Speech recognition is nice until you fail to notice the added text by your cubicle next door neighbor. I had this issue at home in my home office when my roommate would come in an utter the words my mac recognized as the shutdown command. Pretty annoying, and not an uncommon experience 20 years ago. And handwriting ??? We stopped teaching cursive in many schools, and even with cursive, I type faster.
So my future preferred input method is thoughts. "Think it. Compile it. Run it."(tm)
Will they have an appropriate WTO compliant export license? But seriously, why don't the send up a module that can steer it back to a known safe reentry.
I am not a sports fan. I pay a regional sports fee. Why? I get over 200 channels. Watch, tops, a couple dozen. Why pay for the others? Ala carte is suppressed by the cable and satellite providers, but it is how to save their industry and negotiate lower fees to the source owners. Why license CNN if only 5% view CNN? The single purpose channels are also a losing proposition. And then there are the nickel and dime fees, extra receiver, pay $7.99 a month. DVR ability, pay per month, HD pay per month, 4K WOW pay per month. Formerly you'd subscribe to a movie package and the next would cost less, then less for the third, etc. Now they not only cost more per package than Netflix and way more than Amazon (with Prime Video as a perk)... Video on demand? A great concept, except it also comes with commercials you can't fast forward through. And you're paying for it already. I used to get every channel except sports and it cost about $90 a month. Now my basic "total choice that is far from total" costs that, and it more than doubles with all the added fees. Add that to "buying" a DVR/Receiver that you are really leasing monthly after paying them more than the cost of manufacture for a device locked to their system... Wow. If they started reducing fees and negotiating cheaper costs, like put networks in a selectable package and see how fast the network stations dropped their ask for presence. Yes, You pay for the networks through higher fees, and the networks still get to count you for advertising rates. Everyone is asking a bit too much and the broadcast model is going to collapse. I really want to eliminate the high cost of carriage of sports channels etc. Watch their ad rates drop as people are no longer counted as potential viewers. Then watch as the cable providers demand cheaper fees. And then watch as they fail to pass them on and still fail.
GM Car company steeped in technology over a hundred years old, famous for incremental improvements rather than innovation. Tesla, technology company that happens to make cars, run by a guy that also builds rockets, envisions high speed tub transport, and wants to colonize Mars. It's all the frame of reference of the speaker. GM guy wants profit for stockholders and has tunnel vision apart from that. We don't need complex automatic transmissions. Just auto shifting manual transmissions. We don't need a clutch (can be replaced by the existing car controller system, easily). We don't need both a brake and an accelerator, they can be one pedal. GM builds cars the way cars were built in the past century. Tesla builds cars for the future.
Autonomous braking systems have already recorded several potential accidents avoided with starting to brake before the human driving recognized the unfolding problems. One even made it mainstream onto the companies ads. Above 35 MPH humans can't process the data fast enough to completely avoid accidents in normal driving conditions. Accidents will happen.
Internationally it is still part of the Ukraine. So 91-2017, though occupied by Russia though the annexation is not recognized, and over 100 nations have said it is illegal internationally. And Kyivian Rus the former nation state that is Ukraine to day while Russia wasn't existing until the Duchy of Muscovy formed from Kyivian Rus then stabbed their parent in the back double dealing with Poland to split the territory after pledging to protect it; Kyivian Rus controlled Crimea for hundreds of years. Oh, Britain and France took control for a while, then ceded it back to the Tsars. And after the bolshevik revolution Ukraine the independent state controlled it for a while (about 12 entities held control for various periods of time).
The highest power storage density in common use for vehicles is still petrochemicals. Flying machines are very weight dependent. So while this is a nice concept it is useless in terms of practical transport. The batteries under a person in a defense related vehicle seems destined for being shot and starting occupant roasting fires. (ORF) The use of 8 rotors is also inefficient. one rotor is optimal efficiency, three or four provide redundancy.
The entities running the simulation noticed it was not running as expected as the data showed the start of self awareness of the simulated beings of the simulation so they adjusted the model to meet their expectations. Just like the global warming models... Just don't make waves or your sub-simulation of your being may be removed as an outliers.
The "we weren't making our own" argument is complete bullcrap. There are many many incidents of ageism and just cost cutting involved in the off-shoring trend. From a 40 year old dominos delivery driver delivery pizzas to his younger former co-workers... to many examples of staff laid off and only getting their separation package because they stayed on long enough to train their off shore replacements. I used to have no more than a 2 week break between contracts. From the mid 1990's to the side 2010s the off shore market rose dominated and started to decline. And part of the reason for the decline was the ever strong influx of H1-B workers paid considerably less than the workers they displaced.
The US has a huge unused reserve of technical workers that were laid off, and could never find a secure job footing again for two decades. And as a result of our policies we actually endanger national security as a small fraction of those State Department sponsored students who graduate and are hired (skilled people they are!) and a small portion of H1-B tech workers are spying on US technology and shipping it overseas. Consider that we only catch and expose those that aren't smart enough to not get caught.
We treat this problem as if we were boxers following the Marquis de Queensbury rules. No low blows, can't hit someone whose down, etc. These rest of the world is playing no holds barred mui thai... I imaging we are laughed at for our industrial security. Much like the article were a foreign descent person was found after hours in a medical sciences company conference room, uninvited, and had downloaded files from the company servers using two laptops and a tablet. Only discovered because an officer of the company working late discovered him on the way out of the building. This helps lessen the unique talents of US workers by displacing their value (the value of their work product) overseas as well. Hiring these potential spies who accept lessor rates of pay just to position themselves in the US, as well as just hiring overseas candidates at lower rates than their US counterparts hurts the economy longterm. But US companies are all about short term gain, all too often, and fail to see the longterm implications.
Sure, hire the best and brightest overseas talent. But you don't really want to hire newly minted overseas programmers because they cost 20% less, when the real cost is higher. And worse, when you outsource whole projects your source code isn't really yours anymore... Your competitors may end up paying less for their outsourced project benefiting from code written on your dime. You need strict controls in place. And an organization you can hold accountable if your companies "crown jewels" end up in other companies hands.
Yes, as people often do business with a company by hiding in a bathroom with their feet on the toilet seat, waiting for the lights to go off, then making their way to a room with good guest WiFi, other networking and power easily accessible when they suspect no one is left in the office. Then we set up shop and probe their networks and download information, solely to prepare to do business with them. And bright and early the next day we'll be there waiting to start work with them! Yes, that has to be it!
People need to have their WiFi, and general network to offices cut-off when it is after hours. Heck, cut power to conference rooms after hours. We have sufficiently smart devices that swiping an access card could turn on lights to your office, and the power and network outlets in your office. WiFi is one of the biggest vulnerabilities to data security. Guest WiFi even more so as it is often left without a password requirement or the password is posted in conference rooms for all visitors to easily use. And often seldom if ever changes. Work smarter people. Intellectual property is one of the major items America still has significant "wealth" and contributions to the GDP.
The obesity kicked in big time when the grain councils in the US backed creation of the old food pyramid where 300 grams of carbohydrates in the form of grains was recommended daily. You'd have to eat a 600 gram (over one pound) loaf of bread to get that many carbs. And that neglects the carbs from other items on the food pyramid like fruits. 6-11 servings daily of pasta, rice and grains was recommended. And schools followed this recommendation. Add the 2-4 servings of fruits, and 2-5 servings of vegetables and you're really carbo-loading your diet. It is a wonder Americans survived at all. This might be appropriate if you'e walking everywhere you go and are in an agricultural community farming daily. But for car-obsessed desk bound workers this is a slow death sentence.
Gravy can also be made with different thickening agents, like whole egg, cream cheese, cauliflower, and tofu. refined carbs aren't needed. A half cup of cauliflower puree has about 2 grams of carbs... just puree the gravy until there are no visible particles of cauliflower. I usually use a half-cup of poached cauliflower and a whole egg blended for 3-5 minutes into 2 cups of stock. Then heat in a double boiler if I have the time, otherwise stir microwave stir microwave until it thickens. Depending on your eggs maybe add another egg yolk.
Employ an inertial navigation system on board that backs up the GPS. Alarm when difference is great enough. Then fly an aircraft at high altitude and see if it's GPS agrees with the surface ships. Spoofing an aircraft at altitude where its GPS antennas are directional to the 180 degree horizontal plane and upwards is tough. Laser gyro inertial nav is also resilient so... easy to detect.
The hardware is not something a small scale actor would be able to create. At the moment this is nation state, and maybe organized crime or the teamsters level of involvement to create a hack that you could then re-close the phone up. Done properly the hardware would be selective about the data it captures and when it sends it. And if you're a bad actor shop you only install the spyhard-ware on select victims phones and use legitimate hardware on others. You limit your footprint. If you are a bad actor on the supply chain side you have to manage to crack your victims phone and insert your devices into the repair supply chain to overlap the period from breakage to replacement, so you'll compromise more phones. The reason to prefer hardware over software is a complete from the ground up software reinstall doesn't undo the compromise. Imagine a hacked BIOS on an older PC. You hide your malicious code in the unused portion of the BIOS memory. When the user flashes a new BIOS image, the old image was still in control. It could, in theory, just reinfect the new image. Of course if you're a malicious shop you skip the firmware and install a new boot-rom. If there is one. SoC chips with a fuse segregate the "boot-rom" to a virtual existence and if the chip also contains the walled garden security mechanism, it is likely not very easy at all to compromise that without detectable side affects, like on an iPhone touch id no longer working as the sensor gets unpaired. But even then you could just disregard the security since it's now your walled garden.
They don't need to replace the processor. They are exploiting data capture from the digitizer and screen, and using the privileged position the display assembly has in the hardware to inject and essentially jailbreak the device. Or root it in the case of Android. Consider at one point you could just visit a website to jailbreak an iPhone. So wait until the user is quiescent and use the digitizer to visit a website. Pretty easy to do that. Then once compromised, game over. It isn't an easy process, nor cheap one, but for nation states not much of a problem. Once compromised the installed app can sit in the background. It is a waiting game for the installed hardware to find the right moment. The only "value" to this attack vector is that a known good repair shop can be compromised by their supplier, else a bad repair shop would likely just install bad firmware. As to replacing BGAs, there was a Vietnamese shop that did this to break earlier iPhones by swapping out the image on the firmware with a new one since out of the phone the chip could be reprogrammed. So even little shops on cramped, third world evident streets can do this without much difficulty.
Smart "chip in the middle" devices would wait until you were off wifi and on the LTE or other telecom data. Or if they were really suave, even if you were on wifi they'd use the telecom communications channel.
Go Daddy has now given up any common carrier protection claims they might have and is now able to be held accountable for the content on any of they websites they host, and maybe more importantly any of the domains they are registrar of can come under fire by litigants that can now include Go Daddy in their list they are going after. Just my opinion, I'm not a lawyer. I have worked alongside lawyers doing software forensics and some hardware breakdowns.
Amazon is definitely on the sellers side in disputes. I ordered some motorcycle gear that didn't fit. In addition to finding out there was a restocking fee, I printed out the sellers USPS return label and sent the item back. There is no tracking info. But there's Amazon's guarantee right, so no problem. The seller didn't acknowledge receipt... I disputed the purchase and Amazon opened a ticket. Then the seller said the merchandise wasn't received. I asked Amazon to honor their guarantee. They said since there was no proof it had been returned they weren't going to honor it. And the seller didn't honor their own returns policy. The guy at the UPS store can only vouch for the fact I emailed a package, not contents or destination since it was USPS and pre-packed and postage paid up front.
Apple announced through unofficial leaks that IR face recognition would replace touch-ID and even floated a few models without touchID ability. This caused people who like the feature to upgrade from 5/6 series to 7 series phones keeping the iPhone sales flat. When the official announcement is made where TouchID is still present they will be disappointed but other fence sitters will fill in and boost iPhone sales. Smart hypothetical strategy.
Just ban all use outside the military of end to end encryption. Politicians should appreciate the transparency and ease their communications can be monitored.
DECnet lost out to IP. It should be reconsidered. The network was fairly easily expanded indefinitely where addresses were only bounded by specific specs for the implementation phases. The routing as to first of 1024 addresses where the next 1024 addresses under one of the first 1024, etc. Each node learned some basic weights to give its interfaces based on dynamic results of traffic passing. Could be improved over the last Phase V DECnet spec, based on modern knowledge. The architecture was not limited to address space. Any node could have 1024 sub-nodes to extend it. So no dynamic IP allocation issues. Then redo all the protocols used considering modern processors are very very fast and that human readable traffic is not required. So encrypt everything with very strong encryption. Make everything traceable to its source. If you have the keys. Lots of ways to revamp the Internet with an eye to the future. And instead of tunneling DECnet under IP, have an IP tunnel under DECnet. Or UNnet if you want to be politically correct. Done correctly I can have worldwide satellite offices and netboot a machine in Sweden from a server in Switzerland and do it in a secure encrypted manner. Can't spoof email if it is always signed and can be verified... Can't spoof domain resolution if everything is verified and secure. Redoing the Internet? Make it secure from the start.
If it's a through the wall installation push them back into the wall and put a blank plate there. Make a map of your house. Mark what switches control what lights and outlets. Map the now hidden coax. Pump digital audio over it? In any case the value of your house will be improved if the coax is in the walls.
If it is not in the walls, pull the staples, and coil it it. cut it as little as possible. Sell it on craigslist so someone else can reuse it. Or an amateur radio flea market, 75 ohm coax is useful for making some types of antennas and even shorter lengths can be useful. Lots of opportunity for reuse. And as a last resort rather than landfill it sell or give it to a recycling place.
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Speech recognition is nice until you fail to notice the added text by your cubicle next door neighbor. I had this issue at home in my home office when my roommate would come in an utter the words my mac recognized as the shutdown command. Pretty annoying, and not an uncommon experience 20 years ago. And handwriting ??? We stopped teaching cursive in many schools, and even with cursive, I type faster.
So my future preferred input method is thoughts. "Think it. Compile it. Run it."(tm)
Will they have an appropriate WTO compliant export license? But seriously, why don't the send up a module that can steer it back to a known safe reentry.
I am not a sports fan. I pay a regional sports fee. Why? I get over 200 channels. Watch, tops, a couple dozen. Why pay for the others? Ala carte is suppressed by the cable and satellite providers, but it is how to save their industry and negotiate lower fees to the source owners. Why license CNN if only 5% view CNN? The single purpose channels are also a losing proposition. And then there are the nickel and dime fees, extra receiver, pay $7.99 a month. DVR ability, pay per month, HD pay per month, 4K WOW pay per month. Formerly you'd subscribe to a movie package and the next would cost less, then less for the third, etc. Now they not only cost more per package than Netflix and way more than Amazon (with Prime Video as a perk)... Video on demand? A great concept, except it also comes with commercials you can't fast forward through. And you're paying for it already. I used to get every channel except sports and it cost about $90 a month. Now my basic "total choice that is far from total" costs that, and it more than doubles with all the added fees. Add that to "buying" a DVR/Receiver that you are really leasing monthly after paying them more than the cost of manufacture for a device locked to their system... Wow. If they started reducing fees and negotiating cheaper costs, like put networks in a selectable package and see how fast the network stations dropped their ask for presence. Yes, You pay for the networks through higher fees, and the networks still get to count you for advertising rates. Everyone is asking a bit too much and the broadcast model is going to collapse. I really want to eliminate the high cost of carriage of sports channels etc. Watch their ad rates drop as people are no longer counted as potential viewers. Then watch as the cable providers demand cheaper fees. And then watch as they fail to pass them on and still fail.
GM Car company steeped in technology over a hundred years old, famous for incremental improvements rather than innovation. Tesla, technology company that happens to make cars, run by a guy that also builds rockets, envisions high speed tub transport, and wants to colonize Mars. It's all the frame of reference of the speaker. GM guy wants profit for stockholders and has tunnel vision apart from that. We don't need complex automatic transmissions. Just auto shifting manual transmissions. We don't need a clutch (can be replaced by the existing car controller system, easily). We don't need both a brake and an accelerator, they can be one pedal. GM builds cars the way cars were built in the past century. Tesla builds cars for the future.
Autonomous braking systems have already recorded several potential accidents avoided with starting to brake before the human driving recognized the unfolding problems. One even made it mainstream onto the companies ads. Above 35 MPH humans can't process the data fast enough to completely avoid accidents in normal driving conditions. Accidents will happen.
And the scapegoat is named.
Anybody check GLONASS in the area? And with laser optical gyros, inertial navigation is adequate for navigation in the area.
Internationally it is still part of the Ukraine. So 91-2017, though occupied by Russia though the annexation is not recognized, and over 100 nations have said it is illegal internationally. And Kyivian Rus the former nation state that is Ukraine to day while Russia wasn't existing until the Duchy of Muscovy formed from Kyivian Rus then stabbed their parent in the back double dealing with Poland to split the territory after pledging to protect it; Kyivian Rus controlled Crimea for hundreds of years. Oh, Britain and France took control for a while, then ceded it back to the Tsars. And after the bolshevik revolution Ukraine the independent state controlled it for a while (about 12 entities held control for various periods of time).
The highest power storage density in common use for vehicles is still petrochemicals. Flying machines are very weight dependent. So while this is a nice concept it is useless in terms of practical transport. The batteries under a person in a defense related vehicle seems destined for being shot and starting occupant roasting fires. (ORF) The use of 8 rotors is also inefficient. one rotor is optimal efficiency, three or four provide redundancy.
The entities running the simulation noticed it was not running as expected as the data showed the start of self awareness of the simulated beings of the simulation so they adjusted the model to meet their expectations. Just like the global warming models... Just don't make waves or your sub-simulation of your being may be removed as an outliers.
The "we weren't making our own" argument is complete bullcrap. There are many many incidents of ageism and just cost cutting involved in the off-shoring trend. From a 40 year old dominos delivery driver delivery pizzas to his younger former co-workers ... to many examples of staff laid off and only getting their separation package because they stayed on long enough to train their off shore replacements. I used to have no more than a 2 week break between contracts. From the mid 1990's to the side 2010s the off shore market rose dominated and started to decline. And part of the reason for the decline was the ever strong influx of H1-B workers paid considerably less than the workers they displaced.
... I imaging we are laughed at for our industrial security. Much like the article were a foreign descent person was found after hours in a medical sciences company conference room, uninvited, and had downloaded files from the company servers using two laptops and a tablet. Only discovered because an officer of the company working late discovered him on the way out of the building. This helps lessen the unique talents of US workers by displacing their value (the value of their work product) overseas as well. Hiring these potential spies who accept lessor rates of pay just to position themselves in the US, as well as just hiring overseas candidates at lower rates than their US counterparts hurts the economy longterm. But US companies are all about short term gain, all too often, and fail to see the longterm implications.
... Your competitors may end up paying less for their outsourced project benefiting from code written on your dime. You need strict controls in place. And an organization you can hold accountable if your companies "crown jewels" end up in other companies hands.
The US has a huge unused reserve of technical workers that were laid off, and could never find a secure job footing again for two decades. And as a result of our policies we actually endanger national security as a small fraction of those State Department sponsored students who graduate and are hired (skilled people they are!) and a small portion of H1-B tech workers are spying on US technology and shipping it overseas. Consider that we only catch and expose those that aren't smart enough to not get caught.
We treat this problem as if we were boxers following the Marquis de Queensbury rules. No low blows, can't hit someone whose down, etc. These rest of the world is playing no holds barred mui thai
Sure, hire the best and brightest overseas talent. But you don't really want to hire newly minted overseas programmers because they cost 20% less, when the real cost is higher. And worse, when you outsource whole projects your source code isn't really yours anymore
Yes, as people often do business with a company by hiding in a bathroom with their feet on the toilet seat, waiting for the lights to go off, then making their way to a room with good guest WiFi, other networking and power easily accessible when they suspect no one is left in the office. Then we set up shop and probe their networks and download information, solely to prepare to do business with them. And bright and early the next day we'll be there waiting to start work with them! Yes, that has to be it!
People need to have their WiFi, and general network to offices cut-off when it is after hours. Heck, cut power to conference rooms after hours. We have sufficiently smart devices that swiping an access card could turn on lights to your office, and the power and network outlets in your office. WiFi is one of the biggest vulnerabilities to data security. Guest WiFi even more so as it is often left without a password requirement or the password is posted in conference rooms for all visitors to easily use. And often seldom if ever changes. Work smarter people. Intellectual property is one of the major items America still has significant "wealth" and contributions to the GDP.
The obesity kicked in big time when the grain councils in the US backed creation of the old food pyramid where 300 grams of carbohydrates in the form of grains was recommended daily. You'd have to eat a 600 gram (over one pound) loaf of bread to get that many carbs. And that neglects the carbs from other items on the food pyramid like fruits. 6-11 servings daily of pasta, rice and grains was recommended. And schools followed this recommendation. Add the 2-4 servings of fruits, and 2-5 servings of vegetables and you're really carbo-loading your diet. It is a wonder Americans survived at all. This might be appropriate if you'e walking everywhere you go and are in an agricultural community farming daily. But for car-obsessed desk bound workers this is a slow death sentence.
Gravy can also be made with different thickening agents, like whole egg, cream cheese, cauliflower, and tofu. refined carbs aren't needed. A half cup of cauliflower puree has about 2 grams of carbs ... just puree the gravy until there are no visible particles of cauliflower. I usually use a half-cup of poached cauliflower and a whole egg blended for 3-5 minutes into 2 cups of stock. Then heat in a double boiler if I have the time, otherwise stir microwave stir microwave until it thickens. Depending on your eggs maybe add another egg yolk.
You can make carbs from the fats and proteins. Also w/o carbs you run on ketone bodies.
Employ an inertial navigation system on board that backs up the GPS. Alarm when difference is great enough. Then fly an aircraft at high altitude and see if it's GPS agrees with the surface ships. Spoofing an aircraft at altitude where its GPS antennas are directional to the 180 degree horizontal plane and upwards is tough. Laser gyro inertial nav is also resilient so ... easy to detect.
The hardware is not something a small scale actor would be able to create. At the moment this is nation state, and maybe organized crime or the teamsters level of involvement to create a hack that you could then re-close the phone up. Done properly the hardware would be selective about the data it captures and when it sends it. And if you're a bad actor shop you only install the spyhard-ware on select victims phones and use legitimate hardware on others. You limit your footprint. If you are a bad actor on the supply chain side you have to manage to crack your victims phone and insert your devices into the repair supply chain to overlap the period from breakage to replacement, so you'll compromise more phones. The reason to prefer hardware over software is a complete from the ground up software reinstall doesn't undo the compromise. Imagine a hacked BIOS on an older PC. You hide your malicious code in the unused portion of the BIOS memory. When the user flashes a new BIOS image, the old image was still in control. It could, in theory, just reinfect the new image. Of course if you're a malicious shop you skip the firmware and install a new boot-rom. If there is one. SoC chips with a fuse segregate the "boot-rom" to a virtual existence and if the chip also contains the walled garden security mechanism, it is likely not very easy at all to compromise that without detectable side affects, like on an iPhone touch id no longer working as the sensor gets unpaired. But even then you could just disregard the security since it's now your walled garden.
They don't need to replace the processor. They are exploiting data capture from the digitizer and screen, and using the privileged position the display assembly has in the hardware to inject and essentially jailbreak the device. Or root it in the case of Android. Consider at one point you could just visit a website to jailbreak an iPhone. So wait until the user is quiescent and use the digitizer to visit a website. Pretty easy to do that. Then once compromised, game over. It isn't an easy process, nor cheap one, but for nation states not much of a problem. Once compromised the installed app can sit in the background. It is a waiting game for the installed hardware to find the right moment. The only "value" to this attack vector is that a known good repair shop can be compromised by their supplier, else a bad repair shop would likely just install bad firmware. As to replacing BGAs, there was a Vietnamese shop that did this to break earlier iPhones by swapping out the image on the firmware with a new one since out of the phone the chip could be reprogrammed. So even little shops on cramped, third world evident streets can do this without much difficulty.
Smart "chip in the middle" devices would wait until you were off wifi and on the LTE or other telecom data. Or if they were really suave, even if you were on wifi they'd use the telecom communications channel.
Go Daddy has now given up any common carrier protection claims they might have and is now able to be held accountable for the content on any of they websites they host, and maybe more importantly any of the domains they are registrar of can come under fire by litigants that can now include Go Daddy in their list they are going after. Just my opinion, I'm not a lawyer. I have worked alongside lawyers doing software forensics and some hardware breakdowns.
Amazon is definitely on the sellers side in disputes. I ordered some motorcycle gear that didn't fit. In addition to finding out there was a restocking fee, I printed out the sellers USPS return label and sent the item back. There is no tracking info. But there's Amazon's guarantee right, so no problem. The seller didn't acknowledge receipt ... I disputed the purchase and Amazon opened a ticket. Then the seller said the merchandise wasn't received. I asked Amazon to honor their guarantee. They said since there was no proof it had been returned they weren't going to honor it. And the seller didn't honor their own returns policy. The guy at the UPS store can only vouch for the fact I emailed a package, not contents or destination since it was USPS and pre-packed and postage paid up front.
So Amazon's guarantee is worthless.
Apple announced through unofficial leaks that IR face recognition would replace touch-ID and even floated a few models without touchID ability. This caused people who like the feature to upgrade from 5/6 series to 7 series phones keeping the iPhone sales flat. When the official announcement is made where TouchID is still present they will be disappointed but other fence sitters will fill in and boost iPhone sales. Smart hypothetical strategy.
Just ban all use outside the military of end to end encryption. Politicians should appreciate the transparency and ease their communications can be monitored.
DECnet lost out to IP. It should be reconsidered. The network was fairly easily expanded indefinitely where addresses were only bounded by specific specs for the implementation phases. The routing as to first of 1024 addresses where the next 1024 addresses under one of the first 1024, etc. Each node learned some basic weights to give its interfaces based on dynamic results of traffic passing. Could be improved over the last Phase V DECnet spec, based on modern knowledge. The architecture was not limited to address space. Any node could have 1024 sub-nodes to extend it. So no dynamic IP allocation issues. Then redo all the protocols used considering modern processors are very very fast and that human readable traffic is not required. So encrypt everything with very strong encryption. Make everything traceable to its source. If you have the keys. Lots of ways to revamp the Internet with an eye to the future. And instead of tunneling DECnet under IP, have an IP tunnel under DECnet. Or UNnet if you want to be politically correct. Done correctly I can have worldwide satellite offices and netboot a machine in Sweden from a server in Switzerland and do it in a secure encrypted manner. Can't spoof email if it is always signed and can be verified ... Can't spoof domain resolution if everything is verified and secure. Redoing the Internet? Make it secure from the start.
If it's a through the wall installation push them back into the wall and put a blank plate there. Make a map of your house. Mark what switches control what lights and outlets. Map the now hidden coax. Pump digital audio over it? In any case the value of your house will be improved if the coax is in the walls.
If it is not in the walls, pull the staples, and coil it it. cut it as little as possible. Sell it on craigslist so someone else can reuse it. Or an amateur radio flea market, 75 ohm coax is useful for making some types of antennas and even shorter lengths can be useful. Lots of opportunity for reuse. And as a last resort rather than landfill it sell or give it to a recycling place.