The fact that ISPs are forced to be transparent is in my opinion the only regulation we needed.
They're "forced" to be transparent. As mud.
They don't have to disclose any blocking or traffic shaping or anything else - if it's done for "network management" purposes. Basically, multiple internet-is-a-series-of-tubes-with-trucks wide loophole in the forced disclosure.
So no, they're not going to disclose anything because they're just going to say it's all because they have to manage their networks appropriately.
I would think that these electronic locks have to "fail unlocked" if the power is cut.
Most actually aren't powered - they've got a pack of AA batteries in the back (facing inside the room) that powers the whole unlock mechanism. Presumably they send a signal back to the key controller if the batteries start to run low so guests don't encounter a lock that doesn't work.
That way the cable that runs to each door is just a low voltage signalling cable that's incapable of carrying enough power for all the door locks.
The bigger issue IMHO is Luxottica. Ever wonder why a few pieces of plastic and metal you place on your face cost $200+ before you even buy lenses for them? And why those Taiwanese mail-order glasses places can sell you frames for only $15? It's because one company owns or has controlling interest in most of the popular eyeglass brands and a large fraction of stores worldwide, and they rig the prices.
Well, put in a less cumbersome way, Luxottica owns most of the "optical shops" out there, including a lot of the ones attached to your optometrist's office. It's a virtual monopoly. The actual real cost of eyeglasses is well under $20 - the frame is just a few pieces of metal and plastic which costs about $3 (even the fancy metals, OK, make it $5). The lenses are all mass manufactured - Nikon, Canon, etc, sell them for a few dollars apiece - these are not complex multi-element lenses with precise alignments after all.
It's so bad, in Canada a lot of prescriptions do not have the "PD" value on them (pupil distance - the distance between your pupils). This is because they want you to believe it takes a lot of specialty equipment to measure it, so you need your doctor or the optical store to measure it (and keep it secret from you).
The reason for this was a new online optical store Clearly Contacts started up and you enter in your prescription and they cut you a new set of glasses or contacts for around $35, including shipping, in about a week. (Of course, being in the province that Clearly Contacts is HQ'd in, the law states that the PD value must be measured and filled in). But they have a printable ruler and instructions on how to measure it if you're not so lucky.
If they aren't doing the aggregation to reduce the credit card fees than they don't really have a reason to exist IMO.
Patreon makes it really easy to reward patrons with, well, rewards. And there are other payment methods available, including "pay per devlierable" - for every video the creator makes, patrons pay. So if they do two videos a month, you pay twice a month for the video. Paypal doesn't make this easy to do (sending invoices to a thousand people isn't easy).
And then there's the rewards - Patreon makes it possible to give all the $5 and up patrons early access to a video - say they can watch it a week ahead of time. Or to send a file to all of them (e.g., some artists send concept art out). Others use it as a lucky draw - among all the $5+ people, someone gets a real physical copy of something.
You can do it all yourself and Paypal, but it's really a lot of administrivia that you're shoving off on Patreon to do so you can concentrate more on creating and less on the boring stuff.
They didnâ(TM)t ASK. Instead, they simply said âoeAll your wallets are belong to us.â
They forgot that trust, once broken, is damn near impossible to repair. I am reminded of an exchange in the British Parliament after Dunkirk, when an admiral was being upbraided for risking the fleet. The admiral replied, âoeWe can rebuild the fleet in thirty years. We can rebuild the tradition in three hundred.â
I may check in on Patreon in 2317.
Good for you. Now what are you going to do in the meantime?
Patreon could do these things as they're one of the top "tip jar" places on the web, and they manage things such that "creators" can offer donators special perks. All this managed on one convenient interface. Sure the creators could use Paypal, but then you lose out on the perk management.
So they did it, assuming everyone would see it this way.
They did explain later on what happened.
First off, they used to aggregate the payments - at the end of the month, they charged everyone. Great, except that lead to a problem of someone who say, donated on the 28th of the month, then paid again 3 days later. Not ideal. So then they decided they would do it on the anniversary, but then it resulted in increased fees for the creators because instead of being charged once, people were charged multiple times and incurring multiple fees.
So some creators complained again - they got $1200, but after fees, they got only $800. (Which happens because if you do $1 donations, the creator really only keeps around 65 cents of that if you billed individually. If you aggregate, the fees go down)
And yes, apparently fees are the #1 issue at Patreon - creators just complain constantly how much money is taken away. So Patreon decided to shift payment fees away from the creator and onto the donator in an effort to quell the complaints. End result was what happened last week when creators realized that the shift may mean more money for them per donator, but a lot of donators simply left.
I like it when the bridge computer has sparks shooting out and knocks out random ensign. You'd think the 24th century would be fly-by-wire and use optical or low-voltage control loops rather than high current conduits. I mean this stuff was around in the 1950s, significantly before the original series was filmed.
Nevermind that we have circuit breakers and fuses whose very reason to exist is to prevent dangerous overloads of power from actually destroying circuits and harming things and people.
And the National Electrical Code prohibits low voltage wiring from sharing the same conduit as high voltage (mains) wiring, for obvious reasons (to avoid mains voltage from showing up unexpectedly on low voltage wiring which often isn't sufficiently isolated to keep mains away from things humans may touch).
As far as I know, the goal of Elon Musk was to push other manufacturers into making electric cars.
I'd say he succeeded, at least partially.
The goal of Tesla is to prove to the world that electric cars do not have to suck. As in, you can only go to the store and you'll run out of battery. Or if you hit the accelerator pedal, the light would turn red before you got moving.
Tesla proved that, and more - they proved that electric cars are sporty and pretty much the future for performance cars because of the immense low-end torque available.
What Tesla did was prove electric vehicles are practical vehicles that families could use as their main daily driver and with the supercharger network, you could do some nice road trips, too.
enterprise needs easy to remove storage. Dell and HP let them DESTROY HDD's under warranty as well.
Just wait for some movie in post production getting leaked out of the apple repair shop when they can't remove the local storage.
Who does video post on internal hard drives? The Trashcan Mac Pro was notable because it has 6 Thunderbolt ports, to which you connect your disk arrays and perform your work. Thunderbolt is more than fast enough to handle the transfer speed of disk arrays that you'll be using. (After all, the assets of a movie can easily be 500+TB). If your Mac fails, you unplug the disk arrays and plug them into your new Mac.
And yes, video productions like it because they were using disk arrays already. Thunderbolt arrays are pricey, but available and fast.
Although I'm sure Apple does want Shazam for a number of reasons, one big one I could see is that now other companies and platforms will not be able to use Shazam.
Unlikely, especially if it's integrated into Apple Music - Apple Music is not restricted to iOS devices.
Plus, there's a lot of marketing opportunities - way too many ads have "Shazam this ad for more information" thing going for it
Indeed, it does not. 4 transactions/second is completely ridiculous. For example, Swiss domestic interbank transfers are 2M per day. That is 23 per second and that is one small country with 8M population. The 4 per second for Bitcoin is global.
And something like Visa network (VisaNet) is handling about 10K transactions per second globally. Peak VisaNet speeds are around 56K transactions per second.
And I"m sure one of the reasons it can handle the speed is it separates the actual payment handling from the initial authorization. VisaNet handles the authorizations in real-time, making sure your credit limit isn't reached, blocking out the authorized amount, etc. That's real time. The actual money settlement happens in a batch process at night where all the amounts have been aggregated so instead of sending millions of little IOUs all the time, the banks really just send one big lump payment that covers all the obligations at once.
And I'm sure peak transaction volumes can probably reach a million or so for short periods of time during the busiest of the busy shopping periods.
If it was bitcoin, something like Black Friday could easily meant "We did buy it, but the bitcoin network hasn't confirmed the transaction yet by Christmas...".
I think data backup is very important. What is even more important is making sure you can do recoveries from the backups.
Absolutely. If you haven't tested to make sure you can actually recover your data when you need it, you might discover you've been wasting your time, and at the worst possible moment. And, of course, that testing of your recovery procedure needs to include integrity testing so you have confidence the data you're recovering is what it's supposed to be.
My favorite quote is "Any idiot and his dog can write a backup program. However, it takes a real genius to write a restore program."
Yes, it's super easy to write a backup program. You can come up with one in 5 minutes in shell script. But if you want to be able to recover the data, it takes a lot more work and thinking. Heck, anyone can repackage Hello World as a backup program. (Make it say "Backup done!" instead).'
By testing recovery you're making sure your process works (make sure it's documented, because in the high-adrenaline environment of the server is down fix it fix it fix it, you want a solid monkey-dumb method that lets you get the server up and running again even if you have zero brain function left (distractions from people calling for a status update every minute, to maybe that alcoholic drink wasn't a good idea, etc), but you're also making sure the backup did something - there are way too many stories of everyone happy in knowing the backups were being done, only to realize that it broke six months ago because the tape drive jammed up or a staging server went offline, or other thing.
Those who were defending amazon.com's hardware+service to allow amazon.com to deliver items inside your home should remember this: software you don't exclusively control, can't vet, and aren't allowed to inspect, fix, or share (thus your willingness to do these things is moot) means you're not just trusting an unknowable number of people to open your door and do stuff in your home while everyone is away. Your home security and your privacy is also subject to security problems anywhere in the amazon.com system; people could come in and do stuff to your home without looking like they're breaking in (even though they are). It's unwise to create circumstances for a break-in that are indistinguishable from you letting them in.
Funny thing about that. Amazon's requirements for getting something to work with Alexa are far more lax - think any piece of IoT thing out there today can get Alexa certification. All Amazon wants is to slap a sticker on your product.
HomeKit certification is much harder - devices have to be shown to be secure before Apple will license it out.
Apple concentrates on security, privacy and ease of use, and in fact, if you don't need outside of home control, HomeKit can work offline. It doesn't require internet access (unless you want to control it outside the house) to do anything. Only remote operations require the cloud.
According to the article, Apple was informed of the vulnerability in October and won't be releasing a patch until next week. The patch is only coming out that "soon" because 9to5Mac is reporting on it, much like the "empty password for root" bug was reported to them weeks ago but only fixed when it went "viral" on Twitter.
Only if you want to misreport it as "a patch to fix it".
No, it's fixed already. You cannot exploit this. The fixes were applied all over the place - a lot of patches were applied to Apple's servers themselves to prevent its exploitation, and another patch was given earlier that disabled the function that was being exploited. (Defense in depth - it requires a series of things to work out, and Apple went and fixed every one). They applied patches from October through November - most of them on Apple's side, but one final one on iOS that disabled the vulnerable feature that allowed it to happen in the first place.
The patch next week re-enables the vulnerable feature in a more secure way.
That's why the vulnerability was revealed - it was no longer exploitable at all. And likely, Apple kept breaking the reproduction when they patched Siri and HomeKit on their end.
But hey, if you want to go around trying to exploit it, go right ahead.
If Minix were published under a GPL, instead of a BSD license, Minix developers could demand that ME publish the source code for their modifications used to create the spyware. It is precisely that kind of secretive and abusive misuse of open source work that free software and the GPL licenses was designed to prevent.
Nope, GPL wouldn't help you there, either. If Intel chose to use Linux instead, the spyware wouldn't be covered under the GPL. (And there's far more case history for this example than Minix - think of all the stuff that ships with Linux, including Android phones).
ME is a platform. Like Linux, or Windows, or Android, or whatever. At its base layer, it provides essential power management functionality to the CPU, so you can never disable it completely - doing so means you have a nice expensive paperweight as you need the ME firmware in order to get the chip to start booting code.
The spyware, AMT (remote admin tools), etc., all run on top of the ME platform. They are mere applications.When you hear of "disable ME", all it really means is the ME runtime environment is disabled, so you cannot run applications on top of it.
Why don't UPS and Fedex deliver early or late, from 6:00am to 8:00am or 6:00pm to 9pm? Then we would have no need for stupid keys or using some other store to pick up. Internet delivery has been around for almost 30 years and they can't get even this simple detail right.
They can. You just have to pay for the service. Because the drivers are human and want to get their shift done and return home to their families, so the extended hours option means paying someone overtime for it.
Oh, and before you say "but where is this on their service sheet" - it's not listed. There are plenty of services that are not listed. Like delivery on say, US Thanksgiving or Christmas. UPS and FedEx WILL do it, but you will pay dearly for the service. I've seen it used to overnight (you're paying for that service, so yes, it's overnight) items ASAP.
They offer lots of services. Late delivery is an option. Oh yeah, you also need to have an account with them and ship a ton of stuff with them. Be one of the top shippers and they will offer tons of options.
Oh yeah, it only matters to the shipper - the customer is the shipper - you the recipient is just an incidental party.
Why bother even wasting power on your unused memory then? Might as well unplug it and sell it for a few bucks. If it uses those extra unused gigs to display pages faster then who cares? People brag about how much ram they own then bitch when something actually uses it.
It's there to be used, but not wasted. Just because my PC has 64 gigs of RAM, doesn't mean Chrome can use all 64 gigs. In fact, I want Chrome to behave itself - to use as much memory as it needs, but no more. And to be well behaved enough in its memory access patterns than should it get swapped out, it doesn't have to swap everything in just to become responsive again. (Firefox was bad at this - if even a little bit of Firefox got swapped out, it became unresponsive until it was completely swapped back in).
Lots of things on my machine use lots of RAM. Enough that there's no "free" RAM - if Chrome isn't using it, it's being used by something else - a VM, another application, etc.
Extra Chrome memory usage isn't a problem, provided if it gets swapped out, it can be relatively performant by not requiring everything be swapped back in. Even if Chrome needs 32GB of RAM, if it still performs great when the OS cuts it down to 2GB of RAM (rest in swap), then Chrome is good. But if Chrome requires the OS to swap in 8+ GB in order to respond to a click on a tab, then it's using too much RAM>
Here's the thing. I've had laptop (both Mac and PC) motherboards fail more than oncde. If I didn't have a very current backup, I could still pop the hard drive or SSD out and retrieve my data with a $5 USB to SATA cable. With Apple, I'd have to beg an Apple store to retrieve my data, pay them if I was out of AppleDontCare, and have no guarantee that they even could. All for a savings of, what, $5? on a connector.
And why wouldn't you have a very current backup? Time Machine backs up your machine hourly these days. So even if your machine goes tits up you have a backup that's an hour old at most.
Though it would be nice if Apple would bring back Target Disk Mode - especially now they have USB-C and thunderbolt so lack of a connection is no excuse anymore. That was probably the ultimate Mac recovery mechanism - as long as enough of the system worked, you can get at your disk data.
I believe there's also a term for it, "backhoe fade".
Happens now and again - even when you follow all the rules. Most places have a "call before you dig" rule where if you blindly dig and disrupt services, you're responsible not only for the damage, but also for the repairs and remediation and other costs. (And of course, opening yourself up to other costs since it basically admits guilt - think 0of the whole neighbourhood of displaced people you need to pay hotels and other costs for because you hit a gas line).
Even so, you do hit unmarked utilities now and again - usually it's unused cabling that was forgotten about. But calling usually indemnifies you from damage costs since everyone thought it was a clear spot. Either way it's usually on the utility to fix it at their expense since you did the right thing and called to make sure you weren't digging where you shouldn't.
The patent is a bit hard to read, even as patents go. Best I can tell, they patented a particular system of using customers' public and private keys in two different cryptosystems to key the "vault" accounts used for an exchange, where the customer's balance on the block chain may have transactions awaiting confirmation. But it is a particularly difficult patent to read, especially if you don't know the technical details of crypto-currency.
So it's a bluff patent designed to say "We want to do this, but are not exactly how, but whatever way you can think of, it's covered somehow in this patent and fat chance you or your lawyer can understand what's going on".
The manufacturers are going to be able to drop the per-mile cost of Transportation As A Service (TAAS) to less than the per mile cost of owning your own vehicle, probably significantly less. This will make owning your own vehicle an unnecessary luxury or pain in the @$$ depending on how you want to look at it. Once it gets started, Americans will see the advantage and flock to it. Rich people who choose to continue owning their own cars won't be admired as they pass by, they'll be laughed at. The new generations are not like the old.
It's already happening now. Before, it was just rental cars you rented for a day or so. Now in places that have good public transit, you'll find you can rent cars on a per-hour basis. Companies like Care2Go and others offer fleets of cars to rent.
The monthly cost is around $150 or so (cheaper than most insurance plus maintenance fees) and the per-hour rate is fairly low, like $5 or so. Gas is included - if you need to top off the tank, there is a gas card in the car.
It's perfect for those who pretty much live by public transit (or can cycle), but do on occasion need to drive (go out on the weekend, for example). Some even offer higher rate cars if you're needing to haul some larger items around.
The fact that they're not all going bankrupt is showing that for a good chunk of people, they no longer need to own a car, or even a second car - they needed the car (or second) for light use, so can either live without a car most of the time, or no longer need to maintain/insure/expense of owning a second car that's also used only infrequently.
YouTube has apparently de-monetized most all of them (I guess YT has a political slant).
No, advertisers have a political slant. And most of them, especially with all the mass shootings going on, don't want their ads (or brands) associated with guns.
Remember, advertisers have some of the thinnest skins in the world, and YouTube monetization relies on ads to pay both YouTube and the content creator. If the advertiser doesn't like the videos their ad gets attached to, then they pull their ads or force YouTube to never show their ads on those kind of videos.
YouTube demonetized a lot of videos simply because there was no advertiser willing to pay to have their ads on those videos. And it doesn't seem like Google/Alphabet is wanting to pursue those kinds of ads either.
Effectively, the adpocalypse happened because before, advertisers were fairly blase about where their ads showed up. When the alt-right started becoming more "normalized" and expressing hate and all that was more common, advertisers started taking note and they started pulling out of YouTube ads. And then it happened a few more times - advertisers seeing their ads on videos they deemed inappropriate, and pulled even more of their ads from YouTube. So YouTube was forced to crack down because they were losing their revenue source. They could ban all those videos that caused problems, but that likely will have more problems in the end, so it was easier to demonetize the videos and keep them up.
That way all those people could still post their videos just fine, they just had to contend with not getting paid for them (but that's how it all started anyhow - you posted videos on YouTube and didn't expect payment).
Common practice, partially working chips are sold with the broken components turned off. The level of brokenness varies, in some cases there may only be negligible defects. That was the case with several AMD processors years ago and it was fairly easy to turn the dormant cores back on. Same with the old pencil trick to run the processors at a higher native clock speed without external overclocking. Nevertheless, they should have named the crippled GPUs differently. Rather naive to think that there will be no confusion when selling two different things by the same name.
It's actually a really common practice, and not just for defective GPUs.
A modern chip requires easily $2-3M when you send it to be fabbed - a single mask costs $100,000 by itself, and modern 10+ metal layer ICs require at least 10-20 masks for the metal layers alone, then there's the masks for the transistors, etc, so you're already spending $2-3M on masks alone. It's why chip revisions are like A0, A1, B0, B1, etc. Minor stepping changes (A0->A1, for example) imply only the metal masks changed - masks are so expensive that there are tons of unconnected transistors and gates sitting idle on the silicon. The reason for this is the space is there, so you might as well fab it in (they're free), so if there is a problem, you have spare transistors and gates available to fix it. So the metal layers changed only to accommodate the fix that rewires and potentially uses these spare transistors and gates. Bigger stepping changes, from A3 to B0, mean the entire mask set was changed, including the silicon transistor layers itself (either they ran out of resources, or as is often the case, they redo the design to get more speed out of it too).
Also because of this, one design almost always encompasses many SKUs. It owuld not surprise me if the x60 series all used the same silicon design, just the unneeded parts (or bad parts) are disabled, usually by blowing fuses
I haven't used any of those in a decade or more. I was with Koodo and Virgin for a while, now I'm with Fido. And my bill is currently the lowest it's ever been; just $15 a month for 3 gigs of data.
Yes, most Canadians are with one of the "big three", but that's to be expected... that's why they're the big three. Doesn't mean you can't shop around.
Except Fido, Koodo, Virgin, Lucky are still part of the big 3. Fido (and Chattr, though they were closed down) is Rogers, Koodo is Telus and Virgin is Bell. And Bell started Lucky very recently. The only true independents were Wind (now Freedom, part of Shaw - Shaw's a big cable TV and cable Internet, a minor telephone player, and now a wireless player) and Mobilicity (bankrupt and acquired by Rogers I believe).
Meh, if they do try this extortion BS I'll just stop watching TV and movies altogether and go play more video games and go out hiking more often. It'll probably be the best thing to ever happen to me.
Get hiking, then. Video games will be throttled to heck and back as best as they can, making multiplayer online gaming impossible unless you subscribe to the package. Perhaps your single player game is unaffected, if you can get it downloaded in the first place...
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They're "forced" to be transparent. As mud.
They don't have to disclose any blocking or traffic shaping or anything else - if it's done for "network management" purposes. Basically, multiple internet-is-a-series-of-tubes-with-trucks wide loophole in the forced disclosure.
So no, they're not going to disclose anything because they're just going to say it's all because they have to manage their networks appropriately.
Most actually aren't powered - they've got a pack of AA batteries in the back (facing inside the room) that powers the whole unlock mechanism. Presumably they send a signal back to the key controller if the batteries start to run low so guests don't encounter a lock that doesn't work.
That way the cable that runs to each door is just a low voltage signalling cable that's incapable of carrying enough power for all the door locks.
Well, put in a less cumbersome way, Luxottica owns most of the "optical shops" out there, including a lot of the ones attached to your optometrist's office. It's a virtual monopoly. The actual real cost of eyeglasses is well under $20 - the frame is just a few pieces of metal and plastic which costs about $3 (even the fancy metals, OK, make it $5). The lenses are all mass manufactured - Nikon, Canon, etc, sell them for a few dollars apiece - these are not complex multi-element lenses with precise alignments after all.
It's so bad, in Canada a lot of prescriptions do not have the "PD" value on them (pupil distance - the distance between your pupils). This is because they want you to believe it takes a lot of specialty equipment to measure it, so you need your doctor or the optical store to measure it (and keep it secret from you).
The reason for this was a new online optical store Clearly Contacts started up and you enter in your prescription and they cut you a new set of glasses or contacts for around $35, including shipping, in about a week. (Of course, being in the province that Clearly Contacts is HQ'd in, the law states that the PD value must be measured and filled in). But they have a printable ruler and instructions on how to measure it if you're not so lucky.
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Patreon makes it really easy to reward patrons with, well, rewards. And there are other payment methods available, including "pay per devlierable" - for every video the creator makes, patrons pay. So if they do two videos a month, you pay twice a month for the video. Paypal doesn't make this easy to do (sending invoices to a thousand people isn't easy).
And then there's the rewards - Patreon makes it possible to give all the $5 and up patrons early access to a video - say they can watch it a week ahead of time. Or to send a file to all of them (e.g., some artists send concept art out). Others use it as a lucky draw - among all the $5+ people, someone gets a real physical copy of something.
You can do it all yourself and Paypal, but it's really a lot of administrivia that you're shoving off on Patreon to do so you can concentrate more on creating and less on the boring stuff.
Good for you. Now what are you going to do in the meantime?
Patreon could do these things as they're one of the top "tip jar" places on the web, and they manage things such that "creators" can offer donators special perks. All this managed on one convenient interface. Sure the creators could use Paypal, but then you lose out on the perk management.
So they did it, assuming everyone would see it this way.
They did explain later on what happened.
First off, they used to aggregate the payments - at the end of the month, they charged everyone. Great, except that lead to a problem of someone who say, donated on the 28th of the month, then paid again 3 days later. Not ideal. So then they decided they would do it on the anniversary, but then it resulted in increased fees for the creators because instead of being charged once, people were charged multiple times and incurring multiple fees.
So some creators complained again - they got $1200, but after fees, they got only $800. (Which happens because if you do $1 donations, the creator really only keeps around 65 cents of that if you billed individually. If you aggregate, the fees go down)
And yes, apparently fees are the #1 issue at Patreon - creators just complain constantly how much money is taken away. So Patreon decided to shift payment fees away from the creator and onto the donator in an effort to quell the complaints. End result was what happened last week when creators realized that the shift may mean more money for them per donator, but a lot of donators simply left.
Nevermind that we have circuit breakers and fuses whose very reason to exist is to prevent dangerous overloads of power from actually destroying circuits and harming things and people.
And the National Electrical Code prohibits low voltage wiring from sharing the same conduit as high voltage (mains) wiring, for obvious reasons (to avoid mains voltage from showing up unexpectedly on low voltage wiring which often isn't sufficiently isolated to keep mains away from things humans may touch).
The goal of Tesla is to prove to the world that electric cars do not have to suck. As in, you can only go to the store and you'll run out of battery. Or if you hit the accelerator pedal, the light would turn red before you got moving.
Tesla proved that, and more - they proved that electric cars are sporty and pretty much the future for performance cars because of the immense low-end torque available.
What Tesla did was prove electric vehicles are practical vehicles that families could use as their main daily driver and with the supercharger network, you could do some nice road trips, too.
Who does video post on internal hard drives? The Trashcan Mac Pro was notable because it has 6 Thunderbolt ports, to which you connect your disk arrays and perform your work. Thunderbolt is more than fast enough to handle the transfer speed of disk arrays that you'll be using. (After all, the assets of a movie can easily be 500+TB). If your Mac fails, you unplug the disk arrays and plug them into your new Mac.
And yes, video productions like it because they were using disk arrays already. Thunderbolt arrays are pricey, but available and fast.
Unlikely, especially if it's integrated into Apple Music - Apple Music is not restricted to iOS devices.
Plus, there's a lot of marketing opportunities - way too many ads have "Shazam this ad for more information" thing going for it
And something like Visa network (VisaNet) is handling about 10K transactions per second globally. Peak VisaNet speeds are around 56K transactions per second.
And I"m sure one of the reasons it can handle the speed is it separates the actual payment handling from the initial authorization. VisaNet handles the authorizations in real-time, making sure your credit limit isn't reached, blocking out the authorized amount, etc. That's real time. The actual money settlement happens in a batch process at night where all the amounts have been aggregated so instead of sending millions of little IOUs all the time, the banks really just send one big lump payment that covers all the obligations at once.
And I'm sure peak transaction volumes can probably reach a million or so for short periods of time during the busiest of the busy shopping periods.
If it was bitcoin, something like Black Friday could easily meant "We did buy it, but the bitcoin network hasn't confirmed the transaction yet by Christmas...".
My favorite quote is "Any idiot and his dog can write a backup program. However, it takes a real genius to write a restore program."
Yes, it's super easy to write a backup program. You can come up with one in 5 minutes in shell script. But if you want to be able to recover the data, it takes a lot more work and thinking. Heck, anyone can repackage Hello World as a backup program. (Make it say "Backup done!" instead).'
By testing recovery you're making sure your process works (make sure it's documented, because in the high-adrenaline environment of the server is down fix it fix it fix it, you want a solid monkey-dumb method that lets you get the server up and running again even if you have zero brain function left (distractions from people calling for a status update every minute, to maybe that alcoholic drink wasn't a good idea, etc), but you're also making sure the backup did something - there are way too many stories of everyone happy in knowing the backups were being done, only to realize that it broke six months ago because the tape drive jammed up or a staging server went offline, or other thing.
Here's more information on HomeKit versus Alexa.
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Funny thing about that. Amazon's requirements for getting something to work with Alexa are far more lax - think any piece of IoT thing out there today can get Alexa certification. All Amazon wants is to slap a sticker on your product.
HomeKit certification is much harder - devices have to be shown to be secure before Apple will license it out.
Apple concentrates on security, privacy and ease of use, and in fact, if you don't need outside of home control, HomeKit can work offline. It doesn't require internet access (unless you want to control it outside the house) to do anything. Only remote operations require the cloud.
According to the article, Apple was informed of the vulnerability in October and won't be releasing a patch until next week. The patch is only coming out that "soon" because 9to5Mac is reporting on it, much like the "empty password for root" bug was reported to them weeks ago but only fixed when it went "viral" on Twitter.
Only if you want to misreport it as "a patch to fix it".
No, it's fixed already. You cannot exploit this. The fixes were applied all over the place - a lot of patches were applied to Apple's servers themselves to prevent its exploitation, and another patch was given earlier that disabled the function that was being exploited. (Defense in depth - it requires a series of things to work out, and Apple went and fixed every one). They applied patches from October through November - most of them on Apple's side, but one final one on iOS that disabled the vulnerable feature that allowed it to happen in the first place.
The patch next week re-enables the vulnerable feature in a more secure way.
That's why the vulnerability was revealed - it was no longer exploitable at all. And likely, Apple kept breaking the reproduction when they patched Siri and HomeKit on their end.
But hey, if you want to go around trying to exploit it, go right ahead.
Nope, GPL wouldn't help you there, either. If Intel chose to use Linux instead, the spyware wouldn't be covered under the GPL. (And there's far more case history for this example than Minix - think of all the stuff that ships with Linux, including Android phones).
ME is a platform. Like Linux, or Windows, or Android, or whatever. At its base layer, it provides essential power management functionality to the CPU, so you can never disable it completely - doing so means you have a nice expensive paperweight as you need the ME firmware in order to get the chip to start booting code.
The spyware, AMT (remote admin tools), etc., all run on top of the ME platform. They are mere applications.When you hear of "disable ME", all it really means is the ME runtime environment is disabled, so you cannot run applications on top of it.
They can. You just have to pay for the service. Because the drivers are human and want to get their shift done and return home to their families, so the extended hours option means paying someone overtime for it.
Oh, and before you say "but where is this on their service sheet" - it's not listed. There are plenty of services that are not listed. Like delivery on say, US Thanksgiving or Christmas. UPS and FedEx WILL do it, but you will pay dearly for the service. I've seen it used to overnight (you're paying for that service, so yes, it's overnight) items ASAP.
They offer lots of services. Late delivery is an option. Oh yeah, you also need to have an account with them and ship a ton of stuff with them. Be one of the top shippers and they will offer tons of options.
Oh yeah, it only matters to the shipper - the customer is the shipper - you the recipient is just an incidental party.
It's there to be used, but not wasted. Just because my PC has 64 gigs of RAM, doesn't mean Chrome can use all 64 gigs. In fact, I want Chrome to behave itself - to use as much memory as it needs, but no more. And to be well behaved enough in its memory access patterns than should it get swapped out, it doesn't have to swap everything in just to become responsive again. (Firefox was bad at this - if even a little bit of Firefox got swapped out, it became unresponsive until it was completely swapped back in).
Lots of things on my machine use lots of RAM. Enough that there's no "free" RAM - if Chrome isn't using it, it's being used by something else - a VM, another application, etc.
Extra Chrome memory usage isn't a problem, provided if it gets swapped out, it can be relatively performant by not requiring everything be swapped back in. Even if Chrome needs 32GB of RAM, if it still performs great when the OS cuts it down to 2GB of RAM (rest in swap), then Chrome is good. But if Chrome requires the OS to swap in 8+ GB in order to respond to a click on a tab, then it's using too much RAM>
And why wouldn't you have a very current backup? Time Machine backs up your machine hourly these days. So even if your machine goes tits up you have a backup that's an hour old at most.
Though it would be nice if Apple would bring back Target Disk Mode - especially now they have USB-C and thunderbolt so lack of a connection is no excuse anymore. That was probably the ultimate Mac recovery mechanism - as long as enough of the system worked, you can get at your disk data.
I believe there's also a term for it, "backhoe fade".
Happens now and again - even when you follow all the rules. Most places have a "call before you dig" rule where if you blindly dig and disrupt services, you're responsible not only for the damage, but also for the repairs and remediation and other costs. (And of course, opening yourself up to other costs since it basically admits guilt - think 0of the whole neighbourhood of displaced people you need to pay hotels and other costs for because you hit a gas line).
Even so, you do hit unmarked utilities now and again - usually it's unused cabling that was forgotten about. But calling usually indemnifies you from damage costs since everyone thought it was a clear spot. Either way it's usually on the utility to fix it at their expense since you did the right thing and called to make sure you weren't digging where you shouldn't.
So it's a bluff patent designed to say "We want to do this, but are not exactly how, but whatever way you can think of, it's covered somehow in this patent and fat chance you or your lawyer can understand what's going on".
It's already happening now. Before, it was just rental cars you rented for a day or so. Now in places that have good public transit, you'll find you can rent cars on a per-hour basis. Companies like Care2Go and others offer fleets of cars to rent.
The monthly cost is around $150 or so (cheaper than most insurance plus maintenance fees) and the per-hour rate is fairly low, like $5 or so. Gas is included - if you need to top off the tank, there is a gas card in the car.
It's perfect for those who pretty much live by public transit (or can cycle), but do on occasion need to drive (go out on the weekend, for example). Some even offer higher rate cars if you're needing to haul some larger items around.
The fact that they're not all going bankrupt is showing that for a good chunk of people, they no longer need to own a car, or even a second car - they needed the car (or second) for light use, so can either live without a car most of the time, or no longer need to maintain/insure/expense of owning a second car that's also used only infrequently.
No, advertisers have a political slant. And most of them, especially with all the mass shootings going on, don't want their ads (or brands) associated with guns.
Remember, advertisers have some of the thinnest skins in the world, and YouTube monetization relies on ads to pay both YouTube and the content creator. If the advertiser doesn't like the videos their ad gets attached to, then they pull their ads or force YouTube to never show their ads on those kind of videos.
YouTube demonetized a lot of videos simply because there was no advertiser willing to pay to have their ads on those videos. And it doesn't seem like Google/Alphabet is wanting to pursue those kinds of ads either.
Effectively, the adpocalypse happened because before, advertisers were fairly blase about where their ads showed up. When the alt-right started becoming more "normalized" and expressing hate and all that was more common, advertisers started taking note and they started pulling out of YouTube ads. And then it happened a few more times - advertisers seeing their ads on videos they deemed inappropriate, and pulled even more of their ads from YouTube. So YouTube was forced to crack down because they were losing their revenue source. They could ban all those videos that caused problems, but that likely will have more problems in the end, so it was easier to demonetize the videos and keep them up.
That way all those people could still post their videos just fine, they just had to contend with not getting paid for them (but that's how it all started anyhow - you posted videos on YouTube and didn't expect payment).
It's actually a really common practice, and not just for defective GPUs.
A modern chip requires easily $2-3M when you send it to be fabbed - a single mask costs $100,000 by itself, and modern 10+ metal layer ICs require at least 10-20 masks for the metal layers alone, then there's the masks for the transistors, etc, so you're already spending $2-3M on masks alone. It's why chip revisions are like A0, A1, B0, B1, etc. Minor stepping changes (A0->A1, for example) imply only the metal masks changed - masks are so expensive that there are tons of unconnected transistors and gates sitting idle on the silicon. The reason for this is the space is there, so you might as well fab it in (they're free), so if there is a problem, you have spare transistors and gates available to fix it. So the metal layers changed only to accommodate the fix that rewires and potentially uses these spare transistors and gates. Bigger stepping changes, from A3 to B0, mean the entire mask set was changed, including the silicon transistor layers itself (either they ran out of resources, or as is often the case, they redo the design to get more speed out of it too).
Also because of this, one design almost always encompasses many SKUs. It owuld not surprise me if the x60 series all used the same silicon design, just the unneeded parts (or bad parts) are disabled, usually by blowing fuses
Except Fido, Koodo, Virgin, Lucky are still part of the big 3. Fido (and Chattr, though they were closed down) is Rogers, Koodo is Telus and Virgin is Bell. And Bell started Lucky very recently. The only true independents were Wind (now Freedom, part of Shaw - Shaw's a big cable TV and cable Internet, a minor telephone player, and now a wireless player) and Mobilicity (bankrupt and acquired by Rogers I believe).
Get hiking, then. Video games will be throttled to heck and back as best as they can, making multiplayer online gaming impossible unless you subscribe to the package. Perhaps your single player game is unaffected, if you can get it downloaded in the first place...