Tech companies do this because standards organizations move too slow. Manufacturers want to ship something this (week, month, quarter, year...) and the standards people will still be arguing over the name of the new group. I work in 802.11 and we see this happen way too often.
The other reason is no one is an expert until it's actually tried. Each "standard" has their own pluses and minuses, each of which wasn't readily apparent when it was created.
That, and most standards organizations are all about patent swapping - I'll get your patent into the standard, if you'll get my patent in the standard. They're less about pushing technology forward and more about how diplomatic you can be during negotiations.
Indeed, when a new standard is called for, usually there's a call to industry to propose their ideas and implementations and if there's only one working one out there, it will likely be the standard regardless if there's a better version in R&D right now.
It is simply a marketing tactic. Canada is not exactly an ideal spot to locate such a backup in any case given their hate speech legislation and tactic of slapping very heavy fines on people who might have offended one of an infinite number of gender pronoun protected groups.
Actually, it's not hate speech legislation. It's inciting hatred legislation. Our hate speech laws target recruitment of other people to incite harm to a group.You can threaten to harm someone, and that's a law unto itself (assault), but no matter how disgusting it is, unless you're trying to get others to join you, it's not hate speech.
Likewise, you can discriminate against gays but as long as you're not telling others to harm them, you're fine.
That's the two key elements to the law - first, you have to incite others to join you, and second, you have to be threatening to harm. Just saying "I hate (gays|Jews|Chinese)" isn't hate speech, and even saying "I hate (gays|Jews|Chinese) and think they should be killed" isn't hate. But saying "I hate (gays|Jews|Chinese), and we should form a group to kill all of them" is hate speech because you're inviting others to harm.
I just can't believe that people are paying these prices for phones. The Pixel XL is $870! Probably the iPhone 7 is similar. Seriously? For a phone?
Especially because of the limited support - Google's support for the Pixel phones is 2 years of updates, and after that it's a year of security updates. (Nexus phones had 18 months from the last available sale on the Play store - which is why they had the 5P and 6X phones - they were released pretty much by month 18 when the Nexus 5 and 6 disappeared).
Of course, then there's Apple's rather legendary software update schedule which at least makes the iPhone 7 supported for many years...
And basic business logic is you need to ensure that you have multiple ways to accept payment (also IT logic, single point of failure and all that).
Unless you want credit cards, which make it quite hard.
Paypal is probably the ONLY provider that makes it too easy to accept a credit card on practically no requirements - most other merchant accounts have transaction and amount quotas you meet in order to get your negotiated rates - miss your quota and you'll get slapped with extra fees and increased rates.
And at the same time put up with the same crap that you get from Paypal.
Yes, you can take money orders, bank transfers and bitcoins too, but those will be but a tiny fraction of credit card sales.
Sigh. Google does not sell data to advertisers. Google sells targeted eyeballs to advertisers. The user data is both safer and more valuable if Google keeps it.
No, Google does not sell to advertisers. Because Google IS the advertiser. They own practically all the advertising networks, have re-jigged their privacy policies to ensure data sharing takes place between all of them (Google Text Ads, YouTube, etc will share data with Alphabet companies like DoubleClick, so everything you do online will affect the ads you see).
Ebay will be called an auction place and have to abide by rules in every town. Paypal will be called a bank and have to obey laws. Every tech company figures they're semi avoiding laws at least cuz it is new. The motto in tech ask for forgiveness, not ask for permission. If you limit yourself, you might not ever have a good idea to make billions. I've had many ideas that turned into multimillion or multibillion dollar companies, but I didn't do them myself because I didn't have a crew to do them with. It doesn't bother me, but just reassuring that my ideas are good.
eBay is an auction site and the sellers and buyers do have to abide by local laws. Like in Germany, eBay has had to remove Nazi stuff listed for sale, because it is illegal to sell those in Germany. eBay has also had to remove listings because they've violated laws.
Paypal IS actually a bank in the EU.
Anyhow, if the EU wants more e-commerce, why not start with something straightforward like selling of merchandise? Or even working on copyright and IP laws which would allow the sale of music, tv shows and movies throughout the EU without being country specific? That would seem to be the low-hanging fruit blocking EU-wide e-commerce.
Going after someone like Uber is going to be hard. Because there are some laws you want them to follow (e.g., non-discrimination). And depending on the country, if a taxi driver doesn't want to carry a fare that's hired them, they're forced to call another taxi AND THEN wait with the fare until the replacement taxi arrives. (This is so the refusing taxi can't go and get someone more lucrative in the meantime, as well as if it's bad weather, the fare doesn't have to wait in the weather).
If I just slap together a webpage, UTF-8 will "just work" by default. So Slashdot must be going through some extra effort to make sure it does NOT work. Is there a reason for this? Maybe the backend database is MySQL 1.0 from 1995.
It's because there's a UTF-8 whitelist. Unicode support was added when the Japanese site was launched, but what happened is commenters rapidly posted garbage that abused all the Unicode control codes and character decorations that seriously screwed up the page. If you want to see what can happen, look for "blakeyrat" on thedailywtf.com comments - basically by manipulating some Unicode you can make really tall characters that cause a huge amount of scrolling.
Or you can mis-use the LTR and RTL characters to screw up the webpage (search slashdot for ":erocS" case sensitive, and yes, there's a colon in front).
So instead of allowing ALL unicode codepoints,/. decided it would be best to allow only a whitelist of codepoints since Unicode is an evolving standard. A lot of websites don't use a filter and get a bunch of comment spam/comment garbage because of it. Just wait until they add a TTB (top to bottom) control code.
Why doesn't this affect all types of computers? Why doesn't it affect Android, Mac OS, Windows, and Linux? Why *just* IOS? That doesn't make sense, there must be something unique about IOS where it doesn't handle video as well as other OS's....
Easy, it's a standard, so there are many implementations of it. It's why the Stagefright bugs don't affect iOS - you're trying to test against a different implementation that has a different way of doing things.
And maybe it does affect Android, but the way Stagefright (or the other media architectures since they did change a couple of times) simply fail in another way that's recoverable.
There's no one master implementation of MPEG4 video - it's a fairly extensive standard with full specifications so anyone who has a copy of the standard can implement their own version of it. And everyone has - Google, Microsoft, Apple have their own independent implementations, as does VLC, gstreamer, etc.
In fact, perhaps it affects macOS as well since the code would be most similar between the two.
So shutting down the coal plants mostly impacts Alberta, and the fun fact is that Alberta can pretty much "mooch" off BC while it transitions to something else.
And Alberta is ALREADY transitioning away from coal. In fact, earlier this year BC and Alberta (they're neighbouring provinces) signed an agreement where Alberta will start getting electricity from BC in the meantime.
So the impact to Alberta will be far lower in the end because Alberta is already trying to move away from coal.
I saw a video blog that said the reason that 4k on a 1080p looks so well, is the 4 pixel blocks downsampled are no longer sharing chroma, but each pixel is independent, so the higher detail. (I'm recalling from memory, so forgive me if I'm wrong).
That is true. The native mode is YUV420, so for every 4 pixels, you have 4 samples of luminance, and 1 sample each of U and V. This is h.264 natively and what Blu-Ray and others use.
So yes, downsampling does increase quality because you effectively go from YUV420 encoding to YUV444.
Seriously though.... I'm not especially well versed in the details of Malaysian government, but it seems they're a Constitutional Monarchy.
As an American citizen, I've never felt that comfortable with a monarchy or any kind of dictatorship securing the rights and freedoms of individuals. At best, a "benevolent dictatorship" is just a temporarily condition, happened upon by the citizens as "pure luck". A monarchy where the appointed king or queen follows a constitution is better, assuming a well written constitution. But again, enforcement of it would fall to the discretion of the ruler, vs. a whole system of checks and balances to help ensure some of it takes place EVEN if the leader isn't too keen on enforcing it.
This unfortunate situation sounds like it's common practice in Malaysia right now, which tells me nobody with the ability to change it in government really has an interest in taking action to do so.
No, there's no king or queen in Malaysia. There's a Prime Minister though. But while there are elections in Malaysia, it's widely believed they are rigged and the whole political process is corrupt. They would be closer to an Authoritarian Democracy.
And the person in power stays in power - over 15 years ago, the opposition party leader was getting VERY popular with the people (who were sick and tired of the governing party). So just before the elections, said opposition leader is arrested and charged with homosexuality (and homosexual acts). Now, Malaysia is an Islamic country, so yes, they were forbidden.
The key evidence though was a "semen stained mattress". Last I heard (a couple of years back) it's STILL being fought in the courts. And this was around 1998 or so. Effectively he's being jailed until he keels over.
And the other part is who is allowed to vote - basically Malaysians (by race) only - if you're Chinese, Indian, etc., you're excluded from the vote.
Lest you downmod for political reasons. Obama could pardon anyone for anything - the power is unfettered.
Yes, however, Snowden has committed multiple crimes. The whistleblowing one may be pardonable, but the release of other information that potentially harms US intelligence gathering may not be so excusable.
And therein lies the rub - should he be pardoned? Perhaps, at least for some of the things he's done to make the world a better place (exposing surveillance on US citizens). But for other things, maybe not so much. The real problem is the "other things" - no one's formally created a list so Obama could excuse the one in the public's interest, but still keep the ones that did actually put other people's lives in danger. So he would really like to see the full list of charges against him before making a decision.
The other thing is, well, he's not in the US anymore. Nixon was pardoned but he was still in the US. All pardoning would do is allow a free return to the US, but other than that, he's really free to roam the globe at anywhere other than US.
Finally, what's the benefit to him? He's just winding down the couple of months he has left, and it's generally considered rude to screw the next guy to take over no matter how much you hate him. So let the guy who will have a few years decide the fate, rather than try to make a quick forced decision.
I wish there were some solution to stop acquisitions like this: a small company with a decent product is consumed by some multinational giant. The product may live on for a few years, but ultimately it gets transmogrified into something unrecognizable and - as often as not - useless. But the multinational now has the patents needed to prevent competition.
I don't think DYN is a small company anymore. They may have started as a small organization providing free dynamic DNS services decades ago, but then a few years ago they got rid of it and commercialized the heck out of their paid offerings. And given how many big companies were affected by the Dyn DDOS, I'd expect them to be a fairly large company.
Heck, they got rid of free dyndns WITHOUT Oracle's help. To me, that was the downfall - they went from being a "small community organization" to "major company that now focuses on bottom line".
High speed silicon microprocessors are some form of dynamic NMOS. In silicon, NMOS is about 3 times faster than PMOS. CMOS allows static circuits with negligible current, but the PMOS transistors which are a necessary part of CMOS slow CMOS to about 1/4 the speed of NMOS.
No, CMOS is as fast as NMOS. The PMOS transistors are larger than the NMOS transistors in CMOS to achieve the same speed. This is well known in VLSI design - you always have to make the PMOS transistors larger (wider) as "holes" do not move as fast as electrons.
Maybe back when the 4004 was new this wasn't the case (though it's usually more a problem that making both NMOS and PMOS together was difficult until the CMOS process was perfected), but modern day every IC designer knows this.
In fact, every new IC design has an offset test to test speed - slow/slow (slow NMOS, slow PMOS), slow/fast (slow NMOS, fast PMOS), fast/slow, fast/fast in order to see the speed grade yields. Basically they vary the size of the transistors to the extremes (more than what regular imaging variation would have) to check the extremes of the envelope.
I am sure the blizzard we had yesterday took out all the remaining mosquitos around here.
The WHO considers this to be the case, yes. However, Zika is an STD as well, but the WHO considers that a lowered risk - after all, everyone practices safe sex, uses condoms, and abstinence, right?
Can anyone explain to a foreigner why is it such a pain to buy a car in the US?
Because of history, really.
A car dealership is supposed to be like a store for cars. You know, like you used to visit the grocery store for groceries, you go to the car dealership for cars. And this was how it was in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Then what happened is the car manufacturers decide to try direct sales, which put a lot of dealerships out of business because they cut out the middleman. Since this put people out of work, politicians enacted laws preventing such sales as being predatory.
Nowadays, those laws have been modified to ensure that dealerships MUST be involved in every new car transaction, given the relative power (dealerships are rich, and they have shoveled a lot of money at politicians.
And in this modern era, well, you know. The following YouTube video really details the dirty details.
This week we saw them apply the "internet death penalty" to people who (admittedly through their own negligence) violated a policy on ordering Pixel phones.
There was no negligence involved. The people who violated the ToS did so to make a buck. They didn't order Pixel phones for their own use, they ordered them for the explicit purpose of resell.
Perhaps they got there because the company in Delaware said they'd make a few extra bucks, but either way, it was done on purpose.
The only negligence is in the company's for failing to tell the "buyers" that this may be against their terms of service. The buyers all saw $$$ and decided to participate. I'm guessing Project Fi phones are cheaper or something so the company can sell them for list price and make a few hundred bucks for both parties.
Seriously. Best Buy has never been great technically, but they've really gone down hill over the past couple of years in terms of having a good product selection and competent sales staff.
Well, you have to admit that online sales have basically killed them. However, the reason they still are around is because they've reinvented themselves - you entering the store is NOT the primary customer. The stuff on display in the store is the customer.
When you see DVDs and such for sale, it's because the distributors paid to be there. They paid for the $10 bargain bins. They paid for shelf space. Yes, they pay for shelf space - Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo paid for their own aisles in Best Buy, they paid for the layouts, the demo displays, etc. (Yes, it was hilarious when for years the "PS VIta" section was empty, but Sony paid for it, so Best Buy was contractually obliged to keep it... empty)
Best Buy is a marketplace where manufacturers all gathered to offer their wares for sale. That's also why selection is down - Best Buy only sells what manufacturers have paid for
Google owning a "store" inside Best Buy isn't unusual - Apple has done it for years, and until recently, Samsung did too. (It was funny, since the Samsung store took up a huge chunk of the Best Buy I visited all the time, and was always empty. Someone maintains it - they always had the latest product, but there was no one there. Previously, it was a Future Shop and Samsung paid to have a Best Buy employee be the Samsung specialist, but that guy didn't sign on when Best Buy got rid of all the Future Shop stores, and I guess no one signed on or Samsung refused to pay for a specialist). It's funny because right after Remembrance day, the Samsung displays came down and now it's all appliances. I'm guessing the Samsung contract expired/
I doubt it's the charity which decide. Someone wanted to sell their content and Humble bundle was ok with it and maybe matched them with a charity or maybe the seller of the books made the choice of the charity.
I doubt the charity choose the content providers.
Exactly.
Humble bundles work by having someone approach them wanting to do something. They offer up the goods, which can be software, books, movies, etc, at practically giveaway prices. Likewise, the content owner specifies the charities they want to support - and it can be any charity really. The EFF is featured a lot, but others like the ACLU, MSF, Red Cross, etc have been featured.
Note that the buyer has the option to determine how the money is distributed - how much goes to the company and how much to each charity.
20. 35. Out of millions. The point I was making was that what actually failed was a tiny portion of the whole. That doesn't speak to how many would have failed given a few more months or years of being used. It just addresses actually failures.
It was 35 when first reported in the news. When the recall finally started, it was up over 100 known/verified cases.
And the replacement phones was starting to edge up into 10 or so before Samsung completely scrapped it.
Yes, of millions, because the first cases started happening within two weeks of release - it was already at 35 on US launch date, of which I believe Samsung shipped maybe a couple of million of them.
In the UK the onus is on the retailer to prove that you damaged it for the first six months. Beyond that, it comes down to a balance of probabilities. In practice, if you get as far as Small Claims Court and the retailer presents no evidence and you show a reasonable condition phone, the balance is clearly in your favour.
And give it's $150, after small claims court fees, your time and everything else, it would've costed you far more. And that's provided Apple didn't provide evidence.
I'm sure Apple could easily take a straightedge to the affected phones and find they all have a small bend in them, and find an equal number of them that work fine without a bend, showing it was physically damaged.
However, I lost my physical music collection. Please, please give me a complete option. One where I can download FLAC or WAV copies of the albums I love. Quality is important to me, and I can hear compression artifacts, especially below 256k MP3.
There are music stores that sell FLAC files. HDTracks does it, as did Pono (they lost their access to the collection when Apple bought the company behind the licensing I believe).
And Pono's catalog was basically mostly ripped CDs. It was pricier - while you pay $10 for an album at iTunes, Pono charged $15 or so... Wonder if they found another supplier for lossless.
Facebook is a tarbaby for the 'look at me, look at me!' crowd.
Thank dog they are there, think how bad the S/N ratio would be if those morons were on the wider net.
The problem is though a LOT of people get their "news" from social media exclusively. If it's posted on Facebook, it's the news. Doesn't matter if it really happened, or if it's completely fake. (In fact, the more click-baity the news, the more likely it's going to be shared and treated as real.).
Hell, I know more than a few people who believe Reddit is the source of everything they need to know.
Heck, I should start a "here a Trump's tax returns" fake-post and give it a bit of a click-bait titles and information. Do one fake tax return showing how Trump is really for democrats, and one for the alt-right and you can have both sides believing contradiction. Depending on who you want to troll, it'll be easy because too many people believe that if it's on the Internet, it's true. Doubly so if it's Facebook.
The art of critical thought is dead. If you can troll it, people will think it's real.
The real test will be to see which OSes get patched first.
The problem is HOW do you patch it.
It's going to involve a heavy user space network manager to do it, because the way it works the simple routing engine the kernels have is the root cause.
You also need to consider that you may be connected to WiFi, and Ethernet devices always have routing priority over WiFi (being wired, the metric of connection is lower than WiFi) in practically every OS.
Then you have to consider the ethernet device might already be there - laptops and servers and desktops may have spare ethernet ports that are not connected so it'll be trivial for an attack like this to use Ethernet instead of USB. Servers may be trivially secured by having inactive ports blacked out, but laptops may migrate between WiFI and Ethernet on a rather frequent basis, or even attached to different networks simultaneously (work laptop is connected to work network via Ethernet, but also via guest WiFi to bypass work network firewall blocks).
You might get away with limiting how "wide" your LAN is - after all, there is a practical limit to how big your local Ethernet segment can be before it collapses from the sheer load. Perhaps you can modify the DHCP client to reject anything saying you have more than 65535 devices on the local segment (i.e., you cannot accept anything more than a/16). This seems like the only practical way to do it without basically rewriting every network assumption since the 70s.
How exactly does the EU get to decide whether one US company can acquire another?
Well, presuming Microsoft isn't just acquiring source code and hardware, but also user data, then the EU can tell Microsoft what it can do with that user data. So Microsoft can acquire Linked In just fine, but the EU can easily come around as say Microsoft must keep the Linked In information siloed (at least for EU members)
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The other reason is no one is an expert until it's actually tried. Each "standard" has their own pluses and minuses, each of which wasn't readily apparent when it was created.
That, and most standards organizations are all about patent swapping - I'll get your patent into the standard, if you'll get my patent in the standard. They're less about pushing technology forward and more about how diplomatic you can be during negotiations.
Indeed, when a new standard is called for, usually there's a call to industry to propose their ideas and implementations and if there's only one working one out there, it will likely be the standard regardless if there's a better version in R&D right now.
It is simply a marketing tactic. Canada is not exactly an ideal spot to locate such a backup in any case given their hate speech legislation and tactic of slapping very heavy fines on people who might have offended one of an infinite number of gender pronoun protected groups.
Actually, it's not hate speech legislation. It's inciting hatred legislation. Our hate speech laws target recruitment of other people to incite harm to a group.You can threaten to harm someone, and that's a law unto itself (assault), but no matter how disgusting it is, unless you're trying to get others to join you, it's not hate speech.
You are free to be as racist as you want, and to shout it to the world. One person did, and while hate charges were considered, they did not apply. He was just charged with simple assault.
Likewise, you can discriminate against gays but as long as you're not telling others to harm them, you're fine.
That's the two key elements to the law - first, you have to incite others to join you, and second, you have to be threatening to harm. Just saying "I hate (gays|Jews|Chinese)" isn't hate speech, and even saying "I hate (gays|Jews|Chinese) and think they should be killed" isn't hate. But saying "I hate (gays|Jews|Chinese), and we should form a group to kill all of them" is hate speech because you're inviting others to harm.
Especially because of the limited support - Google's support for the Pixel phones is 2 years of updates, and after that it's a year of security updates. (Nexus phones had 18 months from the last available sale on the Play store - which is why they had the 5P and 6X phones - they were released pretty much by month 18 when the Nexus 5 and 6 disappeared).
Of course, then there's Apple's rather legendary software update schedule which at least makes the iPhone 7 supported for many years...
Unless you want credit cards, which make it quite hard.
Paypal is probably the ONLY provider that makes it too easy to accept a credit card on practically no requirements - most other merchant accounts have transaction and amount quotas you meet in order to get your negotiated rates - miss your quota and you'll get slapped with extra fees and increased rates.
And at the same time put up with the same crap that you get from Paypal.
Yes, you can take money orders, bank transfers and bitcoins too, but those will be but a tiny fraction of credit card sales.
No, Google does not sell to advertisers. Because Google IS the advertiser. They own practically all the advertising networks, have re-jigged their privacy policies to ensure data sharing takes place between all of them (Google Text Ads, YouTube, etc will share data with Alphabet companies like DoubleClick, so everything you do online will affect the ads you see).
Google sells access to eyeballs.
eBay is an auction site and the sellers and buyers do have to abide by local laws. Like in Germany, eBay has had to remove Nazi stuff listed for sale, because it is illegal to sell those in Germany. eBay has also had to remove listings because they've violated laws.
Paypal IS actually a bank in the EU.
Anyhow, if the EU wants more e-commerce, why not start with something straightforward like selling of merchandise? Or even working on copyright and IP laws which would allow the sale of music, tv shows and movies throughout the EU without being country specific? That would seem to be the low-hanging fruit blocking EU-wide e-commerce.
Going after someone like Uber is going to be hard. Because there are some laws you want them to follow (e.g., non-discrimination). And depending on the country, if a taxi driver doesn't want to carry a fare that's hired them, they're forced to call another taxi AND THEN wait with the fare until the replacement taxi arrives. (This is so the refusing taxi can't go and get someone more lucrative in the meantime, as well as if it's bad weather, the fare doesn't have to wait in the weather).
It's because there's a UTF-8 whitelist. Unicode support was added when the Japanese site was launched, but what happened is commenters rapidly posted garbage that abused all the Unicode control codes and character decorations that seriously screwed up the page. If you want to see what can happen, look for "blakeyrat" on thedailywtf.com comments - basically by manipulating some Unicode you can make really tall characters that cause a huge amount of scrolling.
Or you can mis-use the LTR and RTL characters to screw up the webpage (search slashdot for ":erocS" case sensitive, and yes, there's a colon in front).
So instead of allowing ALL unicode codepoints, /. decided it would be best to allow only a whitelist of codepoints since Unicode is an evolving standard. A lot of websites don't use a filter and get a bunch of comment spam/comment garbage because of it. Just wait until they add a TTB (top to bottom) control code.
Easy, it's a standard, so there are many implementations of it. It's why the Stagefright bugs don't affect iOS - you're trying to test against a different implementation that has a different way of doing things.
And maybe it does affect Android, but the way Stagefright (or the other media architectures since they did change a couple of times) simply fail in another way that's recoverable.
There's no one master implementation of MPEG4 video - it's a fairly extensive standard with full specifications so anyone who has a copy of the standard can implement their own version of it. And everyone has - Google, Microsoft, Apple have their own independent implementations, as does VLC, gstreamer, etc.
In fact, perhaps it affects macOS as well since the code would be most similar between the two.
And Alberta is ALREADY transitioning away from coal. In fact, earlier this year BC and Alberta (they're neighbouring provinces) signed an agreement where Alberta will start getting electricity from BC in the meantime.
So the impact to Alberta will be far lower in the end because Alberta is already trying to move away from coal.
That is true. The native mode is YUV420, so for every 4 pixels, you have 4 samples of luminance, and 1 sample each of U and V. This is h.264 natively and what Blu-Ray and others use.
So yes, downsampling does increase quality because you effectively go from YUV420 encoding to YUV444.
No, there's no king or queen in Malaysia. There's a Prime Minister though. But while there are elections in Malaysia, it's widely believed they are rigged and the whole political process is corrupt. They would be closer to an Authoritarian Democracy.
And the person in power stays in power - over 15 years ago, the opposition party leader was getting VERY popular with the people (who were sick and tired of the governing party). So just before the elections, said opposition leader is arrested and charged with homosexuality (and homosexual acts). Now, Malaysia is an Islamic country, so yes, they were forbidden.
The key evidence though was a "semen stained mattress". Last I heard (a couple of years back) it's STILL being fought in the courts. And this was around 1998 or so. Effectively he's being jailed until he keels over.
And the other part is who is allowed to vote - basically Malaysians (by race) only - if you're Chinese, Indian, etc., you're excluded from the vote.
Yes, however, Snowden has committed multiple crimes. The whistleblowing one may be pardonable, but the release of other information that potentially harms US intelligence gathering may not be so excusable.
And therein lies the rub - should he be pardoned? Perhaps, at least for some of the things he's done to make the world a better place (exposing surveillance on US citizens). But for other things, maybe not so much. The real problem is the "other things" - no one's formally created a list so Obama could excuse the one in the public's interest, but still keep the ones that did actually put other people's lives in danger. So he would really like to see the full list of charges against him before making a decision.
The other thing is, well, he's not in the US anymore. Nixon was pardoned but he was still in the US. All pardoning would do is allow a free return to the US, but other than that, he's really free to roam the globe at anywhere other than US.
Finally, what's the benefit to him? He's just winding down the couple of months he has left, and it's generally considered rude to screw the next guy to take over no matter how much you hate him. So let the guy who will have a few years decide the fate, rather than try to make a quick forced decision.
I don't think DYN is a small company anymore. They may have started as a small organization providing free dynamic DNS services decades ago, but then a few years ago they got rid of it and commercialized the heck out of their paid offerings. And given how many big companies were affected by the Dyn DDOS, I'd expect them to be a fairly large company.
Heck, they got rid of free dyndns WITHOUT Oracle's help. To me, that was the downfall - they went from being a "small community organization" to "major company that now focuses on bottom line".
No, CMOS is as fast as NMOS. The PMOS transistors are larger than the NMOS transistors in CMOS to achieve the same speed. This is well known in VLSI design - you always have to make the PMOS transistors larger (wider) as "holes" do not move as fast as electrons.
Maybe back when the 4004 was new this wasn't the case (though it's usually more a problem that making both NMOS and PMOS together was difficult until the CMOS process was perfected), but modern day every IC designer knows this.
In fact, every new IC design has an offset test to test speed - slow/slow (slow NMOS, slow PMOS), slow/fast (slow NMOS, fast PMOS), fast/slow, fast/fast in order to see the speed grade yields. Basically they vary the size of the transistors to the extremes (more than what regular imaging variation would have) to check the extremes of the envelope.
The WHO considers this to be the case, yes. However, Zika is an STD as well, but the WHO considers that a lowered risk - after all, everyone practices safe sex, uses condoms, and abstinence, right?
Because of history, really.
A car dealership is supposed to be like a store for cars. You know, like you used to visit the grocery store for groceries, you go to the car dealership for cars. And this was how it was in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Then what happened is the car manufacturers decide to try direct sales, which put a lot of dealerships out of business because they cut out the middleman. Since this put people out of work, politicians enacted laws preventing such sales as being predatory.
Nowadays, those laws have been modified to ensure that dealerships MUST be involved in every new car transaction, given the relative power (dealerships are rich, and they have shoveled a lot of money at politicians.
And in this modern era, well, you know. The following YouTube video really details the dirty details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There was no negligence involved. The people who violated the ToS did so to make a buck. They didn't order Pixel phones for their own use, they ordered them for the explicit purpose of resell.
Perhaps they got there because the company in Delaware said they'd make a few extra bucks, but either way, it was done on purpose.
The only negligence is in the company's for failing to tell the "buyers" that this may be against their terms of service. The buyers all saw $$$ and decided to participate. I'm guessing Project Fi phones are cheaper or something so the company can sell them for list price and make a few hundred bucks for both parties.
Well, you have to admit that online sales have basically killed them. However, the reason they still are around is because they've reinvented themselves - you entering the store is NOT the primary customer. The stuff on display in the store is the customer.
When you see DVDs and such for sale, it's because the distributors paid to be there. They paid for the $10 bargain bins. They paid for shelf space. Yes, they pay for shelf space - Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo paid for their own aisles in Best Buy, they paid for the layouts, the demo displays, etc. (Yes, it was hilarious when for years the "PS VIta" section was empty, but Sony paid for it, so Best Buy was contractually obliged to keep it ... empty)
Best Buy is a marketplace where manufacturers all gathered to offer their wares for sale. That's also why selection is down - Best Buy only sells what manufacturers have paid for
Google owning a "store" inside Best Buy isn't unusual - Apple has done it for years, and until recently, Samsung did too. (It was funny, since the Samsung store took up a huge chunk of the Best Buy I visited all the time, and was always empty. Someone maintains it - they always had the latest product, but there was no one there. Previously, it was a Future Shop and Samsung paid to have a Best Buy employee be the Samsung specialist, but that guy didn't sign on when Best Buy got rid of all the Future Shop stores, and I guess no one signed on or Samsung refused to pay for a specialist). It's funny because right after Remembrance day, the Samsung displays came down and now it's all appliances. I'm guessing the Samsung contract expired/
Exactly.
Humble bundles work by having someone approach them wanting to do something. They offer up the goods, which can be software, books, movies, etc, at practically giveaway prices. Likewise, the content owner specifies the charities they want to support - and it can be any charity really. The EFF is featured a lot, but others like the ACLU, MSF, Red Cross, etc have been featured.
Note that the buyer has the option to determine how the money is distributed - how much goes to the company and how much to each charity.
It was 35 when first reported in the news. When the recall finally started, it was up over 100 known/verified cases.
And the replacement phones was starting to edge up into 10 or so before Samsung completely scrapped it.
Yes, of millions, because the first cases started happening within two weeks of release - it was already at 35 on US launch date, of which I believe Samsung shipped maybe a couple of million of them.
And give it's $150, after small claims court fees, your time and everything else, it would've costed you far more. And that's provided Apple didn't provide evidence.
I'm sure Apple could easily take a straightedge to the affected phones and find they all have a small bend in them, and find an equal number of them that work fine without a bend, showing it was physically damaged.
There are music stores that sell FLAC files. HDTracks does it, as did Pono (they lost their access to the collection when Apple bought the company behind the licensing I believe).
And Pono's catalog was basically mostly ripped CDs. It was pricier - while you pay $10 for an album at iTunes, Pono charged $15 or so... Wonder if they found another supplier for lossless.
The problem is though a LOT of people get their "news" from social media exclusively. If it's posted on Facebook, it's the news. Doesn't matter if it really happened, or if it's completely fake. (In fact, the more click-baity the news, the more likely it's going to be shared and treated as real.).
Hell, I know more than a few people who believe Reddit is the source of everything they need to know.
Heck, I should start a "here a Trump's tax returns" fake-post and give it a bit of a click-bait titles and information. Do one fake tax return showing how Trump is really for democrats, and one for the alt-right and you can have both sides believing contradiction. Depending on who you want to troll, it'll be easy because too many people believe that if it's on the Internet, it's true. Doubly so if it's Facebook.
The art of critical thought is dead. If you can troll it, people will think it's real.
The problem is HOW do you patch it.
It's going to involve a heavy user space network manager to do it, because the way it works the simple routing engine the kernels have is the root cause.
You also need to consider that you may be connected to WiFi, and Ethernet devices always have routing priority over WiFi (being wired, the metric of connection is lower than WiFi) in practically every OS.
Then you have to consider the ethernet device might already be there - laptops and servers and desktops may have spare ethernet ports that are not connected so it'll be trivial for an attack like this to use Ethernet instead of USB. Servers may be trivially secured by having inactive ports blacked out, but laptops may migrate between WiFI and Ethernet on a rather frequent basis, or even attached to different networks simultaneously (work laptop is connected to work network via Ethernet, but also via guest WiFi to bypass work network firewall blocks).
You might get away with limiting how "wide" your LAN is - after all, there is a practical limit to how big your local Ethernet segment can be before it collapses from the sheer load. Perhaps you can modify the DHCP client to reject anything saying you have more than 65535 devices on the local segment (i.e., you cannot accept anything more than a /16). This seems like the only practical way to do it without basically rewriting every network assumption since the 70s.
Well, presuming Microsoft isn't just acquiring source code and hardware, but also user data, then the EU can tell Microsoft what it can do with that user data. So Microsoft can acquire Linked In just fine, but the EU can easily come around as say Microsoft must keep the Linked In information siloed (at least for EU members)