Simple solution, Amazon: stop comingling the damn inventory from 3rd party sellers. True, you won't be able to prevent
from selling counterfeit items, but you'll be able to trace back who sold it, and when sellers know they can be identified, they won't be as willing to risk it
Techincally, sellers can choose to not comingle their inventory The only problem is it means Amazon's cut of the product sale increases dramatically. It also means the Prime shipping will take longer since it'll be dispatched from one Amazon warehouse instead of the nearest warehouse.
Nice try but the difficulty in submitting bug reports is usually intentional. Many developers are not emotionally prepared to deal with bug reports which they see as criticism of their work. But maybe Apple developers are different
No, it's intentional because the vast majority of bugs will be of the kind "I can't turn on my phone". Or "My phone doesn't charge" and the like.
This is par for the course because for the most part, for every legitimate bug that needs investigation, you'll get a million of the kind from people who can't/won't figure out that they need to charge the battery, or need to plug in the charger.
Apple and others probably have a bunch of front line workers who answer these "bugs" every day, so it's more than believable that when you tweet about the bug to Apple, it gets overlooked as people see it as another "I can't figure out how to use it and I don't want to read" type of complaint.
While not a big fan of Microsoft, it would be nice to buy a game for what ever platform I have/want and be able to play it with other players even though they are not using my platform of choice.
Blame Sony. They're the ones blocking cross play. Only after a huge outcry did they "consider" allowing it for Fortnite, after people discovered that if they played Fortnite on a PS4 locked them out of Fortnite on other platforms.
Microsoft's not even going ot try to offer something Sony is actively rejecting. They only caved on Fortnite, but only a little.
So as long as Sony is going to prevent Sony players from cross play, well, if you're choosing PS4 or PS5, you'll be playing against other PS4 or PS5 users. Microsoft and Nintendo have long agreed to support cross play and even with PC and mobile platforms too.
Wu wrote. "In addition, several of these apps can also hide themselves via the same hidden technique mentioned above."
Wait.... Why is that even possible? Every app that is installed should have an icon on the home screen, and if the icon is missing or damaged, the OS should substitute a default icon. Is there some valid/reasonable use for this behavior that I'm missing? If not, it seems like the right fix is to just remove the feature.
Unfortunately it's not possible due to Android architecture. An APK file is not just an app, but can be services or other things. And unlike Apple, where every app must have an icon, there are plenty of APKs in the Android system itself that do not have icons (usually system services and other stuff). So on Android, if you install a new keyboard, it won't have an icon in the launcher and it will auto-hook itself to the keyboard input panel. On iOS, it would do the same thing, however it would have an icon where you would learn more about what it does at the very minimum and maybe offer some options you can adjust.
This is the fact that the populist human first sceptics should admit to. Given that, these sorts of stories aren't a problem; as the quote admits, the car was driving safely.
Yeah, this is what the anti-autonomous driving cars crowd should realize. They may enjoy driving, but if they saw what was REALLY happening around them, they'd really wish that technology was out there right now.
People asleep at the wheel - it's so bad some cars come with alertness detection technology to suggest when you should pull over or get a coffee. Then there's all that distracted driving out there - not just texting anymore, but doing god-knows-what on their phones (texting, reading, watching movies, etc). It's so bad distracted driving has displaced drunk driving as the number one killer.
The truth of the matter is that driving is no longer the #1 activity done behind the wheel for a good chunk of the driving population , and that should scare anyone who wants to stay safe on the road.
Your post could be summarized as "RTS games are decided by APM" (Actions Per Minute). Basically how you do depends on how many commands you can issue to the game per minute/ Most players can only do around 10 or so, while the pro players are besting over 100. And the theory is, the more APM, the greater your chances to win.
An AI even limited to a keyboard and mouse can issue far more than 100 APM since it can easily issue a command every time it runs the evaluate-plan-execute loop which can runs dozens of times per second.
An RTS is basically an effort in micromanagement. The more APM, the finer you can tune your micromanagement. No need to rely on path finding and other automation in the game when you can basically control everyone on a per-pixel level.
Nobody cares. If you want to point out something silly why not focus on nautical miles?
Nautical miles make sense. Statute miles do not.
1 nautical mile = 1 minute of latitude. Granted, degrees and minutes of latitude aren't nice units, but when you're in an airplane or boat, they're extremely useful. And when plotting the distance between two points, capturing the length and bringing it to the latitude scale on the chart is far easier than using a scale.
The typewriter, end hence the keyboard is just a final improvement.
Except he predicted quiet keyboards so one can enter their words in privacy. Today the trend is towards fancy mechanical keyboards with the top of the line ones turning "private typing" into a battlefield of machine guns.
Last month the battery started to crap out, now takes 5-8 hours to charge, but 90 minutes to drain. Took it to a repair shop yesterday, for the price they quoted I can buy a new one for another $20.
Last 2 cellphones I bought were because the existing batteries died.
I'd love to see a law that requires electronics to have an easily replaced battery. Spending $160 for a new device, as opposed to $30 for a battery, is stuck on stupid.
Why'd you take it to a repair shop? For most popular devices, even iPhones are "user replaceable". They just come with a built in IQ test to ensure that you're reasonably competent.
Heck, even in the early iPod days you could easily replace the built-in battery. You'd buy a battery from Best Buy and with 15 minutes of work you had a new battery for it. If you were incompetent, well, it told you pretty damn quick that perhaps you're not to be fooling around. (And do you really want someone who looks for the "any" key to be messing around with volatile things like batteries? Or people who break the cupholders back in the day?).
Or perhaps it's a decision of architecture - do you go big with a huge set of cloud-based servers that can answer any question under the sun, or do you try to figure out a way to make it mobile so Siri can attempt to do it all locally relying on local databases as well as Google and other internet databases?
Remember, Apple is trying to do more and more on-device and less and less in the cloud. Perhaps there's a difference of opinion - one wants to go big like Google and Amazon, while Apple wants to make Siri on-device. Yes, it won't answer questions as well as Google or Alexa, but if it completely works without talking to Apple's servers, that's a plus.
Apple will comply with the local data storage law,... Apple will apparently need to decrypt and produce user data for the country's security services as requested.
So they'll stand up to OUR government in 2016 (Apple won't decrypt a phone for the FBI Info link) but they'll lower their standards for foreign governments?
No matter which way you fall on this issue -- SHOULD have or should NOT have -- this is wrong.
If Apple is "The Angel of Privacy everywhere" then they should stand up for no decryption. If they take the stance "the local government makes the choice and we'll follow", then they should have decrypted the phone.
Uh, there are two different encryptions you know? There's one on the phone itself, and Apple has said no to that.
Then there's encryption on cloud data, and Apple has always provided that information with a warrant.
Even the FBI got a copy of that guy's iCloud data when they asked Apple.
The "decryption" part is stuff like messages and such, which are stored encrypted in iCloud, but are decryptable by Apple (so you can sign in on another phone and get the history).
Apple still can't decrypt phones and won't decrypt or unlock a phone. But they will hand over your iCloud data if there's any to be handed over (since it's not mandatory to use), even though that data is stored encrypted.
And China has the same deal - Apple will hand over iCloud data, decrypted if need be. But the phone's encryption is still stored on the phone, and no encryption keys to that are stored by Apple.
The FBI wanted Apple to write special software to help them break into the phone, something Apple still refuses to do. Even more importantly, the FBI could've broken into the phone using TouchID but simply refused to, relying instead on politics to help make their case. And Apple was calling the FBI if they needed assistance on that.
They owe us one where the batteries can be replaced. Things like video game consoles are precisely the sort of thing where the government should be outlawing planned obsolescence in the form of non-fixable batteries. "Send it in and we'll replace the battery or unit" should not be permissible on consumer electronics.
So change it yourself. It's technically user replaceable with a few screws and all that. Treat it as a IQ test. If you can figure it out, you can change the battery yourself. If you can't, you're really better off letting someone else do it.
Problem is that "intellectual property" is not well defined. If someone steals a computer it's easy to point to a physical object. If someone learns how your process works and then goes off to work for the competition and uses their knowledge and experience to develop a similar system, did they "steal" your IP?
You didn't lose your IP, your process still exists and works, and you can't reasonably expect them to wipe their memories or not use their accumulated experience in future jobs. Well, you can try with a non-compete, but they might not even be legal where they are working now.
In general, what you take with you in your head is fine. It doesn't matter what it is, it's not considered theft if you memorized your client list or other secret data and take it all in your head.
If however you take files or documents with you as a physical document, or on an electronic storage device, that is considered theft. And it should be obvious that the difference is simply evidence - if you take it in your head, there's no evidence. If you take it with you, there's plenty of evidence.
Here, the guy was caught with around 2500 documents on his laptop copied from Apple's internal servers. That's considered theft.
I'm not sure being smarter is the solution. In the past we saw that the fake news sites upped their game, creating entire fake news networks and brands to add credibility. People who post intelligent technical comments on Slashdot also push fake news too, so it doesn't seem to be a universal cure anyway.
Exactly. It's too easy to push fake news even inadvertently. It's usually not the fault of the person, just incomplete knowledge.
Even worse, once someone believes in something, it's very difficult to actually convince them otherwise, even with proof. It usually just causes them to dig in further, no matter how much the cognitive dissonance.
Since OTA (over the air) TV is ad-supported, and since Locast does not alter or remove the ads, it would seem that the channels get broader ad exposure when they appear on Locast, and therefore could make a case that their ad time is more valuable. Therefore, I would think the broadcasters would be in favor of Locast.
Only if Locast makes it available to people in the area only. If they let someone from Los Angeles watch a New York stream, the ads are completely irrelevant and worthless.
Even worse, the ads are worth less - less in New York because out of area viewers see them, and less in Los Angeles because there are viewers of the broadcast who won't see those.
Communicable diseases, especially incurable, lifelong and fatal ones (HIV) should be public knowledge!
If we don't have the temerity as a species/civilization to quarantine such individuals, at least let the public stay away from them on their own accord!
Not stopping HIV in its tracks in the 1980s was the genesis of the entire SJW movement.
HIV these days is far from a death sentence - our modern HIV treatments are so effective that we've had to shut down HIV wards at hospitals because it's quite controllable and far from a death sentence. Back in the 80s, yeah, you may have had 5 years to live, now, you'll pretty much live to the end of your natural life. An incredible amount of research has been done on HIV which basically lead to this result (and the drugs are fairly low cost now too).
It's not highly contagious - you still need to share bodily fluids with someone to even have a chance of infection (HIV is still relatively fragile and cannot survive outside the body).
And yes, by law in most jurisdictions, if you're HIV positive, you have to notify everyone you have contact with sexually so they are informed. In fact, it's considered murder if you don't in a lot of places (despite the fact that yes, it's not actually a death sentence anymore).
Now, I suppose the interesting thing is this is Singapore, a country to which you'd expect to have very high safeguards against data attacks just because. Someone's likely going to get the death sentence for it I suspect as well as a general tightening of private data handling regulations.
The only way I can see this working, is maybe the Apple Gaming Pass just means you get in-app purchases on all supporting games for half off?
They would have to get a lot of publishers on board for that to get any traction though...
Maybe, maybe it would work if they bundle that, and the video stuff they are doing, all along with the Apple Music subscription people already use. Similar to what Amazon does with Prime.
I can't see this working at all, because while iOS has a lot of games, they don't have a lot of games of the kind where this service would make sense. Plus, unless the service is like $1/month, I can't see it as being very economical because mobile games are relatively cheap.
So this competition âoekeeps [businesses] from raising prices quite as high as they might otherwiseâ, yet is somehow âoegood for businessâ? Uh, how exactly?
Now weâ(TM)ve all known (even HBO executives have known, as the article goes on to say in its last part) that piracy provides free advertisement (a tangible business benefit). So, what are the new findings from the paper that show that âoepiracy seems to have a surprisingly positive impact on the profits of the manufacturer and the retailerâ?
Certainly, thatâ(TM)s not its âoecompetitiveâ effect.
Yeah, I don't quite get this. It doesn't follow, because if HBO and/or Comcast jack up the rates, piracy rates may rise, but more importantly, subscriptions fall. And if HBO sees that, they won't blame piracy of Game of Thrones as the cause, they'll blame Game of Thrones for not keeping the subscribers.
Or to put it more correctly, HBO will axe GoT because its primary purpose (attracting subscribers to HBO) was not met.
This happens to any product where the product is not what is being bought. Network TV programming doesn't get bought by viewers, but viewers bring the eyeballs which bring the ads which bring the money. Pirating a TV show simply means less ad money for said show, leading to show cancellation. (It's one reason why network TV is often aimed at the lowest common denominator).
For a subscription service like Netflix or HBO, the same applies - the content is there to attract and retain subscribers. If that's not happening, the content is dropped. It doesn't matter if the TV show is the most pirated on the planet or not, if it's not attracting subscribers, it will be canned.
That said, there are many good aspects to piracy, notably the ability for little known acts and groups to get promotion
There is zero reason to compromise a camera chip. The interface is just not suitable for any kind of attack against the main system. But the whole "spying" thing is a big, fat lie anyways, purely motivated by economic arguments. As the US falls more and more behind, it turns out that it only wants to compete in an open market as long as it is ahead.
True, a camera chip is hard to compromise, but the threat is still very real. Because in China, by law (or really decree of Dictator Xi) every large company must have a Party member on board, and every company must obey the will of the Government. There are terrible consequences for not obeying. And speaking out is a sure way to get "disappeared".
For something like a camera, OK, maybe not so much. But for something like a network switch or core router or switchgear, things get a lot more interesting, because it will have access to sensitive traffic, and there's the rub. Huawei cannot come clean about any spyware it installed on behalf of the government or even if there is spyware, because it's illegal for them to do so. So even if you ask them they will always say "no".
Things are somewhat different in the US - the government can make demands but it can also be challenged on those demands. (This is the primary difference between "Rule of Law" - where the law is supreme, and "Rule by Law" where someone can easily mold the law as they see fit (like what China does)).
Doesn't mean there isn't a lot of shady stuff going on, but at least in the West, that stuff generally gets exposed. The Chinese Snowden was probably killed stepping out of their building. Fact is, the west has independent judicial systems, independent government, independent press, etc. While in China, it's all state controlled - from the courts to the press.
The walk-in services part of one of my local hospitals has some doctors use Google Glass. It is great for several reasons. The doctor can focus on care while an associate that has eyes on a computer screen can do 2 things to help the whole process: deal with documentation and provide research into records info as needed. It is really a good fit for healthcare in this way. They see 100's of patients a day at the walk-in services location, this saves time for the doctor, they don't have to write up very much and they just review what was written to refine/correct/accept the docs and move onto the next patient. I hope Google Glass, or very similar, stays around for this simple reason.
It should hang around, the technology is useful. What wasn't useful was putting it in the hands of the ordinary public who started (mis)using it in ways that pretty much destroyed any positive aspect it may have in the public's eye.
And there's a lot of technology like that - take cellphones for instance. The loudmouth talker is still an image we have of someone using a cellphone, and the image persists so readily that any thought of allowing cellphone use on planes immediately brings up that image and how even more miserable flying will be. (And it's not like they don't have a point - after all, we encounter said loudmouths on a daily basis
It's no longer if the technology exists, but rather if it should be put in the hands of the public
The best thing about the Raspberry Pi is really the fact that has basic IO communications allowing people with basic Electronics Skills to be able to make rather complex devices. In a world where everything is soldered and shipped as a black box unit. Having a device which will allow us to make such a device ourselves is welcomed.
Now the Rasberry Pi, is good for a prototype system, I would recommend Arduino microcontrollers for more of a complete job (depending on its complexity) but the microcontrollers are cheaper and often offer the power for a lot of jobs.
No, you can get boards to do all that.
The biggest reason the Pi is successful as it is is simply down to the community. The Foundation has cultivated a community and maintains that community, which is why they have such longevity.
You can get better boards easy, but they lack the community around them - software support and others are lacking, so many of these boards simply die on the vine. But a community offers support and a forum for doing "cool stuff" so support remains.
It's like Arduino - it's popular because it has a huge library and a huge amount of support and coimmunity as well compared to just regular microcontrollers.
It's these communities that let people take a Pi or an Arduino and get started doing stuff, get help and plenty more.
I once received a waterproof watch which was shipped in a container of water.
If Samsung could create packaging that contained canvas shopping bags, it would be good. Organic stuff like paper is just one more carbon dump I'll recycle or burn in the backyard.
Or more like plastic is not as recyclable. It's stupidly cheap to produce (and oil prices are quite low at the moment, as well). In fact, it's so cheap that recycling plastic is uneconomical, and it lasts basically forever. And unfortunately, most tossed plastic unless landfilled tend to end up in the ocean.
Paper can be composted, recycled, or disposed of in many ways. Even if you threw it in the garbage, it'll be broken down within a year or so. And if it reaches the ocean, it'll decompose even faster.
But beside the box, would the the plastic bags inside, which is unrecyclable in most recycling programs because it jams the machines. It's so bad that many recycling centers will simply landfill plastic bags and their contents when encountered in the recycling stream.
Xerox Parc and some other workstations at the time had the advanced GUIs. The NeXT computer came long after the Mac and was basically a simple competitor to other workstations.
The Alta had a GUI, but it was not advanced. It didn't, for example, have overlapping windows. Alto windows were tiled at best.
In fact, Wozniak racked his brains for a month trying to figure out how to do overlapping windows (and updating said windows) to come up with regions. He promptly got into an airplane crash and when Jobs went to visit Woz in the hospital, the first thing Woz said was "Don't worry, I still remember regions". Woz later asked Xerox about it and they said they didn't have overlapping windows.
NeXT was created by Steve Jobs after he was ousted from Apple. He used it as an opportunity to re-do the Mac right
You can bet the information is also used to gather voice samples to improve Google Home voice recognition. (Remember, Alphabet's privacy policy allows sharing of information across all Alphabet companies).
Not sure the obfuscation that Google does to make getting the download link "hard" can be classified as copy protection.
Well, the only ones Google makes easy are 720p and 480p streams. That's it. If you want 1080p or 4K streams, Google makes it harder. Many sites like genyoutube and the like only let you get at those streams because that's the easy no-hosting one.
And you do want it, because only the 4K/1080p streams have the best audio quality - 128kbps AAC. I believe 720p gets you lower quality and 480p even lower quality still.
1080p/4K streaming requires you to use something like youtube-dl or one of the many web front ends to it
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Techincally, sellers can choose to not comingle their inventory The only problem is it means Amazon's cut of the product sale increases dramatically. It also means the Prime shipping will take longer since it'll be dispatched from one Amazon warehouse instead of the nearest warehouse.
No, it's intentional because the vast majority of bugs will be of the kind "I can't turn on my phone". Or "My phone doesn't charge" and the like.
This is par for the course because for the most part, for every legitimate bug that needs investigation, you'll get a million of the kind from people who can't/won't figure out that they need to charge the battery, or need to plug in the charger.
Apple and others probably have a bunch of front line workers who answer these "bugs" every day, so it's more than believable that when you tweet about the bug to Apple, it gets overlooked as people see it as another "I can't figure out how to use it and I don't want to read" type of complaint.
Blame Sony. They're the ones blocking cross play. Only after a huge outcry did they "consider" allowing it for Fortnite, after people discovered that if they played Fortnite on a PS4 locked them out of Fortnite on other platforms.
Microsoft's not even going ot try to offer something Sony is actively rejecting. They only caved on Fortnite, but only a little.
So as long as Sony is going to prevent Sony players from cross play, well, if you're choosing PS4 or PS5, you'll be playing against other PS4 or PS5 users. Microsoft and Nintendo have long agreed to support cross play and even with PC and mobile platforms too.
Unfortunately it's not possible due to Android architecture. An APK file is not just an app, but can be services or other things. And unlike Apple, where every app must have an icon, there are plenty of APKs in the Android system itself that do not have icons (usually system services and other stuff). So on Android, if you install a new keyboard, it won't have an icon in the launcher and it will auto-hook itself to the keyboard input panel. On iOS, it would do the same thing, however it would have an icon where you would learn more about what it does at the very minimum and maybe offer some options you can adjust.
Better that than dozing off without autopilot.
This is the fact that the populist human first sceptics should admit to. Given that, these sorts of stories aren't a problem; as the quote admits, the car was driving safely.
Yeah, this is what the anti-autonomous driving cars crowd should realize. They may enjoy driving, but if they saw what was REALLY happening around them, they'd really wish that technology was out there right now.
People asleep at the wheel - it's so bad some cars come with alertness detection technology to suggest when you should pull over or get a coffee. Then there's all that distracted driving out there - not just texting anymore, but doing god-knows-what on their phones (texting, reading, watching movies, etc). It's so bad distracted driving has displaced drunk driving as the number one killer.
The truth of the matter is that driving is no longer the #1 activity done behind the wheel for a good chunk of the driving population , and that should scare anyone who wants to stay safe on the road.
Your post could be summarized as "RTS games are decided by APM" (Actions Per Minute). Basically how you do depends on how many commands you can issue to the game per minute/ Most players can only do around 10 or so, while the pro players are besting over 100. And the theory is, the more APM, the greater your chances to win.
An AI even limited to a keyboard and mouse can issue far more than 100 APM since it can easily issue a command every time it runs the evaluate-plan-execute loop which can runs dozens of times per second.
An RTS is basically an effort in micromanagement. The more APM, the finer you can tune your micromanagement. No need to rely on path finding and other automation in the game when you can basically control everyone on a per-pixel level.
Nautical miles make sense. Statute miles do not.
1 nautical mile = 1 minute of latitude. Granted, degrees and minutes of latitude aren't nice units, but when you're in an airplane or boat, they're extremely useful. And when plotting the distance between two points, capturing the length and bringing it to the latitude scale on the chart is far easier than using a scale.
Except he predicted quiet keyboards so one can enter their words in privacy. Today the trend is towards fancy mechanical keyboards with the top of the line ones turning "private typing" into a battlefield of machine guns.
(yes, I jest).
Why'd you take it to a repair shop? For most popular devices, even iPhones are "user replaceable". They just come with a built in IQ test to ensure that you're reasonably competent.
Heck, even in the early iPod days you could easily replace the built-in battery. You'd buy a battery from Best Buy and with 15 minutes of work you had a new battery for it. If you were incompetent, well, it told you pretty damn quick that perhaps you're not to be fooling around. (And do you really want someone who looks for the "any" key to be messing around with volatile things like batteries? Or people who break the cupholders back in the day?).
Or perhaps it's a decision of architecture - do you go big with a huge set of cloud-based servers that can answer any question under the sun, or do you try to figure out a way to make it mobile so Siri can attempt to do it all locally relying on local databases as well as Google and other internet databases?
Remember, Apple is trying to do more and more on-device and less and less in the cloud. Perhaps there's a difference of opinion - one wants to go big like Google and Amazon, while Apple wants to make Siri on-device. Yes, it won't answer questions as well as Google or Alexa, but if it completely works without talking to Apple's servers, that's a plus.
Uh, there are two different encryptions you know? There's one on the phone itself, and Apple has said no to that.
Then there's encryption on cloud data, and Apple has always provided that information with a warrant.
Even the FBI got a copy of that guy's iCloud data when they asked Apple.
The "decryption" part is stuff like messages and such, which are stored encrypted in iCloud, but are decryptable by Apple (so you can sign in on another phone and get the history).
Apple still can't decrypt phones and won't decrypt or unlock a phone. But they will hand over your iCloud data if there's any to be handed over (since it's not mandatory to use), even though that data is stored encrypted.
And China has the same deal - Apple will hand over iCloud data, decrypted if need be. But the phone's encryption is still stored on the phone, and no encryption keys to that are stored by Apple.
The FBI wanted Apple to write special software to help them break into the phone, something Apple still refuses to do. Even more importantly, the FBI could've broken into the phone using TouchID but simply refused to, relying instead on politics to help make their case. And Apple was calling the FBI if they needed assistance on that.
So change it yourself. It's technically user replaceable with a few screws and all that. Treat it as a IQ test. If you can figure it out, you can change the battery yourself. If you can't, you're really better off letting someone else do it.
In general, what you take with you in your head is fine. It doesn't matter what it is, it's not considered theft if you memorized your client list or other secret data and take it all in your head.
If however you take files or documents with you as a physical document, or on an electronic storage device, that is considered theft. And it should be obvious that the difference is simply evidence - if you take it in your head, there's no evidence. If you take it with you, there's plenty of evidence.
Here, the guy was caught with around 2500 documents on his laptop copied from Apple's internal servers. That's considered theft.
Exactly. It's too easy to push fake news even inadvertently. It's usually not the fault of the person, just incomplete knowledge.
Even worse, once someone believes in something, it's very difficult to actually convince them otherwise, even with proof. It usually just causes them to dig in further, no matter how much the cognitive dissonance.
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Only if Locast makes it available to people in the area only. If they let someone from Los Angeles watch a New York stream, the ads are completely irrelevant and worthless.
Even worse, the ads are worth less - less in New York because out of area viewers see them, and less in Los Angeles because there are viewers of the broadcast who won't see those.
HIV these days is far from a death sentence - our modern HIV treatments are so effective that we've had to shut down HIV wards at hospitals because it's quite controllable and far from a death sentence. Back in the 80s, yeah, you may have had 5 years to live, now, you'll pretty much live to the end of your natural life. An incredible amount of research has been done on HIV which basically lead to this result (and the drugs are fairly low cost now too).
It's not highly contagious - you still need to share bodily fluids with someone to even have a chance of infection (HIV is still relatively fragile and cannot survive outside the body).
And yes, by law in most jurisdictions, if you're HIV positive, you have to notify everyone you have contact with sexually so they are informed. In fact, it's considered murder if you don't in a lot of places (despite the fact that yes, it's not actually a death sentence anymore).
Now, I suppose the interesting thing is this is Singapore, a country to which you'd expect to have very high safeguards against data attacks just because. Someone's likely going to get the death sentence for it I suspect as well as a general tightening of private data handling regulations.
I can't see this working at all, because while iOS has a lot of games, they don't have a lot of games of the kind where this service would make sense. Plus, unless the service is like $1/month, I can't see it as being very economical because mobile games are relatively cheap.
Yeah, I don't quite get this. It doesn't follow, because if HBO and/or Comcast jack up the rates, piracy rates may rise, but more importantly, subscriptions fall. And if HBO sees that, they won't blame piracy of Game of Thrones as the cause, they'll blame Game of Thrones for not keeping the subscribers.
Or to put it more correctly, HBO will axe GoT because its primary purpose (attracting subscribers to HBO) was not met.
This happens to any product where the product is not what is being bought. Network TV programming doesn't get bought by viewers, but viewers bring the eyeballs which bring the ads which bring the money. Pirating a TV show simply means less ad money for said show, leading to show cancellation. (It's one reason why network TV is often aimed at the lowest common denominator).
For a subscription service like Netflix or HBO, the same applies - the content is there to attract and retain subscribers. If that's not happening, the content is dropped. It doesn't matter if the TV show is the most pirated on the planet or not, if it's not attracting subscribers, it will be canned.
That said, there are many good aspects to piracy, notably the ability for little known acts and groups to get promotion
True, a camera chip is hard to compromise, but the threat is still very real. Because in China, by law (or really decree of Dictator Xi) every large company must have a Party member on board, and every company must obey the will of the Government. There are terrible consequences for not obeying. And speaking out is a sure way to get "disappeared".
For something like a camera, OK, maybe not so much. But for something like a network switch or core router or switchgear, things get a lot more interesting, because it will have access to sensitive traffic, and there's the rub. Huawei cannot come clean about any spyware it installed on behalf of the government or even if there is spyware, because it's illegal for them to do so. So even if you ask them they will always say "no".
Things are somewhat different in the US - the government can make demands but it can also be challenged on those demands. (This is the primary difference between "Rule of Law" - where the law is supreme, and "Rule by Law" where someone can easily mold the law as they see fit (like what China does)).
Doesn't mean there isn't a lot of shady stuff going on, but at least in the West, that stuff generally gets exposed. The Chinese Snowden was probably killed stepping out of their building. Fact is, the west has independent judicial systems, independent government, independent press, etc. While in China, it's all state controlled - from the courts to the press.
It should hang around, the technology is useful. What wasn't useful was putting it in the hands of the ordinary public who started (mis)using it in ways that pretty much destroyed any positive aspect it may have in the public's eye.
And there's a lot of technology like that - take cellphones for instance. The loudmouth talker is still an image we have of someone using a cellphone, and the image persists so readily that any thought of allowing cellphone use on planes immediately brings up that image and how even more miserable flying will be. (And it's not like they don't have a point - after all, we encounter said loudmouths on a daily basis
It's no longer if the technology exists, but rather if it should be put in the hands of the public
No, you can get boards to do all that.
The biggest reason the Pi is successful as it is is simply down to the community. The Foundation has cultivated a community and maintains that community, which is why they have such longevity.
You can get better boards easy, but they lack the community around them - software support and others are lacking, so many of these boards simply die on the vine. But a community offers support and a forum for doing "cool stuff" so support remains.
It's like Arduino - it's popular because it has a huge library and a huge amount of support and coimmunity as well compared to just regular microcontrollers.
It's these communities that let people take a Pi or an Arduino and get started doing stuff, get help and plenty more.
Or more like plastic is not as recyclable. It's stupidly cheap to produce (and oil prices are quite low at the moment, as well). In fact, it's so cheap that recycling plastic is uneconomical, and it lasts basically forever. And unfortunately, most tossed plastic unless landfilled tend to end up in the ocean.
Paper can be composted, recycled, or disposed of in many ways. Even if you threw it in the garbage, it'll be broken down within a year or so. And if it reaches the ocean, it'll decompose even faster.
But beside the box, would the the plastic bags inside, which is unrecyclable in most recycling programs because it jams the machines. It's so bad that many recycling centers will simply landfill plastic bags and their contents when encountered in the recycling stream.
The Alta had a GUI, but it was not advanced. It didn't, for example, have overlapping windows. Alto windows were tiled at best.
In fact, Wozniak racked his brains for a month trying to figure out how to do overlapping windows (and updating said windows) to come up with regions. He promptly got into an airplane crash and when Jobs went to visit Woz in the hospital, the first thing Woz said was "Don't worry, I still remember regions". Woz later asked Xerox about it and they said they didn't have overlapping windows.
NeXT was created by Steve Jobs after he was ousted from Apple. He used it as an opportunity to re-do the Mac right
You can bet the information is also used to gather voice samples to improve Google Home voice recognition. (Remember, Alphabet's privacy policy allows sharing of information across all Alphabet companies).
Well, the only ones Google makes easy are 720p and 480p streams. That's it. If you want 1080p or 4K streams, Google makes it harder. Many sites like genyoutube and the like only let you get at those streams because that's the easy no-hosting one.
And you do want it, because only the 4K/1080p streams have the best audio quality - 128kbps AAC. I believe 720p gets you lower quality and 480p even lower quality still.
1080p/4K streaming requires you to use something like youtube-dl or one of the many web front ends to it