It's closer to the fact that the brain does in wetware to compensate for relatively poor sensory instruments it has access to.
The brain is remarkably powerful, but the human sensory organs are relatively primitive - the eyes have lower resolution than even a modern day smartphone camera, the ears are relatively terrible, and all around as a species, we don't have the greatest senses.
But to compensate, the brain is remarkably powerful. It has a stupidly powerful sensor-fusion complex (merging multiple senses together to form a cohesive image of the world around us), the vision system is remarkably complex and has direct access to the motor control system (your eyes dart around rapidly, so even though the resolution ix low, the fact that the eyes are rapidly scanning around let the brain generate a larger detailed image of the world). The ears are powered by memory so even if you can't hear something clearly, you can make it out.
Of course, the fact that all this is done in the brain equivalent of software means it's easy to trick - we call them optical or aural illusions, and even this is a form of it - the brain expects a thud, so you experience the thud, even if the ears don't actually hear it. It's just like the brain will compensate for the blind spot in the eye by interpolating around.
Is this confined to Canada or did it leak to other companies? 1.6Million sounds like a small number of accounts. But as we saw with Yahoo, breach reporting tends to be an underestimate.
Paypal is my most dangerous account since it's hooked to live bank accounts so I use my best passwords for it.
Your Paypal account is safe. What happened was TIO Networks was breached. Paypal acquired TIO Networks in July of this year and discovered the breach.
Paypal itself was not breached, and if Paypal wasn't acquiring them, it wouldn't even be a part of the topic. However, since Paypal did acquire them, they discovered 1.6M TIO Networks accounts were breached.
It's confusing, but Paypal itself was fine. Paypal just found a breach in one of the companies it recently acquired.
I've always wondered... what if Twitter simply put on the day the vote happens that access to Trump's twitter feed was restricted unless you paid for the "premium twitter" account package that lets you access to celebrities and other big name twitter users?
All for another $50/month. That's only fair right?
What kind of content is being demonitized and why? Taking away ad income from say hate speech, trippy kid-targeted adult content, ISIS execution videos and so on is basically a form of moderation. That sort of thing is already covered by the existing TOS, so I don't have a problem with it.
It's not even a TOS thing. Advertisers are a very conservative bunch, and they have a whole list of topics to which they will and will not advertise with.
What happened was Google screwed up and a few of those ads were shown on content the advertisers said to never show their ad on, so a lot of big names pulled ads.
This especially so with people like PewDiePie who basically turned from new media hero to pariah in a single video, causing advertisers to withdraw ads in shock. A lot of YouTubers who obviously didn't know how ads work were stunned when monetization got pulled on their videos because they thought they were going after "free money" - produce whatever the hell you want, ask YouTube to stick ads on it and reap the rewards.
Well, the "adpocalypse" happened and "content creators" were no longer isolated from the fact that they only make money when there are advertisers willing to advertise on their videos. No longer did clicking "monetize" mean easy money - advertisers were very cautious about what content their ads appear with, and are really quick if they see their ad on something they disagree with. And face it - advertisers have the thinnest skins around - they're deathly afraid of offending someone, anyone. Unfortunately, a lot of YouTube "shock jocks" found that out the hard way.
The whole point of a GUI operating system (e.g. Windows) is NOT having to type the name of every program you want to run, like you did back in the days of MS-DOS.
Nothing like going backward 25 years.
No, it's good UI design.
If you don't want to type the name of the program, you never have to. The start menu/whatever it is lets you find the application visually like you always could.
But the search bar method lets you accelerate getting to the commonly used programs you use. For example, it's far quicker for me to hit Windows and type "calc" then Enter, than try to find Calculator by going to Start, All Programs, Accessories, Calculator. It's not much different in time - maybe one second by typing versus 2-3 using the menu, and maybe I only save a minute total every day, but it feels quicker that way.
UI fuckery is forcing a person to use one way over all else. For example, the first Mac back in 1984 had a keyboard that lacked cursor keys. You were expected to use the mouse instead. That's awful. It's also bad if keyboard accelerators didn't exist - why do we use Ctrl/Command-Z/C/X/V for undo/copy/cut/paste? Why shouldn't we just use the Edit menu? Why not go File..Save instead of Ctrl/Command-S?
Now, I don't do this with all programs - only the few that I use often enough that I learn their names. I wouldn't do it to start Word since I don't launch Word dozens of times a day.
Does anyone trust Intel or Dell (or AMD or anyone else) enough at this point to actually believe that the chip is disabled? Or that it won't just be magically re-enabled the first time you log in to the machine? How can anyone independently verify that the chip is actually disabled and stays that way?
We need to move back towards more open hardware and things like physical switches to turn devices on and off, DIP switches to configure hardware, and on-board fuses that can be permanently blown to disable things you don't want. Oh, and mainboards/CPUs/chipsets that don't have this deep-state backdoor bullshit built-in in the first place.
None of this shit should have EVER found its way into consumer-grade hardware. EVER. The out of band management hardware should only have been able to be ordered on enterprise grade servers. This is really the only valid use case for this kind of technology. I've worked in a number of large corporate environments, and never once has the ME/vPro shit even been used on desktop PCs. Build it in to the servers that need it, and if a company really NEEDS it for their desktop support method, then it should be a special order.
Until it's physically gone from the board, you can bet it's never going to be permanently disabled.
It cannot be disabled. It can only be put into a neutered state. The reason is the ME firmware is required to manage CPU power states - power up, boot, DVFS, and power management. It's a required element (modern processors have very complex power needs and taking them into and out of low power states is an involved affair including rail sequencing and ramping). It's required.
Even the modern ARM SoC has a ARM core handling the power transition states - it's what actually starts executing code first, which then sequences the power up of the main cores (the one you bought the phone for) including loading their initial boot code into some memory device and setting the reset condition registers so they will begin execution from that location. (Power management is tricky, when you have often 20+ different regulators and sub-regulators to manage, so a processor is dedicated for just that purpose).
And no, it's not reserved for servers. Servers have IPMI or ILO type systems which are additional processors that allow remote management of the server. This is great, if you're dealing with a server.
But computer users don't buy servers - most users are plunked in front of what is effectively a desktop PC, the vast majority of which have no remote management capability. Sure, you can install various remote management software on most operating systems, but that really handles maybe 50% of the support cases out there - really the basics of "I need software installed" or "what does this error mean". But if the user comes in and their PC is dark...? You need to walk on over. Which could usually mean you need to hit the power button. But it could mean the OS is dead. So AMT (Advanced management tool) was created, which is an application running on ME that provides power-off control of the PC remotely. (ME is a platform, you can run applications on the platform). Which is great for corporations, especially those larger than a single floor of a building. Same reason you allow remote management of servers that why you want AMT on your machines.
Why is it on all Intel chips? Easy - because all chips need the firmware anyways (in order to power up and boot), and since the silicon is the same, it's really just one software release - depending on the lasered-in SKU, the functions of ME may range from practically nothing to full application availability.
Note that "disabling" ME is really meaning that you're blocking applications from loading on the ME platform. The ME firmware and kernel is running because you still have to manage the processor.
And sorry, but open hardware really cannot get away from this - at least if you want reasonably performant hardware with great battery life. We've gone beyon
To be fair to the Kernel Team, the major thing they objected to in GPL3 back then was the anti-TiVo-ization terms. These would prevent lock-down of the software such that the end user would be blocked from updating it. I am told that a number of products gained a "developer mode" just to comply with GPL3. This is something we should encourage, IMO. But perhaps the Kernel Team are still more oriented to having companies use Linux than keeping it as Free as I would like.
Here's the thing - GPLv3 would basically halt all adoption of Linux, period. It's already caused a lot of issues with companies and except for the few whose main line of business doesn't really involve software, GPLv3 software is essentially verboten in use. (The companies who don't care are those like computer makers who pre-load a computer with Linux - GPLv3 doesn't affect them).
Had Linux gone GPLv3, you'd basically see a complete halt to Linux development - companies will stop working on the GPLv3 version and continue to work on the old one under GPLv2. At the same time, you'd see a third party kernel start to take shape - perhaps a BSD kernel. So Linux would likely fork as companies will simply ship ancient kernels, while others adopt a BSD kernel and develop on that.
You have to remember, the GPLv3 is halting adoption of a lot of software products - companies are instead going for GPLv2 licensed products or purchasing commercial alternatives. Heck, one of the reasons why Apple put so much time and effort into LLVM was presumably they saw the writing on the wall with GPLv3 and started grooming a replacement for GCC. This despite the fact that OS X would be largely unaffected by the change (the source is available anyways, and you can always compile and run your own version).
Other projects like busybox have not "upgraded" to GPLv3 for the same reasons - commercial use is a huge reason for their existence.
But would he have been arrested for flying the drone if he had not dropped leaflets? It is likely that hundreds of people fly drones within 5 miles of SFO or OAK everyday. How many of them are arrested? Selective enforcement of the law can be a form of oppression.
No, he would be arrested because he flew into a no-fly zone. Stadiums are restricted airspace (from ground to 3000 feet above ground) - you are absolutely not allowed to fly in restricted airspace (except in emergencies). This applies whether we're talking drone, a Cessna 150, a 747, or military jet.
Now, it's possible that many people are flying drones illegally. The reason it's hard is because most of these flights are transient in nature - if you have a drone on the ground, it's legal. While it's flying, it's not legal. But if the drone is back on the ground by the time the cops arrive, well, unless there's evidence it's your drone flying illegally, they really can't do anything.
This guy was stupid, because he left behind evidence, so even if he was back on the ground, it's easy to tie him to the action and thus, the illegal flight. If all he did was fly a drone with a banner on it, it's a lot harder to tie him to the action especially if he got rid of the banner.
Basically, stupid people get caught. And stupid includes making it plainly obvious you're doing something illegal.
It's a "known issue" - every iPhone with an Intel modem has the same problem. It's why - if you have the choice - you want the model with the Qualcomm modem.
Apple is trying to make Intel modems "a thing" because they want to ditch Qualcomm. (See their recent feuding with Qualcomm.) But Intel modems are terrible. They're slower than Qualcomm's modem (so Apple artificially caps Qualcomm's modems in firmware) and - as you noticed and this article mentions again - they don't work at all at lower signal to noise ratios. They basically only work if you're close to the tower - as soon as you start to move away, they stop working.
This isn't really news - everyone knows the Intel modems are terrible - but Apple uses them anyway because they don't want to have to pay Qualcomm full price for a modem that works.
It's actually the problem. Qualcomm is using their secret sauce of patented tricks to keep working good and fast, because that secret sauce is what keeps people using Qualcomm.
It's why Qualcomm has the monopoly it does and why everyone is trying to ditch them. There aren't many modem manufacturers, and Apple making Intel "a thing" goes way back to the original iPhone (Apple chose Infineon for the modem provider, now owned by Intel).
Performance wise, you're right, Qualcomm rules. It's why Qualcomm charges what they charge for the chips, because they perform great. Power wise is a whole different issue altogether - Apple chose Infineon for the original iPhone because it was very aggressive at saving power - so much so that well, it took down the AT&T network. (At the time, Cingular/AT&T was begging Apple to use Qualcomm modems, the European Infineon ones saved lots of power but were adapted to the European networks that had expanded control channels. Apple felt that the power savings were worth it, and with initial projections of maybe a marketshare of 1% after 5 years, surely one phone can't take down the network...).
Apple is pissed off at Qualcomm because Qualcomm's fees are based on the retail price of the phone - if you make a $500 smartphone and a $1000 smartphone, use the exact same chip, the $1000 phone will cost you double in Qualcomm fees even though it's the same, and that's where Apple disagrees. Qualcomm knows they can charge it because they are performant, and they are pissed Apple cripples Qualcomm chips to Intel performance.
In short, yes Qualcomm are faster. Why, it's because Qualcomm has secret patent stuff they either are not sharing (or don't have to share) in order to make LTE faster. Apple is trying to get Intel going - either because their chips have better battery performance, or more importantly, trying to get a viable alternative to Qualcomm on the market and break the Qualcomm monopoly. There are few modem manufacturers out there - Qualcomm owned basically the lion's share of modem chipsets, then there's Intel and I think MediaTek.
Anyhow, of any cellphone manufacture rout there, perhaps Apple is the only one that could make a viable alternative to Qualcomm, which is why companies like Samsung are cooperating with Apple. (Qualcomm is also why Samsung phones in the US don't use Samsung processors, but instead use Qualcomm processors)
Why HVDC? DC is a bitch to convert between voltage and current, and it (generally) is more dangerous at any given voltage, though to be fair at transmission voltage levels it makes little difference if you're a DC or AC flavored charcoal lump.
If your grid is disparate, then getting them into synchronicity can be a pain. With modern semiconductors, it is however possible to rectify and invert DC into AC quite painlessly.
This is used for grids that have historically never been tied together, as well as new grids which never were synchronized. In Texas, there's a grid intertie that connects the three major US and Canadian grids together so power imbalances can be dealt with. But trying to synchronize the grids is a next to impossible problem, so the intertie uses HVDC internally so it's able to move power between the grids as necessary.
I believe China has a HVDC distribution network for the same reason - too many little grids to synchronize up.
HVDC systems do have lots of advantages over traditional AC systems.
Maybe you should clarify on whether the Mylar bag is actually a metal foil bag that's just using Mylar for added strength, gas/moisture barrier purposes and/or electrical resistivity.
Mylar is (generically) metal coated plastic film - I'm sure DuPont has a specific meaning for it, but that's what people refer to as Mylar. It is rarely used to refer to uncoated film itself. .
If you've ever seen party balloons, keep they away from power lines, because you can see plenty of examples of them shorting out the low voltage power lines all over YouTube. That's the balloon contacting the power lines and the plastic is so thin that it's not an insulating barrier, so it's effectively forming a short and thus sparking.
You also see them in as snack bags where the plastic seals air in and the metal layer protects against light.
Either way, it forms a fairly effective faraday cage.
And yes, anti-static bags are sometimes mistakenly referred to as mylar bags from time to time.
I had no idea Android (Google?) phones displayed ads like that. Why would people put up with it?
Because of two facts.
Android users are cheap, and Google features free over paid apps (in the early days). The latter came about when Google Pay/Wallet/Whatever was in two countries or so, so people with paid apps were hidden from all the other countries in the world. They adopted free apps in order to be sold worldwide, and to eat, so in-app ads and such were the way the developers were paid for free apps.
The former just reflects on the fact that most android users will not pay for apps (as say, compared to iOS users). This directly affects whether or not developers will offer ad-free paid versions of an app.
I suspect that this was brought into the Core line due to those people building servers needing remote management using i7, etc. chips, but that's just a guess.
No, it was brought into the main chips because servers have stuff like IPMI and ILO for remote management, but employee PCs do not. And the same reason servers can be remotely managed can be applied to employee PCs and laptops. The only difference is servers are usually concentrated in a few areas, so it's much easier for 10,000 servers to be locally managed than 10,000 PCs, making the case for remote management of PCs even more critical.
You can do bare metal bringups - perhaps the employee got to their desk and their PC is dead - it won't load the OS and there's lots of error messages. IT's effectively ILO or IPMI for consumer grade machines.
Of course, you can't "disable" IME - you can neuter it. The firmware that controls power and boot and startup and all that must still run in order for the main CPU to be brought up, so you need IME to do that part. Neutering basically disables all the remore management while leaving the power management code still active.
They are probably jerks themselves sticking their noses into their employees whereabouts - control vs trust. It says more about the management than the employees.
Well there are a few industries that are fully tracked - truckers for example are fully tracked and their whereabouts are known to the dispatcher at all times. This is usually not a good thing (dispatchers hate truckers who "waste time"), though it does allow a customer to ask the trucking company where the truck is in case the loading dock is full.
It also sometimes helps when the truck is hijacked, run off the road, or other emergency. Sometimes it happens without leaving a witness mark on the side of the road (especially in winter) so unless the dispatcher notices the signal is lost and where the last location pings were, no one might actually notice for days.
I'm assuming this company did it so they can advise customers that a technician is coming around. Think of it this way - the employee gets a new route uploaded to his phone and GPS tracks his progress. The employee keeps the truck at his house and simply starts and ends the day at home - no need to commute to the office to pick up the work orders - they're automatically transmitted to the phone, and GPS tracks what's been done If he needs to return to the base for parts or supplies, it can be scheduled in when he's nearby. It's telecommuting for the new era - and anyone with a service agreement probably experienced it - the techs are located all around, probably their house having a stockpile of common parts and they're dispatched by phone to the busienss needing service. This way the techs are home when idle instead of just wasting time at some office everyone had to commute to.
he talk about people needing to do trips that long regularly is mostly just straw men from EV fanboys...
No, the real issue people have with EVs is that people don't want to have to have a separate car for trips they only do a few times a year or because something they didn't expect happened. Like a relative or close friend falling ill or otherwise needing your immediate help someplace that isn't far enough for a plane ride to make sense, but is also too far away and/or too remote for an EV. Renting a car is obviously an option, but it's expensive and can be pretty inconvenient if it is has to be done at short notice.
No, the issue is not everyday inconvenience, it's being inconvenient when that inconvenience strikes at the most... Well... inconvenient times.
No, the real issue is people are exaggerating. Because going by that need to do a long car trip a few times a year, they'd be driving 3 ton pickups because they'd have heavy cargo they need to haul a few times a year, too. (Ask anyone with a pickup - it seems someone needs your truck every weekend to haul something or other).
If it were true, there would be no need for any vehicle other than heavy pickups because obviously everyone needs to have a vehicle ready to go at a moment's notice for whatever job.
Most people would plan around things. If the car can only 300 miles per charge, they'd be reasonable people and drive maybe 200 miles to a charging station. Then stretch their legs for an hour while the car charges back up. (Perhaps eat lunch or something). Heck, on the trips I go on, we rarely do more than 100 miles a leg before someone needs a potty break, or to stretch their legs or other reason. Plan it out properly and even these little half hour breaks are great charging opportunities.
Granted, there are odd people in the US who insist on driving non-stop to their destination - going from Washington to Florida and only stopping for gas. Perhaps an EV is not for them, but then again, I also don't really want to be in a sedan for a 3 day 24/7 driving trip in that case (an RV, maybe, SUV minimum, but even then my legs would protest after about the 3rd hour on the road).
I never understood that sort of behavior - seems dangerous to me and if it was a matter of making the most of the time, I'd probably fly than be stuck in a car with no rest stops.
In other words, I think the chances of such a thing happening are slim. Long road trips, if you're reasonable people will have breaks scheduled in (and it's not like Tesla puts the charging stations in the middle of nowhere -they're strategically located so when you stop, you have activities to do - eating a meal a big one that would take long enough to get you at least 80% charged (1 hour).
Lest we forget, there was a time not too long ago where cars didn't get the 600+ miles per tank...
;And the most important thing to remember is that if people had the choice of installing Windows 7 on new machines, the Win10 numbers wouldn't even be THAT high.
The only reason people are installing Windows 10 is because they have no choice. Not only is it not that particularly compelling, but there are so many downsides, that people are actively resisting using it.
Windows 10 has full downgrade rights. The last few PCs we bought came with Windows 7 preinstalled. It had a Windows 10 key downgraded to Windows 7.
It was an option, I believe Microsoft killed it in 2017, but you can still downgrade - OEMs just cannot ship Windows 7 machines preinstalled.
Just let me *gasp* buy a valid Windows 7 key for $20 each (I don't even need a stupid USB nor DVD) and I'll immediately buy 6 copies just so I can stop with the shenanigans of deleting the WPA registry setting just to run indefinitely on my spare machines and VMs.
Don't know where you get off dictating the price, but there are still new old stock ocpies of windows 7 retail out there, and windows 10 has downgrade rights
The Constitution states that Congress shall have the power to do this. It does not state that Congress is obligated to do this, in every case or in any specific case. If Congress wants to do away with patents entirely, or limit them to X per entity or X per year or whatever, that is well within their jurisdiction. They may not be able to take away patents which have already been granted, but they can certainly refuse to issue new ones.
Or considering this has been going on for pretty much since the patent office was created, then it's likely Congress will do nothing. It happened with sewing machines (the patent office issued actual overlapping patents, and duplicate patents), cars, and pretty much ever other piece of technology out there.
And yes, at one point, it was 8impossible to build a sewing machine at all without violating some patent or other. It only came to a head when the Singer corporation got a bunch of investors and bought out all the patents, thus not only clearing the path, but also ensuring they got tons of royalties because they hold all the sewing machine patents.
When traveling â" by air or train â" without registering with authorities was possible?
Actually you should've mentioned travelling INTERNATIONALLY was possible without a passport!
I was quite stunned when I was hearing the US couple in the line ahead of me talking to the customs agent and saying they didn't have US passports, but they did have driver's licenses and other ID with them. The fact they were in Canada meant it was possible to travel internationally without a passport (they were presumably heading back to the US, since it was the US departures area of the airport).
That always amazed me - I've always had a passport and always believed you needed one eo travel internationally.
Anyhow, the big event that killed this is also something that most kids would not have seen, either. And most teens would've been too young when it happened. Yes, it happened that many years ago, back when the internet was barely struggling to stay up from everyone loading up news sites (and/. was one of the few that could get the word out, having actually decent infrastructure).
Sadly, my 39-year-old wife. I've asked her, gently pleaded with her, etc., to put down her phone when she's driving and quit playing Pokemon. But it never fails. Any time she's driving, her phone is in her lap with Pokemon running. I've decided any time I'm in the car with her, I'm driving, or if I'm not, I'll point-blank tell her "please put that down so we don't crash." I haven't (yet) physically taken the phone out of her hands but have definitely been tempted to.
I wish phone use while driving was a primary offense in Nebraska, but unfortunately it is not. One of these days she WILL smash up her car. Again. I'm convinced it's only a matter of time.
It is. Distracted driving is so bad, it's actually the #1 cause of death in most places now - previously it was DUIs. MADD would have to change the meaning of one of the D's to properly reflect what the new problem is.
Heck, we have some of the harshest distracted driving laws around - even *touching* or *holding* an electronic device is verboten, event at a traffic light - at best it can be mounted but you cannot be interacting with it. And it's an instant penalty too - the cops can issue the fine immediately on the spot (as the person below was spotted using their tablet...).
The rules are apparently undergoing revision too - after imposing some of the highest fines in the country, a year later they're being made even tougher. Basically get caught twice and your insurance goes up from the demerits alone (there's a demerit surcharge) and possibly even lose your license temporarily.
How in the world do you 'leak a task'? If this was some sort of test or exam, then you could leak the questions, or leak the answers. If you leak a task, does that mean that the task is magically done for you?
I'm guessing it's leaking something on the exam - a task that needs to be done. Perhaps it's something like "write a simple program to take in a list of numbers and calculate statistics on those numbers".
Of course, that is something needs to be done in the 2 hours allotted for the task. Leaking it out thus gives you an advantage by letting you think about it ahead of time. (Everyone takes the exam at the same time).
Don't know why this is being touted as a "decline in interest" when the real story is that there hasn't been a clean useable jailbreak available for a LONG time, nothing really useable for IOS10 and nothing for IOS11, despite reports of "demos". Apple has done a good job of shutting JB'ing down, whether by patching holes, or.... I wonder if Apple pays these hackers off not to release the JB after a demo is released.
Yes IOS has offered many of the features that JB'ing used to provide, but not all... I still would JB if I could. But I can't be forever stuck on IOS8 either.
Or perhaps that the jailbreaks never left the "tethered" state because they couldn't find a boot level flaw to make them permanent.
There's a lot of jailbreaks out there, but most only persist until you reboot, at which point you need to hack the phone again to jailbreak it.
I think interest also dropped off considerably when the piracy scene left the jailbreak scene. For a long while you needed to jailbreak in order to pirate, so a lot of people would jailbreak just to pirate. Thing is, since iOS 9 I believe, Apple made it so you didn't have to jailbreak to side load stuff - there was an official sideload channel available with XCode. And pirates drew upon that because that way it didn't require jailbreaking, so they created the tools using Apple's official method.
As for devices still using older iOS, the App Store has supported older versions of apps for a little while now - if you attempt to install an app on an older device, it would ask if you wanted an older version downloaded instead (it says something like "this app requires a newer OS version that what you have, do you want to install an older version that supports your OS version?". This is developer controlled - sometimes an older version is removed for legal reasons, other times the developer doesn't want to support an older version alongside the current one, etc.
I've been asking for a good while for an actual example of this, but thus far nobody has been able to provide one. Can you?
Well, prior to all this, when Comcast was subjecting users to 250GB limits, they decided that if you used the Comcast video on demand service to stream your shows, it didn't count against your 250GB allotment.
I believe AT&T did the same a little earlier as well.
After regulations came into force, mobile carriers were excluded because they made a convincing case that they must do "network management".
What happened next as T-Mobile announced that certain video providers (who were paying T-Mobile) would no longer count towards your monthly limit. Shortly afterwards, Netflix joined in as well. This was known as zero-rating - instead of the data counting against your 5GB plan or something, it just wouldn't count. Other sites would be charged to your plan as normal, so your YouTube viewing would still count.
Mobile carriers were soon regulated after that - because what's the point of "network management' if you're just going to make it so someone on a 1GB plan or less can stream Netflix 24/7, while someone who does YouTube needs to pay up?
Funny thing - after mobile was regulated, many more started offering "unlimited data" plans. AT&T got rid of them shortly after the iPhone was released way back when, and there were a few people still grandfathered on such a plan. But shortly after this, T-Mobile declared that all video will be regulated down to 480p, and data would be unlimited. AT&T, Verizon, etc, all followed suit by offering their own unlimited data plans. The demand overwhelmed Verizon for a few months who found greatly reduced network speeds, but a small investment made things faster again.
It's a bubble but I have no idea how to predict when it will burst.
No one ever knows until it happens.
In fact, the biggest question is - how much equity do the exchanges have, because all it would take is exchanges running out of liquidity to basically collapse the market. Right now the value of BTC is a paper value, like an overpriced Nortel stock. It means diddly squat until you cash out.
As long as the exchanges are doing well enough to convert your BTC to cash when you need it, all will be well. But when they start running out of cash, bad things will start to happen. Then, like a bad stock, if no one will take the BTC and turn it into cash, it will crash the price. Get a few big exchanges doing odd things like restricting withdrawals and all that to preserve their cash position will only fuel the run.
I hire people all the time, and I promise you everyone at my company just wants to hire someone competent who can get shit done, and we have no interest whatsoever in indentured servants. We require a degree.
Every few months someone says, "Maybe we shouldn't require a degree." And then everyone else shrugs. Nobody actually cares if anyone has a degree if they write decent code, but nobody is sure it's a good idea to not require a degree, so nothing changes.
People at the bottom of the totem pole always seem to think upper management has a scheme or a grand plan. We don't. We just have very limited time and a lot of inertia.
We actually have a blacklist of degrees - we found that not all degree programs are the same. Trade school degrees were found to be generally inadequate - employee under performance was generally noted over the years we've had them.
Then there were the degrees that produced useless garbage - it was a masters in IT program for non-IT students. The students there all interviewed so terribly we had to basically tell HR to not even consider it. I don't know what the program did, but it was not a good fit - none of those people could do a simple programming test. We kept an open mind, but it was clear by the third or fourth candidate that none of them were close to what we were looking for.
We had a degree requirement in the hopes of doing a filter for competency, but it ended up showing up how incompetent (or unsuited) entire degree programs were.
Of course, the best hires have always been the employee referrals, and for those, all we require is a display of competence. If you don't have a degree, but can show you know your stuff (and conduct yourself appropriately with the team), we'd hire you.
If you can string lines of code together, solve problems, have decent personal hygiene and have good communications skills, that's all we want.
Never borrow money unless it's for something you can make money with.
When people are offering money for free, do you not use the opportunity? That's what short term interest-free loans are all about.
There is no secret to money. There is only discipline. If you're smart, you'd invest the money you spent on a credit card in something guaranteed, then use it pay off the card when it's due and pocket the few bucks you earned, for free, by doing absolutely nothing.
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It's closer to the fact that the brain does in wetware to compensate for relatively poor sensory instruments it has access to.
The brain is remarkably powerful, but the human sensory organs are relatively primitive - the eyes have lower resolution than even a modern day smartphone camera, the ears are relatively terrible, and all around as a species, we don't have the greatest senses.
But to compensate, the brain is remarkably powerful. It has a stupidly powerful sensor-fusion complex (merging multiple senses together to form a cohesive image of the world around us), the vision system is remarkably complex and has direct access to the motor control system (your eyes dart around rapidly, so even though the resolution ix low, the fact that the eyes are rapidly scanning around let the brain generate a larger detailed image of the world). The ears are powered by memory so even if you can't hear something clearly, you can make it out.
Of course, the fact that all this is done in the brain equivalent of software means it's easy to trick - we call them optical or aural illusions, and even this is a form of it - the brain expects a thud, so you experience the thud, even if the ears don't actually hear it. It's just like the brain will compensate for the blind spot in the eye by interpolating around.
Here's the audio illusion that'll break your brain - https://soundcloud.com/whyy-th...
And if you don't believe it, feel free to hit play again and re-listen to the gibberish...
Your Paypal account is safe. What happened was TIO Networks was breached. Paypal acquired TIO Networks in July of this year and discovered the breach.
Paypal itself was not breached, and if Paypal wasn't acquiring them, it wouldn't even be a part of the topic. However, since Paypal did acquire them, they discovered 1.6M TIO Networks accounts were breached.
It's confusing, but Paypal itself was fine. Paypal just found a breach in one of the companies it recently acquired.
I've always wondered... what if Twitter simply put on the day the vote happens that access to Trump's twitter feed was restricted unless you paid for the "premium twitter" account package that lets you access to celebrities and other big name twitter users?
All for another $50/month. That's only fair right?
It's not even a TOS thing. Advertisers are a very conservative bunch, and they have a whole list of topics to which they will and will not advertise with.
What happened was Google screwed up and a few of those ads were shown on content the advertisers said to never show their ad on, so a lot of big names pulled ads.
This especially so with people like PewDiePie who basically turned from new media hero to pariah in a single video, causing advertisers to withdraw ads in shock. A lot of YouTubers who obviously didn't know how ads work were stunned when monetization got pulled on their videos because they thought they were going after "free money" - produce whatever the hell you want, ask YouTube to stick ads on it and reap the rewards.
Well, the "adpocalypse" happened and "content creators" were no longer isolated from the fact that they only make money when there are advertisers willing to advertise on their videos. No longer did clicking "monetize" mean easy money - advertisers were very cautious about what content their ads appear with, and are really quick if they see their ad on something they disagree with. And face it - advertisers have the thinnest skins around - they're deathly afraid of offending someone, anyone. Unfortunately, a lot of YouTube "shock jocks" found that out the hard way.
No, it's good UI design.
If you don't want to type the name of the program, you never have to. The start menu/whatever it is lets you find the application visually like you always could.
But the search bar method lets you accelerate getting to the commonly used programs you use. For example, it's far quicker for me to hit Windows and type "calc" then Enter, than try to find Calculator by going to Start, All Programs, Accessories, Calculator. It's not much different in time - maybe one second by typing versus 2-3 using the menu, and maybe I only save a minute total every day, but it feels quicker that way.
UI fuckery is forcing a person to use one way over all else. For example, the first Mac back in 1984 had a keyboard that lacked cursor keys. You were expected to use the mouse instead. That's awful. It's also bad if keyboard accelerators didn't exist - why do we use Ctrl/Command-Z/C/X/V for undo/copy/cut/paste? Why shouldn't we just use the Edit menu? Why not go File..Save instead of Ctrl/Command-S?
Now, I don't do this with all programs - only the few that I use often enough that I learn their names. I wouldn't do it to start Word since I don't launch Word dozens of times a day.
It cannot be disabled. It can only be put into a neutered state. The reason is the ME firmware is required to manage CPU power states - power up, boot, DVFS, and power management. It's a required element (modern processors have very complex power needs and taking them into and out of low power states is an involved affair including rail sequencing and ramping). It's required.
Even the modern ARM SoC has a ARM core handling the power transition states - it's what actually starts executing code first, which then sequences the power up of the main cores (the one you bought the phone for) including loading their initial boot code into some memory device and setting the reset condition registers so they will begin execution from that location. (Power management is tricky, when you have often 20+ different regulators and sub-regulators to manage, so a processor is dedicated for just that purpose).
And no, it's not reserved for servers. Servers have IPMI or ILO type systems which are additional processors that allow remote management of the server. This is great, if you're dealing with a server.
But computer users don't buy servers - most users are plunked in front of what is effectively a desktop PC, the vast majority of which have no remote management capability. Sure, you can install various remote management software on most operating systems, but that really handles maybe 50% of the support cases out there - really the basics of "I need software installed" or "what does this error mean". But if the user comes in and their PC is dark...? You need to walk on over. Which could usually mean you need to hit the power button. But it could mean the OS is dead. So AMT (Advanced management tool) was created, which is an application running on ME that provides power-off control of the PC remotely. (ME is a platform, you can run applications on the platform). Which is great for corporations, especially those larger than a single floor of a building. Same reason you allow remote management of servers that why you want AMT on your machines.
Why is it on all Intel chips? Easy - because all chips need the firmware anyways (in order to power up and boot), and since the silicon is the same, it's really just one software release - depending on the lasered-in SKU, the functions of ME may range from practically nothing to full application availability.
Note that "disabling" ME is really meaning that you're blocking applications from loading on the ME platform. The ME firmware and kernel is running because you still have to manage the processor.
And sorry, but open hardware really cannot get away from this - at least if you want reasonably performant hardware with great battery life. We've gone beyon
Here's the thing - GPLv3 would basically halt all adoption of Linux, period. It's already caused a lot of issues with companies and except for the few whose main line of business doesn't really involve software, GPLv3 software is essentially verboten in use. (The companies who don't care are those like computer makers who pre-load a computer with Linux - GPLv3 doesn't affect them).
Had Linux gone GPLv3, you'd basically see a complete halt to Linux development - companies will stop working on the GPLv3 version and continue to work on the old one under GPLv2. At the same time, you'd see a third party kernel start to take shape - perhaps a BSD kernel. So Linux would likely fork as companies will simply ship ancient kernels, while others adopt a BSD kernel and develop on that.
You have to remember, the GPLv3 is halting adoption of a lot of software products - companies are instead going for GPLv2 licensed products or purchasing commercial alternatives. Heck, one of the reasons why Apple put so much time and effort into LLVM was presumably they saw the writing on the wall with GPLv3 and started grooming a replacement for GCC. This despite the fact that OS X would be largely unaffected by the change (the source is available anyways, and you can always compile and run your own version).
Other projects like busybox have not "upgraded" to GPLv3 for the same reasons - commercial use is a huge reason for their existence.
No, he would be arrested because he flew into a no-fly zone. Stadiums are restricted airspace (from ground to 3000 feet above ground) - you are absolutely not allowed to fly in restricted airspace (except in emergencies). This applies whether we're talking drone, a Cessna 150, a 747, or military jet.
Now, it's possible that many people are flying drones illegally. The reason it's hard is because most of these flights are transient in nature - if you have a drone on the ground, it's legal. While it's flying, it's not legal. But if the drone is back on the ground by the time the cops arrive, well, unless there's evidence it's your drone flying illegally, they really can't do anything.
This guy was stupid, because he left behind evidence, so even if he was back on the ground, it's easy to tie him to the action and thus, the illegal flight. If all he did was fly a drone with a banner on it, it's a lot harder to tie him to the action especially if he got rid of the banner.
Basically, stupid people get caught. And stupid includes making it plainly obvious you're doing something illegal.
It's actually the problem. Qualcomm is using their secret sauce of patented tricks to keep working good and fast, because that secret sauce is what keeps people using Qualcomm.
It's why Qualcomm has the monopoly it does and why everyone is trying to ditch them. There aren't many modem manufacturers, and Apple making Intel "a thing" goes way back to the original iPhone (Apple chose Infineon for the modem provider, now owned by Intel).
Performance wise, you're right, Qualcomm rules. It's why Qualcomm charges what they charge for the chips, because they perform great. Power wise is a whole different issue altogether - Apple chose Infineon for the original iPhone because it was very aggressive at saving power - so much so that well, it took down the AT&T network. (At the time, Cingular/AT&T was begging Apple to use Qualcomm modems, the European Infineon ones saved lots of power but were adapted to the European networks that had expanded control channels. Apple felt that the power savings were worth it, and with initial projections of maybe a marketshare of 1% after 5 years, surely one phone can't take down the network...).
Apple is pissed off at Qualcomm because Qualcomm's fees are based on the retail price of the phone - if you make a $500 smartphone and a $1000 smartphone, use the exact same chip, the $1000 phone will cost you double in Qualcomm fees even though it's the same, and that's where Apple disagrees. Qualcomm knows they can charge it because they are performant, and they are pissed Apple cripples Qualcomm chips to Intel performance.
In short, yes Qualcomm are faster. Why, it's because Qualcomm has secret patent stuff they either are not sharing (or don't have to share) in order to make LTE faster. Apple is trying to get Intel going - either because their chips have better battery performance, or more importantly, trying to get a viable alternative to Qualcomm on the market and break the Qualcomm monopoly. There are few modem manufacturers out there - Qualcomm owned basically the lion's share of modem chipsets, then there's Intel and I think MediaTek.
Anyhow, of any cellphone manufacture rout there, perhaps Apple is the only one that could make a viable alternative to Qualcomm, which is why companies like Samsung are cooperating with Apple. (Qualcomm is also why Samsung phones in the US don't use Samsung processors, but instead use Qualcomm processors)
If your grid is disparate, then getting them into synchronicity can be a pain. With modern semiconductors, it is however possible to rectify and invert DC into AC quite painlessly.
This is used for grids that have historically never been tied together, as well as new grids which never were synchronized. In Texas, there's a grid intertie that connects the three major US and Canadian grids together so power imbalances can be dealt with. But trying to synchronize the grids is a next to impossible problem, so the intertie uses HVDC internally so it's able to move power between the grids as necessary.
I believe China has a HVDC distribution network for the same reason - too many little grids to synchronize up.
HVDC systems do have lots of advantages over traditional AC systems.
Mylar is (generically) metal coated plastic film - I'm sure DuPont has a specific meaning for it, but that's what people refer to as Mylar. It is rarely used to refer to uncoated film itself. .
If you've ever seen party balloons, keep they away from power lines, because you can see plenty of examples of them shorting out the low voltage power lines all over YouTube. That's the balloon contacting the power lines and the plastic is so thin that it's not an insulating barrier, so it's effectively forming a short and thus sparking.
You also see them in as snack bags where the plastic seals air in and the metal layer protects against light.
Either way, it forms a fairly effective faraday cage.
And yes, anti-static bags are sometimes mistakenly referred to as mylar bags from time to time.
Because of two facts.
Android users are cheap, and Google features free over paid apps (in the early days). The latter came about when Google Pay/Wallet/Whatever was in two countries or so, so people with paid apps were hidden from all the other countries in the world. They adopted free apps in order to be sold worldwide, and to eat, so in-app ads and such were the way the developers were paid for free apps.
The former just reflects on the fact that most android users will not pay for apps (as say, compared to iOS users). This directly affects whether or not developers will offer ad-free paid versions of an app.
No, it was brought into the main chips because servers have stuff like IPMI and ILO for remote management, but employee PCs do not. And the same reason servers can be remotely managed can be applied to employee PCs and laptops. The only difference is servers are usually concentrated in a few areas, so it's much easier for 10,000 servers to be locally managed than 10,000 PCs, making the case for remote management of PCs even more critical.
You can do bare metal bringups - perhaps the employee got to their desk and their PC is dead - it won't load the OS and there's lots of error messages. IT's effectively ILO or IPMI for consumer grade machines.
Of course, you can't "disable" IME - you can neuter it. The firmware that controls power and boot and startup and all that must still run in order for the main CPU to be brought up, so you need IME to do that part. Neutering basically disables all the remore management while leaving the power management code still active.
Well there are a few industries that are fully tracked - truckers for example are fully tracked and their whereabouts are known to the dispatcher at all times. This is usually not a good thing (dispatchers hate truckers who "waste time"), though it does allow a customer to ask the trucking company where the truck is in case the loading dock is full.
It also sometimes helps when the truck is hijacked, run off the road, or other emergency. Sometimes it happens without leaving a witness mark on the side of the road (especially in winter) so unless the dispatcher notices the signal is lost and where the last location pings were, no one might actually notice for days.
I'm assuming this company did it so they can advise customers that a technician is coming around. Think of it this way - the employee gets a new route uploaded to his phone and GPS tracks his progress. The employee keeps the truck at his house and simply starts and ends the day at home - no need to commute to the office to pick up the work orders - they're automatically transmitted to the phone, and GPS tracks what's been done If he needs to return to the base for parts or supplies, it can be scheduled in when he's nearby. It's telecommuting for the new era - and anyone with a service agreement probably experienced it - the techs are located all around, probably their house having a stockpile of common parts and they're dispatched by phone to the busienss needing service. This way the techs are home when idle instead of just wasting time at some office everyone had to commute to.
No, the real issue is people are exaggerating. Because going by that need to do a long car trip a few times a year, they'd be driving 3 ton pickups because they'd have heavy cargo they need to haul a few times a year, too. (Ask anyone with a pickup - it seems someone needs your truck every weekend to haul something or other).
If it were true, there would be no need for any vehicle other than heavy pickups because obviously everyone needs to have a vehicle ready to go at a moment's notice for whatever job.
Most people would plan around things. If the car can only 300 miles per charge, they'd be reasonable people and drive maybe 200 miles to a charging station. Then stretch their legs for an hour while the car charges back up. (Perhaps eat lunch or something). Heck, on the trips I go on, we rarely do more than 100 miles a leg before someone needs a potty break, or to stretch their legs or other reason. Plan it out properly and even these little half hour breaks are great charging opportunities.
Granted, there are odd people in the US who insist on driving non-stop to their destination - going from Washington to Florida and only stopping for gas. Perhaps an EV is not for them, but then again, I also don't really want to be in a sedan for a 3 day 24/7 driving trip in that case (an RV, maybe, SUV minimum, but even then my legs would protest after about the 3rd hour on the road).
I never understood that sort of behavior - seems dangerous to me and if it was a matter of making the most of the time, I'd probably fly than be stuck in a car with no rest stops.
In other words, I think the chances of such a thing happening are slim. Long road trips, if you're reasonable people will have breaks scheduled in (and it's not like Tesla puts the charging stations in the middle of nowhere -they're strategically located so when you stop, you have activities to do - eating a meal a big one that would take long enough to get you at least 80% charged (1 hour).
Lest we forget, there was a time not too long ago where cars didn't get the 600+ miles per tank...
Windows 10 has full downgrade rights. The last few PCs we bought came with Windows 7 preinstalled. It had a Windows 10 key downgraded to Windows 7.
It was an option, I believe Microsoft killed it in 2017, but you can still downgrade - OEMs just cannot ship Windows 7 machines preinstalled.
Don't know where you get off dictating the price, but there are still new old stock ocpies of windows 7 retail out there, and windows 10 has downgrade rights
Or considering this has been going on for pretty much since the patent office was created, then it's likely Congress will do nothing. It happened with sewing machines (the patent office issued actual overlapping patents, and duplicate patents), cars, and pretty much ever other piece of technology out there.
And yes, at one point, it was 8impossible to build a sewing machine at all without violating some patent or other. It only came to a head when the Singer corporation got a bunch of investors and bought out all the patents, thus not only clearing the path, but also ensuring they got tons of royalties because they hold all the sewing machine patents.
Actually you should've mentioned travelling INTERNATIONALLY was possible without a passport!
I was quite stunned when I was hearing the US couple in the line ahead of me talking to the customs agent and saying they didn't have US passports, but they did have driver's licenses and other ID with them. The fact they were in Canada meant it was possible to travel internationally without a passport (they were presumably heading back to the US, since it was the US departures area of the airport).
That always amazed me - I've always had a passport and always believed you needed one eo travel internationally.
Anyhow, the big event that killed this is also something that most kids would not have seen, either. And most teens would've been too young when it happened. Yes, it happened that many years ago, back when the internet was barely struggling to stay up from everyone loading up news sites (and /. was one of the few that could get the word out, having actually decent infrastructure).
It is. Distracted driving is so bad, it's actually the #1 cause of death in most places now - previously it was DUIs. MADD would have to change the meaning of one of the D's to properly reflect what the new problem is.
Heck, we have some of the harshest distracted driving laws around - even *touching* or *holding* an electronic device is verboten, event at a traffic light - at best it can be mounted but you cannot be interacting with it. And it's an instant penalty too - the cops can issue the fine immediately on the spot (as the person below was spotted using their tablet...).
https://globalnews.ca/news/385...
The rules are apparently undergoing revision too - after imposing some of the highest fines in the country, a year later they're being made even tougher. Basically get caught twice and your insurance goes up from the demerits alone (there's a demerit surcharge) and possibly even lose your license temporarily.
I'm guessing it's leaking something on the exam - a task that needs to be done. Perhaps it's something like "write a simple program to take in a list of numbers and calculate statistics on those numbers".
Of course, that is something needs to be done in the 2 hours allotted for the task. Leaking it out thus gives you an advantage by letting you think about it ahead of time. (Everyone takes the exam at the same time).
Or perhaps that the jailbreaks never left the "tethered" state because they couldn't find a boot level flaw to make them permanent.
There's a lot of jailbreaks out there, but most only persist until you reboot, at which point you need to hack the phone again to jailbreak it.
I think interest also dropped off considerably when the piracy scene left the jailbreak scene. For a long while you needed to jailbreak in order to pirate, so a lot of people would jailbreak just to pirate. Thing is, since iOS 9 I believe, Apple made it so you didn't have to jailbreak to side load stuff - there was an official sideload channel available with XCode. And pirates drew upon that because that way it didn't require jailbreaking, so they created the tools using Apple's official method.
As for devices still using older iOS, the App Store has supported older versions of apps for a little while now - if you attempt to install an app on an older device, it would ask if you wanted an older version downloaded instead (it says something like "this app requires a newer OS version that what you have, do you want to install an older version that supports your OS version?". This is developer controlled - sometimes an older version is removed for legal reasons, other times the developer doesn't want to support an older version alongside the current one, etc.
Well, prior to all this, when Comcast was subjecting users to 250GB limits, they decided that if you used the Comcast video on demand service to stream your shows, it didn't count against your 250GB allotment.
I believe AT&T did the same a little earlier as well.
After regulations came into force, mobile carriers were excluded because they made a convincing case that they must do "network management".
What happened next as T-Mobile announced that certain video providers (who were paying T-Mobile) would no longer count towards your monthly limit. Shortly afterwards, Netflix joined in as well. This was known as zero-rating - instead of the data counting against your 5GB plan or something, it just wouldn't count. Other sites would be charged to your plan as normal, so your YouTube viewing would still count.
Mobile carriers were soon regulated after that - because what's the point of "network management' if you're just going to make it so someone on a 1GB plan or less can stream Netflix 24/7, while someone who does YouTube needs to pay up?
Funny thing - after mobile was regulated, many more started offering "unlimited data" plans. AT&T got rid of them shortly after the iPhone was released way back when, and there were a few people still grandfathered on such a plan. But shortly after this, T-Mobile declared that all video will be regulated down to 480p, and data would be unlimited. AT&T, Verizon, etc, all followed suit by offering their own unlimited data plans. The demand overwhelmed Verizon for a few months who found greatly reduced network speeds, but a small investment made things faster again.
No one ever knows until it happens.
In fact, the biggest question is - how much equity do the exchanges have, because all it would take is exchanges running out of liquidity to basically collapse the market. Right now the value of BTC is a paper value, like an overpriced Nortel stock. It means diddly squat until you cash out.
As long as the exchanges are doing well enough to convert your BTC to cash when you need it, all will be well. But when they start running out of cash, bad things will start to happen. Then, like a bad stock, if no one will take the BTC and turn it into cash, it will crash the price. Get a few big exchanges doing odd things like restricting withdrawals and all that to preserve their cash position will only fuel the run.
We actually have a blacklist of degrees - we found that not all degree programs are the same. Trade school degrees were found to be generally inadequate - employee under performance was generally noted over the years we've had them.
Then there were the degrees that produced useless garbage - it was a masters in IT program for non-IT students. The students there all interviewed so terribly we had to basically tell HR to not even consider it. I don't know what the program did, but it was not a good fit - none of those people could do a simple programming test. We kept an open mind, but it was clear by the third or fourth candidate that none of them were close to what we were looking for.
We had a degree requirement in the hopes of doing a filter for competency, but it ended up showing up how incompetent (or unsuited) entire degree programs were.
Of course, the best hires have always been the employee referrals, and for those, all we require is a display of competence. If you don't have a degree, but can show you know your stuff (and conduct yourself appropriately with the team), we'd hire you.
If you can string lines of code together, solve problems, have decent personal hygiene and have good communications skills, that's all we want.
When people are offering money for free, do you not use the opportunity? That's what short term interest-free loans are all about.
There is no secret to money. There is only discipline. If you're smart, you'd invest the money you spent on a credit card in something guaranteed, then use it pay off the card when it's due and pocket the few bucks you earned, for free, by doing absolutely nothing.