The sword of Damocles works because it hangs, not because it falls.
The *potential* for voiding Chinese holdings of US treasuries should be held over them not because it's effective in any small case, but because it's an existential threat against any large-scale Chinese sell-off or other manipulation based on them.
We could void them selectively if we wanted, but ultimately the market would just price in that risk and raise interest rates.
That's exactly what happens. Right now, people love US debt because in general, the US is a very trustworthy country that will repay the debt.
Threaten to invalidate that debt (i.e., fail to repay) and the US goes from "trustworthy" to "banana republic" - think of other countries failing to repay debt (like say, Greece). This means any time the US wants to borrow money, people will require a higher interest rate just because they're not sure the US will repay it.
It's just like a credit rating - most first world nations are generally quite good - AAA+ or so, which means they're low risk, and thus low interest. But it's a great place to park money you're not using - a safe investment and it also gets money flowing and economy humming. But do something like fail to pay a debt, or threaten to do so and you lose the nice credit rating and creditors will demand more money to cover the risk.
Yes, even personal loans work this way - that's why there are companies like Equifax making lots of money storing your credit history - the repayment rate is what determines if the bank will let you have the loan.
The people experiencing problems are probably just wearing it wrong.
You joke, but that could be the problem, actually.
The watch is worn right against the skin, and the SAR calculations (whether you believe in it or not) are influenced heavily by distance. For a cellphone, it's easy enough to get even a centimeter or two between the skin and antenna, which means you can put in a more powerful RF amp and better antenna. With the watch sitting so close to the skin, the actual power output of the LTE modem will be quite limited.
And that doesn't include the body shielding effects. (all the water and salt make the body a relatively good shield)
You'll find control panels from the original 95, and new 'tile' or web-page-like looks woven together.
No, what makes Windows 10 especially bad is having TWO control panels, each doing a different thing.
You have the old style Control Panel that's been around, and the new style Settings control panel. And each seems to have a counterpart in the other, but each does not do what the other does. It's like Microsoft began converting the Control Panel to Metro style, ran out of time and we're left with a mish-mash of both, neither of which does everything, and each having their own set of settings.
It's like a car with two steering wheels, two dashboards, two sets of pedals, etc. Except the left steering wheel only goes left, the right steering wheel turns right only, the left dashboard has the speedometer, the right dashboard has the tach and other gauges. The left pedals have the brake, the right pedas the accelerator, etc.
It's an exercise in confusion and frustration.
Hell, Apple is no better. On iOS, some app settings are under, well, Settings, while other app settings are under the app's options page.
Outside of Apple circles, that's called a SSHD - solid state hard drive. It does not give the best of both types of media.
No, Fusion drive is not SSHD. SSHD is what Seagate does and provides a NAND flash cache with a 1TB or so spinning drive.
Fusion Drive is a MacOS X feature that combines an SSD and an HDD together into one volume. In typical shipped configurations, it was a 128GB Samsung 840/850 Pro combined with a standard spinning rust hard drive. It is integrated into the OS X volume manager, and if you Boot Camp, one of the things Boot Camp does is break the Fusion Drive because it doesn't work on Windows. (By breaking it, it turns it into an SSD and HDD).
While you're right about comments about SSHDs, realize they were done by Seagate and were available in 8GB NAND/1TB configurations, while Apple sells Fusion drive configurations as a 128GB/1TB or 128GB/3TB configuration. (The Mac Mini supports 2 2.5" drives, so a Fusion Drive is one 2.5" SSD one HDD).
If all VISA transactions were distributed (they somewhat are but are geographically centralized) and converted to direct Debit and eat the transactions that would put a customer in an overdrawn account, they would have nowhere the capacity they do today. Every time you do a transaction, they would have to query your bank whether you have enough money, then they would allow your transaction and post it to your bank account as if you wrote a check. That takes about 2-3 days to "propagate" so a VISA card would allow you to make 1 transaction every 2-3 days. Blockchains allow you to do 1 transaction every ~10 minutes.
VISA transactions ARE checked. You may think they want people to exceed their credit limit, but there are plenty of cards out there that do NOT allow you to do that (prepaid cards, for example, as well as secured cards).
In fact, the network is entirely distributed, that's why it's so fast - when you charge something to your VISA, the transaction details go to the merchant's processor. That processor does a quick verification of details, then sends the charge request to VISA, who will examine the details and contact your issuing financial institution with the details. Your issuer does a lookup of your account, and runs through a bunch of security checks, as well as a balance (or credit limit) check, and returns to VISA either a yay or nay result, which goes back to the processor to determine if the transaction can complete.
If it does complete, the transaction is authorized - no actual money has changed hands, but the merchant's processor has noted it is owed the transaction amount, and your issuer notes it needs to actually send the money to the merchant. At night, what happens is a batch process runs that gathers up all the transactions and then it all gets settled with money flowing through the network. This can take several days especially if the money has to pass through currency conversions and across borders - basically every processor and issuer needs to synchronize with VISA and they do so at their own times (usually at night)
Authorizations are real time on credit cards - it's what lets you complete the transaction in real time. It's only the settlements take time. But you can get a real time view of your credit cards including all authorizations, authorizations awaiting settlement, and completely posted transactions (everyone's all settled up). They also place holds on the card - they make sure that between the authorization and settlement, you didn't go crazy and spend the money 10 times over - the hold locks that much of the credit limit pending authorization (usually done together) and settlement.
When you use your card at say, a gas pump, the pump actually puts a hold on your account to make sure you can charge the fill up (usually $100 to $150). When you finish pumping, it changes that hold to an authorization for the actual amount you pumped.
What this case illustrates is how crappy, inefficient bits of technology become entrenched. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists who were so fast as to jam mechanical typewriters (millenials won't know what those are;-). But more efficient keyboard designs never caught on.
Sorry, but that isn't actually true.
QWERTY is actually a very efficient layout - it was designed FOR typewriters, not to slow them down, but to allow them to go fast WITHOUT jamming the type. You see, in a typewriter, you have type on a semicircular type bar (this is before IBM did the ball thing). When you hit a key, it causes the type to rise from the type bar and strike the paper through the ink reel. The problem with typewriters is if two of the types rise up, they have a possibility of jamming. This is significantly increased if the type is close together on the type bar. If instead it comes from opposite ends of the type bar, they will only jam if they contact near the paper.
So QWERTY was designed in such a way that common letter pairings would be spaced out on the type bar. In addition, it would also ensure they would be typed by separate hands, which has the effect for a lot of words of alternating hand usage. This actually speeds up typing since while one hand is pushing the key down, the other hand is moving into position.
The end result is to have type flying towards the paper, and the instant one hits, it retracts fast enough that it won't bind up with the next type.
There are more efficient layouts - meant to take advantage of the relative strength of fingers which puts more common letters under the stronger fingers and less common letters under the weakest. However, testing has shown them to not really offer any speed advantages. Sorry DVORAK fans, but Dvorak cheated - his tests were not controlled in order to show his layout made everyone type faster. When the Navy redid the tests in a more controlled environment, they found no appreciable speed advantage of DVORAK over QWERTY. It was literally a ruse to sell DVORAK keyboards. That said, DVORAK did put the more common keys under the stronger fingers.
One of the reasons military gear is far more expensive is that it that they usually expect it to be hardened to stand up to some action. Ships get hit. They want it to still work even after a torpedo goes off.
Of course, this mass produced piece of plastic is cheaper and people are already familiar with it's use. The question is, will it shatter when the ship gets hit by a shock wave that does not kill the crew?
Given people in normal use throw the controllers all over the place in the first place, I think by default they are pretty sturdy. There's probably enough people who get so frustrated they throw the controller out windows and they aren't breaking.
Heck, the pots on the things are probably pretty good too - given the years of abuse these things undergo in just normal play, they still center pretty well.
Honestly, I'd be surprised if they didn't just use the original Microsoft made controllers. They're cheap, already "battle tested" just through normal play.
And sometimes, they'd probably only need to walk to the entertainment lounge to get a replacement - I believe Xbox 360s were popular on sub crews.
I've mostly ignored my right to vote because I don't want to vote for the lesser of two evils and can't seem to find any somewhat neutral candidates that have a chance in hell of getting voted in. So my lack of vote is my opinion of the available candidates.
Too bad people see it as a vote for "I don't care, I support whoever wins".
There are many ways to vote and still not vote.
You hate all the candidates? Vote for none of them! Write in your own name if you want (I hear that's a thing). Spoiling the ballot is a perfectly legitimate thing you can do (and sometimes it's your only option, given some places make it mandatory to vote).
Not voting simply means you don't care who really wins. Not that you hate all the candidates.
We now have a huge rush of people conditioned in a Windows world transferring the ideas they learned there to the userspace. Ideas like complex service management, binary log files or the ability for a normal userspace program to disable system shutdown.
The result are monstrosities like ConsoleKit, Pulseaudio and SystemD.
And that's because userspace isn't simple.
How would you handle the following use case, using ALSA and scripts? You may not close the application in use, either.
Current setup: 1 sound card (1 microphone, 1 audio output). User is playing back music, and a VoIP application is running in the background.
User gets a VoIP call. User answers and starts conversation. User may or may not pause music.
User decides to conduct conversation in privacy, and plugs in USB headset (or Bluetooth headset, doesn't matter). User expects VoIP call to be routed to headset automatically (we will assume it was pre-configured)
User continues VoIP call using headset. (Music, if still playing, continues on speakers)
User hangs up, unplugs headset and resumes their work.
Go ahead, if you can do code it up in a simple, modular "unix like" way without a monolithic monstrosity.
And yes, this is a VERY common scenario - I've done it on Windows many times before - I'd answer a Skype call, tell them to hold while I plug in my headset (so I don't disturb everyone around me with what is effectively a speakerphone, and the mic and skype audio is routed to the headset. I did not close any application, did not hang up any phone calls, or anything.
As for SystemD, sysvinit is not it. Sysvinit scripts attempt to duplicate what init (provided as part of sysvinit, ironically) already does! init is not easy - pretty much every major UNIX system out there already went through the process, and most have settled on their own solution. (It took Apple maybe 4 tries over the years - there were times it only lasted one OS X version before it was scrapped).
Especially when so much malware is served up with the ads.
So instead of running malware ad javascript, you'll run javascript?
What if the script you're running is a spam script? In exchange for using TPB, you're sending spam out? You think you're mining coins, but you're sending out hundreds of emails.
What if your script is a webserver and serving up fraud/phishing pages?
Heck, why not host TPB while you're at it? That way it can never go down as long as people are browsing the site, because it's creating a bunch of mirror servers.
At which point does it end?
And do you own shares in Intel or something? Since when should people need a top-tier machine just to browse the web? What, system requirements are coming to websites? "To browse this website, to pay for it we require you to have a Core i7-8700 at 3.5GHz with 32GB of RAM. If you have less, go away as your computer is too slow"
I don't want youtube autoplaying either. I want to open it up and read the description and other details before deciding when I want to press play.
Ditto. But not because I want to read the description, I want to open the video links in new tabs. I don't want them to start playing immediately because I might open 3-4 videos I'm interested in watching and then they all start playing together in a mish-mash of sound. Just open the video and let it wait for me, because I'll eventually get to it and watch it. When I'm done, I might open more of those related ivdeos in new tabs and close the current video tab when I'm done.
Can someone explain what this is? I found this but I don't really understand. Is this some addon to view pirated content? That article is from June 2017 but apparently the repo is already shutdown?
Could be. The reason being that the Kodi devs are trying to get pirate Kodi boxes shut down because they're ruining the Kodi name (i.e., people are associating Kodi with pirated content). It's why the Kodi devs have been taking down pirate Kodi box sellers (who also pollute the official Kodi forums - the customers find the plugins stop working then go to the forums and complain).
LIkely the Metal Kettle folks decided it wouldn't be a good idea for the longevity of the Kodi project (the devs are considering quitting - they want to work on the best damn media player on the planet, but not one that's associated heavily with pirates and "stolen" content.
And hopefully it'll put a few of those pirate box sellers out of business.
Apple used to ship the best starting programming environment ever developed, Hypercard, for free on all of their machines. The same company doesn't allow programming on iOS except in very limited (in-game typically) ways. There is absolutely a sense that you should be a consumer, not a producer, on modern devices and it drives me crazy.
Well, get a Mac and program on iOS. Since iOS9 (or 8?) Apple has allowed users to deploy their code to personally owned iOS devices without paying $99 a year, and without Apple's approval.
In fact, there's a small underground open-source community of people who use this to put "unapproved" apps on their devices. Stuff Apple will never let in the store, yet you can deploy it to your devices and use it. And yes, it has to be open-source. Apple actually frowns on people using this method to distribute binaries.
Today, every idiot wants to operate a computer. Thus, manufacturers had to dumb down every UI to make it idiot-proof in order to capitalize on that demand. App stores are a perfect example of idiot-proofing software installations.
No, lots of people don't want to operate a computer. Just like lots of people don't want to drive.
It's better to say "Lots of people are forced to operate a computer". The computer is required in order to get their job done - it may be to download manuals, order parts, send invoices, run diagnostics etc. Notice I didn't say "do the job" - the computer is used merely as a tool as part of the job they're doing. A mechanic doesn't use a computer to replace worn out parts, but they will have to use it to get at any diagnostic codes, get service manuals, order service parts, accounting (billing the customer or the manufacturer, etc). A plumber doesn't use a computer except to order parts, and scheduling and billing (and oh-so-helpful if the computer calendar syncs to their smartphone and perhaps offers GPS directions?).
See, the computer isn't an end to itself, it's a means for people to stuff done, and many times now "the old way" doesn't work anymore. There aren't many jobs you can apply for the traditional way anymore - at the very least you have to send an email, to complete online application forms. Ordering parts is done online - no more filling out order forms and faxing or mailing them in (though some companies still do it because they realize there's a significant chunk of their customer base who use the old methods).
The dumbing down happens because you're needing to tailor the power of the computer to the user's actual needs and requirements, realizing that 99.99% of it would go unused because the users don't need it at all.
And ratios: how many JS miners do you need to equal a current (affordable) GPU card, combined with -- as AniMoJo first mentioned -- the fact that when you stop browsing, any partial work disappears. That's really a killer.
Well, when the CPU comes "for free" (they're using your CPU to make them money - the only cost is the ad campaign, and those are generally cheap because those are running on the second tier advertisers - the ad networks that do ads for "non mainstream" websites like torrents, porn, etc.
And if you do it right, you can save your state when the user navigates away from the page - there are javascript hooks that can be called when you navigate away that can upload the current state to a server. It's how those "are you sure you want to leave this page?" alerts are issued.
That reminds me of the story about Target's initial foray into targeted ads where they could tell based on search history when a user was pregnant and had some data to suggest that if they could get a new mother to start shopping at their stores she'd likely be a good longtime customer. They were worried about it appearing creepy for them to start displaying sales ads for diapers or other baby products that people hadn't looked for yet, so they through it some ringer results (like golf clubs or scotch glasses) that would make the advertising appear more random.
No, it actually happened. Target knows if they can be the store you go for your baby supplies, they will also get you for everything else you might need - one stop shop and all. So they have extensive classification systems that identify if you might be pregnant and will send you appropriate coupons.
Well, one day a father got coupons for baby products because of their daughter's shopping habits. He stormed to Target and gave them a chewing out. Later that day, his daughter had something to say to him...
People used to show a picture of someone to the 1st gen of this tech and it unlocked easily.
I actually watched someone unlock an iDevice with another iDevice by showing it their employee roster picture from our company website..
(you can turn Facial unlock off.. just like with the ubiquitous thumbprint unlock)
Which is impossible, since the only iDevices capable fo facial unlocking haven't been released yet.
Sure, you could jailbreak it, but then that's a stupid unlock since you're limited to the camera and vulnerable. The iPhone X facial unlock requires the depth sensor because it's doing a 3D capture, not a 2D capture, rendering the photo trick unusable. (They claim masks don't work too, but I'm not too sure about it).
Second, you can turn on "attention" mode - the phone won't unlock if merely pointed at your face, but you have to actually have to be giving attention to your phone for it to unlock, so a cop can't point it at you to unlock it.
Finally, remember there's also the 5 power button click disable option that turns off both fingerprint and facial recognition. You should be able to click the power button a sufficient number of times in under a second as you reach into your pocket to retrieve the phone.
Pretty much the only way for cops to get at your data would be for you to unlock your phone and the cop tackles you to the ground, or they swipe it from you as you're using it.
Spoken like someone who has never looked at the FTP protocol or the code in a client or server. HTTP is far simpler to implement than FTP and, unlike FTP, is also trivial to add TLS support to, easier to scale up with CDNs, and so on. FTP hasn't been the right tool for any job for well over a decade.
1) FTP uploads are easier to support than HTTP uploads HTTP uploads require CGI scripts to handle, and if configured wrongly, can lead to security issues (see FCC website w.r.t. comment system)
2) FTP supports TLS -it's called FTPS (not to be confused with SFTP - the former uses FTP and initiates a TLS session, the latter uses SSH). Modern FTP clients and servers support STARTTLS as a command to initiate TLS, and they do it before the USER/PASS commands so the connection is encrypted from the get-go. Note that you need to use passive mode while doing this as most NAT gateways spy on FTP sessions to set up dynamic mappings, and TLS doesn't allow them to do it.
3) HTTP doesn't allow for easy downloading of multiple files other than picking and saving one at a time. Sure browser extensions may try to simplify this, but in general, you can't pick a list of files and transfer that. Triply so if you want to upload multiple files - either the web page and script has to implement support or you're having to upload files one at a time. Clever javscripting can help with that, but now you're relying on user side and server side scripts and not all websites that support uploads support multiple file transfers.
Granted, it's time for a modern upgrade to FTP that gets rid of the multiple port requirements, but HTTP is not a complete replacement for FTP. FTPS still has all the issues with FTP. SFTP is a lot better, but support is generally lacking across the board, including bypassing strict firewalls.
On the other hand at a light, hopefully most people make eye contact with any turning drivers and such, so they dont get run down. So it would surely be an effective test if people noticed it in the situations where they would normally. I mean thats the point im sure. They did put a giant flashing light bar "positioned roughly where a driverÃ(TM)s eye line would be, to try to catch the attention of those around it who would look in its direction."
That was the point of Ford's research - how much information do people on the road and street derive from being able to see the driver and communicate visually. We always assumed it was a lot (you're asked to look at the driver before stepping on the street, for example, to ensure you can see him and see his intentions).
Of course, these days it's probably a lot less, as everyone is glued to their smartphone's screen anyhow to look at a driver and just blindly cross the road.
It's an important bit of work - do autonomous cars need a way to signal intention to pedestrians and other vehicles other than what a standard car provides? Assuming predictability - like a car that slows down sees you wanting to cross the street and will continue to slow down and stop, versus when you step onto the road it then squeals its tires and floors it just to annoy you.
So far, it appears that Ford discovered seeing a driver isn't important at all.
It depends were you live. Where I live, the warranty is defined to be at least as long as you could expect it to live related to the object value. If you can expect a cheap android device to last 2-3 years, then you can safely assume your higher priced iphone to last much longer and automatically have both Apple & the seller responsible for covering the warranty.
And that's why Apple's warranty for Europe and Australia and other places that have such laws include the cost of AppleCare in the price.
You can buy a 3 year warranty from Apple - they call it AppleCare. The key word is "can buy". Or your government may force you to buy it (via a law saying warranties have to be 3 years).
It pays to note these things, because when people complain about how expensive stuff in Europe is, it generally isn't - the price in Europe generally includes taxes (sales, import) (added at register in the US), extended warranties (optional in the US) and currency exchange.
TINSTAAFL. If the laws say you have to provide a 3 year warranty, the manufacturers are more than happy about it since it means an extended warranty sale that's guaranteed.
You are missing the point. Changing the file system 'in-situ' without offering an opt-out is flat out fucking stupid on Apple's part. It should be offered as an option, not jammed down your throat on production systems.
Well, if you're so worried, then you shouldn't upgrade ot High Sierra then on your production systems. Which is never a bad idea since the bugs on a.0 release of an OS are huge. You can hold off until.1 or.2 is released which should fix a bunch of the biggest issues.
Apple will retain support for the previous version of the OS until at least the next version of the OS is released, so you can hold off and wait for the bad news.
And Apple has nice backup tools for you too - Time Machine will be useful enough to handle a pre-upgrade backup.
Actually, according to the summary, they spent at least $2.6 MILLION dollars in just the last 2.75 years, alone. Imagine how much that money COULD have done if they had used it to hire a few good security engineers and made meaningful changes.
You guys are looking at it the wrong way. You're looking at it as a victim, you should look at it as what it brought them.
With this one breach, that $2.6M is now completely wasted - in fact, it's even worse since it's now achieving the opposite effect - instead of trying to buy reduced scrutiny, their failure to spend on security is working against their campaigning. Even worse, it's brought government scrutiny on all the credit reporting agencies, with increased regulation likely the result.
By failing to spend on security, Equifax has basically made life in their industry much harder for everyone. Ezperian and TransUnion should be applying peer pressure for making it much more expensive to do business now.because any law that comes down, any scrutiny that happens will apply equally to all three of them.
And financial institutions HATE government oversight.; When "too big to fail" banks started having government oversight as required by their bailout packages, they couldn't get rid of them fast enough.
That's how you're supposed to frame it. Protecting your data? You're not worth that much to them. But ensuring their future is free of government oversight and extra regulation? That's something that does affect them directly and the cost of doing business
Honestly, some of these ballyhooed features are a big yawn. Edge-to-edge display? Why? Your hand will be covering some of it. Wireless charging? Meh. Until it can charge from across the room, it's not that important. Dual cameras? What are you doing with them? The magic is in the software. OLED should have been ubiquitous by now. I saw OLED displays 10+ years ago. Make me one for my MacBook Pro (and make it 17 inches, please).
Of course stuff comes out on Android first. Because if you're a second tier seller (i.e., not Samsung), you don't have to have the manufacturing prowess to add a feature. When you're making say, a million phones with the feature (which is quite a lot), it's relatively simple. When you're Samsung trying to add same for the upcoming Note S or S-whatever, you need to scale to 10-50M units. That's hard.
And Apple will need that feature to scale to 50M+ units the first year.
It's why OLEDs are still problematic - Apple may be making them for the next iPhone, but that's literally after telling Samsung they need to double up their factory size, and some of the equipment used to make the screens, the manufacturer makes maybe 2-3 units per year. Samsung scaled up slowly so they probably bought all 3 units for years, and now Apple comes along and needs 50+M OLED screens, which requires Samsung to double up all their machines, but the manufacturer can only make 3 per year and Samsung has to order 10 to meet Apple's demands.
Honestly, stuff will come to Android first, because making sub-1M of something (for say, a Nexus) is easy. Apple may show interest and demand you make 50M of it, but most manufacturers can't scale that quickly, or even building that many can simply be impossible
Yup, I believe it was nVidia that spoiled the surprise, and Jobs yanked their cards entirely from all Macs. Apple seems to have softened a bit since then. I've seen other CEOs announce things before Apple on a handful of occasions without Apple dropping them entirely, but Apple does seem to take punitive measures still.
Every company does this - they say something is embargoed until a certain date. Which means you may know what you're making, but you're not allowed to say anything about it until a date has passed (usually the announce date).
Writers often sign NDAs for products with embargo dates on product release date - this could be a video game, a piece of hardware, or other thing. It's why you suddenly see reviews of a product often on the date a product is released - the writers had access to the product weeks in advance so they could write their articles, but they are banned from releasing their reviews until the product launches.
Cynically, it's why a game that didn't provide advance launch copies to reviewers (and thus no reviews on release day) is often remarked as being "bad" - the company knows it was horrible, so they didn't provide advance copies, trying to cash in on maybe a few days of pre-orders and early sales before reviews go out saying how bad it is about a week later.
Apple used to scour websites all the time, and every time leaked photos got out, they'd force them to be taken down. Apple stopped doing this years ago (probably around the iPhone 4 era) when it became well known that if the images stayed up, they were fake, but if they were taken down, then they were real. Now Apple leaves them up so people have to guess if they are fake or real images.
And yes, any company breaking embargo can face a lot of penalties - from reduced sales, fines, to simple cancellation of the order. Retailers who break embargo face short-shipments to simple delivery on or after release date (retailers normally get the product well in advance so it will hit stores well before release date, so having delivery arrive on release date means the distributor will be delivering direct to stores, or worse, to the store distribution warehouse where it'll have to be rush-shipped to stores who will not have anything for days after release).
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That's exactly what happens. Right now, people love US debt because in general, the US is a very trustworthy country that will repay the debt.
Threaten to invalidate that debt (i.e., fail to repay) and the US goes from "trustworthy" to "banana republic" - think of other countries failing to repay debt (like say, Greece). This means any time the US wants to borrow money, people will require a higher interest rate just because they're not sure the US will repay it.
It's just like a credit rating - most first world nations are generally quite good - AAA+ or so, which means they're low risk, and thus low interest. But it's a great place to park money you're not using - a safe investment and it also gets money flowing and economy humming. But do something like fail to pay a debt, or threaten to do so and you lose the nice credit rating and creditors will demand more money to cover the risk.
Yes, even personal loans work this way - that's why there are companies like Equifax making lots of money storing your credit history - the repayment rate is what determines if the bank will let you have the loan.
You joke, but that could be the problem, actually.
The watch is worn right against the skin, and the SAR calculations (whether you believe in it or not) are influenced heavily by distance. For a cellphone, it's easy enough to get even a centimeter or two between the skin and antenna, which means you can put in a more powerful RF amp and better antenna. With the watch sitting so close to the skin, the actual power output of the LTE modem will be quite limited.
And that doesn't include the body shielding effects. (all the water and salt make the body a relatively good shield)
No, what makes Windows 10 especially bad is having TWO control panels, each doing a different thing.
You have the old style Control Panel that's been around, and the new style Settings control panel. And each seems to have a counterpart in the other, but each does not do what the other does. It's like Microsoft began converting the Control Panel to Metro style, ran out of time and we're left with a mish-mash of both, neither of which does everything, and each having their own set of settings.
It's like a car with two steering wheels, two dashboards, two sets of pedals, etc. Except the left steering wheel only goes left, the right steering wheel turns right only, the left dashboard has the speedometer, the right dashboard has the tach and other gauges. The left pedals have the brake, the right pedas the accelerator, etc.
It's an exercise in confusion and frustration.
Hell, Apple is no better. On iOS, some app settings are under, well, Settings, while other app settings are under the app's options page.
No, Fusion drive is not SSHD. SSHD is what Seagate does and provides a NAND flash cache with a 1TB or so spinning drive.
Fusion Drive is a MacOS X feature that combines an SSD and an HDD together into one volume. In typical shipped configurations, it was a 128GB Samsung 840/850 Pro combined with a standard spinning rust hard drive. It is integrated into the OS X volume manager, and if you Boot Camp, one of the things Boot Camp does is break the Fusion Drive because it doesn't work on Windows. (By breaking it, it turns it into an SSD and HDD).
While you're right about comments about SSHDs, realize they were done by Seagate and were available in 8GB NAND/1TB configurations, while Apple sells Fusion drive configurations as a 128GB/1TB or 128GB/3TB configuration. (The Mac Mini supports 2 2.5" drives, so a Fusion Drive is one 2.5" SSD one HDD).
VISA transactions ARE checked. You may think they want people to exceed their credit limit, but there are plenty of cards out there that do NOT allow you to do that (prepaid cards, for example, as well as secured cards).
In fact, the network is entirely distributed, that's why it's so fast - when you charge something to your VISA, the transaction details go to the merchant's processor. That processor does a quick verification of details, then sends the charge request to VISA, who will examine the details and contact your issuing financial institution with the details. Your issuer does a lookup of your account, and runs through a bunch of security checks, as well as a balance (or credit limit) check, and returns to VISA either a yay or nay result, which goes back to the processor to determine if the transaction can complete.
If it does complete, the transaction is authorized - no actual money has changed hands, but the merchant's processor has noted it is owed the transaction amount, and your issuer notes it needs to actually send the money to the merchant. At night, what happens is a batch process runs that gathers up all the transactions and then it all gets settled with money flowing through the network. This can take several days especially if the money has to pass through currency conversions and across borders - basically every processor and issuer needs to synchronize with VISA and they do so at their own times (usually at night)
Authorizations are real time on credit cards - it's what lets you complete the transaction in real time. It's only the settlements take time. But you can get a real time view of your credit cards including all authorizations, authorizations awaiting settlement, and completely posted transactions (everyone's all settled up). They also place holds on the card - they make sure that between the authorization and settlement, you didn't go crazy and spend the money 10 times over - the hold locks that much of the credit limit pending authorization (usually done together) and settlement.
When you use your card at say, a gas pump, the pump actually puts a hold on your account to make sure you can charge the fill up (usually $100 to $150). When you finish pumping, it changes that hold to an authorization for the actual amount you pumped.
Sorry, but that isn't actually true.
QWERTY is actually a very efficient layout - it was designed FOR typewriters, not to slow them down, but to allow them to go fast WITHOUT jamming the type. You see, in a typewriter, you have type on a semicircular type bar (this is before IBM did the ball thing). When you hit a key, it causes the type to rise from the type bar and strike the paper through the ink reel. The problem with typewriters is if two of the types rise up, they have a possibility of jamming. This is significantly increased if the type is close together on the type bar. If instead it comes from opposite ends of the type bar, they will only jam if they contact near the paper.
So QWERTY was designed in such a way that common letter pairings would be spaced out on the type bar. In addition, it would also ensure they would be typed by separate hands, which has the effect for a lot of words of alternating hand usage. This actually speeds up typing since while one hand is pushing the key down, the other hand is moving into position.
The end result is to have type flying towards the paper, and the instant one hits, it retracts fast enough that it won't bind up with the next type.
There are more efficient layouts - meant to take advantage of the relative strength of fingers which puts more common letters under the stronger fingers and less common letters under the weakest. However, testing has shown them to not really offer any speed advantages. Sorry DVORAK fans, but Dvorak cheated - his tests were not controlled in order to show his layout made everyone type faster. When the Navy redid the tests in a more controlled environment, they found no appreciable speed advantage of DVORAK over QWERTY. It was literally a ruse to sell DVORAK keyboards. That said, DVORAK did put the more common keys under the stronger fingers.
Samsung's version of Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant.
In other words, a speech recognizing personal assistant.
Too bad people see it as a vote for "I don't care, I support whoever wins".
There are many ways to vote and still not vote.
You hate all the candidates? Vote for none of them! Write in your own name if you want (I hear that's a thing). Spoiling the ballot is a perfectly legitimate thing you can do (and sometimes it's your only option, given some places make it mandatory to vote).
Not voting simply means you don't care who really wins. Not that you hate all the candidates.
And that's because userspace isn't simple.
How would you handle the following use case, using ALSA and scripts? You may not close the application in use, either.
Current setup: 1 sound card (1 microphone, 1 audio output). User is playing back music, and a VoIP application is running in the background.
User gets a VoIP call. User answers and starts conversation. User may or may not pause music.
User decides to conduct conversation in privacy, and plugs in USB headset (or Bluetooth headset, doesn't matter). User expects VoIP call to be routed to headset automatically (we will assume it was pre-configured)
User continues VoIP call using headset. (Music, if still playing, continues on speakers)
User hangs up, unplugs headset and resumes their work.
Go ahead, if you can do code it up in a simple, modular "unix like" way without a monolithic monstrosity.
And yes, this is a VERY common scenario - I've done it on Windows many times before - I'd answer a Skype call, tell them to hold while I plug in my headset (so I don't disturb everyone around me with what is effectively a speakerphone, and the mic and skype audio is routed to the headset. I did not close any application, did not hang up any phone calls, or anything.
As for SystemD, sysvinit is not it. Sysvinit scripts attempt to duplicate what init (provided as part of sysvinit, ironically) already does! init is not easy - pretty much every major UNIX system out there already went through the process, and most have settled on their own solution. (It took Apple maybe 4 tries over the years - there were times it only lasted one OS X version before it was scrapped).
So instead of running malware ad javascript, you'll run javascript?
What if the script you're running is a spam script? In exchange for using TPB, you're sending spam out? You think you're mining coins, but you're sending out hundreds of emails.
What if your script is a webserver and serving up fraud/phishing pages?
Heck, why not host TPB while you're at it? That way it can never go down as long as people are browsing the site, because it's creating a bunch of mirror servers.
At which point does it end?
And do you own shares in Intel or something? Since when should people need a top-tier machine just to browse the web? What, system requirements are coming to websites? "To browse this website, to pay for it we require you to have a Core i7-8700 at 3.5GHz with 32GB of RAM. If you have less, go away as your computer is too slow"
Ditto. But not because I want to read the description, I want to open the video links in new tabs. I don't want them to start playing immediately because I might open 3-4 videos I'm interested in watching and then they all start playing together in a mish-mash of sound. Just open the video and let it wait for me, because I'll eventually get to it and watch it. When I'm done, I might open more of those related ivdeos in new tabs and close the current video tab when I'm done.
Could be. The reason being that the Kodi devs are trying to get pirate Kodi boxes shut down because they're ruining the Kodi name (i.e., people are associating Kodi with pirated content). It's why the Kodi devs have been taking down pirate Kodi box sellers (who also pollute the official Kodi forums - the customers find the plugins stop working then go to the forums and complain).
LIkely the Metal Kettle folks decided it wouldn't be a good idea for the longevity of the Kodi project (the devs are considering quitting - they want to work on the best damn media player on the planet, but not one that's associated heavily with pirates and "stolen" content.
And hopefully it'll put a few of those pirate box sellers out of business.
Well, get a Mac and program on iOS. Since iOS9 (or 8?) Apple has allowed users to deploy their code to personally owned iOS devices without paying $99 a year, and without Apple's approval.
In fact, there's a small underground open-source community of people who use this to put "unapproved" apps on their devices. Stuff Apple will never let in the store, yet you can deploy it to your devices and use it. And yes, it has to be open-source. Apple actually frowns on people using this method to distribute binaries.
No, lots of people don't want to operate a computer. Just like lots of people don't want to drive.
It's better to say "Lots of people are forced to operate a computer". The computer is required in order to get their job done - it may be to download manuals, order parts, send invoices, run diagnostics etc. Notice I didn't say "do the job" - the computer is used merely as a tool as part of the job they're doing. A mechanic doesn't use a computer to replace worn out parts, but they will have to use it to get at any diagnostic codes, get service manuals, order service parts, accounting (billing the customer or the manufacturer, etc). A plumber doesn't use a computer except to order parts, and scheduling and billing (and oh-so-helpful if the computer calendar syncs to their smartphone and perhaps offers GPS directions?).
See, the computer isn't an end to itself, it's a means for people to stuff done, and many times now "the old way" doesn't work anymore. There aren't many jobs you can apply for the traditional way anymore - at the very least you have to send an email, to complete online application forms. Ordering parts is done online - no more filling out order forms and faxing or mailing them in (though some companies still do it because they realize there's a significant chunk of their customer base who use the old methods).
The dumbing down happens because you're needing to tailor the power of the computer to the user's actual needs and requirements, realizing that 99.99% of it would go unused because the users don't need it at all.
Well, when the CPU comes "for free" (they're using your CPU to make them money - the only cost is the ad campaign, and those are generally cheap because those are running on the second tier advertisers - the ad networks that do ads for "non mainstream" websites like torrents, porn, etc.
And if you do it right, you can save your state when the user navigates away from the page - there are javascript hooks that can be called when you navigate away that can upload the current state to a server. It's how those "are you sure you want to leave this page?" alerts are issued.
No, it actually happened. Target knows if they can be the store you go for your baby supplies, they will also get you for everything else you might need - one stop shop and all. So they have extensive classification systems that identify if you might be pregnant and will send you appropriate coupons.
Well, one day a father got coupons for baby products because of their daughter's shopping habits. He stormed to Target and gave them a chewing out. Later that day, his daughter had something to say to him...
Which is impossible, since the only iDevices capable fo facial unlocking haven't been released yet.
Sure, you could jailbreak it, but then that's a stupid unlock since you're limited to the camera and vulnerable. The iPhone X facial unlock requires the depth sensor because it's doing a 3D capture, not a 2D capture, rendering the photo trick unusable. (They claim masks don't work too, but I'm not too sure about it).
Second, you can turn on "attention" mode - the phone won't unlock if merely pointed at your face, but you have to actually have to be giving attention to your phone for it to unlock, so a cop can't point it at you to unlock it.
Finally, remember there's also the 5 power button click disable option that turns off both fingerprint and facial recognition. You should be able to click the power button a sufficient number of times in under a second as you reach into your pocket to retrieve the phone.
Pretty much the only way for cops to get at your data would be for you to unlock your phone and the cop tackles you to the ground, or they swipe it from you as you're using it.
1) FTP uploads are easier to support than HTTP uploads HTTP uploads require CGI scripts to handle, and if configured wrongly, can lead to security issues (see FCC website w.r.t. comment system)
2) FTP supports TLS -it's called FTPS (not to be confused with SFTP - the former uses FTP and initiates a TLS session, the latter uses SSH). Modern FTP clients and servers support STARTTLS as a command to initiate TLS, and they do it before the USER/PASS commands so the connection is encrypted from the get-go. Note that you need to use passive mode while doing this as most NAT gateways spy on FTP sessions to set up dynamic mappings, and TLS doesn't allow them to do it.
3) HTTP doesn't allow for easy downloading of multiple files other than picking and saving one at a time. Sure browser extensions may try to simplify this, but in general, you can't pick a list of files and transfer that. Triply so if you want to upload multiple files - either the web page and script has to implement support or you're having to upload files one at a time. Clever javscripting can help with that, but now you're relying on user side and server side scripts and not all websites that support uploads support multiple file transfers.
Granted, it's time for a modern upgrade to FTP that gets rid of the multiple port requirements, but HTTP is not a complete replacement for FTP. FTPS still has all the issues with FTP. SFTP is a lot better, but support is generally lacking across the board, including bypassing strict firewalls.
That was the point of Ford's research - how much information do people on the road and street derive from being able to see the driver and communicate visually. We always assumed it was a lot (you're asked to look at the driver before stepping on the street, for example, to ensure you can see him and see his intentions).
Of course, these days it's probably a lot less, as everyone is glued to their smartphone's screen anyhow to look at a driver and just blindly cross the road.
It's an important bit of work - do autonomous cars need a way to signal intention to pedestrians and other vehicles other than what a standard car provides? Assuming predictability - like a car that slows down sees you wanting to cross the street and will continue to slow down and stop, versus when you step onto the road it then squeals its tires and floors it just to annoy you.
So far, it appears that Ford discovered seeing a driver isn't important at all.
And that's why Apple's warranty for Europe and Australia and other places that have such laws include the cost of AppleCare in the price.
You can buy a 3 year warranty from Apple - they call it AppleCare. The key word is "can buy". Or your government may force you to buy it (via a law saying warranties have to be 3 years).
It pays to note these things, because when people complain about how expensive stuff in Europe is, it generally isn't - the price in Europe generally includes taxes (sales, import) (added at register in the US), extended warranties (optional in the US) and currency exchange.
TINSTAAFL. If the laws say you have to provide a 3 year warranty, the manufacturers are more than happy about it since it means an extended warranty sale that's guaranteed.
Well, if you're so worried, then you shouldn't upgrade ot High Sierra then on your production systems. Which is never a bad idea since the bugs on a .0 release of an OS are huge. You can hold off until .1 or .2 is released which should fix a bunch of the biggest issues.
Apple will retain support for the previous version of the OS until at least the next version of the OS is released, so you can hold off and wait for the bad news.
And Apple has nice backup tools for you too - Time Machine will be useful enough to handle a pre-upgrade backup.
You guys are looking at it the wrong way. You're looking at it as a victim, you should look at it as what it brought them.
With this one breach, that $2.6M is now completely wasted - in fact, it's even worse since it's now achieving the opposite effect - instead of trying to buy reduced scrutiny, their failure to spend on security is working against their campaigning. Even worse, it's brought government scrutiny on all the credit reporting agencies, with increased regulation likely the result.
By failing to spend on security, Equifax has basically made life in their industry much harder for everyone. Ezperian and TransUnion should be applying peer pressure for making it much more expensive to do business now.because any law that comes down, any scrutiny that happens will apply equally to all three of them.
And financial institutions HATE government oversight.; When "too big to fail" banks started having government oversight as required by their bailout packages, they couldn't get rid of them fast enough.
That's how you're supposed to frame it. Protecting your data? You're not worth that much to them. But ensuring their future is free of government oversight and extra regulation? That's something that does affect them directly and the cost of doing business
Of course stuff comes out on Android first. Because if you're a second tier seller (i.e., not Samsung), you don't have to have the manufacturing prowess to add a feature. When you're making say, a million phones with the feature (which is quite a lot), it's relatively simple. When you're Samsung trying to add same for the upcoming Note S or S-whatever, you need to scale to 10-50M units. That's hard.
And Apple will need that feature to scale to 50M+ units the first year.
It's why OLEDs are still problematic - Apple may be making them for the next iPhone, but that's literally after telling Samsung they need to double up their factory size, and some of the equipment used to make the screens, the manufacturer makes maybe 2-3 units per year. Samsung scaled up slowly so they probably bought all 3 units for years, and now Apple comes along and needs 50+M OLED screens, which requires Samsung to double up all their machines, but the manufacturer can only make 3 per year and Samsung has to order 10 to meet Apple's demands.
Honestly, stuff will come to Android first, because making sub-1M of something (for say, a Nexus) is easy. Apple may show interest and demand you make 50M of it, but most manufacturers can't scale that quickly, or even building that many can simply be impossible
Every company does this - they say something is embargoed until a certain date. Which means you may know what you're making, but you're not allowed to say anything about it until a date has passed (usually the announce date).
Writers often sign NDAs for products with embargo dates on product release date - this could be a video game, a piece of hardware, or other thing. It's why you suddenly see reviews of a product often on the date a product is released - the writers had access to the product weeks in advance so they could write their articles, but they are banned from releasing their reviews until the product launches.
Cynically, it's why a game that didn't provide advance launch copies to reviewers (and thus no reviews on release day) is often remarked as being "bad" - the company knows it was horrible, so they didn't provide advance copies, trying to cash in on maybe a few days of pre-orders and early sales before reviews go out saying how bad it is about a week later.
Apple used to scour websites all the time, and every time leaked photos got out, they'd force them to be taken down. Apple stopped doing this years ago (probably around the iPhone 4 era) when it became well known that if the images stayed up, they were fake, but if they were taken down, then they were real. Now Apple leaves them up so people have to guess if they are fake or real images.
And yes, any company breaking embargo can face a lot of penalties - from reduced sales, fines, to simple cancellation of the order. Retailers who break embargo face short-shipments to simple delivery on or after release date (retailers normally get the product well in advance so it will hit stores well before release date, so having delivery arrive on release date means the distributor will be delivering direct to stores, or worse, to the store distribution warehouse where it'll have to be rush-shipped to stores who will not have anything for days after release).