Seems odd to call them "gaming SSDs" when they sound like just really fast SSDs. I'm actually surprised they are marketing them that way - especially since they'd reach a wider market if the didn't just target gamers.
They're not even really fast SSDs.
550MB/s is the limit of SATA3. Something we've hit with SSDs from last year. Yes, we hit the limit of SATA3 just after SATA3 stuff started coming on the market.
It's why Apple went PCIe with their SSDs (hitting 750MB/sec easy) - the bottleneck is no longer with the SSD or controller, it's the SATA interface.
It's really more of a name thing since there's zero advantage going AMD SSD over going with anyone else. A Samsung 840 Evo already maxes SATA3 and comes in up to 1TB capacities. (Hint: when you see or hear 530+ MB/sec, that's the limit of SATA talking).
It's almost pointless to measure these days - the last metric left is IOPS and that's at the point of diminishing returns when you're getting 20K, 40K IOPS.
Now, if AMD really wanted to make a splash, they'd use PCIe and make sure you can boot off of it.
That's why Apple and Google have developed health APIs into the OS - because they see all these sensors and gadgets are all working in incompatible ways.
Basically the goal is to gather all the data into a central location, and then each fitness app can extract the parts they want and use it on their own website if desired.
Basically the APIs isolate the gathering and collecting of data from the dissemination and analysis - so you can use any pedometer for counting steps, any heart monitor for your heartbeat/pressure, etc., then you can use your Nike+ app to analyze your data gathered or any other app.
Of course, I can only image what GOogle is going to use that data for... perhaps if you don't walk enough all your ads are going to be for walking desks and treadmills? Or if you have too high blood pressure you'll get low-sodium food ads and admonishments when you go into a fast food joint? Or if you're just so unhealthy, perhaps Google can recommend insurance policies and even pre-fill in the application forms?
Or imagine the insurance guys... well, combine Google Glass' ability to monitor everyone (so they can see you walking into a fast food joint instead of a health joint), combine that with the health data that Google collects,...
A few years ago Google decided to "un-silo" everything by forcing everyone to use the same privacy policy. Perhaps it's time to have Google re-silo itself so there's no practical way for Google to integrate all this information together...
Well, apparently the license to everything is GPLv3, which could cause problems for those wanting to combine it with peripherals of other projects into one FPGA.
Or even if you decide you really want to make lots of them and make an ASIC out of it - how do you apply the GPLv3 to that since you can't really "rebuild" the ASIC...
Also, the tools they have are open-source too, under GPLv3. But since they're the toolchain, I don't think they include the output exemption, which would mean that not only is the processor hardware GPLv3, the software that it runs is also GPLv3. (GCC and the like have an output exemption that states the output of the compiler is NOT GPL)
- so every second line consists of pixels from previous frames, but those are still pixels that are not the same as the ones in the current frame, the output has all of the 1920x1080 pixels in it, it's not like 2 lines of pixels are just 1 line stretched vertically. Technically Sony should win this.
Practically I hate the 1080p standard. Whatever happened to 1920x1200? When I need another monitor for the office, I always look for these, they are harder to come by nowadays.
Well, it's really upscaling to 1080p. Remember, Sony is advertising heavily that 1080p on the PS4 is better than the 1080p output of the Xbone. (Which it technically is, even though practically speaking most people won't notice the difference). Yet, the Xbone is hammered constantly because it cannot do 1080p versus the PS4, which can.
Especially since the Xbox 360 could do 1080p since practically the beginning (it has a scaler chip).
So if Sony argues it doesn't matter, it really throws out all their marketing that 1080p matters and gives Microsoft ammunition that hey, the Xbone's graphics are just as good.
As for 1920x1200, well, 1920x1080 is 16x9 which was long ago decided as a compromise resolution between TV's 4x3 and cinema's 2x1 or 2.21 anamorphic - it's a compromise that for a given screen size, 16x9 gives the largest letterboxed image for movies (~2-2.21x1), and the largest pillarboxed image for TV (4x3).
And 1080p monitors are highly common because economies of scale mean the video input processors and LCDs are stupidly cheap (since the timings and all that are well standardized), while finding one that does 1920x1200 means using a higher end chip that might go in say, a 2560x1440 chip which costs more money and more R&D time to get it to 1920x1200 (which is not a standard timing so someone has to go and figure out how to drive the LCD properly).
That said, they're NOT that hard to find. I think even Dell put them up fairly cheap nowadays (about $300 or so).
Or heck, just get a consumer 4K monitor (3840x2160). DisplayPort works fine for 60Hz, and they're pricey now, but dropping fast (under $600 on sale for a Samsung).
... and change all of your passwords today. This is the best way to devalue the 'massive database'. Then sanitize your SQL queries!
Only if you're an idiot and used the same password on EVERYTHING.
Really - what likely happened is they breached some major sites, but those sites contained little of value. I mean, if you breach the New York Times database, what do you have? Just a bunch of emails and passwords of people who probably registered to read some article and which are completely worthless to anyone on the market. Oh yay, they can use my NYT password to compromise my some-blog.com account where I registered to post a comment.
Now, it does mean to change your important passwords though - eBay, Paypal, Amazon, your bank, Google, iTunes, etc., where there IS valuable information in it.
It's why all password guidelines are bullshit - I've had to deal with sites that force me to use "strong" passwords and change it monthly. Just to download some program because they offered it to me for free. Enforcing that really didn't benefit me (the account wasn't that valuable to me anyhow), and it was just a major annoyance.
Hell, break into my Facebook account so you can what... spam my 8 friends? Or my twitter where you can spam my 0 followers (I signed up for those things that required a twitter account, so all my tweets are of the form "blah blah blah you could buy X and win").
And legal battles across international borders means international lawyers, which means more and more money. I'm surprised they didn't also keep up the fight in Korea, though - assuming they had any fights going on there at all.
That's because Samsung lost. Yes, they lost on their home turf.
In fact, Samsung internationally hasn't been on the winning side - they've instead been stirring up shitstorms of controversy. Because what patents Samsung does assert are ones under FRAND, and it's lead to many a jurisdiction doing inquiries about asserting FRAND patents in this fashion, including the EU and Korea.
It's more a truce than anything - especially since both Apple and Samsung realize that they're really just wasting a lot of time. Samsung's the world's #1 manufacturer of smartphones by a long shot, and they're seeing a huge slowdown, and Apple's partnership with TSMC means Samsung's semiconductor division is hurting as well since Apple can multi-source the most important parts.
I'm sure the US side would be dropped fairly quickly if not for the fact that they're coming to an end as well - let it complete and then announce a truce as well.
Company relationships are complex. Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Google - you can bet that despite being competitors in areas, they have many, many cooperative agreements and even sales between them. Apple vs. Google is just a fanboy fight - Google and Apple compete far less and cooperate far more than you think. Even Samsung and Apple cooperate far more.
The truth is very messy, and not only is it never black and white, it's far more grey than you would believe. Anytime you see a real disagreement in the media it's almost always just a PR fight - behind the scenes they're still hugging and kissing each other.
It has been known for a long time now that this has *nothing* to do with nitrogen. Nitrogen is never the limiting factor for algae growth. Neither is potassium. So, you have one major fertilizer to guess - yes, it is phosphorus.
Phosphorus runoff is *the* reason for dead-zones and algae blooms. Stop phosphorus runoff, and you fix one of the major problems we have today that not only affects The Gulf, but many of the sweet water lakes too.
On a related note, you may notice that laundry detergent doesn't clean "as well" as it used to the past few years. It turns out there's a ban on phosphates in detergent. For the same reason - the phosphates encourage algae blooms and dead zones.
Especially since in a lot of places, the sewage runs straight out into the ocean without treatment.
In order to successfully perform these matches, Microsoft likely has one of the world's largest collection of child porn.
Actually, no.
They get a big list of file hashes from the National Center for Exploited Children or something, and it's implemented as part of the file scan. All that happens is they check file hashes and if it matches, then they do more in-depth analysis (is it an image file? etc).
Which begs the question on the general stupidity since hashes are so trivially easy to change and it's extremely easy to obfuscate (just zip it up with a password).
People are lazy. Even ones who really know that what they do isn't really appreciated by the general population and really ought to try to cover their tracks... and don't.
Tektronix is now owned by DANAHER corp. It is the same corp that bought Fluke and declared that nobody else can produce yellow DVMÃ(TM)s. Remember the DVMs Sparkfun was importing but were seized at the border? Same company.
You probably think Apple patented "rounded corners" too and think Apple owns the entire market.
The yellow-jacketed-DMMs are a Fluke TRADEMARK. They are a design that Fluke uses to make their designs distinct so people can recognize it as a Fluke.
Sparkfun imported crappy (unsafe) DMMs that violated the trademark and Fluke is right to enforce it. In fact, you can get cheap DMMs that have non-yellow jackets on them (I have one with a blue PVC jacket). Big mistake on their part, the manufacturer may very well be doing it to purposely confuse the issue (and they import it saying "hey, why not, it looks like a Fluke!").
And no, Apple doesn't own a patent on rounded corners. They own a design patent on a slate with rounded corners with a display consisting of a grid of icons (one row of which is static) that move left or right to expose more icons. Which was not duplicated by Android at all (since the "grid of icons" was the app launcher, separate from the home screen thus not violating the patent), but Samsung decided to model TouchWiz on it (enough so that the original Galaxy S was called "it looks like an iPhone!" by practically every reviewer, something not said about other Android phones on the market) including using very similar iconography.
Many things are trademarked as well because they represent very distinct elements of the brand. The sound of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, the layout of an Apple Store, the 4 squares that make the Windows logo, Tux the penguin, the Android robot, etc. I'm sure no one would appreciate if someone put Tux on their own OS that doesn't run Linux, or a smartphone OS that features the Android robot as people would think it ran Android.
But stuff like needing to take PE classes where 1 CLASS costs way more then buying a 2 YEAR gym membership is not needed.
Also why should have to take art history to work in IT?? art is nice to have but not at that cost.
For tech / IT we need more tech / trade schools.
Also the college time tables suck as well.
IT HAS trade schools. You know them - they're the ones that teach you Java and PHP and all that other stuff. You can learn Cisco, Juniper, Linux, etc in them as well.
That's not a university or college, though, that's a trade.
Just like you have electricians and electrical engineers, one does not replace the other, and both have skills the other doesn't (the EE cannot, for example, wire up a new circuit in a house).
A university or college is used to produce a well-rounded student - someone who can take a problem and decompose it to parts and then figure out a good way to implement them (in Java, or PHP, or Python, or whatever, it doesn't matter), to which they can hand off the solution to someone who knows it better.
PE in university and college? Inactivity, obesity and sedentary lifestyles are a big problem in the western world. Sure you could sign up for a gym membership, but you'd be hard pressed to get a structured environment out of it (most people drop out of a gym membership within a year), so being "forced" to take a PE class may very well be essential. And PE might as well develop the mind further, enhancing student development by seeing parallels between worlds (many serendipitous discoveries have occurred because a problem in one discipline had a solution in an unrelated field).
Art? Geez, humans are creative beings, and sometimes seeing creative output and learning to appreciate them can expand your mind. Heck, if you can't appreciate how people did things without technology in the past, how can you appreciate what technology can do now and in the future? I mean, Michelangelo creating David (a rather large statue in real life) took months to create slowly chipping away at it. And it's worthy of appreciation to see how dedication and hard work produced something so impressive.
Let's just say that people DO appreciate things that look nice. The bondi blue iMac? Geez, that's a rather whimsical thing in an era of beige boxes that were literally boxes. Yes, it can get in the way of practicality, but people generally appreciate form as well as function - they exist as one whole.
If you want to just learn the technical stuff - go right ahead, there are plenty of trade schools to do just that. But if you want to get the mots out of university or college, the soft skills to balance the hard technical stuff are what techies really need to concentrate on. Because really, when you think about it, we techies haven't evolved much social skills over say, general laborers on a construction site.
It must be wonderful to run a mom and pop operation where none of your customers, suppliers or anyone else has an international mail address. And it certainly won't work for any other country but the US, a canadian business that doesn't accept.ca mail? Don't think so. And if you're operating an ISP, university or whatever some of your users will be foreigners in real contact with the rest of the world. Neat that you can wave the WORKS4ME flag, it's still a problem for a lot of other people.
Most of the French character set is in ASCII I believe, including most European languages as well.
So as a Canadian, who really only speaks English, I really just filter for anything using a non-ASCII character set. The only time I receive emails in French are either bilingual ones or spam. Bilinguals I can't do much about (they're usually from government or Canadian companies). French-only though is a red flag as it's spam or a phish since there's no reason to be sending me French emails.
Of course, no, it's not a universal solution - there are plenty of Canadian companies that have to deal with Chinese companies and such. But for me, that's a pretty damn good way that works for most individuals in Canada.
It's just like the other TLDs in the system. I mean, if you're getting emails from.biz, for an individual, most likely that's spam as they've never dealt with any company with a.biz TLD.
And to be fair, most Chinese companies are cheap and refuse to spend money on stuff (including workers). I've run into more than a few huge companies that use gmail as their primary email provider. (Think employee-company@gmail.com addresses, or company-employee@gmail.com).
When I read here on Slashdot about intelligent devices in homes, or this thing people have called garages, or home chargers for vehicles, or fiber to the home, it kind of makes me laugh because these aren't most people. These are the things that less than half of Americans even have a chance of using.
Which is why Tesla probably has the right idea, because they don't have a home charger. The home charger is a 240V plug that goes straight into the wall - none of this $2000 charger you have to install thing. (I believe it's really just like a dryer plug or something - I can't recall what the 220/240V 30/50A plugs are).
(I'm sorry, I want the equivalent of being able to tell Siri to do stuff without needing to look at the keyboard - how else am I going to text while driving\\\\\\\\ um, use the phone with limited vision
You say, "Siri, text Mom I'm going to be late" then "Siri, send".
If you're going to the Messages app and composing it there, you're doing it wrong.
One important factor why Singaporeans agree to give up their own privacy in exchange for "easy life" is the country just north of the Singapore Strait
And another country is the one South of Singapore
Those two countries are the epitome of corruption, cronyism, and racism, and of course, the Singaporean government takes full advantage of what happens up north and down south and warn its citizenry of the danger of turning Singapore into just like them
And they also point out the ills of the "western world" too - US-bashing is quite easy, and not stuff about Snowden or other crap. No, they just have to point out the stuff like drug use (Singapore - summary execution for drug smugglers), societal decay, ghettos, crime, gun violence, etc. (Gun violence - since guns are illegal, well, again, it's close to summary execution).
Basically they point to how Singapore is a paradise - low crime, lots of prosperity, social housing (because living on an island which is only 40x20km in size means land is a premium), little traffic (thanks to traffic congestion control ensuring buying cars is hard), good mass transit, healthcare, cleanliness, etc.
Of course, one also notes that media is censored, including the Internet (the Great Firewall of China is NOTHING compared to the fact that practically every Asian country is doing their own filtering. China's just happens to be the most well known).
What's more important there is that without this DMCA exception, you can't legally "jailbreak" your phone, install your own operating system or some "custom ROMs". Without this exception, jailbreaking an iPhone to install Cydia is illegal; breaking into bootloader of some non-unlockable by default Android phone is illegal as well.
Jailbreaking an iPhone is actually legal. It was an exemption granted the last DMCA round.
Now, Apple doesn't want you to, mostly because the vast majority of jailbreakers use it to pirate, rather than any other "freedom" loving cause. I'm sure if saurik checked his logs, he can tell how many people install AppSync and the like simply by observing how many people add the "forbidden" sources (the ones that pop up a dialog telling you the repo is mostly for piracy).
You might be outside the US, but you literally cannot purchase a phone in the US without specifying which carrier you're going to bind that phone to, contractually. Not Samsung/HTC/LG/Motorola/Google, not Microsoft, not Nokia, not iPhone and not BlackBerry.
No, you can buy an iPhone from Apple and activated it on AT&T, T-Mo and a few others.
Buying a phone in the US without simlock is far from being impossible. It's just a bit harder - well, for some people the difference may be negligible, but then no regulation will help them...
It's not harder. iPhones are easy - you walk into an Apple store, and walk out with out. If you want, you can go to apple.com and buy one unlocked online. Or google.com if you want an Android phone.
Nothing hard about that - Apple makes it stupidly easy, especially if you need it RIGHT NOW since you can walk in and walk out 5 minutes later with an unlocked phone in hand.
Google, well, they can sling electrons around, but atoms is much harder (I've never had a good experience using Google Play to ship stuff).
The other unlocked phone retailers tend to generally be more expensive or more niche.
not like the past where it was ATT only and roaming was $20 a MEG!!!
That's cheap. That's $1/50K or so, or 2 cents a K.
In a LOT of places, roaming data is charged 5 cents a K if you're on a plan, 20 cents if you're not. If you ever wonder why people can run up $20K bills, well, that's why.
Anyhow, 7.1.2 jailbreak, I don't trust it. It's buy a Chinese firm wanting to sell pirated apps on iOS, and who knows what sorts of malware are on it (or if you can delete their virus-laden app store).
It is one of the biggest things about jailbreaks - don't, and your phone's actually quite secure against malware. Do, and it's completely open (well, you get app sandboxing, but who knows if the app in question can't spawn a root task).
Coders are too busy writing code and making changes to what they write to give time for accurate documentation to be written. The days of "read the code for documentation" are long gone when you have multiple layers of libraries and applications to go through to find what you're looking for. This kinda worked in the days when you could fit an entire Linux install on three floppies but now that you need a few GB there's no way a single human can keep track of it all. Documentation takes time to write and get right. In the age of using github as a distribution and code changes between today and tomorrow, the documentation is suddenly invalid before it's written. Even then, it requires a lot of stupid questions asked by the documentation staff to coders who think they have better things to do.
Maybe for FOSS, but given I now write commercial software, as "higher up" level guy, in the end, I write the documentation (I also talk with customers).
I do it voluntarily now, so much so that coding fell from 50% of my time to probably only 20% of my time, while most of the other time is interfacing with customers, running around ensuring everyone has work and making sure everyone has all the necessary information, materials and other stuff to code.
Turns out that communication skills are the keys necessary to get ahead, and writing documentation and talking with customers are great training for that. Even if you don't want to go managerial track, just doing the "hard work" part gives you an edge.
I've written all sorts of documentation - from simple "how to take our release and run with it" guides to "here's how to properly set up your machine to build" guides. Usually because the guys would often do something that breaks something else requiring another half-dozen steps to fix, or a fundamental change is required in order to get stuff working, so I end up documenting everything I do in order to get it working for me.
Then I take that and try it on a clean machine to make sure it still works and is accurate, ending up with a customer document that guides from them zero to hero, and makes us (the company) look good because wow, instead of a random collection of tarballs, randomly scattered README files, and all that, there's one guide to help them navigate the mess and answer the question of "ok, now what?".
My weakest area would be API documentation, because it's not easy to write - you have to rely on the developer helping you out and while I can make it look pretty, ask all sorts of questions on edge cases and all that so a developer reading it won't say "well, this is a pointer, what happens if I feed it NULL? NULL is a reasonable input, and there's even a reasonable output for it (other than crashing)".
After all, it's easy to say "in - integer between 1 and 10" and not have an error output like "OUT_OF_RANGE_ERROR", raising the question of what happens when it is out of range. You could enforce sanity and check every time you call it, and miss the odd time internal code has a bug, or other stuff.
And no, when you're busy documenting, like I said, providing API examples starts eating into the free coding time I have left to verify that yes, it does as its told. (Some developers are terrible at providing examples and terrible at providing even a modicum of documentation - just enough of a hit that I can at least try to figure out what's going on and develop the rest of the documentation).
And then there's the developer that gives me a function, expects me to document it from the code, and when I do so, suddenly feel constrained because shit, I said it would always return ERROR_FOO when the state of BAR was BAZ. Because hey, you gave me the code, I'm assuming everything in it is going to be the spec, so don't blame me when I document the code as now "limiting" you because you couldn't lift a finger and say "By the way, an error is returned when Bar is in BAZ state, but I haven't figured out what the proper error code is".
Guess what, even if you are not using gmail, chances ae people that you communicate with regularly ARE using e-mail, therefore, some of your email still passes through google's servers.
Benjamin Mako Hill did an analysis of his inbox. He found Google has about HALF of this personal email - and he runs his own mail server and everything. See http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
Anyhow, the interesting thing is that Google has a bunch of file hashes, and they actually matched the image. I mean considering how easy it is to change the file hash, they seemed to just collect and send the same image over and over again?
You'd think by now they'd alter the images slightly to keep changing the file hash.
Out of curiosity, how do blind people use iOS or Android devices?
iOS has VoiceOver that actually works pretty damn well for using iOS. So much so that the blind actually prefer using an iPhone and an iPad for their purposes than Android (which still has fairly poor accessibility especially across devices).
Tommy Edison (Blind Film Critic) demonstrates how he uses the iPhone 4s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - composing a tweet, browsing YouTube, etc.
It is certainly unusual, but the blind have actually taken to devices like the iPhone and iPad.
The beacons use Bluetooth LE, last I checked, and the technology has been deployed already - I believe MLB has been outfitting the stadiums with them, as well as stores deploying them. The beacons are standalone - they do not do anything other than transmit an ID. It's a related app that is responsible for accessing the appropriate services to determine what the ID actually means. So it's not like the beacons could easily record your movements through the store. At least not without someone having to dump the data off them as they don't link up to a backend server - your phone is responsible for the lookup. Don't want it? Easiest way is to not get the app.
What did you expect? The old Sony is back - after taking a beating by both the Wii and Xbox360 last generation, they were humbled.
So they produced this piece of hardware called the PS4. They saw the Xbox One and how Microsoft fumbled it (again, Microsoft got greedy because they saw the success of the Xbox360). They see the PS4 outselling the Xbox One by miles and think they own it all.
The lessons were that no, the Xbox One isn't out - think of it as the PS3 of the last generation (the PS3 was a joke until a couple of years in and a few price drops later). In fact, the Xbox One sales are probably like the PS3 was back then. Both can end up quite successful (the PS3 was quite a good system in the end).
Even better, we NEED both. If anything, to keep both Microsoft AND Sony honest. And they are - features announced on one are added to the other, so competition is keeping both in check.
Heck, PS+ and Xbox Live - the free games keep getting better because Microsoft started offering two games a month, then Sony, and so on. Blu-Ray 3D was next (Microsoft announced it for the August update, PS4 got it the week after that). Media playback is probably coming next.
There's no doubt, though, both consoles are INCREDIBLY immature at launch - they both needed a year - even now both are way better than they were at launch.
When are people going to stop buying products that they feel the need to jailbreak instead of buying unlocked or open alternatives? Keep rewarding the bad behaviour that you don't like, and you'll just get more of the same, except locked down even better.
Because the open alternatives well, suck. I've tried Android, and while ICS and JB are nice, they're also way too busy and don't work the way I want them to. Yes, I'm a geek, I love all the billion options it gives me to control it, but damn, I just want to use my phone as a phone. I don't want or care about themes, dynamic backgrounds, wallpapers, etc.
Plus, I like the way iOS works. Android's got it's own UI, and I find I dislike it (it's gotten a lot better now, but the back button always throws me for a loop because I'm used to seeing back at the top left, while the back button is always at the bottom).
Then there's whole Google thing. Sorry, Google's business plan involves gathering as much user information as possible.
Finally - while iTunes sucks, there's a bunch of utility it provides, like backups. I can download IPA files on iTunes and install them on my iOS devices - even if the app gets banned or whatever, as long as I have a local copy, I can install it. Apple hasn't blocked any apps from running, nor have they force-removed apps. And iTunes backups DO work. Backing up on Android? Well, you have Ti Backup and other apps, but nothing by default. Hell, even iCloud backups work. Android backups for me just mean all my apps get reinstalled, but I lose all my data. Thanks, Google.
Then there's the whole penis^H^H^H^H^Hscreen size thing. I find this enlarging screen size trend disappointing - I want a decent screen, decent CPU, decent RAM, and that entails buying flagships which are growing faster than the American waistline. I mean sure, 441dpi is a bit too much for me (I don't use the phone to my nose), so the 325-ish DPI of the "retina" display is perfectly adequate. Plus, I want real RGB, not pentile crap, and proper color calibration (AMOLED is impressive, but the colors generally oversaturate and are inaccurate). Android is rapidly moving away from being useful to me as an alternative.
Sure if I wanted open I could use Linux, but Linux desktops are just plain old fugly to me. I develop on Linux, using Windows as a front end (X server for the odd X app, but otherwise a bunch of SSH windows and samba serving files for Gvim for Windows).
Again, it's all personal preferences, and I know lots of people don't work that way.
As for jailbreaking, well, the only must-have app I have on iOS is iP Firewall. It lets me control apps use of network - so I block ad servers and the like. (Yes, Android has the same functionality if you root).
Estimates have around 10% of iOS users jailbreak, and unfortunately, it seems the largest use of jailbreaks are... installing pirated apps.
If the graphics subsystem fails, or I have to go to single-user mode, I have nano.
Assuming you have ncurses set up properly.
Vi works even if all you have is a line-oriented TTY. Kind of disorienting to use (it's really a one-line high version of vi) because each time you move up or down, the previous line goes up. Works fine if you go down, but going up means your scroll buffer is filled with text in the wrong order.
Yes, I had to deal with a serial console on a machine where ncurses was not working.
The problem with online voting lies in other issues, like the lack of a paper trail for recounts, fraudulent logins, and the potential for wholesale fraud with software/malware manipulations.
Or how about one we ready about daily in the news? I.e., what if the voting system is breached?
We can't keep financial information safe, what's to say we can keep voting information safe?
Let's forget about manipulations for now - that's going to be way too easy and obvious. Let's consider the fact that hackers break into the site and download all the usernames and passwords, and even voting results and logs that show how everyone voted. (And let's not say it was intentional recording of votes, say logs obtained from the webserver or something else not completely obvious).
Now what? Are you comfortable with the idea that everyone knows how you voted? Or that prior to closing of voting, you could find out what the intermediate results were?
Let's concentrate on the general insecurity of the whole thing. Because we can't even protect PII or financial information, so what's to say we can protect voting information?
In fact, wasn't there a European country that scrapped plans for online voting when it wasn't fraud, but someone breaking in and getting all the data stored on the servers as the biggest risk of the entire thing?
What exactly is this automating? The whole point of cruise control is to not require your feet on the pedals.
My Volvo has distance sensing cruise control. It won't hold the lane for me but it doesn't turn off cruise when I take my hands off the wheel, either.
It's really more about how a modern car can actually "drive itself" in a limited way. It' snot a full autonomous car, but with what we have right now today, it's actually impressive.
Then again, I suspect he got the idea from a Hyundai commercial where a bunch of stunt drivers set up their vehicles and then exit them and having the cars drive around by themselves following a lead vehicle (still driven, of course).
God. Madagascar always locks their shit down fast. It was so hard killing off all the humans. I tried starting in Madagascar but they'd lock their shit down so fast I wasn't able to spread anywhere else. I only ever had one game where I killed all humans but I hit plenty where everyone except those bastards in Madagascar died.
The trick is you want to have high infectivity, low severity and low lethality. This way you're highly infectious but since you don't do anything, no one really bothers. Once you start climbing in severity and lethality, the humans notice.
then just wait until you've infected all humans, then recoup DNA points from infectivity (everyone's infected), and spend it on symptoms that are lethal. Because by then it's too late - once you start killing, it hits everyone and they can't research a cure fast enough before everyone is dead.
(It also shows how the game simulation doesn't reflect real life - because once you've infected everyone, if you switch to become lethal, everyone's disease gets lethal, which never happens. Usually you have to re-infect everyone with the new lethal strain. Then there's the entire population thing - assumes newborns will have the disease as well).
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They're not even really fast SSDs.
550MB/s is the limit of SATA3. Something we've hit with SSDs from last year. Yes, we hit the limit of SATA3 just after SATA3 stuff started coming on the market.
It's why Apple went PCIe with their SSDs (hitting 750MB/sec easy) - the bottleneck is no longer with the SSD or controller, it's the SATA interface.
It's really more of a name thing since there's zero advantage going AMD SSD over going with anyone else. A Samsung 840 Evo already maxes SATA3 and comes in up to 1TB capacities. (Hint: when you see or hear 530+ MB/sec, that's the limit of SATA talking).
It's almost pointless to measure these days - the last metric left is IOPS and that's at the point of diminishing returns when you're getting 20K, 40K IOPS.
Now, if AMD really wanted to make a splash, they'd use PCIe and make sure you can boot off of it.
That's why Apple and Google have developed health APIs into the OS - because they see all these sensors and gadgets are all working in incompatible ways.
Basically the goal is to gather all the data into a central location, and then each fitness app can extract the parts they want and use it on their own website if desired.
Basically the APIs isolate the gathering and collecting of data from the dissemination and analysis - so you can use any pedometer for counting steps, any heart monitor for your heartbeat/pressure, etc., then you can use your Nike+ app to analyze your data gathered or any other app.
Of course, I can only image what GOogle is going to use that data for... perhaps if you don't walk enough all your ads are going to be for walking desks and treadmills? Or if you have too high blood pressure you'll get low-sodium food ads and admonishments when you go into a fast food joint? Or if you're just so unhealthy, perhaps Google can recommend insurance policies and even pre-fill in the application forms?
Or imagine the insurance guys... well, combine Google Glass' ability to monitor everyone (so they can see you walking into a fast food joint instead of a health joint), combine that with the health data that Google collects, ...
A few years ago Google decided to "un-silo" everything by forcing everyone to use the same privacy policy. Perhaps it's time to have Google re-silo itself so there's no practical way for Google to integrate all this information together...
Well, apparently the license to everything is GPLv3, which could cause problems for those wanting to combine it with peripherals of other projects into one FPGA.
Or even if you decide you really want to make lots of them and make an ASIC out of it - how do you apply the GPLv3 to that since you can't really "rebuild" the ASIC...
Also, the tools they have are open-source too, under GPLv3. But since they're the toolchain, I don't think they include the output exemption, which would mean that not only is the processor hardware GPLv3, the software that it runs is also GPLv3. (GCC and the like have an output exemption that states the output of the compiler is NOT GPL)
Well, it's really upscaling to 1080p. Remember, Sony is advertising heavily that 1080p on the PS4 is better than the 1080p output of the Xbone. (Which it technically is, even though practically speaking most people won't notice the difference). Yet, the Xbone is hammered constantly because it cannot do 1080p versus the PS4, which can.
Especially since the Xbox 360 could do 1080p since practically the beginning (it has a scaler chip).
So if Sony argues it doesn't matter, it really throws out all their marketing that 1080p matters and gives Microsoft ammunition that hey, the Xbone's graphics are just as good.
As for 1920x1200, well, 1920x1080 is 16x9 which was long ago decided as a compromise resolution between TV's 4x3 and cinema's 2x1 or 2.21 anamorphic - it's a compromise that for a given screen size, 16x9 gives the largest letterboxed image for movies (~2-2.21x1), and the largest pillarboxed image for TV (4x3).
And 1080p monitors are highly common because economies of scale mean the video input processors and LCDs are stupidly cheap (since the timings and all that are well standardized), while finding one that does 1920x1200 means using a higher end chip that might go in say, a 2560x1440 chip which costs more money and more R&D time to get it to 1920x1200 (which is not a standard timing so someone has to go and figure out how to drive the LCD properly).
That said, they're NOT that hard to find. I think even Dell put them up fairly cheap nowadays (about $300 or so).
Or heck, just get a consumer 4K monitor (3840x2160). DisplayPort works fine for 60Hz, and they're pricey now, but dropping fast (under $600 on sale for a Samsung).
Only if you're an idiot and used the same password on EVERYTHING.
Really - what likely happened is they breached some major sites, but those sites contained little of value. I mean, if you breach the New York Times database, what do you have? Just a bunch of emails and passwords of people who probably registered to read some article and which are completely worthless to anyone on the market. Oh yay, they can use my NYT password to compromise my some-blog.com account where I registered to post a comment.
Now, it does mean to change your important passwords though - eBay, Paypal, Amazon, your bank, Google, iTunes, etc., where there IS valuable information in it.
It's why all password guidelines are bullshit - I've had to deal with sites that force me to use "strong" passwords and change it monthly. Just to download some program because they offered it to me for free. Enforcing that really didn't benefit me (the account wasn't that valuable to me anyhow), and it was just a major annoyance.
Hell, break into my Facebook account so you can what... spam my 8 friends? Or my twitter where you can spam my 0 followers (I signed up for those things that required a twitter account, so all my tweets are of the form "blah blah blah you could buy X and win").
That's because Samsung lost. Yes, they lost on their home turf.
In fact, Samsung internationally hasn't been on the winning side - they've instead been stirring up shitstorms of controversy. Because what patents Samsung does assert are ones under FRAND, and it's lead to many a jurisdiction doing inquiries about asserting FRAND patents in this fashion, including the EU and Korea.
It's more a truce than anything - especially since both Apple and Samsung realize that they're really just wasting a lot of time. Samsung's the world's #1 manufacturer of smartphones by a long shot, and they're seeing a huge slowdown, and Apple's partnership with TSMC means Samsung's semiconductor division is hurting as well since Apple can multi-source the most important parts.
I'm sure the US side would be dropped fairly quickly if not for the fact that they're coming to an end as well - let it complete and then announce a truce as well.
Company relationships are complex. Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Google - you can bet that despite being competitors in areas, they have many, many cooperative agreements and even sales between them. Apple vs. Google is just a fanboy fight - Google and Apple compete far less and cooperate far more than you think. Even Samsung and Apple cooperate far more.
The truth is very messy, and not only is it never black and white, it's far more grey than you would believe. Anytime you see a real disagreement in the media it's almost always just a PR fight - behind the scenes they're still hugging and kissing each other.
On a related note, you may notice that laundry detergent doesn't clean "as well" as it used to the past few years. It turns out there's a ban on phosphates in detergent. For the same reason - the phosphates encourage algae blooms and dead zones.
Especially since in a lot of places, the sewage runs straight out into the ocean without treatment.
Actually, no.
They get a big list of file hashes from the National Center for Exploited Children or something, and it's implemented as part of the file scan. All that happens is they check file hashes and if it matches, then they do more in-depth analysis (is it an image file? etc).
Which begs the question on the general stupidity since hashes are so trivially easy to change and it's extremely easy to obfuscate (just zip it up with a password).
People are lazy. Even ones who really know that what they do isn't really appreciated by the general population and really ought to try to cover their tracks... and don't.
You probably think Apple patented "rounded corners" too and think Apple owns the entire market.
The yellow-jacketed-DMMs are a Fluke TRADEMARK. They are a design that Fluke uses to make their designs distinct so people can recognize it as a Fluke.
Sparkfun imported crappy (unsafe) DMMs that violated the trademark and Fluke is right to enforce it. In fact, you can get cheap DMMs that have non-yellow jackets on them (I have one with a blue PVC jacket). Big mistake on their part, the manufacturer may very well be doing it to purposely confuse the issue (and they import it saying "hey, why not, it looks like a Fluke!").
And no, Apple doesn't own a patent on rounded corners. They own a design patent on a slate with rounded corners with a display consisting of a grid of icons (one row of which is static) that move left or right to expose more icons. Which was not duplicated by Android at all (since the "grid of icons" was the app launcher, separate from the home screen thus not violating the patent), but Samsung decided to model TouchWiz on it (enough so that the original Galaxy S was called "it looks like an iPhone!" by practically every reviewer, something not said about other Android phones on the market) including using very similar iconography.
Many things are trademarked as well because they represent very distinct elements of the brand. The sound of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, the layout of an Apple Store, the 4 squares that make the Windows logo, Tux the penguin, the Android robot, etc. I'm sure no one would appreciate if someone put Tux on their own OS that doesn't run Linux, or a smartphone OS that features the Android robot as people would think it ran Android.
IT HAS trade schools. You know them - they're the ones that teach you Java and PHP and all that other stuff. You can learn Cisco, Juniper, Linux, etc in them as well.
That's not a university or college, though, that's a trade.
Just like you have electricians and electrical engineers, one does not replace the other, and both have skills the other doesn't (the EE cannot, for example, wire up a new circuit in a house).
A university or college is used to produce a well-rounded student - someone who can take a problem and decompose it to parts and then figure out a good way to implement them (in Java, or PHP, or Python, or whatever, it doesn't matter), to which they can hand off the solution to someone who knows it better.
PE in university and college? Inactivity, obesity and sedentary lifestyles are a big problem in the western world. Sure you could sign up for a gym membership, but you'd be hard pressed to get a structured environment out of it (most people drop out of a gym membership within a year), so being "forced" to take a PE class may very well be essential. And PE might as well develop the mind further, enhancing student development by seeing parallels between worlds (many serendipitous discoveries have occurred because a problem in one discipline had a solution in an unrelated field).
Art? Geez, humans are creative beings, and sometimes seeing creative output and learning to appreciate them can expand your mind. Heck, if you can't appreciate how people did things without technology in the past, how can you appreciate what technology can do now and in the future? I mean, Michelangelo creating David (a rather large statue in real life) took months to create slowly chipping away at it. And it's worthy of appreciation to see how dedication and hard work produced something so impressive.
Let's just say that people DO appreciate things that look nice. The bondi blue iMac? Geez, that's a rather whimsical thing in an era of beige boxes that were literally boxes. Yes, it can get in the way of practicality, but people generally appreciate form as well as function - they exist as one whole.
If you want to just learn the technical stuff - go right ahead, there are plenty of trade schools to do just that. But if you want to get the mots out of university or college, the soft skills to balance the hard technical stuff are what techies really need to concentrate on. Because really, when you think about it, we techies haven't evolved much social skills over say, general laborers on a construction site.
Most of the French character set is in ASCII I believe, including most European languages as well.
So as a Canadian, who really only speaks English, I really just filter for anything using a non-ASCII character set. The only time I receive emails in French are either bilingual ones or spam. Bilinguals I can't do much about (they're usually from government or Canadian companies). French-only though is a red flag as it's spam or a phish since there's no reason to be sending me French emails.
Of course, no, it's not a universal solution - there are plenty of Canadian companies that have to deal with Chinese companies and such. But for me, that's a pretty damn good way that works for most individuals in Canada.
It's just like the other TLDs in the system. I mean, if you're getting emails from .biz, for an individual, most likely that's spam as they've never dealt with any company with a .biz TLD.
And to be fair, most Chinese companies are cheap and refuse to spend money on stuff (including workers). I've run into more than a few huge companies that use gmail as their primary email provider. (Think employee-company@gmail.com addresses, or company-employee@gmail.com).
Which is why Tesla probably has the right idea, because they don't have a home charger. The home charger is a 240V plug that goes straight into the wall - none of this $2000 charger you have to install thing. (I believe it's really just like a dryer plug or something - I can't recall what the 220/240V 30/50A plugs are).
You say, "Siri, text Mom I'm going to be late" then "Siri, send".
If you're going to the Messages app and composing it there, you're doing it wrong.
And they also point out the ills of the "western world" too - US-bashing is quite easy, and not stuff about Snowden or other crap. No, they just have to point out the stuff like drug use (Singapore - summary execution for drug smugglers), societal decay, ghettos, crime, gun violence, etc. (Gun violence - since guns are illegal, well, again, it's close to summary execution).
Basically they point to how Singapore is a paradise - low crime, lots of prosperity, social housing (because living on an island which is only 40x20km in size means land is a premium), little traffic (thanks to traffic congestion control ensuring buying cars is hard), good mass transit, healthcare, cleanliness, etc.
Of course, one also notes that media is censored, including the Internet (the Great Firewall of China is NOTHING compared to the fact that practically every Asian country is doing their own filtering. China's just happens to be the most well known).
Jailbreaking an iPhone is actually legal. It was an exemption granted the last DMCA round.
Now, Apple doesn't want you to, mostly because the vast majority of jailbreakers use it to pirate, rather than any other "freedom" loving cause. I'm sure if saurik checked his logs, he can tell how many people install AppSync and the like simply by observing how many people add the "forbidden" sources (the ones that pop up a dialog telling you the repo is mostly for piracy).
No, you can buy an iPhone from Apple and activated it on AT&T, T-Mo and a few others.
http://store.apple.com/us/ipho...
It's not harder. iPhones are easy - you walk into an Apple store, and walk out with out. If you want, you can go to apple.com and buy one unlocked online. Or google.com if you want an Android phone.
Nothing hard about that - Apple makes it stupidly easy, especially if you need it RIGHT NOW since you can walk in and walk out 5 minutes later with an unlocked phone in hand.
Google, well, they can sling electrons around, but atoms is much harder (I've never had a good experience using Google Play to ship stuff).
The other unlocked phone retailers tend to generally be more expensive or more niche.
That's cheap. That's $1/50K or so, or 2 cents a K.
In a LOT of places, roaming data is charged 5 cents a K if you're on a plan, 20 cents if you're not. If you ever wonder why people can run up $20K bills, well, that's why.
Anyhow, 7.1.2 jailbreak, I don't trust it. It's buy a Chinese firm wanting to sell pirated apps on iOS, and who knows what sorts of malware are on it (or if you can delete their virus-laden app store).
It is one of the biggest things about jailbreaks - don't, and your phone's actually quite secure against malware. Do, and it's completely open (well, you get app sandboxing, but who knows if the app in question can't spawn a root task).
Maybe for FOSS, but given I now write commercial software, as "higher up" level guy, in the end, I write the documentation (I also talk with customers).
I do it voluntarily now, so much so that coding fell from 50% of my time to probably only 20% of my time, while most of the other time is interfacing with customers, running around ensuring everyone has work and making sure everyone has all the necessary information, materials and other stuff to code.
Turns out that communication skills are the keys necessary to get ahead, and writing documentation and talking with customers are great training for that. Even if you don't want to go managerial track, just doing the "hard work" part gives you an edge.
I've written all sorts of documentation - from simple "how to take our release and run with it" guides to "here's how to properly set up your machine to build" guides. Usually because the guys would often do something that breaks something else requiring another half-dozen steps to fix, or a fundamental change is required in order to get stuff working, so I end up documenting everything I do in order to get it working for me.
Then I take that and try it on a clean machine to make sure it still works and is accurate, ending up with a customer document that guides from them zero to hero, and makes us (the company) look good because wow, instead of a random collection of tarballs, randomly scattered README files, and all that, there's one guide to help them navigate the mess and answer the question of "ok, now what?".
My weakest area would be API documentation, because it's not easy to write - you have to rely on the developer helping you out and while I can make it look pretty, ask all sorts of questions on edge cases and all that so a developer reading it won't say "well, this is a pointer, what happens if I feed it NULL? NULL is a reasonable input, and there's even a reasonable output for it (other than crashing)".
After all, it's easy to say "in - integer between 1 and 10" and not have an error output like "OUT_OF_RANGE_ERROR", raising the question of what happens when it is out of range. You could enforce sanity and check every time you call it, and miss the odd time internal code has a bug, or other stuff.
And no, when you're busy documenting, like I said, providing API examples starts eating into the free coding time I have left to verify that yes, it does as its told. (Some developers are terrible at providing examples and terrible at providing even a modicum of documentation - just enough of a hit that I can at least try to figure out what's going on and develop the rest of the documentation).
And then there's the developer that gives me a function, expects me to document it from the code, and when I do so, suddenly feel constrained because shit, I said it would always return ERROR_FOO when the state of BAR was BAZ. Because hey, you gave me the code, I'm assuming everything in it is going to be the spec, so don't blame me when I document the code as now "limiting" you because you couldn't lift a finger and say "By the way, an error is returned when Bar is in BAZ state, but I haven't figured out what the proper error code is".
Benjamin Mako Hill did an analysis of his inbox. He found Google has about HALF of this personal email - and he runs his own mail server and everything. See http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
Anyhow, the interesting thing is that Google has a bunch of file hashes, and they actually matched the image. I mean considering how easy it is to change the file hash, they seemed to just collect and send the same image over and over again?
You'd think by now they'd alter the images slightly to keep changing the file hash.
iOS has VoiceOver that actually works pretty damn well for using iOS. So much so that the blind actually prefer using an iPhone and an iPad for their purposes than Android (which still has fairly poor accessibility especially across devices).
Tommy Edison (Blind Film Critic) demonstrates how he uses the iPhone 4s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - composing a tweet, browsing YouTube, etc.
It is certainly unusual, but the blind have actually taken to devices like the iPhone and iPad.
The beacons use Bluetooth LE, last I checked, and the technology has been deployed already - I believe MLB has been outfitting the stadiums with them, as well as stores deploying them. The beacons are standalone - they do not do anything other than transmit an ID. It's a related app that is responsible for accessing the appropriate services to determine what the ID actually means. So it's not like the beacons could easily record your movements through the store. At least not without someone having to dump the data off them as they don't link up to a backend server - your phone is responsible for the lookup. Don't want it? Easiest way is to not get the app.
What did you expect? The old Sony is back - after taking a beating by both the Wii and Xbox360 last generation, they were humbled.
So they produced this piece of hardware called the PS4. They saw the Xbox One and how Microsoft fumbled it (again, Microsoft got greedy because they saw the success of the Xbox360). They see the PS4 outselling the Xbox One by miles and think they own it all.
The lessons were that no, the Xbox One isn't out - think of it as the PS3 of the last generation (the PS3 was a joke until a couple of years in and a few price drops later). In fact, the Xbox One sales are probably like the PS3 was back then. Both can end up quite successful (the PS3 was quite a good system in the end).
Even better, we NEED both. If anything, to keep both Microsoft AND Sony honest. And they are - features announced on one are added to the other, so competition is keeping both in check.
Heck, PS+ and Xbox Live - the free games keep getting better because Microsoft started offering two games a month, then Sony, and so on. Blu-Ray 3D was next (Microsoft announced it for the August update, PS4 got it the week after that). Media playback is probably coming next.
There's no doubt, though, both consoles are INCREDIBLY immature at launch - they both needed a year - even now both are way better than they were at launch.
Because the open alternatives well, suck. I've tried Android, and while ICS and JB are nice, they're also way too busy and don't work the way I want them to. Yes, I'm a geek, I love all the billion options it gives me to control it, but damn, I just want to use my phone as a phone. I don't want or care about themes, dynamic backgrounds, wallpapers, etc.
Plus, I like the way iOS works. Android's got it's own UI, and I find I dislike it (it's gotten a lot better now, but the back button always throws me for a loop because I'm used to seeing back at the top left, while the back button is always at the bottom).
Then there's whole Google thing. Sorry, Google's business plan involves gathering as much user information as possible.
Finally - while iTunes sucks, there's a bunch of utility it provides, like backups. I can download IPA files on iTunes and install them on my iOS devices - even if the app gets banned or whatever, as long as I have a local copy, I can install it. Apple hasn't blocked any apps from running, nor have they force-removed apps. And iTunes backups DO work. Backing up on Android? Well, you have Ti Backup and other apps, but nothing by default. Hell, even iCloud backups work. Android backups for me just mean all my apps get reinstalled, but I lose all my data. Thanks, Google.
Then there's the whole penis^H^H^H^H^Hscreen size thing. I find this enlarging screen size trend disappointing - I want a decent screen, decent CPU, decent RAM, and that entails buying flagships which are growing faster than the American waistline. I mean sure, 441dpi is a bit too much for me (I don't use the phone to my nose), so the 325-ish DPI of the "retina" display is perfectly adequate. Plus, I want real RGB, not pentile crap, and proper color calibration (AMOLED is impressive, but the colors generally oversaturate and are inaccurate). Android is rapidly moving away from being useful to me as an alternative.
Sure if I wanted open I could use Linux, but Linux desktops are just plain old fugly to me. I develop on Linux, using Windows as a front end (X server for the odd X app, but otherwise a bunch of SSH windows and samba serving files for Gvim for Windows).
Again, it's all personal preferences, and I know lots of people don't work that way.
As for jailbreaking, well, the only must-have app I have on iOS is iP Firewall. It lets me control apps use of network - so I block ad servers and the like. (Yes, Android has the same functionality if you root).
Estimates have around 10% of iOS users jailbreak, and unfortunately, it seems the largest use of jailbreaks are... installing pirated apps.
Assuming you have ncurses set up properly.
Vi works even if all you have is a line-oriented TTY. Kind of disorienting to use (it's really a one-line high version of vi) because each time you move up or down, the previous line goes up. Works fine if you go down, but going up means your scroll buffer is filled with text in the wrong order.
Yes, I had to deal with a serial console on a machine where ncurses was not working.
Or how about one we ready about daily in the news? I.e., what if the voting system is breached?
We can't keep financial information safe, what's to say we can keep voting information safe?
Let's forget about manipulations for now - that's going to be way too easy and obvious. Let's consider the fact that hackers break into the site and download all the usernames and passwords, and even voting results and logs that show how everyone voted. (And let's not say it was intentional recording of votes, say logs obtained from the webserver or something else not completely obvious).
Now what? Are you comfortable with the idea that everyone knows how you voted? Or that prior to closing of voting, you could find out what the intermediate results were?
Let's concentrate on the general insecurity of the whole thing. Because we can't even protect PII or financial information, so what's to say we can protect voting information?
In fact, wasn't there a European country that scrapped plans for online voting when it wasn't fraud, but someone breaking in and getting all the data stored on the servers as the biggest risk of the entire thing?
It's really more about how a modern car can actually "drive itself" in a limited way. It' snot a full autonomous car, but with what we have right now today, it's actually impressive.
Then again, I suspect he got the idea from a Hyundai commercial where a bunch of stunt drivers set up their vehicles and then exit them and having the cars drive around by themselves following a lead vehicle (still driven, of course).
The trick is you want to have high infectivity, low severity and low lethality. This way you're highly infectious but since you don't do anything, no one really bothers. Once you start climbing in severity and lethality, the humans notice.
then just wait until you've infected all humans, then recoup DNA points from infectivity (everyone's infected), and spend it on symptoms that are lethal. Because by then it's too late - once you start killing, it hits everyone and they can't research a cure fast enough before everyone is dead.
(It also shows how the game simulation doesn't reflect real life - because once you've infected everyone, if you switch to become lethal, everyone's disease gets lethal, which never happens. Usually you have to re-infect everyone with the new lethal strain. Then there's the entire population thing - assumes newborns will have the disease as well).