We have to recall the Quantum mechanics was a radical explanation for a real problem. Theory says that if you put a heat source in a black box the universe should be destroyed. This does not happen so the theory was wrong and we ended up with a theory was very difficult to prove. I have had professors tell me that the absolute proof of quantum mechanics, i.e. an experiment that could not be explained using an alternative theory, did not exist until the 1960's when lasers were used. That does not mean that an alternative theory will win out, but there is a great deal of support for QM.
The other thing with quantum mechanics is we use it everyday, and we still don't know how it works. LEDs, flash memory and many other technologies we use today all apply quantum mechanical principles in order to work.
I suppose that's where the conflict lies - we assume a traditional model - science makes a discovery, engineers apply it to create technology. Unfortunately, these days it's a blended set - engineers may discover something and then ask science to explain it while they figure out how to exploit the something.
And understanding why is key - if we properly understood how LEDs work, we can make brighter, more efficient LEDs that last longer, and exploit that to create better say, OLED panels or even matrix LED panels (LEDs are relatively big, which is why we generally go OLED, but if we can improve thengs, maybe we can avoid using OLED and just have our screens made up of LEDs). Or flash memory that's denser and lasts longer (the buried or floating gate gets its charge put on and taken off by electron tunnelling, but we only have crude control over it - so electrons are left during erasure, and we damage the insulation during programming/erasure which leads to charges leaking off and limited life).
There's plenty of stuff where we know how to exploit QM to do what we want, but we can certainly do better. We know the how, but not the why
"Podcasts" are audio files of people talking about shit they don't know much about and that you only listen to because you're bored out of your mind.
"Vodcasts" are video files of people talking about shit they don't know much about and that you only listen to, and occasionally glance at (even though you should be focused on driving/working), because you're bored out of your mind.
Where were you 13 years ago when podcasts became popoular? (You know, named after the ubiquitous iPod, which only played audio at the time)/ The fight's been lost and everyone calls it podcasts.
And to be more accurate, they're really more like on-demand radio shows, which can be well produced or crap. You'll find those that have a history of broadcasting on the radio are generally of very high quality. But instead of streaming it, you download it as a file.
And Apple's been down this path - earlier this year some podcasters called out Apple to update the podcast app and allow stuff like paid subscriptions and stuff...
Games are are largely bad. Many really need a game pad or mouse style input to be decent.
False.
Certain category of games are bad - action games in particular (the ones that require "twitch").
But there are categories of games that a controller, keyboard or mouse is a poor substitute and a touch screen is perfect. Puzzle games (jigsaw, crossword, Sudoku, etc), for example are better to be able to touch and interact with the pieces. Board games too - some even have a smartphone app to interact with the tablet.
I'd certainly like you to claim superiority on Jackbox with only a laptop - a touchscreen laptop works much better for the drawing parts of the game.
And pinball games are fine - there's not much advantage a keyboard has over a touchscreen.
FPS games are universally bad on touchscreens, RTS as well (hard to get your APM up if your fingers are flying across the screen).
But the deal with tablets is - the market is saturated - people don't replace them as often because they generally are very good at what they do - there is very little reason to upgrade.
The smartphone, laptop, and tablet are not interchangeable - a laptop is great for long form typing, web browsing, action gaming, etc, but it generally sucks in a family rom away from a desk where it's not as convenient to use as a tablet. Hunching over a laptop on a coffee table while sitting on the sofa is not fun after a few minutes.
Sure, there's some overlap in capabilities, but generally speaking there's still a superior device even in the overlap.
The Wendy's that I go to was affected by this. I had two different cards stolen in a short period of time, both used at the affected location. At the time I thought it was really rare, but now it makes complete sense. Also, it's a lot longer than a five minute call. It took me a few days just to get someone to call me back. For one bank I had to do a lot of paper work, then *fax* that back in. They sat on the request for a month and it took almost two months to get the money credited back to my account. I had to pay almost $600 to my card company before I got any of it back more than a month later. And it wasn't 24-48 hours for a new card, it was two weeks. Once I get the new cards, I get to spend a bit of time updating vendors with the new number. That's more calls. And because Wendy's didn't really say anything until today, I probably went back to that same affected location with one of the new cards. So it's probably just a matter of time until that card goes south again. Your statement that it isn't a big deal doesn't ring true in my situation.
Use a different company, NOW.
No credit card company wanting business does things these days now. Not even banks.
In fact, usually my bank calls me about weird charges - a few from Kickstarter (but I told them those were OK) and a couple from an Asian online store. Though a few times they also said they saw some fraud charges that were real and I said yes, they were not mine. They immediately cancelled the card and issued me a new one, asking if I wanted it overnighted (for free!).
And one time, a store I shopped at had their processor breached. I called my bank, 5 minutes later old card was cancelled, new card was issued and arrived the next day.
And when I needed to chargeback (order never arrived, after a month of waiting) I called them up, and money was back 5 minutes later.
If your card is abusing you by making you do loads of paperwork and faxes and paying money, leave.
And don't go for the combined debit/credit cards - those things are just a hassle - as debit cards are. First, if it's a debit transaction, things take longer because the bank won't refund your money until they get it back (with a credit card, it's their money so they can simply capture it). Second, merchants may make the wrong choice - if you want credit they may pick debit and vice-versa.
But if that's the hassle you go through, be aware you're th exception - the rule for most other credit card issuers is a phone call and you're done. Remember, they make money when you're spending, so any friction to that means less money to them.
I said this back at the Home Depot breach, the real question is why do these PoS machines have the ability to talk to anything other than the payment server? There is literally zero reason for them to be contacted or to contact anything but the payment server.
Well, you talk to the back end server for inventory and sales tracking, and they talk to the headquarters to monitor sales of their franchises.
Short of the new self-configuring cloud-based IT gear like Meraki, having all the restaurants IT set up properly is a huge challenge. Chances are, it's just whatever the ISP installed router supports - which is basically just a home router configured with an access point for "free" wifi, and a couple of network ports for the LAN. (And if you priced Meraki gear...).
The new chip stuff can't be integrated with a POS anymore other than the POS transferring the transaction amount to the PIN pad - the PIN pad is doing the challenge-response to the bank's server directly, something the POS terminal cannot do.
They already want to get rid of the Human Rights acts.
That's because of Brexit - or rather, "Brussels meddling". You see, the human rights acts in the UK are there ONLY BECAUSE of the EU The EU human rights acts are forced upon member nations including the UK, which is why they even exist at all. Because of Brexit, the reason the human rights act exist in the UK is gone, so they can be eliminated once the UK exits the EU.
But I've never been forced to use their iCloud Drive storage or any other part of their cloud service. It's always been a prompt asking me if I wanted to turn it on and when I've clicked on no there has been no issues.
Apple's been on a cloud/no-cloud path of late - they know you might not want any cloud stuff so they will ask if you want to turn it on or off. But if you do have it on, Apple wants to make sure you see a benefit so it's not just a way for companies to scrape user data to harvest information.
The reason is Apple is on a privacy bent, seeing that's the Achilles' heel of Android and the Google ecosystem (and to a lesser extent, Amazon). They don't want your information, but they also know they can provide useful services people expect. It's why an iTunes encrypted back remains the only backup solution that has everything - Apple purposefully does not store credential information to iCloud (where it might be subject to law enforcement actions, which might compromise not just your iCloud data, but also all your other accounts if they stored it).
And non-encrypted iTunes data doesn't credentials either, for obvious reasons.
Its more like "Nice to see Apple defaulting to only allowing developers who pay them rent to be able to install applications"
Well, the default can be overridden on a per-app basis by holding down a key and double-clicking. It will let you force-run the app.
The option to allow unsigned apps to run freely is going away in Sierra apparently - the only way to run unsigned apps is to Ctrl-double-click each app you want to run to add an exception for that app.
And it's less rent, and more developer accountability - Apple has revoked several signing certificates already because they were used to sign malware (the apps then act unsigned, not that the apps are permanently blocked from running).
I believe the main reason the option went away is developers not only set it fully open, but then they themselves got infected with malware because of it, and that's who their signing certificates got stolen - malware authors realize that the least secure machines are developer machines, and those machines are the ones with access to valuable Apple signing certificates.
I mean, if the default mode doesn't reduce overall power draw, but it does reduce draw from the motherboard, that means it must increase draw from the 6 pin PCIe connector. If the card can draw up to 190W, and only 75W of that is coming from the motherboard, that means 115W is being drawn over a 6 pin PCIe connector which is only designed to have 75W pulled from it. I fully expect the issue to simply move from burned out motherboards to burned out power supplies.
Where do you think the power comes from on the PCIe slot?
It all comes from the power supply in the end - it's just the slot PCIe takes a more circuitous route from the slot, through some thick traces on the motherboard to the motherboard connector.
Most power supplies are single rail designs nowadays (1 12V rail) so if you're pulling 190W, it doesn't matter if you're pulling 75 from one connector and 115W from another, or 100W and 90W - the rail is the same in the end - you're going to pull 190W from it no matter what. It's just one takes a fancier path.
Well, a camera protrudes out less than a mirror, so there's the advantage that a lane splitting motorcyclist (or a car trying to squeeze out an extra lane) won't accidentally run into it and knock it off, or a bad parker, etc.
Why the Digital Equipment Corporation logo as the icon for this story (and other DIY stuff)?
Has/. gotten so young that nobody knows it means something more than just "digital", or has/. gotten so old that nobody remembers DEC?
The logo has fallen into public domain as well, I believe. I've been seeing tons of things with that logo on it - from music audio processing boxes to practically anything needing a fancy "digital" logo.
The story seems to suggest that exactly 2,315 incidents happened between June 2011 and December 2015. Wrong: this is the number that were discovered. I would be highly surprised if there were more incidents that no one picked up on. How many more I will not speculate.
Correct. And it's hard because guess what? Officers have legitimate access to that database for their cases and looking up information!
I suppose that's why they officers thought they could do it without being detected - because the database was used normally in day-to-day activity, who would notice if they looked up something extra?
Which really tells you how good the audit logs are - how do you determine if an officer accessing a record is doing so legitimately (which is the vast majority of accesses) or illegitimately? And where you set the threshold is where you're going to get false positives (legitimate access tagged illegitimate) and false negatives (illegitimate access tagged legitimate).
And no, it's not just police officers. Healthcare workers have been known to look at patient records of other people as well (celebrities often enough, but anyone popular too). Likewise, tax officials have done the same - look up the tax records of people they shouldn't.
So yes, the real rate of illegitimate access is probably way higher, but then you start having to go through millions and millions of legitimate accesses one by one by hand because a computer can no longer distinguish what is legitimate and what isn't.
Netflix so-called HD videos have a very low bit rate compared to Blu-ray. Only 4-5 Mbps for Netflix vs 15-40 Mbps for Blu-ray.
Even though Netflix uses more modern compression algorithms, with that much difference in bit rate, the Netflix video looks significantly worse than Blu-ray, especially on a 106" projection screen in my home theater.
The audio also leaves much to be desired.
The difference will only get worse with the Ultra HD Blu-ray standard, which has 82 to 128 Mbit/s bit rate.
What more modern compression algorithms? Blu-Ray and Netflix use the same h.264 compression algorithm - Blu-Ray uses the high profile that runs at a high bit rate (typically 25Mbps average, but Blu-Ray can peak at 100Mbps). Maybe Netflix has better codecs that can do more with every bit, but unlikely.
In fact, Netflix is more like the "Digital Copy" download you can get - which can be aywhere from 2-8GB for the movie. And I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix acquires their video content direct in this way as the studios can tweak their encoders to better allocate the bits.
Audio is a big thing - on Blu-Ray they have lossless codecs that can run around 5Mbps with 7.1 surround ssound. Netflix has been using Dolby Digital+ (a slightly tweaked Dolby Digital format that either gives you better quality for the same bitrate, or the same quality at a lower bitrate). The only unfortunate thing is the DD+ bitrate is so low that older receivers that support DD+ may not be able to lock onto it. (It runs slower than DVD's 640kbps)
As for 4K, Netflix requires 25Mbps, and I think Netflix is also using the same HEVC codec that UHD Blu-Ray does. Though the main reason for UHD Blu-Ray is not 4K resolution (most movies are still presented in 2K format! Few are 4K) but HDR.
HEVC is about twice as efficient as h.264 - as in the same quality at half the bitrate. Blu-Ray used that coupled with BDXL style discs (33GB/layer) to achieve a quadrupling of pixels - using HEVC to halve the bitrate, and then a new disc format to double the disc space from 50 to 100GB, thus allowing 4K to be stored at the same quality.
Hotels never have good enough bandwidth to watch Netflix. This could help!
I've been to hotels where I think this was intentional. Sure, the hotel advertised "Free WiFi" and you could even have 5 devices attached to that WiFi at any one point in time. But they cleverly put on the log in page the ability to pay another $5/day to upgrade from "Free" 1Mbps (yes, 1Mbps) to a whopping 10+Mbps or faster.
VMs and 64-bit CPUs can use the amd64 image, so there's literally no point in testing the IA-32 image on an amd64 CPU.
Wrong. Just because it can run 64-bit code doesn't mean it should.
There are plenty of systems SOLD TODAY that have 64-bit processors, but don't have >4GB of RAM. Lots of cheapie x86 tablets, x86 media sticks (Intel Compute Stick, anyone) etc? THey have 64-bit processors, but 1 or 2 GB of RAM.
Yes, you can run 64-bit software on it, but should you? After all, the 64-bit software takes more RAM over 32=bit counterparts, and you're already on a RAM-starved system...
(Those Intel Atoms can run 64-bit code, but have memory controllers that top out at 2GB...).
False, there is no continuing lead free solder fallout.
Tin's habit of whiskering is well understood and has been for decades. Probably half a century by now. In fact, it's exactly WHY we initially used an alloy of tin and lead - lead seems to control, but not prevent, whiskering to an extent. Plus, being cheap, well, we stopped looking after that. But even leaded solder whiskers. It's something we've known about and control for.
The only thing RoHS did was re-start the search for another element that can control tin's whiskering habit. We don't know WHY tin does it, nor where the atoms com from (it doesn't come from the immediate area - you don't see depressions of tin around whiskers).
In fact, we know "bright tin" has a nasty habit of whiskering really badly - you normally find this on mounting hardware (screws, spacers, mounts, etc)
Tin whiskers. There are many things we do to control it, but that's it. It whiskers. All you can do is control it.
attempting to control services, sockets, devices, mounts, etc., all within one daemon flies in the face of the UNIX concept of doing one thing and doing it well. To the typical end user, if this results in a faster boot then mission accomplished."
sysvinit is a services manager. People have hacked it so it's a daemon manager that runs shell scripts. Those shell scripts then manage daemons.
Look at it yourself - chances are, getty and the like are not spawned from a shell script, but from init directly. And when they die, init restarts them. In fact, init is so helpful, if a daemon dies too often too quickly, init stops respawning it for a few minutes.
And those daemons run at different runlevels too.
So a "unix system" is one where you have a daemon manager spawning shell scripts that pretend to be daemon managers. I mean, if it's so good, why not spawn getty there too and be entirely self consistent? Or move all daemons to be managed by init?
Chances are, the real reason is earlier UNIX did do it properly, but then in SysV, it got bastardized to be "simpler" to manage...
Then again, I hate managing the S/K file pairs - it sounds like something the computer should be able to solve for me - figure out what services are at what runlevels, and start/kill the ones that are different.
It's not fake to point out that Apple is shitty to people who want to fix their own Apple products, that they fucking own.
That's not the problem. The problem is the vast majority of people do not have the skill to do so.
Warranty fraud is huge. You wonder why Apple put those moisture sensors in everything? Because people have claimed they did not drop their thing in water. Even if it's soaking wet, the screen's got fog on it, and there's a huge puddle of water centered around said thing, if not already dripping on the floor and scattering people beside you who don't want to get wet.
These are the sort of people who will use all sorts of improvised tools for repair - lack a flathead screwdriver? A butter knife will work! No fine tipped SMD soldering station? Just use your plumber's iron (with nasty acid solder) - same thing, right?
Anyone showing anyone how to fix products must themselves offer repair services and take responsibility for it. Because otherwise Apple will have to. It's why they went Pentalobe - if you're too un-handy to even acquire the tool (it's not hard to find), then at least it's the first line of defense and the hope is you just bring it back where it can be fixed, rather you trying to "fix" it yourself.
Out of perhaps 1 person who can fix the thing properly themselves or know when they're in too deep, 10 more will just quietly put it back together and say "it broke". No, it didn't break. You broke it by trying to either fix something or crack it open.
It's why there are those "warranty void if broken" stickers - because really, the vast majority of time when they're broken, the owner tried to "fix" it. Don't you ever wonder why no one sells replacement stickers? They aren't hard to fake (yet) - though you'd probably see serialized stickers soon afterwards.It's because the companies behind "right to repair" know too many people who abuse the system and the quickest way to hurt their cause is to simply point out they're perpetrating warranty fraud.
Oh yeah. Those people are also generally quite abusing - if you didn't get sucker punched, you got off lightly with a tirade about your skin color, nationality (if you're not white, you're not American, no matter that you're 10th generation American) and all that.
You can probably chart the usage of various countermeasures (tamper screws, etc) with the generation of product. Too many things with obvious water damage -- add moisture sensors. Too man crude opening attempts? Try anti-tamper screws. Etc.
The iPod might have accidentally had one of the best warranty mechanisms - that thin metal back deforms easily, so if you're not careful, your attempts at opening it are pretty obvious.
Everything you have is 'rented' or 'leased', save consumables. Your house, your car, your phone, your computer, your furniture, even the clothes on your back are 'rented' or 'leased' to you for a monthly fee.
You can thank millennials for that.
Ask them - they LIKE not owning stuff. Why own a movie you'll only see once? Just pay the rental and be done with it. Ditto music - why buy music - just rent it - far better to have more songs to listen to than a few songs you really like.
Ditto phones - why buy a phone and toss it in two years - just rent it and get a new one the next year (and not worry about selling/etc the old phone).
Repeat ad naseum - owning sucks because you have to deal with it when you don't want it anymore, renting is best because in a year's time, who knows? You probably want the newer thing so return the old and get the new - don't let the old rot in a dusty closet.
Truth be told, they are somewhat right - in an age where you might be changing jobs every 2 years and moving in the same, "owning" is hard. Why buy real paper books that you have to move every couple of years? Rent/lease e-books and you move light electrons over heavy atoms. Also, with high housing prices, affordable units are tiny.
And I admit, I know a Gen Xer with the same attitude - he prefers digital over physical all the way because the digital only clogs small hard drives, while the physical creates clutter in the house.
The restrictions are just way too limiting. It's a big universe, and CBS/Paramount should "make" space for proper fan fiction, not beam-it-out in wide-dispersal mode. I for one, will think twice before spending any money on any new Star Trek ventures going forward. Very, very disappointed.
They are not restrictions They are guidelines.
Also, the only reason to follow them is to eliminate any risk of getting sued. That's it. If you follow the narrow path it lays out, your production will not raise the ire of CBS.
Nothing says you must, but you run the risk of what the Araxar guys are facing. Of course, if you're at this point, it might be wise to not just talk to a lawyer, but talk to CBS for a licensing opportunity.
Because once your "amateur" production starts becoming professional, it might be time to actually license the work. And once licensed, you're free to do whatever the license lets you.
Of course, it costs money - about $50K to enter in licensing talks. But if you want to put in a big flashy production with top names in production companies and such, you might just have the money to actually negotiate a license.
For the rest of us, these guidelines ensure that your kids acting out Star Trek and posting it on YouTube is a safe thing to do.
No, this was something the driver did not avoid. We don't know if/when the driver saw it, or if the driver could see it. It is likely the driver was staring at their phone and not looking at the road because they assumed the car's autopilot mode worked.
Autopilot mode isn't "hands off" or true autonomous driving. In fact, Tesla's implementation doesn't even use the GPS. It's really a more sophisticated lane keeping and cruise control system. It can change lanes, but you have to command it to do so.
In fact, if you take your hands off the wheel, you have about 30 seconds to get them back on (with the car steadily warning you) before it automatically comes to a stop.
So why have it? It can reduce driver fatigue - if you're in heavy stop-and-go traffic, the autopilot will keep pace and slow down with traffic, so you're not spending lots of time and mental effort accelerating and braking. Given it's an electric car, doing so efficiently can be a challenge, so a computer makes sense.
It also helps because highway driving is some of the most boring around, and remaining awake at the wheel is quite difficult, so a momentary lapse of attention is not so bad.
It's why it's called "autopilot" and not self-driving. It's like a plane's autopilot - a lot of more basic units are single axis units and they're really meant to help offload some of the pilot's work. Of course, more modern units (until you get to airliners, single and dual axis units are the norm) have an emergency recovery vbutton that tries to get the autopilot to help re-stabilize the plane.
Airliners have the fully automated autopilots with 3 axis plus throttles. Even then the planes can't take off by themselves, though if suitably equipped they may be able to land.
As the subscriber (and therefore the person actually ponying up some cash) I can say that there is nothing Apple is doing with regard to spotify that has 3 dollars a month value to me.
Well... not having to give your payment information to Spotify is one. Apple doesn't share ANY purchaser information other than an ID that really can't be tied to anyone. So not having to worry about another site having your personal information might be worth it. I don't know if signing up for Spotify requires giving them your personal information, or if you can just pay $13/year and be done with it (since a lot of personal information is just so they can bill you).
Second, Apple offers a robust set of payment methods - even if you don't have a credit card you can use Spotify on iOS - just buy an iTunes gift card and use that. Granted, many services offer it nowadays, but iTunes ones seem to go on sale regularly - you should be able to find them for 10% off face value always, and 20% off happens often enough.
Of course, everyone assumes Spotify's app is the best in the world, and that Apple didn't reject it because it doesn't work on iOS 10, or it crashes, or some other thing. (One does wonder if Apple even reviews Google's apps, given how many of them crashed on startup - as if Apple intentionally did it to show people how bad Google's apps are).
First client uses a vendor-hosted EMR system that they access via RDP connection to the vendor servers. There's literally almost nothing on their local network anymore except their timeclock software and web browsers. Even document scans go directly from the scanner to the remote using TSScan or the like. If someone infects a machine on their local network, does it trigger a breach notification?
No, because no patient data ever hit the local PC.
Second client (actually several) uses a mixture of local desktops and terminal services, but everything patient-related is done within the EMR client software, which cleans up after itself when closed. The only patient data that might be on desktops is anything cached locally by the EMR package during that session. The items most likely to be troublesome would be EOB PDFs received from insurance companies, which are accessible from billing user logins. Does a desktop ransomware infection trigger a breach notification?
Yes, because was the EMR software running, in which case there was cached user data that was potentially transmitted?
Or...
Yes, because unless the EMR software scrubs the local disk, the data can always be recovered by an "undelete" type utility. Thus every patient whose record was accessed by that machine has potentially had their information compromised.
Third client migrated to a fully-hosted browser-based EMR package and again saves very little locally - everything's "in the cloud" for them except incidental office documents. Does a local PC infection trigger a breach?
Potentially yes, depending on how "little" we're talking about. Because generally when the information is updated with test results, etc, the document is put onto the PC then uploaded to the EMR website. But the local file is never deleted (you can bet people won't delete it because they forget or are lazy, etc). In which case yes, it's a breach because PHI data was there.
Only in the first case where no patient information hit any local storage would it not be breached. But once patient information hit the disk, even if it was a temporary cache, all bets are off. Especially if it's updated through a browser and local files were accessed to upload test results, etc. Because few people if ever delete them.
And think about it this way - if the malware resulted in having to pay to get operations going again (like that hospital that paid $20,000), then there's obviously a breach. Because only in these three scenarios it doesn't matter - you wipe the infected PC and start over - the data is stored elsewhere so recovery is simply a wipe and reinstall away.
But if you had to pay to continue operations, you're definitely breached.
That's the problem with SMART. If it says something is bad, it is. If it says everything is good, you don't really know for sure -- you may just be one bad sector away from hitting the "too many bad sectors to remap them all".
Huh? There's a SMART attribute that already says "number of remapped sectors". It should be zero. It might hit 1 or 2 if it's a portable drive treated badly, but that's it. Once it starts hitting double digits, the drive is generally going. It may have a few months of error free operation left, but in general the remapped sector count will rise and rise and eventually the drive will run out.
It's far from silent - in fact, you also want to check out the "number of pending remaps" which is the number of bad sectors the drive has yet to remap as well. (Drives only remap sectors when that sector is written to, at which point pending remaps decreases and remapped increase.
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The other thing with quantum mechanics is we use it everyday, and we still don't know how it works. LEDs, flash memory and many other technologies we use today all apply quantum mechanical principles in order to work.
I suppose that's where the conflict lies - we assume a traditional model - science makes a discovery, engineers apply it to create technology. Unfortunately, these days it's a blended set - engineers may discover something and then ask science to explain it while they figure out how to exploit the something.
And understanding why is key - if we properly understood how LEDs work, we can make brighter, more efficient LEDs that last longer, and exploit that to create better say, OLED panels or even matrix LED panels (LEDs are relatively big, which is why we generally go OLED, but if we can improve thengs, maybe we can avoid using OLED and just have our screens made up of LEDs). Or flash memory that's denser and lasts longer (the buried or floating gate gets its charge put on and taken off by electron tunnelling, but we only have crude control over it - so electrons are left during erasure, and we damage the insulation during programming/erasure which leads to charges leaking off and limited life).
There's plenty of stuff where we know how to exploit QM to do what we want, but we can certainly do better. We know the how, but not the why
Ironically, the warranty usually doesn't cover water damage.
All the water-proofness does is make it so yes, the warranty is void, but if it's still working, great.
Just like you know some people will drop a phone always and they buy the largest case with protection.
Where were you 13 years ago when podcasts became popoular? (You know, named after the ubiquitous iPod, which only played audio at the time)/ The fight's been lost and everyone calls it podcasts.
And to be more accurate, they're really more like on-demand radio shows, which can be well produced or crap. You'll find those that have a history of broadcasting on the radio are generally of very high quality. But instead of streaming it, you download it as a file.
And Apple's been down this path - earlier this year some podcasters called out Apple to update the podcast app and allow stuff like paid subscriptions and stuff...
False.
Certain category of games are bad - action games in particular (the ones that require "twitch").
But there are categories of games that a controller, keyboard or mouse is a poor substitute and a touch screen is perfect. Puzzle games (jigsaw, crossword, Sudoku, etc), for example are better to be able to touch and interact with the pieces. Board games too - some even have a smartphone app to interact with the tablet.
I'd certainly like you to claim superiority on Jackbox with only a laptop - a touchscreen laptop works much better for the drawing parts of the game.
And pinball games are fine - there's not much advantage a keyboard has over a touchscreen.
FPS games are universally bad on touchscreens, RTS as well (hard to get your APM up if your fingers are flying across the screen).
But the deal with tablets is - the market is saturated - people don't replace them as often because they generally are very good at what they do - there is very little reason to upgrade.
The smartphone, laptop, and tablet are not interchangeable - a laptop is great for long form typing, web browsing, action gaming, etc, but it generally sucks in a family rom away from a desk where it's not as convenient to use as a tablet. Hunching over a laptop on a coffee table while sitting on the sofa is not fun after a few minutes.
Sure, there's some overlap in capabilities, but generally speaking there's still a superior device even in the overlap.
Use a different company, NOW.
No credit card company wanting business does things these days now. Not even banks.
In fact, usually my bank calls me about weird charges - a few from Kickstarter (but I told them those were OK) and a couple from an Asian online store. Though a few times they also said they saw some fraud charges that were real and I said yes, they were not mine. They immediately cancelled the card and issued me a new one, asking if I wanted it overnighted (for free!).
And one time, a store I shopped at had their processor breached. I called my bank, 5 minutes later old card was cancelled, new card was issued and arrived the next day.
And when I needed to chargeback (order never arrived, after a month of waiting) I called them up, and money was back 5 minutes later.
If your card is abusing you by making you do loads of paperwork and faxes and paying money, leave.
And don't go for the combined debit/credit cards - those things are just a hassle - as debit cards are. First, if it's a debit transaction, things take longer because the bank won't refund your money until they get it back (with a credit card, it's their money so they can simply capture it). Second, merchants may make the wrong choice - if you want credit they may pick debit and vice-versa.
But if that's the hassle you go through, be aware you're th exception - the rule for most other credit card issuers is a phone call and you're done. Remember, they make money when you're spending, so any friction to that means less money to them.
Well, you talk to the back end server for inventory and sales tracking, and they talk to the headquarters to monitor sales of their franchises.
Short of the new self-configuring cloud-based IT gear like Meraki, having all the restaurants IT set up properly is a huge challenge. Chances are, it's just whatever the ISP installed router supports - which is basically just a home router configured with an access point for "free" wifi, and a couple of network ports for the LAN. (And if you priced Meraki gear...).
The new chip stuff can't be integrated with a POS anymore other than the POS transferring the transaction amount to the PIN pad - the PIN pad is doing the challenge-response to the bank's server directly, something the POS terminal cannot do.
That's because of Brexit - or rather, "Brussels meddling". You see, the human rights acts in the UK are there ONLY BECAUSE of the EU The EU human rights acts are forced upon member nations including the UK, which is why they even exist at all. Because of Brexit, the reason the human rights act exist in the UK is gone, so they can be eliminated once the UK exits the EU.
Apple's been on a cloud/no-cloud path of late - they know you might not want any cloud stuff so they will ask if you want to turn it on or off. But if you do have it on, Apple wants to make sure you see a benefit so it's not just a way for companies to scrape user data to harvest information.
The reason is Apple is on a privacy bent, seeing that's the Achilles' heel of Android and the Google ecosystem (and to a lesser extent, Amazon). They don't want your information, but they also know they can provide useful services people expect. It's why an iTunes encrypted back remains the only backup solution that has everything - Apple purposefully does not store credential information to iCloud (where it might be subject to law enforcement actions, which might compromise not just your iCloud data, but also all your other accounts if they stored it).
And non-encrypted iTunes data doesn't credentials either, for obvious reasons.
Well, the default can be overridden on a per-app basis by holding down a key and double-clicking. It will let you force-run the app.
The option to allow unsigned apps to run freely is going away in Sierra apparently - the only way to run unsigned apps is to Ctrl-double-click each app you want to run to add an exception for that app.
And it's less rent, and more developer accountability - Apple has revoked several signing certificates already because they were used to sign malware (the apps then act unsigned, not that the apps are permanently blocked from running).
I believe the main reason the option went away is developers not only set it fully open, but then they themselves got infected with malware because of it, and that's who their signing certificates got stolen - malware authors realize that the least secure machines are developer machines, and those machines are the ones with access to valuable Apple signing certificates.
Where do you think the power comes from on the PCIe slot?
It all comes from the power supply in the end - it's just the slot PCIe takes a more circuitous route from the slot, through some thick traces on the motherboard to the motherboard connector.
Most power supplies are single rail designs nowadays (1 12V rail) so if you're pulling 190W, it doesn't matter if you're pulling 75 from one connector and 115W from another, or 100W and 90W - the rail is the same in the end - you're going to pull 190W from it no matter what. It's just one takes a fancier path.
Well, a camera protrudes out less than a mirror, so there's the advantage that a lane splitting motorcyclist (or a car trying to squeeze out an extra lane) won't accidentally run into it and knock it off, or a bad parker, etc.
The logo has fallen into public domain as well, I believe. I've been seeing tons of things with that logo on it - from music audio processing boxes to practically anything needing a fancy "digital" logo.
Correct. And it's hard because guess what? Officers have legitimate access to that database for their cases and looking up information!
I suppose that's why they officers thought they could do it without being detected - because the database was used normally in day-to-day activity, who would notice if they looked up something extra?
Which really tells you how good the audit logs are - how do you determine if an officer accessing a record is doing so legitimately (which is the vast majority of accesses) or illegitimately? And where you set the threshold is where you're going to get false positives (legitimate access tagged illegitimate) and false negatives (illegitimate access tagged legitimate).
And no, it's not just police officers. Healthcare workers have been known to look at patient records of other people as well (celebrities often enough, but anyone popular too). Likewise, tax officials have done the same - look up the tax records of people they shouldn't.
So yes, the real rate of illegitimate access is probably way higher, but then you start having to go through millions and millions of legitimate accesses one by one by hand because a computer can no longer distinguish what is legitimate and what isn't.
What more modern compression algorithms? Blu-Ray and Netflix use the same h.264 compression algorithm - Blu-Ray uses the high profile that runs at a high bit rate (typically 25Mbps average, but Blu-Ray can peak at 100Mbps). Maybe Netflix has better codecs that can do more with every bit, but unlikely.
In fact, Netflix is more like the "Digital Copy" download you can get - which can be aywhere from 2-8GB for the movie. And I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix acquires their video content direct in this way as the studios can tweak their encoders to better allocate the bits.
Audio is a big thing - on Blu-Ray they have lossless codecs that can run around 5Mbps with 7.1 surround ssound. Netflix has been using Dolby Digital+ (a slightly tweaked Dolby Digital format that either gives you better quality for the same bitrate, or the same quality at a lower bitrate). The only unfortunate thing is the DD+ bitrate is so low that older receivers that support DD+ may not be able to lock onto it. (It runs slower than DVD's 640kbps)
As for 4K, Netflix requires 25Mbps, and I think Netflix is also using the same HEVC codec that UHD Blu-Ray does. Though the main reason for UHD Blu-Ray is not 4K resolution (most movies are still presented in 2K format! Few are 4K) but HDR.
HEVC is about twice as efficient as h.264 - as in the same quality at half the bitrate. Blu-Ray used that coupled with BDXL style discs (33GB/layer) to achieve a quadrupling of pixels - using HEVC to halve the bitrate, and then a new disc format to double the disc space from 50 to 100GB, thus allowing 4K to be stored at the same quality.
I've been to hotels where I think this was intentional. Sure, the hotel advertised "Free WiFi" and you could even have 5 devices attached to that WiFi at any one point in time. But they cleverly put on the log in page the ability to pay another $5/day to upgrade from "Free" 1Mbps (yes, 1Mbps) to a whopping 10+Mbps or faster.
It was a Holiday Inn, too.
Wrong. Just because it can run 64-bit code doesn't mean it should.
There are plenty of systems SOLD TODAY that have 64-bit processors, but don't have >4GB of RAM. Lots of cheapie x86 tablets, x86 media sticks (Intel Compute Stick, anyone) etc? THey have 64-bit processors, but 1 or 2 GB of RAM.
Yes, you can run 64-bit software on it, but should you? After all, the 64-bit software takes more RAM over 32=bit counterparts, and you're already on a RAM-starved system...
(Those Intel Atoms can run 64-bit code, but have memory controllers that top out at 2GB...).
False, there is no continuing lead free solder fallout.
Tin's habit of whiskering is well understood and has been for decades. Probably half a century by now. In fact, it's exactly WHY we initially used an alloy of tin and lead - lead seems to control, but not prevent, whiskering to an extent. Plus, being cheap, well, we stopped looking after that. But even leaded solder whiskers. It's something we've known about and control for.
The only thing RoHS did was re-start the search for another element that can control tin's whiskering habit. We don't know WHY tin does it, nor where the atoms com from (it doesn't come from the immediate area - you don't see depressions of tin around whiskers).
In fact, we know "bright tin" has a nasty habit of whiskering really badly - you normally find this on mounting hardware (screws, spacers, mounts, etc)
Tin whiskers. There are many things we do to control it, but that's it. It whiskers. All you can do is control it.
sysvinit is a services manager. People have hacked it so it's a daemon manager that runs shell scripts. Those shell scripts then manage daemons.
Look at it yourself - chances are, getty and the like are not spawned from a shell script, but from init directly. And when they die, init restarts them. In fact, init is so helpful, if a daemon dies too often too quickly, init stops respawning it for a few minutes.
And those daemons run at different runlevels too.
So a "unix system" is one where you have a daemon manager spawning shell scripts that pretend to be daemon managers. I mean, if it's so good, why not spawn getty there too and be entirely self consistent? Or move all daemons to be managed by init?
Chances are, the real reason is earlier UNIX did do it properly, but then in SysV, it got bastardized to be "simpler" to manage...
Then again, I hate managing the S/K file pairs - it sounds like something the computer should be able to solve for me - figure out what services are at what runlevels, and start/kill the ones that are different.
That's not the problem. The problem is the vast majority of people do not have the skill to do so.
Warranty fraud is huge. You wonder why Apple put those moisture sensors in everything? Because people have claimed they did not drop their thing in water. Even if it's soaking wet, the screen's got fog on it, and there's a huge puddle of water centered around said thing, if not already dripping on the floor and scattering people beside you who don't want to get wet.
These are the sort of people who will use all sorts of improvised tools for repair - lack a flathead screwdriver? A butter knife will work! No fine tipped SMD soldering station? Just use your plumber's iron (with nasty acid solder) - same thing, right?
Anyone showing anyone how to fix products must themselves offer repair services and take responsibility for it. Because otherwise Apple will have to. It's why they went Pentalobe - if you're too un-handy to even acquire the tool (it's not hard to find), then at least it's the first line of defense and the hope is you just bring it back where it can be fixed, rather you trying to "fix" it yourself.
Out of perhaps 1 person who can fix the thing properly themselves or know when they're in too deep, 10 more will just quietly put it back together and say "it broke". No, it didn't break. You broke it by trying to either fix something or crack it open.
It's why there are those "warranty void if broken" stickers - because really, the vast majority of time when they're broken, the owner tried to "fix" it. Don't you ever wonder why no one sells replacement stickers? They aren't hard to fake (yet) - though you'd probably see serialized stickers soon afterwards.It's because the companies behind "right to repair" know too many people who abuse the system and the quickest way to hurt their cause is to simply point out they're perpetrating warranty fraud.
Oh yeah. Those people are also generally quite abusing - if you didn't get sucker punched, you got off lightly with a tirade about your skin color, nationality (if you're not white, you're not American, no matter that you're 10th generation American) and all that.
You can probably chart the usage of various countermeasures (tamper screws, etc) with the generation of product. Too many things with obvious water damage -- add moisture sensors. Too man crude opening attempts? Try anti-tamper screws. Etc.
The iPod might have accidentally had one of the best warranty mechanisms - that thin metal back deforms easily, so if you're not careful, your attempts at opening it are pretty obvious.
You can thank millennials for that.
Ask them - they LIKE not owning stuff. Why own a movie you'll only see once? Just pay the rental and be done with it. Ditto music - why buy music - just rent it - far better to have more songs to listen to than a few songs you really like.
Ditto phones - why buy a phone and toss it in two years - just rent it and get a new one the next year (and not worry about selling/etc the old phone).
Repeat ad naseum - owning sucks because you have to deal with it when you don't want it anymore, renting is best because in a year's time, who knows? You probably want the newer thing so return the old and get the new - don't let the old rot in a dusty closet.
Truth be told, they are somewhat right - in an age where you might be changing jobs every 2 years and moving in the same, "owning" is hard. Why buy real paper books that you have to move every couple of years? Rent/lease e-books and you move light electrons over heavy atoms. Also, with high housing prices, affordable units are tiny.
And I admit, I know a Gen Xer with the same attitude - he prefers digital over physical all the way because the digital only clogs small hard drives, while the physical creates clutter in the house.
They are not restrictions They are guidelines.
Also, the only reason to follow them is to eliminate any risk of getting sued. That's it. If you follow the narrow path it lays out, your production will not raise the ire of CBS.
Nothing says you must, but you run the risk of what the Araxar guys are facing. Of course, if you're at this point, it might be wise to not just talk to a lawyer, but talk to CBS for a licensing opportunity.
Because once your "amateur" production starts becoming professional, it might be time to actually license the work. And once licensed, you're free to do whatever the license lets you.
Of course, it costs money - about $50K to enter in licensing talks. But if you want to put in a big flashy production with top names in production companies and such, you might just have the money to actually negotiate a license.
For the rest of us, these guidelines ensure that your kids acting out Star Trek and posting it on YouTube is a safe thing to do.
Autopilot mode isn't "hands off" or true autonomous driving. In fact, Tesla's implementation doesn't even use the GPS. It's really a more sophisticated lane keeping and cruise control system. It can change lanes, but you have to command it to do so.
In fact, if you take your hands off the wheel, you have about 30 seconds to get them back on (with the car steadily warning you) before it automatically comes to a stop.
So why have it? It can reduce driver fatigue - if you're in heavy stop-and-go traffic, the autopilot will keep pace and slow down with traffic, so you're not spending lots of time and mental effort accelerating and braking. Given it's an electric car, doing so efficiently can be a challenge, so a computer makes sense.
It also helps because highway driving is some of the most boring around, and remaining awake at the wheel is quite difficult, so a momentary lapse of attention is not so bad.
It's why it's called "autopilot" and not self-driving. It's like a plane's autopilot - a lot of more basic units are single axis units and they're really meant to help offload some of the pilot's work. Of course, more modern units (until you get to airliners, single and dual axis units are the norm) have an emergency recovery vbutton that tries to get the autopilot to help re-stabilize the plane.
Airliners have the fully automated autopilots with 3 axis plus throttles. Even then the planes can't take off by themselves, though if suitably equipped they may be able to land.
Well... not having to give your payment information to Spotify is one. Apple doesn't share ANY purchaser information other than an ID that really can't be tied to anyone. So not having to worry about another site having your personal information might be worth it. I don't know if signing up for Spotify requires giving them your personal information, or if you can just pay $13/year and be done with it (since a lot of personal information is just so they can bill you).
Second, Apple offers a robust set of payment methods - even if you don't have a credit card you can use Spotify on iOS - just buy an iTunes gift card and use that. Granted, many services offer it nowadays, but iTunes ones seem to go on sale regularly - you should be able to find them for 10% off face value always, and 20% off happens often enough.
Of course, everyone assumes Spotify's app is the best in the world, and that Apple didn't reject it because it doesn't work on iOS 10, or it crashes, or some other thing. (One does wonder if Apple even reviews Google's apps, given how many of them crashed on startup - as if Apple intentionally did it to show people how bad Google's apps are).
No, because no patient data ever hit the local PC.
Yes, because was the EMR software running, in which case there was cached user data that was potentially transmitted?
Or...
Yes, because unless the EMR software scrubs the local disk, the data can always be recovered by an "undelete" type utility. Thus every patient whose record was accessed by that machine has potentially had their information compromised.
Potentially yes, depending on how "little" we're talking about. Because generally when the information is updated with test results, etc, the document is put onto the PC then uploaded to the EMR website. But the local file is never deleted (you can bet people won't delete it because they forget or are lazy, etc). In which case yes, it's a breach because PHI data was there.
Only in the first case where no patient information hit any local storage would it not be breached. But once patient information hit the disk, even if it was a temporary cache, all bets are off. Especially if it's updated through a browser and local files were accessed to upload test results, etc. Because few people if ever delete them.
And think about it this way - if the malware resulted in having to pay to get operations going again (like that hospital that paid $20,000), then there's obviously a breach. Because only in these three scenarios it doesn't matter - you wipe the infected PC and start over - the data is stored elsewhere so recovery is simply a wipe and reinstall away.
But if you had to pay to continue operations, you're definitely breached.
Huh? There's a SMART attribute that already says "number of remapped sectors". It should be zero. It might hit 1 or 2 if it's a portable drive treated badly, but that's it. Once it starts hitting double digits, the drive is generally going. It may have a few months of error free operation left, but in general the remapped sector count will rise and rise and eventually the drive will run out.
It's far from silent - in fact, you also want to check out the "number of pending remaps" which is the number of bad sectors the drive has yet to remap as well. (Drives only remap sectors when that sector is written to, at which point pending remaps decreases and remapped increase.
Either way, it's an easy tell.