utilizing high-speed coherent lasers to connect with base stations on two different continents
-from TFS
A laser differs from other sources of light in that it emits light coherently.
- From Wikipedia
Lasers also operate at the speed of light (albeit the encoding is slower than that).
Me wonders what a llow speed incoherent laser looks like? Maybe signal mirrors? What type of technology is China using?/sarcasm
Okay I will. Arable production and water will move. Agreeably weather conditions will move. As resources dwindle in an area (water, soil conditions, flooding etc) mas migration, disease, and war will likely occur. Do you want half of Bangladesh camping on your doorstep?
In all reality, whether you agree with AGW or not, even if it is just GW, as the only sentient, tool wielding species on the planet don't you think we should fucking prepare for the worst?
Arguably we have gone from retail pioneering, or being the first over the mountains, to niche pioneering. When the idiotslooking for gold and land rush in we invent a new niche to hide in. We circle the wagons around our new new aggregation service or chat protocol. And then the idiots come, with the government not far behind. First a trickle, then a flood.
Then us cynical old neckbeards run off to a new playground.
Let's not forget NICs that cost 300 to 600, most of which were micro channel (a ps2 only bus), and harder to find for ISA bus machines. Shielded thick ass cables that were impossible to manage, etc. Not the 10 base 2 was much better. Certainly cheaper. Oh and the broadcast storms on hub based 10 base T. Let's watch all the port lights go solid and hang.....
Your tablet has a value under 500. It is not owned by anyone important. It is unlikely to make news. It does not generate revenue or appreciably add to any other metrics they care about.
This is why "To Protect and Serve" is nor more like "To Collect and Harass"
We don't manufacture cars the way we used to. We don't build houses the way we used to. That and a million other things. Time marches on, methodologies and scale changes, sometimes for the better. Sometimes not.
Population is not the only thing that increases our use of resources. Increased standards of living do as well. 10 kids in africa probably use less resources than 1-2 in a developed nation.
There is an arms race between advertisers and users. This is but one of the escalations that will occur. The fact is that ads are so mismanaged, annoying, and malware ridden that people are tolerating them less and less. It has become the defacto standard of our it shop to not only install ad blockers for most customer, but tell customers why and educate them on the aspects of adblocker use. In the year since that started we have seen repeat malware issues go down by over 50%.
Sorry FB, you can go shove it. The blockers will find a way. The industry must change or it will collapse under its problems.
My example still holds, because in this universe, both the rocket test and the mosquito fart of limited in duration and sufficiently short that delta V approaches 0
Yeah I have, most people do not need it or use it. However, for those that do, the smart thing is to turn the setting off temporarily when loading an app, and be sure of what you are loading.
A very small percentage use alternate app stores, so saying 900M devices are vulnerable is a bit hyperbolic.
It requires sideloading be turned on to get in. This is off by efault on any sane device. Yes it could get in through the play store, but since google now knows the exploit you can bet all apps are scanned.
This is mostly fear mongering. Now if you could root my phone with an MMS or some other function that does not require me to turn of security features first, then I'll worry.
I will worry about all the cheap chinese tabs and phones that come with sideloading (and malware/crapware) installed by default.
Privacy should be the default position - for citizens.
Open access should be the default position for government, be it organizations or elected officials. The moment one chooses to put them selves in a position of governmental power over others by running for office, all data on that individual should be made public.
I work in a small IT shop. Mostly residential and small to mid biz clients. a very large percentage have upgraded to win 10. with the initial release, a significant percentage (2-4%) of upgrades failed in some fashion, many requiring an OS reload and reintegration of backed up profile data. Within a few months that worked itself out to a much lower percentage.
A small percentage (very small) do suffer issues like broken start menus or broken metro apps that tools like SFC and DISM or ACL mods will not repair, requiring reload. Again this has been VERY few. There have been times that Windows 7 updates hammered a much larger proportion of users.
Yes, it snoops. But IMHO it does so no more so than your smartphone. I would wager that most of the people here have a smart phone and do not bitch to the level that they do about MS snooping. Is that level of snooping by OS, devices, or even web pages correct or ethical? Probably not, but it is the society we live in, and it is up to us to change it rather than just bitch. In the interim, if you have data you are concerned about, there are ways to mitigate the risk, although they do take a fair amount of technical skill.
As to defaults resetting on updates. That was another early issue. In my shops experience it has not recurred. Personally I have Win 10 on 5 PCs and it has not happened to them at all, could it again? Of course, but then again systemd could update and stop launching your critical daemons. This could be accidental or intentional. There is no way an OS vendor, even of MS size can test against every use case and hardware layout. As long as the issues are of a fairly low percentage, then I would wager it to be a bug and not an intentional feature.
In case anyone is interested, here are the PCs I run win10 on with no issue:
6 Core AMD Bulldozer, 16GB RAM, nvidia 1070 GPU, multiple SSD and HDD drives. Has VMs for linux mint running 24/7 (one for teamspeak server and other servers, the other for private torrent seeding),machine is rock solid
i7-4th gen mobile, 8 GB Ram, nvidia 960m GPU, ssd. Has had occasional blue screens seemingly due to hybrid graphics. This has resolved with newer drivers.
6-core AMD bulldozer, 32GB RAM, elcheapo AMD gpu, dual boot mint and win 10 preview channel. Used as a data recovery box in linux and Win 10 testing. has been very stable
6 core AMD bulldozer, 16GB Ram, 2x mid range AMD gpus (6550 and R5 260 i think), ssd and HDD. Main work desktop with 3 displays (one is qhd) - rock solid
intel core 2 duo mobile, 4GB RAM, intel GPU, SSD. Girlfriends laptop. A bit sluggish due to age of CPU, but stable as you could like. She is terrible about running updates, Win 10 fixed this, and buggy driver issues went away, which she had frequently under win 7.
This does not work for me. My main number is ex-google voice, now Project Fi. I get several a week. Almost every one is from the same are code and exchange as me, just a different last 4. A couple of times it was even my own number. This tells me that they are spoofing the caller ID info, and since it is sufficiently random, I cannot block it from the carrier
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Yeah it does. Science is not a belief. In fact it is more of a rational disbelief.
utilizing high-speed coherent lasers to connect with base stations on two different continents
-from TFS
A laser differs from other sources of light in that it emits light coherently.
- From Wikipedia
Lasers also operate at the speed of light (albeit the encoding is slower than that). Me wonders what a llow speed incoherent laser looks like? Maybe signal mirrors? What type of technology is China using? /sarcasm
Okay I will. Arable production and water will move. Agreeably weather conditions will move. As resources dwindle in an area (water, soil conditions, flooding etc) mas migration, disease, and war will likely occur. Do you want half of Bangladesh camping on your doorstep?
In all reality, whether you agree with AGW or not, even if it is just GW, as the only sentient, tool wielding species on the planet don't you think we should fucking prepare for the worst?
Retail=real. Silly phone
Then us cynical old neckbeards run off to a new playground.
Let's not forget NICs that cost 300 to 600, most of which were micro channel (a ps2 only bus), and harder to find for ISA bus machines. Shielded thick ass cables that were impossible to manage, etc. Not the 10 base 2 was much better. Certainly cheaper. Oh and the broadcast storms on hub based 10 base T. Let's watch all the port lights go solid and hang.....
Sorry we are late to the game, but we actually think you will like Jiffy Pop Better.
It is called Newspeak. We have always been at war with eastasia.
Great Scott!
This is why "To Protect and Serve" is nor more like "To Collect and Harass"
We don't manufacture cars the way we used to. We don't build houses the way we used to. That and a million other things. Time marches on, methodologies and scale changes, sometimes for the better. Sometimes not.
Population is not the only thing that increases our use of resources. Increased standards of living do as well. 10 kids in africa probably use less resources than 1-2 in a developed nation.
Sorry FB, you can go shove it. The blockers will find a way. The industry must change or it will collapse under its problems.
My example still holds, because in this universe, both the rocket test and the mosquito fart of limited in duration and sufficiently short that delta V approaches 0
SLS rocket 1.633*10^6 kg thrus
It has about as much chance as a mosquito on an elephant's back farting changing the speed/direction of the elephant.
This would be a GAO report. Probably not FOI
A very small percentage use alternate app stores, so saying 900M devices are vulnerable is a bit hyperbolic.
This is mostly fear mongering. Now if you could root my phone with an MMS or some other function that does not require me to turn of security features first, then I'll worry.
I will worry about all the cheap chinese tabs and phones that come with sideloading (and malware/crapware) installed by default.
Someone have Scotty check the transporters. I think Lt. AGM's sense of humor was left behind on Delta Pablonis.
...I only used punched cards. Including that box of random cards I found in the parking lot.
Open access should be the default position for government, be it organizations or elected officials. The moment one chooses to put them selves in a position of governmental power over others by running for office, all data on that individual should be made public.
A small percentage (very small) do suffer issues like broken start menus or broken metro apps that tools like SFC and DISM or ACL mods will not repair, requiring reload. Again this has been VERY few. There have been times that Windows 7 updates hammered a much larger proportion of users.
Yes, it snoops. But IMHO it does so no more so than your smartphone. I would wager that most of the people here have a smart phone and do not bitch to the level that they do about MS snooping. Is that level of snooping by OS, devices, or even web pages correct or ethical? Probably not, but it is the society we live in, and it is up to us to change it rather than just bitch. In the interim, if you have data you are concerned about, there are ways to mitigate the risk, although they do take a fair amount of technical skill.
As to defaults resetting on updates. That was another early issue. In my shops experience it has not recurred. Personally I have Win 10 on 5 PCs and it has not happened to them at all, could it again? Of course, but then again systemd could update and stop launching your critical daemons. This could be accidental or intentional. There is no way an OS vendor, even of MS size can test against every use case and hardware layout. As long as the issues are of a fairly low percentage, then I would wager it to be a bug and not an intentional feature.
In case anyone is interested, here are the PCs I run win10 on with no issue:
6 Core AMD Bulldozer, 16GB RAM, nvidia 1070 GPU, multiple SSD and HDD drives. Has VMs for linux mint running 24/7 (one for teamspeak server and other servers, the other for private torrent seeding) ,machine is rock solid
i7-4th gen mobile, 8 GB Ram, nvidia 960m GPU, ssd. Has had occasional blue screens seemingly due to hybrid graphics. This has resolved with newer drivers.
6-core AMD bulldozer, 32GB RAM, elcheapo AMD gpu, dual boot mint and win 10 preview channel. Used as a data recovery box in linux and Win 10 testing. has been very stable
6 core AMD bulldozer, 16GB Ram, 2x mid range AMD gpus (6550 and R5 260 i think), ssd and HDD. Main work desktop with 3 displays (one is qhd) - rock solid
intel core 2 duo mobile, 4GB RAM, intel GPU, SSD. Girlfriends laptop. A bit sluggish due to age of CPU, but stable as you could like. She is terrible about running updates, Win 10 fixed this, and buggy driver issues went away, which she had frequently under win 7.
This does not work for me. My main number is ex-google voice, now Project Fi. I get several a week. Almost every one is from the same are code and exchange as me, just a different last 4. A couple of times it was even my own number. This tells me that they are spoofing the caller ID info, and since it is sufficiently random, I cannot block it from the carrier