For those people, there's the switch in Settings that won't turn itself back on. It's in the same place it's always been and does the some thing it's always done. This new switch that looks different in a new place does something different.
You've always pushed a bright red switch on the right side of the panel to do a thing. One day there's a brand new orange switch on the left side, but the same bright red switch is still in the same place. Perhaps there's a chance the orange switch might do something different than the red one?
For every time I've come home after a day in flaky WiFi land and forgot to turn WiFi back on until I've sucked down a bunch of LTE data, this is an improvement.
There's also a situation where a lot of Apple services require proximity to each other. Like Continuity - if my phone rings, I can the the call on my Mac, or iPad or Watch. But if the WiFi is off, that won't happen. The user turned WiFI off, but forgot to turn it back on, breaking a common use case.
Or if you use AirDrop to send objects from one device to another - it requires use of Bluetooth. But if you have Bluetooth off, it will break AirDrop and you'll spend the next 15 minutes trying to figure out why. Then you'll keep Bluetooth on, until you turn it off again for some reason and then wonder why it broke. The disconnected state lets you still use all the proximity services
Technology is not a category in the same sense physics, chemistry, and physiology are.
Not to mention, not in the spirit of why Nobel created the prizes.
Nobel created dynamite and various other explosives (far safer than the one previously invented by him). The problem was, when his brother died, an obituary in the paper was confused and thought he died. It said the "merchant of death has died" - given his inventions have killed people. Alfred Nobel, after reading this, realized that people might not think of him very well on his death.
That's why he created the Nobel Prize - it was to award the advances that benefit mankind in a positive way.
The problem with technology is much of it is use-agnostic. For every positive use, there's a negative use. So use it one way it can benefit mankind, used another way, it can destroy it. That is not in the spirit of what Nobel wanted. It's why a lot of the technology awards happen years after invention - they want to see if the use is primarily positive or negative.
The CCD Nobel Prize was awarded in 2009, over 30 years after commercialization (Kodak long experimented with them in the 70s).. It could be argued the CCD was good and bad - good in that it allows citizens to take photos and videos digitally, bad in that it enables mass surveillance. But then the positives also include what it did to imaging technology all around, as well as creating the CMOS sensor as a spinoff which enables regular people to capture plenty more with their phones - government abuses are laid shallow when people whip out their phones and start recording. So even though the CCD has enabled surveillance, it also enabled counter surveillance and enabled ordinary people to capture everyday memories, so all in all, a net plus.
The Blue LED was awarded far quicker - it enabled all sorts of spinoff technologies that are generally positive - blue lasers used in communications, full color LED based screens, LED light bulbs, etc.
Remember it's about the spirit of the think - Nobel didn't want to be remembered as the guy whose inventions were killing people.
Amazons direct delivery failures are very interesting because that makes them extremely vulnerable to competition from a particular quarter. That not be a sales but logistics companies. The two biggest threats to Amazon are UPS and FEDex. They are both logistics companies, with warehouses and all they need is a website to sell their customers products, and then they deliver, as for Amazon. In fact Amazon going for direct deliveries might well be indicative that they are concerned that UPS and FEDex might be thinking about going into online selling of products they do logistics for. You have to remeber UPS and FEDex might well end up crippled by Amazon crushing the other online sellers and in turn crippling UPS and FEDex logistics opportunities.
The on line selling is far easier to manage than the logistics and deliveries. So there is real opportunity for UPS and FEDex to jump into the online sales market in direct competition to Amazon.
The delivery companies (UPS, FedEx, USPS/postal service) are highly related to each other - there are plenty of services that will use their primary shipping but then transfer the package to the postal system at the border. Or the companies will use the postal system as a go-between too.
In fact, they offer logistics services - there are plenty of lesser known services they all offer - including having customers print out return shipping labels at home, repair prepration and collection services (if you have a defective device, you return it to a UPS or FedEx location who will forward it onwards to a central warehouse), etc. Heck, Amazon.ca for the first few years was a warehouse attached to the Canada Post sorting center. You ordered a package, and Amazon would pre-sort the package and have it off to Canada Post (I think some Canada Post employees were paid by Amazon to handle inventory, leading to minimal actual Amazon employees).
It woudln't surprise me if FedEx/UPS had a similar program where a seller could prepackage their products and have them stored at the warehouse ready for shipping. Heck, I've seen Amazon used that way - I ordered something from eBay and it cam in an Amazon box from the eBay seller (brand new Amazon box, shipped from Amazon facilities).
I openly admit that I'm a fan of AMD. However, I think it's reasonable to ask why Intel CPU's have not seen any large jump in performance or features until they had to, due to AMD competition, again. The R&D time and cost on these new chips is multiple years. That means, that Intel can't just roll out a chip in response to AMD, unless they either have good corporate intellignence and knew one to two years ago that AMD was coming back in a big way, or the much more likely answer that they've been sitting on new features and performance because they wanted to milk the previous generation for all it was worth. I find the later to be reprehensible, which is why I will be building an new AMD system, even if it doesn't give me quite the top performance I might get from an Intel chip, because I appreciate them driving competition again (P.S. my last system was Intel because AMD wasn't really competing when I built it).
It's called business strategy, and obviously Intel wants AMD around. Sure, they could kill AMD at the drop of a hat with some killer technology that makes current CPUs obsolete with 10x faster ones. However, they didn't. (And yes, they've even publicly said they were holding back a chip release when Bulldozer turned out to be a flop).
There's no doubt Intel could crush AMD at any moment. And there's no doubt AMD was in serious trouble.
But Intel chose to keep AMD around (there's probably a good reason why the Xbox One and PS4 are running AMD chips). Presumably, it's because AMD is a decent competitor - they're not terribly strong so they're nothing more than a yapping dog in the grand scheme of things, but they're also big enough that everyone considers them a competitor. Including the government.
AMD failing would bring no end of grief to Intel - plenty of government oversight, anti-monopoly, even breakup. And never mind AMD's patents and cross licensing deals going up in smoke (which are probably doing more at keeping 3rd party x86 compatibles off the market - remember Cyrix? Via? Or the dozens of embedded 486 compatibles?).
Yes, they have to deal with AMD releasing a good architecture now and again but Intel knows doing so means AMD will be less likely to be collapse. Even so, Intel's not really "competing" - these chips are still overpriced over AMD for not a lot more performance. It's enough to counter AMD, but not enough to take the wind out of AMD's sails. They want AMD to succeed because it means easier business overall.
And FYI, I believe up to the 386, Intel was giving AMD the chip designs. The only reason AMD is in the x86 business is because people wanted to second-source the 8086 and other chips so Intel needed some other company to produce the chips too.
"The only thing worse than this is equating money with happiness and / or satisfaction in life."
I've never understood this. If I ever got to a point where I could do whatever I wanted and never worry about paying another bill or forgoing any sort of activity, I'd be pretty happy. I've even seen studies that show ultra-wealthy people aren't happy and wonder how that could possibly be. These people can literally do anything at the drop of a hat...If they don't like their house, just buy another one. If they want to go to Tahiti for a month on one of several yachts, just make a phone call. If they're bored, any number of distractions are available to them 24/7. Normal people would kill each other for a life like that if it were somehow attainable. For example, I was really surprised when that guy from Soundgarden killed himself a while back...with adoring fans, money to do whatever, access to recreational substances of all kinds, how is it possible to be depressed?
Anyone who says money doesn't buy happiness doesn't have imagination.:-)
Money buys happiness, to an extent. I think someone quantified it around $75,000 or so - beyond that it buys a lot less happiness.
And it makes nse - we don't derive happiness in "ability to do something". We derive happiness from "effort required to do something".
Or think of it this way - is it more fun to win a game by playing it all the way through, suffering near-defeats and skillful play, or to simply win by default, or if the other side forfeits? You win in the end, but for most of the people, a win that comes about just because isn't as satisfying.
In a similar way, having the resources to do anything you want can be incredibly boring. For most people, the ability to go to Tahiti for a week is a luxury - they save up for months or years to afford both the time off and the money to pay for the trip. But you can bet they'd enjoy the trip - after all that hard work. I'm sure someone who can do it at the drop of the hat, it would lose its appeal after a few weeks.
No doubt, if a trillion dollars landed in your laps today, you'd be on top of the world for a few weeks. But without the challenge of having to earn it or work for it, your life will become quite unsatisfying. It seems satisfaction derives from the effort required to achieve the reward.
The big problem is, and until it's resolved, the dealerships. To get a scope of the problem, a new vehicle really only comprises about 20-30% of a dealerships' revenue. The vast majority of a dealership's income is the service department.
As such, they HATE EVs. Because the drive train is so simplified, there is actually very little that needs to be maintained (you have your usual brakes and other things, but those don't really need a lot of servicing).
And a lot of the "no maintenance" parts are prematurely replaced by dealerships just because they can bill you for it - a car may only need an oil change once a year, but you can bet your dealership will have you coming in at least twice a year to do an oil change.
The EV, you don't really have to bring it in even once a year - maybe once every couple of years just to replace common consumables and check on the brakes (which will last a lot longer since they aren't used as much - regenerative braking reduces brake wear significantly). The biggest parts that will go wrong are the electronics, which can be electronically monitored, and being solid state, are extremely reliable.
Tesla sells you a bumper to bumper everything-but-tires service package for $600 a year - cheap compared to ICE vehicle services but even overkill for an EV (especially since the tires aren't included, and they're about the only part that wears out at the same rate).
I can sympathise with TfL's stated aims - knowing how many people go from place A to place B via route C at certain times of day is useful and can be socially beneficial if it helps train scheduling.
But this can be done in a simpler way (albeit not in real time - but is that really necessary?).
Many years ago I recall using the metro and local trains in Copenhagen when they were doing a survey. When you entered the station they gave you a paper slip with the station name and timeslot written on it; when you reached your end destination there was a bin to drop the paper slip into. That's it from the passenger viewpoint - minimal inconvenience and no linking to you as a person (and you could even opt out by keeping the paper slip if you were so minded).
I'm guessing that at the end of the day they collected the slips at each station and could work out just how many people went on each journey within hour long blocks.
There's a far simpler way to do it. You use the tickets the people use to travel!
Every ticket is serial numbered internally and you pass it through the gate in order to pass, recording the station you started your trip. When you exit, you pass your ticket over the gate and it records that a ticket traveled from station A to station B.
Unless your ticket is one of those monthly or multi-ride passes, and unless those require a name and address (some do, to allow stuff like auto-renewals so you don't have to use ticket machines to reload money onto it - you can reload them online or even have it reload automatically). it's pretty much anonymous, and you get volumes and trip origins and destinations.
Our transportation authority did it, and while you can buy reloadable cards, they don't require you to register them (you can always reload them at the ticket machines - which will allow buying monthly and multi-trip passes too). That data is used to figure out trip lengths and where people join and leave the system. It's already used to adjust the number of gates that are fixed in one way only mode (the gates can let people in or let them out. Sometimes though the volume of people going one way is so great you need to force a gate to be for the opposite direction so people can still go the other way)
That doesn't make any sense. The system should just download the file, give it to Windows Defender, wait for its reply, and then execute the file if it's OK. Or, if you can't trust the non-defender part of the system, ask Defender to download the file, then let Defender hand it over to the system to execute. No matter how you do it, a single download is faster AND more secure.
Why download a file twice? Bandwidth is too cheap nowadays, I suppose?
Your way makes perfect sense... if you believe a security product is integrated into the OS itself.
However, Microsoft is under different rules, and Windows Defender must be disable-able in case the user decides they want to use a different security software product. Otherwise imagine the hell Kaspersky, Symantec, etc. will raise. Heck, Windows 10 updates that disable those products until updated already spurred lawsuits.
SO Windows Defender must be able to act like any other program would, and in this case, when you want to open a file, the kernel hook fires and Windows Defender scans the file first before letting Windows open the file.
About the only way around this would be to have the PE Loader be hookable so Windows Defender and other software can scan the file image after loading into memory but prior to execution. Assuming that's possible, given how the PE Loader might not actually read the entire file at once into memory, but instead just skip about when reading. In this case perhaps the hook might be near the very end before it jumps.
I don't know if faces are more unique than fingerprints or not, but the more important difference is how they are measured. Fingerprint scanners are quite mature now, where as face scanning with a camera in varying lighting conditions, angles and the like is still not even good enough to differentiate human children reliably.
Imagine if human parents couldn't tell their children's faces apart... Anyone with identical twins will attest to what chaos that can cause.
That's why face scanning doesn't rely on a simple 2D camera that is easily fooled by a mask or a photo.
Face detection systems like Face ID use a 3D camera and infra-red. It's why Windows Hello has special requirements. It turns out IR-lit faces are easiest to detect because an IR camera is not influenced as much by lighting conditions. (No, Kinect used a standard 2D camera for recognition, not the depth sensor). So lighting conditions may vary, but a face captured using an IR camera lit using an IR source will generally be lit the same regardless of actual lighting conditions. It's why it works in the dark, too.
Face ID adds to that by using structured light maps (like the first Kinect) to sense depth as well - which is why a photo will not work - it needs to measure the depth of your facial features as well.
That's also why it is limited to the iPhone X. No other iPhone has the IR projector or camera. (They straddle the regular camera).
I wonder how long until someone hacks it to use the iPhone X as a basic 3D scanner...
Online vendors should negotiate with local retailers to be their window displays and prescriptors instead of making them paying in advance for their goods and then letting them figure how they'll cover the fix-ups, cost of business, decent profits, etc. But they won't: in the short term, they already work as displays; in the long run, of course, they'll fold and vendors probably will end up with less overall sales and quality will be hurt (when you sell based on photographs and astroturfing, there's no incentive to produce high quality items) but, who worries about tomorrow?
Actually, it's already happening. You probably won't notice it but a lot of stores do just this - the store inventory is not actually owned by the store, but is consigned by the manufacturer. It's called "vendor managed inventory" - the store gets a box of stuff, and by contract must display that box of stuff in a rack of a certain size.
The best known example is Best Buy. If you wonder why there can be racks and racks of empty shelves, it's because Best Buy is contractually obligated to have that many racks for the vendor (e.g., Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo). It's up to the vendor to manage those racks - and yes, you get gigantic WTFs like an empty rack for the PS Vita - but the contract said there had to be a rack for PS Vita, even though Sony doesn't ship Best Buy any Vita stuff.
It's also why Best Buy can match Amazon pricing among others - you are not technically Best Buy's customer - the vendor is. If the vendor is selling it cheaper online, so be it - Best Buy isn't paid to move the merchandise, they're paid to display it.
Oh and of course, Best Buy can sell warranties and all that to make a few extra bucks on the side, plus serve as a nice easy return depot for unwanted purchases as it's all charged to the vendor in the end.
Sure, most of the wifi/bt chips have an FM radio built in too. It enable the feature it requires an antenna. It's usually done via the headphone cable, as you can't really make a decent antenna for ~100MHz signals inside a phone. The optimal length is around 1.7m. The headphone jack needs low-pass filters so it can be used an antenna. It can't be electrically connected to the metal body of a phone without a filter.
More than that, really. You need an antenna, and you need a I2S connection to your CODEC chip (for the audio). After all, FM receiption is pointless if you can't actually hear the audio, so the chips include an ADC to digitize the audio and make it available as an audio source. Turning the chip on is useless if the antenna and audio lines are not hooked up at all.
And yes, I'll go with transistor radio, because those can get AM radio, which is where I'd go for my news. FM is full of Clearchannel crapola so even in an emergency I probably won't think to turn on FM radio.
Indeed, was going to post the exact same thing. If it is difficult, it's probably because you're not following instructions.
furthermore: Ikea's furniture is crap, it's going downhill in quality the last 10 years.
Yeah, I've never had much difficulty putting together Ikea furniture. For wordless instructions (because of how many translations would be needed) they are fairly self-explanatory. It's almost as if Ikea actually tests their instructions. They also aren't afraid to use more paper than necessary to explain - I've seen flat pack furniture try to cram the instructions all on one sheet of paper and inevitably there's a step missing or it's completely unclear.
Hell, I've had flat pack furniture where the holes never lined up properly. At least with Ikea stuff it generally all lines up. For mass manufactured low quality furniture, assembly is still of high quality. Other stuff I've had to drill extra holes and all sorts of other things because the holes were too small, in the wrong place, etc.
I've gone to sites to do a recovery to find that, while the tapes were rotated out every day and stored off site, no one there, in the IT dept. understood CaptainDork's 6th corollary: The task is not to get the data on the tape as much as it is to get the data off the tape.
I've said it this way. Any idiot can write a backup program. However, it takes a genius to write a restore program.
Writing a backup program is stupidly simple. Writing a restore program is not (because now your backup program has to work).
I've always hated demos of backup software - especially ones that require you to pay to test the restore functionality. Because of the above - demonstrating to me that you can backup is easy. What I want to know is if I can restore. So your demo needs to include restore functionality - maybe you can restore up to 1GB of data or something before requiring payment so I can see your restore program in operation.
Sad fact is, I found many backup programs have "test versions" that only allow backup. Without showing me you can restore, I'm not going to believe your demo.
They still charge you $5/month for "touch tone service"! You can't even ask to remove it, either.
And Bell was the primary driver behind killing gray market satellite services - there was actually a few Canadians who received US satellite service (paying for it legitimately - not hacked access) and Bell decided it was too much competition for their satellite TV and went all the way to the supreme court.
Also, I'd forgotten the absolute worst PM trend; project is going too slowly, we need a daily meeting that we'll pretend is 15 minutes, but is actually an hour and probably subtracts 2 from the day with prep and recovery.
No, the absolute worst is the all hands status meeting. I had one PM do that every Friday. Everyone who worked for him had to attend (we were a small company, so it was about 20+ people from every department). (!!! ALERT !!!! Useless meeting sign #1 - More people are attending than necessary).
It started at 8:30AM. It never ended before 1PM. Of course, he would always do the production and QA departments first, because "they were important and had lots of important work to do". so they'd be in at 8:30 and out at 9:30. And hell be if you wanted out of the meeting room.
It didn't take long before I regarded Fridays as write-offs and started padding my estimates by 25% to make up for the lost Friday. You'd get in, and I'd just surf/. until the meeting started, then at the end, you'd leave for lunch. Get back and you'd just surf other sites until quitting time - after a multi-hour meeting, you really are so worn out you aren't getting anything done.
Heck, staying awake was a challenge.
Thankfully, that PM only stayed for maybe 6 months before we had a bunch of layoffs.
TFA says that they don't need to use 2FA to lock your device, presumably because if you lost your phone you might want to lock it but be unable to provide the 2nd factor for authentication. Their 2FA system seems to be somewhat flawed.
Well, given you just lost your "2nd factor" for a lot of users, how do you envision implementing 2FA?
You just lost your phone. You can't have 2FA use an SMS, an app, or any other thing that relies on the phone you just lost.
And you can't rely on the user having more than one Apple device. Or a replacement phone (which would require the original phone in order to register another trusted device, for obvious reasons).
What would you have the user do - try to remember some long ago obscure password they set as an override? Try to find some piece of paper they wrote the 2FA bypass code on?
I will never forgive microsoft for deliberately introducing white spaces in path names. There was already a well established convention about white spaces. They knew it,. They deliberately did it to break all the scripts in linux/unix. My scripts broke. Even now I hate the stupid "Program Files (x86)" and options like/build "Release|x64".
What Microsoft bleeds into rest of the environment. When it had the marketshare it kept releasing uncertainity storms repeatedly and we were forced to react and put up with and adapt to it. And every time I fixed my scripts once again I could imagine a bunch of jerks in Redmond laughing at me. They showed no respect for us. They can expect no mercy from us. I will go to ends of earth to bad mouth Microsoft at every opportunity.
Actually, it's why Microsoft put white spaces in filenames. Because back in the way when everything was 8.3, no one cared (because you couldn't have a space in a filename). But with long filename support, you could, and Microsoft needed a way to break what would become a common problem later on.
So boo-hoo. Just because most Linux/Unix users don't have spaces in paths, doesn't mean you won't ever encounter one. Best that Microsoft forced you to quote your parameters and thus add support and robustness to your script that try to deal with someone who puts spaces and dashes in filenames.
It's also why some scripts end up doing the equivalent of "rm -rf/" - they aren't robust enough to handle odd, but perfectly legal cases
"20 minutes on a server farm" does sound a lot like somebody screwed pretty badly, including in the "billion year" estimate.
Password crackers have gotten a lot smarter the past few years. Forcing use of numbers, upper case, and symbols doesn't actually increase the search space all that much anymore if you have humans generating passwords (i.e., it's not random line noise).
A modern password cracker will take a dictionary word, then apply common transformations to it to generate a test. "password" will then generate a list like "pa55word", "pa55w0rd", "passw0rd", "p4ssword", etc. for random l33t-ification, it will also try "Password" and "PASSWORD" (and the l33t combinations thereof), then add a number at the end, e.g. "password0" (and various capitalizations).
The end result is a single dictionary word may generate say, 100-200 extra combinations - much less than the theoretical increase caused by adding capitals, numbers and symbols to the search space.
It's possible to generalize this to pass phrases as well, though the dictionary may be a bit larger, the search space is probably a lot smaller since it's unlikely to include mis-spelt words or random l33t replacements.
Applying trivial transforms really only works to satisfy the oddball password requirements - it really doesn't increase security all that much.
Due for another separation referendum yet? Third time could be the charm!
Them problem is, the separatists are generally older - the younger voting population practically never votes for the PQ. And given the current provincial government is Liberal, while they're in power it's not going to happen.
In fact, there's reports that the Quebec Language Police are going to let up on some anglicisms after they not only proved unpopular, but no one used them. And yes, Quebec enforced use of those words, even when they don't bother in France! (The stop signs are ARRÊT in Quebec, but STOP in France (and yes, the French do say "Stop").
It's understandable - some of the Quebec French-isms are a mouthful compared to the more compact anglicism (which is probably why they never caught on), while the more compact ones have actually stuck and have been adopted by France.
In short, the younger people are taking over and they really don't give a damn about separation - they understand the value Canada brings to them, both economically and socially, and they also know they are powerful enough that Canada wouldn't dare bully them. (A lot of political power comes from Quebec, and while it's possible to "win" without Quebec, it's significantly harder).
The providers of browser usage share statistics probably count every iOS browser as Safari, as all* browsers on iOS are skins around the Apple WebKit engine.
Only if you're too lazy to actually change it - Web Views could change the User-Agent since iOS 3, and iOS 5 made it even easier. Knowing what is sent, you can differentiate between someone u sing the mobile Safari, an app using Web Views, and Chrome for iOS.
Of course, if's up the maintainer of the website to notice the differences - if you only look for WebKit or KHTML and assume it's Safari, well, you're gonig to count it all as Safari then. But that's a problem with the website gathering the usage stats.
It all depends on how much you trust the company. My keyboard downloaded local dialect words and location names when it saw I got off a plane. You can't do cool things like that on iOS, because Big Brother knows better (and wants all that data all to itself).
iOS can do that, actually. You just have to enable it. Alternative keyboards by default DO NOT have network access. You have to turn it on manually. And users usually want you to tell them why.
and in this case, Big Brother knows better because Big Brother knows what developers love to lie, cheat and steal when they can. Most of the restrictions in IOS come from developers deliberately trying to do bad things. It's less about protecting users from themselves, and more about protecting users from developers
You know what I fear? The fact that we're in 2017 and Slashdot still doesn't support UTF-8.
It supports UTF-8 just fine. For over a decade at that. And people have been screwing around with Unicode that craps all over message boards since Unicode was invented. Any popular message board supporting it has undergone the trolls that spew out billions of unicode crap that destroy page layouts and turn entire articles into blobs of black because they pile on 10000 decorations on a single character. Or apply the RTL forcings. It gets so bad boards wither have admins routinely delete accounts and posts of people who do it, or employ automated filters (which is what/. does). In the case of/., the filter strips the high bit of all characters. And maybe as recent as a few years ago, they added the filter on output as well, because you used to be able to see the effects. Now you get highly nonsensical posts because they employed the Unicode chacter that got filtered out. Use Google to search/. for "erocS" or "5:erocS". (That's a 5, space, colon, "erocS"). Apply a RTL filter and enjoy.
As for biometrics - remember Apple did the research. People unlock their phones thousands of times a day. Many people really hate entering passcodes (or complex passwords), so instead of engaging the phone's security mechanisms, they leave it as requiring nothing more than "Swipe to unlock". Because it can be a pain unlocking your phone, scanning it for 3 seconds, then locking it again. Only 10 seconds later needing to unlock it again. The population was around 50% of people actually had even a 4 digit passcode - the rest did not lock their phones.
Thus to counter this, Apple created Touch ID, which lets you quickly and conveniently unlock your phone. With this you can enable higher security, or for the 50% that didn't, just enable it. After this, something like 80% or more of phones had a passcode.
That's why it exists - because for a large number of the population, they won't bother with security if it gets in the way.
ON a digital product like a phone, I'm at a loss to know why someone would need another keyboard?
What does the default keyboard not offer?
The standard Android keyboard is terrible. I don't know what it is, but for some reason, typing on my Nexus 6p is full of errors, yet if I use my iPhone 4s, it works fine (and well, despite the screen bein g almost half the size).
The only good thing I can say about the Android keyboard is it pops up the number bar when I enter passwords so I don't have to switch to the symbol set to type numbers.
I'm not entirely sure it would *ruin* Treasuries to void select quantities for specific political reasons (versus other reasons for non-payment). One other reason they're popular is its a nearly bottomless well of liquidity that cash can be pumped into and back out of.
It's an open question whether it's seen as a bottomless pit of liquidity because we don't play games with our bonds or because the US economy and government is such a giant player that there are no other equal places to put cash.
The Euro was starting to look like an alternative, but between the debt crisis, the migrant crisis, the Brexit crisis, the Europeans just don't look quite as ready to provide that kind of economic stability. The Chinese can't quite be trusted, and after that there's nothing else large enough to sink excess cash into.
No, it' won't ruin treasuries, at least not at first.
But you have to remember investors are generally a very skittish bunch - even the mere talk of non-payment as punishment will create a flight of capital. Sure today it may be industrial espionage, but tomorrow? Maybe Trump says "I don't like you. I'm not going to honor your bonds. Too bad!"
Once it does happen though, for seemingly arbitrary reasons, the US will be seen as a banana republic - this is exactly what leaders of such countries do. Not being able to pay is one thing. Not paying because you don't feel like it is another.
And once it happens, the bottomless pit of liquidity will suddenly dry up. The Euro right now is not seen as a model of stability, but that's because there are so many factors affecting it. The key though is if it weathers through it just fine despite all these problems. It's why the US Dollar is still regarded as a reserve currency - the US, despite its many problems, is still around and the government is stable and functioning economically (no matter who is actually in charge).
The only other reserve currency around is gold.
You know, perhaps the better thing (though somewhat inhuman) is to simply parade the guy around and make him a celebrity. Why? Because you're advertising to the world what happened, and show off all the evidence you have - all the information still contained on the laptop and other storage devices.
The key is to expose them, and let the Chinese government think of its next step. Perhaps they would engage in a policy of "disappearing" - disavow the guy, invalidate his citizenship, make his family "disappear", etc. (That's the inhuman part). In other words, make it so the Chinese government won't protect their spies and get them demoralized. Family is important, but if you screw up and get them killed, will that make you work twice as hard or perhaps just defect and try to get the US government to extract their family out of China. You want to embarrass the Chinese government
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There's also a situation where a lot of Apple services require proximity to each other. Like Continuity - if my phone rings, I can the the call on my Mac, or iPad or Watch. But if the WiFi is off, that won't happen. The user turned WiFI off, but forgot to turn it back on, breaking a common use case.
Or if you use AirDrop to send objects from one device to another - it requires use of Bluetooth. But if you have Bluetooth off, it will break AirDrop and you'll spend the next 15 minutes trying to figure out why. Then you'll keep Bluetooth on, until you turn it off again for some reason and then wonder why it broke. The disconnected state lets you still use all the proximity services
Not to mention, not in the spirit of why Nobel created the prizes.
Nobel created dynamite and various other explosives (far safer than the one previously invented by him). The problem was, when his brother died, an obituary in the paper was confused and thought he died. It said the "merchant of death has died" - given his inventions have killed people. Alfred Nobel, after reading this, realized that people might not think of him very well on his death.
That's why he created the Nobel Prize - it was to award the advances that benefit mankind in a positive way.
The problem with technology is much of it is use-agnostic. For every positive use, there's a negative use. So use it one way it can benefit mankind, used another way, it can destroy it. That is not in the spirit of what Nobel wanted. It's why a lot of the technology awards happen years after invention - they want to see if the use is primarily positive or negative.
The CCD Nobel Prize was awarded in 2009, over 30 years after commercialization (Kodak long experimented with them in the 70s).. It could be argued the CCD was good and bad - good in that it allows citizens to take photos and videos digitally, bad in that it enables mass surveillance. But then the positives also include what it did to imaging technology all around, as well as creating the CMOS sensor as a spinoff which enables regular people to capture plenty more with their phones - government abuses are laid shallow when people whip out their phones and start recording. So even though the CCD has enabled surveillance, it also enabled counter surveillance and enabled ordinary people to capture everyday memories, so all in all, a net plus.
The Blue LED was awarded far quicker - it enabled all sorts of spinoff technologies that are generally positive - blue lasers used in communications, full color LED based screens, LED light bulbs, etc.
Remember it's about the spirit of the think - Nobel didn't want to be remembered as the guy whose inventions were killing people.
The delivery companies (UPS, FedEx, USPS/postal service) are highly related to each other - there are plenty of services that will use their primary shipping but then transfer the package to the postal system at the border. Or the companies will use the postal system as a go-between too.
In fact, they offer logistics services - there are plenty of lesser known services they all offer - including having customers print out return shipping labels at home, repair prepration and collection services (if you have a defective device, you return it to a UPS or FedEx location who will forward it onwards to a central warehouse), etc. Heck, Amazon.ca for the first few years was a warehouse attached to the Canada Post sorting center. You ordered a package, and Amazon would pre-sort the package and have it off to Canada Post (I think some Canada Post employees were paid by Amazon to handle inventory, leading to minimal actual Amazon employees).
It woudln't surprise me if FedEx/UPS had a similar program where a seller could prepackage their products and have them stored at the warehouse ready for shipping. Heck, I've seen Amazon used that way - I ordered something from eBay and it cam in an Amazon box from the eBay seller (brand new Amazon box, shipped from Amazon facilities).
It's called business strategy, and obviously Intel wants AMD around. Sure, they could kill AMD at the drop of a hat with some killer technology that makes current CPUs obsolete with 10x faster ones. However, they didn't. (And yes, they've even publicly said they were holding back a chip release when Bulldozer turned out to be a flop).
There's no doubt Intel could crush AMD at any moment. And there's no doubt AMD was in serious trouble.
But Intel chose to keep AMD around (there's probably a good reason why the Xbox One and PS4 are running AMD chips). Presumably, it's because AMD is a decent competitor - they're not terribly strong so they're nothing more than a yapping dog in the grand scheme of things, but they're also big enough that everyone considers them a competitor. Including the government.
AMD failing would bring no end of grief to Intel - plenty of government oversight, anti-monopoly, even breakup. And never mind AMD's patents and cross licensing deals going up in smoke (which are probably doing more at keeping 3rd party x86 compatibles off the market - remember Cyrix? Via? Or the dozens of embedded 486 compatibles?).
Yes, they have to deal with AMD releasing a good architecture now and again but Intel knows doing so means AMD will be less likely to be collapse. Even so, Intel's not really "competing" - these chips are still overpriced over AMD for not a lot more performance. It's enough to counter AMD, but not enough to take the wind out of AMD's sails. They want AMD to succeed because it means easier business overall.
And FYI, I believe up to the 386, Intel was giving AMD the chip designs. The only reason AMD is in the x86 business is because people wanted to second-source the 8086 and other chips so Intel needed some other company to produce the chips too.
Nice to know we can still throwaway IPv4 addresses so frivolously
Money buys happiness, to an extent. I think someone quantified it around $75,000 or so - beyond that it buys a lot less happiness.
And it makes nse - we don't derive happiness in "ability to do something". We derive happiness from "effort required to do something".
Or think of it this way - is it more fun to win a game by playing it all the way through, suffering near-defeats and skillful play, or to simply win by default, or if the other side forfeits? You win in the end, but for most of the people, a win that comes about just because isn't as satisfying.
In a similar way, having the resources to do anything you want can be incredibly boring. For most people, the ability to go to Tahiti for a week is a luxury - they save up for months or years to afford both the time off and the money to pay for the trip. But you can bet they'd enjoy the trip - after all that hard work. I'm sure someone who can do it at the drop of the hat, it would lose its appeal after a few weeks.
No doubt, if a trillion dollars landed in your laps today, you'd be on top of the world for a few weeks. But without the challenge of having to earn it or work for it, your life will become quite unsatisfying. It seems satisfaction derives from the effort required to achieve the reward.
The big problem is, and until it's resolved, the dealerships. To get a scope of the problem, a new vehicle really only comprises about 20-30% of a dealerships' revenue. The vast majority of a dealership's income is the service department.
As such, they HATE EVs. Because the drive train is so simplified, there is actually very little that needs to be maintained (you have your usual brakes and other things, but those don't really need a lot of servicing).
And a lot of the "no maintenance" parts are prematurely replaced by dealerships just because they can bill you for it - a car may only need an oil change once a year, but you can bet your dealership will have you coming in at least twice a year to do an oil change.
The EV, you don't really have to bring it in even once a year - maybe once every couple of years just to replace common consumables and check on the brakes (which will last a lot longer since they aren't used as much - regenerative braking reduces brake wear significantly). The biggest parts that will go wrong are the electronics, which can be electronically monitored, and being solid state, are extremely reliable.
Tesla sells you a bumper to bumper everything-but-tires service package for $600 a year - cheap compared to ICE vehicle services but even overkill for an EV (especially since the tires aren't included, and they're about the only part that wears out at the same rate).
There's a far simpler way to do it. You use the tickets the people use to travel!
Every ticket is serial numbered internally and you pass it through the gate in order to pass, recording the station you started your trip. When you exit, you pass your ticket over the gate and it records that a ticket traveled from station A to station B.
Unless your ticket is one of those monthly or multi-ride passes, and unless those require a name and address (some do, to allow stuff like auto-renewals so you don't have to use ticket machines to reload money onto it - you can reload them online or even have it reload automatically). it's pretty much anonymous, and you get volumes and trip origins and destinations.
Our transportation authority did it, and while you can buy reloadable cards, they don't require you to register them (you can always reload them at the ticket machines - which will allow buying monthly and multi-trip passes too). That data is used to figure out trip lengths and where people join and leave the system. It's already used to adjust the number of gates that are fixed in one way only mode (the gates can let people in or let them out. Sometimes though the volume of people going one way is so great you need to force a gate to be for the opposite direction so people can still go the other way)
Your way makes perfect sense... if you believe a security product is integrated into the OS itself.
However, Microsoft is under different rules, and Windows Defender must be disable-able in case the user decides they want to use a different security software product. Otherwise imagine the hell Kaspersky, Symantec, etc. will raise. Heck, Windows 10 updates that disable those products until updated already spurred lawsuits.
SO Windows Defender must be able to act like any other program would, and in this case, when you want to open a file, the kernel hook fires and Windows Defender scans the file first before letting Windows open the file.
About the only way around this would be to have the PE Loader be hookable so Windows Defender and other software can scan the file image after loading into memory but prior to execution. Assuming that's possible, given how the PE Loader might not actually read the entire file at once into memory, but instead just skip about when reading. In this case perhaps the hook might be near the very end before it jumps.
That's why face scanning doesn't rely on a simple 2D camera that is easily fooled by a mask or a photo.
Face detection systems like Face ID use a 3D camera and infra-red. It's why Windows Hello has special requirements. It turns out IR-lit faces are easiest to detect because an IR camera is not influenced as much by lighting conditions. (No, Kinect used a standard 2D camera for recognition, not the depth sensor). So lighting conditions may vary, but a face captured using an IR camera lit using an IR source will generally be lit the same regardless of actual lighting conditions. It's why it works in the dark, too.
Face ID adds to that by using structured light maps (like the first Kinect) to sense depth as well - which is why a photo will not work - it needs to measure the depth of your facial features as well.
That's also why it is limited to the iPhone X. No other iPhone has the IR projector or camera. (They straddle the regular camera).
I wonder how long until someone hacks it to use the iPhone X as a basic 3D scanner...
Actually, it's already happening. You probably won't notice it but a lot of stores do just this - the store inventory is not actually owned by the store, but is consigned by the manufacturer. It's called "vendor managed inventory" - the store gets a box of stuff, and by contract must display that box of stuff in a rack of a certain size.
The best known example is Best Buy. If you wonder why there can be racks and racks of empty shelves, it's because Best Buy is contractually obligated to have that many racks for the vendor (e.g., Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo). It's up to the vendor to manage those racks - and yes, you get gigantic WTFs like an empty rack for the PS Vita - but the contract said there had to be a rack for PS Vita, even though Sony doesn't ship Best Buy any Vita stuff.
It's also why Best Buy can match Amazon pricing among others - you are not technically Best Buy's customer - the vendor is. If the vendor is selling it cheaper online, so be it - Best Buy isn't paid to move the merchandise, they're paid to display it.
Oh and of course, Best Buy can sell warranties and all that to make a few extra bucks on the side, plus serve as a nice easy return depot for unwanted purchases as it's all charged to the vendor in the end.
More than that, really. You need an antenna, and you need a I2S connection to your CODEC chip (for the audio). After all, FM receiption is pointless if you can't actually hear the audio, so the chips include an ADC to digitize the audio and make it available as an audio source. Turning the chip on is useless if the antenna and audio lines are not hooked up at all.
And yes, I'll go with transistor radio, because those can get AM radio, which is where I'd go for my news. FM is full of Clearchannel crapola so even in an emergency I probably won't think to turn on FM radio.
Yeah, I've never had much difficulty putting together Ikea furniture. For wordless instructions (because of how many translations would be needed) they are fairly self-explanatory. It's almost as if Ikea actually tests their instructions. They also aren't afraid to use more paper than necessary to explain - I've seen flat pack furniture try to cram the instructions all on one sheet of paper and inevitably there's a step missing or it's completely unclear.
Hell, I've had flat pack furniture where the holes never lined up properly. At least with Ikea stuff it generally all lines up. For mass manufactured low quality furniture, assembly is still of high quality. Other stuff I've had to drill extra holes and all sorts of other things because the holes were too small, in the wrong place, etc.
I've said it this way. Any idiot can write a backup program. However, it takes a genius to write a restore program.
Writing a backup program is stupidly simple. Writing a restore program is not (because now your backup program has to work).
I've always hated demos of backup software - especially ones that require you to pay to test the restore functionality. Because of the above - demonstrating to me that you can backup is easy. What I want to know is if I can restore. So your demo needs to include restore functionality - maybe you can restore up to 1GB of data or something before requiring payment so I can see your restore program in operation.
Sad fact is, I found many backup programs have "test versions" that only allow backup. Without showing me you can restore, I'm not going to believe your demo.
Bell is always been like that.
They still charge you $5/month for "touch tone service"! You can't even ask to remove it, either.
And Bell was the primary driver behind killing gray market satellite services - there was actually a few Canadians who received US satellite service (paying for it legitimately - not hacked access) and Bell decided it was too much competition for their satellite TV and went all the way to the supreme court.
They are one of the scummiest companies in Canada
No, the absolute worst is the all hands status meeting. I had one PM do that every Friday. Everyone who worked for him had to attend (we were a small company, so it was about 20+ people from every department). (!!! ALERT !!!! Useless meeting sign #1 - More people are attending than necessary).
It started at 8:30AM. It never ended before 1PM. Of course, he would always do the production and QA departments first, because "they were important and had lots of important work to do". so they'd be in at 8:30 and out at 9:30. And hell be if you wanted out of the meeting room.
It didn't take long before I regarded Fridays as write-offs and started padding my estimates by 25% to make up for the lost Friday. You'd get in, and I'd just surf /. until the meeting started, then at the end, you'd leave for lunch. Get back and you'd just surf other sites until quitting time - after a multi-hour meeting, you really are so worn out you aren't getting anything done.
Heck, staying awake was a challenge.
Thankfully, that PM only stayed for maybe 6 months before we had a bunch of layoffs.
Well, given you just lost your "2nd factor" for a lot of users, how do you envision implementing 2FA?
You just lost your phone. You can't have 2FA use an SMS, an app, or any other thing that relies on the phone you just lost.
And you can't rely on the user having more than one Apple device. Or a replacement phone (which would require the original phone in order to register another trusted device, for obvious reasons).
What would you have the user do - try to remember some long ago obscure password they set as an override? Try to find some piece of paper they wrote the 2FA bypass code on?
Actually, it's why Microsoft put white spaces in filenames. Because back in the way when everything was 8.3, no one cared (because you couldn't have a space in a filename). But with long filename support, you could, and Microsoft needed a way to break what would become a common problem later on.
So boo-hoo. Just because most Linux/Unix users don't have spaces in paths, doesn't mean you won't ever encounter one. Best that Microsoft forced you to quote your parameters and thus add support and robustness to your script that try to deal with someone who puts spaces and dashes in filenames.
It's also why some scripts end up doing the equivalent of "rm -rf /" - they aren't robust enough to handle odd, but perfectly legal cases
Password crackers have gotten a lot smarter the past few years. Forcing use of numbers, upper case, and symbols doesn't actually increase the search space all that much anymore if you have humans generating passwords (i.e., it's not random line noise).
A modern password cracker will take a dictionary word, then apply common transformations to it to generate a test. "password" will then generate a list like "pa55word", "pa55w0rd", "passw0rd", "p4ssword", etc. for random l33t-ification, it will also try "Password" and "PASSWORD" (and the l33t combinations thereof), then add a number at the end, e.g. "password0" (and various capitalizations).
The end result is a single dictionary word may generate say, 100-200 extra combinations - much less than the theoretical increase caused by adding capitals, numbers and symbols to the search space.
It's possible to generalize this to pass phrases as well, though the dictionary may be a bit larger, the search space is probably a lot smaller since it's unlikely to include mis-spelt words or random l33t replacements.
Applying trivial transforms really only works to satisfy the oddball password requirements - it really doesn't increase security all that much.
Them problem is, the separatists are generally older - the younger voting population practically never votes for the PQ. And given the current provincial government is Liberal, while they're in power it's not going to happen.
In fact, there's reports that the Quebec Language Police are going to let up on some anglicisms after they not only proved unpopular, but no one used them. And yes, Quebec enforced use of those words, even when they don't bother in France! (The stop signs are ARRÊT in Quebec, but STOP in France (and yes, the French do say "Stop").
It's understandable - some of the Quebec French-isms are a mouthful compared to the more compact anglicism (which is probably why they never caught on), while the more compact ones have actually stuck and have been adopted by France.
In short, the younger people are taking over and they really don't give a damn about separation - they understand the value Canada brings to them, both economically and socially, and they also know they are powerful enough that Canada wouldn't dare bully them. (A lot of political power comes from Quebec, and while it's possible to "win" without Quebec, it's significantly harder).
Only if you're too lazy to actually change it - Web Views could change the User-Agent since iOS 3, and iOS 5 made it even easier. Knowing what is sent, you can differentiate between someone u sing the mobile Safari, an app using Web Views, and Chrome for iOS.
Of course, if's up the maintainer of the website to notice the differences - if you only look for WebKit or KHTML and assume it's Safari, well, you're gonig to count it all as Safari then. But that's a problem with the website gathering the usage stats.
iOS can do that, actually. You just have to enable it. Alternative keyboards by default DO NOT have network access. You have to turn it on manually. And users usually want you to tell them why.
and in this case, Big Brother knows better because Big Brother knows what developers love to lie, cheat and steal when they can. Most of the restrictions in IOS come from developers deliberately trying to do bad things. It's less about protecting users from themselves, and more about protecting users from developers
It supports UTF-8 just fine. For over a decade at that. And people have been screwing around with Unicode that craps all over message boards since Unicode was invented. Any popular message board supporting it has undergone the trolls that spew out billions of unicode crap that destroy page layouts and turn entire articles into blobs of black because they pile on 10000 decorations on a single character. Or apply the RTL forcings. It gets so bad boards wither have admins routinely delete accounts and posts of people who do it, or employ automated filters (which is what /. does). In the case of /., the filter strips the high bit of all characters. And maybe as recent as a few years ago, they added the filter on output as well, because you used to be able to see the effects. Now you get highly nonsensical posts because they employed the Unicode chacter that got filtered out. Use Google to search /. for "erocS" or "5 :erocS". (That's a 5, space, colon, "erocS"). Apply a RTL filter and enjoy.
As for biometrics - remember Apple did the research. People unlock their phones thousands of times a day. Many people really hate entering passcodes (or complex passwords), so instead of engaging the phone's security mechanisms, they leave it as requiring nothing more than "Swipe to unlock". Because it can be a pain unlocking your phone, scanning it for 3 seconds, then locking it again. Only 10 seconds later needing to unlock it again. The population was around 50% of people actually had even a 4 digit passcode - the rest did not lock their phones.
Thus to counter this, Apple created Touch ID, which lets you quickly and conveniently unlock your phone. With this you can enable higher security, or for the 50% that didn't, just enable it. After this, something like 80% or more of phones had a passcode.
That's why it exists - because for a large number of the population, they won't bother with security if it gets in the way.
The standard Android keyboard is terrible. I don't know what it is, but for some reason, typing on my Nexus 6p is full of errors, yet if I use my iPhone 4s, it works fine (and well, despite the screen bein g almost half the size).
The only good thing I can say about the Android keyboard is it pops up the number bar when I enter passwords so I don't have to switch to the symbol set to type numbers.
No, it' won't ruin treasuries, at least not at first.
But you have to remember investors are generally a very skittish bunch - even the mere talk of non-payment as punishment will create a flight of capital. Sure today it may be industrial espionage, but tomorrow? Maybe Trump says "I don't like you. I'm not going to honor your bonds. Too bad!"
Once it does happen though, for seemingly arbitrary reasons, the US will be seen as a banana republic - this is exactly what leaders of such countries do. Not being able to pay is one thing. Not paying because you don't feel like it is another.
And once it happens, the bottomless pit of liquidity will suddenly dry up. The Euro right now is not seen as a model of stability, but that's because there are so many factors affecting it. The key though is if it weathers through it just fine despite all these problems. It's why the US Dollar is still regarded as a reserve currency - the US, despite its many problems, is still around and the government is stable and functioning economically (no matter who is actually in charge).
The only other reserve currency around is gold.
You know, perhaps the better thing (though somewhat inhuman) is to simply parade the guy around and make him a celebrity. Why? Because you're advertising to the world what happened, and show off all the evidence you have - all the information still contained on the laptop and other storage devices.
The key is to expose them, and let the Chinese government think of its next step. Perhaps they would engage in a policy of "disappearing" - disavow the guy, invalidate his citizenship, make his family "disappear", etc. (That's the inhuman part). In other words, make it so the Chinese government won't protect their spies and get them demoralized. Family is important, but if you screw up and get them killed, will that make you work twice as hard or perhaps just defect and try to get the US government to extract their family out of China. You want to embarrass the Chinese government