Gene editing - doing to the grocery aisle what cable did to TV; hundreds of different fruits and veg yet still nothing you'd want to eat.
Or whatever. I actually don't think there's much of a market for broad variation like this; the market is finite and there are a lot of logistics problems with providing a lot of choice for a perishable item (even if GMO can extend the fact that fruit and veg has an inherent use by date, it's probably not going to remove it). People in a given area will like what they like - or opt to avoid anything labelled as GMO because GMO - and the market will sort itself out soon enough. We'll likely end up with roughly the same amount of choice in a given store as before, but the actual selection will shift to include those GMO products that sell well enough to increase profits over the products they replaced.
And possibly damage the telescope too. The moon is vastly brighter than the kinds of things the VLT is meant to image, so if its optics and filters can't deal with that it would be bad. ISTR reading a response from one of the Hubble team on the question of what kind of images the telescope would produce if it were pointed at the Earth, and the response was basically a pure white frame because the amount of light captured, even at night, would overwhelm the telescope even at their fastest possible exposure settings, and would probably cause permanent damage as well.
Besides, which fake moon landings derp is going to accept the picture as genuine when they already discount the evidence provided by the laser reflectors left on the moon by three of the Apollo missions and two of the Soviet Lunakhod missions? The reflectors are still in use, so there's no reason why they couldn't acquire a suitable laser and bounce their own signal off them if they really wanted to, but then they'd need to discount their own evidence and it might detract from what this really is - a pathetically lame attempt to get some attention like those who claim the Earth is flat, so that's never going to happen.
Depends on what OP meant by "intermittent". There are plenty of telemetry sensors that only need to transmit a tiny amount of data at intervals in excess of an hour, or in the event of a given condition being met, for which 12 uW/cm^2 might be more than enough to charge up a battery or capacitor with enough juice to do so when the time comes.
Not quite the same severity of problem, so no. Sure, a bird strike can cause a lot of damage to a plane, but firefighting aircraft tend to be slower moving over the operational zone than in normal flight, which reduces the potential impact damage from both birds and drones. Wildlife is also generally pretty good at getting itself away from things like wildfires, assuming the route is clear and they can move fast enough, so the chances of a bird strike over the fire are actually going to be lower than normal. The extra risk comes from the fact that drones tend to be made of more robust and rigid materials - plastic and metal rather than flesh and bone - so there is more potential for damage per kg., and especially because some of those components are potentially flammable, or even explosive. The chances of it happening might be pretty low, but a battery pack igniting as it passes through a turbine or propeller could really ruin a pilot's day - or worse.
It appears that Monzo (a UK online bank) noticed this breach through anomalous transactions on their cards as early as April 6th, notified TicketMaster about the possible issue immediately and started proactively replacing cards that had been used to make purchases through TicketMaster. Representatives from TicketMaster visited Monzo's offices on April 12th to gather further information - a whole week(!) after the initial notification - but then apparently denied finding evidence of a breach to Monzo a further week later, finally coming clean by going public on 27th June, almost 12 weeks after they were first advised of a possible compromise that apparently they didn't resolve until 23rd June, per their own site. Note that Mastercard sent out a general advisory about the account data compromise to all banks on 21st June, which may have forced TicketMaster's hand on the timing of the public disclosure.
Given TicketMaster dropped the ball on security matters, I'm also left wondering if they dropped the ball on GDPR requirements too. The time period spans the introduction of the GDPR on May 29th so, in theory, TicketMaster should have notified the relevant authorities within three days of confirming they had been breached, or by June 1st, whichever came first. If they failed to do that, or were perhaps even hoping to cover the breach up, then TicketMaster's troubles might only just be getting started.
Knowing the size, while a useful data point to have, doesn't really tell us all that much about the damage an asteroid is going to cause should it happen hit us, and actually seems like it would be a pretty poor metric of grading the probable damage in the event of an impact. What you also *need* to know for a probable impact damage assessment is the angle of impact (how much of the mass will be lost on entry, or will it just bounce off the atmosphere), composition (how much will burn up/probability of breakup on entry), mass (how much material might reach the surface), and velocity (energy to be expended on impact). Size does play a part though since the bigger the object is the bigger the atmospheric pressure wave it's going to create on entry, which can cause far more extensive and wide-ranging devastation than the crater formed by the impact, e.g. the Tunguska event, or some of the larger man-made blasts.
Stop spreading FUD. Tommy Robinson talked to journalists outside court about an on-going case. the judge on the case cautioned him to desist, and he did it again anyway, repeatedly. When a judge tells you not to do something relating to a case and you ignore them on multiple instances that's a textbook case of Contempt of Court and you can - and should - expect the judge to respond. Tommy Robinson apparently even admitted he was in the wrong on this during his trial for contempt.
The use of gag orders is, admittedly, a bit more contentious (especially in the tabloid media where salacious trials are almost always headline news), but they are used very sparingly and almost always in cases where there is a valid justifcation for doing so. Yes, jurors are told to avoid media coverage of the trial, but when you've got a high-profile case with people like Tommy Robinson involved that's kind of hard to do, so the idea is that by curtailing media coverage you can ensure that the accused gets as fair a trial as possible, and reduces the chances of a mistrial because of "trial-by-media". Other than where there may be a national security angle or other mitigating circumstances these are lifted at the conclusion of the trial, which is what happened in the Tommy Robinson case - the circumstances of his arrest, details of the trial, and his sentence were all covered extensively in the media the following morning.
No, I'd have likely fired Wilde too, but certainly a minimum of a disciplinary for sitting on the broken login for so long without following up and getting her supervisor(s) involved to escalate it, and quite likely her supervisors would be investigated for potential incompetence as well. The problem is that the story doesn't really detail what her role and interaction with the system was, what kind of proportion of her working day it was meant to occupy, or how much supervision this part of her job was subject to, all of which are quite relevant if you are trying to work out what might be an appropriate response from your armchair. That her employer did fire her is really all we have.
Clearly the sheer number of applications wouldn't allow manual processing of the forms by a single person, even if it was just to review each application was correctly completed and send it on, so her role seems most likely to have been either managing the batch processing of submitted forms or supervising a team's work. For instance, iIf that was only a small part of her job then that doesn't necessarily mean she was just "acting busy", and if her involvement with the system was periodic - say every several weeks - then the apparent 40 day delay in calling support could actually be a non-issue. Regardless of any possible mitigating circumstances that clearly were not sufficient to get her off the hook, it seems pretty clear that the entire department is suffering from the symptoms of "good enough for government work", and the buck for that kind of issue stops in the Governor's office.
She was 'given oversight of the database' of the DB in 2013. Failed to run the checks, starting in 2015. Not a very good liar.
You missed a rather relevant bit from the middle of TFS:
On April 7, 2016, 40 days after records show the department stopped using the database, Wilde reported to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that her log-in to the background check system wasn't working.
So it looks like the checks were progressing just fine until late February 2016, which implies that Wilde's login was presumably working from 2013 through until some point around then, depending on how long the system could run without Wilde logging in. Sure, Wilde dropped the ball by failing to follow up when it wasn't resolved but, regardless of that failure, her supervisors (and their supervisors, etc., etc.) also failed to query a massive spike in concealled carry permits on the books - up over 40% in just two years. Setting aside the issue of gun control, it takes a whole other level of managerial incompetence to fail to react to a stat like that.
Nope; haven't felt much need to upgrade my main PC (the only one I'd still consider hand-building myself) for a while, and I suspect I'm now going to make do until the Meltdown and Spectre issues are properly fixed in the silicon without any of the current hacky microcode workarounds. Other than those that are now appliances all my other systems are still custom, they're just built by a local PC/component seller instead (although I could just as easily use Dell or other build to order firm) - quite frankly the marginal extra cost is worth it for the time saved and a warranty, and my current clients are very much COTS when it comes to PC/server hardware. I do miss the days when it was both fun and more economical to DIY almost every build though.
Case speakers are definitely a relic of a bygone age. No idea about all-in-one desktops since I don't do those, but other than laptops I don't think I've had a case with one for getting on for at least a decade now, although many motherboards do still seem to include a piezo-electric tweeter somewhere. That's pretty much redundant too, however, since anything sent to it is usually hijacked by the drivers for either the on-board sound chip or any add-on audio hardware pretty early in the boot process. Generally speaking, you're going to need to trigger some kind of pre-BIOS/UEFI failure to get anything out of it, and even that seems to be dying out as my last few mobos have all had a pair of seven-segment LED displays that show a sequence of hex status codes as the system progresses through the boot process.
OK, and if it is, it isn’t illegal... It was sort of like a gift,” he said. “And you’re not involved in the illegality of getting it.”
OK, let's run with that. Since my job entails potential exposure to bribery (albeit EU based rather than US) I have to do ethics training every now and again, and I'm pretty damn sure that any non-trivial "gifts" need to be declared lest they fall foul of bribery legislation - bribes are not just monetary after all. Assuming that's similar to the US' legislation on the matter all all this does really is jump Trump out of the collusion frying pan and into the bribery fire; now he has to demonstrate that either his campaign was completely unaware of this "gift" (good luck with proving a negative) or point to wherever they declared it. On past experience, Trump doesn't seem to suffer people who cause him problems gladly, and Guiliani has required "walk backs" and "clarifications" seemingly every time he's opened his mouth on the public record since his appointment. I'm guessing he'll be gone within months, if not weeks.
Apparently these five art are part the next generation of Iridium satellites and they are not expected to create the same predictable flares as the previous generation did when their solar panels caught the sun at the right angle. As a result, another batch of the older Iridium satellites will be either moved to parking orbits that are not so tightly controlled with less predictable flares where they can act as backups, or possibly even de-orbited outright. Predictable Iridium Flares are currently expected to cease altogether by the end of the year, so last call, I guess...
Budgets and launch schedules aside, unless you are actually planning on a landing or matching orbits the most likely mission profile is likely to be a flyby, and to get the maximum mission value that would most probably be in conjuction with visiting other Centaurs or Kuiper Belt Objects, similar to New Horizons. That seems like it may be far more achievable (and saleable), even allowing for Earth's orbital speed having a mean velocity of 30km/s and Jupiter's being around 13km/s, giving combined Delta V of 43km/s between Earth and this asteroid. Admittedly, that's not going to provide a lot of time for observation given that it's only 2km or so across, but that window could increase considerably if it's possible to enough velocity en route through the slingshots you suggest, or maybe even some aero-braking at Jupiter since there's a good chance any potential probe will be close to it at some point. Better still would be to approach Jupiter from "behind" and pull off a 180 to enter a retrograde solar orbit and burning off as much of the excess velocity in the process as possible.
Confirmed Opt-In, or COI, has been touted as a best practice for mailing lists for many years now. You didn't need to be psychic and predict the future to anticipate GDPR; you just needed to be above-board about what you were doing with the sign-up process and follow well published best practice. If you'd done that, and retained a copy of all of your opt-in confirmations, then all your end-user interaction for GDPR compliance would have required would have been a simple rider on a regular marketing email reminding your subscribers of where they could view your GDPR policies, contact you if required, and to change their communications preferences if they wished. No further end-user action required.
Sadly, even amongst those lists that have been using COI for years, this point seems to have escaped most mailing list maintainers.
All the focus has been on Facebook, when Google, Apple, Amazon, Adobe and even Microsoft collect just as much data and do the same types of analytics.
Actually this isn't true. People in the EU have been hitting up these companies for what private data they hold on them for some time now, and there's a marked difference between the breadth and depth of data held by Facebook and Google and the rest (Microsoft/LinkedIn is kind of in the middle because they don't track you from site to site via those little social media buttons quite so thoroughly). Amazon and Adobe mostly seem to have a lot of highly specific data related to the products/services of theirs that you use, which isn't available to third parties with anything like the same abandon as with Facebook and Google), and Apple - not really being involved with selling advertising at all has surprisingly little other than what you might expect - software and media purchased/shared and so on.
I think the point is more that Facebook fills several niches, specifically Facebook (the main platform), Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. What they seem to be asking for is that they form a Google/Alphabet style structure with a parent company and a bunch of fully autonomous operating companies underneath that do not share data.
At least that's the plan as I see it. In practice all the various "autonomous" operations will almost certainly allow their users to login using your Facebook (the holding company, not the advertising platform) login for their convenience and still maintain access to each others data, only in a slightly less efficient and complete manner.
Why? "Off the grid" generally means you provide your own power, so provided the currency being developed doesn't require power intensive mining there's no reason why it couldn't exist within the constraints of a limited capacity local power grid. Or flip it around entirely; everyone has their own home supply (solar and/or wind/water turbines, most likely) and you earn the currency based on how much excess power you are able to feed into the communal supply for things like street lighting, social facilities, water treatment works, and so on.
Of course not. Not that I think that everything in the GP's post is 100% accurate in relation to the potential FM switch-off, but if you read it through replacing words to the effect of "turn off/replace FM radio" with "leave the EU" and you should see a few similarities:
Roughly a 50:50 split between the two sides.
One side taken as read, the other all but marginalised (the referendum was supposedly non-binding, remember, "will of the people" came after, once the Remain supporting Conservative leadership realised they needed the support of the party's Euro-skeptics to stay in power).
No real topic of study/discussion beforehand; just make it up as you go along.
The referendum campaign promise was the result of lobbying/pressure on David Cameron by Conservative Euro Skeptics (.
The referendum result didn't mean actual Brexit, just that "discussion shall begin as to what and when, if ever".
Euro-skepticism was already high in the UK, as pretty much everyone has at least some quibble with the EU - even those that want to Remain - and most will be able to manage just fine regardless of whether the UK is in or out (whether they'll be better off is another matter though).
No, but you can multiplex DAB and DAB+ together (and DMB as well, if you wanted), and dual DAB/DAB+ capable sets have been available since 2007 in the UK, so there's no reason why you couldn't migrate the stations to DAB+ first, then allow time for the sets to catch up before deprecating DAB. This is actually OFCOM's intention [PDF link], and although there are currently no timescales set on this some DAB+ broadcasts have been available in the UK for a year or two. As usual the early DAB adopters may get burnt and have to buy updated sets if they're still using them when DAB+ becomes the norm, but there's nothing new there - and it's not likely to be too many people anyway given DAB adoption rates and probable timescales.
I'd definitely about freeing up FM spectrum, but the decision is more to do with OTA FM radio vs. DAB than streaming, the idea being that at 50% it worth *considering* whether it's time to set a date for mandating that FM radio stations switch to DAB-only (many currently broadcast on both), thus freeing up the FM spectrum for other things. That will almost certainly result in another expensive spectrum auction to generate revenue for the UK government, who probably doesn't really care all that much what it's going to be used for - 5G, IoT, whatever - as long as someone is willing to pay a lot of money for it. Besides the fact that for many areas DAB reception is still far less reliable and offers poorer sound quality than FM does (if you can received it at all), FM also enables in-car audio systems to cut to local FM radio stations for traffic updates, which are often far more up to date and informative than SatNav provided data.
As an example from a personal perspective, I can get my preferred local radio station for about 50% of my commute on DAB, and maybe a little as half of that is understandable if it's raining/snowing hard enough. Meanwhile, FM is clear as a bell the entire way regardless of weather conditions, and I get switched over to the traffic updates from a few other local stations that can be useful in avoiding bottlenecks. This is a common complaint from commuters right across the UK, partly stemming from the fact that the UK's DAB infrastructure is based on the older DAB standard rather than the more effective DAB+, so I'd say if you want to switch off the FM radio stations then you need to update the DAB infrastructure to DAB+ first, and only then see whether it's viable or not.
There's generally some kind of lock that you need to remove in order to use the bike, not sure about Bycyklen specifically, but usually it's via some sort of bar through the spokes or pedals, or a clamp that achieves the same effect. Alternatively, bikes must be obtained from and returned to specific racks which lock them in place. Either way, unlocking a bike starts your registers your account for usage of a bike, and locking it again ends it. Since Byclyken uses GPS (and lost the GPS data when the DB was wiped, hence the treasure hunt) I'd assume they have the lock on the bike itself.
Of course it's ridiculously easy to spoof - I even said how you'd do it in my post - and that's my point; Google are apparently not even doing the kind of basic checks that early AV software was doing in the late 1990's, let alone the kind of modern heuristical scanning that current AV tools use, which is what I'd have expected them to be doing. It's well known in security circles that most malware writers re-use a lot of common code libraries and other "kits" from the darknet and other forums that they then modify to suit, so that Google hasn't successfully automated that kind of scanning on app submission to their own store beggars belief, especially given the number of well regarded security experts they have on thier payroll.
They failed at an even simpler level than that. They could have just kept checksums of the code objects in known malicious apps and automatically removed any other apps that match that checksum, either already in the store or on upload, just like even the most basic antivirus software tech was doing over two decades ago. Or perhaps they simply just didn't expect that malware coders would be equally lazy/clueless and not bother to include some random salt or other obfuscation in their files to mess up attempts at checksumming them.
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Gene editing - doing to the grocery aisle what cable did to TV; hundreds of different fruits and veg yet still nothing you'd want to eat.
Or whatever. I actually don't think there's much of a market for broad variation like this; the market is finite and there are a lot of logistics problems with providing a lot of choice for a perishable item (even if GMO can extend the fact that fruit and veg has an inherent use by date, it's probably not going to remove it). People in a given area will like what they like - or opt to avoid anything labelled as GMO because GMO - and the market will sort itself out soon enough. We'll likely end up with roughly the same amount of choice in a given store as before, but the actual selection will shift to include those GMO products that sell well enough to increase profits over the products they replaced.
And possibly damage the telescope too. The moon is vastly brighter than the kinds of things the VLT is meant to image, so if its optics and filters can't deal with that it would be bad. ISTR reading a response from one of the Hubble team on the question of what kind of images the telescope would produce if it were pointed at the Earth, and the response was basically a pure white frame because the amount of light captured, even at night, would overwhelm the telescope even at their fastest possible exposure settings, and would probably cause permanent damage as well.
Besides, which fake moon landings derp is going to accept the picture as genuine when they already discount the evidence provided by the laser reflectors left on the moon by three of the Apollo missions and two of the Soviet Lunakhod missions? The reflectors are still in use, so there's no reason why they couldn't acquire a suitable laser and bounce their own signal off them if they really wanted to, but then they'd need to discount their own evidence and it might detract from what this really is - a pathetically lame attempt to get some attention like those who claim the Earth is flat, so that's never going to happen.
Depends on what OP meant by "intermittent". There are plenty of telemetry sensors that only need to transmit a tiny amount of data at intervals in excess of an hour, or in the event of a given condition being met, for which 12 uW/cm^2 might be more than enough to charge up a battery or capacitor with enough juice to do so when the time comes.
Not quite the same severity of problem, so no. Sure, a bird strike can cause a lot of damage to a plane, but firefighting aircraft tend to be slower moving over the operational zone than in normal flight, which reduces the potential impact damage from both birds and drones. Wildlife is also generally pretty good at getting itself away from things like wildfires, assuming the route is clear and they can move fast enough, so the chances of a bird strike over the fire are actually going to be lower than normal. The extra risk comes from the fact that drones tend to be made of more robust and rigid materials - plastic and metal rather than flesh and bone - so there is more potential for damage per kg., and especially because some of those components are potentially flammable, or even explosive. The chances of it happening might be pretty low, but a battery pack igniting as it passes through a turbine or propeller could really ruin a pilot's day - or worse.
It appears that Monzo (a UK online bank) noticed this breach through anomalous transactions on their cards as early as April 6th, notified TicketMaster about the possible issue immediately and started proactively replacing cards that had been used to make purchases through TicketMaster. Representatives from TicketMaster visited Monzo's offices on April 12th to gather further information - a whole week(!) after the initial notification - but then apparently denied finding evidence of a breach to Monzo a further week later, finally coming clean by going public on 27th June, almost 12 weeks after they were first advised of a possible compromise that apparently they didn't resolve until 23rd June, per their own site. Note that Mastercard sent out a general advisory about the account data compromise to all banks on 21st June, which may have forced TicketMaster's hand on the timing of the public disclosure.
Given TicketMaster dropped the ball on security matters, I'm also left wondering if they dropped the ball on GDPR requirements too. The time period spans the introduction of the GDPR on May 29th so, in theory, TicketMaster should have notified the relevant authorities within three days of confirming they had been breached, or by June 1st, whichever came first. If they failed to do that, or were perhaps even hoping to cover the breach up, then TicketMaster's troubles might only just be getting started.
Knowing the size, while a useful data point to have, doesn't really tell us all that much about the damage an asteroid is going to cause should it happen hit us, and actually seems like it would be a pretty poor metric of grading the probable damage in the event of an impact. What you also *need* to know for a probable impact damage assessment is the angle of impact (how much of the mass will be lost on entry, or will it just bounce off the atmosphere), composition (how much will burn up/probability of breakup on entry), mass (how much material might reach the surface), and velocity (energy to be expended on impact). Size does play a part though since the bigger the object is the bigger the atmospheric pressure wave it's going to create on entry, which can cause far more extensive and wide-ranging devastation than the crater formed by the impact, e.g. the Tunguska event, or some of the larger man-made blasts.
Stop spreading FUD. Tommy Robinson talked to journalists outside court about an on-going case. the judge on the case cautioned him to desist, and he did it again anyway, repeatedly. When a judge tells you not to do something relating to a case and you ignore them on multiple instances that's a textbook case of Contempt of Court and you can - and should - expect the judge to respond. Tommy Robinson apparently even admitted he was in the wrong on this during his trial for contempt.
The use of gag orders is, admittedly, a bit more contentious (especially in the tabloid media where salacious trials are almost always headline news), but they are used very sparingly and almost always in cases where there is a valid justifcation for doing so. Yes, jurors are told to avoid media coverage of the trial, but when you've got a high-profile case with people like Tommy Robinson involved that's kind of hard to do, so the idea is that by curtailing media coverage you can ensure that the accused gets as fair a trial as possible, and reduces the chances of a mistrial because of "trial-by-media". Other than where there may be a national security angle or other mitigating circumstances these are lifted at the conclusion of the trial, which is what happened in the Tommy Robinson case - the circumstances of his arrest, details of the trial, and his sentence were all covered extensively in the media the following morning.
No, I'd have likely fired Wilde too, but certainly a minimum of a disciplinary for sitting on the broken login for so long without following up and getting her supervisor(s) involved to escalate it, and quite likely her supervisors would be investigated for potential incompetence as well. The problem is that the story doesn't really detail what her role and interaction with the system was, what kind of proportion of her working day it was meant to occupy, or how much supervision this part of her job was subject to, all of which are quite relevant if you are trying to work out what might be an appropriate response from your armchair. That her employer did fire her is really all we have.
Clearly the sheer number of applications wouldn't allow manual processing of the forms by a single person, even if it was just to review each application was correctly completed and send it on, so her role seems most likely to have been either managing the batch processing of submitted forms or supervising a team's work. For instance, iIf that was only a small part of her job then that doesn't necessarily mean she was just "acting busy", and if her involvement with the system was periodic - say every several weeks - then the apparent 40 day delay in calling support could actually be a non-issue. Regardless of any possible mitigating circumstances that clearly were not sufficient to get her off the hook, it seems pretty clear that the entire department is suffering from the symptoms of "good enough for government work", and the buck for that kind of issue stops in the Governor's office.
You missed a rather relevant bit from the middle of TFS:
So it looks like the checks were progressing just fine until late February 2016, which implies that Wilde's login was presumably working from 2013 through until some point around then, depending on how long the system could run without Wilde logging in. Sure, Wilde dropped the ball by failing to follow up when it wasn't resolved but, regardless of that failure, her supervisors (and their supervisors, etc., etc.) also failed to query a massive spike in concealled carry permits on the books - up over 40% in just two years. Setting aside the issue of gun control, it takes a whole other level of managerial incompetence to fail to react to a stat like that.
Nope; haven't felt much need to upgrade my main PC (the only one I'd still consider hand-building myself) for a while, and I suspect I'm now going to make do until the Meltdown and Spectre issues are properly fixed in the silicon without any of the current hacky microcode workarounds. Other than those that are now appliances all my other systems are still custom, they're just built by a local PC/component seller instead (although I could just as easily use Dell or other build to order firm) - quite frankly the marginal extra cost is worth it for the time saved and a warranty, and my current clients are very much COTS when it comes to PC/server hardware. I do miss the days when it was both fun and more economical to DIY almost every build though.
Case speakers are definitely a relic of a bygone age. No idea about all-in-one desktops since I don't do those, but other than laptops I don't think I've had a case with one for getting on for at least a decade now, although many motherboards do still seem to include a piezo-electric tweeter somewhere. That's pretty much redundant too, however, since anything sent to it is usually hijacked by the drivers for either the on-board sound chip or any add-on audio hardware pretty early in the boot process. Generally speaking, you're going to need to trigger some kind of pre-BIOS/UEFI failure to get anything out of it, and even that seems to be dying out as my last few mobos have all had a pair of seven-segment LED displays that show a sequence of hex status codes as the system progresses through the boot process.
OK, let's run with that. Since my job entails potential exposure to bribery (albeit EU based rather than US) I have to do ethics training every now and again, and I'm pretty damn sure that any non-trivial "gifts" need to be declared lest they fall foul of bribery legislation - bribes are not just monetary after all. Assuming that's similar to the US' legislation on the matter all all this does really is jump Trump out of the collusion frying pan and into the bribery fire; now he has to demonstrate that either his campaign was completely unaware of this "gift" (good luck with proving a negative) or point to wherever they declared it. On past experience, Trump doesn't seem to suffer people who cause him problems gladly, and Guiliani has required "walk backs" and "clarifications" seemingly every time he's opened his mouth on the public record since his appointment. I'm guessing he'll be gone within months, if not weeks.
Apparently these five art are part the next generation of Iridium satellites and they are not expected to create the same predictable flares as the previous generation did when their solar panels caught the sun at the right angle. As a result, another batch of the older Iridium satellites will be either moved to parking orbits that are not so tightly controlled with less predictable flares where they can act as backups, or possibly even de-orbited outright. Predictable Iridium Flares are currently expected to cease altogether by the end of the year, so last call, I guess...
Budgets and launch schedules aside, unless you are actually planning on a landing or matching orbits the most likely mission profile is likely to be a flyby, and to get the maximum mission value that would most probably be in conjuction with visiting other Centaurs or Kuiper Belt Objects, similar to New Horizons. That seems like it may be far more achievable (and saleable), even allowing for Earth's orbital speed having a mean velocity of 30km/s and Jupiter's being around 13km/s, giving combined Delta V of 43km/s between Earth and this asteroid. Admittedly, that's not going to provide a lot of time for observation given that it's only 2km or so across, but that window could increase considerably if it's possible to enough velocity en route through the slingshots you suggest, or maybe even some aero-braking at Jupiter since there's a good chance any potential probe will be close to it at some point. Better still would be to approach Jupiter from "behind" and pull off a 180 to enter a retrograde solar orbit and burning off as much of the excess velocity in the process as possible.
Confirmed Opt-In, or COI, has been touted as a best practice for mailing lists for many years now. You didn't need to be psychic and predict the future to anticipate GDPR; you just needed to be above-board about what you were doing with the sign-up process and follow well published best practice. If you'd done that, and retained a copy of all of your opt-in confirmations, then all your end-user interaction for GDPR compliance would have required would have been a simple rider on a regular marketing email reminding your subscribers of where they could view your GDPR policies, contact you if required, and to change their communications preferences if they wished. No further end-user action required.
Sadly, even amongst those lists that have been using COI for years, this point seems to have escaped most mailing list maintainers.
Actually this isn't true. People in the EU have been hitting up these companies for what private data they hold on them for some time now, and there's a marked difference between the breadth and depth of data held by Facebook and Google and the rest (Microsoft/LinkedIn is kind of in the middle because they don't track you from site to site via those little social media buttons quite so thoroughly). Amazon and Adobe mostly seem to have a lot of highly specific data related to the products/services of theirs that you use, which isn't available to third parties with anything like the same abandon as with Facebook and Google), and Apple - not really being involved with selling advertising at all has surprisingly little other than what you might expect - software and media purchased/shared and so on.
I think the point is more that Facebook fills several niches, specifically Facebook (the main platform), Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. What they seem to be asking for is that they form a Google/Alphabet style structure with a parent company and a bunch of fully autonomous operating companies underneath that do not share data.
At least that's the plan as I see it. In practice all the various "autonomous" operations will almost certainly allow their users to login using your Facebook (the holding company, not the advertising platform) login for their convenience and still maintain access to each others data, only in a slightly less efficient and complete manner.
Why? "Off the grid" generally means you provide your own power, so provided the currency being developed doesn't require power intensive mining there's no reason why it couldn't exist within the constraints of a limited capacity local power grid. Or flip it around entirely; everyone has their own home supply (solar and/or wind/water turbines, most likely) and you earn the currency based on how much excess power you are able to feed into the communal supply for things like street lighting, social facilities, water treatment works, and so on.
Of course not. Not that I think that everything in the GP's post is 100% accurate in relation to the potential FM switch-off, but if you read it through replacing words to the effect of "turn off/replace FM radio" with "leave the EU" and you should see a few similarities:
Roughly a 50:50 split between the two sides.
One side taken as read, the other all but marginalised (the referendum was supposedly non-binding, remember, "will of the people" came after, once the Remain supporting Conservative leadership realised they needed the support of the party's Euro-skeptics to stay in power).
No real topic of study/discussion beforehand; just make it up as you go along.
The referendum campaign promise was the result of lobbying/pressure on David Cameron by Conservative Euro Skeptics (.
The referendum result didn't mean actual Brexit, just that "discussion shall begin as to what and when, if ever".
Euro-skepticism was already high in the UK, as pretty much everyone has at least some quibble with the EU - even those that want to Remain - and most will be able to manage just fine regardless of whether the UK is in or out (whether they'll be better off is another matter though).
So, just like Brexit? /rimshot
No, but you can multiplex DAB and DAB+ together (and DMB as well, if you wanted), and dual DAB/DAB+ capable sets have been available since 2007 in the UK, so there's no reason why you couldn't migrate the stations to DAB+ first, then allow time for the sets to catch up before deprecating DAB. This is actually OFCOM's intention [PDF link], and although there are currently no timescales set on this some DAB+ broadcasts have been available in the UK for a year or two. As usual the early DAB adopters may get burnt and have to buy updated sets if they're still using them when DAB+ becomes the norm, but there's nothing new there - and it's not likely to be too many people anyway given DAB adoption rates and probable timescales.
I'd definitely about freeing up FM spectrum, but the decision is more to do with OTA FM radio vs. DAB than streaming, the idea being that at 50% it worth *considering* whether it's time to set a date for mandating that FM radio stations switch to DAB-only (many currently broadcast on both), thus freeing up the FM spectrum for other things. That will almost certainly result in another expensive spectrum auction to generate revenue for the UK government, who probably doesn't really care all that much what it's going to be used for - 5G, IoT, whatever - as long as someone is willing to pay a lot of money for it. Besides the fact that for many areas DAB reception is still far less reliable and offers poorer sound quality than FM does (if you can received it at all), FM also enables in-car audio systems to cut to local FM radio stations for traffic updates, which are often far more up to date and informative than SatNav provided data.
As an example from a personal perspective, I can get my preferred local radio station for about 50% of my commute on DAB, and maybe a little as half of that is understandable if it's raining/snowing hard enough. Meanwhile, FM is clear as a bell the entire way regardless of weather conditions, and I get switched over to the traffic updates from a few other local stations that can be useful in avoiding bottlenecks. This is a common complaint from commuters right across the UK, partly stemming from the fact that the UK's DAB infrastructure is based on the older DAB standard rather than the more effective DAB+, so I'd say if you want to switch off the FM radio stations then you need to update the DAB infrastructure to DAB+ first, and only then see whether it's viable or not.
There's generally some kind of lock that you need to remove in order to use the bike, not sure about Bycyklen specifically, but usually it's via some sort of bar through the spokes or pedals, or a clamp that achieves the same effect. Alternatively, bikes must be obtained from and returned to specific racks which lock them in place. Either way, unlocking a bike starts your registers your account for usage of a bike, and locking it again ends it. Since Byclyken uses GPS (and lost the GPS data when the DB was wiped, hence the treasure hunt) I'd assume they have the lock on the bike itself.
Of course it's ridiculously easy to spoof - I even said how you'd do it in my post - and that's my point; Google are apparently not even doing the kind of basic checks that early AV software was doing in the late 1990's, let alone the kind of modern heuristical scanning that current AV tools use, which is what I'd have expected them to be doing. It's well known in security circles that most malware writers re-use a lot of common code libraries and other "kits" from the darknet and other forums that they then modify to suit, so that Google hasn't successfully automated that kind of scanning on app submission to their own store beggars belief, especially given the number of well regarded security experts they have on thier payroll.
They failed at an even simpler level than that. They could have just kept checksums of the code objects in known malicious apps and automatically removed any other apps that match that checksum, either already in the store or on upload, just like even the most basic antivirus software tech was doing over two decades ago. Or perhaps they simply just didn't expect that malware coders would be equally lazy/clueless and not bother to include some random salt or other obfuscation in their files to mess up attempts at checksumming them.