It isnâ(TM)t distributed the same way the eye vs a screen. We have a small area of highly dense vision then lower resolution around the edges. Also the color range differs as well. For a laser VR display that 576 megapixel that highlights every cone and rod. But for a display that normally takes up at best 25% of your field of vision past high focal regions the inverse square rules takes place and drops really fast.
It's quite bad - we have about a megapixel in a very tiny central part of the vision - basically we can only see really sharply what we directly look at. Everywhere else is about 1 Mpixel distributed. You can actually do neat tricks like like up two people about 5m apart, then stand in front of one of them about 5m away. If you look directly at the person in front of you, the other person is a complete blur - you will not be able to resolve details about that person - even gross details like gender are completely ambiguous.
The only reason our vision seems sharp is millions of years of wetware evolution have made the wetware extremely powerful - if you aren't looking directly at something, your eye moves about rapidly getting high resolution images of a larger area (sort of like taking a big panorama).
Of course, it's why we're also prone to optical illusions - software cannot completely make up for hardware deficiencies
If you lose the physical key, you will still be able to recover your account via SMS.
Have we not learned? a phone number is not something you have. NIST discovered this a few years ago and updated their guidelines - no SMS, phone call, or other thing can be valid for identification at all.
Hell, this existed even before cellphones were popular - phone phreaking was a thing and it was possible to reprogram a switch to temporarily redirect a phone call to another phone. Many used it to bypass "phone verification" systems that banks and such implemented where they would call you back at your home or something. And this was done in the late 80s.\
2FA is only as strong as the weakest mechanism. The fact you can "recover" by SMS means it doesn't matter how strong your 2FA mechanism is, you're bound by the weakest link, in this case, SMS. (Think about it - why have the most secure key in the world, if anyone else can claim to "lose" it and thus revert to SMS?()
Oh, and often I hear people mocking the USA on its high prison population. Well, the tendency for the USA to put criminals in prison, and keep them there for a while, might be why such incidents are rare. Think about that.
Except they aren't. The US murder rate is amongst the highest in the world (as is the suicide rate), especially in the big cities. Compare it with other western nations, even Canada (who is probably the closest culturally to the US) and obviously something is wrong.
The prison population is large because most offenders in there are nonviolent ones, tossed in jail because of war on drugs and the like, coupled with a for-profit prison system ensuring that the more you house, the closer the CEO gets to this next new yacht/plane/mansion/etc.
There are places where the rate is lower. Some are authoritarian like Singapore, where dealing drugs is an instant death penalty (and if you're cynical, so is speaking out against government or "disrupting law and order').
I'd be much more impressed if these companies/states just did it without having to press-release it all.
And even after they did it, why brag about? We will all just notice how much cooler our globe is and move on.
Because of idiots like Greenpeace and the like who believe you need to press release about it, or they believe otherwise. Their "green" rankings of companies is based on publicly available information on how green they are. So if you're a company that runs completely on renewables, has a zero carbon footprint and all that, but you never publicize it, Greenpeace and their ilk will categorize you among the biggest polluters. But put tons of PR about it and you'll go from planet destroyer to planet savior.
The other part is, I think to spite the current government just because.
These are places were your food is grown. Despite looking like a painting from the 1800's With fields of produce, and livestock. Modern farms are actually often more High Tech then most Silicon Valley offices. With Robots, Self Driving Vehicles, Big Data analytics, real time market access.... Much of this all done over the farmers phone, when he is taking a 5 minute break from shoving crap. Affordable High Speed Internet is key for rural areas.
Not to mention agriculture is a HUGE use of drone surveillance - often to measure irrigation, weeds, and other properties, as well as satellite imagery.
These rural places also mostly support this kind of laissez faire approach to regulation. Which means they are either getting what they want or what they deserve. Either they'll like the results, in which case neither they or us have anything to complain about, or if they don't maybe they'll decide there is some value to good regulation
Except when receiving tons of farm subsidies. You want to know why Trump is harping on Canadian dairy? It's because in the US and Europe, dairy prices have crashed. They are making so much of it that if it wasn't for farm subsidies, they'd be out of business because the price is lower than the price of production.
Thus they see the higher prices for dairy in Canada as a savior, but then again, it'll likely collapse the prices and more farmers are out of business.
This is a civil court, all they need show is that it was likely you, which is much lower than the "beyond reasonable doubt" threshold used in criminal courts.
Yeah, they need to show it's you. But if could be your friend, too.
You see, an IPv4 address only identifies a connection. The person could've been wired to the router, or wireless. The person could live at the house, or be a transient.
What's likely going to happen is a mass rollout of IPv6, where only the prefix now identifies the connection and you can start monitoring individual IP addresses (all of which point to a device), so you can narrow down to which device downloaded the file, and from there figure out the likely person.
I'm a professional pilot. If we want autonomous flight, we really need to be looking at the way we manage airspace and control air traffic. In principle it's been done much the same way since the 1960s. ATC uses radar or their eyeballs in the tower to see aircraft, then they give aircraft voice instructions on radio. How do you talk to a drone? The drone people say that's easy, you just tell the drone operator what to do. But then you're back to having a human "pilot" in the loop and you have to pay this human drone operator a meaningful salary. To completely remove the human, you would have to revise the way we control air traffic, especially around our major airports. How much time and money are these startups investing in solving the ATC problem? It's the same problem autonomous vehicles have driving on old fashioned roads, only far more complex because the computer cannot simply stop and put on the warning lights.
ATC is slowly being modernized. Perhaps you've heard of NextGen, or even the most critical part of it, ADS-B? It's gotten to the point where there actually is worldwide adoption of ADS-B (though it's not the same - the US has terrestrial ADS-B, many countries are opting for space-based ADS-B. The US is different only because there is so much air traffic that any space-based system would be overwhelmed).
And right now, drones that need to interact have to be able to talk to ATC - granted it's just a transceiver link (the drone has to have a radio inside it that does VHF to ATC and uplinked to the control center), but drone based ADS-B is a thing. And aviation phraseology is very standardized - ATC trainers actually use voice recognition now for the simulated traffic.
But I can also imagine a day when ATC issues digital commands alongside voice commands. Some airspace is too congested and it can make understanding ATC hard because they have to speak fast and there's almost no time for repetition. So being able to digital obtain clearances and acknowledge them is probably coming soon.
Ahem, be careful when using example addresses. Like phone numbers, someone is bound to have it.
Not if you use something like @example.com which is reserved specifically for example emails. Or the phone number equivalent which is 555-XXXX. This prefix is guaranteed to not be handed out and is thus safe for use anywhere you need a phone number that cannot be dialed from a regular phone.
It's also area code independent, so even 1-800-555-1234 will not connect.
Likewise, if you see an example email without @example.com or a phone number without a 555 prefix, it's live. Breaking Bad and the like used real phone numbers to let fans call in and hear a message, for example.
I'm pretty sure that some aircraft maintenance work can count towards your A&P certificate.
I'm pretty sure all of it can. Because aviation is actually a highly standardized thing (being well, you fly all over the world so the rules generally have to be quite uniform throughout, and they are save a few countries).
This means if you're a pilot, you generally would have a CPL at the minimum (and probably have enough to upgrade to ATPL quickly). If you're a mechanic, you would have your A&P in order to already work on the planes (granted, you don't have to, but in general the military does recognize and award civilian ratings).
Remember, the military in the vast majority of countries is still the only way to enter the aviation field - only a handful of countries (namely North America and Europe) actually have a civilian training program (and pretty much US and Canada are the only countries with "free" skies where General Aviation isn't saddled with a ton of fees) This is a huge problem for countries like China who have a huge demand for pilots that cannot be met by their military and thus have to award scholarships to train overseas - usually in the US and Canada (Europe is strangled with fees for general aviation that make it harder for students to train).
If you're a veteran and want to fly, the GI Bill can pay for a good chunk of your flight training.
You know you can submit a correction by yourself to google to fix this issue. If no one ever reports it, it can't be magically fixed.
And as someone who does map corrections from time to time, Google can be very erratic. I can submit a correction, get a nice email saying it's been accepted, and the map still reflects the un-corrected view.
Note that these emails didn't say they were considering the change, but that the change was made.
One change took me a number of tries until it finally updated (I tried for a year and a half to fix the error, getting the "your change is approved" email every time) and everyone else was happy the change finally occurs.
And yet, other times, I submit one change and it's updated instantly right then and there. Go figure.
I admittedly skimmed it and missed that part. Still sounds stupid though, now you have to buy a second board to cover most of the use cases anyway? So now the cost is doubled at least (depending on how difficult/expensive the pass through headers are) and it isn't really an out of the box solution.
You don't need to buy a second board. There aren't that many HATs for the RPi - most people just connect their peripherals directly to the lines themselves.
And passthrough headers are trivially easy to come by - they're just regular headers that have longer pins so they pass through. Pain to solder but not hard. You can expect Adafruit and the like to have kits with the necessary passthrough headers included.
Actually, PalmOS and Symbian apps were open - there was no app store or anything. You downloaded the files and installed them on your phone.
Of course, it meant that every app had to implement some sort of demoware thing, and not everyone took a credit card so paying for your software was a PITA (especially if you were outside the US). And you often had the trouble of upgrades so you had to hunt down your registration codes again.
Yes, things are better now since everyone's pretty much has the ability to accept credit cards - either by opening a real merchant account, or by using something like Paypal. And that didn't stop some rather interesting DRM schemes from being implemented.
One of the most dangerous ones was a PalmOS app called Liberty that was a game boy emulator. If pirated it would destroy your data. Due to a bug, it inadvertently was a bit too aggressive and destroyed not only the data, but the device itself (erasing critical flash memory blocks). There was a fixed version after a couple of hours of getting discovered, but the author spent a few bucks having to replace devices.
Because of google we probably have fewer things memorized- but we are capable of doing so much more by googling an answer. Google enables our embetterment.
True. We have replaced the relatively worthless skill of memorizing facts and figures these days with the more advanced skill of searching and crafting searches to get what we want. This is in general an improvement - memorization is a basic skill, but being able to find information is a much more useful skill.
An example where we have grown dumber is the loss of basic arithmetic skills. enough so cashiers can't seem to calculate change without the register. If it comes out to $12.34 and you give them $15, then find another 34 cents after wards they stare at you and the $2.66 in change they were trying to count out, lost. Some try, and you get the occasional person breaking out the calculator to calculate it from the beginning.
Why is a cell phone modem still emulating a dial-up modem in 2018? (!) Shouldn't it behave like an Ethernet card or something? Do they still "officially" need to dial "#777" to get a data connection?
Because a data connection is still attached like a dialup connection.
Though to be completely correct, only voice calls and circuit-switched data connections traditionally use the "ATD" command. To establish a proper 3G+ connection takes another command to establish and tear down data contexts.
The whole command set has been extended so much a dialup modem is actually a simpler use case to handle. But it's a very handy set of commands and generally standardized, which is why it keeps getting used.
Once a data context is established, generally a PPP style connection appears on another virtual serial port and you send data through this virtual serial port.
The actual data link can be a real serial port, to USB (usually CDC-ACM, or a custom bulk endpoint style link), or more modern PCIe allowing DMA of data to buffers, or if they're onchip units like a Qualcomm chipset, mailbox passing. Of course, this lowlevel mechanism in the end is used to provide a high level serial port view.
Tribal casinos aren't trying to provide that. They are just taking advantage of gambling addicts, not people who are trying to get the Vegas Experience.
In fact, gamblingn at a tribal casino is a lose-lose proposition. At least in Vegas and other regulated placed, if you win, you generally have a good shot at keeping your winnings. To claim "machine malfunction" actually requires a malfunction.
Not so at a tribal casino who can deny you your winnings for any reason whatsoever, and because the regular court system does not apply, good luck trying to claim those winnings. (Use the tribal court? Generally won't even speak to you because you're not a member).
In other words, unless you cannot control your habit, tribal casinos are a lose-lose and you're any good, you'd be better off gonig to Vegas to do it and having a decent method of recourse. It's why tribal casinos aren't really raking it in anymore - they've scammed one too many people that people avoid them.
Oh, and while card counting is legal, getting ejected from a casino is also legal. Private property and all that.
No, it wasn't obvious. There's lots of empty theater seats. Every empty seat represents a lost opportunity to sell overpriced snacks, distributors pay theaters for showing trailers based on how many people see them, and theaters pay distributors a percentage of ticket revenues at the end of a run. We've been told for years that theaters don't make much from showing films, but instead profit mainly from selling food, so getting more asses in seats seemed like a feasible way for them to increase revenues. The only way moviepass doesn't make sense is if they are actually having to pay for tickets ahead of time, which itself doesn't make any sense.
Theater chains are now getting into the moviepass act themselves, essentially, so clearly they feel the concept has legs so long as it's run correctly.
Every empty seat is a lost opportunity to sell snacks, yes, but not everyone buys snacks. So it's a lost opportunity for a few dollars plus trailers and other ads. Let's say that cost is $X.
For a first run movie, an empty seat costs the theatre $0. But if it was occupied, then the theatre pays full ticket price to the studio and makes on average, $X.
So if the seat is empty, it costs the theatre nothing to the studio to play a movie to the seat, but the theatre loses out on the money they would've made.
Now let's say you offer a discounted ticket for a movie. The theatre still has to pay the full ticket price for the now-occupied seat, and they make the $X on concessions and stuff, plus whatever they made on the discounted ticket.Obviously if the combined amount is lower than the full ticket price, the theatre will prefer the seat empty as they won't lose money.
And you have to remember, with ticket prices at $12 or so, it takes a LOT of concessions to make that up. Even if the tickets were half price at $6, that still takes a lot of concessions - an individual might make the theatre more than $6, but then 9 other moviegoers don't stop at the concession stand so it's spread out to a measly 60 cents per seat.
The plans theaters put together are different - while MoviePass aimed at trying to give you unlimited movies, all the other measures were far more limited - AMC gives you 3 movies and costs twice as much a month.
And no doubt, they'll start "priming the pump" by adding features like a free small popcorn with every movie, triggering a soda sale at the very least, and probably sales of more popcorn if you went out with friends.(Expect to see the ability to combine those three tickets into a group of three tickets if seen during off peak times so you and two friends can see the same movie. And one free popcorn for you, to trigger a sale of soda and probably more ocncessions to your snack-less friends).
What are you basing this statement on? The same testing authorities that certify gambling machines also certify voting machines
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And they're both equally fair.
Actually, payout rates are heavily regulated. The loosest machines actually are gambling machines. The tightest machines generally are arcade machines.
Arcade machines? Yes, those "claw" machines, or "key master" machines or other machines "of skill" actually are gaming machines with payout rates. They will never let you win a prize if they aren't ready to pay out. Typically the operator sets the payour rate to be around 25-33% or so (i.e., the machine will take in 3-4x the cost of the product).
Claw machines do it by lowering the "claw" power - the claw will not grasp as hard so if you do "get lucky" the item will simply slip from the fingers. Keymaster type games will "lag" the control a bit (notably the up/down control) to intentionally skip over the winning count (the machine knows exactly how high the grabber is and it knows to simply run the motor a bit longer so you're always going to be "just a bit high" if it's not ready to payout. The other machines of skill again will simply do something - the "pile" style machine (the one with the LED back that you have to create a tower) again skips over the winning position by reacting a bit slow so even if you time it perfectly you will always miss.
They're really games of skill, only once the payout rate has been met.
Committing suicide is one thing, but in do it in such a manner that you take other innocent lives with you, is fucking horribly twisted. Almost makes me wish that a Hell really does exist.
Yet it happens - pilots crashing planes deliberately is another one that routinely shocks people. The recent Horizon Air "hijack" was notable in that it was only the guy on board - usually there are other innocent passengers just expecting to begin a nice vacation or looking forward to coming home to family and not be a part of a pilot's murder-suicide.
Germanwings and Silk Air among a few others. I can't imagine how much more damage happens - imagine being the accident investigator and coming to the conclusion that it happened not because of mechanical failure or pilot error, but a deliberate action.
An astonishing percentage of people will work far harder to keep their life the same than they will to leave their comfort zone to make things better. It's irrational, but that's humans for you. Jobs especially are "sticky", and people stay with them for years even when there are better alternatives, because of fear of change. And of course employers exploit that. It's why you can usually get a raise when you change jobs.
Think about the people at these sort of jobs - they have a mortgage they're barely paying, bills they've got to decide which ones to pay (rent or electricity?), mouths to feed, etc.
You have two options - you're barely making it as it is, but you're still treading water. Your work is steady and you know what to expect.
Or, you toss all that way for an unknown job that could pay better, but you don't know anything much about it. And there's a chance your boss could be a b*tch and making the move, while making more money, would make you even more miserable because you don't know if you're going to be fired the next day.
That's the real reason why there isn't job mobility - the grass isn't always greener, and you can find yourself under a real a**hole on a power trip. So you might make more money, or you can find yourself unemployed 3 months later.
People are in shitty jobs because at least the shitty job they have is stable and keeping them away from homelessness. These people don't generally have months of savings to weather storms It's why Basic Income is widely hated - because it gives these people power to actually choose - they can fall, but they won't fall far. There is no fear - if you give a shitty job I can always quit without worrying that I'll be on the street by the end of the week. It makes the purveyors of shitty jobs suddenly have to make their jobs less shitty because job mobility increases if they don't have to worry about mismatches and such.
People who are well off (like you and I) do have job mobility - if we don't like our new job, we can quit and live off savings while we find new jobs. Or have spouses able to provide in the meantime. It's not so dire a situation.
Can you point to a Trump policy that fostered that growth? If you want him taking the credit for it, show his work. All the rest of us see is any time he tries anything on money policy or trade, there are stories in the paper a few weeks later about the sector he touched tanking or offshoring. Like Carrier, Harley Davidson, GE, various appliance makers, Coors raising prices because of aluminum tariffs, soybean farmers, tourism down, auto manufacturers in the Carolinas having slumps because of China's reverse tariffs, etc.
So maybe the economy as a whole is shambling along on momemtum like an oil tanker whose engine cut out an hour ago and is still cruising at 15mph, but many sectors of the economy sure do sound like they're getting hit with enormous unnecessary pain as a result of someone's mouth...
Or how about Trump's rambling speech about "wildfires" and "higher wood costs coming from Canada" and all that? Lest it be forgotten, Trump put in a 20% tariff on softwood from Canada shortly after coming into power last year, so of course people are paying more for wood - he made it more expensive!
(American companies can supply about 75% of the domestic consumption, which is why Canada can still sell wood to the US despite the 20% tariff). And of course, if Canada has to sell 20% more expensive, aren't you going to raise your prices a bit to make extra profit?
I think part of the problem is Trump's upbringing. He's been speech trained, which is why you never see him use "ums" or "ahs" when he talks. (Compare and contrast to other world leaders - like Justin Trudeau or Obama and you'll see they pause, stutter and do "um, ah" a lot. Trump doesn't, because he was coached into not doing it). This is good if you want to seem eloquent as only commoners let their mouths run faster than their brains and have to pause with ums and ahs. Of course, the reality is, the speech training makes sure if you do run out of words, you end up repeating what you said.
So if you hear Trump say something like "This will make them very happy, they will be happy, and happy it will be" or some other non-content thing, that's the training kicking into action with Trump speaking instead of saying "ah, um, err". Likewise, when something fictional comes out, I can't help but think that's also something his speech training taught him or he grew into).
The only REALLY good news is that Trump generally doesn't follow up with his ramblings.
She's not suing CBP. That's pretty stupid since case law says she'd lose under all sorts of "protecting America" style laws.
She's filed a Rule 41(g) Motion instead, or "Motion to Return Property".
In other words, she's basically seeking to have CBP tu "return" all the data they collected from her phone - to not only destroy the images that were created, but any portions thereof, plus to have 3rd parties who many have accessed said image for any reason to again delete that data they may have collected.
Even more, she wants information on what happened to the data, including information on who it may have been provided to for what purposes and such (presumably also to verify that they too have destroyed/returned the data)/
If anything, it's probably a more unique case to go through the courts with and one where she may succeed - it wasn't necessarily wrong to collect the data, but now she's ordering its return and justification for keeping that data. And by "return", legally it means "full deletion" (remember the Waymo vs. Uber? Waymo wanted the "return" of the data which really meant the data was given back and destroyed).
As someone not in the current "mobile app" market, help me to understand.... For Apple apps specifically, is there any way to have apps available outside of Apple's store? I know that on Android, one can bypass the Google store. Is there NO other way to install an iPhone app for Apple?
If not, again being outside this world, I'd have to give VERY serious consideration to making my app "Android-only". Serious question here as any business model that relies on paying 30% of revenues for, essentially, nothing makes very little sense to me.
Well, the official way is the App Store. But there are two ways otherwise. One is via the Enterprise App Store, where you can develop apps for Enterprise users who can deploy to attached iPhones. You can't do this "unofficially" - Apple cracked down on unofficial app stores using this method to sell apps outside the app store by selling "membership" into the store.
The other way is to use the sideload mechanism. Apple allows you to distribute your app open-source for users to compile and deploy to their devices. This has resulted in a rather large set of "unapproved" apps being made available. Of course, this requires Xcode and is Mac only.
The last method exploits this and is mainly used by pirates - for $20 a year you can get software that will resign and load any IPA file onto your device. This method works on both Windows and Mac, but requires users to have the software.
As for whether it's worth it or not, it's really up to you. If you like managing user accounts, payments, support, locking down your website against hacks, etc., then you're right, it isn't worth it (though all those distractions probably cost you 30% anyways)
Credit card fees are only about 2%-2.5% for most small businesses. Larger corporations may be able to get below 2%. If you're paying above 3%, either you haven't bothered to get quotes from multiple processing companies, or your volume of credit card orders is extremely low.
I still think 2% is high for the minimal amount of work that's involved handling online payments. (Credit card companies have successfully shifted the cost of fraud onto merchants. And their exorbitant interest rates pay for delinquent cardholder payments. So the only thing the processing fee has to cover is the actual payment processing, and returns/disputes.) But it's nowhere near as obscene as the 15%-30% that Apple and Google take. eBay is around 10%. Amazon is around 15%, but they do a helluva lot more than Apple or Google, including warehousing your inventory and boxing and shipping it for you.
That said, if companies have a problem with the percentage, the proper response is to drop support for iOS. That's really the only thing that's going to make Apple change its policies. As long as companies continue to support iOS, there's no reason for Apple to lower its percentage take. It's like drug addicts complaining that to their dealer that his prices are too high.
Credit cards take anywhere from 2-3%, plus 30 cents per transaction. So a $1 item will cost $0.33 in transaction fees. Debit cards can be as low as 1%, but they generally take 50 cents per transaction (usually done 25 cents both ways - 25 cents sapped from the merchant, 25 cents from the user).
So for free apps and $1 apps, 30% cut doesn't actually cover costs. And we're talking those are the majority. (Unlike say music at 99 cents, where a user will likely buy several tracks at once, most apps are purchased singly)
And what do you get? Hosting, a payment API, software maintenance (maintaining a store with payment gateway and locking it down and protecting it against hacks takes continuous maintenance), a refund mechanism (did you know, refunds actually cost money? At the very least it's another 30 cents), customer support (want to spend an hour on the phone explaining how to click buy to a customer?). Whether it's worth it or not, a site like Shopify (which will do payment, hosting, and maintenance) already takes anywhere from 10-20% of the list price (plus anywhere from free to $500+ a year).
I'm still wondering who in the unholy hell would even *want* to broadcast what they spend money on...
Get with the times, we live in a braggart economy. If you aren't bragging on social media, you're nobody.
After all, most of the posts are "Check out my new XXXX" or "Look where we are on vacation" or these days "Back to school - check out my new outfits/computer/tablet/etc"
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It's quite bad - we have about a megapixel in a very tiny central part of the vision - basically we can only see really sharply what we directly look at. Everywhere else is about 1 Mpixel distributed. You can actually do neat tricks like like up two people about 5m apart, then stand in front of one of them about 5m away. If you look directly at the person in front of you, the other person is a complete blur - you will not be able to resolve details about that person - even gross details like gender are completely ambiguous.
The only reason our vision seems sharp is millions of years of wetware evolution have made the wetware extremely powerful - if you aren't looking directly at something, your eye moves about rapidly getting high resolution images of a larger area (sort of like taking a big panorama).
Of course, it's why we're also prone to optical illusions - software cannot completely make up for hardware deficiencies
Have we not learned? a phone number is not something you have. NIST discovered this a few years ago and updated their guidelines - no SMS, phone call, or other thing can be valid for identification at all.
Hell, this existed even before cellphones were popular - phone phreaking was a thing and it was possible to reprogram a switch to temporarily redirect a phone call to another phone. Many used it to bypass "phone verification" systems that banks and such implemented where they would call you back at your home or something. And this was done in the late 80s.\
2FA is only as strong as the weakest mechanism. The fact you can "recover" by SMS means it doesn't matter how strong your 2FA mechanism is, you're bound by the weakest link, in this case, SMS. (Think about it - why have the most secure key in the world, if anyone else can claim to "lose" it and thus revert to SMS?()
Except they aren't. The US murder rate is amongst the highest in the world (as is the suicide rate), especially in the big cities. Compare it with other western nations, even Canada (who is probably the closest culturally to the US) and obviously something is wrong.
The prison population is large because most offenders in there are nonviolent ones, tossed in jail because of war on drugs and the like, coupled with a for-profit prison system ensuring that the more you house, the closer the CEO gets to this next new yacht/plane/mansion/etc.
There are places where the rate is lower. Some are authoritarian like Singapore, where dealing drugs is an instant death penalty (and if you're cynical, so is speaking out against government or "disrupting law and order').
Because of idiots like Greenpeace and the like who believe you need to press release about it, or they believe otherwise. Their "green" rankings of companies is based on publicly available information on how green they are. So if you're a company that runs completely on renewables, has a zero carbon footprint and all that, but you never publicize it, Greenpeace and their ilk will categorize you among the biggest polluters. But put tons of PR about it and you'll go from planet destroyer to planet savior.
The other part is, I think to spite the current government just because.
Not to mention agriculture is a HUGE use of drone surveillance - often to measure irrigation, weeds, and other properties, as well as satellite imagery.
Except when receiving tons of farm subsidies. You want to know why Trump is harping on Canadian dairy? It's because in the US and Europe, dairy prices have crashed. They are making so much of it that if it wasn't for farm subsidies, they'd be out of business because the price is lower than the price of production.
Thus they see the higher prices for dairy in Canada as a savior, but then again, it'll likely collapse the prices and more farmers are out of business.
Yeah, they need to show it's you. But if could be your friend, too.
You see, an IPv4 address only identifies a connection. The person could've been wired to the router, or wireless. The person could live at the house, or be a transient.
What's likely going to happen is a mass rollout of IPv6, where only the prefix now identifies the connection and you can start monitoring individual IP addresses (all of which point to a device), so you can narrow down to which device downloaded the file, and from there figure out the likely person.
ATC is slowly being modernized. Perhaps you've heard of NextGen, or even the most critical part of it, ADS-B? It's gotten to the point where there actually is worldwide adoption of ADS-B (though it's not the same - the US has terrestrial ADS-B, many countries are opting for space-based ADS-B. The US is different only because there is so much air traffic that any space-based system would be overwhelmed).
And right now, drones that need to interact have to be able to talk to ATC - granted it's just a transceiver link (the drone has to have a radio inside it that does VHF to ATC and uplinked to the control center), but drone based ADS-B is a thing. And aviation phraseology is very standardized - ATC trainers actually use voice recognition now for the simulated traffic.
But I can also imagine a day when ATC issues digital commands alongside voice commands. Some airspace is too congested and it can make understanding ATC hard because they have to speak fast and there's almost no time for repetition. So being able to digital obtain clearances and acknowledge them is probably coming soon.
Not if you use something like @example.com which is reserved specifically for example emails. Or the phone number equivalent which is 555-XXXX. This prefix is guaranteed to not be handed out and is thus safe for use anywhere you need a phone number that cannot be dialed from a regular phone.
It's also area code independent, so even 1-800-555-1234 will not connect.
Likewise, if you see an example email without @example.com or a phone number without a 555 prefix, it's live. Breaking Bad and the like used real phone numbers to let fans call in and hear a message, for example.
I'm pretty sure all of it can. Because aviation is actually a highly standardized thing (being well, you fly all over the world so the rules generally have to be quite uniform throughout, and they are save a few countries).
This means if you're a pilot, you generally would have a CPL at the minimum (and probably have enough to upgrade to ATPL quickly). If you're a mechanic, you would have your A&P in order to already work on the planes (granted, you don't have to, but in general the military does recognize and award civilian ratings).
Remember, the military in the vast majority of countries is still the only way to enter the aviation field - only a handful of countries (namely North America and Europe) actually have a civilian training program (and pretty much US and Canada are the only countries with "free" skies where General Aviation isn't saddled with a ton of fees) This is a huge problem for countries like China who have a huge demand for pilots that cannot be met by their military and thus have to award scholarships to train overseas - usually in the US and Canada (Europe is strangled with fees for general aviation that make it harder for students to train).
If you're a veteran and want to fly, the GI Bill can pay for a good chunk of your flight training.
And as someone who does map corrections from time to time, Google can be very erratic. I can submit a correction, get a nice email saying it's been accepted, and the map still reflects the un-corrected view.
Note that these emails didn't say they were considering the change, but that the change was made.
One change took me a number of tries until it finally updated (I tried for a year and a half to fix the error, getting the "your change is approved" email every time) and everyone else was happy the change finally occurs.
And yet, other times, I submit one change and it's updated instantly right then and there. Go figure.
You don't need to buy a second board. There aren't that many HATs for the RPi - most people just connect their peripherals directly to the lines themselves.
And passthrough headers are trivially easy to come by - they're just regular headers that have longer pins so they pass through. Pain to solder but not hard. You can expect Adafruit and the like to have kits with the necessary passthrough headers included.
Actually, PalmOS and Symbian apps were open - there was no app store or anything. You downloaded the files and installed them on your phone.
Of course, it meant that every app had to implement some sort of demoware thing, and not everyone took a credit card so paying for your software was a PITA (especially if you were outside the US). And you often had the trouble of upgrades so you had to hunt down your registration codes again.
Yes, things are better now since everyone's pretty much has the ability to accept credit cards - either by opening a real merchant account, or by using something like Paypal. And that didn't stop some rather interesting DRM schemes from being implemented.
One of the most dangerous ones was a PalmOS app called Liberty that was a game boy emulator. If pirated it would destroy your data. Due to a bug, it inadvertently was a bit too aggressive and destroyed not only the data, but the device itself (erasing critical flash memory blocks). There was a fixed version after a couple of hours of getting discovered, but the author spent a few bucks having to replace devices.
True. We have replaced the relatively worthless skill of memorizing facts and figures these days with the more advanced skill of searching and crafting searches to get what we want. This is in general an improvement - memorization is a basic skill, but being able to find information is a much more useful skill.
An example where we have grown dumber is the loss of basic arithmetic skills. enough so cashiers can't seem to calculate change without the register. If it comes out to $12.34 and you give them $15, then find another 34 cents after wards they stare at you and the $2.66 in change they were trying to count out, lost. Some try, and you get the occasional person breaking out the calculator to calculate it from the beginning.
Because a data connection is still attached like a dialup connection.
Though to be completely correct, only voice calls and circuit-switched data connections traditionally use the "ATD" command. To establish a proper 3G+ connection takes another command to establish and tear down data contexts.
The whole command set has been extended so much a dialup modem is actually a simpler use case to handle. But it's a very handy set of commands and generally standardized, which is why it keeps getting used.
Once a data context is established, generally a PPP style connection appears on another virtual serial port and you send data through this virtual serial port.
The actual data link can be a real serial port, to USB (usually CDC-ACM, or a custom bulk endpoint style link), or more modern PCIe allowing DMA of data to buffers, or if they're onchip units like a Qualcomm chipset, mailbox passing. Of course, this lowlevel mechanism in the end is used to provide a high level serial port view.
In fact, gamblingn at a tribal casino is a lose-lose proposition. At least in Vegas and other regulated placed, if you win, you generally have a good shot at keeping your winnings. To claim "machine malfunction" actually requires a malfunction.
Not so at a tribal casino who can deny you your winnings for any reason whatsoever, and because the regular court system does not apply, good luck trying to claim those winnings. (Use the tribal court? Generally won't even speak to you because you're not a member).
In other words, unless you cannot control your habit, tribal casinos are a lose-lose and you're any good, you'd be better off gonig to Vegas to do it and having a decent method of recourse. It's why tribal casinos aren't really raking it in anymore - they've scammed one too many people that people avoid them.
Oh, and while card counting is legal, getting ejected from a casino is also legal. Private property and all that.
Every empty seat is a lost opportunity to sell snacks, yes, but not everyone buys snacks. So it's a lost opportunity for a few dollars plus trailers and other ads. Let's say that cost is $X.
For a first run movie, an empty seat costs the theatre $0. But if it was occupied, then the theatre pays full ticket price to the studio and makes on average, $X.
So if the seat is empty, it costs the theatre nothing to the studio to play a movie to the seat, but the theatre loses out on the money they would've made.
Now let's say you offer a discounted ticket for a movie. The theatre still has to pay the full ticket price for the now-occupied seat, and they make the $X on concessions and stuff, plus whatever they made on the discounted ticket.Obviously if the combined amount is lower than the full ticket price, the theatre will prefer the seat empty as they won't lose money.
And you have to remember, with ticket prices at $12 or so, it takes a LOT of concessions to make that up. Even if the tickets were half price at $6, that still takes a lot of concessions - an individual might make the theatre more than $6, but then 9 other moviegoers don't stop at the concession stand so it's spread out to a measly 60 cents per seat.
The plans theaters put together are different - while MoviePass aimed at trying to give you unlimited movies, all the other measures were far more limited - AMC gives you 3 movies and costs twice as much a month.
And no doubt, they'll start "priming the pump" by adding features like a free small popcorn with every movie, triggering a soda sale at the very least, and probably sales of more popcorn if you went out with friends.(Expect to see the ability to combine those three tickets into a group of three tickets if seen during off peak times so you and two friends can see the same movie. And one free popcorn for you, to trigger a sale of soda and probably more ocncessions to your snack-less friends).
Actually, payout rates are heavily regulated. The loosest machines actually are gambling machines. The tightest machines generally are arcade machines.
Arcade machines? Yes, those "claw" machines, or "key master" machines or other machines "of skill" actually are gaming machines with payout rates. They will never let you win a prize if they aren't ready to pay out. Typically the operator sets the payour rate to be around 25-33% or so (i.e., the machine will take in 3-4x the cost of the product).
Claw machines do it by lowering the "claw" power - the claw will not grasp as hard so if you do "get lucky" the item will simply slip from the fingers. Keymaster type games will "lag" the control a bit (notably the up/down control) to intentionally skip over the winning count (the machine knows exactly how high the grabber is and it knows to simply run the motor a bit longer so you're always going to be "just a bit high" if it's not ready to payout. The other machines of skill again will simply do something - the "pile" style machine (the one with the LED back that you have to create a tower) again skips over the winning position by reacting a bit slow so even if you time it perfectly you will always miss.
They're really games of skill, only once the payout rate has been met.
Yet it happens - pilots crashing planes deliberately is another one that routinely shocks people. The recent Horizon Air "hijack" was notable in that it was only the guy on board - usually there are other innocent passengers just expecting to begin a nice vacation or looking forward to coming home to family and not be a part of a pilot's murder-suicide.
Germanwings and Silk Air among a few others. I can't imagine how much more damage happens - imagine being the accident investigator and coming to the conclusion that it happened not because of mechanical failure or pilot error, but a deliberate action.
Think about the people at these sort of jobs - they have a mortgage they're barely paying, bills they've got to decide which ones to pay (rent or electricity?), mouths to feed, etc.
You have two options - you're barely making it as it is, but you're still treading water. Your work is steady and you know what to expect.
Or, you toss all that way for an unknown job that could pay better, but you don't know anything much about it. And there's a chance your boss could be a b*tch and making the move, while making more money, would make you even more miserable because you don't know if you're going to be fired the next day.
That's the real reason why there isn't job mobility - the grass isn't always greener, and you can find yourself under a real a**hole on a power trip. So you might make more money, or you can find yourself unemployed 3 months later.
People are in shitty jobs because at least the shitty job they have is stable and keeping them away from homelessness. These people don't generally have months of savings to weather storms It's why Basic Income is widely hated - because it gives these people power to actually choose - they can fall, but they won't fall far. There is no fear - if you give a shitty job I can always quit without worrying that I'll be on the street by the end of the week. It makes the purveyors of shitty jobs suddenly have to make their jobs less shitty because job mobility increases if they don't have to worry about mismatches and such.
People who are well off (like you and I) do have job mobility - if we don't like our new job, we can quit and live off savings while we find new jobs. Or have spouses able to provide in the meantime. It's not so dire a situation.
Or how about Trump's rambling speech about "wildfires" and "higher wood costs coming from Canada" and all that? Lest it be forgotten, Trump put in a 20% tariff on softwood from Canada shortly after coming into power last year, so of course people are paying more for wood - he made it more expensive!
(American companies can supply about 75% of the domestic consumption, which is why Canada can still sell wood to the US despite the 20% tariff). And of course, if Canada has to sell 20% more expensive, aren't you going to raise your prices a bit to make extra profit?
I think part of the problem is Trump's upbringing. He's been speech trained, which is why you never see him use "ums" or "ahs" when he talks. (Compare and contrast to other world leaders - like Justin Trudeau or Obama and you'll see they pause, stutter and do "um, ah" a lot. Trump doesn't, because he was coached into not doing it). This is good if you want to seem eloquent as only commoners let their mouths run faster than their brains and have to pause with ums and ahs. Of course, the reality is, the speech training makes sure if you do run out of words, you end up repeating what you said.
So if you hear Trump say something like "This will make them very happy, they will be happy, and happy it will be" or some other non-content thing, that's the training kicking into action with Trump speaking instead of saying "ah, um, err". Likewise, when something fictional comes out, I can't help but think that's also something his speech training taught him or he grew into).
The only REALLY good news is that Trump generally doesn't follow up with his ramblings.
She's not suing CBP. That's pretty stupid since case law says she'd lose under all sorts of "protecting America" style laws.
She's filed a Rule 41(g) Motion instead, or "Motion to Return Property".
In other words, she's basically seeking to have CBP tu "return" all the data they collected from her phone - to not only destroy the images that were created, but any portions thereof, plus to have 3rd parties who many have accessed said image for any reason to again delete that data they may have collected.
Even more, she wants information on what happened to the data, including information on who it may have been provided to for what purposes and such (presumably also to verify that they too have destroyed/returned the data)/
If anything, it's probably a more unique case to go through the courts with and one where she may succeed - it wasn't necessarily wrong to collect the data, but now she's ordering its return and justification for keeping that data. And by "return", legally it means "full deletion" (remember the Waymo vs. Uber? Waymo wanted the "return" of the data which really meant the data was given back and destroyed).
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Except consuming so much CPU and RAM that buying an i9 with 32GB of RAM is sort of necessary to use Slack.
Which I never understood since Discord runs perfectly fine consuming next to no resources.
Of course, the IRC client consumes even less resources since it doesn't have to carry a full web browser with it, but hey.
I'm not sure what Slack is doing, reimplemented polling sockets or something?
Well, the official way is the App Store. But there are two ways otherwise. One is via the Enterprise App Store, where you can develop apps for Enterprise users who can deploy to attached iPhones. You can't do this "unofficially" - Apple cracked down on unofficial app stores using this method to sell apps outside the app store by selling "membership" into the store.
The other way is to use the sideload mechanism. Apple allows you to distribute your app open-source for users to compile and deploy to their devices. This has resulted in a rather large set of "unapproved" apps being made available. Of course, this requires Xcode and is Mac only.
The last method exploits this and is mainly used by pirates - for $20 a year you can get software that will resign and load any IPA file onto your device. This method works on both Windows and Mac, but requires users to have the software.
As for whether it's worth it or not, it's really up to you. If you like managing user accounts, payments, support, locking down your website against hacks, etc., then you're right, it isn't worth it (though all those distractions probably cost you 30% anyways)
Credit cards take anywhere from 2-3%, plus 30 cents per transaction. So a $1 item will cost $0.33 in transaction fees. Debit cards can be as low as 1%, but they generally take 50 cents per transaction (usually done 25 cents both ways - 25 cents sapped from the merchant, 25 cents from the user).
So for free apps and $1 apps, 30% cut doesn't actually cover costs. And we're talking those are the majority. (Unlike say music at 99 cents, where a user will likely buy several tracks at once, most apps are purchased singly)
And what do you get? Hosting, a payment API, software maintenance (maintaining a store with payment gateway and locking it down and protecting it against hacks takes continuous maintenance), a refund mechanism (did you know, refunds actually cost money? At the very least it's another 30 cents), customer support (want to spend an hour on the phone explaining how to click buy to a customer?). Whether it's worth it or not, a site like Shopify (which will do payment, hosting, and maintenance) already takes anywhere from 10-20% of the list price (plus anywhere from free to $500+ a year).
Get with the times, we live in a braggart economy. If you aren't bragging on social media, you're nobody.
After all, most of the posts are "Check out my new XXXX" or "Look where we are on vacation" or these days "Back to school - check out my new outfits/computer/tablet/etc"
Venmo is simply an extension of that.
It's a very vain world out there.