Thank you for pointing this out, again. I'm sure a 4 digit code smeared on the display is a lot safer.
That is the alternative security measure for most people and thus most phones.
Actually, it is. (And on iPhone, it's a 6 digit PIN). Legally too PINs are better.
HOWEVER, people are human. And it turns out the use cases for phones is hundreds to thousands of quick glimpses at the phone throughout the day. So for the vast majority of people faced with either a PIN (or pattern or whatever), it gets in their way and it doesn't take long before the phone is set to require no PIN or other unlock mechanism.
Biometrics fixes that to an extent - fingerprints and faces can be scanned while the phone is still in motion and the phone unlocks before the user is ready, making it extremely convenient for the user to glance at it for a couple of seconds at a time. Thus, the phone can have enhanced security (i.e., a PIN) placed on it and it doesn't get in the user's way most of the time.
End result is instead of something like 70% of phones not having a PIN, with biometrics, it tilts it to around 80% of phones will have some sort of PIN or other locking system added to it, making overall security much better in the end.
It wouldn't be terribly surprising to me if HDVC is better than a modern superconducting cable
The two are not mutually exclusive.
HVDC has several advantages over HVAC transmission lines - namely in synchronization, lower impedance losses (basically just resistive losses) and the like. However, IIR losses are still present with HVDC installations and superconducting cables can still be used to reduce IIR losses. It's just they're lower than the IIZ losses incurred by HVAC.
The difficulty in transforming HVDC lines means they are only good for long haul lines where you bring them to the target voltage and transmit it. (IIR losses increase with the square of the current, so increasing voltage means lowered currents and thus losses drop. Doubling the voltage on a line halves the current, but means IIR losses are 1/4th what they were before).
Which is why I'm using this as an excuse to get out of jury duty (if I ever get asked).
"My Lord, if that man is innocent, why are we all here? If the cops believe he's guilty, that's good enough for me."
In Westminster systems like Canada and the UK, the charges go from the police to the prosecutorial service. It's up to the prosecutor in charge to review the evidence and charges and decide on whether or not there's a reasonable chance of success. If not, then the prosecutor then decides if a lesser charge might have a better chance (e.g., going from murder to manslaughter). If not, the case is dropped - better to drop it now where there is insufficient evidence going in than to drag out a court case wasting resources on a hopeless case.
It's why in general the prosecutors have a rather high success rate of conviction - they don't blindly take up every case they're offered and instead analyze them to see if it will meet the thresholds of conviction. Yes there will be back and forth - the prosecutor can ask the police if they have any more evidence to solidify the case.
This is also the point where the prosecutors do their best to analyze how the evidence was gathered to ensure the defense can't pull a "tainted evidence" defense that discards key evidence.
It's not a perfect system because it can mean people go free due to lack of evidence right from the get-go (though usually the prosecution also directs when the police may arrest someone, so something like this won't end up with a double jeopardy situation). And it can mean really long delays between the crime and arraignmet, charges and the eventual trial.
It's also why a jury trial is optional - the defense has a choice, but in general jury trial conviction rates are even higher than a judge only trial.
I hear about the millennials not having enough money to move out of parents' homes, and large student loan bills......and yet, perks and "work/life" balance is at the top of the list of where they want to work??!?!
Or, are they just assuming that they deserve a high starting salary, and therefore, the "perks" are what the deciding factors are?
Geez....you work for MONEY, and if you are bitching about not having any, then that should make your first priority coming out of school.
Get out, make as much $$ as you can, gain experience, make connections...and then, start making your moves up the line where you have time to consider perks, etc.
Jobs aren't meant to be fun....otherwise it wouldn't be called work...
You must be a great person to be around, because with an attitude like that, you basically end up being "the guy" who sucks any sort of joy and fun out of life. Remember, these people are entering the next phase of their life, and they're going to be spending at least a third of it on work - commuting and actually working. It is not an unreasonable ask to want to not be miserable during this phase of your life and to do something you might find enjoyable, or look forward to.
Working while living at home with Mom and Dad is a thing. It's a way to save money so you can buy your own house. Sure you could rent a crappy apartment and all that, but that's not necessarily the best use of money. Stay with Mom and Dad, help out with household chores, pay your share of the rent, and save. Save for a downpayment on a house or apartment. Save for retirement. Use this time to save.
If you're working for money and nothing else, you might want to rethink what life means to you. You may die a billionaire, but the way you act in your post, you're completely miserable and people wouldn't want to be around you. Sure you'd attract "people" (i.e., gold diggers) but they're not the kind of person you really want in your life, either.
You work to live, not live to work. And not enjoying your work is a sure sign that you need to leave your job and pursue a different career, something that will make you happier in life. Because life is too damn short to be miserable And even the boring parts of the job (because every job has miserable parts) will not seem quite so bad
And yes, it also means being reasonable in life - you can't live a champagne life on a beer budget. But if you work hard (there's no easy shortcut), save up money, you can spend a couple of weeks living the high life
Or perhaps, if your lifestyle is not one of misery and more akin to being happy about what you do, being excited at what a new day brings and look forward in the morning to heading out to work, you'll find out that such luxuries are mere material things.
And here's a truth - retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Permanent vacation sounds cool, until you're three weeks into it and bored, and that leads to trouble (usual of the self-destructive lifestyle kind). Plan on returning "back to work" while in retirement - just don't take it too hard - part time a couple of hours a day to keep you busy. The money is no longer important, but the social aspects. And see to it you're taking newcomers to the company and industry under your wing and teaching them as well.
It's hard to do this if you're miserable at work. If you're not happy doing what you're doing and you're doing it for the money, it's time to leave and pursue something new.
I played DOOM over IPX, on actual Ethernet, on a Novell Network.
"Shared" the folder so multiple machines could access the executables, and played multi player. On a 10Mbps hub based (not switched) network.
Brought that segment to its knees.:)
Fun times.
Actually, one of the first few patches to Doom was to reduce network utilization. Apparently the early versions were so good at taking down corporate networks (because home networking was but just a glint back in the day) with traffic that workplaces banned its use.
So a later version came out that greatly reduced network utilization so you could at least play it and not take down the network at the same time.
Part of the propaganda war that is going on between US & China. Fake news (I do hate that cliche; smells bad).
Except SuperMicro is a Taiwanese company. Sure Taiwan is in a weird place, claimed by China but considers itself independent, but most Taiwanese actually believe they are an independent country regardless of what the UN and other people say. (Plus, they have a real democracy and not a dictatorship).
And the real articles are Apple and Amazon for those two were the ones first reported on by Bloomberg.
I prefer learning stuff over watching yet another cop drama or soap opera I can attend graduate-level physics lectures by top professors, with great graphics and sound I can learn glassblowing, welding, knifemaking, machining, woodworking, and more Currently, I'm watching card magic tutorials Even some promotional materials are educational. By watching an ad, I learned about longwall coal mining And then, for fun, there's dead malls and Uncle Bumblefuck (AvE)
Of course, it's always fun watching people who got law degrees from the University of YouTube try to pull fast ones over judges and cops (aka "sovereign citizens"). Either their knowledge is out of date (I think one quoted from a law dictionary that was over 100 years old and was long superseded by later editions), or they somehow miss the tons of videos of them trying their tactics and failing.
It's even more amusing when you can see the judge roll their eyes as "another one of those people".
I imagine he gets paid tons of money from toy companies to review toys they send him, and someone offscreen prompts him to talk about various bullet-points written up by said companies. Not sure if that's part of the $22 million figure, but ~$50k per paid review is typical for popular influencers.
Pro boxers can get investigated for a paid endorsement for a cryptocurrency without saying they've been compensated, but randos can make videos on the Youtubes doing the same thing with impunity, and the same agency can only say they're looking into maybe requiring disclosures.
No, that $22M will likely be what YouTube paid him.
In theory, the FTC has rules that suggest those who are featuring a product to show if they've been paid for the announcement (i.e., a sponsored ad). Whether toy companies are buying reviews is a business thing between his parents and the toy companies.
And yes, celebrity status does play a part - someone famous whose name may be recognizable will always be scrutinized more heavily than some random kid whose name isn't recognized outside of YouTube.
So two boxers can be investigated because people recognize them in general, but this kid (until now) probably was fine because if you asked people on the street, most will say "who?".
To me seven years seems like a good amount of time to keep something supported.
I think Apple still supports the App Store even for older devices (they can download the last version of apps that support the version of iOS they are on), but not entirely sure if that goes all the way back down the full line at this point.
It's a plus and minus.
It's a plus in that ICS devices were supported for so long. It's a minus in that ICS devices were still around that long. But I think it's basically because until recently, ICS formed a not-insignificant group of users. All this for an OS released around 2011 or so?
iOS is a bit different - the App Store generally only goes back maybe 2-3 iOS versions, which cover pretty much 99.9% of active devices out there. New iOS versions are generally at 50% without a couple of months of release (usually you have Android out at least 2 or 3 versions back to be at that level - so at least 2 years?)
(This is why they could give owners additional range during hurricane evacuations - they simply sent out a temporary software patch allowing you to drain the battery below 15%.)
No, it's because the P60 and P75 share the same battery. Instead of having 3 battery sizes (60kWh, 75kWh and 100kWh) Tesla simply locks out the P60s at 60kWh, leaving the "spare" as either a software unlock option (like for natural disasters) or to give you extra battery longevity since the wear is spread across 25% more batteries.
And when the battery reaches its 80% capacity, it still has effectively a "full" capacity to it.
It just need to emit when you push a button on the key fob. Or is this one of those "innovation" with scary quotes where you just have to be near your car ?
It can't continuously emit. Key fobs are powered by tiny batteries, and transmitters are power hungry. IN order to keep the battery life to several years they can't continuously transmit.
What happens is the key fob detects a low-level RF field emitted by the car, and the car interrogates the key when the key detects this. This is used for those keyless entry systems. This is an alternative to pushing the button.
What I don't get is the whole "don't need the fob to start". Every car I've seen refuses to start the engine unless the key fob is INSIDE the car. And the key is interrogated periodically - if you remove the key from the car, the engine will stop within 5 minutes. The only way to run longer is if the key fob remains near the car on the outside (this is essential for those of us in cold climates where we start the car, set the blower to fast and hot and defrosters on,. then go and scrape the windows on the outside, so the key fob is outside but close to the car).
So they can steal the car, and run it for as long as they can maintain the keyfob signal.
Heck, when they battery on my keyfob ran low (why the car souldn't tell me to replace the battery escapes me) the car asked me to insert the fob into a special key holder in the glove box as an emergency measure.
Why are you focusing almost exclusively on art-related issues, while the article, and the discussion below it, is mainly related to industry, and very marginally (if at all) to art?
Because it is mentally easier to rail against artists who are seen as "non-/. readers" than IP issues which actually DO affect/. users.
After all, without IP protections, the precious GPL is worthless, and that's not something that can be contemplated when railing against IP. Easier to rail against artists and musicians and the like, than to convince a bunch of open-source users that what they want will effectively destroy open-source.
It's the same reasoning as to why people claim you "can't pirate GPL" - yes you can. You distribute binaries without source automatically infers piracy, because you're not agreeing to the GPL. When that happens, your rights to use the program fall back to "all rights reserved" copyright law. Which means any distribution rights (granted to you by the GPL) no longer exist, and subsequent distribution falls against copyright law.
It already is a thing. Stardew Valley just announced that they will be starting their own launcher and leaving steam, and that is a 'small' developer. Its apparent the costs of running a storefront have dropped to the point where any dev with decent sales can pop one up. Elite Dangerous has been doing it for a while, and we saw Bethesda put Fallout 76 only on its store.
You could always run your own storefront. Just it usually involves having to hire people to maintain it, people to secure it, etc.
Payment processing is quite easy if you use something like Amazon, Google or Paypal as your backend.
The problem is the ongoing expense of securing the site - after all, you're only one data breech away from spilling your customer table.
It's usually the latter aspect that you run into a hosted service like Steam, App Stores or even services like Shopify and Big Cartel. Instead of paying to maintain and update the software stack, you just maintain the product list and those stores handle all the billing and taxes and other details
And yes, sometimes it's actually better to leave it to the pros like Big Cartel and Shopify - let them handle the mess of user IDs and passwords, payments, etc instead of having to harden your systems and worry about data breeches.
If itâ(TM)s a regular App Store or Apple Pay transaction, the app doesnâ(TM)t control the request for you to scan your fingerprint - so I donâ(TM)t see how it can pop up âoejust for a secondâ.
I think thereâ(TM)s some information possibly being withheld here.
I suspect the following is what happens:
1) The app has somehow done something to put up a window on top of system notifications. Draws a "Use touch ID to log in" type message. 2) The app then commands a in-app payment from the user. This pops up a dialog basically asking the user to confirm or deny the payment. 3) Because of exploiting (1), the app drawn window obscures the message. 4) iOS interprets the use of Touch ID as confirmation of the payment 5) Because of something in the background (app store processing - it can hang the UI thread it seems), the app loses control of the top level window it's forcing, iOS draws the confirmation dialog so it appears 6) When the app gets notification that the user paid, it removes the message as well.
Step 5 happens, and sometimes when music is playing by the app, the music is paused, which seems to indicate while app store processing is done, either a thread or the entire app is suspended temporarily losing control of whatever it was doing.
I would suspect somehow the app manages to draw over the App Store dialogs somehow - whether it's through a view bug or a Z-buffering bug or just doing something that somehow causes the window Z order to be incorrect briefly.
Though I thought usually the dialog first asks for confirmation to which you must say yes or no before you can even authenticate the purchase next, so the app must trick you into tapping a particular part of the screen first...
Though I wouldn't feel too bad for the people tricked - they can get a refund through Apple.
DHL took over 100% of Germany's postal services and ran it into the ground. Local packages take two weeks, International packages take up to a month to deliver once they reach the border and require you to visit a warehouse in the middle of nowhere to pick up your delivery. They are an overpriced, inconvenient and a severely debilitated service. Great that they are joining the robot revolution, but their shortcomings are is entirely in their logistics and quality of service.
DHL is a subsidiary of Germany's postal system. Guess what the "D" stands for...?
How is the number of subscribers one has on YouTube even a thing that people care about? Isn't there something even slightly more important they could be pursuing?
Easy, more subscribers, more money. PewDiePie, former #1 on YouTube probably easily pulled in a few hundred thousand every month in YouTube money.
If you've got a silver play button (100K subs) you generally can pull in a couple grand a month, not quite enough to live on, so you either have to supplement with a regular job or a Patreon account.
What's taken over the world is those companies' disgusting and heinous application stacks that happen to run on Linux.
Actually, beyond embedded Linux devices, the main stack used is Android. Android provides a nice UI framework, is available for practically for every SoC out there and if you device has a display, it's almost guaranteed to what is running underneath it all.
It's also very cheap to find an Android app developer to develop your frontend UI. Much easier than trying to find a develop for the piles of custom UI frameworks that existed before (even QT).
Of course, you can't take Android and have it do what you want, you need to customize it to support your hardware and expose the hooks necessary for your app developers to implement the device functionality. Those are left to more expensive Android Platform developers, who work with the OS itself and customize it. (There are there "development" streams in Android - SDK, NDK and PDK. The SDK and NDK are what app developers use, while the PDK (Platform development kit) is what is used to customize the OS to do things beyond what it was meant to do. It usually results in a flurry of patches above the AOSP base code)
Which pretty much confirms there is no such thing as a 'legitimate' ad network, and that the only reasonable conclusion is to block all of them on the assumption they're corrupt and broken.
I say until such time as this problem is 100% solved, everyone who works for an internet ad agency is fair game for a beat down for every instance of shit like this, no matter what the ad agency responsible.
Either the ad companies find a workable solution, or eventually we run out of people who work for ad companies. It's a win-win either way.
And, sorry, but if you work in internet advertising, you really do deserve that beat down and I don't much care that you're doing it to pay the bills; that's not my problem. The people who helped the Nazis said the same thing.
Internet ad companies are parasites who don't give a fuck about your privacy or security. Which means I don't care about their privacy or safety.
So why haven't you started the Anti-Google/Alphabet campaign yet? Remember, Google/Alphabet own 90% of the ad networks out there. The remaining 10% are the ones that advertise on the dodgier sites with fake download buttons, etc.
Alphabet/Google is right there. Google Ads is hardly ever used anymore, replaced by Alphabet's other offerings for ads. And all your big ad networks are in there that you know and love.
That's good to hear. I'm as concerned as anyone about the eugenics/GATTACA angle of this, but on a more immediate note, I think the potential off target effects are of ethical concern as well. If you're making a gene edited plant and you accidentally change something else that has a deleterious effect, who cares? Toss that plant and try again. In an animal model, if that happens and is causing undue problems, euthanizing the animal is an option.
But in humans? You get one shot, and it better work exactly right the first time. I'm all for gene editing, but even without the wide arching societal concerns, I don't think the technology is even close to using on humans at this time. Gene editing gets hyped up a lot, but there are still problems to be worked out when it comes to the actual practical application of the technology.
Perhaps it's also a matter of pride. Sure the technology is cool, but you don't want the world to believe that "your best of the best" are genetically engineered humans and not natural talent. (after all, Asians generally do quite well on those "education tests" that show which countries' students are the smartest of the lot, or educated, or whatever. Whether or not it's a valid test (North American generally only does "OK", behind Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia) is a question for another day).
Last thing anyone would want is to have the world believe that your students are "smart" because you've genetically engineered them to be so and that among people of "natural birth" they don't do so well. In other words, to make their students appear better, China cheated.
Lots of reasons. Back in the day I did a lot of AutoLISP work - it was a great way to enhance your toolset.
First off, you'd have your own customizations - hotkeys on your keyboard to do common operations (lines, polylines, snap tos, etc). Then there were macros that let you create a new document, and it would put in the borders and title block for you, then prompt you for the contents of the title block so your drawing had all the basics set up.
I even wrote a tool to create tables in AutoCAD - it would ask you for the number of rows and columns, the titles of each column, any fancy effects, control the width of the columns, and then the table data, and it would draw it in with lines and everything. Even made it so you could copy and paste from Excel
You could even do forms and I had written a few form-based utilities for the company I worked for as well
There were also more than a few addon packages for AutoCAD that were written in AutoLISP to do more specialized CAD work.
Point also remains that AutoCAD is not considered to be the premium CAD package - many other fields use more advanced CAD packages out there with AutoCAD being the sort of "MS Paint" of CAD programs in a world where everyone uses Photoshop for image editing.
I suppose the only real resurgence came about because AutoDesk went from professional to consumer around the 3D printer era and thus made a name for themselves there.
The problem is that there is also no physical evidence - at all. You brought up the "holding it wrong" issue, to which there was copious testing and personal evidence showing there was a problem, There is nothing anywhere like that in this case, only Bloomberg is making this claim, based on a second-hand report from some source with no ties to Apple.
Well, chances are China DID do this. But both Apple and Amazon caught it before putting the machines into service - either during hardware inspection to make sure the machines were built to spec, or during qualification testing where oddball traffic gets detected.
You have to remember both companies dumped SuperMicro as a supplier around the same time a couple of years ago which is considered quite odd since SuperMicro was one of the few server board manufacturers out there
Additionally likely is the modification was not caught by other companies, until alerted to it by Apple/Amazon that something like this happened.
There probably is some grain of truth to the story, it's just it became a non-story because it got caught
I think you might have a point there - I'm not sure where all the disparagement towards millenials is coming from. I'm in my 50s, and I work with plenty of interns and new grads in an engineering setting. My experience has been that most of them actually make an effort and bust their ass to get the job done, and are much more aware of needing to plan for the future than my generation was. Yeah, culturally there are differences and sometimes generational gaps in experiences, but I can't see any real reason to dogpile on them just for that.
I think it comes from the early days - when millennials started entering the workforce - you know around high school or so when their first job is a minimum wage retail job.
The reason I believe this is well, if you talk to small business owners (the kind of people who generally hire them for the first job) they still maintain they're all the same.
Sure the job sucks, and perhaps they're putting into it what they're getting out, hence the "lazy" and other terms used for it, when maybe in previous generations they basically put effort into it even though it was a minimum wage McJob.
Of course, it seems after that the Real World(tm) hits and they get some life lessons into how the world works and shake off the image, because once they get a Real Job they actually are competent and hard working.
Now, if someone will explain to me how these "Digital Natives" can require so much IT support. They're supposed to be able to run rings around us "Digital Immigrants" in online activities...
There is a market solution to the loot box problem: stop buying the stupid loot boxes. Better yet: Educate your kids not to buy the stupid loot boxes.
Every generation of kids has to face an addiction. When I was growing up, it was Magic: The Gathering AKA "cardboard crack." College students or graduates would spend significant their disposable income on randomized card packs, waiting to get that rare card so they could show-off to their friends. I remember one group of guys who had been in community college for several years, constantly skipping class to play Magic. They were stuck in time, just barely passing a few classes per semester due to their addiction.
Then it became video games. What was it before that? Baseball cards maybe? I think we need to teach our children to recognize this. Introduce them to the economics of it before the addiction can get a hold on them.
The problem is there are loot boxes, and there are loot boxes. There are free to play games, and there are free to play games.
You can't lump them all together because sometimes it's legit, other times it's not. Just like you can't say there aren't good free to play games that you can pass through without paying a single dime (Sure they may have ads, but that's that's it - you can advance by paying, or advance by simply playing).
Some will award you some random item and some will let you trade that item away for money, which in the end is a form of gambling. Or ones that make you pay to get some essential item you need to move forward. Others that are OK are ones that get you some cosmetic item that you can't trade away and don't help you in the game, which are probably OK.
The real question is where to do you draw the line? And if you're doing randomized stuff, isn't it fair to know the odds? Even games like Magic tell you the odds - you get 1 basic land, 1 rare card, 3 uncommons and 10 common cards in a booster, and you know going into it.
And the real answer is why you let the FTC investigate and find out more information and perhaps draw up some guidelines.
In Australia, the TV networks are circling the plug hole (anticlockwise, of course). Quality has gone through the floor - lots of "reality TV" and re-runs of imports. 15 minutes of advertising per hour, not including the product placement and travel, home improvement, etc shows that look more like infomercials.
Cable was super-expensive here (and still has adverts), so we were mostly moving to piracy and a bit of TIVO-ing until Netflix and the like arrived.
So you-tube heading in that direction does not sound like a good thing.
You have to remember that for ads, eyeballs count. "Reality" TV is what is popular rating wise and it's what people watch. Thus, networks all do a bunch of reality TV shows. And rating slides for reality shows can be greater because a reality TV program is cheap to produce.
And it's not just eyeballs, but the right eyeballs. Otherwise TV would be filled with NCIS and related shows which pull in quite good ratings, but generally of the wrong demographic so its real ratings are far lower. (Those shows pull in the older demographic, and if you're not in the 18-48 range, advertisers don't care about you).
It's why piracy of TV shows is not a big a deal, or even the whole "DVR threat". Because those TV executives realize that pirates and ad skippers don't count towards ratings so they can be ignored when making programming decisions. It's why shows get moved around - if a show is popular among the pirate crowd, but unpopular in its timeslot, the show gets cancelled. Sure fans will get angry, but the execs simply say if there that many fans, why didn't they watch the show and boost the ratings.
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Actually, it is. (And on iPhone, it's a 6 digit PIN). Legally too PINs are better.
HOWEVER, people are human. And it turns out the use cases for phones is hundreds to thousands of quick glimpses at the phone throughout the day. So for the vast majority of people faced with either a PIN (or pattern or whatever), it gets in their way and it doesn't take long before the phone is set to require no PIN or other unlock mechanism.
Biometrics fixes that to an extent - fingerprints and faces can be scanned while the phone is still in motion and the phone unlocks before the user is ready, making it extremely convenient for the user to glance at it for a couple of seconds at a time. Thus, the phone can have enhanced security (i.e., a PIN) placed on it and it doesn't get in the user's way most of the time.
End result is instead of something like 70% of phones not having a PIN, with biometrics, it tilts it to around 80% of phones will have some sort of PIN or other locking system added to it, making overall security much better in the end.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
HVDC has several advantages over HVAC transmission lines - namely in synchronization, lower impedance losses (basically just resistive losses) and the like. However, IIR losses are still present with HVDC installations and superconducting cables can still be used to reduce IIR losses. It's just they're lower than the IIZ losses incurred by HVAC.
The difficulty in transforming HVDC lines means they are only good for long haul lines where you bring them to the target voltage and transmit it. (IIR losses increase with the square of the current, so increasing voltage means lowered currents and thus losses drop. Doubling the voltage on a line halves the current, but means IIR losses are 1/4th what they were before).
In Westminster systems like Canada and the UK, the charges go from the police to the prosecutorial service. It's up to the prosecutor in charge to review the evidence and charges and decide on whether or not there's a reasonable chance of success. If not, then the prosecutor then decides if a lesser charge might have a better chance (e.g., going from murder to manslaughter). If not, the case is dropped - better to drop it now where there is insufficient evidence going in than to drag out a court case wasting resources on a hopeless case.
It's why in general the prosecutors have a rather high success rate of conviction - they don't blindly take up every case they're offered and instead analyze them to see if it will meet the thresholds of conviction. Yes there will be back and forth - the prosecutor can ask the police if they have any more evidence to solidify the case.
This is also the point where the prosecutors do their best to analyze how the evidence was gathered to ensure the defense can't pull a "tainted evidence" defense that discards key evidence.
It's not a perfect system because it can mean people go free due to lack of evidence right from the get-go (though usually the prosecution also directs when the police may arrest someone, so something like this won't end up with a double jeopardy situation). And it can mean really long delays between the crime and arraignmet, charges and the eventual trial.
It's also why a jury trial is optional - the defense has a choice, but in general jury trial conviction rates are even higher than a judge only trial.
You must be a great person to be around, because with an attitude like that, you basically end up being "the guy" who sucks any sort of joy and fun out of life. Remember, these people are entering the next phase of their life, and they're going to be spending at least a third of it on work - commuting and actually working. It is not an unreasonable ask to want to not be miserable during this phase of your life and to do something you might find enjoyable, or look forward to.
Working while living at home with Mom and Dad is a thing. It's a way to save money so you can buy your own house. Sure you could rent a crappy apartment and all that, but that's not necessarily the best use of money. Stay with Mom and Dad, help out with household chores, pay your share of the rent, and save. Save for a downpayment on a house or apartment. Save for retirement. Use this time to save.
If you're working for money and nothing else, you might want to rethink what life means to you. You may die a billionaire, but the way you act in your post, you're completely miserable and people wouldn't want to be around you. Sure you'd attract "people" (i.e., gold diggers) but they're not the kind of person you really want in your life, either.
You work to live, not live to work. And not enjoying your work is a sure sign that you need to leave your job and pursue a different career, something that will make you happier in life. Because life is too damn short to be miserable And even the boring parts of the job (because every job has miserable parts) will not seem quite so bad
And yes, it also means being reasonable in life - you can't live a champagne life on a beer budget. But if you work hard (there's no easy shortcut), save up money, you can spend a couple of weeks living the high life
Or perhaps, if your lifestyle is not one of misery and more akin to being happy about what you do, being excited at what a new day brings and look forward in the morning to heading out to work, you'll find out that such luxuries are mere material things.
And here's a truth - retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Permanent vacation sounds cool, until you're three weeks into it and bored, and that leads to trouble (usual of the self-destructive lifestyle kind). Plan on returning "back to work" while in retirement - just don't take it too hard - part time a couple of hours a day to keep you busy. The money is no longer important, but the social aspects. And see to it you're taking newcomers to the company and industry under your wing and teaching them as well.
It's hard to do this if you're miserable at work. If you're not happy doing what you're doing and you're doing it for the money, it's time to leave and pursue something new.
Actually, one of the first few patches to Doom was to reduce network utilization. Apparently the early versions were so good at taking down corporate networks (because home networking was but just a glint back in the day) with traffic that workplaces banned its use.
So a later version came out that greatly reduced network utilization so you could at least play it and not take down the network at the same time.
Except SuperMicro is a Taiwanese company. Sure Taiwan is in a weird place, claimed by China but considers itself independent, but most Taiwanese actually believe they are an independent country regardless of what the UN and other people say. (Plus, they have a real democracy and not a dictatorship).
And the real articles are Apple and Amazon for those two were the ones first reported on by Bloomberg.
Of course, it's always fun watching people who got law degrees from the University of YouTube try to pull fast ones over judges and cops (aka "sovereign citizens"). Either their knowledge is out of date (I think one quoted from a law dictionary that was over 100 years old and was long superseded by later editions), or they somehow miss the tons of videos of them trying their tactics and failing.
It's even more amusing when you can see the judge roll their eyes as "another one of those people".
No, that $22M will likely be what YouTube paid him.
In theory, the FTC has rules that suggest those who are featuring a product to show if they've been paid for the announcement (i.e., a sponsored ad). Whether toy companies are buying reviews is a business thing between his parents and the toy companies.
And yes, celebrity status does play a part - someone famous whose name may be recognizable will always be scrutinized more heavily than some random kid whose name isn't recognized outside of YouTube.
So two boxers can be investigated because people recognize them in general, but this kid (until now) probably was fine because if you asked people on the street, most will say "who?".
It's a plus and minus.
It's a plus in that ICS devices were supported for so long. It's a minus in that ICS devices were still around that long. But I think it's basically because until recently, ICS formed a not-insignificant group of users. All this for an OS released around 2011 or so?
iOS is a bit different - the App Store generally only goes back maybe 2-3 iOS versions, which cover pretty much 99.9% of active devices out there. New iOS versions are generally at 50% without a couple of months of release (usually you have Android out at least 2 or 3 versions back to be at that level - so at least 2 years?)
No, it's because the P60 and P75 share the same battery. Instead of having 3 battery sizes (60kWh, 75kWh and 100kWh) Tesla simply locks out the P60s at 60kWh, leaving the "spare" as either a software unlock option (like for natural disasters) or to give you extra battery longevity since the wear is spread across 25% more batteries.
And when the battery reaches its 80% capacity, it still has effectively a "full" capacity to it.
It can't continuously emit. Key fobs are powered by tiny batteries, and transmitters are power hungry. IN order to keep the battery life to several years they can't continuously transmit.
What happens is the key fob detects a low-level RF field emitted by the car, and the car interrogates the key when the key detects this. This is used for those keyless entry systems. This is an alternative to pushing the button.
What I don't get is the whole "don't need the fob to start". Every car I've seen refuses to start the engine unless the key fob is INSIDE the car. And the key is interrogated periodically - if you remove the key from the car, the engine will stop within 5 minutes. The only way to run longer is if the key fob remains near the car on the outside (this is essential for those of us in cold climates where we start the car, set the blower to fast and hot and defrosters on,. then go and scrape the windows on the outside, so the key fob is outside but close to the car).
So they can steal the car, and run it for as long as they can maintain the keyfob signal.
Heck, when they battery on my keyfob ran low (why the car souldn't tell me to replace the battery escapes me) the car asked me to insert the fob into a special key holder in the glove box as an emergency measure.
Because it is mentally easier to rail against artists who are seen as "non-/. readers" than IP issues which actually DO affect /. users.
After all, without IP protections, the precious GPL is worthless, and that's not something that can be contemplated when railing against IP. Easier to rail against artists and musicians and the like, than to convince a bunch of open-source users that what they want will effectively destroy open-source.
It's the same reasoning as to why people claim you "can't pirate GPL" - yes you can. You distribute binaries without source automatically infers piracy, because you're not agreeing to the GPL. When that happens, your rights to use the program fall back to "all rights reserved" copyright law. Which means any distribution rights (granted to you by the GPL) no longer exist, and subsequent distribution falls against copyright law.
Yes it was. Most likely your app was a webview that displayed a website complete with Google +1 and Facebook Like buttons.
Those buttons are your trackers.
You could always run your own storefront. Just it usually involves having to hire people to maintain it, people to secure it, etc.
Payment processing is quite easy if you use something like Amazon, Google or Paypal as your backend.
The problem is the ongoing expense of securing the site - after all, you're only one data breech away from spilling your customer table.
It's usually the latter aspect that you run into a hosted service like Steam, App Stores or even services like Shopify and Big Cartel. Instead of paying to maintain and update the software stack, you just maintain the product list and those stores handle all the billing and taxes and other details
And yes, sometimes it's actually better to leave it to the pros like Big Cartel and Shopify - let them handle the mess of user IDs and passwords, payments, etc instead of having to harden your systems and worry about data breeches.
I suspect the following is what happens:
1) The app has somehow done something to put up a window on top of system notifications. Draws a "Use touch ID to log in" type message.
2) The app then commands a in-app payment from the user. This pops up a dialog basically asking the user to confirm or deny the payment.
3) Because of exploiting (1), the app drawn window obscures the message.
4) iOS interprets the use of Touch ID as confirmation of the payment
5) Because of something in the background (app store processing - it can hang the UI thread it seems), the app loses control of the top level window it's forcing, iOS draws the confirmation dialog so it appears
6) When the app gets notification that the user paid, it removes the message as well.
Step 5 happens, and sometimes when music is playing by the app, the music is paused, which seems to indicate while app store processing is done, either a thread or the entire app is suspended temporarily losing control of whatever it was doing.
I would suspect somehow the app manages to draw over the App Store dialogs somehow - whether it's through a view bug or a Z-buffering bug or just doing something that somehow causes the window Z order to be incorrect briefly.
Though I thought usually the dialog first asks for confirmation to which you must say yes or no before you can even authenticate the purchase next, so the app must trick you into tapping a particular part of the screen first...
Though I wouldn't feel too bad for the people tricked - they can get a refund through Apple.
DHL is a subsidiary of Germany's postal system. Guess what the "D" stands for...?
Easy, more subscribers, more money. PewDiePie, former #1 on YouTube probably easily pulled in a few hundred thousand every month in YouTube money.
If you've got a silver play button (100K subs) you generally can pull in a couple grand a month, not quite enough to live on, so you either have to supplement with a regular job or a Patreon account.
Actually, beyond embedded Linux devices, the main stack used is Android. Android provides a nice UI framework, is available for practically for every SoC out there and if you device has a display, it's almost guaranteed to what is running underneath it all.
It's also very cheap to find an Android app developer to develop your frontend UI. Much easier than trying to find a develop for the piles of custom UI frameworks that existed before (even QT).
Of course, you can't take Android and have it do what you want, you need to customize it to support your hardware and expose the hooks necessary for your app developers to implement the device functionality. Those are left to more expensive Android Platform developers, who work with the OS itself and customize it. (There are there "development" streams in Android - SDK, NDK and PDK. The SDK and NDK are what app developers use, while the PDK (Platform development kit) is what is used to customize the OS to do things beyond what it was meant to do. It usually results in a flurry of patches above the AOSP base code)
So why haven't you started the Anti-Google/Alphabet campaign yet? Remember, Google/Alphabet own 90% of the ad networks out there. The remaining 10% are the ones that advertise on the dodgier sites with fake download buttons, etc.
Alphabet/Google is right there. Google Ads is hardly ever used anymore, replaced by Alphabet's other offerings for ads. And all your big ad networks are in there that you know and love.
Perhaps it's also a matter of pride. Sure the technology is cool, but you don't want the world to believe that "your best of the best" are genetically engineered humans and not natural talent. (after all, Asians generally do quite well on those "education tests" that show which countries' students are the smartest of the lot, or educated, or whatever. Whether or not it's a valid test (North American generally only does "OK", behind Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia) is a question for another day).
Last thing anyone would want is to have the world believe that your students are "smart" because you've genetically engineered them to be so and that among people of "natural birth" they don't do so well. In other words, to make their students appear better, China cheated.
Lots of reasons. Back in the day I did a lot of AutoLISP work - it was a great way to enhance your toolset.
First off, you'd have your own customizations - hotkeys on your keyboard to do common operations (lines, polylines, snap tos, etc). Then there were macros that let you create a new document, and it would put in the borders and title block for you, then prompt you for the contents of the title block so your drawing had all the basics set up.
I even wrote a tool to create tables in AutoCAD - it would ask you for the number of rows and columns, the titles of each column, any fancy effects, control the width of the columns, and then the table data, and it would draw it in with lines and everything. Even made it so you could copy and paste from Excel
You could even do forms and I had written a few form-based utilities for the company I worked for as well
There were also more than a few addon packages for AutoCAD that were written in AutoLISP to do more specialized CAD work.
Point also remains that AutoCAD is not considered to be the premium CAD package - many other fields use more advanced CAD packages out there with AutoCAD being the sort of "MS Paint" of CAD programs in a world where everyone uses Photoshop for image editing.
I suppose the only real resurgence came about because AutoDesk went from professional to consumer around the 3D printer era and thus made a name for themselves there.
Well, chances are China DID do this. But both Apple and Amazon caught it before putting the machines into service - either during hardware inspection to make sure the machines were built to spec, or during qualification testing where oddball traffic gets detected.
You have to remember both companies dumped SuperMicro as a supplier around the same time a couple of years ago which is considered quite odd since SuperMicro was one of the few server board manufacturers out there
Additionally likely is the modification was not caught by other companies, until alerted to it by Apple/Amazon that something like this happened.
There probably is some grain of truth to the story, it's just it became a non-story because it got caught
I think it comes from the early days - when millennials started entering the workforce - you know around high school or so when their first job is a minimum wage retail job.
The reason I believe this is well, if you talk to small business owners (the kind of people who generally hire them for the first job) they still maintain they're all the same.
Sure the job sucks, and perhaps they're putting into it what they're getting out, hence the "lazy" and other terms used for it, when maybe in previous generations they basically put effort into it even though it was a minimum wage McJob.
Of course, it seems after that the Real World(tm) hits and they get some life lessons into how the world works and shake off the image, because once they get a Real Job they actually are competent and hard working.
Now, if someone will explain to me how these "Digital Natives" can require so much IT support. They're supposed to be able to run rings around us "Digital Immigrants" in online activities...
The problem is there are loot boxes, and there are loot boxes. There are free to play games, and there are free to play games.
You can't lump them all together because sometimes it's legit, other times it's not. Just like you can't say there aren't good free to play games that you can pass through without paying a single dime (Sure they may have ads, but that's that's it - you can advance by paying, or advance by simply playing).
Some will award you some random item and some will let you trade that item away for money, which in the end is a form of gambling. Or ones that make you pay to get some essential item you need to move forward. Others that are OK are ones that get you some cosmetic item that you can't trade away and don't help you in the game, which are probably OK.
The real question is where to do you draw the line? And if you're doing randomized stuff, isn't it fair to know the odds? Even games like Magic tell you the odds - you get 1 basic land, 1 rare card, 3 uncommons and 10 common cards in a booster, and you know going into it.
And the real answer is why you let the FTC investigate and find out more information and perhaps draw up some guidelines.
You have to remember that for ads, eyeballs count. "Reality" TV is what is popular rating wise and it's what people watch. Thus, networks all do a bunch of reality TV shows. And rating slides for reality shows can be greater because a reality TV program is cheap to produce.
And it's not just eyeballs, but the right eyeballs. Otherwise TV would be filled with NCIS and related shows which pull in quite good ratings, but generally of the wrong demographic so its real ratings are far lower. (Those shows pull in the older demographic, and if you're not in the 18-48 range, advertisers don't care about you).
It's why piracy of TV shows is not a big a deal, or even the whole "DVR threat". Because those TV executives realize that pirates and ad skippers don't count towards ratings so they can be ignored when making programming decisions. It's why shows get moved around - if a show is popular among the pirate crowd, but unpopular in its timeslot, the show gets cancelled. Sure fans will get angry, but the execs simply say if there that many fans, why didn't they watch the show and boost the ratings.