Or you could run on emulators that Visual Studio provides for WinPhones (using a Windows VM, of course, no new hardware needed) and Google Provides for Android through their SDK. Especially in Android, it's better to develop to the emulators first anyway so you can get an idea of how your app will look and behave on a multitude of screen sizes and device capabilities... thus making sure that you can appeal to the widest array of potential customers and knowing how to code around the version fragmentation. Most of the sensors are available for tweaking and manipulation in the Emulator on a live basis and available for apps to read as if they were operating on a real phone. Hell, the emulator can even simulate being in a phone call so you can test application blocking, suspending, and resuming when it needs to.
Reminds me of that time back in Highschool where my teacher was relating a story of when he was working as a programmer for the US Government. He was told to write what seemed to be a rather simple routine just to do a diagnostic check if a switch was flipped a certain way. He apparently later found out that his code was a critical piece of some ICBM guidance software...he said he changed professions after that.
Seriously, this could be compartmentalized in so much the same manner that none of the peons understood exactly what it was they were doing. Hypothetical: PHB in charge of 3 different system development departments sends out 3 separate emails to the heads.
Email 1: Charlie, In your diagnostic control api cnctr.cs, I need you to return float(1) whenever pin 3 and pin 6 are jumpered for some debug testing that QA needs
Email 2: Jason, we need you to build an api called egr.sys that will take a calculated value and adjust the exhaust flow accordingly.
Email 3: Denis, we need a method that will read returns from maf.cs, tbi.cs, o2.cs, and cnctr.cs to calculate a floating value between 0 and 1 and pass it to egr.sys If any one of those methods returns 1, however, your method must return.9 or higher.
This is only a simplification. The modularization may go even farther than that. It could be 4 PHBs getting work requests for each of 8 different teams from 10 different departments with not much communication between. Seriously... does putting a check for if something gets plugged into the diagnostic port sound like a malevolent request? There seriously could be several routines that would legitimately check this value. There could also be several points of abstraction between the routine checking the diagnostic plug status, the routines reading from the several thousand emissions sensors, and the routines taking all this sensory input and using it to implement adjustments to the several emissions control systems. One end-coder or end-engineer is not going to know enough about the entire system to be able to say "Hey! This doesn't seem right!" The ethics break happened high enough up the chain of command with just enough engineering experience to know what code needed to be placed on which team. Once you get to the level that you have several frontline engineers working on a project, the greater the scope of the project that each engineer has access to, the greater the risk of one of them putting the pieces together and blowing the whistle on the whole thing. The best option here for a corrupt PHB is to keep the various engineers focused on their individual spec sheets and in the dark about the related projects that other engineers are supposed to be focused on.
Now as to the OP itself. Unless the MPAA is providing such equipment free of charge to the theaters, I'd expect push back on this
So you're suggesting that since the MPAA isn't funding the IR LED banks, the theatres need expensive night vision goggles instead?
Funny you're modded Insightful for a blatant lack of reading comprehension. Considering that the AC's trying to get back to the OP(Opening Post - in this context, the summary) which is talking about the expensive night vision goggles and not IR lights, AC is suggesting that if the MPAA wants the night vision goggles for minimum wage ushers to be playing police, they need to be paying the expense for the night vision equipment. I'll add to that and they should probably be paying for the raises to actually bring the usher's level of pay to the point that they'd actually give a shit about enforcing anti-piracy rules. Why the hell should frontlines employees give a shit about enforcing some Fat-Cat's rules if they won't make any extra money off of it? Minimum Pay? Shouldn't expect better than minimum work, then.
If a customer is looking at computers on that low of the spectrum, they wouldn't give a flying fuck about anything in this article. If a person is looking for something to do email and facebook and maybe a few flash games, they wouldn't need a desktop; and they sure as hell wouldn't need a bloody nVidia 980 in whatever the hell piece of crap device they buy. This article is about nVidia putting their newest gaming graphics card into a laptop form factor. This is an article targeting the gaming and performance market, where the desktop will be king for as long as laptops remain a replaceable unit only. Laptops designed with gaming in mind are notoriously expensive... which was the whole point of my posting. A laptop with a single 980? Where's that gonna be in 5 years? The fucking trash can while the buyer lays down another $4k on a decent gaming laptop with the brand spankin new nVidia z60 (because marketing sez the numbers can't go above 1000 [disclaimer: no, I have no idea what the versioning numbers are going to be 10 generations - 5 yrs - from now]). Meanwhile I'll still have my performance server chugging along on quad SLI versions of that same nVidia z60 for about half that price, while delivering 1080p HD gaming to the 2 laptops I bought back in 2011.
You tout the death of the desktop. It isn't going to happen; not in the next 5 years...probably not even in 10. Sure, you'll have more households that will give up control and use cloud providers for their stuff, but there's too many of us that need that control over our data - and with every data breach that goes public our numbers grow. What's more likely to happen is those of us with true privacy and data security in mind will make sure the high end desktop and low to midrange server market will stay alive and well as we build "household mainframes" to manage our compute and data storage needs while we only offload the least security critical information out into the cloud for remote access to those files from work or school. We'll then hook into the mainframe to stream movies and Super HD games to our TVs; other Super HD games or graphics arts projects to our laptops; and download recipes, books, schematics, etc to our tablets on demand.
On a side note to this, a while ago I did an Ask Slashdot about tying my household to my parent's household to perform remote management tasks on all their systems. The solution that had the best value for that situation was each of our households having a "household mainframe" that each have their own LDAP tree but will work together over ssh using private key authentication, allowing me to cross trees and manage their roving profiles as needed. If the link goes down (rare but it does happen), each tree can handle their own networks independently as needed. It has greatly reduced the number of trips I need to make each month to ensure that their systems are working properly, and they don't hire 3rd parties anymore that screw up their systems.
I've yet to see a Laptop be even close to a desktop in price. I've always seen that a laptop is at least twice the cost of a desktop that's 2 or 3 times the power.
Case in point: My wife has used several sites to try to design her dream gaming laptop. Every time she's come up with a system that's no less than $4,000 and usually closer to $5,000 in price. For ~$4,000 on NewEgg I can build a Dual Xenon (12-Cores total) server with 64GB of RAM (expandable to 512GB), Quad Gigabit Ethernet Ports, and Quad SLI Full Factor GTX 980's pushing High Definition Game Streaming two different games, one to my current laptop and one to my wife's while keeping all the high end graphics eye-candy that can be mustered. With that much beef, I could probably run several Linux servers on it at the same time I'm running the two separate Windows VM's that are pushing the games down the line to the laptops.
How do I know this is do-able? Using my 3 year old Desktop with Intel Quad Core, 16 Gigs of Ram and Dual GTX980's(very recent upgrade from dual GTX 760's) that cost me less than $2k I can stream Batman: Arkham Knight (pc glitches and all...though it's been much improved with last month's patch) at the highest video options to my Laptop that's connected to my 1080p TV and Dolby 7.1 and get the full home theater experience with all the stupid PhysX effects that Rocksteady could fit. The laptops that my wife and I have? They're both 4 year old Acer Aspire 7552 Laptops, Quad Core with an AMD M6650 GPU, 4GB of RAM, and Gigabit Ethernet each.
Not just for gaming, but many times I'd be working on a cpu/gpu intensive project from the comfort of my bed while remoted into the desktop using the laptop as nothing more than a thick-client; especially if I were setting a project up for an overnight compile/compute job. Anyone who does serious work/play with a computer, I'd highly recommend pouring all your money into putting together a beefed up Desktop/Server system to run all the compute tasks in the household, and just get each member of the household that needs one a cheap laptop for the day to day tasks of email and web-browsing. If they need the compute power or want to play a high end game, stream it. Put the money into something that can easily be upgraded and repaired as needed...instead of the unit that's designed to be disposed of and replaced when the new shiney comes out.
After testing it in both Password Authentication only and Fingerprint Scanner with Backup Password authentication modes... both modes only allow 16 character passwords. So... if you're going to use a password, it can't be greater than 16 characters... or, it can, but everything after the 16th character is just dropped. I have to agree with you though. 16 characters is not enough. I'd personally prefer it should have been limited to 64 characters; 32 characters at an absolute minimum. Provides a nice huge margin before you get to the level that triggers buffer overflows, but also provides a decent level of security. I also seriously don't like that the lock screen crashes to home instead of crashing into itself.
If a basic income of $45k/yr was provided, I would quit my job and take the reduced pay in a heartbeat. Would I be idle with all that extra time? Hell no. With that kind of safetynet I can work on building my own enterprise without having to worry about becoming homeless in the process. The only reason I don't build the plan now is simply lack of time by owing that time to a traditional employer. I have to work for someone else to keep myself afloat, which eats up the time needed to put into other endeavors that would actually pull down triple that income once it got off the ground. I can't drop my hours or quit, because then I lose the income necessary to live. Unfortunately, in this case I'm also stuck with what happens if I'm ever let go... in the current situation I'm looking at a minimum of 6 months, no pay and using all my waking hours trying to pimp my free hours off to another company just so I can make enough money to live on and recoup the amount of savings that I burned through in that time.
Paying for everyone to have a basic income? How about this... drop all the current welfare plans and use the money that went to them to fill this coffer. If there's more money still needed to afford it, tax the goddamn corporations for the rest! Would also help if US did the same thing that some other countries do: If you want to sell a product here, it has to be built here. If you want to sell a service here, it has to have local support. If you're having problems finding people with the skills, take one of the many millions of STEM grads and spend some time and money training them to your need.
This is only a small part of what it would take to build a sustainable plan; and a sustainable plan will require quite a bit more complexity... but for me to work on it requires more time than I want to put into a small/. post.
And one bit of an aside to more directly tear down your point: As someone who has had to live on welfare temporarily during a few years of being on the down and out end of the spectrum: Meeting the all the appointments, gathering all the documentation to show you meet minimum requirements, and dealing with the bureaucracy behind the 40 different assistance programs just to get enough to stay on the right side of the cliffs edge requires more time than keeping a full time job. On top of that, trying to perform a job search to get out of the system...and there's 120 hrs a week blown for 3 years...fighting to get just a smidge of breathing room. Once I managed to get a full time position at RadioShack that paid $22k per year...guess what happened to all that assistance? Yeah... it completely disappeared. I worked my ass off trying to scrounge up enough to keep myself and a disabled wife from being homeless...and came to the knife's edge of losing everything multiple times. Now I'm in a position where we can finally live off the money we make and put a little bit away to prepare for the next shoe to drop. If I wasn't so worried about the next fight for my life that would ensue at that time, I'd have no qualms about a portion of my check going to other families that need it. A guaranteed $45k/year income for just living would take away so much of my worry that I'd be able to comfortably find other ways to put back into society...and if it came to fruition that I started a business that I could rake in $200k just for myself every year...I'd have no problem with 20% of that going right back into the basic income coffer.
Samsung Galaxy S5 owner here. Although I use the fingerprint scanner for a lockscreen, it has the ability to use a backup password instead. The password field does not allow pasting and typing into the field only allows 16 characters maximum; everything above that does not get entered in the field. I've also just switched to password entry as the primary locking mechanism to the same result. Cannot paste and field only accepts 16 characters.
What makes them idiots isn't them being able to tell whether it was a bomb or not. What makes them idiots is that they discovered that the kid spoke the truth and the device really was just a plain old clock... and then they're still trying to lay him out under the jail and force an apology out of the kid for building what the device has been proven to not be.
The issue here isn't the initial reaction to the clock. The issue is that it's discovered and proven that the device really was just a clock...but the "Authorities" kept on escalating, leading to an ultimately unwarranted suspension, juvenile detention, an official charge, with a court date! If it had been simply dropped at the point of "ok, just a clock like the kid said... we can resume classes now," -- no harm, no foul. No. These idiots have to keep going with it, think they have to save face from a perceived slight against them, even if there were no such thing... and then potentially destroy a kid's life because they could not man up and admit that they made a mistake.
If someone brings in a questionable item to class, fine, go ahead and question the kid, investigate the item...bring in an expert if you don't think you've the "expertise" to identify an item...even write up a damn report of the incident if you have to. If the item is identified as malicious..then by all means, put the kid under the jail and yell it to the four corners. If what looks like a homemade clock turns out, after investigation, to be just a clock, then write up an incident report that reflects that if you have to...and DROP it right there; No "consequences" for the kid because, hey!, He really actually didn't do a damn thing wrong to deserve any consequences!
Might as well click the "Check for Updates but let me choose whether to download and install them" option, it's cheaper than trying to run your own update server where you're having to do exactly the same thing of going through the KB's and making sure Microsoft isn't trying to slip some spyware into it (A couple of noted spyware KB's were loaded in as a security update). If you've got a home network of several windows boxes and you want to manage the updates that are installed on all of them, that's when you want to use a local Windows Update server to be able to control what updates get pushed to several systems at once. Still have to review each update, but you only have to do it once as opposed to going to each individual computer and clicking off each update you want. The click once to configure all is what makes the Local Windows Update server attractive in the enterprise, but generally more expense than the average home user wants to deal with.
Sorry if my time constrained summary of disaster preparedness didn't include that little bit of information about rotating stock and assuming that everyone knew that non-perishable meant food that had a shelf life longer than two weeks without refrigeration (you know like canned food, dried meats, trail mixes...that kind of stuff). I forgot that Slashdot was supposed to be the end-all be-all of information about everything in the universe. And here I thought someone who was actually serious about getting information about being prepared for a disaster that knocks out power and water for more than a week would get the pertinent information about stock rotation, boarding up the house, and other important tidbits from one of those pamphlets that are available at most government offices (at least I can find them here in Georgia and back when I lived in Connecticut). Thanks for enlightening me on how to be a pedantic ass!
Go away shill. On a story thread about Microshit's latest bullshit and you think ANYONE with brains is going to go for a WinPhone? I'd go for an iPhone before I go WinPhone...and I wouldn't be caught dead with an iPhone.
Way too far the other way, guy. One should always keep enough storage of Non-perishable Food Rations and Water to last at least a week. By all means have a shelter capable of withstanding and protecting occupants from the regional probable disasters (flooding, landslides, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires..what have you). If it's evident before hand that the disaster will likely keep you a prisoner inside your bunker for more than a week or two (at the very most), it's probably better to get out of dodge. Prepping for a ground zero nuclear or dirty bomb attack, you're not likely to get into the shelter before you're a crispy critter. Inside the radiation zone of said attack? You might live in the bunker for a while until your supplies run out, but they WILL run out long before it's safe to come out of that bunker.
There's preparing for a likely disaster... Then there's preparation obsession to the level of stupid, which are the people that tend to get labeled as "prepper". When it's to the latter level, that's just someone who will not come to terms with the fact that circumstances leading to death can very well be inevitable and uncontrollable.
Google Maps being used as the example in the AC's post that I initially replied under. Google Maps' inferior handling of offline cases can be used as an argument FOR purchasing an independent GPS unit. As I initially stated, I wasn't arguing against his argument per se... but he needed to use a better application as an example of why the phone is superior to standalone GPS. As a turn-by-turn navigation app, Google Maps is a pathetic offering compared to other available apps.
Umm...that's Great if I'm just reading the map without data...but If I need turn by turn in the meantime? I'll stick with a GPS app that already has that feature enabled (there's several).
What, Your phone doesn't OTA update itself? Or are you stuck in 2005 and have a dedicated piece of hardware to use for directions? I can't comprehend why people still buy Germans and the like when they are inferior to cell phones in pretty much every way. Especially since Google Maps updates for free instead of a yearly fee.
I'm not really arguing against your point, but Google Maps is utterly useless if there's not a constant data connection because the Map is updated on the fly instead of stored on the device. If you're out of your service area and reach the edge of your cached map before service is re-established, you could very well wind up lost without a functional GPS. It's for this reason that a lot of less knowledgeable users will still buy a dedicated GPS unit.
If you have enough storage on your cell phone, however, I'd highly recommend installing a good GPS app, like NavFree USA, as you can download the maps to the device and they are always ready to use along with receiving periodic updates. These dedicated GPS apps will never require a data connection during use and will use the location information from the GPS sensor whether you have a data signal or not.
I think at this point MS has finally made it where the risks of running Windows Update and getting files and features I don't want have outweighed the supposed benefits of keeping my system secure through Windows Update. No more updates, and Windows 7 is the last MS-OS I allow in the house.
IPv5 aka ST2. Although in reading IPv5 is nothing more than experimental, it has been released and it still exists... Unlike PHP6 which was never publicly released and by and large backported into PHP5. When they did that, 6 should have been dropped until such time that a major version release was warranted...and then name that one PHP6 instead of coming up with so many arguments why they need to jump versions to 7.
Most retail outlets use thermal paper for their receipts. No ink involved. Places that print out invoices for work performed and such tend to still use Dot Matrix around here for their carbonless copies, so there's Ink on ribbons. There's only one business that I've dealt with regularly in the past 5 years that prints receipts using a laserjet. Everyone else is either Thermal or Dot Matrix. Otherwise, the primary consumers of Laserjet toner or Inkjet ink have been office spaces.
Because typos in the flow of the zone never happen. This is the exact type of thing that would make debugging a nightmare. It's a subtle syntax error that is looked at by the system like valid code. And in a program of 50 to 100 lines even...it's too easy to overlook this even if you ARE specifically looking for this.
IMTS in this case means Improved Mobile Telephone Service. It was a precursor to cellular service that ran on VHF and UHF bands. VHF (Very High Frequency) ran 30MHz to 300MHz. UHF(Some movie by Weird Al...er...no. I mean Ultra High Frequency) ran 300MHZ up to 3GHz.
This actually depends on how often they get paid. Based on $6000 (gross):
Monthly: 72k/yr
Bi-Weekly: 138k/yr
Weekly (unlikely in this day and age): 312k/yr
Basically, If they're getting paid monthly, like government people, or bi-weekly like most companies, it's not impossible for them to have a salary of $6k per pay period.
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Hey! That's MINE! It has to be mine because I've had it since I first discovered that ether--thing. It also follows me wherever I go.
Or you could run on emulators that Visual Studio provides for WinPhones (using a Windows VM, of course, no new hardware needed) and Google Provides for Android through their SDK. Especially in Android, it's better to develop to the emulators first anyway so you can get an idea of how your app will look and behave on a multitude of screen sizes and device capabilities... thus making sure that you can appeal to the widest array of potential customers and knowing how to code around the version fragmentation. Most of the sensors are available for tweaking and manipulation in the Emulator on a live basis and available for apps to read as if they were operating on a real phone. Hell, the emulator can even simulate being in a phone call so you can test application blocking, suspending, and resuming when it needs to.
Reminds me of that time back in Highschool where my teacher was relating a story of when he was working as a programmer for the US Government. He was told to write what seemed to be a rather simple routine just to do a diagnostic check if a switch was flipped a certain way. He apparently later found out that his code was a critical piece of some ICBM guidance software...he said he changed professions after that.
Seriously, this could be compartmentalized in so much the same manner that none of the peons understood exactly what it was they were doing. Hypothetical: PHB in charge of 3 different system development departments sends out 3 separate emails to the heads.
This is only a simplification. The modularization may go even farther than that. It could be 4 PHBs getting work requests for each of 8 different teams from 10 different departments with not much communication between. Seriously... does putting a check for if something gets plugged into the diagnostic port sound like a malevolent request? There seriously could be several routines that would legitimately check this value. There could also be several points of abstraction between the routine checking the diagnostic plug status, the routines reading from the several thousand emissions sensors, and the routines taking all this sensory input and using it to implement adjustments to the several emissions control systems. One end-coder or end-engineer is not going to know enough about the entire system to be able to say "Hey! This doesn't seem right!" The ethics break happened high enough up the chain of command with just enough engineering experience to know what code needed to be placed on which team. Once you get to the level that you have several frontline engineers working on a project, the greater the scope of the project that each engineer has access to, the greater the risk of one of them putting the pieces together and blowing the whistle on the whole thing. The best option here for a corrupt PHB is to keep the various engineers focused on their individual spec sheets and in the dark about the related projects that other engineers are supposed to be focused on.
Now as to the OP itself. Unless the MPAA is providing such equipment free of charge to the theaters, I'd expect push back on this
So you're suggesting that since the MPAA isn't funding the IR LED banks, the theatres need expensive night vision goggles instead?
Funny you're modded Insightful for a blatant lack of reading comprehension. Considering that the AC's trying to get back to the OP(Opening Post - in this context, the summary) which is talking about the expensive night vision goggles and not IR lights, AC is suggesting that if the MPAA wants the night vision goggles for minimum wage ushers to be playing police, they need to be paying the expense for the night vision equipment. I'll add to that and they should probably be paying for the raises to actually bring the usher's level of pay to the point that they'd actually give a shit about enforcing anti-piracy rules. Why the hell should frontlines employees give a shit about enforcing some Fat-Cat's rules if they won't make any extra money off of it? Minimum Pay? Shouldn't expect better than minimum work, then.
If a customer is looking at computers on that low of the spectrum, they wouldn't give a flying fuck about anything in this article. If a person is looking for something to do email and facebook and maybe a few flash games, they wouldn't need a desktop; and they sure as hell wouldn't need a bloody nVidia 980 in whatever the hell piece of crap device they buy. This article is about nVidia putting their newest gaming graphics card into a laptop form factor. This is an article targeting the gaming and performance market, where the desktop will be king for as long as laptops remain a replaceable unit only. Laptops designed with gaming in mind are notoriously expensive... which was the whole point of my posting. A laptop with a single 980? Where's that gonna be in 5 years? The fucking trash can while the buyer lays down another $4k on a decent gaming laptop with the brand spankin new nVidia z60 (because marketing sez the numbers can't go above 1000 [disclaimer: no, I have no idea what the versioning numbers are going to be 10 generations - 5 yrs - from now]). Meanwhile I'll still have my performance server chugging along on quad SLI versions of that same nVidia z60 for about half that price, while delivering 1080p HD gaming to the 2 laptops I bought back in 2011.
You tout the death of the desktop. It isn't going to happen; not in the next 5 years...probably not even in 10. Sure, you'll have more households that will give up control and use cloud providers for their stuff, but there's too many of us that need that control over our data - and with every data breach that goes public our numbers grow. What's more likely to happen is those of us with true privacy and data security in mind will make sure the high end desktop and low to midrange server market will stay alive and well as we build "household mainframes" to manage our compute and data storage needs while we only offload the least security critical information out into the cloud for remote access to those files from work or school. We'll then hook into the mainframe to stream movies and Super HD games to our TVs; other Super HD games or graphics arts projects to our laptops; and download recipes, books, schematics, etc to our tablets on demand.
On a side note to this, a while ago I did an Ask Slashdot about tying my household to my parent's household to perform remote management tasks on all their systems. The solution that had the best value for that situation was each of our households having a "household mainframe" that each have their own LDAP tree but will work together over ssh using private key authentication, allowing me to cross trees and manage their roving profiles as needed. If the link goes down (rare but it does happen), each tree can handle their own networks independently as needed. It has greatly reduced the number of trips I need to make each month to ensure that their systems are working properly, and they don't hire 3rd parties anymore that screw up their systems.
I've yet to see a Laptop be even close to a desktop in price. I've always seen that a laptop is at least twice the cost of a desktop that's 2 or 3 times the power.
Case in point: My wife has used several sites to try to design her dream gaming laptop. Every time she's come up with a system that's no less than $4,000 and usually closer to $5,000 in price. For ~$4,000 on NewEgg I can build a Dual Xenon (12-Cores total) server with 64GB of RAM (expandable to 512GB), Quad Gigabit Ethernet Ports, and Quad SLI Full Factor GTX 980's pushing High Definition Game Streaming two different games, one to my current laptop and one to my wife's while keeping all the high end graphics eye-candy that can be mustered. With that much beef, I could probably run several Linux servers on it at the same time I'm running the two separate Windows VM's that are pushing the games down the line to the laptops.
How do I know this is do-able? Using my 3 year old Desktop with Intel Quad Core, 16 Gigs of Ram and Dual GTX980's(very recent upgrade from dual GTX 760's) that cost me less than $2k I can stream Batman: Arkham Knight (pc glitches and all...though it's been much improved with last month's patch) at the highest video options to my Laptop that's connected to my 1080p TV and Dolby 7.1 and get the full home theater experience with all the stupid PhysX effects that Rocksteady could fit. The laptops that my wife and I have? They're both 4 year old Acer Aspire 7552 Laptops, Quad Core with an AMD M6650 GPU, 4GB of RAM, and Gigabit Ethernet each.
Not just for gaming, but many times I'd be working on a cpu/gpu intensive project from the comfort of my bed while remoted into the desktop using the laptop as nothing more than a thick-client; especially if I were setting a project up for an overnight compile/compute job. Anyone who does serious work/play with a computer, I'd highly recommend pouring all your money into putting together a beefed up Desktop/Server system to run all the compute tasks in the household, and just get each member of the household that needs one a cheap laptop for the day to day tasks of email and web-browsing. If they need the compute power or want to play a high end game, stream it. Put the money into something that can easily be upgraded and repaired as needed...instead of the unit that's designed to be disposed of and replaced when the new shiney comes out.
After testing it in both Password Authentication only and Fingerprint Scanner with Backup Password authentication modes... both modes only allow 16 character passwords. So... if you're going to use a password, it can't be greater than 16 characters... or, it can, but everything after the 16th character is just dropped. I have to agree with you though. 16 characters is not enough. I'd personally prefer it should have been limited to 64 characters; 32 characters at an absolute minimum. Provides a nice huge margin before you get to the level that triggers buffer overflows, but also provides a decent level of security. I also seriously don't like that the lock screen crashes to home instead of crashing into itself.
If a basic income of $45k/yr was provided, I would quit my job and take the reduced pay in a heartbeat. Would I be idle with all that extra time? Hell no. With that kind of safetynet I can work on building my own enterprise without having to worry about becoming homeless in the process. The only reason I don't build the plan now is simply lack of time by owing that time to a traditional employer. I have to work for someone else to keep myself afloat, which eats up the time needed to put into other endeavors that would actually pull down triple that income once it got off the ground. I can't drop my hours or quit, because then I lose the income necessary to live. Unfortunately, in this case I'm also stuck with what happens if I'm ever let go... in the current situation I'm looking at a minimum of 6 months, no pay and using all my waking hours trying to pimp my free hours off to another company just so I can make enough money to live on and recoup the amount of savings that I burned through in that time.
Paying for everyone to have a basic income? How about this... drop all the current welfare plans and use the money that went to them to fill this coffer. If there's more money still needed to afford it, tax the goddamn corporations for the rest! Would also help if US did the same thing that some other countries do: If you want to sell a product here, it has to be built here. If you want to sell a service here, it has to have local support. If you're having problems finding people with the skills, take one of the many millions of STEM grads and spend some time and money training them to your need.
This is only a small part of what it would take to build a sustainable plan; and a sustainable plan will require quite a bit more complexity... but for me to work on it requires more time than I want to put into a small /. post.
And one bit of an aside to more directly tear down your point: As someone who has had to live on welfare temporarily during a few years of being on the down and out end of the spectrum: Meeting the all the appointments, gathering all the documentation to show you meet minimum requirements, and dealing with the bureaucracy behind the 40 different assistance programs just to get enough to stay on the right side of the cliffs edge requires more time than keeping a full time job. On top of that, trying to perform a job search to get out of the system...and there's 120 hrs a week blown for 3 years...fighting to get just a smidge of breathing room. Once I managed to get a full time position at RadioShack that paid $22k per year...guess what happened to all that assistance? Yeah... it completely disappeared. I worked my ass off trying to scrounge up enough to keep myself and a disabled wife from being homeless...and came to the knife's edge of losing everything multiple times. Now I'm in a position where we can finally live off the money we make and put a little bit away to prepare for the next shoe to drop. If I wasn't so worried about the next fight for my life that would ensue at that time, I'd have no qualms about a portion of my check going to other families that need it. A guaranteed $45k/year income for just living would take away so much of my worry that I'd be able to comfortably find other ways to put back into society...and if it came to fruition that I started a business that I could rake in $200k just for myself every year...I'd have no problem with 20% of that going right back into the basic income coffer.
Samsung Galaxy S5 owner here. Although I use the fingerprint scanner for a lockscreen, it has the ability to use a backup password instead. The password field does not allow pasting and typing into the field only allows 16 characters maximum; everything above that does not get entered in the field. I've also just switched to password entry as the primary locking mechanism to the same result. Cannot paste and field only accepts 16 characters.
What makes them idiots isn't them being able to tell whether it was a bomb or not. What makes them idiots is that they discovered that the kid spoke the truth and the device really was just a plain old clock... and then they're still trying to lay him out under the jail and force an apology out of the kid for building what the device has been proven to not be.
The issue here isn't the initial reaction to the clock. The issue is that it's discovered and proven that the device really was just a clock...but the "Authorities" kept on escalating, leading to an ultimately unwarranted suspension, juvenile detention, an official charge, with a court date! If it had been simply dropped at the point of "ok, just a clock like the kid said... we can resume classes now," -- no harm, no foul. No. These idiots have to keep going with it, think they have to save face from a perceived slight against them, even if there were no such thing... and then potentially destroy a kid's life because they could not man up and admit that they made a mistake.
If someone brings in a questionable item to class, fine, go ahead and question the kid, investigate the item...bring in an expert if you don't think you've the "expertise" to identify an item...even write up a damn report of the incident if you have to. If the item is identified as malicious..then by all means, put the kid under the jail and yell it to the four corners. If what looks like a homemade clock turns out, after investigation, to be just a clock, then write up an incident report that reflects that if you have to...and DROP it right there; No "consequences" for the kid because, hey!, He really actually didn't do a damn thing wrong to deserve any consequences!
Might as well click the "Check for Updates but let me choose whether to download and install them" option, it's cheaper than trying to run your own update server where you're having to do exactly the same thing of going through the KB's and making sure Microsoft isn't trying to slip some spyware into it (A couple of noted spyware KB's were loaded in as a security update). If you've got a home network of several windows boxes and you want to manage the updates that are installed on all of them, that's when you want to use a local Windows Update server to be able to control what updates get pushed to several systems at once. Still have to review each update, but you only have to do it once as opposed to going to each individual computer and clicking off each update you want. The click once to configure all is what makes the Local Windows Update server attractive in the enterprise, but generally more expense than the average home user wants to deal with.
Sorry if my time constrained summary of disaster preparedness didn't include that little bit of information about rotating stock and assuming that everyone knew that non-perishable meant food that had a shelf life longer than two weeks without refrigeration (you know like canned food, dried meats, trail mixes...that kind of stuff). I forgot that Slashdot was supposed to be the end-all be-all of information about everything in the universe. And here I thought someone who was actually serious about getting information about being prepared for a disaster that knocks out power and water for more than a week would get the pertinent information about stock rotation, boarding up the house, and other important tidbits from one of those pamphlets that are available at most government offices (at least I can find them here in Georgia and back when I lived in Connecticut). Thanks for enlightening me on how to be a pedantic ass!
Go away shill. On a story thread about Microshit's latest bullshit and you think ANYONE with brains is going to go for a WinPhone? I'd go for an iPhone before I go WinPhone...and I wouldn't be caught dead with an iPhone.
Way too far the other way, guy. One should always keep enough storage of Non-perishable Food Rations and Water to last at least a week. By all means have a shelter capable of withstanding and protecting occupants from the regional probable disasters (flooding, landslides, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires..what have you). If it's evident before hand that the disaster will likely keep you a prisoner inside your bunker for more than a week or two (at the very most), it's probably better to get out of dodge. Prepping for a ground zero nuclear or dirty bomb attack, you're not likely to get into the shelter before you're a crispy critter. Inside the radiation zone of said attack? You might live in the bunker for a while until your supplies run out, but they WILL run out long before it's safe to come out of that bunker.
There's preparing for a likely disaster... Then there's preparation obsession to the level of stupid, which are the people that tend to get labeled as "prepper". When it's to the latter level, that's just someone who will not come to terms with the fact that circumstances leading to death can very well be inevitable and uncontrollable.
Google Maps being used as the example in the AC's post that I initially replied under. Google Maps' inferior handling of offline cases can be used as an argument FOR purchasing an independent GPS unit. As I initially stated, I wasn't arguing against his argument per se... but he needed to use a better application as an example of why the phone is superior to standalone GPS. As a turn-by-turn navigation app, Google Maps is a pathetic offering compared to other available apps.
Umm...that's Great if I'm just reading the map without data...but If I need turn by turn in the meantime? I'll stick with a GPS app that already has that feature enabled (there's several).
As indicated in the second part of my post... I use NavFree USA for offline GPS.
What, Your phone doesn't OTA update itself? Or are you stuck in 2005 and have a dedicated piece of hardware to use for directions? I can't comprehend why people still buy Germans and the like when they are inferior to cell phones in pretty much every way. Especially since Google Maps updates for free instead of a yearly fee.
I'm not really arguing against your point, but Google Maps is utterly useless if there's not a constant data connection because the Map is updated on the fly instead of stored on the device. If you're out of your service area and reach the edge of your cached map before service is re-established, you could very well wind up lost without a functional GPS. It's for this reason that a lot of less knowledgeable users will still buy a dedicated GPS unit.
If you have enough storage on your cell phone, however, I'd highly recommend installing a good GPS app, like NavFree USA, as you can download the maps to the device and they are always ready to use along with receiving periodic updates. These dedicated GPS apps will never require a data connection during use and will use the location information from the GPS sensor whether you have a data signal or not.
I think at this point MS has finally made it where the risks of running Windows Update and getting files and features I don't want have outweighed the supposed benefits of keeping my system secure through Windows Update. No more updates, and Windows 7 is the last MS-OS I allow in the house.
IPv5 aka ST2. Although in reading IPv5 is nothing more than experimental, it has been released and it still exists... Unlike PHP6 which was never publicly released and by and large backported into PHP5. When they did that, 6 should have been dropped until such time that a major version release was warranted...and then name that one PHP6 instead of coming up with so many arguments why they need to jump versions to 7.
Most retail outlets use thermal paper for their receipts. No ink involved. Places that print out invoices for work performed and such tend to still use Dot Matrix around here for their carbonless copies, so there's Ink on ribbons. There's only one business that I've dealt with regularly in the past 5 years that prints receipts using a laserjet. Everyone else is either Thermal or Dot Matrix. Otherwise, the primary consumers of Laserjet toner or Inkjet ink have been office spaces.
Because typos in the flow of the zone never happen. This is the exact type of thing that would make debugging a nightmare. It's a subtle syntax error that is looked at by the system like valid code. And in a program of 50 to 100 lines even...it's too easy to overlook this even if you ARE specifically looking for this.
IMTS in this case means Improved Mobile Telephone Service. It was a precursor to cellular service that ran on VHF and UHF bands. VHF (Very High Frequency) ran 30MHz to 300MHz. UHF(Some movie by Weird Al...er...no. I mean Ultra High Frequency) ran 300MHZ up to 3GHz.
This actually depends on how often they get paid. Based on $6000 (gross):
Basically, If they're getting paid monthly, like government people, or bi-weekly like most companies, it's not impossible for them to have a salary of $6k per pay period.