You knowing some people who live far outside the mainstream doesn't negate my point. I'm sure I could find some people that function without a phone too.
There exist localities where the only affordable internet service is from AT&T. My hometown is one of them. Comcast pulled out a little more than a decade ago because they didn't want to spend the money upgrading their inadequate infrastructure.
There are many other small towns around the area that I live in that have similar situations in regards to Internet access.
Internet access has become necessary to function in our modern world, so I can see an argument being made that forced arbitration is an abuse of monopoly power in these situations.
Of course, to be fair, I'm sure Comcast has an arbitration clause too.
Your assertion is completely baseless and reeks of FUD - the same thing GNU/Linux apologists like yourself have slammed Microsoft for for decades.
Why exactly are they not battle worthy for using some flavor of NT on some of their ships systems? Do have some inside knowledge of the design to share with everyone that would back up your assertion?
I don;t know much about the British, but I know for a fact that Microsoft products are used extensively in battlefield situations by the U.S. military. I've worked with a Sergeant in the U.S. Army who did two tours in Iraq and worked with Windows based systems. Windows was the least of his problems on the battlefield.
If you would like an example of Linux-based system being battle-tested, here you go:
Because it's cheaper to implement than the alternatives you listed and whatever security shortcomings it might have don't matter if they are properly isolated systems.
If they ran Linux on the ship it would be Linux from back when the ship was designed, full of potential vulnerabilities just like whatever flavor of XP they're running. With giant systems like this, there is a much higher potential risk when introducing changes to the systems and given the fact that the systems are not connected to the outside world, the reward for keeping software up to date can be very little to none.
It probably would have activated automatically without extracting the CD key. Once you install and successfully activate Windows 10 on a computer, Microsoft records the hardware configuration in their giant database in the cloud and if you every do a fresh reinstall, it will recognize your computer and activate it without the need for the key. I went through the trouble of extracting the CD key on a little mini laptop that didn't have enough storage space to upgrade to the newest version of Window 10 (the laptop originally shipped with Win 8) and upon reinstalling, it automagically activated itself without me having to enter in the key.
It's also about being able to run legacy 16 bit programs. The 32 bit versions of Windows NT have a 16 bit subsystem, while the 64 bit versions have a 32 bit subsystem, but no 16 bit subsystem.
Actually we just want them to pay for the medical care, and use their leverage to control costs, just like almost every other modern country on the planet. Providers should remain in the private sector.
"The change in overall life expectancy mostly reflects lower infant mortality, not longer lifespans for adults.
In 1939, infant mortality rates were extremely high, but once age 65 the average American could expect to live another 13.4 years, or to age 78. Today, better health care and fewer infant deaths means overall life expectancy has gone up. But life expectancy after age 65 - a more accurate way to predict how long people are really living in retirement - hasn't changed nearly as much.
As of 2008, the average American who makes it to age 65 could expect to live 19.6 years. That's just 6 years longer than in 1939, and less than 2 years longer than in 1979 - and even that number overgeneralizes, because it ignores other factors that affect life expectancy, including gender, race, and income. A Social Security Administration study found income inequality plays a big role in life expectancy. For workers in the top half of the earnings distribution, average life expectancy is 86.5, but for those in the bottom half it's just 81 - a gap of more than 5 years that continues to grow.
Please elaborate. I have ability to unlock the bootloader on my Nexus 5x and install another ROM if I so choose. Short of that I can also root my existing ROM without needing an exploit and modify the stock system.
Yes, it was the Verizon variant. It initially shipped with an unlocked bootloader, but an early update locked it for good. When I got mine it was already locked. It was especially annoying to me because not only had I run custom ROMs, I had made my own ROMs with every one of my previous smartphones going back to my T-Mobile Wing running Windows Mobile 6.1. It was half a phone to me.
Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific. There are a few variants of the S4. I'm taking about the Verizon version. It originally shipped with an unlocked bootloader when it first came out. Samsung then updated it with a locked bootloader and it has never been cracked. By the time I got mine it had already been patched with the locked bootloader.
Samsung locks their bootloaders. In three years of ownership, I was never able to flash a custom ROM on my Galaxy S4, as no one was ever able to crack the bootloader. I just checked on the xda forums. Still not cracked to this day.
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It's $3 billion less in tax revenue that the state will collect, so it's a $3 billion subsidy.
And only a 25 year payoff for taxpayers. Typical Republican "economic conservatism."
and there is some uncontrollable/unresettable battery charging failure?
No. There is no way that is correct. Probably just a misunderstanding. It happens a lot with Hybrids and EVs.
You knowing some people who live far outside the mainstream doesn't negate my point. I'm sure I could find some people that function without a phone too.
What you said is to a large degree true and doesn't negate my point.
There exist localities where the only affordable internet service is from AT&T. My hometown is one of them. Comcast pulled out a little more than a decade ago because they didn't want to spend the money upgrading their inadequate infrastructure.
There are many other small towns around the area that I live in that have similar situations in regards to Internet access.
Internet access has become necessary to function in our modern world, so I can see an argument being made that forced arbitration is an abuse of monopoly power in these situations.
Of course, to be fair, I'm sure Comcast has an arbitration clause too.
Your assertion is completely baseless and reeks of FUD - the same thing GNU/Linux apologists like yourself have slammed Microsoft for for decades.
Why exactly are they not battle worthy for using some flavor of NT on some of their ships systems? Do have some inside knowledge of the design to share with everyone that would back up your assertion?
I don;t know much about the British, but I know for a fact that Microsoft products are used extensively in battlefield situations by the U.S. military. I've worked with a Sergeant in the U.S. Army who did two tours in Iraq and worked with Windows based systems. Windows was the least of his problems on the battlefield.
If you would like an example of Linux-based system being battle-tested, here you go:
https://www.theinquirer.net/in...
Because it's cheaper to implement than the alternatives you listed and whatever security shortcomings it might have don't matter if they are properly isolated systems.
If they ran Linux on the ship it would be Linux from back when the ship was designed, full of potential vulnerabilities just like whatever flavor of XP they're running. With giant systems like this, there is a much higher potential risk when introducing changes to the systems and given the fact that the systems are not connected to the outside world, the reward for keeping software up to date can be very little to none.
Vox is not leftist. It is liberal.
Of course he can obstruct justice. The Senate moved to impeach Nixon on exactly that. Nixon would be been tried for it if not for being pardoned.
It probably would have activated automatically without extracting the CD key. Once you install and successfully activate Windows 10 on a computer, Microsoft records the hardware configuration in their giant database in the cloud and if you every do a fresh reinstall, it will recognize your computer and activate it without the need for the key. I went through the trouble of extracting the CD key on a little mini laptop that didn't have enough storage space to upgrade to the newest version of Window 10 (the laptop originally shipped with Win 8) and upon reinstalling, it automagically activated itself without me having to enter in the key.
It's also about being able to run legacy 16 bit programs. The 32 bit versions of Windows NT have a 16 bit subsystem, while the 64 bit versions have a 32 bit subsystem, but no 16 bit subsystem.
Actually we just want them to pay for the medical care, and use their leverage to control costs, just like almost every other modern country on the planet. Providers should remain in the private sector.
I'm hoping for something novel, like an IP stack vuln exploitable via TCP.
Arm the WSUS servers!
Coal/Oil? All you need is a spark.
Solar/Wind? You have to consume energy and materials before you even get to having a chance at energy production.
Coal and oil don't jump out the ground and transport, refine and store themselves.
I gallon of gasoline takes 4 to 6 Kwh of energy to produce.
I also work at this place. We should all meet up at the water cooler and shoot the shit some time.
It's not so simple...
"The change in overall life expectancy mostly reflects lower infant mortality, not longer lifespans for adults.
In 1939, infant mortality rates were extremely high, but once age 65 the average American could expect to live another 13.4 years, or to age 78. Today, better health care and fewer infant deaths means overall life expectancy has gone up. But life expectancy after age 65 - a more accurate way to predict how long people are really living in retirement - hasn't changed nearly as much.
As of 2008, the average American who makes it to age 65 could expect to live 19.6 years. That's just 6 years longer than in 1939, and less than 2 years longer than in 1979 - and even that number overgeneralizes, because it ignores other factors that affect life expectancy, including gender, race, and income. A Social Security Administration study found income inequality plays a big role in life expectancy. For workers in the top half of the earnings distribution, average life expectancy is 86.5, but for those in the bottom half it's just 81 - a gap of more than 5 years that continues to grow.
http://www.eoionline.org/blog/...
No. Only entitled, whiny, bitchy white males like you are out of luck.
Please elaborate. I have ability to unlock the bootloader on my Nexus 5x and install another ROM if I so choose. Short of that I can also root my existing ROM without needing an exploit and modify the stock system.
who have no interest in the technical side of things to pick up careers in IT because they can pay well in a short time.
This sounds a bit like the glut of MCSE holders that hit the labor market in the late 1990s.
Yes, it was the Verizon variant. It initially shipped with an unlocked bootloader, but an early update locked it for good. When I got mine it was already locked.
It was especially annoying to me because not only had I run custom ROMs, I had made my own ROMs with every one of my previous smartphones going back to my T-Mobile Wing running Windows Mobile 6.1.
It was half a phone to me.
You must not have the Verizon version then. See my reply above.
Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific. There are a few variants of the S4. I'm taking about the Verizon version. It originally shipped with an unlocked bootloader when it first came out. Samsung then updated it with a locked bootloader and it has never been cracked. By the time I got mine it had already been patched with the locked bootloader.
Samsung locks their bootloaders. In three years of ownership, I was never able to flash a custom ROM on my Galaxy S4, as no one was ever able to crack the bootloader. I just checked on the xda forums. Still not cracked to this day.
So, to answer your question, it's very hard.