So how many of those iMessage flaws are because they need to allow for backwards compatibility between newer and older devices? And how many can they fix before they start breaking older devices?
(I'm sure the moment they do, everyone will cry out for iPhone 4 (circa 2010) users who can no longer use iMessage that Apple is forcing them to upgrade their phones. Or whatever the oldest phone that can run iMessage is. Then the class action lawsuits get filed...).
You really think increasing the number of congresscritters would serve a purpose? Then you're just have way more lawyers too stupid to practice law living in sheltered conditions. It's not like lawyers need to be a protected species, so why bother?
I do.
First it lowers representation costs. When you have 1 per 30,000 (that's 10,000 reps), it's a lot harder to buy a majority off. $1B over 5001 reps is only $20,000 each.
Second, there's no need to pay them the exorbitant costs - just a local office. We can even scale their pay to be representative of their area.
And it's not for life - a smaller voter base makes it much easier to toss someone out - especially if they're not representing the area like they should.
A warrant is a phone call away; arresting the guy and then calling in a warrant to search for video evidence when seeing cctv isn't that hard nor time consuming.
All it takes is one Judge who follows the law to shut down crooked cops and now a violent offender is getting away with minimal sentencing.
Actually, to arrest him, you need probable cause. Otherwise you run the risk that the arrest was not done out of probable cause and because of that, the warrant was therefore invalid since the arrest was invalid.
Now, it is actually legal to seize evidence without a warrant, providing you can prove there is a time-sensitive nature to it.
In this case, the police have information that the surveillance footage contains important information to arrest the guy. But without seeing that footage, they technically can't arrest him. So in the meantime, while we ponder how the police are going to get evidence to arrest the guy, but they can't arrest him now (not enough evidence) the guy is free to do whatever, including destroy evidence.
Judges generally look down at warrantless evidence, and they usually convene a subtrial to figure out if the evidence should be thrown out or not.They look to see if exigent circumstances exist to allow the evidence to be used without a prior warrant - i.e., is it possible and likely the evidence would've been destroyed during the time to get a warrant. There's a lot of case law and interpretation behind it - if it was a surveillance system belonging to the building, for example, then it would've been tossed out (it is unlikely the building manager would erase the evidence, and most likely, if you ask nicely, they'll turn it over without questioning).
Oh, and there are times when it is LEGAL for law enforcement to enter your home without a warrant, probable cause or anything else (called "hot pursuit"). In fact, if they came in (during those circumstances) and you're openly doing drugs inside your house, they can arrest you for that, even though in a normal situation, that would be highly illegitimate! (No, most of the time, the cops are not allowed to enter a private residence without being invited or if they have a warrant, except in the narrow case.of hot pursuit).
But once they got everything booted up again, they had to contend with trying to get a system restarted that simply wasn't designed to ever fail completely. So it took hours to get all the pieces back up and communicating again.
Well, mainframe computers have such excellent uptimes (you almost never reboot one) because everything is hot-swappable. CPU failure? Remove the CPU module, insert new one, and continue - all while powered up. The OS takes care of suspending the failed one and scheduling around it. Ditto all other components. Effectively, you should never reboot them.
Of course, the thing is, when you eventually do reboot them, they take hours to boot all the way up as they perform comprehensive integrity checks (who knows why it was rebooted?).
Then their are the real world problems - flight A feeds into flight B, but flight A was late, meaning all those connections were missed and passengers have to be rebooked. And flight B can't fly anyway, because the plane is still sitting 500 miles away because the flight that would bring it to this airport was cancelled as well. And the flight crew that was supposed to bring flight B to this airport technically went on duty the moment they reached the airport, and now they have reached the max allowed hours in the day, so a new crew is needed. But that crew is in a different city...
This is, IMHO, the far bigger issue. Airlines are scheduled tight - if the plane's not flying, it's costing money. Ultra-low cost carriers have very right schedules to ensure the planes are always in the air.
Getting the crews and equipment all prepositioned in the right place and ready to fly is a delicate balance at the best of times and a complete nightmare when you have to start from scratch.
How much longer before Android devices start appearing without the jack? How much longer, as Doctorow suggests, before the music industry starts insisting on getting rid of analog ports entirely, and DRM is put in place so that even with a dongle, you're still faced with the limitations that DRM put in place? Then, of course, it will carry on to computer manufacturers, and you'll be using USB speakers and headphones on them, and the music industry will get the end-to-end DRM on music just like they're getting with video.
Android phones without headphone jacks are shipping RIGHT NOW. Apple's been out-innovated here - their musings of getting rid of the jack has lead to LeEco (a high-end Chinese manufacturer) to do it on their entire line of phones. And one of the latest Motorola phones lacks it as well.
As for "analog hole" - don't worry. You will need to realize that you cannot process digital data. USB headphones and speakers exist, and many people use and prefer them because of the cleaner audio path (instead of putting a DAC and sensitive analog electronics right next to noisy digital devices, you move it out of the case). Or if you're fancy, you use HDMI to do it.
If you subscribe to the audio theory of keeping it in the digital domain until you're at the power amplifier, you're using digital interconnects everywhere.
I wish they'd find an algorithm for figuring out if the "reporters" of news stories had done any fact-checking instead. We have more news and far less fact-checkers these days. They're dying out with the newspapers given that people only want to pay for news they like.
I think it's less likely today than in the past. Why? Because it's so easy to fact-check nowadays. Take just 20 years ago when the Intenret was in its infancy and when you read a news report, there wasn't much in the way of resources - you could go to your library and do the necessary background research and then try to find other sources. In short, it would take a while to check and a lot of effort, so it'll be easier to pull it off.
These days, a few clicks of the mouse gets you the basic research, a few more clicks often will get you source photos and descriptions A few clicks after that gets you all the conspiracy theories, which again, are easier to search and see through. So anything wrong generally gets called out
The only thing that's still missing is engaging the brain and thinking critically given the volume of information.
Alas, he spoke the magick words "living in Europe".
That's even better - it means he just has to file a complaint under the Sale of Goods Act or equivalent enforcement agency which actually has teeth to force the company to respond.
Yeah, power windows and locks are great, until you drive into water, short out the electrical system, and are trapped inside the car. Rule of thumb: EVERY automatic system should have a manual backup! (To BMW's credit, their electric sunroof comes with a crank handle that can be used to close the sunroof when the electric motor fails. Not sure how many other manufacturers do this.)
Well, you can do the ObMythbusters who tested exactly that and found... it still works great, even after being submerged for 45 minutes.
Or you can realize that it's pretty waterproof as it is, otherwise they'd short out in a moderate rainstorm - battery being in the engine compartment and getting wet, and the doors getting water inside of them too.
No, what really prevents the windows from opening is water pressure - and even a manual crank is too weak to open a window in a fully submerged car.
It's strange that the default location is centered on the USA for a global coordinate system. At least 0.0, 0.0 is really out in the middle of nowhere.
It's not the default location. It's the default location for "USA". And it's not even the exact center of the US )it's a "cleaned up" version, aka an arbitrary spot close to, but not exactly at, the center). It would return 0,0 if it was unknown, but the IP address location was known - but only to the accuracy of the country.
The real problem is it's returning coordinates that look very precise when the error circle is huge
I mean, 100TB of spinning rust storage is probably around $3000 or so. 60TB is probably around $2000-ish.
If Seagate and Toshiba are selling SSDs for those prices, then yes, spindle's are dead. But if we're talking about 5 figures or more, then spinning rust has a long life ahead of it.
SSDs are great for plenty of tasks, and the largest ones on the market offer plenty of storage for most users.
However, there are plenty of tasks that demand bulk storage (e.g., media storage, backups, etc) over sheer IOPs or throughput, and demand cheap bulk storage, at that. Spinning rust fulfills that need wonderfully (and there's plenty of demand for it, as well - I'm sure most people have at least a need to have some big bulk storage around to store their media).
In Canada there are local police departments (municipal or regional), provincial police forces (e.g Ontario Provincial Police or OPP) and the federal police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or RCMP.
Partially correct.
There is a police service everywhere. That police service may be provided by the city (e.g., Vancouver), the province (e.g., Ontario and the Ontario Provincial Police) or by the federal government (the RCMP).
Depending on where you are, who you go to depends on who provides police service. Outside of Vancouver, for example, most of the immediate neighbouring cities (in the area known as Metro Vancouver), you'd go to the RCMP, because that city contracts with the RCMP to provide local police services.
Distrust of the RCMP (either due to excessive force, or budgetary issues) has lead to several cities considering starting their own police force (Richmond has had many discussions on that, they expect transition costs of around $200M and the cost of their own force over the RCMP was supposed to be $50M annually, but the benefits include better local representation. The vote lost).
That said, even municipal police forces may participate in unified policing programs - we have a program called IHIT (integrated homicide investigation team) that investigates homicides, and the team is made up of police from all the member forces - they share information with each other and so on to solve homicides that cross city boundaries. Delta police doesn't participate so they have to investigate homicides on their own, though they may request help from IHIT or IHIT may provide information if they believe a killer lives in Delta.
There are other programs like the Anti-Gang Task Force and such.
All BC police forces are monitored by the IIO who is a civilian task force that investigates police use of force - if any police officer brings out their weapon (even if it wasn't fired) it triggers an investigation by the IIO. And yes, if a weapon was fired, the circumstances of that are evaluated as well, including if it was justified.
(Yes, they're busy, probably around 100 cases a year or so, but then again, the total number of murders in a given year is usually well under 20, and total deaths is quite low (including car accidents and running over pedestrians, it typically averages under 100, in a population of 4 million people or so).
He's right about the lawyers, though. Being "truthy" is making wild claims in your ad, then covering any lie in the 25 seconds of hasty, unintelligible mumbling following the ad. Disclaimers do nothing for the truthfulness of ads, they just make sure advertisers cannot be called out on their lies. They are meaningless legalese that makes government regulators, consumer advocates, and corporations all a little happier while accomplishing nothing; you're better off without them. And that's the hard to swallow truth*
*) May or may not be the truth. Not valid in the state of California. May cause irreversible damage to kidneys and liver. Conditions apply.
Except now the ad has disclaimers that you're paying for. A prime-time 30 second ad spot costs around $150,000. That's just one ad play - it's not for the entire show, or the season - just those 30 seconds. If you spend 15 of that on disclaimers, you've wasted $75,000 of that trying to justify your claim.
Plus, viewers who have to sit through 15 seconds of fast talking disclaimer will be likely to question the claims you made - those 15 seconds feel long and boring than the 15 seconds of claims. After a few times of seeing the ad, viewers are unlikely to be convinced.
That's why companies would rather buy it - if Ookla published a report that said "Comcast has the fastest internet", then you'll see the claim in a Comcast ad, and a little bit of text saying "Ookla report, Year/month/day" like you see on political ads citing sources. Or when you see "Professional driver, closed course" on a car ad.
For my part, I actually got a new furnace and AC recently, and I brought up that I didn't want any networking technology, and that an analog ("mechanical") thermostat would be ideal. He was easily able to accommodate the first, but the "mechanical" thermostats were a pain- they were rare and way more expensive because there's not much market for them. What will that conversation sound like in twenty years?
That's because "dumb" programmable thermostats have basically become the norm - the old analog ones worked but were clunky and had lots of workarounds like setbacks, hysteresis and high-end-start-lockouts. In the end it made for a complex mess of workarounds. (high end start is if the AC has been running and the high pressure line is still pressurized - you should not engage the compressor because it puts on a lot of stress and wear - you have to wait a few minutes for the high pressure line to depressurize before kicking in the compressor)
One thing is, a smart thermostat is way more expensive than a dumb programmable digital one - all the ioT ones cost around $200, while the fanciest of dumb ones still are under $100. And a basic one is often only $30 on sale.
The first thing that comes to my mind is wondering how MS mapped windows users to linux UIDs. When linux is allowed to access the filesystem there could be all sorts of things to abuse in the permission translation. I would be interested in an article describing the design decisions though, instead of one generically predicting doom and gloom.
Probably some mapping of the user SID to a UID is my guess. After all, the UID is just a user representation, and internally it gets translated into a normal Windows SID that the kernel uses for all actions.
Honestly, it's a load of hyperbole. The Linus subsystem is not running Linux. It's running the Windows kernel, and the kernel is enforcing all the standard security mechanisms it always had. If you can't write to a file in Windows, you certainly can't on Linux subsystem. (All of Windows' security is enforced in the kernel anyways).
The Linux subsystem is only a bit more than the standard subsystem mechanism on NT - you know, the ones that could run Win32, OS/2 and POSIX apps? Each one of those is a separate subsystem, and because of that, there were pesky limitations (POSIX applications can't interact with Win32, because the only commonality is... the kernel).
What Windows 10 can do is run Linux userspace binaries by emulating the Linux syscall interface. It's no different than the FreeBSD mechanism that existed for years.
Hell, if you want to get technical, call it GNU/NTOSKRNL. That's all it is. It can run Linux binaries on Windows, in this case, Ubuntu 14.04.
I think ALL of us jailbreakers and rooters should celebrate this. Now I might be able to push an adaway hostfile with 875K worth of junk hosts of malware, ads, adware, gambling and other cruft blocked. I cant believe I need to wait for a flaw like this to update the hosts file on the phone I own.
This weaponizing of opensource software to do things like make it impossible to edit/etc/hosts with malware blocks is unreal.
Except Android doesn't use/etc/hosts. That's a function of the stub resolver in the C library you use, and the Android C library simply doesn't support it.
Trump has refused to show his returns until after he is elected. Could be he has something to hide or could be he just doesn't want people to know he details should he lose. Difficult to be sure!
Well, the problem is D. Trump is apparently a terrible businessman - most of his businesses have failed. Excepting his corporate raider tactics on existing companies and cashing in on celebrity status, none of his ventures have made money. He's worth less today than in the past. He's riding the family fortunes to the ground. Luckily for him, there's a lot of it.
Well, slight correction, apparently his Russian businesses are quite profitable, if you ever wondered where the love for him in Russia comes from.
So there's that - people *assume* he's a good businessman simply because everyone has hear about him. (His flashy plane and other things also help advertise him). The truth is different, and hiding the tax returns is one way to prevent people from knowing it.
In the end, the real irony is when people talked about celebrity presidents, everyone assumed it would be something like a Kardashian or Justin Bieber or other entertainment celebrity. Trump IS a celebrity, except aimed at the more general voter base. So there you have it - the beginning of change in US politices from lying and cheating politicians to celebrities. Maybe in 10 years there really will be Kardashians running, when all those people grow up and become a solid voting bloc.
I think the UK has completely lost it's mind! Here's a novel idea that's so much simpler and how we approach it in Canada. Here we have the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) which is pretty much the same thing as the BBC - aka publicly funded TV, Radio, and Media. It is funded by the Federal taxes of all Canadian tax payers. Regardless of whether you use the CBC or not, you're paying for it. No special taxes that people must specifically pay, no special enforcement (except for maybe geo-ip), and no white vans running around snooping wifi traffic (which, here would be illegal) thanks to our Charter of Rights and Freedoms (something the UK DESPERATELY NEEDS). The UK people really get the shaft with their government and it's constant big brother mantra and it's excessive need to invade the lives of its people.
Can someone from the UK please explain to me the reason a 'TV' license still exists? It's not the 1950's!
Easy, it gives independence to the TV station from politics. Taxes taken from the public purse into a national TV station have many issues, one of which is political interference. It's happened with the CBC - the Harper Conservatives have cut funding to it resulting in a lot of cuts, one of the most embarrassing involves having insufficient funds to transmit at a hockey game. (BC billionaire Jimmy Pattison paid for a TV truck so they could broadcast the game - this was roughly up to a quarter million dollars).
The CBC has undergone a lot of cuts, plenty of which were politically motivated ones.
In the US, NPR is routinely attacked for (tiny) amount they get from the government - especially by right-wing conservatives
The other side is politics. A state-sponsored TV station is often called the propaganda arm of government. Now, generally speaking, the CBC and NPR are completely independent despite receiving government funds, but that is due to the way the government is set up. In most other countries, this is not the case and the station broadcasts what the government wants it to broadcasts.
The BBC's TV license funding model basically means it's completely free to do whatever it wants - the government's ability to control it relies on the powers to enforce the license that were granted.
And heck, there are countries out there that have TV licensing fees and state sponsored TV - the fee does nothing to promote free programming.
Works fine in Firefox, actually, I was playing it there. Had a few scripts you had to enable (I use NoScript) but there was nothing particularly sketchy about the ones you enabled...
Have a look at Cygwin. http://cygwin.com/ It's a free linux environment running under Windows. It's published by Redhat, who know a thing or two about linux. And not just console apps, it's got X and the associated graphical appslications.
Cygwin and the Linux Subsystem are completely different entities. Cygwin is an attempt to implement the POSIX API on the Win32 API set. Most applications will compile just fine under this emulated environment, and the applications are regular Win32 applications as far as Windows is concerned. The shell has been modified so it will append ".exe" when launching an image if it wasn't specified (because you can't do "ls" as it will fail (file not found), but "ls.exe" will succeed) These binaries are stnadard WinPE style binaries.
The Linux Subsystem is more akin to the FreeBSD Linux API layer - it runs Linux binaries unmodified, so the NTOSKRNL will natively load an ELF image, emulates the LInux syscall interface and provides all the necessary calls to make it appear you're running on Linux.
It's why Windows 10 can load Ubuntu 14.04 userspace - it's not a recompiled for Windows set of binaries, but everything that ships in Ubuntu 14.04 minus the Linux kernel.
For people who think, "Who the heck could ever leave their kid in a hot car... what kind of parent could they possibly be???" You NEED to read this article. This could happen to many more caring parents than we might realize, given the right set of unusual circumstances. If you have kids or ever plan to have kids and don't think this could ever happen to you, read this and realize how such things do happen, and not just to drug-addled neglectful idiots.
Hell, think about less dangerous episodes of forgetfulness that happen with cars, too. Have you ever gone home, parked the car, and forgotten your shopping or other thing in the car? I've forgotten drinks in the cupholder.
And plenty of people forget about stuff on the ROOF of their car - you know, they put their briefcase, or purse, or cup of coffee or whatever on the roof and rive off with it right there. You'd think with the stuff in the direct line of sight they'd remember, but no.
In each and every one of these situations, it could've been a child - a child in the car instead of the shopping. A chid put aside so the seat can be cleared for the child seat. etc. etc. etc.
The wrong distraction at the wrong moment is usually the cause. Or something unusual. Hell, there have been airplane accidents caused because the pilot got distracted and forgot important checklist items.
Granted, no one dies if you leave your shopping in the car on a hot die (except maybe your wallet as you have to re-buy the perishables) but it's not a big leap to forget other things, including children and pets.
So now we get an email alert anytime anyone makes a credit inquiry or applies for credit in our name. That is helpful, but it would make WAY more sense for that to be the default, rather than a special service.
But it won't make the credit reporting agencies any money.
Ever notice how hard it is to get your one free credit report? You normally have to send them a letter by snail mail with a bunch of information on it. And not only do they not provide a simple form to fill out and mail, they want you to write it. In the meantime, they say for $20/year, you can get full access to your credit report 24/7. And repeat it with the other agencies as well.
That's why those monitoring agencies even exist - either they're sponsored by the credit agencies to extract money form the user, or a third party to navigate the annoyingly complex way the credit agencies
At least among the people I know, GMOs aren't bad because of the gene manipulation itself. Instead, they are considered bad because that manipulation results in significantly higher concentrations of pesticides being used on GMO crops (as the crops are now "roundup ready" or whatever). It is these higher concentrations of pesticides that are considered dangerous, not the genetic manipulation.
The other problem with GMOs is patents and whole IP infrastructure - it's putting food in the hands of single corporation that's the real problem.
Sure, companies like Montsanto might not be evil now, but we've already seen pharmaceutical companies jack up prices on certain drugs by over 1000% to make more profit. What's to keep the CEO of Monsanto from doing the same? Perhaps he needs a new yacht this year. Jack up the price on seeds, and we'd all be forced to hand over more money. Sure, some people can get organic non-GMO varieties, but it's not easy and there isn't enough.
The situation in some countries is so bad that for drugs, the countries have basically forced mandatory licensing so they can get those drugs at a more affordable price.
Perhaps food should be declared the same - it should have mandatory licensing attached. That way one company can't hold a country or the world hostage.
The government was also able to jail you for refusing to fill in previous long-form census. I refused in writing in both 2006 and 2011, on the grounds that in 2006 some of the questions were inappropriate, and in 2011 because some of the questions required information on your parent's ethnicity, which if they want it, they can ask them directly. Long distance charges will definitely apply since they were long dead.
Threats disappeared after I told them that the census taker had violated the census act by having one of her children along when trying to con me into filling it in. And keeping info stored on an insecure laptop. I also told them that I could prove that the "92 year non-disclosure policy" was a total lie, that researchers are given access to the raw data after a mere 7 years, so please take me to court.
Yes, they are able to jail you. But - over the entire history of the law, there were about 11 people actually charged, and they were just fined - $1000 or so.
The census is important. In fact, there was no long form in 2011 because the Conservative government changed it from mandatory to voluntary. This had the unfortunate side effect that there is no usable data to be mined from the 2011 census.
As for the release of raw data - it's collective data, not individual forms. The 92 year rule is for individual forms - so in 92 years, the complete form is released how you filled it in. But the census data is of importance to many people, groups and organizations, and that's aggregated. After 7 years, the aggregated data is available to researchers who want a snapshot of the Canadian population to study what they need to study. But they don't have access to the individual forms you fill out, only the aggregated data. And only subsets of it - what they need for their research. No one other than Statistics Canada can see the full data set, and once the forms are tallied, no one can see the raw forms or individual data either (until 92 years later).
Before it was gutted by the Harper Conservatives, Statistics Canada is/was one of the most premier data collecting and analysis organizations. It's why the chief statistician resigned after elimination of the long form - he knew that the law would render the 2011 data completely worthless. It's partly why we're in the situation we're in with school closures in one city, school overcrowding in others, etc. Because the only usable data dates back to 2006.
Sure it's only 32% on RT. That's not unsalvageable. Or even that bad - I've liked movies that gotten far lower scores.
All it means is it's likely just a summer blockbuster that's enjoyable for the two hours you're there, but that's it. You're not going to get any life changing revelations, new insights, or anything else.
it's just a disposable movie that's enjoyable and forgettable. If you want to escape your dreary life for a couple of hours, it'll be perfect.
Far too many people put too much into a review - basically a 5 star review is the cinematic equivalent of literature - something everyone should see to make themselves a better person, etc. etc. etc.
But I've found that's not me. I don't want plots full of subtext and hidden symbolism. I just want an escape - give me two hours to enter a fantasy world, believe I belong there during that time, and wrap it up.
For me, the best movies typically score 3-4 stars, or even 2 stars. Leaving 1 star for the truly dreadful movies.
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So how many of those iMessage flaws are because they need to allow for backwards compatibility between newer and older devices? And how many can they fix before they start breaking older devices?
(I'm sure the moment they do, everyone will cry out for iPhone 4 (circa 2010) users who can no longer use iMessage that Apple is forcing them to upgrade their phones. Or whatever the oldest phone that can run iMessage is. Then the class action lawsuits get filed...).
I do.
First it lowers representation costs. When you have 1 per 30,000 (that's 10,000 reps), it's a lot harder to buy a majority off. $1B over 5001 reps is only $20,000 each.
Second, there's no need to pay them the exorbitant costs - just a local office. We can even scale their pay to be representative of their area.
And it's not for life - a smaller voter base makes it much easier to toss someone out - especially if they're not representing the area like they should.
Actually, to arrest him, you need probable cause. Otherwise you run the risk that the arrest was not done out of probable cause and because of that, the warrant was therefore invalid since the arrest was invalid.
Now, it is actually legal to seize evidence without a warrant, providing you can prove there is a time-sensitive nature to it.
In this case, the police have information that the surveillance footage contains important information to arrest the guy. But without seeing that footage, they technically can't arrest him. So in the meantime, while we ponder how the police are going to get evidence to arrest the guy, but they can't arrest him now (not enough evidence) the guy is free to do whatever, including destroy evidence.
Judges generally look down at warrantless evidence, and they usually convene a subtrial to figure out if the evidence should be thrown out or not.They look to see if exigent circumstances exist to allow the evidence to be used without a prior warrant - i.e., is it possible and likely the evidence would've been destroyed during the time to get a warrant. There's a lot of case law and interpretation behind it - if it was a surveillance system belonging to the building, for example, then it would've been tossed out (it is unlikely the building manager would erase the evidence, and most likely, if you ask nicely, they'll turn it over without questioning).
Oh, and there are times when it is LEGAL for law enforcement to enter your home without a warrant, probable cause or anything else (called "hot pursuit"). In fact, if they came in (during those circumstances) and you're openly doing drugs inside your house, they can arrest you for that, even though in a normal situation, that would be highly illegitimate! (No, most of the time, the cops are not allowed to enter a private residence without being invited or if they have a warrant, except in the narrow case.of hot pursuit).
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Well, mainframe computers have such excellent uptimes (you almost never reboot one) because everything is hot-swappable. CPU failure? Remove the CPU module, insert new one, and continue - all while powered up. The OS takes care of suspending the failed one and scheduling around it. Ditto all other components. Effectively, you should never reboot them.
Of course, the thing is, when you eventually do reboot them, they take hours to boot all the way up as they perform comprehensive integrity checks (who knows why it was rebooted?).
This is, IMHO, the far bigger issue. Airlines are scheduled tight - if the plane's not flying, it's costing money. Ultra-low cost carriers have very right schedules to ensure the planes are always in the air.
Getting the crews and equipment all prepositioned in the right place and ready to fly is a delicate balance at the best of times and a complete nightmare when you have to start from scratch.
Android phones without headphone jacks are shipping RIGHT NOW. Apple's been out-innovated here - their musings of getting rid of the jack has lead to LeEco (a high-end Chinese manufacturer) to do it on their entire line of phones. And one of the latest Motorola phones lacks it as well.
As for "analog hole" - don't worry. You will need to realize that you cannot process digital data. USB headphones and speakers exist, and many people use and prefer them because of the cleaner audio path (instead of putting a DAC and sensitive analog electronics right next to noisy digital devices, you move it out of the case). Or if you're fancy, you use HDMI to do it.
If you subscribe to the audio theory of keeping it in the digital domain until you're at the power amplifier, you're using digital interconnects everywhere.
I think it's less likely today than in the past. Why? Because it's so easy to fact-check nowadays. Take just 20 years ago when the Intenret was in its infancy and when you read a news report, there wasn't much in the way of resources - you could go to your library and do the necessary background research and then try to find other sources. In short, it would take a while to check and a lot of effort, so it'll be easier to pull it off.
These days, a few clicks of the mouse gets you the basic research, a few more clicks often will get you source photos and descriptions A few clicks after that gets you all the conspiracy theories, which again, are easier to search and see through. So anything wrong generally gets called out
The only thing that's still missing is engaging the brain and thinking critically given the volume of information.
That's even better - it means he just has to file a complaint under the Sale of Goods Act or equivalent enforcement agency which actually has teeth to force the company to respond.
Well, you can do the ObMythbusters who tested exactly that and found... it still works great, even after being submerged for 45 minutes.
Or you can realize that it's pretty waterproof as it is, otherwise they'd short out in a moderate rainstorm - battery being in the engine compartment and getting wet, and the doors getting water inside of them too.
No, what really prevents the windows from opening is water pressure - and even a manual crank is too weak to open a window in a fully submerged car.
It's not the default location. It's the default location for "USA". And it's not even the exact center of the US )it's a "cleaned up" version, aka an arbitrary spot close to, but not exactly at, the center). It would return 0,0 if it was unknown, but the IP address location was known - but only to the accuracy of the country.
The real problem is it's returning coordinates that look very precise when the error circle is huge
Is it, really?
I mean, 100TB of spinning rust storage is probably around $3000 or so. 60TB is probably around $2000-ish.
If Seagate and Toshiba are selling SSDs for those prices, then yes, spindle's are dead. But if we're talking about 5 figures or more, then spinning rust has a long life ahead of it.
SSDs are great for plenty of tasks, and the largest ones on the market offer plenty of storage for most users.
However, there are plenty of tasks that demand bulk storage (e.g., media storage, backups, etc) over sheer IOPs or throughput, and demand cheap bulk storage, at that. Spinning rust fulfills that need wonderfully (and there's plenty of demand for it, as well - I'm sure most people have at least a need to have some big bulk storage around to store their media).
Face it, Apple can never outbid on bugx.
I mean, last year, they offered 3 prizes of $1M each for a jailbreak (one of which was claimed).
At a time when Windows and Android exploits go for maybe $10,000 each regularly and $100k tops, iOS vulnerabilities exceed that.
Partially correct.
There is a police service everywhere. That police service may be provided by the city (e.g., Vancouver), the province (e.g., Ontario and the Ontario Provincial Police) or by the federal government (the RCMP).
Depending on where you are, who you go to depends on who provides police service. Outside of Vancouver, for example, most of the immediate neighbouring cities (in the area known as Metro Vancouver), you'd go to the RCMP, because that city contracts with the RCMP to provide local police services.
Distrust of the RCMP (either due to excessive force, or budgetary issues) has lead to several cities considering starting their own police force (Richmond has had many discussions on that, they expect transition costs of around $200M and the cost of their own force over the RCMP was supposed to be $50M annually, but the benefits include better local representation. The vote lost).
That said, even municipal police forces may participate in unified policing programs - we have a program called IHIT (integrated homicide investigation team) that investigates homicides, and the team is made up of police from all the member forces - they share information with each other and so on to solve homicides that cross city boundaries. Delta police doesn't participate so they have to investigate homicides on their own, though they may request help from IHIT or IHIT may provide information if they believe a killer lives in Delta.
There are other programs like the Anti-Gang Task Force and such.
All BC police forces are monitored by the IIO who is a civilian task force that investigates police use of force - if any police officer brings out their weapon (even if it wasn't fired) it triggers an investigation by the IIO. And yes, if a weapon was fired, the circumstances of that are evaluated as well, including if it was justified.
(Yes, they're busy, probably around 100 cases a year or so, but then again, the total number of murders in a given year is usually well under 20, and total deaths is quite low (including car accidents and running over pedestrians, it typically averages under 100, in a population of 4 million people or so).
Except now the ad has disclaimers that you're paying for. A prime-time 30 second ad spot costs around $150,000. That's just one ad play - it's not for the entire show, or the season - just those 30 seconds. If you spend 15 of that on disclaimers, you've wasted $75,000 of that trying to justify your claim.
Plus, viewers who have to sit through 15 seconds of fast talking disclaimer will be likely to question the claims you made - those 15 seconds feel long and boring than the 15 seconds of claims. After a few times of seeing the ad, viewers are unlikely to be convinced.
That's why companies would rather buy it - if Ookla published a report that said "Comcast has the fastest internet", then you'll see the claim in a Comcast ad, and a little bit of text saying "Ookla report, Year/month/day" like you see on political ads citing sources. Or when you see "Professional driver, closed course" on a car ad.
That's because "dumb" programmable thermostats have basically become the norm - the old analog ones worked but were clunky and had lots of workarounds like setbacks, hysteresis and high-end-start-lockouts. In the end it made for a complex mess of workarounds. (high end start is if the AC has been running and the high pressure line is still pressurized - you should not engage the compressor because it puts on a lot of stress and wear - you have to wait a few minutes for the high pressure line to depressurize before kicking in the compressor)
One thing is, a smart thermostat is way more expensive than a dumb programmable digital one - all the ioT ones cost around $200, while the fanciest of dumb ones still are under $100. And a basic one is often only $30 on sale.
Probably some mapping of the user SID to a UID is my guess. After all, the UID is just a user representation, and internally it gets translated into a normal Windows SID that the kernel uses for all actions.
Honestly, it's a load of hyperbole. The Linus subsystem is not running Linux. It's running the Windows kernel, and the kernel is enforcing all the standard security mechanisms it always had. If you can't write to a file in Windows, you certainly can't on Linux subsystem. (All of Windows' security is enforced in the kernel anyways).
The Linux subsystem is only a bit more than the standard subsystem mechanism on NT - you know, the ones that could run Win32, OS/2 and POSIX apps? Each one of those is a separate subsystem, and because of that, there were pesky limitations (POSIX applications can't interact with Win32, because the only commonality is... the kernel).
What Windows 10 can do is run Linux userspace binaries by emulating the Linux syscall interface. It's no different than the FreeBSD mechanism that existed for years.
Hell, if you want to get technical, call it GNU/NTOSKRNL. That's all it is. It can run Linux binaries on Windows, in this case, Ubuntu 14.04.
Except Android doesn't use /etc/hosts. That's a function of the stub resolver in the C library you use, and the Android C library simply doesn't support it.
Well, the problem is D. Trump is apparently a terrible businessman - most of his businesses have failed. Excepting his corporate raider tactics on existing companies and cashing in on celebrity status, none of his ventures have made money. He's worth less today than in the past. He's riding the family fortunes to the ground. Luckily for him, there's a lot of it.
Well, slight correction, apparently his Russian businesses are quite profitable, if you ever wondered where the love for him in Russia comes from.
So there's that - people *assume* he's a good businessman simply because everyone has hear about him. (His flashy plane and other things also help advertise him). The truth is different, and hiding the tax returns is one way to prevent people from knowing it.
In the end, the real irony is when people talked about celebrity presidents, everyone assumed it would be something like a Kardashian or Justin Bieber or other entertainment celebrity. Trump IS a celebrity, except aimed at the more general voter base. So there you have it - the beginning of change in US politices from lying and cheating politicians to celebrities. Maybe in 10 years there really will be Kardashians running, when all those people grow up and become a solid voting bloc.
Easy, it gives independence to the TV station from politics. Taxes taken from the public purse into a national TV station have many issues, one of which is political interference. It's happened with the CBC - the Harper Conservatives have cut funding to it resulting in a lot of cuts, one of the most embarrassing involves having insufficient funds to transmit at a hockey game. (BC billionaire Jimmy Pattison paid for a TV truck so they could broadcast the game - this was roughly up to a quarter million dollars).
The CBC has undergone a lot of cuts, plenty of which were politically motivated ones.
In the US, NPR is routinely attacked for (tiny) amount they get from the government - especially by right-wing conservatives
The other side is politics. A state-sponsored TV station is often called the propaganda arm of government. Now, generally speaking, the CBC and NPR are completely independent despite receiving government funds, but that is due to the way the government is set up. In most other countries, this is not the case and the station broadcasts what the government wants it to broadcasts.
The BBC's TV license funding model basically means it's completely free to do whatever it wants - the government's ability to control it relies on the powers to enforce the license that were granted.
And heck, there are countries out there that have TV licensing fees and state sponsored TV - the fee does nothing to promote free programming.
Works fine in Firefox, actually, I was playing it there. Had a few scripts you had to enable (I use NoScript) but there was nothing particularly sketchy about the ones you enabled...
Cygwin and the Linux Subsystem are completely different entities. Cygwin is an attempt to implement the POSIX API on the Win32 API set. Most applications will compile just fine under this emulated environment, and the applications are regular Win32 applications as far as Windows is concerned. The shell has been modified so it will append ".exe" when launching an image if it wasn't specified (because you can't do "ls" as it will fail (file not found), but "ls.exe" will succeed) These binaries are stnadard WinPE style binaries.
The Linux Subsystem is more akin to the FreeBSD Linux API layer - it runs Linux binaries unmodified, so the NTOSKRNL will natively load an ELF image, emulates the LInux syscall interface and provides all the necessary calls to make it appear you're running on Linux.
It's why Windows 10 can load Ubuntu 14.04 userspace - it's not a recompiled for Windows set of binaries, but everything that ships in Ubuntu 14.04 minus the Linux kernel.
Hell, think about less dangerous episodes of forgetfulness that happen with cars, too. Have you ever gone home, parked the car, and forgotten your shopping or other thing in the car? I've forgotten drinks in the cupholder.
And plenty of people forget about stuff on the ROOF of their car - you know, they put their briefcase, or purse, or cup of coffee or whatever on the roof and rive off with it right there. You'd think with the stuff in the direct line of sight they'd remember, but no.
In each and every one of these situations, it could've been a child - a child in the car instead of the shopping. A chid put aside so the seat can be cleared for the child seat. etc. etc. etc.
The wrong distraction at the wrong moment is usually the cause. Or something unusual. Hell, there have been airplane accidents caused because the pilot got distracted and forgot important checklist items.
Granted, no one dies if you leave your shopping in the car on a hot die (except maybe your wallet as you have to re-buy the perishables) but it's not a big leap to forget other things, including children and pets.
But it won't make the credit reporting agencies any money.
Ever notice how hard it is to get your one free credit report? You normally have to send them a letter by snail mail with a bunch of information on it. And not only do they not provide a simple form to fill out and mail, they want you to write it. In the meantime, they say for $20/year, you can get full access to your credit report 24/7. And repeat it with the other agencies as well.
That's why those monitoring agencies even exist - either they're sponsored by the credit agencies to extract money form the user, or a third party to navigate the annoyingly complex way the credit agencies
Yes, they are able to jail you. But - over the entire history of the law, there were about 11 people actually charged, and they were just fined - $1000 or so.
The census is important. In fact, there was no long form in 2011 because the Conservative government changed it from mandatory to voluntary. This had the unfortunate side effect that there is no usable data to be mined from the 2011 census.
As for the release of raw data - it's collective data, not individual forms. The 92 year rule is for individual forms - so in 92 years, the complete form is released how you filled it in. But the census data is of importance to many people, groups and organizations, and that's aggregated. After 7 years, the aggregated data is available to researchers who want a snapshot of the Canadian population to study what they need to study. But they don't have access to the individual forms you fill out, only the aggregated data. And only subsets of it - what they need for their research. No one other than Statistics Canada can see the full data set, and once the forms are tallied, no one can see the raw forms or individual data either (until 92 years later).
Before it was gutted by the Harper Conservatives, Statistics Canada is/was one of the most premier data collecting and analysis organizations. It's why the chief statistician resigned after elimination of the long form - he knew that the law would render the 2011 data completely worthless. It's partly why we're in the situation we're in with school closures in one city, school overcrowding in others, etc. Because the only usable data dates back to 2006.
Sure it's only 32% on RT. That's not unsalvageable. Or even that bad - I've liked movies that gotten far lower scores.
All it means is it's likely just a summer blockbuster that's enjoyable for the two hours you're there, but that's it. You're not going to get any life changing revelations, new insights, or anything else.
it's just a disposable movie that's enjoyable and forgettable. If you want to escape your dreary life for a couple of hours, it'll be perfect.
Far too many people put too much into a review - basically a 5 star review is the cinematic equivalent of literature - something everyone should see to make themselves a better person, etc. etc. etc.
But I've found that's not me. I don't want plots full of subtext and hidden symbolism. I just want an escape - give me two hours to enter a fantasy world, believe I belong there during that time, and wrap it up.
For me, the best movies typically score 3-4 stars, or even 2 stars. Leaving 1 star for the truly dreadful movies.
At 32%, it's probably watchable.