I think they can drive with Burkas, but that's like driving drunk is modern countries. And if you're a drunk female Burka driver might as well drive off a cliff and get it over with.
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No, they're not allowed to drive, period. They also must wear burkas when in view of the public - so the moment they step outside they must be fully dressed. Not wearing one, or driving is a crime and there have been cases tried under Shariah law.
I think they can drive with Burkas, but that's like driving drunk is modern countries. And if you're a drunk female Burka driver might as well drive off a cliff and get it over with.
period. They also must wear burkas when in view of the public - so the moment they step outside they must be fully dressed. Not wearing one, or driving is a crime and there have been cases tried under Shariah law.
Sadly it ain't that easy. Yes, Linux has come a long way, but there are still a few areas where it is lacking. Notoriously most non-server related hardware.
Yes, you can get drivers for even the most esoteric RAID 6+0 controller you could imagine, but there is little to no support for programmable mice (you know the kind, with the 20 buttons), programmable flight sticks, hell, it's a gamble with most advanced audio cards whether you get any kind of support for the features that elevate them above the sound that you could get out of your mainboard and it's even nontrivial for people without a decent Linux background to get their graphics acceleration working. And even games that allegedly have Linux support usually mean that "it should run in Mono, right?"
In other words, Linux on a server? Any time. And probably better supported and faster than what you'll get on Windows.
Linux on the desktop? Not if gaming is your goal and/or nonstandard non-server hardware is what you'll be using. This is not necessarily the fault of Linux itself, more one of hardware manufacturer delivering zero to little support for their hardware for use in Linux. Which in turn is mostly due to most people buying their hardware for Windows and only installing Linux as an afterthought, only to find out that their Hardware is not working as it should, blame Linux and switch back.
And no, I don't have a solution ready for this.
It's not the esoteric hardware that's the problem, it's the whole Linux development philosophy needs to change for Linux on the desktop.
Server use cases are completely different from desktop use cases, and much conflict has occurred over stuff to get Linux on the desktop.
Things like NetworkManager, PulseAudio, SystemD are required on the desktop because they enable operations that users expect from a decent desktop OS. And yet if you listen to the Linux communities at large, you'd think each one was the devil for being large, monolithic and completely "not Unix".
And that's ignoring the need to standardize on a desktop environment.
NetworkManager is completely necessary even though it doesn't seem to do much - because mobile computers will connect to multiple networks with multiple requirements all the time -/etc/network/interfaces was just not designed to handle scenarios where WiFi may attach to a home network, a work network, and multiple public networks, each with a varying configuration of static/dynamic IPs, firewall, VPN, and other settings. Heck, most OSes note the MAC address of the gateway router to figure out what network they're on to make life easier (i.e., if the gateway is the one you marked "Home", then the network manager stack will configure the network for your home).
PulseAudio is another one, something necessary because sound cards will appear and disappear constantly. (I.e., stuff like Bluetooth headsets, USB DACs, etc). Again, in a mobile use case, a user may dock their PC which has a USB DAC associated with it, and the moment they do, audio should seamlessly switch to it. (Granted, some application can use "exclusive" mode and they may need restarting in order to associate with the proper hardware. But in the general use case, most users will use the default system mixer which should intelligently move the music from internal sound to the external sound card without skipping a beat. Plus, they want to be able to watch their YouTube video and such so everything should be mixed in. And when they get a VoIP call, it would use their speakers and micropones until the user plugs in their headset (USB based, or Bluetooth) at which point the OS should systematically route just the communications audio to the VoIP program to the headset, even while music or other thing is running, without skipping a beat.
All these require big monolithic blocks and completely destroy "the unix way" because there is no way solve the complexity of these operations without big monolithic services.
I'm wondering at what point we'll have a phone that is a hypervisor or physical cluster under the hood, capable of delivering a virtual environment or separate physical environment for secure access.
All the insecure shit like Facebook or other dubious software applications could go in its own VM or on the "insecure" side, along with the baseband hardware. It'd be nice to be able to deploy multiple VMs for multiple VMs for various security levels.
Already exists, actually.
ARM supports hypervisors, and most high end ARM chips have support for hypervisor execution modes, in fact, I'd bet your phone already has one. It doesn't do much since it doesn't schedule VMs - it juts launches the one running the main OS.
But Samsung's Knox is basically that. Others have their own implementations.
So yes, technically, Japan does have a military. They just don't spend much on it as it's sole purpose is to defend against invasion and for internal security. In short, their military is the equivalent to the US's National Guard.
Japan has a big advantage in that it's an island nation, so it doesn't need to spend much on ground forces. Even with China's growing strength, Japan still has the most powerful navy in the Far East and enough air power to defend the home islands. Japan lacks logistics capability, so it can't project power like the US or Russia. But that's okay; the Japanese people don't seem to have much interest in rebuilding the empire.
Japan for the longest time (I think it was only lifted in the 90s or so) since WWII was restricted in what their military could do. It was part of their surrender agreement - they could no longer wage wars and much of their military was decimated into purely a defensive role, by legal rule.
So it's less that they spend so little and it's easy to defend (Japan as a LOT of islands), it's that their military only exists in a defensive role and cannot be used to wage an offensive against anyone.
Wouldn't there have to be more than one Internet for there to be an internet? Is Internet 2 another internet, or is it a research WAN?
What do I call this network I am on now? I tend to call it the Internet.
Well, for technical papers, you wouldn't use the AP Style Guide. You'd use the style guide appropriate for the paper.
The AP Style Guide basically applies to general common use by laypeople - if you ask them, there is only one "internet" and that's the one they do their Facebook, etc on. They may have an idea of Internet 2, but for the most part, they don't call up Comcast and ask for a high speed connection to Internet 2.
Basically the AP Style Guide is meant to reflect common usage, and the common layperson uses "internet" and "web" to refer to the Internet and World Wide Web respectively.
All it means is that stores have to change their business model from selling stuff to people who walk through the door into basically showrooms, where the customer doesn't walk in the door, but deals with the stores to put products on the shelves.
As in, the store doesn't stock product anymore. Instead, they offer a showroom - manufacturers approach them, pay the store some amount of money to display the product on the shelf. If desired, said manufacturer can pay a bit more to put stock on the shelf so customers can buy it immediately, but not necessary. If a person comes into the store, they can view all the products and if they want something, the store can help them buy it online from many retailers they've partnered with to sell it, or have the customer do it.
No more "Amazoning" since the whole point of the store is to display goods and have an online retailer sell it (store makes money from display fees as well as sales commissions from those partnered retailers, and maybe even shipping commissions because people may be in a hurry and need the item now).
And why not include grocery stores in the online mix? There's nothing special about it other than having goods that could perish, which just means better inventory control.
Of course, it means people will have to plan ahead to do things, but that's not too much to ask now, is it?
And yes, a few stores already do this - Best Buy is a mixture of a regular store and a store that serves manufactrurers - Sony and Microsoft rent aisle space in every store (if you ever wonder why there's an empty rack - that's why since most stores would fill it with other product to move them, but Best Buy is contractually obligated to leave that space reserved - so if Sony pays Best Buy to have 2 racks of PS3 games, and Best Buy only has half a rack, they're obligated to leave the other 1 1/2 racks empty - they can't fill it with PS4 games, for example). Ditto other products like DVDs and Blu-Rays - especially the ones in the bins. Movie studios like Fox and such will often ship Best BUy stores a collection of movies for use in clearance bins (at the price they set), Best Buy simply sells them and pays the agreed rate when someone buys them. At the end of the promo period, it all gets shipped right back to the movie studio's warehouse.
Is it possible to demonstrate a proof through brute force?
For certain classes of proof, yes.
These classes are ones where the solution space is finite, in which case one can merely enumerate through all the possibilities. Another is where you're proving in general something is true - like in this case. In which case all you need to do is find one counter-example to prove the hypothesis wrong. Which happened here - they simply went through and enumerated the possibilities and checked each and every one of them to see if it meets the conditions.
Still has the cutout, thank goodness. But still sometimes is a bit of a challenge for those with less dexterity to open. I use my fingernail in that cutout.
That's the entire point of the cutout, actually. I'm sure Apple would love to save the step of machining it, but they DO realize it's a required part of the case to make it easier to open.
So no, the cutout's not going anywhere, short of Jony Ive being supreme dictator of the world. (The only alternative would be a button or a slider to unlock, but that has all sorts of design issues).
Anyhow, the biggest problem I see is the keyboard. The MacBook's keyboard already takes a little getting used to, and I know a bunch of people who hate it, but I have to admit for such a low-travel keyboard, it feels pretty good. I've had low-travel keyboards on laptops before and most are genuinely awful - bottoming out way too early, but the MacBook's one feels pretty good - it doesn't feel like I'm bottoming out at all.
Must be fairly old then, because a modern ICE is full of sensors. You have crankshaft position sensor (to determine where in the stroke cycle everything is), oxygen sensors (not just in the catalytic converter, but incoming), temperature sensors (coolant, air, etc), throttle position sensor, air flow sensor, anti-knock sensors (yes, in a lot of cars that "require" premium gas, regular works just fine), fuel injection system pressure and flow sensors, and dozens more. Then there's the performance tables - both static and dynamic that relate all the sensor data to actual performance numbers including spark advance/retard, valve advance/retard, spark power (the spark is computer controlled, and the power used is to balance plug wear with mixture needs), etc. etc. etc. And the outputs are just as numerous - spark plug (x number of cylinders), fuel injector (x number of cylinders), throttle servo, sdvance/retard valve timing group (it's usually vacuum driven so the computer activates a solenoid), and dozens more outputs including seemingly unrelated ones like alarm (if the alarm is armed, the engine gets no fuel and no spark), starter control, etc.
If you can do all that in 2kb, I'm impressed. I'm certain the performance tables are much larger than that.
Oh yeah, and limp-home mode. A mode where the engine will run to get you unstuck. It's actually a very impressive mode too - you can disable a number of cylinders and the engine will (barely) keep running. It'll be unhappy and be dog slow, but it will run.
Here's an impressive one where a 50 cal is used to shoot through cylinders. And the engine starts right up again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I've known a few NSA folks and they tend to be incredibly geeky, smart, and sometimes borderline autistic mathematicians, engineers, and linguists. My guess is that this was written by one of those types who couldn't resist having a bit of fun with it, or it was aimed at fellow geeks who would get a laugh out of an otherwise boring document.
The NSA's sole job is basically geekdom. Think about all the work the NSA does - cryptographic, surveillance, analysis, etc. Now realize this work isn't done by managers or executives or people with business degrees.
No, it's done by people with doctorates, masters and bachelor's in science and math. And it's got great gobs or engineers as well. Basically outside of NASA, the NSA is the other government geek heaven
So yes, the documentation the NSA writes internally is probably going to be full of geek references because the whole agency is staffed that way.
China already gets powerful multi-core ARM chips at dirt cheap prices, so this isn't a matter of saving money. The only logical reason they would be making custom chips (and so soon) is they are modifying an existing chip and adding a hardware backdoor. With hardware backdoors in every server in china, they can control information much easier and identify dissidents.
Exactly. You might not know it, but the Chinese regulations specify a lot of standards that you must support, only in China. For example, WiFi encryption - WEP and WPA are banned in China - if you want to have WiFI encryptoin, you must use WAPI (WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure).
WAPI is only used in China and very limited entities have access to the entire standard. And no, WAPI is not part of any standard we recognize - IEEE, ISO, etc.
There are probably dozens of other things that are Chinese only, so if you want to sell your chip in China, you need to support it.
From what I've seen of airplanes hitting the water at full tilt, getting things to leave them isn't really all that difficult. But, why not take it a step further and design a mechanism to jettison a copy of the black box data and a locator beacon before impact? Say at about 500 ft above ground/water level while on a downward slope at any location not in the vicinity of an airport, per onboard GPS, or immediately upon 'X' G's outside of a survivable impact (rough landing).
They make them. They're called deployable black boxes and they basically eject from the aircraft and float on top of the water. With GPS locator beacon. Typically they're used for military aircraft, but they are used for civilian aviation as well.
Airbus is on board with equipping them, Boeing less so. Boeing's concern centers around accidental deployment - they estimate that there will be 6 or 7 deployments per year.
They're also hopeful on marketing this to parents so that they can have an internet connection available for their kids to watch Netflix or play games on long family trips instead of actually having to ***gasp*** socialize and interact with them.
Basically this. Look at any ad that shows a car having WiFi - it's all about your passengers updating their facebook or playing games while on the move, and kinds playing games or other entertainment/distraction for the family road trip.
How do you prove you no longer have an eBook? If I buy one and then sell it to someone else on eBay, I'm probably just selling them a copy of my eBook, not my actual copy. What is to stop me from selling my eBook hundreds of times over? There'd need to be some sort of licensing/registration in place where if you sell your copy, you need to transfer the license or copy to the other party. Sounds a lot like DRM.
Considering the DRM was there anyways, well...
And that was one of the big losses of the old Xbone DRM system - yes, it sucked, but it DID allow for reselling games, which is far better than what we have now in the "old way". Sure, you can resell it if you bought the disc, but more and more the stuff is provided virtually - you redeem a code and now the game is locked to your account. (And Microsoft and Sony are promoting this heavily - even going to providing download codes for pre-orders so you can pre-load and play when it unlocks rather than waiting for the store to open or your mail to arrive).
Xiaomi is all about the hype. They see themselves as the Chinese Apple. Up to and including their chairman wearing a black turtleneck. Xiaomi's MIUI phone OS looks just like Apple's (and they ripped off GNU code and refused to release their changes). They copy Apple every way they can - in China this isn't seen as pathetic me-tooism, it's seen as clever because you're copying someone who is successful. Xiaomi is notorious for releasing only a small amount of product at launch and providing no other way to buy than at certain times from their official website.
Apple and Google, actually. MIUI wants to be all cloud-based and selling cloud services to you (and you to everyone else). It's basically why they give the software away And at a time when Apple itself is trying to reduce the use of the cloud to reduce the privacy implications (basically iCloud ends up being a really good way to sync files everywhere and collaborate than a resource to mine)
Apple's privacy stance is so annoying to internal researches that they're basically leaving because they can't get Apple to release to their own employees the data Apple collects from other services - like Apple collects the information and refuses to share it beyond what they stated they would do with it. (Many of the speech to text and AI researchers want access to stuff like Siri queries and can't get access to it. Apple even has a rather draconian process for it...).
So Google has a list of vendors who provide timely OS releases and security updates. Question is, what is the ranking? I mean, a company like Samsung releases hundreds of new phones a year (in 2014, it's 3 phones a week), yet you only really expect updates on one of them (the flagship). So does Samsung get a poor ranking because of the 150 phones they released last year, only one gets security updates? Or out of those 150, only 50 shipped with the latest OS?
I pick Samsung because they're the ones making tons of money on Android, and who not only can ignore the listings, but can probably influence things so they don't have to maintain the hundreds of models they released...
"Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One In 2017"
So everyone waits for 2017, right?
Is it hurting Sony right now with their PS4k rumored to come out this year?
In fact, to add to the confusion, it is expected that Sony will keep the PS4 and the PS4k.
Of course, rumors are rumors, and while the PS4k is likely to come out in order to support PS VR, the Xbone rumor may be based off the fact that if Sony does it, Microsoft must, too... even though they don't have a VR headset thing going on.
What is âthisâ(TM) in your sentence? CSS? Copying in general? All the page does is use some CSS to move part of the text off-screen where it cannot be seen. Detecting what is and isn't visible when copying text is a non-trivial task, as is defining what visibility means: obviously when you press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+Ins you want the entire document, even those parts for which you'd need the scrollbar to read them. But what if text is placed in such a way that it's always inside the scrollable region, but outside the visible window client area?
You forgot about Unicode, where one visible character you see can easily consist of 4-5 or more codepoints that get copied as well. There are a few deadly sequences that can screw up your terminal if it's Unicode aware.
We store programmatically salted hashes of passwords. Reversing those can't even be done with rainbow tables, not without generating a table per salt, which is going to be a long drawn out process.
Salts prevent use of rainbow tables, which helps a little bit. Modern password crackers are dictionary based, with various "twiddles" applied to each word (capitalization, add a number, replace certain characters with numbers, etc). So if the dictionary says "password", the cracker will try "password", "Password", "PASSWORD", "passw0rd", etc.
Since it 's done via GPU, it's hashed quite quickly. and salts just mean you start from source dictionary.
That's why trivial mashing of passwords is easy to crack - the modern dictionary based password cracker tests simple combinations and substitutions already.
And no, it won't get 100% of passwords - but you'll be able to crack probably 30-50% of them within a day with even a smallish dictionary of say, top 100 passwords plus combinations.
Take wireless charging, from the last I read, Apple is looking at it for the iPhone 7. I mean, seriously? My Galaxy S4 wirelessly charges. Not to mention the iOS is clunky and not really very nice. I'll give 1 example, I have an iPhone 5s and you can't arrange any given desktop how you want it. Every app icon has to listed from the top and packed up tight from top to bottom. I don't want it that way, I'd like to put the app icons on the screen where I want them (as you can and always have been able to on the Andriod, at least as far back as I started using Android for years). These sorts of slow uptakes in the marketplace might seem trivial and insignificant, but it's also these slow to market changes that killed BlackBerry (i.e. touch screens, virtual keyboards, etc). By the time RIM woke-up, it was too late and they were pushed aside. Just my 2 cents....
Apple prefers practicality to fiddly-ness and "neat-o whiz-bang technology".
Wireless charging, for example, requires you to put the phone over the charger, or within the confines of a small box, and some phones require pretty exact placement to begin charging. This works, but if you're going to fiddle with it, the fiddling with a cable is easier.
Apple is rumored to have partnered with several wireless charging pioneers to provide an area charging capability - so you could put your phone under an iMac and it'll charge there, regardless of orientation or position. Or even if you're just close to it, say working in front of the iMac you check your phone and it's still charging.
As for the icons - you can't rearrange icons in Android. You have 5 "pages" on the home screen to arrange your favorite icons and widgets however you like, but the App Launcher is strictly sorted only. SpringBoard is akin to the App Launcher as it contains every app, not just the ones you explicitly put on the Home Screen (which fills up pretty quick). Some android skins do allow more pages for the default home screen to be more iOS-like, but the default is 5 pages - you have the main page with clock widget and Google apps, and two pages on either side of it.
Actually, storing cold is an entirely viable strategy. Back in the 1800s, ice would be harvested from frozen ponds in New England, then packed in sawdust and stored in warehouses. That ice was later shipped to many place - the Carribean, the American West, even to India. Keeping ice cold and frozen is just a matter of proper insulation.
There was also the "cold room" which was a well-insulated building that in the winter was filled from floor to ceiling ice harvested form the lake as small blocks. You put your perishables in an adjoining room which was insulated on the outside but not from the ice room. It would keep cold even when it was 30+C outside (mid-80s and higher).
And yes, it kept cold so when it was time to refill it, you have to remove all the leftover ice from the last year so you can fill it with fresh ice.
If Paramount/CBS were smart they make a deal with these guys, throw some money at it and syndicate it. I don't know why Paramount/CBS hold so tightly to this franchise. They should take a page of Disney's handbook and give us fans multiple movies and shows.
They already do. They allow fan fiction and works to be created - provided you don't try to make money off the property (or try to destroy it). This is to be honest one of the more open IP franchises out there.
The problem is, it's a thin grey line separating what CBS/Paramount/Viacom (it's huge corporate mess) consider fan fiction, and what they consider commercial licensing required.
And these guys with their crowdfunding campaign and all that apparently fell foul to that, for they felt it was going commercial. (Note: it would've been fine if they used crowdfunding to raise the licensing costs - it's happened before).
Star Trek is an expensive property - I believe CBS/Paramount/VIacom want at least $55K to even sit down at the table. And that's just to get them together in the room - if they reject your idea they will take that $55k with them. (This is to avoid wasting everyone's time - if you're so sure your product will be a hit, $55k is nothing. If not, you do your due diligence and research to see...)
Chances are, a deal will be struck and they will acquire a license. Depends on what was the objectionable parts - perhaps the fact backers got first dibs at the movie might be the whole sticking point (the fan fiction freedom means it must be available at no cost to everyone, so having people that paid for early access could be seen as commercial activity even if you're giving it away afterwards). In this case, it just means a little bit of the crowdfunding money will probably have to be taken out of production budget and into limited time licensing
So, what happens when someone from a non-trust-based society comes to live in a place like America? Either they're impressed and want to be a part of it, or they think all these idiots are totally stupid for not protecting their stuff better. I mean, there are just these big treasure boxes lying around called stores, they don't even have any security! Huge amounts of scrap metal just lying around waiting to be cashed in - Americans call them manhole covers, but people know better. And likewise crap like this. It's ruthlessly taking advantage of a trust-based society because you've got to be an idiot to trust people. Previously all Americans were pretty much on the same page when it came to being trust-based, but that's changing quickly. People like these hoaxers think it's totally stupid nobody defends against them, and they think it's hilarious to attack the bonds of trust that hold society together. Yeah, well, if you want to live in a society like China, life is going to suck. Good job, assholes.
The other side effect is you get to be stereotyped...for life.
I'm sure China's already seeing the effects of their non-trust based society when people really don't trust them, even from trust-based societies. It doesn't take much but you hear of people taking steps to ensure their IP isn't leaked/copied/duplicated/etc, and that Chinese made stuff will just spy on you, is cheaply made, etc. All of which at one point was true because the Chinese factory owners scammed customers and produced cheap knockoffs.
Now they've been scarred for life - every asks if Chinese made goods are ripoffs or who really did the work behind it. Or everyone goes "Apple iPhone ripoff!" or other thing. Or when a truly Chinese made product comes out everyone views it as low cost cheap crap that will break in rather spectacular and life-threatening ways.
It's not impossible - Japan was in a similar situation, but then they decided to excel and start making products that were cutting edge and people wanted it. It doesn't matter if you have a reputation for knockoffs and clones and cheap crap, if you're the only one making something desirable, then it's a chance to show the world the stereotype doesn't apply by selling them quality goods. Japan sold stuff people wanted, despite their poor quality reputation, and slowly people realized that they can produce good stuff that is quality simply because their need for something only the Japanese sold was greater than their fear it would break moments after you left the store. (And when it didn't, and started lasting longer than competitors, there you go).
The thing is, Japan had it easy - we were on the brink of a high-tech revolution, and the Japanese saw it coming, embraced it, and used that as a means for breaking free because the rest of the world simply couldn't match it.
And it's not the fault of the trust-based society - the reason we ARE a trust based society is because the benefits are far greater. Europe and America didn't just happen, but flourished because people stopped worrying their neighbours were gong to steal their stuff and went on to putting that energy towards other things like research.
Kinda like the whole "Guns and butter" thing in economics (where the output of two unrelated things is often constrained by maximum productivity). You can spend all your time, effort, and energy defending yourself, or you can put that into more productive things that help move everyone forward.
Average people setting up average home networks are on average, unable to patch anything.
Average people don't care until it is too late, and then it is too late to care. (file under "Its all over but the crying")
Really, when was the last time you checked the Vulnerability list for your home networking products? And when was the last time before that?
These aren't average people, unless average people run wireless ISPs.
And these aren't regular consumer grade wireless hardware, these are carrier-grade wireless hardware.
SO yeah, you hope the system administrators at your ISP know what they're doing, applying patches and all that, like any good admin who administers their company's servers.
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No, they're not allowed to drive, period. They also must wear burkas when in view of the public - so the moment they step outside they must be fully dressed. Not wearing one, or driving is a crime and there have been cases tried under Shariah law.
period. They also must wear burkas when in view of the public - so the moment they step outside they must be fully dressed. Not wearing one, or driving is a crime and there have been cases tried under Shariah law.
It's not the esoteric hardware that's the problem, it's the whole Linux development philosophy needs to change for Linux on the desktop.
Server use cases are completely different from desktop use cases, and much conflict has occurred over stuff to get Linux on the desktop.
Things like NetworkManager, PulseAudio, SystemD are required on the desktop because they enable operations that users expect from a decent desktop OS. And yet if you listen to the Linux communities at large, you'd think each one was the devil for being large, monolithic and completely "not Unix".
And that's ignoring the need to standardize on a desktop environment.
NetworkManager is completely necessary even though it doesn't seem to do much - because mobile computers will connect to multiple networks with multiple requirements all the time - /etc/network/interfaces was just not designed to handle scenarios where WiFi may attach to a home network, a work network, and multiple public networks, each with a varying configuration of static/dynamic IPs, firewall, VPN, and other settings. Heck, most OSes note the MAC address of the gateway router to figure out what network they're on to make life easier (i.e., if the gateway is the one you marked "Home", then the network manager stack will configure the network for your home).
PulseAudio is another one, something necessary because sound cards will appear and disappear constantly. (I.e., stuff like Bluetooth headsets, USB DACs, etc). Again, in a mobile use case, a user may dock their PC which has a USB DAC associated with it, and the moment they do, audio should seamlessly switch to it. (Granted, some application can use "exclusive" mode and they may need restarting in order to associate with the proper hardware. But in the general use case, most users will use the default system mixer which should intelligently move the music from internal sound to the external sound card without skipping a beat. Plus, they want to be able to watch their YouTube video and such so everything should be mixed in. And when they get a VoIP call, it would use their speakers and micropones until the user plugs in their headset (USB based, or Bluetooth) at which point the OS should systematically route just the communications audio to the VoIP program to the headset, even while music or other thing is running, without skipping a beat.
All these require big monolithic blocks and completely destroy "the unix way" because there is no way solve the complexity of these operations without big monolithic services.
Already exists, actually.
ARM supports hypervisors, and most high end ARM chips have support for hypervisor execution modes, in fact, I'd bet your phone already has one. It doesn't do much since it doesn't schedule VMs - it juts launches the one running the main OS.
But Samsung's Knox is basically that. Others have their own implementations.
Japan for the longest time (I think it was only lifted in the 90s or so) since WWII was restricted in what their military could do. It was part of their surrender agreement - they could no longer wage wars and much of their military was decimated into purely a defensive role, by legal rule.
So it's less that they spend so little and it's easy to defend (Japan as a LOT of islands), it's that their military only exists in a defensive role and cannot be used to wage an offensive against anyone.
Well, for technical papers, you wouldn't use the AP Style Guide. You'd use the style guide appropriate for the paper.
The AP Style Guide basically applies to general common use by laypeople - if you ask them, there is only one "internet" and that's the one they do their Facebook, etc on. They may have an idea of Internet 2, but for the most part, they don't call up Comcast and ask for a high speed connection to Internet 2.
Basically the AP Style Guide is meant to reflect common usage, and the common layperson uses "internet" and "web" to refer to the Internet and World Wide Web respectively.
All it means is that stores have to change their business model from selling stuff to people who walk through the door into basically showrooms, where the customer doesn't walk in the door, but deals with the stores to put products on the shelves.
As in, the store doesn't stock product anymore. Instead, they offer a showroom - manufacturers approach them, pay the store some amount of money to display the product on the shelf. If desired, said manufacturer can pay a bit more to put stock on the shelf so customers can buy it immediately, but not necessary. If a person comes into the store, they can view all the products and if they want something, the store can help them buy it online from many retailers they've partnered with to sell it, or have the customer do it.
No more "Amazoning" since the whole point of the store is to display goods and have an online retailer sell it (store makes money from display fees as well as sales commissions from those partnered retailers, and maybe even shipping commissions because people may be in a hurry and need the item now).
And why not include grocery stores in the online mix? There's nothing special about it other than having goods that could perish, which just means better inventory control.
Of course, it means people will have to plan ahead to do things, but that's not too much to ask now, is it?
And yes, a few stores already do this - Best Buy is a mixture of a regular store and a store that serves manufactrurers - Sony and Microsoft rent aisle space in every store (if you ever wonder why there's an empty rack - that's why since most stores would fill it with other product to move them, but Best Buy is contractually obligated to leave that space reserved - so if Sony pays Best Buy to have 2 racks of PS3 games, and Best Buy only has half a rack, they're obligated to leave the other 1 1/2 racks empty - they can't fill it with PS4 games, for example). Ditto other products like DVDs and Blu-Rays - especially the ones in the bins. Movie studios like Fox and such will often ship Best BUy stores a collection of movies for use in clearance bins (at the price they set), Best Buy simply sells them and pays the agreed rate when someone buys them. At the end of the promo period, it all gets shipped right back to the movie studio's warehouse.
For certain classes of proof, yes.
These classes are ones where the solution space is finite, in which case one can merely enumerate through all the possibilities. Another is where you're proving in general something is true - like in this case. In which case all you need to do is find one counter-example to prove the hypothesis wrong. Which happened here - they simply went through and enumerated the possibilities and checked each and every one of them to see if it meets the conditions.
That's the entire point of the cutout, actually. I'm sure Apple would love to save the step of machining it, but they DO realize it's a required part of the case to make it easier to open.
So no, the cutout's not going anywhere, short of Jony Ive being supreme dictator of the world. (The only alternative would be a button or a slider to unlock, but that has all sorts of design issues).
Anyhow, the biggest problem I see is the keyboard. The MacBook's keyboard already takes a little getting used to, and I know a bunch of people who hate it, but I have to admit for such a low-travel keyboard, it feels pretty good. I've had low-travel keyboards on laptops before and most are genuinely awful - bottoming out way too early, but the MacBook's one feels pretty good - it doesn't feel like I'm bottoming out at all.
Must be fairly old then, because a modern ICE is full of sensors. You have crankshaft position sensor (to determine where in the stroke cycle everything is), oxygen sensors (not just in the catalytic converter, but incoming), temperature sensors (coolant, air, etc), throttle position sensor, air flow sensor, anti-knock sensors (yes, in a lot of cars that "require" premium gas, regular works just fine), fuel injection system pressure and flow sensors, and dozens more. Then there's the performance tables - both static and dynamic that relate all the sensor data to actual performance numbers including spark advance/retard, valve advance/retard, spark power (the spark is computer controlled, and the power used is to balance plug wear with mixture needs), etc. etc. etc. And the outputs are just as numerous - spark plug (x number of cylinders), fuel injector (x number of cylinders), throttle servo, sdvance/retard valve timing group (it's usually vacuum driven so the computer activates a solenoid), and dozens more outputs including seemingly unrelated ones like alarm (if the alarm is armed, the engine gets no fuel and no spark), starter control, etc.
If you can do all that in 2kb, I'm impressed. I'm certain the performance tables are much larger than that.
Oh yeah, and limp-home mode. A mode where the engine will run to get you unstuck. It's actually a very impressive mode too - you can disable a number of cylinders and the engine will (barely) keep running. It'll be unhappy and be dog slow, but it will run.
Here's an impressive one where a 50 cal is used to shoot through cylinders. And the engine starts right up again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The NSA's sole job is basically geekdom. Think about all the work the NSA does - cryptographic, surveillance, analysis, etc. Now realize this work isn't done by managers or executives or people with business degrees.
No, it's done by people with doctorates, masters and bachelor's in science and math. And it's got great gobs or engineers as well. Basically outside of NASA, the NSA is the other government geek heaven
So yes, the documentation the NSA writes internally is probably going to be full of geek references because the whole agency is staffed that way.
Exactly. You might not know it, but the Chinese regulations specify a lot of standards that you must support, only in China. For example, WiFi encryption - WEP and WPA are banned in China - if you want to have WiFI encryptoin, you must use WAPI (WLAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure).
WAPI is only used in China and very limited entities have access to the entire standard. And no, WAPI is not part of any standard we recognize - IEEE, ISO, etc.
There are probably dozens of other things that are Chinese only, so if you want to sell your chip in China, you need to support it.
And yes.you can bet there are backdoors.
They make them. They're called deployable black boxes and they basically eject from the aircraft and float on top of the water. With GPS locator beacon. Typically they're used for military aircraft, but they are used for civilian aviation as well.
Airbus is on board with equipping them, Boeing less so. Boeing's concern centers around accidental deployment - they estimate that there will be 6 or 7 deployments per year.
Basically this. Look at any ad that shows a car having WiFi - it's all about your passengers updating their facebook or playing games while on the move, and kinds playing games or other entertainment/distraction for the family road trip.
Considering the DRM was there anyways, well...
And that was one of the big losses of the old Xbone DRM system - yes, it sucked, but it DID allow for reselling games, which is far better than what we have now in the "old way". Sure, you can resell it if you bought the disc, but more and more the stuff is provided virtually - you redeem a code and now the game is locked to your account. (And Microsoft and Sony are promoting this heavily - even going to providing download codes for pre-orders so you can pre-load and play when it unlocks rather than waiting for the store to open or your mail to arrive).
Apple and Google, actually. MIUI wants to be all cloud-based and selling cloud services to you (and you to everyone else). It's basically why they give the software away And at a time when Apple itself is trying to reduce the use of the cloud to reduce the privacy implications (basically iCloud ends up being a really good way to sync files everywhere and collaborate than a resource to mine)
Apple's privacy stance is so annoying to internal researches that they're basically leaving because they can't get Apple to release to their own employees the data Apple collects from other services - like Apple collects the information and refuses to share it beyond what they stated they would do with it. (Many of the speech to text and AI researchers want access to stuff like Siri queries and can't get access to it. Apple even has a rather draconian process for it...).
So Google has a list of vendors who provide timely OS releases and security updates. Question is, what is the ranking? I mean, a company like Samsung releases hundreds of new phones a year (in 2014, it's 3 phones a week), yet you only really expect updates on one of them (the flagship). So does Samsung get a poor ranking because of the 150 phones they released last year, only one gets security updates? Or out of those 150, only 50 shipped with the latest OS?
I pick Samsung because they're the ones making tons of money on Android, and who not only can ignore the listings, but can probably influence things so they don't have to maintain the hundreds of models they released...
Is it hurting Sony right now with their PS4k rumored to come out this year?
In fact, to add to the confusion, it is expected that Sony will keep the PS4 and the PS4k.
Of course, rumors are rumors, and while the PS4k is likely to come out in order to support PS VR, the Xbone rumor may be based off the fact that if Sony does it, Microsoft must, too... even though they don't have a VR headset thing going on.
You forgot about Unicode, where one visible character you see can easily consist of 4-5 or more codepoints that get copied as well. There are a few deadly sequences that can screw up your terminal if it's Unicode aware.
Salts prevent use of rainbow tables, which helps a little bit. Modern password crackers are dictionary based, with various "twiddles" applied to each word (capitalization, add a number, replace certain characters with numbers, etc). So if the dictionary says "password", the cracker will try "password", "Password", "PASSWORD", "passw0rd", etc.
Since it 's done via GPU, it's hashed quite quickly. and salts just mean you start from source dictionary.
That's why trivial mashing of passwords is easy to crack - the modern dictionary based password cracker tests simple combinations and substitutions already.
And no, it won't get 100% of passwords - but you'll be able to crack probably 30-50% of them within a day with even a smallish dictionary of say, top 100 passwords plus combinations.
Apple prefers practicality to fiddly-ness and "neat-o whiz-bang technology".
Wireless charging, for example, requires you to put the phone over the charger, or within the confines of a small box, and some phones require pretty exact placement to begin charging. This works, but if you're going to fiddle with it, the fiddling with a cable is easier.
Apple is rumored to have partnered with several wireless charging pioneers to provide an area charging capability - so you could put your phone under an iMac and it'll charge there, regardless of orientation or position. Or even if you're just close to it, say working in front of the iMac you check your phone and it's still charging.
As for the icons - you can't rearrange icons in Android. You have 5 "pages" on the home screen to arrange your favorite icons and widgets however you like, but the App Launcher is strictly sorted only. SpringBoard is akin to the App Launcher as it contains every app, not just the ones you explicitly put on the Home Screen (which fills up pretty quick). Some android skins do allow more pages for the default home screen to be more iOS-like, but the default is 5 pages - you have the main page with clock widget and Google apps, and two pages on either side of it.
There was also the "cold room" which was a well-insulated building that in the winter was filled from floor to ceiling ice harvested form the lake as small blocks. You put your perishables in an adjoining room which was insulated on the outside but not from the ice room. It would keep cold even when it was 30+C outside (mid-80s and higher).
And yes, it kept cold so when it was time to refill it, you have to remove all the leftover ice from the last year so you can fill it with fresh ice.
They already do. They allow fan fiction and works to be created - provided you don't try to make money off the property (or try to destroy it). This is to be honest one of the more open IP franchises out there.
The problem is, it's a thin grey line separating what CBS/Paramount/Viacom (it's huge corporate mess) consider fan fiction, and what they consider commercial licensing required.
And these guys with their crowdfunding campaign and all that apparently fell foul to that, for they felt it was going commercial. (Note: it would've been fine if they used crowdfunding to raise the licensing costs - it's happened before).
Star Trek is an expensive property - I believe CBS/Paramount/VIacom want at least $55K to even sit down at the table. And that's just to get them together in the room - if they reject your idea they will take that $55k with them. (This is to avoid wasting everyone's time - if you're so sure your product will be a hit, $55k is nothing. If not, you do your due diligence and research to see...)
Chances are, a deal will be struck and they will acquire a license. Depends on what was the objectionable parts - perhaps the fact backers got first dibs at the movie might be the whole sticking point (the fan fiction freedom means it must be available at no cost to everyone, so having people that paid for early access could be seen as commercial activity even if you're giving it away afterwards). In this case, it just means a little bit of the crowdfunding money will probably have to be taken out of production budget and into limited time licensing
The other side effect is you get to be stereotyped.. .for life.
I'm sure China's already seeing the effects of their non-trust based society when people really don't trust them, even from trust-based societies. It doesn't take much but you hear of people taking steps to ensure their IP isn't leaked/copied/duplicated/etc, and that Chinese made stuff will just spy on you, is cheaply made, etc. All of which at one point was true because the Chinese factory owners scammed customers and produced cheap knockoffs.
Now they've been scarred for life - every asks if Chinese made goods are ripoffs or who really did the work behind it. Or everyone goes "Apple iPhone ripoff!" or other thing. Or when a truly Chinese made product comes out everyone views it as low cost cheap crap that will break in rather spectacular and life-threatening ways.
It's not impossible - Japan was in a similar situation, but then they decided to excel and start making products that were cutting edge and people wanted it. It doesn't matter if you have a reputation for knockoffs and clones and cheap crap, if you're the only one making something desirable, then it's a chance to show the world the stereotype doesn't apply by selling them quality goods. Japan sold stuff people wanted, despite their poor quality reputation, and slowly people realized that they can produce good stuff that is quality simply because their need for something only the Japanese sold was greater than their fear it would break moments after you left the store. (And when it didn't, and started lasting longer than competitors, there you go).
The thing is, Japan had it easy - we were on the brink of a high-tech revolution, and the Japanese saw it coming, embraced it, and used that as a means for breaking free because the rest of the world simply couldn't match it.
And it's not the fault of the trust-based society - the reason we ARE a trust based society is because the benefits are far greater. Europe and America didn't just happen, but flourished because people stopped worrying their neighbours were gong to steal their stuff and went on to putting that energy towards other things like research.
Kinda like the whole "Guns and butter" thing in economics (where the output of two unrelated things is often constrained by maximum productivity). You can spend all your time, effort, and energy defending yourself, or you can put that into more productive things that help move everyone forward.
These aren't average people, unless average people run wireless ISPs.
And these aren't regular consumer grade wireless hardware, these are carrier-grade wireless hardware.
SO yeah, you hope the system administrators at your ISP know what they're doing, applying patches and all that, like any good admin who administers their company's servers.