Your wallet is secured with a private key. This hack basically rewrites the RNG that generates that key to make it not so random.
As for physical access? The box doesn't come sealed, and the company states you can buy them off eBay because the technology is so secure, the device is guaranteed to only run their firmware.
So if you buy one of these things, how do you know your device has not been tampered with? It's supposed to be secure, and they claim it's so secure they don't have to prove that no one has messed with it on its way to you.
Meanwhile, someone decides to buy a bunch of legitimate ones, install hacked firmware on it, and sells them on eBay. The company claims eBay sales are good, too!
Physical access hacks on something like this are serious, because it means it's a supply chain problem. And if you're claiming it's so secure that you don't need to have anti-tamper or tamper-evident packaging, and that you can trust it, well...
Heck, someone could go into Ledger's own warehouse, reprogram them and put them back on the shelf (say, a paid off employee), because hey, they're not going to check that they're good when they're shipped from their (trusted) warehouse.
It's human nature to be nostalgic. And "everything" was better 30 years ago if you ask people on any topic, from TV, to news, to elections and politicians to every other topic under the sun.
And yes, some things were better back then, but it's really survivor bias. We remember the good stuff, and ignored the crap. We ignored all the crap (music/tv/movies/news/politicians/toys/tech/cars/games/etc) and remembered the few things that were notable. This goes for products too - everyone says things were built better N years ago, but if they were, why aren't they here today? Just because your great aunt's sistor's daughter has a fridge from 1950, doesn't mean fridges from 1950 were good. Because if they were, we'd hvae a lot of them. Instead, most of them were scrapped and junked, because well, they were just as crap. (We just don't care to remember it that way).
No, stuff was not better back then, because if they were, they'd be everywhere today. Human foibles and nostalgia just makes it seem so.
And all together, I prefer to live in today's world with all its faults, than 30 years ago. Just in computing, we've got development tools that are easily available (want to develop for the original IBM PC? Microsoft will sell you MASM for $100, C for $300. IBM will sell you Pascal for $300 and C for $500). Information is easily available (Wikipedia, datasheets, schematics, etc). If you want to buy electronic parts, you either had to hope the local Radio Shack stocked it, or put in a mail order to Digi-Key, or if you were in a rush, phone them and hope everything got transcribed right. Now you can order stuff with a few clicks of the mouse.
And you know what? When I want something from the past, yesteryears, you'd had to hunt through millions of thrift stores and garage sales. These days, you have craigslist, kijiji, and even eBay offering tons of nostalgia for sale plus shipping. And many of yesteryear's games are available online for free today as well, minus the tedious configuration (you can always retro-PC it and relive the config.sys and autoexec.bat days, also all available easily on eBay) with DosBox.
Finally, I can afford this stuff now! That super cool awesome sound card of the 90s that cost $300 and your parents refused to buy it? Well, no one stopping me for picking it up for $100 or less. Thousands of dollars of PC peripherals you needed back in the day? Much more affordable now.
Unless enough people are willing to pay $100 a year for Facebook private.
That won't work, period. Even if Facebook guaranteed to never sell or mind that data, that's still data you're giving facebook.
The only way to guarantee privacy is simple - just don't post. It doesn't matter how strong any "privacy protection" (aka marketing) document is. It's still a marketing document. Yes, marketing - because these sites know that if everything is public, users will only post a few things. But if they know some things are "protected", they would post a lot more. So by offering lightweight "protections", they guarantee that a lot of people will give them a lot more information. Hence, marketing.
The best way to keep something private is, and always has been, to just not post it online. It's like trying to keep a secret - do you tell everyone the secret, or no one?
70 ms isn't a heck of a lot. To put it in perspective, at 60Hz, 1 cycle is 16.7ms (at 50Hz, 20ms). That means the fab lost power for a mere 3.5-4.25 cycles of AC power.
Most UPSes that aren't online ones switch within 2 cycles (that gives it time for it to detect the failure and switch on the inverter, let it stabilize and switch over)
There's a reason why fabs are located in places where the country is highly advanced - the power requirements are extremely high. At a lot of these places, the term "power outage" actually doesn't make sense - the population have never experienced more than a brief flicker of light. Electricity has always and will always work, barring local problems.
I may be dead wrong on this, but it seems like many of the studies and papers put out today are funded by grants from organizations which often have a (even if subtle) political or ideological agenda. And if the studies they fund support their position, they hand out more grants. If the studies go against it, that university sees its grants from that organization reduced. Perhaps this has an effect on the results of the studies? I'd like to hope not but it seems like anything we think is right is upside down anymore. I haven't looked into this very closely to see if my anecdotal data point is valid, but I'd like to see if anyone can validate it.
No, that's always been the case. Lead in gasoline, smoking, acid rain, pesticides, etc., they all had studies to prove that they caused no harm at all. In fact, there are people who basically "manage' this sort of publication, a playbook if you will. As in, the best way to counter something bad in your industry is to manufacture controversy, and the way you do that is by getting studies done in your favor. I cite those cases above because those were "managed" by the same group of people who basically do just that - manufacture controversy. (And yes, that same group is behind climate change opposition as well).
Some history of that can be found in Merchants of Doubt. They came up with the playbook on how to manufacture controversy and thus push regulations out.
And let's not forget other cases like vaccines causing autism and plenty of food related papers all paid for by various aspects of industry.
What's happened is recently the Internet has made it much easier to find information, so hunting down who the sponsors of a paper out is much easier even when they hide through 10 layers of corporate shields, and people are able to seek out the original document much more easily and thus analyze the results. The fact that everyone is moving towards open data as well makes it much easier to spot frauds.
I'd have to guess demonetization or that YouTube's ability for advertisers to pick which channels they want to target are severely lacking. Otherwise you're basically telling me that there aren't any companies that want to advertise to gun owners, which given the number of NRA ads I've seen on YouTube recently seems patently absurd.
They're really screwing themselves over with it as well as channels are going to start reading some ad copy before videos similar to how many podcasts support themselves financially. Why bother with a YouTube middle man that takes a cut when they'll continue to give away that platform at no cost to the people who upload videos when you can get sponsors to pay your directly? If they wanted to be serious about making money with YouTube they'd be finding a way to get advertisers on every channel, even the idiot neo-nazi ones. Presumably those people are going to need to buy their tiki torches somewhere, so YouTube may as well make a buck. Make it so easy for everyone to get paid just a little bit that no one thinks about skipping out on the YouTube ads and contacting advertisers directly.
Well, YouTube probably wouldn't give advertisers a chance to pick which channels they would sponsor, because this would mean everyone else gets demonetized. Unless you have a big channel with lots of followers and is super well known, you're not going to get any money if advertisers simply picked and chose their channels. While YouTube requires a minimum view count of videos first before monetization (to counter a disturbing habit of scammers to upload popular videos to catch an odd click), anyone with a small but decent channel can be monetized, but if your channel doesn't make it big beyond a small group of people, no advertiser will sponsor you directly, so YouTube's general sponsorship can be the only way to get some money out of it.
And channels DO put ads in their videos. It's really annoying. YouTube I believe doesn't care, because they're not going to make good tools for skipping those ads, so channels that do it to bypass YouTube's monetization scheme have to carefully balance annoying their audience with what is an unskippable ad, as well as basically only being paid once for that video - YouTube does not allow you to edit out the ad and replace it if you get a new sponsor, so if your sponsorship deal goes south, you either have to remove, re-edit, and re-upload as new videos all the old content (and reset all the view counts, break all the video links, etc) or leave the video up with the old sponsor information up until time immemorial. Either way, you're making a ton of work for yourself, having to go out, find a sponsor, get paid, and then worry when that sponsor leaves/gets acquired/goes bankrupt/etc.
Think about it - the sponsor paid you for 100 videos, then you split from them because you don't like them anymore. Do you really go through and remove those 100 video and re-upload them (losing view counts, comments, and breaking links) or do you grin and bear it, knowing those old videos will be advertising something you no longer support?
(Videos with no monetization also do not show up as high in the searches, for obvious reasons).
I say YouTube knows what they're doing, and if you wish to hard-code ads into your video, you're free to do so given viewers cannot easily skip the ads (the unskippable 30 second ad was rated the most annoying), and content producers cannot edit the ad out if things go south, so it's either put up with it, or put up with losing it all.
... to all those chalk-board drawings when Microsoft pushes a new Office version that moves all the controls around?
He draws them anew.
Seriously.
That blackboard is IT. He draws it fresh every time. He doesn't have access to a million blackboards to which he can simply draw it once and use a different one. (Well, he may have two or three, so he can keep one of them up if he's willing to sacrifice one for his other subjects).
Then again, if he's the technology teacher, then he draws it once at the start of the unit, then draws a new one when he needs to.
In my more recent experiences at the shadowy ghost of IBM, I saw plenty of evidence of intrusive but mostly ineffectual monitoring of what employees were doing. They were slightly diplomatic in that they would give you some subtle warnings and it was easy enough to figure out what to stop doing. Most of the explicit guidelines seemed quite reasonable to me, though some of the monitoring software also crippled the employees' machines in significant ways. That was in addition to the anti-virus and configuration remote control software, but the managers never asked about how much efficiency we lost in struggles with the automated configurations and re-configurations.
I've worked at companies where the machines had to be overspec'd because of the spyware that was installed on them. The company wasn't subtle about it - the managers kept telling everyone about.it, reminding people about it, etc.
I suppose it was a way to keep everyone informed since if it was a secret and you were let go they were worried about lawsuits for unlawful termination. So they kept everyone reminded.
They even reminded people that they let go of people who watched a downloaded movie on said work laptop (spyware captured the filenames and such), and regular reminders if you needed files to test, use PDFs or some such, and not say, source code files. Copying source code files to a USB drive could bring security to your manager for a few questions.
One day they even went for a big security clampdown - all traffic was to be routed to headquarters via VPN, instead of going out via the local gateway. This way no data can escape due to a local site misconfiguration of the router or firewall - all traffic (internet or otherwise) was to head to HQ. Again, it was documented in an email this was happening.
Yes, we lost a lot of productivity because of things like this, but they kept no illusions of what they did. I was somewhat fortunate because even though I was a contractor there, I am employed full time by my company (that company contracted with mine to send me to their office). So I had my company laptop which I used to VPN into work (and has somewhat looser internet use rules). All traffic flowed through the VPN, so it was a bit easier to listen to music and stuff through the work laptop instead of the monitored machine. No, I did not do anything "bad", but the more straight and narrow I looked on their computer, the better.
OK, I lied. There was one time I copied a few files over. But that was because their company standard comparison tool (Araxis Merge) wasn't as useful for what I needed to do as my work comparison tool (Beyond Compare) was. What took an hour to compare in Araxis was done in about 5 minutes in Beyond Compare. That I will not make an excuse for, and I realized when I was comparing the files that they layout of the file was unfortunately more suited to Beyond Compare. I can't remember what it was, just I was hitting my head on my desk because Araxis could not do the one thing I needed it to do.
And even if they did, most people would assume it was a post-production error - filming screens "live" is almost impossible and it's all practically chroma-keyed during post production. Especially under big bright studio lighting used for professional productions. (Under dimmer conditions like people might use for YouTube videos, a bright screen can be readable).
Or even if it was a real screen that was filmed, everyone assumes it's playing a carefully controlled video - thus any animation error is just an animation error when they constructed the video that was playing and not an actual capture of a real session.
A surgeon does his best to save a patient, to no avail.
A surgeon operates while drunk, on the wrong patient, while he's upside down.
Are they the same thing?
No, one is a guy doing his job and having bad luck. The latter is someone being negligent. Not incompetent. Incompetent would be said surgeon encountering something he was never trained for and trying his best to fix it, to no avail.
Incompetence is not having the skills or training when you encounter something - i.e., youre not competent.
Negligence is attempting to do something disregarding rules for safety and security (like being drunk)
the voice we heard was that of his voice synthesizer
That synthesizer is several decades old - these days we have really good voice synthesizers, but Dr. Hawking felt that that one was his "voice" and demanded that it be kept, despite improvements to the computing equipment on his wheelchair. It was also the most finicky and most power hungry, being designed in an age where we didn't have CMOS.
There was a team who did nothing but source parts and fixed it.
I think it was the only thing of DEC that was still being used from when it was made to yesterday.
I hope whoever takes care of his estate destroys the thing - if only to keep that voice silent out of respect. Seems wrong to use it.
But I suspect even this "bad press" contains a fair bit of spin. It's hard to write off Siri's lack of skill as simply being due to poor scalability.
Not that I'm all that impressed with Siri's competition, mind you - they're all underwhelming. But Siri is definitely in third place.
No, it's not scalability. Unless you're talking about scalability of information.
Siri is in third place because Siri is basically handcuffed - it's not allowed to access a lot of information. Google and Amazon have privacy policies that basically let their assistants have access to anything and everything on you. and having that sort of access means Google Assistant and Alexa can get to "know you" better and give you better results.
Siri is allowed none of that - it has a privacy policy that is strictly enforced and is not allowed to break, out of its little container to reach out and get more information.
And these days, Siri has to do a lot of its work on-device and only hit the cloud when absolutely necessary. Privacy again, you see.
Apparently no one knows the original reason for building the Pi. It was to have the absolute cheapest platform to hack on for students. You need a better CPU or a SATA port? Pony up that extra $20 and buy something better.
The problem is, the Pi has something a lot of other boards don't - a community. Most alternative Pi boards are released with outdated software and that's it - the manufacturer stops supporting it and it rots. But eh Raspberry Pi is well supported and kept up to date by a while pile of people, who are able and willing to help people with their problems.
The Pi's greatest asset is not the hardware, but the fact there's a huge community willing to help you out.
No, Google think this would be a useful system in parts in developing countries with less formal address systems. For example, there are 1 million inhabitants in Kathmandu, but the majority of the roads have no names and there are also no street numbers. So when you send a parcel, you don't need to describe it as "past the ABC Hostel, then third street on the right; the house next to the large birch tree". I think the criteria they set are quite sensible, but many of them are indeed fulfilled by the Maidenhead Locator System already. Whether it is worth it to create a new system just for the few additional criteria (e.g. "does not spell words"), I am not sure.
No, ti's because there's no standard on addressing, period.
Even in the developed world there are places without street names but every location is well specified. (Basically there all buildings are on a coordinate system so you're really just giving effectively an (x, y) coordinate to get the building)..
Also, it's to avoid the mojibake scenarios when alternative character sets are used
add disabling of videos and anti-cut and paste measures, and I will buy whatever you are selling.
Well, in Firefox there is an about:config option to ignore AutoPlay settings so videos do not play by default.
Also, Firefox does allow shift-right-click which bypasses any javascript disabling of right-click menus so you can copy/paste (and do anything else).
This is one of the key reasons why HTML5 is better than Flash - because a browser is free to disable those features that are annoying. You can't disable autoplay in flash videos other than by blocking, but no one said a browser is obligated to obey the autoplay parameter in a tag. And a browser can ignore fake "clicks" to a play button caused by javascript - it can decide it would only play a video if the browser received a genuine user click.
Same goes for every other thing you can do in javascript. Firefox lets you force the right-click menu to always display by shift-right-click (works on modern Windows too to get back the system menu with the Move/Minimize/Maximize options if you right-click an app on the task bar - the quickest way to bring a window to the current monitor is shift-right click the app, select Move, hit an arrow key and then jiggle the mouse. The arrow key begins the window move operation, the jiggling the mouse brings the window under the mouse cursor).
Except Amazon doesn't vet the suppliers for shit, just like they don't vet the 3rd parties they allow onto their storefront and take stock from. (The "Fulfilled by Amazon" program allows a 3rd party seller to dump fake/bad/whatever stock of an item into Amazon's warehouse so Amazon can handle the logistics of picking, packaging, and shipping the item. Amazon commingles stock though, so even if your item is "shipped and sold by Amazon.com", it could in fact come from the pile of fakes/defectives from a shady 3rd party.)
And even if Amazon did strongly vet the suppliers, that's not enough. Chinese manufacturing is such that you have to sample and check from every single shipment, lest they try to pull some bullshit on you 3 months down the line. Or you can just ship it all and have a generous return policy, but that doesn't prevent battery packs from exploding on people, does it Jeff?
I would say Amazon does a poor job of vetting Amazon Basics suppliers. Remember, it's Amazon's name on the box, not ChongDing Electronic Supply Limited, and Amazon is a US company. Should an Amazon Basics thing be of such poor quality, the lawsuits will start flying. And it's much easier to sue Amazon than it is a random supplier on Ali Express.
It's why Amazon is doing the recall - you think the Ali Express supplier is recalling the product? They've probably sold twice the number in the time period since the recall started. And that's where the price difference between Amazon and Ali Express goes - all the little nasty details that Amazon has as a US company versus a Chinese company.
The problem is not taking advantage of the system, the problem is that many people are unaware of their rights and these lists are typically turned abusive rather than stopping actual 'fraud'. It's easy to end up on the list because you returned a number of high value items and you otherwise don't frequent the retailers for high value items.
It's based on a number of factors. How much you buy, how often you buy, how often you return and what you return. If you're constantly returning stuff, yes you'll end up on the list. Especially if you're constantly buying and returning the same kind of item - like you buy a camera, and return it two weeks later. That in general is a very unusual shopping pattern and generally indicates not quite fraud, but taking advantage. But if it's a computer this year, then a drone next year, and maybe a camera the year after, you're not likely to get on the list.
Also condition matters - if you bought something and regretted it, but otherwise didn't open it so it's still new, that's not likely to even be noted in your return file (if the seal is intact, better). This is quite common and stores know it, and most people with buyer's remorse will return the item fairly quickly (within a week) in brand-new condition.
The ones who abuse the policy generally use it as a free rental - they buy an air conditioner when it's hot, then when it's cooler they return it. That' will get you noted. Or if you buy a camera, go on vacation, use it and then return it (Pay attention to the items with short return periods - it's short because that's exactly what happens - people buy expensive cameras, lenses, etc and then return them afterwards). And they can tell when it's been a "rental" item unless you really keep it new.
If the item is defective, or you didn't like the style and want a different color, those in general are perfectly normal activities that won't end up in the file.
Oh yeah, and be courteous and truthful. Because they are human, too, and if you treat them like crap, they may just make a file entry to spite you. Being polite really helps.
Finally, this is the age of users doing research, so there's very little excuse for the "I didn't like it" style of return reason - with online manuals and everything, seeing if feature X is present is trivial along with reviews and other things.
And yes, you can easily tell when they do and do not put you on the file - if something is defective and they exchange it, they'll just process a return and purchase and not ask you for personal information like a phone number, or they'll process a return and it'll have the store's address on the list.
If you frequent a store a lot, you'll notice some staff members keep appearing over and over again, and they'll notice you as well, and if they see you buy lots of stuff, that also works in your favor. This works really well around the customer service desk because they're stuck there, so if you're walking by all the time, they can be human and take really good care of you. Say hello, and even if they don't know your name, you're golden. (Usually they'll say something like "I see you here a lot").
The only reason to buy the Amazon Basics brand is if it is somehow cheaper after considering tax and shipping (occasionally even Amazon needs to clear stock), or if you expect it to fail soon and want the more generous return/refund policy of a "shipped and sold by Amazon" item.
I'm sure most people buy Amazon Basics because Amazon would've vetted their suppliers. You can go to Ali Express, but you're taking a crapshoot on stuff like power banks that are so shoddily made they are time bombs. In the best case, your "4000mAH" bank may have low capacity cells, so you really only get 1000mAH out of it. (Seach Big Clive (dot com) on YouTube or Google and he's taken many power banks apart).
Basically it's Ali Express with the dodginess removed. And a modicum of support, because US company after all.
Or they could stop the pissing match with Qualcomm and support AptX (which they already do on macOS) so that the wireless music doesn't sound like garbage unless you have their special headphones, or one of a handful of other headphone sets that supports AAC over bluetooth...
Problem. Qualcomm refuses to license AptX unless Apple uses Qualcomm's modems. And Qualcomm refuses to budge on their license fees.
And because of the various Qualcomm lawsuits, Qualcomm refuses to license, period.
I'd rather guess that Apple would probably just pass on the costs of licensing (if they could license it) to users who want it, so you can buy a $10 app to enable AptX support. (Knowing that's probably what Qualcomm will charge Apple for AptX support). And you can bet Qualcomm will probably pull Apple's macOS AptX license in short while.
Thought AAC support on Bluetooth isn't hard to find - most of the ones that support AptX support AAC as well.
Chances are, Apple will license LDAC instead, since Sony is giving it away. It's why Android 8 supports it.
Your phone isn't going to charge very vast if the CPU is pinned at 100%. It's also going to be running super hot.
It's amazing (not just you) how it seems everyone on/. wants people to learn how to use computers, yet they can't seem to read.
The app is on the Mac App Store. As it it affects Mac apps, not iOS apps.
And the app discloses it does this so the user is well aware. And the user has many choices - they could opt for the free version features only, the premium features for free (using the miner), or pay for the premium features without the miner.
In other words, it's a well-behaved app. If you don't need premium features, you pick Free mode. If you want to pay for it and not run down your battery, or you don't want mining, you can pay. If you're too cheap, you hcan have that option too. And unless you actually pay and unlock the premium forever, you get to choose freely.
why do I have to go an big lecture class even more so for the filler ones or ones where you just need cram for the test. I want to take classes I want to learn and not stuff I will never use.
Because it's a university. If you just want to learn what you want to learn, take a trade school.
University students are expected to take courses (ok, forced) in non-subject areas, usually called "complimentary studies" or other terminology. This helps produce more well-rounded students who have a breadth of knowledge rather than a rather narrow specialized field. This knowledge is designed to help one see their place in the world, or at the very least, ensure one mingles around with different sets of students. It's why the engineering classes always require classes from the fine/liberal arts and business classes, and which the reverse is true too.
At the very least, take business classes if you can. Economics and introductory management classes are very useful if one gets in the position of having minions.
You can repair it now, but you void the warranty. Don't like the manufacturer's rules, buy something else. It's that simple.
Anyone who's worked a customer service desk knows this - warranty fraud is rampant.
We're not talking about the lame ass buy-a-new-product return-old-product-inside-it trick, but customers lie through their teeth. You can have a laptop that's fallen into the pool, or bathrub, or whatever, and is dripping water all over the return counter, and the customer will say there is no water damage.
And most people are incompetent. Just think about your time fixing software issues. Now figure out what happens when you unleash them to fix hardware problems too. The old butterknife screwdriver is the least of your problems.
Think about it - a site like iFixit - probably the biggest pusher for right to repair, doesn't really want you do it. I mean, if they did, why don't they warrant their products? You buy it, you try to fix it, it doesn't work, why can't you return it? It's almost as if they know if they sell you a cable to fix your iPhone, you're going to return them the damaged one and claim they shipped you a bad one.
And it doesn't cover even things like security - TouchID and FaceID sensors are paired with the phone so people don't swap them. Why? Because if you swap them, you could swap them with "evil" versions of the sensors that record (and transmit) your fingerprint and facial data to a third party who may use it to log into your phone when you're not around. Since this is specialized tech, you can assume it would be a state agency that does this. That would be the deepest of ironies - the FBI uses the law to force Apple to make it so they can break in.
And what about stuff that's safety related? If you replace the battery yourself and it causes the phone to catch on fire, is Apple responsible? Even an official first party battery can be problematic with a fat-fingered person prodding it with their butterknife screwdriver.
I'm guessing we'll see the return of the "warranty void if broken" sticker. Because right now, there's an IQ test in place for people fixing their stuff. And if you think it's ridiculous, well, you haven't seen what the public can do. If you fix computers for a living, you know exactly the people who are going to try to fix their stuff.
Why does these API have been created for? I don't really se a use case for them:( What other API are being put in without any really interesting use-case?
Web based apps. Not traditional web apps that go over the network and talk to a webserver via AJAX and the like (though you can to retrieve data), but fully self-contained applications using HTML, CSS and Javascript.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was an Apple initiative - remember, Steve Jobs wanted people to code in HTML/CSS/JavaScript to write apps for the original iPhone, so they added a bunch of APIs to support that. It was why Apple ported Safari to Windows. Remember, web apps were to be first class citizens indistinguishable from native apps. (And these days, they're one of the two ways to get an app onto iOS without Apple's approval).
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No, this is a problematic attack.
Your wallet is secured with a private key. This hack basically rewrites the RNG that generates that key to make it not so random.
As for physical access? The box doesn't come sealed, and the company states you can buy them off eBay because the technology is so secure, the device is guaranteed to only run their firmware.
So if you buy one of these things, how do you know your device has not been tampered with? It's supposed to be secure, and they claim it's so secure they don't have to prove that no one has messed with it on its way to you.
Meanwhile, someone decides to buy a bunch of legitimate ones, install hacked firmware on it, and sells them on eBay. The company claims eBay sales are good, too!
Physical access hacks on something like this are serious, because it means it's a supply chain problem. And if you're claiming it's so secure that you don't need to have anti-tamper or tamper-evident packaging, and that you can trust it, well...
Heck, someone could go into Ledger's own warehouse, reprogram them and put them back on the shelf (say, a paid off employee), because hey, they're not going to check that they're good when they're shipped from their (trusted) warehouse.
They already do. Most of the items you buy will be from one of 10 companies. .
Click that image to embiggen it, because practically everything you eat, drink, or clean yourself with will be there.
It's human nature to be nostalgic. And "everything" was better 30 years ago if you ask people on any topic, from TV, to news, to elections and politicians to every other topic under the sun.
And yes, some things were better back then, but it's really survivor bias. We remember the good stuff, and ignored the crap. We ignored all the crap (music/tv/movies/news/politicians/toys/tech/cars/games/etc) and remembered the few things that were notable. This goes for products too - everyone says things were built better N years ago, but if they were, why aren't they here today? Just because your great aunt's sistor's daughter has a fridge from 1950, doesn't mean fridges from 1950 were good. Because if they were, we'd hvae a lot of them. Instead, most of them were scrapped and junked, because well, they were just as crap. (We just don't care to remember it that way).
No, stuff was not better back then, because if they were, they'd be everywhere today. Human foibles and nostalgia just makes it seem so.
And all together, I prefer to live in today's world with all its faults, than 30 years ago. Just in computing, we've got development tools that are easily available (want to develop for the original IBM PC? Microsoft will sell you MASM for $100, C for $300. IBM will sell you Pascal for $300 and C for $500). Information is easily available (Wikipedia, datasheets, schematics, etc). If you want to buy electronic parts, you either had to hope the local Radio Shack stocked it, or put in a mail order to Digi-Key, or if you were in a rush, phone them and hope everything got transcribed right. Now you can order stuff with a few clicks of the mouse.
And you know what? When I want something from the past, yesteryears, you'd had to hunt through millions of thrift stores and garage sales. These days, you have craigslist, kijiji, and even eBay offering tons of nostalgia for sale plus shipping. And many of yesteryear's games are available online for free today as well, minus the tedious configuration (you can always retro-PC it and relive the config.sys and autoexec.bat days, also all available easily on eBay) with DosBox.
Finally, I can afford this stuff now! That super cool awesome sound card of the 90s that cost $300 and your parents refused to buy it? Well, no one stopping me for picking it up for $100 or less. Thousands of dollars of PC peripherals you needed back in the day? Much more affordable now.
That won't work, period. Even if Facebook guaranteed to never sell or mind that data, that's still data you're giving facebook.
The only way to guarantee privacy is simple - just don't post. It doesn't matter how strong any "privacy protection" (aka marketing) document is. It's still a marketing document. Yes, marketing - because these sites know that if everything is public, users will only post a few things. But if they know some things are "protected", they would post a lot more. So by offering lightweight "protections", they guarantee that a lot of people will give them a lot more information. Hence, marketing.
The best way to keep something private is, and always has been, to just not post it online. It's like trying to keep a secret - do you tell everyone the secret, or no one?
70 ms isn't a heck of a lot. To put it in perspective, at 60Hz, 1 cycle is 16.7ms (at 50Hz, 20ms). That means the fab lost power for a mere 3.5-4.25 cycles of AC power.
Most UPSes that aren't online ones switch within 2 cycles (that gives it time for it to detect the failure and switch on the inverter, let it stabilize and switch over)
There's a reason why fabs are located in places where the country is highly advanced - the power requirements are extremely high. At a lot of these places, the term "power outage" actually doesn't make sense - the population have never experienced more than a brief flicker of light. Electricity has always and will always work, barring local problems.
No, that's always been the case. Lead in gasoline, smoking, acid rain, pesticides, etc., they all had studies to prove that they caused no harm at all. In fact, there are people who basically "manage' this sort of publication, a playbook if you will. As in, the best way to counter something bad in your industry is to manufacture controversy, and the way you do that is by getting studies done in your favor. I cite those cases above because those were "managed" by the same group of people who basically do just that - manufacture controversy. (And yes, that same group is behind climate change opposition as well).
Some history of that can be found in Merchants of Doubt. They came up with the playbook on how to manufacture controversy and thus push regulations out.
And let's not forget other cases like vaccines causing autism and plenty of food related papers all paid for by various aspects of industry.
What's happened is recently the Internet has made it much easier to find information, so hunting down who the sponsors of a paper out is much easier even when they hide through 10 layers of corporate shields, and people are able to seek out the original document much more easily and thus analyze the results. The fact that everyone is moving towards open data as well makes it much easier to spot frauds.
Well, it may not be violent games then. Perhaps it's casual games like Pokemon Go.
Men reportedly attacked by man with tire iron over 'Pokemon Go'.
Well, YouTube probably wouldn't give advertisers a chance to pick which channels they would sponsor, because this would mean everyone else gets demonetized. Unless you have a big channel with lots of followers and is super well known, you're not going to get any money if advertisers simply picked and chose their channels. While YouTube requires a minimum view count of videos first before monetization (to counter a disturbing habit of scammers to upload popular videos to catch an odd click), anyone with a small but decent channel can be monetized, but if your channel doesn't make it big beyond a small group of people, no advertiser will sponsor you directly, so YouTube's general sponsorship can be the only way to get some money out of it.
And channels DO put ads in their videos. It's really annoying. YouTube I believe doesn't care, because they're not going to make good tools for skipping those ads, so channels that do it to bypass YouTube's monetization scheme have to carefully balance annoying their audience with what is an unskippable ad, as well as basically only being paid once for that video - YouTube does not allow you to edit out the ad and replace it if you get a new sponsor, so if your sponsorship deal goes south, you either have to remove, re-edit, and re-upload as new videos all the old content (and reset all the view counts, break all the video links, etc) or leave the video up with the old sponsor information up until time immemorial. Either way, you're making a ton of work for yourself, having to go out, find a sponsor, get paid, and then worry when that sponsor leaves/gets acquired/goes bankrupt/etc.
Think about it - the sponsor paid you for 100 videos, then you split from them because you don't like them anymore. Do you really go through and remove those 100 video and re-upload them (losing view counts, comments, and breaking links) or do you grin and bear it, knowing those old videos will be advertising something you no longer support?
(Videos with no monetization also do not show up as high in the searches, for obvious reasons).
I say YouTube knows what they're doing, and if you wish to hard-code ads into your video, you're free to do so given viewers cannot easily skip the ads (the unskippable 30 second ad was rated the most annoying), and content producers cannot edit the ad out if things go south, so it's either put up with it, or put up with losing it all.
He draws them anew.
Seriously.
That blackboard is IT. He draws it fresh every time. He doesn't have access to a million blackboards to which he can simply draw it once and use a different one. (Well, he may have two or three, so he can keep one of them up if he's willing to sacrifice one for his other subjects).
Then again, if he's the technology teacher, then he draws it once at the start of the unit, then draws a new one when he needs to.
I've worked at companies where the machines had to be overspec'd because of the spyware that was installed on them. The company wasn't subtle about it - the managers kept telling everyone about.it, reminding people about it, etc.
I suppose it was a way to keep everyone informed since if it was a secret and you were let go they were worried about lawsuits for unlawful termination. So they kept everyone reminded.
They even reminded people that they let go of people who watched a downloaded movie on said work laptop (spyware captured the filenames and such), and regular reminders if you needed files to test, use PDFs or some such, and not say, source code files. Copying source code files to a USB drive could bring security to your manager for a few questions.
One day they even went for a big security clampdown - all traffic was to be routed to headquarters via VPN, instead of going out via the local gateway. This way no data can escape due to a local site misconfiguration of the router or firewall - all traffic (internet or otherwise) was to head to HQ. Again, it was documented in an email this was happening.
Yes, we lost a lot of productivity because of things like this, but they kept no illusions of what they did. I was somewhat fortunate because even though I was a contractor there, I am employed full time by my company (that company contracted with mine to send me to their office). So I had my company laptop which I used to VPN into work (and has somewhat looser internet use rules). All traffic flowed through the VPN, so it was a bit easier to listen to music and stuff through the work laptop instead of the monitored machine. No, I did not do anything "bad", but the more straight and narrow I looked on their computer, the better.
OK, I lied. There was one time I copied a few files over. But that was because their company standard comparison tool (Araxis Merge) wasn't as useful for what I needed to do as my work comparison tool (Beyond Compare) was. What took an hour to compare in Araxis was done in about 5 minutes in Beyond Compare. That I will not make an excuse for, and I realized when I was comparing the files that they layout of the file was unfortunately more suited to Beyond Compare. I can't remember what it was, just I was hitting my head on my desk because Araxis could not do the one thing I needed it to do.
And even if they did, most people would assume it was a post-production error - filming screens "live" is almost impossible and it's all practically chroma-keyed during post production. Especially under big bright studio lighting used for professional productions. (Under dimmer conditions like people might use for YouTube videos, a bright screen can be readable).
Or even if it was a real screen that was filmed, everyone assumes it's playing a carefully controlled video - thus any animation error is just an animation error when they constructed the video that was playing and not an actual capture of a real session.
No, one is a guy doing his job and having bad luck. The latter is someone being negligent. Not incompetent. Incompetent would be said surgeon encountering something he was never trained for and trying his best to fix it, to no avail.
Incompetence is not having the skills or training when you encounter something - i.e., youre not competent.
Negligence is attempting to do something disregarding rules for safety and security (like being drunk)
That synthesizer is several decades old - these days we have really good voice synthesizers, but Dr. Hawking felt that that one was his "voice" and demanded that it be kept, despite improvements to the computing equipment on his wheelchair. It was also the most finicky and most power hungry, being designed in an age where we didn't have CMOS.
There was a team who did nothing but source parts and fixed it.
I think it was the only thing of DEC that was still being used from when it was made to yesterday.
I hope whoever takes care of his estate destroys the thing - if only to keep that voice silent out of respect. Seems wrong to use it.
No, it's not scalability. Unless you're talking about scalability of information.
Siri is in third place because Siri is basically handcuffed - it's not allowed to access a lot of information. Google and Amazon have privacy policies that basically let their assistants have access to anything and everything on you. and having that sort of access means Google Assistant and Alexa can get to "know you" better and give you better results.
Siri is allowed none of that - it has a privacy policy that is strictly enforced and is not allowed to break, out of its little container to reach out and get more information.
And these days, Siri has to do a lot of its work on-device and only hit the cloud when absolutely necessary. Privacy again, you see.
The problem is, the Pi has something a lot of other boards don't - a community. Most alternative Pi boards are released with outdated software and that's it - the manufacturer stops supporting it and it rots. But eh Raspberry Pi is well supported and kept up to date by a while pile of people, who are able and willing to help people with their problems.
The Pi's greatest asset is not the hardware, but the fact there's a huge community willing to help you out.
No, ti's because there's no standard on addressing, period.
Even in the developed world there are places without street names but every location is well specified. (Basically there all buildings are on a coordinate system so you're really just giving effectively an (x, y) coordinate to get the building)..
Also, it's to avoid the mojibake scenarios when alternative character sets are used
Well, in Firefox there is an about:config option to ignore AutoPlay settings so videos do not play by default.
Also, Firefox does allow shift-right-click which bypasses any javascript disabling of right-click menus so you can copy/paste (and do anything else).
This is one of the key reasons why HTML5 is better than Flash - because a browser is free to disable those features that are annoying. You can't disable autoplay in flash videos other than by blocking, but no one said a browser is obligated to obey the autoplay parameter in a tag. And a browser can ignore fake "clicks" to a play button caused by javascript - it can decide it would only play a video if the browser received a genuine user click.
Same goes for every other thing you can do in javascript. Firefox lets you force the right-click menu to always display by shift-right-click (works on modern Windows too to get back the system menu with the Move/Minimize/Maximize options if you right-click an app on the task bar - the quickest way to bring a window to the current monitor is shift-right click the app, select Move, hit an arrow key and then jiggle the mouse. The arrow key begins the window move operation, the jiggling the mouse brings the window under the mouse cursor).
I would say Amazon does a poor job of vetting Amazon Basics suppliers. Remember, it's Amazon's name on the box, not ChongDing Electronic Supply Limited, and Amazon is a US company. Should an Amazon Basics thing be of such poor quality, the lawsuits will start flying. And it's much easier to sue Amazon than it is a random supplier on Ali Express.
It's why Amazon is doing the recall - you think the Ali Express supplier is recalling the product? They've probably sold twice the number in the time period since the recall started. And that's where the price difference between Amazon and Ali Express goes - all the little nasty details that Amazon has as a US company versus a Chinese company.
It's based on a number of factors. How much you buy, how often you buy, how often you return and what you return. If you're constantly returning stuff, yes you'll end up on the list. Especially if you're constantly buying and returning the same kind of item - like you buy a camera, and return it two weeks later. That in general is a very unusual shopping pattern and generally indicates not quite fraud, but taking advantage. But if it's a computer this year, then a drone next year, and maybe a camera the year after, you're not likely to get on the list.
Also condition matters - if you bought something and regretted it, but otherwise didn't open it so it's still new, that's not likely to even be noted in your return file (if the seal is intact, better). This is quite common and stores know it, and most people with buyer's remorse will return the item fairly quickly (within a week) in brand-new condition.
The ones who abuse the policy generally use it as a free rental - they buy an air conditioner when it's hot, then when it's cooler they return it. That' will get you noted. Or if you buy a camera, go on vacation, use it and then return it (Pay attention to the items with short return periods - it's short because that's exactly what happens - people buy expensive cameras, lenses, etc and then return them afterwards). And they can tell when it's been a "rental" item unless you really keep it new.
If the item is defective, or you didn't like the style and want a different color, those in general are perfectly normal activities that won't end up in the file.
Oh yeah, and be courteous and truthful. Because they are human, too, and if you treat them like crap, they may just make a file entry to spite you. Being polite really helps.
Finally, this is the age of users doing research, so there's very little excuse for the "I didn't like it" style of return reason - with online manuals and everything, seeing if feature X is present is trivial along with reviews and other things.
And yes, you can easily tell when they do and do not put you on the file - if something is defective and they exchange it, they'll just process a return and purchase and not ask you for personal information like a phone number, or they'll process a return and it'll have the store's address on the list.
If you frequent a store a lot, you'll notice some staff members keep appearing over and over again, and they'll notice you as well, and if they see you buy lots of stuff, that also works in your favor. This works really well around the customer service desk because they're stuck there, so if you're walking by all the time, they can be human and take really good care of you. Say hello, and even if they don't know your name, you're golden. (Usually they'll say something like "I see you here a lot").
I'm sure most people buy Amazon Basics because Amazon would've vetted their suppliers. You can go to Ali Express, but you're taking a crapshoot on stuff like power banks that are so shoddily made they are time bombs. In the best case, your "4000mAH" bank may have low capacity cells, so you really only get 1000mAH out of it. (Seach Big Clive (dot com) on YouTube or Google and he's taken many power banks apart).
Basically it's Ali Express with the dodginess removed. And a modicum of support, because US company after all.
Problem. Qualcomm refuses to license AptX unless Apple uses Qualcomm's modems. And Qualcomm refuses to budge on their license fees.
And because of the various Qualcomm lawsuits, Qualcomm refuses to license, period.
I'd rather guess that Apple would probably just pass on the costs of licensing (if they could license it) to users who want it, so you can buy a $10 app to enable AptX support. (Knowing that's probably what Qualcomm will charge Apple for AptX support). And you can bet Qualcomm will probably pull Apple's macOS AptX license in short while.
Thought AAC support on Bluetooth isn't hard to find - most of the ones that support AptX support AAC as well.
Chances are, Apple will license LDAC instead, since Sony is giving it away. It's why Android 8 supports it.
It's amazing (not just you) how it seems everyone on /. wants people to learn how to use computers, yet they can't seem to read.
The app is on the Mac App Store. As it it affects Mac apps, not iOS apps.
And the app discloses it does this so the user is well aware. And the user has many choices - they could opt for the free version features only, the premium features for free (using the miner), or pay for the premium features without the miner.
In other words, it's a well-behaved app. If you don't need premium features, you pick Free mode. If you want to pay for it and not run down your battery, or you don't want mining, you can pay. If you're too cheap, you hcan have that option too. And unless you actually pay and unlock the premium forever, you get to choose freely.
Because it's a university. If you just want to learn what you want to learn, take a trade school.
University students are expected to take courses (ok, forced) in non-subject areas, usually called "complimentary studies" or other terminology. This helps produce more well-rounded students who have a breadth of knowledge rather than a rather narrow specialized field. This knowledge is designed to help one see their place in the world, or at the very least, ensure one mingles around with different sets of students. It's why the engineering classes always require classes from the fine/liberal arts and business classes, and which the reverse is true too.
At the very least, take business classes if you can. Economics and introductory management classes are very useful if one gets in the position of having minions.
Anyone who's worked a customer service desk knows this - warranty fraud is rampant.
We're not talking about the lame ass buy-a-new-product return-old-product-inside-it trick, but customers lie through their teeth. You can have a laptop that's fallen into the pool, or bathrub, or whatever, and is dripping water all over the return counter, and the customer will say there is no water damage.
And most people are incompetent. Just think about your time fixing software issues. Now figure out what happens when you unleash them to fix hardware problems too. The old butterknife screwdriver is the least of your problems.
Think about it - a site like iFixit - probably the biggest pusher for right to repair, doesn't really want you do it. I mean, if they did, why don't they warrant their products? You buy it, you try to fix it, it doesn't work, why can't you return it? It's almost as if they know if they sell you a cable to fix your iPhone, you're going to return them the damaged one and claim they shipped you a bad one.
And it doesn't cover even things like security - TouchID and FaceID sensors are paired with the phone so people don't swap them. Why? Because if you swap them, you could swap them with "evil" versions of the sensors that record (and transmit) your fingerprint and facial data to a third party who may use it to log into your phone when you're not around. Since this is specialized tech, you can assume it would be a state agency that does this. That would be the deepest of ironies - the FBI uses the law to force Apple to make it so they can break in.
And what about stuff that's safety related? If you replace the battery yourself and it causes the phone to catch on fire, is Apple responsible? Even an official first party battery can be problematic with a fat-fingered person prodding it with their butterknife screwdriver.
I'm guessing we'll see the return of the "warranty void if broken" sticker. Because right now, there's an IQ test in place for people fixing their stuff. And if you think it's ridiculous, well, you haven't seen what the public can do. If you fix computers for a living, you know exactly the people who are going to try to fix their stuff.
Web based apps. Not traditional web apps that go over the network and talk to a webserver via AJAX and the like (though you can to retrieve data), but fully self-contained applications using HTML, CSS and Javascript.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was an Apple initiative - remember, Steve Jobs wanted people to code in HTML/CSS/JavaScript to write apps for the original iPhone, so they added a bunch of APIs to support that. It was why Apple ported Safari to Windows. Remember, web apps were to be first class citizens indistinguishable from native apps. (And these days, they're one of the two ways to get an app onto iOS without Apple's approval).