP space they've shipped a *lot* of phones with the Android Debug Bridge enabled by default that have subsequently fallen victim to ADB.Miner malware.
Of course, it would be really nice if you could use the magnesite for useful stuff as well, and ideally supplanting something else that actually emits CO2 like concrete for a win-win. According to Wikipedia Magnesite is mostly used for kiln linings, underfloor layers (screed), the production of some forms of rubber, and (after colouring and polishing) jewelery, so hardly a massive volume product at present. If we're going to produce a few gigatons of the stuff we might want to find something more useful to do with it in bulk, but even sticking it in/on the ground by breaking it up into smaller chunks and using it for road or rail beds, or even decorative garden/driveway gravel would be a start.
Worth keeping in mind that the GDPR fines against revenue, not the profit or net income after all the financial shell games to avoid taxes have been played out. Assuming the worst case fine under the GDPR, 4% of global revenue, and based on the figures Google declared for 2017 that would wipe out approximately one third of of their net income for the year. They'd still be in the black, but that's hardly a minor cost of doing business, and also before you take into account potential fines from all of the other legal jurisdictions they're operating in.
I expect them to make the need to tick a box giving permission for them to do this and get them off the potential legal hook fairly promptly, and maybe even act apologetic about the "accidental oversight" or some such. The implications of actually ticking that box will also be about as clear as mud, of course.
I think you have that backwards - if you've produced a game that is so popular that malware writers are trying to piggyback on your success to deploy some malware, then it's pretty much a given that it's going to be a financially successful game, which was kind of the point of producing it in the first place. If anything, it's the users that are "doing something wrong" here. Epic has a successful game that is in demand so has opted to handle their own distribution rather than pay Google a cut, so the game simply isn't available on the Google Play store and anything that claims to be so is 100% guaranteed to be pushing ads, malware, cryptominers, or worse. All Google is doing here (finally - this fake-version crap has been going on for ages) is informing users who are unaware of Epic's distribution model - and thus perhaps more likely to be hoodwinked into installing something nasty - that they can't find the app on the store and if they install anything that claims to be Fortnite from the store it's going to be malware.
They're prized, but not as an aphrodisiac. From Ron White's take on "Truth in Advertising" sketch:
I saw something that came close to truth in advertising, the De Beers people are almost saying what they really mean, folks. Because the old slogan was “Diamonds... are forever.”, and then they changed it to “Diamonds... take her breath away.”, the new slogan is “Diamonds... render her speechless.” Why don’t they just go ahead and say it: “Diamonds... that’ll shut her up... for a minute!”
Around here it's been going on pretty much since the influx of new users made the Slashdot Effect into a thing and provided the free publicity to make the site even more mainstream (e.g. the advent of the GNAA, Goatse, etc. trolls), although it's definitely ramped up significantly of late (and also over on Soylent, for that matter). The "official" date is September 1993 though, and that was definitely a turning point for the Internet as a whole and made the '92 newbies look positively refined; at least most of them took the time to learn the rules of the road. Good times...
What amazes me is that, apparently, some of them are presumably so sad as to not only have nothing better to do, but are are also deciding to do this over less than 1Mb/s upstreams that they are paying $60/mo for. I guess it you can't realistically play Fortnite/PUBG or get decent framerates on your porn then you've got to get your online jollies from somewhere.
Both of which require that the management IP be enabled and accessible, which I specifically covered in the second paragraph. Once you've got it configured, do you *really* need the management IP enabled on a home/SME switch, when then console port will do? Probably not unless you're doing VLAN moves and changes on a regular basis, and if you are doing that then you're more likely to be big enough to justify having a dedicated management LAN with more restrictive access network policies in place. Either way, this is a *switch* we're talking about, so if an attacker is able to leverage an exploit then you've already got bigger problems to worry about, either in the form of an external actor that has already gained access to a LAN the switch is on, or a malicious employee that is trying to gain access to more than they are permitted to.
If that's not a risk that you have the ability to manage or are comfortable with, then just buy a new EoL switch at knock-down prices just before your current one goes out of support. Depending on the vendor and the level of firesale discounts, it'll probably still work out cheaper than buying brand new and sweating the asset until it goes out of support - and in practice, probably some years beyond that, completely unmanaged security warts and all.
OP didn't say buy the firewalls at EoL - just the switches. EoL is not the same as end of support, which mean you get a good few years before they go out of support and patches cease, so you get a decent switch for your home network, rather than your regular cheap SOHO model.
Switches do generally last forever though, what happens when patches do cease is up to your security risk appetite. Assuming you know what you are doing and have them properly locked down with management IPs firewalled away or disabled, etc., then they're a pretty low security risk, barring some "packet of doom" style exploit.
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It *is* raising red flags, because mathemeticians are skeptical that such a well known and long standing conjecture such as Riemann could have a relatively simple proof that hasn't already been found, even without the $1m incentive to go looking. Like Fermat, I don't think we're talking about a "relatively simple proof" that will fit in the margin of a book here, but it is certainly possible that he's managed to find some new approach in the works of von Neumann, Hirzebruch, and Dirac that is still simpler than - say - Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, let alone Shinichi Mochizuki’s claimed proof of the ABC Conjecture.
I doubt that will happen. A lot of his recent mathematical claims have apparently been met with skepticism, so it's hardly surprising that this one is being treated the same, and I doubt it will change how people view his legacy. He's confident enough to go up in front of his peers and present it though, and even if he is over-looking some flaw in the proof it might still help others - or be resolved, as was the case with Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s last theorem. He's also claiming it's a "relatively simple proof" (echos of Fermat there!), so unlike Shinichi Mochizuki’s claimed but inpeneterable proof of the ABC Conjecture at least we should know for sure pretty quickly, although that is also ringing alarm bells; long standing mathematical problems don't generally have relatively simple proofs.
I expect the idea is to break up the business units into separate corporations, rather than a regional "Baby Bell" style split. Google's already part way there with Alphabet, but you could still split search, mail, and Android into separate units. Facebook has also acquired a LOT of other business (71, although not all are still operating), several of which could be isolated from their eponymous social media platform - Instagram, Oculus, and WhatsApp, for instance. Twitter is more of a one-trick-pony though, so not really any obvious opportunities for similar break-ups there - but given their decline in popularity and financial issues, it may just be a matter of time anyway.
And, as others have noted, why do the likes of Apple and Microsoft that also leverage big data from multiple business units get a pass?
The UK's issue with electrification isn't will - government, Network Rail (who operated the track), and the various train operating companies that run the trains all want electrification. The problem is a combination of budget and project planning, especially when confronted with the engineering challenges of dealing with legacy infrastructure. It's kind of hard to electrify a tunnel that's barely big enough for a train, let alone any form of catenary, and still maintain service. The typical result is things take *much* longer and cost *much* more than initially expected.
As with many EU countries, the mainlines are now mostly electrified and have fully electric passenger service on the intercity routes. That includes the main north-south routes on the west coast (London-Birmingham-Manchester-Carlisle-Glasgow) and east coast (London-York-Newcastle-Edinburgh) mainlines, plus most major branches thereof, plus the HS1 (Eurostar into St. Pancras) and under-construction HS2 routes roughly alongside the WCML, freeing it up for slower passenger and freight traffic. Since that covers most long distance rail travel passengers it's easy for visitors to get the impression there's a lot of electric, but there's also an awfully long tail of routes - including to some quite major cities - that are still reliant on diesel and, often utilise the ECML and WCML track to do so.
Just because the lines are electrified doesn't mean that all - or even most - of the trains running on them are - most countries in the EU are still at some point in their transition to all-electric operation, so it's a bit of mixed bag, albeit mostly on the non-mainline routes. If it's a passenger-only line with a single operator or two, then yes, that's highly likely to be the case, but if you've got several operators and/or freight trains on the route then all bets are off - you need to actually look at the trains, not just the presense of overhead line equipment. There's also a scenario where only part of a given route is electrified, in which case you might get diesel/electric hybrids that will pull electrical power via a pantograph when available but switch over to diesel when it's not, which further muddies the waters.
Mostly different groups of people to the civil servants I was mostly talking about - the EC being the exception - , but lets break your list down:
Council of Ministers - duly elected leaders of each member state, chosen by the preferred electoral system of each individual country.
European Comission - not directly elected, but confirmed by the elected European Parliament (MEPs) even mostly for show, as I noted.
European Parliament - as we both noted, elected by those EU citizens who can be bothered to do so, and with power of veto over the EC, which they can and do use. This is, in effect, a similar relationship to the UK's Houses of Commons and Lords, so not really something the UK is in a position to scream and shout about being "undemocratic" if they're not also saying the same about the Lords (which many are, to be fair).
No, it's definitely not perfect, but it's somewhat ironic that the country doing the most bitching and moaning about it is also the same one that has used its veto to block many of the attempts to improve it. That's one hidden benefit to Brexit for the EU's federalists at least; once the UK's boat anchor is removed it might at least be a bit easier for the remaining 27 countries to move forwards - assuming they can successfully marginalise those in other governments that are toying with similar notions, anyway.
Oh, please, the EU has not been the EEC for literally a few decades now. The people within the EU this misinformation is generally referring to are the EU's equivalent of high-level civil servants, you know, those people that are not typically elected by the general public in every single democracy, including the UK and US where this issue is particularly relevant right now. They are, however, is appointed by elected representatives - MEPs in the case of the EU, Senate confirmation hearings in the case of the US and (in theory at least) are managed by and report into elected representatives, albeit with some exceptions, like maintaining at least a semblence of separation between legislature and judiciary. Yes, the politicians will tend to appoint and promote civil servants that lean the same way politically that they do, but you do get to choose your politicians, so you reap what you sow - case in point, a certain judge aspiring to the Supreme Court in the US right now. The EU also has a backstop; the civil servants can (and do) propose some ridiculous things, but ultimately those things also need the assent of the elected MEPs before they can become legislation, which is more than can be said for some of the mandarins in the UK and US' civil service.
The function of the observatory has nothing to do with it, but it does have a large tower that overlooks the White Sands missile range and a couple of airbases used for testing new aviation tech. Besides the benefit of greater altitude and a clear line of sight, the tower also potentially offers a much better place to try and stash some electronic surveillance equipment in the hope that might get overlooked amidst all the legit gear mounted on it compared to trying to figure out a way to locate it in any of the other surrounding viewpoints that also overlook the area.
Note also that at least some the Observatory staff are in the loop having seemingly called in the FBI in the first place, but the local police are not. That's pushing me more towards with the epsionage angle too, possibly as a result of the staff having discovered and identified the most likely purpose of some additional equipment on the tower and knowing that would fall under the FBI's jurisdiction. Post Office angle is a bit of a puzzle, but maybe something to do with data exfiltration?
In part but, as with most security SNAFUs where people really should have known better, I'm also wondering how much involvement the intelligence services like the NSA, GCHQ, etc. may have had behind the scenes. It's well documented that governments have been looking to get backdoors in secure web protocols one way or another (legislation being the means du jour), and what better way to do that than with an end-run around the whole problem by compromising users' accounts and simply acquiring their login details? Sure, the researchers might be claiming that some of the attacks are not really practical for typical attackers, but the NSA etc. are not really typical attackers, and especially so since they have things like NSLs in their toolbox.
If so, it's good to see that they are *still* only paying lip service to the notion that if only $friendly_governments has knowledge of the backdoor and necessary computation resources, then it's just a matter of time before $not_so_friendly_governments, $very_unfriendly_governments, $cyber_criminals, and (eventually) $every_script_kiddie_and_their_dog will have the necessary knowledge and resources too. Perhaps they think Snowden was a one-off or something?
Don't even get me started on that. :) Oh, sure, it's kinda interesting for something like the WWII news reel footage, but taking a film that was deliberately lit and filmed as film noir[1] and colourising it just demonstrates a staggering lack of understanding of what the film and lighting directors were trying to achieve in terms of look and mood.
[1] For those that don't know, "Film Noir" is not so much a genre like "Sci Fi" or "Fantasy", despite often being referred to as such, but quite literally what "Black Film" implies; if you were to remove the artificial lighting and re-shoot with the same settings in the available ambient light you wouldn't see a thing - the negatives would be effectively blank. It's *all* about the lighting setup, and the use of monochrome film played a huge part in that, which is why noir films were still being shot in monochrome even after colour stock was available. Colourising it would be almost as bad as some lunatic releasing a "Special Edition" where Greedo shoots first.
An interesting point. If that is the case then it would seem to make the 25th far more likely as it implies the "fifth column" in the White House might actually be at least somewhat organized, with at least some members knowing the identity of others and trusting them well enough to co-author the article. Still, as with impeachment, the 25th relies on the Senate signing off on it, in which case this could be groundwork intended to take advantage of any potential swings to the Democrats in the November mid-terms - e.g. hoping that there then will be enough Democrats and hacked-off Republicans in the Senate to get it through. Between that and the growing discontent with Theresa May's Chequers Plan for Brexit likely to come to head around the same time due to the planned publication of whatever terms (or lack thereof) the UK and EU have agreed, it's starting to look like November might be a memorable month for political spectacle.
At this point it's probably easier to wait for the inevitable Hollywood remake and hope they don't fsck it up (increasingly unlikely), or just accept that even 4K is overkill for many cinema setups and almost all home ones, let alone 8K.
In my expereince, even when original high quality (70mm/IMAX/etc.) filmstock was available and still in good condition, there have still been some pretty poor quality cash-grab Blu-ray releases of the original, and I don't see this being any different. Additionally, a lot of CGI wasn't rendered with sufficient resolution for the original release to save time and money, so unless there's enough financial justification for a re-render (which assumes the original files and compatible software are still available) you're only going to get any scenes with CGI in them upsampled anyway. This is why there has never been - nor is there ever likely to be - a high-res release of "Babylon 5", amongst other movies and series from the same era.
It's even worse if you're into real classics that were shot on lower grade filmstock that has had longer to deteriorate, in which case you might as well just get the existing "Collectors Edition" DVD/Blu-ray/stream and let your player/display handle any upsampling. It's going to be far cheaper than buying all the media again, and I doubt anyone is going to really notice the image quality difference compared to having a professional studio doing the upsampling. 4K/8K seems to be more about the new content anyway - think about how many classics were re-released on DVD and compare with the numbers re-released for Blu-Ray - a trend I expect to continue given the YouTube mindset, which might not be a bad thing if it means Hollywood leaves the classics alone.
One conspiracy theory suggests that it might be, although the same article does provide some pretty compelling arguments why it probably isn't as well. Specifically, while "Lodestar" is an unusual word used by the author and also on multiple occassions by Mike Pence, the author also claims to use idioms used by other staffers to obfuscate. Quite brilliant really, given how mercurial and suspicious Trump can be, as lashing out at Pence would only serve to further the authors objective of showing how disfunctional they think Trump's inner circle is.
Either way, if it does come to the 25th, Trump's supporters are going to go *nuts* about a coup if it succeeds and Pence takes the oath. Never mind buying popcorn, I'm going to be buying stock in popcorn *suppliers*.
For public figures like celebs, MPs, etc. in the UK they do - people have been arrested, tried, and fined/jailed for it. Whether that would hold true for members of the general public working on a voluntary basis online is another matter, of course, especially if (as is statistically quite likely the case) the perpetrator was not a UK citizen, but ISTR a few instances where threats against non-celebs have resulted in a successful prosecution.
Note that the UK doesn't have the same level of free speech protections that the US does, but does have various applicable laws about hate speech and threatening behaviour, so it's also probably much easier to get a prosecution in the UK. YMMV as to whether that's a good thing or not.
As ffkom notes above the ELT is a better comparison for next-gen optical imagery; the SKA doesn't really count since it's a radio telescope and doesn't take "pictures" as such - although the data produced can be visualised as a kind of image. The SKA is coming along fine, btw, with the 64 dishes of the MeerKAT array in South Africa currently undergoing final testing (some dishes are already fully operational), the 36 dishes of the Australian ASKAP array are in operation, and 256 antennae "tiles" of the Australian Murchison Widefield Array are also complete and in operation with the completion of Phase II earlier this year; providing half of the initial proposal for 512 tiles.
It's an even worse deal if T-Mobile doesn't sort out their custom Android firmware security and/or start checking their hardware vendor's default configs. Judging by the number of probes I'm seeing on port 5555 from T-Mobile US's IP space they've shipped a *lot* of phones with the Android Debug Bridge enabled by default that have subsequently fallen victim to ADB.Miner malware.
Of course, it would be really nice if you could use the magnesite for useful stuff as well, and ideally supplanting something else that actually emits CO2 like concrete for a win-win. According to Wikipedia Magnesite is mostly used for kiln linings, underfloor layers (screed), the production of some forms of rubber, and (after colouring and polishing) jewelery, so hardly a massive volume product at present. If we're going to produce a few gigatons of the stuff we might want to find something more useful to do with it in bulk, but even sticking it in/on the ground by breaking it up into smaller chunks and using it for road or rail beds, or even decorative garden/driveway gravel would be a start.
Worth keeping in mind that the GDPR fines against revenue, not the profit or net income after all the financial shell games to avoid taxes have been played out. Assuming the worst case fine under the GDPR, 4% of global revenue, and based on the figures Google declared for 2017 that would wipe out approximately one third of of their net income for the year. They'd still be in the black, but that's hardly a minor cost of doing business, and also before you take into account potential fines from all of the other legal jurisdictions they're operating in.
I expect them to make the need to tick a box giving permission for them to do this and get them off the potential legal hook fairly promptly, and maybe even act apologetic about the "accidental oversight" or some such. The implications of actually ticking that box will also be about as clear as mud, of course.
I think you have that backwards - if you've produced a game that is so popular that malware writers are trying to piggyback on your success to deploy some malware, then it's pretty much a given that it's going to be a financially successful game, which was kind of the point of producing it in the first place. If anything, it's the users that are "doing something wrong" here. Epic has a successful game that is in demand so has opted to handle their own distribution rather than pay Google a cut, so the game simply isn't available on the Google Play store and anything that claims to be so is 100% guaranteed to be pushing ads, malware, cryptominers, or worse. All Google is doing here (finally - this fake-version crap has been going on for ages) is informing users who are unaware of Epic's distribution model - and thus perhaps more likely to be hoodwinked into installing something nasty - that they can't find the app on the store and if they install anything that claims to be Fortnite from the store it's going to be malware.
Around here it's been going on pretty much since the influx of new users made the Slashdot Effect into a thing and provided the free publicity to make the site even more mainstream (e.g. the advent of the GNAA, Goatse, etc. trolls), although it's definitely ramped up significantly of late (and also over on Soylent, for that matter). The "official" date is September 1993 though, and that was definitely a turning point for the Internet as a whole and made the '92 newbies look positively refined; at least most of them took the time to learn the rules of the road. Good times...
What amazes me is that, apparently, some of them are presumably so sad as to not only have nothing better to do, but are are also deciding to do this over less than 1Mb/s upstreams that they are paying $60/mo for. I guess it you can't realistically play Fortnite/PUBG or get decent framerates on your porn then you've got to get your online jollies from somewhere.
I'm pretty sure that actually *is* wrong. Only a complete sociopath would actually force someone to use Bing! :)
Both of which require that the management IP be enabled and accessible, which I specifically covered in the second paragraph. Once you've got it configured, do you *really* need the management IP enabled on a home/SME switch, when then console port will do? Probably not unless you're doing VLAN moves and changes on a regular basis, and if you are doing that then you're more likely to be big enough to justify having a dedicated management LAN with more restrictive access network policies in place. Either way, this is a *switch* we're talking about, so if an attacker is able to leverage an exploit then you've already got bigger problems to worry about, either in the form of an external actor that has already gained access to a LAN the switch is on, or a malicious employee that is trying to gain access to more than they are permitted to.
If that's not a risk that you have the ability to manage or are comfortable with, then just buy a new EoL switch at knock-down prices just before your current one goes out of support. Depending on the vendor and the level of firesale discounts, it'll probably still work out cheaper than buying brand new and sweating the asset until it goes out of support - and in practice, probably some years beyond that, completely unmanaged security warts and all.
OP didn't say buy the firewalls at EoL - just the switches. EoL is not the same as end of support, which mean you get a good few years before they go out of support and patches cease, so you get a decent switch for your home network, rather than your regular cheap SOHO model.
Switches do generally last forever though, what happens when patches do cease is up to your security risk appetite. Assuming you know what you are doing and have them properly locked down with management IPs firewalled away or disabled, etc., then they're a pretty low security risk, barring some "packet of doom" style exploit.