Not familiar with the GA terminal at LAX, but I'd be stunned if they had "standard security" as most have what you would call "no security." I remember one FBO that had a keypad lock on the gate to the barbed wire topped chain link fence, and a sign above the keypad that had the code neatly engraved upon it (and yes, this is post 9/11--that's why the fence had barbed wire and a lock).
The simple truth is that the feds cannot and do not dictate what you bring on board on your own personal airplane. I once wore a glock on my belt while piloting a C172 just for the sheer novelty of doing so, and did not break any laws by so doing.
This is true for most GA airports. But LAX also services commercial airplanes, so anyone on the air side of the airport will have to have gone through security screening.
Otherwise it's a Very Big Security Hole at LAX. Because you can always just use the GA terminal to get full access to the airfield and the restricted parts of the airport. (It's all connected to the same runways and all that, and if you're willing to walk a bit, you can end up at the regular terminal as well. Or just take one of the many carts).
So no, commercial airports will demand their GA terminal have standard security screenings. Regular GA-only airports usually don't have much more than a security door, and most cases the FBO will just have two doors - one from the outside into the FBO, one from the FBO to the field.
"LAX is an airport he likely frequents with dizzying regularity, given his commitments at SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity"
Since he flies his own jet, I expect he doesn't fly out of LAX.
Why not? LAX services business jets as well - they usually have a separate entrance and separate terminal building too.
He doesn't fly commercial jets like most people going to LAX, but he certainly would use the private jet terminal. And yes, they have standard security as well, but since fewer people use the terminal, there's no lineup and they usually will be able to go from the car to the jet in about 5 minutes.
So why don't people just use the built in VPN client?
Because there may be hundreds of different servers you can connect to?
My VPN provider (IPVanish) has servers in many different countries, and in the larger ones, they often have 3-4 in various geographic regions. This results in a list of 300-400 servers. So they have an app that helps you manage the list - you log in, pick a server and the app goes and installs a configuration to use the native (they support LLTP, PPTP and OpenVPN) VPN client with the desired server.
So their app really helps pre-configure the built in client with whatever server you want (helpful if you want to use Netflix or Hulu, since a few of their servers aren't blocked).
Yes, you can do it yourself, since they give you a list on their webpage, but it's a pain.
regulation is a bad word for the R guys. they fail to see that it PROTECTS us
The problem is regulations cost money. And increased costs mean less profit. Less profit is bad for all the CEOs and all that now in power in government.
What makes this kind of thing any more desirable than it was back when it was called "ActiveX" or "Applet"?
Or even... Apps?
Something present since iOS was called iPhoneOS... hell, this was a feature present since the original iPhone release back in 2007!
In fact, Steve Jobs insisted this was the only way to get apps on the iPhone, and pushed for HTML5 to include ways to get access to the camera, location (GPS), sensor data, etc. And it's still a way for apps to be written that bypass the Apple App Store even on iOS today.
I don't have any real pity for someone who dishes out that kind of money for headphones and can't keep track of them. They should consider putting their money into something else.
AIrPods are actually quite cheap. Even among wireless headphones.
You can buy wired headphones that cost more - much more. Sennheisers, Beats, Bose, etc., all make wired headphones that cost more than AirPods. They also make wireless ones, also which cost more. Granted, they are much larger, so instead of losing them, you're more likely to leave them behind, or break them.
And we've only covered the $500 and under segment of headphones. There's a whole set of them costing $1000 and up. There are in-ears that cost more than $1000 too. (It is also this segment who doesn't care as much about the headphone jack since they generally will need to dongle in a DAC and amp, both of which are far bigger than said iPhone).
- iOS has 2 ratings. Current version rating and all time rating. I hate this as it's actually stifling innovation on the App Store. Why? Because the keyword search rankings are affected by current version rating. So if you submit a new version of your App it resets to zero and your App falls in ranking as do install numbers. What you end up with is a top 10 (no one ever looks beyond there) of complacent Apps that haven't had an update in a couple of years.
Unfortunately, you need per-version reviews as well, because I have an app that is awesome (it was a paid app). They went free,but then started charging for everything that was free. If you paid for it, you got screwed, because the app is free, but also what used to be free is now paid.
If you look at the history of the app, prior to that version, it was getting 5 stars because it worked great. After that version, it became a 1 star app.
Granted, what Apple should do is simply show a rating that was based on the previous version, marked as "Because there is insufficient reviews for the current version, this rating is from the previous version".
Per-version ratings are needed - developers often pump and dump - or change things so radically that users hate the new rules.
I get tired of developers who seem to think I'll give them a good review if they keep asking for one; that is especially true if I paid for the app. I don't mind a one time ask when I first start using it or after an update; but periodic asks is just as likely to get a 3 star so so review as a good one even if I like the app.
There are scummy ones too - I know of a game that ask you for a review, just after you score big... but before they reveal you suddenly need to ante up $1000 to keep playing. So naturally, everyone's all 5 stars and "awesome game, lots of fun!" because at the point of the nag, that's true.
What they didn't tell you was 5 minute later, it starts pushing you for money.
Apple needs to add a "Are you still happy with your review?" question a random amount of time later - perhaps a day to a week later in case the developer pushes you for a good review by getting you all feeling great and having fun, only to start demanding payment to continue playing after the review, knowing most people can't or won't be able to revise it afterwards (you can edit your review either by leaving a new review or finding your old one and editing it. Of course, by then the app stops nagging.
A couple of years ago visiting China my TMobile phone's plan included unlimited data at 2G speeds. I got sites that were normally banned to Chinese users as if I were in the US, so I suspect it routed straight to TMobile somehow but never got the details. I wonder if this crackdown will stop that access?
2G access used something called Mobile IP. What happens is that your phone establishes a tunnel to your home provider and gets the IP from your home provider that way. The phone uses the tunnel to send data to the home provider who then carries it through its network as normal.
This is the way you can ensure that you have a "stable" IP connection no matter where you roam or travel - when you go home, the tunnel isn't used, but the IP is kept so all traffic continues as usual.
But let's adjust that, lets give everyone the poverty level. Sure, maybe you can afford rent in a studio, or have a room mate. Maybe you can eat cheap, but you can't buy anything of luxury. Yeah, some people will take that one bedroom studio, ramen, and a bag of pot and an World of Warcraft subscription. Fine, they're out of the way and not committing crime, they weren't motivated to start with and arguably provide little value to society, and now they're out of the way and not resorting to crime for 'easy money'.
Actually, most UBI have the UBI set for a barracks style living - 8-10 people in a room in bunk beds, with a private locker to keep your stuff safe. Shared bathroom, shared dining with basic meal plan that gets you 3 decent square meals. Shared recreation area as well.
As in you'll live, you won't starve, and you can choose to live like this, or choose to find some work. The work will give you extra month to which you can spend on a more private quarters (room mates but locked room), or a complete single room to yourself, locked of course. Work a bit more and you can take on the standard studio apartment, house, etc.
If you want to sit on your ass all day watching TV, you can. But you'll find lots of people will quickly want to move out and into more traditional housing.
Humans are lazy, yes, but humans also want comforts of life. Giving them the basics of living means they can seek employment that gives them the mix of living and working they want.
However the true cause of the crash was actually nepotism. The copilot that caused the crash (by continually stalling the plane until it hit the water) was not the best for the job, he just had the best connections. He did not know that continuously pulling back on the stick would stall/crash the plane.
Of course, the real root cause of the crash was that there was no obvious feedback that he was pulling back on the stick. The PIC did not know he was doing that until he mentioned it right before impact, by which time it was too late to recover. (from the transcript: copilot: I'm pulling back on the stick, why doesn't the nose go up. command pilot: NON!)
And the real problem is that Airbus planes traditionally do not stall. They are fly by wire, but the pilot controls go through a flight envelope management computer that ensures the plane stays within the flight envelope.
The problem is, that piece of avionics requires a lot of sensors ot be operational, including airspeed. One failure and it goes offline, and the Airbus becomes like any other plane - susceptible to stalling.
The stall horns went off. THe stick shaker and pusher went off. The pilot did not respond appropriately to the stall.
This would be important in the Miracle on the Hudson, where Sully turned on the APU immediately. That had the effect of keeping the flight envelope system running, which when you're low and slow, is very easy to stall the plane. That one step likely turned a terrible situation (ditching) into one that was more manageable. And in an emergency, you use all the resources and aid you got.
The Pi is two things, Pi the hardware and Pi the infrastructure. Hardware-wise, there's a bazillion devices that "compete" with the Pi, many of them much, much better. In terms of the infrastructure, there's nothing that comes close. Until something can replicate and then supplant the entire industry that's evolved around the Pi, you can't call anything "competition". The hardware is mediocre, the infrastructure is unbeatable.
Exactly. There are millions of devices that cost around $30 and get you way better hardware.
The problem with them is support. Raspberry Pis have a lot of it - community support has produced lots of tutorials, forums helping people with problems, add on hardware, etc. Not only that, but sofwtare support is impeccable - you can get the latest software for the Pi quite easily.
Compare this with all the other boards out there where the Linux is several versions old now because it was released ages ago, or it can run Android... 4.x. Basically no community formed around them and the manufacturer couldn't be bothered to keep the software stack up to date.
And honestly, having to choose between a support community and better hardware, the support community will win out. Better to have people to help you get stuff to work, than superior hardware that doesn't work and no one around to help you getting it to work.
To be fair, they attempted to fix this in Android Marshmallow, now apps can be fine-grained in their permission requests, such as only requesting camera access if some rarely-used camera-based feature is requested by the user.
But a lot of apps just don't bother with that, and either still use the old permission model, requesting permissions when installing, or request all permissions at startup and refuse to run otherwise.
That's because not many phones are on Marshmallow yet. As of now, just over 30% of phones out there have Marshmallow and above. That leaves the rest without, and a good chunk are Jellybean, Kitkat and Lollipop.
If you're a developer, you can target the new model and exclude 70% of the phones out there, or use the old phones and get 100%. And chances are, most people won't care so sticking with the old mechanism works until maybe a couple of years from now when Marshmallow will be the low end of the majority.
Well, the good news is that Firefox is back! It was banned a few years because it was considered so insecure that there was no challenge in finding a new exploit.
Though, $30,000 for a Windows kernel elevation exploit? It seems like a lot of money, especially since macOS gets you $20,000 and Linux a measly $15,000.
Engadget suck. They digest stories and then bury the original source link amongst many others, most of which point back into their own site. They should be banned as the source of any story they didn't originate themselves.
Usually, but this one was quite easy to find. Hint: Never look in the article for the link - look below and there's usually a "Source" link which links to the sources for the article. It's not buried, but it's not hard to find, though the coloring could be better. That's more of a CSS problem though.
Bullshit. Apple store UK is for British people. And British people didn't get a salary raise due to Brexit, and local prices are certainly not linked to USD GBP forex. Apple store items are sold in GBP and no importing cost is involved. This is just another lame excuse to make more profit (or at least keep the same profit).
Tax is involved. UK prices include tax in the price. US prices do not. If you buy an app in the US, you get charged 99 cents for the app, and a bit more under the line "Tax". In the UK, you'd pay the 99 pence that was shown.
That's where the differences lie. You embed your sales taxes in the price, the US doesn't.
Switch is competing with the Xbox and PS, among other platforms. At this point there are basically two architectures for gaming: x86 on PC, Xbox, and PS, and ARM on Switch and mobile. Both are very big, very well established architectures with extensive development tools available - neither pose any significant obstacles for developers. Nintendo may have a small edge in this respect, since ARM is the big thing right now.
Nintendo has struggled with third parties in some cases in the past because of some difficulty with supporting their architecture and interface choices. Lack of third party support is certainly not a given with Nintendo, however. Let me remind you that they were masters of third party support in the 8 and 16 bit generations, and continue to completely dominate portable console gaming with no shortage of third party support.
Neither of these issues apply to the switch: completely standard architecture, and almost completely standard interface. There is no technical reason why third parties wouldn't flock to this thing.
Yes, there are many.
3rd parties flocked to 3DS mostly because there's no other option around. Except in Japan, the only other portable system around is mobile. Sony abandoned the Vita so quickly that I don't think they have any chance of recovery with a 3rd portable console anytime soon - developers and consumers would be worried about Sony dropping support pretty much a couple of years later.
But even the Wii U, which Nintendo promised would have large 3rd party support (and had a wide variety of 3rd party games at launch) pretty much fizzled. Which basically came from Nintendo being, well, NIntendo.
And we're seeing Sony becoming same - with the PS4 doing so well, they're getting like what Microsoft was last gen with the 360 - fat, arrogant and lazy.
Try to buy a Nintendo 3DS - it's quite difficult these days as Nintendo is short-shipping them now. This is rather stupid, since retailers are still moving a lot of units - if they'd get any in. It's no surprise the NES Classic is doing the same - this is standard Nintendo behavior. For some reason or other, they always short ship - which resulted in Tengen and the NES10 clones when Nintendo short shipped developers cartridges for the NES. Well, we're seeing it again - maybe retailers can't sell 100+ 3DS units per week per store like the used to, but they can still move 50 units a week per store, but they only get 10 per store, every month. That's really leaving money on the table. You can bet Switch will be same. Nintendo doesn't have to compete with Sony on the portable space, When they did, they didn't short ship - they kept retailers well stocked (it may appear the units sit on the shelf, but they're regularly clearing out and the retailer puts more on the shelf because product that moves makes profit).
We see Sony doing same now - they're doing so well, they are getting fat and lazy. PS+ used to have lots of good games, now it's pretty much a wasteland of maybe a couple of recognizable indie games and crap elsewhere. Same goes with the PS4 Pro - it's a better game machine, but it's lacking a UHD Blu-Ray drive to play UHD Blu-Rays. Something Microsoft added much to many consumer electronics manufacturers dismay. (Prior to the Xbox One S, UHD players sold for $400. After, they're all going for $200 because they have to match Xbox pricing).
Microsoft's games with gold are still somewhat decent - there's a bit of shovelware there, but at least Microsoft seems to be trying. They got fat and lazy and arrogant with the Xbox360, and consumers smacked them down. Just like they did to Sony on the PS3 for being fat and lazy with the PS2. And now, Sony's getting fat and lazy - while the Pro brings some benefits, it's really just a hardware upgrade - like a PS4.5.
It was clear he had taken company computer without permit and destroyed property(the data within) that was not his(even if he had assumed he could take it and wiped it at once just to not have anything of the school),
Is it?
I mean, as a sysadmin, he might have a work laptop at home in case he needed to access work from home. Given he was FIRED, I doubt there was enough time to go and reclaim and return all hardware. Heck, maybe security accidentally packed it into his box - it's not like he's going to have time to examine and make sure all his stuff is there.
And if I discovered I still had the work laptop at home, it would be entirely reasonable to wipe it to eliminate any possibility of using it to access work materials illegally. Even the contents of the laptop I no longer have legal right to, so I should just wipe the entire drive to protect myself. I might even video it with the current date to show that at no time after the wipe I had access to company data.
And after you're fired, you're under no obligation to help your former employer. Hell, it might be a fight for the final paycheque which you're owed. And even then many employers will probably try to use that to get your final help (which is illegal).
This is a load of claptrap. You don't hire to fill quotas unless you're government. You hire the best candidate to do a job.
You pay what the market is willing to bear and what that employee negotiates.
If an employee doesn't ask for raises outside of normal performance increases, thats on the employee.
And that's where the government takes issue. Workers of equal skill should get paid roughly the same wages. It's why the government has such arcane employment ranks - your current rank is based on your skill, and within that rank, there's a guideline to pay ranges. So if you're a software developer 3, there may be a +/- $3000/year variance - a slightly weaker SD3 may get less than the average, a slightly stronger one more. If you aren't skilled enough to make it to the higher level, you can move within the range. But once you get promoted, your pay jumps to within the new range.
That's how they judge equality. They recognize people have different skills and they group them so the group roughly has the same wage. If you're a good negotiator, maybe you get a couple thousand dollars more. Either way, it's a small variation.
Even if all you do is hire the best of the best, they slot somewhere in the scale, and thus get paid roughly the same.
The whole 'negotiate your salary" thing is a scam by managers who know employees generally are powerless and thus weaker in negotiations from the get-go. It's the same as why everyone says to not tell anyone what you're paid - again, a scam to lower wages. (Everyone's afraid they're the ones who are overpaid, while in reality, open wages tends to bring wages up as people at the lower end start asking questions
It's not a foolproof system. It cannot identify that someone is say, a SD3 when they really are ranked lower, and are SD3 just because some manager promoted them because they were white. Though such skill imbalances tend to make themselves well known rather quickly.
Either way I can understand why someone can be in favour of commuting Manning's sentence while continuing to pursue the capture of Snowden.
Well, that's because Snowden has not been convicted yet.
Manning was convicted and sent to jail. Her sentence was 35 years, and commuted to 7.
Snowden has not yet been convicted of anything, and thus is not serving any sentence. There is nothing to commute as he hasn't been sentenced yet. And he can't be sentenced until he's been convicted. And he can't be convicted until he is caught.
The only thing Snowden can have done to him is pardoned, but without a list of charges, most people would not want to give him a complete get-out-of-jail free card. And no one's compiled that list of charges. A pardon is absolute, so people would like to know what they're giving him first.
I have a coworker who's holding on to his Note 7. He's been staying on top of all of this. It appears that after a recall, a company cannot require nor continue requiring payment for a recalled device. Some may argue that he has a loan he still owes Verizon, but it appears also that Samsung bought out all those loans.
There has been no word from Verizon that they will prorate service contracts since they are effectively disabling service...that's gotta be some kind of illegal.
I haven't confirmed any of the above, as I don't care, but I do find it interesting.
I think Verizon and the other carriers have done all they should do for the recall; my coworker even got the fire-proof box shipped to his house for the return. He likes the phone, he knows about the (extremely minor) risk, and wants to keep the phone. All Verizon is doing with this is pissing off those few thousand customers.
True. However, Samsung is offering a full refund, and I'm sure Verizon will cancel his contract if he tuns in his phone.
Samsung only "bought out" everyone who returned their phone. If you still have it, it hasn't been bought out yet. And technically, you can restore full functionality by moving the SIM to a new phone.
And he'd better hurry. Recalled products stay recalled, but recall offers can be time-limited after a reasonable amount of time. After which the company is no longer obligated to fix/repair/replace the recalled product. This is usually around 6 months to a year.
I get what people mean when they suggest to use a "real camera" instead of a smartphone (hobby photographer here), but current smartphone cameras do a fine job for most day-to-day situations. Nothing keeps you from breaking out your DSLR or other camera for "that special shot", but you won't be lugging one around all day, and it won't be in your pant pocket when you need it, especially when out of the house.
Actually, there have been tests over the years, and the current crop of cameras in phones do a pretty good job. Yes, the DSLR runs circles around the phone, but if all you had was the phone, except in a few specialized situations (very low light where you need long exposures, for example) it does such a decent job it can be hard to tell the difference.
Yes, the best camera is the one you have on you. But even today's smartphones do a pretty bang-up job taking excellent quality photos. It's why the point and shoot camera has pretty much died - phones do such a nice job those cameras couldn't do much better.
Bitcoin is fucking slow. It can take around 10 minutes for a transaction to end up in a block, and then additional time for however many confirmation blocks are desired/needed after that. Having to wait 10 minutes, or even 30+ minutes, before a transaction can be considered confirmed is surely not "instantaneous".
Other cryptocurrencies based on Bitcoin have tried to reduce the time between blocks, but this can cause other problems, like massive blockchains.
Currently our banking system confirms transactions on the order of days. If you're lucky, it's within 24 hours.
30 minutes is instantaneous compared to days to post.
Oh sure, yes, when you use your credit card or debit card, the money is taken (reserved, or held) immediately, but it doesn't actually move to the recipient's account until days later when the transaction is confirmed and posted.
Sure, there are plenty of ways we make it seem instant - when you use those debit cards that let you send money, they trivially adjust the balance immediately but the cash behind it doesn't actually move until days later. Depending on the relationship with the banking institution, this posting time may be assumed to happen immediately (i.e., you're trustworthy enough that the bank believes the transaction to be legit and will let you access it immediately), or wait through the holding time for the money to actually arrive.
Cheques take the longest to clear because of all the steps - the recipient deposits it which creates a transaction entry. Then the bank sends it to a clearing house where the cheques are routed to the right bank keeping note of the transaction, and the bank then gets it which gets the note to remove that money from your account. That's only half, since the bank needs to send that money back through the clearing house to the recipient account. Since so much mailing was required, taking 12+ days wasn't unusual. Modern day we can electronically process cheques, so when you snap the photo, the transaction is created then and there, and the image of that cheque then goes through the clearing house which routes it to the right bank, all electronically. At least this speeds things up immensely, down to 3-4 days.
Blockchain technology speeding this up makes 30 minutes feel like instant. You put a transaction in the chain and it's basically right there for scrutiny, and once the block is confirmed enough times, it's a permanent record.
There are people whose chromosomes are of one gender but whose external genitalia are of another, as a matter of fetal development. Sexuality is more than genitals and chromosomes, even without the involvement of surgery.
There's a good reason for this. At conception, we are all female. For the first few weeks, we will have estrogen, ovaries and vaginas. This is because of genetics. You all know a female has an XX chromosome pair, while a male is XY. But the X chromosome details female characteristics. The Y details male characteristics. But that means if you have an XY pair, the Y chromosome needs to deactivate genes in the X chromosome. But that takes a few weeks to happen, so in the meantime, the fetus develops as if they're a female. When the Y chromosome 6takes over, then the adaptations begin. The ovaries shrivel and descent, becoming the testes, and the vagina "pops out" becoming the penis. Likewise, estrogen levels go down, testosterone levels rise.
Most of the time the transformation is complete, but since it's genetics and subject to random variation, it's entirely possible the genetic suppression isn't complete, leading to homosexuality, transgenderism, etc.
Maleness is simply a genetic patch on females. As everyone knows, sometimes patches don't apply cleanly.
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This is true for most GA airports. But LAX also services commercial airplanes, so anyone on the air side of the airport will have to have gone through security screening.
Otherwise it's a Very Big Security Hole at LAX. Because you can always just use the GA terminal to get full access to the airfield and the restricted parts of the airport. (It's all connected to the same runways and all that, and if you're willing to walk a bit, you can end up at the regular terminal as well. Or just take one of the many carts).
So no, commercial airports will demand their GA terminal have standard security screenings. Regular GA-only airports usually don't have much more than a security door, and most cases the FBO will just have two doors - one from the outside into the FBO, one from the FBO to the field.
Why not? LAX services business jets as well - they usually have a separate entrance and separate terminal building too.
He doesn't fly commercial jets like most people going to LAX, but he certainly would use the private jet terminal. And yes, they have standard security as well, but since fewer people use the terminal, there's no lineup and they usually will be able to go from the car to the jet in about 5 minutes.
Because there may be hundreds of different servers you can connect to?
My VPN provider (IPVanish) has servers in many different countries, and in the larger ones, they often have 3-4 in various geographic regions. This results in a list of 300-400 servers. So they have an app that helps you manage the list - you log in, pick a server and the app goes and installs a configuration to use the native (they support LLTP, PPTP and OpenVPN) VPN client with the desired server.
So their app really helps pre-configure the built in client with whatever server you want (helpful if you want to use Netflix or Hulu, since a few of their servers aren't blocked).
Yes, you can do it yourself, since they give you a list on their webpage, but it's a pain.
The problem is regulations cost money. And increased costs mean less profit. Less profit is bad for all the CEOs and all that now in power in government.
Or even... Apps?
Something present since iOS was called iPhoneOS... hell, this was a feature present since the original iPhone release back in 2007!
In fact, Steve Jobs insisted this was the only way to get apps on the iPhone, and pushed for HTML5 to include ways to get access to the camera, location (GPS), sensor data, etc. And it's still a way for apps to be written that bypass the Apple App Store even on iOS today.
AIrPods are actually quite cheap. Even among wireless headphones.
You can buy wired headphones that cost more - much more. Sennheisers, Beats, Bose, etc., all make wired headphones that cost more than AirPods. They also make wireless ones, also which cost more. Granted, they are much larger, so instead of losing them, you're more likely to leave them behind, or break them.
And we've only covered the $500 and under segment of headphones. There's a whole set of them costing $1000 and up. There are in-ears that cost more than $1000 too. (It is also this segment who doesn't care as much about the headphone jack since they generally will need to dongle in a DAC and amp, both of which are far bigger than said iPhone).
Unfortunately, you need per-version reviews as well, because I have an app that is awesome (it was a paid app). They went free,but then started charging for everything that was free. If you paid for it, you got screwed, because the app is free, but also what used to be free is now paid.
If you look at the history of the app, prior to that version, it was getting 5 stars because it worked great. After that version, it became a 1 star app.
Granted, what Apple should do is simply show a rating that was based on the previous version, marked as "Because there is insufficient reviews for the current version, this rating is from the previous version".
Per-version ratings are needed - developers often pump and dump - or change things so radically that users hate the new rules.
There are scummy ones too - I know of a game that ask you for a review, just after you score big... but before they reveal you suddenly need to ante up $1000 to keep playing. So naturally, everyone's all 5 stars and "awesome game, lots of fun!" because at the point of the nag, that's true.
What they didn't tell you was 5 minute later, it starts pushing you for money.
Apple needs to add a "Are you still happy with your review?" question a random amount of time later - perhaps a day to a week later in case the developer pushes you for a good review by getting you all feeling great and having fun, only to start demanding payment to continue playing after the review, knowing most people can't or won't be able to revise it afterwards (you can edit your review either by leaving a new review or finding your old one and editing it. Of course, by then the app stops nagging.
2G access used something called Mobile IP. What happens is that your phone establishes a tunnel to your home provider and gets the IP from your home provider that way. The phone uses the tunnel to send data to the home provider who then carries it through its network as normal.
This is the way you can ensure that you have a "stable" IP connection no matter where you roam or travel - when you go home, the tunnel isn't used, but the IP is kept so all traffic continues as usual.
Actually, most UBI have the UBI set for a barracks style living - 8-10 people in a room in bunk beds, with a private locker to keep your stuff safe. Shared bathroom, shared dining with basic meal plan that gets you 3 decent square meals. Shared recreation area as well.
As in you'll live, you won't starve, and you can choose to live like this, or choose to find some work. The work will give you extra month to which you can spend on a more private quarters (room mates but locked room), or a complete single room to yourself, locked of course. Work a bit more and you can take on the standard studio apartment, house, etc.
If you want to sit on your ass all day watching TV, you can. But you'll find lots of people will quickly want to move out and into more traditional housing.
Humans are lazy, yes, but humans also want comforts of life. Giving them the basics of living means they can seek employment that gives them the mix of living and working they want.
And the real problem is that Airbus planes traditionally do not stall. They are fly by wire, but the pilot controls go through a flight envelope management computer that ensures the plane stays within the flight envelope.
The problem is, that piece of avionics requires a lot of sensors ot be operational, including airspeed. One failure and it goes offline, and the Airbus becomes like any other plane - susceptible to stalling.
The stall horns went off. THe stick shaker and pusher went off. The pilot did not respond appropriately to the stall.
This would be important in the Miracle on the Hudson, where Sully turned on the APU immediately. That had the effect of keeping the flight envelope system running, which when you're low and slow, is very easy to stall the plane. That one step likely turned a terrible situation (ditching) into one that was more manageable. And in an emergency, you use all the resources and aid you got.
Exactly. There are millions of devices that cost around $30 and get you way better hardware.
The problem with them is support. Raspberry Pis have a lot of it - community support has produced lots of tutorials, forums helping people with problems, add on hardware, etc. Not only that, but sofwtare support is impeccable - you can get the latest software for the Pi quite easily.
Compare this with all the other boards out there where the Linux is several versions old now because it was released ages ago, or it can run Android... 4.x. Basically no community formed around them and the manufacturer couldn't be bothered to keep the software stack up to date.
And honestly, having to choose between a support community and better hardware, the support community will win out. Better to have people to help you get stuff to work, than superior hardware that doesn't work and no one around to help you getting it to work.
That's because not many phones are on Marshmallow yet. As of now, just over 30% of phones out there have Marshmallow and above. That leaves the rest without, and a good chunk are Jellybean, Kitkat and Lollipop.
If you're a developer, you can target the new model and exclude 70% of the phones out there, or use the old phones and get 100%. And chances are, most people won't care so sticking with the old mechanism works until maybe a couple of years from now when Marshmallow will be the low end of the majority.
Well, the good news is that Firefox is back! It was banned a few years because it was considered so insecure that there was no challenge in finding a new exploit.
Though, $30,000 for a Windows kernel elevation exploit? It seems like a lot of money, especially since macOS gets you $20,000 and Linux a measly $15,000.
No, Trump vowed to banish Apple from the land because they refused to unlock that iPhone the FBI was bringing them to court about.
You know, the one they wanted the special "backdoor firmware" written for.
Apple refused, and Trump said he'd get rid of his iPhone until Apple became a good little dog and write the FBI their backdoor firmware.
Usually, but this one was quite easy to find. Hint: Never look in the article for the link - look below and there's usually a "Source" link which links to the sources for the article. It's not buried, but it's not hard to find, though the coloring could be better. That's more of a CSS problem though.
Tax is involved. UK prices include tax in the price. US prices do not. If you buy an app in the US, you get charged 99 cents for the app, and a bit more under the line "Tax". In the UK, you'd pay the 99 pence that was shown.
That's where the differences lie. You embed your sales taxes in the price, the US doesn't.
Yes, there are many.
3rd parties flocked to 3DS mostly because there's no other option around. Except in Japan, the only other portable system around is mobile. Sony abandoned the Vita so quickly that I don't think they have any chance of recovery with a 3rd portable console anytime soon - developers and consumers would be worried about Sony dropping support pretty much a couple of years later.
But even the Wii U, which Nintendo promised would have large 3rd party support (and had a wide variety of 3rd party games at launch) pretty much fizzled. Which basically came from Nintendo being, well, NIntendo.
And we're seeing Sony becoming same - with the PS4 doing so well, they're getting like what Microsoft was last gen with the 360 - fat, arrogant and lazy.
Try to buy a Nintendo 3DS - it's quite difficult these days as Nintendo is short-shipping them now. This is rather stupid, since retailers are still moving a lot of units - if they'd get any in. It's no surprise the NES Classic is doing the same - this is standard Nintendo behavior. For some reason or other, they always short ship - which resulted in Tengen and the NES10 clones when Nintendo short shipped developers cartridges for the NES. Well, we're seeing it again - maybe retailers can't sell 100+ 3DS units per week per store like the used to, but they can still move 50 units a week per store, but they only get 10 per store, every month. That's really leaving money on the table. You can bet Switch will be same. Nintendo doesn't have to compete with Sony on the portable space, When they did, they didn't short ship - they kept retailers well stocked (it may appear the units sit on the shelf, but they're regularly clearing out and the retailer puts more on the shelf because product that moves makes profit).
We see Sony doing same now - they're doing so well, they are getting fat and lazy. PS+ used to have lots of good games, now it's pretty much a wasteland of maybe a couple of recognizable indie games and crap elsewhere. Same goes with the PS4 Pro - it's a better game machine, but it's lacking a UHD Blu-Ray drive to play UHD Blu-Rays. Something Microsoft added much to many consumer electronics manufacturers dismay. (Prior to the Xbox One S, UHD players sold for $400. After, they're all going for $200 because they have to match Xbox pricing).
Microsoft's games with gold are still somewhat decent - there's a bit of shovelware there, but at least Microsoft seems to be trying. They got fat and lazy and arrogant with the Xbox360, and consumers smacked them down. Just like they did to Sony on the PS3 for being fat and lazy with the PS2. And now, Sony's getting fat and lazy - while the Pro brings some benefits, it's really just a hardware upgrade - like a PS4.5.
Competition is good.
Is it?
I mean, as a sysadmin, he might have a work laptop at home in case he needed to access work from home. Given he was FIRED, I doubt there was enough time to go and reclaim and return all hardware. Heck, maybe security accidentally packed it into his box - it's not like he's going to have time to examine and make sure all his stuff is there.
And if I discovered I still had the work laptop at home, it would be entirely reasonable to wipe it to eliminate any possibility of using it to access work materials illegally. Even the contents of the laptop I no longer have legal right to, so I should just wipe the entire drive to protect myself. I might even video it with the current date to show that at no time after the wipe I had access to company data.
And after you're fired, you're under no obligation to help your former employer. Hell, it might be a fight for the final paycheque which you're owed. And even then many employers will probably try to use that to get your final help (which is illegal).
The important thing is the guy was fired.
And that's where the government takes issue. Workers of equal skill should get paid roughly the same wages. It's why the government has such arcane employment ranks - your current rank is based on your skill, and within that rank, there's a guideline to pay ranges. So if you're a software developer 3, there may be a +/- $3000/year variance - a slightly weaker SD3 may get less than the average, a slightly stronger one more. If you aren't skilled enough to make it to the higher level, you can move within the range. But once you get promoted, your pay jumps to within the new range.
That's how they judge equality. They recognize people have different skills and they group them so the group roughly has the same wage. If you're a good negotiator, maybe you get a couple thousand dollars more. Either way, it's a small variation.
Even if all you do is hire the best of the best, they slot somewhere in the scale, and thus get paid roughly the same.
The whole 'negotiate your salary" thing is a scam by managers who know employees generally are powerless and thus weaker in negotiations from the get-go. It's the same as why everyone says to not tell anyone what you're paid - again, a scam to lower wages. (Everyone's afraid they're the ones who are overpaid, while in reality, open wages tends to bring wages up as people at the lower end start asking questions
It's not a foolproof system. It cannot identify that someone is say, a SD3 when they really are ranked lower, and are SD3 just because some manager promoted them because they were white. Though such skill imbalances tend to make themselves well known rather quickly.
Well, that's because Snowden has not been convicted yet.
Manning was convicted and sent to jail. Her sentence was 35 years, and commuted to 7.
Snowden has not yet been convicted of anything, and thus is not serving any sentence. There is nothing to commute as he hasn't been sentenced yet. And he can't be sentenced until he's been convicted. And he can't be convicted until he is caught.
The only thing Snowden can have done to him is pardoned, but without a list of charges, most people would not want to give him a complete get-out-of-jail free card. And no one's compiled that list of charges. A pardon is absolute, so people would like to know what they're giving him first.
True. However, Samsung is offering a full refund, and I'm sure Verizon will cancel his contract if he tuns in his phone.
Samsung only "bought out" everyone who returned their phone. If you still have it, it hasn't been bought out yet. And technically, you can restore full functionality by moving the SIM to a new phone.
And he'd better hurry. Recalled products stay recalled, but recall offers can be time-limited after a reasonable amount of time. After which the company is no longer obligated to fix/repair/replace the recalled product. This is usually around 6 months to a year.
Actually, there have been tests over the years, and the current crop of cameras in phones do a pretty good job. Yes, the DSLR runs circles around the phone, but if all you had was the phone, except in a few specialized situations (very low light where you need long exposures, for example) it does such a decent job it can be hard to tell the difference.
Yes, the best camera is the one you have on you. But even today's smartphones do a pretty bang-up job taking excellent quality photos. It's why the point and shoot camera has pretty much died - phones do such a nice job those cameras couldn't do much better.
Currently our banking system confirms transactions on the order of days. If you're lucky, it's within 24 hours.
30 minutes is instantaneous compared to days to post.
Oh sure, yes, when you use your credit card or debit card, the money is taken (reserved, or held) immediately, but it doesn't actually move to the recipient's account until days later when the transaction is confirmed and posted.
Sure, there are plenty of ways we make it seem instant - when you use those debit cards that let you send money, they trivially adjust the balance immediately but the cash behind it doesn't actually move until days later. Depending on the relationship with the banking institution, this posting time may be assumed to happen immediately (i.e., you're trustworthy enough that the bank believes the transaction to be legit and will let you access it immediately), or wait through the holding time for the money to actually arrive.
Cheques take the longest to clear because of all the steps - the recipient deposits it which creates a transaction entry. Then the bank sends it to a clearing house where the cheques are routed to the right bank keeping note of the transaction, and the bank then gets it which gets the note to remove that money from your account. That's only half, since the bank needs to send that money back through the clearing house to the recipient account. Since so much mailing was required, taking 12+ days wasn't unusual. Modern day we can electronically process cheques, so when you snap the photo, the transaction is created then and there, and the image of that cheque then goes through the clearing house which routes it to the right bank, all electronically. At least this speeds things up immensely, down to 3-4 days.
Blockchain technology speeding this up makes 30 minutes feel like instant. You put a transaction in the chain and it's basically right there for scrutiny, and once the block is confirmed enough times, it's a permanent record.
There are people whose chromosomes are of one gender but whose external genitalia are of another, as a matter of fetal development. Sexuality is more than genitals and chromosomes, even without the involvement of surgery.
There's a good reason for this. At conception, we are all female. For the first few weeks, we will have estrogen, ovaries and vaginas. This is because of genetics. You all know a female has an XX chromosome pair, while a male is XY. But the X chromosome details female characteristics. The Y details male characteristics. But that means if you have an XY pair, the Y chromosome needs to deactivate genes in the X chromosome. But that takes a few weeks to happen, so in the meantime, the fetus develops as if they're a female. When the Y chromosome 6takes over, then the adaptations begin. The ovaries shrivel and descent, becoming the testes, and the vagina "pops out" becoming the penis. Likewise, estrogen levels go down, testosterone levels rise.
Most of the time the transformation is complete, but since it's genetics and subject to random variation, it's entirely possible the genetic suppression isn't complete, leading to homosexuality, transgenderism, etc.
Maleness is simply a genetic patch on females. As everyone knows, sometimes patches don't apply cleanly.