Nobody should be buying any batteries that aren't Eneloop rechargeables. They come charged, do not self discharge appreciably, and perform better than alkalines in most situations. Once you have a set you can keep using and recharging them for many years. I have decade old Eneloops that still work great.
Sanyo (later Panasonic) solved the rechargeable battery problem completely.
A lot of these newer "smart" devices are really quite dumb. They REQUIRE the Internet to work, because half the functionality is implemented on the manufacturer's servers. Not only is this a security concern, but if the manufacturer goes out of business, your stuff will stop working.
This has extreme privacy concerns, especially in cases such as video doorbells, thermostats with occupancy sensors, "smart" refrigerators, and so on. It's one of the main reasons I haven't upgraded to any such "smart" stuff in my home, except for the Philips Hue lighting system which is incredibly well implemented and can operate entirely over the local LAN.
Yep, same thing with bleach. There will never be bleach resistant bacteria because chlorine completely breaks down the chemicals that pretty much all living things consist of.
This is definitely NOT a good reason to do this, but it's a possible explanation.
Some password policies have a rule that says your password can't be too similar to your last few passwords. It's easy to determine if your new password is similar to the last one, because you just entered the last one to change it. But without saving part of the plaintext there's no way to know (if a good hash algorithm is used) if the new password is similar to one used two passwords ago.
So maybe they're using to try to enforce a misguided password changing policy. Either way, it's a horrible idea.
Note: If ANY site forces a password change and denies it because the new password is too similar to "a previous password" and it's NOT the old password you JUST entered to change, it means they're storing passwords in plaintext somewhere or using a reversible hash. Some sites will save several old hashes but this will only deny a password if it perfectly matches the previous one.
This is completely absurd. Nobody wants to die, or lose loved ones, so 99% of us can agree that murder is wrong. We don't need to have a deity tell us this for us to know it.
In fact, if you look at the ten commandments as an example, the ones not having directly to do with god are mostly common sense things that, if we do them, we will hurt or greatly upset other people. So anybody with empathy is going to want to follow these rules anyway.
Stop the false equivalence of religion with morality. It has resulted in a lot of needless pain over the centuries.
Let's assume they decided NOT to be paranoid, and to NOT collect all this information, require Apple to host Chinese iCloud in China, and so on.
Is there a real chance their government would be overthrown? Is their paranoia based on actual threats to their government or is it just paranoia for paranoia sake?
I'd love to hear input from actual Chinese citizens on this because I'm very curious.
Because you can use VLC, MPlayer, IINA, Plex and more to watch pirated content, ya know.
It seems odd that Google would single out Kodi. I do wonder how long until the software industry starts making it hard for us to play back arbitrary DRM-free video files.
Based on the video I saw, she was practically invisible until she entered the car's headlight beams. The road was poorly lit, and she had dark clothing, no reflectors on the bike and no lights.
I don't see how I could have stopped or swerved in time to avoid her in that brief window.
Believe me, I don't care for self-driving cars at all, but I have to remain unbiased here because I know I would have hit her in the same situation.
Be safe out there, people. Put lights on your bike or yourself when you're out there on the road at night.
In this particular case the authors of the books are dead, and have been pushing up daisies for a very long time.
It's ridiculous to keep copyright enforced so long after the authors are gone. Copyright should expire; it's a sad testament to greed that these ridiculous lawsuits aren't thrown out.
Also, 60 BILLION dollars. That's 60,000 million dollars. It's such a vast some of money. You just KNOW there's cash being skimmed off the top all over the place. A lot of people can become quite rich from just a couple percent off this budget.
Only relatively warm climates use electricity for heating because the cost is just too high once you have to run the heat more than a few weeks out of the year.
That said, if you're going to mine anyway, might as well do it in the winter as the heat produced will be useful instead of wasted. It's definitely not "free heat" if you normally use gas or oil to heat your home, though.
You might be reading along thinking "Eh it's another old phone platform, people should move on already" but remember that Windows Phone 8.1 came out in 2014. That was four years ago.
The iPhone 5S also came out in 2014, and is still being fully supported by Apple. Even older iPhones that didn't get iOS 11 are working fine and can still download apps. With Android phones it depends on the company, but the Play Store is still working for everyone as far as I know.
How can you trust a company that drops old products so completely, so quickly? Microsoft is shooting themselves in the food by doing this.
Redbox purchased the DVD or Blu-Ray. They paid the same amount that a regular person would when buying the disc. The code can only be used once, so it's not like this is enabling mass piracy by everyone who rents the video or anything. What's the big deal?
If Redbox didn't sell the code, the first person to rent the disc would get it anyway and probably use it. It's not like Disney is losing any money from this.
They need to chill out and stop trying to stop people every time they find a way to do things that they did not anticipate when there isn't even a harmed party.
I think the main issue here is that Google doesn't want people arguing this stuff on company time instead of working. Fighting against social ills like sexism and discrimination is a noble cause, but if employees are spending half their time doing so instead of working, the company will suffer.
Better to rid of toxic people on both sides than to allow them to rile up others and cause big social problems within the company. A lot of times a group of people will work quite well as a team until politics is brought up, then it's practically World War Three.
The fox has been put in charge of investigating missing chickens. The chickens have not been seen since last week and the fox, who has been guarding the henhouse for a month now, has promised to get to the bottom of this.
"I won't sleep until I find out what happened to those delicious chickens," he said, his breath smelling strongly of Listerine.
Most domains are owned by proxy anyway, so if you do a whois you're just going to get the name of the proxy.
The days of using whois to hold domain owners responsible for anything have been long over for a long time; anyone doing anything shady (or just wanting basic privacy) is using a proxy.
The difference here is if you stop paying BMW's CarPlay fee, it stops working completely. Whereas if you stop paying to upgrade your audio hardware, at least you get to keep using what you last upgraded to.
At least if BMW just charged for software updates, that would make more sense as you're paying for changes and improvements. But paying every month just to be able to use it period? That's screwed up.
It's principle more than anything else. CarPlay isn't a service, it's just software that's already installed on your car. It seems ridiculous to pay a monthly fee to license software that other carmakers give you for free. When you pay for a premium, luxury experience, features like this should be included. That's the entire point of a luxury car; stuff that makes life easier and more comfortable is included.
Can BMW owners afford it? If course they probably can. But having to pay monthly fees for stuff that less expensive cars include feels like a pointless money grab. It's not like BMW is hurting for money.
Cellular providers will sometimes throttle video, not to be jerks and violate net neutrality, but to save your data plan.
Streaming video providers will usually send you the maximum video quality that your connection can support. If 25mbps is available, they could be sending you full HD or even 4K at a high bitrate so the quality is really good. This isn't really of much benefit on a small mobile screen, so you're tearing through your data plan for no real reason.
AT&T calls this feature "streamsaver" and it's on by default; you have to turn it off if you don't want it. There's probably no shenanigans at work here, just trying to prevent customers complaining that watching one Netflix movie used their entire data plan.
>But the car saw me moving what it thought was erratically, made the call and stopped
This makes me think that once self driving cars become more common, some people (especially kids) are going to start to "mess with them" on purpose just for fun, which is going to cause annoyance and maybe even accidents.
Imagine some kid discovering he can make an entire line of self-driving cars stop suddenly just by spinning around on the curb. You just KNOW he's going to abuse his newfound powers!
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Nobody should be buying any batteries that aren't Eneloop rechargeables. They come charged, do not self discharge appreciably, and perform better than alkalines in most situations. Once you have a set you can keep using and recharging them for many years. I have decade old Eneloops that still work great.
Sanyo (later Panasonic) solved the rechargeable battery problem completely.
A lot of these newer "smart" devices are really quite dumb. They REQUIRE the Internet to work, because half the functionality is implemented on the manufacturer's servers. Not only is this a security concern, but if the manufacturer goes out of business, your stuff will stop working.
This has extreme privacy concerns, especially in cases such as video doorbells, thermostats with occupancy sensors, "smart" refrigerators, and so on. It's one of the main reasons I haven't upgraded to any such "smart" stuff in my home, except for the Philips Hue lighting system which is incredibly well implemented and can operate entirely over the local LAN.
There is no web version of it to use on a computer.
If I'm sitting in front of my computer already, I don't want to have to use my phone just to access a site.
Yep, same thing with bleach. There will never be bleach resistant bacteria because chlorine completely breaks down the chemicals that pretty much all living things consist of.
This is definitely NOT a good reason to do this, but it's a possible explanation.
Some password policies have a rule that says your password can't be too similar to your last few passwords. It's easy to determine if your new password is similar to the last one, because you just entered the last one to change it. But without saving part of the plaintext there's no way to know (if a good hash algorithm is used) if the new password is similar to one used two passwords ago.
So maybe they're using to try to enforce a misguided password changing policy. Either way, it's a horrible idea.
Note: If ANY site forces a password change and denies it because the new password is too similar to "a previous password" and it's NOT the old password you JUST entered to change, it means they're storing passwords in plaintext somewhere or using a reversible hash. Some sites will save several old hashes but this will only deny a password if it perfectly matches the previous one.
This is completely absurd. Nobody wants to die, or lose loved ones, so 99% of us can agree that murder is wrong. We don't need to have a deity tell us this for us to know it.
In fact, if you look at the ten commandments as an example, the ones not having directly to do with god are mostly common sense things that, if we do them, we will hurt or greatly upset other people. So anybody with empathy is going to want to follow these rules anyway.
Stop the false equivalence of religion with morality. It has resulted in a lot of needless pain over the centuries.
And here I sit, enjoying the flames.
I doubt they're going to go away, but anything to get people to distrust and use it less is a positive thing for all of us.
Let's assume they decided NOT to be paranoid, and to NOT collect all this information, require Apple to host Chinese iCloud in China, and so on.
Is there a real chance their government would be overthrown? Is their paranoia based on actual threats to their government or is it just paranoia for paranoia sake?
I'd love to hear input from actual Chinese citizens on this because I'm very curious.
Because you can use VLC, MPlayer, IINA, Plex and more to watch pirated content, ya know.
It seems odd that Google would single out Kodi. I do wonder how long until the software industry starts making it hard for us to play back arbitrary DRM-free video files.
Based on the video I saw, she was practically invisible until she entered the car's headlight beams. The road was poorly lit, and she had dark clothing, no reflectors on the bike and no lights.
I don't see how I could have stopped or swerved in time to avoid her in that brief window.
Believe me, I don't care for self-driving cars at all, but I have to remain unbiased here because I know I would have hit her in the same situation.
Be safe out there, people. Put lights on your bike or yourself when you're out there on the road at night.
In this particular case the authors of the books are dead, and have been pushing up daisies for a very long time.
It's ridiculous to keep copyright enforced so long after the authors are gone. Copyright should expire; it's a sad testament to greed that these ridiculous lawsuits aren't thrown out.
I know, right?
Also, 60 BILLION dollars. That's 60,000 million dollars. It's such a vast some of money. You just KNOW there's cash being skimmed off the top all over the place. A lot of people can become quite rich from just a couple percent off this budget.
Only relatively warm climates use electricity for heating because the cost is just too high once you have to run the heat more than a few weeks out of the year.
That said, if you're going to mine anyway, might as well do it in the winter as the heat produced will be useful instead of wasted. It's definitely not "free heat" if you normally use gas or oil to heat your home, though.
You might be reading along thinking "Eh it's another old phone platform, people should move on already" but remember that Windows Phone 8.1 came out in 2014. That was four years ago.
The iPhone 5S also came out in 2014, and is still being fully supported by Apple. Even older iPhones that didn't get iOS 11 are working fine and can still download apps. With Android phones it depends on the company, but the Play Store is still working for everyone as far as I know.
How can you trust a company that drops old products so completely, so quickly? Microsoft is shooting themselves in the food by doing this.
It's already been tested in court, way back in the videotape era. When you rent a video, nothing is being copied, so copyright law doesn't apply.
Redbox purchased the DVD or Blu-Ray. They paid the same amount that a regular person would when buying the disc. The code can only be used once, so it's not like this is enabling mass piracy by everyone who rents the video or anything. What's the big deal?
If Redbox didn't sell the code, the first person to rent the disc would get it anyway and probably use it. It's not like Disney is losing any money from this.
They need to chill out and stop trying to stop people every time they find a way to do things that they did not anticipate when there isn't even a harmed party.
I think the main issue here is that Google doesn't want people arguing this stuff on company time instead of working. Fighting against social ills like sexism and discrimination is a noble cause, but if employees are spending half their time doing so instead of working, the company will suffer.
Better to rid of toxic people on both sides than to allow them to rile up others and cause big social problems within the company. A lot of times a group of people will work quite well as a team until politics is brought up, then it's practically World War Three.
The fox has been put in charge of investigating missing chickens. The chickens have not been seen since last week and the fox, who has been guarding the henhouse for a month now, has promised to get to the bottom of this.
"I won't sleep until I find out what happened to those delicious chickens," he said, his breath smelling strongly of Listerine.
Most domains are owned by proxy anyway, so if you do a whois you're just going to get the name of the proxy.
The days of using whois to hold domain owners responsible for anything have been long over for a long time; anyone doing anything shady (or just wanting basic privacy) is using a proxy.
The difference here is if you stop paying BMW's CarPlay fee, it stops working completely. Whereas if you stop paying to upgrade your audio hardware, at least you get to keep using what you last upgraded to.
At least if BMW just charged for software updates, that would make more sense as you're paying for changes and improvements. But paying every month just to be able to use it period? That's screwed up.
We just had Apple introduce their new format, which isn't bad but is yet another format to deal with
Yes, JPG isn't as efficient, but storage is super-cheap these days and I'd gladly take universal support over slightly better compression.
It's principle more than anything else. CarPlay isn't a service, it's just software that's already installed on your car. It seems ridiculous to pay a monthly fee to license software that other carmakers give you for free. When you pay for a premium, luxury experience, features like this should be included. That's the entire point of a luxury car; stuff that makes life easier and more comfortable is included.
Can BMW owners afford it? If course they probably can. But having to pay monthly fees for stuff that less expensive cars include feels like a pointless money grab. It's not like BMW is hurting for money.
Cellular providers will sometimes throttle video, not to be jerks and violate net neutrality, but to save your data plan.
Streaming video providers will usually send you the maximum video quality that your connection can support. If 25mbps is available, they could be sending you full HD or even 4K at a high bitrate so the quality is really good. This isn't really of much benefit on a small mobile screen, so you're tearing through your data plan for no real reason.
AT&T calls this feature "streamsaver" and it's on by default; you have to turn it off if you don't want it. There's probably no shenanigans at work here, just trying to prevent customers complaining that watching one Netflix movie used their entire data plan.
>But the car saw me moving what it thought was erratically, made the call and stopped
This makes me think that once self driving cars become more common, some people (especially kids) are going to start to "mess with them" on purpose just for fun, which is going to cause annoyance and maybe even accidents.
Imagine some kid discovering he can make an entire line of self-driving cars stop suddenly just by spinning around on the curb. You just KNOW he's going to abuse his newfound powers!
Well this has even more holes in it, then.
The iPhone 4S doesn't have the motion processor required to collect health data, including steps taken.
It also can't obtain climbing data because it lacks the barometer that the iPhone 6 and newer use to collect that information.
How exactly did the 4S have this info? I had an iPhone 5 and it lacked these features, and it was newer than the 4S.